Li Yu just woke up. His head was pounding nonstop and thoughts were still swirling. When he settled himself and looked, Wang Xi was still playing ‘old eagle catching tiny chicks’ with the kids. He wasn’t actually talking to anyone.
Li Yu must have been dreaming.
However, this dream was extremely true to life. According to Jing-wang’s current position, he’d become popular sooner or later. The Emperor had allowed Jing-wang to manage governmental affairs. From a certain point of view, this meant that he had acknowledged Jing-wang’s position.
The 2nd Prince (Marquis An), who had almost become the Crown Prince, didn’t even receive this kind of treatment from the Emperor back then. There’s even less reason to mention the short-lived 3rd Prince (Marquis Ping).
However, Jing-wang was not the same. He was the only son of the decreased Empress still alive in this world. The mutism that gave him the most criticism from others had already been treated. He also had made great contributions in saving the Emperor. What reason did the Emperor have for not picking him?
If it were before, the officials might still hesitate to support Jing-wang, but now they can only follow the will of the Emperor.
Li Yu had once heard Wang Xi harping on about how impressive Jing-wang was right now.
No need to mention anything else, presently, the Emperor had already ordered Jing-wang to participate in politics. Everyday after the morning court ended, the number of government officials waiting to walk the same path together with his highness Jing-wang was endless.
These officials, who couldn’t get into Jing-wang’s good graces before, had more or less complicated circumstances. If they didn’t attempt now, they’d be idiots.
However, Jing-wang firmly remembered the Emperor’s taboo and didn’t actually interact with any of these people.
Other than Zheng Jing from the Ministry of Works, whom Jing-wang would occasionally exchange a few words.
Because Jing-wang had once worked in the Ministry of Works and Zheng Jing was the person who assisted him back then, to have a bit of a relationship was pretty normal.
Meanwhile, if other people wanted to flatter him, Jing-wang only treated them with a cold face, not making it easy at all.
When Wang Xi was expressing how impressive the master was in front of Li Yu, he was only praising at most, not daring to say anything else randomly.
Jing-wang was busy with official government affairs. The important task of caring for Li Yu had fallen to Wang-gonggong. Because Lu Yi was giving birth in human form, Jing-wang can comfortably tell Wang Xi about it, wanting Wang Xi to be extremely cautious and careful. Wangfei was pregnant again; Wang Xi was extremely elated internally. How could he dare to gossip about negative things in front of Li Yu.
Were there ladies that wanted to marry Jing-wang and become his side concubine? There must be. And there must be a lot. However, Jing-wang himself has basically ignored them all and didn’t think anything of it. Why would Wang Xi go talk about this himself?
Nevertheless, Li Yu was sensitive in his pregnancy and had subconsciously imagined the crisis himself.
And the more he mulled over it, the more reasonable it felt.
In ancient times, men usually had 3 wives and 4 concubines. Although Li Yu felt pretty confident in Jing-wang, Jing-wang still had the Emperor above him. What if some high official didn’t manage to convince Jing-wang and turned around to beg the Emperor. Then on a whim, the Emperor threw Jing-wang a huge surprise. That’d be rather hard to avoid. Did Li Yu have to enact personally in a dramatic script about a carp demon tearing apart a fox demon soon?!
This can’t be allowed. Hubby must only belong to him!
Li Yu jumped up with a jolt. Usually when he woke up, he’d snooze for a little more. Now he was not in the mood to continue sleeping. He got up and was just about to go find Jing-wang. Coincidentally, Jing-wang returned at this time to the estate with some Imperial Physicians in tow.
These Imperial Physicians were all maternity experts appointed by the Emperor. Li Yu usually didn’t encounter them much and didn’t recognize them immediately. The dream he had just now had already made his head confused. Therefore, he thought that these people came to pester Jing-wang to marry their daughters. Flabbergasted, Li Yu said extremely sourly: “You even brought these people back home?”
He thought Jing-wang would definitely stand firm and say no, regardless of whether the other person was a matchmaking old man or a beautiful elegant noble lady, he’d still ignore them with no exceptions. However, just look at this? Jing-wang had practically brought those people right in front of his face, alright?
There’s a saying ‘if men are reliable, then pigs can fly.” Was this really true?
Wifey suddenly became infuriated and anguished. The dumbfounded Jing-wang, who was completely unaware that anything had happened: ?
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Even though Jing-wang was quite intelligent, he still didn’t know where this fish’s thoughts spun off to sometimes. However, Jing-wang had some previous experiences. Normally when he didn’t understand Xiao Yu’s words, going along with it wouldn’t go wrong. Plus, the Imperial Physicians did come to assess Xiao Yu’s health. Therefore, Jing-wang nodded his head.
Ol Te lcrajcais qeoofv eq ilxf j yibkolrt lc jcufg. Lf qblcafv ja Alcu-kjcu’r cbrf jcv defralbcfv rbggbkoeiis: “Ktfc jgf sbe ublcu ab yglcu atflg vjeutafg lcab atf Srajaf cfza abb?”
Ktf Pwqfglji Utsrlmljcr: “……”
The imperial physicians were all hit in the face with a huge pot. One of the imperial physicians said with trembling lips: “Wangfei, this old official’s…… daughter is only 3 years old.”
Ccbatfg lwqfglji qtsrlmljc rjlv kfjxis: “Qjcuofl, atlr biv boolmlji’r vjeutafg lr jigfjvs j wbatfg bo atgff.”
Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu suddenly realized that he had made a mistake. Looking carefully, he saw some of these “high officials” carrying small…… medicine boxes. Oh. So there were actually all imperial physicians!
Because in this world, imperial physicians were also government officials and also had ranks, they wore the same government outfits as political officials. Li Yu had depended on first impressions and never considered that these people who had followed Jing-wang back to the estate might not necessarily be the side concubine’s family members, but instead could possibly be imperial physicians as well.
This…… he really humiliated himself all the way up to his grandma’s generation!
The number 1 fish in the world definitely couldn’t acknowledge such an embarrassing thing. Li Yu took a deep breath and quickly changed his expression. He gave the imperial physicians a charming smile and held his wrist out voluntarily: “Imperial physicians, did you guys come to check my pulse?”
“Wangfei, you’re correct.” The mystified Imperial Physicians finally let out breaths of relief.
Seeing Xiao Yu change face visibly right before his eyes, Jing-wang immediately knew that this fish had misunderstood something. However, his health was more important. Jing-wang suppressed a smile and marked this on fish’s record first. He allowed the Imperial Physicians to assess wangfei quickly.
The Imperial Physicians’ thoughts were all on proper things. Li Yu randomly said a whole bunch of stuff, but the Imperial Physicians didn’t think too much of it.
Everyone said that pregnant people had unstable moods. The Imperial Physicians expressed that occasionally getting angry or yelling wasn’t much. There were even people who rained brutal curses down on their own husbands during labor too.
After the physicians finished their assessment, they all stated that wangfei’s health was very good and has been pregnant for three months.
When these physicians had heard that this male wangfei could give birth, they were all very curious. Now they can finally say that they’ve increased their knowledge of the world. This was definitely a pregnancy, no doubt.
The imperial physician that was once sent to the West Frontier also came this time. Last time, he had checked the pulse of the pregnant ‘Jing-wangfei’ through a curtain. It’s already been a long time and this time, Li Yu stepped forth himself. This imperial physician didn’t notice anything in the end and only focused on congratulating Jing-wang.
After this physician had finished assessing, Jing-wang said to himself internally: the matter regarding the Baos has finally come full circle.
Jing-wang then asked the Imperial Physicians about some stuff that he should take note of and then sent these physicians away, letting them return to report the good news to the Emperor.
After the outsiders all left, Jing-wang looked towards Li Yu with an ambiguous smile.
Li Yu knew that this wasn’t good and looked pitifully at the four Baos, hoping that his sons could step forth and distract daddy Jing-wang. However, unfortunately, three of the four fish sons were all looking somewhere else. Only Bao#4 received fish dad’s pleading gaze.
Bao#4, save me quickly! Li Yu mouthed.
Although Bao#4’s reaction was a step slower, he can still tell that fish dad needed help. Bao#4 bravely marched his little short legs and slowly walked over.
Li Yu was delighted. Jing-wang normally doted on Bao#4 the most. If Bao#4 acted spoiled for a bit, things will definitely be fine.
Li Yu attempted to cover up using his son. Jing-wang also had countermeasures. His eyes swiftly glanced towards Wang Xi.
Wang Xi was originally arranging snacks and dessert for the little masters to eat. With a smile, he picked up Bao#4: “Little master, this old servant will take you to get some peach blossom cookies and candy to eat, how’s that sound?”
Although Bao#4 didn’t love to eat as much as Bao#2, he still couldn’t resist the double enticement of peach blossom cookies and candy, especially since he had already played vigorously for a long time; his stomach has been hungry for quite a while.
Bao#4 can only blink his eyes and look apologetically towards fish dad.
It’s okay. Jing-wang daddy will definitely help fish dad. Bao#4 thought to himself.
Then, little Bao#4 left together with his big brothers and Wang Xi.
Li Yu: “……..”
This unreliable baby!
Then umm… was it too late to pretend to be drowsy?
Li Yu yawned deliberately, pretending he wanted to return to the house to take a long nap. Perhaps after he woke up, Jing-wang would forget about how outrageous he was behaving.
However, Jing-wang had a very good memory and promptly stopped this fish. He dragged fish back and wrapped him up tightly.
Now the fish wangfei can no longer fly away.
With a smile, Jing-wang asked the person in his arms: “Xiao Yu, tell me, who’s entering the estate?”
Li Yu: “…….”
Li Yu’s refusal to acknowledge this matter was a complete failure. He could only explain what had happened in his dream. Although it was a dream, recalling it still made fish very angry. Li Yu said indignantly: “Obviously those women who want to become your side concubines!”
Jing-wang: “…………..”
Jing-wang coughed lightly. Dreams come from daily thoughts. He had already promised he wouldn’t have any concubines previously. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu was still worrying about this.
“You can rest assured. There’s no one else.” Jing-wang said softly.
What side concubine? How can the spot of snoring by his side be taken by others? Jing-wang only knew one fish and that was enough!
Learning Jing-wang’s attitude towards this, Li Yu smiled so much his eyes curved into crescent moons. He still didn’t forget to ask: “What about father?’
“Father also wouldn’t.” Jing-wang cradled this vinegar fish and slowly told him something.
Actually Li Yu’s intuition was rather accurate regarding the current situation.
The Emperor really did ask Jing-wang about side concubines before.
After all, in order to stabilize one’s power, political marriage was one of these methods.
However, Jing-wang refused vehemently.
The Emperor was only asking casually. After receiving Jing-wang’s opinion, he didn’t force him. There were indeed high officials that had once begged the Emperor, however, the result was not the same as what Li Yu had imagined. The Emperor didn’t actually want to issue marriage decrees for these officials.
There were many reasons for the Emperor’s refusal. One of which was: Once upon a time, the Emperor had spent quite some effort frustrating over Jing-wang’s marriage. At that time, the families that looked good to him all used a variety of excuses to express how their daughters couldn’t marry Jing-wang. The Emperor understood very well that they were tactfully declining. But now that Jing-wang’s mutism was all better, he was placed in a good position, and was just about to become the Crown Prince, these people were starting to beg their grandpa, grandma, and everyone else, to have their daughter marry into the Jing estate again.
Acting all arrogant previously and now respectful?
The Emperor’s thoughts were pretty much the same as Wang Xi’s. How dare those who had disdained his son previously attempt to fawn for his good graces now?
It’s too late!
And plus, Jing-wangfei was pretty good. The Emperor didn’t want to create obstructions for others unreasonably. The Emperor had already gained a psychological shadow from the disaster with Princess LangYa. What if he appointed Jing-wang with a troublemaker?
Spreading the bloodline and having offspring was a good excuse. But to Jing-wang, this wasn’t an issue at all.
Of course, if Jing-wang himself expressed that he wanted to marry a side concubine, the Emperor definitely wouldn’t stop him. However, since Jing-wang expressed that he didn’t want to, then the Emperor wouldn’t compel him.
To those high officials who found their way to the Emperor, the Emperor instantly replied with an energetic and refreshed tone: Can’t help you here. Even I can’t convince Jing-wang……
“This is father’s thoughts on this matter.” Jing-wang quietly explained the Emperor’s attitude.
Li Yu’s cheeks were flushed red, perhaps from embarrassment or perhaps from shame.
It was he who had misunderstood the Emperor. Actually the Emperor was also human. Treat the Emperor well and the Emperor definitely wouldn’t make things difficult for you.
With the “double” guarantee, Li Yu’s heart completely settled down.
“…….sorry. Suddenly, I just lost a bit of control.” Li Yu lowered his head and apologized.
He also didn’t know what happened. Lately, he keeps feeling a flame of anger blowing off in waves. His head keeps feeling fuzzy, like lard was covering over his heart.
After calming down, he felt he was really outrageous and unreasonable.
“It’s not your fault…… the Imperial Physicians said it already, people get more sensitive during pregnancy.” Jing-wang remembered the physician’s words, and rubbed Li Yu on the head, expressing that he didn’t mind at all.
“And plus, you’re showing that you care about me.” Jing-wang said with a smile. Xiao Yu’s personality was frank and straightforward. He rarely threw tempers. To be so capricious, this was actually the first time.
Even if Xiao Yu pointed at him and cursed him out, he still liked the fish.
Plus, if the two of them were getting along amiable and Xiao Yu brought a group of men back to the house…….
The result would have been much more serious.
Li Yu received Jing-wang’s comfort. Jing-wang also didn’t need to work for the Emperor anymore. With the hubby by his side, Li Yu’s mood quickly became much better.
On the other side, the imperial physicians that had assessed Li Yu reported all of their findings to the Emperor.
Jing-wangfei was really pregnant.
The Emperor couldn’t stop his mouth from curving upwards. He started flipping through the reports that Jing-wang had settled again. He originally wanted to pick a good date to announce his imperial decree. Now, he didn’t need to wait anymore.
Picking a good date wasn’t as good as bumping into a good date unexpectedly. Having two simultaneous happy events in the family, wouldn’t that be even better?
The Emperor immediately ordered head manager Luo to summon the six high ministers and Prince Li over. He wanted to officially propose making Jing-wang the Crown Prince in front of these important officials and head of the royal clan.
It’s been a long journey with twists and turns but in the end he can finally get what he deserved ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
thanks for the chapter!
Thank You for the chapter (ꈍ꒳ꈍ)❤
Minor fish fight was fun! Hahahahahaha! Thanks for the chapter!