"As long as Your Majesty likes it." Mu Lin picked up another piece for him in surprise.
The men of the Qin Dynasty who prefer meat can actually eat their Jingsheng's sweet snacks
Ying Yuan ate it without changing his expression, only feeling a sweet taste in his mouth. He suppressed the sweetness by taking two bites of refreshing side dishes as if nothing had happened.
Mu Lin likes slightly sweet food, but she is not crazy about sweet food. She only eats one piece of soft and sweet glutinous rice lotus root. Ying Yuan noticed that her taste is actually light, she is not picky about food, and she does not prefer any particular food.
After lunch, Mu Lin had the habit of taking a nap. Seeing that Ying Yuan had no intention of leaving, she had to remind him, "Your Majesty, I want to take a nap."
"I'm tired too. Can I take a nap with you?"
Mu Lin looked at him suspiciously, and after a long while, she said, "I am physically exhausted..."
Ying Yuan looked at the bright sunlight outside the window and raised his eyebrows and said, "What is the queen thinking about? I just want to rest for a while. I don't want to do anything during the day."
Mu Lin looked a little unnatural, knowing that he had misunderstood, he turned his head and gently called the maid to change clothes. Her dark hair, snow-white undergarment, and the red marks on her snow-white neck made Ying Yuan's eyes darken.
Ying Yuan originally wanted her to change clothes for him, but Mu Lin directly told Ju Shu to go over, and he didn't say anything.
Mu Lin was sleepy in spring, tired in autumn and dozed off in summer. It was difficult for him to keep his eyes open. He did not continue to argue with him and simply lay down on the inside, leaving most of the bed for him.
Ying Yuan stared at her helplessly. This queen was doing a much better job than the emperor.
Ju Shu thought that she had displeased Ying Yuan, so she stepped forward and gently reminded him, "My queen, my queen, you should sleep on the outside..."
Between husband and wife, it is a rule that the man sleeps inside and the woman sleeps outside. This is because a woman cannot roll over a man. If a woman sleeps inside the bed, she must roll over the man when she gets up in the middle of the night, as this is disrespectful to her husband. The royal family attaches great importance to this rule.
Mu Lin refused without even raising her eyelids: "I like to sleep on the inside, and that was what I did last night. If your majesty cannot accept this, please go back."
Ying Yuan waved his hand, "There are not so many rules. As long as the queen likes it, you can all go down."
"yes."
Mu Lin lay flat on her back with her eyes closed, her hands folded neatly on her abdomen. Suddenly, she felt a corner of the bed beside her sag, and then she was forced to turn sideways, falling into a warm and strong embrace.
Mu Lin's head was pressed on the man's chest. When she looked up, she could only see his dark shirt. She said a little displeasedly, "Your Majesty, can you sleep on your own?" Don't disturb her when she's sleeping!
A man's deep laughter came from above my head: "Junior sister's sleeping position has not changed at all, she is still so well-behaved. When Yizhen was sleepwalking, she fell asleep in my arms like this..."
"Brother..." Mu Lin was very embarrassed. Her pretending to sleepwalk had been discovered long ago. After sleeping in his arms a few times, Mu Lin never used the sleepwalking trick again. The two brothers just knew it tacitly.
Now that he brings it up again, it's embarrassing, just embarrassing.
"It's getting late. Aren't you sleepy, Junior Sister? Go to bed." After saying that, he closed his eyes, his breathing gradually became longer, and he seemed to have really fallen asleep.
Mu Lin felt a little awkward and aggrieved nestling in his arms. Then she discovered... Ying Yuan smelled very good, a bit like the woody scent of cedar, but with a bit more grace and elegance, giving her a familiar yet strange feeling.
Mu Lin couldn't tell what it was, but she felt a sense of familiarity, as if this scene had happened before. She got used to the warmth of his body, and the posture was not uncomfortable. She gradually calmed down, and finally fell asleep after half an hour.
"Ning'er, Ning'er? Wake up, it's time to get up..."
Who is Ning'er? Why are you whispering in her ear
Mu Lin opened his eyes drowsily. He felt tired and weak after sleeping for so long that his eyelids felt heavy.
"Master..."
"Wrong, it's Senior Brother." She was so confused that she was sleepy. Her masters were all white-haired old men. Ying Yuan shook his head and said gently, "Wake up. You have slept for almost two hours. If you continue to sleep like this, you will not be able to sleep at night. Come with me to pay respects to the Imperial Grandmother."
"okay… "
At this time, Mu Lin needed to slow down for a while until her hands and feet regained strength, and then she slowly sat up. At this time, Ying Yuan was already dressed, looking at her thoughtfully and said, "You are too weak, you should let the imperial physician take good care of you."
Mu Lin immediately shook his head and refused, "No need, I spent a lot of effort when I was young, now I will slowly take care of it."
The main thing is that she doesn't want to live a life of taking medicine and eating medicated food every day.
Life is bitter. The more difficult and harsh the times are, the more we don’t want to mistreat our mouths and make them bitter.
Ying Yuan understood what she meant. Trained as an heir, Mu Lin had to learn a lot. Later, she had to assist her younger brother, and the burden on her increased instead of decreasing. When Emperor Jingming became ill, there was no empress dowager in the palace, and Emperor Jingxuan was still young. Not only did she have to manage the affairs of the inner palace, but she also had to take care of Jingsheng's foreign affairs. How could she really rest? She endured it day by day. She was a person who was easily hurt, and she was lucky that she didn't exhaust herself.
Ying Yuan felt so much pity for her that he wished he could take her under his wings as soon as possible and keep her happy and worry-free.
"Ning'er, from now on you just need to stand behind me, and I will protect you for a hundred years without worries."
"Senior Brother, can you promise me one thing?" Mu Lin suddenly asked.
"explain."
"Don't call me Ning'er. I am unfamiliar with the name Tan Yining. You can call me Mu Lin or Lin'er."
"No." Ying Yuan refused subconsciously because that was what Xiao Muyun called her.
"If you don't like this name, how about I give you a nickname?" It is also a good thing for a husband to give his wife a nickname.
"Okay, what word would you like to give me?"
Tan Yining, becoming Tan Yining, was the source of all her misfortunes. As long as she could get rid of this unfamiliar and somewhat embarrassing name and bury it completely in the Tan family's jade book, Mu Lin didn't mind Ying Yuan giving her another name.
Ying Yuan pondered and said, "I am not surprised by praise or criticism, I just watch the flowers in the courtyard bloom and fall; I have no intention of staying or leaving, I just watch the clouds roll and unroll in the sky. How about my courtesy name be Zishu and your nickname be Ziluo?"
"Zi Luo? I'm afraid that's not appropriate."
The artistic conception of the word "落" is not good, not to mention that "子落" and "孩落" (child falling)... it's even a bit ominous.
"I didn't think it through. I'll think about it again and discuss it with Junior Sister..."
"good."
Mu Lin was dressed more formally this time, showing the graceful demeanor of a mother of a country, and went to pay a visit to the Empress Dowager with Ying Yuan.
The Empress Dowager had silver hair, a kind demeanor, and dressed in simple and dignified clothes. She was very approachable.
In just a few words, Mu Lin was already secretly alert. The Empress Dowager was not a simple person. It was rare for people to live to seventy, and the women in the palace who lived to this age were even more sophisticated. Fortunately, she was old and had no power to take power. There was no conflict of interest between the two, so they could live in peace.
The Empress Dowager was very warm towards her, and Mu Lin also behaved respectfully. In Ying Yuan's eyes, it was a scene of great joy and family happiness.
As we were talking, we came to the topic that could not be avoided.
"Empress, you are married to the emperor. You two should live happily together, but you should also pay attention to your offspring. The emperor is already 25 years old, and he doesn't even have a princess. When his father was this age, he had so many princesses and princes that he couldn't count them on one hand..."
"Grandmother, the Queen and I are newly married, and we have a long way to go, so we will have children."
Mu Lin just needed to lower his head and smile shyly.
She thought to herself, how many concubines did Emperor Qin Zhang have at that time? How could Ying Yuan have so many children when she was the only queen
Thinking of this, she sighed again. It was inconvenient to speak now that they were newly married. She would persuade Ying Yuan to participate in the selection after some time. I couldn't put the responsibility of having children and continuing the heir on her shoulders alone. I couldn't do it...
What's more, she didn't want to have a child for Ying Yuan.
The Empress Dowager invited the Emperor and Empress to have dinner with her, so there was no reason to refuse. At the dinner table, Ying Yuan first picked up a piece of pumpkin for the Empress Dowager, and then a piece of yam for Mu Lin. Mu Lin followed suit and picked up tofu and shrimp for them respectively.
The Empress Dowager watched the young couple interacting with each other and joked, "Yes, the Emperor knows how to love his wife after getting married."
Ying Yuan was in a good mood, and glanced at his little wife, "Grandmother, please stop teasing your grandson. I got married, and only then did I have a wife to love me."
“You…” The Empress Dowager smiled and sighed without saying anything, showing an expression of helpless doting on her grandson.
No one noticed that the smile in her eyes faded. It wasn't like her niece's granddaughter had never entered the palace before, she was also a beautiful woman, and she was also invited to dinner, but Ying Yuan didn't even glance at her.
"I feel lonely in the palace. Queen, please come to Ronghua Palace more often to keep me company..."
"Grandmother, the Queen is weak. She has to take care of me and manage the huge harem. It is inevitable that she is too busy to fulfill her filial duty. Let the women from the Duke of Lu's Mansion and my fifth brother's family accompany you more. I will bring the Queen to pay my respects when I have time..."
The husband followed the wife's lead, and Mu Lin cooperated with an apologetic smile.
Looking closely, the Queen's complexion was indeed not very good, and the Empress Dowager couldn't say much.
"Then I will exempt the Queen from visiting you every morning and evening. The Queen must take good care of herself. The most important thing is to take good care of her body."
"Thank you, Grandmother, for your consideration."
"Thank you, Grandmother, for your consideration."
The Empress Dowager looked at the two of them leaving together, and a hint of coldness flashed across her eyes.
The king of the Qin Dynasty actually favored only one woman, making the three palaces and six courtyards meaningless. How absurd is that? The first time she saw Mu Lin, she thought that this woman could not be kept.
But she had a premonition that if Mu Lin died, Ying Yuan's heart would definitely turn into a demon.
So she hesitated for a moment. The emperor did not need evidence to act, just suspicion was enough. If she could not completely clear herself... Would a cold-blooded king who could even kill his father and brother really care about this blood relationship