usatvline Chapter 393: Stopping the Imperial Carriage
Chapter 393: Stopping the Imperial Carriage
Gu Jianchu lazily leaned against Xie Ci'an's arms and ate sour apricots. After eating one, she still didn't feel the sourness, so she turned over and took a handful, stuffing them into her mouth one by one. After finishing the handful, Gu Jianchu turned over and sat up, looking at Xie Ci'an with eager eyes, "Husband, I remember that the Governor of Sichuan presented a basket of sour oranges last year. I wonder if it was delayed this year. Why hasn't it been delivered to the palace yet?"
Xie Ci'an immediately understood that Gu Jianchu wanted to eat the sour oranges that were tributed from Sichuan.
When it was delivered last year, it was too sour to eat. Gu Jianchu arranged for the imperial kitchen to use half of it to make orange syrup and the other half to be given to the wife of the Right Prime Minister because she was pregnant and liked to eat sour food. She remembered that the wife of the Right Prime Minister later gave birth to a big, white and fat boy.
It can be seen that the rumors about sour boys and spicy girls are not groundless.
Xie Ci'an lifted Gu Jianchu, who was kneeling on the blanket, and placed him on his knees. "It's too dangerous to sit like this in the carriage."
"I will send someone to urge the Governor of Sichuan to send two more baskets of sour oranges to the palace." Xie Ci'an naturally wrapped his arms around Gu Jianchu's waist and buried his head in her neck.
Without waiting for Xie Ci'an to do anything, Gu Jianchu retreated and immediately increased the distance between them. "When the emperor sends people to urge me, don't say that I like to eat sour apricots, just say that you want to eat them. People say that sour boys and spicy girls are the parents of sour boys. What if they get this information and think that I'm pregnant with a son? Wouldn't they attack me again?"
"If it is true as the rumors say, then I am pregnant with a son, right?" Gu Jianchu stared at Xie Ci'an with sparkling eyes.
She hoped that this baby would be a son, not because she wanted her son to compete for the throne and consolidate the Gu family's status. The Gu family did not need a child to consolidate their status. The Gu family could earn their own military merits and status. She wanted a son only because she did not want Xie Ci'an to have too much pressure.
"The Queen is thoughtful. I haven't thought of this. However, I like both sons and daughters. I hope the Queen will give me a daughter with eyes and looks like the Queen. She must be very beautiful. I can give our daughter all the best things in the world, including my throne." Xie Ci'an rubbed Gu Jianchu's fingers. He didn't want Gu Jianchu to think too much.
Xie Ci'an peeled a nut and put it into Gu Jianchu's mouth. "Achu, besides wanting sour food, has been particularly fond of spicy food lately, so the rumors may not be accurate."
After hearing Xie Ci'an's words, Gu Jianchu's eyes lit up instantly, "Your Majesty has reminded me. Can you please ask the Governor of Sichuan to send a chef over? Sichuan chefs should like to cook fresh and spicy dishes."
"Achu likes to eat it, I will have someone arrange it now." Xie Ci'an tried his best to satisfy all the queen's requests, not to mention that what the queen asked for was not a difficult task for him.
Gu Jianchu's arms naturally hung around Gu Jianchu's neck. "My husband, please ask the chef presented by the Sichuan Governor to enter the palace with great fanfare. Let them mistakenly think that the sour boy is a sour boy and the spicy girl is a spicy girl. I am pregnant with a girl, so there will naturally be less trouble."
"For them, a daughter is useless, so they can worry less about it. But if they keep thinking about the fact that I am pregnant with a son, it is inevitable that some bold people will want to seek wealth and fame at the risk of their lives."
In this way, even if they give birth to a daughter in the future, they will have fewer expectations. If it is a son, everyone will be happy.
After all, she was the only one with the emperor, so everyone was inevitably staring at her belly and waiting.
After thinking about it carefully, Xie Ci'an also felt that what Gu Jianchu said made sense.
If they knew in advance that the queen was pregnant with a daughter, they would not worry about it every day. They would wait until the queen gave birth to a daughter, and then let him take a concubine on the grounds that the queen did not give birth to a son and the throne needed a son to inherit.
Regardless of whether to take a concubine or not, the most important thing is to let the queen give birth to the baby in her belly safely.
"Okay, I'll listen to Achu in everything." Xie Ci'an said lovingly, and just as he was about to lower his head to kiss the corner of Gu Jianchu's lips, the carriage suddenly stopped.
However, this time it did not brake suddenly, but stopped smoothly, preventing the two people from falling.
Without waiting for the Emperor and Empress to ask, Cheng Song's voice rang out on the street, "Who is so bold as to dare to stop the Emperor? Do you want to die?"
The woman who stopped the imperial carriage was wearing tattered clothes and kneeling in front of it with a bulging belly.
Seeing that the woman didn't say anything, Cheng Song thought that the other party had stopped the wrong person, and that she was pregnant. They had just returned from praying at the Wanguo Temple. In order to accumulate merit, Cheng Song did not directly order someone to take the woman away, but ordered the guards to drive her aside and not to block the carriage and the way of the emperor and empress.
As soon as the guards walked up to the woman, she banged her head heavily on the ground, and her forehead immediately became red and swollen. "I am Zhang Ran, a humble servant. I beg the Queen to make a decision for me. I beg the Queen to make a decision for me. I beg the Queen to make a decision for me."
Zhang Ran roared with almost all his strength. As he shouted, the blue veins on his neck were faintly visible, which scared the guards who wanted to move forward and instantly stopped them in their tracks.
Such a loud noise attracted the people nearby. Although it was the imperial carriage, they still wanted to watch the excitement.
The people on the street had already recognized the imperial carriage and consciously retreated to the sides of the road, but they did not expect that someone would be so bold as to stop the imperial carriage.
The people couldn't help but talk about it.
"Who is this person who dares to stop the emperor's carriage so boldly? The ones escorting the emperor are all the deadly devils from the Imperial Guard and the Imperial City Bureau. If you are not careful, not to mention the injustice, you may even lose your life."
"do not know."
"To have the audacity to stop the emperor's carriage must be someone who has suffered great injustice, and who has even disregarded life and death."
"However, I heard that the Empress is kindhearted and particularly enjoys helping ordinary people resolve their grievances. I can understand why this person was so bold as to stop the Imperial carriage. Didn't they see that the person was begging the Empress, not the Emperor?"
"After your explanation, I can see that this person is indeed clever. The Empress is pregnant now, and neither the Emperor nor the Empress would kill at will. Perhaps they would help resolve an injustice they encountered in order to accumulate merit."
"The Empress is truly a living Bodhisattva. I have a cousin who was bullied by the son of the Supreme Court Justice. Fortunately, the Empress intervened and the Supreme Court Justice's son was immediately imprisoned. If someone else had handled the matter, with officials protecting each other, this matter would have been easily brushed aside with much ado."
When Dou Cong, the Minister of Dali Temple who was guarding behind the imperial carriage, heard this, his face instantly darkened. He was really bringing up something that was not relevant.
Just at this moment, the curtain of the imperial carriage was lifted.