Traveling through troubled times: Princess disguises herself as a man and becomes a soldier to earn

The queen chuckled when she heard this. Her originally tense mood was relieved a lot because of these words. She patted her head and said, "Nonsense, the imperial concubine has the Prime Minister's Mansion behind her. Without solid evidence, you can't just kill her casually."

"It will leave a handle, which will be bad for your brother and your reputation."

"Oh, well, let her jump around for a while longer."

Soon, a man with a white beard came in with a medicine box on his back and was about to salute.

"Doctor Liu, there is no need to bow. I asked you to come because I feel that I have been feeling hot-tempered recently. I want you to feel my pulse and see if there is any problem with the dragon fetus."

"Yes, I understand. Please stretch out your hand, Madam, so that I can feel your pulse."

a moment later

Liu Wen asked respectfully, "My Lady, have you taken a lot of tonic recently?"

The queen's heart skipped a beat and she nodded, "Yes, I vomited a lot in the first three months and couldn't eat anything. After three months, my appetite improved, so I thought about eating more tonic food, which would be good for the dragon fetus."

"Imperial Physician, please speak frankly, but my tonic will harm the dragon fetus."

"Don't worry too much, madam. The baby is still young, so some of the supplements may not be appropriate. Just adjust them in time. Sometimes, it's not necessarily good for the dragon fetus to take more supplements. It depends on the specific situation."

"If there is a need, I will let you take supplements. If there is no need, then there is no need to take too much. Everything is excessive, which is not a good thing. From now on, I will come once every three days."

The Queen heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this: "Okay, thank you, Imperial Doctor Liu. Qingsi..."

Qingsi nodded in understanding, took out a purse from her sleeve and handed it over: "It's so late, and you are bothering the imperial physician to come. Thank you for your hard work. I will take you back."

"Okay, thank you, ma'am."

After everyone left, Jiang Li sat over, hugged her arm, and rubbed his head against her shoulder: "Mother, you believe it now, right? The imperial concubine has no good intentions. The fact that she can settle down means that she has deeper calculations."

"One corpse, two lives, that's what she wanted. Even if she was found out, she could pretend she didn't know and say she had good intentions. Mother, have you ever thought about it? If you were framed, what would happen to my brother and me? Wouldn't we be bullied to death?"

The queen was immersed in her own thoughts. After a long while, she spoke in a hoarse voice: "It's my fault, mother. I won't do it again. Since the imperial concubine's plan is known, she suddenly stopped the supplements. It's inevitable that she will have other plans."

Jiang Li sat up, and the mother and daughter looked at each other and said in tacit agreement: "Take advantage of their own strategy."

"Yes, you are worthy of being the daughter of the Queen Mother."

"It's hard to guard against the tricks used by the harem. Instead of dealing with them one by one, it's better to use their tricks against them and let the imperial concubine think that her tricks have succeeded. Naturally, she won't bother to do anything else."

"What the Queen Mother said is right. I think so too. Instead of being on guard every day, it is better to play along and create a false impression for the Imperial Concubine. The tonic is cooked normally and is only given to Qingsi and the others to eat."

The queen chuckled and said, "If you hadn't mentioned it, I really wouldn't have thought of it. I originally wanted to stew the tonic in public and pour it out secretly, but those tonics are really good, it would be a pity to pour them out."

"It's dangerous for pregnant women to eat it, but it's fine for Qingsi and the others to eat it, it's good for the body."

The mother and daughter talked for a while. After Jiang Li knew that there was not enough ice, he said mysteriously, "Mother, I will go back first and bring you a surprise another day."

"...??"

*

After Qingsi came back, she was called into the palace. After hearing the whole story, she widened her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine's actions are too vicious. Shouldn't we tell His Majesty and just accept the loss in silence?"

The queen raised her lips slightly, her eyes filled with indescribable irony.

"What's the use of telling her? Even if the evidence is irrefutable, His Majesty may still let her go. Not to mention that this time, there is no evidence to prove her wrongdoing. No matter how you look at it, it's obvious that he cares about me."

"If you go to His Majesty, you'll be digging your own grave. It's not worth it. From now on, stew the tonic normally, just like before, and don't let anyone know."

Qingsi sighed, thinking that His Majesty was really blind. The Empress was obviously more beautiful than the Imperial Concubine, so why couldn't His Majesty see the Empress?

If Jiang Li heard it, there is only one thing he could say: Men are cheap~~

After Jiang Li returned, she began to think about making ice. Pregnant women have a lot of internal heat, and if there is no ice, life will be very difficult. There is heat stroke in modern times, and she couldn't bear to let her mother suffer.

Bi Yue Xiu Hua listened to the tinkling sounds inside, looked at each other, and whispered softly: "Sister Bi Yue, the princess came back from the queen and went into the room. I don't know what she is doing."

"...I don't know either. I think he is doing something important. Please don't disturb the princess."

After tinkering with it all night, the door was opened early the next morning.

The two of them got up in a hurry and saw the princess staring at the dark circles under her eyes. They were surprised and said, "Princess, you haven't slept all night. Hurry up and wash up. I will bring breakfast."

Jiang Li rubbed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Okay, after breakfast, you can take the ice in my room to my mother. I want to sleep. Even if the king of heaven or the old man comes, don't disturb my sleep."

"Ice...ice cubes?"

He yawned and pointed inside the house: "Yeah, it's inside."

Bi Yue stood at the door and could feel the slightest chill coming out of the house. She couldn't help but open her eyes wide and asked softly, "Princess, can you make ice?"

Jiang Li was so sleepy that he mumbled, "Well, that's easy. Just try it a few more times. If you want to play, I can teach you. It's also a skill."

"You can make ice for fun in the future, but there is one thing you must do. You must secretly transport it to the Queen Mother's palace. The ice was made with great effort by me. It is for the Queen Mother and my brothers and sisters, not for my father."

"Father, haha, you deserve to die of heat."

The two of them looked at each other and pretended not to hear anything. It must be his Majesty. How could he have annoyed the princess again?

After Jiang Li finished eating, he fell asleep directly.

Basins of ice cubes were emitting a chill, so the two men covered the ice cubes with quilts while no one was paying attention and secretly sent them to Changchun Palace.

Qingsi looked at the basins of ice being delivered and thought it was the princess who gave up her share. She couldn't help but sigh that the princess was thoughtful and asked softly, "These are all the princess's share."

"No, the princess made it."

"Ok?"

The queen heard the noise outside and called people into the house. She asked carefully and found out that Li'er had not slept all night just to make ice for her. Her eyes softened into water.

"Qingsi, go and deliver the lychees and grapes that have been brought into the palace to the princess. She loves to eat them. Don't spread the news about the ice cubes, or else His Majesty will ask Li'er to do it and make her exhausted. I will be so distressed."

Several people burst out laughing, and Bi Yue couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, the princess told us not to tell anyone, and the ice cubes are only for the queen, not for His Majesty."

"Well, Li'er is really well behaved."