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

Jiang Li chuckled and said, "That's right, mother, you are quite insightful. But I won't hit Yuan. I am very protective of him. Even if I have to hit him, I will hit outsiders, not family members."

The queen was silent for a moment, then whispered, "You may not be merciful to your father, but he is your biological father."

"Oh, my father is not a human being, at most he is just a father. If he doesn't come to cause trouble, I won't even bother to get close to him. I will only take action if he is bullying me."

"Whatever, you and your daughter can get along however you want, as long as you don't kill your father. I don't want to care about other trivial matters. I don't have the energy."

Jiang Li asked casually, "Mother, let's go back tomorrow. I think father must miss his eldest son. He hasn't seen him since he was born."

The queen looked at the little man in her arms, her heart melting. She touched his little nose with her finger and said tenderly, "Okay, let's do it tomorrow. I think the days have passed so quickly."

"You were so small, like a kitten, and it seems like it happened yesterday. In the blink of an eye, you have grown up so big. It's incredible."

“Time makes us grow old, and we have to accept it.”

Jiang Li's legs were numb from squatting, so he stood up and sat on the bedside: "Mother, I am going to Yu Country this time. I heard that they have the holy product of beauty and skin care, snow lotus, in that forest. I will go pick it when the time comes."

The queen frowned, her eyes a little worried: "Don't go, your mother is old, it's normal for her to grow old. I don't think the snow lotus you mentioned is a simple thing."

"It's not that easy to go there. If you run into an avalanche, someone could die. Mother, I just want you to go safely and come back safely. Promise me that you won't do anything reckless. Do you hear me?"

"...Okay, I won't do anything stupid."

I agreed verbally, but secretly thought in my heart, if I go to another country and see good things, I'd be a fool not to take them. I heard that the snow lotus will belong to whoever has the ability to pick it.

Early next morning

The queen held the child in her arms and got into the strange carriage along the secret passage. She didn't know how much time had passed before she saw the light again and returned to her familiar bedroom.

After Jiang Li came out, he closed the secret passage and said a few words: "Mother, go change your clothes and lie down on the bed to rest. Leave the big boy to the nanny. I will send someone to tell the emperor father."

"Let him look after our eldest son. Also, we need to quickly deal with the matter of the fake queen mother evacuating, lest anyone find out something is wrong. As for what the emperor said, I'll have to trouble the queen mother to explain it to him."

"If I go and tell him, I guess he'll be angry again. We are naturally incompatible and we quarrel as soon as we meet. I'm not afraid of that, but I'm mainly afraid of pissing him off to death."

The queen nodded: "Okay, leave this to mother."

When Emperor Ming learned that the Queen had returned, he immediately put down the memorial in his hand and ran over with eager eyes. He didn't know what kind of surprise the girl was talking about and why his eyelids were twitching.

Changchun Palace

There was a cry of a baby inside. Emperor Ming paused as he was about to go in and turned to look at Defu: "Hmm? Did I hear it wrongly? Why is there a baby crying inside? Didn't the Queen's child die?"

"This... I don't know, maybe it's a surprise for the princess."

"Haha, the surprise is not that they got a child from somewhere and asked me to raise it. What do you think this place is? Let's go in and take a look. Let the imperial physician follow us."

"Don't let me faint from anger, and I don't know how to save you."

De Fu lowered his head and rolled his eyes. Your Majesty is really overthinking it. Even if the princess acts naughty again, you can't bring a child back from outside and give it to Your Majesty to raise.

He opened the door and walked in.

When the queen saw someone coming in, she lowered her head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, I greet you..."

Emperor Ming stepped forward, sat beside the bed and held her hand. "Don't bow. You've hurt your vitality this time. You need to rest well. I see that you are getting better."

He is now much better, completely different from his previous dying state. If his appearance had not changed, I would not have been able to recognize him.

"Ha, thanks to Li'er. She made some tonic to replenish blood and the ears. After I drank it, my body became stronger day by day, and my condition improved a lot."

The queen smiled and said, "It's normal to feel weak after giving birth. I'll be fine after the confinement period. Your Majesty, don't worry about me."

Emperor Ming had a strange look in his eyes. The child was born, but didn't it die young? Why did the Queen look like the child was always by her side and was still alive? Isn't this very strange?

"Queen, I just heard a child crying in your room. What's going on?"

"Well, I was just trying to explain this to Your Majesty."

After a stick of incense

The queen looked at the stunned man, waved her hand in front of his eyes, and shouted, "Your Majesty, are you okay? But if there is anything you don't understand, I can explain it to you."

Emperor Ming shook his head: "No, no, I understand, but I can't believe that the girl is so smart that she knows to take you out of the palace to guard against the imperial concubine."

"If she hadn't done this, Queen, you would have been... and the prince would have met with misfortune."

"Where did the Queen live during this period? Did she suffer any hardship?"

The queen was about to speak, but she thought of what Jiang Li had said before, and concealed the matter of the plantation, and made up an excuse casually: "Li'er is very thoughtful. During this period of time, the courtyard where I live has always been served, and I have not suffered."

Emperor Ming breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that girl is unreliable, the imperial concubine is dead now, and no one in the harem will harm the queen in the future, you can just rest assured in the harem."

"Well, I think that after the full moon, I will take charge of the six palaces myself. I can't keep bothering my sister, the Concubine Chen."

"Okay, when the Queen recovers, if you are willing to do it, I will let Concubine Chen give it to you. Thank you, Queen, for taking the risk to help me give birth to a prince."

The queen said submissively, "It is my duty to help your majesty to have children and spread their wings. It is not hard work. As long as your majesty is happy, I will be happy too."

Leaning in his arms, there was no smile in her eyes.

The two talked for a while, and Emperor Ming asked to see the little prince. When the nanny brought him over, Emperor Ming reached out his hands and held the child in his arms. He found that the child's eyes and brows looked very much like his own.

I couldn't help but laugh: "Look at this beauty, Queen. His nose is like mine, his features are like mine, and his mouth is like the Queen's. I think he will be a handsome man when he grows up."

"The imperial physician, why don't you come in quickly and check if the little prince is in good health?"

There was some worry in Emperor Ming's eyes. Neither of the two children born to the empress before were normal. The crown prince was sickly and weak. As for Li'er, he was normal for more than ten years, but after he was hit on the head, he was obviously abnormal.

The little prince needs to look around more often, otherwise he will die with regrets if another Li'er comes along.