The third prince and Fang Ruoruo enjoyed themselves for a while on the pleasure boat.

After it was over, the third prince put on his clothes and stayed on the houseboat until dark. When Fang Ruoruo woke up, the two of them left the houseboat and went back to their respective homes.

Before they parted, Fang Ruoruo stuffed the embroidered handkerchief into the Third Prince's hand and said:

"If you don't regret what you did today,

"No matter whether I can be with His Highness forever in the future, Ruoruo will never forget His Highness in this life. I will always wait for His Highness with my love for him."

The Third Prince stroked Fang Ruoruo's hair and said:

"Don't worry, I won't keep you waiting too long."

After the two separated, the third prince returned to his own palace and convened a meeting of his staff. The theme of this meeting was "how to enable him to ascend the throne faster."

As for Fang Ruoruo, after she returned home, she instructed her personal maid Hongyu:

"Go outside quietly and buy me some pregnancy medicine and some cold medicine to conceal my whereabouts."

"You must be careful this time. No one can find out. Don't use marked banknotes. Use small change. No one can find out."

Hongyu was Fang Ruoruo's personal servant, and she knew everything that happened on the houseboat.

After hearing this, she became a little worried:

"Does it really work?"

Fang Ruoruo touched her belly, a look of determination flashed across her face:

"No matter if it works or not, I will try it. If I succeed in getting pregnant, then no matter if I am a concubine or a maid, I will be able to enter the Third Prince's mansion."

"If I fail, the Third Prince will feel guilty towards me and will definitely not treat me unfairly in the future."

Hongyu nodded, and then went to do what Fang Ruoruo had asked her to do.

This time she disguised herself very well, not only her face but even her hands were fake, making her look like an ordinary old woman. She went out to buy medicine with a bag of change.

I bought a lot of pregnancy-maintaining medicine and cold-relief medicine and brought them back home.

She also personally cooked the medicine, without asking anyone else for help. Whenever someone asked about it, she would say that the young lady had gone out to enjoy the snow and caught a cold, and needed to take medicine to recuperate.

With the cold medicine as a cover, no one knew that Fang Ruoruo was drinking pregnancy-maintaining medicine.

People in the Earl of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion also didn't know that she had an affair with the Third Prince. However, judging by the character of Fang Zhenghua and his wife, even if they knew, they would probably just think of ways to maximize their benefits.

Fang Ruoruo stayed indoors and was busy with her pregnancy, so Shi Lidie also had a lot of peace and quiet. No one came to bother her during this period.

In addition to making wine and growing vegetables, she also completes elegant tasks.

The previous elegant painting task has already raised the proficiency to 100%. This time it is a new task:

Play the piano.

Women in ancient times had to dabble in all arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs.

The goal of the Elegant System is to enable Shi Lidie to improve her temperament by learning these things.

However, it seems that Shi Lidie is mostly a fool at heart. Even if she completes the elegant task, she will not become an elegant person.

Aya: It doesn’t matter, I’m just a little tired.

But despite this, the task still needs to be completed, so Shi Lidie recently started studying musical instruments.

In fact, the "qin" in "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting" is just a general term. It does not mean only qin, but refers to musical talent in general, including pipa, erhu, guzheng, changxiao, transverse flute and so on.

After all, it’s impossible for all the noble ladies in ancient times to only learn the piano.

In this leisurely life, a month passed quietly.

Shi Lidie went to the palace again to deliver food to the queen, and then heard a great piece of good news -

"I just had a female doctor check my pulse this morning. She said that my old illnesses are basically cured. Even the injuries from the miscarriage have recovered about 60% to 70% now."

"Xiao Die, your dietary therapy method is really effective. I never thought that I would recover one day."

Shi Lidie was very happy. She smiled and said to the queen:

"Congratulations to the empress, congratulations to the empress."

"If you are unsure, you can ask the imperial physician to take a look. If he confirms that there is no problem, then you can start preparing to conceive your own child."

When the Queen heard this, she was happy at first, but then she said to Shi Lidie in a reproachful tone:

"You are such a shameless girl, you say anything."

In ancient times, women were relatively conservative about matters between men and women, especially unmarried women. If outsiders heard them talking about these things, it might ruin their reputation, so the queen reminded her.

However, Shi Lidie accepted the Queen's kindness, but she still had to say what she had to say:

"Your Majesty, please continue to use your recipes. I will also continue to provide you with ingredients until you successfully conceive a dragon heir."

The queen responded with a smile, then changed the subject:

"Let the dragon heir take its course. After all, my health has recovered now, so Your Majesty can come to Fengqi Palace anytime. The most important thing for me now is to prepare for the year-end palace banquet."

"Year-end palace banquet?" Shi Lidie was very familiar with this term.

She had read about the year-end palace banquet in the book "The Fake Daughter Wins Without Any Effort".

The so-called year-end palace banquet means that when the New Year is approaching, the palace holds a banquet and invites all the royal family members, nobles with titles, and officials above the third rank in the capital to attend with their families and have fun together.

In addition to eating and drinking, there were also singing and dancing performances, as well as other entertainment programs to liven up the atmosphere.

Often at times like this, in addition to the singing and dancing troupes maintained by the palace, it is also a good opportunity for many daughters of wealthy families to come to the fore. If they can perform at a palace banquet and receive praise from the emperor and the empresses, then their status can be raised.

When you discuss marriage in the future, you will also be able to find a husband with better conditions.

In the original book, there is a description of the year-end palace banquet.

That was when the original owner was just found.

The original owner grew up in the countryside and knew nothing about the etiquette and rules of the capital.

The first time she attended a palace banquet, Fang Ruoruo deliberately gave her gorgeous clothes in the name of being nice to her and asked her to wear them into the palace. As a result, she wore the same clothes as a concubine in the palace, and she was directly put on that concubine's hate list.

Later, the concubine teased the original owner several times and made the original owner suffer a lot.

More importantly, at the palace banquet, a group of noble ladies led by Princess Jiamin deliberately misled the original owner, gave her wrong information, and made her embarrassed in front of so many people.

This brought great shame to the Earl's Mansion and made the original owner's life in the mansion even more difficult.

So, when talking about the year-end palace banquet, all Shi Lidie could think of was the miserable situation of the original owner as a clown. This was the original owner’s nightmare.

The Queen didn't know what Shi Lidie was thinking, she just thought she was interested in the year-end palace banquet, so she said:

"It's held every year, and I'm basically in charge of it. The process is almost the same every year. You're the county lady, and His Majesty will definitely issue an order to allow you to enter the palace when the time comes."

"When the time comes, dress nicely and wear the jewelry I gave you. You will definitely be the most beautiful girl in the audience."

"And don't worry. Although the Earl of Loyalty and Bravery will come, I will not allow them to bully you. If they dare to say anything against you, just tell me. I will support you."

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