Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

As the queen of the Great Xia Dynasty, Lan Shu's life, from the perspective of most ancient people, was absolutely smooth sailing.

As the eldest daughter in the family, she was spoiled when she was young. When she reached the right age, she married Jiang Qi, a well-matched man and her childhood sweetheart.

In the second year after marriage, she gave birth to Jiang Huai, the eldest son and grandson of the Jiang family.

Eight years after her marriage, she became a princess.

Sixteen years after her marriage, she became the queen.

What is enviable is that her husband, the current emperor Jiang Qi, respects and loves her very much and never over-favors other concubines, making things difficult for her.

More importantly, her eldest son was named crown prince in the second month after her husband became emperor. If nothing unexpected happened, the second half of her life would be smooth sailing.

Lan Shu also felt that her life was complete. She was loved by her parents, her husband and wife were in harmony, and her children were filial. Logically, there was nothing she could ask for.

But people are always unsatisfied, just like modern people. When they are unemployed, they want money. When they have money, they want time to go out and play. After playing here, they want to play there.

When you are tired of playing, you want to have a good body, etc.

Like ordinary people, Lan Shu also had something she was not satisfied with, which was that her health had begun to deteriorate slowly.

Others can only see her noble life and her smooth sailing, but few people see the efforts she has made and the suffering she has endured.

She is her parents' beloved daughter, but she is also their eldest daughter. She has to learn various things since she was young while helping her parents take care of her younger siblings.

She has a husband who loves and respects her, but when her husband is away fighting, she not only has to take care of the whole family, but also has to guard against the enemy's conspiracies and tricks.

She became a noble queen, but years of hard work had left her in poor health, especially after she gave birth to her and her husband's second child, Princess Yale Jiang Yi, at an advanced age, her health deteriorated further.

Lan Shu didn't want to die. She wanted to grow old with her husband, see her son get married and start a family and inherit Datong, and she wanted to see her little daughter grow up.

However, she knew that no matter how unwilling she was, her poor health was her health and she had no way to change it.

All she could do was hold her breath and not show it in front of her husband and children so as not to make them worry.

In order to keep herself going, Lan Shu has been trying very hard to eat.

But the physical pain made her lose her appetite. Every meal felt more like torture than eating. Every bite she took seemed to make her stomach feel more uncomfortable.

"Empress, His Majesty has sent a message to come over and have dinner with you and the princess."

Lan Shu was very happy to hear that Jiang Qi was coming.

She endured the discomfort and wanted to arrange her meals as usual.

But before she could make any arrangements this time, she heard the maid continue, "Your Majesty has already arranged the meal, so please wait patiently."

"Oh?"

Lan Shu and Jiang Qi have known each other since childhood and have been married for many years. She knows her husband's character too well. She never misses out on big things, but never cares too much about small things.

Her husband rarely expressed his opinions on matters like meals, so she was quite surprised when he suddenly asked her to arrange meals.

However, as a considerate queen, Lan Shu would not dampen Jiang Qi's interest. She just asked someone to notify the prince to come over for dinner.

When it was time for dinner, Lan Shu took care of herself and put on some makeup to make her face look less pale. Then she played with her little daughter while waiting for her husband and son.

After playing for a while, the mother and daughter heard a voice at the same time: "Yier, do you miss your father?"

Jiang Qi knew that Lan Shu was in poor health, so he had not told her about Jiang Tuan's matter before. The main reason was that he was afraid that she would put too much effort into it and her health would get worse.

Moreover, when he thought about what the gods said, that the Huns had stolen the fortune of their Great Xia, which was why Lan Shu was in poor health and her children might be implicated, he didn't know how to start the conversation.

He was really afraid that the other party would not be able to bear it after hearing those things. At that time, he decided not to tell the other party and wait until things turned around before talking about it.

However, today, the tofu made by Jiang Tuan disrupted his plan. Jiang Tuan said that tofu is good for the body, and he couldn't wait to let Lan Shu taste it.

Jiang Qi never thought that his queen was stupid. On the contrary, ever since he knew Lan Shu as a child, he thought that she was very smart.

In the past, when he was away fighting, Lan Shu would keep the house in order and he didn't have to worry about anything.

Lan Shu, who is so smart, would definitely have some doubts once she saw the bean products and knew about the existence of the ginger ball. What he wanted to hide would definitely be known.

But he wanted Lan Shu to eat bean products to improve her health, so he couldn't hide it any longer.

Fortunately, he was sure that Jiang Tuan was really here to help him and Daxia. After confirming this, he could tell Lan Shu the truth and not make the other party anxious.

Hearing her father's voice, the little princess Jiang Yi, who could already talk and walk, got off the mat, ran to him, opened her little hands, and said with a smile: "Father, father, Yi'er, hold me!"

Jiang Qi was very happy to see his delicate and pretty little daughter. He picked her up with a smile and spun her around twice without caring about his imperial image at all, making his daughter very happy.

Lan Shu saw her husband and son, stood up and walked over. Just as she was about to salute, she was stopped by Jiang Qi: "Queen, we are the only family here, no need to be polite."

The queen doesn't need to be polite, but the prince still has to pay respects to his mother.

After the family finished their greetings, Jiang Qi asked Ning Bai to serve the meal.

Seeing the meal was different from usual, Lan Shu asked curiously, "What is this? Why does it look as delicate as white jade?"

Jiang Qi placed a small bowl of tofu pudding with pure salt in front of Lan Shu.

"Try it, this thing is called tofu brain."

Lan Shu had been experiencing abdominal discomfort for several years and always had dull pain. The pain had intensified in the past year or two, making her feel even more uncomfortable. She normally didn't even feel like eating.

However, she still wanted to give face to her husband since he had brought her something personally. Before eating, she had decided that even if she didn't like it or couldn't eat much, she would finish the bowl of tofu pudding.

She tried taking a bite and was immediately attracted by its tender and smooth texture. After the first bite, she couldn't help but take the second bite.

After eating half a bowl, her abdomen felt warm and she didn't feel as uncomfortable as after eating other things.

"What on earth is this? Why does it taste so strange? And this salt seems to be different from the salt we usually eat. It's less bitter."

"See, I told you that your mother could tell by eating it." Jiang Qi said to Jiang Huai with some pride after hearing what his wife said.

"Well, Father knows Mother better."