Soft and crispy waist

The tenth year of Yong'an, autumn.

Yuliu Garden.

The grapes planted by Xia Zheng in the yard have produced many more bunches this year. Under the sunshine, each grape is plump and pleasing to the eye.

She sat on the rocking chair under the grape trellis and raised her hand to direct Gu Yizhi, who was standing on a stool holding a pair of scissors, saying, "Cut from this side so as not to damage the fruit."

"You're ordering me around more and more now." Gu Yizi complained, but he turned the scissors in his hand as Xia Zheng said and cut the bunch of grapes from the other side.

Xia Zheng cracked melon seeds, but with a weak expression on her face, she said, "I'm so weak, I have to rely on Gu Lang for everything."

"You are lying with your eyes open. When you were cooking at the banquet in the imperial kitchen, didn't you look weak? You didn't look weak in bed either." Gu Yizi has now reached the point where he can say those dirty words without blushing.

Xia Zheng curled her lips. Seeing that one or two words had no effect, she had to put down the handful of melon seeds in her hand, stood up, raised her hand to pull Gu Yizi's sleeve and said coquettishly: "Gu Lang, please love me."

Looking at those wet, aggrieved eyes, even though I could tell at a glance after more than ten years that she was pretending and becoming less and less sincere, I still couldn't bear to say anything to her.

Really, I don’t know when this happened to her.

"General Qin, you can't go in, you can't go in!"

"I don't understand. I don't understand."

The voices of Qin Yang and Chang Feng were heard outside the courtyard gate. Turning around, Qin Yang, who was holding his little boy, had pushed away Chang Feng's restraints and rushed in. Seeing the two of them under the grape trellis, his eyes fell on Xia Zheng's belly.

Although the clothes are loose, you can still see a slight bulge.

He immediately put the boy down and told him to play by himself. Then he took a few steps forward and stopped the two of them just before Gu Yizi was about to take Xia Zheng away.

"The emperor is here indeed." Qin Yang smiled slyly, his eyes never leaving Xia Zheng's belly.

"The court is closed today, why are you here?" Gu Yizi said impatiently.

Qin Yang knew it was not a good idea to get straight to the point, so he scratched his chin, looked away, and said, "I was free, so I came here for a walk and came in to take a look. I didn't expect His Majesty and Consort De to be here."

"Have you seen it? Let's go." Gu Yizi didn't bother to be polite at all.

Qin Yang was choked, but after more than twenty years, he had long been accustomed to it. He smiled as if he hadn't heard anything and said, "Your Majesty and Empress Defei, guess who I met on the way here today?"

Gu Yizi was not interested, and Xia Zheng looked at Qin Yang without saying anything.

However, Qin Yang was not deterred by this and continued, "Prince Mu and Consort Xia, oh, no, now it should be Miss Xia."

It’s not strange that Prince Mu and Tuan’er are together, what’s strange is that there is one person missing.

"Xin'er isn't here?"

Seeing Gu Yizi asking, Qin Yang immediately said as if he was offering a treasure: "He's not here. I should say that he wasn't there after I saw him. He was there before, but I don't know what he said. He slapped Prince Mu and left."

Xia Zheng and Gu Yizi have long been accustomed to this.

Prince Mu, Tuan'er, and Gu Yingxin have been in a love triangle for almost ten years.

Gu Yingxin likes Prince Mu, Prince Mu likes Tuan'er, and Tuan'er... doesn't like anyone.

Since Gu Yizi implemented the system of female officials, although women do not have as many opportunities to enter the officialdom as men, they still have much more opportunities than men.

In ten years, Tuan'er had gone from being a palace lady to starting over again, and step by step she rose to the position of female order.

But Xia Zheng knew that this was not enough for Tuan'er.

This is also what gives Xia Zheng a headache. Tuan'er is completely devoted to this and doesn't care about love between men and women at all. Even though Prince Mu has been following her around for so many years and has been telling her over and over again that she abandoned him and that she was the one who teased him first, she remains unmoved.

As for Gu Yingxin, although she refused to admit that she liked Prince Mu, anyone with eyes could see it from her actions, and she was secretly following Tuan'er's lead.

As a result, after ten years, all three of them had reached the age of marriage, but none of them had been able to get married.

"Xia Zheng, I'm hungry. I want to eat hotpot." As she was speaking, Gu Yingxin's angry voice came from outside.

She puffed up her face and as soon as she entered the room, she didn't look at anyone and sat down on the small stool outside the kitchen.

Xia Zheng wanted to go over, but Gu Yizi grabbed her hand and said coldly, "If you want to eat, go back home and ask the cook to make it for you."

"You... are cold-blooded and heartless! I'm in such a state, but you don't even feel sorry for me." Gu Yingxin stomped her feet and complained, her eyes immediately filled with tears.

"You asked for trouble, you can't blame anyone else." Gu Yizi showed no sympathy.

Gu Yingxin was so angry that her breathing became rapid, but she couldn't utter a word in rebuttal.

She really asked for it.

In the past, she didn't know that Mu Li liked Xia Jin, but after she found out, she didn't say it, but she couldn't let it go in her heart. When she heard what Mu Li said today, she was even more angry and her heart ached.

"Sister, eat!" Qin Yang's son walked to Gu Yingxin at some point, raised his dirty hands, and handed a handful of grass to Gu Yingxin.

"I'm not..." Before she could even utter the word "Niu", Gu Yingxin saw the three-year-old kid looking at her sincerely and she couldn't bear to refuse him, so she could only reach out and take it.

But as soon as the little baby touched the grass, his hands were pulled down, and the grass immediately became itchy after scratching his palms.

Before he could react, he was knocked down by a hand.

"This is orange grass. If it scratches the skin, it will cause itching that is hard to stop." Tuan'er scooped up a bucket of clean water to wash Gu Yingxin's hands while speaking.

"You little bastard!" Gu Yingxin grabbed the kid who wanted to run away, took off his pants, and rubbed the grass that had just fallen on his buttocks.

The little baby was so itchy that he ran towards Qin Yang, crying and covering his butt, calling for his daddy.

"Why are you crying! You deserve it for being beaten! Stand at attention!" Qin Yang took his naughty monkey to the well to wash his buttocks.

Gu Yingxin glanced at Tuan'er uncomfortably, then looked behind her and asked, "Where's that bastard Mu Li?"

"What does it have to do with me where he is?" Tuan'er answered coldly. He raised his eyes, looked at Xia Zheng and immediately smiled. Moreover, he only saw Xia Zheng.

"Didn't he say he wanted to take you boating?"

"I don't want to go, do you want to go?"

"If you're not going, why should I go? I don't want to." Gu Yingxin rolled her eyes. Why should she want something that she doesn't want.

Xia Zheng looked at the two of them. In fact, she still couldn't understand whether Gu Yingxin liked Prince Mu or...

"It's so noisy, let's go back to our room." Without waiting for Xia Zheng to think about it, Gu Yizi pulled her into the house.

Seeing that the man was about to leave, Qin Yang no longer cared about his own howling brat. He rushed forward, grabbed Gu Yizi, and without any prelude, he got straight to the point and asked, "Your Majesty, we have been through life and death many times. Look, Concubine De is pregnant again this time. My son is just three or four years older than her, so it's a perfect match. How about arranging a marriage for them?"

"No big deal." Gu Yizi refused without hesitation.

"No, Ruanruan, it didn't work out last time. You said you thought my eldest son was too young, and you didn't give birth to a daughter after that. This baby looks like a girl, and the age is right. Give us a chance and we can get closer..."

Before he could utter the last word "kiss", a mouthful of orange grass was stuffed into Qin Yang's mouth.

They rushed back to the well like a gust of wind. The father and son, one to wash his mouth and the other to wash his butt, both went in and out.

Xia Zheng was trying to hold back her laughter, but when Gu Yizi said in a disdainful tone, "The little wild boar wants to steal my unborn cabbage," she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After Gu Yizi glared at him, he quickly restrained himself and followed him into the house obediently.

Close the door and isolate yourself from everything outside.

Before Xia Zheng could go in, Gu Yizi turned around and pushed her into a corner and asked, "What were you laughing at just now?"

"I laugh at General Qin's pity. He only wants to marry His Majesty, but His Majesty only has one daughter. If His Majesty could treat me equally, General Qin wouldn't be so eager to see me every time I get pregnant."

"Are you trying to persuade me to treat everyone equally?" Gu Yizhi approached dangerously, gazing down at her condescendingly. "Xia Zheng, do you really love me?"

After more than ten years, Gu Yizi still hasn't been able to fully determine this issue.

Love?

Xia Zheng thought for a moment, then drew circles on Gu Yizi's chest and said, "I probably...admire Gu Lang."