Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Jia Ling's Double Rebirth, Creates a Great Success

The Emperor no longer cared about the Twelfth Prince because of Ruyi's gender testing and the withholding of wages for the midwife.

When Ying Guiren and Ke Changzai saw Ruyi, they either made sarcastic remarks or looked down on her.

Therefore, Ruyi returned to her previous state of being ignored in the harem.

Seeing that the tenth, eleventh and twelfth children were about the same age, Fucha Langya often rewarded the children with some small toys and supplements at the same time. When Ruyi saw this, she simply put them in her private storehouse and never let Yongji eat them.

So while Yongheng and Yongyan were growing up, Yongqi was still as thin as a monkey.

Ruyi was upset when she saw that the emperor did not come to visit her, and since Yongqi was easily frightened, she often cried all night and refused to sleep.

Ruyi thought of the calming soup. As soon as Yongji drank it, he would fall asleep obediently and sleep for the whole day, even refusing to drink milk.

Having tasted the sweetness, Ruyi began to give Yongji calming soup every day, which resulted in Yongji being as sleepy as a baby even though he was almost one year old.

The wet nurse who took care of Yongji looked really scared and secretly reported to the Empress. When Fucha Langya heard it, she was also terrified.

Ever since Lujun and Yuyan discovered that the Third Prince became slow to react after drinking the tranquilizing soup, she asked the princes and princesses in the Imperial Hospital and the harem to stop the practice of giving him the tranquilizing soup.

In fact, it is inevitable that children are easily frightened and love to cry. As long as you pay more attention to them, provide them with nutrition, and make them strong, they will naturally sleep well.

This was the case with Yuyan's four princes. Even Yongheng, who was the thinnest when born, became able to eat and sleep well under the care of Concubine Qing.

Fu Cha Langya asked someone to invite Ruyi over and kindly advised her not to give Yongji the calming soup anymore and let Yongji play more with his brothers.

Unexpectedly, this made Ruyi even more angry. Ruyi didn't want anyone to say that she didn't raise her child well, so after she returned, she drove the wet nurse away.

Rong Pei and Ling Zhi couldn't help but feel distressed as they held the little Twelfth Prince in their arms. The child was already frail and had suddenly been weaned; he would surely starve to death.

Lingzhi couldn't help asking, "Madam, the nurse is gone, what will our prince eat? There are a few boxes of goat milk cakes in the private storehouse, do you want to make some for the prince?"

Ruyi thought about it and realized that the goat milk cake was sent by Concubine Qing. Concubine Qing was on good terms with Concubine Ling and Concubine Shu, so she must have bad intentions!

She shook her head. "Make some rice porridge for Yongji. Take your time. He will get used to it. Also, don't take Yongji out in the future, or he will be missed by others. You have to be careful when raising a child."

So Yongqi was kept in the Yikun Palace.

Lingzhi felt sorry for the twelfth prince, and secretly made some goat milk cake for him to drink every day.

Yongheng and Yongyan were able to curse at each other fluently because they often played together, but Yongqi from the Yikun Palace could not even speak clearly.

Even when the emperor occasionally came to the Yikun Palace to spend the night, Ruyi would cover Yongqi and not let the emperor see him, always saying that Yongqi was already asleep.

Until this New Year's Eve, everyone in the palace had replaced the peach charms with new ones in advance, and each palace also hung up festive colorful glass lanterns with the symbols of fortune, wealth and longevity.

Because the Queen Mother asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give extra red envelopes to the palace servants in each palace, everyone was very motivated.

In Yiku Palace, Lingzhi used the money from her red envelope to buy a red string for the Twelfth Prince, praying that the Twelfth Prince would be in better health in the coming year.

Yongji liked it very much and gently kissed Sister Lingzhi on the head. This was the first time he received a gift.

At this moment, Lingzhi couldn't hold back her tears. She sobbed and hugged Yongji. The twelfth prince was so pitiful. He had never had any joy of a child since he was born.

Yongqi wiped away Lingzhi's tears and tried to speak haltingly, but because he had rarely communicated with others since childhood and his language was poor, he didn't know what to say.

He could only keep wiping Lingzhi's tears and shaking his head, signaling sister Lingzhi to stop crying.

The family dinner featured exquisite dishes carefully prepared by the imperial kitchen. They might not have been so tempting to other children in the palace, but to Yongqi, they were rare delicacies.

Seeing that his mother was not looking over here, Yongqi reached out his hand, took a piece of duck meat and a piece of meat pie, and started eating.

Yong Zhang, who was sitting in the back, saw that Yong Ji was eating fast and was afraid that he would choke, so he quickly brought him a bowl of milk.

The princes seldom saw the Twelveth Prince. When they saw Yongqi's sallow face and skinny arms, they wondered if Yongqi had been abused.

Yongcheng was a talkative person. He came forward to tease Xiao Twelve to call him Fourth Brother, but Yongqi just held the meat patty in his mouth with his mouth open and said nothing.

Yongcheng looked at Yongzhang, Yongzhang looked at Yongqi. Yongqi was almost two years old, and he still couldn’t speak?

Three, four, and five glances at Yongheng and Yongyan who were laughing and playing in another row further confirmed that Yongqi was abnormal.

When everyone was seated, the Emperor, the Empress and the Queen Mother took their seats and announced the official start of the family dinner.

The emperor looked around. Sitting on the left were his beloved concubines, and on the right were his beloved sons. The whole family seemed extremely harmonious.

Except Ruyi.

The emperor frowned. Everyone else had their hair combed neatly, but she was the only one who wore a small flag-shaped head.

When Ruyi saw the emperor looking at her, she felt happy. She chewed a plum in her mouth, bared her teeth and smiled at the emperor, revealing the plum pit on her tongue.

The emperor turned his head and asked the queen to wash her eyes.

But the Queen was talking to Lujun and Yanwan in a whisper. The Emperor came over and the three of them fell silent. The Emperor said in a low voice in anger:

"Empress, I didn't even know that the concubines in the harem were married to you. They kept everything from me."

Fu Cha Langya smiled. She would not fall for the emperor's provocation and tell him about Yong Zhang writing folk stories under the pseudonym Jin Sanye.

She coaxed the emperor, "Your Majesty, it's not good for you to listen to our women's affairs~"

The emperor snorted, turned around and went to drink with the empress dowager.

Just when everyone was enjoying themselves at the banquet, Yongqi vomited because he ate too fast, and almost fell off his chair because he ate too hard.

Yongzhang and Yongcheng hurriedly stood up and supported Yongqi one on each side.

Seeing this, Ruyi frowned slightly, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Yongqi has lost his dignity. Please allow me to take Yongqi back."

Yongqi's little body was trembling. He didn't know what dignity was. He just saw his mother frowning and he was a little scared out of habit.

Yong Zhang called the maid to serve him, who wiped Yong Qi's mouth and cleaned him up.

The emperor also looked at Yongqi and said, "Why did you vomit for no reason? Is there something wrong with the food?"

Yong Zhang said, "Father Emperor, I have tried the food and it is fine. Maybe Yong Ji eats too fast. He looks very hungry and thin."

Concubine Qing watched for a while. Ever since Yihuan had Yongheng, she had read many medical books about infants and young children. Now she could see the trick at a glance. She stood up and saluted.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to say a few more words. The twelfth prince has a bad spleen and stomach and is malnourished. That's why he ate so much at once and that's why he vomited."

The Emperor looked at the Empress, the Empress looked at the Queen Mother, and the three of them looked at each other in bewilderment. How could a prince of the royal family be malnourished when being raised by his own mother?

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and called Yongqi over, "Yongqi, come here, come to the side of the Imperial Grandmother."

Led by Yongzhang, Yongqi walked to the emperor and the empress dowager. The empress dowager took a look and found that Yongqi was not only thin, but also had dull eyes and looked cowardly.

There was a hint of anger between the emperor's brows. He slammed the table hard and looked at Ruyi: "Ruyi, why is Yongqi so quiet? How did you raise him?"

This slap was not a big deal, but it frightened Yongji directly. Yongji quickly hid in Yongzhang's arms.

Ruyi heard the emperor questioning her and said unconvincedly: ...