Chapter 145 How can one word describe this? (1)
Chapter 145 How can one word describe this? (1)
The Shen residence was not as big as imagined. Although Qin Luan's husband died on the battlefield and her eldest daughter had made great contributions in the war and was now the queen, the court had never given Qin Luan any preferential treatment or rewards.
Of course, a big reason was that she had angered both Shen Yin and Yun Che by changing the bride at her eldest daughter's wedding three years ago.
Lu Changqing was carried from the carriage to the room on a stretcher. Qin Luan looked at the maids with heartache as they moved Lu Changqing, whose buttocks were bruised, to the bed.
"My dear girl, hold on for a while. Mother has sent someone to Huichun Hall to invite Doctor Zhang."
While the doctor was still on the way, Qin Luan ordered the servants to boil water quickly, while she stayed by the bed and kept wiping the cold sweat from Lu Changqing's forehead.
Lu Changqing was so upset that she wanted to cry but had no tears. She knew without even looking how her butt looked after being beaten.
The cold, wet cloth stuck to the wound, and liquid trickled down between her legs.
Lu Changqing asked Qin Luan to help her take off her pants, "Mom, do you have any medicine to stop the bleeding at home?"
"Yes, I'll have someone get it now."
Qin Luan used a pair of scissors to cut open Lu Changqing's pants. Seeing the bloody wound, tears fell again. She cursed unwillingly, "Why did I give birth to a daughter like Shen Yin who has such evil thoughts! You are her biological sister!"
Lu Changqing: …
"Mother, how can you blame my sister for this? It was the emperor who ordered me to be beaten."
"The emperor beat you because of her, wasn't it? Besides, when the emperor ordered you to be beaten, she, as your sister, didn't even speak up to plead for you. Isn't this her fault?"
From an outsider's perspective, Qin Luan's words were indeed unreasonable. After all, it was the mother and daughter who were seeking death.
But when he saw Qin Luan defending Shen Rou unreasonably, Lu Changqing understood why Shen Rou couldn't let go of her mother.
In the plot, for Shen Yin, Qin Luan is not a competent mother, but for Shen Rou, she is the best person in the world to her.
"Mother, please don't say such things in the future. Today I finally understand the emperor's feelings for my sister. This beating is not in vain. It also helps me put an end to the unrealistic fantasy in my heart."
Qin Luan disagreed and said, "How can that be considered wishful thinking? Xiaorou, you are so outstanding, how can Shen Yin compare to you?"
There are some mothers and fathers in the world who are like this. They have a blind confidence in their children. Even though the children are just ordinary ones, they think their children are the best in the world.
"Mother, stop talking like that. Be careful, there are ears on the other side of the wall. Didn't my daughter get beaten today because I contradicted the Empress with my words? If someone with ulterior motives spread your words to the palace and angered the Emperor, do you think he would order me to be beaten again?"
"How dare she!" Qin Luan raised her eyebrows, "I am her mother, and also the emperor's mother-in-law!"
"So what? First the emperor and his subjects, then the mother and daughter. Besides, he is the emperor above all others, and we are just powerless commoners. If it weren't for my sister becoming the empress, this house, farm, and shop would have to be confiscated by the court."
Qin Luan said unhappily: "According to what you said, I should be grateful to that unfilial daughter?"
In fact, Lu Changqing didn’t understand why Qin Luan hated Shen Yin for no reason in the plot. That was her child, who could go to the battlefield and work in the kitchen. For the ancients, isn’t that excellent?
Lu Changqing had this question, so she asked it casually, but Qin Luan avoided her question and didn't want to say more.
When Qin Luan was using warm water to wipe the blood stains around Lu Changqing's wound, Doctor Zhang arrived.
Qin Luan told Doctor Zhang about Lu Changqing's injuries in the outer room. The doctor prescribed some hemostatic and stasis-removing ointments, and after carefully reminding him of some precautions, he happily took the consultation fee and left.
The system had already helped Lu Changqing check the injury on her buttocks. Although it looked bloody on the surface, there were actually no broken bones.
Lu Changqing knew that Yun Che did this on purpose.
Those who beat people with sticks in the palace were all experts, and their ways of beating were endless. After ten beatings, they could make a person bloody and miserable, or leave him alive and well without any injury. Whether the person lived or died or lived a life worse than death depended on the intention of the emperor, the organizer.
It was obvious that Yun Che didn't want Shen Rou to die, but he also didn't want her to have an easy life.
Yun Che had never taken Shen Rou seriously. After that conversation, he had already determined that Shen Rou was an extremely stupid person who would not be able to cause much trouble.
Lu Changqing lay on the bed and let Qin Luan apply medicine to her wounds, her thoughts already flying away from the Shen residence.
This world really favors the male protagonist too much. Lu Changqing thought about all the princesses and princes in the capital, but none of them had ever appeared in the plot. She couldn't get anyone to rebel even if she wanted to.
The only two troublemakers are the barbarians in the north and the people in the south who revolt from time to time. These people in the south were created by the world rules in order to perfect the sentence in the plot: "These years have not been peaceful, and wars have continued."
Lu Changqing thought about the possibility of Yun Che asking her to lead troops to pacify Mobei, which was almost impossible, so the only option now might be to head south.
If you don’t rebel after traveling through time, your chrysanthemum will be chopped off by thousands of people. In this rubbish world, if Lu Changqing doesn’t pull Yun Che down from the throne, she will sit up and slap herself twice when she wakes up at night.
To rebel, you need money and people. Now she has neither the money nor the people. But fortunately, she still has those messy ideas about glass soap in her mind. While the power of the plot is still there, she will sell these things first.
Speaking of things like glass soap, Lu Changqing wanted to laugh again.
In order to flatter his beloved son, the author used the heroine's mouth to say in the plot that when Shen Rou showed off that she knew many modern things in front of Shen Yin, "In fact, Yun Che also knows these things that Shen Rou knows. He sent people to make things like soap and glass a long time ago, but he didn't promote them to the public. They are all used exclusively by the royal family."
It's funny. As an emperor, you are worshipped by the people. Why don't you promote these things that benefit the people? Do you not want to or do you not have the ability? Or do you want to use these novel things to show off your noble royal family. After all, things are precious because they are rare.
It’s also exclusively for the royal family. Oh my god, Lu Changqing really wants to dig into the author’s brain and see what kind of thought process can produce such an abstract plot.
The days of recuperation passed very slowly because they were too boring. Lu Changqing never thought that one day she would have to worry about going to the toilet. She couldn't squat, and she didn't dare to sit. Even if someone supported her, she couldn't defecate.
Finally, she thought of a brilliant idea. She hung two hanging ropes on the beams on the left and right sides of the squat toilet. When going to the toilet, she would pull the ropes on both sides and half-squat. This not only solved the problem of defecation, but also exercised her arm strength, killing two birds with one stone.
Lu Changqing: ╰(*′︶`*)╯ It’s me as expected!
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