After I switched back bodies with Wu Min Jun, I finally realized the pain and comfort of being a woman.
The pain was nothing more than monthly bleeding, and the comfort was not having to wake up early, I can rest as much as I want in the palace, occasionally having to manage and address matters of the inner palace. As for the memorials, I didn't have to worry about them at all, but sometimes if I saw that Wu Min Jun was having a hard time, I habitually helped.
On the first day of the switch, I felt a little bit uncomfortable. I almost got up early to go to Court, but by the next day, I had completely adapted and was very happy.
On the second day of the switch, Wu Min Jun woke up first and a servant helped him get dressed for Court. I used to be the one to leave first while Wu Min Jun nestled in the quilt, this time it was my turn. I looked at him half-awake, after the servant left, I asked him with a smile: "Do you regret it? Hurt? Sad?"
Wu Min Jun smiled and glanced at me and said: "I am used to being lazy, some people are not used to it."
I laughed and was just about to tell him that, 'I think that I am very used to it', when he leaned over, pulled me up and kissed my forehead.
Me: "..."
Wu Min Jun smiled at me: "However, there are still benefits."
I blushed and mumbled: "Is this calculated as a benefit...?"
Wu Min Jun laughed and then tapped my forehead: "Can you still fall asleep?"
I: "...Oh, probably... can't sleep..."
Wu Min Jun howled in laughter, then turned and went out.
Me: "..."
Wu Min Jun, you are so childish! Can't see others enjoy!
However, it turned out that if I have the opportunity to sleep in, I can still accomplish this task. After Wu Min Jun left, I stayed in bed in a daze, and after a while, I eventually fell asleep, until I felt someone pinching my nose, I couldn't breathe and my eyes flew open to see Wu Min Jun's face.
I habitually struck forward and ended up hitting Wu Min Jun's nose.
Wu Min Jun: "..."
He howled through the pain and stinging tears: "Can't you be gentle?"
I said: "I didn't do it deliberately! who asked you to pinch my nose?"
I sat up straight and went over to look at: "Is it okay?"
Wu Min Jun said: "Fortunately..."
I was also tired of sleeping, so I called a servant to help me wash up and get dressed. While I was eating, I saw that Wu Min Jun was still rubbing his nose, so I asked: "Is it really painful?"
Wu Min Jun replied: "How about you give me a kiss?"
I: "..."
I sighed and said: "Wu Min Jun, before you were only effeminate, now you are very fragile... you cannot be saved, really..."
Wu Min Jun did not hesitate to come over and seal the rest of my words with his mouth, I was kissed by him until I was dizzy, by the time he stepped back, I had forgotten what I wanted to say.
Wu Min Jun raised an eyebrow at me with a challenging expression: "Continue talking, I am very fragile now, huh?"
I: "..."
"You have changed from being fragile to becoming a "provocative" existence" I rolled my eyes at him, but in my heart, I felt a little embarrassed. After we changed back, Wu Min Jun has been very high-spirited, doing some intimate things was natural, but I always feel embarrassed...
Probably his face was really too thick...
In the afternoon, Wu Min Jun went to the royal study. I sat in the palace for a while, then Pingyang and Lu Lu came. Pingyang said that she was too bored, I also felt that I could relate, but thinking carefully I didn't think it's quite right. Pingyang's case was because she was pregnant, and for me...it was not so boring but...
Before when I was in Wu Min Jun's body, there were too many things keeping me busy, Wu Min Jun would also help out, between the both of those we were never really idle, except those times when Wu Min Jun would be too lazy and hide in the palace to sleep or read.
Now, the matters of the Court have been completely handed over to Wu Min Jun, I felt that there is nothing to do, emotions are really complicated.
Pingyang and I sat together and started to discuss gossip. I didn't know anything about the inner palace so I could only listen to Pingyang. After a while, Pingyang was not happy: "Royal sister-in-law, how come you are only listening today? Normally, every time I come to see you, you always had a lot of news!"
Me: "..."
What was Wu Min Jun actually thinking...ah?
I couldn't tell any gossip that would be interesting, I was a bit embarrassed so I started telling Pingyang about things in Dong country, things Wu Min Jun could not have mentioned, so Pingyang was very interested. I talked about things from my childhood, as we talked, events that I had long forgotten came to mind and I felt it was a little bit interesting.
Pingyang and I chatted until it was time for dinner, and Wu Min Jun had come back. I asked Pingyang and Lu Lu to eat here. After the meal, Pingyang and Lu Lu left, and I expressed my boredom to Wu Min Jun.
"If I only stay inside the palace every day, Pingyang will not come every day, I don't know what to do with myself. " I held my chin, and I was anxious.
Wu Min Jun nodded: "Well, then you can come to help me?"
I bitterly said: "Except this matter, there is no other thing to do..."
Wu Min Jun suggested an idea for me: "Practice martial arts?"
"Well, this I can..."
"Then, learn female arts?" Wu Min Jun continued, "I didn't want to say it, but I can now embroider a pouch, and the mandarin duck pattern is no problem at all."
I said: "This is not something to be especially proud of..."
Wu Min Jun: "That... Although you don't like writing, but after working for the country, you're not too bad. If you like, I can ask the TaiFu to teach you."
I said: "That is not necessary... Anyway, there's nothing to do, let him come."
Wu Min Jun touched my head with satisfaction: "Good."
I knocked his hand off and said: "Hey, being your Empress is so boring if I had known... "
Wu Min Jun: "..." -_-)'
"Cough, cough...even if you were the wife of Yan Yu or Wu Hao, it may not be more interesting than now." Wu Min Jun said with a dark expression.
Me: "..." -_-)'
I replied: "I was just casually talking, you don't have to think so much..."
Wu Min Jun: "Tch~"
Me: "..."
Retarded...
Wu Min Jun sent the TaiFu to come to tutor me. TaiFu said that he was very puzzled because during the Spring festival, when Wu Min Jun was in my body, "my" literary talent was striking, to not look bad, I told him that in fact at that time the Emperor was guiding me.
The TaiFu accepted my explanation and said that he will work hard.
When I was in Dong, I barely studied, so my literacy skill was not good, I could only learn sentences from the most popular poetry. Therefore, for the TaiFu tutoring me it was extraordinarily difficult. At night, I was holding a book and studying with lamps on, silently reciting from the Book of Songs, as a result, I was oblivious to my surroundings, Wu Min Jun who was on the other side reviewing memorials, finally came up to me and took the book out of my hands: "Forget it, don't study."
I said: "Don't bother about me, I will make sure to memorize it."
Wu Min Jun: "Actually, you studying this, I am afraid you will be more bored. If in order to learn this you need to light lamps and study at night, then there is no need. Some people are naturally born with an aptitude for literacy, and others are with an aptitude for martial arts, not to mention, the best age for studying has passed."
I said dejectedly: "Then I can only be illiterate..."
Wu Min Jun: "..."
"You are literate, these poems do not have much importance, what matters? Is it not being able to read the text? The Spring festival only happens once a year. Usually, those ladies don't have a need for literature when they go around, in fact, it is virtually useless."
Hearing Wu Min Jun saying this, I felt it was extremely reasonable. After a while, I reacted and looked at Wu Min Jun with surprise: "Are you comforting me?"
Wu Jun: "... If not, then?"
I covered my face: "Ah, in other words, I am still not suitable for learning."
Wu Min Jun went back to his own table, bent over and wrote two sentences, and then handed it to me: "Read."
Hm? Was he testing my literacy level?...
I looked at the piece of paper, and Wu Min Jun's writing was as elegant and vigorous as ever.
"The beginning of literacy in life, only the rough path can be taken..." I slowly read it, only to realize Wu Min Jun's purpose.
**(the line is taken from a poem by Su Shi called "Shí cāng shūzuìmò táng")**
I could not help but laugh: "How does this poem make sense? Those villagers who are illiterate must still worry about their livelihood, how can you say that being literate is the cause of worry?"
Wu Min Jun said: "Because people who are literate think more, even if they don't have to worry their livelihood, they still can't be satisfied, giving rise to all sorts of trouble."
I: "Wu Min Jun, after you and I switched back, you really seemed to have changed too much. When have you spoken so seriously before?"
Wu Min Jun said quietly: "I wouldn't have said that before."
I did not understand what Wu Min Jun meant, I held the paper with the poem, stared at it in thought for a while, Wu Min Jun went back to review the memorials.
- In fact, I understood very well, he probably meant that before we switched bodies, he would not persuade others.
I smiled and put the paper on the table, picked up the Book of Songs, after looking at it for a while I put it down and went to Wu Min Jun's side: "That, Wu Min Jun, tell the TaiFu not to come tomorrow...I will practice martial arts, if I get tired, I will try to learn the female arts."
"Oh."
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