Another month passed, spring came and flowers bloomed. Li Yanjing worked hard, and Yun Yuan was as expected pregnant. It was already two months pregnant when they found out, which meant that she became pregnant not long after they had sex.

The emperor cried when he found out, and Yun Yuan was so scared that he was at a loss. Other people were so happy and ecstatic when they became fathers, so why was he crying?

She hesitated and said, "You...are very unhappy?"

Li Yanjing wiped away his tears fiercely: "No, I am too happy. I am crying with joy. I am crying with joy."

Yun Yuan didn't know what to say and wanted to go to the kitchen to learn how to cook, but Li Yanjing hugged her from behind.

"What's wrong?" Yun Yuan turned around, and her rosy lips just brushed against Li Yanjing's lips.

Li Yanjing held her head and deepened the kiss, and only left when Yun Yuan was out of breath.

"What are you going to do?"

Yun Yuan's face flushed red, and her eyes sparkled: "What should I do?"

"Child, our child."

"Of course I'll give birth to the baby." One child costs two million, and there's also a life span bonus from the system. The more children the better.

Suddenly thinking of something, Yun Yuan shouted outside, "Xinghua, go to the storeroom and get a box of golden melon seeds!"

The emperor had a bad premonition, and sure enough, his premonition came true.

Yun Yuan held the heavy box and stuffed it into the emperor's arms. "Thank you for taking care of me these past two months. I'm leaving for Jiangnan now. It's a pity that I haven't fully mastered Master Ji's craftsmanship yet."

Master Ji was the imperial chef called by the emperor to be in charge of making soup. In just a few days after arriving, Yun Yuan only learned how to make shredded chicken porridge and nothing else.

The emperor suddenly had an idea: "If I stay in the capital, I can continue to learn Master Ji's craft. Why should I leave?"

"No, the baby in my belly needs a place to be born. Staying in the capital will be detrimental to its growth."

"You told me before that your purpose in getting pregnant was to wash away the stigma of being infertile. How can you wash away the injustice if you don't stay in the capital?"

That’s right, Yun Yuan hesitated.

Thanks to Zhong Jianmin's great blessing, everyone in the capital knows that she has been childless for seven years. Wouldn't it be futile to leave now?

Seeing Yun Yuan's hesitation, the emperor tried to persuade her patiently.

"How about this, you marry me. My family is simple, with only an old mother, a horde of servants who don't need you to serve them, no brothers or sisters who need support, and no relatives who are too high-ranking. All your worries will not exist."

Yun Yuan didn't know if she could trust him. She said, "Let me think about it."

Yun Yuan thought about it for three days. Seeing that she was absent-minded, Ji Yuchu took the initiative to ask her what was troubling her.

After listening to Yun Yuan's explanation, Ji Yuchu's CPU almost burned out. He sorted out the information he had obtained and came up with the following information.

1. Madam still doesn’t know the identity of His Majesty.

2. My wife is pregnant.

3. The lady does not want to get married. She thinks that being married is not as good as being a widow in Jiangnan.

4. The wife wants to wash away the stigma of being unable to have children, but she is also afraid that the child will be looked down upon and be considered a child born out of wedlock.

Last but not least, she sincerely enjoyed studying food and asked him if she could go to Jiangnan with her.

Of course you can't go.

Ji Yuchu said, "Actually, Madam, you don't have to think so much. Young Master Li's backyard is clean and there are no beautiful women. His mother is locked up because he refuses to marry. If she knew that Madam was pregnant with Li's child, she would be so eager to worship you that she would never torture you."

"As for children, having a father is different from not having one. Children with a father will be braver, and boys will be more masculine, which are things that traditional mothers cannot give them."

Yun Yuan felt that what he said made sense, so she turned around and told the emperor that she was willing to go to his house to take a look, and if she was not satisfied, she would leave.

The emperor was ecstatic. He hugged Yun Yuan and turned around twice, then turned around and rewarded Ji Yuchu handsomely.

Yun Yuan was completely confused when she was brought to the palace.

The emperor enthusiastically introduced: "This is the Imperial Garden. There are no less than a hundred kinds of precious flowers planted there. I pulled them out right away and planted the ones you like."

The corner of Yun Yuan's mouth twitched: "So you are the emperor?"

The emperor raised an eyebrow: "Hasn't my expression been obvious enough?"

Yun Yuan smiled faintly: "Is this what you call a small fortune?"

The emperor said innocently: "I have always felt that the territory is not vast enough..."

Yun Yuan continued, "You have an old mother at home, and your father has passed away?"

The emperor spread his hands and acted like a scoundrel: "That's right, the Empress Dowager has lived in the Cining Palace for a long time and has not been involved in worldly affairs. As for the late emperor, he passed away many years ago."

"Then the two masters you hired..."

The emperor said lovingly, "They are all imperial chefs."

Yun Yuanlian turned his sleeves and walked away.

The emperor chased after him, "If you don't want to, I..."

"Who said I don't want to?" Yun Yuan glared at him: "I'm just angry at myself for being stupid and thinking your identity is too simple.

The emperor lowered his head and said pitifully: "It's my fault."

The eunuchs and palace maids' eyes almost popped out of their heads. They had never seen an emperor like this before.

Yun Yuan sighed, her expression complicated: "If the child knew that he was the heir to the throne, he could have had a noble birth, but I let him wander around. He would hate me when he grows up."

This is a very realistic issue. Never test human nature, even if it is your own child.

The emperor hugged her and said, "As long as I am here, no one will ever hurt you." Not even his own child.

———————————

The Queen Mother was the ultimate winner in the late Queen's harem, but in her heart, she never won.

The late emperor's favorite woman was not her, but the current old lady of the Prince of Chu's Palace, Concubine Li. Concubine Li ordered Concubine Zheng to kill her eldest prince, so she killed the little prince born to Concubine Zheng and the second princess born to Concubine Li.

Concubine Zheng went crazy and cursed her before she died.

"I curse Li Yanjing to never ascend the throne, to have no descendants, and you will die lonely in the deep palace. After death, you will go to the eighteen levels of hell and never be reborn!"

The Queen Mother did not take it seriously. Li Yanjing was the most outstanding among the princes, proficient in riding, shooting, and strategy. He was not as violent as the King of Chu. He was the candidate favored by the ministers to be the next crown prince. The abbot of the Huguo Temple also said that he had the potential to be a wise ruler.

However, Li Yanjing ascended the throne, but unexpectedly became inhumane. She remembered the curse that Concubine Zheng had cursed before her death, and she collapsed.

Why should her children be avenged for the evil she had done? Besides, they had killed the eldest prince, so what was wrong with her repaying him with an eye for an eye?

She prayed every day in the Cining Palace, willing to exchange twenty years of her life for an heir for her son, otherwise she would not be willing to die.

Today, the Queen Mother knelt before the Buddha as usual, with her eyes closed and her lips moving as she skillfully recited Buddhist scriptures.

Suddenly the female official came in anxiously, panting.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has brought back a lady."