"Yeah, it's okay, don't make a fuss, I'm not hurting either." Jing Qiaoqiao crawled out and dusted off her dragon robe. "Eunuch Lu, can you go check on the teachers I sent over and see if they're competent?"

"The Queen is referring to the teachers in the Imperial Academy?"

"That's right." Jing Qiaoqiao snapped her fingers, and then muttered, "See if they treat the students below equally. If not, come back quietly and tell me."

"Yes, I obey your command."

In the afternoon, the old lady came to the palace with her eldest and second sisters-in-law.

Jing Qiaoqiao stood up from the dragon chair when she heard this and said, "Go, invite them in."

"Yes, Queen."

After a while, there were only four people left in the room.

Jing Qiaoqiao hissed, "Mother, why did you ask me to send the eunuchs and maids away?"

"Qiaoqiao, your father's relatives have been visiting me often recently. I think they're here for the children."

"It's normal. We are their relatives. Now that I'm the queen, it's natural for them to come to us. But..."

"But what?"

"I think it's okay to make connections with relatives, but they must be capable and virtuous relatives."

When Jing Qiaoqiao mentioned this, the three of them were stunned.

[Is it possible that you don’t understand what the baby means? 】

"We all prosper together, and we all suffer together. We are a large family. If their children are incompetent, then conferring them a title would be like dropping a rat's dung into a pot of porridge."

[So, let's not worry about whether to establish a legitimate heir or a concubine's heir. In short, only those with good character and ability are worthy of inheriting the title.]

"Mother understands what Qiaoqiao means." The old lady stood up on her knees. "Mother will tell Qiaoqiao's words to the relatives below."

"good."

The second sister-in-law didn't care about these things. She just asked Jing Qiaoqiao, "Qiaoqiao, why did you let your nephew be the one to screen the queen?"

"Men understand men better and are more likely to choose outstanding ones." Jing Qiaoqiao narrowed her eyes. "So, if it looks good there, I won't worry about it."

"Could it be... Qiaoqiao really plans to remain single for the rest of her life?"

She was very excited when she spoke, "Qiaoqiao, when we are old, can you go to heaven?"

Qiaoqiao: Who wants to go to heaven?

"Sister-in-law, what nonsense are you talking about?" The eldest sister-in-law saw the second sister-in-law bursting into tears and reached out to pull her.

[My second sister-in-law's reaction is so strange.]

My second sister-in-law withdrew her gaze, said, "I was just joking," and left.

She lost control of her emotions, but quickly regained her composure.

After they walked out of the palace gate and boarded the carriage, the old lady asked, "Mei'er, why can't you keep your composure?"

Baili Mei started to cry as she spoke: "I don't want to either, but I don't want to see the world collapse and my sister Qiaoqiao can't come back."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand."

"Mother-in-law, sister-in-law, I...I heard it, I heard it all."

Baili Mei covered her lips, tears streaming down her face...