Xie Shuyan soon became pregnant, becoming the first mother among them. Her slightly bulging belly made the other married women envious. Liu Xiyun seemed much more stable than before she got married. She also talked about the family affairs, the small conflicts between sisters-in-law, and the small conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Although it was not a big deal, it was inevitable that the listeners were a little angry.

But they were mostly happy. The husbands of several of them were people of good character and respected them very much. Not long after, Ning Zhiyao became pregnant.

Through her relationship with them, Jiang Ruohua also invisibly moved several families and their husbands' families away from King Yun, and gradually seemed to be twisted into a rope to become King Yun's helper.

After Xie Shuyan got pregnant, she no longer had as much time to do what she was passionate about as before. Jiang Ruohua found another authentic painting by Master Cheng Qiu for her birthday, but when she gave it to her, she found that most of the things others gave her were things for children. It was not

until she saw the joy in Xie Shuyan's eyes that Jiang Ruohua breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she had prepared the right things. After

dinner, Liu Xiyun joked, "You and the princess are not young anymore, aren't you planning to find a son-in-law?"

"Mingdai's marriage will probably have to be carefully selected by the emperor and empress, so it can't be rushed." Jiang Ruohua smiled, "As for me... I'm not in a hurry either."

She is not looking forward to this marriage now, not to mention that her father had brought back the emperor's intentions when he came back from the court.

The Jiang family is also a unique existence among the military generals. She is also the princess of the Great Qi Dynasty. How can the Jiang family choose her husband by themselves?

The emperor is afraid that the Jiang family will become more powerful, but he can't just give a random excuse to someone, so he said vaguely that he would personally choose a good marriage for her in the future.

As for who she would marry, she didn't know, and she didn't want to know.

After evading the question, Jiang Ruohua couldn't help but start thinking about it. After all, people around her mentioned it more than once, and some people advised her to give up her career and hand it over to the servants to do it, and hire people to run the shop outside. She was asked to concentrate and go to more banquets to find someone worthy of entrusting her life to.

She didn't really want to. As a princess, she didn't have to have a husband like other women. After all, she could do many things in her own name, unlike other people who belonged to their husband's family after they got married and had to obey their husband's family in everything.

The more she was told about it, the more she resisted.

Especially after she talked to her father a year ago, she had no expectations for the strange husband.

If it really didn't work, she would find someone who could be controlled and recruit a princess. It would be a permanent solution .

People with no status and no background could not escape her control, and the emperor would be satisfied.

But it's better not to go to this step if possible.

As time passed, it seemed that someone noticed something. There were many mistakes in the business, and someone was deliberately targeting her and the Jiang family.

Although he could always solve the problem with ease, it took Jiang Ruohua almost all of her energy to deal with it.

The emperor seemed to be getting older and older, and his suspicion of the Jiang family became more and more serious, or rather, he now had a suspicious attitude towards everyone around him, anyone who was in power.

Because of this, his father, who was supposed to be sent to guard the border again, was once again left in the capital on the pretext, and in the following months, several outstanding princes were dismissed by the emperor. When

the princes were dismissed, their party members behind them were inevitably implicated, and the situation in the court was turbulent. In the past, some people asked for the establishment of a prince, but now no one dared to speak up. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the emperor not only became more suspicious as he got older, but also became more paranoid.

Whoever brings it up will be the first to come out and be treated as suspicious by the emperor.

All families began to keep silent and dared not act rashly. After several princes who wanted to compete for the throne were demoted to commoners, many princes stopped thinking about it for a moment. After all, they didn't have much power. If they were naive again, they would really be dead.

Luo Yu, who handed over all the power, was relieved at the moment. I don't know how he talked to Concubine Yi's mother's family in private some time ago, but he persuaded Concubine Yi's mother's family to hand over all the power. Now, by some strange coincidence, he has become a relatively free existence in the capital.

In the winter, the capital city seemed dead and gloomy. It was the beginning of spring again, but the atmosphere did not improve at all. The emperor's suspicion became heavier day by day. Today, a young concubine who was favored by the emperor did something a little out of line. It was not a serious matter, but just a joke. However, she was punished on the spot. Yesterday, a minister executed a palace maid when he was in a bad mood. He became

more and more like a tyrant.

For this reason, Jiang Ruohua had to temporarily stop his business, and the prince Jiang could only quietly do the idle work at hand.

In fact, the border is not stable now. The news was quietly passed on by my grandparents who came back from there.

The one who was sent now had no family background and actually no ability. Not only was he incompetent in dealing with foreign affairs, but he was also a mess in managing the army internally. Many people did not obey him.

You can imagine what the situation was like.

How could Prince Jiang not be worried? In his life, he often stayed at the border for several years. The border town was like his second home. He lived with the people there for several years. The army protected the people, and the people often brought things to the army to comfort them. The army and the people were like relatives. At this moment, the people were suffering, but he could not ask for permission to go to the battlefield. He had been very angry in his heart!

He didn't know what was wrong with the emperor. When Jiang Ruhua went out, she felt that someone was staring at her. After a careful look, she was sure that it was the emperor's people.

But her father doesn't have the tiger seal to mobilize the border troops!

Even if someone secretly ran to the border, it would be useless. Without the tiger seal, who would dare to mobilize the troops? If they knew that the person ran away against the order, no one would dare to charge and break into the battle line.

It was a headache.

For this reason, Jiang Ruohua got Hu Xingxing away early, so that Hu Xingxing would not go to Xu Weiqing every day and expose such a criminal.

But fortunately, people were mainly watching her father, and Jiang Ruohua was still free to move. But day after day, suddenly one day in the restaurant, she didn't see Hu Xingxing anymore.

"She hasn't come out today?"

"At first she said she was not in good spirits. We prepared some food for Miss Hu, but she refused to take it. I asked my wife to go and check, but Miss Hu refused to open the door... Boss, this..."

"Tell someone to break down the door."

Jiang Ruhua felt that something was wrong. After taking a few waiters to break down the door, she saw Hu Xingxing lying straight on the ground. She hurriedly stepped forward. There was blood at the corner of Hu Xingxing's mouth. She sniffed and found that she was still breathing, but it was weak. She quickly lifted her clothes to check, and found that her abdomen was bruised. It was obvious that she had been beaten!