The snowman family of four, all neatly arranged.
Xiao Yu's acceptance of her identity as a Kunzhe far surpassed Wei Shuang's imagination.
Within two months, he was already openly and brazenly demanding that Wei Shuang attend court for him every day, while he would bury himself in his bedding and sleep until Wei Shuang returned from court.
Later, she was even carried by Wei Shuang to the table where breakfast was prepared, still half asleep, and the aroma of pastries chased away her drowsiness.
As a result, Xiao Yu finally gained a few more pounds, and her pretty, slender face became much rounder, making her even more beautiful with her golden eyes.
"Is it harmful for Your Majesty to continue sleeping like this?" Wei Shuang, who was forced to take on a lot of complicated political affairs, left early and returned late. Every time she entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation, she rarely saw Xiao Yu with his eyes open and full of energy.
“When a woman is pregnant, she will sleep for several hours longer than usual. Moreover, Your Majesty is drinking bowl after bowl of medicine to prevent miscarriage, so it is inevitable that she will feel even more sleepy.”
Xiao Yu leaned listlessly against the dragon bed, listening to Wei Shuang's conversation with the imperial physician. He drew a circle on his belly, which was more than four months along, and muttered, "I told you it was all from drinking pregnancy-stabilizing medicine."
"Your Majesty is carrying twins, which are already quite active. You still need to take the medicine to prevent miscarriage." The imperial physician suddenly looked up, his face full of worry, which made Xiao Yu turn his head away in embarrassment.
"Since I don't have to worry about state affairs anyway, I'll drink it." Xiao Yu curiously touched his round belly, feeling the wriggling that had just appeared inside.
It's amazing! Last month it was so small and I couldn't feel anything, but this month it's grown bigger and can move.
The first signs of fetal movement are always new, and even at four months, the movements are not the most frequent. The two little ones in the womb often slack off for a day or two. Xiao Yu, the emperor who complains about his big belly, is always worried and calls the imperial physician in the middle of the night, fearing that something might happen to his two children.
"Your Majesty, when you rest, please move around more so that the young prince can be more active," the imperial physician suggested tactfully.
After the coronation ceremony, Xiao Yu practically stayed on the dragon bed, and the few times she did go out were when she carried a bucket of meat to the Xiaoshanjun Palace to feed the animals.
Although it was called feeding, Xiao Yu didn't actually move much. The tiger that Xiao Yu raised was very intelligent and had long ago sensed that Xiao Yu was pregnant through the scent on her body. Every time Xiao Yu carried a bucket of meat into the house, Xiao Shan Jun would lie down on the blanket, pat the ground with his hind paws, and turn his head to signal Xiao Yu, who was shivering from the cold, to lean against his thick fur.
As for the meat fed to them...
Xiaoshan-kun isn't spoiled and can eat by himself.
"I'm moving." Xiao Yu pretended to jump off the bed and took two steps barefoot on the floor.
"Once the snow melts, Your Majesty might be able to go to the Imperial Garden for a stroll. If you're always lying down, it might be difficult for you to give birth in five months," Physician Zhang advised cautiously and earnestly. Serving the emperor during his pregnancy was much more difficult than serving the concubines. Although those concubines were pampered, they listened to advice.
Our equally pampered emperor only listens to the empress.
"How about I build a Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord for you outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation?" Since it was snowing and court was suspended, there was no rush to deal with state affairs, and Wei Shuang spent all day by Xiao Yu's side.
In early February, early spring, a heavy snow fell again, covering the imperial city in a pristine white.
The Imperial Astronomical Bureau estimated that this should be the last heavy snowfall of the winter, and after the snow melts, spring will come and flowers will bloom.
"I'm cold, I don't want to move." Upon hearing that he not only had to move, but also had to stand in the snow, Xiao Yu shook his head violently.
"...Your Majesty, please wear something warm, put on two layers of gloves, and bring the hand warmer. Then stand aside and watch me," Wei Shuang coaxed softly. "This is the last snowfall of the year. I want to build a snowflake that looks like Your Majesty and me, the four of us standing together as a family."
A family of four... Xiao Yu rubbed her suddenly wriggling belly, her heart fluttering wildly along with the two little ones inside.
"Alright then, I'll stand at the palace gate with the hand warmer in my arms. Wei Shuang should make me look tall and imposing, preferably taller than Wei Shuang herself." Xiao Yu quickly accepted his identity as a Kun Zhe, but he remained bothered by the fact that he was a head shorter than Wei Shuang.
“Alright, Your Majesty is two heads taller than me.” Wei Shuang smiled and took Xiao Yu’s slightly cool hand in hers.
Perhaps because she was pregnant with twins, Xiao Yu stood in the snow-covered courtyard without feeling any signs of the impending cold.
Wei Shuang busied herself with a shovel, and soon cleared a snowdrift in the yard, which she piled under the peach tree.
Xiao Yu glanced at the snow-laden peach tree, then at Wei Shuang standing intently beneath it, smiled, and beckoned Ji Lian over.
The next moment, the peach tree that Ji Lian had kicked hard splattered silver frost all over Wei Shuang.
Although it was spring snow, it was falling quite heavily. Wei Shuang lost her footing and was pelted into a snowdrift by chunks of snow covering her.
"See? I told you Xue was a bad thing." Xiao Yu replaced the heater with a new one and carried it to Wei Shuang's side.
Even after shoveling the snow, the ground was still slippery. Xiao Yu almost never went out in the snow, and as soon as he reached Wei Shuang's side, he slipped and slid—
Wei Shuang caught it steadily.
"The punishment for doing bad things." When Wei Shuang hugged Xiao Yu, she had already shaken off the snow that covered her body. Now, she was holding a white, fluffy bundle in her arms, radiating a rare warmth in the icy snow.
"I and your two little brats were almost scared to death, and you're still joking with me!" Xiao Yu gasped for breath, her fair cheeks slightly flushed from fright, and her hands instinctively protected her bulging belly.
"Want to try? Through leather gloves." Wei Shuang put Xiao Yu down and handed her a lump of snow that hadn't yet been shaped.
Xiao Yu blinked, then cautiously took two steps back while holding the hand warmer.
"It's not difficult, just like this." Wei Shuang deftly rolled and rubbed her hands together, and a small ball appeared in her palm. She then grabbed some snow and stuck it on, and a little mountain tiger took shape.
Xiao Yu wondered if he had blinked. Just a moment ago he was a ball! How did he suddenly become a little mountain tiger!
Xiao Yu, not to be outdone, also grabbed a handful of soft, loose snow and stopped at the step of rolling it into a ball.
"Your Majesty, roll the snowball into the snow. I'll support you so you won't fall." Wei Shuang placed the quick-grown mountain lord under the tree, stepped behind Xiao Yu, and placed her hands on the back of Xiao Yu's hands as a gesture.
No one can resist a snowball effect, and Xiao Yu is no exception.
Before they knew it, the two of them were covered in sweat, and four snowballs, one large and one small, were scattered under the peach tree.
Wei Shuang moved the small snowball onto the large snowball, then found a twig and stuck it on top. Two chubby snowmen appeared side by side under the peach tree.
Wei Shuang then placed the little mountain spirit she had just sculpted next to Xiao Yu's snowman. While Xiao Yu went back to change the heater, Wei Shuang quickly rubbed a crown onto Xiao Yu's snowman's head. Still not satisfied, Wei Shuang grabbed a handful of withered leaves and sculpted a cloak for Xiao Yu's snowman.
Under the cloak, two little ones nestled together, looking incredibly lifelike.
When Xiao Yu went out of the house again, he was surprised to find that there was a snowman statue of himself under the peach tree, with Wei Shuang standing next to him. It was so sloppy that it didn't look like a painting at all.
Xiao Yu pointed at the snowman Wei Shuang and said disdainfully, "You're so ugly."
"Your Majesty, I am rather rough and not as beautiful as you are." Wei Shuang looked at her own figure, which was beginning to take human form, next to the exquisite Xiao Yu, and couldn't help but smile.
"...No, it's an eyesore." Xiao Yu couldn't accept that Wei Shuang had made him look so ugly, like he had made him. He put on a stern face and said with imperial authority, "Make it look better, I command you."
"Your subject obeys..." Wei Shuang had no choice but to personally sculpt a human form for her snowman.
Xiao Yu saw the two little ones tucked inside his cloak. He squatted down next to the snowman who was snuggling together, and also leaned against Wei Shuang.
The family of four was all together, including Xiao Yu's beloved little mountain boy, which also bore traces of Wei Shuang.
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Soon, the snow melted, and Xiao Yu finally moved from inside the house to outside. She even set up a swing in the yard and used the swing as her form of exercise.
As her five-month-old belly grew rounder, Xiao Yu became extremely nervous every time she looked at herself in the mirror.
With twins in her womb, Xiao Yu ate well but didn't like to move around much. At five months, she was already the size of a six-month-old, making it quite inconvenient for her to move around.
What troubled Xiao Yu even more was that his scent was out of control again. In the past two days, whenever he saw Wei Shuang, the scent of osmanthus in his glands would start to drift around, and even the owner of the scent would become confused.
Wei Shuang, however, was still reluctant to actually touch herself.
No matter how nimble her fingers were, they couldn't compare to Wei Shuang's embrace, which greatly displeased Xiao Yu.
Wei Shuang always said it was because of Xiao Yu's unborn child, but when Xiao Yu touched him, Wei Shuang remained completely unmoved! He didn't react at all to her.
So, it turns out that she was disliked because she was pregnant?
Xiao Yu pouted, her eyes reddening as she smashed the jade carving of the mountain lord that Wei Shuang had given her, and began a hunger strike to protest her growing belly.
"What's wrong? Are these two little brats too lively, making His Majesty want to vomit again?" Wei Shuang began to worry as Xiao Yu had only eaten a small bowl of food for three days in a row.
"Wei Shuang." Xiao Yu put down his chopsticks and angrily pinched Wei Shuang's cheeks. "Me or the child, which do you want?"
Wei Shuang: "...?"
Wei Shuang asked again, "...Have I done something to displease Your Majesty recently?"
Xiao Yu's temper fluctuated during her pregnancy, and Wei Shuang would occasionally suffer from a burst of inexplicable anger, but His Majesty's anger always revolved around two things.
The little brat is making a fuss.
And then there's Wei Shuang causing trouble.
Xiao Yu shook her head, her eyes red as she glared at Wei Shuang. The scent of her glands quickly filled the entire table, and her eyes were almost overflowing with grievance.
You and your two sons are no good! You've made me so reckless!
Wei Shuang: "..."
Very well, it's the most terrifying one.
His Majesty thought about it again.
Kunzhe's needs during pregnancy are always more than usual. Wei Shuang always thought she was taking good care of her gently, but Xiao Yu just didn't want the cold little things.
"Eat a couple more bites, then I'll carry you to the bed." Wei Shuang returned Xiao Yu's scented wine, the intense heat of the wine making Xiao Yu's breathing rapid.
"I'm not going. You're not even interested in me anymore." Xiao Yu took another bite of the osmanthus pastry in a huff, the rich, sweet osmanthus aroma washing away the effects of the alcohol in his head.
“When did I…” Wei Shuang was stunned.
“It’s me who’s five months pregnant, not you. You haven’t had your period even once, and every time you take off my clothes, you don’t show any signs of arousal. Do you think my belly is too big?” Xiao Yu said, looking at him with a “you dare to say you’re not pregnant” attitude.
"Cough..." Wei Shuang didn't have time to swallow the calming pill today. He grabbed Xiao Yu's hand and said in a hoarse voice, "It's not that I don't want to, but every time I'm close to Your Majesty, I have to take calming medicine to suppress my nature. As Your Majesty can see, I have been suppressing my fertile period for five months. If I stop taking the medicine, I'm afraid it will not be good for Your Majesty and the child."
Xiao Yu touched something burning hot, blushed, and quickly withdrew her hand: "Do you want me to die in bed after giving birth?"
Xiao Yu swallowed hard, then suddenly thought, "Or do you mean you want me to become a monk from now on?"
You've been holding it in for so long! What if you develop a hidden illness by then? I can't change my heir anymore.
“…Then let me consult the imperial physician first.” Wei Shuang got up and was about to walk towards the outer hall when Xiao Yu suddenly stood up and grabbed Wei Shuang’s sleeve tightly.
"The imperial physician told me that my twins are too big and that I need to have sexual intercourse appropriately to help with childbirth."
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Author's Note: [Dog head with rose in hand] The story still has a little bit of late pregnancy daily life left.
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