Not long after the wedding, Zhao Qingxue was diagnosed with pregnancy. Dongfang Huaijin was extremely shocked and was secretly heartbroken for a long time.
He was very favored when he was young. One day, while playing in the imperial study, he accidentally drank the lotus leaf porridge that the empress of the previous emperor had given to him to relieve the summer heat. There was a sterilizing drug in the porridge, which meant he would never have children.
The late emperor was very fertile, with twenty-eight princes and more than thirty princesses, which made the former dynasty and the harem a mess. No wonder the queen couldn't stand it and had to take risky measures.
After drinking the sterilization drug, Dongfang Huaijin was sent to Guigu to learn various skills. Except for a few fixed months every year when he would fulfill his filial duties in the palace and learn some national policies and history that all princes should learn, he stayed in Guigu for the rest of the time and soon became famous in the world.
Dongfang Huaijin really didn't expect that he would become the emperor.
He still could not forget the expression on his face when his father announced that he would succeed to the throne. His surviving brothers and sisters, who were missing limbs, blind, and childless, looked at him, as if they wanted to eat him.
I heard that they have been obsessed with having babies for the past three years. Will they be angry and embarrassed when they hear the news that the queen is pregnant?
Dongfang Huaijin called Bai Tangpei, Sima and the other three to the imperial study and told them the news that Zhao Qingxue was pregnant. Everyone was very excited and thought the child was theirs.
Only Bai Qiuchen's face was filled with murderous intent: "Pei Yu, when did you succeed?"
Pei Yu chuckled: "Someone has a good wife, and she came to me and asked for Qingxue's life. I fell in love with her at first sight. If you don't feel sorry for her, I will."
"You!" Bai Qiuchen was furious and asked, "Did Liu Yarou really ask you to kill her?"
Lan Che interrupted: "What's the matter with Liu Yarou or not Liu Yarou? Shouldn't you call her Rou'er?"
Tang Jingyao: "I think you should stop fighting, Alliance Leader Bai. The child is definitely not yours. You have a child from your concubine, so don't fight with us for it."
Lan Che: "I second the motion!"
Pei Yu: "I second this proposal."
Bai Qiuchen was furious: "I am the legitimate one."
Tang Jingyao: "Is it legitimate with a marriage certificate?"
Four men were making a big show. Dongfang Huaijin felt like he had three heads as big as his own. The noise was making his head hurt.
Just as difficult to deal with as those pedantic officials in the Golden Palace.
"Stop arguing!" He said, "No matter whose child it is, I will raise him as my own and will not let you take him away."
He thought about it. The adopted child was not his own anyway. He would keep the child born by Qingxue by his side and raise him as his own child. As for blood relationship, he didn't care that much.
Tang Jingyao: "I want to see Qingxue."
Dongfang Huaijin looked at him: "I thought you all had let it go and wouldn't bother her anymore."
The four men bowed their heads.
They had sneaked into the palace many times these days to peek at Zhao Qingxue. She wore different styles of clothes and had different hairstyles every day, and she had the best food, clothing, and other necessities.
She looked more carefree, bright and happy than they had ever seen her.
In the past, she was always lingering with a kind of sadness, as if you couldn't enter her world and she couldn't enter your world either.
Now she plays shuttlecock with the palace maids and flies kites holding Dongfang Huaijin's hand.
He drew her eyebrows and went together to see the peonies blooming in the imperial garden in May.
They would go boating in Taiye Lake at night, counting stars and whispering sweet nothings to each other.
They would also play chess in the pavilion, and play the zither and flute when they were in the mood.
Only then did they realize that there are so many things that couples can do, not just... things in bed.
Dongfang Huaijin really treats her with care.
He sent people to the south of the Yangtze River to retrieve the land and farm left by her parents, as well as her treasured chess records. He erected a new monument for her parents and buried them with the ceremony of a duke.
He also brought Biluo into the palace to accompany Zhao Qingxue all day long.
They are all inferior to him.
She deserves the best in the world, and so does a man.
"Ajin, Ajin, are you here?" Zhao Qingxue's soft and sweet voice came from outside the door.
The four men only felt something flash before their eyes and flew out. They secretly peeked at their happiness through the sandpaper on the window frame.
They heard Dongfang Huaijin ask her if she was feeling unwell, and then asked her what she wanted to eat, such as rice cakes from East Street and sugar cakes from West Street. He was not busy now and could buy them for her.
The four men looked at the pile of memorials in tacit understanding. How could this be called not busy?
Zhao Qingxue chuckled and snuggled sweetly in his arms: "I don't want to eat anything, I just miss you."
The four men's expressions fell apart as they received 10,000 points of critical hit.
Qingxue had never said such words to them.
"Hey, are they Ajin's friends?" Dongfang Huaijin's heart tightened, but he saw that the person in his arms just looked at him curiously, with no ripples in his eyes, as if he had met an ordinary stranger.
Dongfang Huaijin felt a subtle joy in his heart, and introduced her to Zhao Qingxue openly.
"This is……"
"Pei Yu, Prince of Liang, owner of Shadow Tower."
"Sima Lanche, son of the Northwest General."
"Bai Qiuchen, the current leader of the Wulin."
"Tang Jingyao, Young Master of Yujian Villa."
The four men were a little nervous.
Zhao Qingxue's eyes curved: "Hello."
Four people were lost, and she really didn't remember them, which was just as well.
………………
Zhao Qingxue is very happy with the emperor.
On the day she gave birth, five men were waiting outside the delivery room, listening attentively to the movements inside.
They get nervous when there is no movement.
Zhao Qingxue's belly is too big. The imperial physician said it was multiple pregnancies. With the current medical conditions, it is likely that the condition is very serious.
Tang Jingyao shed tears.
"Stop crying." Pei Yu was annoyed by his crying. "You're crying so hard that I can't hear the sound inside."
Tang Jingyao: "I'll cry, I'll cry, I'll make you mad to death!"
Pei Yu: "..."
"Wa ...
"It's born!" The midwife came out holding the baby: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, it's a prince."
"How's the Queen?"
"Your Majesty, the Queen is fine."
Dongfang Huaijin took the child, took a look at him and handed him to Tang Jingyao.
"Don't cry, it's yours."
"Ah?" Tang Jingyao wiped his nose randomly, carefully picked up the child, his hands were stiff.
Others came over to take a look. The child was not ugly at all, nor was he wrinkled. He was fair and clean and very cute.
"Don't say that, they are cut from the same mold."
Tang Jingyao, tears still on his face, snorted boastfully, "My son, of course he looks like me."
Pei Yu: "Look how proud you are."
"No way!"
"Wow——" another sound.
As usual, Dongfang Huaijin took the child from the midwife and this time handed it to Pei Yu.
Pei Yu's hands and feet stiffened, and he and Tang Jingyao looked at each other in confusion.
Then there was Bai Qiuchen.
Tang Jingyao was very dissatisfied. Qingxue gave birth to a child for such a bad man. It was really a big loss for him.
After the three babies were born, everyone in and outside the delivery room breathed a sigh of relief.
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