When the two arrived at the Imperial Study, the Emperor was rubbing his temples while reading Concubine Liu's memorial of apology. Seeing Chen Weiwan, he immediately smiled: "Wan'er is here? I heard that you exposed Concubine Liu's fake pregnancy?"
"Father, these are all trivial matters!" Shen Weiwan bowed and deliberately puffed out her belly. "But this Concubine Liu is so bold that she dared to deceive the royal family. How should we deal with her?"
The emperor pondered and said, "Considering that this is her first offense and she is a member of the Lin family, she should be demoted to a commoner and sent out of the palace."
"Father!" Shen Weiwan was unhappy, and accidentally hit the corner of the table when she stomped her feet. "This is too good for her! Think about how her cousin Lin Wanrou used me as a gun, and how she wanted to steal the beams and replace the pillars. We can't just let it go like this!"
Xiao Yu chimed in, "Father, Wan'er is right. This matter concerns the reputation of the royal family. If we don't punish her severely, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop the gossip."
The emperor looked at Shen Weiwan's angry look, like a lioness protecting her cubs, and couldn't help laughing: "Then what do you say we should do?"
Shen Weiwan rolled her eyes and pointed in the direction of the laundry outside the window: "Let her go to the laundry! Wash diapers every day! Especially the diapers of those little princes and princesses, let her reflect on herself!"
"Hahaha!" the emperor clapped his hands in admiration. "Alright! I'll do as you say! Send her to the laundry and she's not allowed to come out until she's done three years of laundry!"
When they came out of the imperial study, Xiao Yu couldn't help but ask, "How did you come up with the idea of using a fake snake?"
"I've known for a while that something was wrong with her!" Chen Weiwan shook his arm proudly. "Last month, when she came to the Prince's residence to pay her respects, I saw that the way she held her waist looked like she was holding a brick. I specially asked Chuntao to make this fake snake out of soft leather, and even added a moving bamboo mechanism inside!"
Chun Tao added, "When Lady Liu saw the fake snake, her face turned whiter than the plaster on the wall, and her eyes almost popped out of her head!"
The three of them returned to the Prince's Mansion, chatting and laughing. As soon as they entered the hanging flower gate, they heard a commotion in the front yard. The old butler came forward, his beard curling with laughter. "Miss, Your Highness the Seventh Prince, the Empress Dowager sent someone to deliver something to calm you down!"
Four eunuchs came in carrying a red lacquered wooden box. The moment the lid was opened, Shen Weiwan laughed out loud - it was full of baby products: mini chili seedlings were stuffed in tiger-head shoes, a stuffed doll embroidered with "Getting Started with Cheating" lay in a carved cradle, and the most amazing thing was a small goose yellow bellyband with the four big characters "Cheating All Over the World" embroidered on it in gold thread, and the empress dowager's jade seal was at the signature.
"Your Majesty, this is..." Shen Weiwan picked up the bellyband, and the gold thread flashed mischievously in the sunlight.
"What else can I do?" Xiao Yu pinched her face. "He must have heard that you cheated someone again, so he sent me some encouragement."
At night, Shen Weiwan lay in bed, touching her belly and whispering: "Baby, look how powerful your mother is today. She scared away the bad aunt with a fake snake! In the future, you have to be like your mother and be a smart little pit bull, understand?"
Xiao Yu had just blown out the candle when he heard this and turned around helplessly: "Don't teach the child bad things. What if he scares me with a fake snake in the future?"
"That's called a disciple surpassing his master!" Shen Weiwan snuggled into his arms, nuzzling the buttons on his chest. "You're so honest, how can you learn your lesson if you don't get cheated more often?"
Xiao Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He hugged her tightly, listening to her even breathing. The moonlight from outside the window shone through the window lattice, reflecting the small bellyband given by the empress dowager on the table. The four words "scam all over the world" seemed to dance in the moonlight. He knew that as long as Chen Weiwan was there, the days in this prince's mansion would always be filled with such ridiculous "surprises".
At this moment, in the laundry department, the newly arrived Concubine Liu was sighing over a basin of diapers. The old nanny next to her was scolding her with a bamboo stick: "Are you still standing there? Wash them quickly! This is a special order from the Seventh Prince's wife. She said she wants you to 'reflect on yourself'!"
Concubine Liu looked at the colorful baby diapers in the basin, remembering Shen Weiwan's proud look with her truly pregnant belly, and tears of regret welled up in her eyes. But all this had long since become irrelevant to the two people sleeping in each other's arms in the Prince's mansion. Shen Weiwan's life continued to move forward in a mixture of nonsense and joy, anticipating the arrival of a new life and the start of the next "trick" drama.
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