Chapter 102 Xiao Lingzhao I'm pregnant, you try
The Queen, who was pretending to faint, opened half of her eyes and saw that there were only three of them in the room and even the imperial physician had left. She sat up immediately.
She happily took Shen Yuanwei's other arm and echoed, "Yes, Zhaopin, it would be great if you were pregnant with twins. I'll raise one and you can raise the other. I'll raise the three of you to be plump and healthy, and you won't have to worry about anything. I'll take care of everything for you—"
Shen Yuanwei burst out laughing.
She looked at the queen tenderly, "Your Majesty, you are really a very good person."
Queen Wei also felt very happy.
The mother of her child praised her as a good person. She would definitely help Zhaopin raise the child well in the future. She would not be like those unscrupulous adoptive mothers who deliberately sow discord between the child and the biological mother...
At this time, Chen Hai's announcement came from the door -
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Wei is outside the palace asking for an audience. He heard that the Empress was pregnant and was extremely happy. He wants to see the Empress."
Queen Wei was slightly stunned.
The emperor was poisoned and did not attend court. All the officials were kneeling outside waiting to be summoned by the emperor. Her father was the head of all the officials, so naturally he was waiting outside the hall as well.
Queen Wei stood up and saluted, "Your Majesty, I will not disturb you and Concubine Zhao any longer. I will take my father back to Weiyang Palace. I will explain the fake pregnancy to him and ask him to cooperate with us."
Xie Junlin nodded, "Only the old prime minister can know about this matter. No one else should tell it. Others' mouths are not as tight as the old prime minister's."
Queen Wei agreed.
She saluted Xie Junlin again, and then said gently to Shen Yuanwei, "Princess Zhao, come and sit in my palace when you are free. You will be my biological sister from now on, and we will have the intimacy of having the same child. We are not husband and wife, but we are better than husband and wife, don't you think?"
Shen Yuanwei laughed out loud again.
The Queen is a wonderful person.
Queen Wei also smiled, turned and left.
When she walked out of the hall, she saw her happy old father standing in the corridor waiting for her. His face was as happy as a sunflower.
She felt a little sad.
Having married a man who is infertile, her father is afraid that he will never be able to experience the joy of being a grandfather.
Queen Wei forced a smile and walked to Prime Minister Wei, "Dad, let's go to Weiyang Palace and sit down."
Prime Minister Wei turned around and looked at his daughter, and asked excitedly, "Are you really pregnant, Queen? Does the Emperor really have a successor?"
The queen smiled without saying a word, holding her old father's arm, and came to her Weiyang Palace.
After sending everyone away, the Queen explained the matter of the false pregnancy in a voice that only the father and daughter could hear.
After hearing this, Prime Minister Wei was silent for a long time.
He looked at his thirty-six-year-old daughter with a look of disappointment, "Aren't you pregnant? Dad thought that you had finally gotten your wish and had hope for the rest of your life..."
Queen Wei smiled and said, "Dad, I have hope now. Concubine Zhao said that she would give me her child to raise. I will also have children in the future. The child I raise will still be the support of our Wei family."
Prime Minister Wei was a little sad, "But an adopted son is not as good as a biological son after all..."
Queen Wei shook her head, looked at herself in the mirror, and said slowly, "Dad, I'm thirty-six this year. I'm not a young girl anymore. Others become grandmothers at forty. If I go and give birth to a child myself, I'm afraid I'll die in the delivery room and leave two bodies..."
She looked at her old father and was very open-minded.
"Dad, you don't have to feel sorry for me. It's me who has no son, not our Wei family. Your family property is inherited by your elder brother and younger brother. Concubine Zhao's child is going to inherit the emperor's property. He is not here to steal our old Wei family's property. Why should we be unhappy?"
"We in the Wei family just need to treat him sincerely. You can be his good grandfather, and the brothers can be his good uncles. Help him to gain the throne. In the future, he will definitely return the favor. He will agree to let our daughter from the Wei family marry into the palace and become his queen—"
"When our Wei family's daughter gives birth to a prince for him, and then we raise the child well, then won't the next emperor still be a descendant of our Wei family?"
"So, Dad, you don't have to feel sorry for me. I will raise the child well. He was my adopted son when he was young, and when he grew up, he married my niece. He is my niece-in-law. In this way, he is still my relative, don't you think?"
Prime Minister Wei looked at his daughter in silence.
Since he was able to hold the position of prime minister, he certainly understood this principle.
He just felt sorry for his daughter. How pitiful it was for her to have no biological child in her entire life...
He said softly, "If I had known that the emperor could not have children, I should not have let you marry him. If you had married someone else, you would have had children by now..."
Queen Wei shook her head and smiled.
In fact, she was not keen on having a baby. She was afraid of the pain of pregnancy, the tearing pain during childbirth, and she didn't want to suffer from illness just to have a baby.
Really, she was not obsessed with having children. It was just because the man she married was the emperor and he had a kingdom to inherit, so she followed everyone else and tried hard to have a child in order to win honor and favor.
Although she regretted not having children in these years, she was not sad.
She had watched her own sister die in childbirth. Was it really meaningful to exchange her own life for a child she would never have the chance to be with?
At least to her, she felt it was meaningless.
She felt that the most meaningful thing was that she could live well, stand firm forever, her parents and brothers treated her like a treasure, she could always be their support, and she could protect everyone she wanted to protect. This was the most beautiful thing...
Seeing that his daughter was open-minded, Prime Minister Wei was no longer sad.
He whispered to his daughter, "What are your plans for Zhaopin? The best way to raise someone else's son is to kill the mother and keep the child, but Zhaopin took the initiative to give the child to you. It would be a bit unfair for us to treat her like this..."
Queen Wei smiled gently, "If I want my child to be of the same mind as me, I don't have to kill the mother and save the child. If he is a child with a conscience, he will see how kind I am to him and how kind I am to his biological mother. Over time, he will only respect me more and repay me along with his mother..."
Prime Minister Wei nodded.
She is worthy of being the daughter he raised.
"Then you should take good care of Concubine Zhao. We will all look forward to the safe birth of Concubine Zhao's child. That child is also your child and will be the support of our Wei family in the future..."
"Well, I won't let anyone harm her unborn child. I won't allow those people from the Xie family who have bad intentions to harm my child..."
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One can imagine how comfortable Shen Yuanwei's life was for a long time afterwards.
The Empress Dowager, who wanted a grandson, protected her; the Emperor, who wanted a son, protected her; even the Empress treated her like her own sister. She had no worries every day. She ate when she was full, slept when she was full, and ate again when she was full. When she was bored, she would take the snacks made by the imperial kitchen and read the storybooks that everyone had collected for her. Her life was no different from the days of eating snacks and reading novels on her phone in modern times.
She has only three things to do:
As soon as night fell, I accompanied Xie Junlin to sleep and make a baby.
When it was late at night, she would go to sleep on the small couch. Xiao Lingzhao would come into the room and hold her hand while she sat on the recliner next to her to treat her illness. Then during the day, he would let her hold her hand for a while every half an hour to stabilize her condition.
Occasionally, when Prince Rui fell ill, Queen Mother Jiang would call her over to see him.
That's all.
As for how worried the clan members were and how excited the court officials were about her and the queen's pregnancy, these things had nothing to do with her, because under Xie Junlin's explicit and covert hints, everyone went for the queen, because the one pregnant with the queen's child was the empress's legitimate son.
On a sunny afternoon, Shen Yuanwei was lying on a small couch reading a storybook. Queen Mother Jiang entered the room quietly and stood in front of the couch with a smile on her face.
Shen Yuanwei felt the shadow cast, looked up, and immediately stood up.
"Mother?"
Queen Mother Jiang asked her not to be so polite.
The Queen Mother sat down on the small couch and asked her in a low voice, "Did you have your period today?"
Shen Yuanwei covered half of her face with the script, feeling somewhat helpless.
It takes at least a month for a woman to be pregnant before a doctor can detect her pregnancy. Now that the time is short, the imperial physician cannot detect it, so the Empress Dowager comes to ask her every day whether her period has come.
She smiled and shook her head, telling Queen Mother Jiang, "No."
Queen Mother Jiang smiled immediately. "It's good that it didn't come. You know what I'm most afraid of hearing now is, 'Oh no, Concubine Zhao has her period!'"
Shen Yuanwei was amused.
She looked at Queen Mother Jiang again and again, thinking, shouldn't the thing you are most afraid of hearing be the emperor's death?
Queen Mother Jiang's eyes were filled with joy, and she continued, "Princess Zhao, you have been with the Emperor for more than 20 days, but you haven't had your period yet. Tell me, are you pregnant?"
It’s hard to say for Shen Yuanwei.
If this happened in modern times, you could buy a pregnancy test stick half a month after having sex to do a rough self-test, but there was no such thing in ancient times.
Shen Yuanwei said gently, "Don't be impatient, mother. Please wait another ten days or half a month. The imperial physician will be able to tell you the result then."
Queen Mother Jiang gently touched Shen Yuanwei's belly, "How can I not be anxious? I dream of you getting pregnant. These days I feel like every day is a year..."
Shen Yuanwei smiled and said, "Mother, you spend every day like a year, but my days go by very quickly. Every day, the emperor asks me, you ask me, and then the queen asks me. The days go by in a flash."
Queen Mother Jiang laughed again.
She stood up and said, "It's not good to lie down like this all day. Let the palace maid help you go out for a walk. I'm going to see the emperor."
Shen Yuanwei knew that the empress dowager wanted to have a private conversation with the emperor, so she tactfully got up and left.
But after she left the house, she did not ask the palace maid to accompany her. She directly called Xiao Lingzhao who was standing beside her, "General Xiao, come with me to bask in the sun over there."
Xiao Lingzhao raised his eyes to look at her.
Taking in her arrogant and charming look, Xiao Lingzhao couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
Relying on the fact that the emperor now needs her help, she doesn't hold back at all.
But it didn't matter. Yuan Wei just asked him to go to a place not far away to bask in the sun. She wouldn't do anything sneaky in front of others. There was no need to be too cautious, as the emperor didn't care anyway.
Xiao Lingzhao bowed and followed Shen Yuanwei to the white jade railing in the square.
Shen Yuanwei stood by the railing, and Xiao Lingzhao stood quietly behind Shen Yuanwei.
The sunlight gently shone on Xiao Lingzhao. The tall boy cast a shadow in front of him, and his shadow also gently enveloped Shen Yuanwei's figure.
Shen Yuanwei looked down at the two people's shadows greedily, and said to Xiao Lingzhao in a voice that only they could hear -
"I guess I already have it. You can try to transfer your power into my belly tonight. You said that your own flesh and blood is very likely to absorb your power. Let's give it a try, shall we?"
"Perhaps, you can determine whether I am pregnant earlier than the imperial physician..."
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