Chapter 121 The Queen is really pregnant with twins!
Having said everything that needed to be said, Xie Junlin glanced at the concubines. He ignored their reactions and left with his arm around Shen Yuanwei.
"I am going back to Taiji Palace. You all should go back and think carefully. Whether you leave or stay, I will allow it."
The concubines bowed and saw him off.
Then, everyone looked at each other.
this……
How do they choose?
Should I stay in the palace and be a carefree concubine without a man to love me and without children to take care of me, or should I leave the palace, get married, have children and enjoy the happiness that a normal woman should have?
Queen Wei also looked at Xie Junlin's back with a complicated look in her eyes.
Concubine Zhao also said that the emperor only used her and had no true love for her. Does this sound like he has no true love for her?
The emperor was also unable to have children in the past, so why didn’t he give everyone freedom?
Oh, let everyone go free, isn't it just to persuade Concubine Zhao to fall in love with him by dismissing the six palaces...
These people are just tools used by the emperor to favor Concubine Zhao.
…
Shen Yuanwei was still a little dazed after walking far away from the Queen's bedroom.
She looked up at Xie Junlin, her eyes particularly confused.
Xie Junlin held her waist and walked forward, "Don't look at me, look at the road, the road is under your feet, not on my face."
Shen Yuanwei pursed her lips and asked him, "Your Majesty doesn't want to sit on the dragon chariot?"
Xie Junlin looked at the rockery garden with a unique view and said lovingly, "I want to walk with you for a while. It's quite interesting to walk like this occasionally."
Shen Yuanwei had no choice but to walk with him.
A large group of palace servants followed about ten steps away.
The two of them walked quietly on the fallen leaves for a while. Shen Yuanwei couldn't help but looked up and asked him, "Your Majesty, are you really going to let the concubines leave the palace?"
Xie Junlin hummed.
Shen Yuanwei stared at him with a troubled look in her eyes. After a long while, she asked again, "Why are you letting them out of the palace all of a sudden?"
Xie Junlin looked back at the palace servants behind him and signaled them not to follow him.
He said.
"Because I will no longer favor them from now on."
"Now everyone thinks that I am well and can have children. The concubines will certainly come to me to ask for favor in order to have children, but I simply cannot have children. If I favor them and none of them can have children, then the court officials will be even more suspicious as to why only you and the queen can have children. They will question whether the child you give birth to is mine..."
"This child is a treasure that I have used all my means to obtain. I must protect him. How can I let him be pointed at and talked about by others for his entire life?"
"Therefore, I can no longer favor my concubines."
"But I feel sorry for them if they are left to live as widows. If they want to stay for wealth and glory, I will allow them to do so. If they want to go out and marry a good man and have a pair of children, I am also willing to help them do so."
He looked down at Shen Yuanwei's abdomen with soft eyes.
"Now that I have a son, everything is enough for me. Why not help them too?"
Shen Yuanwei looked at the emperor who looked like a kind father and suddenly felt that he was quite pitiful.
They were willing to stop favoring concubines and dismiss the six palaces in order to protect this child, but the child was not his...
Xie Junlin held Shen Yuanwei's fingers tightly and said, "In fact, I was able to dismiss the six palaces so happily because of you."
Shen Yuanwei paused.
Xie Junlin turned to face her, "Yuan Wei, I don't want any other woman, I only want you, can you consider staying with me and the child forever, huh?"
Shen Yuanwei sighed inwardly.
She said that this man dismissed the six palaces, and it must have been because of her...
Meeting those eyes filled with love, she didn't know what to say.
An emperor was willing to dismiss the six palaces for her. To be honest, she was a little touched by this level of pampering and indulgence.
But……
This level of emotion was not enough to make her bury her life in this deep palace.
Even though she was moved by Xie Junlin's sincerity, her desire to leave the palace remained unwavering.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xie Junlin smiled and gently rubbed her hair.
"Forget it, I won't force you. We still have a long time to live..."
Xie Junlin placed his palm on her abdomen and said with a smile, "You are carrying our prince. He is growing day by day in your belly. You will always be reluctant to leave us father and son."
Shen Yuanwei smiled and said nothing.
The emotion of maternal love does not have much power for a sophisticated and selfish person.
She is a selfish person at heart and will not sacrifice herself for her children.
For the next few days, the palace was rarely quiet.
When the concubines saw that the emperor was unwilling to favor them, they stopped coming closer and instead gathered together all day long, whispering to each other and asking each other whether they should stay in the palace or leave and get married.
But no one dared to be the first to tell the emperor about it.
Since ancient times, there has been no precedent of concubines being released from the palace. They were afraid that the emperor was joking with them, and if they really ran away and said they wanted to leave the palace and get married, they would be beaten to death by the emperor.
Many days passed in a flash.
That day, Song Suihuan asked to see Concubine Zhao at the palace gate.
Shen Yuanwei was a little surprised when she heard the eunuch's report.
She asked the eunuch to bring Song Suihuan in.
Song Suihuan came before Shen Yuanwei and kowtowed respectfully without any reluctance.
Shen Yuanwei smiled and asked her to stand up.
"Song the Divine Doctor is coming to the palace to see me today. Is there anything urgent?"
Song Suihuan looked up at Shen Yuanwei, his eyes sparkling.
"Empress Zhao, I want to feel your pulse and take good care of you and the baby in your belly. I said I would repay you, but after so many days, I can't think of any other way you need me. You see, you are now the emperor's favorite concubine, and you are pregnant with the dragon seed. Whatever you want, the emperor will get it for you as soon as you ask. You have everything you need--"
She said, "So I think the only thing I can do for you is to help you give birth to the baby in your belly safely and easily, so that you can suffer less during these months of pregnancy and less pain during delivery."
Shen Yuanwei raised her eyebrows.
She really couldn't refuse this way of repaying her.
Which woman doesn’t want to have an easy pregnancy and a painless birth?
Just as she was about to agree to Song Suihuan, Xie Junlin's indifferent voice came from the door.
"I'm worried about you taking Concubine Zhao's pulse and prescribing medicine for her. If you kill my child and Concubine Zhao, I can kill you ten or a hundred times, but it won't help."
Song Suihuan suddenly turned his head and looked towards the door.
Seeing Xie Junlin coming in, she immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
Xie Junlin walked over to Shen Yuanwei and sat down, holding Shen Yuanwei's fingers tightly.
He shook his head and said, "Don't take the risk. She is a skilled doctor. Even if the medicine she prescribed for you is checked by the imperial physician all the time, she can still secretly take your life and the child's life."
Song Suihuan kowtowed to defend himself.
"Your Majesty, please understand. Concubine Zhao saved my life. I am grateful for your kindness and would never dare to poison her."
"Besides, I have just been to the prison once, and I am extremely afraid of the dark and hopeless days. I will never put myself in that situation again."
"Your Majesty, please believe me this time. I have no way to repay Concubine Zhao for saving my life. I only hope that I can alleviate the pain of pregnancy for you and let you give birth to the little prince easily."
Xie Junlin had a grim expression on his face, he was unwilling to let Song Suihuan try.
Just as he was about to speak, Shen Yuanwei grabbed his sleeve.
"Your Majesty, please let Divine Doctor Song take my pulse first. If I am in very good health, I think she will not do anything unnecessary and prescribe medicine for me."
Xie Junlin looked down at her helplessly.
She pulled Xie Junlin's sleeve again, and Xie Junlin had no choice but to agree.
Song Suihuan stood up and walked over to Shen Yuanwei, concentrating on taking her pulse.
After a careful diagnosis, Song Suihuan suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Shen Yuanwei in surprise.
Shen Yuanwei blinked, "What's wrong?"
Song Suihuan shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. Let me take a closer look."
Shen Yuanwei and Xie Junlin looked at each other.
There shouldn't be any problem, right? Doctor Ge came to check her pulse every day but couldn't find anything. He said that she and the fetus were fine...
Song Suihuan conducted a careful diagnosis for a long time.
It was so long that Shen Yuanwei began to suspect that she had some terminal illness before Song Suihuan opened his eyes.
She looked surprised.
"Empress Zhao, it seems you are pregnant with...twins."
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