Chapter 98: The Queen is pregnant with the Emperor’s child?
Shen Yuanwei glanced at Xie Junlin's eyes full of expectation and turned away.
She really couldn't guarantee whether she was pregnant now or not.
She couldn't even guarantee that it was Xie Junlin's child...
She said, "I understand the emperor's desire to have a child, but whether you can have your own child depends on God's will. My opinion does not count."
Xie Junlin shook his head in amusement.
I really don't want to say a single nice word to him.
He motioned Shen Yuanwei to go wash up.
After Shen Yuanwei washed with warm water, she changed into new clothes prepared by the palace maids. She was sitting in front of the dressing mirror combing her hair when Chen Hai's low voice was heard at the door of the room.
"Your Majesty, the Queen requests to see you—"
Xie Junlin looked at Shen Yuanwei.
"Don't worry, take your time to get dressed. I'll let the Queen in when you're done."
Shen Yuanwei quickly combed her hair.
The emperor said there was no rush, but how could she dare to let the honorable empress wait outside for her, the concubine Zhao?
She fixed her hair with a hairpin, stood up and walked to the bed.
She was a little nervous. "Could it be that the Queen is here to see me? I slept until dawn, and I haven't paid my respects to her yet. Is she here to teach me the rules?"
Xie Junlin looked at her in surprise, "Oh, you don't even take me, the emperor, seriously, and you're actually afraid of the queen?"
Shen Yuanwei looked at Xie Junlin again and again and whispered, "How can it be the same? Your Majesty, you feel guilty towards me and you have designs on me. You won't kill me if I act a little bit unruly, but the Empress is begging me for nothing and she hasn't done anything to let me down. How dare I act unruly in front of her?"
Xie Junlin put his finger on his forehead, feeling helpless and amused.
have to.
The girl made no secret of it and frankly admitted that she was becoming arrogant because of his indulgence.
In front of people who don't indulge her, doesn't she know her limits?
Xie Junlin looked Shen Yuanwei up and down, his eyes fell on Shen Yuanwei's abdomen, and suddenly whispered, "If you want the queen to ask you for something, if you want her to indulge you like I do, it's not impossible."
Shen Yuanwei was slightly stunned.
She followed Xie Junlin's gaze and looked at her abdomen.
She suddenly understood what Xie Junlin meant.
"Your Majesty wants me to give the child to the Queen to raise?"
Xie Junlin shook his head.
He said, "It's not that I want to give your child to anyone else. If you are willing to stay in the palace to accompany me for a long time, I can raise your status from concubine to concubine and then to noble concubine. You can raise your child by yourself and no one can take it away."
"But don't you want to leave the palace after giving birth? If you really want to leave, you must choose a mother for the child—"
"Queen, she is the best candidate."
"She is well-educated, kind-hearted, gentle and tolerant. Her father is the right prime minister, and her brother is the vice minister of the Ministry of War. Their Wei family has a clean family tradition and is a century-old family. Prime Minister Wei is very popular among the literati. The Wei family can assist your child very well."
Shen Yuanwei seemed to be thinking about something.
She would never stay in the palace and become a resentful woman just for the sake of her child. She would definitely leave...
But what if her child is not Xie Junlin's? Then after Xie Junlin dies, she will definitely take the child away with her. In this case, she can't choose a foster mother for the child too early...
Now she has agreed to give the child to someone else, but when the emperor dies in a few days, she runs away with the child. Wouldn't that be making fun of the kind-hearted queen?
Xie Junlin asked her with a smile, "Don't you want to send it off?"
Shen Yuanwei shook her head and said, "Let's talk about it after we have children. It's too early to talk about this now."
The smile on Xie Junlin's lips became more and more obvious.
He hoped that Shen Yuanwei would not want to give up the child, and she hoped that Shen Yuanwei would stay with him voluntarily for the sake of the child, so that they could have more children...
Xie Junlin smiled and said, "Okay, let's talk about it later. Go and let the queen in."
Shen Yuanwei went to the dressing table, took a veil and put it on, then opened the door, turned the corner and came out to the hall.
There were many royal relatives sitting in the hall, including a white-haired couple, a middle-aged couple about the same age as Xie Junlin, and a young couple in their twenties. Each family was different but they all had children with them.
The youngest of those children was still in swaddling clothes and could only cry. The crying sound just now heard in the house came from this little baby.
In addition to the babies in swaddling clothes, there are children aged two or three, four or five, seven or eight, and the oldest is thirteen or fourteen years old, and have grown into handsome young men.
Shen Yuanwei curiously glanced at these children who wanted to be adopted by Xie Junlin as princes, then retracted her gaze and went to the main hall to pay her respects to Queen Wei who was sitting in the upper seat.
"I pay my respects to Her Majesty the Queen—"
"Your Majesty, please come in."
Queen Wei put down the teacup in her hand.
She looked at the newly-appointed Concubine Zhao with complicated eyes.
Last night, the Emperor actually favored Concubine Zhao despite his illness.
When he was in good health, he didn't go to the harem for eight months. Now his body is in such a bad state that he vomits blood from time to time, but he still wants to show off his power and favor others. What's his reason?
To put it bluntly, other men may favor their wives and concubines before they die and leave behind a child, but everyone knows that the emperor is infertile and cannot leave behind any offspring, so why bother doing this useless work?
Queen Wei stood up and walked to Shen Yuanwei, holding Shen Yuanwei's hand.
She said to the clan members present, "This is Concubine Zhao, who was brought by the Empress Dowager last night to bless the Emperor. She is a distant relative of the Empress Dowager, Jiang."
Several elderly elders are princes, so they don’t need to perform formalities.
The younger generations immediately stood up and saluted Shen Yuanwei, "Greetings to Her Majesty Zhaopin--"
Shen Yuanwei also enjoyed the treatment of a distinguished person and smiled as she asked everyone to waive the formalities.
She was just about to help Queen Wei to see Xie Junlin, when suddenly, a chubby little baby ran out from the group of children. He ran over happily and hugged Shen Yuanwei's legs.
He looked up at Shen Yuanwei and called out in a baby voice, "Empress Zhao, you are so beautiful. I, I like you so much!"
Shen Yuanwei looked down in surprise at the outgoing four-year-old kid.
The little guy is chubby, but not greasy or obese. He looks like a fat dumpling, so cute.
She bent down and pinched the little fat dumpling's cheek, and smiled gently, "Who are you? You like me as soon as you saw me?"
The little kid shook his head and said, "I am the grandson of Prince Yu. My name is Xie Tianyuan. I am only four years old this year, but I can already recite poems very well..."
He whispered to Shen Yuanwei, "Madam Zhaopin, let me tell you a secret. They all say that I am smart. They all say that I look like the emperor when he was a child..."
Shen Yuanwei raised an eyebrow and glanced at the little fat kid, then followed the little fat kid's finger and looked at the white-haired old prince who was sitting over there with a smile on his face.
The old prince and the old princess both looked at her and smiled, looking very kind.
She blinked and tasted the flavor.
Prince Yu, right?
This prince must have seen that she had served the emperor in bed last night and was still staying in the emperor's bedroom. He thought that she was very favored and wanted to take advantage of her and ask her to persuade Xie Junlin to adopt Xie Tianyuan as the prince...
What a pity, I found the wrong way.
She can give birth to her own child and she will not adopt someone else's child.
Thinking of these people coming to force the emperor to abdicate early in the morning, forcing Xie Junlin to adopt their children as soon as possible before he died, Shen Yuanwei curled her red lips slightly.
She patted the little fat kid's head gently and said with a smile, "Then you are really smart."
She raised her hand and touched her belly, then changed the subject, "So what do you think, will the little prince in Concubine Zhao's belly be as smart and cute as you?"
When Shen Yuanwei said this, everyone was shocked.
They stared at Shen Yuanwei's belly at the same time, and there was surprise and doubt in every pair of eyes!
Is this Concubine Zhao already pregnant with the Emperor’s child?
But didn’t she just enter the palace last night?
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