When the Protector-General learned that Xu Zhimo didn't go to the Protectorate, his face turned ugly: "He doesn't dare to come. He's avoiding me. He really knows something."
The Protector General's wife frowned: "Master, what should we do now?"
"Didn't you say that Madam has a stomachache? You can go and see it yourself tomorrow and try it out." The Protector-General narrowed his eyes. If he really knew something, he would not have to live in this world.
So what if he has a Prime Minister as his father? Jingzhou is not the Prime Minister’s world.
If they don't want to live, they will die too.
Yan Bao accompanied Xu Zhimo to rest at home. Before dark, he received a visiting card from the Protectorate, saying that there were guests at home and she couldn't take care of them, so she wanted to come and see Xu Zhimo who was pregnant.
Xu Zhimo frowned as she held the visiting card.
Yan Bao complained in his heart: [She came with bad intentions, she came to harm my sister-in-law, saying she was introducing her to an experienced midwife, but she was just trying to take advantage of the opportunity to tamper with her during the birth.]
[They took advantage of the chaos to exchange a child so that they could use the newborn to threaten my eldest brother and his wife into colluding with them. They attacked a newborn child. How despicable!]
[Hmph, as their aunt, I will be watching over my nephew and niece and will never let their evil scheme succeed!]
Brother Shen secretly clenched his fists.
Xu Zhimo couldn't hear her inner voice and didn't know what would happen in the future.
Big Brother Shen knew that there was no way to avoid it and he could only send someone to his house. Now that he knew the arrangements of the Protectorate, he just had to be on guard. The children of their Shen family would never be plotted against.
The next day, the Protector General's wife came to visit. She looked kind and friendly, and spoke to Xu Zhimo in the tone of an experienced person, asking her to be careful and have a good rest, saying that childbirth is the most dangerous time for women.
If you choose the wrong midwife, you don’t know what will happen.
Xu Zhimo really seemed to have taken the bait: "Madam, you are absolutely right. I am pregnant with twins, so it is probably even more dangerous."
"Of course not, but luckily, there's a midwife in the city who's an excellent midwife. Since she started delivering babies, nothing has gone wrong. She's even been able to deliver babies safely even with difficult births, and even straighten out babies in abnormal positions."
What the Protector General said was very dangerous, and she also praised the midwife's ability.
Xu Zhimo's eyes lit up when she heard this: "She's so amazing, we must invite her back. Madam, do you know which midwife she is?"
The Protector General's wife smiled and said, "Of course I know. If you trust her, you can go and invite her over. She is capable, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people begging her to come."
Xu Zhimo nodded and talked with the Protector General's wife for a long time. When the Protector General left, she held Xu Zhimo's hand and said that she would come to see her again after she gave birth.
Xu Zhimo watched them leave, her face aching from her stiff smile. She rubbed her cheeks and asked someone to inquire about the midwife. Since the Protector General had set a trap for her, it would be a waste of her kindness if she didn't fall into it.
Xu Zhimo also didn't want to be watched during this last period of time.
Since I know that she wants to tamper with my delivery, I will give her a chance, otherwise she will think of other ways if she sees that I don’t take the bait.
At night, Brother Shen rubbed Xu Zhimo's swollen feet. Looking at Xu Zhimo, who was unable to move with her big belly, he felt distressed and said, "Let's not have this one child. Two children will be enough."
"Husband, don't you want to have more children?" Xu Zhimo raised her eyebrows. You know, everyone thinks the more the better.
Men don't care how hard it is to be pregnant or how tiring it is to raise a child.
"I don't want you to suffer. As long as we have the baby, that's all that matters." He is not blind. Can't he see that she is having a hard time? He knows how hard it is to conceive a child, and he can't selfishly let her endure the pain of pregnancy and childbirth.
As long as there is someone to succeed him, that's enough.
It’s other people’s business if they like to have children, he doesn’t like her to suffer.
Xu Zhimo saw his sincerity, her eyes moistened, her expression moved, and she reached out to him with tears in her eyes: "My husband, you are speaking the truth."
Brother Shen took her hand and placed it against his heart, his eyes full of affection: "Of course it's sincere. How could your husband lie to you?"
Xu Zhimo's tears rolled down her cheeks, and I felt pity for her. "Thank you, husband. If this baby is a boy, we won't have another one. If it's a girl, we can have another one. We can't leave you without a successor."
Brother Shen knew that these were twins, a boy and a girl, because Yan Bao had said so.
Yan Bao's thoughts never lie. If she says they are twins, they are twins.
It’s so nice to have both a son and a daughter.
He knew it, but she didn't. Brother Shen saw through it but didn't say anything, waiting until the child was born.
In the following days, Yan Bao and Shen Erge were much quieter. They didn't want to cause trouble in the final stage of their sister-in-law's delivery. They knew they were being targeted, but they still ate and drank as usual. As long as they didn't provoke them, Yan Bao was willing to endure it.
So does Second Brother Shen.
Unexpectedly, while drinking tea in a teahouse that day, he heard someone calling for help. Brother Shen looked out of curiosity and saw a dandy young man stopping a woman selling lotus pods and playing hide-and-seek with her in a wretched manner.
Second Brother Shen knew at once that this was a teasing of a decent woman. He was about to speak out, but Yan Bao's inner voice was in his ears: "Oh no! My second brother has offended someone with his move. He is the nephew of the Protector General."
The Protector General will cause trouble for my eldest brother, saying that my second brother killed his nephew. In fact, it was not my second brother who did it. In order to control my eldest brother, the Protector General is willing to sacrifice a nephew.
Second Brother Shen was shocked.
His eyes fell on the woman being teased, and seeing her pitiful and helpless appearance, Second Brother Shen clenched his fists.
Yan Bao saw her second brother's forbearance, so she pulled his sleeve and wrote on the table with tea: Don't go, let's talk about it in the evening.
Yan Bao looked at the girl who was taken into the carriage. She collapsed in despair and looked at passers-by for help. The passers-by didn't dare to look her in the eye. They were all ordinary people. How could they dare to confront the powerful Protector-General.
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