Chapter Twenty-Four: The Queen Is Pregnant

After returning to the Yaoguang Palace, I fell asleep, and when I closed my eyes, my whole mind was the image of Shen Guiren before he died.

"Second Miss, are you awake?" I felt like I had just fallen asleep for a while when the sound of Ruri's knock on the door woke me up from my sleep.

I stretched and wanted to go back to sleep, but last night's nightmare didn't seem gentle, and I could clearly feel that my pajamas were sticking to me at the moment, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

"I'm awake, come in." I stood up and said to the door.

"Second Miss, what's wrong, why did you sleep so much and sweat?" Ruri, who was going to serve me to wash, showed a puzzled look when she saw my wet hair.

"It's okay, I just had a nightmare, and then you remember to call someone to prepare a bath water for me."

"What nightmare, so terrifying?" Liuli looked at me gossipily and said.

"I dreamed of being chased by a dog." I casually made up a lie. Actually, I don't know what I dreamed about, but I remember that it was uncomfortable, but I couldn't remember the content at all.

"Really?" Ruri said to me with distrustful eyes.

"Hey, I'm really uncomfortable, I just want to take a shower quickly." I'm not going to continue answering the topic that Ruri just asked.

"Okay, Second Miss will wait a minute, the slave will go and prepare bath water for you." Liuli stepped back in response.

After a while, the bath water was ready, and I sat in the tub and stirred the petals. The death of Shen nobleman made me more and more uneasy, and I began to think about waiting for Zhongxuan's birthday to ask my sister to take her leave and go home.

After getting dressed, I combed my makeup and hair in the mirror, my eyes were bright, my eyes were bright, my sister and I seemed to be similar again, I sighed softly, picked up the wet handkerchief next to the desk and wiped all the rouge off my face.

Since the morning, the Yaoguang Hall has been lively, Li Yu sent people to clean up the garden in the backyard early in the morning, and the palace maids and eunuchs carried all kinds of things in and out to prepare for Zhongxuan's birthday banquet in the evening.

Shen Guiren's death was like a petal falling into a pond without a single splash.

I don't like to be noisy, so I let Liuli talk to my sister and then go to the Queen Mother's Palace.

"You look so good in this." The Queen Mother was in a rare good mood and sent everyone out, leaving only me to play chess with her in the courtyard.

"Empress Dowager Xie compliments." I smiled at the Queen Mother and said, at this moment, I felt like I had returned to my previous life, at that time I always liked to pull the Queen Mother to play chess in this courtyard, and occasionally Li Yu would come over, and when he was there, I usually sat next to him and watched him play against the Queen Mother, occasionally helping to come up with an idea.

"The mourning family still remembers that when I first met you, it was at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet two years ago, when your mother asked someone to put on the ugly makeup for you, and I really thought I couldn't see it." The Queen Mother gave me a sly look.

"Haha, I didn't expect the Queen Mother to remember this, it was because my mother was afraid that I would steal my sister's limelight, so I asked Mama Zhang."

"Of course I know what your mother thinks."

"Queen Mother, do you know why Shen Guiren died suddenly?" I whispered to the Queen Mother.

"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden? That's it, it's a little windy today, let's help the mourning family go in. The Queen Mother put down the chess pieces in her hand and didn't answer my question, but I still saw a hint of panic in her eyes.

But this is in the palace, and if she doesn't say it, I can't ask.

After the Empress Dowager returned to the room, I went straight to the Buddha Hall, in my previous life, I never cared about the life and death of the people in the harem, and even my hands were full of blood, but now I suddenly wanted to chant for this irrelevant Shen noble, maybe it was just pity her, I couldn't tell.

Li Yu suppressed the news of Shen Guiren's death, presumably for Zhong Xuan's birthday banquet today.

"I'm afraid I'm the only one who still remembers you in this palace." I muttered to myself into the air.

I copied the scriptures in the Buddhist hall for an afternoon, and it was not until the eve of the banquet that I came out under the reminder of Aunt Liu Ruo and accompanied the Queen Mother to the Yaoguang Palace.

"I heard that you copied the scriptures in the Buddha hall for an afternoon?" When he arrived on the road, the Queen Mother suddenly asked.

"It's just copying." The Queen Mother knew me and didn't ask again, we stepped on the stone road and walked slowly, without saying anything for a while.

When I arrived at the banquet site, I really couldn't help but sigh, this Li Yu really loves Zhong Xuan, and a birthday banquet can be arranged so grandly, in comparison, it shows that the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was just like that.

I took advantage of the crowd to salute and quietly slipped away from the Queen Mother, I didn't want to sit next to the Queen Mother and my sister, so I found a corner and sat down.

After all the ceremonies were over, the banquet officially began, and I was bored fiddling with the food on the table, watching everyone pretend to praise each other, and I couldn't help but feel bored. The eyes of my sister and Li Yu also drifted towards me from time to time, and this feeling of being watched was fake to say that it was not uncomfortable, so I could only bury my head lower.

"Queen Mother, how are you?" In the middle of the banquet, my sister suddenly collapsed, and everyone exclaimed for a while. I hurriedly got up and stepped forward, Li Yu had already held my sister in his arms, and I stood aside, trying to calm myself down.

"Come here." Gonggong Hong, who was beside the emperor, was the first to react and shouted at his subordinates.

Then of course, the banquet was dissolved, and everything was passed on to the imperial doctor, the queen mother dismissed everyone, Zhong Xuan and the rest of the princes and princesses were also taken back by their respective aunts in charge, and for a while there were only a few ladies in the harem left in the courtyard, I looked at everyone's faces, although they were all worried, but I always saw different emotions in it, such as schadenfreude.

Huang Li Yu had already hugged his sister into her room, and I waited for the Queen Mother to arrange everything at the banquet site before helping the Queen Mother into my sister's bedroom, the Queen Mother had not yet come, and everyone dared not speak for a while, and the atmosphere was indescribably strange.

"Why did the Imperial Doctor come so slowly?" Looking at his unconscious sister, Li Yu shouted angrily at Gonggong Hong.

"Back to the emperor, the imperial doctor will be here soon. Gonggong Hong hurriedly knelt down and wiped the sweat on his head and said.

After a while, Lord Xu from the Tai Hospital came in a hurry with his apprentice Wen Wen, I looked at Wen Wen's young appearance, and remembered my previous life, I had promised to marry him with sandalwood, but I finally broke my promise and failed to help him keep the sandalwood.

"Congratulations to the emperor, the queen mother has been pregnant for more than two months, and the coma is only caused by hard work, and there is no major problem." After Dr. Xu finished his pulse, he knelt down and returned.

"Really?" Li Yu stood up happily after hearing the news of his sister's pregnancy, but the undisguised happiness made me feel extremely ironic, if I didn't know about Chihiro's existence, I would probably really believe that Li Yu loved his sister.

"The minister doesn't dare to say anything, and later the minister will arrange for someone to send the fetal medicine to the mother."

"In this case, in the future, the queen mother and the child in her womb will be handed over to Imperial Doctor Xu, and they must be taken care of."

"Ministers should do their best." Dr. Xu replied.

After knowing that his sister was fine, Li Yu dismissed everyone and rewarded a lot of things to the palaces present, the queen is pregnant, and the next days of this harem will not be too peaceful.

I went back to my room and lay down, but I couldn't fall asleep, my sister only had two children in her previous life, is it good or bad that she is suddenly pregnant? I couldn't help but get worried.