Chapter 44: Good news
In the early morning five days later, Hu took the palace maids alone to Zhaoyang Palace to greet the queen.
Knowing the news of Hu's arrival, the queen was still washing in the inner hall, and Jinxiu greeted Hu outside the palace gate.
"The slave has seen the second princess." Jinxiu saw that Hu's face was ruddy and happy, and stepped forward to greet him. "The queen mother is still washing, has the second princess already recovered, why did she come so early."
After knowing that Hu Shi said that he was ill, the queen simply exempted Hu Shi from asking for peace. As the main room, the queen naturally knew that the main room had no children and the side concubine was pregnant first, so she had the intention of appeasing the Hu family in her heart, and gave many supplements to the Hu family to nourish her body.
Although I don't know whether Hu is really sick or fake, the queen has the right to think that she is really sick.
Hu's illness lasted for a month, and it was not until two days ago that the news came that he had recovered from his illness.
"Thanks to the many supplements from the queen mother, I can get better faster." Hu Shi said as he turned slightly to the side. "I specially came to greet the queen mother early, because I have good news to tell the queen mother to know, and I ask the splendid girl to pass the word for me."
Hu Shi turned to the side, and Jinxiu noticed her slightly bulging lower abdomen.
"I see." Jinxiu said with a smile. "Please wait a while for the second princess, and the slave will go in and talk back immediately."
The queen of the inner hall had already changed her clothes, and when she saw Jinxiu's face full of joy, she walked in from the outside quickly.
"Queen Mother, great joy." Jinxiu walked quickly to the queen before stopping, and said with a smile.
"Daiki?" The queen was puzzled.
"The second princess is waiting outside for the lady to receive her." Splendid sold a pass. "Let's let the second princess personally report the good news to her mother."
After a while, the queen mother who saw the Hu family finally reacted.
"Good boy." The queen couldn't hide her joy, and hurriedly asked Hu to sit down. "Why don't you hurry up and help your princess sit down and rest."
"Thank you for the throne." Hu Shi seemed so shy that Jinxiu stepped forward to help her sit in the position near the queen.
"How can you, kid, hide this great joy for so long." The queen took Hu's hand, looked at her lower abdomen and asked with concern. "How are you doing lately, did the Imperial Doctor ask for peace for you on time? How do you feel, but if you are unwell, you must tell the people around you. ”
"When I returned to my mother, it was because I was sick with a cold and unwell that I invited a doctor to check my pulse, but I was diagnosed with a pregnancy of almost three months. It was because I was not allowed to live a bad day at home, and I didn't realize that I was pregnant. The doctor said that I was weak and that I was caught with a cold. I was afraid that I would not be able to keep the fetus in my womb if I didn't fight for my body, so I decided to hide from everyone that I couldn't keep the fetus from everyone. ”
"Hey, you're a blessed child." At this time, the queen also understood that Hu's illness was mostly fake, and her so-called closed-door recuperation was just a reason to raise the fetus and wait for the fetus to be stable.
But at present, all the prince's heirs are born by the prince's concubine, but only the second prince is the side concubine who is pregnant first. It was true that the queen was happy before, and it was also true that she was disappointed in the Hu family.
Now that Hu is also pregnant, the queen naturally takes advantage of her wishes.
It happened that today coincided with the day when the harem concubines came to ask the queen for peace, and the queen naturally told the news that Hu was pregnant.
Emperor Liu's concubine was the first to get up to congratulate the queen, and the rest of the concubines stood up in turn to congratulate the queen.
The princes who got married all had heirs early, but only the second prince had not come out for a long time, and this matter became a heart disease for the queen.
Now that the main concubine and the side concubine of the second prince are pregnant at the same time, how can the queen not be happy.
The queen was also generous, and ordered Jinxiu to reward the concubines with the things she had prepared in advance.
Emperor Liu's concubine ordered Suihong to accept the queen's reward, and when she returned to Yihua Palace, she saw Xiao Xuan chasing King Yujun all over the place in the courtyard. The king of Yujun trotted and stumbled, and occasionally looked back to see Xiao Xuan stop chasing him, and urged Xiao Xuan to continue chasing her.
"Grandmother~~" King Yujun turned his head and saw Emperor Liu's concubine walking towards the courtyard, and immediately ran towards Emperor Liu.
"Hey, good boy." Concubine Liuhuang lovingly agreed, she squatted down and touched the back of King Yujun's sweat, then raised her head and motioned to the nurse who was waiting on the side to carry him down to change his clothes.
"Mother, what's in Suihong's hand?" Seeing that King Yujun was carried down, Xiao Xuan came to the side of Emperor Liu's concubine, looked at the box Suihong was holding in her hand, and asked.
"The second princess is pregnant, the queen is overjoyed, and she has given something to every concubine who went to ask for peace today." Concubine Liu waved her hand, and Sui Hong handed the box in her hand to the palace maid under her hand, and instructed her to carefully collect it to the treasury and enter the file.
"No wonder the second sister-in-law sent someone to give me a gift the day before yesterday, saying that she was thanking me for my auspicious words." Xiao Xuan said with a smile.
"The second prince's concubine and side concubine are pregnant at the same time, but the second princess has always said that she can't get sick, and she waited until the fetal position was firmly seated to inform the queen of the matter, it seems that the second emperor's womb is indeed restless." Concubine Liu Huang turned to Xiao Xuan. "They will fight in the nest at any time, you can make a good note of it for me, and stay away from them and the people in their palace until they give birth smoothly."
"Yes, I wrote it down." Xiao Xuan obediently agreed.
Liao was drinking the best blood swallows, and Nian Qiao, who was beside her, suddenly walked in quickly with an obscure face.
"You all stand down." Nian Qiao is the proud person of the Liao family, and as soon as she came in, she asked the palace maids who were waiting in the inner hall to retreat.
"What's wrong?" Liao Shi looked at Nian Qiao's face was not good, put the bowl in his hand on the desk on the side, wiped the corners of his mouth and asked. "Side concubine, early this morning, the second princess took someone to greet the queen mother, and reported that she was pregnant and the fetal position was stable."
Nian Qiao said as she carefully looked at Liao's face. "Our people took a closer look, and the second princess's belly was indeed bigger."
"What?!" Liao's eyes widened in surprise when he heard this, his face changed color suddenly, and he hurriedly asked. "She's really pregnant?"
"Yes, the queen mother specially sent someone to the Tai Hospital to invite Doctor Dou to see the second princess, and the second princess's pregnancy has been confirmed." Doctor Dou is the best doctor in gynecology in Tai Hospital, and he took care of the first child of the princess a few years ago and gave birth safely.
"How long has she been pregnant?" Liao asked with a pale face.
"It looks like it's about the same month as your concubine." Nian Qiao said.
"She's really lucky." Liao's eyes were stunned, and he said with words in his mouth. "How many fetal pills did I take to sit down on this baby, she was slightly and coincidentally stuck at this time and conceived, and it was about the same as my month. As a side concubine, I was already a head lower than her, and I originally thought that I could give birth to the emperor and grandson before her, and then Ren was in front of the second highness or the queen mother, and our mother and son could be more decent. In the future, I will try my best to squeeze her out of the position of concubine sooner or later. ”
"Concubine Fang, don't be angry, beware of the fetal gas." Nian Qiao saw that Liao Shi was short of breath when he spoke, and the situation looked a little difficult. "The second princess may not be able to give birth to a little princess, not to mention that she may be pregnant with a girl, that is, whether she can give birth smoothly is a second word."
"Do you really think she's defenseless?" Liao felt a throbbing pain in her lower abdomen as she spoke, and she said in a hoarse voice. She suddenly said that she was not sick, presumably because she had learned that she was pregnant at that time. She hid for a month, just to wait for her pregnancy to be revealed and the fetal position was stable, and then she came out to show people. ”
"Concubine Fang, what's wrong with you?" Nian Qiao watched Liao's face become more and more pale, and cold sweat continued to break out on his forehead.
"Oh no, quickly call someone to the Tai Hospital to ask the Tai Doctor to come." Liao's lower abdomen throbbed like a knife.
"Ahh Nian Qiao was about to help Liao get up and go to the bed to lie down, but when he looked down, he found that a little scarlet fell at Liao's feet. "Side Concubine, you ......."
"Silence!" Liao himself knew in his heart that his fetus was not in good condition, and since he found out that he was pregnant, he did not dare to break the fetal pills every day. "Carefully help me to lie down on the bed, before the imperial doctor comes, you send someone to decoction the fetal medicine according to the prescription left by the imperial doctor before to give me a dose."
"Yes, Concubine." Nian Qiao gently helped Liao to lie down. "Concubine Fang, you can rest first, and the slave and maid will arrange it immediately."
"Okay, you can go quickly." Liao lay on the bed, forcing himself to slowly regain his composure and calm his originally rapid and flustered breathing.
The Liao family was able to install people around the Hu family, and the Hu family also had their own people by the Liao family's side.
Hu Shi counted the time, and the news that she was pregnant almost reached Liao's ears. Sure enough, not long after she returned to her palace, the Liao family was already in chaos, saying that the Liao family was red.
"Second princess, should we take the opportunity to delay the imperial doctor to come to the rescue." Xiangdong sat down with Hu Shi and asked thoughtfully.
"No, I'll do what I told you to do after that." Hu Shi sat down with his back and said in a calm voice. "No matter what happens to her in the future, you will keep an eye on it for me, and our people will have less hands on the things she will use and the people at her end."
"Okay, I know everything." Xiangdong bowed his head. "The second princess just needs to raise the fetus with peace of mind, and I will restrain our palace maids and chamberlains for you."
"Okay, you are the one who came into the palace with me, you grew up with me since you were a child, and I am the most at ease with you." Hu Shi looked at Xiangdong and said. "I've had to rely on you for a lot of things during this time."
Now the palace maids and chamberlains who are serving by Hu's side are just sent by the queen or the internal affairs office, no more than Xiangdong, the family is still serving in the Liguo Mansion, and before the Hu family got married, Xiangdong's thirteen-year-old sister was also mentioned to serve in front of the Duchess of Liguo. Therefore, in the eyes of the Hu family, some inconsequential trivial things can be assigned to the palace maid or chamberlain, and she can only rest assured that she can leave other things to Xiangdong to do.