The waist is getting thicker and stronger, and the body is gradually bulky. Shen Pearl is more energetic than before pregnancy, painting flowers and girls with the maids, visiting the crown princess on time, going to Daxiangguo Temple every three or five days to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and even to Cui Caiping's occasional sour words, she also unceremoniously replied to each other, Cui Caiping's mouth is clumsy and invincible, often so angry that her eyes are red, and she pouts and brushes her sleeves away, making Shen Pearl and Su Ci secretly laugh for a long time.

Regarding Tongguan, it seems that it is tacit, including the crown prince and the crown princess, and no one has said half a word in front of her. In fact, there is no need to mention it, you can see the clues by looking at people's faces. On the eighteenth day of the first month, she was drinking and feasting with the prince and the princess in the East Palace, and suddenly a person entered the palace to report secretly, when the prince's face changed suddenly, she also had a big heart, and she was worried all night after returning home, and on the second day, in the end early in the morning, she entered the palace to worship the prince, and saw that the prince's expression was already and detailed, and the palace was stable and peaceful, so she put her mind at ease. After a long time, Shen Pearl knew that day Xuanzong shook the crowd with Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi abandoned Shaanxi for hundreds of miles, and the crime of stealing and reducing the soldiers' food, executed two generals in front of the battle, An Qingxu learned the news and led the army to storm Tongguan, the rebels came like a tide, the momentum was like a rainbow, and Tongguan was almost not guaranteed, fortunately, Li Jiao came to the city tower in person, and an arrow carried the momentum of thunder, and shot over An Qingxu's flag, which stabilized the position, and it was easy to support until the evening of the same day, the new deputy marshal of soldiers and horses, Ge Shuhan, led 80,000 horses and horses to Tongguan, and An Qingxu returned in vain.

Seeing that winter is going to spring and returning, Chang'an City is gradually stabilizing, the east and west markets are still lively, and the Xingqing Palace is singing and dancing, as if the situation is very good, and the slaves and maids in the house often discuss privately - with my big country in China, if I want to break through An Lushan, it is not like a cat catching a mouse, and I will be caught.

Approaching June, Shen Pearl's birth date is also approaching, the imperial physician in the palace ordered the morning and dusk to come to take the pulse to greet him, Zhang Deyu smiled from ear to ear, inside and outside the princes and ministers who responded to the gift visits, and even the princess personally came to visit Shen Pearl several times.

The fetal position is normal, everything is fine, and there is a great honor. For some reason, Shen Pearl became uneasy day by day. With a huge belly, it is always difficult to sleep at night, and I often dream back at midnight, and my thoughts about Li Li are getting stronger day by day. Knowing that it was an extravagant hope, she still imagined that one day when she would wake up from her sleep, he would sit in front of the bed, put the ivory comb in his hand, pull up her hair in a bun, hold the bronze mirror, and the people in the mirror looked at each other and smiled......

The sixth day of the sixth month of June, a wonderful day. The gong of the third watch had just sounded in the house, and the child in the belly seemed to kick her hard, and she made a light "um" and woke up. Smiling and stroking her abdomen, this is really a wonderful feeling, the birth of a little life, a little button and her heart. When she was more than three months old, she felt the fetal movement for the first time, when she was smiling and directing the maid to collect the snow from the flowers and trees in the court to make tea in the coming year, and suddenly there was a sudden jump in her abdomen, she only felt strange, and after a while, another jump, but the rhythm was much slower, and the slightest joy soaked her whole body from the inside out.

Su Ci, who was sleeping next to the bed, woke up and asked, "Miss, do you want to drink water?" Shen Pearl shook his head, stretched out a hand, and said, "Help me up." ”

Su Ci hurriedly lifted Shen Pearl from the bed, picked up the robe and draped it over her.

Shen Pearl walked slowly to the window, lifted the curtain, the crescent moon was like a hook, and she was a little lovesick.

Under the shade of dense flowers and trees, you can see a few figures, for months, no matter whether they are deep or bitter rain and wind, they will not abandon and be loyal to this duty. Dead soldiers, dead soldiers, should I be for their promise to keep their promises, admire death as home, or feel for their willingness to sacrifice their lives for money and profit. Only when she is pregnant with life and will be a mother can she most deeply appreciate the preciousness of life. She will think of the soldiers of the two armies who fought before the battle, the bloody battlefield every day, the long knives and white blades facing each other, all born of their parents, but they killed each other, the country is picturesque, and the world is ruthless.

"Miss, it's cold at night, go to sleep." Su Ci reminded.

Shen Pearl promised to put down the window screen, and inadvertently glanced at the forest of flowers and trees, a pair of bright eyes and her gaze flashed like lightning and thunder, she froze all over, and then went to look for those eyes, those eyes seemed to be intended to dodge, she was shocked in her heart, and struck her palms together, signaling the person to enter her pavilion.

The man was stunned for a moment, but at last he approached quickly, with a lean figure and an awe-inspiring walk, leaping in through the lattice, swiftly and dressed in a masked night walking suit. Su Ci was guarding outside from the door, and the man saluted Shen Pearl, and with a flick of his face, the mask was lifted, so that Shen Pearl could see his true face, and he put it on very quickly.

Shen Pearl took a slight breath and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you follow Your Highness, when will you come to Chang'an?" ”

Feng Shengyi replied: "Your Highness is worried that the princess is about to give birth, so he specially ordered his subordinates to come back and take a look." The subordinate has just arrived. ”

Shen Zhuzhu's heart warmed, staring at Feng Shengyi, her eyes gradually became misty, and she slowly asked, "Your Highness, are you okay?" ”

Feng Sheng's eyes looked as usual, and he replied: "Back to the princess, Your Highness is safe and sound, but I am worried about the princess's body." ”

"Safe and sound", Shen Pearl breathed a sigh of relief, as long as this sentence is fine. Feng Shengyi helped her sit down, she thought about it, and said to Feng Shengyi with a smile: "Your Highness always worries about me like this, I am not a three-year-old child, the crown prince and the crown princess take care of me in many ways, where do you want him to send a general like you back." Go back to Tongguan quickly, tell Your Highness, I am also safe and sound, let him take care of me and the child. ”

"This ,——" Feng Shengyi seemed to hesitate, and Shen Pearl said categorically: "The one who needs you the most at this time is His Highness." He raised his head and said to Feng Shengyi: "Your Highness is safe, please ask the general for all the pearls." She was commensurate with "general", got up and bowed to Feng Shengyi, Feng Shengyi hurriedly hugged her, and said hurriedly: "The princess must not, Feng can't bear it, Feng will go to Tongguan." After speaking, he clenched his fists deeply, and jumped out of the window, this person's hands and actions were as clean and neat as ever, and there was no idle words, which was praised.

Shen Pearl was in a relaxed mood and fell asleep again with Su Porcelain's waiting.

I don't know how long I slept, and I heard a surprise call from Su Ci, "Your Highness is back!" She turned over and sat up, and sure enough, she saw Li Jiao striding in, her armor had not been removed, and the general jade tree was in the wind when she left, no different, she was overjoyed, and shouted "Li", Li Jiao had walked up quickly, and hugged her tightly.

She hugged Li Li back, her hand touching the cold armor, but her heart was like the early spring sun shining, rippling warmly. Suddenly, her hand touched something behind him, and something wet touched her palm, and she looked at his back—a dagger sunk deep into her armor, and her back was dripping with blood! She was terrified, Li Jiao smiled at her with difficulty, slowly closed her eyes, and fell to the side......

"Ahh But caught in a nightmare? Shen Pearl screamed, and the maids who were keeping vigil in a panic had already rushed in, standing quietly in a row, just waiting to obey the orders and wait for the princess.

Su Ci said: "The princess was frightened, snapped up the list of the imperial doctor, and quickly boiled a cup of tea." "I have my own slaves and maids to go down and do things. Su Ci served Shen Pearl to change his clothes and wipe his face, and Shen Pearl felt a little relieved. Zhang Deyu got the news and greeted him outside the door before leaving.

"Yo, these three watches are noisy and shouting in the middle of the night, and they don't let people sleep!" Cui Caiping was draped in a crimson tulle robe, let the maid support her, and walked in with a shaking.

Shen Pearl glanced at her, and suddenly smiled: "If my sister is noisy, you might as well move to the palace, where there are many palaces, choose one place at will, and it is cleaner and more honorable than the palace." ”

"You!" Cui Caiping was so angry that he couldn't speak, and turned around and left with a pout.

After a while, a maid hurriedly came to report: "Oh no, Mrs. Cui packed up and said that she would go to the palace to live with the concubine after dawn." ”

Shen Pearl drank the Dingding Tea quietly, and after drinking it, she said, "What's the big deal?" Let her go. Asked Su Porcelain: "What time is it?" Su Ci said: "Four watches have been handed in." Shen Pearl waved his hand to a room of maids and maids: "It's still early before dawn, let's go and rest." ”

Seeing that everyone was gone, Su Cicai whispered to Shen Pearl with some complaints: "Why do you want to annoy Mrs. Cui, if she goes to the palace to talk nonsense to the concubine, won't the concubine make trouble for you." Your Highness is not around, in case someone makes it bad, your body is inconvenient, but the gain outweighs the loss. ”

Shen Pearl said: "The gap is suspected to be born early, and there are not many of them this time. I was just shocked by the dream, and my heart was very uneasy. As he spoke, he told Fang Cai's dream to Su Porcelain in detail. Su Ci said: "You are just worrying too much, the so-called thinking day and night." Everyone else knows that dreams and reality are always opposites, and it seems that there must be no difference between His Highness. ”

Shen Pearl shook her head: "Having said that, I always feel that the meaning of this dream is extremely bad. That's why I deliberately got angry with Cui Caiping. As soon as I gave birth, she was always dangling in front of me, which was distracting; Second, she can't see me, and she can be less sad, and her life will be more relaxed. As she spoke, she also became sleepy, and forced her mind to reflect on tonight's experience and dreams, as if there was a trace of inappropriateness hidden in it, but she couldn't think of what was wrong, so she had to smile and say to Su Ci: "Pregnancy really teaches people to become sluggish, and this brain is really not as good as usual." Su Ci helped her lie down and said, "My good lady, you should still sleep, maybe when you wake up, everything will be clear." ”

When I woke up the next day, I still hadn't figured it out. Cui Caiping really rolled up and packed into the palace.

After breakfast, the lord of Dening County brought a large bag of supplements to visit Shen Zhu. Many people in the palace knew her usual thoughts about An Qingxu, and after An Lushan rebelled, Shen Pearl was always worried that she couldn't stand it, but who knew that she seemed to be completely let go, and she still looked heartless, eating, drinking, and having fun as usual, which made Li Li and Shen Pearl unable to persuade her. At that moment, Shen Pearl sneered and said, "When did you learn this when you grew up?" ”

The county lord of Dening struck up and said with a smile: "Before Brother Wang left, he told me to take a good look at you, if you lose weight, I can't eat and walk around." Besides,......" she raised her eyebrows proudly, "someone reports your situation to Tongguan every day, if Brother Wang knows that I am so sensible, he will definitely be happy!" Remembering the word "Tongguan" was to avoid taboos, he hurriedly covered his mouth and said: "Look at my mouth, don't say it, sister-in-law, you think it's good to eat that kind of tonic first, I don't understand." ”

"Someone reports my situation to Tongguan every day?" Shen Pearl hesitated to herself, and said a few words to the county lord of Dening, the county lord of Dening was not able to stay in one place for a long time, and it didn't take long for him to leave.

After she left, Shen Pearl instructed Su Ci to close the door, she approached the back window again, lifted the curtain, thought about it, and asked Su Ci to give her the long-necked thin vase with flower arrangements on the table. Su Porcelain didn't know why, so she took a gorgeous flower branch and only handed the vase to her.

Shen Pearl took the vase, and threw it out of the window, Su Porcelain "Ah" exclaimed, but heard the sound of "fluttering" in the jungle of flowers and trees, and a number of heads appeared in the originally quiet forest to check the movement in a hurry, one of them was caught by Shen Pearl, knowing that there was no place to dodge, under her awe-inspiring gaze, she quickly jumped into the room.

Shen Pearl asked, "Why don't you go back to Tongguan?" ”

Feng Shengyi replied loudly: "Back to the princess, His Royal Highness ordered to protect the princess, without an order, his subordinates can't go back!" ”

Shen Pearl sneered: "You are quick to answer now, I should have suspected a long time ago, you have always only obeyed the orders of His Highness, how can you listen to me so easily." ”

Feng Shengyi bowed his head and said, "My subordinates don't dare." ”

Shen Pearl turned his face blank and said, "You tell me honestly, how is Tongguan now, how is His Highness?" ”

Feng Shengyi said: "My subordinates have already said that His Highness is safe and sound. ”

Shen Pearl said: "You are still talking nonsense. Your Highness has already arranged for someone to report on my condition every day, how can you send you again? He promised me to let you follow me, but now I have to break my promise if I don't keep my promise. His eyes looked directly at Feng Shengyi, and he said word by word: "Tell me!" ”

Feng Shengyi hung her head when she looked at her, still refusing to speak, but her body trembled slightly.

Shen Pearl saw it in her eyes, turned her head and said to Su Ci: "Pass my life, prepare the horse quickly, I want to go to Tongguan in person." Su Porcelain's face was white, Feng Shengyi was already half-kneeling on the ground, and pleaded: "The princess is pregnant with Liujia, absolutely not." ”

Shen Pearl swept his eyebrows and said, "Then you say, or don't you say it?" ”

Feng Shengyi was silent for a while, and Fang said secretly: "My subordinates first ask the princess not to be nervous, and listen to the words of my subordinates." ”

Shen Pearl took a deep breath, slammed one hand on the pile of supplements on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I promise you." ”

Feng Shengyi said: "In fact, it has been three days since my subordinates returned to Chang'an. His Royal Highness said that Tongguan was afraid of ...... If you can't keep it, you have to ask your subordinates to come back to take care of the princess, and if something happens, protect the princess from Chang'an at any time. ”

Shen Pearl only felt that all her strength was about to be lost, her eyes widened, and she asked, "How come?" Isn't the situation all good? How could Tongguan not be able to hold it? ”

Feng Shengyi said: "I'm afraid the princess doesn't know. It is precisely because of the current excellent situation that His Majesty listened to Yang Xiang's words, and since June, he has repeatedly ordered Marshal Geshu to go out of Tongguan and recover Shaanxi County and Luoyang. His Royal Highness said that now that the conscription has not yet arrived in various places, the only way to hold on to the danger is to wait for the rebels to lose patience and take the opportunity to attack, so that they can surrender without a fight. If you attack now, with the rabble of Tongguan, you will definitely be defeated against the rebels. It's just that the edicts of the imperial court are forcing the war one after another, and His Royal Highness and Marshal Geshu can only drag it out for a while, and they don't know when they will be forced to attack......"

Tongguan is only 300 miles away from Chang'an City, if Tongguan is lost, Chang'an will have no danger to refuse, and the rebels drive straight in, such as entering no man's land.

Shen Zhuzhu's heart was beating wildly, her hands covered her chest, but she couldn't hold back the trembling in her heart no matter what, Su Porcelain called "Miss, Miss," as if the voice was far away, but Feng Shengyi's words were still a little clear: "The princess listened to her subordinates finish speaking-Your Highness's safety, don't worry about the princess, Your Highness is surrounded by dead soldiers, even if Tongguan is broken, they can protect Your Highness's smooth return to Chang'an." Seeing Shen Zhuzhu's face pale, he shouted loudly: "The most important thing for the princess at present is to cherish herself for His Royal Highness!" ”

Shen Pearl woke up like a dream, stared at Feng Shengyi's eyes tightly, nodded slowly, and sat down on the chair. Looking at the tonic and tonic in front of him, and the sewn children's clothes, he warned himself over and over again: Yes, Feng Shengyi is right, Li Jiao has so many guards to protect, and there are dead soldiers desperately guarding him, no matter how dangerous it is, he will be able to come back safely, come back to see her, and see their children. What's more, Tongguan may not be lost, Your Majesty is wise, maybe he will change his mind.

Thinking like this, the trembling in her heart calmed down slightly, and Su Ci seemed to let go of the burden in her heart, and said, "Miss go and lie down again, don't worry!" Shen Zhufang was in a trance, suddenly had a throbbing pain in his abdomen, frowned and touched his abdomen, but felt that the pain was tight for a while and loose for a while, it was not very painful at first, and gradually the pain deepened, and he couldn't help but pinch the plain porcelain arm beside him. Su Ci was in pain, but she didn't know anything about the production, so she only leaned over and hugged Shen Pearl in fear and asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Listening to Shen Pearl gritted her teeth and said intermittently: "I, I'm afraid, I'm going to give birth......"