One day, after the Queen Mother visited the emperor, she summoned Zhao Zheng.

"Your imperial brother's illness is getting worse and worse, it seems that he is just staying up for a while, if your imperial brother dies one day, what will happen to the throne?" The Queen Mother asked Zhao Zheng.

"Naturally, the crown prince will succeed to the throne." Zhao Zheng replied without hesitation.

The Queen Mother breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The crown prince is young, even if he ascends the throne, he needs your assistance, and you will be the regent at that time." ”

"However, in order to prevent the recovery of the Wu family's power, the time when the crown prince ascended the throne was the day of the queen's death." Zhao Zheng said.

Not only the queen, but also Wu Zhichuan's family must die. Zhao Zheng is not like Zhao Guang, he still has a thought of benevolence back then, and for a family like the Wu family that is entrenched in the imperial court, it must be cut down to the root to prevent future troubles.

Zhao Zheng was so ruthless that the Queen Mother's heart sank, but after thinking about it, Zhao was right, the court is fighting for life and death, if you leave him alive today, he may die under his knife one day, and meaningless mercy is the most useless thing.

Therefore, the Queen Mother nodded in agreement.

However, the consequences of this incident will be very serious, the Queen Mother and Zhao Zheng both know, which will make the prince hate Zhao Zheng, what will the prince do when he becomes an adult?

Fortunately, it is still early for the prince to become an adult, so at present, he can only take care of stabilizing the situation first, continue the power of the Zhao family's royal family, and take the rest slowly.

"Yue Xi is okay? Now that the body should be bigger, women need care the most at this time, although you are busy with political affairs, you will accompany her more when you are idle. The Queen Mother was worried about Shen Yuexi's fetus.

Well. Zhao Zheng nodded.

However, in fact, he and Shen Yuexi have not spoken for a long time, he is in charge of the government before he knows that taking care of state affairs is more painstaking and time-consuming than he imagined, especially not long after he took over government affairs, there are many things to understand from the beginning, straighten out, he gets up every day before dawn to prepare for the morning court, and the morning court has to deal with the mountains of twists and turns, many things he can't solve by himself, so he has to convene the ministers to meet, and he often has to worry about state affairs until late at night after a busy day. When he returned to the palace, he often didn't want to say a word when he was tired, so he fell asleep.

Sometimes, when it was too late, he stayed in the palace.

At first, it was only an occasional night or two, but later the days of staying in the palace became more and more.

Shen Yuexi was in the palace, at first she waited for Zhao Zheng to come back every night before going to bed, and then she slept first, and then woke up in the morning, looking at the empty position next to her, she was a little clumsy and inconvenient to get up, Zhicui was alert, and when she heard a little movement, she hurriedly stepped forward and helped Shen Yuexi get up.

"Didn't the Seventh Master come back yesterday?" Sitting up, Shen Yuexi asked Zhicui.

Zhicui nodded.

"The seventh master is too tired these days, you go to the dining room, if the seventh master comes back in the evening, the dining room needs to make nourishing ginseng soup, let the seventh master drink it in the morning and then go to the morning court." Shen Yuexi said to Zhicui.

Zhicui was busy, and then went to get a box of delicate balm out, Shen Yuexi's body was getting bigger, and he was afraid of leaving patterns on his stomach, so he massaged his belly with balm morning and evening, so although it had been seven months, Shen Yuexi's skin was still as delicate as ever.

And this cream was given to Shen Yuexi by Zhao Zheng, he said that women love beauty, and they don't want to look at her and leave regrets because of it in the future.

Shen Yuexi was pregnant for the first time, so naturally she didn't understand this, so she nodded suddenly after listening to the explanation.

Then she took the balm in the palm of her hand and looked at it, and asked softly, "Won't this balm be bad for the fetus?" ”

"Of course not." Zhao Zheng replied in a deep voice.

Shen Yuexi smiled, "I believe in the Seventh Master." ”

Since that day, Shen Yuexi has been using this cream, and it has been nearly three months now. The fetus is well. Shen Yuexi's heart was completely let go.

"After all, men still like to be more beautiful, right?" Shen Yuexi asked Zhicui, who was helping her gently massage her stomach.

"How can the slave know that, but the seventh princess, you don't have to worry about these if you are born so beautiful." Zhicui said with a smile.

Shen Yuexi didn't speak again, what about the beauty of life, no matter how beautiful it is, it is normal to watch it for a long time, and it can only be long-term if you enter the other party's heart.

Now in Zhao Qiye's heart, I don't know if there is her? How many more? He now holds a great deal of power, once a person has the supreme right, he will change more or less, man is not a god, and if he is not careful, he will be lost.

Therefore, Shen Yuexi is now a little cautious about Zhao Qiye.

She knew that once the two of them became cautious, it would be Xinyuan, which was the case with Hu Chu, and the same was true with Zhao Zheng.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuexi sighed.

Seeing Shen Yuexi sighing, Zhicui hurriedly comforted: "Seventh Princess, you are now pregnant with the prince of Kangping Palace, and no one can take away your favor." ”

Hearing this, Shen Yuexi's heart sneered, if others knew that she was now pregnant with the child of General Beihu, I don't know how they would feel.

In the final analysis, Zhao Zheng has done his best to treat her, not only does he still take good care of her, but he does not even harm her children.

To Zhao Zheng, Shen Yuexi is grateful.

Sometimes Shen Yuexi herself is also very conflicted, she is grateful to Zhao Zheng, but she has been using him, although she blames herself, but now, she really wants Zhao Zheng to save her brother from death row, she knows that Zhao Zheng can do it now.

But how should she speak? One thing after another, now it is not an exaggeration to describe Zhao Zheng as anxious, if he mentions his brother's matter at this time, will it seem too urgent?

Shen Yuexi hesitated for a long time.

During this time, she always wanted to go to the prison to see her brother, but Zhao Zheng asked her to stay in the palace, so she stayed quietly, the situation was chaotic, she didn't want to go out and cause trouble for Zhao Zheng, and now any trouble is a big trouble for Zhao Zheng.

The reason why Zhao Zheng turned defeat into victory in the court was because he held the family of the head of the guard army hostage, so that he had to obey Zhao Zheng, Shen Yuexi thought, now I don't know how many opposition forces in the capital want to seize her to threaten Zhao Zheng.

Therefore, she had to stay in the palace honestly and wait for the opportunity.

**

On the day when the Queen Mother mentioned Shen Yuexi, Zhao Zheng returned to the palace at dinner.

"Why did you come back so early today?" Shen Yuexi greeted him with a smile.

"I thought it had been a long time since I had a meal with you, so I came back." Zhao Zheng reached out and hugged Shen Yuexi.

"I'm out of the way, I know you're not as good now as you were before, I can understand that." Shen Yuexi said softly.

Zhao Zheng smiled, "Government affairs can never be handled, so I also have to take time to rest, this is the truth I have realized these days." ”

Shen Yuexi nodded, "I feel much more relieved that you can think like this, I am often afraid that you will work too hard these days, and I am thinking about how to persuade you." ”

"Worries you." Zhao Zheng said.

After dinner, Zhao Zheng accompanied Shen Yuexi for a walk in the palace for a while.

Passing by the courtyard where Tilter lived, Zhao Zheng went in to take a look at Tilt'er, Shen Yuexi didn't go into the house, stood in the yard and looked at the flowers and plants, it was almost autumn, the flowers were blooming, and the trees were also ruined, Shen Yuexi smelled the breath of death from the air. The breath of plant death.

Zhao Zheng talked to Qian'er for a while and left, accompanying Shen Yuexi to continue walking.

"How about we move to the palace?" As he walked, Zhao Zheng suddenly asked.

Well? Shen Yuexi turned her head to look at Zhao Zheng, "This is not in accordance with the rules, right?" ”

Zhao Zheng smiled, "The rules are also set by people, I am so busy now that I can't go back to the house to see you from time to time, it is inevitable to remember, if you are in the palace, I can see you at any time, even if you are studying ink on the side when reviewing the folds." ”

Shen Yuexi thought for a while, "Although I also want to do this, I think it is still impossible at the moment." ”

"Why?"

"Seventh Master, although you are in power now, but the emperor is still here after all, if I enter the palace for permanent residence, I will be convinced, and now these rumors are the most taboo, which is not good for you." Shen Yuexi said softly.

Hearing this, Zhao Zheng held Shen Yuexi's hand, "It's rare that you always think about me." ”

"You and I are husband and wife, and we are one, so we naturally have to work together to overcome difficulties."

"Do you think it's a difficult time at the moment?"

"There is a seriously ill emperor, there are ill-intentioned courtiers, there is a young prince in the middle, and Pang Yun is in turmoil outside, not to mention the difficulties, what you inherited is a fire, do it well, this fire is burning in the furnace, if you don't do it well, this fire will fall to the ground, and the whole Nanxia will burn."

Zhao Zheng's smile became even stronger, "Then according to you, what should I do?" ”

"Power is naturally the most solid in one's own hands, not for a while, but for a lifetime."

Zhao Zheng still looked at Shen Yuexi with a smile, did not speak, and walked forward in silence.

Shen Yuexi didn't say much, Zhao Zheng didn't speak, she didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, so she could only point to it.

"By the way, in a few days, I'm going to release Shen Yi." After walking for a while, Zhao Zheng said.

"Really?" Shen Yuexi was pleasantly surprised to hear the news, and felt a little inappropriate, "Is it okay to do this?" ”

After all, it was a death row ordered by the emperor, and now that the emperor is still there, Zhao Zheng released Shen Yi, didn't he give these courtiers a handle to punish Zhao Zheng's crimes?

"Naturally, it's not released openly," Zhao Zheng turned his head and glanced back, "In a few days, Dali Temple will announce Shen Yi's death, and a dead person can't continue to stay on death row." ”

Shen Yuexi suddenly understood Zhao Zheng's intentions, nodded, and was very happy.

"Where is it appropriate for my brother to live after he comes out?" Shen Yuexi asked.

Zhao Zheng thought for a while, "Let him go to Yunyou Temple first, Huineng will take care of him, and wait a few days to see how the situation is going before making plans." ”

Shen Yuexi nodded. The biggest worry in her heart was finally over, and thanking her was not enough to express anything, Shen Yuexi leaned into Zhao Zheng's arms, stretched out her hand and hugged him, everything was silent.