Qi Yu has already passed the age of thirty, Shen Mengxi is not a young girl, and there are no other concubines in the palace, not to mention the courtiers will be nervous about the candidate for the crown prince, the most nervous people should be the members of the Qi family clan.
Although Qi Yu's surname is Qi, he is actually a descendant of the Huangfu family. Those surnamed Qi in Beijing City are not actually the real royal family, they can only be regarded as Qi Yu's mother family. People don't think so, they think that the country of Hua should belong to the Qi family, if Qi Yu has no heirs, then the next emperor must come from the Qi family, and it is impossible to give an adopted son of unknown origin.
However, Shen Mengxi didn't seem to notice the objections of these people. No matter how loud the commotion outside was, Shen Mengxi was already at ease and free from disturbance at all.
"So what if you object?" Shen Mengxi took another strawberry and fed it to Ming Xi, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "They still want to encourage the emperor to depose me, so what will happen?"
It is true that half of the people in the Huaguo court respect Shen Mengxi, but there is another half. Among them, the Qi family members want Shen Mengxi to be deposed the most.
"Is the current Qi family the same as Qi Yanling's natal family?" Ye Zhen asked suspiciously.
Shen Mengxi said lightly, "It's not like that. All decent natal families are in Jin Country, while those here in Hua Country are far away. It's just that the relatives from far away are all touched. They don't even belong to the clan, so they dare to gossip. If it weren't for the calmness of my pregnancy now, or... my mother chopped them up."
"..." Ye Zhen saw Shen Mengxi showing a tough side for the first time, and she wondered if the Shen Mengxi in front of her had been replaced with a soul. Could it be that Shen Mengxi also had two personalities
"Oh, I want to be gentle, gentle!" Shen Mengxi patted her chest, "So as not to scare the child."
Ye Zhen laughed out loud, "I really want to know how you used to follow the emperor to subdue various tribes."
"Equal importance is given to kindness and prestige. There must be both majesty and tolerance and kindness. You will understand when you lead your own troops in the future." Shen Mengxi smiled and said to Ye Zhen, "Have you read all the military books I gave you?"
"I'm watching, but I don't have experience in leading soldiers, I just memorize it by rote." Ye Zhen said helplessly.
Shen Mengxi smiled and said, "It's fine if you can remember."
"Ah, eat..." Mingxi called to Shen Mengxi, he still wanted to eat the red fruit.
Sitting in Ye Zhen's arms, Mingyu had eaten strawberry juice all over her face, and giggled as she watched her brother.
"Food!" Ye Zhen cursed with a smile, and took out a silk handkerchief to wipe the mouths of the two children.
"The emperor is here." The palace people sang from outside.
Both Ye Zhen and Zhao Yang stood up, and saw Qi Yu striding in from the outside with a gloomy expression on his face.
Seeing his expression, Ye Zhen's heart skipped a beat. She hasn't seen Qi Yu's brutal side for a long time. Could it be that someone outside provoked him today
Just as she was thinking, Ye Zhen saw Huang Fuchen following Qi Yu.
"Your Majesty, are you back so early today?" Shen Mengxi didn't seem to notice the gloomy look on Qi Yu's face, and greeted him with a smile on her face. Turning around, her face turned pale, she turned around and retched.
Qi Yu, whose face was already ugly, turned even paler now, "Shen Mengxi, what do you mean?"
Could it be that even she despises him
Ye Zhen hugged Ming Xi in her arms to Hong Ling, went to feel Shen Mengxi's pulse, a heart that almost jumped out of her throat finally calmed down, she smelled the bloody smell on Qi Yu's body, frowned and said, "Your Majesty, you still change Bring the clothes again, Sister Mengxi is pregnant now, and she is very sensitive to some fishy smells, even if she smells fish, she will vomit, let alone the smell of blood on your body."
Shen Mengxi vomited out and felt better. She raised her wet eyes and looked at Qi Yu worriedly, "Are you injured?"
Knowing that Shen Mengxi didn't vomit because he disliked him, Qi Yu's expression softened a little, "I'm not hurt, you... you rest, I'm going to change clothes."
The maid has already cleaned up the filthy things in the room quickly, Shen Mengxi wanted to change clothes, Ye Zhen and Huangfu Chen went to the side hall.
"Master, what happened to Qi Yu?" Ye Zhen asked Huangfu Chen in a low voice.
Originally, Huangfuchen wanted to go out to sea with Ye Yiqing, but after knowing what Ye Yiqing told him, he stayed in Beijing City.
"During the morning court today, someone came up and asked Ah Yu to abolish Shen Mengxi and drive you out of Huaguo. The other one woke up and killed the person who submitted the letter on the spot. He killed seven people in a row..." Huangfuchen recalled The bloody scene in the hall this morning, he sighed in his heart, he thought that Qi Yu had taken care of his heart for so many years and would not be as tyrannical as before, but he didn't expect that as long as Shen Mengxi was involved, he would still be unable to control his tyrannical side.
Ye Zhen gasped, Qi Yu actually killed someone in court
Huangfuchen said, "Is Mengxi alright?"
"It's okay..." Ye Zhen asked in a low voice, "Aren't the courtiers afraid of Qi Yu doing this?"
"He was originally the only emperor in the country of Hua, and all the people he killed were members of the Qi family." And those of the Qi family who were showing off their power in the court have already disgusted many people.
Ye Zhen said, "Why did they drive our mother and son out of China?"
In the eyes of many people, she is just a widow, an orphan and a widow. Is she worthy of being feared by so many people
Huangfuchen said, "They are afraid that Mingxi will become the crown prince in the future."
"..." Ye Zhen was speechless for a while, thinking too much, "Sister Mengxi's child has not yet been born, so they think that the crown prince must be their child?"
"In the past, the members of the Qi family really wanted Ah Yu to adopt an heir." Huangfu Chen said.
"It seems that no one dares to oppose Qi Yu anymore." Ye Zhen said, she didn't like too cruel methods, but she had to admit that Qi Yu's method was very direct and cruel, but very useful.
Sure enough, in the next few months, no one dared to have any opinion on Qi Yu's plan to give his adopted son a reward. Mingxi became the only prince in the Hua Kingdom with the title of Sheng, and Mingxi was a princess with the title of Yuan. This shows that What Qi Yu likes in his heart is Mingxi, and the title Yuan means long.
Before she knew it, it was time for Shen Mengxi to give birth.
After such a long period of recuperation, Shen Mengxi's body has been much better than before, basically no more angina problems, and now Ye Zhen is worried that she will not have any accidents during the delivery process.
"Doctor Ye, Your Majesty is about to give birth."
Ye Zhen asked Mingxi and Mingyu to be taken to another place, so as not to distract her here.