When I returned to Yuxiu Pavilion, I didn’t expect Ning Chen to come.
Seeing her coming in from outside, he went over and grabbed her.
"Your hands are warm today. What did you do outside?"
"We went to the Imperial Garden. The girls were very careful. They took everything, including the heater and blankets, as if they were moving house." Ye Jun said with a smile.
Ning Chen led her to sit on the small couch, "It's better to be careful. You are in a weak state now, so you can't be careless at all."
He didn't say anything to forbid her to go out.
After all, Doctor Zhang had already reminded me not to just lie down, but also to exercise, otherwise it would be difficult to give birth.
Ye Jun nodded, took the warm milk handed to him by Nan Zhi and drank two sips.
Suddenly remembering what happened in the Imperial Garden, he glanced at Ning Chen with a mischievous look on his face.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ning Chen was puzzled.
Ye Jun raised her eyebrows, "Look at the emperor's handsome appearance, which makes all the beauties in the harem jealous. Today, I ran into Wan Wanrong in the imperial garden. She was so jealous that I was dying of jealousy."
Looking at her sly look, Ning Chen knew that this woman was probably bullying someone again.
I felt very amused in my heart, but I continued to ask cooperatively.
"What did Wan say that you should say this?"
"Tsk, she's just trying to deceive me. Qi Wanrong is favored, and she wants to incite me to bully others." Ye Jun curled her lips, raised her hand to look at the red nail polish on her nails, and her eyes were full of disdain. "What a pity, I'm not someone who can be used as a gun."
I didn't expect her to speak so bluntly. Ning Chen felt both used to it and not used to it at the same time.
She was left speechless.
I don't know what to say in response.
Fortunately, Bai Zhu came in at this moment and told him that Imperial Doctor Shen had come to check Ping An's pulse, so the matter was finally cleared up.
Shen Pingzhi came in and bowed first. Seeing Ning Chen was there, he was not nervous.
Following the usual routine, he first took the patient's pulse, asked about his meals in recent days, and checked all the decorations and incense in the house.
Very careful.
"The baby is in good shape, so just keep your current routine. It's just that you've taken too many supplements in the past two days. You can take less in the future. Excessive nutrition will cause the baby to be too large, which will make it more difficult to give birth."
After Shen Pingzhi finished his investigation, he said this.
After hearing this, Ye Jun smiled helplessly and looked at the two girls beside him.
"Look, I told you that I ate too much and too well, but you didn't believe me. Now the doctor has said so too, so you have to let me eat less."
Nan Zhi scratched her head, feeling a little overwhelmed.
Huiyue was also in a state of distress.
During this time, the emperor secretly ordered people to deliver bird's nests to Yuxiu Pavilion every day, and the two of them also made soup for them separately. They really ate too much.
"The two around you have good intentions, but they are inexperienced and too young." Ning Chen frowned. "Come to think of it, you don't have any older maids here. You should pick a suitable one to serve you."
"That's true. Huiyue and Nanzhi don't know anything about childbirth. They need someone to teach them." Ye Jun also nodded.
Ning Chen then ordered Yuan Jiu to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pick out someone with a clean background.
After checking Ping'an's pulse, Shen Pingzhi left.
Ning Chen then discovered that Ye Jun did not take the pregnancy-preserving medicine.
So I asked.
"All medicines are poisonous. I am in good health and the baby is in good condition. Why do I have to take that bitter medicine soup? Doctor Shen also means the same thing. You only need to take it when you are sick. If you are fine, there is no need to do so." Ye Jun said.
Perhaps because he was used to seeing other concubines taking pregnancy-maintaining medicine every day once they became pregnant, Ning Chen had never thought of this.
Now that I think about it, it really is true.
"Although Doctor Shen is young, he is steady and prudent in his work." Ning Chen said casually.
Ye Jun glanced at him with a strange look in his eyes.
Ning Chen felt a little uncomfortable, "What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, Imperial Doctor Shen is already over thirty years old, almost ten years older than you." Ye Jun said speechlessly.
A young man said that another uncle was young.
It sounds really strange.
Ning Chen was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to his lips awkwardly and coughed twice, saying stubbornly, "I mean he is considered young in the Imperial Hospital at this age."
Well, after sitting on the throne for five years, he almost forgot that he was only twenty-five or twenty-six years old.
He played chess with ministers all day long, and instead of showing maturity and steadiness, he was always looked down upon by those old ministers. As time went on, he almost forgot that he was still a young man.
He still has a few years to go before he reaches the age of thirty, and by then he should be able to take control of the power in the court.
At that time, his child with Ye should have been three or four years old.
By then, he can also protect the mother and child for the rest of their lives.
The more he thought about it, the more expectant Ning Chen looked at Ye Jun's lower abdomen.
Looking at the harem, Ye Yun's personality is different from others in every way, and the children she gives birth to will also be different from other children.
"It's almost the end of the year, let's announce it in two days. There's a lot to do at the end of the year, so I don't want people who don't know to bother you."
Ning Chen suddenly said.
Of course, what he didn't say was that he suddenly wanted everyone to know more strongly that Ye Jun was pregnant with her child.
Ye Jun narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I will obey the emperor."
So on the tenth day of November, the news was released personally by Dr. Zhang, the chief physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Ming Xiurong from Yuxiu Pavilion has been pregnant for more than two months and will soon be three months pregnant.
This bombshell caught everyone in the harem off guard.
The Queen was surprised, but before she could get angry at Ye Jun for hiding her pregnancy, Ning Chen spoke first.
"When Ming Xiurong was pregnant, she was infected with a seasonal disease, and the fetus was extremely unstable. She was afraid that too many people would know about it and the congratulations would shock the fetus, so she didn't tell anyone until she recovered."
Immediately afterwards, a large sum of rewards flowed into Yuxiu Pavilion like water.
Countless concubines have been jealous of Concubine Fang's pregnancy, and now the most favored Concubine Ming Xiurong is also pregnant, which is almost leaving the others with no way to survive.
But the one who was the most angry was Yao Xiang.
In her opinion, Ye Jun must have known that she was pregnant early on, which was why she deliberately pushed her to be the first to come forward at the Chongyang Palace Banquet.
During this period, Ye Jun was taking good care of her pregnancy. I don’t know how many arrows I had blocked for her, both openly and secretly!
But this time she really was overthinking it.
If Ning Chen hadn't suddenly called someone to take her pulse, it would have taken Ye Jun a long time to find out that she was pregnant.
No matter what, there are now two pregnant women in the harem, and both of them come from good family backgrounds.
This put even more pressure on the queen, who had not yet given birth to a legitimate son.
Fortunately, Ning Chen still took the Empress's face into consideration.
On the day when Ye Jun’s pregnancy was announced, she went to Fengqi Palace to stay overnight.
Firstly, it was to comfort the Queen. After all, the Queen should be told that the concubine was pregnant. This time, it was Ning Chen's own selfishness that helped Ye Jun hide it from the Queen. This move inevitably made the Queen sad, so she still had to be comforted.
Secondly, we also need to finalize the matter of changing Ye Jun's residence.
Also, Ning Chen planned to promote Ye Jun again during the Chinese New Year.