The emperor was staring at the battle report on the table in a daze. Eunuch Qin finally came back from the outside, holding something in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, your mother's reply."
Stretching out his hand to take it, Yu Wenjie came back to his senses and opened it with faintly bright eyes, only to find that it was also a painting.
"What does this mean?" After squinting for a long time, he still couldn't understand, so he asked Eunuch Qin helplessly.
Eunuch Qin leaned over his head, frowned and said: "This... the one holding the child should be the empress herself, and the one immediately ahead should be you, running towards the empress, which probably means that the empress is looking forward to your early triumphant return. .”
Yu Wenjie was stunned, and looked at it for a long time, as if he meant it.
"Then beat the drums and send troops."
Eunuch Qin nodded, and was about to go out to deliver the order, but the emperor himself also stood up.
"Your Majesty?" He was taken aback. Wouldn't this master also want to go out and go to the battlefield with him
Thinking right, Yu Wenjie stretched out his hand and pulled the cloak next to him to wrap it around his body, and then walked out with big strides.
Eunuch Qin's face turned pale, and he followed behind to persuade him repeatedly: "Your Majesty, with General Huo here, there is no need for you..."
"I will go, the morale will be stronger."
"That's the reason, but you need to take care of the dragon body. Swords have no eyes on the battlefield. In case of any accident..."
"I've been ahead all the way, so who hurt me?" Yu Wenjie tilted his head, his gaze clear: "I'm not an embroidered pillow, and I don't need to be protected behind a wall of people. If it's a knife, I should take it out and use it, otherwise I'll just leave it alone." Wait, are you going to get rusty?"
Eunuch Qin: "..."
Shocked by the emperor's aura, he opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything, so he could only bow and watch the emperor lift the curtain to go out, with a tall back.
Hua Chun was still folding a thousand origami cranes, muttering while folding: "I don't know if he can understand what I drew."
Qing Niao said: "Your drawing is so simple and crude, the emperor will not fail to understand."
I don't ask you to kill tens of thousands of enemies, but I ask you to return safely. In that painting, Huachun thought it was a realistic art class she taught Yu Wenjie. The turned horse’s head expressed her desire for him to return safely, and the figure of herself holding the child expressed her expectation for his return. Hope and wait!
She thinks she is very talented in painting.
"Ma'am."
He Changan came in, looked at her and said, "We have to go to the palace."
Slightly taken aback, Hua Chun put down the things in his hand and looked at him: "Is something wrong?"
It's rare to see him with such a serious expression, and the past few days in the Hou's mansion have been calm and peaceful, so rare and leisurely, what big event can happen
Taking a deep breath, He Changan pursed his lips: "Get in the carriage first, and we'll talk about it on the way."
"Okay." Hua Chun got up, put on a thick robe, and helped Qing Niao's hand to get into the car.
In the midwinter weather, she was wearing a large fox fur cape, so even if her belly protruded, others couldn't see it clearly, at most they thought she had gained weight. After not going out for a long time, Hua Chun is actually in a good mood.
As a result, after sitting down and listening to what He Changan said, she became dull.
"I don't know how the palace leaked the news. Someone went to tell the queen mother that you are pregnant." He Chang'an said: "The situation is a bit embarrassing now. You have been hiding it from the queen mother and did not report it. The month of your body is a concubine in the martial arts competition. You are still young, and there are many gossips in the palace, so today I have to accompany you into the palace to explain."
Hua Chun was silent, her face was not very good-looking.
You don't need to think about what those gossip women will say. They have been pregnant for so long and haven't said a word. After the emperor left, she went to the Hou's mansion to raise a baby. Now that she is exposed to be pregnant by others, the queen mother probably won't take it Look at her with a good face.
This day will always come, and what should be faced still has to be faced.
Taking a deep breath, Hua Chun sat up straight, looking straight ahead, secretly preparing himself for the big battle.
The atmosphere in Huiming Hall was very dignified. The Empress Dowager was leaning on the soft couch rubbing her forehead, and the Concubine Wu was sitting on the side holding her stomach. There were many concubines beside her, but none of them spoke.
Hua Chun went in with He Chang'an, saluted and said, "Greetings to the Empress Dowager."
The Queen Mother didn't say a word, didn't even raise her eyelids, but Hua Chun felt invisible coercion, like a huge stone, pressed down from the top of her head.
So she knelt down slowly, kneeling upright.
He Changan felt a little distressed, but he could only continue to bow his hands. It would be outrageous if he knelt down together.
After half a stick of incense, the Empress Dowager raised her head, and her eyes fell on the two people in front of her coldly: "Does Concubine De still not like to have the imperial doctor take her pulse?"
With a jump in his heart, Hua Chun stretched out his hand, opened his sleeves and exposed his wrist: "If the queen mother wants to get the pulse of the concubine, the concubine will not be displeased at all."
"Very good." The Empress Dowager nodded and raised her chin slightly, and the imperial doctor next to her came to feel her pulse.
Yue Jian stretched out his hand and helped Hua Chun to the chair next to him. The imperial doctor took less than a minute to feel the pulse, and said: "The obvious happy pulse should have been more than three months."
Even though they guessed it earlier, the people present, including the Queen Mother, couldn't help but gasped.
"Concubine De, you...knew early on, didn't you?" The Queen Mother looked at her with complicated eyes and asked.
Hua Chun nodded, then knelt down and said: "The emperor also knew about this matter early in the morning, but the harem is dangerous, many people stare at the concubine, so the emperor let the concubine hide it, intending to tell the queen mother after the fetal image is stable. But... the last time I wanted to talk about it, Concubine Wu Gui happened to be pregnant too, and the Queen Mother had no time to take care of him, so the concubine gave up."
With such an explanation, the Empress Dowager's complexion looked much better. She also remembered that Concubine De wanted to talk to her alone, but was interrupted by Concubine Wu's pregnancy. At that time, she was going to talk about her pregnancy.
Originally, the Empress Dowager was very displeased that this matter was told by others first, but she still kept her pregnancy a secret, didn't she make it clear that there was a ghost? But after she figured it out, she understood that Concubine De just wanted to be alone.
"In this way, Empress Concubine De was pregnant earlier than Empress Wu Guifei. If she gave birth to a prince, she would be the eldest son of the emperor." Xu Guifei said in a low voice.
Concubine Wu Gui's face was slightly stiff, but she still smiled and said: "That's fine, it's a good thing that we have more children in the harem."
The Queen Mother glanced at her appreciatively, and then said: "Whoever gives birth to the prince will be able to sit in the back seat. It's just that the Ai family doesn't want you two to have any fights because of this. We should support each other It is."
Hua Chun nodded, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but heard a eunuch next to him say: "Empress Dowager, can I ask the imperial doctor to estimate the specific time of pregnancy? Or let the servant check the bedside records."
The queen mother nodded: "This is necessary, and for the sake of the purity of my Prince Liang's bloodline, please ask the imperial doctor for another consultation."
Huachun stretched out her hand cooperatively, thinking that it shouldn't be a big problem. She finally realized it after she stretched out her hand. According to the calculation of the day, the emperor was a night traveler during that time, and he always went through the window to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. How could the House of Internal Affairs have a record of serving the bed
A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, and Hua Chun subconsciously made a movement of pulling his hand back.
In the eyes of the empress dowager, this action seemed particularly guilty.
Aunt Yuejian next to her gently helped her fix her wrist. The imperial doctor examined her for a while and said, "It should be about three and a half months pregnant. Father-in-law can use this to figure out when to go to bed."
The eunuch nodded, and immediately took the booklet to check it. The more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became: "The imperial doctor is sure it is three and a half months, isn't it four months?"
"No, it's less than four months old, it's obvious, and it's the same when calling other imperial doctors for diagnosis." The imperial doctor said firmly.
The Empress Dowager's complexion darkened, she glanced at the eunuch, then at Hua Chun and He Chang'an, and suddenly said: "The rest of the people go down, the Ai family has something to ask Lord Hou and Concubine De alone."
Everyone exchanged glances at each other, couldn't help but think in the wrong direction, secretly glanced at the person concerned, and then bowed and left one after another.
He Changan frowned and clenched his fists, but he couldn't refute anything. After all, the queen mother didn't say anything, she just gave such an order.
The people withdrew, and the eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately knelt down: "The concubine De concubine was still a concubine at the beginning, and the record of serving the bed was only available four months ago, about three and a half months... There is no record of serving the bed, but there is no record. Gong Sheng gave a kiss."