The Queen Mother was exhausted. She knew that Princess Huyang was worried about her and the Prince Cheng's Mansion, but she really didn't know how to tell Princess Huyang these things.

The Queen Mother looked at the eldest son-in-law and said, "You tell Huyang."

Princess Huyang turned sideways and looked at her husband, "Do you know?"

"You're hiding this from me too?!"

The eldest son-in-law said to the Queen Mother, "The Queen Mother, please rest and recuperate. I will take Huyang back home and visit you another day."

Having said that, he took Princess Huyang away without waiting for her consent.

Princess Huyang was extremely angry. Her husband knew that she was extremely worried and what had happened, but he told her nothing and just ignored her anxiety.

After leaving Shoukang Palace, Princess Huyang shook off the hand of her husband.

The eldest son-in-law said, "Let's talk about it when we get back home."

Princess Huyang said, "You will have plenty of opportunities to tell me in the next few days in the mansion. Tell me now!"

The eldest son-in-law said with a headache, "The walls have ears. How can it be a small matter that the Queen Mother has kept a secret from you?"

Although Princess Huyang was still angry, she was not a spoiled and willful person, so she suppressed her anger and left the palace with her husband.

After enduring all the way, she returned to Duke Du's Mansion and the house where she lived. Princess Huyang looked at her eldest son-in-law.

The eldest son-in-law waved his hand, and the maids and nannies serving in the room withdrew.

After everyone had left, the sound of a door closing was heard, and the prince consort said, "Prince Cheng fled out of fear of punishment."

Princess Huyang was shocked.

"Afraid of crime and absconded?"

"What fault did Brother Cheng Wang commit that made him flee in fear of punishment?!"

The prince consort said, "Privately opening an iron mine and secretly colluding with Xiliang..."

Princess Huyang was stunned and blurted out, "How is this possible?!"

The eldest son-in-law said, "This is not the biggest mistake King Cheng has made."

Princess Huyang said angrily, "Who told you this nonsense?"

"…our son."

Princess Huyang, "......!!!"

Princess Huyang asked, "How could An'er know these things?"

The eldest son-in-law said, "He spends all day with the Prince of Yanping and his men, and the Prince of Yanping and his men are so close to Prince Ling. It's abnormal for him not to know these things."

"Prince Ling didn't tell them about the biggest mistake King Cheng made. That's what An'er told me."

The eldest son-in-law guessed, "I'm afraid it has something to do with Queen Song's assassination of the emperor."

Princess Huyang sat down slowly. She still couldn't accept the fact that King Cheng privately opened an iron mine and secretly colluded with the Xiliang assassins. King Cheng was of noble status, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. What else could he be unsatisfied with? He wanted to collude with outsiders. What did he want to do?

Thinking about the fact that the Empress Dowager remained silent and the Emperor had even disappeared without her, Princess Huyang no longer dared to believe it, but she also knew that this could not be groundless.

Thinking of Princess Cheng and Prince Cheng, Princess Huyang's eyes moistened. "Even if Prince Cheng did it, Princess Cheng and Prince Cheng are innocent. How can the Emperor..."

The eldest son-in-law said, "You have wronged the emperor. If the emperor had not stopped her, the queen mother would have executed Princess Cheng for the sake of Prince Cheng and the royal family's reputation."

The Queen Mother executed the Princess?!

Princess Huyang felt heartbroken.

How could the Queen Mother be such a cruel person? !

Princess Huyang felt that her blood relatives suddenly became so strange, so strange that it scared her.

……

The days passed by.

There is no news of the Prince of Xiliang who fell off a cliff and disappeared.

King Cheng disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown.

Shen Wan's belly grew bigger day by day, until it became so big that she had to hold on to her waist to walk.

As the birth was imminent, Doctor Tao came to check Shen Wan's pulse every other day. On this day, Doctor Tao left with the medicine box, and Mother Zhou came in and said, "According to the date, the princess will give birth in a few days. Why hasn't the birth-inducing gift from the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion been delivered yet? It should have been delivered at the beginning of the month."

As for the birth-inducing gift, if Mother Zhou hadn't mentioned it, Shen Wan wouldn't have even thought about it. Yin Shuang and Hai Tang didn't know about it at all, and Shen Wan didn't care, "It's not necessary to give it."

When the concubines in the palace in the previous life gave birth, no one sent any gifts to the harem to induce birth.

Mother Zhou said, "It's just for good luck. The prince is young and doesn't understand these things. Princess Huai'an is pregnant, so I'm afraid she has forgotten. How about I send someone back to ask?"

Yin Shuang said, "Princess Huai'an doesn't know, but the Fourth Madam should know."

Shen Wan thought about it and it was true. Fourth Aunt hadn't come to see her for several days. Shen Wan told Haitang, "Go back and take a look."

Haitang agreed and turned to leave.

After Haitang left, Shen Wan held her waist and walked back and forth in the room. When she was tired, she sat down to rest for a while. When her waist was sore, she stood up and walked around again. She didn't know how many times she walked back and forth. Shen Wan felt that as Doctor Tao said, walking more is good for childbirth. Since she walked so much every day, she should give birth quickly.

Haitang left and came back almost at lunch time. When she came into the room, she could see that the tip of her nose was red from the wind. Shen Wan asked, "Is everything okay at the Marquis of Pingyang's mansion?"

Haitang nodded and said, "Princess Huai'an is fine, but the fourth wife was busy preparing the dowry for the fourth girl these days and accidentally caught a cold and was sick for several days."

"The birth-inducing gift hasn't been delivered yet. Princess Huai'an thought that the Fourth Madam had delivered it, and the Fourth Madam thought that Princess Huai'an had delivered it..."

Shen Wan, "..."

Shen Wan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

No matter how busy the Fourth Madam was, she would visit Princess Huai'an every other day. She was ill and was afraid of passing her illness to Princess Huai'an, so she had not been to the Marquis' mansion for a few days. Shen Wei would go to talk to Princess Huai'an when she had nothing to do, but as an unmarried girl, she did not understand these things and could not talk about them.

You thought I sent it, and I thought you sent it, but in the end, no one sent it.

Haitang said, "The prince said he will personally deliver it tomorrow."

Mother Zhou smiled and said, "My uncle is coming, and we will have a baby and get rich. It would be great if the prince personally sent it here."

Shen Wan hasn't seen her elder brother for several days. The military camp is busy and she doesn't have much free time. When she has some free time, of course she has to accompany Princess Huai'an.

The next morning, Shen Wan woke up and sat up with difficulty, supporting her heavy stomach. Haitang came in with a copper basin. The hot steam was so thick that her face was almost invisible.

Seeing Shen Wan wake up, Haitang said happily, "Princess, it's snowing outside."

Shen Wan was happy to hear that it was snowing, but when she thought about the smallpox epidemic that quietly spread after this first snow, Shen Wan was no longer happy.

After putting on her skirt, Shen Wan walked to the window and saw snowflakes falling. She stretched out her hand, and the snowflakes fell into her palm and disappeared in an instant.

After breakfast, Shen Wan walked back and forth in the house. It was snowing and the road was slippery. Shen Wan didn't dare to walk in the yard and could only stroll back and forth in the house.

After strolling around, I got hungry and took a piece of cake to eat. Chun'er came in through the cotton curtain and said, "Princess, the prince of Pingyang Marquis is here to give me a gift to hasten my birth."

Shen Wan quickly put down the pastries and walked out.

The cotton curtain was opened, and a gust of cold wind blew in, making Shen Wan shrink her neck due to the cold.

Shen Du saw him and asked, "What are you doing out here in such a cold weather?"

Shen Wan said, "Brother, please come in and sit down."

It was somewhat inappropriate for her elder brother to enter her and Xie Jingyan's room, but it was not convenient for her to go to the main hall, and the brother and sister could not talk at the door.

Shen Du looked at Shen Wan's bulging belly and thought about how he was worried about whether he could be an uncle when Shen Wan married Xie Jingyan. He didn't expect that he would see his little nephew so soon.

Shen Du smiled and said, "Time flies so fast, the baby will be born in the blink of an eye..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a crisp bang.

Just as Shen Du was wondering what the sound was, Shen Wan had already called out, "Quick, call the midwife, I'm giving birth!"

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