Chapter 3: Atonement for sins (1)

After going down to court, Zhu Yinglong did not return to Yangxin Palace to rest, but went to Jingren Palace. The imperial concubine Xiong Hu was about to give birth. In the past few days, he had to visit her every day, talk and chat with her. Pregnant women need care the most.

When we arrived at Jingren Palace, Zhou Yingning, who was wearing a big belly, and Li Qing, the palace female imperial physician, were also there. Li Qing came to give Xiong Hu a routine examination every day. Zhou Yingning visited Xiong Hu. It was the first time we were pregnant and gave birth to a child. Although there were special people in the palace to guide and take care of it, they were all oral and did not see it with their own eyes. Someone happened to give birth to her in front of her, so she often came and went there. One was to chat with her sisters to increase their feelings, and the other was to study nearby so that she would not understand anything at that time.

"Li Qing, what about the fetus in the beloved concubine's womb?" Zhu Yinglong asked nervously. How could parents not be nervous about their children?

"Don't worry, the concubine is safe in her belly, and the empress is also very good." Li Qing looked at Zhu Yinglong with complicated eyes. She had been living in the palace for a while. She had gone from strange to familiar with the emperor Zhu Yinglong, and she was no longer so restrictive in speaking.

"That's great, thank you for your hard work, Li Qing." Zhu Yinglong thanked.

Li Qing looked at Zhu Yinglong in surprise, and said for a moment, "This is what Li Qing should do." In her impression, the emperors were supreme, so how could he be so polite to her, a little imperial physician? In her eyes, the emperor in front of her was simply a strange emperor, curiosity to kill the cat, Li Qing's interest in Zhu Yinglong was second only to the royal medical classics collected by the Imperial Hospital.

"Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Li Qing wanted to stay and continue to observe and study, but when the couple was together, she couldn't stay by the side and get annoyed.

"Well, you go back first. If I have something to do, someone will summon you." Zhu Yinglong waved.

Li Qing packed up her clinic and bowed to leave Xiong Hu's bedroom.

Xiong Hu's face flashed with a moving glory as she was about to be a mother. She looked at her husband who had just come to visit her with a smile, and said in a slight voice: "The Emperor is here."

"Can I not come?" Zhu Yinglong walked over with a smile, and hugged Xiong Hu's waist like a bucket.

"The state affairs are busy. The emperor has time to review more memorials. I have sisters coming to walk around from time to time. I am not bored. Look, Sister Yingning comes to talk to me early in the morning." Xiong Hu pointed to Zhou Yingning, who was sitting aside with a smile on her face, and said angrily.

"She is not here to talk to you. I think she is here to learn from the scriptures!" Zhu Yinglong squeezed his eyes at Zhou Yingning teasingly and said.

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Yingning felt a little embarrassed. She came to learn from the scriptures and had never left the child in her belly for three words in a morning.

"Your Majesty, I would like you to have something?" Xiong Hu suddenly said with serious eyes.

"What's the matter?" Xiong Hu has always been wise and rarely asks for herself.

"Since the emperor is not seriously injured, can you release Zhou Huaian, who was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice,?" Xiong Hu was always thinking about his benefactor who had risked his life to save his father.

"If you don't say it, I won't make things difficult for him. Don't worry, I will issue an order to release him immediately." Zhu Yinglong didn't think about pursuing Zhou Huaian for false guilt, but he was imprisoned in prison for the sake of realistic acting. Now he is fine, so he should let him go. He also needs people like Zhou Huaian around him. If you are pursuing the assassin, Zhou Wenyuan is far inferior to Zhou Huaian, so he can't let him stay in the prison anymore.

"I thanked the emperor!" Xiong Hu said gratefully.

"What are you grateful for? Isn't your benefactor also my benefactor? How can I put my benefactor in prison and live my life?" Zhu Yinglong said flirtatiously.

"The emperor is the great benefactor of my family. The emperor was willing to take such a great risk to rescue my father, otherwise how could I be like today when my family was?" Xiong Hu said this, his eyes turned red in an instant.

"After all, I made a profit. Although I took some risks, I got a famous general of a generation, plus a charming beauty!" Zhu Yinglong teased.

"Your Majesty, Sister Yingning is still here, how can you say such words?" Xiong Hu's charming little face turned red and she said shyly.

"I can prove this sister that when the emperor decided to save General Xiong, he did not come out of the idea of ​​saving loyal ministers and good generals, but for your appearance, Sister Li Niang. Who told you to make the emperor fall in love with him at first sight?" Zhou Ying said without any hesitation.

"Really?" Xiong Hu said with a serious expression after hearing this.

Zhou Yingning felt that his joke was a bit big. Just when she didn't know how to end it, she saw Zhu Yinglong answering seriously: "This is true! I just fell in love with you at first sight and decided to save General Xiong. Otherwise, with my situation at that time, if I fail, it would be a disaster. In fact, after the incident, every time I think about this, I think of it, I think of it in fear."

Xiong Hu was silent. Although it was difficult for her to accept this in her heart, it was a fact after all, although it sounded so cruel.

Xiong Hu is a very rational woman after all. She knows that she should not blame him, nor can she blame him. Who would save someone she didn't know for no reason, especially after she saves her, she will have a catastrophe?

"Li Niang, don't think too much. Although I said that, I don't regret saving General Xiong. If I do it again, I will still choose to take this risk." Zhu Yinglong stretched out his arms and hugged Xiong Hu gently in his arms, and said softly in her ear.

"I understand." Xiong Hu said softly in emotion.

"Ning'er, come and spend more time with Li Niang when you are fine. Anyway, you women have their own topics. I have a lot of things to do, so I am afraid that I will neglect you. You must be more considerate of me."

"The emperor said this and killed me. I will come to accompany my sister Li Niang more." Zhou Yingning said. She was not jealous of Zhu Yinglong's favor for Xiong Hu at this time, because when it was her turn, the emperor would also spoil her so much.

"By the way, there are so many people in the palace. You should also pay attention to the people around you and don't let those who are interested have the opportunity to take advantage of it." Zhu Yinglong remembered something and reminded them that, especially now they are pregnant, so there is no need for any accident.

Xiong Hu and Zhou Yingning are both smart women. When they contacted her husband's stabbing on his way back, they were already suspicious that the palace was not an absolutely safe place. They recalled that a few days ago, a few familiar eunuchs and palace maids disappeared. They asked no one to know where to go. Now it seems that these people have secretly let the emperor execute them, so they nodded together and said, "The emperor cares, I know in my heart."

"That's great. When Shulan and Shuying and the others met, they all told them. I won't tell them in person. You are so diligent in walking around." Zhu Yinglong instructed.

"Don't worry, my elders, I know what to do." Zhou Yingning said with a solemn look on her face. Although the imperial concubine Xu Ruying had returned to the palace, she did not care about the affairs of the palace and did not want to care about these things. She fought for power. Since Xiong Hu was waiting for childbirth, she, Concubine Ning, took charge of the big and small matters in the harem.

"That's good, Ning'er, you were my concubine and the future mother of the country. Although at present, I cannot sign you as queen, you must remember that you must listen and learn more so that you can manage this family well for me in the future." Zhu Yinglong said solemnly to Zhou Yingning.

"I will definitely not let down the emperor's love."

Zhu Yinglong hugged Xiong Hu and said, "Li Niang, how many years older are you than Ning'er, and you are a sister. You can help her more often."
Chapter completed!