"This matter of pregnancy is not something you and I can control. The two of us... now that the child is pregnant, let's just wait for the baby to be born with peace of mind."

"I am already looking forward to the day and scene when the baby is born."

Jiang Zhao and Chen Zhining looked at each other, their eyes full of happiness, so much so that it almost blinded everyone's eyes.

Everyone looked at each other, and couldn't help but twitch their lips and said to them, "You two, stop hanging around here. Get out now. Get out now."

"It's just a baby, tut tut tut."

"Oh my, you two are still getting close."

The Queen Mother covered her eyes, unable to bear watching. She said to Chen Zhining and Jiang Zhao with a smile, "Forget it, go get your reward later. Later, you should take good care of your pregnancy and stay at home to recuperate. OK?"

"Don't worry about the Grand Princess Chang'an, we will keep an eye on it."

They originally wanted to discuss the illness of the Grand Princess Chang'an, but they didn't expect that Jiang Zhao later felt that he was sick, so they wanted to discuss the illness of Jiang Zhao and the Grand Princess Chang'an.

But unexpectedly, Chen Zhining became pregnant later on, and now it became a matter between the three of them, which was quite embarrassing.

After everyone surrounded them and asked about their well-being, the Queen Mother smiled and said to the people below: "Li Niang, go and see His Majesty the Ninth Prince and the Crown Princess off. Come back after they leave. I have something to talk to you about."

Li Niang took immediate action and sent Chen Zhining, Jiang Zhao and the Crown Princess to the East Palace to rest.

When she came back, the Queen Mother called Li Niang into a small room and said, "Go and call the second son into the palace. I have something to say to him."

Li Niang responded and called the second prince into the palace.

Not long after, about an hour later, the Second Prince was called to the palace by Li Niang with a puzzled look on his face, and met with the Queen Mother and the Empress.

The Queen Mother and the Empress dismissed the surrounding maids and eunuchs, and said to the Second Prince seriously, "Second Prince, do you know that this time, the two of us asked you to come into the palace because we have something to tell you?"

The second prince shook his head, not understanding what was going on. However, seeing that the Queen Mother and the Empress both looked serious, he immediately knelt on the ground, greeted them and said, "To answer your question, Grandmother, I don't know."

"But if there is anything, I will definitely help if I can."

"Or...did I do something wrong recently? Did I make you angry? But...I haven't done anything wrong recently."

Recently, it was probably because of Zhao Qiuqiu's matter...When the Second Prince thought of Zhao Qiuqiu, his face turned ugly.

The Queen Mother and the Empress looked at each other, and a gleam of light flashed in their eyes. Then they smiled and said to the Second Prince: "It's nothing, but I just want to ask you to come to the palace and take a good look at you."

"I heard from Zhao Qiuqiu that you fell ill in the Second Prince's residence before, which delayed your appointment to the vassal state. Now we see... you should be almost recovered, so it's time for you to go to Yongzhou."

"The King of Loulan also wrote to us before, saying that he wanted to open the Silk Road together with Yongzhou. We also wanted to send a capable general there."

"...We originally wanted to let Chen Bo go, but Chen Bo is getting married during the Chinese New Year this year. If we let him go at this time, it might delay his marriage, so we thought about it... and decided to let you go."

"You happen to be a prince of the royal family. With such an identity, if you go to trade with the King of Loulan, I think the King of Loulan will be very happy."

"It shows that we Zhou and Song attach great importance to Loulan."

The Queen Mother and the Empress patiently enticed the Second Prince by listing many benefits: "If you go, you will have more money over there."

"Otherwise, with such a small salary from your Second Prince's Mansion, how can you support all those beauties in your mansion?"

"So we thought about it and decided to let you go there to help supervise the Silk Road business. What do you think?"

"..."

Hearing this, the second prince's eyes turned around. Oh, no wonder the emperor, empress, and queen mother insisted that he go to the vassal state at this time, because this was the time when the Silk Road was opened.

Previously, Zhou, Song and Loulan were discussing opening a Silk Road to exchange food, horses, alpacas and camels. Now was the time to implement the plan. However, if there was no high-ranking official to supervise, the Silk Road would not be so smooth.

As a prince, he had no real power in the court, so there was nothing to do. He could just go to Yongzhou to be a fiefdom, and ask Lao Jiu to give his fiefdom to him, and let him go to Yongzhou to help. That would be fine.

My identity is just right for me. And if I go there, I can not only be free and easy, but also earn money, which is much better than living in Kyoto.

He immediately said to the Queen Mother and the Empress, "I will go to the vassal state right away."

"Okay, then pack up and go to Yongzhou to take up your post."

The two of them looked at each other and smiled: "By the way, do you want to bring all the girls in your house with you? Or should we let them go one by one in batches?"

"It depends on what they want. I want to take them one by one, but it's really troublesome to take them all."

He was a prince who had just gone to Loulan to be a vassal, but he brought so many concubines with him, which was very conspicuous. What if the officials in Yongzhou thought he was an improper prince and treated him badly? So the second prince thought about it and decided to bring them to Yongzhou one by one, and take a group first.

Now, the person he likes the most is his own Zhao Qiuqiu. Qiuqiu is his favorite girl and she is his concubine. It is reasonable for him to bring her first.

The second prince was just thinking happily when he heard the Queen Mother and the Queen laughingly saying, "Who are you going to take first?"

"Oh, Zhao Qiuqiu also has Concubine Song and Concubine Li."

"They... the Queen Mother and the Imperial Grandmother must also know about this."

"Recently, I've been thinking about bringing Qiqi over to the mansion first. Otherwise, she might get lonely here alone."

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