Just as he was thinking about it, Xia Luotong suddenly felt something strange in his stomach. Before he could react, Wu Zechen beside him let out a low breath.
"He's moving!"
Xia Luotong was stunned. This was the first time she heard Wu Zechen speak in such a tone. She was surprised, happy, and a little bit excited.
Wu Zechen's hands trembled slightly and he covered Xia Luotong's belly again. After a while, he felt that the belly under his hands bulged, as if in response to his expectations.
"Tong'er! He moved! Our child moved!" Wu Zechen said excitedly to Xia Luotong, then carefully leaned down and put his ear on Xia Luotong's belly.
Xia Luotong came back to her senses, feeling nervous in her heart, but more of it was the joy of being a new mother. This was the first time she felt fetal movement, which meant that the little life in her belly was gradually growing. That was her and Wu Zechen The continuation of the bloodline.
Seeing Wu Zechen's excited and helpless look, Xia Luotong's face was full of smiles, and he allowed him to press it against his belly over and over again, his eyes shining with hope.
After being excited for a while, Wu Zechen calmed down, but the next moment, maybe he thought of something, and he frowned uneasily.
"In two days' time, the Nanman Princess will enter the palace. The emperor will hold a grand banquet in the palace. I'm afraid there will be trouble coming. How about you stay in the palace?"
Xia Luotong thought for a while and asked, "But is it related to the recent investigation of the Chunyue assassination? I heard that many people among the people call you the General Protector of the Country. Does the one above have another idea?"
The Great Zhou Dynasty did not have the position of general protecting the country, but the people called Wu Zechen that way, which shows their support for him.
The reason for such a title was firstly because of Wu Zechen's own prestige and reputation, and secondly because Wu Zechen was almost all responsible for hunting down the assassin this time.
Not only was Wu Zechen able to find out the true identity of the assassin, but most of the recent arrests were carried out by Wu Zechen himself.
There were even several arrests in full view of the public, and many people saw them, which allowed the matter to spread completely.
In fact, as Prince An, Wu Zechen had no need to take action himself. He had many subordinates who could do it, but Wu Zechen still chose to take action himself.
The main reason is actually to show his face, let the people know what he has done, and know that he has been guarding Da Zhou.
Sometimes public opinion is a protective umbrella, which can provide him with a certain degree of protection, so that the emperor does not dare to attack him blatantly, unless the emperor is not afraid of being pointed at his spine and scolded, without losing his reputation or face.
Wu Zechen nodded: "It should be that the support for me has been too loud recently, and that person has begun to think too much. I'm afraid he will cause some trouble at the wedding banquet in two days."
"If you don't do serious things, you'll just fight in the house all day long." Xia Luotong curled his lips and complained, then he didn't want to say more, and instead said with a smile, "The emperor is already this old, and he still wants to recruit people into the palace. Why? I'm sorry, but I don't want to give it to the prince. I see that the prince really wants to marry the Nanman princess."
"Why does he care about this? If marrying a princess can win over a country, he is probably willing to marry a lot of them." Wu Zechen said with a mocking tone.
"I'm just afraid that his body won't be able to bear it." Xia Luotong covered his mouth and chuckled.
Wu Zechen looked at her with a narrow look in his eyes, and couldn't help but patted her head lovingly.
"I'm going to go on the day of the wedding banquet. I can't let my husband be bullied." Xia Luotong blinked, looking like he wanted to protect Wu Zechen.
Wu Zechen smiled helplessly and could only warn: "Remember to be careful when the time comes."
The wedding day came soon, and the ceremony was not complicated. Princess Niya set off directly from the post house and was carried into the palace. Although it was quite lively along the way, it was not as good as the parade of the queen and concubines.
Princess Niya didn't even reach the position of fourth concubine. She was able to have such a battle because of her status as a Nanman princess. Otherwise, she would have been carried into the palace in a sedan chair.
At the wedding banquet, Princess Niya did not show up. Only the emperor, queen and concubine were present. However, the queen's face was obviously not very good-looking, but the concubine did a better job on the surface. Looking at her beaming, those who didn't know thought it was her getting married. Woolen cloth.
Xi Menghan came to Xia Luotong's table, and the two chatted together while meeting their heads.
"If you ask me, the queen is really not as good as the noble concubine. On such an occasion, she doesn't even do anything superficial. Anyone can see that she is unhappy. Is this causing trouble for the emperor or for the Nanman envoy?"
Xi Menghan glanced at the queen who looked above her with a sullen face, curled her lips and whispered.
Their voices were very low, and the wedding banquet was very lively at the moment, with Lian Ye and others guarding them, so they were not afraid of being overheard.
"Just look at the ladies who came out of the Fengguo Duke's mansion. Who doesn't have their eyes high? It's as if they are the princesses. Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that the queen has a temper." Xia Luotong sneered.
The Fengguo Duke's Mansion has always regarded itself very highly, and no one takes it seriously. After all, in their view, as the only Duke's Mansion in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the mother clan of the prince, they have enough pride. Others are simply not as good as others. Not on them.
"But now that Princess Niya has entered the palace, the queen's life may not be easy." Xi Menghan suddenly raised an interesting smile.
Xia Luotong suddenly understood Princess Niya's temper, but asked curiously: "I heard that after the marriage decree was issued, Princess Niya made such a fuss in the post house that the Nanman envoys had to She was locked in a room, and the emperor lost his temper."
"No! Even today when I was carrying him into the palace, I was still making a fuss!" Xi Menghan suddenly smiled evilly, pulling Xia Luotong and saying excitedly.
"You don't know. I just went to watch the procession of sending off the bride. The people around me may not have heard it, but I heard it clearly. Princess Niya was still cursing when she was sitting in the wedding sedan!"
"Later, I even heard a crashing sound, as if Princess Niya was making a fuss in the sedan and wanted to rush out, but she was probably tied up, so she only heard the noise but didn't see anyone running out of the wedding sedan. "
Xia Luotong was stunned; "She's still tied up? How stupid is this Princess Niya? She's still making trouble at this time? And she was tied up in a wedding sedan?"
"That's right! Then she made a bit of a fuss. I saw that the accompanying envoys looked unhappy and gave some instructions to the bearers. Then I saw the bearers starting to shake the wedding sedan."
Speaking of this, Ximenghan was overjoyed: "Originally, shaking the wedding sedan was rare. I didn't expect Princess Niya to torment herself to this point. I don't know if she was shaken to the point of vomiting later."
