Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 98
Huo Huaiyu dragged Huo Mingzhu to sit down beside Lin Ruyi, and said with a smile, "Sister, mother is pregnant!"

Lin Ruyi is pregnant? !
Huo Mingzhu indeed raised her brows as if she had heard an incredible news, but her acting skills were good, she quickly suppressed her astonishment, put on an overjoyed smiling face, and asked while holding Lin Ruyi's hand: "Mother, is it true? When did it happen?"

From yesterday's cynicism to Yu Tong, Lin Ruyi's serene smile now looks completely at ease, and seems to be happy to answer Huo Mingzhu's question: "I just found out today."

"That's great! Mingzhu really wants to congratulate her mother! Congratulations to her father and the old lady too!" Huo Mingzhu congratulated exaggeratedly.

Huo Huaiyu obviously wanted to avenge yesterday, so he glanced at Yu Tong, and hummed pointingly and cursingly: "Sister, you don't know, mother hasn't been well since yesterday, and she can't even get up today, after the doctor comes After a diagnosis for the mother, I found out that the mother was more than one month pregnant. He also said that if the mother had suffered more anger and emotional fluctuations yesterday, the child might not be able to keep it! Sister, how dangerous is it? !"

Yu Tong's face turned pale when she forced her, and he couldn't even smile.

If Lin Ruyi hadn't been pregnant, Mrs. Huo might have shielded Yu Tong a little bit and would never allow Huo Huaiyu to talk like this, but now that Lin Ruyi has a child in her belly, how could Mrs. Huo dare to get angry with her? Then she fell silent, and just said: "Yu'er, take good care of your mother in the future, don't mention what happened yesterday."

Lin Ruyi looked at Yu Tong magnanimously, but said to Huo Zhengde who was silent at the side: "The old lady has always loved her children and grandchildren. As for me, I have never had any ill relations with others. I had some oolong trouble with sister Tong'er yesterday, which almost made me Sister Tong'er lost her life, and the baby in my womb will not be saved. Speaking of it, we are all people who survive a catastrophe and will have a future, the general can't blame others, everything is over."

Although Huo Zhengde is devoted to his official career, he doesn't have much control over his children's relationship with outsiders, and he doesn't have any thoughts on Yu Tong at the moment, he still only regards her as a distant cousin, not as good as Lin Ruyi As mean as he was, he tried different ways to stimulate Yu Tong.

Therefore, Huo Zhengde nodded and said: "What Ma'am said is that one thing more is worse than one thing less, and peace is a blessing."

Seeing that her mother was pregnant, Huo Huaiyu was naturally happy, no matter how ignorant she was, she should understand that her status in the General's Mansion these years is actually not as good as Huo Mingzhu.Because speaking of it, Huo Mingzhu is the daughter of the first wife, and she is the daughter of the second son, and she was not loved by her grandmother in Pingyang Houfu since she was a child, so she has suffered a lot of grievances.

This time, her mother is pregnant again, as long as her mother's belly is a boy with a handle, then when the younger brother with a handle is born, her status will follow, and the future general's mansion will be controlled by a man. To inherit the family business, she can't rely on her father, she can also rely on her younger brother from one mother, and what will Huo Mingzhu be at that time?

After thinking about it for a while, Huo Huaiyu was filled with joy, and he had infinite fantasies about the child in Lin Ruyi's womb. He smiled and asked Mrs. Huo, "Hehe, old lady, do you think my younger brother will be like my father when he is born?" , still like a mother?"

Huo Mingzhu thought to himself that the child was decided to be a son before it was born.

However, someone bought her account, Mrs. Huo listened to Huo Huaiyu's question, and said happily: "It's all good, like your father or mother."

"What do you think, sister?" Huo Huaiyu asked Huo Mingzhu again.

Huo Mingzhu sneered in her heart, not to mention whether there is such a child, if there is, she will conceive in October, and there may not be any accidents in this October, if the child is born, then we can discuss whether the child is ugly or beautiful...

However, just thinking about it in her heart, Huo Mingzhu thought about it seriously on her face, with a smile in her brimming pupils: "Whether he looks like his father or like his mother, he is a beautiful child, Huaiyu you What's there to worry about?"

"That's true!" Huo Huaiyu smiled deeper, and finally asked Yu Tong: "Cousin, you are my father's cousin and a guest of our general's mansion. After all, I have to thank you for bringing such a gift to our family." Great news!"

"Hehe, Miss Yu won the award. It's all the result of her cousin's love. It has nothing to do with me." Yu Tong's face turned paler, and he lowered his head and forced a smile.

How could Huo Mingzhu not understand Yu Tong's pain, squeezed into the turmoil several times, suffered unreasonable disasters, and was about to be loved by the old lady, but Lin Ruyi was pregnant at this time.Lin Ruyi suddenly changed from the mistress to a weak woman. Yu Tong relied on her youth and beauty before and had some hope, but now she can no longer. Instead, she will be ridiculed by Huo Huaiyu. Can you bear it?
"While talking, I forgot to eat." Mrs. Huo suddenly mentioned it.

The girls just started to serve dishes and cloth dishes, and the dinner began.

At the dinner table, Lin Ruyi asked Huo Mingzhu about her experience in the Pingyang Hou Mansion. Huo Mingzhu talked nonsense, without mentioning her grandmother's whisper or meeting Baili Zonglu. If you are pregnant, you must be very happy.

After saying this, Huo Mingzhu observed Lin Ruyi's face, Lin Ruyi's smile did not deepen because of this, she smiled flatly and said: "That's natural, your grandmother also hopes that I can open branches for the General's Mansion Scattered leaves. However, Mingzhu, the fetus is not stable at present. The doctor said that it needs to be taken care of more. Your father and I have not planned to tell your grandmother that the fetus will be stable after three months. Your grandmother knows, lest her old man worry."

Huo Mingzhu naturally nodded without objection: "Mother is thoughtful, Mingzhu understands."

While eating dinner with lowered eyelids, Huo Mingzhu carefully analyzed it in her heart, always feeling a little strange.

If Lin Ruyi said that she was more than one month pregnant, why would she let the girl Qing'er follow the folk prescription to prep the medicine for her today?

Could it be that Lin Ruyi didn't know that she was pregnant, so she won't go to fetch medicine after today?

Huo Mingzhu is not sure, the only way is to continue to pay attention to Lin Ruyi's every move.

The most difficult things to hide in the world are sickness and childbirth. These two things are not something you can have if you want to, or not if you don't want to.

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"Miss, you mean Madam is pregnant? This...isn't this a coincidence?!"

Going back to Chenxiang Garden after dinner, Huo Mingzhu mentioned the news to Suli, Suli was about to jump up immediately, she felt incredible.

"Keep your voice down." Huo Mingzhu cast a reproachful look at Suhui.

Su Hui hurriedly covered her mouth, and after a moment of silence she asked, "Miss, don't you find it strange? How could it be such a coincidence?"

Huo Mingzhu pretended to be ignorant and asked back: "What's so coincidental? You mean my mother doesn't look like she's pregnant? This news is a bit untrue?"

Su Hui was so anxious that she ran around Huo Mingzhu: "Miss, think about it, Madam is taking that kind of tonic, and at the same time conceived a child again. If she is really pregnant, how much harm will the remaining medicinal properties do to the child?" Ah. If Madam knew about it, wouldn’t she think of this? I’m really confused.”

How blind must Lin Ruyi be to understand the truth that even Su Lu understands?

Huo Mingzhu said with a smile: "Since we have doubts, why don't we go and find out? You go to the lotus pond and wait to see if there is any movement from the girls around mother tonight. As for me, I will go and visit my cousin..."

Su Hui nodded: "Don't worry, it's on me, Miss."

"Don't let anyone get caught, otherwise, I might be treated as a thief and thrown into the lotus pond for you." Huo Mingzhu smiled, got up and left.

Su Hui snorted, made a face at Huo Mingzhu's back and said, "Miss, you are too contemptuous of people. I think that I, Su Hui, was a good listener in the border town at any rate! Those gossip secrets, which ones did I tell Miss? "

Hearing Sulu brag about her gossip skills so relentlessly, Huo Mingzhu couldn't help laughing, and walked out of "Chenxiang Garden" alone, all the way to "Xiaocixuan".

Yu Tong still lives in the same yard with the old lady. When Huo Mingzhu entered her room, the girl Liu Er brought by Yu Tong from his hometown Qingcheng blocked the door and said in a low voice: "Ms. My son is sad and doesn't want to see anyone."

Huo Mingzhu naturally knows where Yu Tong's grievance and sadness come from. After getting along with her these days, she knows that the girl Liu Er is not a cheap lamp, and neither is Yu Tong. That's all what Mingzhu said.

Therefore, Huo Mingzhu frowned as they wished, and said worriedly: "Is it important for my cousin? At dinner, I saw that she hadn't eaten a few bites, so I thought of bringing some pastries for her to taste."

Seeing the box in Huo Mingzhu's hand, Liu'er hurriedly took it and said: "Thank you, Miss Mingzhu, for still thinking about my lady, please wait a moment, my servant, go in and ask my lady, and tell her not to let her down again." kindness."

Huo Mingzhu smiled lightly: "Where is it, you go in and tell my cousin, if she rests, I will go back, and don't disturb her rest."

"okay."

The girl Liu'er turned around and went in, and came out after a while, letting Huo Mingzhu in: "Miss Mingzhu, my lady heard that you came, so she scolded the servant girl, saying why the servant girl didn't let you in, she actually took the girl blocked the door. Girl, please—"

Huo Mingzhu thought, it seems that Yu Tong still has something to say to her, looking at the entire General's Mansion, Huo Mingzhu is probably the only one who can let Yu Tong talk at ease.

Lifting up the beaded curtain, Huo Mingzhu walked into the inner room, saw Yu Tong sitting at the table, looking preoccupied, Huo Mingzhu calmed down, and said, "Cousin."

"Mingzhu..." Hearing her voice, Yu Tong stood up from the embroidered stool, and said to Liu Er beside him, "Bring tea to Miss Mingzhu."

Huo Mingzhu stopped being polite, went straight forward, sat with Yu Tong, sighed and said: "I heard from Liu Er that my cousin is not in a good mood, but is it because of my mother and Huaiyu?"

Yu Tong's eyes flashed, and Huo Mingzhu had already guessed eight points right. She held Yu Tong's hand on the table, shook her head and said, "I know what my cousin is thinking, and she has become the target of public criticism for no reason. My mother is a bit older, and I was a little surprised to be able to conceive. But at dinner, it was really inappropriate for Huaiyu to speak like that, and it hurt my cousin. I apologized to my cousin on her behalf. She It's just a child, so don't cousin care about her, it's not worth it if you get angry and ruin your body."

(End of this chapter)