Spring always comes faster in the south. When Xie Wan Ning was three months pregnant, the city of Bianzhou was already filled with the fragrance of flowers.

After taking off her thick winter coat, she felt lighter.

Mother-in-law Li said that both sisters had good pregnancies and that their due dates were both in autumn, when the summer heat was gradually dissipating and the cold had not yet arrived, and it was the most suitable temperature.

After Chen Xier became pregnant, Granny Li no longer allowed her daughter-in-law to help out in the pastry shop. She only needed to feed the chickens and cook at home on a daily basis.

The two families lived close to each other, so she would come to talk to Xie Wan Ning when she had nothing to do.

Chen Xier didn't dare tell anyone about Xie Wanning's identity. Even her partner knew that she was her widowed cousin.

The husband of the Li family is a scholar and pays more attention to the affairs of the family and the country than ordinary people. Whenever Chen Xier hears some news from her husband, she will tell Xie Wanning.

Although the news was not a secret if even a lowly scholar knew it, it was more than what ordinary people knew.

This is also the only way for Xie Wan Ning to know the general situation of the world while staying in his small courtyard.

In April, an imperial decree was issued from the capital, informing the world that the fifth prince born to the late queen who returned to the royal family last year was named crown prince.

The Khan has a crown prince.

The romantic affairs of the nobles who are high up in the clouds always stir up a lot of trouble.

In May, the news that the crown prince of the current dynasty forcibly abducted the girl from the Xie family who was married to the eldest son of the Duke of Pei, and forced her to flee and fall into the Dayang Lake in the north spread across the country at a terrifying speed.

In Bianzhou, a small southern city far away from the emperor, many people talk about it on the streets.

Xie Wan Ning also listened carefully.

Most of the common people at the bottom of society were lamenting and wondering what kind of peerless beauty the daughter of the Marquis Xuanping's mansion was that the crown prince of a country would abduct her to be his wife despite her married status.

The rest also praised her chastity. The prince at that time was already the Prince of Zhenbei. As long as she nodded, she would be the princess and even had the hope of becoming the queen in the future. However, she was not moved by the power at all and resolutely ran away.

Xie Wan Ning felt amused by these discussions, but also felt relieved. Fortunately, her incident did not affect the reputation of the girls in the Xie family.

But to her parents, she is an unfilial daughter.

Thinking of his parents having to suffer the pain of losing their loved ones, Xie Wan Ning felt heartbroken.

...I don’t know if I will have the chance to see them again in this life.

Time passed day by day, the weather gradually became warmer, and Xie Wan Ning's belly finally became slightly pregnant.

My appetite has recovered a little, and I no longer have trouble eating or sleeping.

In mid-June, Xie Wan Ning, who was three months away from giving birth, heard a piece of news from Chen Xier.

It was said that General Yucheng, the governor of Xiangzhou stationed at Yanyun Pass, was accused of having secret dealings with the Great Jin. A letter with a seal was presented to the emperor's desk. The emperor was furious and fainted in the court.

The emperor was old, and the surge of blood and qi hurt his body, so he stopped attending court for three days.

It was the crown prince who came out to preside over the government, and later asked for permission to lead the troops to Xiangzhou to suppress the rebel general.

The emperor is right.

The news came from the capital, and it would take at least ten days or half a month for the prince to arrive in Xiangzhou.

Xiangzhou was located in the southwest of the Khan, only one prefecture city away from Bianzhou where they were.

The distance between them is no more than two hundred miles.

When Xie Wan Ning heard the news, she touched her bulging belly and looked dazed. (End of this chapter)