Imperial physicians were to keep their mouths shut, but that was only outside. They would go to various nobles' homes to check patients, and anything important had to be reported to the emperor. Imperial Physician Jiang thus didn't find it surprising that the royal family would know about such a matter, so he also went along and spoke about it.
Surprised, Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao, who gave him a "I also don't know" look, before he carefully asked a few more questions. It wasn't until he heard "it will be difficult to have offspring" and "hindrance to intercourse" that he could confirm for sure what part of Mu Lingbao had frozen.
After Jing Shao came back from seeing off Imperial Physician Jiang, he saw his Wang Fei still sitting in the same place, frowning and thinking deeply. His elegant, jade-like fingers unconsciously rubbed the armrests of the chair.
"What are you thinking about?" Jing Shao looked at him, his heart slightly itchy, and couldn't help but grab those restless hands with warm palms. "When you think about things later, just grab onto me instead." He thought about his Wang Fei's hands unconsciously rubbing against something; what if he was holding Jing Shao Jr. instead, hehe...
Mu Hanzhang looked up at him and shook his head helplessly. "Your silliness is showing."
"Hehe." Jing Shao rubbed his nose and squeezed to sit in the same chair as his Wang Fei. However, the chair had two armrests, so two grown men couldn't squeeze in together. Mu Hanzhang helplessly got up, but was pulled down into an embrace and pressed onto the other's lap.
The two were used to sitting in the army camp like this. Mu Hanzhang shifted a little and then didn't struggle anymore.
"My mother may be pregnant." Mu Hanzhang really picked up Jing Shao's hand to play with. The hand was very big with distinct joints, and was broad and powerful. The palm and finger pads had thin calluses from wielding weapons all year round.
"Is that so?" This time, Jing Shao was truly surprised. His mother-in-law was in her thirties. Could she still get pregnant? "That's a good thing. Did she find an imperial physician to examine her?"
Mu Hanzhang shook his head. "It's chaotic in the household nowadays, not to mention that the heir even... You are so fierce, actually crippling him like that."
Jing Shao was tickled by the other man's fingers rubbing over his palm, but he didn't dare make a sound for fear that he wouldn't play with his hand anymore, and held back. "That isn't my fault. When they found Mu Lingbao, he was behaving wantonly in a low-class brothel. How could the thugs remember to put his pants on for him?"
Mu Hanzhang sighed. "I want to bring my mother to our home for a day and find a doctor to see her."
"Alright," Jing Shao said, his heart full from the words "our home." "Might as well have Mother come and stay here during her pregnancy? We'll be staying in the capital for at least a year and a half. "
"How can we do that?" Mu Hanzhang smiled and looked at him. "My father is still around; there is no reason to bring one's mother into the house of a son who has married out to take care of her."
"Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. She won't have a reason to come out, and we have to go to the imperial court at night anyway. How about, on the 16th of the month, we have Imperial Physician Jiang see her?"
Mu Hanzhang frowned. He wanted to find a doctor from the capital so as not to let the news spread. But thinking about it, if Cheng Wang's household asked for a doctor from the city for no reason, it would surely rouse suspicion. What was more, imperial business at the Cheng Wang residence meant that imperial physicians definitely wouldn't let the news slip, so he nodded.
