102. Danger
In the first month, she had a miscarriage, and after only a few months of hard work, Chu Xue recovered her body and became pregnant again, which was due to the contribution of the imperial doctor Cheng Zisong.
Based on various considerations, Chu Xue had the intention to promote him.
Chu Xue understands that Cheng Zisong's medical skills can actually easily suppress many of the more senior imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, and Zhang Yutian, the deputy hospital envoy who helped Xu Jinhe harm him, has been dismissed and executed by Song Chen, and the post of deputy hospital envoy of the Tai Hospital has been vacant for a few months, this is a good opportunity, and Cheng Zisong can afford such a position. But the imperial doctor is also a high-ranking official position, so if he wants Cheng Zisong to sit in the position of deputy court envoy, I am afraid that the king still has the final say.
This probably requires Cheng Zisong to make a big contribution, or Song Chen is suddenly in a good mood.
However, it didn't take long for Chu Xue's stomach to earn a gift for this young and promising imperial doctor.
The vicious queen has been banned forever, Chu Xue's fetus is very smooth, she religiously drank the fetal pills prescribed by Cheng Zisong for her, and Ruyue took care of her all day long.
After surviving the hot summer, when the weather cooled down, the child in Chu Xue's womb gradually began to move.
At first, it was like a goldfish spitting bubbles, a few faint hits every other day, always coming suddenly when she was inadvertent, which was very surprising, but as the days passed, Chu Xue gradually began to have a little headache, she felt that this child seemed to be more lively than Le'er, because the fetal movements were really frequent.
She went to consult Li Jiaoyun. Li Jiaoyun personally put her hand on her bulging lower abdomen and felt it, and after feeling Chu Xue's fetal movements several times, she smiled in surprise: "I didn't expect this child to be so lively, I think it should be a prince!" ”
She smiled and sighed softly, just having one girl was enough for her headache, if there was another naughty boy...... I'm afraid she will inevitably have to prepare a few more nurses.
However, when the second schedule was relaxed, I asked for a while, but suddenly asked her: "Does Niangniang feel that the fetal movement is abnormal recently?" Is it different from when she was pregnant with a little princess in the past? ”
She thought of the frequent fetal movements recently, and suddenly her heart tightened, and she hurriedly said: "This child is indeed much more lively than Le'er...... But what's wrong? ”
After Cheng Zisong heard this, he had a bottom in his heart, and comforted her with a smile, "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it." If the diagnosis is correct, the frequent fetal movements are due to the fact that you have twins in your womb. ”
Twins?
Hearing this, the people in the hall were taken aback.
Chu Xue was even more stunned, she opened her eyes and reacted for a long time before she understood what Cheng Zisong meant, twins? That is, she now has two children in her belly?
Cheng Zisong nodded with a smile and gave her a definite answer again.
All the people in the temple hurriedly congratulated her.
She couldn't help but be happy and couldn't help but smile.
Twins, two children, is it that child forgave her and came back to her belly?
It was finally determined that it was twins, Cheng Zisong's next task will be even more arduous, although twins are a great joy, but compared with a single child, it must be more difficult, so in the next few months, Chu Xue and he, a full-time imperial doctor, must be extra careful.
After Cheng Zisong asked for a good pulse to retreat, he was just in time to go to Funing Palace to greet the Queen Mother, and Chu Xue ordered the palace people to send the good news by the way. As for Song Chen, she will wait for him to come back in the evening and tell him in person.
After bathing this night, Song Chen still applied emollient nectar to her as before, stroked her pregnant belly for a while, Song Chen observed for a while and recalled, and asked: "Why do I think that this belly is bigger than when Huaile was a child?" ”
Chu Xue didn't speak, just stared at him and smiled.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, approached her and asked, "Is it that you have been raised too well in the palace in the past two years, and you have grown a few catties of meat on your stomach?" ”
She bit her lip and hammered him a few times, and her coquettish appearance made the king very happy.
After he finished laughing, she said softly: "Does the emperor know why the concubine's belly looks big this time?" Because the imperial doctor said that the concubine had two children in her womb, she would be older than Le'er at that time. ”
Two children?
Seeing that the man who was still smiling was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he put his hand on her abdomen again, and said tentatively: "Are the twins in your womb?" ”
"Hmm." She smiled and nodded.
The surprise fell from the sky, and he slowed down for a while before finally believing it, hugging her lightly and smiling happily.
"Xue'er gave me such a good gift, how should I reward it?"
She smiled and shook her head, and said: "It's a gift from God, and this is also a gift from the concubine, the concubine doesn't ask for any reward, but she just wants to be able to raise the children safely for the emperor, and she is satisfied." ”
This is from the heart, three times pregnant, should have given him three children, this time, it can be regarded as God gave her a chance to compensate him.
He kissed the top of her fragrant hair and said softly, "It will be." ”
Because he learned that she had twins in her womb, Song Chen's original bad intentions were all reined in, and since then, he has carefully and gently hugged her to sleep every night. Even if it was a little unbearable at times, the clearer and clearer movements of the two small fetuses in her gradually rising abdomen were the best comfort for him.
As the days passed, farewell to this autumn, and the harsh winter came.
Chu Xue raised the fetus in Yufu Palace with peace of mind, watching Le'er grow up day by day, and after a few snowfalls, she finally ushered in the New Year's Festival.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the Yuhe Hall was brightly lit, and a dinner party was set up to welcome the old and welcome the new.
Because Chu Xue is about to give birth in two months, the palace people who drive are extra careful, from Yufu Palace to Yuhe Palace, the original quarter of an hour away, walked for two quarters of an hour, and when she arrived, everyone in the palace has gathered, even the emperor and the queen mother have been seated.
Chu Xue was carefully supported by Yanling, slowly stepped into the hall, and was about to salute Song Chen, but was stopped by him, he said slowly: "You are inconvenient, you don't have to be formal, sit down." ”
She thanked her, and then turned to the Queen Mother and said: "The concubine has delayed the hour on the way, and she has to work hard for the emperor and the queen mother, etc., it is really a sin, and I ask the queen mother to surrender." ”
She is the most expensive person in the palace right now, and seeing that two little imperial grandchildren are about to arrive, how can she be blamed for such a trivial matter as an imperial grandmother? The Queen Mother smiled kindly: "It's right for the palace people to be careful, it's cold outside, sit down." ”
Because her stomach was really not small, it was inconvenient for her to bend her knees, so she bowed her head and answered yes, and slowly went to her seat.
Since the cold weather, she has rarely gone out again, and today she looked around the hall, only to find that on the concubine's seat, in addition to Li Jiaoyun and Concubine Ning, there was also a long-lost face, that is, Concubine Wan, who had been grounded for a whole year for angering the thunder.
Now that the one-year lockdown period has expired, as a palace concubine, Concubine Wan should naturally come to eat this reunion dinner.
In front of Song Chen and the Queen Mother, even if she was reluctant, Concubine Wan still greeted Chu Xue with Concubine Rongning. After being grounded for a year, too many things happened in the palace, the backer Xu Jinhe fell, and the former swaggering Concubine Li was gone, although these were Chu Xue's methods, but she was still not afraid of Chu Xue, but hated her even more.
After all, up to now, she still doesn't know the reason why she was grounded, that night she was ordered by Xu Jinhe to go to the Qinzheng Palace, just thinking that it was simply to send a bowl of sweet soup to win the king's favor, but she didn't know that Xu Jinhe had moved in the incense of the Qinzheng Palace in advance, let alone why Song Chen wanted to ban her feet.
She only thought that it was Chu Xue who slandered in front of Song Chen after she learned that night that she went to the Qinzheng Palace to deliver soup, so that the king wanted to ban her feet, after all, the palace people around her said so. For a whole year, she was a beauty in her prime of life, and she was confined in that palace, and she could see it all day long, but that little sky, how could she not hate it in her heart?
Chu Xue smiled and nodded, and after the third concubine took her seat, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner officially began.
Although Concubine Wan had a respectful attitude, Chu Xue didn't fail to see the hatred in her eyes. With a slight sneer in her heart, Chu Xue still calmly picked up the chopsticks, not revealing the slightest abnormality, nothing is more important than the two children in her womb at the moment, she will give birth to the child safely first, as for the Zhao family's account, it will be calculated slowly in the future.
Because she doesn't go out very often since the winter, the Queen Mother didn't see her much, at this time they met, it is inevitable to tell a few words, the Queen Mother said: "There are two months to give birth, Yufu Palace and the Tai Hospital have to cheer up, twins are not as good as singles, being a mother is the hardest, endure a few more days, and wait for the child to be born safely, you can have a good rest." ”
"Yes. Thank you for the Queen Mother's concern, the concubines must pay attention. She bowed her head respectfully.
The king on the throne cast a warm gaze on her, full of reluctance.
But when the Queen Mother's words fell into the ears of others, she gave birth to a different kind of thought.
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Because she was really inconvenient, she still did not attend this year's Shangyuan Night Banquet, but she no longer had to worry about Xu Jinhe, Song Chen accompanied her every night, with a husband and a daughter by her side, and two children who were about to be born to look forward to.
It's also time for her to give birth.
Although there is still nearly a month before the normal day of labor, because she is a twin at this time, as soon as she enters February, in fact, there is a possibility of giving birth at any time, the palace doctors and the stable women are waiting for her, and she herself is also ready, waiting for the two children that may come out of her womb at any time.
On the sixth day of the second lunar month, the weather was warm, and Le'er came back from Funing Palace to ask for peace, and pestered her to see the pear blossoms in the imperial garden. Thinking that she hadn't been with Le'er since she was pregnant, and seeing that she was about to have two more children, she felt guilty, so she ordered someone to prepare a carriage and took Le'er to the imperial garden to enjoy the scenery.
The little girl is almost three years old, and her speech is already very clever, and she is very excited to see her mother who doesn't go out much to accompany her personally.
There is a good spring in the imperial garden, the warm wind blows, the snow-white pear blossoms fly like snow, Chu Xue can't move around too much, so he rests in the pavilion on the side, watching Yanling a few companions to the music bend, and the mood is much better.
Seeing that it had been more than an hour since she played, and it was time to go back to the palace to prepare for lunch, she called softly: "Le'er, it's time to go back to the palace, you've been playing for so long, you're sweating, right?" ”
Le'er actually hasn't had enough fun, but maybe she knows that she is about to become a sister, so she is extra sensible, and when Yanling and the nurses persuade her, she obediently ran to her mother.
Chu Xue brought a handkerchief with her own hands, wiped the sweat off her daughter's head, and then took the little girl's hand and got into the carriage that was already waiting on the side.
In the past, she was used to sitting in a sedan chair, but because of this, she couldn't be too bumpy, so she chose a carriage, after all, the carriage was firm, and the road in the palace was relatively flat, and the line was a little slower, which was considered stable.
But who would have thought that today, the carriage, which has always been stable, turned out to be on a business trip.
From the Imperial Garden to Yufu Palace, even if the speed was slowed down, the carriage was only a cup of tea, but when the carriage carrying the mother and daughter had only halfway traveled the familiar return route, only to hear a "bang", the horse was suddenly frightened and galloped quickly.
The horse suddenly flew out half of the arrow, and the coachman who led the horse was also thrown on the side of the road, usually because the car was slow, Yanling and several nurses and palace maids followed on foot, so at this time, when the car galloped out, only Chu Xue and Le'er were left in the car.
Le'er didn't understand what was going on, she just felt that the sudden speed was very funny, and she had to clap her hands excitedly, but Chu Xue, who had only experienced a carriage horror a few years ago, suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly hugged the little girl tightly in her arms with one hand, and tried her best to grab anything that could stabilize her body with the other hand.
The crowd outside the car suddenly became chaotic and exclaimed.
Yan Ling, who reacted, wanted to rush forward quickly, but the carriage was too fast, and she was anxious, when she suddenly saw a team of patrolling guards coming in the direction of the carriage in the distance, so she hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and stop the carriage, hurry up and stop the carriage, the concubine and the little princess are inside, hurry up and escort!" ”
The shout was heard in the distance, and in an instant, Yanling, who was galloping, saw a familiar figure walking quickly towards the carriage, and then without much effort, the carriage stopped.
Yan Ling hurriedly rushed over, and when she came closer, she recognized that the person who was vigorously blocking the horse was indeed Lu Fang, who she hadn't seen for a long time.
Although her heart moved hard, after all, it was about the comfort of Chu Xue and Le'er, and she didn't care about saying hello, Yan Ling hurriedly lifted the curtain to check on the mother and daughter.
I saw that Le'er was tightly held in Chu Xue's arms, and her little face finally showed a frightened look, and when she saw her, the little girl blinked with big eyes and cried.
The little girl was clean all over her body, and it seemed that she was not injured, Yanling breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, and looked at Chu Xue busily.
Chu Xue also seemed to be normal, but the carriage suddenly stopped, not to mention the horror in her heart, although she grabbed the car hard and did not fall, her body was still shaken hard.
Stopped at this time, Yan Ling saw her master frowning tightly, and the hand that turned out to be supporting the car wall was holding her stomach tightly, and said to her: "Quick, fast, the belly of this palace is ......."