214 Full Moon
The birth of the little prince, although it was only born to a concubine, not a concubine, but it also means that the emperor finally has an heir, which is really gratifying and celebrated by the whole world.
The emperor didn't seem to be so happy about such a happy event, but the queen changed her jealous appearance before, and did a lot of things about the little prince's washing and full moon, and her reputation improved a lot for a while.
At the time of the third washing, the emperor did not even invite the royal family on the grounds that the child was too young, and only the palace concubines got together to add a basin. But this time the full moon, the emperor could no longer find a reason to stop it, and the queen simply did it.
King Anjun and his wife were naturally invited, although the full moon banquet was held at noon, but Taohua had to get up in the morning, and first had to give Shen Shu acupuncture, and then he could dress up and change his clothes and prepare to enter the palace.
After a round of acupuncture, Taohua only felt that not only was her arm and fingers swollen, but her waist was also sore and her back hurt, so she couldn't help but stand up and move, and knocked on her waist with her backhand.
Shen Shu coughed dryly: "Or, you can rest for a while?" "It's true that he shouldn't be right, knowing that he has to enter the palace to participate in the full moon banquet today, and he didn't have any moderation last night.
Taohua snorted: "What time is it, although the banquet is scheduled for noon, can you really wait until the banquet is about to start?" "When you go in, you eat what it looks like, and this kind of drinking and feasting is not for eating.
Shen Shu got up flatteringly and hugged her from behind: "I'll rub it for you." β
His palms are warm and powerful, and they are comfortable to rub on his waist. And people who study martial arts, even if they have not studied medical skills, they also know the truth of muscles, bones and joints, and the massage is really like that.
Taohua was indeed uncomfortable, so she simply lay on the bed and was served by him, stretching out her foot and gently kicking him: "Who is to blame for this!" β
"Blame me, blame me." Shen Shu immediately admitted his mistake.
Taohua snorted, lay down and stopped talking. Shen Shu pressed for a while, only to hear Taohua's breathing gradually even, and he actually fell asleep, and couldn't help but shake his head and laugh - although he had already controlled the strength in his hand, he might fall asleep like this, it could be seen that he was tired.
Speaking of which, this is understandable. The pox work in the capital has come to an end, and it is necessary to prepare to promote and implement it outside the capital, and the matter is suddenly several times more than the implementation of only one place in the capital. What's more, Shen Shu's second course of treatment has started again, and acupuncture must not be interrupted every day.
In addition, even if there are few masters in the Anjun Palace, there are inevitably large and small chores every day, although there is Wu Zheng on the outside and mint on the inside, Taohua can't just ask. From time to time, I have to care about Lu Ying in the palace. At the end of such a day, it is not an exaggeration to say that people are spinning like spinning tops.
It's so hard during the day, and you have to ...... at night Shen Shu touched his nose and felt as if it was really a bit excessive.
However, the young man is strong-blooded, the newlywed Yan'er, and the beauty is on the side, who can still just look at it and not eat it...... Shen Shu touched his nose again, feeling that he seemed to be forgiving.
Mint withdrew lightly and whispered to Yuzhu outside the house: "Go and tell the kitchen, make some good snacks, and put the box on the carriage." "Look at this, the princess will only have time to drink a bowl of porridge for a while. However, I didn't dare to eat and drink too much when I entered the palace, otherwise if I wanted to be convenient in the palace, it would be a lot more troublesome.
Taohua is equivalent to a good night's sleep, although she only slept for half an hour, but she felt much better when she got up. It's just that time is really tight, so I only drank a bowl of bird's nest porridge, so I hurriedly dressed up and changed my clothes, and took a carriage to the palace.
Because today's full moon banquet was grand, it had to be divided into two parts: the front court and the harem. Shen Shu got ahead to attend the banquet of the foreign ministers, and Taohua took the carriage and went straight to the harem.
Today's full moon banquet is held on the Penglai Hall next to the lotus pond, the place faces the pond water, and the wind brings in the fragrance of late-blooming lotus flowers in bursts, without the heat of late summer and early autumn, it is really like being in a fairyland.
Penglai Hall was originally a summer retreat, there are many window sashes, the palace is wide, there is no separation in the middle, look at it is extraordinarily spacious, just for today's banquet. The inner hall is the palace concubines and royal relatives, and the wives and daughters of the old ministers can also be allowed to enter, and the outer hall is where the women of the outer life sit.
As soon as Taohua entered, everyone in the outer hall hurriedly got up to greet her. Taohua swept her eyes and found Mrs. Ou in the last seat.
European Airlines has now entered the Hanlin Academy and made a seven-grade edit. As soon as he was conferred the title, he first asked Mrs. Ou for the title of Qipin'an. It is said that this grade is not qualified to enter the palace at all, but this time at the full moon banquet, the emperor summoned the family members of the first few members of the new science and technology to come in.
The Qipin'an people in this hall are already the end of the middle, although Mrs. Ou's command clothes are newly made, but she only wears a few pieces of plain silver and jade jewelry on her head, and she looks very inconspicuous. The lowest person sitting next to her is also a pleasant five-grade person, not to mention the clothes on her body, such a happy day, it is rare that her head and hands are bright, and Mrs. Deou is even more shabby.
However, Mrs. Ou was in the crowd, but she was calm, ignoring the contemptuous or ridiculed gazes cast around her, and when she stood up to salute Taohua, her back was still straight, and there was a faint arrogance between her thin eyebrows. Taohua looked at it at a glance, but also admired her strength, although a little pedantic, but also a straight person. When he walked past her, he nodded in return.
She didn't recognize a few people in this hall, but she deliberately returned the salute to a Qipin'an person, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. A few pleasant people sitting next to Mrs. Ou immediately changed a little when they looked at Mrs. Ou, and a few of them accosted without saying anything.
Although Mrs. Ou sat steadily, and the expression on her face had not changed much, she was still so polite and indifferent, but she couldn't help but have some waves in her heart - she didn't expect that the doctor girl back then would become a graceful and luxurious princess of the county, and she could change a person's situation with just a nod and a hand.
The people around her accosted her a few words, and when they saw that she was not very enthusiastic, they threw away their hands to talk to others. After all, a Qipin'an person is really nothing, even if the princess of the county specially returned the gift with her, it is not very worthy of them to put down their bodies to please.
Now that the princess of the county is here, the topic naturally turns to the princess of the county. Mrs. Ou listened to the whispers of the crowd, and she only felt a little incredible. She has lived in seclusion since she was widowed, although she has also heard of such a major event as pox, but she has not inquired very much, after all, the Ou family does not have children who need pox now, and it is inevitable that it will hang high if it is not about herself.
Now after listening to these people's discussions, Mrs. Ou was shocked to realize that the princess of the county was like the reincarnation of the medicine king Bodhisattva in their mouths, and she had a thousand abilities. Could it be that everyone was so respectful to her, wasn't it because she had a good fate?
"My child was planted with pox by the princess of the county." A four-pin gongren next to him said with a little show-off, "I only had a fever for one night, and I will be fine the next day." There were a few pimples on his arms and two on his neck, but now they were all gone, and not even a single mark could be found. β
Immediately, someone let out an envious sigh, and Gongren continued: "The princess of the county also checked his pulse, saying that he was strong and well. β
This drew even more envy. Who doesn't want their children to be strong and disease-free? The princess said that she was in good health, so it must have been smooth.
"Heyβ" someone sighed in a low voice, "King Anjun is really blessed to have this princess." I heard that the princess is still treating the eye disease of King Anjun. β
"Can it really be cured?" The person next to him immediately answered and asked, "Didn't you say that it was brought from the womb ......?"
"The princess's medical skills, since she is willing to treat, I think it can be cured."
"If anyone has such a daughter-in-law, it will be fine."
Someone immediately chuckled: "Don't talk nonsense, a character like the princess of the county can be obtained by every family." β
There was a more scathing one next to him and said: "Now that I said this, when the princess of the county was still a girl at home, I'm afraid no one thought about marrying her, right?" At that time, she cured the epidemic in the two counties, who didn't know that the Jiang family had a miracle doctor, why didn't anyone go to propose marriage? β
And when he said this, all the people were silent. Yes, no matter how famous the princess of the county was at that time, she was just a doctor girl in the hearts of everyone, and if the door was not right, who would propose marriage?
Mrs. Ou listened to it and couldn't help but move in her heart. Who said that no one mentioned marriage, her family had mentioned relatives to the Jiang family at the beginning, but it was just ...... If this family matter was negotiated at the beginning, I am afraid that this kind of pox thing is now the name of the Ou family, right? In that case, what is the future of European Airlines......
However, this thought only moved in Mrs. Ou's heart, and it was suppressed. Although the girl of the Jiang family is capable, she is too out of line and has no rules. The eldest daughter of the widow, and her father is pampered, she really can't marry, that is, now she is married to the king of Anjun, her status is precious, and the king of Anjun grew up in the northwest and does not pay attention to any rules, so the life can go on, and the Ou family can never have such a daughter-in-law.
Thinking of family affairs, Mrs. Ou's thoughts turned again. The six rites have been carried out for a small half, that day she went to Jiang's house to see Jiang Wu girl, looking at the eyebrows and eyes are beautiful, although the action is a little pampered, but most of the girls are like this, but the big face is good, and she will slowly β‘β‘ in the future.
Speaking of which, a woman's lack of talent is virtue, and if a girl like Jiang San is too capable, she will definitely not accept β‘β‘, it is better to have a person with mediocre talent and be good to teach. Besides, although Jiang Yaoshi is famous, he has no real job, he can only be regarded as a person in the mountains and wilderness, far inferior to Jiang Langzhong - although the children of the Ou family rely on the Yue family from time to time, if the father-in-law's career is smooth, it is better than being idle.
Taohua didn't know that Mrs. Ou had divergent thinking because of her nod, and as soon as she entered the inner hall, she was attracted by the little prince's attention, and she had already thrown Mrs. Ou behind.
The little prince has not yet chosen a name, and it is said that the emperor is so busy that he doesn't care about naming his son. However, this does not prevent the little guy from growing strong and cute, only a little more than six pounds when he was born, and now he has more than eight pounds. Because of the hot weather, the swaddling clothes were not tightly wrapped, and a small arm was stretched out, white and fat like a lotus root, not at all the wrinkled and red little monkey when it was born.
The concubines in the hall were all red when they looked at the children, and they were even more red when they looked at Lu Ying, who could raise the children.
Lu Ying sat down for a month, and her body recovered very well. She was originally young, and after pregnancy, she recuperated according to the method given by Taohua, but now her loose lower abdomen has been withdrawn a lot, and her clothes are a little looser, and she can hardly be seen. The face is even more white and red, and the strands are bright without fat powder, and when holding the child, he is satisfied with the strands, and he seems to be more beautiful than before he was pregnant.
Momoka looked at her face for a moment, relieved herself, and looked down at the child.
A child who has just completed a month of vision is far from fully developed, and can only feel something moving in front of him, even if he is close at hand, he can't see clearly at all. But babies have a pair of eyes that look very big, and the eyes are dark, and when he stares straight at you, even if you know that he can't see at all, you still feel like your heart is going to be stared at by him.
Taohua understands that the baby's development process is not unavoidable, and most of the other concubines don't know it, and they feel that the little prince is watching them, as long as the baby's head turns to where they are, they will shout and be excited, and there is no quiet time in the hall.
The queen sat on it, in fact, she was also jealous, she couldn't wait to snatch the little prince and take him back to her palace immediately, and she hated that he was born to someone else, why didn't she throw it in her belly. However, in a blink of an eye, I saw that Concubine Yuan Shufei was also looking at the child, and she felt happy again, and deliberately said to Lu Ying: "Sure enough, you are a stable one, this child is very well raised, and he is full of energy when he looks at it." β
Lu Ying hurriedly got up and said: "What the concubine knows, it is all the grandmother sent by the queen mother, and the mother often rewards good things, so that the little prince can grow well." β
Only then did the queen feel more comfortable. Although he knew that Lu Ying was afraid that he didn't think so in his heart, he was always at ease when he heard this, and nodded with a smile: "So you are sensible." If you don't understand this matter of raising children, you can't pretend to understand, you must always listen to the words of experienced grandmothers. I have never raised a child, and I insist on pretending to be able to raise it, but I shouldn't be. β
Everyone in the hall looked at Concubine Yuan Shu in unison. When the little prince was born, the emperor said that Lu Jieyu was young and couldn't raise children, so he wanted to give the little prince to Concubine Yuan Shu to raise. However, Concubine Yuan Shufei herself has not been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter, so how can she raise a child?
Old Madam Yu Ge coughed lightly, and her daughter-in-law immediately echoed: "What Niangniang said is exact." When the concubine gave birth to a child, there were nurses and mothers around her, but they were still in a hurry, thanks to the guidance of the mother. This child is very delicate, and his temperament is difficult to understand, so he has to be careful everywhere, how can an inexperienced person know it. β
Although this is echoing the queen, it is not unreasonable. The concubines in the palace are just that, but the foreign women are also through the stage of becoming mothers for the first time, and they have to nod their heads yes. Even if you don't want the party and the Yu family, you can't refute this. For a while, the hall was quite lively, and they all exchanged parenting scriptures.
Concubine Yuan Shufei sat there upright, always maintaining a smile on her face. She wore a carmine shirt today, and the color was so bright that it was close to the queen's red. It is the princess of the county princess on Taohua's body, because of the dark embroidery and trim, it doesn't look as gorgeous as hers.
Although the child did not arrive in the end, the news that the emperor intended to let her raise the child has spread all over the world, not to mention that the queen has not been able to take the little prince away, so in this comparison, it is still Concubine Yuan Shu who has the upper hand. At this time, in the eyes of everyone, Concubine Yuan Shu was in full bloom, and it was reasonable to dress up like this.
Only Concubine Yuan Shu herself knew that the dress she was wearing today was a gray color in her eyes. Or, if she hadn't known that the blouse with gold thread and arabesque was a brilliant red, she would have thought that the palace maids had mistakenly brought her a dark gray dress.
Yes, her eyes are getting worse these days, and everything around her seems to be covered with a gray veil in her eyes, especially the red things. She used to love red but didn't dare to wear it, but now she can wear it, but this red has turned gray in her eyesβthe color that only the most inferior rough palace maid wears.
It's like God is playing a big joke, and she's the one who is laughed at. I heard the faint discussion of the concubine next to me, and I could hear envy, jealousy and hatred from just a few words. Yuan Shufei just wanted to laugh: what do you envy, what do you envy, what do you hate? Who knew that she was now wearing a shiny skin, but her internal organs were all broken? If someone is willing to come and exchange with her now, she can't ask for it. How nice it would be if she could go back to the time when she didn't have blood on her hands?
However, no one can turn back time. The son said on the river, the deceased is like a husband. The water flows east and does not look back, and the passing time cannot be turned back, and the things that have been done at the beginning, no matter what kind of bitter fruit they bring, can only be swallowed with a smile.
It's a pity that no one in this hall can understand Concubine Yuan's secret pain. The little prince was probably tired at last, or he was unhappy with the noise of these noisy women, and he kicked his calf and cried.
This cry was very loud, and immediately attracted a series of praises: "Listen to this voice, how loud it is, it is really a dragon species." β
This logic is also divine, I just don't know where it comes from, and the sycophants are really not very clever.
But then again, it doesn't take much logic to praise children, and when this person said this, even the Queen Mother suddenly opened her eyebrows and laughed: "This child is like the emperor." When the emperor was on the full moon, he weighed eight pounds, and he cried so vigorously. β
Taohua saw that many people in the hall were exchanging glances with each other. Son Xiao's father, this is a very high evaluation, not to mention that this "father" is still the emperor. The queen mother herself said that the little prince is like the emperor, and the meaning here is deeper than ordinary people praising the son Xiao's father, I am afraid that some people's brains have already shifted to the position of the prince at this time.
Lu Ying didn't seem to understand these words throughout the whole process, her eyes only rolled on the little prince, and when she saw the child crying, she immediately reached out to the nurse and asked the child to come over, hugged her in her arms and shook it gently. The little prince's cry suddenly lowered, and he looked at his mother with a pair of big eyes, and arched into his arms.
It's hungry. In the baby feeding matters left by Taohua to Lu Ying, she told her to feed the child herself - breastfeeding is of great benefit to both mother and child.
Of course, Lu Ying listened. However, there are people sent by the Queen Mother in her palace now, although there are people who help her block some, she can't do whatever she wants. There is no rule in the palace that the palace concubines nurse their own children, and they all use specially selected nurses, and Lu Ying doesn't dare to be too unconventional, so she just feeds them when she has the opportunity, and uses them at other times.
Who knows that the child remembers his mother's smell the most, although Lu Ying does not feed him as much as the nurse, the little prince still thinks about finding his mother first when he is hungry.
With such a crowd in full view, it was impossible for Lu Ying to feed him. Fortunately, everyone didn't expect her to breastfeed the child by herself, but when the child didn't recognize anyone, they all laughed and said: "This is hungry, hug it and breastfeed." β
The queen was naturally virtuous, and immediately asked someone to take the nurse to the side hall to feed the child and then pat him to sleep, Lu Ying also stood up, lowered her eyebrows and said: "Niangniang, the concubine should also go, this child will ......make trouble when he wants to sleep."
Sure enough, the nurse took the little prince into her arms, and the child cried again. In the end, it is not her own child, when she doesn't cry, the queen only thinks it's cute, but now when she listens to a few tears, she feels that her ears are buzzing, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Then you can go." Take care of him, don't let him cry and break his throat. β
Lu Ying couldn't wait for this, hurriedly agreed, and left with the child in her arms. The hall was quiet, and everyone lost their conversation for a while, but they became a little cold.
Prince and Princess Cheng are also here today, but she didn't bring any of the two children, she just sat there and looked at the little prince and didn't say anything. At this time, he said to Yu Zhaorong in a soft voice: "I heard that the eldest princess doesn't have pox this year?" β
Everyone has known about this for a long time, and it must be interesting to mention it specifically, so Yu Zhaorong bowed and said, "Yes." The princess said that it would be a few more years. "Prince and Princess Cheng is a fate, no matter what nonsense she says, Yu Zhaorong has to answer.
"But in a few years......," Princess Cheng looked worried, "By then, the children in the capital have already finished planting pox, where does this pox come from?" β
Yu Zhaorong said with some puzzlement: "Isn't there always someone making ...... pox vaccines?"
Prince Cheng shook her hand and said, "But I heard that when the pox is planted in the capital, the matter of making pox seedlings will also be put on the local ......."
That's for sure, today's transportation is not comparable to that of later generations, and high-speed rail planes are just a few hours away wherever they go. If you make a vaccinia vaccine in the capital and send it outside to be vaccinated, you don't know how long it will be delayed on the road alone.
Yu Zhaorong still didn't react for a while: "Since it is for the people outside, it is naturally ......."
"When the time comes, is this pox vaccine good or not......" Princess Cheng glanced at the eldest princess who was playing next to her worriedly, "The fake pox vaccine in the northwest has also been killed." β
Yu Zhaorong's heart suddenly twitched. The Northwest thing is quite scary, even if she doesn't like the eldest princess very much, she can't lose this child.
"The princess means ......"
"I'm not interesting." Prince Cheng still frowned, "I just want to know, why can't our children get pox, but folk children can ......"