Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Thrush
When the emperor woke up in the morning, his arms were empty.
The sky outside was already bright, but the inside of the dormitory was deliberately darkened by people with screens and gauze tents, and it still looked a little dark.
Outside the gauze tent, you can see Lin Yan sitting in front of the dresser to make up.
The emperor sat up, lifted the tent and walked out of bed, all the way to Lin Yan.
Lin Yan saw him get up, put down the eyebrow pencil in her hand, and said with a smile: "Today is Mu Xiu, you don't need to go to the court, why doesn't the emperor sleep for a while?" As he spoke, he stood up.
The Emperor pressed her shoulder and sat her down again, saying, "I am used to getting up early, but today I have slept late. ”
As she spoke, she picked up the eyebrow pencil on the table, dipped it in Luodai, and drew it on her eyebrows.
Lin Yan smiled lightly, letting him mess around on her eyebrows, but asked with a smile: "Does the emperor know thrush?" Don't draw eyebrows that make the concubines look bad. ”
The emperor raised her chin, looked left and right to see if her eyebrows were symmetrical, and said with a smile: "The secluded room is blue and the yarn hangs, and the red windows and green pavilions are embroidered with clouds." Shen Shen had nothing to do in the afternoon, and learned thrush from Zhang Sheng. After reading it, he added two more strokes to her eyebrows.
This is from the Northern and Southern Dynasties Liu Xuan's "Left and Right Newlywed Poems", the full poem is: "The little official is like the first day, and the woman is beautiful and beautiful." The sound of the piano has been heard in vain, and the peach son-in-law has been divided. Moth eyebrows are drawn, and embroidered are co-caged. The secluded room is draped with blue yarn, and the red windows and green pavilions are embroidered with clouds. Shen Shen had nothing to do in the afternoon, and learned thrush from Zhang Sheng. ”
It's about the situation of the newlyweds' girlfriend thrush. At this time, it is said that here, the Tao can be regarded as appropriate.
Lin Yan glared at him and said angrily: "Has the emperor painted eyebrows for many palace concubines?" ”
The emperor smiled warmly: "I don't have so much leisure, and the only eyebrows I have painted for him are your aunt except you." Thinking of his wife who died early, a little nostalgia appeared on his face.
When Xianniang first married him, she was just a delicate girl with a fiery personality, no more than two years older than the current Yuan Yuan, and she had a big temper. On the second day of the wedding, he was curious to paint a thrush for her, at that time his thrush skills were not as skilled as now, and as a result, she painted one eyebrow thicker and one eyebrow thin, and as a result, she ignored him for a long time, and even ignored him when he entered the palace to meet his mother, and even the mother was worried when she saw it, thinking that something was wrong with them just getting married.
It was only when he decided to compete for the prince that she gradually became dignified and virtuous, and took care of her back house to raise her children, so that he had no worries. He didn't have a strong foreign family, so he could only rely on his in-laws, and she also ran around to ask for the support of the Lin family and the Quartet for him.
The Wu family wanted to send the girl into his palace, although she was unhappy in her heart, thinking that the support of the Wu family would be beneficial to him, but she also accepted the Wu family for him in a beautiful manner.
The mother had asked him to treat this wife well, but he didn't seem to be able to do it.
The emperor was trapped in his memories, and it wasn't until Lin Yan called him a few times that he came back to his senses, smiled at Lin Yan, and continued to groom her eyebrows for a while, before putting down the eyebrow pencil, holding her chin and looking left and right, and said, "Okay." ”
Lin Yan smiled and said, "The emperor should go and freshen up, the concubine will let the palace people come in to serve the emperor." So saying, he called the palace maid and the eunuch in.
The emperor smiled and patted her head lightly, and then walked in the direction of Mu Fang.
Lin Yan turned her head to look at the woman's makeup in the diamond mirror, and sighed softly.
The emperor painted a straight eyebrow for her, not the willow leaf eyebrows she was used to drawing. The one who really likes to draw one-word eyebrows is her aunt Lin Xian. Lin Xian has thick eyebrows and big eyes, so it is suitable for more heroic eyebrows. But her temperament is gentle, her appearance is beautiful, and although she will not look bad when she paints a line of eyebrows, it is more willowy eyebrows.
The shape of her eyebrows at the beginning was also the shape of willow eyebrows, but in the end, the emperor made a straight eyebrow.
The emperor had breakfast with her in Changkun Palace, and then went to the Qinzheng Palace to deal with political affairs.
The emperor remembered the prince when he was having breakfast, and said to Lin Yan: "I haven't seen Tai'er for a long time, and I haven't seen him come to greet me. You call him over in the evening and let him dine with us. ”
Lin Yan smiled and said yes.
After sending the emperor away, Lin Yan called Mu Ye over, asked all the palace maids in the house to go out, and then asked her: "Can you make a medicine that can make the palace temporarily contraceptive, but it will not hurt the body of the palace." ”
Mu Qing was taken aback after hearing this, and directly wanted to object.
Lin Yan spoke first: "Don't worry, it's not that this palace doesn't want to have children, it's just that I don't want to give birth now." After a pause, he slowly explained: "That year, I saw a peasant woman in the northwest give birth, and the little daughter-in-law of that family was only fourteen years old, with a childish face, but in the end she did not escape the disaster of childbirth, although she finally gave birth to the child, but she lost her life. Afterwards, the doctor said that it was because the mother was too young to give birth to the child, and the bones of the body had not yet grown, so it was difficult to give birth. When the mother died, she still had tears on her face and was fascinated by the world, but the family was pleasantly surprised by the birth of a newborn, and no one cared about her life or death, so she was particularly frightened and cold.
Although she likes children, she is not ready to give up her life to have children. What's more, the Lin family has a crown prince, and her ability to give birth to a prince or princess is just icing on the cake. She didn't have any children and didn't have much of an impact. So when it comes to having a baby, she doesn't feel like she needs to be in a hurry.
Mu Qing didn't speak again, compared to the emperor's heir who didn't have a shadow, naturally Lin Yan's name was more important. Even in the harem, there are so many skilled imperial doctors in charge, and there are still palace concubines who lost their lives when they gave birth. Lin Yan's worries are not unreasonable.
Mu Ye agreed with Lin Yan doing this, she is a doctor, she knows that a woman giving birth to a child is like stepping into a ghost gate with half a foot, and the younger she is, the more dangerous it is.
Although Niangniang's personality is old and serious, her body is still a fifteen-year-old body.
Mu Ye said: "Niangniang, slaves and maids can be matched." The slave can prepare the medicine in the form of pills, so that the mother is easy to use and not easy to be discovered. ”
The women of the harem are required to dedicate, even if they are neglected, punished, and sacrificed, they must chant "The Emperor's Grace is Hao". The palace concubine is unwilling to give birth to an heir for the royal family for her own life, which will be regarded as disrespectful to the emperor, so contraception naturally cannot be known.
Mu Ye said again: "Niangniang, how about the slave prescribe some prescriptions for you to regulate your body, supplemented by dietary therapy, to help you recuperate?" ”
If you take care of your body, even if you want to have a child in the future, at least it will be smoother.
Lin Yan nodded.
Then he said: "Okay, let's go and see if there is anyone from the Wuguo Mansion." ”