Chapter 246
Even though she is nearly eight months pregnant, Xu Cancan still refuses to give up makeup and dress herself. Today, she combed a delicate bun with the clouds, but she only wore a gold silk inlaid ruby hollow double luan rose distracted, and on her ears was a pair of ruby inlaid gold pendants, with her movements dangling, the snow-white and tender face was more moisturized, and her lips were coated with rouge made of roses, and her face was shining and she sat on the brocade couch and watched the water cold and Zhu Yan settle accounts.
Although it was already summer, it was not hot because it had just rained, and the windows and sliding in the main hall were opened, and the wind was still wet, and the wind was full of the unique fragrance of leaves and grass after the rain.
On the east side and west side of the main hall, there are four pear blossom wooden circle chairs, and there is a delicate high table in the middle of every two circle chairs, now Shui Han, Fu Song and Fu Yang are sitting on the circle chairs on the east side, and Biyun is sitting on the circle chairs on the west side.
Xu Cancan sat upright at first, but soon became a little tired, so he simply leaned on the brocade pillow and leaned on the couch, seemingly closing his eyes to recuperate, but in fact, he was planning in his heart.
Shui Han occasionally glanced up at Empress Xu, and saw that although she was tired, she still had picturesque skin and eyebrows, and she was the most beautiful pregnant woman, but he was also worried in his heart, because Empress Xu's belly was too big, bigger than when she was pregnant with the crown prince.
After more than an hour of busyness, Zhu Yan finally calculated the total number. She held the account book and saluted Xu Cancan, and then reported each input according to the month, and in the end, she reported the total amount of silver taels existing in Xu Cancan's private treasury: "The amount of silver taels at your disposal is two million three hundred and sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-six taels at your disposal, Queen Mother. ”
Xu Cancan was a little sluggish for an instant. She knew that she was rich, but she didn't expect that she would be so rich, from the Spring Festival to the present, her property has actually increased by more than one million taels.
After a while, Xu Cancan spoke: "In the future, the general account will be calculated on June 1 every year." This year, the dividends of the five of you are 1,000 taels per person for Zhu Yan Biyun, 1,500 taels for Fu Yang, 2,000 taels for Fu Song, and 2,500 taels for Shui Han. "On June 1st, the wheat and rice had already been harvested, and it was just in time to settle accounts.
Zhu Yan and the others were a little surprised, and they were stunned for a moment before thanking Xu Cancan.
Xu Cancan continued: "The Fuyun Palace, Zichen Palace, Chongzheng Palace, and Daqing Hall of the New Palace are about to be built, and the Qiandi will be renamed at that time, and I am afraid that there will be many people waiting." Before that, all the people who were waiting in the dive mansion were issued an additional month's silver, and after Zhu Yan and Fu Yang checked each other, they took the pair of cards and went to the treasury to take out the silver and send it down! ”
With a hint of a smile in her clear eyes, she swept over Fu Songshuihan's face, and her voice was clear: "The two of you go to the cabinet to see Prime Minister Ma Cheng, Jin Weihuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Han Zhigang, the superintendent of the imperial history, just say that the palace will donate two million taels of silver as the principal this year, and another one million taels of silver will be donated for the Dragon Boat Festival next year, so don't bother the palace for other things!" "The Great Liang Dynasty has always paid attention to women not to interfere in politics, so in order to avoid trouble, she only paid attention to the silver and the imperial history of the overseer, and ignored everything else.
Fu Song and Shui Han replied "yes" and retreated.
When there were only female officials, grandmothers and palace maids left in the room, Xu Cancan no longer insisted on it, and lay on his side on the brocade couch with his stomach on the pillow, slowly taking deep breaths.
Compared with the last pregnancy, Xu Cancan's belly is too big, she has to hold her belly when she walks, and the fetus seems to have reached her stomach and heart, making her stomach full of panic and panting, and her waist is often sore.
Xu Cancan only looks forward to giving birth to the child as soon as possible, so that he can be more relaxed.
The female doctor, Mama Guan, commanded Hongfu and Honghui to put Empress Xu in a comfortable position, knelt on the side and began to massage Empress Xu's legs and feet.
Xu Cancan calmed down for a while, and finally felt more comfortable, so he weakly opened his mouth and instructed Hongfu: "Let irrelevant people retreat, I want to say a few words to Mama Guan." ”
Red Whisk immediately withdrew from the irrelevant people, and stood by the side with Red Furrow.
Xu Cancan looked at Mama Guan with his eyes and said in a low voice: "Mama, do you think I am pregnant with twins this time?" ”
She herself has an inexplicable intuition - this time she is pregnant with twins, but these can't be announced to others, she can only speculate in her heart.
Guan Mama thought for a moment and said, "Queen Mother, please relax, your pregnancy this time is very good, even if it is twins, it doesn't matter." She also suspected that it was twins, but she was not 100% sure, so she said such ambiguous words.
Xu Cancan didn't get a definite answer, and he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.
In the afternoon, the sun came out, and it wasn't long before it was hot inside and out.
When Biyun came back, she saw Queen Xu drowsy and crooked on the brocade couch, afraid that she would be hot, so she asked Mama Guan and learned that the queen could use ice, so she commanded people to put icebergs on gold plates in the main hall and bedroom.
The two icebergs melted together to absorb heat, and the main hall quickly cooled down.
Xu Cancan can't sleep well now, and if he doesn't sleep, his head is confused, so he barely slept for a while, and soon woke up uncomfortably.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Zhu Yan sitting on the edge of the brocade couch massaging her legs and feet, and asked, "Where is Fu Rui?" ”
Zhu Yan was afraid that she would be worried, so she continued to massage and said: "The Emperor Taishang drove to the palace to check the progress of the laying of the new palace, and His Majesty personally took the crown prince to accompany the Emperor Taishang to see the palace!" ”
Xu Cancan was relieved at this time.
Zhu Yan saw that she couldn't eat these days because her stomach was full, and her chin had lost a lot of weight, so she was quite worried and asked quietly, "Do you have any food you want to eat?" ”
Xu Cancan didn't have any appetite at all, but in order to keep up with the nutrition of the fetus in her womb, she thought about it and said, "Let Mama Chen give me a bowl of chicken noodle soup!" ”
Zhu Yan replied "yes" and asked, "Do you want to put more greens?" ”
Xu Cancan let out an "um" and closed his eyes.
In the evening, the weather was still very hot, and the Emperor Taishang took Fu Rui's hand and climbed up and down for a while, tired and hot, sweating all over, and his face was sweaty.
Fu Yuchen stood under the canopy, calmly looking at the two ancestors and grandchildren. He found that since he had Fu Rui, the body of the Emperor Taishang seemed to be getting better day by day, and he was more energetic than before.
Fu Yuchen is optimistic about this.
He took two clean hand towels from the gold plate held by Su Yan, handed them to the Emperor Taishang and asked him to wipe his sweat, and he took a hand towel and wiped it carefully on Fu Rui's face and neck.
In the months from spring to summer, Fu Rui either played with the Emperor Taishang, or played with Dingguo Gong, or followed the water cold, he ran out every day, and as a result, he became darker, thinner, and taller, and his facial features were more similar to his father Fu Yuchen.
Looking at Ji Xiao's own Fu Rui, Fu Yuchen was indescribably happy in his heart - Lao Tzu is not yet twenty years old, but his sons are almost two years old, and his wife is afraid that there are still two sons hidden in her belly, which is a great achievement as a man!
Looking at his son's delicate facial features and slender arms and legs, Fu Yuchen thought: Lao Tzu is also a winner in life!
After placing the Emperor Taishang in the front hall, Fu Yuchen planned to take Fu Rui back to the inner courtyard to see Xu Cancan.
Fu Rui looked up at Fu Yuchen, and said inarticulately: "Dad, Gray Knife Knife, Gray Knife Knife!" ”
Fu Yuchen understood his son's words - Fu Rui said "fly high".
Since Shui Han asked Fu Rui to sit on his shoulder, Fu Rui began to covet Fu Yuchen's shoulder and wanted to sit down, but his mouth was not good, and Fu Yuchen deliberately pretended not to understand, so he never succeeded.
But now looking at his son's phoenix eyes that are exactly the same as himself, Fu Yuchen's heart softened, so he picked up his son and put it on his shoulder.
Cabinet University Scholar Ding Xiuping and Guozi Priest Jiu Ming Yuquan were waiting in the duty room at the door of the study of the Qiandi, and when they learned that Emperor Qingping was coming, they hurriedly greeted them, and they saw such a strange scene - Emperor Qingping walked in front, Luan drove behind, and the most peculiar thing was that the crown prince Fu Rui was now sitting in the neck of His Majesty the Emperor, and he was also excitedly knocking His Majesty's forehead with his hand.
Seeing this spectacle, Ding Xiuping and Ming Yuquan couldn't help but be a little worried-His Majesty loves Empress Xu and Empress Xu's eldest son, Crown Prince Fu Rui, too much!
They all admit that Empress Xu is a good queen - sympathetic to the people's livelihood, loving the people like a son, worrying about the harem, and never interfering in politics - however, Your Majesty is the Majesty of the whole Liang, not the Majesty of Queen Xu alone, Your Majesty needs more heirs, and the situation of Empress Xu's monopoly on the harem must be changed.
Since the Ministry of Rites announced that the imperial examination would add many subjects such as miraculous skills, geology, porcelain, silk, calligraphy and painting, the technical development of the Great Liang has entered a period of rapid development, and a large number of craftsmen have entered the capital, and they have specially taken refuge in the Xinghuaying Villa specially established by Emperor Qingping, and have dedicated many exquisite and unique inventions.
For example, now, Fu Gui, the person in charge of Xinghuaying Villa, is holding a small earpiece and is showing it to Cheng Enhou - the craftsman who designed this earpiece claims that this earpiece is placed on the belly of a pregnant woman, and the heartbeat of the fetus in the pregnant woman's womb can be heard!
Xu Shunhe took the earpiece, was very interested, and asked Fu Gui: "Your daughter-in-law is about to give birth, right?" I'll listen to it! "Fu Gui's daughter-in-law is called Biyu, and she is also the maid of Queen Xu's inner courtyard, because she and Fu Gui have love for each other, she begged Queen Xu at the age of twenty, and let her go out to marry Fu Gui, and now she is nine months pregnant, not far from the delivery date.
Of course, Fu Gui couldn't ask for it - the old man Cheng Enhou had always only seen surgery, and occasionally he would see andrology when he was in a good mood, but he never looked at gynecology.
After experimenting with the effect of the earpiece with Fu Gui's wife, Xu Shunhe was satisfied, and after prescribing some dietary therapy prescriptions to Fu Gui's wife, he hurriedly rode out of the Xinghua camp.
When he returned to the inner courtyard, Fu Rui was already asleep, Fu Yuchen handed him over to Zhu Yan and them, and sat on the brocade couch to talk to Xu Cancan - of course, Xu Cancan said that he listened.
Xu Cancan was a little tired, so he said, "You go to take a bath first, and after taking a bath, accompany me for a walk!" ”
Fu Yuchen went into the bedroom to take a bath from Shanruliu.
When he came out of the shower, he found Xu Cancan lying crooked on the brocade couch, and his father-in-law Xu Shunhe was holding a strange object like a horn and putting it to Xu Cancan's stomach and putting it to his ear, as if he was listening to something.
Raising his eyes to see Fu Yuchen, Xu Shunhe was immediately overjoyed, put away the earpiece and beckoned: "Virtuous son-in-law, come here!" ”
He glanced at Xu Cancan with a look of surprise on his face, and then looked at Fu Yuchen: "Virtuous son-in-law, Cancan is afraid that it is a twin this time!" In fact, they all felt that twins, but no one dared to assert it, but he didn't expect this earpiece to work so well, and he clearly heard the heartbeat of the two fetuses.
Fu Yuchen and Xu Cancan looked at each other, they were very happy, but they were not too happy, because the young couple had long suspected that they were pregnant with twins this time.
Seeing that his father was leaving, Xu Cancan joked with Fu Yuchen: "Achen, why don't you pardon the world to celebrate?" "Last time the emperor had a big birthday, Fu Yuchen had a rare hot head and wanted to amnesty the world and enjoy with the people, but he was stopped by the hundred officials, and finally changed to tax reduction and exemption - just because the hundred officials were worried that the people were used to the amnesty of the world, they would have fewer scruples when committing crimes, and the crime rate of Daliang would increase significantly.
Fu Yuchen glanced at Xu Cancan expressionlessly: "Don't want to take a walk?" "Xu Cancan now even dares to make his jokes, it's really bold.
Xu Cancan looked up at him and smiled sweetly: "Ah Chen, let's go now!" ”
Fu Yuchen was silent, but reached out and pulled Xu Cancan up.
After walking back, the female officials and palace maids waited for Xu Cancan to go to the living room to take a bath, and Fu Yuchen took a book and waited for Xu Cancan on the bed in the bedroom.
Xu Cancan came back after taking a bath, his long seaweed-like hair was wrapped in a loose twisted braid of peanut-sized emeralds strung with gold wires, hanging down on one side, and he was wearing a snow-white embroidered bathrobe, with a slightly wide neckline, revealing a half-pulled plump and round somewhere.
She got on the bed, hit Fu Yuchen with her buttocks, and motioned for him to lie inside.
Fu Yuchen got up directly and got out of bed, and hugged her horizontally with the princess hug.
Xu Cancan's body hung in the air, although there was a mattress underneath, but thinking of Fu Yuchen's physical strength, romance also turned into a thriller.
As for Fu Yuchen, he has been practicing with Shui Han for more than a year, and now although he still looks like he is still in shape, he already has some muscles and has gained a lot of strength.
Therefore, in Xu Cancan's mourning, he easily picked up Xu Cancan and walked around the bedroom.
Xu Cancan didn't expect Fu Yuchen, who has always been steady and steady, to be so unreliable that he was so frightened that cold sweat came out, for fear that Fu Yuchen would not be able to hold her and the two children in her belly, and would throw her to the ground and fall to the ground with three lives.
Fu Yuchen's handsome face was calm, and he seemed to be very pure and holy, but Xu Cancan still heard him say something extremely shameless - "You help me ...... tonight"
Xu Cancan was extremely sad and indignant: "My belly is so big, you are still-"
A hint of amusement flashed in Fu Yuchen's phoenix eyes that were tilted upward, and he lightly opened his red lips and added two words - "with hands".
Xu Cancan: "...... All right! Because she was in the late stages of pregnancy, her reaction was so strong that she was a little impatient with the boudoir. And Fu Yuchen can be called a chaste and fierce man, Xu Cancan ignored him, he just held it alive, and he didn't think about relieving himself, let alone going out to be secret, so as long as Xu Cancan touched him at night, he must be a pillar of optimus holding up a small tent.
Xu Cancan was also a little distressed that he was chaste, and he was reluctant to hold it back.
The next morning, Fu Yuchen went to the court refreshed.
Chen Yingyun, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, gave him an unhappy feeling, and he had a twist and turn, sprinkled with tens of thousands of words, and was handed to the imperial study by the cabinet, to the effect that - Your Majesty, you built a gorgeous harem, but only the queen is alone, and now the queen is pregnant, you must have to accept concubines and concubines to be wet with rain and dew, for the beam, for the people, for the Fu family to have more heirs, you can't favor Queen Xu, let Queen Xu stand in the pit and not......
Fu Yuchen's first reaction was to pull this Chen Yingyun out of the noon gate and beat him to death.
On second thought, he had an idea.
In the early morning, Fu Yuchen took out the recital, selected a few sentences and read it, and then said angrily: "Qing's words are reasonable, but I am afraid of the inside, but I can't help it!" ”
The ministers were in an uproar, but they didn't know what to do - Emperor Qingping himself admitted that he was afraid of the inside, what could the ministers do? Instigating the relationship between the emperor and the queen?
The matter was settled.
On the eighth day of June, it is the hottest time of the year, and Xu Cancan is about to give birth.
Although it was the second child, Fu Yuchen and Xu Shunhe were still flustered outside the delivery room, and even the Emperor Taishang and the Duke of Dingguo were waiting in the west wing.
Because he was afraid that Fu Rui would make trouble, Fu Yuchen ordered Shui Han to take Fu Rui to the front study to play.
As the two loud baby cries came out in the delivery room, Mrs. Chengenhou personally came out to report the good news: "Son-in-law, her father, Cancan gave birth to two!" ”
Fu Yuchen immediately rushed into the delivery room.
Mrs. Chengenhou was still stretching out two fingers to her husband: "It's a dragon and phoenix fetus, a man and a woman are really good!" The little prince was born like Xu Cancan, and the little princess was born like a son-in-law! ”
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