Chapter 3: The Little Witch
"Yuning, I'm your own brother."
Chu Yongwang looked at the little guy in his arms and muttered, "With me protecting you in the future, no one will dare to bully you, you know?" β
His unfamiliar hand made Yuewan very uncomfortable, waving his hands and feet to move, opening his teeth and dancing claws like a little witch dancing gods.
The baby who had just opened his eyes couldn't see anything clearly, and the moon night vaguely felt that he was holding his own person, and the fragrance of the food on the nursing mother's body gradually faded, and then the clear sandalwood enveloped the whole body, she leaned up her nose to sniff, and sneezed coldly.
This time, she threw herself out.
Brother? It turns out that the person holding himself is the prince's brother? At the age of remembering things in the evening of the first month, his own brother, a fellow mother, was already weak, and he no longer traveled to and from the harem except to ask the queen mother for peace.
When we meet occasionally, it's just a regular greeting to each other at a few paces.
In my impression, the other party has always been dignified and unsmiling, and among all the royal brothers in the moon, he is the closest but the most born.
However, Yuewan still likes the prince's brother very much, because as long as she sees him, most of them will also see her uncle.
Chu Yongwang stared blankly at the little monster babbling in his arms.
"Father and Queen Mother, Yu Ning smiled at me!"
He was pleasantly surprised.
"Hun said, where will the doll that just landed laugh."
The Cloud Queen was disgusted.
"That's it, I haven't laughed at me every night, where did you stinky boy get this blessing!"
The old emperor was not convinced, "Hurry up and bring it to me!" β
Chu Yongwang dared to compete with Emperor Lao Tzu for favor, so he hurriedly sent it over.
The old emperor shook the moon and shook it, and coaxed with vinegar: "Late evening, late and evening Chong I will also laugh." β
Chu Yuewan grinned toothlessly and sneered, and really smiled at his father and reached out to grab his beard.
This made the old emperor very happy, and he specially stretched his neck to send the dragon whisker to Yuewan: "Look what kind of fish I am catching?" Eh, it's so heavy, it's a little fat dragon! β
The father and daughter were happy, and Chu Yongwang looked at it helplessly, and there was no room for interference.
"Come, my father will take the 'Four Seas Cruise' to the evening~"
The old emperor got up with Xiao Yuewan in his arms, and gently waved her out of the room, wandering towards the warm inner rooms of the Jiaofang Palace.
The nurse and many palace maids hurriedly followed, and there was a lot of chaos.
The couch finally quieted down, and Queen Yun saw Chu Yongwang's cramped and uneasy appearance, and asked him to sit with a smile.
"The Queen Mother."
Chu Yongwang looked at Queen Yun, her unpowdered face was pale and tired, but it did not reduce the beauty charm in her bones.
"Wang'er, are you happy?"
Empress Yun gently caressed his cheek.
"Seeing my father and queen mother like this, my sons and daughters are also very happy."
"Do you like Yuning?"
"I like it, Yuning is cute."
Empress Yun smiled and put down her hand: "That's good." β
Chu Yongwang lowered his head and was silent for a long time, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Queen Yun, his eyes were piercing: "No matter what happens in the future, Erchen will protect the Queen Mother and Yuning at all costs." β
Before Queen Yun finished listening, she hurriedly pressed her son's mouth.
The old emperor's witticisms and small Yuewan's giggles outside the door came from far and near, and Empress Yun excused herself to be tired, and Chu Yongwang withdrew sensibly, and met the old emperor who came back with Yuewan in his arms.
Chu Yongwang saluted: "The hour is not early, and the sons and daughters should no longer disturb their father and queen mother, so they hereby retire." β
"Go, go, go."
The old emperor wished he wasn't an eyesore here.
Xiao Yuewan heard the sound and knew that the prince's brother was leaving, so she followed the voice and stretched out her little meat hand over there, "Ahhh
screamed as a farewell, but when he grabbed blindly, he made a hard effort - pinched Chu Yongwang's nose.
"Hahaha, good catch! Catch it wonderfully! β
The old emperor laughed heartily.
"Yuningβ"
Chu Yongwang was about to run out of breath.
"I'll catch it! It's too late! Pull his nose off! β
"Ahh Belch! β
β¦β¦ There is nothing new in the Dagao Palace, not to mention that the emperor is old, the children are not in groups, and the grandchildren have reached the age of wandering around the ground when they pinch their fingers, so the queen has a little princess, and it is nothing more than a matter of everyone chatting about the past with a yawn.
But the emperor didn't seem to be prepared to pass like this, and before the three days of washing arrived, he had already been stuck in the Jiaofang Hall for two days, and he refused to even go to the court.
Such abnormal enthusiasm finally attracted the attention of the Empress Dowager of Kunci Palace.
"The little girl born by the queen, do you have all the arms and legs?"
Lian Yi, the big palace maid who served on the side, smiled and burned incense and shook her fan, and said: "Back to the Queen Mother, two arms and legs, twenty fingers, one no more and one no less, neat." β
"Then what else is rare, can you give birth to a pair of wings if you look at it more and less glance?"
The Empress Dowager Ge said that she was still crooked on the couch and closed her eyes to recuperate, and with one hand, she was used to rubbing the wide silver silk blue bracelet on her wrist naturally.
Lian Yi pursed her lips and quipped: "Queen Mother, don't talk too much, you said the same thing before Queen Yun entered the palace, and then it didn't hurt like a daughter?" β
After speaking, Lian Yi Fan blocked it, and deliberately leaned into the ear of the Empress Dowager Ge: "Since the queen was born, you have ordered many people to take care of them inside and outside the Jiaofang Palace, and the slave will never say anything about this." β
The Queen Mother glared at her, snorted twice and was still unconvinced: "I saw that she gave birth to a fool, have you ever seen a newborn doll know how to be happy if she doesn't cry or make trouble all day long?" β
"How likable you are when you love to laugh."
Lian Yi put down the fan and pinched her head, "It's much better than crying all day, isn't it?" β
"Hey...... Who knows how. β
The Queen Mother sighed weirdly, her long nails clicking on her knees.
Lian Yi pursed her lips and smiled without saying a word, and continued to rub her sideburns carefully.
The corners of Empress Dowager Ge's mouth raised a little arc slightly, and she quickly stiffened her face and held back.
β¦β¦ According to tradition, the baby is born on the third day, when the "washing of the three pilgrimages" is held
Rites, to wash away the dust of the past life, so as to be safe and auspicious in this life.
Speaking of which, on the third day of his birthday, the emperor's relatives, civil and military officials, gathered in the Changsheng Hall of the Taiqing Palace in Qianying Mountain.
In the center of the main hall stands a tripod-like pilgrimage painted gold glazed basin, and the sunlight is projected from the left and right long windows, which is colorful - this is the little princess's washing three basins.
The ministers watching the ceremony at the bottom were amazed, and they didn't see such a big battle when the prince was born and washed the three, so you can know what an honor this princess of Yuning is, and those who think long enough have begun to envy the future concubine.
But to be fair, what can you see when you stand so far away except for a basin? Besides, no matter how hard she works for a three-day doll, what kind of flower can she grow? The ministers at the bottom smiled on their faces and complained a lot, compared to standing with the emperor's family for a few hours in the cold winter, the big guy was still thinking about whether he could borrow the light of the little princess next year, and the holy grace would give a few more paid rests.
When the hour came, the bells and drums rang, and the Taiqing Palace, which had been quiet for a long time, was revitalized and celebrated.
The Great Gao Saint ascended the table in the eyes of the crowd and was bowed down by the ministers.
The Empress Dowager Ge arrived, and was then respectfully welcomed to the throne by the emperor.
The queen was inconvenient to move around during confinement, so she did not appear in person, and the great eunuch Liu Gonggong read out the congratulatory message, and the ceremony officially opened.
The protagonist of the grand ceremony, Princess Yuning, was wrapped in jeweled swaddling clothes at this moment, and was solemnly handed by the nursing mother to the midwife's arms who presided over the ceremony.