Chapter 196: Familiar
Although Xiao Lu's birth went smoothly with the help of the imperial doctor and Wen Po, because she was the first child and the birth time was quite long, after the child landed, her whole person seemed to be hollowed out.
Her eldest daughter's nursing mother was personally selected by the queen and Concubine Chen, and she had already taken the child out to wash at this time. The stable woman in the room also cleaned Xiao Lu, and the bedding on the bed was cleaned.
"Princess, are you alright?" Duan Shaoyou was still holding his daughter outside, and Mrs. Zhenguo waited for the delivery room to be cleaned up, and went in to greet Xiao Lu as soon as possible. "It's so hard for you."
"Mother is here?" Xiao Lu had no blood on his face, and said weakly while lying on the bed. "I'm fine, just a little prostration. What about children? ”
"The colt is holding her sister outside." Mrs. Zhenguo said with a smile. "My sister is so cute."
Listening to Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi talk about her daughter who had just landed, Xiao Lu's pale face couldn't help but smile.
"You are the first child, you can have a good birth this month, you must not ignore it." Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi stretched out her hand to lift the quilt that had slipped down for Xiao Lu, and instructed.
Duan Shaoyou hugged his infant daughter, listening to the flattery and praise of relatives and friends around him, he couldn't help but feel a little trance, thinking of another woman who had been pregnant with his flesh and blood.
He and Wan Niang of Qingliangfang actually didn't know each other for a long time, and after marrying Xiao Lu, he went directly to Hanlin Academy. When I went out drinking with a group of colleagues, I met Qing Qi Wanniang in Qingliangfang.
Wan Niang is good at playing the pipa, and she was originally just entertaining at the banquet, and she didn't even say a word to Duan Shaoyou.
But during a banquet not long ago, Duan Shaoyou drank too much and was helped into her room by Wan Niang. After waking up after a night of entanglement, Duan Shaoyou found Wan Niang lying defenseless beside him and the dazzling red on the bed, because of the hangover, his drowsy head immediately exploded and hurt.
Duan Shaoyou's movements woke Wan Niang, Wan Niang looked at Duan Shaoyou and frowned, pulled the quilt to cover her body in embarrassment, and shed tears sadly.
Like a ghost, Duan Shaoyou looked at Wan Niang's tears, got dressed and got up to find the owner of Qingliangfang, and paid a sum of money to wrap Wan Niang down.
After Duan Shaoyou returned to the princess's mansion, Xiao Lu didn't ask him why he didn't go back to the mansion last night, but when he smelled the smell of wine on his body, he told the maid to quickly change his clothes and prepare a sobering soup.
Duan Shaoyou sat beside Xiao Lu and couldn't help but be a little stunned when he looked at Xiao Lu.
Earlier, because Mrs. Zhenguo was too picky about his family affairs, and he was dedicated to studying to gain fame, he missed the time to marry a wife. When he learned that the queen had brought him and Xiao Lu together, he was also dissatisfied in his heart, after all, Xiao Lu's reputation had long been spread far and wide.
said that she was arrogant and domineering, that her grandfather's family had also declined, and that her mother was not favored, and she was not loved by Emperor Chu. Otherwise, as the eldest daughter of Emperor Chu, how could she have been unmarried until she was twenty years old for no reason.
However, his grandfather Zhenguo and his parents were persuaded by the queen, and Emperor Chu quickly made up his mind to give marriage, and Duan Shaoyou Ren was no matter how dissatisfied he was, he didn't have the courage to dare to resist this marriage.
But after the wedding, he found out that Xiao Lu was not as difficult to get along with as he imagined, she was born in a royal family, her appearance and bearing were not bad, and her personality was not as rumored to be. Get along slowly, the relationship between husband and wife is not bad,
Looking at Xiao Lu's eyes looking at him with concern at this time, Duan Shaoyou remembered the absurdity of last night, thinking of the red and Wan Niang's tears on the bed when he got up this morning, and he couldn't help but feel even more guilty about Xiao Lu in his heart.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Lu saw that his face was different, and asked with concern. "Is it a headache? After drinking the decanting soup, go lie down for a while. ”
"I'm fine, but the strength of last night's wine hasn't dissipated yet, so I'll probably be fine if I drank the sobering soup." Duan Shaoyou held Xiao Lu's hand.
Because of guilt, when his colleagues invited him to go to Qingliangfang for a banquet again, he politely declined.
A few months have passed, and it has been calm. Until one day, on the way back to his house, he found a child beside Wan Niang following his carriage all the way.
Duan Shaoyou couldn't, so he had to agree to another invitation from his colleagues and went to Qingliangfang again.
At the end of the banquet, while his colleagues were drunk, he privately met Wan Niang, who was waiting outside. Wan Niang couldn't stop crying when she saw his face, and came forward timidly, whispering that she was now broken and couldn't be a cleaner, but she was pregnant and couldn't entertain guests, and the master was furious and ordered her to either kill the child or redeem herself.
Wan Niang cried that the child had already moved, and she was reluctant to kill the child at all. However, the ransom price offered by the owner of Qingliangfang is not enough for the money she has on her own.
She cried and knelt down in front of Duan Shaoyou, begging him to ransom her out. She knew where he came from, and would not disturb his life, but only begged him to give her another sum of silver taels that could be redeemed, so that at least she could give birth to the child in her womb in peace.
Wan Niang's weakness and helplessness and the child in her womb gradually moved Duan Shaoyou, coupled with the effect of alcohol in the blood, he not only promised to find a way to redeem Wan Niang out, but also promised to buy a house outside for Wan Niang to give birth to this child.
Not only that, Wan Niang was like a silk flower wrapped around his body, and the aroma of her body was mixed with the aroma of wine, which made him intoxicated, and he was entangled with Wan Niang again this night.
It was not until the early morning of the second day that the wife of the prince of Zhenguo sent his eldest son to look for him, and he was taken back to the mansion of the prince of Zhenguo.
Knowing that he had been retrieved by his eldest son from the Qingliang Fang's house, Mrs. Zhenguo was furious and moved on him, and informed him that his wife had been diagnosed as pregnant yesterday.
Although Duan Shaoyou regretted it, a few days later, he still let his henchman bring money to Qingliangfang to redeem Wan Niang, and rented a small house in the east of the city for Wan Niang to live in.
Xiao Lu's belly gradually revealed, but Wan Niang's stomach couldn't be hidden.
Duan Shaoyou knew that Wan Niang's child would never be kept, but Wan Niang's child was his own flesh and blood after all, and he couldn't make such a ruthless move.
In this way, Duan Shaoyou struggled for a long time, seeing that Wan Niang was about to give birth, and one day, Wan Niang suddenly disappeared.
The people who stayed in the small house said that Wan Niang wanted to go out for a walk, but she never returned, Duan Shaoyou was not at ease, and secretly ordered someone to search for a few days, but no one was alive or dead.
He didn't know that Wan Niang had her own thoughts, Wan Niang wanted to take the opportunity to approach the princess's mansion but was discovered by Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi.
After not being able to find Wan Niang, Duan Shaoyou had to comfort himself that it was really Wan Niang who left the imperial capital by herself.
Now that there is no stain on Wan Niang, he and Xiao Lu are married and beautiful, and they have their own eldest daughter, and the big stone in Duan Shaoyou's heart finally fell to the ground.
And Emperor Chu next named his eldest daughter as the county lord and had other rewards, which made Duan Shaoyou even more comfortable.
Even the wife of the prince of Zhenguo was overjoyed when she heard this, and she still had some regrets in her heart when she thought that this child was not a boy, but looking at Emperor Chu's actions now, that little regret was nothing at once.
As long as Xiao Lu and Duan Shaoyou do a good job and have another boy in the future, they will not be able to run away from a title in the future.
For this reason, Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi even entrusted all the affairs in the Zhenguo Mansion to her eldest daughter-in-law, and she stayed in Princess Nan'an's Mansion to take care of Xiao Lu in confinement wholeheartedly, and she was even more attentive and caring when she treated Xiao Lu.
Xiao Lu had a comfortable life in the confinement, and she would be well raised, Concubine Chen sent someone to see her, and when she saw her ruddy face and a smile on her face, she went back and told Concubine Chen, and Concubine Chen was finally relieved.
Xiao Lu's eldest daughter is full moon, and almost all the royal relatives in the imperial capital have gathered in Princess Nan'an's mansion, except for King Jinjun, who has not arrived.
Xiao Xuan took the gift that Concubine Chen prepared for her granddaughter with her, and arrived at Princess Nan'an's mansion early.
Xiao Xuan was naturally treated as a guest of honor when he arrived, and sat in the main hall chatting and laughing with the princes and princesses, princesses of the county, and princesses. My sister was picked up and spun around in everyone's arms, and finally it was Xiao Xuan's turn to hug her.
When Xiao Xuan just hugged her, the sister who was sleeping soundly in the swaddling clothes suddenly opened her big watery eyes, and Xiao Xuan suddenly became happy.
"It's rare, my sister is the easiest to cry when she just wakes up, and today when she was hugged by her aunt, not only did she not make trouble, but she also smiled so happily." Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi came forward to entertain all the distinguished guests, and said when she saw this.
"That's because I have a relationship with my sister." Xiao Xuan hugged her sister and made a color towards the dantang behind her, and the dantang willingly handed a small box to Mrs. Zhenguo Gongshizi. "I got this piece of blood jade seed material by accident, give it to my sister as a portable jade."
Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi took the small box and immediately opened it, and there was a fist-sized piece of blood jade lying inside.
"Hurry up and bring us our gifts." Princess Wen said playfully. "This blood jade is already rare, and Zhaoyue also sent such a large piece, but I didn't have this treatment when I was growing a child."
The sister couldn't leave Xiao Lu for too long, and after Xiao Xuan hugged her for a while, she asked the nurse to take the child back.
When Xiao Xuan continued to talk to people, he looked at a faint face flashing in the crowd outside, looking very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
"What are you looking at?" Princess Yi Zhao glanced at Xiao Xuan and asked. "So focused?"
"Oh, nothing." Xiao Xuan came back to his senses and smiled softly. "I just watched a person go out, looking a little familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it, so I wanted to take a closer look."