Chapter 42: The Heart Knot
After King Yujun was born, seeing that the prestige of the eldest prince was getting higher and higher day by day, the queen didn't have the heart to say goodbye to Emperor Liu's concubine in the harem.
She only focused on when the bellies of the second prince, the main concubine and the side concubine, would be able to bulge.
The year after King Yujun was born, the fourth prince and the fifth prince also got married one after another.
Not long after that, the four princesses and the five princesses all came out with good news, and a year later, the four princes had more dragon and phoenix babies under their knees, and the fifth prince added a girl.
Then the eldest princess Wen came with good news, and ten months later, she gave birth to a boy for the eldest prince.
There is still no news in the palace of the second emperor, the queen is anxious, seeing a circle of bubbles at the corners of her mouth, and people are not in good spirits, seeing that she is going to stay in bed again, the second prince's side concubine Liao has just spread the good news.
The news that the second prince's side concubine was pregnant quickly spread throughout the palaces.
"Suihong, prepare a gift for me for the second prince's concubine, don't choose food and medicinal herbs, pick some fabrics and jewelry." Emperor Liu's concubine leaned on the chaise longue, watching Xiao Xuan squatting in front of her and teasing the little King Yujun, and turned her head to order Sui Hong. "You don't have to show me when the things are ready, you can send them to the Second Emperor's Palace for me."
"Yes, sissy."
Sui Hong took the two palace maids to the treasury to pick up things, and Xiao Xuan sat down beside Emperor Liuhuang with the babbling King Yujun. Xiao Xuan is small, and he is not very familiar with the posture of holding a child, and the good-tempered King Yujun is not picky, obediently nestled in Xiao Xuan's arms, holding a piece of jade pendant that Xiao Xuan just handed him and playing with his head down.
Wen's physical strength was not good just now, and the king of Yujun was still too young and pestering, so in order to let Wen's take care of his young son with peace of mind, Concubine Liu took over the temporary upbringing of Yujun Wang in Yihua Palace.
Xiao Xuan likes his own nephew, since the day King Yujun moved to Yihua Palace, Xiao Xuan has changed his habit of sleeping lazy. I got up early every day, and after waiting for King Yujun to finish drinking milk, I used a small cart to push King Yujun around in Yihua Palace.
"Brother Yu, give my aunt a smile." Xiao Xuan took a small Kong Ming lock from the desk on the side and teased King Yujun to speak. "Laugh one, okay?"
"Want~~" King Yujun grinned at Xiao Xuan very face-savingly, and when he saw the delicate and small Kong Ming lock in Xiao Xuan's hand, he immediately lost interest in the jade pendant in his hand, and the jade pendant threw it on the couch, and the two small hands were open to reach the Kong Ming lock in Xiao Xuan's hand.
"Is Auntie okay?" Xiao Xuan wanted to tease him, and when he was about to reach Kong Ming's lock, he removed his hand in time.
"Okay, good aunt!" King Yujun stood up impatiently, dragged Xiao Xuan's shirt and leaned on Xiao Xuan's body, trying his best to reach Kong Mingsuo, and his mouth was not idle. "Aunt... Aunt give it to me. ”
Emperor Liu's concubine looked at her aunt and nephew with a smile on her face.
In the afternoon, King Yujun woke up after a nap, crying to find his aunt, and the nurse and the palace maid coaxed him for a long time, as long as he carried him to Xiao Xuan's palace.
It just so happened that Xiao Xuan also took a nap, and King Yujun, who originally had a crying face, saw Xiao Xuan and immediately laughed, struggling to leave the arms of the nurse, and struggled to lean on Xiao Xuan's body.
"Oh, you little naughty." Xiao Xuan saw that half of his body stretched out, and hurriedly walked a few steps and reached out to take him from the nurse's arms.
Xiao Xuan thought that the weather was good outside today, so she beckoned the palace maids who were waiting for King Yujun to push the small cart that King Yujun used to wander around on weekdays, and she wanted to take King Yujun to walk around the imperial garden.
Along the way, Xiao Xuan didn't let the nurse and the palace maids do it, and personally pushed the small cart that King Yujun was sitting on to the imperial garden.
After arriving at the Imperial Garden, King Yujun excitedly clapped his two little hands, and Xiao Xuan took him out of the small cart and walked to a nearby pavilion.
The palace maids who followed hurriedly arranged the tea, snacks, and cushions they brought.
Xiao Xuan put King Yujun on the stone table and sat on it, King Yujun had never sat on such a high place, he looked left and right strangely, and it was very fresh.
When the freshness passed, King Yujun disliked that the stone table was too hard, and threw himself into Xiao Xuan's arms with his open hand.
The palace maids brought over the dim sum made by King Yujun in the small kitchen of Yihua Palace, Xiao Xuan wiped his hands clean, twisted a piece by himself, and fed King Yujun one bite at a time.
The two of them, aunt and nephew, were playing affectionately in the pavilion.
"The slave has seen the second princess." Suddenly, the palace maid who was waiting outside said.
Xiao Xuan hugged the king of Yujun and followed the prestige, and the second princess and concubine Hu stood alone not far from the pavilion, looking at their aunt and nephew.
"Second sister-in-law." As the second princess of the Hu family, Xiao Xuan still took care of the rules when she saw her, and when she spoke, she hugged King Yujun and got up to greet her.
"Second princess." Hu Shi was dressed in a crimson dress, and the whole person was much thinner than during the election, and his waist was slender as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind.
"Second sister-in-law, why didn't anyone follow behind her?" Xiao Xuan looked at the lack of people behind Hu Shi, and wondered why she appeared alone in the imperial garden, without even bringing a person who was waiting for her. "If the second sister-in-law is fine, why don't you come in and have a cup of tea and some snacks?"
Hu Shi deliberately got rid of the people around him, and wanted to come to the pavilion in the remote part of the Imperial Garden alone to sit down and meditate, who would have expected to bump into Xiao Xuan here. She subconsciously wanted to refuse Xiao Xuan's proposal, but just as she was about to open her mouth to refuse, King Yujun in Xiao Xuan's arms suddenly shouted at her.
"Second sister-in-law, don't refuse." Xiao Xuan pressed Yujun Wang and said. "It's just a cup of tea, I'll send someone to find someone to serve around the second sister-in-law, and the second sister-in-law is waiting for someone to come here."
"Okay." Hu Shi looked at the sturdy and lovely Yujun King in Xiao Xuan's arms, and he couldn't say anything to refuse, so he could only smile and sit down.
The second prince's side concubine Liao's background is not much inferior to the main concubine Hu's, her father is Yongchangbo, and her mother is the youngest daughter of the eldest princess of Qinghe. She has a delicate appearance and a pleasing temperament, and she is deeply loved by the second prince after entering the palace.
A few days ago, when Liao and her went to greet the queen, she suddenly fainted, and the queen invited the imperial doctor to check her pulse, and found that Liao was three months pregnant.
Immediately, everyone was overjoyed, and Liao woke up with hindsight and was very surprised to learn that she was pregnant.
Everyone present immediately bowed down to the queen and said goodbye.
Hu Shi was squeezed on the outermost side of the crowd, looking at the corners of Liao's mouth that looked like he was shy, and he bit his lower lip with hatred, and a line of blood flowed down the corners of his mouth without knowing it.
"The Princess." Xiangdong, the maid who followed her to marry into the palace, noticed her strange appearance in time, quickly pulled her sleeves, and quickly stuffed a handkerchief for her. "Let's wipe it."
After the queen sent someone to escort the Liao family back to give birth to a safe baby, she also deliberately left her.
"Hu Shi, I know what you are thinking, it is indeed inappropriate for the Liao family to be the first to get pregnant as a side concubine." The queen took Hu's hand affectionately and said persuasively. "But if you look at the palace now, the eldest prince will not talk about it, and even the fourth prince and the fifth prince who got married later have their own heirs. However, there is no news in the womb of the second emperor for a long time, and now the Liao family is pregnant with the first child of the second prince, and her birth is very important. ”
"Queen Mother, I know what is light." Hu Shi knew what the queen meant, and she left herself to speak just to appease her. "I will definitely take good care of the Liao family and the fetus in her womb, and I will definitely let her give birth to this child safely for Her Royal Highness."
"Well, it's best if you think like that." The queen laughed. "Don't worry, you're still young and healthy, and sooner or later you'll have your own children."
Hu Shi watched the people in the palace come to congratulate Liao on being pregnant, and since the day Liao found out that she was pregnant, Liao has been afraid of dragging the second prince to rest in her palace every day.
The people around Liao's came to her all day long, using Liao's pregnancy as an excuse to ask for good supplements and food every day.
Early this morning, when the Hu family went to greet the second prince, the Liao family held her belly, which could not see the change in shape at all, and wrapped it around the side of the second prince.
Hu remembered his mother's earnest entrustment before he got married, so he had to swallow this breath.
But after she came out, she felt really depressed, and she was too lazy to bring people, so she walked to the imperial garden alone.
"The second sister-in-law has lost a lot of weight." Xiao Xuan held the king of Yujun in one hand, and personally held the teapot in the other, poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of the Hu family. "Second sister-in-law, let's have a cup of tea."
"Thank you." The Hu family was deflated under Xiao Xuan during the general election, and he has always had a bit of a taboo against Xiao Xuan.
"Yikes!" King Yujun in Xiao Xuan's arms suddenly screamed, stretched out his right hand, and his fleshy body pounced forward, and his fleshy hand rested on the back of Hu's hand.
The child's body temperature was quite high, and this sudden contact made Hu's whole body soften.
"Hug!" Seeing that he had succeeded in attracting Hu's attention, King Yujun waved his hands at Hu and muttered to hug.
"Second sister-in-law, have you ever hugged Brother Yu?" Xiao Xuan knew that King Yujun was a familiar child, so he asked Hu with a smile.
"I didn't hug it." Hu Shi looked at the white and tender King Yujun and said. "I'm afraid I'm going to drop the child."
"It's okay, the second sister-in-law just sat and hugged him." As he spoke, Xiao Xuan lifted King Yujun up and stuffed his head into Hu's arms. "The nurse and the palace maid next to him will be watching, so the second sister-in-law can hug him."
Hu really couldn't shirk it, so he had to take King Yujun over, and King Yujun, who was originally dancing and babbling, became honest when he arrived in Hu's arms.
Hu's originally gloomy mood was interrupted by King Yujun, and it was slowly relieved.
She and Xiao Xuan also talked, and King Yujun interrupted from time to time, and the atmosphere between the two of them was not bad for a while.
It wasn't until Xiangdong beside the Hu family got a reminder from the green forest and brought someone to find him.
"Thank you for your hospitality today." Seeing that Xiangdong was coming, the Hu family was quite reluctant to return King Yujun to Xiao Xuan.
"It's okay, just a little tea and snacks." Xiao Xuan hugged King Yujun and sent her to the outside of the pavilion and said. "The second sister-in-law relaxes her mood, and there will be good news in the near future."
"Cheng Second Princess Jiyan."