Chapter 220: Enlightenment
Duan Shaolan looked at Xiao Lu and Duan Shaoyou, who were full of joy on the opposite side, and then looked at Xiao Xuan, who was a little tired between his eyebrows, and naturally understood in his heart.
At the annual banquet, everyone was overjoyed and stepped forward to congratulate Xiao Lu.
Duan Shaolan didn't speak again, but just held Xiao Xuan's hand tightly.
When the New Year's banquet dispersed, outside the hall, Xiao Xuan pulled Duan Shaolan and caught up with Xiao Lu's family of three.
"Big sister, there are a lot of people in the hall, so I didn't come forward to make fun." Xiao Xuan smiled and said hello to Xiao Lu. "Congratulations to the big sister for getting pregnant again."
Xiao Lu, who was already a mother, listened to Xiao Xuan's words and turned her head to look at her daughter who was being held by her husband.
"Thank you." At this time, Xiao Lu's eyebrows were gentle, as if she had faded away the sharp thorns that once surrounded her body, and her smile was like spring water.
Xiao Xuan looked at her gentle smile and was stunned for a while, and didn't react for a while.
Xiao Lu didn't say anything more, only slightly greeted Duan Shaolan, and the family of three left.
"Shaolan." Xiao Xuan seemed to be half a beat slower, and said slowly to Duan Shaolan who was holding her hand. "Big sister has really changed a lot."
For Xiao Lu, who was once arrogant and domineering, Duan Shaolan naturally had seen it.
"People change a lot." Duan Shaolan took the cloak handed over by Lu Lin and carefully dressed it for Xiao Xuan. "Alright, it's freezing, let's get into the carriage quickly."
Xiao Xuan understands her physical condition, because of her natural insufficiency, her childhood was really sick and calamitous, a minor illness in three days, and a major illness in five days, I don't know how much attention was consumed by Emperor Liu's concubine. Emperor Chu ordered people to search for famous doctors all over the world, and it took many years to barely regulate Xiao Xuan's body. It is precisely because Xiao Xuan was born weak that Emperor Chu was the most indulgent to Xiao Xuan among his many children.
It's just that Xiao Xuan's body is only good on the surface, and her physical foundation is not good, so she is a hidden danger after all.
Sitting in the carriage on the way back, Xiao Xuan lowered his head and looked a little depressed, and he was silent all the way.
"Xuan'er." Duan Shaolan took her into his arms, and felt that the slender body in his arms was glowing with a trace of coolness. "Don't think about it, we're all young and not in a hurry to have children. Isn't it nice for the two of us to live in the princess's mansion? ”
"I'm not very old, but you're twenty-one. In the imperial capital, the sons of families of the same age as you, no one has a bunch of children. Let's just say that my sixth brother, my birthday is the same as your front and back, and now there are six children in the house. Xiao Xuan pouted, and her head rested lightly on Duan Shaolan's chest. Look at my big sister, she's pregnant again. But what about me, why hasn't there been any movement at all so far? ”
As Xiao Xuan spoke, she felt more and more sorrowful, and she actually leaned on Duan Shaolan and cried quietly.
"We haven't been married for a year, you just look at the number of children in other people's houses, don't want to think that they got married several years earlier than me, it's not normal to have children." Seeing this, Duan Shaolan hurriedly and gently picked up Xiao Xuan's face, wiped away the tears hanging on her cheeks, and softly persuaded her to relax her mind. "I actually think that it is better that you don't have to get pregnant so early, you are still a little young now, and Dr. Shi, who diagnoses my mother's pulse in the house, often says that a woman is the best age to give birth after 20, which is not only good for the child, but also good for the woman. And pregnancy and childbirth have always been a ghost gate, I don't want you to have any accidents, I hope you and I can be safe and old. ”
"But......." Xiao Xuan raised his head in a sobbing voice after listening to Duan Shaolan's words, and looked at him with a pair of teary eyes and said. But what if I'm not in good health, what if I can't conceive a child? ”
Xiao Xuan expressed his concerns to Duan Shaolan, and for a while he cried more and more violently.
"What nonsense, what's wrong with you? When I was diagnosing Ping'an Pulse a while ago, didn't Dr. Liu say that you are fine? Duan Shaolan looked at Xiao Xuan, who was crying pitifully in his arms, and hurriedly said. How can you curse yourself like this, don't cry, you cry again and let the green forest and dantang outside hear it, and then they should suspect me of bullying you. ”
"Woo woo woo......." Xiao Xuan was completely immersed in his own sorrow, and couldn't stop tears from falling like a string of beads, wetting Duan Shaolan's clothes. This is a hidden disease, where can it be diagnosed after a few diagnoses of Ping An Pulse? I don't want to give you a concubine, but what if I can't give birth and you have no heirs? ”
Xiao Xuan clutched Duan Shaolan's shirt tightly and cried uncontrollably.
"What nonsense?" Duan Shaolan said. "Why can't you give birth? In front of us, we have been married for less than a year, and if you don't look at the Manchu Emperor, there are people who have been married for three or four years, or seven or eight years before giving birth to an heir. Look at my mother, didn't she just give birth to Brother Bin? Listen to me obediently, and don't think nonsense anymore. You cried so sadly, and when you turned around and got off the carriage, your swollen eyes were seen, beware that someone in the palace will mention me to play the board tomorrow. ”
"Why does someone in the palace want to beat your board?" Xiao Xuan asked in a dizzy cry.
"Anyone who looks at you like this should think that I bullied you. When the time comes, not to mention that His Royal Highness King Qin and King Yi are going to come to me for trouble, that is, His Majesty can't tolerate me even more, and I think that it will be light to beat the board. Duan Shaolan simply made a hard effort and picked up Xiao Xuan's whole person and put it on his lap. Are you going to keep crying? Do you really want to see me hit the board? ”
"I don't want to watch you hit the board." Xiao Xuan put his arms around Duan Shaolan's neck and pressed his cheek to the side of his cheek lovingly. "I don't cry anymore."
Xiao Xuan said pitifully, her eyes were slightly red and swollen from crying, and there was a bag of tears in her eyes, and her appearance made people feel pity.
Duan Shaolan lowered his head slightly and kissed away her tears.
"Promise me, don't think about it." Duan Shaolan hugged her tightly and said in her ear. "We'll wait for two years, and if there's no more movement, we'll talk about the rest, okay?"
"Uh-huh." At this moment, Xiao Xuan nestled in Duan Shaolan's arms, and nodded very obediently. "I see."
When the carriage arrived at the princess's mansion, Xiao Xuan, who had red and swollen eyes, felt embarrassed at this time, and was reluctant to get out of the carriage.
Duan Shaolan had no choice but to let the carriage drive to the side door and enter the princess's mansion.
"The carriages have all entered the house, and I will carry you down, and others will not be able to see your eyes." Duan Shaolan lightly patted Xiao Xuan on the head and said. "Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and we have to enter the palace early in the morning. If you don't go back to your room to rest sooner, the redness and swelling on your eyes won't go away. ”
"Okay." Xiao Xuan thought that if she entered the palace tomorrow with red and swollen eyes to pay New Year's greetings, her father and mother would definitely pull her to ask questions non-stop.
Duan Shaolan carefully carried Xiao Xuan out of the carriage this time, and carried her all the way back to the backyard.
Suihong, who was guarding the princess's mansion, greeted Xiao Xuan, and as soon as Xiao Xuan looked up, she saw a pair of swollen walnut-like eyes.
"Pony?" Sui Hong couldn't help but turn her head to look at Duan Shaolan inquiringly, and asked suspiciously. "What's wrong with the princess's eyes?"
Duan Shaolan was just about to speak, but Xiao Xuan hurriedly stopped his reply with a gesture.
"I'm fine, it's just that the wind outside is strong today, and my eyes are uncomfortable." Xiao Xuan hurriedly entered the room with his feet raised, and gave instructions one after another. "Suihong, quickly take a cold and hot cloth to apply my eyes alternately."
Xiao Xuan slipped into the house, and the maids hurriedly followed.
Fortunately, it was handled in time, and when she got up early the next morning, Xiao Xuan, who was still sitting on the bed and didn't get up, anxiously asked Lu Lin to hand over a target glass, and only settled down after finding that her eyes had returned to normal, and the maids helped her get up and dress up.
After entering the palace, Xiao Xuan and Duan Shaolan went to Lingyun Hall and Zhaoyang Palace, and then came to Yihua Palace.
The little couple knelt down and kowtowed to Concubine Liuhuang, who hurriedly asked the two to help them up and handed each of them a purse.
"How were you going back and resting last night?" Concubine Liu Huang pulled Xiao Xuan to sit beside her and asked.
In the end, it was the daughter who was conceived and raised in October, and at the New Year's banquet yesterday, Emperor Liu saw that Xiao Xuan's was inappropriate.
"It's fine." Xiao Xuan was looked at by Emperor Liu's concubine, and said awkwardly. "I slept pretty well."
"You still want to lie to me, you are my daughter, can I still not know what you think?" Seeing her reaction like this, Concubine Liu Huang confirmed the conjecture in her heart. "You don't have to think so much about other people's affairs, you were raised in front of me, and I know better than anyone else what your body is like. At present, you and the colt have been married for less than a year, but there is no movement just because the fate of the children has not yet arrived, and you are not allowed to think nonsense. ”
"Mother, I don't." Xiao Xuan hurriedly defended.
"And said no, the black green under your eyes can't even cover the fat powder." Emperor Liu's concubine glanced at her, looked directly at Duan Shaolan, who was sitting at the bottom, and instructed him. "Xuan'er has a small problem, and she can't sleep well if she has something in her heart. Now she lives outside the palace, and she needs a horse to take care of her for me. Everything doesn't have to be left to her, just say her when it's time to talk about her. ”
"Yes." Duan Shaolan got up and answered.
When Xiao Xuan got up in the morning, his mind was also a mess, and when he held the target glass, he only cared about whether his eyes were swollen, but he didn't notice the dark blue in front of him.
"You are not allowed to think about those who have or don't, you are my daughter, and there are no hidden diseases." Emperor Liu's concubine held Xiao Xuan. "Eat well, rest well, the warm and nourishing supplements I ordered someone to send over have all been seen by Imperial Doctor Liu, you eat on time and by meal, don't pull a meal, have you written it down?"
When Xiao Xuan came to Emperor Liu's concubine, she only nodded vigorously, not daring to say anything.