Chapter 344: Loving Father (2)
Worry-free is a good child, usually well-behaved and sensible, and occasionally there will be eccentric naughty energy, and there is a degree of advance and retreat. She is indeed a likable child, however, there has always been a pimple in his heart, and her biological father is Zhou Youping.
"Your Majesty, worry-free is not the emperor's child, and the emperor really doesn't have to blame himself." Meng Xilan helped him find a reason.
Zhou Youchen walked to the bed again and looked at the carefree who had fallen asleep.
"The child is innocent, I know it...... How did I get here when I was a child? I know that a person should not be judged by his origin! The hardships I endured when I was a child should not be allowed to suffer again. ”
Meng Xilan's heart was touched when she heard this, she walked over and stroked his back, and said softly: "The emperor is different from the first emperor, the emperor is only worried about worry-free, not suspicious. ”
Zhou Youchen was silent for a moment and said, "I will stay here for a while longer, and then leave when her fever subsides." ”
"Hmm." Meng Xilan nodded lightly: "The concubine is with the emperor." ”
After drinking the decoction, sweat soon began to appear on his forehead and body.
Meng Xilan took the towel in Zhu Qing's hand and carefully wiped her face and body.
Zhou Youchen reached out and touched her head, and was relieved to see that she was fine.
It's already the third watch day.
Meng Xilan washed her hands, and looked at Zhou Youchen with a worried face: "Worry-free has gone away." ”
Zhou Youchen remembered what he had just heard Zhu Qing say, and only said, "After dawn, do you have to feed her medicine again?" ”
"Well, drink it once every three hours."
Zhou Youchen sat aside and said, "When I drink the medicine, it's better for me to be here." ”
Meng Xilan smiled lightly when she heard this: "The emperor does have a way better than his concubines. ”
Zhou Youchen also curled the corners of his lips: "I am really more suitable to be a strict father." ”
He is a cold-faced person, although he doesn't want to deliberately keep a straight face, but for the children, his face is still too hard.
Carefree sweated and soon woke up with thirst.
She slept in a daze, and before she could open her eyes, she began to moan softly.
Meng Xilan is quite experienced in taking care of children, so she hurriedly brought water and fed it to her mouth little by little with a spoon.
After taking a few sips of water with his eyes closed, he licked his lips and then turned over and fell asleep.
"There's still an hour before I can drink the medicine. The emperor will go to the dormitory to recuperate first. ”
Zhou Youchen shook his head, as if he had made up his mind to stay.
The sound of carefree coughing was muffled, as if the throat had been blocked.
Seeing this, Meng Xilan hurriedly instructed Jade to go to the imperial dining room to boil some lung-moisturizing pear soup to relieve the child's cough.
After tossing for a night, Meng Xilan's eyes turned red.
However, before dawn, she also went to see Changsheng.
Because he was sick without worry, Changsheng couldn't come here, so as not to get sick.
Changsheng slept well, his hands clenched into small fists and placed them beside his face, looking like he was holding back his strength in his dreams.
Meng Xilan clenched his little fist and smiled slightly: "I don't know what kind of dream I am dreaming?" ”
Zhu Lu also laughed and said softly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a good appetite when he comes in. ”
Meng Xilan lowered her head and kissed Changsheng's little fist, Xu felt her intimacy in her dream, and suddenly grinned.
Zhulu knew that the emperor was coming, and she was a little strange, why didn't the emperor come to visit the prince with Niangniang.
"Niangniang, has the emperor returned?"
Meng Xilan shook her head: "No, the emperor is guarding without worry." ”
Zhulu felt a little relieved when she heard this.
Recently, the relationship between the emperor and the mother has been a bit inexplicable, but thanks to the blessings of the children, the two of them can always calm down and get along well.
In the early dynasty, the ministers looked at the emperor with red eyes, and their thoughts were different for a while.
I heard that there is a new favorite jade beauty by the emperor's side, which is infinitely better.
Although Zhou Youchen looks in poor spirits, he is not sloppy at all in handling political affairs.
In the past month, the new policy of reducing the amount of land has been implemented by the imperial court throughout the country, and the results have been good, and the people's will has been smooth.
Zhou Youchen has been on the throne for five years and has been conscientious, however, because of the battle for succession that year, his prestige in the hearts of the people is not high.
Although he defeated the abolished prince and tripped Zhou Youlin, he won until the last prince, but he still has Turkic blood in his body after all. Moreover, Zhou Youchen's favor for Meng Xilan, the concubine of the previous dynasty, also made people see his disrespect for the first emperor.
Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, Zhou Youchen has always been tough and stern to implement the new policy.
After going down, Zhou Youchen immediately went to Cining Palace to see how the children were.
Carefree has woken up at this time, and it's time to take medicine.
Xu was not so uncomfortable this time, she didn't cry or make trouble this time, and obediently opened her mouth to take medicine.
She frowned bitterly, and wanted to cry several times, but she held back.
She frowned and looked patient, looking cute and pitiful.
Meng Xilan looked at her with a gentle face, and when she finished drinking the medicine, she hurriedly handed over the preserved fruit.
Wuwu held the preserved fruit in his mouth, kept pointing his fingers at his mouth, and choked up: "Bitter, still bitter." ”
The bitterness she said was not the bitterness in her mouth, but the medicinal soup on her lips, which was also bitter.
Meng Xilan hurriedly dipped her handkerchief in water, wiped her mouth, and dipped a little honey on the preserved fruit and smeared it on her mouth.
"Okay, okay, so it won't be bitter."
Carefree pursed his lips cautiously, and sure enough, it was not bitter.
Zhou Youchen stood on the curtain outside and looked carefree and well-behaved, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
He walked in slowly, saw him without worry, and subconsciously sat up straight and bowed his head in a proper manner.
She remembered how hard he was with her last night.
Meng Xilan looked back and smiled: "The emperor is here." ”
Zhou Youchen came to the bedside, took the initiative to reach out, touched her worry-free face, saw her blinking eyes, looked at herself, and said in a soothing tone: "Are you still uncomfortable?" ”
She has fawn-like eyes, crystal clear and translucent.
Wuwu shook his head slightly: "Back to the emperor, Wuwu is not uncomfortable." ”
Her voice was a little hoarse, and she spoke with preserved fruit in her mouth, and she couldn't slurred words a little.
Zhou Youchen glanced at her deeply, his gaze turned to Meng Xilan's face, and then he looked at her and said, "In the future, don't call me "Emperor", but "Father". ”
Father's ...... As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.
Meng Xilan also thought that she had misheard, but she had a gut feeling that such a thing would not happen.
Wu Wu didn't understand, looked at Zhou Youchen, and then looked at Meng Xilan, who didn't know what to do for a while.
Meng Xilan knew that this matter was not trivial, and turned her head to give Zhu Qing a look.
Seeing this, Zhu Qing hurriedly put down the things in his hand and hurriedly retreated with everyone.
Meng Xilan was silent for a long time before she got up and looked at Zhou Youchen and asked, "Your Majesty, what you just said is it true?" ”
Zhou Youchen closed his eyes, his tone was not high, and he was a little helpless: "What? You don't believe what I say? ”
Meng Xilan's eyes flashed with surprise: "The concubine is naturally willing to believe it, but this matter can be big or small." The worry-free background has always been a pimple in the emperor's heart. But now, the emperor suddenly changed his mind, and the concubines always have to ask clearly, so that their hearts will be at ease. ”
Zhou Youchen knew that she was worried, so he shook his palm, held her shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "You regard worry-free as your own child, she is your child, and naturally she is my child." ”
Her life was originally beautiful, but unfortunately, it was ruined by the heir of the year.
The abolished prince Zhou Youping was self-inflicted, but Chu Jingwen was indeed innocently affected, and he lost his life at a young age.
There is no way to be a child of the Chu family in this life, but she is the blood of the royal family, and she should not live so wronged.
"The emperor is willing to think about worry-free, and the concubines are grateful. The concubines thank the emperor for worry-free, the emperor's grace is mighty, and when worry-free grows up, he will not disappoint the emperor. ”
Meng Xilan felt in her heart, and her tone couldn't help but be a little excited.
She curtsied, Zhou Youchen stretched out his long arm, stopped her and said, "Why are you doing this?" You never have to be so careful with me. ”
Meng Xilan lowered her eyes and shook her head: "No, the emperor has fulfilled a matter of his concubine's heart today." The concubines are sincerely grateful to the emperor. ”
Carefree sat at the head of the bed with the quilt in his arms, looking at the two of them quietly, not knowing what to do for a while.
There was still a little itch in her throat and eyes, and she couldn't help coughing lightly.
When Meng Xilan heard this, she hurriedly took Zhou Youchen's hand, came to the bedside, looked at Wuwu and said, "Wuwu, you will be the emperor's daughter in the future, do you know?" ”
Wuwu has almost no impression of her biological father Zhou Youping, and when she asked her mother about it when she was a child, she would always cry and be sad, so she slowly learned to avoid it.
It's been more than a year since she entered the palace, and she is quite happy without worry, but she still thinks of her mother often, she still remembers her mother, but she never remembers her father.
Who is her father? What does it look like? She didn't know anything, there was only a gray shadow in her heart.
Carefree sat on the bed in a daze, biting her lower lip, but did not answer.
Meng Xilan saw that she was a little confused, and smiled gently: "Your Majesty, worry-free is still ......"
Before she could finish her words, Zhou Youchen raised his hand to interrupt her, he stepped forward, looked at him steadily, and asked, "Are you willing to be my child?" Be a good sister to immortality? ”
Carefree blinked at him, not knowing if it was because she felt scared or because of immortality, Carefree was stunned for a while, and then nodded slowly.
What Niangniang said, the emperor's words, no one in this world can not listen, and no one dares not to listen.
Zhou Youchen smiled slowly, reached out and touched her head, and sighed, "Good boy." ”
Seeing the carefree and timid appearance, Meng Xilan hugged her in her arms again and patted her gently: "So the best, so the best." ”
She is truly grateful to Zhou Youchen, grateful to him for compensating her for worry-free and compensating for her debt to the Chu family.
Zhou Youchen said in a deep voice: "Lan'er, I promise you that in the future, in front of worry-free, I will only be a loving father, not a strict father." ”
Meng Xilan smiled comfortably when she heard this: "The concubine believes it." ”
Worry-free snuggled in Meng Xilan's arms, I don't know why she is so happy?