The little lady in the palace

Chapter 45

Meng Junhuai still remembered that Yuyin cried the last time because her aunt taught her something, which made her stressed.At that time, he was very glad that he asked the question to the end, otherwise the current situation between the two of them would not be certain.

So this time, he didn't dare to listen to her and just expose this article.

He started to question like this, and the two servant girls sent out by Youshi to welcome him in stared at each other and didn't know what to do: What can I do?Although the east courtyard is the concubine's site, the entire back house is under the concubine's control.Now that the prince is talking to the princess here, who dares to say that it is inappropriate, who dares to rush?

Yu Yin didn't want to say it because she felt ashamed, but seeing that he had to ask, she had no choice but to say: "It's okay, I just... have never seen other people give birth, and I think it's scarier than I imagined."

"...Are you scared?" Meng Junhuai looked surprised, and then burst out laughing.He didn't think so, did he?He was there when Guo Shi gave birth to Jing and You Shi gave birth to Ah Li. He had seen the pain of a woman giving birth, but he was scared to cry when he didn't have a baby... He hadn't seen this before.

"Hey, don't cry." He suppressed his smile and raised his hand to wipe her tears, "Shall I take you back to the main courtyard?"

"...No need!" Yu Yin immediately pushed his hand away, and pushed him back into the room, "Your Highness, hurry up and accompany the side concubine, she, she has been in pain for a long time! What a big deal for me!"

After she finished speaking, she simply ignored him and went back to the main courtyard without looking back.

She really felt that Meng Junhuai should not be distracted by any trivial matters right now, and he should accompany You Shi wholeheartedly!

Yuyin has always known that it hurts for a woman to give birth, and she has also heard the saying that "a woman has to go to hell before giving birth", but today she saw it with her own eyes, and she knew how painful it really is!
Youshi was born so beautiful, he couldn't bear the pain so much that his face was grim.She went in to look twice, only to see Youshi's cold sweat coming out in bursts, and the wet hair was all tied up. It must be uncomfortable to stick to her face, but she didn't bother to push her hair away.

Moreover, it took so long to hurt.Counting for nearly three hours, Youshi kept shouting, screaming heart-piercingly.

Yu Yin felt that this kind of thing...was somewhat unimaginable to her.Shouting for three hours is enough to make people exhausted, but Youshi still has to do his best and endure the severe pain to give birth to the child. She watched from the sidelines, not knowing how to do it.

Because of this, she even became afraid of "she will have a baby in the future".She didn't know what power it was that allowed Youshi to face this kind of thing calmly, but for her, at least for now...she felt that she couldn't convince herself to bear such pain for Meng Junhuai.

And You Shi endured it twice!twice!
Yuyin shivered as she thought about it, looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, and said silently: "Amitabha! The merciful and compassionate Buddha, please bless Youshi's child well, both Youshi and the child will be well!"

In the east courtyard, Youshi woke up after taking a nap, the first thing he saw was the child beside the couch, and then he noticed that King Yijun was also there.

Then, vaguely, she remembered, as if not long after she had given birth, that he had arrived.She sent Shan Zhi and Shan Cha out to meet him, but he didn't enter the house for a long time.

She couldn't hold back and fell asleep in that gap.

In fact, she didn't know what blocked him, but she had an intuition that it was because of the concubine Zheng.

She suddenly felt very tired, so tired that she didn't even bother to complain to him, and then suddenly remembered that she still didn't know whether the child was a boy or a girl.

"Master..." You Shi stretched himself up and called out, Meng Junhuai, who was listening to the doctor's report, suddenly lost his mind: "Lie down and don't move!"

Youshi lay back carefully, he walked to the side of the couch and squatted down, she said nervously: "My child..."

"The child is here." Meng Junhuai only said that she didn't see the child and put it aside, and was about to pick it up to show her, when Youshi asked again: "Is it... a boy?"

"Yes." Meng Junhuai paused, and then added, "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's a daughter, you don't have to...forget it."

He didn't argue with her anymore, but he really wanted to explain it to her.

Although he didn't come to see Youshi these days, he knew everything about the East Courtyard.He knew that Youshi got angry because a servant said something about giving birth to a daughter, and he also knew that she sent many people to the temple to ask for amulets to give birth to the child.

It's fine if it's just a talisman for sending a child, but Meng Junhuai heard that there is also a talisman that specifically prays for a daughter to become a son.

This made him feel a little nervous, what happened to his daughter?And Jing Lanjing, which one did he treat badly?Youshi is so dedicated to seeking a son that he clearly dislikes his daughter, so he can't help feeling that she has other plans.

For example, is she making plans for the position of the son in the future, or thinks that having more sons will make her overwhelm the concubine?
This kind of thinking made him unwilling to argue with You Shi any more. If she really thought so, it would be useless for him to explain his daughter to her.And if she didn't think so... Anyway, her son was born, it would be pointless to argue about it.

The room between the two was quiet for a while, until the maidservant brought small wontons of chicken soup, Meng Junhuai took the bowl with his own hands, and looked at Youshi with gentle eyes again: "How many bites before going to sleep?"

"Yeah." Youshi was supported by Shanzhi and sat up, while he fed him with peace of mind, while looking at the sleeping second son beside him.

This was the first time that she didn't care to talk much when facing King Yijun. She focused on looking at the child, and after a long time, she finally smiled slowly.

She suddenly felt that his favor was not that important anymore.Now she has two sons, the two oldest sons in the house, as long as they can grow up well, they are her biggest bargaining chips.

Compared with the husband's preferences that can change at any time, the son will always stand by the biological mother's side.

Thinking further, if any one of them can become the prince of the palace in the future...

"Master." Youshi raised his eyelids slightly and laughed, "The second son is born, Ah Li... let's start teaching him to read."

"...He is not yet three years old." Meng Junhuai hesitated, "I hope to find a husband for him next year."

Youshi pursed her lips: "Ke Hejing started reciting poems and practicing calligraphy even before she was three years old."

"That's because He Jing wanted to learn because of her own curiosity. In fact, it's almost the same as playing... I'm not happy after learning for two months." Meng Junhuai smirked, thought for a while, and said, "But it's okay, let the husband come in earlier , let the two siblings learn together."

This also saves him from not being able to keep an eye on He Jing's homework occasionally, so He Jing runs to find Yuyin.

In similar matters, he always felt sorry for Yuyin, a well-behaved daughter of the Xie family, who had just reached the age of Ji, and was going to be a stepmother for several children when she entered the palace... The little nun never said she was wronged, but he As far as I am concerned, although I think it is necessary for the child to be closer to the mother, it is better to let the child cause trouble.

For example, when He Jing went to the main courtyard, his original intention was to take He Jing to have lunch with him when he was free, so that He Jing and Yuyin could gradually get acquainted.As a result, Hejing loves to play with Yuyin when he has nothing to do...

It made him want to say to Yuyin from time to time, "I'm sorry, I didn't change the way to let you take care of the child. I really don't know when He Jing is back now"!
As a result, when he went to the main courtyard at night, he immediately saw He Jing jumping on the Yuyin bed.

Yu Yin was undoing her bun in front of the dressing table, looking at He Jing in the mirror and smiling: "Stop messing around! I'm having such a good time, I won't be able to sleep in a while."

"Oh..." He Jing stopped jumping immediately, lay down on the bed and kicked her little feet, and then turned her head to see him, "Father!"

Meng Junhuai: "..."

He walked over with a sullen face, put his hands under He Jing's armpit, and hugged her: "I don't go back to the house to sleep, if you don't sleep, your mother and concubine will have a rest, you know?"

"..." He Jing blinked at him and tilted her head, "I'm sleeping with my concubine today."

Meng Junhuai: "Huh?"

Yu Yin watched from the mirror, crying because of He Jing's cute appearance.She took two more glances before taking off the earrings, got up and walked over: "Isn't this concubine He not here? The room prepared for her here is smaller, and it's not easy for the nanny to sleep with her, she is not used to it." , I put her to sleep."

"Oh..." Meng Junhuai nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "What about me?"

"...?" Yu Yin was surprised.

She looked Meng Junhuai up and down, and frowned puzzledly: "Your Highness, aren't you going to accompany Concubine You?"

Then she persuaded him very sincerely: "I read the medical books and said that it is easy to think too much after giving birth. It is inappropriate for you not to accompany her right now, Your Highness, and it is easy to cause accidents."

Meng Junhuai: "..."

He has never encountered a situation where a wife and concubine in the mansion persuaded him to go to other people's room so seriously and with good reason. He was thinking about how to word it, and Yu Yin "invited" him out while persuading him: " Besides, I have agreed to He Jing. If you stay here, He Jing will have to sleep by herself, and she is afraid to sleep by herself!"

"...No, Yuyin, listen to me." Just as he opened his mouth, he stumbled on the threshold and went out.The next moment, the door closed in front of him.

He Jing's happy laughter came from the room: "Come! Concubine mother! Sleep!"

Meng Junhuai felt grief and indignation: Father also wants to sleep...

King Yijun poked his head in the main room and got angry, what should we do?

Yuyin said that You Shi needs someone to accompany her, which is true.But he can't go now!Youshi is in confinement and needs to take her medicines, supplements on time, and let the nurse give her a massage on time. It is fine for him to visit during the day, but it is really inconvenient to stay there at night.

Furthermore, because he was not allowed to have intercourse during confinement, according to the rules, he could not stay in the East Hospital.Even if he thought he could hold back from touching You Shi, that would not work.

So the current situation is that he can't go to the East Court, and the Main Court won't let him in.

It's been a mess...

Meng Junhuai crossed his arms and gambled at the door of Xie Yuyin's room for a while, then turned around and decided to go back to the front house and sleep by himself!
There is no father here, there is a place to keep the father!
Don't leave me anywhere, I go to live by myself...

In the early morning of the next day, the prince's mansions in Beijing successively heard the good news that Yijun's mansion had a baby yesterday afternoon, and the mother and child were safe.

At that time, all the princes were basically having a headache about how to screen Dongchang's eyeliner. Hearing this news, he felt a little better.

To the prince's mansion, the eldest son Meng Junya: "Understood, let me tell your father, my eldest brother will prepare a generous gift for the child when he is full moon."

The second son Meng Junbo and the third son Meng Junchi of Pingjun Prince's Mansion and Pujun Prince's Mansion responded in the same way: "Congratulations, when will you have a wedding wine, I have to go."

Meng Junyi, the only fourth son of the emperor besides Meng Junya, was greeting his mother at that time, after hearing what he said, he smiled and said: "Follow me here, mother, you have to back up and give a generous reward."

In Yi County Prince's Mansion, there was also a celebration.The east courtyard was so weak that it received all the congratulatory gifts, and several side concubines from the palace came to congratulate them.It was inconvenient for Youshi to meet people during confinement, so he talked to them through a veil.

Several people in the north also prepared presents. When Youshi saw her, she smiled and called Shan Zhi: "Don't let those people spend money. You prepare some silver taels as a gift and send them over. Say it's a happy event and let everyone be happy together." .”

Shanzhi got blessed, and called an eunuch to leave together, and opened the treasury to withdraw money.Several side concubines from other mansions laughed and praised Youshi for his thoughtfulness and magnanimity, knowing how to take care of the concubines next to him even when he was in a high position.

In the northwest corner of the back house, even Mrs. Gu, who had been silent for a long time, was infected by the joy outside.It has to be said that Youshi is really generous in his actions. Once the child is born, everyone will be rewarded, so even the little eunuch who sweeps the floor smiles a little more.

It's just that she didn't get any reward here, Concubine You seems to have forgotten her, or in other words, the entire palace has forgotten her now.

"Oh." Gu Shi sighed, stood on the porch and looked out of the courtyard, and pushed the door of the west wing, "Wu Lu, Concubine You gave birth to a young son, and we don't have any other gifts to give. There is a set of chess brought from home, the chess pieces and board are all rare materials. You can send it to the East Hospital, just say..."

"Miss." Wu Lu, who was wiping the empty multi-treasure rack in the room, turned around, with a bit of impatience frowning, "Don't worry about it. Let's talk about the east courtyard slowly, and just talk about the north side." Now they don't want to accept our things anymore, and we won't be able to ask for anything if we go. Besides, that chess is a rare thing in your eyes, if it is put at Concubine You's place, will Concubine You take a second look?"

"But..." Mrs. Gu also frowned.

Wu Lu threw the handkerchief into the water basin: "Don't worry about it. The side concubine has just given birth to a child, and His Highness will probably go a few more times. What if His Highness is not happy when I go to see it? Can you If I sacrifice these two legs and kneel for another two days, I don't want to die in the palace!"

After Wulu finished speaking, she ignored her and went back to her room, feeling remorse again in her heart.

She also knows that it's not good for her to be like this. She has been with Gu Shi since she was a child for ten years. Now it is the most difficult time for Gu Shi. She shouldn't be like this.

But she couldn't bear the meanness!In retrospect, she still blames herself. At the beginning... Eunuch Zhao of the main courtyard offered her another job, why did she refuse?Then where is the time to show loyalty!
What she was afraid of was that if Gu Shi died, she would be sent back home, and the Gu family would not let her go.But now, seeing that Gu's life is not in danger, she has dragged herself here because of the momentary anger at that time, and may not see a way out in three to five years, ten to eight years!

How could she be so stupid!
Time turns in such a lively way, and it will be August in the blink of an eye.

The weather in August has gradually turned cooler, but the mansion is destined to be lively for a while—mid-August is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Lan Jing will be one year old in late August.In addition, the newborn son is also full moon, and there is no major event for the full moon, but gifts from all the houses, but the hundred-day banquet has to be prepared step by step.

After a month, You's confinement, Meng Junhuai can be regarded as "approved" to rest in the main courtyard again, apart from joy, there must be some resentment.

When he entered the room, Yuyin was lying on the bed eating supper.He glanced at it from a distance, and it seemed that it was porridge or soup, and at the same time, he smelled a clear smell of donkey-hide gelatin.

Meng Junhuai frowned slightly: "Why did you eat this? Is it uncomfortable?" He remembered that her usual supper was light, basically white fungus and lotus seed soup, mung bean porridge.

Yuyin who was in a daze suddenly regained consciousness when she heard the voice, and put down the bowl of Yifu: "Your Highness."

"What's the matter?" He hugged her and touched her forehead, neither hot nor cold, then pulled her back to sit on the couch, "Have you let the doctor see it? Do you want to call an imperial doctor?"

Yu Yin shook her head: "No need. The donkey-hide gelatin was brought from home, so I just eat whatever I want."

But the more he listened, the more he felt that she was not in the right mood.

Come to think of it, these days seem weird too.She wouldn't let him come at night, and every time he came during the day, the children were there.It's just that He Jing is here. Many times Ah Li also comes. She plays with the two children very much. Many times he wants to say something to her but can't get in the way.

He squeezed her hand: "what's the matter? Tell me, who wronged you? "

Yu Yin shook her head again, she really didn't know what to say.

Said she was frightened by Youshi?Said she didn't want to try that kind of pain?Said she didn't want to bear him a child?She knew that this was not something that a married woman should say, and besides, what's the use of saying it, she should have a baby or have to have a baby, saying this is nothing more than making him unhappy and making herself even more unhappy.

"If you don't tell me, then I'll guess it myself." Meng Junhuai leaned in front of her and looked at her expression while saying, "Sick of home? Want to go out for a walk? Or are you tired from the many things in the house recently?"

She didn't respond at all, Meng Junhuai took a deep breath: "You haven't seen me for more than a month, and you want to 'harden your bow'!"

"...What!" Xie Yuyin blushed and pushed him away, but he held her shoulders: "That... Yuyin, look, it's been three months since last time, can we... "

He took a breath: "Why don't you have some more wine?"

But she saw a shudder all over her body.Meng Junhuai was startled: "Yu Yin...?"

"Your Highness, I..." She lifted her eyelashes tremblingly: "We, we don't... what the hell, okay?"

Meng Junhuai: "Huh?"

"I'm afraid..." She restrained her fear and covered her mouth, her eyes were slowly blanked by panic, "That day Concubine You...was in a lot of pain, several times, she, she couldn't breathe because of the pain. I can't stand the pain, I... I thought it might be better if I get better, but I'm still afraid. Do you know, Your Highness... Once I went to the Zhenfu Department to find my brother, and I bumped into him who was trying a prisoner. That prisoner didn't scream as loudly as Concubine You did that day! It didn't hurt that much!"

"Yuyin..." He took a light breath, completely unexpected that she was thinking about this.

Yuyin avoided his gaze and didn't dare to look at him. She was quiet for a while, and then heard his voice sound flat again: "So, you eat donkey-hide gelatin because you are afraid of having children; you haven't seen me these days, too?"

(End of this chapter)