The little lady in the palace

Chapter 58
After Meng Junhuai waved the doctor to leave, Yuyin looked over blankly: "I'm not..." She went on in a daze, "Didn't I...have someone to come for a massage every time?"

For a moment he didn't know what to do.The two discussed not having a child for the time being, not because she didn't want to, but because she was really scared, and she was so scared that she didn't get over it for a month.

He made up his mind and called Yang Enlu: "The nurses who have massaged the concubine in the past three or two months all have thirty sticks; let the doctor make a prescription, the less it hurts the body, the better, this child we..."

The word "don't" came to his lips, but Meng Junhuai couldn't say it.

He wanted this child, and he had long thought that if she could have a child with him, it would be a very wonderful thing.But now that the child is here, he, the father, wants to kill him with his own hands.

Yang Enlu was also suffocated by the side, and he didn't dare to respond to the order for a long time.He waited a while with the intention of waiting for the prince to repent, but he didn't wait for a word, so he tried: "Master...?"

"Go." Meng Junhuai said.

"Wait." Yu Yin stopped in panic.

Meng Junhuai looked at her, and she looked at him too, and then said to Yang Enlu, "Eunuch Yang takes someone out first, I...I'll think about it."

Seeing that there was room for change, Yang Enlu heaved a sigh of relief, bowed his body, and immediately led all the servants out, even Xi Yao was carried away.

Yu Yin looked at Meng Junhuai with mixed feelings: "This child is...ours."

"Yeah." He nodded, and after a long silence, he said again, "But you are afraid, so you don't have to force it. You can talk about it later..."

"But he's already here!" Yuyin collapsed, she stretched out her hand to grab his arm helplessly, he let go of her hand and hugged her again, she curled up in his arms, trembling uncontrollably, " This, this is fate here? I must give birth to him! I have never killed a life, this is my child, I can't..."

"Yu Yin!" Meng Junhuai held her arm tightly, and his voice raised, forcing her to be quiet for the time being.

He looked down, and she looked at him with bright eyes, but she had no expression.It was full of panic, like a frightened deer being chased by a natural enemy and had nowhere to escape.

He made up his mind: "You don't have to give birth to him. An unborn child is not considered a person. The Buddha will not blame you for killing."

"But……"

"If you don't want it, we don't want it." Meng Junhuai wanted to say something selfish to persuade her to give birth to the child, but in the end he forced himself to say what he had to say.

He turned sideways and held her shoulders: "Listen to me."

Yu Yin stared at him blankly.

"There is nothing wrong with you being afraid of having a baby, but thinking too much during pregnancy can kill people." He said each word, "So unless you want this baby yourself, we don't want it. You can't do it against your will." No mother should die for her child by carrying him for months and risking her own life."

She became even more confused.

"You don't have to feel guilty because you didn't want this child. You didn't want to. He came at an untimely time." Meng Junhuai tried to comfort her, "But if you die to protect him, he will spend his whole life in killing him." Mother's guilt."

He sighed, "And me."

Yu Yin took a deep breath.

"So you have to think clearly, this matter can be big or small." Meng Junhuai said earnestly.

"I..." Unknowingly, she calmed down a bit, took another breath, and said, "Let me think about it myself, after I think about it...I'll tell His Highness."

"You want me to leave now?" he asked, and Yu Yin nodded.

And he shook his head: "That's not okay, now is not the time to leave you alone to think wildly." He said and pointed to the rosewood round table not far away, "I'll sit there and not disturb you. But if you If you're stuck on a dead end and can't figure it out, just call me."

Yu Yin hesitated for a while, then nodded.

Meng Junhuai went to sit by the desk without making a sound.Yuyin thought about lying down on the couch, wanting to give herself a place to think about things quietly, so she turned her back to him and didn't look at him.

But after a while, she turned back involuntarily, her eyes fixed on his face, and then she couldn't help but saw God like this.

She thought seriously, is she still afraid of having children now?
Yes, she was still afraid, terribly afraid.The scene of You Shi giving birth has not faded from her mind at all due to the passage of time. She can still think of the screams and bloodstains that day as long as she thinks about it.

but……

She lowered her eyes and took a closer look at Shang's abdomen where there was still no trace.All the thoughts in her mind were telling her that this was her and his child.

Does she want this child?Or, does she want to have a child with him?

Yuyin felt that she was thinking about it.

In fact, before witnessing the process of You Shi giving birth, she had never resisted the matter of giving birth.She likes children very much, He Jing and Ah Li are so cute, if she can give He Jing a younger brother and sister, the scene of them playing together in the main courtyard must be so interesting.

He should also love this child very much...

He loves every child very much, although sometimes he has a temper, but he cares about them all.

And, of late, he seems to be getting more patient.It's been a long time since she saw him get angry with He Jing forcefully and demand what He Jing must do. On the contrary, he reasoned and enlightened him more and more.

Then this child should live a very happy life. There is an older sister and two cousins ​​in the main courtyard, and one older sister and two older brothers outside the main courtyard.

She seemed to be calmly trying to give birth to the child.

Yu Yin looked at him again: "Your Highness...?"

"Huh?" Meng Junhuai looked back.

She lay on her side with her pillow on her hands and thought for a while, then asked: "Women give birth to children... Do more people survive or die?"

He smiled lightly, and told her without prejudice: "Comparing this way, mother and child are much safer, but many died. The rich and the rich are better than the doctors, and the common people ask for more blessings... If you count together Come down, one to two percent is probably there."

"Oh." Yuyin responded in a low voice, stroked her lower abdomen with her hand for a while, and asked again, "What about the clan? The mother who gave birth to a child and died... [-]%?"

"..." Meng Junhuai was taken aback by her question. He hadn't paid attention to such a thing before. After being asked by her, he tried his best to think about it, and then thought, "The current clan... probably doesn't have a single person. Cheng, I don’t know the concubines in each prefecture, but if the children are gone, there will be a number of them. Except that there are more children who are not kept by the elder brother, the others are basically safe, and the mothers should be similar."

"Yeah." Yu Yin nodded in a muffled voice, "Brother has lost so many children, and Princess Jin is still healthy, isn't she?"

He nodded and said "yes".

She nodded again, then fell silent again, and Meng Junhuai also continued to keep quiet. He wanted to take advantage of her change of mind to add fuel to the flames and persuade her to give birth to the child, but he swallowed the words when they reached his lips.

It is easy for him to advise.But if he seemed to want the child too much and she didn't want to have it in the end, she would feel even more guilty about sending the child away.

Yu Yin bit her lip, thinking repeatedly in her heart sometimes calmly and sometimes nervously, there is a [-]% chance that she won't hit her, right?
It is said that good and evil are rewarded. She has never done anything evil in her life, so... there should be nothing to repay her or her children?

So many people who are not kind have given birth to their children safely!
It seems that there is no royal family who died of dystocia in the current clan. She should...wouldn't be so unlucky to be the first one, right?

Naturally, there will be no definite answer to this kind of question, but Yuyin is unconsciously "deceiving herself and others".

She said to herself: Certainly not!

"Your Highness." Another call came to his ears, and Meng Junhuai looked at her again.

Yu Yin pursed her lips and stared at him with a smile on her face: "I hope it's a daughter."

He froze suddenly.

Her smile became clearer again: "Give He Jing a younger sister...she must be happy."

In the courtyard, Yang Enlu waited in fear, thinking that he might have to prepare the concubine's miscarriage medicine soon, he broke out in a cold sweat.

But wait, wait, he actually heard faint laughter coming from the room?
Yang Enlu calmly entered the room, and listened to a few words through the screen, the voice of the princess over there was angry and laughed: "It must be because His Highness always asks me...then what time to read Buddhist scriptures! Blasphemy! The Buddha is upset, so he twisted our minds and insisted on giving us a child."

"Hey... How could the Buddha be so retribution?" Meng Junhuai scratched her nose, "At most, the sutras that were chanted at that time happened to reach the ears of the Son-Send Guanyin Empress, and she mistakenly thought you were begging for a son."

"Anyway... I won't chant sutras like that again!" She gloated at him with her beautiful eyes, "Your Highness has not been able to let me chant sutras like that in recent months."

Meng Junhuai: "..."

Yang Enlu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the settlement was over.

Yuyin started the process of confinement in this winter and spring. Her great pleasure every day was to stare at Jingxi, Zhenxiyao, because the three little girls had a good birth.There is a folk legend that says that if a pregnant woman can see a beautiful little girl every day, she can also give birth to a beautiful daughter.

As a result, He Jing became unhappy after being looked at by her for a few days, and covered her eyes: "Mother Concubine, don't look at it! Mother Concubine is beautiful, and my younger sister must be beautiful too!"

Ouch, little girl, your mouth is so sweet...

Yu Yin smiled and pushed her hand away, and turned to look at Xi Yao.

Xi Yao frowned and pouted: "Don't even look at me, aunt! I want a brother!"

hey you kid...

Yuyin then turned to the oldest Xizhen, who had just walked into the house. Xizhen was stunned, smiled, picked up Ari and walked out: "I, I'm going to feed Ari, aunt, you are busy..."

You are too shameless!

Yu Yin gritted her teeth, while Meng Junhuai laughed beside her: "Why don't you give Xi Yao a cousin?"

She does not!She wants a daughter!
Yu Yin thought very clearly.In this mansion, perhaps any concubine has to look forward to having a son for the sake of the future, but she can look forward to a daughter according to her own thoughts.

Because she is the aunt, any child in the mansion is her child, at least in name.Even if Youshi's son is the son of the eldest son in the future, and Youshi's mother is more expensive by virtue of the son, she can't shake her honor as the aunt.

And if the concubine is not filial, it will not be tolerated by the law, and those who have inherited the title will even be deposed because of this.

This is a protection given to her by the law.

So she wanted to have a daughter with peace of mind!
But Meng Junhuai seemed to want a son more, he said to her: "Your husband is a legitimate son, and then you can have as many daughters as you want. In this way, when the younger sisters grow up, they will be protected by their elder brothers. How good is it?"

"My younger brother can also protect my elder sister! Look at He Jing and Ah Li!" Yu Yin said with confidence.

"It's fine, it's up to you." Meng Junhuai sneered, and without arguing with her, he sat on the edge of the couch and stroked her belly. After touching it for a while, he suddenly frowned.

He looked at her and said earnestly: "You said that the child was born... the first sentence he would say would not be 'good, good'?"

Yu Yin: "..."

In the east courtyard, Youshi's heartstrings have been tensed ever since he heard that the main courtyard was pregnant.

She didn't expect it to be so fast.

If the princess gave birth to a son...

She originally hoped that the main courtyard would have a child after Ah Li and Ah Qi grew up, so that no matter how the princess's child was born, the talent and learning would be a bit behind her child, so she still had a better chance of winning.

But now...

Ah Lilun is only three years old, and Ah Qi is still under the age of one, and his son-in-law is about to come out.They will soon be able to study together, and Xie's family is such a family, she can't expect the princess to give birth to a child with stupid talents.

But she couldn't do anything to make the princess lose her son.

That kind of thing...it's too vicious, Guo Shi did it, and fell into a situation that everyone condemned.What's more, she is also a mother, she can't do this kind of thing to kill another child.

You Shi calmed down and tried to tell himself that he was not afraid.

Whether the concubine's child is a boy or a girl is not certain, even if it is a boy, she has two sons first.

"A Li..." She called Ah Li, and asked him kindly, "Your aunt and concubine are going to give birth to a younger brother and sister for you, would you like it?"

"Yes." Ah Li nodded, "But I hope it's a younger brother. A younger brother is more fun than a younger sister!"

"Well...it doesn't matter whether it's a younger brother or a younger sister." You Shi maintained a smile, and taught him lovingly and solemnly, "Whether it's a younger brother or a younger sister, you have to treat them well. You are a big brother, and now you are growing up slowly." When you grow up, you have to start learning to take care of your younger siblings, and you can't always let your older sister take care of you."

Ah Li nodded with a vague understanding, and then explained to himself: "I also take care of my sister!"

"Well, you've done a good job." Youshi stroked his head kindly and smiled knowingly.

It became clearer in her heart that she must, must teach this son well.He is a concubine, and if he has a son, he will be shorter than the son. Only when the prince is satisfied with him, can he compete with the son.

(End of this chapter)