Queen Sun

Chapter 37 Twins
In the sixth year of Zhenguan, the weather was smooth, horses and cows were in the fields, and the outdoors were not closed. The emperor worked hard to govern, his ministers fulfilled their duties, and the borders were impregnable. The entire Tang Dynasty gradually revealed the appearance of a peaceful and prosperous age.From winter to spring, people came to the seventh year of Zhenguan with a beautiful vision for the future. It was at the beginning of this year that the empress gave birth to a pair of twins, for the later Jinyang Princess Mingda and Yin Wangzhi.

In the seventh year of Zhenguan, in February, it was the full moon day of the two Highnesses. His Majesty held a full moon banquet in the Liangyi Hall, perhaps because the Queen was still weak after giving birth. The banquet has been much simpler.

This is the first time the queen has appeared in front of civil and military officials since she was pregnant. There is always a faint smile on her slightly rosy face. She is holding the fifteenth prince in her arms, and from time to time she will turn her gaze to the emperor's arms. On the face of Princess Jinyang in the picture, although everything looks so harmonious and beautiful now, no one present may not be able to forget the uproar caused by the twin princes from birth to today.

More than a month ago, in the Taiji Palace, there was a trace of tension and anxiety that gradually spread everywhere, even overshadowing the festive atmosphere of the New Year. Every year, the royal family banquet on New Year's Day was just a hasty cutscene. After New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, the queen's relatively stable fetus suddenly became disordered. The decoction of the fetus was used, but the effect was not good.

Fortunately, there were no major events in the court during the first month, so the emperor simply stayed in the Lizheng Hall all day. In such a situation, it was not until two days later that the empress finally showed signs of giving birth, and His Majesty was invited by the imperial doctor and Mrs. Wen go out.

With the past of the life-and-death frontline last time, as early as a few months ago, everyone had put up 12 points of energy and carefully prepared for the delivery, but at this time, even though it was freezing cold outside , but there were still fine beads of sweat on Shangguanping's forehead.

Li Shimin paced back and forth non-stop, listening to the painful groans gradually coming from inside, his heart became more and more impatient, his hands were tightly clasped behind him, fearing that he would rush in if he couldn't help it.Gradually, the sun at noon slowly slid to the west, and it was already dark early in winter. Looking at the almost dark night outside, he felt pain in his stomach, and Zheng Ji who was waiting beside him was even more so. Trembling with trepidation, it is not easy to remind the emperor that he has not eaten for a day.

When the eastern sky was finally stained with a little ray of light, the loud cry of a baby was finally heard in the inner room. Li Shimin immediately lifted the curtain and rushed in, only to see Guangyue wrapping a freshly cleaned up baby in silk and satin. Well, the surrounding palace people also knelt down one after another and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, happy princess."

Li Shimin took a quick look at his daughter, then knelt down beside his wife's bed, and asked anxiously, "Why is the queen still asleep?"

Just as Shangguan Ping wanted to speak back, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly pushed aside the maids in front, and said anxiously: "Why is the queen's abdomen still bulging, can't it be twins?"

As soon as the words fell, everyone's expressions changed drastically. If the queen still had a fetus in her womb, the mother might not be able to give birth given the current condition of the queen.

Li Shimin's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he quickly grabbed Ruoshui's hand and called out, "Ruoshui, wake up quickly, we still have a child." But when his wife still didn't respond, he shot cold eyes To the imperial doctor beside him.

Shangguan Ping managed to calm down, and regardless of the emperor's presence, he quickly pricked a few acupuncture points. Time seemed to be frozen, and everyone held their breath, watching, waiting, and looking forward to it. ...

At this time, Ruoshui didn't feel any pain at all. After she heard others whispering that she was a princess, she fell into a familiar twilight. In the second year of Zhenguan, she came from here for a thousand years. time before.

She raised her eyes and looked around. The white-haired old man she met that day was not there, but there seemed to be a figure standing not far away. Before she could walk over, the man turned around slowly. Come, dressed in white, with long hair pulled up loosely, and a face that looks like a mirror of her own: "Are you...she?" Ruoshui whispered.

The man smiled quietly and said, "I am the eldest grandson Ruoshui."

"You've been staying here?" Ruoshui asked in surprise, "Then why did that man say he needs me to live for you?"

The eldest grandson looked past Ruoshui, seemed to be looking somewhere, and shook his head after a long time and said, "Not just for me, but also for yourself."

Ruoshui became more and more confused, and the doubts in his heart not only did not dissipate, but became bigger and bigger.

"Forget it." The eldest grandson's voice was deeply empty, "I also only knew before that you and I are each other's half body, but we were misplaced into two different time and space when we were born."

"How is this possible?" Ruoshui asked in astonishment.

The eldest grandson's smile deepened: "I was still born in the eldest grandson's family, but your situation is even more strange. Since you have no relatives in the future, I had to put you at the gate of the orphanage until the second year of Zhenguan. When half of the souls are about to be unable to support the body, they have no choice but to find you back."

Ruoshui was dumbfounded and said, "You mean we should be alone? But why didn't you come back to your own body?"

"I'm afraid that's what it means." The eldest grandson said quietly, "As for me, I'd rather watch than go back there. Besides, under normal circumstances, you can do well by yourself."

"So, you just left me there alone?" Ruoshui said angrily, "Obviously these are all your responsibilities."

The eldest grandson stared at Ruoshui, and suddenly spoke desolately: "My responsibility? Haven't you ever thought that if I were to switch positions with you at the beginning, if you had experienced such a life for more than 20 years, you would not have made a decision?" Do you have the same choice as me? Is there any woman who is born virtuous? Is there any woman who is born to be able to hide her emotions?"

"Do you still love Yuanji?" Ruoshui seemed to feel the helpless pain in his heart.

"Yuanji." Changsun murmured, "You shouldn't have stepped into the Hall of Martial Virtue at that time. I thought that the memories of the past would be taken away with me, but I didn't expect to be able to take those away."

After finishing speaking, she looked up at Ruoshui, as if she had made a certain decision, but said: "You still have a boy in your womb, if you don't go back, it will be too late."

Before Ruoshui had time to respond, she felt bursts of pain on her body, and soon, she heard the cry of a baby again, she felt relieved, and tried to open her eyes, only to see a pair of bloodshot eyes.

"Guanyin maidservant, Guanyin maidservant..." Li Shimin held his wife's hand tightly, calling him a nickname he had never called before, with a face full of pleading and pain.

Ruoshui's heart shrank suddenly, and he didn't even have time to think about what happened just now, but stretched out his left hand with difficulty to caress the face that seemed to have been scratched by years overnight.

Li Shimin watched Ruoshui's eyes open in a daze, his voice trembled a little brokenly, and asked Shang Guanping, "Queen...Queen, are you alright?"

Shangguan Ping took a deep breath, took half a step forward and knelt down cautiously: "Your Majesty, please Rong Chen check the Queen's pulse again." Fortunately, it was only half a stick of incense, and he was finally able to report that the Queen has indeed turned the corner. .

After all the people around had left, the husband and wife faced each other, but they didn't know where to start. Suddenly, Ruoshui looked behind Li Shimin and asked, "Second brother, where is the child?"

Li Shimin frowned, and said with relief: "Don't worry, the maids have already let the maids carry her down, and the wet nurses are already waiting."

"Are the two children okay?" Ruoshui's heart was hanging in the air when he didn't see the children.

Li Shimin said with lingering fear: "I was frightened by you before I even had time to watch it, that's all, that's all, we won't have any more children in the future, three sons and two daughters are really enough."

Ruoshui smiled slightly, but did not answer, but his eyes could not help but trace the profound facial features of her husband in detail, and seeing each other seemed like a world away.

Li Shimin gently pulled Ruoshui's hand over his eyes, closed his eyes slightly and said, "I really thought you were going away from me just now, so I had to desperately call Guanyin's maidservant, and I had to hope that God would give his beloved The person returned it to me, fortunately... fortunately..."

Ruoshui was surprised to find that his hands were wet, and when he looked up, he saw Li Shimin lowered his head, still murmuring something.

After a long silence, Guangyue's embarrassing voice came from outside the curtain: "Your Majesty, Miss, the two Highnesses have breastfed, but they still refuse to sleep."

Ruoshui had a faint smile on his face, glanced at the king who seemed to have regained his composure, and said, "Hurry up and hug him in."

It was the first time Ruoshui saw the newborn baby, perhaps because of the premature birth, the two children looked a little weak, with a pair of black eyes on their red and wrinkled faces, they looked particularly cute, "Lanyun, let me hold you .”

Looking at Miss's pale complexion, Dan Yun hesitated a little: "Miss, you are still weak."

Seeing this, Li Shimin hugged the child directly, put it in front of Ruoshui and said, "This is a daughter, Guangyue is holding a son."

Ruoshui touched her daughter's face with trembling fingers, and said with a choked voice: "She is really small, second brother."

Li Shimin frowned, and murmured: "She looks a little thinner, why don't we call her Sizi?"

"Mother's little son." Ruoshui raised a smile and touched his daughter's little hand, nodded and said, "Well, how should I choose my son's name?"

Li Shimin thought for a while: "Since it is your surname, you can choose the first name."

Danyun and Guangyue who were standing beside him called out in surprise for a moment, Ruoshui didn't seem to notice the gaffe of others, but just looked at his son's baby from a distance, and said solemnly: "Stop, eldest grandson stop."

Hearing his wife's firm voice, Li Shimin was silent for a while, and then said: "The small characters should be called the last son."

(End of this chapter)