National Beauty

The next day Zhao Heng entered the palace and reminded the steward to invite Lin to accompany the princess.

It was still dark when he left. When Song Jianing woke up, it was already bright, and Lin came over just after breakfast. Song Jianing happily walked out, habitually holding his heavier belly with one hand, walked to the door of the hall, and ran into his mother head on. Lin looked at her daughter with a smile, Song Jianing also looked at her mother happily, and then discovered that the mother who was born with beauty had accidentally applied a layer of powder, and there was nothing to see on her face, but her eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes.

"Mother, what's the matter with you?" Song Jianing became anxious all at once.

Lin has been very haggard for the past two days and didn't want to come. She was afraid that her daughter would be worried, but her daughter was about to give birth. It was the critical time. If she didn't come, her daughter would definitely be thinking about it. Now that her daughter saw through her, Lin hurriedly supported her daughter and said helplessly: "It's okay, An An, don't worry, it's just that Brother Mao'er got chickenpox in front of him, and my mother was watching by her side and didn't sleep well at night."

Brother is sick?

Song Jianing immediately said, "I'll go take a look."

Lin held his daughter's arm and said in a relaxed tone: "The doctor said this morning, Brother Mao is okay, he will be alive and kicking again only when the acne on his face disappears. You have a big belly, stay honestly, wait for Mao. Brother is alright, mother will take him to see you."

Song Jianing had had acne by herself and knew it was not a serious illness, but that was her own younger brother. It didn't matter if they were far away. If the two were so close, she wanted to see his younger brother, otherwise she kept thinking about it and felt even more uncomfortable in her heart. Lin couldn't help her daughter, so she had to personally help her to walk to the government office next door. Although Song Jianing had a big belly, the doctor said that it would be beneficial to walk more, don't walk too fast.

The mother and daughter slowly slipped to the Palace of Weiguo. Soon Song Jianing saw his acne-prone brother. The little guy was lying on the bed obediently, looking at her aggrieved sister, seeing that his eyes were good. Song Jianing softly coaxed her younger brother: "Brother Maoer takes the medicine, and when he recovers, I go to the palace to pick persimmons."

Brother Maoer now doesn't want to eat persimmons, and looked at her sister's belly and said: "Sister waits for me to recover from illness and regenerate, I want to watch you give birth." Mother said, sister has his nephew in her belly, and Brother Mao is anxious. Where's my uncle.

Song Jianing couldn't help but laughed with his younger brother Tong Yantong, and sat with his younger brother for two quarters of an hour.

The brothers and sisters had had enough talk, Lin helped her daughter to walk outside, around the shadow wall, and suddenly saw a carriage slowly stopping in front of the government's mansion, the man driving the car dressed as a banned army. Lin first thought of her husband's official acquaintances. He was about to stand in front of his daughter. When the carriage curtain was opened, the man in the carriage leaned forward, his face was thin and pale, but cold and windy.

Lin was surprised and delighted, and excitedly left her daughter to go out to greet: "Pingzhang is back!"

Guo Xiao's chest was uncomfortable. When he came out of the carriage, he lowered his eyes and raised his head unexpectedly when he heard the voice of his stepmother. However, the first thing he saw was the figure behind the stepmother in a lavender twill. Guo Xiao came back early for her. Knowing that she was born at the end of this month, he ignored the imperial doctor’s persuasion and set off two months earlier. However, Guo Xiao never expected to see her this year. He only wanted to leave when she gave birth. She got closer. It was said that a woman gave birth to a ghost gate, and Guo Xiao wanted to accompany her through it, but before he got out of the carriage, he actually saw her.

Everything in front of her was gone, only her petite figure remained. For one year, I haven't seen her for a whole year. She has grown taller and more beautiful. Because of her pregnancy, she has a bulging belly and a fatter face. She is whiter, tenderer and more charming. His gaze swept across her stomach and fell on her face again, Guo Xiao almost greedily stared at the face he had carved in his heart, even though she had already lowered her eyes, even though she showed the look of fear of him again.

Guo Xiao still doesn't understand what she is afraid of for so many years, and he doesn't want to pursue it anymore. He likes what she is.

Withdrawing his gaze, Guo Xiao smiled at the stepmother who had already walked up to him, and said as he got out of the car, "I have been away from home for too long. I want to come back soon. How about mother?"

Lin has no relationship with this stepson, but the stepson treats Brother Mao very well, and he is still a brave hero. Lin admires Guo Xiao from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, after learning that Guo Xiao was so badly injured, Lin sent someone to him. I sent two carts full of precious medicinal materials and supplements. Now Guo Xiao didn't listen to the imperial doctor's instructions to come back early. Once he stood firm, he was still holding his right chest with one hand in pain. Lin suddenly felt distressed and quickly asked someone to help Guo Xiao go in.

"Guo Xiao, pay homage to the princess." Guo Xiao walked beside Lin, four or five steps away from Song Jianing. He suddenly broke away from the guard who was supporting him. He knelt down at Song Jianing on one knee and looked up at her. A raging fire just for her to see. One year, did she know how he got through it? Whenever he thinks of her lying next to another man, he is not as good as dead.

Song Jianing didn't expect him to be like this, so he took two steps back in shock. Without looking at him, he turned his head sideways and said, "Big brother, you're polite, please get up soon."

Lin did not expect that his stepson would give such a big ceremony, but after all, he was not a brother or sister. The stepson was cautious and worried about his injuries, so he quickly persuaded him to get up. Guo Xiao nodded, and when he got up, there was another dull pain in his right chest. He immediately raised his hand to press on the wound, and held it tightly. His face was pale, but his eyes were cast towards her.

Song Jianing noticed his movements and his eyes changed slightly. In the last life, Mother Li also told her about the Northern Expedition, but she didn't mention whether she won or lost in Zhou Dynasty. She only talked about Guo Xiao's merits, and she was promoted to the third rank. But Song Jianing also knew that Guo Xiao's chest was intact in his previous life, and there was no arrow injury.

"Mother, take care of your eldest brother, I'll go back first." Song Jianing didn't want to live with Guo Xiao, and said goodbye as an excuse.

Guo Xiao looked at her deeply: "I'm fine, the princess has two bodies, let my mother see you off."

Song Jianing pursed her lips.

Of course the Lin family cared more about her daughter. Since Guo Xiao had spoken, she asked the guard to send her stepson to Yihexuan, and she helped her daughter to continue walking outside. Guo Xiao stayed where he was, his gaze followed the slender figure seen from behind, no one could be seen, Guo Xiao closed his eyes, as if he could still smell the faint fragrance of her body.

"Shizi, let's go?" his subordinates whispered.

Guo Xiao hummed, still covering his chest with his right hand, took a few steps before reluctantly suppressing the pain, and slowly let it go.

It hurts, but it's worth it.

~

On the way back to the Palace of Shou, Song Jianing's mind was full of Guo Xiao's eyes looking at her, like a wolf in human skin. At first glance, he looked like a cold and respectful brother, but in those eyes there were ambitions that only she understood. Song Jianing was cold. Her mother told her that Guo Xiao would return to Beijing in the twelfth lunar month. That's why she dared to come to see her brother at the Guogong Mansion. If she knew that Guo Xiao would come back early today, she would definitely not go out.

Guo Xiao's eyes dangled back and forth in his head before he stepped into the palace and bypassed the shadow wall. Song Jianing suddenly covered his stomach and looked at his mother in horror: "Mother, I, I may be giving birth..."

Lin was shocked. Whether it was a famous doctor in the capital or the imperial doctor in the palace, he said that his daughter was born at the end of the month and was only fourteen today. How could it be so long in advance?

Seeing her daughter’s panic eyes, Lin quickly calmed down and signaled Qiuyue and Shuang’er to prepare first. She held her daughter firmly in her hand, and smiled and said, “An’an, don’t panic, now it’s just the child to remind you to wake up. We are ready, it’s really early to live, let’s walk back slowly, in time."

Song Jianing looked at his bulging belly, still afraid, and said uneasy: "Why is it half a month earlier?"

Lin touched her daughter’s belly, deliberately jokingly said: “Some melon seedlings in the same area ripen a few days earlier, and some are a few days later. It’s a common occurrence. So you two brothers and sisters, the mother is pregnant with nine children. On the 20th day of the month, it’s Brother Mao’s turn, half a month earlier than you. An’an eats so well, and the child in his stomach grows fast, the melons are ripe, and he will naturally come out."

Song Jianing was taken aback by her mother's gentle voice, and said in surprise: "Mother actually remembers it?"

I don’t remember Lin, in order to make her daughter nonsense, but the clothes she made up are seamless, Song Jianing really believed it, just thinking that she would have a baby in a while, Song Jianing could not control the fear in her heart, her face was pale and pale, and she especially wanted to see it. A person. As we walked, there was the delivery room that was cleaned up early. Song Jianing subconsciously looked at the palace, not knowing when he would return.

In the Imperial Academy, Zhao Heng holds the newly compiled book in his hand, but it is always difficult to read it, and inexplicably irritable. But he couldn't find a reason to be irritable. She had insomnia last night, but he had sent someone to ask his mother-in-law to accompany her. The mother and daughter should be chatting about family affairs now, and there is still half a month before her giving birth, so there is nothing to worry about.

At this moment, a little **** hurried over and reported with his head down and reported: "My lord, just now, someone from your house sent a letter to come in, saying that the princess is about to give birth..."

When Zhao Heng heard the words, he immediately put down his scroll, strode out, and walked fast. Father Fu almost had to trot to keep up, but Father Fu ran comfortably, and he was excited that the prince finally had someone to follow. The carriage Zhao Heng entered into the palace was now ready. The steward of the messenger came on horseback and waited respectfully.

When Zhao Heng left the palace, he walked directly to the horse in charge, turned on the horse, and headed straight to his palace.

Father Fu didn't think that the master was in such a hurry. He left him and went back first. He didn't dare to use the ready-made prince's car, so he had to ran back hard and ran with the steward.

Zhao Heng returned to the palace first step, jumped off the horse, and rushed to the backyard. The steward had been waiting in front of him. At this moment, he accompany the master in a hurry while reporting in a low voice: "The lord, the princess has heard that the fifth son has acne, so he moved to visit. When I came back, I happened to see the elder son returning to the mansion, and he was delayed for a while in the front yard of the Guogong Mansion. Soon after he returned to the palace, he..."

Zhao Heng's pace slowed down, and his eyes turned to the government office.

Guo Xiao came back and returned to Beijing two months in advance. Is it possible that she is going to give birth in October and came back specially?

What does he come back for? When we only met, she was so scared that she was born at the end of the month half a month earlier. Did Guo Xiao know that she was afraid of him and came back to scare her on purpose? But why did the princess be afraid of him? Did she guess that the frame-ups were all done by Guo Xiao, or did Guo Xiao tell her what she did before she got married?

If so, she must have guessed that the hairpin was given by Guo Xiao?

But she pretended to be perfect, and even he was fooled.

People have reached the corridor leading to the backyard, but Zhao Heng suddenly turned around and went to the study alone. Mr. Fu is not Mr. Fu, and he does not know the heart of the prince as much as Mr. Fu, but Mr. Guan is a father. He vaguely feels that the prince is too nervous to be a new father, and he does not want to be seen, so he must pretend to be calm and wait for news in the study.

In the delivery room, the twins came in with the curtains, and looked at the pale princess lying on the bed. She clenched her hand and boldly lied: "The princess, the princess is back, and he will come to see you without changing his clothes. She was halfway through. I persuaded him to say that you were more nervous when the prince came, and the prince asked me to tell you that he was waiting in the front yard, so that you can live with peace of mind."

Song Jianing listened, wanted to laugh, and was a little disappointed. The laugh was because the prince wanted to accompany her, disappointed...

"There are many royal rules. Someone around the prince reminds the rules, and you can't do whatever you want." Lin feels uncomfortable, but the son-in-law is the prince, and really can't ask too much. Men shouldn't enter the delivery room. Then wait or wait next door. The front yard, etc., are almost the same. Instead of complaining, it's most important to give your daughter peace of mind.

Song Jianing was disappointed and disappointed, but she was not particularly greedy, and the prince rushed back so soon, she was already very satisfied.

In addition to his mother, there are three most prestigious midwives in Beijing. There is also an imperial doctor outside. Song Jianing took a few deep breaths, trying to focus on the child in his belly. She was pregnant for nine months, and the prince was so eager that he didn't take a step beyond the thunder pond. He cared about her and the child so much, she must be born well.

So noon passed, and in the second half of the night, Song Jianing became more and more painful. In the early winter, she was sore and sweaty that her coat was almost drenched. Song Jianing felt so painful that Song Jianing suddenly wanted to cry. She knew that there were many royal rules and that he was a noble prince, but he was so kind to her during the past six months. She really thought he would come and see her, even if she was waiting next door. It's better than staying in the front yard.

Song Jianing closed her eyes, Dou Da's tears falling down.

Lin is a woman and she knows what her daughter needs most now, but her mother can give her her life, but she can’t make up for her daughter’s heart that must be filled by men. She can only help her daughter’s tears non-stop. Draw cakes for her daughter over and over again: "An An, don't cry, go down hard, after a while, the prince will come over... the prince is waiting in front..."

Before finishing speaking, the imperial doctor's panic voice suddenly came from next door: "Master, you can't go in..."

"Master Liu came here to take care of the princess, so you don't need to worry about the others." Duke Fu smiled nonchalantly.

In a word, it not only blocked the dissuasion of Yuyu Liu, but also caused the three midwives in the inner room to swallow their worries. They looked at each other and only bowed to each other when the prince came in, and then continued to serve the princess. On the bed, Song Jianing looked at the man walking by the screen in disbelief, but her vision was blurred and she couldn't see clearly.

She kept tearing, and Lin stood up and explained sadly for her daughter: "The prince, the princess is just too painful, so forbearance will pass, you should go outside and wait?" After all, the son-in-law came, and this heart is enough. , The delivery room smells bad, and ordinary men don't want to wait, let alone a prince.

Zhao Heng heard it, but just as if he hadn't heard it, he walked around his mother-in-law and sat down by the bed. Song Jianing couldn't see him clearly, but Zhao Heng saw her face full of tears, as many grievances as there were grievances, she did not speak, but the string of tears fell on him, more than any complaint. Make him guilty.

"Don't cry." Zhao Heng raised his hand and wiped the teardrops from her face with his index finger.

After wiping a string, Song Jianing dropped another string, but the corners of his mouth rose little by little.

When the prince came, she felt at ease.

With the consolation of the confidant that he wanted, Song Jianing stopped tears in a blink of an eye and looked at the man beside the bed.

She was easily satisfied like a child, and Xing's eyes were full of dependence. Zhao Heng regretted the half-day neglect, and took her cold hand and said: "Mr. child, you will be rewarded after giving birth."

Song Jianing looked at his handsome face, suddenly embarrassed, and urged in a low voice: "The prince should go outside and wait."

Otherwise he is here to guard, she grinned hard, it was too ugly.