What?
Twins!
Concubine Shu and Ye Guiren were startled and covered their chests: "How could it be twins? Didn't the imperial doctor find out?"
Doctor Yan hurriedly said: "How... how could this happen? Your Majesty, I will go and check on the pulse of the empress."
Twins... they have to be twins!
The Queen of Heaven was on the verge of being hated by others. In order to implement the new law, the ministers of the aristocratic families wanted to eat her alive.
If she gave birth to two princes...
It is estimated that people will start to spread the corrupt rumors that she is a demon queen who has brought disaster to the country.
Odd numbers are yang and even numbers are yin.
And Yin represents unlucky.
For example, each door of the Meridian Gate, Xihua Gate, and Shenwu Gate in the Forbidden City has nine rows and nine columns of eighty-one doornails, which is an odd number, that is, a Yang number.
Only the door nails of Donghua Gate use negative numbers, nine vertically and eight horizontally, for a total of seventy-two.
According to legend, a defeated emperor walked out of this gate to commit suicide, so Donghua Gate became an unlucky place.
Twin princes ruin the destiny of the country.
Because even numbers are unlucky, in the past once twins were born, the imperial doctor would kill the weaker child under the emperor's order.
This also proves the saying circulated by the royal family: "Twin emperors, one son leaves and the other returns."
Even if the emperor is willing to cover up and let another prince be raised by another concubine, he still can't stop everyone from talking.
Everyone will know that the Queen of Heaven was warned by heaven and gave birth to twins.
"God bless me, I must bless my empress!"
The emperor looked solemn: "Wang Dequan and Tang Shiliang have sealed off Kunning Palace. I am not allowed to let a fly out."
If the twins Yue'er gave birth to were indeed twins, he would give one of them to Concubine Shu on the spot, record it in her name, and ask her to take it back and raise it.
Jiang Xinyue gritted her teeth and tried again.
The soreness and swelling in the lower body was obviously relieved as the child fell. Jiang Xinyue's forehead was covered with sweat, and all the strength in her body was exhausted. She weakly raised her hand: "Boy...or girl?"
Only after determining the gender can she decide what to do next? How can I keep both children with me?
The emperor wanted to give up one of the twins for his own good, but Jiang Xinyue didn't think the twins were bad, it was all feudal superstition.
She even raised other people's children until they were fat and fat, so why couldn't she raise her own children?
"Empress!"
The magpie's face expressed ecstasy: "It's a princess! My Majesty! You gave birth to a princess!"
Under the excitement, the voice became sharp: "Dragon and Phoenix, my queen!"
Jiang Xinyue raised her head, breathed a sigh of relief, finally relaxed, closed her eyes, and fainted.
The emperor outside the house heard the sound of the magpie. He was stunned at first, and then burst into great joy. He was so shocked by the joy that he could hardly stand still.
She turned to look at Concubine Shi next to her in disbelief: "Did I hear wrongly? What did Magpie say just now? Did Yue'er give birth to a twin of a boy and a girl? Did she give birth to a princess for me?"
Before Concubine Shi, whose smile became forced, could speak, Concubine Liang and Concubine Shu stepped forward and pushed her away: "Your Majesty, you heard it right, the magpie is talking about the twins of dragon and phoenix. It can be seen that God also recognizes the queen. Your Majesty, the golden boy fairy is here for the Emperor and Your Majesty."
"My concubine said that why the seventh prince is so beautiful, it turns out that he followed our third princess! That's it, the third princess must be very beautiful."
"Why don't you take her out? I'm almost dying of anxiety. It would be terrible if the third princess follows the empress."
The emperor began to pace at the door again, folding his hands and beating them back and forth, expressing his nervousness and joy.
The magpie wiped the little princess clean, wrapped her in a beautiful swaddling clothes, and tied a beautiful princess knot before carrying the third princess out like a rare treasure.
Aunt Xiang laughed behind her: "Your Majesty, you should be impatient."
Several wet nurses were lined up. In order to avoid accidents with the wet nurses like before, this time the first nurse was selected from the west, all of whom were prepared for the seventh prince.
Now the seventh prince and the third princess have two each, which is enough.
The little princess was born thin and didn't absorb much nutrition in her mother's womb. She cried like a kitten, which was heartbreaking.
The magpie had just come out with the third princess in his arms. Before he could say the good news, the emperor stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the little princess."
The magpie was cautious, fearing that the emperor would not be able to hold it well, so it held the emperor's body with one hand and followed him to the left and to the right.
The emperor was still not carried away, so he remembered to ask: "Where is your empress? Are you okay? Is it not torn?"
He still remembered that when the prince was born for the first time, a midwife wanted to cut Yue'er's lower body open with scissors, saying she was afraid of tearing it or something.
The magpie lowered his head: "When I got back to the emperor, there was only a little bit of slight redness and swelling. The doctor said it was because the seventh prince and the third princess were very thin. It only takes a few days to apply medicine and it will be fine. The emperor does not need to worry."
"How could you not be worried? Your Majesty has given birth to two children in a row, so it must be extremely hard. Magpie, your Majesty said this because she was afraid that the Emperor would be worried, right?"
The magpie chuckled lightly: "Liangfei, you have given birth to a eldest princess, so you should know the hardships involved. Only those who have never given birth to children think it is easy! Don't you think so, Your Majesty?"
This palace maid was so courageous that she dared to tease the emperor.
wrong!
Concubine Shi realized that Magpie must have heard what she said to comfort the emperor just now. She was not teasing the emperor, but she clearly meant that she should not talk nonsense since she had never given birth to a child.
"You girl..."
The emperor gritted his teeth and glared at her, but when he looked at the thin third princess in his hand, waves of warmth surged to his chest, turning into the tenderest gaze.
He stretched out a hand and touched the third princess's face. Before he could hug Rehu, he walked out to Nanny: "Your Majesty, the third princess needs to drink milk. Please bring the third princess in and feed the old slave!"
Emperor Xuanwu reluctantly let go and put the little princess into Grandma Xiang's arms: "Can I go in to see Yue'er?"
He nodded to the nanny: "It's okay, but the lady lost her strength and fainted. The old slave has asked the small kitchen to stew some fish soup for the lady to recuperate."
The emperor nodded, and before following him in, he turned around and said to Concubine Liang, Concubine Shu, Concubine Shi, and Concubine Ye: "None of you are allowed to disturb Yue'er's rest these days, do you hear me?"
The good concubine resisted the urge to scold her mother and knelt down along with everyone else: "I obey the decree."
You are the only bitch like you who knows how to worry about your mother-in-law, but we are not worried, right?
The empress might want to see them even more!
When Jiang Xinyue was sleeping, many dark shadows in her dream were far and near, sometimes high-rise buildings, sometimes red lights and feasting, which made her think that those years in the Great Yan Dynasty were just a dream.
"Yue'er? Yue'er?"
"Yue'er? Wake up..."
