On January 28, the eighth year of Yong'an, Meng Shu successfully gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, in Fengyi Palace, and the whole palace celebrated together.
Although they were twins, the two children were born only half a month earlier than the scheduled delivery date. They were considered full-term and very healthy.
Meng Shu had calmed down now. She wanted to stay and move around, but the emperor stopped her: "You have a good rest first. It won't be too late to move around later."
He knew that Meng Shu was in good health, but after all, he had just given birth and could not be careless.
"I want to see the child!" Meng Shu said.
"Okay, I will ask the mothers to bring the child over." The emperor nodded quickly.
Newly born children must take a bath. Next door is the hothouse, which is just suitable for children to take a bath.
The two children have been carried there for almost two quarters of an hour, and they must have been washed.
Not long after, the nuns sent the two children over and placed them next to Meng Shu.
The two little guys were born not long ago, but they are quite plump.
"Everyone says that children are ugly when they are born, but I think they are quite cute!" Meng Shu touched the child's face and said with a smile.
"Of course, how can our child be ugly? Even if he is just born, he is still good-looking." The emperor was extremely proud.
He hugged this one for a while and that one for a while, smiling from ear to ear.
Now that the world is settled and everyone who deserves to die is dead, the emperor is handling the affairs of the court with ease and spends more and more time with Meng Shu recently.
Now that his two children have been successfully born again, this is a huge joy for him.
"I will issue an imperial edict to grant amnesty to the world!" After the emperor put the child down, he held Meng Shu's hand with a smile on his face.
"When my son is one month old, I will make him the crown prince."
"Is it too early?" Meng Shu said quickly.
"It's not early. Our child is in good health and will grow up safely. There is nothing wrong with establishing him as the prince as early as possible." The emperor said solemnly: "This is our eldest son, and the position of prince should belong to him. "
"Okay!" He said so, and Meng Shu certainly had no reason to refute.
"When you finish confinement, it will be March. It will be a good time for spring flowers to bloom. Let's go for an outing in the suburbs of Beijing together." After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at the two little guys and said, "I won't take them with me. ”
Meng Shu laughed when he heard this: "Actually, if the child is healthy, he can take him out for a walk after one month. When I was young, my father liked to take me out the most."
"Okay, we will decide based on the situation then." The emperor smiled and nodded.
At this moment, someone outside reported that the Queen Mother and Princess Jiahe had arrived.
The current Queen Mother is naturally the emperor's biological mother, the former Concubine Su Gui.
The emperor had already respected her as the queen mother.
"Invite them in quickly," the emperor said.
Meng Shu started having stomach pains in the middle of the night yesterday. She was the first child and a twin. The midwives concluded that she would give birth after noon today. As a result, Meng Shu gave birth to two children successfully before dawn. .
Because it was launched in the middle of the night, the emperor did not send anyone to invite the queen mother.
After the Queen Mother learned about it early in the morning, she only hurriedly freshened up and rushed over without even using breakfast.
As for Princess Jiahe?
She is married.
It's just that Chen Songyu went to Yunyuan City half a month ago, and Princess Jiahe felt bored. She and the Queen Mother had a deep mother-daughter relationship, so they moved into the palace.
Looking at the two newly born children, the Queen Mother was extremely excited and kept praising the children for being cute and well-behaved. However, the two little guys started crying one after another, and the cry was quite loud.
"The child is hungry. Take him to the wet nurse." The Queen Mother said quickly.
Princess Jiahe felt it was very novel. She wanted to reach out and hug the child, but the emperor stopped her: "You don't know how to hug, don't throw the child, let the mothers carry it."
"Brother Imperial, you really look down on me!" Princess Jiahe was dumbfounded.
"You haven't been a mother yet, so you definitely don't know how to hold a child." The emperor smiled.
He was different. Before the child was born, he often held a small pillow or... a small doll that Meng Shu had people prepare for the child. He practiced for a long time.
Once, when he was practicing hand-holding in the bedroom, Meng Shu laughed at him, saying that he was hugging a pillow and laughing and swaying, looking very much like... a concubine who had fallen out of favor in a cold palace.
This made the emperor very depressed.
While hugging the pillow, he just imagined the scene after the child was born and giggled for a moment, but his wife actually said this to him.
However, he has also heard that those concubines who were relegated to the cold palace and lost their children were a little delirious because of the stimulation. They often hugged pillows, or...stuffed cotton with children's clothes. , hold him to eat, hold him to sleep, hold him to comfort him.
Quite pitiful.
Fortunately, when the late emperor was still alive, he did not relegate the concubines in the harem to the cold palace. Those concubines in his harem who had an affair with King Wei were dealt with. The other six, the emperor also gave them a choice. Those who were willing to leave the palace. , you can change their identities and grant them marriage, and let the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepare dowry for them to get married.
If you don't want to leave the palace, you can stay if you want, but you are not allowed to disturb his and the queen's lives.
As a result, some Westerners left the palace, and now only Concubine Shun and Liu Jieyu were left.
These two people were actually the Queen Mother's people before, and the emperor didn't bother to care about them. Keeping them was a pretense, and he announced to the outside world that he already had concubines and no longer needed to be drafted.
However, he also asked people to keep a close eye on these two people. If they found anything wrong with them, they would die of illness.
"Thank you for your hard work, Shu'er. The Queen Mother has asked someone to prepare some food for you. It will be delivered shortly!" The Queen Mother held Meng Shu's hand.
Giving birth to a child is extremely painful for the mother, and Meng Shu gave birth to twins. The pregnancy was harder than others, and she had to suffer twice during the birth. The Queen Mother was a kind-hearted person, and she knew that the emperor was her. After becoming his own son, he was particularly kind to the emperor and Meng Shu.
"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Meng Shu smiled and thanked her.
The Queen Mother never thought that she would have today, not only a son, but also a grandson and granddaughter. The two children looked very healthy and cried loudly. This was all due to Meng Shu.
She knew that it was not easy for the emperor and Meng Shu to live like this, and of course they could not become monsters. She, the queen mother, had no objection to how they wanted to live their lives, as long as her son was happy.
As for Princess Jiahe?
Her father-in-law Chen Peiyang had a serious illness a few years ago and was not in good health. As the heir to the Rongguo Palace, her consort Chen Songyu naturally had to go to Yunyuan City to take charge.
Princess Jiahe grew up in the palace and was reluctant to leave the Queen Mother, so she did not follow her for the time being.
The couple discussed it and Princess Jiahe would go to Yunyuan City in two months.
They would not stay there together, sometimes in the capital, sometimes in Yunyuan City.
Although it would be a bit hard to run in both directions, the two of them were willing to do it.
