After solving the troubles of the side concubine, Song Jianing was able to raise the child with peace of mind and be pampered. The only disadvantage of becoming a prince concubine is that she is far away from her mother's home, so she can't return to the palace at any time, and her younger brother Mao Geer can't often visit her sister, nephews and nieces. Finally, the Mid-autumn Festival arrived, and the female family members of the government finally had a reason to enter the palace.
Mrs. Tai led a family of female relatives to the Middle Palace to meet Queen Li, and then transferred to the East Palace.
"Mother..." Song Jianing held her lower abdomen and looked eagerly at her mother whom she hadn't seen for a long time. Zhaozhao led Brother You to run over and act coquettishly with the elders.
Lin was holding Brother You in her arms, but her eyes were staring at her daughter's belly in disbelief. Isn't it just five months pregnant, why is it so bulging? She was quite fat when she was pregnant with her daughter, and she gave birth to a chubby daughter, but she was not like her...
"An An, I think there are two babies." Mrs. Tai was old and saw a lot of them, so she guessed the possibility of twins at a glance, not to mention other people's house, her second daughter-in-law was pregnant with twins at the beginning, and she gave birth to two in one breath. grandson.
Song Jianing looked at her belly. Although the baby was hers, she didn't know how many she had. Zhao Heng had called the imperial doctor to see it. .
"Mother, how is everything at home?" Song Jianing asked concernedly when he entered the room and sat down.
A trace of sadness flashed in Lin's eyes. The family is very good. The Guo family was originally a powerful person. Now that there is a prince concubine, even the noble ladies who once looked down on her are now somewhat flattering. But those are external things. Lin doesn't care. What she cares about is her husband who gets along day and night.
For some reason, Guo Boyan has suddenly become old in the past two years. He used to be full of high-spirited energy, but now his eyes are no longer sharp, his body is still burly, and his appearance is still outstanding, but Lin can feel that her husband has something on his mind. In the dead of night, she asked softly several times, but Guo Boyan refused to say anything, and then he behaved more and more normal, only occasionally, Lin Shi could capture the loneliness in his eyes, trance mixed with nostalgia and grief.
Are you thinking of your stepson Guo Xiao
If this is the case, Lin Shi can't do anything, and as a mother, he can also experience the pain of others losing their children.
Fortunately, Brother Mao gradually became sensible, and when Guo Boyan taught his son to practice martial arts, he would regain some of his former demeanor.
"It's all right, you don't have to worry about it." Lin said to her daughter with a smile, reporting good news and not bad news.
Song Jianing was relieved.
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Guo Boyan is not the only person who misses his eldest son. Emperor Xuande also misses his eldest son, and long before Guo Xiao's "death" came to Beijing, the King of Chu had been imprisoned in the Nangong. I have seen his favorite eldest son, but never his two fat grandsons.
I always thought that before Prince Rui's accident, Emperor Xuande repressed his father's heart with disappointment and chills. After Prince Rui's accident, Emperor Xuande, who learned the truth, relied on the hope that the third child would be successfully enthroned and that Da Zhou Jiangshan would be stable as the king. Heart.
But he misses his son. His health is getting worse and worse. Emperor Xuande can almost feel that his deadline is coming. The more he thinks about it, the more he thinks about it. Grandpa three, thinking about it in a dream. At this time, the one who accompanied the old emperor was Queen Li.
That night, Emperor Xuande was suddenly awakened by a low cry. He opened his eyes, and in the dim candlelight, he saw Empress Li lying with her back to him, her shoulders shaking slightly. He was old, Empress Li was in her early thirties, and she was graceful. Emperor Xuande was about to step into the coffin with half his leg. Of course, he didn't have that kind of thought. He just leaned over lovingly and slowly turned around the woman he loved most in the rest of his life: "Why are you crying?"
Empress Li choked up: "Your Majesty, you've just been talking in your sleep again, and you've been calling Yuan Chong..."
Yuan Chong is the character of the king of Chu.
Emperor Xuande froze there.
"Your Majesty, why are you suffering? His Highness is your son. You asked him to come over and see him. Why bother yourself." Empress Li persuaded distressedly as she lay in Emperor Xuande's arms.
Emperor Xuande didn't say anything, only the emperor could understand the bitterness.
"Your Majesty, it's inconvenient for you to see His Highness. I'll take a look on your behalf. Anyway, let His Highness know that you didn't forget him, and you didn't forget to make a brother into a brother." Knowing Emperor Xuande's scruples, Queen Li cried. After a while, he wiped his tears and said, "I took Brother Sheng for a while. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival. I just said to see Brother Sheng, and no one would think about it."
Emperor Xuande felt inappropriate, but he really wanted his eldest son to know the suffering of his father.
"Then you, go for a visit in the next few days." Emperor Xuande sighed, hugging his little wife who would be the most considerate of him.
With the permission of the emperor, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Empress Li went to the Nangong in a slight dress.
The Nangong is the forbidden palace, and the desertedness inside can be imagined, but the desertedness is relative to the imperial palace, and the forbidden palace is also a high-walled compound. There is no brocade clothing and jade food, and there is no shame in the heart. When people are in the Nangong, the king of Chu has a very good life. In the spring, he brings his two sons to plough the fields, pull the grass and water in the summer, and harvest the grain in the autumn. Shared family.
After Zhao Heng canonized the crown prince, the people of Nangong Palace became more and more afraid to neglect the King of Chu family, lest Zhao Heng ascend the throne in the future and punish them for venting their anger for their elder brother.
The King of Chu was overjoyed to learn that his younger brother had become a prince. He was impulsive, but he was not stupid. When he woke up back then, he guessed that the fire in his palace was deliberately hurting him. There are three younger brothers in total. It is impossible for a real younger brother. The fourth child is not that kind of person, so only the second child is left. Now that the younger brother has driven the second child away, the King of Chu is very proud.
"Your Highness, the Queen is here to see you and the two young masters." The palace servant reported in a thin voice.
The King of Chu was teaching Brother Sheng and Brother Cheng to practice martial arts. Feng Zheng was sitting under the porch and watching while making shoes for the three of them. Hearing the words of the palace servant, Brother Sheng, who had grown into a half-year-old, took two steps to his father's side subconsciously. He still remembered that Queen Li had robbed him, and Feng Zheng had lingering fears. into the fingertips.
She lost the sole of her shoe in pain.
"Mother!" Brother Cheng saw it, and he was the first to take care of his mother, followed by Brother Sheng. His hands were pulled by his two sons to stop the bleeding, and Feng Zheng looked at her husband with a white face. After being imprisoned for so long, the uncle and the prince did not find a chance to see them. What kind of person is Queen Li, she will never show kindness.
Feng Zheng had fear in his eyes, hoping to be blessed by her husband.
The daughter-in-law was afraid of this, and the King of Chu was not angry, his tiger eyes widened, and he shouted at the messenger: "Go away! The emperor ordered our family of four to think about it behind closed doors. Without the emperor's will, I will not see anyone!"
His voice was loud and thunderous, and the palace servants were so frightened that they ran away in a hurry and went back to Queen Li reluctantly.
The King of Chu's voice was so loud that Empress Li could hear it from far away, and when she heard it, her heart became cold.
She didn't want Zhao Heng to ascend to the throne. Of the three living princes, Zhao Heng had the deepest scheming. After sitting on the dragon chair, she would least put her unrelated queen mother in her eyes. With the remaining two, it is impossible for the emperor to change his lip and pass the throne to the broken-arm Prince Gong, only the most favored King of Chu has a chance to turn over.
Queen Li sincerely wanted to help the King of Chu. The King of Chu was broad-minded, courageous, and easy to coax. Moreover, if the King of Chu wanted to turn over, he would need her help, and he would naturally be grateful to her afterwards. With this idea in mind, Queen Li looked for an opportunity to come to Nangong to discuss with the King of Chu, but she did not expect that the King of Chu would not even see her.
"Lead the way." This was her last hope, and Queen Li didn't want to give up easily.
The palace servant hesitated for a moment, then turned to lead the way.
However, the King of Chu still didn't want to see her. The good man didn't want to do anything with the woman. The King of Chu led his wife and children in directly. Once the door was closed, he let Queen Li cool down in the yard for as long as she wanted. When things came to this, Queen Li was completely chilled, smiled bitterly, and led the maids away in despair.
Not long after Queen Li returned to the palace, what happened to Queen Li in the Nangong Palace was quietly reported to the Prince of the East Palace.
Zhao Heng's body, which was slightly chilled, finally returned to its usual temperature. He walked to the window with his hands behind his back and looked into the distance.
Autumn is cool and the sky is blue.
After so many years, some people have changed, and some people are still the same as they remember.
The same mother and compatriot, the father and the uncle did not reconcile until their death. He is luckier than the uncle, and has a good brother who treats him the same.
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When Song Jianing was pregnant in the seventh month, Zhao Heng once again announced that two imperial doctors had come to feel the fetal movements of the princess.
Song Jianing was very happy.
Zhao Heng still remembered the thrill of giving birth to her daughter, and she first asked the imperial doctor if the twins would be in danger. How dare the imperial doctor scare the couple of the prince, only explaining that most twins will be born prematurely, and that they will be safe and sound if they take good care of the mother and child. This kind of empty words did not comfort Zhao Heng, and he became more and more nervous since then.
Emperor Xuande was also nervous. The third daughter-in-law was lucky and gave him two grandchildren in one breath. It was such a happy event when he was old.
Song Jianing has always been a good and filial daughter-in-law, and the emperor's father-in-law is so hopeful that Song Jianing is particularly proud. At the beginning of the twelfth month, after some near-future tossing, Song Jianing gave birth to a pair of twins safely. The little brothers were born thin and looked pitiful, but the entire Taiyuan Hospital knelt down to ensure that the two little masters were healthy.
Up to Emperor Xuande, down to his uncle Mao Ge'er, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
In the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, Song Jianing hid on the hot kang and sat in confinement. There were more and more grandchildren, and Emperor Xuande ordered the full moon ceremony to be held in the palace, which was really lively.
However, after the lively event, Emperor Xuande fell ill. In fact, he had been ill for a long time, but this time, Emperor Xuande, who was diligent in political affairs, was already bedridden and could no longer review the memorials. There is no need for a doctor's diagnosis. Everyone around Emperor Xuande knows that he is afraid that he will not survive this test.
Queen Li and other concubines took turns to serve in front of the dragon couch. Zhao Heng and Prince Gong also stayed in the Chongzheng Hall, accompanying their father with a heavy heart.
Emperor Xuande was reluctant to leave, reluctant to leave his wife, concubines, children and grandchildren. He stayed up every day until the spring flowers bloomed in March. When he woke up this day, Emperor Xuande looked at the magnificent beams above his head, and seemed to sense something.
"You all step back, I have something to say to the crown prince." Emperor Xuande slowly looked at his third child.
Zhao Heng had a hard time breathing at the dying eyes of the King of God. He walked to the bed, knelt down slowly, and held the hand of the father and the emperor on one side.
Emperor Xuande saw his son's tears.
Emperor Xuande smiled, smiled, and thought of his life.
When I was young, I made many wishes, some came true, and some were always a dream.
Who is sorry, who is sorry
One shadow after another appeared in my mind, and gradually, only those people were in my eyes.
"Father, father..."
Someone shouted anxiously in his ear, Emperor Xuande tried his best to open his eyes, trying to see who it was, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see it. Emperor Xuande's lips trembled, his old hands clasped his son tightly, and he used his last strength to instruct his son: "I, I'm sorry for your elder brother, after I die, you, you must be kind..."
In the end, Emperor Xuande couldn't say it.
The second emperor of Da Zhou, went.
Zhao Heng fell onto the bed, his face covered, only his hands that were exposed outside were clenched so tightly that the blue veins were exposed.
After a long time, Emperor Xuande heard the promise of the new emperor to suppress his grief: "My son, obey."