The couple chatted for a while about Prince Yu's Mansion, and then Chang Youzhong came to invite Prince Jin.
Prince Jin stood up and said, "I'll be back to have dinner with you later."
"Okay, I'll wait for you." Jiang Changning saw him out.
When they reached the gate, Prince Jin said, "If you are hungry, eat first. You don't have to wait for me."
Jiang Changning smiled, "I know. I'm stupid and I won't starve myself." The man became more and more nagging.
Prince Jin went to Jingshe Hall, and Jiang Changning returned to his room to continue reading.
When she was pregnant, Jiang Changning could only read travel notes and storybooks. She was not allowed to read other books to avoid being sad.
After a while, Xiao Ming'er came. He walked in and politely bowed, saying, "My son greets my mother. I pay my respects to her."
"Your father is out." Jiang Changning said with a smile.
"Mom." Xiao Ming climbed onto the kang with joy.
Xiulan went forward, helped him take off his shoes, and carried him onto the kang.
"Mom, was my sister good today?" Xiao Ming asked as usual.
"Good, very good."
"Sister, today the teacher taught me the Thousand Character Classic. I can recite it all. I will recite it to you." Xiao Ming recited it every day. "I will receive instruction from my teacher outside and obey my mother at home. All my aunts, uncles and cousins are like my own sons."
"What do these two sentences mean?" Jiang Changning asked as usual.
"Accept the teachings of your master outside and obey your parents' teachings at home. Treat your aunts, uncles, and other elders as if they were your own children."
"My Xiao Ming remembers it very well. Okay, I'll give him a walnut kernel as a reward." Jiang Changning took a walnut kernel from the small silver bowl and stuffed it into Xiao Ming's mouth.
Xiao Ming chewed the walnut kernels and swallowed them. "So fragrant, so crispy, so delicious, Mom, I want more."
Jiang Changning gave him half of it and said, "Don't eat too much. We'll have dinner soon."
Xiao Ming'er was also half satisfied. He is a very contented child.
After finishing the bowl of walnut kernels, Xiao Ming'er said considerately, "Mom, it's time to go for a walk. Your son will help you."
"Good son, you are so well behaved." Jiang Changning praised with a smile.
In fact, Xiao Ming is very young and cannot support Jiang Changning, it's just a token of his thoughtfulness.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone obliquely into the courtyard, casting a layer of brilliant halo on the pots of blooming flowers under the corridor.
"Xiaoming, when you see this scenery, you can use a poem to describe it." Jiang Changning taught his son, "When the afterglow shines, everything is bright and clear."
"What is afterglow?" Xiao Ming'er is still young and doesn't know how to appreciate the beauty of afterglow.
“The evening sun is the afterglow.”
"What about the morning one?"
"The morning light is called dawn, the glimmer after dawn."
"Ahh!" Xiao Ming'er poked his ear with his left index finger.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Jiang Changning hurried over.
"Itchy, itchy." Xiao Ming said with a bitter face.
"Mom will help you take a look." Jiang Changning pulled Xiao Ming'er to sit down by the railing. Xiao Ming tilted his head and lay on her legs. "Oh, there is so much earwax."
Jiang Changning, who was a mother for the first time, didn't dare to use an adult ear pick, so she called Aunt Feng and asked, "Aunt, how do you think I can make this?"
"I will go prepare some things and help the young master take it out." said Nanny Feng.
After a while, Nanny Feng brought the things over, but Xiao Minger refused to let her come, "Mother, mother, take it out, mother, take it out."
"Okay, okay, mom will do it, mom will do it, don't move, otherwise it will hurt and you will bleed, Doctor Xue will prescribe bitter medicine for you to take."
Xiao Ming'er shook his head vigorously, "Xiao Ming'er doesn't want to take bitter medicine, he doesn't want to take bitter medicine."
"Then you won't have to take the bitter medicine if you just stay still."
Jiang Changning's belly was quite big, so she couldn't hold her son on her lap, so she sat on a round stool and let Xiao Ming lie on his side on her lap.
First wipe Xiao Ming'er's outer ear with a wet towel, then take a toothpick with the tip removed and wrapped in cotton, dip it in some salt water, soften the earwax in his ear, and then help him slowly get the earwax out.
Xiao Ming kept his word and lay there motionless, being very obedient.
"Okay, son." Jiang Changning kissed him on his chubby face.
"It doesn't itch anymore." Xiao Ming said happily.
"They're all dug out. Look, there's so much." Jiang Changning asked him to look at the small copper plate next to him, which was full of earwax dug out from his two little ears.
"What is this?" Xiao Ming stretched out his right index finger and fiddled with it curiously.
Jiang Changning smiled, "This is earwax, the dirt in the ear."
"My hands are dirty. My hands are dirty." Xiao Ming rubbed his hands together.
Seeing his disgusted expression, Jiang Changning laughed dumbly and stretched out his finger to touch his little nose, "Boy, do you understand the principle that your own shit doesn't stink?"
"Wash your hands, wash your hands, mother, wash your hands, wash your hands."
Without Jiang Changning's instructions, Xiulan had asked the maid to pour water for him to wash his hands.
At this time, the King of Jin came back after finishing his work, holding a small soccer ball in his hand. When he saw Xiao Ming, he said, "You little brat, take it and play with it."
"Thank you, father." Xiao Ming'er thanked him politely, then took it with both hands and returned to Jiang Changning's side, "Mother, what is this?"
"This is Cuqiu, also called Cuju, which is played with feet. Ask your father to teach you." Jiang Changning wanted to foster a relationship between father and son.
"Come here, little brat, and put the ball on the ground." said King Jin.
"Mother." Xiao Ming'er called.
Jiang Changning's eyes flickered, and he gently pushed him, "Go ahead, go play football with your father."
Xiulan moved out a chair and asked Jiang Changning to sit down and watch the father and son play football.
Xiao Ming is still young after all, and soon he was having fun and running after the ball.
Seeing this, Jiang Changning hurriedly said, "Son, run slower, be careful not to fall."
"It's okay for boys to fall and fight." King Jin believed in raising his son in a rough way.
Jiang Changning raised her eyebrows. If a child is not well disciplined, it is the father's fault. She would not argue with this strict father.
Then, she saw Prince Jin kicking the ball far away from time to time, which made Xiao Ming run back and forth to chase the ball. After catching the ball, he would hold it in front of Prince Jin and ask him to kick it far away again.
Jiang Changning felt that this scene was very familiar.
The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, as if he was teasing a dog!
Thinking about how many people nowadays raise dogs as sons, her prince is unique in that he raises his son as a dog. Well, children and dogs are almost the same.
After playing for a while, the sun set, the dusk deepened, and the lights in the yard were lit.
"Stop playing, little brat, wash your hands and have dinner," the King of Jin called out.
"You're sweating all over from running." Jiang Changning took out a handkerchief and wiped the forehead of her son who ran to her.
"What about me?" Prince Jin walked up to her.
"You're too tall, I can't reach you." Jiang Changning made an excuse.
King Jin bent down, "It's OK now."
"You're not sweating." Jiang Changning held a handkerchief and touched his forehead.
"Too perfunctory." Prince Jin was dissatisfied.
"I'm hungry. Please serve the food." Jiang Changning ignored him and took Xiao Ming'er into the room.
(End of this chapter)