In the thirty-seventh year of Yongchang, April 16.
This time, the birthday of the queen was handed over to the Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites to jointly organize. Due to the frequent wars recently, everything except sacrifices was kept simple.
The wives of every family in Beijing have to attend the dinner.
Su Ling and Xiao Yu followed the palace servants to Kunning Palace.
At this time, there were only Sun Zhaoyi and Princess Changning in the hall. When Changning saw Su Ling, he couldn't help smiling and beckoning, "Sister-in-law!" Princess Changning only loves pearls. She shook her body, and the pearl hairpin on her head also rang.
Sun Zhaoyi coughed in a low voice, "Changning, this is Kunning Palace, please obey me."
The little princess pursed her lips and sat up straight.
Empress Chu said with a smile: "Changning is only fifteen now, and she is at a lively age, so don't keep her sister in check."
Sun Zhaoyi was as good as a stream, "Then the concubine will listen to the empress."
Su Ling and Xiao Yu entered the door back and forth, and greeted each other with salute. Then, Su Ling presented the set of December Flower God Cups.
There are twelve cups in total, all of which are thin-bodied and white-glazed.
On the outer wall, twelve kinds of flowers are painted in blue and white colors, namely daffodils, spring flowers, peach blossoms, peony flowers, pomegranate flowers, lotus flowers, orchids, sweet-scented osmanthus, chrysanthemums, hibiscus flowers, rose flowers and plum blossoms. Empress Chu, who was accustomed to rare treasures, could not help but notice two distractions. (1)
Empress Chu smiled and said, "I know at a glance that you have a heart for what Ah Ling chose."
"As long as the mother likes it."
Princess Changning looked at it with novelty, and couldn't help but say, "Where did the Queen's Wife find such a delicate object?"
Su Ling said: "I was also found by my brother."
When Empress Chu heard the word "brother", she said: "I remember that Master Su has passed the age of being weak, can you get engaged?"
Su Ling nodded, "I haven't gotten married yet, but we're discussing it, it's coming soon..."
Speaking of this, Princess Changning's ears suddenly moved, and she interjected casually, "I don't know whose girl?"
No matter how indifferent the question was, it also changed the taste.
Su Huaian in the capital of Ming Dynasty, the princess is no exception.
"Changning!" Sun Zhaoyi frowned.
Empress Chu glanced at Princess Changning and teased: "Speaking of which, Changning has reached the age to discuss marriage."
Princess Changning subconsciously touched the bead hairpin on her head, blinked her eyes, and muttered, "I-I don't mean that, did Changning slip up..."
Empress Chu was amused by her charming appearance, raised her hand and pinched her face, "Ben Gong really wants to know, our big Zhou Erlang, who can be the princess."
Sun Zhaoyi looked at her daughter and couldn't help sighing.
After talking for a while, Sun Zhaoyi saw that Empress Chu was always hesitant to say anything, and knew that she had something to say to Princess Jin in private.
She coughed lightly, pulled Chang Ning to get up, and said, "It will be the palace banquet in an hour. The concubine and concubine still have no supplements to drink, so I will go back to Zhong Cui Palace first."
Empress Chu glanced at her worriedly, "But is it serious again?"
Sun Zhaoyi said: "It's all an old problem, it's not in the way."
After Sun Zhaoyi and Princess Changning left, Empress Chu sighed and said, "A Ling, you and Saburo will have some time to get married."
After all, Empress Chu glanced at her belly quietly, her eyes were gentle, and she didn't say a word of reproach, but Su Ling felt that a handle was stuck in her body. Biting cold.
Su Ling bowed her head, raised her head again in a few moments, and said slowly with the Empress Chu, "I actually have two words from my heart today that I want to tell my Empress."
Empress Chu took her hand and said softly, "You kid, why are you being polite to me, just say something straight."
There was a smile on the corner of Su Ling's lips, "Two days ago, the concubine went to Cheng Wang's mansion to present a gift. Seeing that the little emperor's grandson was tender and cute, I really liked it, and I couldn't help but worry for His Highness. I needed to rest for a while, so I thought, why don't you take two concubines for His Highness first, what do you think the mother and queen think?"
Hearing this, Empress Chu laughed, patted her hand, and said, "It's really a blessing for Saburo to marry you."
Xiao Yu nodded and drank tea without saying a word.
"To share the worries for Your Highness, this is what the concubine should do." Su Ling said: "Then...I don't know if there is a choice for the queen mother?"
The Empress of Chu pretended to be contemplative, and said after a while: "Speaking of which, there are two people, which I think is acceptable, one is Wen Cai Ning, the daughter of Wen Dashou, the young minister of Taichang Temple, seventeen years old, and the other is the right servant of the Ministry of Officials. Zuo Qingqing, the daughter of Zuo Yang, is also seventeen, both of them are excellent in appearance, talent and learning, does A Ling know about them?"
After all, Su Ling was the daughter of the Duke of Zhen, and the Empress of Chu also cared about her face. The princess had no children, so the status of the side concubine should not be too high.
The daughter of the fourth-rank Taichang temple minister and the third-rank right servant were not born in a noble family, and none of them could compare to the Su family.
just.
Su Ling said, "I have met them a few times, and they get along very well."
Seeing her so smart and open-minded, the smile in Empress Chu's eyes couldn't help but thicken a bit, "That's it..."
At this moment, the man who seemed to be out of the picture suddenly put the tea cup on the table and said lightly, "Wait a minute."
Empress Chu looked at him and smiled: "What are you waiting for?"
Wait, it means to refuse.
Xiao Yu said slowly: "Empress mother, let the son think about the matter of accepting the concubine."
His tone was calm, but loud.
Empress Chu glared at him with a smile, "Co-authoring Ben Gong and A Ling, have you been busy just now?"
Xiao Yu stood up, "There, the minister apologized to the queen."
Xiao Yu personally rejected the matter, although it was against Empress Chu's intentions, Empress Chu would not lose face because of it, she just said softly: "It's just a common saying, saying apology is serious, but Saburo, you What a waste of A Ling's heart."
The corners of Xiao Yu's lips slowly spread, and he said with a smile, "I don't know what's wrong."
Su Ling was stunned when she saw the man in front of her, her heart felt like being pinched, and kept curling up.
She breathed a sigh of relief, regained her senses, and hurriedly said, "The concubine has not had time to discuss this matter with His Highness, so she came to tell the queen mother that it was the concubine who did not think carefully."
The Empress Chu clicked Xiao Yu again and said, "Why are you ill-conceived, it is clear that your good intentions have been treated as a donkey's liver and lungs."
After the dinner, Xiao Yu and Su Ling returned to Jin Wangfu.
The two were silent in the carriage. After a long while, Xiao Yu said, "When did you see the doctor?"
Su Ling was stunned when she heard the words, and after a while, she said, "Last month, I saw it once."
Xiao Yu took her hand and glanced down at her, "He said you are weak and need to rest?"
Su Ling avoided his inquiring gaze and admitted honestly, "No, the doctor said I'm fine, maybe it's not time, let me wait."
Su Ling added another sentence, "Maybe we will have it later."
"The first time I heard that the child is waiting." Xiao Yu smiled lightly, with frivolity between his lips and teeth, he grabbed her waist neither lightly nor heavy, again and again, Su Ling secretly pushed his hand, pointing Pointing to the driver's direction, he mouthed: "Let's go back to the house."
The smile turned into a chuckle, and he asked knowingly, "What are you going to say when you go back to the manor?"
Su Ling's demeanor was still dignified, but her small face and neck were as red as the sky full of rosy clouds. She refused to look at him again.
The sound of the chariots and horses getting weaker, the driver tightened the reins, sighed softly, turned around and said, "His Royal Highness, Princess, has arrived."
Su Ling lifted the curtain and got off the carriage without looking back.
Xiao Yu followed her.
The clear shadow of the full moon that the two were stepping on returned to Chang'en Hall.
Su Ling sat in front of the dressing gown, tilted her head and removed her ear robes, and said softly, "Fuying has prepared the water. Your Highness, let's take a bath first."
Xiao Yu walked behind her, looked at the delicate figure in the bronze mirror, and said solemnly, "How about you?"
Su Ling was silent.
After the silence, there were exclamations and the sound of earrings falling to the ground.
Sure enough, a bath that tests one's concentration is really not suitable for the newly-married Yan'er couple. When the two returned to the couch, their clothes were still wet.
The blue bricks of the inner room are full of water and footprints of different sizes.
Xiao Yu hugged her and kissed her. Once the love bath opened, it would roar like waves and capsize the sailboat.
Su Ling pressed his hand against his hot chest. Under the man's thin underwear was a broad back and a thin waist.
The girl's voice almost trembled, "Your Highness, why didn't you respond today?"
Xiao Yu looked at the stubborn girl in his arms and told the truth: "A Ling, I want you to give birth to me."
His warm palm rested on her belly and stroked it twice.
Su Ling looked at his deep eyebrows, her eyes were inexplicably red. The emotions that have been broken for a long time have a tendency to collapse in an instant.
Xiao Yu wrapped his arms around her waist, leaning on her shoulders in the most tender posture, biting her ears softly, and meandering down her slender and white neck. Su Ling couldn't help groaning unbearably.
His breathing was a mess, and the candlelight followed.
They have had countless uncontrollable romances, but there has never been a night where Su Ling was so confused that he thought that two people could really be one.
She hugged him with some nostalgia.
Early the next morning, Xiao Yu got up and went to the study.
Yang Di and Lu Ze were both there.
Yang Di said slowly: "The Mu family has given up their blood this time, and the copper mine has been handed over. If this goes on like this, Your Majesty is really going to decree the establishment of a reserve."
Lu Ze said: "Just wait, King Yan will not sit idly by, he has taken up the long words, and the cabinet is all facing him."
Yang Di hesitated for a while before saying, "Yeah, after a while, there will be good news for Prince Yan's residence."
Speaking of this, Lu Ze said slowly, "Has the Empress mentioned the matter of Concubine Na side with Her Royal Highness?"
"I mentioned it." Xiao Yu's Adam's apple moved slightly, "but I refused."
Lu Ze couldn't help teasing and said, "Princess is worthy of being Su Jingbei's daughter, Jiangmen's daughter, and she never loses a battle."
It is true that when Lu Ze said this, he was only teasing.
Different from Lu Ze, Yang Di considered for a moment and said seriously: "My subordinates know that His Royal Highness has been thinking about the feelings of the Duke of Zhenguo, but we must not underestimate the weight of the emperor's grandson..."
Xiao Yu was inexplicably irritable, so he could not help clenching his fists, and solemnly said, "This matter does not need to be mentioned in the future. Before the princess is pregnant, this king will not take a concubine."
At the moment, Xiao Yu just felt that the usual high-level mistresses would not take concubines before they were pregnant. Why did he wrong Su Ling? If the side concubine is pregnant and gives birth to the eldest son, how should she handle herself
Besides, he seizes power and seeks profit, and he wants to seek the world, but he can't count his wife one after another.
Yang Di continued to speak boldly, but Xiao Yu turned a deaf ear and looked out the window.
The couplet window was wide open, and the fierce sun shone obliquely, which was particularly dazzling. He subconsciously raised his hand to block his eyes—
When Qin Jie opened her eyes, the hand on her waist just tightened. You don't have to think about it to know that this is the hand of the emperor.
She recalled the dream, and raised the corner of her lower lip vaguely.
Waking up from a big dream, really waking up from a big dream.
It turned out that she had always been wrong.
But even so, it didn't affect Qin Yue's annoyance with his hand at this moment.
She turned over and avoided his shackles.
Xiao Yu's hand was empty, so he went to look for her again, hugged someone, and said softly, "But you're awake?"
Qin Yu pretended to be asleep and didn't answer.
Xiao Yu carefully touched her ear again.