It would be fine if she herself was infertile, but if she had to watch the eldest son she gave birth to suddenly lose his breath and die in her arms, wouldn't this be a mistake?
Are you going to tear out her heart? Thinking of this, Shang Jia couldn't hide her sadness, and crystal tears spilled out of her eyes and rolled down her cheeks drop by drop.
When Qingyan heard this, she almost understood why Siruke had a good relationship with this seventh sibling. It turned out that the two had similar experiences, and Siroke was afraid that she saw the shadow of her past in Shangjia.
…
Qingyan thought that she would be twenty-two years old next year. She carefully looked at Shang Jia in front of her and found that she looked about eighteen or nineteen years old at most, although she had a round, apple-like face.
, there is also some soft flesh on both sides of the cheeks, and it looks like the kind of blessing that the elderly like very much
She has an angry appearance, but her figure is still very thin. The exposed white wrists are not thick at all, but they look even more slender against the ring of fluffy white rabbit fur on the cuffs. I am afraid that even one of them is slightly bigger.
No jade bracelet can hang on.
Although Shang Jia's age is considered to be a normal childbearing age nowadays, in Qingyan's eyes, she was just an adult and her body was not fully grown before she became a mother, and her mother's body bones are not strong.
, then how can the child born be fine?
Recalling that the current average life expectancy is basically only more than thirty years, Qingyan couldn't help but sigh in her heart. It was all the fault of the times...
At this time, Bai Lu also took two little palace maids to take the steaming snacks that had just been taken out of the kitchen from the small kitchen, and gently placed them on the small table in the center of the fire pit one by one, and put them on
Xindi also brought two small glass wine cups.
Qingyan signaled the palace people to pass the wet white sweat towels to the two princes Fujin, then stretched out her hand to pick up the jug with peach blossom wine on the side, filled the two small wine cups one by one, and pushed them to the person sitting opposite.
The two of them smiled and said:
"You two have come all the way from the palace, so you must be hungry. Let's fill your stomachs with some snacks. These pastries taste very good."
The sweet smell of snacks mixed with the aroma of peach blossom wine floated lingeringly to the tips of several people's noses, which actually made the atmosphere that was a little depressed because of Shangjia's tears slightly relaxed.
"Then the wives will not be polite to the empress."
Siruke is seven or eight years older than Shangjia, and the two brothers, Prince Yu Fuquan and Prince Chun Longxi, get along well on weekdays. In her eyes, she really likes this well-educated, gentle and delicate person.
The seventh younger sister treated her as her own sister, and she and Concubine Jing were close relatives, so she thought that if the three families could be connected through this matter, it would be beneficial to all parties.
After everyone used wet white sweat towels to clean their hands, Siruk reached out and took out two pieces of plum blossom honey jujube cakes made into exquisite cat paw shapes, and handed one to Shang Jia next to him.
Put it in his mouth.
Sweets can make you happy. The pastries made by Chef Bai are sweet but not greasy, with a hint of the refreshing aroma of plum blossoms in the snow. After Shang Jia felt the sweetness on the tip of her tongue, her sad and anxious mood gradually stabilized.
Come down.
Qingyan lowered her head and glanced at her bulging-cheeked son who was eating sweet-scented osmanthus milk cake in her arms. She touched his soft belly and thought in her heart.
She is also a mother, so she can naturally understand Shang Jia's mood and understand Siruke's desire to create a matchmaking relationship.
Prince Chun Longxi is the youngest surviving son of the late emperor. He was also raised by the empress dowager since he was a child. It can be said that he is the younger generation who is extremely loved by the empress dowagers of both palaces. A piece of warm jade gives him an opportunity to establish a good relationship with Prince Chun.
It's a very good deal, not to mention that the precious thing about the little jade rabbit is not that it is warm jade, but that it is full of supernatural powers.
Although it is not difficult for her to recreate such a nourishing jade sculpture, it does take a lot of effort, and after all, the superpower is not a magic medicine that can revive the dead and make flesh and bones. She does not want the two of them to have the wrong idea that she and the
The Nuan Jade in her hand has such great ability to raise a frail child healthy. If such words spread, I am afraid that her Chuxiu Palace and the royal family will never have peace.
There were so many frail children there that she couldn't save even if she wanted to...
Therefore, after considering all kinds of things, Qingyan sent Prince Yu Fujin and Prince Chun Fujin out of Chuxiu Palace in person on the grounds that "there is no warm jade in hand at the moment, so she has to go to the warehouse to find the rough stone."
Although Siruke and Shang Jia were a little disappointed with this result, considering that warm jade was not common after all, and that such a big warm jade was a rarity, they both left with understanding.
Even though Shang Jia could understand this rationally, after she and Siruke walked through the silver-covered imperial garden and got on the carriage back home from the Shenwu Gate, they still couldn't help but stretched out their right hands to cover her head tightly.
Shut your mouth, your nose is sore and hot tears are streaming down your face.
Sitting in his carriage, Siruk felt uncomfortable.
If the white jade rabbit was her own, she could just give it to her seventh brother and sister, but it was a birthday gift given by the imperial concubine to her godson, and it was also her son's favorite thing, even though she was the mother-in-law.
He has no right to act arbitrarily, not to mention that everyone puts himself first before others. Even though Changquan's health is much better now than when he was a child, what should he do if he gets sick again after leaving the White Jade Rabbit?
These were things Siruk didn't dare to bet on, so she couldn't tell her seventh sister that she would give the white jade rabbit to Ful Hulun against her will, so she thought of accompanying Shang Jia to the palace to ask questions.
Let's see, if Concubine Jing still has extra warm jade in her hand, everyone would be happy, but it's a pity...
The two sisters had different thoughts, and neither of them was obviously very interested.
The snow outside the carriage was falling heavily, and coupled with the biting cold wind, most people were trapped at home. It was winter. The streets were empty and there were almost no people, so the two carriages from the Prince's Palace could pass unimpeded.
Driving steadily along the street...
It was not until the end of Youshi that the sky had darkened and the snow gradually began to decrease.
Wearing a navy blue cloak and a silver fox fur hat, the handsome-looking Prince Long Xifu picked up the blue cloth parcel in his hand and walked quickly towards the main courtyard as soon as he entered the palace gate.
His blue-black deerskin boots crunched the snowflakes on the road, and the boy following him could hardly keep up with his master.
"Fu Jin, I'm back!"
As soon as Long Xi crossed the threshold of the main courtyard, he shouted loudly toward the inside.
Shang Jia, who was guarding her son's crib and teasing him with a rattle, hurriedly put down the toys in her hands when she heard the noise outside. She mustered up her energy to lift the thick cotton curtain at the door of the inner room and walked out.
The candlelight was bright in the hall outside. After Long Xi took off his cloak and let the servant tidy it up, he turned around and saw Shang Jia's eyes were red.
He also knew that Fujin and his second sister-in-law had gone to the Forbidden City to seek help from the little emperor's sister-in-law to beg her for warmth. Seeing Shang Jia's appearance, he also guessed that the result must be unsatisfactory.
"Mommy, go and bring me a bowl of ginger soup that's warm in the kitchen. Don't let me catch the cold."
Seeing Long Xi's eyes focused on her face, Shang Jiashi remembered that her makeup had been stained by tears since she came back from the palace and had not touched it up. She hurriedly turned her head and said to the wet nurse who was following behind her.
"Hey, old slave, let's go right now."
Shangjia's nanny hurriedly stepped over the threshold and walked out.
Long Xi saw that Fujin clearly didn't want him to ask more questions about Bai Ri's affairs, so he winked and didn't mention it again.
He also took off his silver fox fur hat with snowflakes on his head, changed into clean and soft clothes before walking to his son's room.
"Hey, son, are you happy that Ama is back?"
Long Xi walked to the small bed and leaned over the surrounding wooden railings. He picked up his thin little son with a small quilt and put him in his arms like a swing.
He swayed slightly, put one big and one small on his forehead and asked with a smile.
"Ah, ah~"
The father and son obviously played this game often. As soon as Fulhuulun was picked up by his Ama and started to shake, he cried out "ahhhh" weakly. There was not much flesh on his face, which made his eyes look unusually big and he was pale.
The expression on his face also made Ful Hulun's eyes darker.
He raised his little hand and touched Long Xi's chin and shouted "beep boop" twice. Although the little milky sound he made was thin and weak, both the young couple knew that their son was happy.
Shang Jia placed the package that Long Xi handed her smoothly on a round chicken-wing wooden table not far away. When she untied the knot and saw three wooden boxes placed side by side inside, she curiously opened the lid and found that inside
After it turned out to be all jade, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to touch it. When she felt the warmth on the surface, she turned her head to look at the father and son and asked in surprise:
"Master, where did you get this?"
When Long Xi saw that Shang Jia had taken out the contents, he carried his son and walked a few steps to the table. After taking a look at the intact jade inside, he smiled and explained to her:
"I asked people to get it from the Mongols. I heard that they also got the raw stones from Moxi. I don't know if these have the same effect as Changquan's Jade Rabbit."
"We'll find out after we try it."
At this time, Shang Jia was really excited and nervous. She bit her lower lip and carefully took out the sapphire stone closest to her from the wooden box. She held it in front of Ful Hulun and said warmly: "Son, please touch it."
Touch it and see if you like this piece of warm jade."
When the little baby saw the sapphire stone in front of her that was emitting moist light under the candlelight, she couldn't help but stretched out her little hand to touch the surface. Although the tentacles were smooth, they were obviously not as warm as the little jade rabbit, so she shook her head with some disinterest.
He put his hand down.
When the young couple saw this scene, their hearts trembled.
Shangjia hurriedly put down the sapphire in his hand, picked up the other two pieces of maroon and ivory, and repeated the previous actions to let Fulhuulun touch them one by one. However, without exception, these three pieces of warm jade were not allowed to be touched.
Their son's brows were as relaxed as they were in Prince Yu's palace.
"Your Majesty, what should we do?"
Shang Jia's family is really broken now. After so much effort, she still can't find the Nuan Yu she is looking for. Her son is still waiting for help!
Longxi was also feeling very cold at this time. Ever since they accidentally discovered that warm jade was helpful to their son's health that day at Prince Yu's Mansion, they had spent these days buying all the warm jade they could see on the market in the capital.
When he came back, even the gifts given to him by Huang Mama, Huang Aniang, and Huang brother in the earlier years were all taken out from the warehouse.
Now, coupled with these three pieces of warm jade that came from the same place as the White Jade Rabbit, there are at least a dozen pieces, but none of them are used. Seeing such a result, he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged and confused for a moment.
I wonder if this is the fate of their Aixinjueluo family, and they are destined to lose a few children like their brothers.
Just when the couple was feeling sad, Shangjia's nanny hurried to the door of the inner room carrying steaming ginger soup on a wooden tray. After seeing the family of three inside, she hurriedly shouted happily:
"Your Majesty, Fujin, someone has come from the palace. It is said that Eunuch Zhang from Chuxiu Palace came to give us something on the orders of the imperial concubine."
When Shang Jia heard this, a thought suddenly passed through her mind. She quickly took out the handkerchief from her arms, pressed the corner of her eyes, turned around and said to the wet nurse standing at the door: "Please come in quickly!"
Long Xi was also a smart person. He guessed that it might be the little emperor's wife who sent Nuan Yu, so he immediately wrapped his son's little quilt under his buttocks around him, hugged the little baby in his arms, and followed Shang Jia closely.
He walked into the hall outside.
Zhang Tianxi, who was holding a small mahogany box in his arms, stood in the middle of the hall and saw Prince Chun and his wife walking out together. He immediately stepped forward with a smile and said: "I would like to say hello to Prince Chun and my best wishes to Fujin."
"Father-in-law, please get up."
Long Xi freed up a hand to help him.
Almost at the same time, the young couple turned their attention to the small mahogany box in Zhang Tianxi's arms.
After Zhang Tianxi noticed it, he put the small box on the table aside without waiting for the two to ask. While opening the lid, he said with a harmonious smile:
"Actually, after the two Fujins left, our mother-in-law sent people to the House of Internal Affairs to call for help. The servants rummaged through the warehouse and found that there were four rough stones in total. The mother-in-law asked the master from the House of Internal Affairs to
I was so excited that I opened three pieces without seeing any jade at all, but the last one was lucky enough to find a piece of sapphire of good quality."
As soon as Zhang Tianxi finished speaking, an oval-shaped piece of sapphire that was about as long as an adult's arm and as thick as the length of a palm was exposed. It was completely clear against the goose-yellow cushions, and the quality was very good at first glance.
Not vulgar.
"Isn't it too generous for the little emperor's sister-in-law to take action?"
Seeing this, Longxi couldn't help but stretched out his hand and touched the jade. The tentacles felt warm, as if he had been exposed to the warm sun in winter, and his whole body felt comfortable. Moreover, this piece of jade was worth more than the three pieces he spent a lot of money to buy combined.
Be big.
Ful Hulun was the weakest and the one who could most obviously feel the supernatural power. He broke free of his little hands from the quilt in his arms and leaned forward to touch the warm cyan jade in the small box.
After Zhang Tianxi saw it, he immediately picked up the small box and let the future Prince Chun, the young prince, touch the warm jade.
"Hey, ah, want, ah!"
Ful Hulun felt that his little body suddenly became warm, and he hurriedly slid his little hand back and forth on the sapphire, and his pale little face also became a little energetic.
"I don't even know how to thank the little emperor's sister-in-law."
"There is no way out despite the mountains and rivers, but there is another village with bright flowers and dark willows."
Shang Jia, who originally thought there was no hope, could not have imagined that there would be such a turning point. Seeing her son's reaction, she couldn't help but shed tears again, but this time she cried with joy.
"I also found three pieces of jade from Mongolia in the Desert today, but they don't feel as comfortable as Xiao Huangsao's jade. I wonder if my father-in-law knows where Xiao Huangsao's warm jade was obtained in Moxi?
I plan to send more people to find some more."
Long Xi was afraid that his son would fall down and held his little body back. He looked at Zhang Tianxi curiously and asked.
Zhang Tianxi heard that Prince Chun really asked about this, and recalled his mother-in-law's previous instructions to him, and said with a smile:
"The rough stones in our Chuxiu Palace were randomly purchased by merchants who happened to be encountered by the Hesheli family's caravan in Mongolia, the desert. The rough stones brought back by a cart can only be worth two pieces of warm stone."
Jade, and a few pieces of medium-quality cold jade, and the rest are just lumps of stone."
"Prince Changquan's piece of white jade rabbit was also carved from a whole piece of ivory white jade. Our mother-in-law said that carving it into jade carvings would waste some leftover materials, and you two are probably in a hurry to use it, so we waited until the master finished it.
After the warm jade was mined, I personally took the tools to polish off the sharp edges and corners of the jade, and then put it into a small box and asked the servant to quickly get the token for leaving the palace and quickly delivered it."
The young couple couldn't help but be touched when they heard that it was Concubine Jing who polished it herself. Moreover, because this piece of sapphire was not carved, in terms of size, it was even larger than the white jade rabbit in Changquan.
However, Prince Yu's Palace and Chu Xiugong are related by marriage, and Prince Chun's Palace and Concubine Jing have no friendship. They gave out two pieces of top-grade warm jade in total, and each family also gave one piece as a gift. When they heard this,
, I also had some thoughts in my mind.
"By the way, I almost forgot about this slave."
Zhang Tianxi thought of the booklet in his arms and quickly put the small mahogany box in his arms on the table. He reached out and took out a blue-sealed booklet from his lapel.
Longxi Monk Shangjia didn't know what was written on it, but the next moment he heard Zhang Tianxi say:
"Your Highness, Fujin, our mother-in-law also said that Nuanyu only plays a role in nourishing the body. If you want your children to be really strong, you still have to pay attention to eating more often and less and strengthening physical exercise. Common people are not so
With good conditions, most children are raised rough, especially those from farmers’ families.
They like to run around in the fields all day long, but most of them are very skinny. And wealthy families are used to raising their children intensively. Although there is nothing wrong with this, the delicate flowers in the greenhouse are always inferior.
The wild grasses are very tenacious, but if they are raised too carefully, the children’s resistance will also become worse accordingly.”
"This booklet is some of the parenting experience I have accumulated over the years from Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Si Age and Crown Prince Changquan. I thought it might be of some reference to you two."
After Zhang Tianxi finished speaking, he handed the pamphlet to Prince Chun Fujin.
"The little royal sister-in-law is so considerate."
Shangjia also took the pamphlet as if it were a treasure.
The people in the clan were all smart and knew how much Concubine Jing had done in raising the young prince after entering the palace.
The little prince, who is now seven years old, not only has a lively and bright personality, but is also much taller than his peers. Except for an accidental acne when he was two years old and an injury during a hunting and assassination in Jingshan, he is basically the same in other situations.
There were no symptoms of headache or brain fever.
In addition, today in Chuxiu Palace, she saw that the fourth elder brother was also smart and clever at a young age, not to mention that she had heard the second sister-in-law say very seriously that if she only relied on her, it would be impossible for Changquan to raise him.
If you live like this.
With three outstanding children as models, Shang Jia's eyes couldn't help but shine when he looked at the thin booklet in front of him.
"This servant has finished his errands, so he will go back to the palace to revive his wife."
Zhang Tianxi thought about it carefully and found that he had already said everything that Concubine Jing had told him word for word. Then he smiled and leaned over to Prince Chun and his wife, and planned to turn around and leave.
"Father-in-law, wait a moment."
Shang Jiashi hurriedly put the pamphlet into her arms, hurriedly entered the inner room, grabbed a handful of silver peanuts and stuffed them into a red purse, then walked out quickly, stuffed the red purse into Zhang Tianxi's hand, and said with a smile:
"Thank you for your hard work, father-in-law. I'm going to send you a wishful packet in advance to celebrate the New Year."
Zhang Tianxi took the Ruyi purse, bowed to Shang Jia, and followed Long Xi's personal servant out quickly.
Longxi also handed the son in his arms to Fujin, and then walked into the inner room holding the small mahogany box.
The couple first put Fulhuulun back into his crib, then took out the cyan warm jade in the small box and placed it beside him. Then they saw their son turning over with difficulty.
He stretched out his two small arms and hugged the sapphire block tightly, rubbed his cheek against the surface, yawned delicately, and soon fell asleep with his head tilted.
The young couple, who had been struggling for more than a year, finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this scene.
"Master, let's follow my second brother and the others to send New Year's gifts to Chuxiu Palace this year. Due to the weather today, I couldn't bring the gifts I prepared for the little emperor's sister-in-law into the palace, so I will bring them along with the New Year's gifts.
Send it over."
Shang Jia took out the blue-sealed booklet from his arms and gently rubbed its cover and said.
"It's time. The little emperor's wife is a nice person. I think everyone in the clan will go to Chuxiu Palace to send New Year's gifts."
Longxi thought of the scene in the Cining Garden where Qingyan, who was still a concubine, suddenly came out from the side while swinging the dead vine pulled from the tree, rushed in front of him to save people, and sat down on the round table made of chicken wing wood.
He poured himself a cup of hot tea, shook his head and said with a smile.
When Shang Jia heard what he said, she was stunned for a moment before she realized what he meant.
In the past, people in the royal family would send New Year's gifts to Kunning Palace. Later, the two empresses disappeared, and most of the New Year's gifts were no longer sent to the harem. If there is an imperial concubine who is also the deputy empress in the palace,
Naturally, everyone in the clan has to give New Year gifts.