"The smoke of the south wind can relieve the anger of our people." [South Wind]
The turmoil in the court was temporarily over. After Yang Qi withdrew from the Chengming Palace, the emperor did not add any new personnel to fill it in. After a period of calm, the emperor seemed to have remembered and went to Fu Shou's palace to visit his first wife.
child.
Due to premature birth and the lack of physical strength during Songdu's delivery, the emperor's son was very weak when he was born. Autumn was about to come, and the thin little face of the eldest son of the emperor was huddled in the swaddling clothes, looking so...
He couldn't help but feel weak. The emperor leaned over and looked at him, not even daring to stretch out his fingers to touch his son's cheek. After a long while, he sighed leisurely and straightened up: "I'm sorry for this child."
"Fortunately, the imperial doctor said that it can be replenished in the future." Fu Shou comforted her. She looked at the swaddled baby with pity and said to the emperor: "No matter what his biological mother is, this is your majesty's eldest son. Since his birth,
, there is no official name yet..."
"The child is still young." The emperor seemed a little unhappy. He slowly looked away and looked at the other furnishings in the Yuanluan Palace: "You should give him a nickname first, and wait until a hundred days have passed before talking about it."
Fu Shou hesitated to speak, but still didn't say anything. She vaguely knew that the emperor still had anger underneath his seemingly plain face, and she was afraid that the emperor had already blamed Song Du for the reason why his son was born weak.
Come on, Song Du will not be able to get any benefit from this child. She actually guessed that the emperor really thought that he might have drank medicine, which would cause the fetus to develop poorly. In addition, this
Which of the encounters during this period was not caused by the Song Dynasty?
When he heard Fu Shou's suggestion that the Song Dynasty should return to its original Pixiang Palace, the emperor immediately understood what she meant: "In what capacity can she go back now? She made such a mistake. If she had not given birth to a child, she would have gone to forever.
She's gone, not to mention...I don't want to see her anymore."
"Song Du has been bedridden since giving birth. He is so haggard that he calls your majesty every day. Is it that your majesty doesn't even want to see her?" Fu Shou persuaded her again.
The emperor felt depressed for no reason. He should have been very happy to have a son, but when he saw such a thin child who could be injured by a gust of wind, and thought of the cause and effect of this child, he didn't feel much joy in his heart.
.In addition, Fu Shou was beside him and was bent on asking Song Du to return to Pixiang Hall, and seemed to want to help people to the end. The emperor suddenly felt that Fu Shou might be too kind: "From now on, you will take care of the eldest son of the emperor. Find a few more
Wet nurse, since Song Du is in frail health, don’t even think about moving around, just stay here with you.”
Now that Song Du has given birth to such a weak prince, everyone in Yeting is watching with open eyes, thinking that if something goes wrong that day, Fu Shou will be the one to blame. The emperor never thought that the other party would be afraid of the difficulty. If
He was so afraid that he would not take the risk to save Song Du at the beginning. But the risk here is too great. No matter how cruel the emperor is, he will not let his own flesh and blood be put in any danger, so there is no need to think about leaving Song Du mother and son here in Fushou.
It's the most foolproof way.
After sitting in Fushou's place for a while, the emperor got up and left. Instead of sitting in Fushou's place, he would always think of the capital of Song Dynasty not far away, which made the emperor feel very uncomfortable. It would be better to go directly to Jiaofang Hall to raise money.
A few words of praise for Empress Dong. After the incident, the emperor calmed down and thought about it. Although Empress Dong's accusation that night was intentional revenge, she did not hide it like others. Although he had always used Empress Dong mainly.
, but compared with the Song family, at least Empress Dong never did anything to drug him.
Regarding the emperor's arrival, Empress Dong showed her usual enthusiasm. She changed into casual clothes for him like an ordinary wife greeting her husband, served him tea and snacks, and greeted him from time to time. She even made the emperor smile a little when she said so.
It means. Empress Dong watched her words carefully and never mentioned the incident that night to claim credit. Instead, she said as if unintentionally: "The birth of the emperor's eldest son, although it will not be a general amnesty for the whole world and celebrating with the people, the palace must at least give some talents."
yes."
"There is no rush to do this now." The emperor did not want to make a fuss about it and let others think about the Song family in exile.
Empress Dong didn't mind either. Shui Yingying rolled her eyes and said: "Then... the eldest son of the emperor must have a name at least, right?"
"Why did you mention this too?" The emperor glanced at her curiously, took the teacup, smelled it and put it aside casually: "The child is weak, we will wait until a hundred days to talk about everything."
Empress Dong agreed with a "hey" and then casually told the whole story: "Zhou Xun, the child, has been in poor health recently. The eldest princess cannot enter the palace, so I sent people to ask several times."
"She still has time to take care of the affairs in the palace." The emperor thought of his fat nephew Zhou Xun, and thought of his infant son, and suddenly sighed: "Send the imperial doctor to the eldest princess's house to take a look.
Look, don't make your illness worse."
"Zhou Xun has been strong since he was a child and has never been sick. This time he was playing around with the boys from the Sun family, which made him exhausted." Empress Dong said in a funny way. This is a trivial matter between relatives. She is here
He spoke very casually in front of the emperor.
Seeing that the emperor's expression was still not relaxed, Empress Dong changed the subject appropriately. She deliberately wanted to give him enough comfort when the emperor was at a low point, so that the emperor could get over the incident in Songdu as soon as possible, and preferably forget about Songdu.
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"A few days ago, the picking girls in Jiaofang Hall learned a music and dance, which was matched with the Yuefu silk strings. It was quite eye-catching." Empress Dong signaled to Chang Yu, who walked out naturally, and treated her as herself.
After Gu Zi had done all this, he symbolically asked for the emperor's opinion: "The night is still long, your Majesty, why not take a look?"
After all, it was entertainment, so the emperor nodded his head and expressed his acquiescence.
Empress Dong smiled charmingly and looked at the emperor with a twinkle in her eyebrows.
A group of dancers came up quickly. Accompanied by silk and bamboo music, they changed their posture gracefully in the hall. They waved their wide sleeves, raised their slender green fingers, danced gracefully, and arched their eyebrows. In fact, their dancing postures were not
The emperor had seen them countless times in his past and present lives, but their beauty and youthful movements still made him look at them a few more times.
"How?" After the song ended, Empress Dong sent everyone off and said jokingly: "They only know this one dance, and there is nothing else your Majesty would like to see."
"Ordinary dance is better than extraordinary beauty." The emperor withdrew his gaze and looked pointedly at Empress Dong's mature figure restrained under the loose uniform.
Empress Dong smiled and lowered her head very coquettishly. She calmed down her expression and secretly wrote down the appearance of the dancer who the emperor had looked at for the longest just now.
It's hard to say that this dancer will always be at his mercy from now on.