The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 202
On the morning of May [-]rd, the female relatives from various mansions who received the posts began to come to Dongping Palace one after another, and gathered in the main hall under the guidance of the maids in the mansion.

Due to Concubine Zhang's high morals and high status, she naturally does not need to greet the guests in person. At this time, she only needs to sit on the head, and the guests will come forward to pay respects to her.But Daiyu had just given birth, and it was inconvenient to come out to entertain guests, so Baochai was responsible for welcoming the guests.Fortunately, she was dignified and magnanimous, and she did things in an orderly manner, and nothing went wrong. Both the guests and Concubine Zhang praised her secretly.

At this time, there was still some time before noon, so these female relatives gathered together in twos and threes, talking to people they knew well.For example, in the corner near the entrance of the lobby, Aunt Xue and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, were whispering to Baochai.

"You have to hurry up, Miss Lin has already given birth to a son, if you delay in spreading the good news, I'm afraid the concubine and son-in-law of the family will have objections."

Seeing that her mother was so worried about herself, Baochai was also very anxious, but she still comforted her, "Mom, just rest assured that our concubine is calm and will not make things difficult for others. As for the son, you don't have to worry about it." , he has always treated me very well, nothing like that will happen."

Liu Shi, who was listening to the conversation between the mother and daughter, suddenly interjected, "Mother, don't worry about your younger sister. I think the concubine attaches great importance to her younger sister. Otherwise, she wouldn't have given her the responsibility of entertaining guests. After all, there are many princesses and ladies here today!"

Baochai looked at her sister-in-law appreciatively, and felt that her mother had a good eye this time, and finally picked a good wife for her brother.Liu Shi also saw the way Baochai looked at her, and couldn't help being overjoyed.Seriously speaking, she valued this sister-in-law who married into the palace more than her husband Xue Pan.

It has to be said that this Mrs. Liu is quite shrewd. Not long after she married into the Xue family, she discovered that her sister-in-law had a high status in the hearts of her mother-in-law and her husband. In order to please them, she naturally couldn't offend Baochai.In addition, she also considered the future of her own children, and she would definitely have to ask Baochai for help.Although the child has not been seen yet, this does not prevent her from planning ahead.

Aunt Xue didn't listen to this, in her heart nothing is more important than having a son, so she continued to babble, "I know a secret recipe for having a son, which was told to me by your grandmother back then. try."

"Mom, those fertility medicines should not be taken indiscriminately. The court judge of the Tai Hospital has said that taking too much of these fertility medicines will not only not help the pregnancy, but will also affect the health of the fetus in the stomach." Baochai hurriedly After persuading her, in order to prevent her from being stubborn, she exhorted Liu Shi who was on the side,
"Sister-in-law, you can't listen to your mother, the child's affairs can't be rushed..."

Baochai had just finished speaking halfway, when she saw a little girl coming in at the door, she went up to Concubine Zhang and said something, and then she saw Concubine Zhang waving to her, so she had to stop talking, greeted the two mothers, and hurriedly rushed over.

"There was news at the door that the three ladies in the palace sent people to attend Mao Ge'er's third baptism. You go to the Yimen Gate to greet him in person, and you must not lose your manners." Concubine Zhang explained to Baochai.As for the Maogeer in her mouth, it is the nickname she gave to her great-grandson, which entrusts the child to flourish and grow like a tree.

After Baochai heard this, she hurriedly responded, and hurried away with a few maids. Some of the female relatives nearby were envious when they heard their conversation, look at this holy family!

Besides Daiyu, she has been moved from the delivery room back to Zhaohui Hospital, she is leaning on the couch with her back on the cushion, listening to Mu Xu who is sitting next to her complaining,
"I've never seen what a child Xisan looks like. I wanted to see it at first. But my grandmother said that all the family members who came here today are female relatives. It's not convenient for me to show up. Do you think it's a pity?"

Daiyu comforted him with a funny face, "Okay, it's nothing more than giving Brother Mao a bath, what's so interesting about it, I'll let you wash him yourself when he gets older."

When Mu Xu wanted to say more, he heard Xueyan come in and reply, "Your Majesty, Zhongjing Wangfei and the old matriarch of the Jia family, Second Mistress Bing Lian and Grandma Liu have come to see Shizi Concubine."

"Okay, let them come in." Mu Xu got up helplessly, and then sighed, "I'm going to find a place to hide." He just went out for a while, and a bunch of people flooded into the room. The bedroom of their husband and wife is very spacious, I'm afraid it really can't stand so many people.

Princess Zhongjing walked in front of the crowd, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw Daiyu getting up under the service of the girl, she was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped her, "What are you doing, girl, just lie down, don't you know that you just gave birth ?"

"Auntie is worrying too much, I think I'm in good health." Daiyu explained with a smile.

"My concubine is right. What are you capable of at this time! I know your body well. How can you stand up to this? This time you have a baby, but I am worried. Fortunately, your mother and child are safe." Jiamu, who came in after Princess Zhongjing, also blamed softly.

It's hard for Daiyu to explain to them, since she practiced the kung fu taught by Mu Xu, she is no longer what she used to be, let alone took the precious medicine to strengthen her body and prolong her life.Knowing that both of them had good intentions, she had no choice but to admit her mistakes again and again, expressing that she would not do it again.

A group of people cared about Daiyu for a few words, and then clamored to see the child, so Daiyu ordered Xueyan to order the nanny to bring the child over.As soon as the child arrived, everyone gathered around and looked carefully, only to see a fair-skinned, chubby baby sleeping soundly in a swaddle.It was strange to say that the child was so noisy, yet he still slept very soundly.

Seeing that the child is so cute, everyone praised him unanimously, Princess Zhongjing and Mother Jia took turns hugging for a while.During the period, I couldn't help asking about the child's name, and Daiyu said both the first name and the second name, and also explained the meaning of them.

It went on like this for a while, and it was noon in the blink of an eye. A girl came outside the door to pass on the words of Concubine Zhang, asking everyone to go eat and wash three noodles. Then everyone bid farewell to Daiyu and went to the front yard together.

After noon, Mao Geer's three baths officially began. Daiyu, with the support of Zijuan and others, burned incense in the room to worship the bed father and bed mother, and then gave birth to the empress, sent the child empress, Yunxiao empress, Empress Qiong Xiao and other gods.Finally, the midwives put out a statue of Avalokitesvara and worshiped again.

After worshiping the gods, Mrs. Wen took the child to the lobby of the front yard, and came to the pots that had been prepared long ago containing traditional Chinese medicine bath soups such as mugwort leaves and locust trees. Add water, gold and silver, longan, red dates, etc.

Every time they add something, Mrs. Wen will say an auspicious word, such as adding clear water, Mrs. Wen will say, "Long water flows, and you will be smart." ".As for these few things, Concubine Zhang actually agreed with others in advance, and she has no choice but because everything that comes today is either rich or expensive, and most of the things that will be added to the basin will be gold and jade. In order to get a good start, she This is the only way to go.

Fortunately, Concubine Zhang had the foresight. Sure enough, after these few things, the things that everyone added to the basin became more expensive, almost all of which were jade and gold. After all, these things will give them some stability in the end.

After adding the basin, there will be a sounding basin, and then the child will be officially bathed. Mrs. Wen takes Maoge out of the swaddle and gently puts him in the basin. Stimulated by the warm water, the kid finally wakes up and starts crying loudly When he got up, his hands and feet were still thumping, which made the audience burst into laughter.

While washing, Mrs. Wen muttered, "Wash your hair first, become a prince, then wash your shoulders, and become a high official; wash your waist, one generation is taller than one generation..." After washing the crying Mao Geer all over, Wen Po The mother-in-law fished it out and entered the process of dressing up.For example, use the incense made of wormwood to smoke on the child's forehead, and then symbolically comb the hair, rinse the mouth, apply eggs, etc.

(End of this chapter)