The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 199 Extra Story: Family Carnival
The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Princess Ping'an had been married for ten years. The eldest daughter was eight years old, and the second son was five years old. They were all very smart.

According to the emperor's intention, the first child was originally to follow Princess Ping's maiden name, Lu.But when Princess Ping'an was pregnant, she felt that her father, queen and queen had given her a deep kindness, so she asked for a surname for the child in her womb as a thank you.

At that time, there was quite a dispute between the father and daughter, but Song Fan, the son-in-law, said to Princess Pingan: "You have to repay your majesty's kindness in nurturing, but you really don't mention the kindness of your biological parents? If the first child The surname is Xie, and the second one must continue the incense of your natal family, and the children in the future will follow my surname."

Princess Ping hesitated for a long time.The pain and danger of a woman giving birth to a child is hard for a man to understand so deeply. It doesn't matter if Song Fan is generous, but she has to think about what if she doesn't have a third child?
After some wording, he euphemistically told Song Fan about his worries, and Song Fan smiled and said, "The Song family is prosperous, and I already have several nephews. If you can't get over this, it's not difficult to adopt one or two from the side branches. .”

The originally difficult matter was resolved in the discussion between the two, and when the matter got out, it became a good story for a time.

He smiled broadly and said, "Look, it's not a good idea to discuss everything between husband and wife? The Song family has no shortage of heirs. Song Fan is a gentleman who helps the princess to repay her kindness."

The narrow-minded ones at least boasted: "Hey, Lord Shang has to have the vision of the Song family. What is the last name of one or two children? If you show such loyalty, you will have a bright future in the future!"

Regardless of what the outside world says, Princess Ping'an, Song Fan's eldest daughter Xie Ning, and second son Lu Qing have all grown up well.After the child was born, it wasn't just the surname that was changed, Lu Qing really continued on the Lu family's genealogy, and Xie Ning was named the head of the family at the age of three according to the rules of the clan's daughter.

This is a bit of oblique pampering. The emperor's original words at the time were: "Ah Qing's bloodline from the Lu family is true, and Ah Ning can't just follow her surname and settle down, can she?"

In this way, for the next five years, there was no news about Princess Ping An's stomach.After Song Jiajing nodded her head, she was really thinking about the adoption of an offspring under her name.

But in the middle of this matter, Princess Ping'an became pregnant.

This is of course a happy event, but as life goes by, it is easy to stumble when there is a sudden happy event—for example, right now, Princess Ping An wants to have a good pregnancy, but the two children are half-baked, and it is almost impossible for them to be completely quiet in order to take care of their mother .But in the same mansion, it is impossible for them to see their mothers at all. How could they take away the older ones for the sake of the ones in their stomachs?

The empress first mentioned this matter. Seeing that Ah Qing was still sitting on Princess Ping's lap when she entered the palace to greet her, the empress frowned: "How can this be done? I have to distract myself from taking care of them with one in my belly. In the end, you have to tire yourself out!"

Princess Ping didn't take it seriously: "What's the matter? When I was pregnant with Ah Qing, I still took care of Ah Ning... Besides, when your mother was pregnant with your younger brothers and sisters, didn't you also take care of the older ones?"

Princess Ping'an didn't quite understand why the queen suddenly mentioned this.In fact, when a child is added to the palace of the royal relatives, being a mother is not so tiring. Most of the things are done by servants, and the remaining [-]% ​​is just talking to the child, playing with the child, and giving the child some blood. The only concern in time.

Even she herself felt as if she had brought up Ah Ning Ah Qing cheerfully. When the queen said this suddenly, it seemed as if she had worked hard for ten years after she was married for ten years.

The queen's complexion was slightly pale, and she said vaguely, "You speak lightly", and then said quietly, "I think, why don't you leave the two of them in the palace for a while, and wait for you to come out of the moon?" Take it back with you."

Princess Ping'an was taken aback for a moment.This was supposed to be the last time she went to the palace to say hello before giving birth, and after that, she was going to have a good pregnancy and not be bumped by the horses and horses-then the mother left the child?
She was puzzled for a while, the princess next to her coughed lightly, and said with a faint smile: "Eldest sister, you don't have to return to the queen mother's kindness. They are all from my own family, and now His Royal Highness the third son has also left the palace for two years. If the queen mother wants to take care of her, who else can she take care of?"

A flash of light flashed in Princess Ping's mind, and then she suddenly understood!

From the time when the mother was not a queen, there were a group of children around her, and it has been lively and lively for so many years.Later she got married, Ah Yuan appointed the crown prince and went to the East Palace, and then Ah Cong also left the palace to open a mansion, and A Ling married immediately after, and now even the third younger brother also left the palace.

The queen mother felt that it was boring, and wanted to add some excitement to the side?
So Princess Ping'an glanced at the Crown Princess gratefully, then lowered her head and asked Lu Qing who was on her lap: "Ah Qing, live with my grandfather and grandmother in the palace for a while, okay?"

Lu Qing looked up at his mother, raised his face and replied "Yes", Princess Ping looked at Xie Ning again.

Ah Ning also responded "OK", but she didn't look as happy as Ah Qing - she had never been separated from her mother like this, living in the palace but her mother was not there...it felt weird!

The Crown Princess came over to coax her: "Oh, Ah Ning, your mother wants to have a baby. Wouldn't it be nice for you to play in the palace for a while? There are more lions in the palace than in your home. When you have nothing to do, you can go to the East Palace to find your brother." My sister is playing, how about it?"

Little Ah Ning was a little bit tangled, she kept her mouth open for a long time, and nodded, "Uncle Prince draws a kite for me!"

The two siblings stayed like this that day, and when the emperor arrived at the Changqiu Palace after taking care of the government affairs, the two children were chasing back and forth in the hallway.

The emperor was stunned for a while, then looked at the queen sitting on the porch: "You left them?"

"Well, wait until Ah Yao has given birth to the child and then send it back." The Queen smiled, and greeted the two children to come over to say hello, and then brewed a little grief and anger, "Hey... in a blink of an eye, I want more children to call me grandmother? Tsk, how old Already!"

"How old are you?" The emperor raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it just over 43? Go to 83! The days are long!"

The two children came over to say hello obediently, and after the four of them had a supper together, the queen proposed to take Ah Ning to sleep.

The emperor stared with anger: "Then I will take Ah Qing to bed!"

The next day, in order to let them get used to it quickly, the queen did not let the two children's mother Fu and husband come, and told the maid to take them around for a while, and postpone the study for two days.

So the two children "followed the order" and ran to the East Palace to toss around. Seeing that the prince and the second son were playing chess, they "enthusiastically" gave pointers beside them.

Ah Ning said: "Uncle Prince, come here...block him!"

Ah Qing said: "Second Uncle, take this one! Come here! Second Uncle, you will definitely win!"

The two uncles restrained themselves for a long time based on the principle of "don't care about the younger generation", and finally they clapped the case at the same time and drove them out with a wave of their hands: "Get out! Get out! Play elsewhere!"

Ah Ning and Ah Qing stuck out their tongues and ran away. The two brothers sat back at the chess table and re-deliberated for a long time.

What should I do?
Well, call your own children to ask about homework.

Ah Ning and Ah Qing left the East Palace, and continued to wander around hand in hand.After walking for a long time, she saw Princess Rou'an entering a yard, Ah Ning's eyes lit up, she pulled Ah Qing and called "Auntie" while chasing after her.

Princess Rou'an and the palace people around her didn't hear it, and they didn't see anyone when they entered.Before they had time to ask a palace official to ask, the eyes of the two children lit up!

Good, many, small, child, child, ah!

The first time I entered the courtyard, there were dozens of girls aged seven or eight, which was fine for Ah Qing who is a boy, but Ah Ning must be happy!
Ah Ning happily ran to find them to play, and all the young palace ladies who were practicing needle piercing were dumbfounded: Who is this? ? ?
It just so happened that these little maids had just entered the palace, and the rules were not so strict. After being disturbed by Ah Ning, they put down the boring needlework at hand. After a while, they became chatting with the crowd, and the tranquility just disappeared. live.

"Ask why you have to wear so many needles? Are you begging for a cleverness?" Ah Ning was curious about how each of them put a plate of silver needles beside them. After hearing that "everyone has to wear [-] needles before eating lunch", rolled up his sleeves generously, "I'll help you!"

Therefore, when the teaching female officer came to inspect, what he saw was that although the courtyard was in chaos, the little palace ladies kept their hands on the ground.

Then, she naturally noticed the one in the different clothes very quickly, and of course she would not easily think that a noble lady was coming, so she frowned and snatched her up, "What's the matter with you? Who allowed you to dress indiscriminately?"

As soon as Ah Ning raised her head in confusion, the maid waiting at the door blocked the lady official, and said in a low tone: "The slave is from Changqiu Palace. This is the eldest daughter of Princess Ping'an."

Instructing female officer: "..." My lord, you are very elegant!

After a while, a row of female officials stood behind Ah Ning, watching her silently, mainly because she was afraid that she would be tied.

Ah Qing dragged her wet nurse to continue looking for her aunt, and she did find her in the third yard.

Princess Rou'an actually came to help Suanmei. After she married Ruan Yue, she also had the title of a married woman, and many affairs in the palace would be passed on to her to take care of them.This time, the matter of teaching the little maid of etiquette fell on Sour Plum. Sour Plum just happened to be mentally ill, so Princess Yangrou'an came in to help her take care of it.

The two were discussing who to send to Changqiu Palace to fill the vacancy, when Princess Rou'an was strangled suddenly!

"Ah!" Xie Ling screamed, coughing and turning around, "Ah Qing?"

"Long time no see, auntie!" Lu Qing happily lay on her back, "Did auntie visit mother? Mother has younger siblings in her belly!"

"Go. It's you, how long has it been since you came to see your aunt?" Princess Rou'an smiled and stared at him.

Ah Qing: "Hey..."

So Ah Qing was here to watch her aunt and aunt talk about business, and Ah Ning was having a good time with the little maids outside.When it was lunch time, Princess Rou An was going to Changqiu Palace to accompany the queen to have dinner, so she happened to take the two of them back together.

Ah Ning happily described to the queen that she saw many little girls who were about the same age as her today. The queen laughed when she heard it: "Your mother was like this back then."

Ah Ning let out a "huh": "Mother also went to play with them?"

The queen smiled kindly: "Yes, that year I went to pick out maids for the imperial court, and your mother secretly followed..."

The emperor took a sip of tea: "Then when grandpa went there at night, your grandma was eating chicken feet. She didn't notice that there was another person in the room for a long time. After eating the chicken feet, she still..."

"...Your Majesty!" The Queen cast a glance across her face, gnashing her teeth.

The emperor choked and took another sip of tea: "Cough, she put your mother to sleep after eating the chicken feet, that's good."

"Oh!" The obedient little Ah Ning just believed it.

Princess Rou'an was holding back her laughter beside her with a painful expression on her face.The queen mother wouldn't let me talk about the thing about using the chicken claw bone to put characters back then, but she heard it from her sister!
It is said that life in the palace is intriguing and depressing, but they don't feel it at all, let alone the words "long days are boring".

It seems that in just a snap of the fingers, there are already two generations of people under the emperor's knees-but they themselves sometimes have a little "childlike innocence".

For Ah Yao's generation, this feeling is even more obvious. It seems that yesterday there were a group of brothers and sisters playing around, but today when I looked down, a group of children were calling them parents and uncles.

But it doesn't matter.

If the whole family is happy and united, everything is fine, and I don't have too much leisure time to mourn the spring and the autumn.

(End of this chapter)