Ordinary clear day

Chapter 258 Unfinished
Tong Ying's recent hobby, apart from painting, has added another thing, which is carpentry.In fact, he had only learned some carving skills in Beijing, but because he wanted to make a carpenter for the child who was about to be born, he specially found an old carpenter and learned some fur. Although the carpenter he made was not exquisite, it was Very strong.In the end, he polished the surface clean with his own hands, painted red paint on it, drew many patterns of dragons, phoenixes, flowers and plants, and wrote the words "longevity, wealth and wealth".

Shu Ning watched him tinkering with the stroller from the porch, and couldn't help laughing: "With so many things on it, you won't be afraid that the children will be confused? If you have this skill, why not draw some pictures for children to learn in the future?" Tong Ying became interested, so she asked what a painting for literacy is, and Shuning explained it to him.In fact, it is just an ancient version of cards for modern children to read and write.

But Tong Ying remembered one thing, left the work in hand, and ran back to the palace. After half a day, she took someone back to a big wooden box and said: "You reminded me, in fact, I did this when I was young." kind of thing."

Open the wooden box, there are rolls of drawings inside, and a box with a lock on it.Shu Ning took it over to have a look, but Tong Ying took it back and put it back, embarrassedly said: "That's the graffiti I made when I was young, it's shameful, don't look at it, just look at this." He picked up a stack of thick paper, Tigers, cats, dogs, deer, cows, horses, chickens, carriages, houses, etc. are painted on it, and Chinese characters and Manchu are written on the side.The handwriting of the calligraphy and painting is a little immature, but it is impossible to tell what was used to draw it.

He laughed and said: "I used to coax my younger brother, but unfortunately no one bought it, so I kept it for nothing. It looks good now, why don't I draw more and give it to our children in the future?" Shu Ning nodded, The more I look at it, the more I like it. It turns out that Tong Ying drew pictures and wrote characters like this when she was a child.

While turning over, she felt some pain in her stomach. At first, she thought it was just accidental, but when the pain reappeared, she knew something was wrong. It seemed that she was going to give birth soon.

Tong Ying was taken aback: "How could it be... It's not even November yet, isn't there still one month left?"

Shujing quietly waited for the pain to pass, and said: "It's normal to be born in nine months, you don't have to worry about it, that's good, so you don't have to confine yourself at the coldest time..." Although confinement is also very cold now.

Tongying was a little at a loss, and hurriedly found Ermo, but she didn't know what to do.Ermo made a decisive decision and instructed the two nuns to stay with Shuning, and the maids went to boil water and prepare the scissors, while she took everyone from Lu to decorate the east wing as a delivery room. Before leaving, she confessed: "It's just the beginning of pain , I'm still going to be alive, sir, calm down, girl, don't worry." Shu Ning nodded in agreement, and she left.

But how can Tongying calm down?Shuning felt that the pain was gone, so she just grabbed him up and went back to the room first.Tong Ying was about to help her into the house, but was stopped by the nanny, saying that she didn't know where the wife was born, and the second master could not enter the house.Tongying was very depressed, Shuning had no choice but to comfort him: "I still have to take a bath and wash my hair, and you are in the way if you come in, why don't you go and invite a good doctor for me, and then prepare the medicinal materials that can be used?"

Tong Ying thought about it too, and confessed a lot of words before turning around and leaving.Shu Ning ordered people to boil water to take a bath and wash their hair, but the nuns wanted to stop her, but she said: "It's still early, wash it first, otherwise you are not allowed to touch the water for the whole confinement, wouldn't it stink?" Just kidding, She can't take it.

The nuns couldn't stop them, so they went to find Ermo to persuade her, but Ermo didn't object, but just confessed that it should be done as soon as possible.

Shu Ning took a hot bath happily, washed her hair carefully, let the maid dry it with a dry towel bit by bit, combed her hair loosely, and then sent someone to cook.

The nuns were about to faint. Seeing Shu Ning who was in pain again, she endured the pain and said that she wanted to eat, as well as chicken, meat, vegetables, and eggs. She couldn't help but sigh that this lady is different from others when she wants to have a baby. Whose mother is so calm after her first child is about to be born?

But Shuning knew it well.Although she has never given birth, she has never eaten pork, and she has seen pigs run away.Before crossing, I also heard about other people giving birth. After crossing, I have seen other people give birth several times. I know that there is still a long time before the real birth. It will take a lot of effort later. How about rice?Thinking of the eldest son Fujin Guerjia who only relied on half a bowl of porridge and a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup, how could he have the strength to support him?I think Zhenzhen was born after eating rice, how strong and smooth she is.

In the past two months, she has been accompanied by Tong Ying to walk around the courtyard a few times every day, and sometimes visits the palace. She has a stable diet, is healthy and happy, and the possibility of a normal delivery is very high.She will try to keep herself in the best condition.

When Tong Ying found a doctor and came back, Shu Ning had just finished a big bowl of rice and was about to add a second bowl. The doctor felt his pulse, dropped his schoolbag for a long time with a trembling beard, and said: "It's good to have an appetite." Then So I went to explain the precautions to the mothers and daughters-in-law who delivered the baby.

Shu Ning slowly swallowed the last few grains of rice, took a sip of hot tea, and slowly endured another pain, then wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, turned her head and said to Tong Ying: "I'm going to the delivery room, you just stay out Just wait for me first." Although she hoped that Tong Ying could accompany her in the delivery room, it was a bit too much for an ancient man.

Tong Ying was stunned, and suddenly grabbed her hand: "I'll accompany you in..." but was stopped by others.Ermo also said: "Grandpa, it's unlucky for a man to enter the delivery room, the girl will be fine, just rest assured." Tong Ying glanced at her blankly, then turned to look at his wife, suddenly hugged her tightly, and murmured : "It must be safe..." Shu Ning patted his back with a smile, said "Don't worry" several times, then endured another burst of pain, and walked into the East Chamber.

At this time, it was almost dark, and lights were lit everywhere in the courtyard, and everyone was ready to fight.Several female family members of the palace received the letter and went to the main room early to wait.Li Fujin saw that Tong Ying had been standing outside the east chamber, so he persuaded him to enter the house and wait for the news, but Tong Ying said: "I want to stay here with her." Then he instructed the servant to hang a lantern on the branch next to him , Shouting a few words into the room from time to time, comforting his wife, letting her know that he is always here.

Shu Ning in the room was lying on the dry and soft grain and haystack, enduring more and more frequent and severe pain. Er Mo came over to wipe her sweat, and asked softly: "It really hurts so much, why don't you let me know?" Call me a few times." Shuning shook her head: "Take...get something for me to bite...bite..." Ermo quickly found a big handkerchief and rolled it into a ball, stuffed it into her mouth, and then gave her Wiping off his sweat, he changed into another dry towel, and asked Zhou Chang's family lightly, "How long will it take?" Zhou Chang's family touched it, shook his head and said, "Wait a little longer."

After hearing her words, Shu Ning took a deep breath and continued to endure.Outside the window, the lights reflected Tong Ying's silhouette on the window screen. She could imagine that at this moment, Tong Ying must be tightly pursing her lips and her brows were tied into three knots.Hearing his voice, she couldn't help showing a slight smile, but was soon interrupted by a sharp pain, and her two feet pressed against each other, until bruises appeared on the back of her feet, and she just survived this wave.

In this way, I don't know how long it took. When the official delivery came, she felt that she was completely soaked and could hardly feel any pain. She could only hold tightly to the edge of the kang on her body, firmly grasped the hand that Er Mo stretched out, and clenched tightly. Jaw exhausted the strength of breastfeeding and gave birth to the baby.Outside the window, Tong Ying's voice was already hoarse, staring blankly at the dark night sky, silently praying to the heavens, praying for the safety of her wife and children.

Finally, when the first rays of sunlight entered the small courtyard in the morning, there was a loud cry of babies in the house.

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Kangxi 42 years, spring February, Fengtian

Shu Ning carefully read the letter sent by her parents, and when she was about to reply, she heard the childish voice of the eldest son Yang Hai from behind: "Er Niang, I will recite it!"

She smiled sweetly, turned around and picked up her eldest son, kissed her, and asked, "Really? Tell Er Niang?" She only heard him recite in a crisp voice: "At the beginning of human beings, nature is kind and similar. Learning is far away, if you don’t teach, your nature will change, the way of teaching is to specialize... If you don’t learn, it’s not suitable for you, if you don’t learn when you are young, what should you do when you are old.”

When he read a sentence, Shu Ning nodded her head. When he finished reading these sentences, she praised with a smile: "Hai'er is really good, she can already recite so much, what do you want to eat today? Er Niang give it to you Do."

"It's just memorizing a few lines of the "Three Character Classic". Don't spoil him, there are still a lot of things I haven't memorized." Tong Ying walked into the door, holding her daughter Yang Yu who had just turned [-] days in her arms .

Yang Hai slipped out of his mother's arms, ran over to his father and said, "Ama, I want to hug my younger sister." But Tong Ying slapped him on the head: "Go away, last time you almost dropped my brother, you messed with me." He cried for a long time, how can I let you hug my precious girl?!"

Yang Hai, however, refused to give up, and kept yelling "I want to hug" and "I want to hug" while holding his leg, which made Tongying unbearable, and directly shouted: "Old Ten, help me take your eldest nephew away!"

The half-grown boy responded, ran in, said hello to Shuning, then hugged Yang Hai, and said, "Good Haier, Uncle Ten will take you to see Malaysia, how about it?" Yang Hai hesitated He looked at the younger sister in his father's arms, nodded with difficulty, and was quickly carried away by Wu Ge.

Tong Ying watched them leave, turned her head and said in a friendly voice: "Stinky boy, Guang will snatch my daughter from me, why don't you see that he is so interested in my brother?"

Shu Ning packed up the letters, pens and papers, and gave him an annoyed look: "Is it you, Amma's precious daughter? I also want to ask, why don't you dote on Fei Er so much for the twins who were born together?" ?”

Tongying smirked a few times, carefully put her daughter back into a car, tied the belt lightly, then shook it slowly, turned her head and smiled at her wife: "Our daughter is so cute, she is not like those two boys, They are all noisy masters. I just like girls who are caring."

Shuning pursed her lips and smiled, and also walked over, picked up a drum next to it that was full of colorful butterflies, and shook it gently.With the sound of "dong dong" from the drum, the little baby girl showed a "toothless" smile, and laughed very happily, which made Tongying jealous: "It makes Ama so sad, Good girl, why do you smile so happily when you see something with butterflies, and Ama coaxed you for so long, but you didn't show me a single one?"

Seeing his stupid look again, Shu Ning said angrily: "Okay, let your younger brothers and sisters see, your reputation as a steady and good brother will be lost. Where is Fei Er? I heard him cry just now." Tong Ying rubbed her head and said: "It's at my grandma's place, I fell asleep after a long time, don't wake him up, I can't serve that little ancestor."

Shu Ning heard it funny, the pair of children who were born at the end of last year, although they are twins, but their temperaments are very different, the daughter is quiet and well-behaved, never worrying, but the son is too old, he can't stop crying After coming down, in order to let the increasingly busy Tong Ying have a good rest, she had to put it in another room. Once it was so noisy that Tong Ying had to go to the palace to spend the night.In this way, compared with the noisy younger son and the older son who always loves to rob his mother's attention, the well-behaved daughter has become Tongying's favorite child.

Tong Ying turned her head and saw the letter on the table, and asked: "Is it a letter from my father-in-law and mother-in-law? What did you say?" Shuning smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, except that Xiaobao entered the palace of Yong County as a guard, just This year the imperial court opened Enke, and Ama is likely to be appointed as a fellow examiner. Let us set a date to go back as soon as possible, and get together before he enters the imperial court, so that he and Er Niang can meet their grandson. Otherwise, wait After he finishes grading the papers, we may be coming back."

Tong Ying smiled: "It's easy, we have to arrive before the Longevity Festival anyway, Enke will not start the exam until after the emperor's Pentecostal birthday, right?" He paused, thoughtful: " Has Xiaobao arrived at Lao Si's place? It's fine, but Beijing is not very safe now, so I'd rather have him come outside."

Shu Ning said: "He's still young, he's been through a few years of experience, and it's not too late to find another way. Ama said that after finishing this errand, he's going to retire, saying that he's already 50 years old. Walk around, enjoy leisure, and he will not get involved in official affairs. At that time, he and Er Niang can stay in Fangshan to enjoy the blessings, and they can also come to see me and my brother outside the pass, and then we must be filial to them."

Tong Ying thought for a while, and said: "It's a pity that Lao Duan can't leave the jurisdiction at will. When we return to Beijing, let's take a detour and go to Horqin, meet him, and take something for his father-in-law along the way." Ning nodded in agreement.

Since Duanning was sent to Aohan as an official the year before last, he took his wife and children with him to take up the post. In less than two years, the murder and robbery cases in the jurisdiction have been greatly reduced, which is very well received.Now he is a fifth-rank official, although the Yue family intends to find him a job in the south, but he himself prefers to stay outside the pass, and the two sides have not yet reached a conclusion.From Shuning's point of view, if his father really leaves the seclusion with his mother after he gets old, it's better for his brother not to go south, at most he will be transferred to Fengtian Mansion, where he can still have a good future.

Tong Ying teased her daughter for a while, and then asked: "Have you finished the matting that I asked you to do earlier? I think I will leave in ten days, can you make it in time?"

Shu Ning said: "It's almost done, just need to finish. But let me ask you, are you really going to send that lychee-frozen Pixiu to the palace as a birthday present?" Tong Ying smiled: "Why? Isn't it good? That's right. I carved it with my own hands. In addition to the paintings I painted with my own hands, the cushions you embroidered with your own hands, and the bowls and dishes that my brothers and I burned with the clay of Fengtian, and the mink fur and antlers we hunted with our own hands. It’s much stronger than the precious pearls and gems. I know what the emperor likes, so you don’t have to worry about it. Besides, if you want expensive gifts, the palace must have them, so let’s just send them together.”

Shu Ning thought about it too, so she didn't say any more, but when she saw a horse-head-shaped gold pendant that Tong Ying used to tease her daughter, she remembered that she had never seen it before, so she asked: "Where did this come from? It looks a bit like the craftsmanship of Russia."

Tong Ying said: "Indeed, this is the hundred-day gift he gave our children when I met Uncle Xiqin this morning. It is a pair." He took out another pendant from his purse, and it was exactly the same, except that one was a pendant. One is gold and one is silver.

Shuning shook her head and said with a smile: "This Uncle Xi seems to appreciate you very much? In the past two years, he often gave us small things."

Tong Ying sighed: "It's just that I accidentally met King Min's old side Fujin that year and passed away, but no one wore mourning. It's really pitiful. I belonged to his family, and King Min is still my uncle. So I acted as a filial grandson for her. I didn’t expect to be seen by the two uncles Xi Ketern and Xiqin. Since then, they have often come to see me. Last year, Uncle Xi Ketern passed away and asked me to help him again. Back. Thinking about it, they are all heirless people, and they probably hurt the same kind."

Shu Ning said: "It's nothing, the relatives in the clan, they are nice people, you can take care of them a little bit."

"It's a pity that I don't agree with it." Tongying smiled bitterly, "Both uncles are descendants of my great-grandfather's ninth son. They have little contact with our family and their titles are also low. Ama has always disdain to pay attention to them, and he Now I am also seriously ill, if I wear mourning for others again, I will be a bit taboo."

"My lord's illness...how is it?"

"That's it. I have persuaded him many times to let him rest well and stop running around all the time, but he just doesn't listen. He not only wields knives and guns every day, but if I didn't write a letter to let my elder brother stop me desperately, he would even kill him." It's really a headache to go out of the Fortress with the emperor while sick."

"But he still didn't go after all, did he?" Shuning smiled, "It can be seen that he still values ​​your ideas very much. Let's bring back more good medicinal materials. Didn't we just get a batch of ginseng antler a few days ago?"

Tong Ying shook her head: "Is there not enough good medicine sent back in the past two years? In fact, my elder brother wrote privately and mentioned that Ama may not last long, so we must take all the children back to let him See you. In fact, the old man can't think about it. Can't he see who the prince is? Even if we have helped him a little bit, how can he take it to heart? Why should he be so angry because of those things? It's better Amuse the grandson at home and enjoy the happiness." Speaking of this, he looked a little sad.

Shu Ning held his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, don't worry, it's common for the elderly to be in poor health in winter. Now that the weather is warmer, it should get better. Let's go south as soon as possible, maybe the prince will see you You and the children, once you are happy, will you recover from your illness?"

Tong Ying smiled faintly, embraced his wife, and coaxed their daughter to sleep together.

It's just that this warm scene didn't last too long, as Wu Ge and Yang Hai, one big and one small, rushed into the courtyard again to make noise, waking up Yang Fei who had finally calmed down, and burst into tears again, Tong Ying and Shuning looked at each other with wry smiles, knowing that their parents were going to have a headache again.

Tong Ying sighed: "Why is it endless?"

(End of the book)

(It's really over. The "unfinished" in the title of this chapter means that their life is not over and will continue. Thank you for your support all the time. A certain L is here to step down and bow. ^_^ )

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