Little Cardamom - Chapter 117

Princess Nanlu married into Shangjing to show Daxian’s friendship with Nanlu’s friends, and the wedding ceremony was organized according to the regulations of Princess Daxian.

There has not been such a lively wedding in Shanghai for a long time. The gongs and drums are blaring, the hall is full of splendor, and the brocade is shining brightly.

It’s just that Ming Tan has been looking forward to joining the fun for a long time, but in the end he failed to participate in the wedding ceremony.

Without him, although there was a marriage letter at the beginning of the year, the sixth princess came to Beijing from Nanlu. Detour to Beijing by land, the wedding date was postponed again and again, and it happened to be postponed until Ming Tan gave birth.

Ming Tan’s delivery was not smooth, it started in the morning, and the pain continued until nightfall.

Jiang Xu wanted to break in several times, but Ming Tan refused to let him, saying that he was too ugly at the moment and didn’t want him to see him. Imperial Physician Feng and the midwives were also cautious and advised him not to enter. He stood outside the house with his hands behind his back, and the air pressure around his body was so low that he dared not breathe.

As the people approached, the crying and shouting inside suddenly became weaker, only to hear people shouting nervously around the side: “Princess, don’t sleep! Wake up, wake up!”

Jiang Xu couldn’t wait any longer: “Get out of the way!”

He went straight into the house with extremely cold eyes, and no one dared to stop him.

“My lord…”

“My lord, you can’t…”

He didn’t pay any attention, and stepped towards Ming Tan, holding her cold hand: “A Tan, wake up, it’s me.”

There was an unconcealable tension in the golden and jade-like voice.

Ming Tan’s eyelashes fluttered, and he barely opened them for a while, then turned his head to look at him, his voice was weak and pitiful like a kitten: “Husband, I’m so tired, I want to sleep for a while…”

“Hey, sleep later, I’ll be with you.”

Seeing that she opened her eyes, the imperial physician, midwife and maid beside her also cheered her up and said, “Yes, my concubine, hold on a little longer, it’s almost time to come out!”

The ginseng soup was brought in quickly, Jiang Xu took it, blew a spoonful of it and fed it to her, and finally gave her some ginseng slices.

She slowly regained some strength, she didn’t know if she had read too many scripts or what, she suddenly looked at the imperial physician, and said weakly: “If you can only protect one person, then protect my child, anyway…”

“Concubine Bao.” Jiang Xu interrupted without refusal.

The imperial physician wiped off his sweat, and replied cautiously: “My lord, don’t worry, as long as the concubine works hard, the mother and child will be safe.” If something happens, it’s not up to the elder to protect the younger, usually neither.

However, the imperial physician is the most conservative in speaking, since he can say that everyone is safe, he has full confidence.

“Your Majesty, the fetal position is very upright now, you just need to work harder at the end, you should relax first, take a deep breath, you will definitely be able to do it.”

Ming Tan seemed to have some hope after being told, she turned her gaze back to Jiang Xu, and insisted in a low voice with a crying voice: “Then you go out first, okay, it’s so ugly, don’t look at it anymore.”

“Adan is not ugly.”

Ming Tan didn’t expect him to say anything like “A Tan will always be the most beautiful girl in my heart”. He looked at him with tears in his eyes for a long while, and felt some comfort from the bottom of his heart, but he still kept talking. Push people out.

Jiang Xu had no choice but to follow her and retreated.

When there was a sound of “squeak” closing the door, Ming Tan asked someone to bring ginseng soup and drank a couple of sips, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, bit his lip, and exerted all his strength.

She was trembling all over, her face was pale, and there were beads of sweat rolling on her forehead. Combined with the blood on her bitten lip, there were strands of pain spreading around her lips, but this pain was almost negligible compared to the pain in her lower body.

Suddenly, Ming Tan’s eyes went blank for a moment, and the consciousness of the whole person was also withdrawn at that moment with a slight sense of relief under his body.

“gave birth!”

“It’s born, it’s born!”

“The princess is born!”

Not long after Jiang Xu came out, he heard the shouts of joy and the cries of the baby growing up from small, so he turned around, pushed the door open and entered.

“Congratulations, my lord! Congratulations to my lord! The concubine gave birth to her little son safely!” The midwife hugged the child in a brocade quilt, and stepped forward to show it to Jiang Xu with a happy face.

But Jiang Xu didn’t give half a look, and even stretched out his hand to block it, signaling for others to stay out of the way.

“How is the princess?” He asked in a low voice.

The imperial doctor hurriedly replied: “Princess lost her strength and passed out for a while. Miss Suxin has fed ginseng slices. I think she will wake up later.”

Jiang Xu looked at Ming Tan, who was lying on the bed without blood and soaked in sweat, and was about to step forward, when Su Xin, who was standing beside Hou, said again: “My lord, the slaves are going to change clothes for the princess.”

He was silent for a while, stepped back half a step, and let the maidservants put down the bed curtains to change Ming Tan’s clothes.

Taking advantage of this pause, he glanced at the crumpled child whose eye sockets were wrapped in brocade swaddling clothes. It seemed that because of his overpowering, the baby cried louder and louder.

Jiang Xu frowned, and said indifferently: “It’s too noisy, hold it down, don’t disturb Wangfei’s rest.”

The midwives looked at each other: “…”

Ming Tan woke up half an hour later, knowing that she loves to be neat and tidy, the maidservants changed all the clothes and brocade quilts, and the smell of blood in the room was also completely dispelled by the newly burning incense.

It is said that having a child is equivalent to passing through the gate of hell. After the birth, all the scattered energy seems to be slowly returning. When Ming Tan woke up, he felt a lot more relaxed.

“Husband, have I finished giving birth? Is it a boy or a girl? Or…my child is not kept?” Seeing the extremely quiet surroundings, Ming Tan was at a loss.

“It’s over, it’s a baby boy, I’m afraid to disturb your rest, so I let someone carry it down.”

“I want to see.” She looked at Jiang Xu eagerly.

Jiang Xu said “um”, ordered someone to bring the baby over, and reminded him in advance: “The imperial doctor said that the newborn baby has been soaked in amniotic fluid and is a little wrinkled, so it doesn’t look very good.”

Ming Tan nodded, but he didn’t care, he just waited expectantly and nervously for the child to come.

When the child really came over, Ming Tan stared for a moment, and his heart stopped for a moment.

After a while, she seemed to be unacceptable and said slowly: “This…isn’t it not very good-looking.”

“It’s good to grow it.”

Ming Tan’s heart was ashamed and he said: “The fourth son of Fengchunhou’s mansion also grew up from a novel in the same way.” Now he has grown up, but the longer he grows, the uglier he is, so ugly that he can’t even marry a daughter-in-law.

“…”

“That’s not the case with our children.”

Ming Tan was silent: “That’s right, we are Dingbei Prince’s Mansion after all, no more than Fengchunhou Mansion, it’s getting worse and worse.” She seemed to be comforted a little bit, and after a long silence, she half stood up and sighed, “Forget it, mother doesn’t think the son is ugly, come, give me a hug.”

The midwife who came forward with the child was full of doubts, how ugly is Xiao Shizi? A nose is a nose, a mouth is a mouth, beautiful and beautiful, but now it is just a little wrinkled. Based on her experience, Yuxue will be cute in a while!

“It’s so ugly…” Ming Tan took the child with distaste on his lips, but he still cautiously approached him and kissed his little cheek, “I’ll call you ugly.”

“…?”

The midwife couldn’t help but glance at Jiang Xu, but Jiang Xu didn’t change his face, and responded, “You can call him whatever you want.”

The little prince is so pitiful!

…

Ming Tan is too addicted to mouth, the royal family often enters the palace during festivals, and can’t really introduce him to the family members of the palace, and his child’s nickname is Chou Chou.

From the Jiang family to this generation, the name is still a single character, the male Cong 宀, the Ministry of Rites prepared characters with excellent meanings early on, and the princes and princesses all have them, but after sending them, Jiang Xu didn’t read much, he had his own idea of ​​the child’s name.

“Ding? Jiang Ding?” Ming Tan looked at the words on the paper and couldn’t help asking.

He stopped writing for a while, and wrote another two characters aside.

“North Return? Is this a word?”

Jiang Xu said “hmm”.

“So **** off words?”

“I also had words not long after I was born.”

Nowadays, it is not too unusual for a man from a high family to choose characters early, but he actually gave his son his title as a character. Who doesn’t know that returning to the north is the glory of his life that has been recorded in the history books.

Ming Tan stared blankly for a while, then suddenly threw himself into his arms and hugged him tightly.

…

“Jiang Ding?” Cheng Kangdi thought for a moment, then nodded, “It’s a good name.” He looked at the baby for a while, then raised his eyebrows and said, “This child looks exactly like you did when you were a child.”

“The emperor was only a child at that time, how can he remember clearly.” Jiang Xu retorted him lightly.

“What’s the matter, kid? I have a good memory. I even hugged you, brat!”

Ming Tan is quite convinced of this statement. After the full moon, the child has changed a lot from when he was just born. The little face is soft and tender, and the eyes are clear and bright. The facial features are wide open, very cute and good-looking. My husband looks like this now She looks so good-looking, she might have looked like this when she was a child.

As if to prove that he really has a good memory, Emperor Cheng Kang talked about some old things from his childhood, and Jiang Xu occasionally corrected a few words, but he was always so angry that Emperor Cheng stared and blew his beard that didn’t exist.

It was rare for the two of them to talk about homework, and Empress Zhang bent her lips, signaling Ming Tan to go outside to enjoy the flowers with her.

Ming Tan was pregnant and hadn’t entered the palace for a long time, and today it was because Emperor Chengkang wanted to see Jiang Xu’s first child, so he summoned their family in while the courtiers were resting.

After the war in the Northwest, the court was relaxed, and Jiang Xu often refused to come when he was called. Finally, Emperor Chengkang kept lunch and dinner, and insisted on keeping Jiang Xu to talk with him. The whole family had no choice but to Stayed in the palace.

At night, the doubts in Ming Tan’s heart could not help popping up again. Lying on the bed, she asked in a low voice: “Husband, can I ask… why does His Majesty trust you so much? Although His Majesty also trusts others, but always feels that, It’s different to you.”

“It’s a long story.”

“The long story short?”

Jiang Xu rubbed her head: “It’s okay to talk long.”

In fact, before the death of Emperor Taizong, it was found out that his favorite Prince Min Cong died not by accident, but was killed by the prince who succeeded the East Palace at that time, that is, the first emperor.

The first emperor was not a cruel person, but because he was always benevolent and capable of governing in peace, Emperor Taizong chose him to inherit the great rule.

After the incident, the first emperor knelt in front of Emperor Taizong and wept bitterly, saying that he was obsessed with ghosts and made a big mistake because of the confusion of his old daughter. After the death of the emperor’s brother, he could not sleep at night and regretted it. He would like to let the grandson of the emperor imprison himself Zhengji, he made up for his mistakes with the rest of his life in confinement.

In fact, at that time, the succession of the first emperor to the throne was already expected by everyone. He could completely deny it, and even allow Emperor Taizong to die early without anyone noticing it. .

At that time, Jiang Xu was still young, and the court was turbulent. Even if he let the virtuous to him, it was hard to say how long he could sit in that position, so Emperor Taizong wrote down the secret decree to return the power to the emperor’s grandson Jiang Xu after the death of the first emperor. , Locked into the precision mechanism made by Master Yunyan. At the same time, the first emperor also promised Emperor Taizong that he would keep his promise. After a hundred years, it will be said that he will be the emperor’s grandson Jiangxu.

The daughter-in-law Su mentioned by the first emperor was later the Empress Dowager Su. Even though the first emperor had disliked her, the power of the Su family had reached its peak at that time. Due to various pressures, the first emperor still let her take the throne after the death of the former empress.

The first emperor was benevolent all his life, but a single mistake hurt his elder brother who had always trusted and loved him, and he sat on the throne that did not belong to him. Although he worked hard to govern, he was deeply depressed, and died of illness after only a few years in power.

Before the death of the late emperor, Jiang Xu was no longer a child, and he had already found out the truth. He always thought that the late emperor was cunning and hypocritical.

Unexpectedly, before leaving, the first emperor personally told the whole truth in front of Jiang Xu and Emperor Chengkang, who was firmly seated as the crown prince, and took out the mechanism containing the emperor Taizong’s secret decree, and his own handwriting. An imperial decree of the book was handed over to Jiang Xu.

The content of the secret decree and the imperial decree are the same, and they are both passed down in Jiangxu.

After doing this, the first emperor breathed a sigh of relief.

How should I describe that feeling, like punching cotton, the grievance is here, but it is not satisfactory.

He also couldn’t transfer this hatred to Cheng Kangdi and let it continue.

He and Emperor Chengkang have known each other since childhood, and they have gone through all kinds of hardships together. Even when Chu Chu learned that the late emperor killed his father and enemy, he never thought of taking revenge on his son. Similarly, his belief has always been to kill the enemy with his hands, and he never thought about taking back the throne that should have belonged to his father.

In all fairness, Emperor Chengkang is more suitable than him to be the king of a country, so in the end, in front of Emperor Chengkang, he burned the two imperial edicts that could change the entire Daxian court, left the palace alone, and rushed to the Northland, as if he could only fight bravely on the battlefield Only by killing the enemy can he feel the meaning of his existence.

It was almost five o’clock after Jiang Xu finished telling the story that started from the Taizong Dynasty.

Ming Tan didn’t know whether he couldn’t digest it for a while or something, but he didn’t make a sound after a long time.

But she finally understood why Cheng Kangdi could unconditionally tolerate and trust Jiang Xu’s attitude even though he was slightly offended many times.

This trust not only stems from the love and friendship of sharing weal and woe since he was a child, but also from guilt, and even more from the throne he handed over.

How could a person who would simply give up on his legitimate succession to the throne be so contrived to seek power and usurp the throne?

The days passed unhurriedly, unknowingly, another year of Ching Ming, Ming Tan, Bai Minmin, Zhou Jingwan, the sixth princess and Shen Hua, made an appointment to take their husband to the countryside to enjoy flowers.

It was rare for Jiang Xu to meet him, so he accepted the matter.

The place they went to was both familiar and unfamiliar. It was the former site of Hanyan Temple that was razed to the ground by a fire. Now an academy has been built on this flat land, the birds chirping in the forest, and the sound of books is clear and loud.

Ming Tan and Jiang Xu were assigned the task of fetching water by the stream, walking all the way to the stream, Ming Tan looked at the academy from time to time, and happily said to Jiang Xu: “By the way, husband, my brother wrote to say that Tonggang is also here this spring. Opened an academy and accepted more than 50 people to study.”

“It’s a good thing.”

“I heard from my brother that Tonggang looks quite prosperous now. Hey, I want to see it too.”

“Go if you want, nothing to do in the near future, I will accompany you.”

Hearing this, Ming Tan, who was yearning just now, hesitated twice, but didn’t respond.

“What’s wrong?”

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to go in the near future.” Ming Tan raised his eyes to look at him, pretending to be suspicious.

“Why?”

Ming Tan thought for a while, motioned him to lean over, then stood on tiptoe, leaned into his ear and whispered: “I seem to be happy again!”

Jiang Xu paused, his Adam’s apple rolled up and down, his voice was still hoarse: “Really?”

“Ah Chun showed it to me, it’s unmistakable.”

He had forgotten that the Sixth Princess of Nanlu also knew some medical skills.

“Ah Chun also said that this time it’s very likely to be a little girl. It would be great if it was a little girl. If Brother Ding is like you, the little girl must be like me.” Ming Tan stroked his face which was still very flat now. The lower abdomen already had a bit of anticipation, “If you are a little girl, what would you call her?”

Jiang Xu stretched out his hand and touched her belly, his voice softened a lot: “It’s called Kou Kou, it was here when I first met you, when you Fang and Dou Kou were still little girls.”

At that time, he didn’t know that that delicate little girl would become his wife in the future. In his life, he once lived for revenge and also for Daxian, but after meeting Ming Tan, it seems that there are many stories related to warmth in his life.

“Okay, I’ll call it Kou Kou!” Ming Tan thought for a while before agreeing.

Seeing that none of the four were there, she put her arms around Jiang Xu’s neck again, tiptoed and kissed him on the lips.

Not far away, you can hear the laughter of Bai Minmin and the sixth princess chasing after each other, which seems to be vaguely mixed with Zhou Jingwan and Shen Hua’s persuasion with a smile. Sheng.

Ming Tan tilted his head, stretched out his hand to block the slightly dazzling sunlight, and looked at the man in front of him who was fetching water and wanted to maintain his royal demeanor, and the corners of his lips could not help but curl up.

When she left General Yunhui’s mansion that day, she learned that she was probably pregnant again, so she quietly went to Lingmiao Temple.

All the noble ladies in Shangjing love to worship the Daxiangguo Temple, but they don’t know that in Shangjing, the Lingmiao Temple that no one cares about is the most effective.

Here she begged Mr. Ruyi, and her husband returned safely. On that day, she made another wish, but this wish was too long. Thinking about it, she would have to wait a hundred years before she could fulfill her wish.