After the divorce, I became the Lord of the Six Houses

Chapter 482
Since the new agricultural tax was proposed, it was not officially implemented until September. The law of the new agricultural tax is beneficial to the common people. Even if the nobles of the aristocratic families objected, it was still implemented.

In just a few months, the name of Jing Wang Xiao Zhen has spread throughout the court and the public.

There are more and more Luoyang daughters who have been planning for the concubine's wife in the back house of Prince Jing's mansion.

After the Double Ninth Festival, it was Xiao Zhen and He Yu's birthdays. After He Baoning and Xiao Ningle had a discussion, they celebrated He Yu and Xiao Zhen's birthday in Prince Jing's Mansion, and invited relatives and friends in Luoyang.

Xiao Ningle's stomach is already very big, and she has gained several rounds of fat compared to before she was pregnant, she feels a little disgusted with herself, especially her feet are swollen to the point that they are wider than the embroidered shoes she usually wears.

Early in the morning, Xiao Ningle looked at her swollen feet dejectedly and sighed.

Seeing Xiao Ningle's appearance, He Yu hurriedly asked, "But what's uncomfortable?"

Xiao Ningle was extremely decadent and said: "You think I've become ugly like this, how can I be uncomfortable? My mother didn't look the same when she gave birth to younger brothers and sisters, but I gained half my weight."

He Yu knew that Xiao Ning loves beauty, and said: "After the child is born, I will accompany you to practice martial arts and walk a lot, and you will definitely lose weight back to your previous appearance."

Xiao Ningle snorted softly: "Even you dislike me for being fat, don't you?"

"No, I think you are just right now, I just like your chubby appearance." He Yulian said.

"Then you mean that I used to be thin and thin, don't you like it?"

He Yu: "...No, every year, no matter what you look like, as long as it is you, I will like it."

Xiao Ning happily looked at himself in the bronze mirror and said: "No matter what, I will give birth to this one, and if there is no more, I will not continue to be so ugly."

"Okay, it's up to you." He Yu didn't care how many children he had, but he just wanted to have more children to satisfy his parents' wishes and have a surname He.

Xiao Ningle frowned slightly and said: "Shouldn't you say that I'm not ugly? So you also think I'm ugly at this time, right?"

He Yu kissed Xiao Ningle's lips helplessly, looked into Xiao Ningle's eyes and said, "Stop making trouble, you are not ugly at all."

Xiao Ningle sighed lightly and said: "Today I don't even want to go to the palace to celebrate your and Xiao Zhen's birthday. If I want to be in front of everyone and see my ugly appearance, I will definitely be laughed at behind my back. .”

"You are His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager, who dares to laugh at you?" He Yu rubbed Xiao Ningle's fleshy face, "And you are really not fat at all, you are tall, but now you have some flesh on your face It's called plump."

Xiao Ning happily puffed his cheeks and said, "Really?"

He Yu stretched out his finger and said: "Really, and if you are fat, you are also a beautiful little fat man."

Xiao Ningle: "..."

In Prince Jing's mansion, many people came to give congratulatory gifts early this morning.

He Baoning only saw Xiao Zhen a few times in the past three or four months. Today, Xiao Zhen's birthday was a rare day for him to take a bath. When He Baoning got up, he felt sore all over.

Xiao Zhen felt movement in her arms, opened her eyes to look at He Baoning in her arms and said, "Sleep a little longer."

He Baoning shyly said: "I heard from the servant girl that guests have come to give you birthday presents. Besides, He Yu and sister will come later, so let's get up first."

Xiao Zhen sighed lightly, leaned against He Baoning's neck and took a deep breath, rubbed her messy hair and said: "After the baby of the Royal Sister is born, I will be able to spend more time with you. Also I don't know when the Queen will be able to give birth to a child."

He Baoning said: "According to the time, it will only take more than ten days. I just hope that Miss Huang will not give birth when she comes to our house today."

Xiao Zhen said: "What should be prepared is still to be prepared, in case the baby is born prematurely, it will be troublesome."

He Baoning smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, my mother has already mentioned me, I have prepared Wen Po's hot water, if there is an emergency in the palace, I will definitely be able to prepare properly."

Xiao Zhen stretched out his arms around He Baoning and said, "Who will be the father first, in the end He Yu won me..."

He Baoning lowered his head and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, my lord, you and I have been married for almost half a year, and my stomach has not moved."

"How can I blame you!" Xiao Zhen said, "I am busy with court affairs, and I am not in a hurry with children's affairs."

Xiao Zhen was also afraid that He Baoning's health would be bad, but Xiao Zhen also thought that it would be better for He Baoning to take care of her for two or three years before she could conceive.

He Baoning heard Xiao Zhen say this, and the worries in his heart were much less, and he smiled and said: "Although my younger brother became a father before you, but you became an uncle before him."

Xiao Zhen was quite proud of thinking about it.

Many of the guests who came to the palace today to congratulate Xiao Zhen on his birthday came uninvited. He Baoning wanted to stop them, but some of them came with other concubines and others in the royal family. stop them.

He could only quickly order someone to go to He's house to invite the cook and cook over. Fortunately, there were no major mistakes, and the luncheon was a joy for both the host and the guests.

After the banquet, the dancers on the stage danced lightly, and everyone sipped tea and watched the play together in twos and threes.

In the afternoon, many daughters proposed to perform to celebrate Prince Jing's birthday. Those who played the piano, painted, recited poems, and danced could be said to have their own skills.

He Baoning watched with anger in her heart, but she had to pretend that nothing happened.

Sitting beside He Baoning, Xiao Ningle saw He Baoning's expression and said: "These daughters are all in front of you and just said they are going to enter the palace, aren't you annoyed?"

He Baoning said in a low voice: "Sister, is my anger useful?"

Xiao Ningle gently touched her stomach and said, "You are transparent, but don't worry, Xiao Zhen won't mess around."

He Baoning nodded and said, "Well, I believe the prince."

No matter how those rich girls used their housekeeping skills, Xiao Zhen only thought that they were really performing, and kept applauding them, and he didn't forget to let his younger sister also come on stage to show off her talents.

Xiao Ningping, who had just been imprisoned in the palace to learn the six arts, directly came to celebrate the birthdays of Xiao Zhen and He Yu with a set of Wuqinxi.

Seeing Xiao Pingping performing Wu Qin Xi, Xiao Zhen clapped his hands and said, "My family has a younger sister who has just grown up, and I don't know who will take advantage of it in the future?"

He Yu whispered from the side: "Which family would not like a girl who is so skilled at such a young age?"

Xiao Zhen glared at He Yu angrily and said, "It's lucky that Pingping likes you brother-in-law so much, you actually say that about my sister?"

He Yu rubbed his nose and said, "I'm not wrong, which family would like women to practice Wu Qin Xi?"

"I like it." Xiao Zhen said, "The Wu Qin Xi is so beautiful."

A group of daughters who have performed various talents, seeing Jing Wang Xiao Zhen so happy about Wuqinxi, can't help but wonder if they should go to practice Wuqinxi?
Also because of Xiao Zhen's words, the Wu Qin Xi has been popular in Luoyang City for a while.

In mid-September, the sky was getting colder, and a big event happened in the court, that is, the Empress Dowager Su suddenly became seriously ill. The Empress Dowager Su has always been in good health, and she even went out of the palace to give gifts to the old people in Luoyang during the Double Ninth Festival.

Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Su's illness was in danger, which made both Su Jingyan and Xiao Yi worried.

All the imperial physicians came to treat the Empress Dowager Su one after another, all of them felt that the Empress Dowager Su was terminally ill and her time was numbered.

In Ningshou Palace, Su Jingyan knelt in front of Empress Dowager Su's bed and said, "Auntie, if you persist for a few more days, you still haven't seen the birth of Nian Nian's child, and Nian Nian will be born in these few days."

(End of this chapter)