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Chapter 737

A row of candles with golden dragons in the room emitted a warm yellow light, magnificent and grand. The air was filled with a faint smell of blood and milk, the unique smell of a newborn. Although it was not Kunning Palace, it was no less luxurious and domineering.

Concubine Jinde secretly pinched her fingernails into her palms and said to the eldest prince with a smile, "Chengye, you are a brother now. The Queen Mother has given you three younger brothers and two younger sisters. Do you want to go and see them?"

The eldest prince, who was more than four months old, had already learned to read people's expressions. He clapped his hands excitedly, turned his head to look at the people around him, and babbled.

Li Beichen immediately said, "Go and comfort the queen first. She had a very difficult childbirth."

Concubine Jinde was very unhappy when she heard this. Who doesn't have hardship in giving birth?

Seeing Li Beichen walk up to Jiang Yuebai, hold her hand and speak softly, Concubine Jinde felt even more pain in her heart.

Smiling, she held the eldest prince in her arms and bowed with half-bent knees, "Congratulations, Queen! It's not easy to give birth to so many children in one go."

Like a sow.

Then he said to the eldest prince, "Chengye, quickly pay your respects to the Queen. Congratulations to the Queen. Congratulations to the Queen."

The eldest prince clapped his hands together obediently and clapped them gently, smiling innocently. It was so cute.

Jiang Yuebai smiled.

"Congratulations, His Majesty, and Her Majesty! The little princes and princesses were born on the same day as His Majesty, which is double happiness. With the auspicious signs of purple air coming from the east and dragons flying in the sky, they will surely be extraordinary in the future."

Xu Zhaoyi's congratulations to Jiang Yuebai were so joyful that it felt like she was writing a storybook. Tears welled up in her eyes. After all, with a queen from Suzhou as a protective umbrella, life would at least not be difficult.

Xiao Zhaoyi knelt down tenderly to congratulate, "Your Majesty is so blessed!"

Li Beichen was very happy to hear this.

Concubine Ye said, "Congratulations to the emperor on his longevity. The little princes and princesses must be eager to come and wish the emperor a happy birthday. They are so well-behaved and clever, which is really rare."

What he meant was that even if there was an auspicious sign, it was to celebrate the emperor's birthday.

Jiang Yuebai, who was lying down, followed up with the words, "Sister Ye is right. The five children are the birthday gifts given to the emperor by me. I wish the emperor a happy birthday, good health, and a long life."

This is a secret code unique to the two of them, which no one else can understand.

"I really like your birthday gift. Thank you for your hard work."

Li Beichen thought that promotion was Jiang Yuebai's favorite gift, but it was a pity that there was no further promotion at this time.

After chatting for a while, Li Beichen took his concubines to visit the five little ones.

Five babies were placed together, all of them were full and sleeping peacefully on the bed.

Some are still yawning in their sleep, as if coming to this world is also a journey full of hardships and difficulties.

It's amazing how they all look alike, yet they are all different.

The second prince came out first, but he was not the strongest. The strongest one was the third prince, with a chubby face. The fourth prince looked the most like the emperor, with a big forehead and narrow eyes.

Both princesses are smaller in stature, but they are chubby with high noses, and look very cute.

Suddenly, the third prince started crying loudly. I don't know if he was hungry or wet. The others started crying one after another. It was like a dog barking in the village in the middle of the night and the whole village started crying.

After opening the swaddling clothes, we found that each of the babies had a red string on their feet, with gold ornaments of various shapes hanging on it. This must be to distinguish their birth order.

The one who was feeding fed, and the one who was changing diapers changed diapers. One palace maid watched over one child to avoid making mistakes.

At this time, all five wet nurses were in place. Each of them held one baby in her arms and fed her milk, which was quite a spectacle.

Xu Zhaoyi stroked her chin and laughed, but when the emperor asked her what she was laughing at, she couldn't tell him. She just thought that having five babies in one pregnancy and being so busy serving them every day was a very interesting story.

Everyone watched for a while and then dispersed.

The emperor stayed to accompany Jiang Yuebai.

After dismissing everyone, Jiang Yuebai told the emperor about the scissors. She had been on high alert, but she had never expected that someone would be so powerful that he could bribe someone to harm her at the last minute.

Li Beichen picked up the scissors and took a look. There was some rust on the blade, but it was not very obvious.

"But is it poisonous?"

Jiang Yuebai shook his head, "Jiang Xian said it's not poisonous. But if you use these scissors to cut the umbilical cord, the child will have seven days of wind. Fortunately, you thought about it in advance and gave Jiang Xian a pair of golden scissors."

Li Beichen had given the golden scissors to him a few days ago to commend him for his remarkable achievements in caesarean sections and for saving many lives. The original intention was to praise his superb skills and noble medical ethics, but he did not expect to use them on his own child. You should know that tetanus is a typhoid fever, which has no cure and is fatal.

Li Beichen pondered for a moment, "Lichun deserves a reward."

"I've already given you the reward. It's easy to deal with this Madam, but it's not easy to deal with the person behind it."

"Have you figured it out?" Li Beichen actually already had the answer in his mind.

"Well," Jiang Yuebai, "Now that we know it's her, the emperor decides what to do."

"Even if the maid admitted it, it would be useless. Now that mother and child are safe, someone will say that the maid lied and that you deliberately framed her in order to secure the position of queen and dominate the family. You can even be falsely accused of trying to murder loyal officials, and her Xie family endured the humiliation. By then, you will be at a disadvantage, and she will be pitied."

"Well. How about this. Nanny Zhang was brave and careful. She discovered the problem with the scissors in time and saved the lives of the queen and the heir, so she was rewarded handsomely and made a female official. She stayed in Fengyi Palace to serve the heirs. In this way, the people behind her will either contact her and let her do it, so that we can set up a trap and catch the person red-handed. Or she will kill to silence her."

Li Beichen stroked Jiang Yuebai's hair lovingly, "Jiaojiao, you just gave birth, don't worry too much. I will never take risks with you and the child. What you need to do now is to have a good rest. Leave this matter to me."

"Okay." Jiang Yuebai nodded.

Li Beichen sat on the couch and leaned against Jiang Yuebai.

"I have been thinking about names for the children for a long time. Today I asked the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to come up with names. They said they wanted to look at their horoscopes. This generation is the Cheng generation. Do you have any names you particularly like?"

"Let's listen to the emperor about naming."

"The prince's name is usually chosen from the names given by the Ministry of Rites, and the princess's name can be given by her mother. Why don't we come up with two names?"

Jiang Yuebai thought for a moment and suggested, "Li Ziyan, Li Zimo. How about it?"

"Mo'er sounds like Mu'er, Yan'er is good. Hua'er is also good. Why not call the elder sister Li Ziyan, Yan'er, and the younger sister Li Zihua, Hua'er."

"It sounds good."

Jiang Yuebai was quite satisfied.

Li Beichen said sadly, "When can I paint? It's so hard for me."

Jiang Yuebai said indifferently, "You are not idle."

"Look at what you said," Li Beichen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "If you're jealous, just say it."

"I'm not jealous." Jiang Yuebai wanted to laugh when she thought of the children. "It's good to be alive. I thought I was going to die. Women in ancient times suffered so much. I'm only sixteen at most."

"Thank you for your hard work, my wife." Li Beichen held Jiang Yuebai's hand.

"Bring the baby here and have some milk. They say the first mouthful of breast milk has high nutritional value."

Li Beichen ordered the wet nurses to bring the baby over to Jiang Yuebai to see and feed him some colostrum.

The wet nurses didn't understand why the Queen suddenly asked to breastfeed the baby herself, and they were so embarrassed that they kept rubbing their hands.

"You all did a great job." Jiang Yuebai comforted her gently, "I just want to be close to the child."

The wet nurses then breathed a sigh of relief and a simple smile appeared on their faces.

Among the children, the second prince ate the most quickly. He finished in no time and went to sleep. He wanted to eat again after a while.

The third prince sucked the milk the most vigorously and ate the most. After eating, he would fall asleep and rarely woke up.

The Fourth Prince behaved very well. He ate and then took a break and continued eating.

The eldest princess is very strong when drinking milk, but her stomach is not big.

The little princess had the least effort to eat and ate the least. But when she was full, she actually opened her eyes. Her eyes were exactly the same as Jiang Yuebai's, round and bright, and extremely beautiful.

"My little princess is so cute." Li Beichen couldn't help but kiss her little face.

The little princess seemed to really look at her father a few times before falling asleep again.

Li Beichen turned to look at Jiang Yuebai, "Jiaojiao, she looks like you."

The next day, the imperial edict was passed down. The eldest princess, Li Ziyan, was named Princess Xiangning, and the second princess, Li Zihua, was named Princess Ruining.

There were only a handful of princesses who were given titles at birth. Everyone was amazed at the emperor's love for the two legitimate princesses.