Concubine Biography

Chapter 61

"It's grown so much in just a few days, it's really different every day." Fu'er wore a forehead guard on her head, leaned half on the bed, and looked at the son in her arms lovingly.

"Look at the eyes of the little prince, they are staring straight at them, they will definitely grow up in the future." Hong Ying poked his head over, glanced at the little prince and praised.

Fu'er patted her son, looked at her for a moment and said, "Hongying, tell me, does he look like me, or his father?"

"Naturally like me." Li Jiarong heard this sentence as soon as he walked to the door, and laughed loudly.

Fu'er looked at him reproachfully, but there was an unstoppable smile in her eyes, "Your majesty is not quiet, what should I do if I scare the child?"

Li Jiarong hurried forward, and couldn't help laughing when he saw the little guy was still looking around with open eyes, "It's so easy to be scared, look at how lively he is."

The two looked at the child, and even the air seemed to be full of warmth.

Hongying and the others tactfully retreated, and even the nanny was ordered to stand guard at the door.

"Have you decided on a name for him?" Fu'er looked at the child lovingly and asked gently.

Li Jiarong embraced Fu'er and the child together, and said in a low voice, "Can I call Pei Ling?"

"Well, okay, little Peiling, you have a name, and your father will give you a name." Fu'er softly teased Li Peiling in her swaddling baby.

Xiao Peiling stared at her for a long while with round eyes, and suddenly the corners of her mouth curled into a smile, but she quickly retreated.

"Look!" Fu'er said in surprise, "Look, Your Majesty, he smiled, he likes this name, he smiled!"

"I see, I see," Li Jiarong smiled happily, "He is really my good son! Come, let me hug you."

Fu'er carefully handed the swaddle to Li Jiarong, and Li Jiarong lovingly touched the child's pink face, and leaned over to touch Xiao Peiling's face with her lips.

Xiao Peiling looked at him with wide eyes open, blinked and then curled his mouth, and cried out loudly.

This……

Li Jiarong was at a loss for a moment, "What should I do if he cries?"

Fu'er hurriedly took the swaddle, shook it and patted it gently, and at the same time shouted loudly, "Come here!"

The nanny responded, opened the door and came in. After a hasty salute, she took the swaddling clothes and left.

Li Jiarong heaved a sigh of relief, and turned around to see Fu'er looking at him with a smile, "What's wrong?" Li Jiarong asked puzzled.

Fu'er laughed, "It's not the first time the emperor is a father, but holding a child feels very strange."

Li Jiarong was a little embarrassed, "Don't people say to hold grandchildren but not children? I..."

It turned out to be the first time.

Fu'er understood, "Then it would be good for the emperor to hug us Peiling more in the future."

"Your father is now the head of the Tai Hospital, in charge of the entire Tai Hospital, let him come back in a few days to ask you for a pulse." Li Jiarong straightened his face and changed the subject.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Fu'er smiled lightly.

On the Golden Palace.

"Your Majesty, my ministers are starting to play." A minister stood up, "The Emperor has been on the throne for a few days, and there are only two concubines in the harem, the Empress Empress and Concubine Rong. Please also consider the Emperor's heir, select a date for the draft, and accept the show. Women fill the harem."

Li Jiarong looked at the minister indifferently, and then looked at Marquis Lin'an who stood indifferently among the crowd, and said solemnly, "When I first ascended the throne, the common people should be the leader. If I take the throne, I will immediately draft , wouldn’t it make the people of the world think that I am a lustful and foolish king?”

"Your Majesty, I think that the matter of the emperor's heir is also a major national event, and the matter of the royal family is a matter of the world! The matter of the emperor's heir is related to the lifeblood of the country, please think twice!" The minister simply knelt down.

Li Jiarong remained silent, and all the ministers were also silent. Yao Junsheng raised his eyes to look at Prime Minister Zuo, but saw Prime Minister Zuo lowered his head, pretending not to hear.

"You... all think so?"

After a while, Li Jiarong spoke slowly.

Marquis Lin'an took a look at Li Jiarong, then knelt down with his head held high, "Second minister!"

As soon as he came out, several ministers stood up behind him and knelt down together, "The minister waits for second!"

Li Jiarong looked at the faces of each of them carefully, and said coldly, "Let's not discuss this matter for the time being, my intention has been decided, and you don't need to talk about it."

"Yao Xiang, what else do you want?" Li Jiarong ignored the others and looked directly at Yao Junsheng.

Yao Junsheng stood up and said, "Report to the emperor, Dongping County..."

After the court, Marquis of Lin'an walked out of the hall with a sullen face. The minister quickly approached him with an uneasy expression on his face, "My lord, ouch, don't be so sullen. The emperor doesn't want to, so we can't force him."

Marquis Lin'an instantly changed his smiling face, "Master Zhang, what are you talking about? All of us as courtiers are thinking of the emperor. Now that the emperor has just ascended the throne, it is reasonable to be afraid of people gossiping. How dare I be unhappy?"

Mr. Zhang chuckled, "That's good." Seeing Yao Junsheng and Han Ze come out in a blink of an eye, Mr. Zhang stopped talking, coughed softly, and said goodbye to Marquis Lin'an.

Marquis Lin'an looked at the backs of Yao Junsheng and Han Ze, then looked back at the main hall, and sighed deeply.

After Fu'er was confinement, the Su family hosted a banquet for Fu'er and Li Jiarong as a queen to congratulate the birth of the little prince.This is the queen's first banquet, no matter what, this face cannot be refuted.

"I don't know what the queen wants to do. I'm afraid that others will not know that she is the queen with such a hasty banquet?" Xiao Shanzi complained in a whisper.

Fu'er was dressing up under the service of Hong Ying and Lu Ying, when Lu Ying heard this, she smiled and yelled at Xiao Shanzi, "You are not young anymore, why is your mouth still so broken, someday something will happen, it must be your mouth To blame!"

Xiao Shanzi snorted, his nose turned high, "Mother, don't listen to Sister Luying's nonsense, my servant knows how to measure, and will never talk nonsense."

"Well, I see." Fu'er nodded with a smile, "Hong Ying is watching the little prince in the palace, and she won't leave him even a single step."

Hong Ying naturally knew the seriousness, and nodded immediately, "Your maidservant knows, empress is at ease."

All the way to Fengyi Palace in a sedan chair, Fu'er took Xiao Shanzi's hand and walked in slowly, Li Jiarong and the queen had already sat down, Fu'er hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The concubine has seen the emperor , Empress, Your Majesty, Empress Wanan."

Su smiled and raised her hand, "Sister Concubine Rong, get up and sit down."

Fu'er got up and sat down in her seat.

"My congratulations to concubine Rong's mother and child are safe first," Su picked up a glass of wine and filled it up, looking at Fu'er with a smile.

Fu'er naturally picked up the wine glass in front of her, "Thank you, Empress Dowager." She drank it down in one gulp, and showed the bottom of the glass to the empress.

Su turned her head to Li Jiarong and said, "Look, Your Majesty, Sister Concubine Rong is really good at drinking, but you are still worried that Sister Rong Concubine is too strong to drink. It seems that the Emperor still doesn't know Sister Concubine Rong well enough."

Fu'er's face froze, and she looked at Li Jiarong.

Li Jiarong's face was even, "The Queen's banquet, of course, has been prepared for a long time, just eating wine like this is too boring, is there any other program?"

Li Jiarong didn't answer her words, and Su Shi didn't care if the eye drops didn't work. She turned her head and said with a light smile, "Of course I won't disappoint the emperor. Come and dance."

The sound of silk and bamboo sounded, and eleven enchanting and charming women came in stepping on drums. When Fu'er saw it, she felt the stuffiness in her chest rushing to her throat.

What a queen!It's really worth the money!
Among the eleven girls, the others were nothing but pretty, but the lead dancer among them... was a beauty from the Western Regions!
The sound of silk and bamboo changed suddenly, from the original elegant music to cheerful drumbeats.The other dancers wriggled forward and swiped at the lead dancer's beauty from the Western Regions. The beauty turned around a few times, and Fu'er's face became even darker.

this dress...

The clothes on the upper body of the beautiful woman from the Western Regions only covered her chest, revealing a large piece of white skin, and the skirt underneath was also extremely low. Even her navel was unscrupulously displayed in everyone's sight. She wore it on her wrists and bare ankles. The bell is ringing, and the clothes are also covered with sequins made of shells. As the beauty twists and turns, the shells make crisp sounds.

Such a shameless dancer can enter the palace!Fu'er looked at Li Jiarong, but to her surprise, she didn't see the slightest change on Li Jiarong's face.

Su Shi has been secretly observing Li Jiarong and Fu'er, and seeing their reactions, she knows that she has done the right thing.The Xi Dynasty was rich and the people were strong, and it was not a year or two since people from the Western Regions came to the dynasty to do business. This kind of dancers from the Western Regions also followed, but the price of watching a dance from the Western Regions was extremely expensive, and gradually evolved into a place for nobles. Time represents a kind of luxury.Li Jiarong had seen this kind of Western Region dance when she was a prince. As expected, she arranged such a show today, and Li Jiarong did not express any disgust.

How could a daughter like Chen who came from a small family have seen such a dance?
"Your Majesty, there are only two sisters, Concubine Rong and Concubine Rong, in the harem. It is really deserted. There is no one to talk to on weekdays. I don't know when the Emperor plans to recruit beautiful women. Concubine Rong should make preparations early." Su Clan struck while the iron was hot, and brought up the matter of Xiu Nu again.

Fu'er lowered her head and drank a glass of wine, Xiu Nu!How could she have forgotten this matter, the emperor's draft is no better than a marriage gift from the palace, he can select dozens of people to enter the palace at one time.When……

Fu'er drank another glass of wine sullenly, and Li Jiarong looked at her with a smile in his eyes.

"Xiu Nuyi press down and don't mention it first, let's talk about it later." Li Jiarong said lightly.

The Su family still didn't give up, "The matter of the beautiful girl is related to the emperor's heir, the emperor must carefully consider it!"

Li Jiarong looked at her coldly, "Please trouble the empress, I have made up my mind, the empress should stop mentioning it."

"As the lord of the harem, the concubine is really afraid that the emperor doesn't want to accept a beautiful girl. If it is spread, not only the people in the world will ridicule the concubine's lack of virtue, but even the ancestors will blame the concubine..." As Su said, she wiped away tears.

Li Jiarong looked at her, "If I follow the queen's suggestion, how many beautiful women does the queen think I should accept so that the subjects of the world will not ridicule the queen's immorality, and the ancestors will not blame the queen?"

Li Jiarong's voice was full of sarcasm, and Su Shi was momentarily at a loss for words.

"I have just ascended to the throne. The empress originally had good intentions, but it will make people in the world misunderstand that I am a fool who loves beauty and disregards state affairs. The empress and I are one, how can I only care about my own face and disregard my decency?" ?" Li Jiarong's voice was not loud, but Su Shi shivered abruptly.

"The concubine dare not!" Su Shi hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down.

The sound of silk and bamboo stopped suddenly, and the dancers shrank to a corner. Xiao Qinzi raised his hand, and the dancers panicked.

"The queen is the mother of the country, and she should have the common people in her heart! Once the draft begins, all the girls who are waiting to marry in the world will stop marrying, and the girls who are of the right age will stay at home. The girls who are selected will stay away from their parents, relatives and friends, and even officials will take the opportunity to collect money! I will separate the mothers and children of the people just after I ascended the throne. , Empress, how will the people of the world scold me?" Li Jiarong's voice was calm.

Su Shi hurriedly said, "It's the concubine who didn't think carefully, and I ask the emperor to forgive me."

Li Jiarong said lightly, "The empress is also thinking about the royal family, but this matter will be discussed later."

Mrs. Su thanked her, and just stood up when she heard Li Jiarong say, "It's getting late, and I'm tired, let's go to Zhaoyang Palace today, the queen will rest early."

Li Jiarong took Fu'er away, and Su stood there watching their backs as they went away, pinching his fingers deeply into his palms.

(End of this chapter)