Six months after the death of the late empress, Emperor Kangxi issued an imperial edict to establish an empress. However, establishing an empress is not something that can be done on a whim; it requires some preparation time.

Moreover, for the sake of the soldiers on the front lines, Kangxi made quite a grand preparation for the Niohuru clan, so with the preparation time included, Baocheng was almost a year old.

Kangxi and Wanwan sat down and began to eat. The old rule of not speaking while eating or sleeping seemed to have been broken. Although the two were talking, they swallowed the food in their mouths before speaking, and they spoke slowly and leisurely.

Just as Wanwan swallowed a piece of duck meat, she looked up and saw Baocheng drooling. She then asked Kangxi, "Xuanye, Baocheng is almost a year old now. Are you feeding him complementary foods?"

Emperor Kangxi was not entirely clear on this, "because he would usually only ask the wet nurse how many times Bao Cheng drank milk today and how much he drank, but would not ask if he had eaten any complementary foods."

Kangxi glanced at the wet nurse, who immediately replied to Wanwan, "The little prince hasn't started eating solid food yet, he's only drinking milk."

The author has to complain again: Qing Dynasty princes were drinking milk until they were three or four years old.

The author asked my mom, and she said that I drank milk until I was nine months old and then stopped. Nowadays, many children usually stop drinking milk when they get their teeth because it hurts to bite them.

As for teething, it seems like they start teething around six or seven months old.

Wanwan was somewhat surprised, yet it seemed to make sense, but she didn't say anything. After all, he wasn't her own child, and she was afraid that if she interfered too much, Kangxi would be unhappy.

However, Emperor Kangxi did ask Wanwan, "Don't children drink milk until they are a certain age?"

Wanwan was waiting for Kangxi to ask, "Xuanye, actually, children can eat some complementary foods after they grow teeth, so that they will have strength when they grow up."

The last sentence was made up by the author. The author doesn't know whether or not the child eats complementary foods or whether the child will become more energetic.

At this point, Wanwan added, "My mother said that after a child grows teeth, eating more complementary foods will make them less likely to get sick."

Wanwan then added, "It seems that my mother started feeding us siblings complementary foods slowly when we were teething, and we siblings have rarely been sick since we were little."

"Moreover, the four of us siblings are quite good-looking and relatively healthy." Wanwan was really embarrassed to say this, because children before Emperor Kangxi were not healthy.

Upon hearing this, Kangxi thought of Wanyan Batu Rui, who, as an imperial bodyguard, was not only highly skilled in martial arts but also very strong.

Emperor Kangxi thought, 'It seems that what Qingqing said is not without reason.'

Kangxi thought to himself, 'I really did not do anything wrong. Women are always more meticulous than men. Because she often brought the items to Jingren Palace, Wanwan and Baocheng had a better relationship. Not only did she discover many problems that he could not.'

For example, once when I went to see Bao Cheng, it was so sudden that I didn't even realize he had urinated.

The wet nurse may have noticed, but seeing the Emperor visiting the child, she simply pretended not to.

Bao Cheng was taken out by the wet nurse. When the child was almost at Jingren Palace, he kept crying, probably because he was uncomfortable. The wet nurse tried to soothe him for a long time but to no avail. After arriving at Jingren Palace, he continued to cry, and breastfeeding did not help.

Wanwan wondered if the baby had wet himself, and when the wet nurse checked, it turned out he had.

Emperor Kangxi wanted to punish the wet nurse for this matter, but Wanwan stopped him. After all, it's normal for a child to urinate, and you never know when a child will urinate, so it seems a bit inappropriate to blame the wet nurse.

However, after this incident, Emperor Kangxi began to frequently bring his children to Jingren Palace.

Okay, let's get back to the main topic.

Emperor Kangxi asked the wet nurse, "Can a child eat complementary foods when he is teething?"

The wet nurse replied, "Your Majesty, once the child has grown teeth, he can start eating complementary foods. In common households, children are fed complementary foods and breast milk together after six or seven months."

Then he added, "However, most children from wealthy families are breastfed until they are a few years old."

Emperor Kangxi exclaimed, "So that's how it is!"

Kangxi glanced at Wanwan, then thought of her guard Wanyan Batu Rui's health, and said directly, "Qingqing, what kind of complementary food do you think is good for the child?"

When Kangxi asked Wanwan, he said, "You can feed her some egg custard and apples. You can also mash these fruits into a puree and feed them to the child." This is to increase the child's immunity. Wanwan didn't say the last part, because if she had, it would have taken a long time to explain.

Kangxi asked the wet nurse again, "Is it okay for her to eat these things?"

The wet nurse replied, "Your Majesty, you may eat these."

Kangxi thought for a moment and then said directly, "Then Baocheng will also start eating complementary foods from now on. He should eat them in combination with breast milk."

The wet nurse answered, "Yes."

And so, the little dumpling Bao Cheng ate much more than a single bottle of breast milk would.

Meanwhile, Kangxi and Wanwan naturally ate their lunch, chatting away.

After lunch.

Wanwan took Baocheng from her wet nurse's arms and turned to ask Tingyu, "Did they send some fruit from the estate yesterday? Were there any apples?"

Listening to the rain, she replied, "Yes, but it's not very sweet."

That's right, they even have Apple now. After all, they have an operating system, and they can even make things from TV dramas. How could they not have things from real life?

There were other fruits besides apples, but because they were not tribute items, they were not offered as tribute and were only available to Wanwan.

Wanwan also made a lot of money from this. Only the Cining Palace and the Qianqing Palace in the palace have this. Currently, even the Empress does not have it.

Because it's a greenhouse, the quantity of fruit is limited.

P.S.: Friends, don't take it too seriously if there are any inconsistencies ヾ(????)???~.

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