Chapter 455 Hu Shanxiang 46
Three years later, in a side hall of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace.
The room was packed with people. Four or five imperial physicians were standing guard outside the screen. Midwives, female doctors, and various palace servants surrounded a person on the bed. The person was sweating profusely, and even his stunning beauty could not hide his haggard appearance. Who else could it be but Shanxiang?
Outside the house, Zhu Zhanji looked uncertain. The prince, who had felt that his qi-cultivation skills had reached a high level over the years, only now realized what it meant to be on pins and needles. The official hat chair under the corridor could not even touch the prince's buttocks. Zhu Zhanji, who was furious, even kicked him away and he fell to the side with no one dared to help him.
"It's been so long, what's going on with the Crown Princess? Send someone out from inside to answer!"
Zhu Zhanji put his hands on his hips and one foot on the steps, and the murderous aura around him was about to overflow.
The palace servants didn't dare delay and hurried in. A moment later, a young doctor in his thirties came out, hunched over, wiped the sweat from his face, and said, "The Crown Princess is giving birth, and everything is going smoothly." Before he could finish his words, the teacup shattered at his feet.
"It's already two hours. Don't use these clichés. I'm just asking you, how much longer will it take?"
Zhu Zhanji's deep voice rang out above the imperial physician's head, making him vaguely think that the King of Hell had come to take his life. When he heard these words again, he wished he could faint quickly.
Who can predict a woman's childbirth with absolute certainty? He's not a god!
"This...approximately..."
"It's born! It's born! The Crown Princess gave birth safely, and both mother and child are safe!"
At this moment, the sound of nature rang in his ears. The imperial physician looked at the palace servants who came out to congratulate him with a face full of emotion, and felt that his joy at the moment was no less than that of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Sun Ruowei blinked, stunned by the look in the imperial physician's eyes. The next moment, she hurriedly ran in with the prince who couldn't wait any longer.
The bloody smell in the room had not yet dissipated when Zhu Zhanji rushed in hurriedly. He glanced at the midwife who was smiling and holding the child, pushed her aside, and walked around the screen into the room.
Seeing that Shanxiang was in good spirits and was smiling at him gently, Zhu Zhanji relaxed and slowly walked to her bed.
"Are you sweating from fear?"
Hu Shanxiang raised her hand mockingly, but Zhu Zhanji grabbed her hand and said, "I felt sorry that I couldn't be with you when you gave birth to Qi Yu and Yin Yin. But now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I think it's better not to have children."
"Don't tell anyone about this. You're the crown prince now, and it's already against the rules for me to be the only one in the room. If you keep saying this, people will start to think I'm a seductress... and my last name is Hu."
"...You're still in the mood to joke. It seems you're really fine." Zhu Zhanji patted the back of her hand in amusement. Only then did Hu Shanxiang speak honestly: "Well, there's still something wrong. This baby weighs seven or eight kilograms. It was a bit difficult to give birth."
The man then remembered that he hadn't taken a close look at his new son. He hurriedly asked Ruo Wei to bring the child closer. Seeing that he was indeed much rounder and had more hair, he couldn't help but smile and said, "This is a really fat boy. Don't tell me he takes after his father and will be a wealthy man in the future."
As the two were talking, they heard a child's voice outside: "Dad—Mom—I'm here!"
"Qi Yu?" Zhu Zhanji hurried out to see his son being held by the eunuch beside his father. A large group of people were waiting at the door, whimpering. When they saw him, his little eyes lit up instantly: "Dad, hold him!"
Zhu Zhanji pulled his son into his arms and asked, "Why did you personally bring the crown prince here?"
"Replying to the Crown Prince, the Emperor was originally teaching the Crown Prince in the Shangshufang. I don't know where the Crown Prince heard that he would have more brothers and sisters, so he insisted on coming to see them. The Emperor asked me to bring the Crown Prince here to take a look and then take him back."
"Okay." Zhu Zhanji carried his son in and told Shanxiang, "It's been three years, and Dad and Grandpa are still fighting."
"It would be fine if he was just being confrontational, but he didn't even dare to come straight to me. He was clearly terrified, and he had to find all sorts of excuses to bring Qi Yu from Qingshou Temple. He was sent back by Grandpa after just two days of teaching him. I've noticed that over the past two years, Qi Yu has become more and more like me when I was little."
Zhu Qiyu stared, ignoring his parents' little words. He looked at the baby in the cradle with curiosity, and stretched out his hands to gesture:
"Dad, he's younger than me!"
"Yes, yes, look again and see how he is different from you."
After saying this casually, Zhu Zhanji smiled and said to his wife, "I think my father is wasting his time. I hope Qi Yu doesn't become a troublemaker like I did when I was young."
"You're being quite rude to yourself, but Qi Yu is still young. It's not certain that he'll be able to attend school when he's a few years older. I think Dad will not even let the three Lords Yang off. Add Lord Yu, my brother, and those knowledgeable young Hanlin scholars, and I think Qi Yu will definitely be better than you in the future."
Hu Shanxiang resolutely chose her son. She stroked her eldest son's little head, slapped his hand away as he tried to pry open his younger brother's mouth, and smiled gently and lovingly, "Qi Yu, it's rare for you to come back. Did you visit your sister? She's been thinking about you."
"I miss her too! Where's my sister?"
Sure enough, when his twin sister was mentioned, Qi Yu instantly put his younger brother behind his head and called her sister over and over again.
Zhu Zhanji was annoyed by his son's repeated calls of "sister", so he hurriedly took him out. He only breathed a sigh of relief after successfully handing over the hot potato.
"I almost forgot about the main thing!"
Zhu Zhanji, who was standing outside the door, clapped his hands and turned to Shanxiang, excitedly discussing, "What do you think I should name this child?"
Hu Shanxiang looked at his glowing eyes and inexplicably felt a sense of foreboding. She hurriedly whispered, "...Which word do you think is good?"
"Hiss... I need to think about it carefully! Grandpa gave the eldest son his name, that's for sure, but Grandpa can't also give the second son his name, right? He doesn't have that much free time, and Dad is the emperor now, so it's not a good idea to name our second legitimate son, lest the people below make wild guesses... Well, I need to think about it carefully!"
"Okay, think about it carefully and take your time! Tell me when you've made up your mind."
"Okay~"
Watching Zhu Zhanji's cheerful departure, Hu Shanxiang beckoned Ruo Wei, "Go ahead and make a big announcement. When the Crown Prince enters his study, bring him some soup. Find a way to leak the news. Say that the Crown Prince had a hard time naming the child, so I sent him some tonics to help him recover."
"Huh? Oh, okay."
Sun Ruowei nodded in confusion, and after thinking for a moment, she asked, "Don't you want the prince to name the child?"
"Well, it's not that I don't want to, but it's better for him not to think about it anyway."
"ah?"
So do you want to or not?
Meeting Sun Ruowei's puzzled look, Hu Shanxiang smiled awkwardly.
Ah, this...
All I can say is…
"As you wish."
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