He touched Yu Jiao's belly very gently, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"No." Yu Jiao glanced at the part of his body that had not yet been relieved and smiled helplessly, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Don't worry about it." Yu Qizhe said lightly. He found his outer robe, put it on, got off the couch, asked for water from outside, wet a towel and wiped Yu Jiao's body. "I will go home early to accompany you in the future. Tomorrow I will write a letter to my parents and ask them to come to the capital." It was the first time he had a child, and he was afraid that something unexpected would happen to him, so he asked his parents to come and give him some advice so that he could take better care of him.
Yu Jiao smiled and said yes. She also missed the two elders of the Yu family. The princess's mansion was built very well, but after Yu Qizhe went to court, the house would become very deserted, so she would often go out for free medical treatment.
Yu Qizhe helped Yu Jiao wipe her body clean, then took a cold shower before going to bed. He carefully held Yu Jiao in his arms and coaxed her to sleep.
As the news of Yu Jiao's pregnancy spread, first there was a stream of rewards from the palace, the emperor came to visit the mansion in person, and then there was a constant stream of hustle and bustle at the princess's mansion. It was not convenient for Madam Liu to move to the princess's mansion to take care of Yu Jiao herself, so she simply asked Liu Yaozhen and Liu Yaoyu to stay at the princess's mansion for a while to accompany Yu Jiao temporarily. After all, Liu Yaozhen had given birth to Yuanbao, so she was considered an experienced person and had some experience.
Half a month later, Yu Mengshan and his wife came from Qingzhou, and with them came Yu Fuling and her two children. The originally cold and deserted princess mansion was suddenly filled with people. Yu Jiao was taken care of very carefully. With Yu Mengshan looking after the clinic, Yu Jiao only spent one hour a day seeing patients in the clinic, and most of the time she rested at home.
Yu Qizhe kept his word and went off duty earlier and earlier every day. Even if there was endless official business in the cabinet, he would take it home to deal with it. Probably in order to let him spend more time with Yu Jiao, Liu Ziqi rarely kept him in the palace to discuss matters.
As the New Year approached, Yu Jiao's health became worse. Yu Qizhe refused all social engagements during his leave and stayed at home to accompany Yu Jiao. He would wash Yu Jiao's hair and cut her nails, massage her body when she had edema and back pain, and help her turn over to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. Yu Jiao did not need to worry about any matters in the mansion, and he even helped her to postpone the palace banquet on New Year's Eve.
The due date was in the first month of the lunar year, so the palace sent an imperial physician and a midwife over early on, and they have been staying at the mansion ever since.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the streets are bustling with people setting off firecrackers, and red lanterns are hung outside all kinds of shops, making it very lively.
The atmosphere in the princess's mansion was extremely tense. Yu Jiao began to have labor and bleeding early in the morning. The midwife in the palace boiled hot water and went into the room, but the baby was not born after a whole day. Yu Qizhe ignored the rules and went into the room to accompany her in labor. He stayed by Yu Jiao's side the whole time, making sure that as long as she was awake, she could see him by her side.
The palace sent people to inquire several times, which showed that Liu Ziqi was very anxious and worried.
Fortunately, at the beginning of the Hai hour, the cervix finally opened to ten fingers. The midwife was overjoyed and the baby was delivered successfully. When the loud cry was heard, everyone outside the house breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Qizhe's face in the room was not good. After the midwife said "The princess is pregnant with a child", Yu Qizhe's aura became particularly cold. He held Yu Jiao's hand tightly, looking at her obviously exhausted appearance, his eyes full of heartache. He stuffed the ginseng into Yu Jiao's mouth, lowered his head and kissed Yu Jiao's forehead again and again, his voice almost choked: "Be patient, we will never have another child in the future..."
Yu Jiao was so tired that her consciousness was a little fuzzy. A few drops of cool tears fell on her forehead and woke her up. Perhaps it was the ginseng that worked, or perhaps it was her loved one who gave her strength.
The second child was delivered quickly and smoothly. The midwife held the baby and went to wash him. Yu Qizhe only focused on taking care of Yu Jiao. He fed her half a bowl of brown sugar water and wiped her body dry. He waited until Yu Jiao's complexion eased before he remembered to ask about the two children.
Fortunately, the midwife was from the palace and was very good at taking care of newborns. When Lord Yu asked about it, she quickly took the child and congratulated him with a smile: "Congratulations Lord, congratulations to the princess, double happiness for Zhulin."
When the news reached the palace, Liu Ziqi and the imperial edict of reward came together. Yu Jiao was still resting in bed because of her weak body. Liu Ziqi did not disturb her and only went to see the two children. After he left, the eunuch who stayed behind announced the imperial edict. When Yu Jiao found out that in addition to the reward, the imperial edict also conferred titles on her two children, the daughter was the Princess of Rong'an County and the son was the Prince of Pingzhang County.
Yu Jiao felt a little uneasy, as she knew that Liu Ziqi might be doing this to compensate for the shortcomings of his youth, including rebuilding the princess's mansion and even giving to his two newborn children.
But she was not the real Su Jian after all, and Yu Jiao felt uneasy.
"Yu Qizhe, you should find a way to get my brother to take back the imperial edict. I just hope that my child can be safe and happy. Besides, you know that I am not the real Su Jian..."
Yu Qizhe touched her face and smiled gently, "The emperor knows that he is not Zhu Kuang. After you came back from Jiaxing, you begged the emperor to release Cheng Ying, and the emperor privately sent someone to investigate the matter between you and Cheng Ying. He told me that he didn't want to be a real lonely person. Since this is the destiny, then you are Su Jian, at least your blood is Su Jian."
"It turns out he knows everything..." Although it was a little sudden, Yu Jiao suddenly felt a lot more relieved when she learned that Liu Ziqi actually knew everything.
The full moon banquet at the princess's mansion was very lively because the emperor was in person. Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhe originally only sent invitations to close friends and the Liu family. However, after the princess's mansion gave birth to twins, the publicity was too great, and it seemed that they had expected the emperor to show up, so many of Yu Qizhe's colleagues asked for invitations and came forward.
After the guests left, Yu Jiao was playing with the baby in the room with the wet nurse. Jian Jia came in holding a large gift box and said, "Miss, this gift doesn't match the gift list. The things inside are a little strange..."
Yu Jiao handed the child to the wet nurse. After opening the gift box, she was stunned and understood why Jianjia said that the things in the gift box were a little strange.
In addition to the pigeon egg-sized night-shining pearls, ice silk soft armor and a pair of agarwood bracelets, there are also a few small items, jadeite exquisite chess, Kongming lock, mud rattles, and two rattles...
Yu Jiao shook the rattle, tears glistening in her eyes.
"This was sent by my senior brother..." She smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "It must have been sent by my senior brother."
Yu Qizhe just happened to walk into the room. After hearing this, he took a look at the gift box but didn't say anything.
He knew that although Yu Jiao had never expressed it, she was worried about him after Cheng Ying left Jiaxing without saying goodbye. The appearance of these gifts at least let Yu Jiao know that the man was still alive, and she would feel at ease.
Looking at Yu Jiao who was playing with her two children using a rattle, Yu Qizhe thought, what else could he not be satisfied with?
Although there was a past between them that he could never interfere with, her and the children's future belonged to him. Yu Jiao was his wife and the mother of his children, and they had many, many years together, enough to walk hand in hand until they were old and gray.
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