Chapter 306: Children (I)
Time flies, and seven years passed in the blink of an eye. Seven years, not long but continuous, was enough to change many people and many things. This dynasty was in its peak period of prosperity, with clear government, peace and prosperity, and occasional small wars on the border, but the army was strong enough to quell them quickly, without hindering the people from living and working in peace and contentment, and the imperial capital became more prosperous.
In the early morning of summer, just as the sun shone on the rose bushes in the courtyard that were covered with dewdrops, the Qinghua Courtyard of Weiyuan Marquis's mansion was in chaos. The children of the family and those from outside the mansion, a large group of them, chirped like late-returning birds, and gathered around the stone table in the courtyard, making a lot of noise. Meimei in the bedroom upstairs was awakened, buried her head in Xu Junying's arms, frowned and muttered:
"Heng'er doesn't have to go to the palace today. Whose children are here? The boys came so early and didn't go to the East Garden to play. They are so noisy!"
Xu Junying kissed her forehead and caressed her lovingly: "Lie down, I will go out and take a look."
He had just returned from outside. The couple had been separated for more than ten days. Last night they spent a lot of time together and stayed up all night. He wanted to sleep in with his wife, and he had instructed the mother-in-law, wet nurse and maid to take good care of the children and not to disturb his wife early in the morning. However, he forgot one thing. Such a group of little ancestors came early in the morning. Some of them were his own young masters, and some were children from the mansions of dukes and princes outside. They were of noble status, and the maids did not dare to drive them away, so he had to go out himself.
Meimei sighed and climbed up from behind him: "Forget it, let's get up, take a shower and change clothes. Cheng'er and Meng'er will come crying soon!"
Xu Junying put her on the bed with a distressed look on her face: "I'm here, I'll watch over them... You should get some more sleep, you've only slept for less than two hours!"
Meimei glared at him, her eyes half angry and half happy. She was so gentle and charming that Xu Junying's heart trembled and his whole body went numb. He suppressed it directly:
"Meimei!"
"Now that you're up, what do you want?"
"The door is bolted, ignore them... Let's, let's work harder and have more babies!"
Xu Junying kissed her soft red lips. Meimei resisted helplessly while panting and complaining: "I'm telling you... um... Xu Junying... I'm not going to have any more children!"
"My dear Meimei, you promised me that you would give birth to ten children!"
"No! I definitely won't have another baby!"
Since giving birth to twin sisters Meiyi and Meijuan six years ago, Meimei has been unstoppable. When the twins were just seven months old, she got pregnant again. One year later, four sons, Xu Jikang, Xu Jixue, Xu Jicheng, and Xu Jimeng, were born one after another. Meimei felt that she had become an efficient production tool. In seven years, she gave birth to six children for Xu Junying! The youngest is only nine months old now. Sometimes, looking at the group of children running and crawling around her knees, Meimei wanted to cry but had no tears: Family planning, Xu Junying didn't have this concept!
Xu Junying kept kissing her. He panted and sprinted hard, whispering in her ear with a smile: "Let's have ten children, okay?"
“Hmm…”
Meimei wanted to refuse, but what came out of her mouth was a scream. Before she could make a sound, Xu Junying held her lips and swallowed her into his stomach. After many years of marriage, he already knew how to make his wife happier and more satisfied, and brought her to the peak of the wave again and again. The moment when she was overwhelmed by the extreme stimulation and pleasure was when he completely conquered her. She would climb onto his neck, kiss him passionately, and tremble as she said, "Junying, let's have children! We want to have many, many children..."
And every time this happens, it is also his most passionate moment. He would not hesitate to die for the woman in his arms!
But this time Meimei refused to do it. She tried her best to control herself, feeling the electric shock-like pleasure passing through her body, but she did not respond. Holding the bed sheet tightly with both hands, Xu Junying let go of her and saw her like this, and he couldn't help but feel flustered:
"Meimei, why are you doing this?"
Meimei pouted: "I'm serious, I don't want to have a baby anymore!"
"But we are still so young, wouldn't it be good to have more children?"
Xu Junying caressed his wife's increasingly mature and beautiful body. Her snow-white and translucent skin had just experienced passionate love, revealing a bright and tender pink color, like a ripe peach, extremely tempting. He appreciatively kissed her plump and perky breasts:
"I love our children, I love every one of them, they make me proud and happy, Meimei, you love them so much too!"
"I think that's enough. I'm afraid I won't be able to love again!"
"Giving birth is painful... Oh, if only I could give birth, and not let you feel the pain!"
Meimei snorted, "You say one thing and mean another! How can a man give birth? I don't care. I'm telling you today that I'm going to start taking contraceptive pills!"
Xu Junying hugged her tightly, reluctantly: "Don't, don't eat!"
Meimei said angrily: "Giving birth to a child is very harmful to my health. My body will be damaged. And you still say you love me. You don't care about me at all. You just want a son!"
"Meimei, don't talk like that! I swear to God, I love you so much..."
His big hands wandered over her body. Her skin was as smooth as satin. Her body was obviously stronger than before. He patted her elastic buttocks and said, "What's wrong with you? It's much better than when you gave birth to Meiyi and Meijuan!"
"Husband!"
Meimei twisted her body: "Can't you feel it? My waist is thicker, my butt is bigger... If this continues, I will become a fat woman in two years. Will you still want me then?"
Xu Junying chuckled and bit her ear: "Silly Meimei, you are the best and most charming like this... I can rest assured if you become a fat woman, so that people won't stare at you and think about you when you show up!"
"Okay, so this is what you are planning! You want me to have more children, become ugly and become a yellow-faced woman so that I can be locked up at home, right? Tell me! Do you have your eyes on a girl from a certain family? Do you want to take her as a concubine?"
"What's the point of taking a concubine? We have such a nice family, harmonious and happy. I don't know how many people envy me!"
Meimei's eyes rolled: "That's right, I won't have any more children. Take a concubine to replace me and give birth to a son for you!"
"Nonsense! Who can replace you? Only the one you give birth to is my son... You little devil, it's bad enough that you're lazy, but you're also bullying me and spanking me!"
Meimei wrapped her arms around his neck and begged for mercy: "Husband, please? We are not going to have a baby. If you are in pain, please don't make me feel any pain. And don't you want to see me looking pretty? Do you have to make me sick before you stop? That's not love, it's harming me. I will hate you!"
"My dear, how could I hurt you? Every time you gave birth, I was fully prepared. When you gave birth to Meiyi and Meijuan, you even shamelessly invited Lingxuzi to come to Beijing. Because your belly was too big, my mother-in-law said it was the same as when my eldest uncle and sister-in-law were pregnant with Shizhen and Shiyuan... I was just afraid that something would happen to you. If that happened, I would not be able to survive, don't you understand, little demon? Giving birth is actually a process of both of us giving birth, just like when you first got pregnant, you vomited and I vomited too, but in the end you got better but I was still vomiting. It hurt when you gave birth, and it hurt me too!"
"Go! Speak sweet words, where does it hurt? Anyway, I just don't want to have a baby! Hurry up and get up, I have to find some pills to take!"
"Where can I find the pills?"
"I'll give you the prescription Jingyun gave me before, and Doctor Duan from Qiancaotang will prepare the pills for me. I just need to go get them back!"
Xu Junying sighed: "You can't just buy random medicine outside... Medicine is poisonous. Since you don't want to have a baby, you don't have to take the medicine, I'll take it!"
Meimei was stunned: "You want to eat? Stone ball powder?"
"Well, that medicine is not harmful to the body. It will last for several years. It saves trouble!"
"But if you eat too much..."
"I have five sons and two daughters. I'll listen to you. That's enough!"
He turned his eyes and said, "But Meimei, can I eat it after this month?"
"Why?"
"Uh... I drank some medicinal wine when I was out, and I'm afraid it will conflict with the stone powder. It will lose its medicinal effect and that will be bad!"
Meimei thought about it and agreed. The matter was finally resolved satisfactorily. Xu Junying then smiled, wrapped her in a robe, and carried her into the bathroom to bathe.
After the couple washed up with the help of the maids, they walked out of the upper room. A group of little boys, big and small, were still making noises and talking beside the stone table. Heng'er saw his parents coming out, and hurriedly came up to pay his respects, shouting with joy:
"Father, Mother!"
Xu Junying frowned: "Heng'er, didn't your father teach you? If your friends come, take them to your yard. If you want to practice martial arts or play ball, go to the east yard. Why are you arguing here?"
Heng'er lowered his head: "Child..."
"Marquis Weiyuan! Madam Weiyuan!"
The nine-year-old Crown Prince Zhao Yang ran up and said with a smile: "I asked him to bring us here. We want to find Madam Hou. But Ah Heng didn't let us make any noise. He said we can only talk to us after Madam Hou comes out!"
Meimei looked at Heng'er and her heart softened. He was only ten years old, but he was so sensible, able to understand his parents and always considerate of them.
"So it's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who has arrived. Please forgive me for my ignorance!"
Xu Junying pulled the stunned Meimei to salute the prince, while scolding Heng'er: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
The prince said hurriedly, "Don't blame Ah Heng. He didn't have to come to the palace today. I came here on my own. This is not the first time I've come to your house. I told you all not to be so formal. We're not in the court anymore. It's best to keep it like usual!"
A little girl, delicate and pretty, wearing a purple embroidered gown, came skipping over, stood beside Heng'er, saluted to the two adults, and said in a crisp voice:
"Min'er pays respects to Lord Xu and mother!"
Looking at the seven-year-old Zhao Min who looked very much like Zhao Bao, Xu Junying couldn't help but scold him in his heart: How ridiculous! Like father, like daughter. She has this bad habit that can't be changed. I told her not to call her mother casually, but she insisted on calling him mother. She called him mother but not father, and kept calling him Master Xu. He was very depressed.
Meimei didn't mind at all. She reached out and took Zhao Min in her arms, gently stroking her soft hair:
"Min'er, you brought Jie'er with you again. Can you tell your mother? Don't turn the palace upside down like you did last time!"
The child of Zhao Bao and Lin Runan is like her own child. She can teach and scold him as she pleases. It has been like this for many years. Zhao Min looks like Zhao Bao, but her temperament is a combination of the two. She is straightforward and naive, arrogant and willful, but still reasonable.
"Don't worry, mother. It was mother who asked Guard Shan to bring Min'er and my brother here!"
"Really? That's good. If I had known you were coming, I wouldn't have let Meiyi and the others go to the Qin residence yesterday. Be careful when playing with boys. Stay away from them. They are rough and sometimes they will hurt you accidentally. By the way, Your Highness, what did you say you wanted to talk to me about?"
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