After three months of intense work by the Ministry of Rites, the grand wedding of the emperor and empress finally came to an end, and Zhizhi, Dangdang and their mother were welcomed back to the Kunning Palace where the empress lived.
The two little ones stayed with Danruo the whole day and had already fallen asleep due to exhaustion.
Gu Chengzuo wanted someone to take the child away, after all, a night of love is worth a thousand gold.
Even though Danruo had given birth to two children for him, they had not seen each other for a long time. When Danruo was waiting to get married in the Su Mansion, he often visited her, but he could not stay overnight. A short separation is better than a new marriage, and a long separation makes one miss her more.
But as soon as the palace maid moved, the two children woke up and groggily wanted to sleep with Danruo.
Dan Ruo looked at Gu Chengzuo apologetically: "I raised the child by myself, so he is a little clingy to me."
Gu Chengzuo felt so distressed when he thought of her giving birth and raising the baby alone. All those romantic thoughts in his mind disappeared immediately. In the end, the family of four fell asleep together on the wedding bed.
In the middle of the night, Zhizhi wanted to pee and called Gu Chengzuo who was closest to her. Gu Chengzuo didn't know what she was going to do, and after a while, Zhizhi had already peed on the bed.
Zhizhi was so angry that she didn't want to talk to her stupid daddy the next day.
Since the two children came to live with them on their wedding night, they could not be taken out and would cry whenever they were taken out. Danruo felt sorry for the children and started crying too. Looking at the pitiful mother and her two children, Gu Chengzuo was at a loss as to what to do.
I could only help the two children get familiar with the environment in the palace as quickly as possible, and take them out to play whenever I had time.
After a few months, the children had become very close to Gu Chengzuo.
Willing to cooperate with some small requests occasionally made by Gu Chengzuo.
Life was warm and cozy in Kunning Palace. The empress dowager felt relieved when she saw the smile on Gu Chengzuo's face from time to time, as well as his two clever grandchildren. She also felt better.
If it weren't for that old bitch Concubine Jing, she and the prince wouldn't have suffered all these years. Thinking of this, she went to the dungeon to torture the culprit, Concubine Jing.
Concubine Jing was living a life worse than death in the dark dungeon. When she saw the empress dowager, she knew that she would not kill her easily.
She told the Queen Mother that only when she died would the poisonous insect in Gu Chengzuo's body die, and he could favor other women and have more children.
The Queen Mother remained silent. She already had two lovely grandchildren, and her daughter-in-law had a good personality. They would have more children in the future, so why should she look for another woman?
Seeing that she refused, Concubine Jing kept provoking her, saying that her grandson was still young and who knew whether he could live to grow up. Otherwise, Gu Chengzuo would be too old to have children by then, and in the end the throne would still be handed over to others.
The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "If you want to die, it's not that easy."
Later, the Queen Mother arranged many palace servants to take care of Dangdang, which showed that she still listened to Concubine Jing's words and was afraid that something might happen to Dangdang.
As the number of palace servants increased, they began to compete for the prince's favor. After all, everyone wanted to be the first person in front of the prince, and in the future, they would be the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, the first among the eunuchs.
They used all kinds of ways to coax Dangdang, who was just over two years old, to play with him. The brave ones even hid a wild cat they caught in their arms when they took Dangdang to play privately for fun, which resulted in Dangdang being bitten by the cat.
Gu Chengzuo was furious and punished a group of palace servants. The Imperial Hospital gave Dangdang medicine, and Danruo secretly used her spiritual power to help Dangdang heal his injuries.
The Queen Mother was both regretful and afraid. Dangdang was still so young. What if something happened?
However, it is indeed too few for the emperor to have only one son. It would be better for him to have more.
Seeing that Danruo was still pregnant after a year, she thought about it for a month and decided to get rid of Concubine Jing. Torturing Concubine Jing was more important to her than having an heir without a son.
As soon as Concubine Jing died, she called Gu Chengzuo to her side and told him about this matter, hoping that he would favor a few more women and have more children.
Gu Chengzuo refused as soon as he heard it. After being together for such a long time, if he still didn't know Danruo's thoughts, he was not worthy of being the father of two children. Once he favored another woman, Danruo would definitely disappear with the children.
Having experienced loss once, he doesn't want to experience it a second time.
He bluntly rejected the Queen Mother and told her not to have such dangerous ideas in the future, otherwise she would not be able to withstand the consequences and the relationship between them as mother and son would be severed.
The Queen Mother did not expect that her son would speak to her like this because of his daughter-in-law. She was so angry that she was throwing things around in the house.
He was persuaded by his trusted female official to stay in a temple in the suburbs to temporarily get away from all these troubles.
The Empress Dowager did not shy away from this matter, and it quickly spread throughout the palace. After Danruo knew what Gu Chengzuo had done, she felt a warm feeling in her heart. It was time to give Zhizhi and Dangdang a younger brother or sister.
A month later, good news came from the Empress Dowager. Danruo wrote a letter to the Empress Dowager herself, but the Empress Dowager had no intention of returning to the palace.
Three months later, the imperial physician said that the queen was pregnant with multiple babies. Upon hearing this, the empress dowager immediately returned with the offered Buddhist scriptures. As a mother-in-law, she definitely needed to watch over the dangerous labor process for women.
Sudan Ying's child is already a few months old. She has been thinking about it for a year and feels that she should ask her sister to get an official position for Wu Shang.
After all, my sister is pregnant again. It’s just a small benefit for my family, which shouldn’t be a big problem.
She took her child and went to guard the back door of the Su Mansion for a whole day.
Mrs. Su felt very embarrassed when she heard the purpose of her visit and rejected her directly. The Su family was now in great prosperity and many eyes were watching her.
As soon as the Queen promotes Wushang, the court officials will investigate Wushang thoroughly.
Let Sudan Ying stop making things difficult for her.
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