Chapter 340 Parenting and Educating Children
The Empress Dowager Song was happy these days. She enjoyed playing with her grandchildren every day. Her daughter-in-law Luo Li was busy with business matters, but she also chatted with her happily. Although her son was entangled in government affairs, the family could still have dinner together every day.
The family of four sitting together for dinner was really happy and full of laughter. The etiquette of not talking while eating and sleeping did not exist at all in this Prince Regent's Palace.
The Empress Dowager carefully picked out the bones from a piece of fish and put it into her precious grandson's mouth with a silver spoon, "Lin'er, be good, eat another bite of fish, grow taller and stronger."
Lin'er, who was sitting on a special high stool for infants, opened his mouth and swallowed the fish in one gulp, clapping his chubby little hands while chewing and laughing, "Delicious, delicious, delicious meat!"
"My precious grandson is so smart!" The Empress Dowager praised her grandson, then turned around to show off to her son and daughter-in-law, "I only taught Lin'er once, and he could say 'rouge smells good'. If you teach him for a few more days, you will be able to speak complete sentences."
Regent Prince Zhao Defang smiled and complimented him, "Your Majesty is patient and teaches well. Lin'er has made rapid progress in learning to speak from you. It's all thanks to you."
Luo Li, however, winked at the Empress Dowager mischievously, "Your Majesty, don't worry, even if you have no merit at all, I will not send you back to the palace to live."
The Empress Dowager Song blushed and glared angrily at her silly daughter-in-law who had exposed her thoughts. As
a proper grand empress dowager, she was not living in the palace because it was against the ancestral system and rules. Some censors had already written to the emperor to advise her against this. Although the emperor rejected her, she still felt a little guilty! But she
really didn't want to go back to the lonely palace. She wanted to stay in this warm and happy home with her son and daughter-in-law as long as possible. Anyway, the silly daughter-in-law said arrogantly that ancestral rules were meant to be broken!
After dinner, the family of three returned to Ningxin Garden. Luo Li asked about what happened in the court today. While taking off the clothes of her yawning son, she said, "Zhao Defang, you are under a lot of pressure, and you have a long way to go!"
Lin'er, who was yawning with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. He smiled at his parents with his dark eyes, "A lot of pressure, a long way to go..."
Luo Li patted his chubby little butt, "Lin'er, have you become addicted to learning to talk with the royal grandmother these days?"
Lin'er smiled and learned again, "Addiction, addiction."
Zhao Defang dotingly hugged his wife and children, and used his lower The stubble on his chin rubbed against his wife's pink neck, his tone was gentle but firm, "Li'er, I will complete the set goal as soon as possible, and throw all the big stall business to Zhao Wuji. We will be a family and realize your dream of traveling far away, and find a paradise to enjoy a wonderful life."
With an itchy neck, Luo Li leaned her head back and bit her husband's earlobe, "Zhao Defang, what you said makes my heart itchy, because I don't know when I can realize my beautiful dream?
Remember, don't rush! Take one step at a time and walk steadily and steadily. Don't be careless and lose everything."
"Don't worry! Your husband knows what's going on."
Little Lin'er stared with his dark eyes, not understanding what his parents said. Without learning to speak, he stretched out his two little arms like lotus roots, hugged his mother's neck, found her ear, and bit it!
"Oh! It hurts so much! You naughty son, why did you bite mother's ear?"
Lin'er laughed "hehehe...", pointed at his father's ear, then pointed at his mother's ear. The meaning was very clear, he learned it from his mother.
Zhao Defang rubbed the small tooth marks on his beloved wife's earlobe with heartache, and glared at his son angrily, "If you dare to bite mother again, father will spank your butt!"
Lin'er smiled happily, pouted his aggrieved mouth, tears welled up in his eyes. Luo Li picked him up and coaxed him distressedly, "It's okay, it's okay, Lin'er didn't bite hard and didn't hurt, mother doesn't feel any pain."
Zhao Defang wanted to say that a loving mother spoils her child, but she didn't dare to say it out loud and swallowed it.
She thought to herself: Mother dotes on Lin'er without limit, and Li'er also dotes on her son without any bottom line, how can this be tolerated?
It seems that even if this king is busy, he has to take some time to personally raise and educate his son.
Luo Li, who held her son in her arms and crawled into the quilt, coaxed him to sleep with soft voice, looked at Zhao Defang's dark face and knew that he wanted to personally raise and educate his son again. She quickly smiled and said coquettishly, "Defang, husband,... this is the first time I have given birth to my own flesh and blood, so it is inevitable that I am used to pampering the baby! When Lin'er is three years old and sensible, I will definitely
be a strict mother, okay?" Zhao Defang immediately lost his temper, took off his shoes and got on the bed, hugged his cute wife, "Okay! Li'er, you are smart and wise, and you will definitely be a good mother who teaches children well."
Luo Li felt guilty and nudged her head into his broad arms. She sighed in her heart, [Alas! There is no way! After giving birth to a son, I understood the feeling of my mother, Madam Luo, who held the child in her palms for fear of dropping it, and held it in her mouth for fear of melting it. She was reluctant to scold and even reluctant to hit it. Is this the maternal love nature inherited from the original owner's genes?
After Zhao Wubing learned to walk, he liked to run after Luo Tianci the most. One of the two children was teasing his younger brother in front, and the other was staggering and chasing. The Empress Dowager and Madam Luo were so scared that they followed Lin'er with their arms outstretched, one on each side to protect him.
The maids also stared nervously, but no one stepped forward to protect the little prince. The princess said that children grow strong only when they fall and tumble, and can withstand the wind and waves and be independent and strong. However, the princess did not dare to see her son fall in person, so she hid aside.
Luo Tianci held a small wooden sword and turned to tempt his brother: "Lin'er, catch up with your cousin, and this sword that can cut iron like mud will be yours! Come on, chase him!"
Lin'er, who was holding his arms and legs tightly, shouted: "Sword! Give it to me!" He quickened his speed to catch up, but his right foot tripped over his left foot, and he fell down with a "thump".
"Lin'er!..."
"Oh! My precious grandson!..."
The Empress Dowager and Mrs. Luo were so distressed that they couldn't hold him with their arms outstretched. Li'er said that if a child falls, let him get up by himself, so that he can become strong and independent without relying on others.
Seeing their precious grandson not crying but grinning as he struggled to get up, the Grand Empress Dowager and Madam Luo shed tears of distress.
Lin'er's mother and father are so cruel!
Seeing the young master struggling to get up and happily running after the gifted young master, the maids Yingchun and Yingxue who were standing by breathed a sigh of relief.
The princess's order was harsh. If anyone tried to pick up the fallen young master and made him develop a dependent and weak personality, he would no longer be able to take care of him. This rule applies to the Grand Empress Dowager and Madam Luo.
Fortunately, the princess who gave the cruel order did not dare to watch her son's wrestling training in person, but ordered people to lay thick wool carpets in the courtyard, so that it would not be damaged even if it fell!
Luo Li peeked for a while behind the gate, and twitched a few times with heartache. After seeing her precious son fall, she tried hard to get up and continued to chase excitedly. He ran more and more steadily, and his movements became more and more agile when he got up. Only then did he feel relieved to go back to Ning Xinyuan to check the account for Ruhua who had just come out of confinement.