Chapter 583 Second Son Xu Yunxiao
As the two were talking, Mrs. Tang came home with the imperial physician.
"Did Tang'er give birth?"
A servant in the yard bowed to her.
"To reply to Mrs. Tang, not yet."
In the room, after Song Yuntang chatted with Xu Qingye for a while, he felt the pain in his abdomen becoming more and more severe. He could no longer maintain his composure and showed a look of pain.
Seeing this, Xu Qingye frowned.
The midwife looked at Xu Qingye.
"Sir, please wait outside. I will start delivering the baby for Madam."
There were two midwives this time, one from the palace and the other sent by Madam Tang, both of them were reliable people.
Xu Qingye didn't say anything.
Song Yuntang looked at him.
"You should go and accompany Hao Ting first. The child is sensitive. Now that his parents are not at home, you should pay more attention to him and don't let him feel neglected."
Xu Qingye nodded.
"Hao Ting and I will be waiting for you outside the delivery room."
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As the contractions became more intense and the time intervals became shorter, Song Yuntang tried hard to adjust his breathing and did not allow himself to make any sound.
The birth of the second child was a little faster than that of Haoting. Before it got dark, the sound of a baby crying could be heard in the house.
"It's born!"
Outside the delivery room, Mu Qiu, who was standing by the door listening to the noise inside, shouted excitedly.
When the people in the yard heard the noise, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon afterwards, a midwife came out of the delivery room holding the baby who had just been cleaned and wrapped in swaddling clothes.
"Congratulations, Master Xu, another young master."
Xu Qingye stepped forward and took the child from the midwife's arms.
"How is Tang'er?"
The midwife smiled happily.
"Madam, you are fine. You are in good spirits now."
Xu Qingye hurriedly instructed Guiping.
"Go prepare the red envelopes."
Guiping bowed hurriedly.
"My lord, everything is ready."
Xu Qingye nodded slightly, "Distribute it. Everyone in the mansion will have a share."
She handed the child in her arms to Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Tang for care. Seeing that the delivery room had been cleaned up, she took Hao Ting into the house.
When Song Yuntang saw the father and son come in, he smiled and stretched out his hand to Hao Ting.
"Hao Ting has seen his brother?"
Hao Ting nodded
"Daddy just showed Hao Ting." The child blinked curiously, "Mom, how was my brother born? Did he come out of mom's belly?"
Song Yuntang smiled and said, "When Hao Ting grows up, he will know it naturally."
Seeing that although her face was a little pale, she was still in good spirits, Xu Qingye finally breathed a sigh of relief and touched his son's head.
"Mom just gave birth to my little brother, and she still needs to recover. Can Hao Ting go to the yard to see my little brother again?"
The child nodded obediently and went to the yard to see his younger brother impatiently.
When Song Yuntang saw Hao Ting leave, he looked at Xu Qingye.
"Have you thought of a name for the child?"
The man looked gentle.
"Tang'er, why don't you try to pick one?"
Song Yuntang lay back, shook his head and said, "You should come. I can treat illnesses, but I'm really not good at naming. Just look at the names I gave to my two dogs before."
Thinking of the two dogs given to her before, which were named Dahuang and Xiaobai, and later Xiaobai was renamed Jiangjun, Xu Qingye couldn't help laughing.
Song Yuntang glanced at the man who was smiling slightly, and there was a smile on the corner of his lips.
"It's hard enough giving birth to a child, don't give me this kind of mental work."
"If I come to get it..."
The man thought about it and looked at her again.
"How is Yunxiao? Xu Yunxiao."
Song Yuntang murmured.
"Hao Ting and Yun Xiao, one is gentle and reserved, the other is hardworking and enterprising. They each have their own characteristics, and the meaning is good, which is good."
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Although the imperial physician and Doctor Zhou only came to his house for a while, Guiping still followed Xu Qingye's instructions and prepared red envelopes before sending them away.
Xu Qingye has now taken leave from the court. Apart from setting aside some time every day to handle official business, he spends the rest of his time taking care of Song Yuntang and the two children.
Although there were no elders in the family when the child was born, Zhao and Song Jinbao would come often, and Mrs. Tang also sent a lot of supplements to the home.
Not only that, after the palace learned the news of Song Yuntang's childbirth, several concubines and the emperor also rewarded her with many good things.
Coupled with the careful care of many trusted people in the mansion and the sense of security Xu Qingye gave her, Song Yuntang recovered very well and the child grew up very well.
On the day the child was born, Xu Qingye wrote a letter and had it sent to Lushan Village.
He could imagine how happy the elders in the family would be when they heard the news of the baby's birth.
Ever since his younger brother was born, Hao Ting would go to see him whenever he had free time, always hoping that his younger brother would grow up quickly so that he could play with him.
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For a period of time thereafter, news of victory at the border continued to come from the court.
After Daxia pretended to be the barbarians in the northern border and slowed down the Western Region army, it used the existing gunpowder to quickly capture the northern border.
Since then, Daxia and Northern Xinjiang signed a ceasefire treaty, and Northern Xinjiang had to pay tribute to Daxia every year in the form of wooden arrows, stone arrowheads, sable furs, ginseng, and eastern pearls.
Seeing that the situation was already decided, the Western Region army returned home in disgrace halfway through their journey.
They only claimed to the outside world that they were conducting military training.
When Xu Wencheng returned to Beijing from the border at the end of the year to report, Xu Yongwang and Jiang had not yet arrived in Beijing.
This time he accompanied the Duke of Zhenguo to the northern border, made great contributions on the battlefield, and was named general.
However, Xu Wencheng was not a person who was good at scheming, nor did he care much about the rank of his official position. He knew that the emperor was very suspicious, so in order to prevent him from having murderous intentions, he handed over all the military power in his hands when he reported back.
He just said that when Daxia needs him again in the future, he will be granted military power again.
Now that the war is over, he has nothing to do and helps Song Yuntang take care of the two children at home every day.
He is now old enough to get married.
Song Yuntang then cheered up and began to frequently attend gatherings of the circle of noble ladies in the capital, in order to find a woman who would suit Xu Wencheng's taste.
Whenever he sees something he likes, he will ask him to find an opportunity to take a look at it from a distance.
If they hit it off, she would then act as a matchmaker and bring the two people into contact.
"Sister-in-law, can you not go?"
Xu Wencheng, who had just returned from the battlefield, had no plans to get married in the near future.
It happened that Xu Qingye was busy today, so he stayed at home to help Song Yuntang take care of the two children. Occasionally, he would take Hao Ting to the military camp and the market, and the uncle and nephew had a lot of fun.
The only thing that bothered him was that recently every time his sister-in-law went to attend a party in Beijing, she would always tell him which girl from which family looked good when she came back.
At the beginning, he saw that his sister-in-law was very interested and did not want to dampen her enthusiasm, so he met a few people at her request.
Sometimes he would just take a quick glance at the young lady when she was out shopping, and sometimes his sister-in-law would invite a few people to his house for tea and chat, and the woman would be among them.
The young ladies in Beijing naturally all have their own characteristics and are as beautiful as flowers.
It's not that he looked down on them, it's just that he had just returned from the battlefield, and when those ladies saw him, they were like mice seeing a cat.
After this happened a few times, he felt it was meaningless.
Song Yuntang looked at him.
"You are now twenty-one, and it is time for you to get married. This is something that your parents specifically mentioned in their letter. Grandma is not in good health now, and she may not be able to hold on any longer. The mourning period will be three years, and by then you will be older, and it will be even more difficult for you to get married."
"What's that?"
Xu Wencheng didn't care.
"Although I have handed over the military power, don't we still have our eldest brother? With him around, even if he is older, there will be many people who want to cling to our family's connections."
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