Five days later, the rain-praying ceremony officially began, with Yinzhen acting on his behalf.
The day after the ceremony, it rained in Haining and other places, and Yinzhen was commended again.
"Hongshi, you did a good job organizing this ceremony. This is a reward from your grandfather. You must continue to work hard and not let him down."
"Thank you for the praise, Grandfather and Father. This is what your son should do."
Hongshi did a great job organizing the rain-praying ceremony for Yinzhen, and Yinzhen noticed his diligence.
"I heard from your mother that Lady Zhong in your household is about to give birth?"
"yes."
Yinzhen nodded:
"Take good care of him; he is Father's first grandson. Once the child is born, I will ask you, Grandfather, to personally bestow a name upon him."
Hongshi was overjoyed:
"Thank you, Father."
Go see your mother.
"Yes, son takes his leave."
The smooth resolution of the matter made Yinzhen feel a sense of relief.
"Gao Wuyong".
"Your servant is here."
"Come with me to see Princess Geng."
"Yes, sir."
When Yinzhen and his entourage arrived at Geng Youran's place, Geng Youran was not in the main room, but busy in the small kitchen.
"Hey, Xiao Anzi, you're setting the fire too fast! My duck will burn if you keep going like this!"
"Princess, please wait a moment, this servant will put out the fire right away."
"What if you destroy my roast duck? You'd better think of another way quickly."
Yinzhen heard the voices of the three people—master and servants—at the doorway. He shook his head helplessly and then went into the main room.
Perhaps because the weather was getting warmer, Geng Youran suddenly wanted to eat roast duck a few days ago. Luckily, there was a stove set up in the small kitchen, so she decided to give it a try.
Today, she specially asked Xiao Anzi to clean a duck, preparing to try making roast duck.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Anzi caused a problem with the fire; the fire was too intense and almost burned the duck.
Fortunately, the situation was handled properly, and Geng Youran's roast duck was saved.
“I’m talking about Xiao Anzi.”
"Your servant is here."
"You still need to practice your fire-starting skills. If you burn my duck again next time, I'll punish you by making you eat duck for a month."
"Yes, Your Highness. But Princess, I think I just saw the Prince arrive."
"What?"
Geng Youran took off her apron and ran out of the small kitchen, while Qianxue sped up the process of shaving the meat.
"Master? Master has arrived, yet you didn't even let anyone call me 'my concubine'?"
Yinzhen was sitting in the room reading when he saw Geng Youran rush in, her face covered in soot.
"When I heard you busy in the small kitchen, I didn't let anyone disturb you."
He stood up, smiled, walked up to Geng Youran, and gently tapped her forehead with his right index finger.
"You have no respect for your servants, you don't act like a master at all."
Then Yinzhen asked Gao Wuyong to bring a basin of hot water, and Geng Youran remembered that she seemed to have accidentally smeared some soot from burning firewood on her face.
While she was washing her face, Qianxue had already sliced the duck meat.
"Princess, I have prepared the duck. Please eat it while it's hot."
"Go and bring me the rice wine I brewed."
"yes."
"You've come at the perfect time, sir. You've caught the roast duck and the homemade rice wine."
Yinzhen affectionately flicked the tip of Geng Youran's nose:
"So, I guess I'm quite lucky to have such a good meal."
"nature."
With the drought largely resolved, Yinzhen began to attend to other matters, while Nian Yunrong, busy taking care of the children, temporarily forgot about Wuya Huixue.
In fact, children at this age do not need too many people to take care of them, and wet nurses are with the children for twelve hours a day.
However, having lost two children in succession, Nian Yunrong kept the children in her own room during the day, and only let the children stay with the wet nurse at night.
The princess consort wanted to send someone to advise him, but since Yinzhen didn't say anything, she didn't bother with it.
At the end of the month, Hongshi's first son was born.
"Master, good news, good news!"
The maidservant ran into the room laughing, still catching her breath, and eagerly told Li Jingshu:
"Congratulations, Consort! You've gained a grandson!"
"real?!"
Li Jingshu was especially happy, particularly for Hongshi.
This is the prince's first grandson.
"Has Your Highness heard of this news?"
"You should know. I heard that because of his merit in organizing the last grand ceremony, the prince is going to ask the emperor to bestow a name upon Hongshi."
"Oh my, this is really good news. Hongshi must be overjoyed."
"Yes, this is the prince's first child."
At this moment, Li Jingshu suddenly remembered that she had prepared a gift for the child:
"Go, find the gift I prepared for the child and have someone deliver it to the prince's residence."
"yes!"
The maid left with the gifts, and Li Jingshu returned to her study and sat down. Today was probably the happiest day she had had in a long time.
In the afternoon, Geng Youran and Wanru came to Li Jingshu's place to offer their congratulations.
"Congratulations, sister! Congratulations, sister!"
"My two sisters are truly rare guests. Please have a seat."
Qianxue and Huangli each came up from behind their masters and presented the gifts:
"Consort, Wanru and I have prepared gifts for the child. Please deliver them to Hongshi on our behalf. We hope you will not find them offensive."
Li Jingshu opened the two boxes. Geng Youran gave her a pair of silver bracelets, while Wanru gave her a tiger-head hat and tiger-head shoes that she had embroidered herself.
"You two are too kind. I'll have Hongshi bring his child over to pay his respects to you later."
Despite saying that, Geng Youran knew that Hongshi would never do such a thing.
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