In just three days, with the help of Granny Liu, Yin prepared a banquet for the baby's third-day celebration.
Prince Yin arrived ahead of time. He specifically instructed Lady Yin Genjueluo to help Xiao Guai with the third-day celebration. How could a grown man like Yin understand the struggles in the inner court? The struggles among the women were no less intense than those in the previous dynasty. With such intricate family relationships, one had to be even more careful in dealing with each powerful court lady.
"Sister-in-law, Xiao Guai is still not well, so I'm leaving the affairs of the inner chambers to you. If any problems arise, please help resolve them." Yin directly asked Yin Genjue Luo Shi to take charge of the inner chambers.
"Fourth brother, between the Tong Guowei and Tong Guogang families, who is the head of the household?" Yin recalled that when his son was celebrating his third-day birthday, Lady Mingzhu directly took on the role of head of the household, entertaining the ladies of the court.
The Tong family split up, and Consort Tong's relationship with the family deteriorated further. She gave Tong Guogang's residence much more gifts than Tong Guowei received.
"What Mother means is that Tong Guogang's side is the main family, and the carriage was personally delivered by Tong Guogang's wife." Yin told Yin Genjueluo Shi to prevent anyone from deliberately making things difficult for Qingyan.
Yin and his wife exchanged a glance. Longkodo had crossed the Emperor's bottom line, and even Empress Dowager Tong's protection couldn't save him.
"Fourth Prince, come with me to the front hall. Madam, go check on Fourth Brother's wife first, and don't let those people cause any more trouble." Yin left with Yin, and Yingenjueluo Shi carried Songkelierha into the inner chamber.
Qingyan sat on the bed, her head wrapped with a two-inch wide headband, light blue with various gemstones forming a pomegranate flower pattern. This was made by Sulan, who stayed up all night to help Qingyan.
"Fourth Aunt!" Songkelierha saw Qingyan sitting on the bed and quickly went over. "Fourth Aunt, where are my younger brother and sister?"
Following Qingyan's advice, Yin Genjueluo took good care of her health before trying to have a child.
In the mansion, apart from Songkelierha, the rest were all illegitimate sons and daughters. After all, the mother was different, and the women dared not let their children play with others.
"Look, it's in the stroller!" Qingyan pointed to the stroller. Inside the two strollers side by side, two children, just awakened, were staring at Songkelierha with their eyes open in two bright yellow swaddling clothes.
"Mother, my younger brother and sister are looking at me, but which one is my sister?" Songkriyirha approached and noticed that the two looked very similar...
Pfft!
The two adults laughed unkindly. Originally, girls should be swaddled in red and boys in green. However, as soon as these twins were born, Consort Tong sent many bright yellow swaddles. Only the ropes used to bind the swaddles were red and green.
"Green indicates a baby boy, red indicates a baby girl!" Madam Yin Genjue explained to her daughter. "My little darling, how are you feeling?"
Yin Genjue Luo was worried about Xiao Guai's health. After giving birth to Songkelierha, her health was already very poor. Xiao Guai had also given birth to two children. If she didn't take good care of herself, she would definitely have serious problems.
"It's alright, sister-in-law. How is the Nian family doing?" Qingyan was preparing to take action against the Nian family. The Nian family had allowed two children to be born prematurely, which directly touched her sore spot. The children would be Qingyan's last line of defense.
The First Princess was stunned. Little Darling's premature birth was caused by the Nian family.
Yin knew this too, and he had made things difficult for Nian Gengyao in the military camp quite a bit. Saito and Eshuo even went to spar with Nian Gengyao several times.
Even in the past few years, Nian Xiyao's life has not been easy, and the Third Prince has been going to exchange poems and songs with him.
"Don't be fooled by the way the princes playfully fight each other in their own little world. In reality, they are very united. If anything happens that could harm their offspring, these men will all step in!" Lady Yin Genjue laughed.
Previously, several of his aunts were often looked down upon by the Mongolian female slaves after they married into Mongolia. When Yin and Yong accompanied Kangxi on an inspection tour, they discovered this problem. Yin took the lead and Yong acted as his assistant. Together, they not only taught the Mongolian princes a lesson but also gave Mongolia a great shock, leaving many people with lingering fear.
Now that Emperor Kangxi is no longer planning to give princesses to the Mongols, those people dare not cause any more trouble.
"Sister-in-law!" Qingyan cried, her eyes filled with tears. "I never imagined they would do such a thing!"
The Nian family has really gone too far. He could understand that she was less skilled than them because of business dealings, but their underhanded tactics, hoping to kill Xiao Guai and her unborn child so that their own daughter could take her place, infuriated him.
"Father will deal with the Nian family. I see that none of them seem to care. Yin Hui said that the two brothers in the Nian family always think they are the strongest, and they even gossip about the prince behind his back!" Yin Genjue Luo Shi said with a frown.
Yin was not one to gossip, and those who could give Yin a headache were generally not good people.
As soon as she finished speaking, Tong Guogang's wife appeared at the door to wait for the summons. Yin Genjueluo remembered what Yin had said: Tong Guogang's wife, as Guo Luoma's mother, would be washing the children's third-day-old clothes.
"Your mother asked your Lady Tong Guogang to be Guo Luoma's nanny?" Lady Yin Genjue thought she had said something wrong, but to her surprise, Qingyan nodded directly.
"What Mother and Yin said, I didn't know at first either!" Qingyan shrugged. Madam Tong Guowei must have crossed Consort Tong's bottom line somewhere, which made Consort Tong dislike her. It's fine this way.
"The matter of Longkodo!" Yin Genjueluo and Qingyan stopped talking.
Su Lan led Tong Guogang's wife in, and Qing Yan looked at her with a smile.
"Grandma Guoluoma, you've arrived!" Qingyan liked Tong Guogang's wife; at least she wasn't as demanding as Tong Guowei's wife. After all, Qingyan was a prince's primary wife, and...
"Your mother asked your Lady Tong Guogang to be Granny Guo Luoma?" Lady Yin Genjue thought she had said something wrong, but to her surprise, Qingyan nodded directly.
"What Mother and Yin said, I didn't know at first either!" Qingyan shrugged. Madam Tong Guowei must have crossed Consort Tong's bottom line somewhere, which made Consort Tong dislike her. It's fine this way.
"The matter of Longkodo!" Yin Genjueluo and Qingyan stopped talking.
Su Lan led Tong Guogang's wife in, and Qing Yan looked at her with a smile.
"Grandma Guoluo, you've arrived!" Qingyan liked Tong Guogang's wife; at least she wasn't as pretentious as Tong Guowei's wife. In any case, Qingyan was the primary wife of a prince, and her status was higher than that of a court lady.
"Fourth Prince's Consort, I dare not accept such a title. The birth of the young prince and the princess has made the master very happy." Madam Tong Guogang was easy to get along with. Knowing that Qingyan had a good relationship with the wife of Prince Zhi, she would give Prince Zhi's wife some face when they met.
"If Guo Luoma is happy, Mother will be happy too!" Consort Tong completely regarded herself as Tong Guogang's daughter. Although Xiao Tongjia was sent into the harem by Tong Guowei through connections, she did not have a good relationship with Consort Tong. After discovering the problem, Qingyan felt that Tong Guowei was confused. It was not enough that one daughter was trapped in that big cage, but he had to make another one fall into it as well.
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