Chapter 396 Mother and Son Reunion 1
Zhao Hua did not directly answer Xiao Jingheng's question.
She was dazed for a long time.
Then she held Xiao Jingheng's hand, crying and calling him softly,
"Xiao Lang."
Then she threw herself into his arms and cried uncontrollably.
To Xiao Jingheng, although Zhao Hua did not say the word "forgiveness",
But the address of 'Xiao Lang' already showed her attitude.
She understood his helplessness as an emperor and the deep affection hidden under the compulsion.
*
It was six days later that Xiao Jingyan brought Cheng Yu back to Kyoto from Hengzhou.
As soon as he entered the palace, he took Cheng Yu to Chaoyang Palace to meet the emperor.
The father and son are reunited and are very happy.
After four years of separation, Cheng Yu has become more handsome.
The half-grown man stood in the hall, with an upright posture, observing etiquette and manners, and his words and actions were all methodical and proper.
As soon as he saw Xiao Jingheng, he bowed and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty, I wish you the best of health."
Xiao Jingheng secretly missed his child.
But the Chengyu in his memory was still the babbling boy.
She was so small and so innocent. She always smiled when she saw him and kept clinging to him, asking him to hug her.
Recalling the past, a deep sense of guilt suddenly surged into my heart.
Xiao Jingheng walked slowly to Cheng Yu, opened his arms to him with red eyes, and said with deep emotion:
"Good boy, let your father hug you."
Cheng Yu was very obedient. He took the initiative to approach Xiao Jingheng and let him hold him tightly in his arms.
Listen to Xiao Jingheng saying with full apology:
"Good boy, your father has wronged you over the years and made you suffer."
Cheng Yu was neither humble nor arrogant, and even sensibly comforted him.
"My uncle told me that everything my father did was to protect me. I understand how well my father treated me, and I miss him very much."
Cheng Yu, like Cheng Huan, was well educated.
Xiao Jingheng looked at his calmness and felt as if he saw his own childhood shadow in him.
He was like this when he was young.
Abide by the rules, be respectful and self-restrained, do things in an orderly manner, and speak without leaking a single word.
Perhaps both father and son had unhappy childhoods, so they are more similar.
So much so that Xiao Jingheng didn't realize it at all.
A normal child, a child who loves him in his heart,
Having experienced so much at such a young age,
His subconscious reaction was not to act coquettishly in front of his relatives, but to be sober like a perfect saint.
He even praised Cheng Yu's performance and praised him repeatedly:
"Mr. and Mrs. Chen have taken good care of Chengyu. They are polite and considerate. I am very pleased."
He turned to Jiang Deshun and said, "Pass on my decree. The Chen couple of Hengzhou have made great contributions in protecting the prince. They are rewarded with a thousand taels of gold. In addition, there is still an official position below the rank of Hengzhou governor. Let Chen Zhenjiang go with him to gain experience. If he is a useful talent, I will treat him well."
Xiao Jingheng felt the joy of reunion after a long separation, and naturally wanted Zhao Hua to feel it as soon as possible.
So he took Chengyu's hand and said he would take him to see the Queen Mother.
Seeing this, Xiao Jingyan said, "It is a happy event that my brother and his son are reunited. I have accomplished my mission and I will retire now."
"Since it's a happy occasion, how can I let you run away?" Xiao Jingheng put his arm around Xiao Jingyan's shoulders and laughed heartily, "You stay. I am very happy today and I will definitely drink three hundred cups with you!"
*
At that time, Zhaohua was sewing and embroidering a nightgown in the palace.
Because she didn't know Cheng Yu's current body shape, she always asked Cheng Huan to come over these two days to measure him by his body shape.
At this moment, the pattern on the pajamas was embroidered. Zhao Hua spread it out under the golden sunlight and looked at it carefully, with an unstoppable smile on the corners of his lips.
Cheng Huan saw this from the side and immediately said obediently:
"Mother, my second brother is coming back, and I am very happy. So I specially prepared a gift for him."
As he spoke, he took out a jade pendant from his arms.
Zhaohua recognized this jade pendant. It was given to Chenghuan by Xiao Jingheng in the past. It was also the only gift he had ever given to Chenghuan.
Zhao Hua couldn't take away the little fatherly love this child had, so after putting away the jade pendant, he put it on Cheng Huan's neck with great care and said with a smile:
"This is a gift from your father, so you must keep it well. Your second brother has been raised outside the palace since he was young, and has had little contact with your father. By all accounts, your position in your father's heart must be much more important than your second brother's."
She stroked the child's hair lovingly and said sincerely:
"You are your father's eldest son. You will have to take care of your younger brother in the future."
Cheng Huan nodded vigorously and agreed, "Don't worry, mother, I will definitely treat my second brother well."
Zhao Hua continued to smile. He picked up the pajamas spread out on the table and compared them with Yu Cheng Huan's.
Cheng Huan said, "My second brother is about the same age as my son, so this dress will definitely fit him well."
Zhaohua smiled without saying anything and put the pajamas on Chenghuan.
Cheng Huan was quite surprised and said: "Mother, this is..."
"Mother made two of these nightgowns, one for you and one for your second brother."
Cheng Huan's eyes widened, disbelief written all over his face.
Apart from Ning Wanshuang, no one in the palace has ever cared about him so much.
He was an unpopular child to begin with, and his forced sensibility was just a way for him to survive in the palace.
Now that Chad Zhaohua treated him like this, he couldn't help but get teary-eyed.
"Son...thank you, mother!"
He stroked the embroidery on his pajamas and discovered that the pattern was neither a Qilin nor a dragon pattern, but a dragon head growing out of a huqin.
He asked curiously, "This dragon head huqin looks rare, my son doesn't quite recognize it."
Zhao Hua explained gently:
"The dragon gave birth to nine sons. The eldest son is Qiuniu, and the second son is Yazi. Qiuniu is good at music. The embroidery on your nightgown is the incarnation of Qiuniu, and your brother's nightgown is embroidered with Yazi. Yazi respects Qiuniu, and similarly, your second brother will respect you in the future. Do you understand?"
There is a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children in the palace. No matter how noble a illegitimate child is, he or she can never be ahead of a legitimate child.
However, Zhaohua was willing to let her legitimate son respect Chenghuan, her illegitimate elder brother.
In this case, how could Cheng Huan not appreciate the kindness Zhao Hua had shown him?
Now that he had his pajamas, he was so happy that he refused to take them off.
Later, Zhaohua saw him running around with Ruoxin in the courtyard, sweating profusely, so he told Yunshan:
"Go and send the eldest prince back to Concubine Chen's palace, and have the palace maids take good care of him and wash him up, so he doesn't catch a cold."
Ruoxin hurriedly said, "Mother, Brother Chenghuan is off today. Can I go to Mother Chen's place to play with Sister Jinyue?"
Zhao Hua stroked Ruoxin's hair with a smile, and nodded gently, "Of course. Just don't play too crazy, it would be bad if your mother gets tired."
Ruoxin nodded happily, and Yunshan took the two half-grown children and went there to play and have fun.
Zhaohua had a moment of leisure, and was thinking that it was time for Chengye to wake up from his nap, so he went to the side hall to take a look.
But Xiao Fuzi ran over with a silly smile, reporting happily:
"Your Majesty! The Emperor is coming to our Changle Palace with the Second Prince!"
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