Chapter 360 Naming
After the Seventh Prince's full moon, all matters concerning this Prince in the harem would temporarily wait until a hundred days. The most important thing was the canonization of Chen Qing as the Virtuous Consort. Xuanyuan Ling had it postponed deliberately, thinking it would be best for Chen Qing to stay in confinement longer to avoid being tired, but Chen Qing disagreed and insisted that Xuanyuan Ling do it earlier.
It's not that she wanted to be canonized as soon as possible. In fact, her status has already been raised. After all, the imperial edict has been issued. All that is missing is the canonization ceremony to receive the canonization seal. But this ceremony is complicated. It is still cooler at the end of May. If it really comes to the end of June, she will be canonized under the scorching sun. She will have to wear auspicious clothes. As everyone knows, auspicious clothes are extremely gorgeous. Gorgeous is not a derogatory word, but auspicious clothes are heavy, and she has to wear a head full of pearls and jade. If the weather is still hot, how is it different from being punished?
She was exhausted when she was conferred the title of Consort, and the title of Virtuous Consort would be even more grand.
Xuanyuan Ling was really convinced after hearing Shen Qing's reasons.
Finally compromised.
Anyway, he was going to confer the title on her, and he couldn't let her be unhappy, so he asked someone to choose an auspicious day closer.
The auspicious day for Shen Qing's enthronement was forcibly moved forward, but it did not mean that the ceremony could be saved or the scale could be reduced just because the time was moved forward.
After all, it had to be done. Shen Qing still had to pay a visit to Xuanyuan Ling and then to the Queen. In fact, she should have paid a visit to the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother was sick, right? After the Queen Mother did not intervene in the selection last year, the Queen Mother really did not care about the affairs of the harem. Seeing that the Queen still wanted to check and balance the Queen Mother, Xuanyuan Ling was satisfied with the Queen. No matter what the Queen did in the past, she was still in the position of Queen, and she knew how to stay in the position and did not cause the Queen Mother to make trouble. Xuanyuan Ling thought she was okay.
He had no intention of letting Shen Qing go to pay a visit, so the matter was left as it was. After all, the queen had no objection now.
There were happy events one after another in Zhaohua Palace, and everyone was really happy.
At the beginning, Shen Qing was favored, but everyone knew that she was infertile. Now, she is favored and has a child. Oh, all these are complete. How can she not be happy?
Even Chunhua smiled with her teeth showing on the day when Shen Qing was canonized.
After Chen Qing was canonized, the weather really got hotter, but this year not only was the child young, Xuanyuan Ling was also busy with other things, so they did not prepare to escape the heat, and so they stayed in the palace. Chen Qing herself was afraid of heat, and the child's body temperature was higher than that of adults, so he was also afraid of heat. Both mother and daughter were afraid of heat, so the Zhaohua Palace used too much ice.
Xuanyuan Ling just watched and asked someone to control her. It was not because she was reluctant, but because she was afraid that Shen Qing would get cold again only two months after giving birth. After all, she had always loved the cool air, and now that she had given birth, she had to take better care of her body.
When Xuanyuan Ling came that day, Chen Qing was playing with the Sixth Prince.
When he arrived, he saw the child grinning at Shen Qing.
Xuanyuan Ling: “…”
It's a bit unfair, but after the child cried for the first time he was amused, he couldn't amuse him anymore. He became very weird. Whenever he was teased, even if it wasn't too much, he would easily cry. But you might think this child was particularly noisy, he actually got along well with Shen Qing.
Look, now Shen Qing is also teasing him, a little six, scratching his chin and pulling his little hands, and the child can still smile at her.
At least he hugged and coaxed her, she cried when she met him, and laughed when she met Shen Qing. Doesn't this make him, as a father, look worthless? Moreover, Shen Qing was much more teasing than him.
He didn't think she was teasing, he thought Shen Qing herself was just a child, and she was playing with the child.
When Shen Qing saw Xuanyuan Ling coming over, he thought about how Xuanyuan Ling had held the child and coaxed him several times.
In fact, not all children were coaxed by Xuanyuan Ling. Some were coaxed by their wet nurses, and some were coaxed by themselves. Whenever he asked Xuanyuan Ling to coax him, he was afraid that he would really feel annoyed with the child. However, if he let him coax him a few times occasionally, he would regard it as enhancing the relationship between father and son.
Xuanyuan Ling was still able to express some of his own opinions: "How can you call my prince Xiaoliu?"
"His name hasn't been decided yet."
It is an old rule to name a child three months after birth. Shen Qing knew this, so he asked, "Has the emperor decided on a name for Xiaoliu?"
It’s been two months now, and the name has to be announced before the child’s hundred-day party.
Xuanyuan Ling looked at Chen Qing and asked, "What do you think of the name Cheng Yun?"
Shen Qing blinked twice: "This name..."
Xuanyuan Ling was looking at her. He had picked out many names in the past few days, but he always felt that they were not suitable. After choosing for a long time, he chose this one. The word "Cheng" always carries some meaning of inheritance, and the word "Yun" also has a good meaning.
Shen Qing said: "It's good if the emperor decides."
It would be inappropriate to say anything at this moment. After all, it's not a name as straightforward as Chengqian's. The word "Yun" is quite normal, right?
Xuanyuan Ling smiled, and then watched Chen Qing turn around and shout at the Sixth Prince: "Cheng Yun, Cheng Yun, you will be called this name from now on. You can't change it even if you don't like it."
Xuanyuan Ling: “…”
He looked at Shen Qing unhappily.
Looking at the Sixth Prince again, little Cheng Yun didn't know that he had been named yet. Shen Qing scratched his chin and he grinned again. The child's gums were pink and tender, and it was very interesting when he smiled, especially since the child was good-looking.
Xuanyuan Ling couldn't help but scratch his chin like Shen Qing did. This time, the child was very considerate and he didn't cry.
Maybe it was because he had made the child cry too many times. This time he didn't cry, but smiled. Xuanyuan Ling was really relieved: "Good child, do you know that your father has given you a name?"
Chen Qing looked at the child. It is said that crying children get candy. Xuanyuan Ling used to cry every time he was teased. Now the child finally gave him a good look. Look how happy Xuanyuan Ling is.
Well, my son is smart and is born to be able to coax people.
The two of them played with the child for a while and Chen Qing fed the baby again. Xuanyuan Ling felt emotional when he saw that she still insisted on feeding. Because of feeding, Chen Qing dressed very casually when she didn't go out and didn't wear jewelry. She was afraid that bracelets and rings would scratch the baby. When feeding, Chen Qing was the least like usual, but this difference made Xuanyuan Ling particularly like to watch.
After she finished breastfeeding, Xuanyuan Ling leaned over and kissed her. It was still early, so they went out for a walk.
As they walked, they talked: "I summoned Shen Zhizhuo today. I had originally planned to ask your mother to come to the palace, but unfortunately, your mother caught a cold. I asked the imperial physician to check on her, and he came back to report that it was not serious. You don't have to worry."
"I feel relieved that the emperor has sent someone to look after her."
He is really considerate. He examined the patient and got back from the imperial physician, but only came to tell her now. Isn't it because he is afraid that she will worry?
Xuanyuan Ling said: "Let's just wait until Cheng Yun's hundred days are up. By then you will have been weaned, so we can hold a small banquet in Zhaohua Palace." When breastfeeding, you have to consider the anniversary and the food. It's not that you can't treat Shen's mother well at that time. Xuanyuan Ling doesn't think Shen Qing will be unable to help eating, but if Shen's mother can eat it but she can't, it would be quite pitiful, isn't it?
"Your Majesty is very thoughtful."
After the two of them walked out of Zhaohua Palace, they could also go to the Imperial Garden. At this moment, it was full of flowers. There were flowers on both sides of the road, growing lushly and of all kinds. It was nothing at first, but now that Shen Qing was walking hand in hand with Xuanyuan Ling, it felt like she was walking on a flower path.
Shen Qing became interested when he thought of this: "Your Majesty, please let go."
Xuanyuan Ling was holding on well, and suddenly he realized that she was about to let go and couldn't help but look at her. In the meantime, she seemed to have discovered something new and loosened her hand a little, but Shen Qing took his arm again and said to him, "Let's go this way."
"What's the difference?" What's the difference between pulling and holding? In the end, the person is the same person.
A straight man, Shen Qing was unhappy: "Just walk around like this."
Xuanyuan Ling knew from her tone that she was being stubborn again. It was also a problem she had developed during her pregnancy. She had to do whatever she wanted. The key was that he was used to it. He usually went along with it and asked her to hold his arm and walk forward. At this moment, Xuanyuan Ling did not follow Shen Qing's imagination, but when he looked back at Shen Qing, he found that she was walking very gracefully with her arm around his.
She was much more charming and cute when she was with him, but when she was serious, Xuanyuan Ling liked her more and more. Now that she acted like this, it suddenly occurred to him that moving forward step by step, a very ordinary thing, made him feel that she was doing something serious.
At that moment, Chen Qing thought of walking on the flower path, and suddenly wanted to try it with Xuanyuan Ling. Look, they really felt something when they walked together, but when they reached the corner, she smiled, and the atmosphere naturally became like this.
"What were you thinking about just now?" Xuanyuan Ling always felt that there was some meaning behind this action of walking hand in hand.
"Don't tell the emperor."
Shen Qing smiled at him wickedly.
Xuanyuan Ling looked at her cunning appearance and pretended to be angry: "How dare you hide it from me."
Seeing his appearance, Shen Qing suddenly laughed at him: "The emperor is a paper tiger."
Well, it was nothing, but being exposed by Shen Qing made her really angry and wanted to grab her and spank her: "No cover."
In the end, Shen Qing dodged and didn't let him catch him.
In other words, no one saw it, otherwise the scene of the emperor chasing after his concubines and spanking them would be a little unbearable to watch.
In the end, Xuanyuan Ling was unable to find out the meaning of this matter, and after they returned, they didn't see anything unusual.
The days that followed were more or less the same, and when the baby was three months old, Shen Qing also arranged for weaning.
The wet nurses felt relieved. They thought that the wet nurses serving them were of little use, so they must be worried, right?
It’s hard to say to others that Concubine Xian wants to wean her baby, but it’s a great thing for them.
But the nanny was happy, while Shen Qing encountered another problem.
In order to wean Shen Qing, she asked the imperial physician to prescribe medicine. After taking the weaning medicine, the secretion of milk would naturally decrease until there was no milk at all.
Chen Qing made up her mind not to feed the baby, and she did not bring the Sixth Prince over that night, but she woke up with bloating at night.
Xuanyuan Ling was woken up in the middle of the night. Shen Qing tossed and turned. How peaceful it would be if he slept next to her.
"Aren't you going to stop feeding the child? Are you used to it?"
"No." Shen Qing wanted to cry but had no tears: "It's too uncomfortable."
Xuanyuan Ling frowned: "Someone come."
Today was Fang Yun's night watch. Fang Yun hurried in and saluted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
"Find a nanny to take care of the baby during the confinement period."
Chen Qing's confinement period is over, but because she breastfeeds herself, the confinement nanny still keeps her in case of emergency. Isn't it used today?
The nanny didn't know what happened, and was a little nervous for a while, but when she came and saw Shen Qing's swollen breasts, she felt relieved. It was just swollen breasts, not a big problem: "The decoction prescribed by the imperial physician, after taking the medicine, it will probably take two or three days for the milk to completely subside. During this period, some of the swelling needs to be cleared by yourself, otherwise it will be uncomfortable. Your Majesty just needs to clear some of it now."
Shen Qing didn't expect that the feeding was over, and the weaning was embarrassing. Did she have to squeeze it out?
Who's pushing me? Mammy? Fang Yun is no good either, a virgin like me doesn't understand this.
"Let's ask someone to bring the Sixth Prince over." Xuanyuan Ling looked at the nanny touching Shen Qing. Why was she so annoying?
Shen Qing shook her head: "I have taken the medicine, so I can't feed it anymore." Although it does no harm to the body, it would not be good to ask the child to take the medicine after taking it yourself.
Xuanyuan Ling didn't think of this for a moment, but seeing how sad she was, he felt sorry for her. Seeing that the nanny was going to take Shen Qing out to deal with it, his mind suddenly moved. In fact, there was no need for the nanny to make trouble for this: "Let's all go down."
Nanny Yuezi and Fang Yun were just about to help Chen Qing get up, but when Xuanyuan Ling said this, they paused for a moment.
Mammy is old, what else can she not understand about the relationship between men and women? Although she was surprised, she reacted quickly. However, Fang Yun did not react for a while.
It was the nanny who left, and she followed suit in confusion, after all, she was still a virgin.
When he got outside, he asked the maid in confusion, "The queen is not well yet."
The nanny looked mysterious and said, "You little girl don't understand, but you will understand when you find a husband." Seeing that Fang Yun was still confused, she couldn't help but lean over to Fang Yun's ear and said something, which made Fang Yun blush. From then on, Fang Yun couldn't look Xuanyuan Ling directly in the eye. But that's a story for later.
After everyone left, Xuanyuan Ling carried Chen Qing over. Chen Qing was not Fang Yun. She was feeling uncomfortable, but Xuanyuan Ling asked people to leave. How could she not know what Xuanyuan Ling was going to do?
Xuanyuan Ling looked at her breasts that were much higher than before. In fact, how could he not pay attention to them? The look in his eyes when he looked at Chen Qing was never particularly innocent. Sometimes when he saw Chen Qing breastfeeding, he would occasionally twitch and think of other things. As for what he was thinking about, it was not something that outsiders could tell.
He was just about to move, but Shen Qing moved first because of the severe discomfort.
Xuanyuan Ling felt like he was being captured by an anxious witch. Obviously, Chen Qing didn't mean that, he just felt uncomfortable, but he felt very excited for a moment.
Shen Qing really didn't have any romantic thoughts at first. What could she think when she was so uncomfortable? But now it was quiet. Usually she heard this kind of voice from her children, but now it was Xuanyuan Ling... When she looked down again, Xuanyuan Ling was looking up at her.
That look, it suddenly met her eyes, didn't it?
ps: Because I didn't find out when the royal children were named specifically, I wrote the royal rules here according to "Zhou Li". According to "Zhou Li", "a name is given three months after the birth of a child", which means that the father names the baby three months after the birth.
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