Emperor Ming Yan directly packed up his things and moved them to the study room at the front. He also cleaned the house, etc. This was his first time taking a day off.
The Queen Mother immediately sat up straight and said, "Come in!"
Jiushi ran in: "Grandma! May your majesty be well!"
The Queen Mother said, "Come quickly and let Grandmother see you! Grandmother misses you so much!"
She held their hands and looked at them for a long time: "My dear, is studying hard?
"It's not hard!" Ninety shook his head, feeling very proud. "Even the teacher praised the Three Character Classic we recited, but the seventh and eighth brothers don't know it! We know Kung Fu, but they don't know it either! The royal sister knows a lot, but it's a pity that they made the royal sister angry before, so she didn't teach them! The seventh brother was so angry that he cried!"
The Queen Mother's smile faded a little: "Really?"
"Yes!" said the Ninth Prince, "Father said that we are better than he was back then! He also promised to take us to grow wheat!"
The Queen Mother frowned: "Growing wheat?"
"Yes!" said the tenth prince, "Let's go together! My seventh and eighth brothers will also go. Father said that everyone will be given a small piece of land, and whoever grows the best will get a reward!"
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The Queen Mother advised: "Why bother doing this! It's a rare day off, why not take a good rest!"
The Ninth Prince said seriously: "Father said that agriculture is the foundation of the country, 'the country depends on agriculture and warfare for peace, and the king depends on agriculture and warfare for respect'. We must go and experience for ourselves how hard the farmers work!"
"Yes!" The tenth prince also said, "Father said that reading 'Who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the product of hard work?' a hundred times is not as good as making it yourself once!"
The Ninth Prince said, "Father said that when Grandfather was young, he once took them to the fields to plant rice. He was only five years old at that time, and whenever he stepped in, the mud was up to his thighs."
"My father said that when the harvest comes next year, we should use it to honor our grandmother, father, and mother!"
The Queen Mother listened to this and that and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
She suddenly asked, "In the palace, was it also your father who led you to grow vegetables?"
"Yes!" said the Ninth Prince, "During the Autumn Festival, I asked my father how the melons grew, and he took us to plant them!"
The tenth prince said, "It's getting late, let's go."
"Grandmother, I will try my best to grow more and cook for you when the time comes!"
The Queen Mother nodded.
Ninety walked away hand in hand.
When these two kids talk, they always take turns speaking, just like they are performing a crosstalk, and the people listening... are overwhelmed.
Nanny Shou glanced at the empress dowager cautiously, not knowing how to persuade her or whether she should persuade her at all.
In the Duke's Mansion.
Huo Qijing stayed at home for nearly ten days, went back home once, and came back two days later.
Jiaozi Nian Gao recovered fairly quickly. The situation was better than expected, at least there was no irreversible damage left... If there were any sequelae, Yan Shiyue really didn't know if she could bear it and not kill the queen mother.
Then Huo Qijing discussed with her: "I want to teach them martial arts."
Yan Shiyue looked up at him and said, "I originally planned to slowly teach them fist and kick moves when they are three years old, and then teach them internal martial arts when they are about six years old. But now, I have carefully touched their bones and meridians, and I feel..." He frowned and thought for a while, "It feels like a full moon, so I think it is better to teach them both internal and external skills at the same time, which should be helpful to their situation."
Yan Shiyue whispered: "I don't understand, just make your decision."
Huo Qijing nodded.
Then he thought about it for a long time, pressed the acupoints and touched the bones, and finally decided to teach.
To be honest, she was very anxious watching such a young child. She had to teach the acupoints over and over again, and then guide the child again and again.
It is too difficult for children to understand this extremely abstract thing. Even if you hold them in your arms, coax them, and persuade them, you can’t teach them much in one day. After you finally finish teaching them, they have forgotten everything when you ask them the next day.
Yan Shiyue really couldn't bear to watch it, so she simply learned all the acupoints from Huo Qijing, practiced a lot, and found the right acupoints. Then she and Huo Qijing each hugged one and learned facing each other.
The efficiency was finally improved.
By the time… how should I put it, it was just like what they said in martial arts novels, the internal energy circulated through a whole cycle… just for this one thing, they taught it for two months! Two months!
She taught me so much that I wanted to cry!
Fortunately, after the first step, it became easier. I could succeed two or three times out of ten... and then five or six times...
This whole process can only be described as unbearable to look back on.
In the twelfth lunar month, when Su Ji felt the patient's pulse again, he finally smiled. He stroked his beard and said, "Your method is good. My life is saved."
Yan Shiyue was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't care about the embarrassment and really cried.
By Laba Festival, the four little ones were able to walk unsteadily.
After eating two dumplings and rice cakes, the child has recovered a lot. Once the child feels better, it is obvious that he starts jumping around.
It was a holiday, and everyone was sitting in the hall drinking tea and chatting. Sun Wuniang and Yan Shiyue were discussing the evening menu.
There hadn't been such a relaxed atmosphere at home for a long time. Yan Shiyue was in a good mood and shamelessly plagiarized a poem: "Calligraphy, painting, chess, poetry, wine and flowers, all of them were inseparable from him in the past. Now, the seven things have changed, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea."
Qu Sinian immediately praised him: "Prime Minister is very talented!"
Xu Wenqu asked her with a smile: "Calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry? You didn't leave him back then?"
Yan Shiyue choked and scolded with a smile: "Get lost! Don't expose my shortcomings like this!"
As a result, Jiaozi came over immediately and said in a childish voice, "Mother is wrong! It's wrong to scold the master!"
Yan Shiyue: “…”
She had no choice but to apologize: "I'm sorry, I was just joking with you, sir."
Jiaozi shook his head: "Just kidding... it's not right to curse!"
Yan Shiyue covered his face, stood up and saluted Xu Wenqu: "I was wrong, sir, please don't blame me!"
Xu Wenqu smiled and waved: "Jiaozi Nian Gao, come here."
The two little ones ran over, and he hugged them in his arms and told them: "It is wrong for others to curse. But your mother is the daughter of the emperor, the princess, and this status is very high. I am an official in the court, so there is the distinction of 'king and subject', and she is the prime minister, and I am just an official, and there is the distinction of 'superior and inferior'. Apart from these, in private, your father and mother and I are equals, so your mother, it doesn't matter what she says to me, even if she curses, it doesn't matter, not to mention that she is joking."
After speaking in a friendly manner, he asked, "Do you understand?"
The two little ones nodded quickly: "Understood."
Then someone came in. It turned out to be Emperor Mingyan and the Empress. Nian Gao immediately ran over and said, "Yeah yeah!"
Everyone stood up and saluted.
Emperor Ming Yan bent down and picked up the rice cake, looked at his face carefully, nodded, and asked with a smile: "What are you playing?"
Nian Gao pointed back at Xu Wenqu and said, "Sir, be reasonable."
Emperor Mingyan was amused: "What's the point?"
Nian Gao said seriously: "It's wrong for others to scold me! It's right for my mother to scold me!"
Emperor Ming Yan: "..."
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