Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 173

[Chapter 171]

The next day, the empress dowager returned to the palace with Philippi.

Wei Shao got the news, immediately interrupted the discussion with the chancellor, personally greeted the empress dowager outside the Suzaku Gate, and when he saw the empress dowager, he was very excited, and after sending her back to the Jiade Palace, he was still in love, and he was reluctant to leave, and he talked with her for a long time.

At first, Lady Xu thought that he had something to discuss with herself, but at the end, she smiled and said, “But does the emperor have something to say to his grandmother?” But it doesn’t hurt to talk about it. Wei Shao

was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that a group of ministers were still waiting for him in the propaganda room, and he shook his head busily, instructing the palace people to serve the empress dowager and the empress dowager, and then he withdrew.

Xiao Qiao was beside him, and when he saw him, he felt a little strange, and when he saw him like this, it was as if he hadn’t seen Mrs. Xu for a long time. In the evening, he returned to the palace, and the two of them bathed together, and made fun of him in passing.

The speaker had no heart, but Wei Shao’s heart suddenly giggled, remembering last night’s incident.

Last night he pleased Little Joe in every way in the dragon bed, and Little Joe also seemed to flatter him. The two of them lingered for most of the night, beautiful and soulless, incomparable, and finally tired, before he hugged his beloved woman to sleep, he suddenly felt in his heart, and issued a long sigh full of satisfaction.

At that time, he didn’t think much about it, holding the tired little Joe who had fallen asleep, his eyes were closed, and he also slept.

At this moment, reminded by her, remembering the sound of last night’s sigh that seemed to be his subconscious sigh of satisfaction, and then thinking of the daydream that was extremely realistic yesterday, like the daydream he had personally experienced, Wei Shao suddenly felt a wave of uneasiness in his heart.

Zhuang Zhou Mengdi, Butterfly Dream Zhuang Zhou, is he still not awake in his dream at this moment?

“Brutal… You hit me again! Heavy hit!

Little Qiao just casually teased him, and when he saw him suddenly look solemn, he laughed lightly, put his hands in the water, and coldly splashed his face: “What happened to Your Majesty?” Wei Shao

was splashed with water by her, the water splashed around, closed his eyes, opened, saw that she was opposite him, in the mist, she slightly tilted her head to look at him, her eyes were starry, smiling, he stretched out his arms to hug her, his forehead and her warm forehead, his heart suddenly settled down, and all the trance feelings disappeared.

“I’m all right…” He murmured, lowering his head and kissing her on the lips.

“Brutal, it’s good that I have you in my life…”

…

Two months later, the Queen was diagnosed as pregnant.

Lady Xu was overjoyed, and the hundred officials were also overjoyed, and they all waited eagerly for the empress to give birth to another dragon heir.

……

In the early summer of the third year of Taihe, this day was more than four, Xiao Qiao was awakened by a faint pain in his lower abdomen in his sleep, and he pushed Wei Shao, who was sleeping next to him.

Wei Shao woke up, saw her cover her stomach and curled up into a clump, panicked, sat up and rolled off the dragon bed, not even wearing shoes, ran out barefoot and shouted: “The queen is going to give birth!”

A loud cry alarmed the entire palace.

The empress’s maternity period was approaching, all the preparations in the palace had been made early, the emperor roared, the entire Guanghua Hall immediately woke up, the lights were bright, and the palace people went to the Jiade Palace to report the news.

Madame Xu quickly rushed over. At this time, several midwives had entered the room, and the door was closed. The emperor stood in front of the delivery room door, with a nervous and excited look.

The last time Little Joe gave birth to Philippi, he was fighting in the south, and when he returned, Philip was already several months old, and when she gave birth to her first child, he could not accompany her to welcome the arrival of the child, and it was always a pity to think about it.

This time he was finally able to accompany her, and he felt extremely happy. Seeing that Madame Xu also came, she rushed up to personally help her: “Grandmother, the brute is going to give birth!”
Madame
Xu glanced at him, saw him smile happily, and nodded with a smile.

In this way, With excitement and anticipation, Wei Shao sat with Lady Xu and waited for Xiao Qiao to give birth to their second child.

As more and more time passed, he began to sit still, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

The pain of the woman’s childbirth, Wei Shao had also heard about it before.

He just didn’t expect that the brute would have to bear such pain. He listened to the sound of the midwife talking from time to time in the delivery room, interspersed with her suppressed intermittent moans and moans, and the whole person tensed up.

Several times, if it wasn’t for Zhong Mi and Chun Niang blocking him, he would almost break in.

Another cry of pain.

“Will you deliver babies?” It hurts so much for me!

He jumped up violently, sweating cold on his forehead, and rushed to the door, shouting inward.

The sound in the door suddenly subsided, and it was estimated that the midwife and the mother were startled.

Zhong Mi and Chun Niang went up together and whispered to him to avoid it first.

Wherever Wei Shao was willing to listen, he kept walking around the door.

“The emperor should go and rest for a while!” When the baby is over, you come back! In the

end, even Madame Xu couldn’t look at it anymore and said out loud.

Wei Shao was in a trance.

Madame Xu saw this, smiled bitterly, and shook her head.

“Ah—”

Finally, at dawn, he heard Little Joe let out a long cry of pain in the door, the last bit of blood on his lips faded, and his heart beat like a drum and rushed to the door.

“Brutal!” He raised his hand to push the door.

“Hiccup! Well! Your Majesty! Zhong Mi

and Chun Niang were startled, and went up again, dragging him left and right.

Suddenly, there was a loud baby crying in the door.

“Congratulations to Your Majesty! Congratulations to the Empress Dowager! The queen gave birth to the dragon child smoothly, and the mother and child were safe! Then came the joyful voice of the midwife.

Wei Shao stopped, half-dazed, and let out a long breath, taking advantage of Zhong Mi and Chun Niang’s only concern for Joy to let go of his vacancy, pushed the door and stepped in.

The midwife had wrapped the newly born prince in swaddling and sent it to Xiao Qiao’s side. Suddenly, the emperor actually broke straight in, was taken aback, hurriedly knelt down, and smiled and congratulated.

Wei Shao went straight to Xiao Qiao’s side, stared down at her pale face covered with beads of sweat, and didn’t say anything, just reached out and gently held one of her hands.

Little Qiao Fangcai had been hearing the movements he had made outside, and when he saw him break in, he was not surprised.

At this moment, although people feel tired and weak, their hearts are warm. Turning his face to meet his eyes, he smiled at him and said softly, “Your Majesty, you see, our son, Phiphi’s Adi.” It’s really good to look at. Wei Shao’s

eyes fell on their newborn son in her arms.

Although he had just been born, he already had a high nose bridge, long dark eyelashes, and a motherGently smacking her small mouth in her arms, she looked very cute.

“Brutal, you.”

In front of the midwives, he bowed his head and planted a kiss on his queen’s forehead, and his heart gushed with happiness.

……

The Empress is happy to be the prince, the name of the prince, the whole world celebrates. Three days after his birth, the emperor personally made offerings to the Fengtian Temple of the Taimiao Temple, the imperial court officials paid tribute to the Taishe Ji, and the civil and military officials also served for ten days, and at the same time issued edicts all over the world.

In September of that year, Wuzhu Qudanyu’s envoys arrived in Luoyang, and the imperial court signed a treaty with the Xiongnu, and the two sides agreed not to invade each other, and opened a number of farms on the border. The Xiongnu Gongliangma, Great Yan repatriated tens of thousands of prisoners from the Battle of Shanggu a few years ago.

On the day the captives were repatriated, in addition to the war, on the banks of the Sanggan River, which had been lonely for a hundred years, there were everywhere the cries of the grandfather and the mother, and the relatives were in tears when they met. In his own name, Uzuku also presented a generous gift to the empress dowager, including a shoulder brocade robe called “Hamo” sewn from sixteen pieces of lamb skin.

In the Custom of the Huns, after a man and a woman have been betrothed, the mother of the female family will receive such a shoulder from the male family to express her gratitude for the marriage after sixteen years of hard work in raising her daughter.

After the messenger conveyed the gift, he was originally worried, lest the empress dowager not accept Hamo. It was not until half a month later that he left and did not receive a refund, which finally breathed a sigh of relief.

……

In the fourth year of Taihe, after the crown prince turned one year old, one day, Lady Xu summoned the empress dowager to the front and told them with a smile that she decided to return to Youzhou and settle in Wuxing City for the elderly.

This year, the empress dowager was almost seventy years old, although she was old, she ate lightly every day, and now she still insists on planting flowers and weeds herself, and her spirit is strong.

The empress was very surprised, and both knelt down, blaming herself for not filial piety, and begging her grandmother to take back her life.

Mrs. Xu said that she wanted to go back, not because they were not doing well enough, but because they were all right, and she could rest assured.

Wei Shao was still prostrating his head and struggling to stay, and Xiao Qiao looked at Madam Xu’s face with a kind smile, but gradually he thought about it.

The small border city called Wu end was the place where she and Wei Shao’s grandfather got married, and it was also the place where she sent Wei Shao’s grandfather away.

In addition to her husband, there are memories of her sons, daughters, and grandchildren.

The past of half her life, or a wish that has not yet been fulfilled, is closely related to it and cannot be separated.

Now that she is nearly seventy years old, it may be difficult for Little Joe to fully understand her feelings, but she will respect her choice.

She bowed to Madame Xu and said that her granddaughter-in-law understood that when she sent her grandmother back to her hometown to raise her children, she would take a pair of children to visit her grandmother every year in the future, hoping that her grandmother would be healthy and long-lived, so that it would also be a blessing for them to be a junior.

Lady Xu smiled at the emperor and said, “Shao’er, my grandmother always felt that you were not as wise as your daughter-in-law, and this is still the case.” If she can understand me, you won’t be able to stop me. Although Wei Shao

was extremely reluctant, Lady Xu had already made up her mind, and finally reluctantly agreed.

In September of that year, when the summer heat passed and the golden autumn came, the empress dowager went out of Luoyang together and personally sent Lady Xu back to the north.

The night before he left, Xiao Qiao took Philip and Zhen’er to accompany Lady Xu at the Guardian Palace.

Late at night, the two brothers and sisters went to sleep, and Xiao Qiao sent Mrs. Xu to the bed, knelt in front of her knees, and did not want to get up for a long time.

Madame Xu stared at her for a moment and then suddenly said, “Brutal, Grandmother will go back tomorrow.” I know that you have always wondered why your grandmother wanted to be the lord in the first place to let Shao’er marry your daughter of the Qiao family, and the wei qiao and the two families were married.

“If it weren’t for my grandmother’s original Yucheng, how could I have married my husband and him?” My grandmother’s heart is broad-minded and Her kindness is even more my blessing.
Madame
Xu smiled and sighed, “You are so clever, you don’t need me to say more, I think you know what I think.” Shao Er used to be bent on revenge and could not listen to advice, I was always worried that he would be trapped by demons in his heart and obsessed, which was not necessarily a fortunate thing in his life. The deepest obsession in his heart all came from the pain of his father’s death in his youth. It was when I first learned that your Qiao family wanted to resolve the gap between the two families with marriage, and I heard about Qiao’s lady’s good name, and then I thought of the old things of that year…”

She stopped.

Little Joe straightened up from her lap and looked up at her.

Madame Xu seemed to be caught up in the memories of the past, and sighed: “Barbarian, before your grandfather died, he once sent me a letter to confess what he had done in the past, and begged the Wei family to spare the Qiao family after his death.” Your grandmother also hated your grandfather for treachery, which caused your grandmother to lose her children and grandchildren. Just born in a chaotic world, what is justice? The prince will be a general, which hand does not have a life? Who has not caused another’s wife to lose her husband and a son to lose his father? Being born in the world is not always fair. Even if you destroy your Qiao family, how can you subtract half a point from the pain that has already been caused? However, if I can take this opportunity to dissolve the hatred, let Shao’er get rid of the demons in her heart, dissolve the obsession, and no longer spend the rest of my life in mourning, what can I not let go?

She seemed to be touched with sentimentality, and there were faint tears flickering in the corners of her eyes.

Little Joe took her hand and slowly pressed one side of his face to the back of her warm hand.

Madame Xu bowed her head and touched her hair lovingly.

“Brutal, grandmother is not as good as you think.” Grandmother had such a selfish intention in the first place, and the master let you marry. At that time, my grandmother thought that if Qiao Nu could use her wisdom to eliminate my grandson’s anger and form a good relationship, my wish would naturally come true. If not, it would only be a sacrifice for one of the daughters of the Joe family. Only when you said that you are grateful to your grandmother, it is really the grandmother who should be grateful to you, because of your arrival, my Wei family has the prosperity of today, and I can live to see my great-grandchildren. Tomorrow I will return to the north, and after that, my grandmother will entrust shao’er to you, and my grandmother is very relieved. In

Madame Xu’s one-eyed eyes, there was a smile of relief.

“Grandmother! Brutally reluctant to separate from you! Little Qiao choked up and couldn’t help but pounce into Madame Xu’s arms.

Mrs. Xu smiled and hugged her, gently patting her on the back to coax her, as if she were still just a child.

Not far away, in the corner of the temple door, Wei Shao, who had just come over, stood there, quietly looking at her back that was hugged and comforted by her grandmother, quietly and silently.

……

The next morning, the empress dowager left Luoyang and successfully escorted the empress dowager all the way to the city of Wuxian, and after three days of accompanying her, Lady Xu urged the two to finally bid farewell reluctantly.

Wei Shao was always puzzled by his grandmother’s decision. Out of the Endless City, he still frequently turned back, depressed and unhappy.

Little Joe said that in her grandmother’s heart, there may be an unfinished worry. It’s closer to her concern here.

Wei Shao was silent, and finally nodded, saying that he understood.

The empress left Wuxing, passed through Yuyang first, and lived overnight in the old residence of Qianlong in Yuyang.

Early the next morning, Xiao Qiao strangely found that Wei Shao, who had never worshipped ghosts and gods, had deliberately run to the Queen Mother’s Hall in the east of the city, not only burning incense inside, but also ordering Yuyang To order the Queen Mother to recreate the golden body, and even the messengers in front of her idol did not fall, followed by a light.

At the end, he also circled around several times in front of the statue of one of the golden armor gods, staring at the god for half a moment, looking a little strange.

After coming out, the two sat in the same car, she remembered the old incident of him ripping off the mural wall many years ago, and couldn’t help but tease him: “When the wall was pickpocketed, now the temple is repaired, how did the emperor suddenly change his nature?” Could it be that the immortals dreamed of asking you to apologize for your sins? The

strange dream that made Wei Shao still feel afraid when he woke up in the middle of the night, and he had to touch the empress immediately, and felt that she was asleep next to him in order to feel solid in his heart, naturally he couldn’t tell her if he was killed.

Teased by her, Wei Shao first praised, and then thought of the absurdity in the dream, he couldn’t help but laugh, put his arms around her, bit her ear and said, Heavenly Opportunity cannot be leaked.

……

This trip out of the palace, in addition to sending Lady Xu back to the north, another important content is to inspect the river workers. At the end of October, the empress dowager traveled to Wuchaodu, which had been blocked by the freezing of the Yellow River.

Wuchao Ferry has lost the grand situation of that year, because there are large boats in a new ferry dozens of miles upstream, which is convenient and safer, and it is gradually defeated here, and there are only a few times a day. But the guest house where the two had stayed in those years was still standing on the bank of the ferry, and the dusty side of the cover fluttered in the wind, the summer came and went, the sunrise and sunset, as if it had been since ancient times, and the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry fields would still be there in the future.

On this evening, the sunset of the Yellow River turned the mountains and rivers into a golden color, and the yellow dirt road outside the guest house was dusty.

During the day, the last traveler in the guest house also left, and no one entered the door for a day.

The hostess leaned on the side of the dilapidated counter and dozed off, when she overheard the sound of a carriage from far and near outside the door, knowing that the carriage would not stay here, and then continued to sleep.

But the sound of the rumbling stopped at the door. The hostess opened her eyes and saw a pair of men and women who looked like husband and wife, the man was about thirty years old, Ji Yu Xuan Ang, his eyes were shining, the essence was overflowing, the woman looked much smaller than him, pearls and jade, exceptionally beautiful, both entered, she stood by the man, the two looked like bi people, Rong Guang actually reflected this originally bleak and dilapidated shop hall also reflected the bright.

There are inns dozens of miles away nearby, but all the dignitaries and nobles who need to spend the night will not stay in the inns, and the old guest houses of such dilapidated crossings will be passed by by ordinary travelers, and they will stay overnight.

The hostess looked at it for a moment, turned back, and went to entertain, listening to the two of them and the accompanying party that came with them to stay here tonight, cramped, nodded hurriedly, took the two of them to a most clean guest room, wiped the table and chairs again, hospitality, and finally withdrew, could not help but look at the beautiful little woman again.

Little Qiao saw that the hostess frequently looked at himself, so he smiled at her slightly.

The hostess stayed for a while, and suddenly, she slapped her thigh and said, “The old body remembered!” Many years ago, Madame and Lang Jun had been frozen by the ferry and had lived here!

This little woman was so beautiful that it was unforgettable, and at the first glance, she felt as if she had seen it before, and when she saw her smiling at herself, she finally remembered.

Xiao Qiao saw that she still remembered herself, nodded and smiled: “Grandma is good at remembering.” Many years ago, my husband and I did live in your land. Pass by today and stay again. The hostess remembered

that the couple was valuable in status, and before leaving, they also rewarded a lot, but they did not expect that many years later, the couple actually came here to stay, overjoyed, and repeatedly bowed down to thank them, and the restraint of Fang Cai was also eliminated at once, rejoicing and rejoicing, and nagging on the side: “Thanks to the rich rewards of Lang Jun and His wife that year.” Now the ferry is defeated, the old body here is few residents, it is difficult to continue, the son and daughter-in-law went to the city, with the reward money to settle down a small business, although it is difficult to start, fortunately, if you are too peaceful today, there is no need to fight anymore, the days are slowly fixed, the son often says that he wants to take the old body to live together, only the old body has guarded the ferry here for most of his life, reluctant to go, and thought, although few people come to the door, but half a life down, also got to know a few old guests, if the old body is also gone, If the guests who want to stay in Baoqi can’t find a place to stay, they should be a good relationship, so they keep it day after day. I didn’t expect to welcome a distinguished guest today, which is really a blessing for the old body!

Wei Shao and Xiao Qiao looked at each other and smiled.

The Yellow River patrol has come to an end, originally going back to Luodu, the two suddenly learned that Wuchaodu was in front, remembering that Xiao Qiao went south to her mother’s house Wei Shao to pick her up, on the way back, the two looked back at the old things of the encounter in the guest house at the ferry, and couldn’t help but look for it.

Before they came, they had also heard the magistrate mention that the Wuchao ferry port was now dilapidated, and they did not expect that the guest house was still there. Unexpectedly, the hostess actually remembered the events of that year, and could not help but think of a thousand thoughts.

That night, Wei Shao and Xiao Qiao spent an extremely good night in this dilapidated but clean guest house. In the middle of the night, the two were still reluctant to go to sleep, Wei Shao hugged Xiao Qiao, the two sat side by side in front of the window, whispering, recalling the scene at that time, even the mutual defense and suspicion of the two at that time, at this time, they felt extremely sweet.

Outside the window was a moonlight like water. Wei Shao suddenly remembered the nameless hill that the two of them had climbed together in the snow, and became interested, pulled Xiao Qiao up, dressed her one by one, went out of the house and carried her on horseback, and drove the horse to follow the old path.

Under the moonlight, the horses raised their hooves, the sound of the bridge, not far behind them, a line of dark guards silently accompanied.

Wei Shao finally found the hill of that year, held Xiao Qiao’s hand, and the two climbed to the top of the hill together again.

At that time, the bright moon above his head was in the air, the mountains in the distance were undulating, the plains were lying in the wilderness, the Yellow River at his feet, the flowing water soup, the mountain wind attacked the clothes, the sleeves fluttered, under the shadow of the moon, Wei Shao tightly hugged Xiao Qiao who was leaning on him, his heart was surging and he suddenly shouted into the distance: “Evil! I want to grow old with Qing! Life and death, shadow and shadow! Even if the great river has a dry day, my heart will not be taken away!

Little Joe was startled by him at first, then laughed, afraid that his roar would be heard by the guards in the shadows, and went to cover his mouth.

At the moment of covering it, her hand stopped, looking up at his excited eyes in the moonlight, he suddenly punched him, whispered “fool”, and his arms tightly wrapped around his neck and kissed his lips.

……

Brute, if I hadn’t met you, what would I be now? The man said.

But you’ve already met me!” Wei Shao. The woman laughed.

The moon’s shadow is silent, the stars are like water, silently looking at the pair of lovers at the top of the hill on the bank of the river.

The author has something to say:

Finally knocked out the last word. Not afraid of the little lords laughing, I was touched by haha, for the beautiful love of the male and female lords.

Thank you for the companionship of the little lords, although the story has come to this, their happy life will continue forever.

Penglai looks forward to meeting the little lords in the next story. ^_^

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