novelonline Chapter 1991 The Joy of Raising Children
Chapter 1991 The Joy of Raising Children
Chapter 1991 The Joy of Raising Children
As soon as he was picked up, the Tenth Prince and his family of three arrived.
Niguzhu immediately twisted his little body, waved his little arms, and said, "Uncle Ten...Aunt Ten..."
Who can stand this chubby little girl whose smile is as beautiful as a flower?
The Tenth Prince immediately took a few quick steps and took Niguzhu from Gui Dan's arms.
Niguzhu hugged the tenth prince's neck, then turned his head and looked at Guidan, wrinkling his nose and said, "Uncle, it stinks..."
Gui Dan felt embarrassed and wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
This big baby is really caring when he can be caring, and he is also very kind when he can be heartbreaking.
The Ninth Prince said bluntly: "Are you addicted to smoking again? What good things are you smoking?"
Gui Dan said, "I got up early and smoked a pot of cigarettes."
The Ninth Prince rolled his eyes and said, "Think about the smoked meat. When you are smoked, don't come near me."
Shushu was standing by and glanced at Guidan.
She remembered clearly that Guidan used to be a fat person, but she lost weight in recent years. She didn't know if it was because of smoking.
Smoking was popular among the Manchus, and they smoked from outside the Great Wall to inside the Great Wall.
Because the Northeast is bitterly cold and tobacco has medicinal properties, it is called "auspicious grass."
Just because there were many tobacco leaves grown outside the Great Wall, which affected the food supply, Emperor Taizong banned tobacco during his reign, prohibiting its planting, sale and smoking.
However, because there were too many people smoking, only the cultivation was banned in the end, and the other two bans were shelved.
After the Eight Banners entered the Pass, they still did not change their old habit of smoking.
Guidan didn't smoke before, and I don't know when she started to smoke.
The Tenth Lady held her son's hand and looked at Niguzhu in her husband's arms with envy.
Niguzhu was saying to the Tenth Prince, "Uncle Ten, let's take my younger brother fishing, picking eggs, and climbing mountains."
Now the distinction is clear. The younger brother of my uncle is the younger brother, and the one who eats and sleeps, sleeps and eats is the little brother.
The Tenth Prince smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'll let Uncle Ten hold you when the time comes."
The young prince had already let go of the Tenth Lady's hand and walked up to his two cousins: "Big brother, second brother..."
"younger brother……"
Fengsheng took his hand and said, "Then let's go and talk to Wuku's mother."
The little prince shook his head habitually, nodded obediently halfway through, and said, "Okay."
The Tenth Lady picked up Akdan and complained to Shushu in a low voice, "Finally you don't say 'no no no' anymore. Our master said that if you keep doing this, I'll call you 'Bu Ge'..."
Shushu said, "There will always be such a time. First, you need to make people around you say 'no' less often. Then, listen carefully to what your child wants. Be patient and spend more time with your child. It will be fine once he is one year older."
"what?"
The Tenth Lady looked at Akdan in her arms and said, "Were your nephews also so stubborn when they were young?"
Shu Shu nodded and said, "When he was about eighteen months old, he started to like saying 'no', and it lasted for about half a year."
However, Fengsheng has a good temper and Niguzhu is easy to coax, but Akdan is a little more obvious.
Akdan didn't like to speak in front of outsiders, so the Tenth Lady had never met him.
Shushu is a patient mother. Although she has no experience in raising children, she has a lot of theories and she easily helped her child get through this "rebellious period" in childhood.
The Tenth Lady breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. I was unsure and was thinking about asking someone to take a look to see if I had offended anyone..."
She used to wonder how she and the Tenth Prince, both of whom were good-tempered, could give birth to such a stubborn son.
Fengsheng was holding the little prince's hand and teaching him: "Great-great-grandfather, father, son, grandson, grandson, great-great-grandson, that's nine generations. Mother Wuku is the great-grandmother, and Huang Mafa is the grandfather..."
The young prince looked confused after hearing this.
Seeing this, Fengsheng thought about the explanation of his master and said, "Grandfather is my father's father, great-grandfather is my grandfather's father, and great-great-grandfather is my great-grandfather's father. They are all one family."
The young prince understood this time, pointed in the direction of his own mansion, and said, "There is no Huang Ma Fa at home."
Feng Sheng said: "That's the royal family law that divided the family. My tenth uncle and my father have both divided it."
"Separation..."
The young prince was still a little confused as he spoke.
Feng Sheng said: "My father and uncle are from the same family. They live next to each other in the back, divided into two houses, but they are no different from one family."
The little prince nodded this time, hugged Fengsheng, and said eagerly: "Then I want to live with my eldest brother..."
Fengsheng looked at Shushu.
Shu Shu said: "If you can take good care of your brother, then live with him. If you can't take good care of him, don't be stubborn."
Children all like to play with older children. The little prince usually has no playmates, and the ones he is closest to are Fengsheng and his two siblings.
Feng Sheng immediately said: "I can take good care of it!"
The Tenth Lady was standing by, feeling a little embarrassed, and said, "My nephew is also young."
Shu Shu said, "Let's try staying here for two days."
If it was a naughty child, she would definitely stop him, but the little prince was a well-behaved and sensible one.
The carriages were waiting behind.
The group got on the carriage without delay.
Fengsheng and Akdan took the little prince in a carriage.
Shushu and the Tenth Lady rode in the same carriage.
The lady asked Xiaochun to carry the child and get on her carriage.
Niguzhu refused to get on the car again. Seeing Guidan riding a horse, he went to look for his uncle again.
Gui Dan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and took the little ancestor back.
After being rejected for once, he felt a little embarrassed.
For some reason, he thought of the Third Princess, whose skin was as white as snow and as tender as cream.
Being disliked by my little niece is embarrassing, but what if I am disliked by the third princess?
I won't be able to go upstairs by then...
It’s better not to smoke that cigarette.
The sputum was extracted.
Nowadays, the younger generation of the Eight Banners dislike smoking as being uncivilized and many of them use snuff instead.
Later he also switched to snuff, which had a lighter taste...
They were all official roads, repaired every year. In less than half an hour, the carriage arrived at Beiliusuo.
Because we sent people over yesterday afternoon and everything has been laid out here.
After Shushu settled the lady and the young son, she prepared to take the children to pay their respects to the empress dowager.
The Ninth Prince said, "Let's go together. Let's go together. After paying respects to the Empress Dowager, I will go back to the city with the Tenth Prince..."
The brothers had to report to the yamen for two more days before they could come to Haidian to take up duty.
Although the three Fengsheng siblings had been to Haidian several times, they had long forgotten about it.
As for the younger prince, he is even younger, and the same is true.
The children found everything new and interesting and felt that their eyes were not enough.
At the gate of the North Garden, the Ninth Prince sent someone to pass on a message, and then pointed out the direction to the children: "To the south lives your Khan Mafa, to the west lives your second uncle, third uncle, several uncles, and cousins..."
"What about over there?"
Niguzhu's chubby hand pointed to the high wall in the north.
"That's the Imperial Horse Farm..."
Brother Ninth said.
"horse……"
Niguzhu's eyes lit up again.
The Ninth Prince said, "Yes, they are all horses. Give me two days. I will take you to the stable to see the foals in two days..."
The younger prince was standing by and just said no to his parents out of habit. He was still familiar with the ninth prince and Shushu, his uncle and aunt, and continued, "We have a foal at home, give it to sister..."
Niguzhu was standing nearby and said, "Then I'll trade it for the goose."
That was her new pet, which she "rescued" from the kitchen during the first month of the year.
The baby is two months old.
I didn't bring it with me this time I moved because the place where my brother lived was small and the poultry smelled strong.
Shushu and the Ninth Prince looked at each other.
Both husband and wife discovered that Niguzhu was fickle and easily bored.
When you like something, it is naturally good for everything. But when you don’t like it anymore, you will just discard it like a worn-out shoe.
Whose doing this?
Anyway, neither husband nor wife admits that they are like themselves.
The young prince had seen Niguzhu's goose before and knew it would peck people. He shook his head and said, "No need to exchange it. Just give it to sister."
Niguzhu immediately hugged the little prince and said, "Then I will use Shaqima to exchange. I can't let my brother suffer..."
At this time, Nanny Bai received the order and came out to greet everyone.
After she greeted everyone, she said, "The Queen was talking about it this morning."
The Ninth Prince asked, "Have you prepared lunch? In addition to paying respects to the Empress Dowager, we have also brought the children to eat at a rich restaurant."
Nanny Bai smiled and said, "It's ready, it's ready. Ask Bai An to prepare a lot of steamed buns for the young masters, as well as the beef meatballs that the Ninth Concubine likes to eat, and the roasted lamb chops that the Tenth Concubine likes to eat..."
The Ninth Prince looked at the Tenth Prince and said, "Look, we've become the grandson-in-law. The Empress Dowager values daughters more than sons..."
The group chatted and laughed as they entered the Empress Dowager's palace.
The Empress Dowager's Palace, which had been silent, suddenly became lively.
The Queen Mother was originally leaning forward, but now she sat up and looked at everyone coming in with a smile.
"Grandma..."
"Grandma..."
Four adults came in, each bringing a child.
The first thing the Empress Dowager saw was Niguzhu, who looked just like a chubby little girl who liked to wear red; the second time she saw her, she saw Akdan, and she seemed to have returned to the days when the Grand Empress Dowager was still alive, in the Cining Palace.
She hurriedly called everyone forward: "Come quickly, come quickly, let me see the children."
The remaining two, one tall and one short, are easy to identify. One is the ninth prince's eldest son Fengsheng, and the other is the tenth prince's eldest son.
"Greetings to Mother Wuku, greetings to Mother Wuku..."
The three Fengsheng siblings had been instructed to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager.
The little prince was led by Fengsheng and followed his brothers and sisters.
The Queen Mother stood up and helped herself up, really not wanting to let go of anyone she was holding.
But when she was pulling the little prince, her eyes swept across his woolen curls and she also glanced at his light-colored eyes.
Such appearance...
Fortunately, he is the eldest son of the Tenth Prince and the noble grandson of the emperor, so no one dares to say anything to his face.
The old lady's expression remained unchanged. She asked the children to sit by the kang, and told the Ninth Prince and the others to find seats by themselves.
The other children were all well-behaved, but Niguzhu was the only one who was not shy. He stood next to the Queen Mother and raised his little head and said, "Mother Wuku, Ene said he brought us here to accompany you. What do you like to do? Do you like fishing or picking eggs? Forget about climbing mountains, that's too tiring."
The Queen Mother smiled and replied, "You can play whatever you want, but Mother Wuku is old, so don't complain that she walks too slowly."
Niguzhu shook his head and said, "No, you have grown older and wiser. My mother said that people's knowledge is accumulated year after year. An old man in the family is like a treasure..."