The Ninth Prince's Mansion, the back building.
Brother Jiu held Shu Shu in his arms and sighed.
It was not easy to finally hold it.
Although the couple lived in the same room these days, they shared separate beds.
The bedding in the middle is next to each other, just next to each other. The most they can do is hold hands.
Shu Shu felt uncomfortable because she didn't take a shower before, and she didn't like to be close to others.
Brother Jiu understands Shu Shu's irritability and doesn't bother her.
Today is different.
It's just that I am really very thin, and my back is hurting. Brother Jiu feels very distressed, and he is already thinking about finding some good food.
Shu Shu also hugged Brother Jiu back.
Not only did I take a bath today, but I also changed my bedding and everything.
Shu Shu felt that she had come to life and was less repelled by being close to others.
It's just that she is still in her second trimester, and the couple can only hug each other.
Listening to each other's heartbeats changing from intense to gentle, they then fell into a good sleep.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Brother Jiu woke up early.
He still wants to go to the palace.
He came out quietly and went to the main room to wash up without waking his wife.
But Shu Shu woke up half an hour later, because she was hungry.
Seeing that it was right, she got up.
Every time the Holy Emperor returns to the palace from Changchun Garden, he rushes to the palace early in the morning. When the city gate is just opened, he is so alert and does not disturb the people.
Now the holy team should be arriving in the capital soon.
Shu Shu simply freshened up and didn't ask for a meal. Instead, she drank a cup of milk tea first, thinking that she would have breakfast together when Jiu Gege arrived.
What does Jiugege like to eat?
He doesn't seem to attach much importance to food and drink, and has no obvious preferences.
Shu Shu asked Walnut to pass on the message and make a plate of egg pancakes, followed by milk-stewed eggs and sweet-and-sour poached eggs.
The children in the palace love to eat eggs.
Girls, you can’t go wrong with dessert.
Then she said to Xiaochun: "Go to the door to greet me..."
Don't come here too early, it will be difficult for Jiugege to send messages inside.
Xiaochun and Walnut both responded.
Ging Guo took a booklet and came over from the west.
Shu Shu took it and looked at it. This was the night watch record.
There are records of when the children woke up, when they nursed, and how many times they cried.
Shu Shu looked at it carefully and frowned.
If one child cries, the other two will be woken up.
There is no way around this.
That was all before, the kids were sleeping most of the time.
In the future, this sleeping time will be reduced little by little, and the impact on each other will be greater.
In order for the three children to have a better rest, they still have to share rooms.
In the back room, when she moves out, she can have one in the east room and one in the west. There are three halls in between, and the sound can be blocked by lowering the curtains.
In this way, there will be one more.
If you want to move it, you can only move it big grid.
Otherwise, if you move the second elder brother out and take him with you, it will easily leave hidden dangers.
The eldest brother and the second brother have different futures, but they are still treated equally by their parents since childhood.
Also, Shu Shu doesn't want to challenge his own humanity. If he keeps his second son by his side, his parents will be biased in the long run, and the whole family will be uneasy.
Shu Shu had previously thought about sending Da Gege to Ning'an Hall when she was one year old, and this is her plan now.
Then we need to ask people to clean up the west wing of the main courtyard and move the big princess to the main courtyard.
Just as she was thinking, there was movement outside.
It’s Jiugege’s arrival.
Just as Shu Shu was worried, Jiugege's carriage had been parked at the door for half a quarter of an hour.
She had only thought about coming to visit Shu Shu before, and had forgotten about the time. But she arrived so early, so she couldn't help but hesitate.
It wasn't until Xiao Chun came out that Jiu Gege got off the carriage and followed him in.
Shu Shu stood up and went to the door to greet him.
Seeing this, Jiu Gege hurriedly said: "Hurry up and enter the house..."
Shu Shu didn't move. She waited until she took Jiu Gege's hand and then said, "It's already summer, where is the cold?"
Jiu Gege shook Shu Shu's hand and said, "Sister-in-law's hands are cold..."
Shu Shu smiled and said: "This is a beauty, cool and sweat-free!"
My sister-in-law entered the East Room and sat on the Kang. Walnut brought tea and water to her.
Shu Shu poured her a cup of tea, pushed it over, and said, "I'm waiting for you to come over for breakfast..."
Jiu Gege smiled and said: "I used some before coming out to the garden."
Shu Shu said: "Then come and have a few more bites with me."
Jiu Gege nodded, looked at Shu Shu's face, put away the smile on his face, and showed worry.
Shu Shu touched her face and said, "Now I eat five meals a day, and I can make up for it quickly."
Jiu Gege lowered her eyes, looked at the cup in her hand, and said: "I heard that there are some ladies outside who are very virtuous. When the legitimate sons and daughters grow up, they will take the initiative to arrange concubines and marriages for their husbands..."
So couples can’t stay together for a long time, right?
After having a legitimate son and daughter, is it okay to skip the part of giving birth and let others live?
Shu Shu glanced at Jiu Gege and said: "If someone says these stupid things in front of my sister, I can just ask the girl to spit on her. My sister is a golden branch and a jade leaf. I will not let my sister control the important affairs of the court, but living at home is not a good idea." I follow my sister’s wishes, no matter what is virtuous or not, when I get to the princess’s house, the hierarchy is reversed. If anyone is virtuous, it will be my brother-in-law who is virtuous..."
Jiu Gege laughed after hearing this.
Shu Shu knew Jiu Gege's uneasiness.
It can only be said that the current system in the palace is too weird.
Whether it is a prince's wedding or a princess's wedding, a trial marriage must be arranged for the palace maids, also called "trial marriage princess".
In the prince's case, the trial marriage princess directly became the palace girl in the prince's name and became one of the prince's inner stories.
The one who was tricked was the prince's direct descendant, Fujin.
If it means that the days of the palace maid and the wedding day are close to each other, that's fine. It doesn't matter. If it's like the fifth elder brother and the seventh elder brother, who are two years behind the wedding, then those who have children there will have to wait for a long time. If the relationship is over, the good first wife will go over and become a cheap mother-in-law, making it look like the step-wife is filling in the house.
Let's not talk about others, just say that now, whether it is Yuqing Palace or several princes' palaces, the favorites who have given birth to the eldest son of a concubine are all the maids in trial marriages.
For women, the first man is different; for men, the same is true, after all, there is more pity.
After arriving at the princess's place, when the wedding date was decided, the "Trial Marriage Princess" was also carried to the princess's mansion along with the princess's dowry.
That night, this "Trial Marriage Princess" will have a bridal chamber with her husband-in-law on behalf of the princess, and then check whether the relationship between the husband-in-law and the bed is normal, whether there are any hidden diseases, what is the temperament and so on.
The next day, this "Trial Marriage Princess" returned to the palace and described the condition of her husband-in-law to the princess's elders.
Shu Shushi didn't know how to comfort Jiu Gege.
The formation of any system has causes and consequences.
The court system of the Qing Dynasty was mostly inherited from the Ming Dynasty, or improved upon the Ming Dynasty system.
For people in the royal family, this can avoid choosing a prince-in-law with hidden diseases.
As for the trial marriage Gege, as the princess's dowry, she will be married off and become one of the concubines of her husband-in-law.
Shu Shu looked at Jiu Gege and said: "Everyone's life is lived by themselves. What kind of life do you want? My sister has to make her own decision. Should she save her elders' worries, save herself, or others?" It’s worry-free…”
"My sister's status is here. Apart from myself being upset because of my own inconvenience, no one outside deserves to be my sister's anger..."
"There is no need to listen to what the palace ladies say about the rules in the palace. The rules in the palace are also set by people. My sister can restrain herself, but it is not the turn of others to control her..."
Speaking of this, Shu Shu frowned and remembered something.
That is when the princess opens a palace in the capital, and the person who controls the princess's palace becomes the wet nurse or nanny around her.
Jiugege's wet nurse is Nanny Lin. She had dealt with Shu Shu when she was on tour in the south. She seemed to be orderly and a well-behaved person.
But money and silk touch people's hearts, who knows what will happen in the future?
Shu Shu pondered for a while and said: "I have nothing to do today, so let's talk to my sister about the meaning of 'unpredictable people' and 'unsatisfied desires'..."
Jiu Gege was startled and looked at Shu Shu, wondering why she mentioned this before mentioning her grandma.
Shu Shu said: "Let's talk about our grandpa's wet nurse, Aunt Liu, first. She nursed our grandpa for a while, but she couldn't bear to leave the little master, so she asked for grace and stayed with our grandpa as a nanny, and with my sister's side, Aunt Lin Grandma is the same..."
Then, she said that in order to control Ninth Brother, Nanny Liu hurt his appetite by feeding him in the middle of the night. She also framed Ninth Brother's other nannies, kicked out the loyal and qualified old man, and became the number one person in the second house.
Ninth Brother's private treasury became Grandma Liu's private treasury, and most of it was embezzled.
After that, she, the prince's direct descendant, became a thorn in the side of Grandma Liu. For the sake of her daughter, Grandma Liu even tried to kill Shu Shu Gonghan from having children.
Aunt Liu from the Second Institute was sent to the Criminal Punishment Department, and everyone in the palace knew about it, but not much was known about the specific reasons.
Jiu Gege turned pale when he heard this and said, "How dare she?"
Shu Shu said: "Hu has captured the young master, why don't you dare? Even when I came in, your Ninth Brother specifically told me that Aunt Liu and Manager Cui have different identities. Manager Cui is over there, because It was assigned by the Qianqing Palace, so you should show some respect; here, the relationship between master and servant is deep, and you should treat her as one of your own..."
"I'm lucky. I read a lot when I was young. I know there are many things going on, and I'll notice something is wrong as soon as she makes a move. But what about the Babeizi Mansion next door?"
Shu Shu also told the story of Yaqib and his wife’s crazy deeds.
"With Bafujin's background and temper, he got a miscarriage and ruined his face just by being called a slave..."
Jiu Gege was surprised. She never expected that there was someone behind the miscarriage and disfigurement of Ba Fujin, and it was not his own fault.
She thought of the movements in the palace in the past two years. Many people at the Princess Office had changed one after another, especially around Little Princess.
She is older, and the people around her are selected by the Queen Mother, which is more appropriate and there is no turnover of personnel.
Speaking of this, Shu Shu sighed and said: "She is my wet nurse. She and her whole family were driven to Zhuangzi a while ago. My wet nurse has arranged errands for half a year, and she is outside under the name of the Prince's Mansion. To make money, even the outer rooms are collected, it’s really impossible to make a mistake..."
Jiu Gege was very smart. He looked at Shu Shu with gratitude and said, "Thank you, Sister Jiu, for the tip. I will keep an eye on it so that I won't be fooled by others."
Shu Shu nodded, looked at Jiu Gege, and said: "That's good. If you're not afraid of the slave who shows his villainous face when it comes to money, I'm afraid of the kind of righteous man who seems to be preaching from the ground, saying what the emperor recommends. In Sinology, the volume on clan women begins with virtuous and virtuous people..."
"Then the lake got people, saying that the princess should be reserved, and seeing her husband-in-law too much would be frivolous and despicable. The princess under her control would become the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with her husband-in-law. If she wanted to meet her, she would have to bribe this living ancestor... "
Just saying that made Shu Shu feel suffocated.
She hoped it would all be unofficial history, but that was obviously not the case.
The royal daughters have been domesticated from generation to generation, and they are completely different from the eldest daughter at the founding of the country.
Perhaps it was because when the country was founded, the eldest daughter was too tough, which affected the reputation of the royal family, so from generation to generation, the royal family went too far.
There are signs now.
Forget about the older princesses, those who studied with the prince's elder brother in their early years read books on riding and archery.
The princess at the back is another way of parenting.
Shu Shu hopes that Jiugege will not step into any trap...
