A pair of large hands wiped away the tears on Gu Yuanbai's face, Xue Yuan was sweating anxiously, his coarse fingers careful, "Why are you suddenly crying?"
Gu Yuanbai had never cried in front of people.
But he was silent and silent at the moment, shedding tears all over his face, without making the slightest sound, quietly, and when Xue Yuan noticed it, he was shocked and his heart clenched.
Gu Yuanbai obediently grabbed Xue Yuan's collar, his fingers clutching the shirt exerted force, and the Xuan Clothes crumpled and balled up into a piece in his hands, and it was only until the violent surge of that Qi dissipated that Gu Yuanbai let go of his hand and muttered, "Did I actually cry."
Xue Yuan wiped the corners of his eyes, Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but close his eyes, the air in the middle of summer was scorching hot, and when Xue Yuan's hand touched it, the tears all seemed as if they had been scalded to a halt.
Xue Yuan took the warm towel and handkerchief from the palace attendant and wiped Gu Yuanbai's face, his heart aching so much that he couldn't speak, "Don't cry."
The blurred vision gradually cleared, and Gu Yuanbai slowly closed his eyes, "Nothing."
He pushed down the sudden rise of disorientation, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw that Xue Yuan's collar had been clutched by him and spread apart, and a look of embarrassment flashed across Gu Yuanbai's face. He reached out and slightly straightened his lapel, picking up the towel and handkerchief, "Hands."
There were some wet marks on Xue Yuan's hand, I don't know if it was sweat or Gu Yuanbai's tears, Gu Yuanbai lowered his head and carefully wiped his hand, slipping it through his fingers.
"Your Majesty's hand is so small," rubbing it, Xue Yuan suddenly worried, "and thin, the wrist is so thin, I can circle it with two fingers."
The sadness in Gu Yuanbai's heart was shattered, "General Xue's words are so funny, my fingers are long, and compared to a woman's vegetative hand, it's even bigger than just two or three circles, which one of your eyes thinks my hand is small?"
Xue Yuan suddenly grimaced, "It turns out that Your Holiness also knows the size of a woman's veiled hand."
Gu Yuanbai: "I just think you're talking nonsense with your eyes open."
Seeing that he was still not in a good mood, Xue Yuan thought of a way to amuse him, his fingers tickled in the heart of the saint's hand, half-truthfully darkening his face, "I don't even know how big and small a woman's veiled hand is."
"Then go and see, go and see and touch," Gu Yuanbai smiled faintly and threw Xue Yuan's hand and the towel and handkerchief to the palace attendant, "Get up and away, don't get in my way."
Xue Yuan inexplicably stood up and retreated to the side to look at Gu Yuanbai's back, unable to understand.
Gu Yuanbai re-read the things handed over by the Imperial Hospital, flipping to the end, the drawbacks of the Imperial Hospital implicitly written on it have also been listed one by one.
Gu Yuanbai's body loss is too great, even if he is well nourished, he will not be able to conceive an heir. His body is weak because he was born weak, and he missed the best time when his roots and bones were not open when he was young, now he can only try his best to make up for his body to make the lifespan long and no longer be so fearful, but it's about impossible to be able to be as healthy as an ordinary person who can jump and run.
Being unable to conceive an heir was undoubtedly the biggest blow to an emperor, but Gu Yuanbai accepted it well. As long as it was better than it was now, and could lead to a longer lifespan, Gu Yuanbai was already thankful to heaven and earth.
After Gu Yuanbai nodded his head, the Imperial Hospital began to do its business according to the statute.
Five days later, a cloudy and rainy weather, someone braved the rain to come to report, and the Prince Consort in two days ago abdominal pain, the same day the birth of a daughter, now the mother and daughter is safe, and is in the Prince of Peace House.
Gu Yuanbai froze and stood up abruptly, "A girl?"
The courtesan said, "It's a girl."
Gu Yuanbai was out of his mind for a while and murmured, "Girls are good too, very good."
Revealing a smile, "Send someone to inform the Prince of Harmony, and then bestow a reward, let the Princess say whatever she needs, I'll do it for both their mother and son, no one can slack off."
After that, Gu Yuanbai paced back and forth in the hall, he couldn't say whether he was looking forward to the Prince Consort giving birth to a boy or a girl, if it was a boy, then it must be carried in Gu Yuanbai's lap, and the Princess can't raise it herself.
Now that the birth was a girl, Gu Yuanbai would need to find some other children in the clan house.
He sighed, but his heart was faintly relaxed, Gu Zhao s child, if taken as his adopted son, will sit on his throne in the future, he is ...... ultimately a little diaphragmatic.
But a girl was different, and even because it was a girl, it was easier for the crown princess. If she wanted to raise her own daughter, then she would raise her personally. If she didn't like the daughter, then she would send her to the palace, where Gu Yuanbai would recognize her as a daughter and would give her the honorable status of a country's First Princess.
But the Princess has always been resilient, and I'm sure she won't hesitate to choose to raise her daughter alone.
If that was the case, Gu Yuanbai would compensate the mother and son as much as possible, replacing Prince He as their backer.
For Gu Yuanbai to let the Prince of Harmony go to the northern border, this was already the emperor's mercy, for the sake of the Prince of Harmony being framed to such an extent. But since the Prince of Harmony had chosen this path, he should not presume to return to the capital.
Even if the Prince Consort of Harmony begged for mercy, it would not be allowed; Gu Yuanbai had already taken a step back, and would never take another step back.
Waiting for the clear weather on the day of rest, Gu Yuanbai secretly went to the Prince of Harmony's mansion to visit the little baby that had just been born.
The steady woman carried the little girl out, "Your Holiness, look, this is the first young lady of our Prince He's residence."
The little baby is still asleep, hair sparse, small hands clenched into fists on both sides of the ears, so small that it seems even the wind can not suffer, Gu Yuanbai did not look at it more, then let the people rushed to send back.
The Princess was now unable to see anyone, so she sent her maid to deliver a message. First, she asked the Prince of Harmony how she would be dealt with, and second, she asked if she could raise her daughter herself.
Gu Yuanbai asked rhetorically, "Ask your master if he wants to see or doesn't want to see the Prince of Harmony, and if he wants to raise or doesn't want to raise a daughter."
The maid ran back to ask the Prince Consort of Harmony, who hugged her own daughter, tenderly placed her daughter's small hand in front of her lips and kissed her, and turned back, "I don't want to see the Prince, I just want to raise my daughter in peace."
No one knew the celebration in the heart of the princess after she realized that she had given birth to a daughter.
She knew how this child came, if it is a boy, it is bound to be raised in the side of the saint, but that heavy and dirty sins, even her heart trembled nerves tense secret, the saint looked at her child at all times, and how will the heart does not take into account it?
The more the Prince of Harmony wanted a son because of Gu Yuanbai, the more the Princess rejoiced that she had given birth to a daughter.
Her daughter didn't have to suffer from her father's twisted emotions, she was clean, and when the Princess looked at the little one, her heart softened into a piece, and happiness rose up. Such a calm and warm life, she did not want to be broken by the Prince of Peace again.
After Gu Yuanbai heard the princess's reply, he nodded and said, "I know."
After the reward was put down, Gu Yuanbai got up and led the people to leave Prince He's residence. Along the way, with the blazing sun and people coming and going on the streets, Xue Yuan suddenly asked, "His Holiness likes to swaddle babies?"
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him, and Xue Yuan feigned a casual question, his eyes were wandering around the surrounding vendors' stalls as if he didn't care about Gu Yuanbai's answer at all.
Gu Yuanbai followed Xue Yuan's example and hooked up a false, polite smile, "I like young children as much as General Xue likes women's vegetative hands."
"Speak clearly," Xue Yuan's handsome face slammed, and when he didn't smile, there was a shadowy fury steaming in his brows, he was scary on his face, but in the market where people were coming and going, he secretly held Gu Yuanbai's hand through the cover of his sleeve robe, "When did I say that I liked a woman's hand?"
"If I like it," he tried to insert his fingers into Gu Yuanbai's, vaguely tinged with levity, "I also like hands like this."
His bony fingers were always cackling, thick and hard and well-defined, and the soreness when he inserted them into Gu Yuanbai's palm never disappeared in a short period of time. Gu Yuanbai didn't like being held by him, it hurt. Nor did he like having his tongue shoved in his mouth, it rose.
If you are not in the mourning period, you can still taste one or two good points, but now? It's a good thing Gu Yuanbai didn't kick him in the face.
He frowned and tried to pull out his hand, but Xue Yuan held it harder as if he didn't know.
Sleeve robes buried the movements of both hands, Xue Yuan gripped forcefully for a moment, then softened, "Your Holiness, you have not allowed me to get close to ...... you for a month."
He lowered his voice, "I'm not even allowed to shake my hand."
Xue Yuan, who had only just savored the taste of kissing and kneading, knew that he was now in the state filial piety, and knew that Gu Yuanbai was not willing to do anything out of character, and he didn't want to do it, he just wanted to shake Gu Yuanbai's hand once in a while to suppress the heart that was still uneasy to this day.
Just go for mind stabilization alone.
He sighed, and said truly, "I'll just hold it, and I'm bound to be regular."
However, in Gu Yuanbai's ears, this is no less powerful than the "rubbing not to go in".
Gu Yuanbai's eyelids fluttered, and he mercilessly shook off his hand, turning around to let Tian Fusheng come forward and wipe his sweat.
Tian Fusheng, amidst Lord Xue's glare, cheerfully wiped the sweat off His Holiness with a joyful look on his face, "Your Holiness, you seem to have grown some more, I can barely reach you."
Gu Yuanbai revealed a few smiles, "Really?"
"small where dare to say false," Tian Fusheng really feel that the saint is taller, also seems to be thinner, he waved the fan to the saint, the saint's hair in the air, by the sun shines out a few strands of golden light, Tian Fusheng suddenly thought, "small also remember the saint has a picture of a good fan. fan, the color of the landscape jumps off the paper, that fan is still in the last year when the palace was carried by the saint on the body, but I do not know from when, small even can not find."
Because of the death of Mrs. Wan, the birthday of the saint and the feast in the palace are no longer held this year. When Gu Yuanbai thought of the palace to avoid the summer heat, he would think of Dowager Consort Wan, and he was not willing to go there.
It was now August, and Gu Yuanbai had long planned to survive the height of summer in the capital.
Tian Fusheng said, Gu Yuanbai pondered, "But Chu Qing had offered that one folding fan?"
Tian Fusheng nodded repeatedly, "Chu adults that a fan is really a masterpiece, ten percent exhausted, that kind of a fan even now, the rich family is willing to paint a thousand gold to buy a hand, not to mention the reputation of Chu adults, gentleman six arts, painting skills a masterpiece, this is the whole capital know the thing."
Ink treasure is worth a thousand pieces of gold, that's how it is. Gu Yuanbai sighed, also can not help but pity some, "that fan to me, I also like very much, but unfortunately, now long lost where."
No matter which of His Majesty's things it was, it would be put away by the palace guards. Nine times out of ten, this fan was lost by Gu Yuanbai himself, and there was nothing to be done about it except regret.
Xue Yuan listened in silence, only his smile seeping through.
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And while His Holiness was sitting in the capital, the Fujian navy, far off the coast, was in the middle of a fierce battle on the sea with Fusan's navy.