IACF [QT] Chapter 80.2

Finally, everything was packed and they could go out.

It was cold outside, so Su Yi wrapped herself in a fox fur coat, while the wet nurse wrapped the little prince in layer upon layer.

On the way to the palace, Su Yi and Mao Tuan took a carriage and teased him deliberately, “Son, if the Empress Dowager holds you later, you have to hold it in. Don’t pee on the phoenix robe. We can’t afford to pay for it.”

Mao Tuan stared at the top of the carriage without blinking. He was just a baby less than two months old and didn’t understand anything.

The Empress Dowager’s Palace was bustling with people, as all the concubines in the harem came with the Empress to pay their respects.

When they heard that Princess Rui would bring the little prince into the palace today, they all waited to take a look at him.

After the eunuch reported, Su Yi stepped into the hall. The wet nurse, holding the little prince, stepped back slightly.

She bowed.

The Empress Dowager hurriedly called her up and asked her to take a seat, asking with concern: “How is Princess Rui’s health?”

“With the blessing of the Royal Grandmother, everything is fine for the granddaughter-in-law.” Su Yi said.

She knew who the Empress Dowager wanted to ask about the most at this moment, so she took the child from the wet nurse, held it in front of the Empress Dowager, and said with a smile, “This little guy probably knows that he will see his great-grandmother today. He has not fallen asleep since he was fed in the morning. Earlier, he peed on his father in the palace.”

When the Empress Dowager saw the baby in the swaddling clothes, she was so happy that she couldn’t close her mouth and said repeatedly, “Well peed, well peed…”

The Empress and the concubines came over and praised: “Look at his eyebrows and eyes, how handsome.”

“It’s like he was carved out of the same mold as the King Rui.”

“His nose and mouth look like Princess Rui. He will definitely be a handsome man when he grows up.”

There were also concubines who had given birth, asked Su Yi what kind of medicine she was taking for health care, and kindly passed on their experience to her.

The Empress Dowager looked at it for a while and held the child in her arms. The servants around her were busy protecting him carefully.

“Oh, it still has some weight.” The Empress Dowager smiled with narrowed eyes, her eyes full of wrinkles.

“That’s right.” Su Yi said.

“Royal Grandmother, don’t look at his small stature. His appetite is not small at all. He will definitely be a little fat boy in the future.”

Mao Tuan wanted to say that this was slander, but when he opened his mouth, he only spat out bubbles.

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager defended him and said, “It’s okay to have a big appetite. He will grow tall in the future, like his father.”

Someone laughed and said, “It’s not easy to have a body like Prince Rui.”

The Empress Dowager looked at the child’s facial features carefully with a smile on her face. She stretched out a finger for him to hold. Suddenly, she sighed deeply, as if she remembered something.

After hearing this, the concubines suddenly fell silent.

By chance, another voice suddenly rang out: “Why is Mother sighing?”

The people in the hall turned around and saw the Emperor and King Rui walking in one after another.

Everyone hurriedly stood up and saluted.

The Emperor waved his hand, walked to the Empress Dowager, and leaned over to look at the child in her hands.

Mao Tuan was feeling a little sleepy from being stared at by so many people. Just when he was about to fall asleep, he heard that the emperor was coming. He wanted to see what the emperor looked like. After all, he was the Son of Heaven, not someone you could just see on the street.

As a result, he tried hard to move his eyes, but he could only see a blurry beard and could not make out the face at all.

Mao Tuan was quite helpless with the vision of a newborn baby, so he rolled his eyes and went to sleep.

The Emperor uttered a gentle ‘Hey!’, pointed at the swaddling clothes, and said to King Rui, “Did this little thing glare at me?”

King Rui also saw that roll of the eyes. He added another thing in his mind: his son not only drooled and wet his pants, but also rolled his eyes. He really had no manliness at all.

But he said, “Your Majesty is dazzled.”

The Emperor glared at his nephew. He was about to teach him a lesson for lying when he heard the Empress Dowager say, “King Rui is right. How can he glare at you when he is such a little baby and can’t even see where you are?”

The Emperor had no choice but to give up and asked the Empress Dowager, “I just heard Mother sighing. I wonder why?”

 

 

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