Qing Dynasty: The Imperial Concubine is Pregnant Again

Yinzhen looked at the women in front of him, especially Tong Nuanyan, and then said, "Get up."

Everyone stood up as instructed. The Fourth Lady looked at everyone and when she saw that no one answered Yinzhen's question, she spoke first: "My Lord, I was just talking to you sisters about this sister Wuya whom you have never met."

Yinzhen listened and looked towards Uya's position. He felt disgusted when he saw this person. The person sent by his mother, Concubine De, was most likely here to monitor him and serve as his spy, so he did not favor Uya for half a month.

Yinzhen looked at Tong Nuanyan beside him again. Her indifferent expression made Yinzhen feel guilty again. "Honghui has missed you a lot recently. This time, take Honghui, Hongyun, Huai Ke with you as well. Hongzhao..."

Tong Nuanyan spoke up in time: "Hongzhao has been born for more than a month, and he hasn't seen his father yet." Yinzhen looked at Tong Nuanyan, who still had no expression on her face. He didn't know what he was angry about. He flicked his sleeves and got on the sedan chair at the door of the prince's residence.

Before attending the banquet, one had to go to Yonghe Palace to pay respects and have lunch, then go to Shoukang Palace to pay respects to the Empress Dowager and have a conversation, and finally go to Jiaotai Hall to attend the palace dinner, so one had to take a sedan chair when going out.

The Fourth Lady also glanced at Tong Nuanyan calmly, and then followed her into Yinzhen's sedan chair. A voice of farewell came from behind, and Tong Nuanyan looked at the sedan chair leaving in front of her, and calmly asked Xia Xi, who had followed, to hold Hongzhao and get on the smaller sedan chair behind, while Yunxin followed outside the sedan chair.

The remaining Honghui, Hongyun and Huai Ke also got on Tong Nuanyan's sedan chair, and it became a little crowded for a while. After getting on the sedan chair, Tong Nuanyan began to look at these little rascals.

Honghui's clothes should be supervised by the Fourth Lady, and he also wore a red robe with some auspicious cloud patterns on it. Honghui, who was only three years old this year, still looked like a three-headed man, but he had already started to grow a whip on his head. He looked more like the Fourth Lady, with thin and single eyelids, and looked at Tong Nuanyan with hostility.

Sitting next to Honghui is Hongyun, who is the same age as Honghui, but looks thinner than Honghui. The date brown robe he wears is looser and his face is paler. The only difference is that Hongyun looks more like Yinzhen than Honghui, about 30% similar, while Honghui only looks one or two%.

Honghui and Hongyun were both sitting on the horizontal bench on the right side of the sedan chair, while Tong Nuanyan was sitting in the middle holding Hongzhao. When these people got on the sedan chair, Xia Xi had given up his seat and walked instead.

Therefore, the person sitting on the left opposite Hongyun was Huai Ke, who was wearing an orange cheongsam embroidered with orchids and butterflies. She had a very small bun on her head with a few small butterflies in her hair. Her chubby face was very cute, but at the age of five, she looked a little lifeless and not lively enough.

At this time, the three children were secretly looking at Hongzhao in Tong Nuanyan's arms. The reason was that the clothes Hongzhao wore today were embroidered with several lifelike animals, and they had never seen these animals before.

Finally, Honghui couldn't help but ask: "Mother Tong, my brother's clothes look so beautiful." His voice was childish, but he said it clearly. Tong Nuanyan smiled slightly and changed Hongzhao's posture so that he could see it more clearly.

"These on Hongzhao's clothes are all small animals. This is a giant panda, also known as a cichlid. This is a duckling. This is a cockatoo." Tong Nuanyan held Hongzhao in her arms, pointed at the pattern on his clothes with one hand, and spoke to the three children with shining eyes.

"Wow, Tong'e's mother, you know so many animals." Hongyun, who had been staring at the clothes but didn't say anything, exclaimed. Children always like these things they have never seen before, and they become familiar with you all of a sudden.

Huai Ke looked at it curiously, but he didn't ask. Seeing Hong Yun's exclamation, he looked at Tong Nuanyan cautiously and said, "Mother Tong, why is this giant panda called the iron-eating beast? Does it really eat iron?"

"Yeah, why?"

All of a sudden, he had a million questions. Honghui didn't care what his mother said before. He thought Tong's mother was a good person. "Tong's mother, why are they all together?"

Tong Nuanyan smiled slightly, coaxing Hongzhao in her arms while telling them: "Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a man named Chiyou and a man named Huangdi. They led a tribe respectively. Chiyou had a mount named Iron-eating Beast, which was extremely ferocious. Chiyou riding Iron-eating Beast was invincible until another war broke out. The wind master and the water master from Huangdi's tribe helped and defeated Chiyou together. Later, people found out from records that Iron-eating Beast looked very similar to giant pandas, both were black and white, and were ferocious beasts, so giant pandas were also called Iron-eating Beasts."

Honghui, Hongyun and Huai Ke all listened attentively, their eyes full of admiration. Huai Ke suddenly sighed and said, "Tong'er's mother knows a lot, the maids don't understand these, I envy Hong Zhao so much."

Tong Nuanyan didn't know how to answer, because those wet nurses and maids were following the sedan chair. If she said something and was heard and then went to others to add fuel to the fire, she would be hated again.

Honghui kept looking at Hongzhao's clothes and said, "Mother Tong, I also want to wear a giant panda outfit like this." Hongyun's eyes lit up and a big smile appeared on his pale face: "I'll go back and ask mother to make it for me."

As he said this, he swung his legs that didn't touch the ground, looking very excited. "I want it, I want my mother to do it too." Honghui said again. The three-year-old child is cute and persistent, and he has been spoiled and brought up, so he wants everything.

Tong Nuanyan was about to say something when the sedan chair stopped and a young eunuch carrying it shouted, "Concubine, we have arrived at Yonghe Palace."

Honghui and Hongyun were carried out by the wet nurse outside the sedan chair first, followed by Huai Ke who was led out of the sedan chair by the nanny. Finally, Tong Nuanyan came out carrying Hongzhao with the help of Xia Xi.

As soon as she got out of the sedan chair, she was surrounded by three children: "Mother Tong, I want a giant panda. Let mother be the giant panda."

"Me too, I want a panda too."

Yinzhen got off the sedan chair and saw this scene: Tong Nuanyan was holding Hongzhao and was surrounded by his other three children, shouting "giant panda". He was a little confused for a moment.

"Concubine, Huai Ke, what's going on?"

Afterwards, Tong Nuanyan helplessly explained the whole story, and finally said: "I don't know how it turned out like this. If Honghui and the others still want it, I will give the drawings to the embroiderers to make them. How about that?"

Yinzhen looked at the Fourth Lady beside him and said, "Father, what do you think?"

"These are all baby things, so don't bother Concubine Madam with them. Honghui doesn't need them." The Fourth Concubine smiled appropriately, but she would not accept Tong Nuanyan's things for Honghui.

"Yes, since Mrs. Fu has said so, I will make the decision on my own. Fourth Master, it seems that Honghui and the others are quite disappointed." Tong Nuanyan said as she looked at Honghui who was standing aside with a frown on his face.