The Destiny of Going to Hell

When Hongli was pulled to the Ju Lake Light and Shadow, he was still in a daze. He only saw Concubine Qi sitting on a small table with embroidered flowers on her face. Her eyes lit up when she saw his third brother.

"Hey Hongshi, come here and let mother take a look," she didn't finish her words. When she saw Hongli, she was puzzled. "What is this?"

Hongshi directly took a piece of cake from the table and stuffed it into Hongli's mouth, then hurried into the house to look around, leaving Hongli and Li Jingyan looking at each other in bewilderment.

Hongli took the cake and said hello, Empress Qi, then started eating it in small bites.

Hongshi searched in the inner room and brought over a few sets of his childhood clothes. "Fourth brother, these are all my old clothes. See if there are any that fit you!"

Hongshi smiled frankly with his teeth bared, but Hongli secretly clenched his teeth. What does this mean?

Give me your old clothes? Give me charity? Degrade me? Look down on me? Show me off?

Only then did Li Jingyan realize that this was the motherless prince from the Old Summer Palace. She looked at her own grown son's smile, then at the child's worn-out clothes and half-short sleeves, and slapped Hongshi on the head.

"Why are you giving away clothes you've worn?" Li Jingyan turned to look at Hongli, took Hongli's hand and sat down at the table, "Empress Qi asked someone to make some clothes for you, your third brother has no bad intentions."

"Oh, what a pitiful thing! He is a prince after all, but how can he be treated like a poor little thing?"

Hongli: ...As expected of mother and son, you didn’t let me go.

Hongshi was not convinced, "It will take at least a few days to make the clothes. I just don't want to see my fourth brother wearing clothes that don't fit him."

Li Jingyan thought about it and it seemed to be the case, so he asked Hongshi to take Hongli to the inner room to pick out some clothes to change into.

When Hongli changed his clothes and came out to sit on the table and Li Jingyan and her son stuffed mouthfuls of food into his mouth, he was too tired to complain.

He ate in silence and listened to the mother and son's fussing chatter.

"Ah? Those servants didn't even prepare breakfast?" A piece of meat was placed on the rice.

"Yes, mother, you should sort things out. You don't even care about the prince." A green vegetable was placed on the rice.

"Wow, you're so smart at such a young age. It's hard work to use your brain if you eat more." Another piece of meat was placed on the rice.

"My fourth brother is very smart. I couldn't recite it even after reciting it several times!" Another piece of cabbage was placed on the rice.

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While the mother and son were talking, Hongli's bowl was already full. It's not that he had not refused, but the two of them started arguing and he regarded his words as shyness.

I can only eat with tears in my eyes, burp, I feel so full.

"Why does Hongshi always pick vegetables for your fourth brother? That's outrageous. Children need to eat more meat to grow taller!"

"My fourth brother also needs to eat vegetables to grow taller! Besides, eating only meat will make you sick!"

However, this kind of atmosphere can easily make people's eyes wet.

From today on, Hongli and Hongshi often had meals together at Li Jingyan's place, and they looked like a family of three.

When the words "family of three" appeared in Hongli's mind, he was happy at first, but when he thought of Yinzhen, his inner resentment emerged again.

He looked at his third brother and Empress Qi, feeling wavering.

When Feng Ruozhao took Shuhe for a walk in the garden, he would often run into the three of them coming out to enjoy the scenery. From a distance, they really looked like a mother and her two children.

But Hongli was too mature, and the light in his eyes made people feel uncomfortable. So she told Shuhe that she could go play with her third brother when she had nothing to do, but not to have too much contact with Hongli.

紫禁城

Time passed quickly, Xia Dongchun was about to give birth, and Xia Wei also returned to the capital.

Xia Wei was summoned to the palace by Yinzhen. Yinzhen was not arrogant and did not follow the rules of not talking while eating or sleeping. It was more like the way ordinary people get along with each other.

The three of them sat together and listened to Xia Wei talk about his experiences at sea. Xia Dongchun picked up a piece of his brother's favorite spicy and sour fish skin with his chopsticks.

After learning about what had happened during this period, Xia Wei was very happy. His sister was really amazing. She became the queen and also achieved the emperor's goal of disbanding the harem.

After dinner, Yinzhen sat for a while and then stood up to see Xia Wei off. He had just walked out of the palace gate a few steps when he heard Qiu Yi's voice, "Are you okay, Madam?"

Hearing the commotion behind them, Xia Wei and Yinzhen turned and left. They thought the noise might mean the baby was about to be born. The due date was only two or three days away.

Yinzhen ran straight into the hall, and Xia Wei couldn't catch up with him. He muttered to himself, "He's running quite fast."

When Yinzhen entered the hall, he saw Xia Dongchun, who was smiling just now, now pale due to the severe pain, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Walking slowly with the support of Qiuyi and Cuiguo, Yinzhen hurriedly ordered people to go to the small kitchen to prepare ginseng soup and so on. He also asked people to arrange for the midwives who had been prepared to wash themselves and change clothes, and asked someone to boil water for use later.

Only after being so busy did Yinzhen feel that everything was ready, but the uneasiness in his heart was still not eliminated.

Yinzhen stepped forward and personally helped Xia Dongchun walk. Seeing Xia Dongchun's uncomfortable look, his heart was in a knot.

Xia Wei was also quite flustered. After all, he was busy fighting with his sister and then even went out to sea. He was afraid of delaying the marriage of other girls, so he did not marry.

This was also the first time he witnessed a woman giving birth to a child, and this woman was his sister.

But he knew one thing. How could they do without a doctor? Didn't the couple think of this? Sure enough, they had to do it themselves.

Yinzhen finally reacted after being reminded by Xia Wei and quickly sent someone to call the imperial physician.

After taking Xia Dongchun's pulse, the imperial physician felt that there was nothing serious, so he asked her to go to the delivery room to give birth.

Standing at the door of the delivery room, Yinzhen and Xia Wei, two grown men, were so nervous that they didn't know what to do. They both wished they were the ones giving birth to the baby.

But the two of them were walking around so much that it made everyone's eyes hurt. "Why didn't anyone hear anything? Is Minmin okay?"

Xia Wei spoke first, and Yinzhen was calmer. "It's like this when women give birth. They don't cry out in order to save their strength to give birth. Brother, calm down."

In the delivery room, Xia Dongchun suddenly shouted "It hurts!"

So Yinzhen, who seemed calm just now, rushed directly into the delivery room, leaving Xia Wei standing there with his eyes wide open. Who was the person who asked me to calm down just now?

Who is the person who broke into the delivery room now? I thought you were really not worried.

Xia Wei looked around and saw that everyone was keeping their heads down and pretending to be silent. Knowing that no one would spread this, he also walked into the delivery room.

Delivery rooms have been filthy since ancient times. If the news got out that the emperor went into the delivery room for his sister, nothing would be said about the emperor, but his sister would be criticized.

When Xia Wei entered the delivery room, what he saw was Yinzhen holding his sister's hand, not daring to breathe. He also sat on his sister's right and took a hot handkerchief from the side to wipe the sweat off his sister's face.

The delivery took several hours, and my sister was so tired that she fell asleep after giving birth to the little prince.

Yinzhen stared at his sister's sleeping face in a daze and then walked out.

"Someone, get some water."

Yinzhen asked someone to get hot water, and he wiped Xia Dongchun himself.

Xia Wei went to see the child born by Xia Dongchun himself. The child was fair, tender and cute. As expected, he was his sister's child. He was as beautiful as his sister.