Chapter 721 - Not the Ending
Perhaps he was frightened when Xiaocao gave birth last time, Zhu Junyang had secretly gotten a contraceptive prescription from the imperial physician. As a result, Little Baozi had already reached the age of five, but he was still the only child in Imperial Prince Xu's Household.
Princess Consort Jing felt very anxious ah! Why were they all like this? Her eldest daughter-in-law also couldn't get pregnant for many years after giving birth to her first child. It was after Xiaocao helped her nourish her body that she was able to successively give birth to three sons and a daughter. Her second daughter-in-law's mother had died early, so there weren't any female elders to look after her. There was severe coldness in her uterus. After she got married, she had nourished her body for two years before she finally received good news and consecutively gave birth to three sons.
But, that wasn't right ah! Her youngest daughter-in-law was a doctor herself. Even if she had hurt her body when she gave birth to Little Baozi, shouldn't she have already recovered after recuperating for so many years? But it had already been five years. Why hadn't there been any good news at all? Could it be that 'doctors didn't treat themselves'? After Princess Consort Jing privately murmured to her husband several times, she finally couldn't resist looking for her youngest son, "Yang'er, perhaps you should get an imperial physician to check on your wife?"
Zhu Junyang, who had just led the Xishan Barrack to suppress bandits and returned victorious, was startled by her words. He repeatedly asked, "What's wrong with Xiaocao? Where does she feel unwell? When I saw her earlier, she was playing hide-and-seek with our son. Was she trying to make our son happy while putting up a front?"
The young heir, Zhu Yunxuan, had a helpless expression on his face, 'Lord Father, are you sure it's not your son who's playing with your wife to make her happy?'
The five-year-old Little Baozi had a relatively precocious temperament and gave off a sense of maturity for his young age. He had long been dismissive of 'childish games' like hide-and-seek, rolling iron hoops, and throwing sandbags, ok? He was now more interested in writing, mounted archery, and practicing martial arts.
He enjoyed all of these activities, but his lady mother didn't think so. She felt that her son, who was so young, was very pitiful to be 'forced' by his lord father to study and practice martial arts. He was such a tiny person, yet he had to half-squat under the blazing sun for over an hour. His little face was flushed red from the sun and sweat trickled down his face. As his mother, her heart pained to see this ah! In order to not destroy the nature of a child, Yu Xiaocao used her spare time to play parent-child games with her son. However, she didn't know that these games, which she thought were interesting, were extremely childish in her son's eyes.
Seeing that his lord father often went out for official business for many days, Little Baozi, who loved his lady mother, reckoned that his lady mother was too lonely and thus she wanted him to accompany her. He was filial, so although he was annoyed by these childish games, he still impatiently accompanied his lady mother and tried to make her happy. Old Laizi still wore colorful attires to entertain his parents when he was over eighty years old. So what was wrong with him sacrificing a little to accompany his lady mother to play these stupid and simple games?
However, his lord father obviously didn't understand his act of filial piety. He thought that his wife had gotten sick from exhaustion from playing with their energetic son. He felt very anxious ah! He chided his 'ignorant' son in his heart!
Seeing that her son's mind had wandered elsewhere, Princess Consort Jing quickly pulled on him and asked after a moment of hesitation, "No, that's not it. Lady Mother wanted to ask you...there's nothing wrong with your wife's health, right?"
