Chapter 343: Patchwork Clothes

Gu Huaizhi asked nervously: "Where does it hurt?"

Su Wan supported herself on the bed with her hands, and only used one side of her buttocks to relieve the pain of the wound.

She was a little embarrassed to speak. The child was born prematurely and the tear was serious.

If it were in modern times, the problem would have been discovered long ago. If the child's head was blocked with hands before it came out, the tear would not be serious.

Su Wan said vaguely: "It's okay. The milk is flowing, I want to drink rooster soup."

Rooster soup can increase milk, but you can't drink it if the milk is not flowing. Otherwise, it will be very painful to squeeze the milk out, and it will only make the milk swell back.

"Okay." Gu Huaizhi went to put the chicken soup warmed on the small stove on the table. He looked at Su Wan worriedly and saw that she was teasing the child. He filled a bowl of chicken soup and came to the bedside.

Su Wan wanted to take the bowl, but Gu Huaizhi avoided it, scooped a spoonful and blew a few times, and fed it to her mouth when it was not hot.

"Father, mother has been here. You are still sleeping. It is getting late, so they have gone back. Come back tomorrow morning." Gu Huaizhi fed her soup and asked: "It is the baby's baptism ceremony on the third day. Invite more people to bless the child."

"No, she is still young, just invite the closest relatives to come." Su Wan swallowed the chicken soup and said softly: "Next there will be a full moon ceremony and a hundred-day ceremony. When she celebrates the hundred-day ceremony, invite friends and colleagues to celebrate."

Gu Huaizhi was silent: "Okay."

Su Wan heard the regret in his tone and exposed him: "Do you want to tell others that you have a daughter?"

Gu Huaizhi remained silent and refused to admit it.

Su Wan smiled and had a stomachache. She drank a large bowl of soup and a small bowl of soup rice and was full.

"It's late at night. Go to bed quickly. You have to attend the court tomorrow." Su Wan wanted to get out of bed and walk around, but was afraid of the pain, so she gave up the idea.

Just after drinking the soup, her chest felt numb, and it was like a warm current. She touched it and felt some milk.

"I won't go to court this month. I'll take care of you at home."

Su Wan felt warm in her heart, thinking that someone at home would take care of her. She also remembered that she didn't inform him that she was about to give birth today, and this man had a lot of complaints in his heart. If she didn't appreciate his kindness this time, she would probably make him angry.

"Then I won't go." Su Wan raised the corner of her mouth, "My child and I are bored at home."

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Gu Huaizhi's mood improved visibly.

Gu Huaizhi stayed at home leisurely for three days. After baptizing the child for three days, Gu's mother cooked hundreds of red eggs and distributed them to the neighbors to announce the good news.

If his identity had not been made clear, Gu Huaizhi would have wanted to give red eggs to the civil and military officials during the morning court.

He didn't do this, Jingyun did it for him. Not only the officials in Beijing, but also the local officials received red eggs.

Everyone knew that the new emperor had a little niece and loved her very much.

Gu Huaizhi's limelight was snatched by Jingyun, and he was depressed. When Jingyun and Baozhu came back from the palace, he didn't get a good look from his elder brother.

Jingyun didn't care, and he circled around his elder sister-in-law and little niece.

Until the eunuch urged: "Your Majesty, you should go back to the palace."

Jingyun was reluctant, his fingers were held by the little ball, and he looked at Gu Huaizhi beside him eagerly.

Gu Huaizhi lifted his eyelids and said in a light voice: "It's late, have you finished handling government affairs?"

Jingyun looked at Gu Baozhu with a bitter face.

Gu Baozhu grew a year older, taller, and slender. She learned etiquette in the palace for nearly a year. Her manners were gentle and dignified, but her watery eyes were smart and playful. She smiled sweetly: "Second brother, I will wait for Xiao Jiaojiao to return to the palace after the 100-day ceremony."

Jingyun opened his eyes angrily, feeling a sense of desolation of being betrayed and abandoned by his closest relatives.

"Can you bear to see me alone in the palace being tortured by government affairs? Studying documents alone?"

Gu Baozhu blinked: "Second brother, I can't bear to leave my lovely niece and want to spend more time with her. I haven't been home for half a year. You won't bear to let me go back to the palace with you and miss my niece every day, right?"

Jingyun choked, looked at her bright eyes, and compromised: "Forget it, I will come to watch the ceremony and go back to the palace together."

He took out a jade pendant from his sleeve, put it in the swaddling clothes of the little girl, kissed her, and hurried back to the palace with the eunuchs.

Gu Baozhu lay on the bed, very curious, touching the little hand, and then the little face, pinching here and there, wanting to hug, but not daring to hug.

"Sister-in-law, what's Xiao Jiaojiao's name?"

"Gu Huayao."

Gu Baozhu thought it sounded nice, "Is the nickname Gu Jiaojiao?"

Gu Huaizhi said softly: "The nickname given by your sister-in-law."

Su Wan glared at him.

Gu Baozhu went to the table and brought a small wooden box. She took out a key from her purse and opened the lock.

"I exchange letters with my father every month. A few days ago, he sent me a reply letter and this wooden box. In the letter, he told me to take it out for my niece's 100-day gift."

Gu Baozhu put the box on the small table.

Su Wan saw that there were small clothes made of colorful small scraps of cloth inside, and a silver longevity lock.

Mother Gu brought the food and saw the things in the wooden box, her eyes changed.

Su Wan caught it and asked, "Mother, what is this for?"

"This is a hundred-family clothing. Neighbors and relatives ask for scraps of cloth to make clothes for children to wear. It means that the child can get blessings from a hundred families, have fewer illnesses and disasters in the future, and grow up easily." Gu's mother's eyes fell on the silver lock, her mind was in a mess: "This lock is also called a hundred-family lock. Ask a hundred families for money and make a silver lock for the child. It is cast with the words "long life and wealth" as a talisman for the child."

"On the 100th day of the ceremony, let the child wear a hundred-family clothing and a hundred-family lock, and live a long and healthy life."

Su Wan was stunned. She didn't expect Gu Qingsong to be so thoughtful. There were only a few dozen families in Xinghua Village, and some of them were not on good terms with the Gu family. He probably spent a lot of effort to get the cloth and money from the hundred families.

Gu Huaizhi was also in a complicated mood.

"Mom, do you want to bring Dad to Beijing?" Su Wan put away the clothes and locks from the hundred families. Although Gu Qingsong returned to Xinghua Village, he would send mountain products home every month.

Gu's mother shook her head: "If he wants to come, he will come by himself."

Su Wan and Gu Huaizhi exchanged glances.

Gu Baozhu didn't say anything, but teased the little Jiaojiao who had just woken up.

——

Gu Huaizhi was taking care of his wife and daughter at home, and he was happy and didn't want to leave.

After a few days of carefree days, a fire burned on his head.

The Minister of Personnel wanted to retire and return home. The emperor went against all odds and promoted Tingyuan Gongzi to be the Minister of Personnel. Most people in the court opposed it. The first point was that he was too young, and he had been promoted across levels and parachuted into the cabinet, which was already an exception. The second point is still a commonplace. He is not a Jinshi. If he breaks the rules again, it will disrupt the court order and law. The third point is that people in the cabinet cannot concurrently serve as the Minister of Personnel.

Besides, Tingyuan Gongzi's identity is ruthless, no less than the regent, and he has many enemies. Everyone has long disliked him. This time they joined forces to suppress him, hoping to kick this relative away.

Some people took advantage of the situation and impeached the new champion for despising the emperor's power, not attending the Qionglin Banquet, and not reporting to the Hanlin Academy so far, canceling his ranking as the champion.

It is impossible to remove both relatives at once. The emperor must remove one to appease the people, right?

In this way, Gu Huaizhi was urgently summoned to the palace.

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