After the grandma who delivered the baby left, Ji Ling listened to the fourth master in a low voice, admonishing the slaves, telling the slaves to be careful and careful. Although the concubine is a soft-hearted and talkative person, if the princess is found to be missing a hair by him, Cheng Qian will
All the slaves inside and outside the palace will die.
Aunt Chen knelt on the ground, feeling extremely stressed—she was originally sent to her by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a childbirth nun.
The so-called maternity nanny, in fact, has a somewhat ambiguous definition of her duties, which means "she takes care of everything, but is not professional in anything": if it is to serve the master and deliver babies, there are grandmothers who will deliver babies; if it is to take care of the young master, there is also a wet nurse,
Grandma Jingqi, Mama Shui...
But listening to the emperor's words, it seemed that he wanted to hold her accountable for everything.
Nanny Chen was muttering in her heart. She didn't dare to say a word in front of the fourth master. She just kowtowed and took the name of the whole family and swore an oath from eighteen generations of ancestors, promising to take good care of her little master.
After this admonishment, Yinzhen came over and sat on the edge of Ji Ling's bed. Still doing his familiar movements, he reached out and took her whole body into his arms.
Ji Ling rested her head on his shoulder - after the baby was born, in addition to being physically weak and unable to lift her strength, she was immediately relieved mentally - having completed a difficult task, she felt relieved.
Ji Ling let out a long breath, closed her eyes, held Yinzhen's hand, leaned against it for a while, and raised the corners of her mouth.
She thought of an important question, so she smiled and shook Yinzhen's hand, urging him to ask: "Your Majesty, what should I name the princess?"
Regarding the issue of naming the child, they had actually discussed it before, but they didn't know the gender of the child at that time, so the discussion was fruitless.
Now I know she is a little princess - she can't keep calling her "baby, be good" all the time.
There are now two princesses in the Forbidden City, Princess Shushen and Princess Hehui.
The two princesses are actually the same age, but by coincidence, Princess Shushen was born more than 20 days before Princess Hehui, so she became an older sister.
The titles of princesses and princes in the Qing Dynasty were often replaced by their ranking.
Ranking, a more formal term is "dental order" - for example, it is called the fourth prince, the thirteenth prince, and the fourteenth prince.
As for the princesses, after entering the customs, there are two ways of calling them: one is called Princess XX, and the other is called Princess Ji, also based on ranking.
Take Princess Hehui for example. In addition to calling her "Princess Hehui", people in the palace also call her "Second Princess".
In addition, there were many children who died in the palace, and these children also had to be recorded in the jade certificate. This caused a problem: two titles were used for the same person, which could easily lead to confusion.
Therefore, starting from the Yongzheng Dynasty, the children of the royal family were directly ranked as adults when they were actually called in daily life.
In this arrangement, Ji Ling's daughter is the third princess.
Ji Ling: I feel like I’m going to faint...
Yinzhen stood up and walked around the room for a few steps, then walked to the table and wrote two words with a brush.
Then, he put down the pen, took a satisfied look, stretched out his hand to lift up the paper, and held it in front of Ji Ling. He saw that the ink was dripping on the paper, and it seemed that there were two big characters written with flying dragons and phoenixes: Su Xi.
"What does this mean?" Ji Ling didn't understand, so he raised his head and asked Fourth Master.
These two words are not uncommon, but when they are put together, she doesn't recognize them - she has never heard of this word at all.
Yinzhen sat down again, pointed at the paper and said slowly and solemnly: "The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters of the Buddha's Sayings says: Once you get out of the mud, you can rest."
He paused, looked deeply, and said solemnly: "It is also said in the Han Dynasty that if the government is benevolent, the people will call it Su Xi.
I named our princess Su Xi because I hope that when the child grows up in the future, he will understand the principle of 'Mo Yan grass and trees encounter winter snow, and they will respond to Su Xi and meet spring.'"
Su Xi...it's weird, why do I feel so familiar.
Ji Ling slowly read it several times in his mouth, and suddenly realized it - no wonder the name sounded so familiar!
Rest, Suzy.
Suzy the Sheep, isn’t that Peppa Pig’s classmate in the cartoon?
She covered her mouth and couldn't stop laughing.
When the fourth master saw her smiling, he felt very good about himself - he felt that the name he gave his daughter was a good one.
In fact, before choosing this name, he had thought of two names for the little princess, one was "Shu Zhe" and the other was "Chao Hua".
They are also two very good names.
But thinking that "dynasties are easy to pass away", Yinzhen was unwilling.
Well, just take a rest, the princess still has a title anyway, Ji Ling thought.
On the second day after the three princesses' bathing banquet, Emperor Yongzheng issued an oral edict: the three princesses were named Princess Heshuo Duanrou and were recorded in the royal jade certificate. The concubines will be rewarded for their merit in giving birth.
Princess Heshuo Duanrou.
Ji Ling put down these words on the paper, turned around and said to the third princess in her wet nurse's arms: "Duanrou, look at the title given by your Emperor Ama!"
Many of the titles given to Manchu princesses were given when they got married.
Even people like He Hui and Shu Shen didn't get married until they were eight or nine years old. He Hui was born because his biological father was Prince Yi, so Yinzhen naturally loved him.
There are very few people like the third princess who have titles right after they are born.
This represents the emperor's special love for this daughter and the importance he attaches to the concubines who gave birth to the princess.
The third princess reached out and gestured towards Ji Ling. The wet nurse knew that the young master meant for her mother to hug her, so she looked at the concubine hesitantly.
Ji Ling just felt a lot better today. She just gained some strength in the morning. After hugging the third princess for a while, she felt a warmth on her body, and a stream of water snaked down her flag dress - the third princess
He happily lay on his mother's body and peed.
The baby sat on her wet nurse's breast in the morning to have a full meal, and then gave it all to Ji Ling.
Alas! After all, it was her own baby, so there was nothing she could do about it - Ji Ling had to be changed into clothes by Qixi and Bixue, and it took a long time.
Naturally, the baby babies at this time did not have the diapers of later generations. They used diapers that were changed and washed by hand and were sandwiched in swaddling clothes. Sometimes if they were not changed in time, they would easily leak out.
But when her daughter asked her to hug her, she couldn't refuse.
Ji Ling stretched out her hand to take it. When the wet nurse saw that the concubine was slightly out of breath, she couldn't help but said, "Is it better for you to take a rest?"
Ji Ling shook his head and said: "No problem, give the princess to me."
The wet nurse had no choice but to turn sideways and carefully hand the third princess into the hands of the concubine.
Ji Ling touched Su Xi's face, pulled her little hand, and called her: "Duanrou."
The third princess blew a bubble, waved her little hand, turned her head and didn't pay much attention.
Ji Ling suddenly had a thought in his mind and said again: "Xi'er!"
The third princess turned her face and looked at Ji Ling with bright eyes.
Ji Ling burst into laughter, buried her face in the soft and waxy body of the little bun, and said after a while: "So you prefer to be called this!"
She held her daughter as if she were holding the whole world in her arms.
Newborns love to sleep, and the third princess is no exception - lying in her mother's arms, smelling her mother's scent, her little head slowly drooped.
The third princess fell asleep.
Ji Ling raised her chin and signaled the wet nurse to go out.
The wet nurse lowered her head and stepped out quietly.