Sure enough, not long after the people from Chengqian Palace left, Xiao Gouzi came over, bringing with him an old eunuch who also served the imperial dog.
The two of them knelt down to say hello to Concubine Chen. After they started shouting, Little Gouzi touched Qilin's belly carefully and looked at the old eunuch again.
The old eunuch came forward, stretched out his hands that looked like old tree bark, turned Qilin over and took a closer look at her belly, without touching her, and nodded firmly.
Little Gouzi kowtowed to Ji Ling and said, "Concubine Chen, Qilin is... pregnant with a puppy."
Ji Ling just took a cup of bird's nest and took a sip. Hearing these words, he almost choked and subconsciously looked up at Bixue: "What's going on?"
Bixue looked embarrassed.
Qilin is lively and active. Sometimes he is left in the yard and will sneak out of the palace gate when she is not paying attention - but he is very well-behaved every time and just plays at the door and then comes back.
In addition, Bixue has not been focusing on these things recently. Sometimes when she goes out with Qilin in her arms, Qilin gets even more excited and can run out for half an hour before coming back.
Ji Ling heard what Bixue said and thought that Qilin probably fell in love in the Forbidden City.
Early the next morning, she sent someone to investigate, and the results turned around and the target was basically locked. Except for the royal dog of the Yangxin Palace, there were not many other queens who raised dogs, and only Concubine Yu raised one.
According to the servants in Concubine Yu's palace, they said privately that Concubine Yu's pet dog was always running outside. After hearing the description of Qilin's appearance by the people in Concubine Chengqian's palace, they knew that they had seen this puppy.
Ji Ling touched Qilin's belly and poked its little head: "You protect your underground love very well!"
Qilin lowered his eyebrows and folded his tail, like a child who knew he had done something wrong. He hung his little head on his two front paws and did not dare to raise his head to look at his master. He felt very guilty.
Ji Ling carried it into the puppy cage, which was already covered with thick bedding.
She traced the hair on Qilin's back over and over again and said: "You have married me into an in-law. I'm afraid that Concubine Yu is also confused!"
Qilin turned his head, stuck out his pink tongue, and gently licked Ji Ling's palm.
Ji Ling sighed and said softly: "Being a mother is not easy, so you should take good care of her."
She stood up and glanced at Bixue, thinking that Bixue had been wandering around lately and seemed to be doing things more and more absent-mindedly.
One and a half months later, Qilin gave birth to five puppies.
The five puppies all looked exactly like Qilin, and their voices were very weak. At the Yangxin Hall, Yinzhen listened to Xiao Gouzi's report when he returned, and even sent a young eunuch over to take a look.
As a result, one of the puppies died the next day. It was accidentally crushed to death by the Kirin when it turned over in the night.
Didn't even open his eyes.
Qilin didn't seem to know that the puppy was dead. He kept licking the dead puppy deeply and lightly, and kept nudging it with his head.
As soon as someone reaches out to take the puppy away, it will protect it with all its strength.
As a result, the little eunuch was scratched by Qilin.
Ji Ling knew - Qilin has always been very docile, and if it can scratch people, it means it is very sad.
The third princess staggered over, holding her two chubby hands in her sleeves, touching the Qilin's head, and rubbing the hair on its back, shouting in a sweet voice, "Good Qilin!"
"After coaxing him for a while, Qilin was finally willing to let the puppy's body be taken away.
Ji Ling saw a big teardrop falling from the corner of Qilin's eye, which wetted the dog's fur.
Everything has feelings.
Ji Ling did not dare to let anyone put the remaining four puppies together with Qilin, for fear that Qilin would accidentally crush the puppies again.
Xiaogouzi also brought an open kennel, with soft cotton bedding, just enough to put the puppy in. After another five or six days, the puppies opened their eyes one after another.
Most children are naturally irresistible to small animals. The third princess was so happy that she held the puppy like a treasure and ran around the house to show it to people.
"Mommy, look!" She raised it to show to Aunt Chen.
Grandma Chen smiled and said: "I saw this, and when it grows up, it will be the third princess's puppy. It's so beautiful!"
Her words were meant to coax the children, but they inspired the third princess.
The third princess raised her head and stared at Nanny Chen for a while, then came back to make plans next to the puppy kennel. She then turned to point at the two puppies and said to Ji Ling: "Mom, the dogs are mine."
She pointed to the other two: "Brother."
Ji Ling understood what her daughter meant. She meant that of the remaining four puppies, half were divided between two siblings.
Ji Ling thought to himself: Your brother can't even walk yet, how can he play with a puppy?
She touched her daughter's furry little head and saw her sitting on the ground with two puppies crawling around on her. The third princess giggled happily and went to touch the two puppies.
The puppy is chubby and round, and the third princess’s little face is also pudgy.
Ji Ling said with a smile: "Okay, these two are yours. Those two are my brother."
I don’t know if the third princess really understood such a slightly complicated sentence. In short, she nodded happily and said "Yeah!" hard.
Ji Ling patted her on the back and was about to walk away when a sudden movement occurred in her heart. He turned back to look at her, stretched out his hand to pick up the two puppies in her arms, pointed at the sixth brother, and said: "Brother.
To my brother."
What if all four puppies were given to my younger brother? Would you be willing to give them up?
The third princess's little face suddenly wrinkled up, the corners of her mouth drooped, and she was about to cry.
Ji Ling gestured to her: "Brother, I like dogs. Your brother."
The third princess thought hard for a while, her eyes flickering back and forth between the puppy and the sixth brother, and finally nodded with her eyes closed.
Ji Ling immediately smiled and stretched out her hand to rub her chubby face.
Willing to share - Xi'er, this child, is not selfish.
Two siblings who share the same father and mother could not be more intimate. They should support each other on their journey of life.
She returned the puppy to the third princess and said, "Xi'er, it's fine. Your mother loves Xi'er."
The third princess basically understood this sentence.
She held the two puppies in her arms, bringing them both to her chest, rubbing her face against their backs, staring at her mother with shining eyes and smiling.
In the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart, four or five exquisite ice buckets were placed, and smoke-like cold air curled out.
After Yinzhen approved the memorial for a while, it was already the moon at the top of the sky.
He originally planned to finish approving the memorial and go back to the palace to sleep, but he couldn't help but walked out of the palace gate towards Chengqian Palace.
Thinking of Ji Ling and his children, he couldn't help but smile.
Lingling, I wonder if she has fallen asleep at this moment?
When they arrived at Chengqian Palace, they saw that many of the lights had been extinguished, leaving only a few dim lights. Yinzhen's feet paused slightly, and suddenly he heard laughter and laughter coming from inside, and he could also hear the voice of the third princess.