Chapter 796 Deep Love
When Jiang Qingzhi woke up in the morning, the first thing he asked was: "Where is the child?"
Li Tian has already woken up and is dressing herself up. Even though she is in confinement after childbirth, she still has to look beautiful.
"At the nurse's."
"Feed it yourself!" said Jiang Qingzhi.
"Feed the baby at home?" Li Tian was a little surprised. Most families with enough money would find a wet nurse for their children, such as Lu Bing's mother.
"Well!" Jiang Qingzhi sat up, "Never mind, it's up to you!"
He got up quickly and went to the next room in a hurry.
Wow!
Hearing the child's cry, Li Tian's face was full of black lines, "Husband!"
"I just gave her a kiss." Jiang Qingzhi laughed from the next room.
He held the swaddled baby in his arms and couldn't get enough of looking at it.
"My husband hasn't named the child yet!" Li Tian said to the person next door.
"I have prepared more than ten names, let's consider them."
Mr. Jiang, who has always been decisive, suffered from decision-making difficulties in naming his child.
The nurse took the child and opened the diaper skillfully, "He peed."
"Let me try." Jiang Qingzhi said. The nurse was shocked. "Uncle, this is not something you can do."
"There is nothing you can't do." Jiang Qingzhi seemed a little clumsy at first, but gradually became proficient, which made the wet nurse worry about losing her job.
At breakfast, Li Tian's confinement meal was too greasy, and Jiang Qingzhi criticized it as a fattening meal. Li Tian didn't like such tasteless food, so she handed a big bowl of chicken soup to Jiang Qingzhi.
Jiang Qingzhi did not delay and added salt, some chili powder, and a few drops of vinegar. He tore the pancake into small pieces and soaked them in water to soften them. Under Li Tian's envious gaze, he ate them heartily.
"Husband, my confinement period is almost over..."
"Are you excited?"
"Ok!"
"Just bear with it a little longer, or else your mother-in-law will make a scene if she finds out."
Chang didn't come yesterday to give the young couple some space to talk. Jiang Qingzhi was sure that she would come today. If she saw Li Tian breaking the rules of confinement, the roar of the mother-in-law would be something that not everyone could withstand.
After breakfast, Jiang Qingzhi was about to choose a name for his son when someone reported that King Jing had arrived.
Jiang Qing was startled, then smiled bitterly, "It's not easy to keep things even!"
King Jing looked no different from usual, but Jiang Qingzhi still sensed a sense of decadence and confusion.
Jiang Qingzhi smoked a medicinal cigarette and asked, "Do you feel abandoned by His Majesty and me?"
King Jing blushed slightly, "No."
"Go for a walk."
Jiang Qingzhi liked to take a walk after dinner. This habit was only for the elderly, but he found pleasure in it.
There are trees in the courtyard, and the crowns of the trees are quite large. Standing under them to enjoy the cool in the summer is Jiang Qingzhi's favorite thing.
Jiang Qingzhi walked under the tree and walked slowly, "Old people like to take walks, it's not that they can't jog, it's not that they don't want to do other things.
After half a lifetime of ups and downs, they are used to the storms, the fickleness of love and the impermanence of life. Compared with the impetuousness of young people, they prefer to relax in a leisurely way like taking a walk. "
King Jing didn't know why his uncle would say this, so he nodded and said, "Yes."
"Young people express their affection like the morning sun, full of vigor, or like the scorching sun at noon, especially hot. As for older people, their way of expressing affection seems plain, even imperceptible. Just like this walk, it seems plain, but there are countless flavors in it."
In later times, King Jing was still a teenager at this age, so he naturally could not understand the meaning of these words.
Jiang Qingzhi looked at him and thought of his own children with some sadness.
If the eldest brother grows up, will he be as confused as the young man in front of him?
As a father, how should I guide him, lead him, no, assist him to get through this period of confusion?
"When walking, your feet should be calm, your whole body should be relaxed, and your whole body should be relaxed. Then, your mind will be free of thoughts... It is as if you have completely forgotten the mundane affairs of the world."
Jiang Qingzhi was instructing King Jing, and King Jing followed his lead, walking slowly with his hands behind his back, trying to relax his body and mind, but...
"Uncle, I can't relax."
"It's normal for young people to be unable to relax." Jiang Qingzhi said in a mature manner, and then said: "So, you can't understand the affection between His Majesty and me for you. Just like you can't understand how taking a walk can completely relax you."
"It's not that we are distancing ourselves from you. Rather, we have chosen a...more obscure way of expression."
King Jing felt his body relax unconsciously, as if someone had pulled him up when he was drowning.
“Everyone needs recognition and affirmation from others.”
"But those hermit masters don't need it."
"Haha!" Jiang Qingzhi laughed. "If the hermit you mentioned stays away from the world and doesn't interact with people, that's escapism. If he stays in the mountains and interacts with people every day, that's not called a hermit, it's also escapism."
In Jiang Qingzhi's view, a great hermit living in seclusion in the city is a true master. A master is one who sees through things but does not give up, sees through things but loves them. Of course, he also respects those who live in seclusion. As long as the person feels that this can make him calm down, then it is the most suitable way of life for him.
Everyone is different, and we should respect everyone’s choice. This is the view of later generations.
"Uncle..."
"Don't be upset." Jiang Qingzhi knew the pride of this child, "I just want to tell you that in the eyes of His Majesty and me, you are a child... proud and enthusiastic."
"You are sincere to His Majesty, but you are a proud child. Even if you are filial, you will make it stiff and make people feel that you are unwilling. I remember when His Majesty was sick, you seemed calm, but secretly you not only sought medical treatment, but also couldn't sleep or eat because of it. You also frequently prayed to the gods and Buddhas."
"That's... isn't that what every son should do?"
"No, some people are not worthy of being a son." Jiang Qingzhi smiled. "When the third brother was in the most unlucky time, if you had taken advantage of his misfortune or stabbed him in the back, who could say anything to you? But not only did you not stab him, but you quietly comforted him and even fought with others for him. When he was punished by His Majesty, you refused to throw the responsibility to the third brother and took the blame yourself..." "At the beginning, I claimed to be a great master of the Mohist school, and everyone in the world wanted to kill me. Instead of staying away from me, you came to Xin'an Lane frequently... It seems that you did nothing, but you did everything you could. Everyone knows that if there is a war between Confucianism and Mohism, you will definitely stand on my side."
Jiang Qingzhi turned around, looked at King Jing with tears streaming down his face, and gave him a gentle hug.
"Your Majesty and I know all this. It's not that we don't care about you, but everyone has his or her own path, and we can't interfere with yours.
All we can do is watch from the sidelines. When you fall, we will encourage you, but we won't help you up. This is not because we don't care about you, but because we want you to accept all these hardships.
Only through constant tempering can people grow and mature. "
Jiang Qingzhi let go of his hand, took a step back, and said, "This time it was the third brother who stole the limelight, but in the future it may be you who will steal the limelight. The third brother may not seem to care, but he will also be tormented and even jealous like you. Don't deny it."
Jiang Qingzhi shook his head. "Everyone will be like this, unless you don't need any recognition or affirmation from the outside world. But who can do that? No one can do that. So jealousy is jealousy. I will be jealous, and so will Your Majesty..."
Proud people deny certain emotions in their inner world, such as jealousy.
He will deny it: How could I be jealous? I am so extraordinary and proud, how could I be jealous of him? Hahaha, you are kidding!
But Jiang Qingzhi's words revealed all of this. Just when he felt that his heart had been torn open by his uncle, Jiang Qingzhi poured a ray of nectar on it.
In an instant, King Jing felt his heart calm down.
The world is different.
It's quiet now.
Even the autumn wind cannot dispel this quietness.
"People go through a lot in their lives. There are good times and bad times. When it's good... for example, the third brother is in the spotlight this time, isn't that a good thing?"
King Jing naturally nodded.
This time, Prince Yu went to the front line in person and led the troops, killing the enemy. For a time, he was the talk of the town!
Someone said yesterday that such a prince should be made the crown prince!
This was a gust of wind, like a hurricane that could push Prince Yu into the sky.
"But what will come with it? All kinds of exploitation. Those people will take advantage of the third brother and suggest establishing a crown prince."
Jiang Qingzhi looked at King Jing and he knew that this was another heavy blow.
King Jing lowered his head uncomfortably.
"Disappointment, reluctance, emptiness... don't deny it all, just surrender." Jiang Qingzhi said softly: "Many times, when you encounter something you cannot change, remember, don't resist, and don't drive it away... surrender to it all, surrender to it wholeheartedly."
"Take a deep breath." Jiang Qingzhi was teaching King Jing how to deal with the troubles of such a young man.
King Jing took a deep breath.
"What will your majesty think?" Jiang Qingzhi smiled and said, "Your majesty will not agree to appoint a crown prince, so the secret war between the monarch and his subjects will begin. The third brother will be at the center of the storm. With his temperament, he will probably be uneasy. But what's the use? This is the general trend, and under the general trend, he is just a pawn."
Historically, Prince Yu was in a very difficult situation. He could be described as the least transparent of the most transparent... being less transparent would be even more unfortunate.
"As time goes by, the Third Brother will have all kinds of suspicions, suspecting that His Majesty will suspect him. Isn't this awkward?" Jiang Qingzhi himself felt that this was awkward, "And what caused all this? It's because he stole the limelight this time."
King Jing suddenly realized, "Don't get carried away when you are proud."
"This is called the movement of Tao of reversal. Things will turn into opposites when they reach the extreme." Jiang Qingzhi took out the medicinal incense and King Jing lit it for him.
Not far away, the eunuch beside him whispered, "Your Highness's eyes are not right when he looks at Long Wilbur."
"What's wrong?" Huang Jian yawned. Ever since he learned that Prince Yu had become so popular, Huang Jian, as Prince Jing's close companion, had been in a state of worry and panic.
He was worried that Prince Yu would suppress Prince Jing from now on, and once he was crowned as the crown prince, Prince Jing would become an ordinary prince, and eventually become a pig in his fiefdom.
"Like... Rumu!"
Huang Jian looked up...
Jiang Qingzhi gently patted King Jing on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Yang extreme gives birth to Yin, and Yin extreme gives birth to Yang. A person may seem unlucky, but when he is extremely unlucky, his fate will suddenly reverse..."
King Jing seemed to be thinking about something.
"Just like this world, the wise say that the world will eventually separate after a long period of unity, and will eventually unite after a long period of separation. This is the positive pole giving birth to the negative pole, and the negative pole giving birth to the positive pole. It is also the movement of the opposite. The world is like this, and so are people."
When he reappeared in Yongshou Palace, King Jing raised his head with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Jing looks energetic and in high spirits." Huang Jin said to the Taoist priest behind the door.
"That idiot does have some tricks." The Taoist smiled.
Through a door, King Jing greeted and said hello.
"Study hard, learn medicine well... that is..." The Taoist hesitated for a moment, "Don't think about dissecting corpses anymore."
"Yes." King Jing seemed to agree.
Later, Daoye wondered, "Why don't you leave?"
"Father, extend your hand."
"What?"
"Take your pulse."
"I'm not sick."
"They said that Father has started taking pills again recently. Stretch out your hand..."
"Rebel..."
(End of this chapter)
