Time Travel and Love

Chapter 516: Twins

Mo Yunting responded, "You came back pretty quickly. It should have been a month's journey, but you got back in just twenty days. Humph."

Ling Xian still looked calm and indifferent. He glanced at Chu Qingmeng and said to Mo Yunting, "Let's go."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Can he get in?" Mo Yunting was not in a hurry. Besides the imperial guards outside the courtyard, there were also his own experts and the experts on the fifth floor. If Mo Liujin wanted to come in, he would have to wait.

Sure enough, the first thing Mo Liujin did after returning home was to go to the warm room to see his wife. Unfortunately, before he could even get through the gate, he heard that the emperor had banned the eldest princess and no one else was allowed to enter.

"What's going on?!" Mo Liujin looked at his two sons who were kneeling on the ground and apologizing with a dark face.

The two of them told the whole story in detail. "Father, the emperor has been avoiding everyone in the family for a while now, claiming illness. When several uncles mentioned this during the morning court, he was reprimanded. The eldest prince went to plead for mercy, but was imprisoned for five days. After he was released, he went to plead again and was imprisoned again. Mother said..."

Mo Liujin rubbed his brows tiredly and sighed deeply, "Your mother's health has indeed recovered, right?"

"Father, I am indeed fine."

Mo Liujin breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand for them to stand up and sit down to talk.

Because Mo Liujin was furious when he returned and couldn't see the princess, everyone in the general's mansion was carefully and seriously "slacking off". Everyone was very "busy". No one noticed that a servant in the corner outside Luotang Courtyard stuffed a package into the yard.

At dinner time, the west courtyard was noisy. Chu Qingmeng, who was sitting by the window looking at the stars, was puzzled for a moment, "Shuangcheng, what happened?"

"I'll go take a look." Shuang Cheng left and returned soon after. "My Lord, it's the time for the maid in the eldest son's courtyard. The midwife is directing the servants to come in and out to fetch water, which might be a bit noisy."

Chu Qingmeng then remembered that when her relationship with them had just improved, their concubines became pregnant. However, Jiang Che's concubine was pregnant with a fake pregnancy, and she had forgotten that there was another one who was pregnant.

"I gonna go see."

"Master! Don't worry! It's still early for women to give birth, and it's still cold outside. You should have dinner first and then go. It will be almost time by then, and the midwife is here. Going will only make the servants panic." Shuang Cheng advised.

Chu Qingmeng thought about it and realized that if she went there, everyone in the courtyard would probably just be busy paying homage to her. She didn't insist any further and started eating once the food was served.

Before dinner, a servant reported that the maid in the courtyard had severe abdominal pain and was about to give birth, so Li arranged for someone to serve her.

Mo Jiangqing didn't have time to deal with these trivial matters. After finishing his official business in the study, he went to the restaurant for dinner and then returned to the study. Li took care of everything in the courtyard.

Near the end of the hour of midnight, a baby's cry in the courtyard broke through the noisy crowd. Before the midwife came out with the child to congratulate, another baby's cry was heard.

"They are two little princes!" The midwife took the children out and showed them to Li.

Li nodded and let the wet nurse take the baby down to feed it. "The master has two more sons. This is a happy occasion. Come, take a look at the reward."

The servants in the courtyard expressed their gratitude and resumed their work as usual.

Chu Qingmeng had already taken the medicine. Seeing that it was almost time, he got up and went to Mo Jiangqing's yard.

Jingming hesitated to speak behind him. Erkang stretched out his hand again and again, but finally closed his mouth. Never mind. Someone who could make the emperor wait probably wouldn't take the emperor's decree seriously. And the emperor might not really lock up Jiu Ye.

As expected, Chu Qingmeng walked out of the courtyard without any obstruction. The imperial guards on both sides knelt down and greeted him, "Greetings, Princess!"

Chu Qing pulled his cloak closer and went straight to Mo Jiangqing's yard.

"Mother?!" Mo Jiangqing had just finished looking at the two children when he saw Chu Qingmeng standing at the door of the main hall in his yard.

"Where's the baby? Let me see." Chu Qingmeng glanced around the hall and saw two wet nurses each holding a swaddling baby. "Two? Twins?"

Mo Jiangqing calmed down and asked the servant beside him to call Mo Liujin. Then he came over and helped Chu Qingmeng sit down first. "Mother, how did you get out?"

"I walked out." Chu Qingmeng held two swaddling clothes, one on each side. "This one is so small. Why does it feel like the older one is not even as big as you two were when you were young?"

Li recovered a little from her shock and explained, "Mother, there are always two children, one is fatter and the other is thinner."

Mo Jiangqing had just come back to his senses from Chu Qingmeng's words, "He walked out," when he heard Chu Qingmeng say, "Jiang Qing and Jiang Che were both larger and thinner when they were born, but they're similar, so the difference isn't that obvious. However, these two children are just as ugly as they were when they were born."

"..." Hearing his mother's comments about him when he was just born for the first time, Mo Jiangqing choked for a moment, "Mother... do you really think your son is ugly?"

"When the baby was first born, it was indeed..." Chu Qingmeng pursed her lips. Actually, she didn't like finding a wet nurse to feed the baby, but the baby was too ugly, like an old man, with wrinkles all over his face. She couldn't feed the baby.

Seeing Mo Jiangqing looking at her with resentment, Chu Qingmeng abruptly changed her tone, "It's true that it doesn't look very pretty, but after the confinement period, you both gained over 8 kilograms, and you look much better. You should take care of yourself and you'll look better."