Chapter 4 Northern Qi
The world is divided into three kingdoms. The north is Qi, and the southeast is the southern Li country. Between the north and the south, several mountain ranges divide the green country.
Qingguo is located between the two great powers of the north and the south for a hundred years, and its territory has not been reduced or expanded. Qingguo has long had an ancestral system, does not worship martial arts, does not expand, only seeks self-defense by raising an army, and never takes the initiative to start a war. It is such a country that has existed for a long time between the two powerful powers of Northern Qi and Southern Li, and its national strength is getting stronger and stronger year by year.
In ancient times, Qingguo ruled the world with literature, taking advantage of the position between the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Southern Li to open up trade routes, led by officials and merchants, and did the business of exchanging goods between the two countries. There have been cases of wanton tariff hikes, price hikes, and bandits running rampant before, but for hundreds of years, there has been nothing between the three countries. Qingguo is like a huge shopping mall, the monarch of the generation is the owner of the mall, and the merchant rules the world, but it is surprisingly peaceful.
On an official road connecting the northern part of Qingguo and Northern Qi Kingdom, a small hotel ushered in the delivery, and it has been prosperous for several years. The hotel is called Qingqi Inn, the surname of the store is Guan, it is an old man who is nearly half a hundred years old, but he has a gentle temperament, is good at management, and has been calm for several years. The proprietress is also a capable person, and she is also proficient in medical skills, and often helps businessmen who come and go for free, and is quite respected. It's just that the shopkeeper's son heard that he died when he was killing the bandits, leaving behind a mute daughter-in-law and young son.
"Mother, I've done my homework today, can I go to Uncle Changcun's room? Uncle Nagamura brought a lot of new things from Nanli Country. "In the backyard of the hotel, a little boy about six or seven years old was lying on his mother's back begging for something.
The boy was born very cute, and there was only a pair of big eyes left on his fleshy little face, teary eyes. The little mouth is high, but it is a little naughty, the little nose twitches and twitches, and I want to cry a little, but it is funny to look at and make people laugh.
The child's mother was shaken and had no choice, so she dragged the little boy to her and reached out and touched his left forehead. There was a small scar there, which the boy had been stabbed by a firecracker a few years ago when he was playing with that uncle Nagamura. At that time, the child's mother was frightened, her face was covered with blood, and her hair was gone. Fortunately, it didn't have much of a problem later, her hair grew better, and her eyes were fine, but she left a small scar on her forehead, otherwise she wouldn't have lived.
"Oh mother, how many times have I said it, it's my own bad that steals Uncle Nagamura's things. From then on, as long as I went, Uncle Nagamura looked at me and didn't allow me to move. The boy flattered and shook his mother's arm, which was so cute that people wanted to take a bite of it.
The child's mother still shook her head coldly.
Now the boy was really going to cry.
"What's wrong with my little grandson, why is he so unhappy." The proprietress walked out of the pharmacy and looked at the boy with a smile.
"Grandma, grandma." The boy's savior came, and he ran over with a milky voice and a milky cry. The child's mother also stood up helplessly.
The proprietress picked up the little boy.
"Little thing, what have you stolen from the kitchen these days, why did you sink so much."
"How can there be, grandma, I didn't steal food, I just grew taller."
"Oh, oh, yes."
Whoever looks at it is a happy scene of grandparents and grandchildren. The child's mother stood aside, looking at the child who was held in the arms of the proprietress and felt extremely lucky. Yes, lucky.
Many people are afraid of death, but she is truly grateful to God for giving her a chance to die. After death, she was reborn, forgetting those painful and unbearable, and living a simple and beautiful life. Every day at sunrise and sunset, I listened to the stories of people passing by from all over the world, and traveled all over the world without going out, watching my child grow up slowly every day, accompanying him to read and write, and teaching him the principles of life. She felt that her life was good now.
This woman who died once was the woman who was found by the great eunuch Gong Zhu to extend the heirs for the emperor, the seventh girl.
The queen is domineering and powerful. Under the momentary negligence, it is possible to find a woman to bring to the emperor, but after a long time, it is impossible to hide it. Gong Zhu ordered people to bring women to the emperor several times, but they did not give birth to a dragon fetus. By chance, he got in touch with the palace maid Chunfu who left the palace in the early years. The two didn't have to be taboo, chatted casually, and after a few times, they came up with the idea of fake death. The adventure is certain, but if it does, it will be an escape under the eyes of the queen, but the queen would never have imagined.
After Gong Zhu identified the seven girls, he asked Chunfu to recuperate for her, and in the end, in addition to taking fake death medicine, Chunfu also gave her medicine that was easy to conceive. In front of the queen, the seventh girl suffocated to death because she had been hiding in the water for a long time, but in fact, it was just a fake death medicine that worked. After Chunfu saw the queen's phoenix, he rushed to the mass grave, waited there, and when the people threw the seven girls over, she carried the seven girls back. Unknowingly, the seven girls were already in Qingguo when they woke up.
"Grandma, I want to go and play with Uncle Nagamura, but my mother won't allow her." The little boy was coquettish again, changed the object, and it was really better. The elders all felt sorry for the child, and when they couldn't see the child pouting, they said it immediately.
"Just have fun, Mr. Nagamura is our regular customer, there won't be anything, right?"
"Yes."
The boy happily agreed. But the Seventh Maiden was not happy. She hurriedly walked in front of the grandfather and grandson, shook her hand desperately, pointed to the scar on the boy's forehead and looked at the child's grandmother.
"Oh, good grandson, what your mother said makes sense, what if you get hurt again."
"Oh grandma, grandma, it won't hurt, I'm growing up, no, no, no, no."
The boy kept twisting and turning in his grandmother's arms, begging with all his might.
"Xiao Qi, just tell her to go."
The shopkeeper came over from the front yard.
"Grandpa!"
The boy was even happier when he saw his grandfather. Grandpa has always liked him to communicate more with passing businessmen and learn more. This time, Mr. Nagamura brought something from Nanli Province, grandpa must have seen it. Although the seventh girl was a little unhappy, she still nodded.
The boy happily got out of his grandmother's arms, ran over and hugged his grandfather, and then twisted his little ass and went to the guest room.
The seventh girl still looked at it with some unease. The boss saw it in his eyes and said to her,
"Xiao Qi, don't worry, I went to see it just now, it is indeed some novelty, but it is very safe, it is all about the customs and customs of Nanli country, and it is not in the way."
The seventh girl nodded and went to work with confidence. The boss and the lady looked at each other, looked at each other and smiled.
The boss walked back to the room, closed the doors and windows, and took out a letter from his arms, and the payment was: Chang Gui. That's right, this Boss Guan who is so obedient to the seventh girl is Gong Zhu, the great eunuch who was once in charge of the affairs of the Qi Palace of the Northern Qi Kingdom. The proprietress was the peasant woman who dragged the seven girls and the palace bamboo out of the mass grave, and the former palace maid Chunfu.
It was Gong Zhu who asked Chang Gui to report to the queen.
Chunfu was sure that the seventh girl could conceive a dragon fetus, and he believed it, so his heart was even more unstable. He didn't worry that the seventh girl would give birth to a child outside, and if anything went wrong, he would give up all his efforts. So he thought that the same fake death disappeared from the queen's presence. He asked Chang Gui to report to the queen, and the queen would be furious when she found out, no matter what the process was, the queen was angry, and he would definitely die. As soon as he died, the position of the great eunuch naturally fell to the first-class meritorious man Chang Gui. If he can survive, he will be able to stay by the side of the Seven Girls, watch the prince be born, and grow up with good life. If something really happens in the future, it will be able to prove the identity of the prince. If he doesn't survive on a business trip, it doesn't matter, it's just that he will go to see the Queen Mother as soon as possible.
Fortunately, on that day, the queen asked someone to beat him to death with a stick and did not execute him directly, and Chang Gui begged someone to stop after a few sticks, and spent some silver taels to beat it, and he was also thrown into the mass grave with a pant.
opened Chang Gui's letter, there was nothing important, it was all usual, just said that the emperor's health was not as good as before, and he had just entered the autumn, and his health was not good, and he often declared the imperial doctor.
Gong Zhu, that is, Boss Guan, burned the letter after reading it, kowtowed to the north, and went back to the front yard to take care of it.
Entering the front hall, it was not lively, there were too many people who came to see Mr. Nagamura's baby, and he had no choice but to move the baby to the front hall, and the little boy followed Mr. Nagamura's ass and walked around, so unhappy.
Mr. Nagamura walked over and over, and he was not comfortable with a little person following him, for fear that he would accidentally hurt him, and his mother would not let him go, so he stopped, grabbed the little boy who was running around, and said,
"Beiqi, go over there and do a good job, don't follow me anymore, otherwise you won't be allowed to look at it, and I'll hand you over to your mother."
The little boy pouted, weighed it, and said,
"Okay then." Then I found a seat and sat down, and waited quietly.
"Your name is Northern Qi, are you the Northern Qi of the Northern Qi Kingdom?"
It was a milky voice again, but this time it was a little girl.
The little girl's long hair was hastily tied behind her, her eyebrows were as light as thin willows, her big eyes were full of doubts and looked at Beiqi, and her cherry mouth was moist, as if she had just eaten honey.
Beiqi felt that the little girl in front of him was really good-looking, and the clothes she was wearing were also good-looking, and she liked it in his heart.
"That's right, it's the Northern Qi of the Northern Qi Kingdom."
Bei Qi said. He jumped down from his stool and sat down on the little girl's stool.
"But this is Qingguo, why do you call it Northern Qi?"
The little girl's eyes became more and more puzzled. Bei Qi leaned next to the little girl again, he really liked this little girl so much, her tender little hands were placed on her lips, like soft cakes.
"My grandfather said that I was born in Northern Qi and experienced a lot of twists and turns, so he named me Northern Qi."
"Oh, that's right."
The little girl finally figured out why, and smiled contentedly. The little girl's smile was really cute, and Beiqi finally couldn't help it, and gently bit the corner of the little girl's mouth.
"Sure enough, it's so sweet."
Beiqi looked at the little girl and smiled, sure enough, this little girl is really sweet, he likes it so much.
The little girl smiled when she saw Beiqi laughing, and she laughed too. The two children didn't even look at the novelty, they looked at each other and giggled like this.
"Stinky boy! What are you doing! ”