Lu Lideng's face changed, and he hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty!" Never! ”

Guogong!

This is the only official position of the prince of the clan and the prince of the county, and the status is second only to the royal clan dynasties, and only those who help the king open up the territory can be awarded. And now that he is just pacifying the northern border, the emperor is going to reward him with such great glory, and Lu Li really can't afford it.

Therefore, he excused himself in every possible way, "Your Majesty, the minister is just doing his duty, and the minister really can't afford such a big reward." ”

In the past, he was only given the official position of a general, and there were already many people in the court who criticized him, but now if he is named the prince of the country, wouldn't it be ......

Thinking of this, Lu Li became more and more uncontrollable, and without waiting for the emperor to speak, he pleaded again: "Your Majesty, the minister is a military general, and he doesn't know anything about the affairs of the court, besides, I wanted to take my wife back after the war, Huang Shang, the minister can't afford your love!" ”

Seeing this, the emperor chuckled, "Lu Qing doesn't need to panic, I know that you are not in the government and the opposition, but this time you won a complete victory, winning ten years of peace for Donglan Kingdom, such a great merit, I must be rewarded!" ”

Without waiting for Lu Li to speak, the emperor said again: "You don't have to excuse yourself, I have already discussed it with the courtiers, and no one has any objections to this, and I will inform the world in a few days!" ”

As he spoke, there were palace people next to him who came up with Yin Ce, court clothes, and jade crowns, and did not give Lu Li a chance to refuse.

Lu Li looked at the emperor and bowed down, "Your Majesty, it is really difficult for the minister to bear the name of the prince of the country, please think twice." ”

"Lu Li, you pushed three times and four times, aren't you afraid that I won't allow you to go back with the Su family? Don't worry, I'm very open-minded, if you want to stay in Shangjing in the future, then I won't say anything, and if you want to go back with your wife and children, I won't say much. ”

God knows, Lu Li is worried about more than this.

The status of the prince is high, and it is only in the royal family, so it is inevitable that some people will come forward to stammer and flatter, so if the emperor suspects that Lu Li has two hearts one day, and uses these people as a cover to slander him, then Lu Li is really speechless.

"Lu Li, I have already told the civil and military officials about this matter, and I can't allow you to shirk!" At this time, the emperor seemed to be a little angry.

Lu Li sighed helplessly, so he had to accept it, "Thank you, Lord Longen." ”

Soon, the news that Lu Li was named the Duke of Lu Guo spread, and half of the Donglan Kingdom knew about it.

Qin, who was buying vegetables in the vegetable market, also heard about this, her face was so happy that she forgot to bargain, hurriedly threw down a few copper plates and left with the basket.

The stall owner scratched his head strangely, and muttered a few words to himself: "It's strange, why is this old woman Qin so happy today, and she left without a counteroffer, it's really strange." ”

Qin trotted back to the house behind Liuye Street with the basket, pushed the door in, didn't even drink saliva, she threw down the basket, ran to Qin Chun's bedroom in a hurry, raised her hand and began to knock on the door.

"Bang bang - "

It wasn't until Qin Chun in the room opened the door that the Qin family withdrew his hand, raised his eyebrows, and said excitedly: "Qin Chun, I just heard that the emperor wants to crown General Lu as the Duke of Lu Guo?" It's really fake, you are working under Su Xiaoman, you must know a lot, tell your mother quickly, is this thing true or fake?! ”

Qin Chun glanced coldly, with a bit of obvious vigilance, "What do you want to do?" ”

During this time, the Qin family didn't mention Lu Li's matter again, and at the beginning he said that he wanted Qin Chun to marry as soon as possible, but then Qin Chun warned her again, and the Qin family never mentioned it again, and today I don't know why, why did he suddenly talk about Lu Li again?

Looking at Qin Chun's suspicious eyes, the Qin clan hurriedly explained: "Ouch! Don't think about it, I just heard other people's discussions when I was shopping for groceries, so I just came back to ask you, I remember everything you said before! ”

Qin Chun retracted his gaze at this time, "I don't know about this, the store hasn't opened yet, and I haven't been to the Lu Mansion for a long time." ”

"Anyway, you haven't been there for so long, so why don't you go and see it in the next few days? I heard that Shopkeeper Su is about to give birth, why don't you take a look? Qin squeezed his eyebrows and tried his best to persuade.

There is no need for Qin Shi Ming to say, Qin Chun also knows what the other party has in mind, but what Qin Shi said is also right, it will be the day when Xiao Man is about to give birth. Except for Aunt Yang, there was no one else in the Lu Mansion who had experience in giving birth, Qin Chun pondered, she still had to take some time to go to the Lu Mansion.

However, in front of the Qin family, she just cleared her throat and said indifferently: "If you are born, you will be born, and there will be a midwife and a doctor at that time, and it will be fine." ”

"Qin Chun, Qin Chun, the shopkeeper Su is so good to you, and now that she is going to give birth, you don't even go to see it?" The Qin family hated that iron could not become steel, and pointed at Qin Chun and complained: "After a while, you still have to work under the hands of Shopkeeper Su, so you are not afraid that people will ask you why you didn't go to see her?" ”

Qin Chun chuckled, and then said, "Mother, then you asked me to seduce General Lu in the first place!" Why didn't you think that Shopkeeper Su was good to me at the beginning, and why didn't you think about how your daughter should face Shopkeeper Su in the future? ”

Qin was speechless by Qin Chun's words, so he had to stomp his feet, and turned around and left angrily.

Qin Chun, who stayed in place, saw that the Qin family had gone away, and then leaned over and opened the cabinet on the side and put the small shoes that had been embroidered a long time ago. Taking out the small clothes and small belly pocket, she looked at the clothes she had worked hard to embroider for a long time, rubbed them carefully, and then raised the corners of her lips.

Since the shopkeeper Su is about to give birth, he should go to visit, but this matter can't be known to the Qin family, otherwise he doesn't know what kind of trouble to make.

In the past few days, Qin Chun has been busy with the things of Xuelin going to school, and when she finally got free, she found that the day of Xiaoman's production was getting closer and closer, Qin Chun was busy sorting out all the things she had embroidered, and then trotted to Lufu.

The doctor said that Xiaoman's delivery period is within half a month, but this kind of thing, where can the doctor say accurately.

When Qin Chun arrived at the Lu Mansion, the mansion was very calm, she breathed a sigh of relief, then took a breath and walked directly to the main hall.

As she expected, Xiao Man and Xia Wanrou were there.

"Sister Qin Chun, why are you here?" Xiaoman said in surprise.

At this time, Xiao Man's belly was already very big, and he had to rely on Pearl and Jade to help him up every time he got up, because he was afraid that he would miss a little, Lu Li sent two more stable girls to follow Xiao Man.

Xia Wanrou on the side also held her stomach, and it seemed that it would take at least five or six months.

Qin Chun hurriedly handed over the things he brought, and said with a smile: "These are some small clothes that I have embroidered for nothing these days, all of them are double, and I hope that Shopkeeper Xia and Shopkeeper Su will not dislike it." ”

As he spoke, Qin Chun opened the things in the cloth bag, and put the red and bright little belly pocket and beige clothes, although the objects were very small, they were all very exquisite, without a single thread, and there was no skew.

"Qin Chun, it's really hard for you." Xia Wanrou couldn't put it down, and said happily: "I originally prepared two sets, but they are far less exquisite than the ones you made, which is really troublesome for you." ”

"That's right, Sister Qin Chun, in our store, such clothes have to charge at least a few dozen taels of silver." Su Xiaoman raised his eyes, bit his lip and said gratefully: "Sister Qin Chun, you must be very hard to do this, right?" ”

Qin Chun smiled slightly and shook his head, "It's nothing, when Xuelin was young, his clothes were all made by me, but fortunately, I still keep the previous patterns, so it's nothing." ”

Having said that, Xiao Man still winked at the pearl and motioned for the other party to come over with the money.

These embroidery threads and fabrics are all good, Qin Chun will definitely have to spend a lot of silver to buy these, now she lives outside, there are many places to use silver, and now the store has not yet opened, and she can't pay Qin Chunyue money in advance, so she can only help in this way.

However, according to Qin Chun's temperament, he would definitely not accept this silver, so Xiao Man specially gave Pearl a look and asked her to secretly put the silver money in Qin Chun's cloth bag, so that Qin Chun would have no chance to refuse.

Even if it turns out in hindsight, that was later.

Qin Chun didn't notice anything unusual here, she told Xiao Man and Xia Wanrou a lot of things that needed to be paid attention to before giving birth, although with a joking tone, but extremely serious, for fear that the two of them would suffer pain because they were ignorant.

After carefully instructing, Xiaoman left Qin Chun for dinner, Qin Chun excused himself several times, but he couldn't resist the warm invitation of the two, so he had to take a seat.

The three of them chatted for a long time after the meal, seeing that it was not early, Qin Chun hurriedly took the cloth bag and said goodbye, Xiao Man looked at the back of the other party leaving, and breathed a sigh of relief, she picked up the teacup and took a sip.

However, before the tea could be swallowed, Xiao Man suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, her whole body was weak, her hands began to tremble, and the teacup fell to the ground abruptly, shattering.

A lot of sweat beads appeared on her forehead instantly, Xiao Man covered her stomach and frowned, she wanted to speak and ask for help, but the pain in her abdomen covered everything, and she even released a half-point voice.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Pearl immediately held Xiao Man, "Madam, what's wrong with you?!" I'm going to call the doctor and the midwife! ”

Xiao Man immediately nodded, and said with great effort: "Hurry... Just go. ”

Jade and a girl trotted to ask for a doctor and a midwife, Xia Wanrou next to her also panicked when she saw this, and got up and stood aside at a loss, subconsciously wanting to step forward to help, but Hongyu stopped in time, "Madam, you are also pregnant, so don't step forward." ”

As early as half a month before Xiaoman's giving birth, Lu Li had already placed two midwives and a doctor in the house, and the place where they lived was extremely far from the main hall, so it only took a moment for Jade and others to come with the midwife and the doctor.

Looking at Xiao Man, who was moaning on the soft collapse, the doctor immediately decided, "Hurry up and carry Mrs. to the bedroom!" I'm afraid I'm going to give birth! ”