Before the end of the year, the dispatch order from Tokyo was sent to Quanzhou, and Chen Junqian was the transfer envoy of the Fujian Road Zhuzhou Waterway Measurement and Transfer, and was awarded the Taizhong doctor, who temporarily served as the governor of Quanzhou and was in charge of all affairs in Quanzhou.

And Wang Chong, because of the lord of Yong'an, was transferred back to Tokyo by the official order, directly into the third division, moved to the deputy envoy of salt and iron, specializing in salt affairs, awarded the doctor, the official from the fourth grade, in fact, Wang Chong has long been the official residence of the fifth grade, and now he has been promoted to another level, but it is not too abrupt, after all, he made such a feat in Quanzhou, the princes of the court and the central government are obvious to all.

In just five or six years, Quanzhou's wealth has increased year after year, and it has doubled, attracting displaced people to enter the country and encouraging the cultivation of wasteland.

In addition, with Wang Qian'er's great merit of saving the driver, Gu Er, a favored minister who was popular in front of the new emperor, helped to speak, so naturally there was no blind person who jumped out at this time to stumble on the king.

"Ming'er, you've been married to your uncle for more than half a year, why haven't you seen any reaction in your stomach?"

In a partial courtyard in the northwest corner of the Sheng family, Minglan is helping Wei Shuyi sew clothes for Changdong together, Changdong, who is almost nine years old, is getting taller and taller, many of the previous clothes are too small to wear, so naturally they can only make new ones, fortunately, the Sheng family is well-off, there is no shortage of money, Wei Shuyi not only has a few properties given by Sheng Hong, but also the filial piety given by Minglan and Wang Zhong in private, Wei Shuyi and Xiao Changdong's life is not noble, but it is also very decent.

Listening to her biological mother's words of concern for her, Minglan blushed, turned her head sideways and said with some embarrassment: "It's the official who said that I was too young and not suitable to have children, and said that I would wait for two more years." ”

Wei Shuyi was stunned for a moment, looked at Minglan with a somewhat complicated gaze, and after being silent for a while, he sighed and said: "Your official is a good person, I know that I feel sorry for you, but he feels sorry for you, and you also have to feel sorry for him, although he didn't say some things, but you, as a daughter-in-law, have to think about him."

As the saying goes, there are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, his parents died early, the Wang family in his generation, only he is left with this single seedling, and now he is not young, ordinary men, seventeen or eighteen years old married and have children abound, he is now twenty-six or seventeen, and there is no concubine, it is time to have a son. ”

Minglan said: "Actually, my grandmother also told her daughter, but having a child is not something that can be done by a daughter's wishful thinking!" ”

Wei Shuyi said: "Sister Qian'er's brother Xu'er, isn't it your official's concubine, who passed on to your sister-in-law, it can be seen that there is definitely no problem with your official's body, but you ······"

"Auntie!" Minglan hurriedly grabbed Wei Shuyi's hand and explained, "My daughter's health is fine!" Your uncle doesn't know how many times I've seen it. ”

Wei Shuyi said: "Uncle's medical skills are superb, he has seen it naturally, no problem, I mean tell you to take the initiative!" ”

Minglan has already become a wife, and she is no longer the little girl who didn't understand anything in the past, so she naturally understood the meaning of Wei Shuyi's words, but it was precisely because she understood that she blushed with shame.

"Auntie!" Minglan stomped her foot and turned around embarrassedly again.

Wei Shuyi pulled Minglan Xiang's shoulder and pulled the person back: "They are already people who are big ladies, what is there to be ashamed of, you have to rest assured about this, when my uncle arrives in Tokyo, I will quickly pull my uncle out first to give birth to a big fat boy!" Let's talk about the rest. ”

"Mother, my daughter knows, I know!" Minglan grabbed Wei Shuyi's hand and said: "I must hurry up and give the official a big fat boy, so that I can inherit the incense of the Wang family, so that the official can have an explanation for the father-in-law and mother-in-law under Jiuquan!" ”

"If only you knew!"

"By the way, A-Niang, I heard that Brother Dong is now studying in the school of the second sister-in-law's mother-in-law's house?" Minglan hurriedly changed the topic.

Changdong's studies and future are also what Wei Shuyi is most concerned about, as soon as he talked about this, Wei Shuyi's face showed a smile, and he said with some emotion: "Your second sister-in-law is a kind and generous person, since the scholar left, she introduced Brother Dong to their Hai family's school, and studied with the brothers and sisters of the Hai family. ”

Zhuang Xuexue is old in the end, and his energy is not as good as before, since he beat Changbai and won the Jinshi, he resigned with Sheng Hong, and took his family back to Yangzhou to recuperate.

Minglan said: "The Hai family style is rigorous, it is a scholarly family for generations, and a Qingliu family, so it naturally has real skills." ”

"Calculate the time, the second sister-in-law seems to be about to give birth!" Minglan thought for a moment and said suddenly.

"It's been almost nine months, almost!" Wei Shuyi said, in this era, the medical conditions are poor, how can it be like later generations, regular prenatal examinations, accurate prediction of the delivery period, now this kind of condition, pregnant women are affected by external stimuli and the delivery time is simply not too many, even if it is the imperial doctor in the palace, can only estimate an approximate time.

"A-Niang, did you say that the second sister-in-law gave birth to a little nephew or a little niece?" Minglan asked curiously.

Wei Shuyi said seriously: "I look at your second sister-in-law's pointed belly, and she looks like a son!" ”

"Can you see that, too?" Minglan couldn't believe it.

Wei Shuyi immediately gave Minglan science popularization: "I also heard from those experienced women that when giving birth, as long as the fetal position is positive, the head that comes out first is often the head, so when the child is in the woman's womb, it is upside down, the head is down, and the feet are up, and the head of a boy is generally bigger than that of a girl······"

"Really?" Minglan asked suspiciously.

Wei Shuyi said: "I listened to what those old ladies said, whether it's true or not, I don't know!" But when I was pregnant with my brother, when my belly was the biggest, it seemed to be really pointy! ”

The mother and daughter talked about the shape of the belly and the sex of the fetus, all the way to the precautions during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, how to take care of the newborn child, and so on.

It wasn't until he saw Chang Dong come back with a blue nose and swollen face, and his eyes were filled with tears, but he couldn't hold back and didn't cry, so he hurriedly grabbed Chang Dong and asked: "Didn't you go to practice guns with the county lord, how did it become like this?" ”

Chang Dong flattened his mouth and said: "I was fighting with the county lord, and I was accidentally injured!" ”

"Ouch, let my mother take a look, does it hurt!" Wei Shuyi immediately pulled Chang Dong to his side and looked at it carefully.

"I'm fine, Auntie, it doesn't hurt at all!" Chang Dong said with a firm face, and deliberately squeezed out a smile after speaking.

Looking at Changdong, who had a blue nose and swollen face, Wei Shuyi felt distressed and quickly told Fluttershy to fetch the ointment.

Changdong hurriedly said: "No need A-Niang, the county lord rubbed the medicine for me just now, saying that it was a special bone-setting plaster made by my brother-in-law, the effect of the medicine is very good, and I will be fine after a night's rest!" ”

"Sister Qian is not a person who doesn't know the severity!" Minglan shook her head and said, then looked at Changdong and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"What else is going on, this bastard boy must be naughty again!" Wei Shuyi glanced at Changdong and said angrily.

Changdong stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to defend himself.

Immediately, I heard Wei Shuyi complain: "Since you followed the old lady to Youyang, this kid's temperament has also become wild, and he has been naughty and mischievous, and he has been beaten by your father several times!" ”

Minglan blinked and looked at Changdong in disbelief.

"Auntie!" Xiao Changdong was a little embarrassed by Wei Shuyi's words, and his face was a little twisted with a red face.

Seeing this scene, Minglan was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing, her smile was very bright, and she was happy from the bottom of her heart.

"Children, it's normal to be naughty, especially if Brother Dong is still a boy, just be naughty!" Minglan was naturally good compared to the children of ordinary people when she was young, but it was nothing in the Sheng family, especially her father Sheng Hong, who was rarely seen once in ten days and half a month, and Minglan was taught by Wei Shuyi since she was a child, far more mature than her peers.

Especially after experiencing Wei Shuyi's dystocia and almost losing his life, overnight, Minglan has grown a lot, and since then she has become cautious everywhere, cautious in words and deeds, for fear that one day if she is not careful, she will bring trouble to her biological mother and younger brother, and add to the blockage of Mrs. Sheng.

Saying that, Minglan rubbed Chang Dong's head, and said with a gentle smile: "As long as Brother Dong'er doesn't fall behind in his studies, it's good to live a relaxed life!" ”

Wei Shuyi sighed, looked at Minglan and said, "Yes! I don't have any big extravagances in my life, so I hope that you two brothers and sisters can live a safe and healthy life! As for getting ahead or something, it's just fate! ”

"There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't have to force it!" Minglan also sighed.

After the mother and daughter looked at each other for a while, Wei Shuyi's voice suddenly changed and asked, "It's Chinese New Year's Eve in a few days, where do you plan to spend this year?" The county lord's mansion? ”

Minglan said: "I want to come to Quanzhou after the official's order is sent to Quanzhou, pack up for a few days, and then I should leave for the north, but now it is snowing everywhere, the road is difficult and difficult, I don't know when I will be able to arrive in Beijing, and take a look!" ”

Wei Shuyi nodded, and then said with some emotion: "I don't know how your aunt is doing in Quanzhou now?" ”

Minglan smiled and grabbed Wei Shuyi's hand and said, "Don't worry, aunt is fine in Quanzhou!" Now I have opened a dyeing workshop with Sister Shulan, and I am in charge of hundreds of people under my hands, and my business has gone overseas, and I have made a lot of money with money. ”

"By the way, how is Brother Xin'er doing?" Wei Shuyi asked again: "I don't know if he is used to staying in the barracks?" Have you ever been bullied? ”

Minglan said: "With Second Brother Gu to take care of him, in the barracks, where would anyone dare to bully him!" ”

"The sword has no eyes on the battlefield!" Wei Shuyi said with some worry: "He's a little doll!" Ay! ”

"I heard Second Brother Gu say that the official family intends to let him follow General Gan Lao to lead the troops south!" Minglan suddenly said: "Now that we have begun to raise food, grass and ordnance, Gu Er also follows General Gan Lao to train in the western suburbs camp every day, and it is estimated that he will set off after the New Year!" ”

"What?" Wei Shuyi hurriedly asked, "What about Brother Xin?" He also followed? ”

Minglan sighed, and said a little helplessly: "Brother Xin is now under the account of Second Brother Gu, and Second Brother Gu has gone, so there is no reason for him not to go." ”

"No, no, no!" Wei Shuyi immediately became anxious: "How old is he, how can he follow him to fight!" ”

"I'm afraid that Brother Xin will have to follow!" Minglan sighed helplessly.

"Fighting a war is an adult's business, he's a little doll, what are you going to do?" Wei Shu was puzzled.

Minglan was helpless in her words: "Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with Sister Qian'er!" ”

Wei Shuyi asked: "Why did you get involved with Sister Qian again?" ”

Minglan said: "When I was in Quanzhou, Brother Xin and Brother Yi followed Sister Qian to study and practice martial arts, Brother Yi was younger, similar to Brother Xu, but it was okay, Brother Xin was at this age, it was when he was young and vigorous, and he was pressed by Sister Qian everywhere in Quanzhou, and now in Tokyo, Sister Qian has made great contributions, was named the county lord, and became famous all of a sudden, but Brother Credible only got a small Yu, and it was inevitable that he would be unconvinced! ”

"How can this be born!" Wei Shuyi suddenly became anxious.

Minglan said: "Actually, this is not necessarily a bad thing!" ”

Wei Shu looked at Minglan puzzled.

Minglan hurriedly explained: "Brother Xin'er can't study, he only learned martial arts from officials, if he wants to fight for a future in the future, there is no other way except to join the army, but promotion in the army is already difficult, if there is no meritorious, let alone not."

Dali and Jiaozhi in the south are only small countries, the national strength is not strong, and the troops are not much, so there will not be too much danger in the future, and with the relationship between the second brother Gu and the officials and the second brother, if Brother Xin follows him south, Second Brother Gu will definitely take more care of him and will not let Brother Xin get into danger! ”

Wei Shuyi nodded, shook his head with some emotion and laughed at himself: "It's because I care about it, it's messy, how can there be a good thing in this world that pie in the sky, that is, Sister Qian'er's position as the county lord, isn't it also from the corpse mountain and the sea of blood!" ”

"A-Niang is Brother Xin'er's aunt-in-law, so it is natural to care about Brother Xin'er's safety."

"That's it!" Wei Shuyi seemed to suddenly see it: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and young eagles must always spread their wings in order to soar in the sky!" ”

In fact, Wei Shuyi himself is a person with a long-term vision, but his original temperament is a little weak, thinking that he can protect himself and Minglan without fighting, but he doesn't want to be forced by Lin Yushuang to walk in the palace of Hades for a long time.

The bitter cold wind kept rushing from the north, crossing the Yellow River, and continuously sending the cold into the Central Plains.

Approaching the end of the year, Minglan has more things, and naturally it is not good to run to her mother's house every day, especially the two Zhuangzi that the official family rewarded Wang Qian'er, which used to be from the Fuchang Hou Rong family, but now that the owner has changed, Minglan naturally has to take care of it, and she can't ignore it.

There are also account books sent by Yangzhou, and dividends sent by Quanzhou and Jinling, and Minglan can only pull the reluctant Wang Qian'er to deal with it.