Jiankang Palace.

"Your Majesty, Wu Meiren has a seizure and is about to give birth!" Anu heard that the palace maid came to report, so he entered the palace to remind Li Jingfu.

Li Jingfu was reviewing the fold, listening to his words, his hand shook, a drop of ink fell on the fold, he couldn't care about the smudged fold, put down the pen, and asked eagerly: "It's not that the date has not yet arrived, why did you have a seizure?" ”

Anu stepped forward to help Li Jingfu and replied: "I heard that the palace maid said that Wu Meiren got up early for a walk and slipped in the garden. ”

After that, he added: "The heavy dew in the garden in the morning should be caused by the fact that the road surface has not dried yet." ”

Li Jingfu sighed in his heart when he heard this, "Then let's go and have a look." ”

To be honest, he has a lot of sons, and he doesn't care much about whether he has children or not, but this child is his son in his old age, so he naturally pays a little more attention to it, and he doesn't want the child to have any accidents.

When the emperor arrived at the harem, the courtyard where Wu Meiren lived was already busy, and Wu Meiren's cries of pain came from time to time in the delivery room.

Hearing this, Li Jingfu's brows knotted, "What's the situation inside?" Why hasn't it been born yet? ”

"Your Majesty, women don't give birth to children so quickly, so they have to take time." The mother in charge of the production ran over to talk back.

Li Jingfu wanted to say that since he was not so fast, he would go back first, but before he could turn around, he saw Anu commanding the palace maid to bring chairs and coffee tables, as well as melon and fruit snacks and tea, which was fully prepared to make him embarrassed to throw his hands away.

After setting up the chair and sitting down, Li Jingfu waved his hand to Mama, "Hurry up and get busy with you, don't be here, I'm annoyed when I look at it!" ”

The screams from time to time in the delivery room made Li Jingfu's heart tremble, it was too terrifying for a woman to give birth.

"Anu, the queen and several concubines were in this position when they gave birth in the past?"

Anu nodded helplessly, "A woman's birth is just a matter of going through the ghost gate, and if you are not careful, you will die in Huangquan." ”

Li Jingfu frowned, listened to the screams coming from the room, rubbed his forehead, and wondered if his heart had softened when he was old, otherwise how could he run to the door of the delivery room to listen to the screams of a woman giving birth?

When he was young, neither the princess nor the side room gave birth to him to the town.

"Your Majesty, how is my sister?"

When Li Jingfu heard the question, he looked back and saw that it was the former Aunt Wang and the current virtuous concubine.

"Why are you here?"

Concubine Xian walked closer, saluted Li Jingfu, and then stood behind him and said: "The concubine is idle in the palace, and when I heard that my sister had a seizure, I came over to see if I could help." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Li Jingfu, but he didn't expect the emperor to come.

Recalling that back then, when she gave birth with several sisters, Li Jingfu never stayed outside the door of the delivery room, but he didn't want this new beauty to have such a great blessing to be guarded by the emperor himself.

Li Jingfu bowed: "You have a heart." ”

"This is what the concubine should be, the queen is not in the palace, as an old man, I have to watch the harem for the emperor."

After that, Concubine Xian wiped the sweat from her forehead, obviously coming all the way, she persuaded: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, these are all things that women must go through when they give birth." It will take a few hours to produce, if you have something to do, you can get busy first, there are concubines to watch. ”

Li Jingfu listened to the screams of the delivery room, and felt uncomfortable, and after listening to Concubine Xian's words, he just borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, "Okay, it's hard for you here, I will go back to review the folds first." ”

Anu cleverly stepped forward to help Li Jingfu, and Concubine Xian hurriedly sent the emperor off.

It's just that Li Jingfu hasn't stepped out of the courtyard door yet, and a terrible cry of pain came from the delivery room, which frightened him into staggering, if it wasn't for Anu to help him, he would definitely fall to the ground.

"What's going on?"

Anu looked at Concubine Xian with an inquiring look.

Concubine Xian was about to find out about the situation when she saw the door open and a grandmother ran out of the delivery room.

She hurriedly ran to Concubine Xian and said in horror: "Mother, mother"

"Oops! Don't call me a mother, I can't give birth to an old girl like you, what's going on inside? How is the mother? ”

Concubine Xian was so anxious that she stammered, she was really anxious, didn't she see that the emperor was staring at her with round eyes?

Mama said in a trembling voice: "Niangniang, inside, maternity. The feet came out first! ”

"The feet came out first!" Concubine Xian was so frightened that she collapsed in her chair.

Mama sighed: "Yes, only one foot comes out, if we want to keep it small at this time, we can only push the little foot in, and then forcibly turn it around. This process has less impact on the baby, but it is extremely harmful to the mother, and it is possible that "

Concubine Xian looked at Li Jingfu who had gone and returned with an embarrassed face, "Your Majesty, look"

Li Jingfu's face was extremely ugly, and he gritted his teeth and squeezed out two words: "Keep small!" ”

Concubine Xian was so frightened that she trembled, turned her head and shouted at her grandmother: "You are not deaf, you should be clear about what the emperor said just now, please hurry in and try to protect the little prince!" ”

"Oh, oh, slave, let's go in." Mama has encountered this situation a lot, and as soon as she heard the emperor say to keep her young, she had a bottom in her heart.

It is far easier to keep small than big, and then they have no scruples about mothers.

Next, in the terrible screams of the mother, the child croaked to the ground, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief as the baby's cry came from the delivery room.

It didn't take long for the door of the delivery room to open, and Mama walked out with a swaddling baby, "Congratulations to the emperor and Niangniang, you are a little princess." ”

"Princess?" Li Jingfu didn't seem to expect it to be a girl, his face flashed with joy, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Come and let me take a look." ”

Concubine Xian, who was standing next to her, raised her eyebrows and took two steps forward to congratulate the emperor.

As for the mother, no one mentioned it tacitly, and after the child was born, she didn't hear the movement of the mother, and she thought that there was no life.

Li Jingfu was rare enough for the little princess, so he said lightly: "It's a thick burial." ”

Concubine Xian and Anu glanced at each other and silently wrote down the matter.

Li Jingfu handed over the little princess to Mama and said, "She was born without a mother, and she is also a poor child, so she will be raised in the palace of Concubine Xian in the future." ”

Concubine Xian seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and agreed calmly, "Si'er has not come back in the capital, and it happens that the concubine is idle, and the concubine will definitely take good care of her as her own child." ”

Li Jingfu nodded: "In the future, I will have to work hard for Concubine Xian." ”

"This is a matter for the concubines, but the little princess is raised in the palace of the concubines, if the queen knows."

"I will write to her to explain the situation, you don't have to worry about this, just take care of the child."

With the emperor's assurance, Concubine Xian happily hugged the little princess from her mother's arms and kissed her.

In the past two days, the courtiers found that the emperor was full of spring, and people knew that there was a happy event in the family at a glance, and as for the sacrificed mother, no one mentioned touching the emperor's mold.

Taking advantage of the emperor's happiness these days, Zuo Servant stood up, "Your Majesty, the rebels have been pacified recently, and there is no war in the country, so before the snow falls, should we prepare to move back to the capital?" ”

Li Jingfu knew that the country was calm and it would be a matter of time before he moved back to the capital, but he was not sure when it was most appropriate to move back to the capital, so he looked at Zhang Shijiao, that is, Mr. Zhang, a former staff member.

"It's a matter of time before we move back to the capital, but we don't need to move back to the capital in such a hurry, if we want to move back with the soldiers and horses, things must be complicated, it's better to delay it for a few more months, and then move back to the capital when the spring flowers bloom next year?" Zhang Shijiao said after weighing it.

Zuo Servant was very dissatisfied with Zhang Shi's disagreement with himself, so he questioned: "There is a queen mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the capital to sweep everything away, I don't know what concerns Lord Zhang has?" ”

Zhang Shijiao glanced at the left servant, turned to the emperor and said: "It's only how long after the autumn harvest, presumably the queen mother and His Royal Highness the crown prince in the capital are preparing for the defense along the Great Wall in autumn and winter, in this case, let's not rush back to the capital in a hurry." ”

In other words, in the autumn and winter, Beidi rushed to the pass to grab grain, in order to avoid accidents, and for the sake of safety, it was best for them to miss this time period to go back.

Li Jingfu also remembered the border defense along the Great Wall at this time, although Dayu has now quelled the rebellion, but he is not arrogant to the point that Dayu is invincible in the world.

"Zhang Aiqing's concerns are thoughtful, in this case, in order to avoid the distraction of the crown prince and the queen from the enemy, we still stay in Jiankang honestly, don't make trouble for them. But everyone should be prepared to get ready, and when the spring flowers bloom next year, we will set off. ”

The emperor disagreed, and the courtiers were helpless no matter how anxious they were, and the distribution of interests in this area of Gyeonggi was only afraid that the queen would rob it up, and it was estimated that there would be no soup to drink when she went back next year.

Li Jingfu looked at the unwilling expressions of the ministers, didn't bother to pay attention to it, but said another thing, "In the capital, the queen is busy with infrastructure construction every day, and the highway and railway from Beijing to Lingnan were tendered some time ago. You have to find something to do every day. ”

When the ministers heard this, their hearts rose.

"This section of the road from Jiankang to the capital, we can't all count on the queen to help repair it, you also have to make some efforts, starting from tomorrow morning, everyone will donate money and materials, and strive to repair all the way to the past and meet the queen's construction team as soon as possible."

As soon as Li Jingfu's words fell, the ministers in the court had weak legs, and the previous court discussed all national affairs, but now the court is discussing how to take money out of their pockets.

"Your Majesty, if you don't have any silver, you have a life, you can take it at any time!"

Someone couldn't stand this wave of harvesting leeks and stood up to speak out.

The emperor thinks about how to loot them all day long, and the last dynasty is equivalent to breaking the wealth, and breaking the wealth is equivalent to asking for their lives, so Dayu's last dynasty is equivalent to asking for money and life.

The ministers thought of the silver that was looted by the emperor during this time, and they couldn't stand it.

"Your Majesty, even if you run errands in the inn, you still have an income in a month, and we come to the court before dawn every day, and as a result, a month's salary is nothing, and we have to paste the daughter-in-law's dowry, how can this be?"

Li Jingfu said with a dark face: "Don't cry poor, say a thousand things and ten thousand, you are all rich and have oil!" ”

These words did not give the ministers face in the slightest.

Dayu Jiankang, these courtiers, have long been rotten.

Today's courtiers are actually a group of corrupt and perverted scum, counting on them to govern this Dayu, it is better to believe that the sow will go to the tree.

As the queen said, Dayu's cornerstone is rotten, and it is better to dig the foundation again than to repair it.

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There is not much left of the property in the capital that has been repurchased by various forces, and of course, Xia Jing also left a batch of real estate for later rewards to meritorious courtiers, or to arrange for imperial relatives and relatives.

These remaining industries are undoubtedly superior in terms of geographical location and quality.

On this day, Xia Jing unintentionally wandered to the Guozijian of the original capital, a beautiful mountainside outside the capital, with tall trees and not many buildings.

It's just that the teachers and students of Guozijian haven't come back yet, and the entire campus is almost gone, which seems too lonely.

After wandering around for a long time, Xia Jing saw a middle-aged man actually practicing boxing halfway up the mountain, and how strange it was to see him wearing a long shirt to practice boxing.

By the time she walked over, the man had already regained his momentum.

"Sir, you're sweating."

Hearing someone remind him, Ji Jingming turned his head and smiled politely: "Madame knows that I am the gentleman here?" ”

Xia Jing pointed to the robe on his body, "Only Mr. can practice boxing and wear it like this." ”

Ji Jingming looked down at what he was wearing, and said with a chuckle: "Madame has good eyesight, her surname is Ji, her name is Jingming, she is the gentleman here, may I ask why Madame came up today?" ”

"Just go for a walk." As she spoke, Xia Jing pointed to his robe, "It's windy in the mountains, and Mr. is already sweating, so let's go and change my clothes first, so as not to lose the temperature of my body and get cold by the mountain wind." ”

Ji Jingming smiled indifferently, took out a robe from the bag next to him and put it on his body, "In this way, you are not afraid of contracting the wind and cold." ”

"What is the temperature that Madame just said? Are you referring to body temperature? ”

Xia Jing bowed slightly: "In your case, it refers to body temperature." ”

"How can you tell if the temperature is high or low when you are not a professional doctor?" Ji Jingming instantly turned into a curious baby, and asked questions one after another.

Xia Jing: "It can be measured with a thermometer, the freezing point is zero degrees, the normal body temperature is 37 degrees, and the measurement is generally 36 degrees is normal body temperature." ”

Ji Jingming's eyes lit up at this moment, and his whole person was full of vitality, "What is a thermometer?" ”

Xia Jing reacted at this time, this gentleman was very interested in what she said, which showed that he was a person with an exploratory spirit.

So, she began to tell them about the use of thermometers and what to do if they were broken.

"What you said is a bit similar to the internal combustion engine manufactured in Lingnan, both of which are hot and cold contractions." Ji Jingming opened his mouth and said.

As soon as Xia Jing heard what he said, her eyes lit up, "Mr. actually knows how hot and cold rise, how many years have you been here?" How many students have you taught? ”

"Hahaha!" Ji Jingming was amused by her question, "How can I be allowed to teach these miscellaneous studies in the place where Guozijian is studying seriously, I have been managing other affairs of Guozijian since then, except for the first year of studying. ”

"It's because you're more interested in miscellaneous studies, so Guozijian doesn't dare to let you teach children, right?" Xia Jing pursed her lips and asked.

Ji Jingming generously admitted, "Sort of, it's mainly the students who come to Guozijian to study for fame!" ”

(End of chapter)