Foster son and husband

Chapter 41 The Second Room (Part Three)

Bai Jingyu reluctantly suppressed the resentment in her heart, and asked Xu Junlang with a worried face about Xiangrui's situation. Xu Junlang said that there were several women in the wife's courtyard guarding him, so he invited a doctor to come to see her. Come, when he went to Huifangyuan, Xiangrui was in great pain, even though the time was not up, it seemed that she had to give birth.

Bai Jingyu asked Xiangxue to go to the courtyard to call for a woman, and found a few servants who had given birth to help, and then asked Xiangxue to bring some money and watch as a reward.Xiangxue went out to send the wives there, and when she came back, she poured hot tea for Xu Junlang, and waited for him to take off his official uniform and put on a light and soft satin jacket. down.

When we were young, it was passed around lunch, and the little girls in the corridor came in to set up the meals, washed their hands with hot water, and Xiangxue carefully served Bai Jingyu and Xu Junlang for lunch. Bai Jingyu moved a plate of fragrant duck in front of Xu Junlang, and said with a smile on his face:
"Master has been busy all morning, are you hungry? I remember that when we first got married, our husband and wife loved to eat this. Now I use soup and medicine, but I can't eat duck meat. I think I will come these few days, so I specially let Tiantian Make this dish, Master, try it!"

Xu Junlang said: "Duck meat is hair, you are sick, you can't touch it! Come, eat this chicken wing, stewed catfish is very good, this is fish eyes, you like it!"

Bai Jingyu's eyes turned red: "Master still remembers that I love eating fish eyes..."

Xu Junlang looked up at her: "What's the matter? I remember your likes and dislikes. After several years of loving couples, no matter what happens, this love will never fade away!"

Bai Jingyu pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "With the words of my master, my hard work over the years is worth it, even if I die, I will die in peace! Grandpa will marry a new man in the future, as long as he treats my Lian Er well, everything will be fine!"

Xu Junlang's face darkened: "You're talking nonsense again! You're fine, what kind of newcomer should I marry? At the beginning, my mother married you for me, saying that you were good-looking and capable. You have done a lot of things for the family in the past few years. , it’s all in my heart—you are a lady from a famous family, how many times stronger than the eldest grandma in the eldest room, and I am not an uncle. Even concubines will not accept them. Xiangrui and Xiangxue belong to you. If you have a child, if you like it, you can keep it under your name. They raise a concubine for the sake of the child. I will not be like the master. Confused, regardless of priority!"

Bai Jingyu's face gradually relaxed, and a smile floated on his lips: "As long as the master has me in his heart and loves me, I have no choice but to help you with whatever you want!"

The couple had another heart-to-heart talk, and the lunch was almost finished, and Bai Jingyu was in a good mood, pointing to the half-eaten leftovers on the table, she said to Xiangxue:

"It's still hot, bring it over there and eat it in the room!"

Xiangxue thanked her, took the little one away, and brought over another redwood one, served hot fragrant tea, and then retreated to eat.

Bai Jingyu took a sip of tea, saw Xu Junlang's straight eyebrows slightly frowned, and said with relief: "Don't worry, Lord, Xiangrui is the first child, and it won't be so fast. I'm not fully healed yet, so I can't go see it. The mother-in-law and servant girl are ten or ten." People are guarding, there are Wen Po and the doctor, and the little girls are divided into three groups to visit, and report as soon as they have news... The father can't enter the mother's room, so he has to sit here and wait for the news. The wife thinks that she has received a letter. I'll be back soon."

Xu Junlang shook his head: "It must be very appropriate for you to arrange for her. I'm not worried. I'm thinking about another thing!"

"what's up?"

"Ah! I'm ashamed to say that I don't only give some of my salary to you, but I also give some to my mother, and the rest is reserved for entertainment on weekdays. A few days ago, the magistrate of Jingzhou Prefecture went to Beijing for an important matter. Speaking of which, he is my same year. I have to entertain him and help him manage various relationships. I spent a lot of money, thinking that there is no need to spend money anymore. The king is the younger brother of the current emperor, the queen dowager and the emperor dote on him the most. This time he returned to the court after victory, but was injured again. Officials from the court rushed to visit him, and my colleagues around me also discussed how to put them together in one place as a backup and send generous gifts to Qi. In the palace, each person has to spend five or six hundred taels of silver, but I don't have this amount now..."

Bai Jingyu looked at him: "Five 600 taels of silver? Is it too little?"

Xu Junlang was stunned for a moment: "It's quite a lot, seven or eight people, the total is 5000 taels, which is enough to buy a very decent gift!"

Bai Jingyu's eyes rolled for a moment: "The king of Qi is different from the kings of Jin, Wei, and Yue. He was born by the queen mother. He is a brother of the emperor. This time he returned to Beijing and made such a great contribution. The emperor must have a great reward." , the queen mother is not willing to let him go out, maybe he will stay in the court to take charge of government affairs in the future? I have been an official for three years, and now I am only a sixth-rank official. Although the old lady and the queen mother have some cousins, they are not willing to use them easily. In fact, the Empress Dowager seldom announces the old lady to enter the palace, obviously it is rare to get close. If you can take this opportunity to become a cousin with King Qi at this time, and then visit in the future, it will be easier to talk!"

Xu Junlang asked: "How to climb up the cousin relationship?"

Bai Jingyu said: "You don't have to join forces with your colleagues. Let us spend 6000 taels or even tens of thousands of taels of silver to prepare a unique gift and send it to Qi Wangfu with a signed post. If he wants to find it in the future, he will know that you are there." , if he can't remember, I can find an opportunity to approach him!"

Xu Junlang was taken aback: "My grandma! I prepared a gift of 6000 taels for myself, but where would I go to raise this much money?"

Bai Jingyu glanced at Xiangxue beside her, Xiangxue lowered her head, Bai Jingyu said: "Tomorrow you go to the embroidery shop at the east end of Renyi Street, take my handwritten note, and take all the money on the account from the shopkeeper, there are seventy-eight thousand taels. I will give you another 8000 taels of silver, to make up enough 2000 taels of silver, you tell the master, let him go with you to pick out a suitable gift, and send it to Prince Qi’s mansion in person!"

Xu Junlang looked at Bai Jingyu, his eyes sparkling: "Jingyu, you are really... no wonder the fortune teller said that you have the fate of Wangfu, and you can manage for me like this. In the future, I will rise up every step of the way, and I will not be able to do without your imperial seal. amnesty!"

Bai Jingyu covered her lips with her sleeve, coughed twice, and said softly: "Husband and wife share the same fate, who else can I rely on besides my husband? Not for you, why should I go for someone else?"

"Of course it's for me, and I'll be the one to rely on in the future!" Xu Junlang hurried over and sat next to Bai Jingyu, patted her on the back lightly, and said lovingly: "You have to take care of your body, don't work too hard Meilian will grow up little by little, if you worry about it, we will have another son, and we will have everything!"

Bai Jingyu snuggled into his warm arms, took a deep breath, and there was heat in her eyes: This intoxicating tenderness and consideration once belonged entirely to her, and she could enjoy it at will, but now she wants it, but it's not so easy up!
Xu Junlang put his arms around Bai Jingyu, and said worriedly: "I heard that the uncle said that King Qi has a weird temper and is moody. His vision must be different from that of ordinary people. If it doesn't suit him, wouldn't it be..."

Bai Jingyu closed her eyes and leaned against him: "Uncle has been close to the emperor since he was a child, but he never brought you brothers to meet the emperor. It can be seen that he doesn't want you to be very successful. You can't believe everything he says to you! "

Xu Junlang murmured: "My uncle is a human being, so that's not the case... Anyway, I'll go find him and ask King Qi what he likes?"

Bai Jingyu stretched out his hand to caress Xu Junlang's face, and sighed: "My lord, you are only one day younger than him, and you became a younger brother! Everything is overwhelmed by him, since he is the eldest son, how can he fulfill the responsibilities of the eldest son? He only cares about earning credit for himself, and never looks at you brothers below..."

Xu Junlang said: "This is how life is supposed to be. What can I do? I was supposed to come out first, but I didn't move for a long time, but my aunt gave birth to him. He was appointed to accompany the prince since he was a child, and he was surrounded by a large group of people. How can we allow brothers to get close so easily? When he went to the battlefield when he was a teenager, the prince was inseparable from him. He will leave in a day or two. His merits are in exchange for his life. We can't say that he has inherited the title... Now that he is honored and favored by the emperor, I will have to rely on him in the future. You can't say those disrespectful words anymore. To my sister-in-law, I can no longer be as contemptuous as before. I heard that since she was ill, she has become a different person. She is very smart and intelligent. Now she is in charge of the Hou Fuzhong, even more powerful than you, isn't that true? "

Bai Jingyu curled her lips: "I'm sick, how can I know? I helped my mother with the affairs of the White House since I was a child. It's not difficult to do such a thing. She has a small family, what does she know? The eldest wife insisted on pushing her away." It's hard to say whether she can last for a month when she comes up!"

Xu Junlang smiled and said: "You take medicine obediently, take care of your body, and then go to help her, teach her, sisters-in-law should help each other. She really can't do it anymore, why don't you come up to take care of her?" with?"

Bai Jingyu snorted: "If I want to teach, she must have the brains to bear it! I followed the eldest wife for a few months, and actually took care of it for a month. The rules and regulations have been re-established. She came to pick up a bargain. If you can’t continue, it’s really a joke!”

Just as they were talking, Xiangxue brought a little girl in to answer: "Sister Xiangrui is still in pain, my wife is back, please come over and talk!"

Bai Jingyu sat up straight from Xu Junlang's arms, feeling extremely dissatisfied in her heart: the wife is also unfamiliar, she only knows that she will not have a son, and never thinks of her benefits, Xiangrui is pregnant with Xu Junlang's seed, and the wife directly Taking Xiangrui into his own yard to raise, disregarding the face of her decent daughter-in-law at all, he felt a little cold towards this mother-in-law in his heart.

Xu Junlang comforted her: "I'll go and have a look, and go out to do some errands by the way, don't wait for me for dinner, I may not come back until very late, keep a lamp!"

There were two faint blushes on Bai Jingyu's face, she reached out her hand to touch the small cupboard in the couch, took out a key, and handed it to Xiangxue:

"The two bank notes that Mama Huang took back yesterday are locked in that walnut cabinet. You take Grandpa to get them!"

Xu Junlang followed Xiangxue into the next room, opened the cabinet, and sure enough, he saw two banknotes, one with a denomination of one thousand. Xu Junlang took the banknotes, saw that Xiangxue just kept her head down and dared not look at him, and sighed slightly:
"I've neglected you these days, don't fall asleep at night, I'll go and see you first..."

Before Xiangxue could answer, Xu Junlang had already lifted the curtain and stepped out the door.

He took her handwritten note from Bai Jingyu, told Xiangxue to take good care of grandma, and then left.

As soon as he left, Bai Jingyu asked Xiangxue to call in a little girl she usually used to, and told her to go to the garment workshop immediately to see what was going on with Huang's mother.

Xu Junlang walked to the side of the fake rock mountain, and met his father, the second master Xu Xiping head-on.

Xu Xiping frowned and looked at him: "What I just heard in Aunt Yan's courtyard is true? Your daughter-in-law is actually going to ruin my Xu family's heir?"

Xu Junlang bowed to his father, lowered his eyes and said: "Father, don't believe the rumors, Jingyu just asked Xiangrui to teach her about giving birth, it was Xiangrui who accidentally fell down on the road, The fetal gas has started to move, and I think it will be born today."

Xu Xiping said: "Heirs are a big deal, mother, please watch carefully, if it's a boy, you're considered to have a son. Jingyu is good at everything, but..., Chun'er should have given birth to a son for you last year— What happened to that?"

Xu Junlang said indifferently: "I told her to prepare gifts from the palace, and she gave some, which relieved the immediate urgency."

Xu Xiping breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good... let's go, I'll go to Chunhuayuan with you to have a look!"

(End of this chapter)