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The last hour of Shen (around 5pm)

The sun is about to set,

As the sunlight decreases, the temperature also drops.

In the inner city, Xingguofang,

Duke Qi's Mansion,

In the backyard hall,

Princess Pingning sat on the Luohan chair, holding the teacup gracefully, blowing it gently and taking a sip.

"Madam, Buwei brought it here."

"Yes."

Princess Pingning placed the teacup on the table and took a deep breath.

After a while,

the brocade cotton curtain at the door was lifted by the maid, and Buwei walked in with his head down.

"I greet the madam."

Buwei bowed and saluted.

"Yes. What happened during Heng'er's visit to the Sheng family today?"

Princess Pingning asked with a stern face.

Buwei bowed his head and said, "My queen, nothing happened to the young master in the Sheng family."

"Then why was he so happy when he left, but why did he keep a straight face when he came back, without even a smile?"

Buwei shook his head, "My queen, I don't know."

"I don't know?" Princess Pingning asked in a deep tone. "Then tell me, what did Heng'er do after he arrived at the Sheng family."

Buwei bowed, "Yes, my queen. When the young master arrived at the Sheng family, he first visited Zhuang Xuejiu, and then went to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady of the Sheng family with Jing'er and others. After dinner, I stayed by the young master's side."

Listening to Buwei's narration, Princess Pingning's face gradually became much calmer, and there was even a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, saying, "Is this really how Mr. Yu evaluated Heng'er?"

"Yes, my queen, I heard it clearly."

Princess Pingning took a deep breath and said, "Okay, go down."

Buwei bowed in response, took two steps back and turned to leave the hall.

The housekeeper standing beside Princess Pingning said, "Your Majesty, don't listen to what this kid said. There is nothing wrong with the young master today."

"Humph!" Princess Pingning snorted coldly, "I didn't expect that Heng'er would be praised so much by Old Master Yu. But, is there really nothing wrong?"

Hearing Princess Pingning's question, the housekeeper's eyes turned and her face turned a little ugly.

The housekeeper bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty is right. The young master was praised by Old Master Yu, but he was still in a bad mood after returning. There must be something hidden."

Princess Pingning took a sip of the teacup and said, "When was the last time we saw Miss Sheng?"

"Your Majesty, it should be the time before the Chengguo Mansion sent out invitations and invited people to a banquet."

"What about before that?"

As if she was recalling what she saw and heard that day, Princess Pingning asked again with her eyes closed.

"Hiss, madam, if we go back further, it was the chrysanthemum appreciation meeting in the west of the city on the Double Ninth Festival last year."

Princess Pingning shook her head and said, "Not all the girls from the Sheng family went that day."

The housekeeper nodded with a look of reminiscence in her eyes and said, "Madam, you have a really good memory! Thinking about it carefully, it was after Qingming that I met several girls from the Sheng family at the polo field in the west of the city!"

"It seems that the eldest wife of the Sheng family also went that day."

Princess Pingning thought about it for a while and said, "Yes."

Looking at the expression of Princess Pingning, the housekeeper glanced at the maid in the hall and whispered, "Madam, are you saying that the young master is unhappy because of the girls from the Sheng family?"

Princess Pingning frowned and said nothing.

"Then find a chance to tell the Sheng family to let the three girls leave the school first?" The housekeeper asked tentatively.

Princess Pingning waved her hand: "No! Heng'er went to the Sheng family to study on loan. I heard from Madam Wang that the three girls were able to enter the academy because of the words of the old lady of the Sheng family. We have no reason to ask the girls not to study in our own academy."

"If we say it, they will not care about their face and say that they don't want to see our girls and go to other academies. Then our Qi family will lose face."

"Master Zhuang is a rare good teacher!"

The housekeeper nodded repeatedly and said: "What the queen said is that although the Sheng family is not well-known in Bianjing, their relatives include Old Master Wang who is entitled to be worshipped in the imperial temple, and the Yongyi Marquis Mansion that is in proper use. They are not a small family."

"Now the six brothers studying in the Sheng family academy are all juren."

Listening to the words of the housekeeper, Princess Pingning hummed, drank a sip of tea, and her eyes were full of thinking.

After thinking for a while, Princess Pingning said, "Although the Sheng family does not have any title, being able to be a brother-in-law with Zai Zhang of the Xu family is a good match for an ordinary wealthy family."

"Your Majesty is right! Didn't the young master often say when he went home that Erlang of the Sheng family was very knowledgeable? If he passed the imperial examination, the Sheng family's reputation would be higher."

Princess Pingning nodded: "Well, three or four imperial examinations in one family are worthy of praise. What a pity."

Princess Pingning chuckled as she spoke.

It's a pity that Princess Pingning, as the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Xiangyang, the adopted daughter of the empress, and the nominal sister of the future emperor, plus the title of the Qi family, still looked down on the Sheng family.

Putting down the teacup in her hand, Princess Pingning stood up from the chair, not knowing what she thought of, and chuckled, saying, "It would be great if Jing'er of the Xu family had a younger sister."

Of course, Princess Pingning meant that the Xu family could have a girl who was about the same age as Qi Heng.

Quyuan Street,

Marquis Yongyi's Mansion,

Backyard,

Xu Zaijing brought his three maids holding things and entered the mistress's courtyard.

"The Fifth Young Master is here."

The little maid standing at the door shouted with a smile.

"Mother! I'm back!"

Xu Zaijing smiled and lowered his head to walk through the opened cotton curtain and entered the house.

"Huh?"

Looking at the people in the house, Xu Zaijing asked in confusion: "Sister, why didn't you go back? Erlang thought that you, the eldest sister, went back to the Marquis' Mansion, so he went back by himself."

Pingmei nodded, and Anmei smiled, but her face was slightly embarrassed.

Xu Zaijing glanced at his mother Sun who was sitting on the Luohan chair, and looked at Sun's expression and said: "Mother, what's wrong with you? Could it be..."

The faces of the several ladies in the hall were getting more and more embarrassed, and Sun even lowered her head slightly.

Xu Zaijing glared: "Could it be that my marriage has been settled?"

Hearing this,

Xie, who had returned from the small paper mill in the afternoon, smiled at Xu Zaijing and said: "Go away! No!"

"Oh" Xu Zaijing breathed a sigh of relief, looked around at the expressions of everyone, and said: "Sister-in-law, sisters, why are you like this?"

An Mei held back her laughter, glanced at Sun, and said: "Xiao Wu, we will have another brother or sister!"

Xu Zaijing: "(O_o)??"

Looking at An Mei, Xu Zaijing said: "Sister, you say that, aren't you afraid of being beaten by mother?"

Looking up at his mother Sun, Xu Zaijing didn't continue, and the hall instantly became quiet.

At the door of the hall, Qingcao and Yun Xianghua, who were holding the elephant flower, looked at each other in disbelief.

"By the way, mother, I saw an elephant flower with excellent workmanship on the road, and my sisters are here at the right time"

As he said, Xu Zaijing waved to Qingcao and the others.

Afterwards, Xu Zaijing sat on a chair, looked at his sister and sister-in-law who changed the subject, and whispered to An Mei: "How did you know this?"

An Mei held a flower in her hand and said: "This afternoon, Doctor Ren came to our house to pay New Year's greetings. Mother said that she had no appetite recently. Doctor Ren took her pulse and then found out."

"How old is our mother?" Xu Zaijing whispered.

An Mei scratched her temples helplessly.

"Where is father?" Xu Zaijing asked.

"At noon, General Cao took him to drink." An Mei said.

"Oh, how many months?"

An Mei pursed her lips and raised three fingers.

Xu Zaijing touched his forehead helplessly.

In the evening,

Before dinner, Pingmei and Anmei had already returned to their respective in-laws' homes.

Xu Zaijing also went back to his own courtyard on the pretext that he had eaten too much at Sheng's house.

In the mistress's courtyard,

In the bedroom,

Xu Minghua, the Marquis of Yongyi, who had just returned to the mansion, walked in with a smell of alcohol.

Looking at Sun, who was sitting at the table with one hand on the table and clenched fists, Xu Minghua said, "Madam, my family hurried to find me and said there was a happy event. What's wrong?"

As soon as she approached the table, Sun glared at Xu Minghua fiercely.

"Huh? There is a happy event. Why do you look at me like this, Madam?"

Before Xu Minghua finished speaking, Sun stood up and walked over, waving her fist and punching Xu Minghua in the chest.

"You old rascal, you are so shameless, I have no face to live!!"

Sun's actions made Xu Minghua look confused.

No mistakes in one post, one content, one book, one bar!

"Madam, what's wrong with me??"

As he asked, Xu Minghua looked at the side, Mother Zhu, who had served Sun for many years.

Mother Zhu glanced at Sun, bowed and smiled: "Marquis, Madam."

After Mother Zhu finished speaking,

Xu Minghua looked at Sun's expression, his face full of astonishment and said: "This, me, Madam you"

"Pah!"

Sun punched Xu Minghua hard again.

Xingguofang,

Ningyuan Marquis Mansion,

Bai and Gu Tingyi poked their heads out, staring at Pingmei who was talking with wide eyes.

Then, Bai said in disbelief: "Ping'er, Sun's sister can get pregnant at this age?"

Pingmei pursed her lips and nodded: "Doctor Ren personally diagnosed her pulse."

After waking up from the shock, Gu Tingye said: "The one in Madam Sun's belly is of a very high generation."

Pingmei smiled and sighed, and touched the head of her son Gu Shixing.

Gu Yankai, who was sitting on the other side of Bai, was stunned, and then he smiled and shook his head, with a look of admiration in his eyes.

Chunmingfang,

In the Huyan family compound, Madam Pan also looked at Anmei with surprise and said, "An'er, this is not something to joke about."

"Mother, how could I joke!"

Madam Pan nodded, a smile appeared on her lips, and said, "My mother-in-law is in good health."

Anmei said, "Mother is right, my grandmother gave birth to ten children."

Madam Pan smiled and said, "I hope that An'er you can be as healthy as your mother and help our Huyan family to expand."

The stars have changed,

A new day,

On the third day of the first lunar month, officials from the Ministry of Rites and the sons of the nobles in the capital will accompany the envoys of the Northern Liao Dynasty to shoot arrows in the Southern Imperial Garden.

In the Queen's Palace of the Great Zhou Palace,

The emperor, who had been on leave for seven days, was having breakfast with the prince Zhao Fang, the queen and the princess.

When Zhao Fang used the public chopsticks to put his favorite food into the little princess's bowl, the eunuch Huaibao walked in with a whisk in his hand, smiling.

Seeing his adopted son, the eunuch beside the emperor asked, "What's wrong?"

Huaibao walked closer and bowed to the emperor's family. Looking at the emperor drinking porridge, Huaibao pondered for a moment.

"Hmm? Speak!" The eunuch raised his voice slightly.

Huaibao pursed his lips and said, "Your Majesty, the wife of the Marquis of Yongyi is pregnant."

After hearing Huaibao's report, the emperor and the queen frowned slightly.

"The wife of the Marquis of Yongyi is pregnant? Did you hear it wrong?" The queen looked at her children and shook her head.

"My queen, I have confirmed it repeatedly."

Zhao Fang, who was beside the queen, looked at the emperor happily and said, "Father, the Marquis of Yongyi is really strong and healthy!"

The emperor put down the bowl of porridge, nodded and looked at Zhao Fang, and then looked at the queen.

Zhao Fang looked at the emperor's eyes, and after a turn of his eyes, he continued, "But, father is still powerful."

The emperor raised his eyebrows without comment.

Jiying Lane,

Sheng Family,

Wei Rui Xuan,

Wang Ruofu hugged her grandson Xu Xingzhong and sat at the table.

"Zhong'er, tell your grandmother what you want to eat, and she will serve it to you!"

"Mother, you spoil him too much! Just let him serve it himself!"

Wang Ruofu glanced at Hualan who was speaking, and said, "When you were this old, your father and I didn't have the heart to let you serve yourself."

After that, without looking at Hualan, Wang Ruofu continued to coax her grandson, while Sheng Hong raised the soup bowl, drinking the soup while looking at her grandson with a smile on his face.

Rulan curled her lips at the way her nephew was favored in her mother's arms.

At this time, a maid walked in from outside the door, bowed to everyone, and said, "Master, Madam, someone from the Marquis' Mansion is here, saying..."

Wang Ruofu frowned while holding her grandson and was about to speak, but after listening to the maid's report, she couldn't say anything in her throat.

Sheng Hong held a mouthful of soup in his mouth, and it took great willpower not to spit it out.

Half a minute later,

Shou'an Hall,

Sheng Hong looked at the old woman who was eating and bowed, saying: "Mother."

After listening to Sheng Hong's words, the old lady frowned and glanced at Fang Mama and Cui Mama who were also in disbelief, and said: "Ah? Hong'er, what did you say?"

Sheng Hong repeated it again.

The old lady shook her head with a smile on her face and said: "This is really a happy event."

In the blink of an eye, another day passed, and it was already the fourth day of the first lunar month.

On this day, the three-day opening of the capital had arrived, and envoys from various countries who came to Beijing to pay New Year's greetings left Beijing one after another.

South Lecture Hall Lane,

Rong's family returned to Xueyuan,

The maid Ningxiang hurriedly walked through the moon gate and entered the yard.

She quickly lifted the cotton curtain and entered the house. She glanced at the outer room and saw that there was no figure of her own girl, so Ningxiang walked quickly towards the inner room.

"Ningxiang, you're back! Hey, where are the snacks you bought?"

Entering the inner room, Ningxiang looked at Rong Feiyan who was quietly making incense. She ignored Xibu who was asking questions and hurried over to say: "Miss, I went to buy snacks just now. I heard, I heard..."

Rong Feiyan stopped making incense, looked up at Ningxiang and smiled: "What did you hear?"

After Ningxiang finished panting, Rong Feiyan's smile froze on her face. She put down the tools for making incense and said: "Who spread this? Madam Sun said..."

Xibu nodded repeatedly.

"Miss, it's true! Tuoxi Marquis, Ningyuan Marquis and other marquis' houses are spreading it!"

Looking at Ningxiang's confident look, Rong Feiyan slowly held her cheeks with both hands, looked at Xibu in surprise, and said: "God."

Not far from the Rong family,

East side of the palace,

Chai family, Qiusheng Garden

Chai Zhengzheng looked at his mother, Madam Chai, and said, "Mother, you said you heard it from the wife of the Duke of Yingguo?"

Madam Chai nodded repeatedly, "Yes! The old lady of the Duke of Lian Guo went to the Zhang family to ask! When the wife of the Duke of Yingguo gave birth to Wu Niang, she was not young anymore, so she must have some experience in this area, right?"

"After knowing the news, the old lady of the Lu family went to the Zhang family to ask for advice, and the wife of the Duke of Yingguo only then knew it!"

Chai Zhengzheng nodded blankly and said, "Madam Sun, you are in great health!"

After that, Chai Zhengzheng smiled again.

"Zhengzheng, what are you laughing at?" Madam Chai asked in confusion.

Chai Zhengzheng: "Mother, nothing, I just want to know what the Xu family Wulang looked like when he knew the news."