Let Me Pursue You

Where does a man get confinement leave? Lu Shiqing's new injury is not enough to cause him to call him sick, and the old injury cannot be discovered by Emperor Huining, so it is not easy to take advantage of dismissal to live idle.

But Yuan Cixian had only this wish, and he had to satisfy her.

Lu Shiqing hugged the mother and daughter, frowning and lost in thought.

Yuan Cixian saw that he was in a dilemma, and was about to speak unhappily, when suddenly he saw his brows stretched, and said: "Yes."

After dinner with Yuan Cixian, Lu Shiqing got up and drew up a letter, roughly talking about the current situation in the Uighur territory and the attitude of the royal family, and asked Cao An to present it to the palace on his behalf the next day.

After Emperor Huining met Cao An, he naturally couldn't tell him to go back empty-handed, so he waved his hand and sent someone to prepare some high-quality tonics for the Lu family. He asked his personal servants to go to Yongxingfang with him and bring them Got a doctor.

Yesterday the Imperial Physician in the Palace was ordered to come to Lu Mansion, but Yuan Cixian didn't wake up at that time, so she didn't give her a pulse check, but simply asked about the general situation, and now it's not out of concern, but to test her out up.

Emperor Huining was so suspicious, it was impossible to trust anyone wholeheartedly, even Lu Shiqing was the same. The reason why he got angry with Zhang Zhixian before was not because he hated his unscrupulous words, but because he was subconsciously afraid of what he said.

Although Lu Shiqing is only an official of the fourth rank, the power in his hands is too great, and these powers were handed over to him by Emperor Huining himself. It is true that Zhang Zhixian, the prime minister, has always been at odds with him, and he may take the opportunity to make trouble, but these words remind the old emperor that a courtier who has frequent contacts with the Nanzhao and Uighur royal families is actually a very dangerous existence. If he thought about it, he might not be able to reach a conspiracy agreement with the enemy country during the two missions. If Yuan Yizhi's support was added, the consequences would even be unimaginable.

So yesterday, Zhang Pushe gave Emperor Huining an idea. Yuan Yu, the eldest son of Yuan, has not had an heir for many years. Now that Yuan Cixian has both children, why not take the opportunity to canonize one of them, and then take him to be raised in the palace to show his "sacred grace". With such a move, it can be said that it not only pinched the Lu family, but also guarded against the Yuan family.

Emperor Huining didn't respond on the surface, but in fact he was already faintly moved. It's just that the Yuan and Lu families can understand the inner meaning of this kind of fake grace. It's good to win people's love immediately, but it's best to find out her physical condition first.

After the **** came, Lu Shiqing received him respectfully, and then the imperial physician took Yuan Cixian's pulse.

After the imperial physician finished his diagnosis, he was a little surprised. Turn around and report the truth to Emperor Huining, saying that with Yuan Cixian's body, she will definitely not be able to give birth again within three to five years.

After hearing this, Emperor Huining hesitated for a while.

His defense against Lu Shiqing was to take precautions, but he didn't really want to tear up his face with this courtier who had always been trusted. Hearing Yuan Cixian's situation, he knew that it would be difficult to pick up the child, so he had to hold back for the time being.

In fact, Yuan Cixian had worried about this as early as she was pregnant. When she saw the imperial doctor come to check her pulse, she guessed that the saint was thinking about it. After all, this was not the first time the old emperor used this kind of tactic. Back then, he made father a queen and prevented his young brother from going to southern Yunnan with him, in order to ask him to stay in Beijing as a hostage.

Fortunately, she is not in good health now, but it was a blessing in disguise, and she saved a pair of children.

It's just that since the old emperor has planted the seeds of doubt in his heart, he can only let it grow and flourish, and the road ahead will be more difficult. She is afraid that this matter will still happen to the child sooner or later.

However, Lu Shiqing told her not to worry, and calmly wrote an eloquent letter of resignation, and sent someone to Zichen Palace the next day.

Yuan Cixian was taken aback at first, but after thinking about it, she realized that this is the method he and Zheng Zhuo have always used to advance by retreating.

This "painstaking" letter of resignation was telling Emperor Huining that he had already understood what he meant, so he was very disappointed and disappointed. The so-called broken body is not afraid of being broken, and you must stay innocent in the world. Since the sage doesn't trust him so much, he is willing to resign and return to his hometown, return to Luoyang to live alone, and never ask about court affairs again. It just so happened that he went to the Uyghur this time, the whole journey was windy, frosty, rainy and snowy, and he had several life-and-death confrontations with the Turks, and his body may have been tortured. If the saint is willing to grant it, that would be the best.

Yuan Cixian felt that he had played a big game this time. It would be very interesting if Emperor Huining wrote the word "Zhun" in his resignation letter the next day.

The result is no if. Because Lu Shiqing said that when he explained the inside story of the Uyghurs in the document the day before, he quietly left a few foreshadowings, which hung the appetite of the old emperor, but he did not talk about the long-term, but only for the ongoing war between the Turks and the Uyghurs. It is also impossible for him to abandon his courtier.

Emperor Huining really panicked and sent his **** to come, saying that he was not allowed to resign from office.

Lu Shiqing told the **** with a face full of embarrassment that since the sage still has something to do with him, he would naturally not disobey the edict, but his body has not fully recovered, and he might not be able to endure it when he returns to court.

The **** said with a smile on his face, "It's not a problem. The sage said that he was allowed a month's leave, and he was just told to rest and recuperate."

One move is to retreat, in exchange for the old emperor not to be anxious to be suspicious and defensive, and more importantly, he also deceived the "confinement leave". Yuan Cixian had to sigh with emotion, her family is really smart.

Xuan's word became a prophecy, and he really made his son sit with his daughter-in-law for confinement.

In the following days, when Yuan Cixian was lying on the bed, Lu Shiqing also fulfilled his promise that he would be there wherever she was, and mostly lay down with her. Because she couldn't see the wind, he didn't go out casually, so as not to bring frosty air to freeze him.

The two patients seemed to have made nests on the bed, and arranged all their meals beside the couch. In the beginning, Xiaobie was better than a newlywed, and after taking the meal, you would feed me and I would feed you. You take a bite of my green vegetables, I eat a piece of your radish, you pick fishbone for me, and I peel the eggshell for you. Later, Yuan Cixian really got bored of watching Lu Shiqing, so he was inseparable for twelve hours, so he put more attention on the child.

Lu Yuanshu's rocking car was moved here, and it was next to the bed of the two of them. During the day, Yuan Cixian breastfeeds her. At night, because her body has not yet recovered, the wet nurse takes care of her.

As for Lu Yuanzhen, since the first day, she has never mentioned the matter of breastfeeding him, and it is not good to keep him in the room all the time, so as not to trouble Lu Shiqing to take the child out when the child is hungry, and simply let him spend more time with the nurse living. It's just that she always asks to see him from time to time, so there are a few times a day, she troubles the nanny to bring the baby, and often coincides with the time when Xuan Shi is teasing his grandson.

After twenty days like this, in the third month of Yangchun, when the child was approaching full term, Yuan Cixian asked Lu Shiqing if he wanted to hold a banquet and make simple arrangements for the two brothers and sisters.

This full moon banquet, it is reasonable to say that no matter how big or small, it is necessary to go, and Lu Shiqing is still an official of the DPRK and China, so it is really necessary to entertain some colleagues. But he refused on the grounds that her body was not fully recovered and she was not suitable for hard work, and said that she would make it up again when the child was one year old.

At the Huachao Festival, it was originally Lu Shiqing's turn to host the banquet, and he also used this reason to decline. Yuan Cixian didn't insist on hearing the words like last time, and listened to his arrangement.

In a few days, Lu Shiqing's injury was almost healed, and he returned to court. Yuan Cixian's confinement is over, and he can go out to breathe. When he goes out to do errands, he wants to take the two children to the yard to enjoy the spring breeze. He just asked the wet nurse, but was told that Lu Yuanzhen had a poor appetite this morning. , Lu Shiqing was worried that the child would get sick, so when he went out just now, he took him to Dr. Ge's clinic for consultation.

Yuan Cixian thanked the nanny, but didn't ask too much. She didn't see Lu Shiqing bringing the child back until dusk, so she hugged Lu Yuanshu to see the Xuan family.

Xuan was really worried about her grandson, but it was Yuan Cixian who comforted her, and then left her daughter in her yard to distract her, while she went back to her room and waited for Lu Shiqing.

Lu Shiqing came back alone, and when she entered the door, she got up and asked, "Where's Yuan Zhen?"

He said silently, "Still in the medical hall."

Yuan Cixian shook her head with a solemn face, walked up to him, stared at him, and asked again word by word: "I mean, where is Yuan Zhen?"

He fell silent, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and stroked her cheek: "He's fine, and he will be reunited with us soon."

Hearing these words, Yuan Cixian finally couldn't hold back the tears that burst out of her eyes after holding back for a long time.

Her child was not rescued that night. She noticed something was wrong within a few days after giving birth. Firstly, it was due to the intuition of being a mother when getting along with the child, and then thinking of Lu Shiqing's strange attitude towards the child, and brother's unnaturalness that day, it became even more suspicious.

She soon had a terrible idea: the child might have been swapped.

It was impossible for Lu Shiqing to know whether the child was real or not during the rescue, but he had always acted cautiously, and he must have confirmed it when he came back. Neither she nor the Xuan family had seen Yuan Zhen before he was robbed, but Wen Po had seen him, and several maidservants such as Cai Zhi and Shi Cui had also seen him, so it is not difficult to tell if the child will be dropped.

But Lu Shiqing chose to hide her and Xuan Shi, and even told all the insiders around him to lie to them. The reason is not that he intends to fool other people's children for the rest of his life, but that he is sure that Yuan Zhen is safe and will come back in the near future, so he doesn't want them to follow in a hurry. After all, the first few days after giving birth were very critical to Yuan Cixian's recovery. He knew that it was impossible to deceive her for too long, so he only wanted to hide it for a few days.

Lu Shiqing hugged her gently, and said, "Don't worry, he is well fed and warmly dressed, and he will be back with us in three days."

Yuan Cixian nodded in tears, and murmured, "How did you save it...how did you save it?"

Lu Shiqing patted her on the back, and said lightly: "I have a consensus with Yue Zhang to kill the old king of Nanzhao."

Yuan Cixian suddenly raised her head.