Great Zhou Empress

"In your Xiao family, do you have a child who is not favored?" Xue Zhijing suddenly asked Xiao Liege.

Hearing this, Xiao Liege didn't think too much for a while, and subconsciously mentioned a niece with whom she had a good relationship, "You mean Xiao Ling'er?"

Xue Zhijing also thought of the little girl he had taught back then. So many years have passed in a blink of an eye. At that time, Xiao Linger was still a little girl with slow reactions.If Xiao Liege didn't mention it, she would have forgotten that she hadn't seen each other for many years, "I'm not talking about her. But how is she? It seems like we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"I made a decision and made a marriage promise to her. She is a nobleman from the western tribe. I think she looks pretty good." Xiao Liege replied casually.

Xue Zhi nodded, "That's good."

"However, there are quite a lot of other, side-branched children. Why are you asking this?" Xiao Liege asked.

Xue Zhijing retracted his arms, rubbed his chin on Xiao Liege's shoulder, and said with a smile, "If you have a child you like, you can adopt it, they are all blood of your Xiao family, and have some blood relationship with you. "

"Ah?" Xiao Liege didn't expect Xue Zhijing to mention this, so he was amused, "I never thought about this, why did you bring it up again?"

Xue Zhijing looked up at her with a smile in his eyes, "I think you will like it."

Xiao Liege shrugged his shoulders and said, "I really don't like children very much. Right now, I'm thinking about Xiao Derui's concubines, who are all pregnant. I have someone separate them, and I will see them every day. If I want to hear their news, I'm afraid that someone will get jealous and lose the child. I was really scared by Yeluyan before. I really hope that they will all give birth to the child safely, and it is best to give birth A bunch, so that I don't have to worry about the royal family having no heir, and I feel that most of my responsibilities can be removed."

As soon as Xiao Liege talked about Xiao Derui's matter, she started talking non-stop, and she didn't notice Xue Zhijing's sudden depression. When she realized that Xue Zhijing didn't seem to speak, she lowered her head and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I feel that Xiao Derui is more important than me in your heart, I feel a little sour." Xue Zhijing put on a pitiful look, which made Xiao Liege a little anxious.

"No, where is it? Xiao Derui is my nephew. I don't care about it. Of course I care about you more."

"In the past, you cared about his growth and his studies, but now you even care about his wives and concubines. It feels like the concubines who live with you are not his, but yours."

"..."

Xiao Liege became even more anxious when he heard this, "You have misunderstood me. I am with you every day, and I come back every day after I am busy with government affairs. Look at them, no, I won't look at them indiscriminately. No, they are Xiao Derui's women, I look at them just like a mother-in-law looks at her daughter-in-law."

As he talked, Xiao Liege couldn't understand it himself, and there was always something weird about it.

She simply stopped talking, went up and rubbed Xue Zhijing's face and said, "You don't believe me?"

Xue Zhijing covered Xiao Liege's with his hands, and said earnestly, "I just don't want Xiao Derui to be so big, and you still take care of him like a child, and also take care of his wife and children."

"But that's the blood of our royal family. He doesn't have a single son so far. Who will inherit the throne in the future?"

"He's only in his early twenties, and it's going to be a long time in the future. Why are you so worried?"

Xiao Liege lowered his head, as if he felt that he had some reason, but he didn't know how to tell Xue Zhijing.

"If you have a side child, who is younger, you can adopt him and we will raise it together." Xue Zhijing said with a smile, "Draw all your attention to Xiao Derui."

"Heh!" Xiao Liege was immediately happy, "Are you still jealous of Xiao Derui?"

Xue Zhijing simply sat upright and nodded seriously, "That's right, I'm jealous of Xiao Derui."

Xiao Liege didn't care whether the jealousy that Xue Zhijing said was true or not, since Xue Zhijing had mentioned it several times, she also thought about it seriously, "There is no problem with my adoption, and the child can still be a sacrificial inheritance in the future."

, Inherit my pasture slaves or something, but, on your side, as the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, you can't let me, a child of the clan of the Liao Kingdom, be the heir in the future. "

Suddenly, Xiao Liege thought of something, "You should have family members before Dacheng entered the palace, do you want to look for them? Your Xue family should have children from offshoots, who are also somewhat related to you. "

Xue Zhijing was a little taken aback, the Xue family?

Yes, she should have a family.

However, she is not the person of this era at all. Apart from the genetic relationship, she has no emotional relationship with the Xue family of this era.

It was probably because the courtiers were also worried about the royal family becoming big, so no one mentioned asking her to find her family members. She always thought that she was alone, so how could she want to find her so-called family members.

Xue Zhijing shook his head, "I entered the palace when I was very young, and my family members don't remember it, probably because I was hit by a disaster in my early years and they were all separated."

"You entered the palace because of a disaster?" Xiao Liege suddenly felt distressed, and stroked Xue Zhijing's hair, as if to comfort him, "You never mentioned it to me before."

"I can't remember very clearly, how can I mention it?" Xue Zhijing smiled, "It's okay, it was a long time ago, I have completely forgotten about the future and the past, and I can't remember the days in the palace. I had a good life, and later you also know, all the way up, and now I am the emperor, and God treats me well."

This sentence is not thin, Xue Zhijing is sincere, if she hadn't gone this time, she would have died in the air crash in her previous life long ago.

Xiao Liege still looked at her distressedly, and said, "I never asked you what you were like before?"

Xue Zhijing grabbed her hand, kissed it on the lips, then put it on his chest, and said softly, "Knowing my present and our future together, that would be great."

After a long time, Xue Zhijing said, "Actually, I don't have such a strong desire for blood relationship. It may be because I was alone in this palace since I was a child. I value the fate between each other more."

Xiao Liege nodded.

"I thought about it a few days ago. I can also go to the sales center to see which child I have a good relationship with. Then I will bring them back and live together as adopted sons and daughters."

"Sales home?"

Xue Zhijing's eyes lit up, "I don't seem to have told you this. Before we met for the first time, I took the mission of my mother to go to the northern border to investigate. On the way, I went to a sales home The government-run sales home has limited funds, but there are too many children, all of whom are pale and emaciated, but they are all better than the victims of the disaster at the city gate. At that time, I decided to buy them a pig."

Xiao Liege listened carefully, such a thing sounds like what Xue Zhijing would do.

"Later, when I had the conditions, I supported a lot of funds for the sales homes in various places, and even sent supervisors to supervise the use of those funds. I was afraid that officials in various places would stop them. Because a lot of funds were paid by myself. Yes, after several inspections, the officials below were afraid that I would say that they had embezzled my personal funds, so they dared not use them at all, and often wrote reports to me, saying what happened to those children now."

Speaking of Xue Zhijing, he felt a little funny, "I hadn't ascended the throne at that time, and everyone wanted to please me."

"and after?"

"Later, the Salesian Home was put on track, and all the orphans or disabled children who could be taken in were taken in. I also realized that there are too many children in our whole country that need to be taken care of. If nothing else, let's just talk about the city of Wanguo. Several families have taken care of hundreds of children.”

"Aren't they all without parents?" Xiao Liege asked curiously, "Isn't there a lot of children, even if they don't have parents, will they still be taken care of by clan members?"

Xue Zhijing said helplessly, "I don't know, but I guess, there will be many families who don't want to raise so many disabled children or girls, so they throw the children at the gate of the sales home."

"So cruel?"

"Yeah, you are cruel, so let me take care of you. I am their son of heaven, and I have the responsibility to take care of all the children in the world."

He asked Xue Zhijing to take her to see the children in the nursery in Wan Guo City.

Xue Zhijing didn't doubt that there was him, he just thought that Xiao Liege got interested because he heard so much from her yesterday.

It's okay, she hasn't visited the salesperson's home for a long time, so let's go.

In the city, the two of them rode horses and led their attendants, and passed slowly.

According to Xue Zhijing's habit, she naturally wouldn't notify people in advance that she was ready to go, what she saw was a natural state.

When they got to the door, the officials and nurses from the Salesian Hospital came out to greet them in a hurry, all of them a little nervous.

"I just came here today to look at the children casually, relax and do whatever you usually do."

Xue Zhijing said something that the leaders often say, but although the people below responded, no one really knew how to do what they usually do, and they all surrounded her and said good things.

Xue Zhijing went to the kitchen to look at the food the children ate, seeing that there were rice, meat and vegetables, he was half satisfied.

"What about the older children?"

"Children over the age of seven have all gone to elementary school, and I guess they will come back after a while." The official of the sales school replied.

Xue Zhijing, Xiao Liege and others walked to the backyard, and sure enough, they saw some very young children playing in the yard. Judging by their appearance, they were all well-raised and chubby.

Seeing people coming, several children with good legs and feet surrounded them and joined them to play.

Xiao Liege looked at Xue Zhijing, and said softly, "How disabled are they?"

Xue Zhijing nodded to her.

Although having fun with the children, Xiao Liege did not forget the purpose of bringing Xue Zhijing here today. She seemed to be looking for it, and finally saw a little girl at the flower bed in the corner of the yard. The little girl looked like three About four years old, with a round face, looks a bit introverted, but her eyes are shining, staring straight at them.

Xiao Liege pulled Xue Zhijing, looked over there, Xue Zhijing followed her gaze, and landed on the little girl.

Xue Zhijing has always been a caring person, so he was naturally the one who took the initiative to walk over.

However, before he got closer, he saw the little girl shrinking his hands behind him, but the sharp-eyed Xue Zhijing had already seen clearly that the child's two hands were disabled at the thumb, and there were actually six fingers in both hands.