Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 289: Avoiding Zi Tang

 Before Erlang was one month old, Li Xian returned from his errands.

Li Xian had already received a letter from home stating that his wife had given birth to a baby. After finishing his errands and returning to Beijing, he rushed straight to the house without stopping. He strode towards Bitangju, but was stopped by his mother on the way.

"You don't want to see me when you come back. Where are you going?" Mrs. Guo stopped her son who was walking in a hurry and asked with a drooping face.

Li Xian frowned slightly: "The baby is almost one month old, and I, the father, haven't even taken a look at it. I'll see you later."

When Mrs. Guo heard this, she was so angry that she cursed: "There are parents first, then there are wives and children. You are still a scholar in vain. Is this how you treat the mother who gave birth to you? I think your book is really..."

Before Guo could finish talking, Li Xian had already impatiently walked around her and strode straight to the main room.

Before the mother-in-law could go in to report, Li Xian had already entered the house. Xu Wanning was teasing her young son on the bed. When she saw Li Xian, she was surprised and said, "Why are you back? Didn't it say three days later in the letter home?"

Li Xian didn't bother to take off his coat, and went directly to the bedside. Looking at his fat son, a satisfied smile appeared on his face: "This boy is quite strong."

Xu Wanning smiled and said: "I weighed eight pounds when I was born, so I'm not very strong."

Li Xian came up to his wife and kissed her, and said with a smile: "Didn't I say she was a girl when she was pregnant? Why did she become a fat boy again?"

Xu Wanning gave him an angry look: "What's the matter? You don't like it?"

 Li Xian kissed his wife again: "As long as it's your child, I like it."

Xu Wanning smiled and snorted: "I forgive you and I don't dare not like it."

Li Xian looked at his son who was sleeping soundly and murmured: "This child is so big, did he suffer when he was born?"

Xu Wanning replied: "I didn't suffer much, it was pretty fast."

Li Xian got up from the bed, hugged his wife, and whispered in her ear: "I couldn't be with you even when you gave birth to this baby."

Xu Wanning replied: "Don't you have a business trip? What can be done about this?"

As she said that, she looked at Li Xian and asked, "Did this errand go well?"

Li Xian smiled and replied: "Don't you know your husband's ability? He is just supervising the work to deal with a small flood. How can I not be able to handle such a trivial matter?"

After hearing this, Xu Wanning felt at ease and replied to Li Xian: "It doesn't matter how big or small the errand is. As long as it benefits the country and the people and benefits the people, your errand will be regarded as a good deed. In my opinion, it is better than It's better to immerse yourself in official circles and make calculations all day long."

Li Xian patted his wife on the shoulder and said deeply: "It turns out that I was also ordered to supervise flood control, but I never went to the front line to do the project like this time. Although this job was hard, I saw with my own eyes those who were affected by the floods." The displaced victims feel quite deeply that the Yellow River will overflow whenever there is a disaster. If we do not carry out dredging projects, we will always find ways to fix leaks when floods occur, which is not a long-term solution."

Xu Wanning replied: "In that case, as the minister of the Ministry of Industry, why don't you write to His Majesty?"

Li Xian sighed and said: "The project of dredging the Yellow River is so huge. The recapture of the five cities last year has emptied the national treasury. How can we collect money in a short while?"

As he spoke, he looked at his infant son and murmured: "I just hope that the weather will be smooth and there will be few natural disasters, so that all people in the world will be at peace."

 “Let’s name this child Brother Ping.”

In Xianglin Garden, since Pingyang became pregnant, he asked Li Xiang to move to Jiao Xing's place in the west courtyard.

In the homes of powerful people, if the wife is pregnant and cannot serve, she must provide her husband with another concubine. Since Li Xiang is unwilling to take any more concubines, he has no choice but to let Jiao Xing serve him. After getting along for such a period of time, Pingyang saw that Jiao Xing was really a responsible person, so he put his mind at ease and focused on raising the baby.

In the early morning, after Jiao Xing got up, she quickly put on her clothes. After washing up, she went to the outside to check on the food delivered from the kitchen. Then she returned to the inside, pushed Li Xiang who was sleeping on the bed and said, "Third Master , it’s time to get up.”

Li Xiang squinted his eyes and said vaguely: "What time is it?"

Jiao Xing replied: "It's past Chen time. Get up quickly. It will be too late if you don't get up to do your job."

Li Xiang then opened his eyes, lazily looked at Jiao Xing on the bed and said, "Otherwise, I'd rather not go today because I'm feeling unwell."

Jiao Xing gave Li Xiang an angry look: "Looking at your ability, if you don't get enough sleep, don't stay up so late at night."

Li Xiang got up, got off the ground in his middle coat, stood in front of Jiao Xing, looked at her, and whispered with a half-smile: "Then what do you mean, you can only sleep well at night?"

Jiao Xing's cheeks were slightly red, she gave Li Xiang an angry look, and quickly turned around to get some clothes and help Li Xiang put them on.

Li Xiang lowered his eyes and looked at her shy look, his eyebrows were crooked, he changed the topic and asked: "What did you give me to eat this morning?"

Jiao Xing replied: "The left and right are all sent from the kitchen, and they are all your favorite food made according to the instructions of the wife."

Li Xiang heard a hint of embarrassment on his face when Jiao Xing mentioned Ping Yang, and murmured: "It really hurts me to see you being so cautious."

When Jiao Xing heard this, she subconsciously glanced out the door, quickly covered Li Xiang's mouth, lowered her voice and said: "Now that you and I can do this, I am very satisfied. You must never give birth to an unborn child." Come with the thought you should have.”

Li Xiang grabbed her hand, kissed it, and said helplessly: "Don't worry, I know it."

The two were about to go out to have breakfast when Xiaomei opened the curtain and came in: "Auntie, Sister Lantian next to Madam has brought you medicine."

Ever since Li Xiang stayed here overnight, Pingyang would send him Bizi Soup every morning.

Jiao Xing took the Bizi Soup in Lantian's hand, said, "Thank you, sister," and drank it all in one gulp.

Lantian saw Jiao Xing drinking the medicine with his own eyes, so he didn't stay much longer, said a few polite words and went out.

After Lan Tian left, Jiao Xing glanced at Li Xiang, who had a gloomy face, and said with a smile: "This medicine is not bitter."

Li Ling handed Jiao Xing hot tea and said coldly: "It's just that taking too much of this medicine will hurt your health."

Jiao Xing smiled carelessly at Li Xiang and said, "It's okay, I'm strong."

Li Xiang said nothing in silence. He just raised his hand and took her hand to eat outside. After breakfast, Jiao Xing sent Li Xiang out. When the two walked side by side, Li Xiang whispered in Jiao Xing's ear. : "When she gives birth to the baby, I will tell her that you will not be allowed to drink that medicinal soup again from now on."

Li Xiang's eyes were red when he said this, and there was a hint of choking in his tone.

Even if Pingyang was kind-hearted and allowed her concubine to have a child, she would have to wait until his wife gave birth to a legitimate son. Otherwise, she would not be qualified to have a child anyway.

Jiao Xing raised her hand and patted Feihong who landed on Li Xiang's shoulder, still jokingly saying: "I am still a child myself, how can I be a mother."

 (End of this chapter)