Aunt Liu was stunned.

Is this what the old man with a face like Zhong Kui wants to ask?

Who is he?

Why would he ask this?

No one else knew that Aunt Liu had delivered a stillbirth. When she heard the old general asking about it, she immediately guessed that this old man must be related to the General's Mansion.

She frowned and thought, is this national defense general here to settle the score with her because he remembered that she delivered their family's stillborn baby?

No way, this has nothing to do with her.

The old general felt a chill in his heart when he saw Aunt Liu's strange expression, hesitation and indecision.

He glanced at her coldly and shouted, "If you don't tell me, I'll twist your head off right now."

Aunt Liu was so frightened by the old general's cold and murderous look that her legs were shaking. She trembled and spoke incoherently, "...naturally, the baby was born at full term, but died before the full term."

"What?"

The old general's eyes, which were full of wrinkles at the corners, suddenly widened, almost squeezing his eyeballs out of his eye sockets.

General He standing by was also very surprised and couldn't believe it.

Who does the term "born at full term and die at premature term" refer to?

Clear at a glance.

The old general stood up suddenly, pulled open the bolt, and walked out without looking back. His steps were hurried, as if he was trying to escape from something.

General He hurried to catch up with the old general. What the old general said and the reaction of the old general's mansion made him confused and curious.

"General, General..."

The old general ignored General He and got into the carriage.

General He sat at the front of the car and turned to look inside.

The general leaned his back against the carriage, his throat seemed to be unable to breathe, and his arms were shaking uncontrollably.

He had never seen the general look so pale. Even during the fierce Song-Xia battle many years ago, he had never seen the general's expression so complicated.

There is panic, fear, doubt, confusion, and a hint of fear.

After a long while, General He slowly said, "General, are you okay?"

The old general's eyelids drooped weakly under his sparse white eyebrows and he said nothing.

"General, Brother Yan—" General He looked at the old general and paused consciously, "Isn't he a biological son?"

"Yes or no?"

The old general shook his head dejectedly, as if he couldn't figure it out either, or his mind was full of fog.

General He: "Ms. Liu said that the full-term ones are alive, and the premature ones are dead, but in fact, it is Brother Yan who is alive, and it is Brother San who died."

"Don't ask." He didn't know and couldn't understand.

General He stopped talking and drove the old general away from Chongmingfang.

When they arrived at the General's Mansion, the old general got out of the car, walked into the gate with a distraught look, and headed towards Feiyuan.

General He was worried about the old general, so he wanted to stay with him in the mansion for a while. The old general was not in a good mood at the moment and wanted to be alone for a while, so he sent General He back.

"grandfather."

Ruhuan made a few new clothes for her niece Wei Jie'er, who was one hundred days old. She was on her way to Fengquexuan when she met the old general in the corridor. Seeing her grandfather's strange and lost expression, she called the old general.

The old general turned his head to look at Ruhuan and said softly, "It's Huan'er."

"Grandpa, you..." Ruhuan looked at her grandfather's strange expression.

The old general glanced at the pink and light purple clothes in his granddaughter's hands and said, "Go to your sister-in-law's place to see Sister Wei. Go ahead."

Then the old general continued to move forward.

Ruhuan always felt that her grandfather was a little strange today, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Looking at the newly made clothes in her hands, she decided to go and amuse Wei Jie'er first.

Wei Jie'er had fully grown up, with a delicate and lovely face, very similar to her mother Dugu Lanxi, and a true beauty. However, her small mouth and nose still resembled her father Ye Yunlu more.

Ruhuan simply can't let go of Wei Jie'er.

In the past, the most favored girl in the general's mansion was Miss Ruhuan, but now the most favored girl is Sister Wei, who just turned a hundred days old.

…

The locust plague in Songzhou was very serious. The crops in the fields were eaten clean by locusts, and there was no harvest. Although the local government opened its granaries to provide grain as a relief and transported grain from neighboring counties to Songzhou to ease the tension in the grain market, Songzhou was a large city with a large population. The grain reserves in the Songzhou granaries and the grain transported from nearby counties were just a drop in the bucket.

Some people, under the pretext of the emperor's lack of grace and the injustice of heaven, took up the banner of uprising, incited riots with the help of vague public opinion, and quickly grew in strength. Wherever they went, there were casualties. It had come to the point where they had to be eradicated. Yun Chaoan, the prefect of Songzhou, wrote to the court, requesting that the court send troops to encircle and suppress the riots and restore peace to Songzhou.

Before Zhao Zixu was canonized as the crown prince, he was granted the title of King of Song, and his fiefdom was Songzhou.

Songzhou was his former fiefdom, and a riot had broken out there, resulting in the deaths of many innocent people. Naturally, he took the Songzhou governor's petition seriously. During a morning court session, he mentioned the Songzhou riot and asked his officials to recommend a general to lead into Songzhou to suppress the rebellion.

Someone recommended General Xuanwu Ye Zelin, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Someone suggested General Ye Yunlu, who held a nominal position in the Ministry of War.

Some people also recommended General Huaihua, who was unemployed at home and the father of Ye Zelin's good friend Zhao Ciyuan, General Zhao Yan.

However, the person most recommended by the court officials was Ye Zelin. Zhao Zixu naturally followed the officials' wishes and ordered Ye Zelin to lead troops to Songzhou to quell the rebellion, and set off two days later.

When Hua Fushu learned that His Majesty was going to send Ye Zelin to Songzhou to quell the rebellion, he knew that it was almost time for Ye Zelin to go to the northern border, and he quietly prepared a few sets of clothes and some medicine for Ye Zelin's injuries.

Ye Zelin looked at the bulging package on the table and said, "I'm here to quell the rebellion in Songzhou, not to travel. I really don't need to prepare so many sets of clothes. Two sets will be enough."

"Even if we go to quell the rebellion, we should prepare two extra sets of clothes. What if we don't have enough?"

Hua Fushu gave him a look that said "you understand". She didn't believe that he was really going to Songzhou to quell the rebellion. He must have used the excuse of going to Songzhou to quell the rebellion to deceive the world and go north to the northern border.

The arms of that 100,000-strong lion must be cut off.

"That's enough." Ye Zelin took out two sets of clothes and several bottles of medicine from the package and said with a smile, "Your husband is resourceful and has unparalleled martial arts skills. I don't need to take action against those common people's soldiers. I'm going to command, not to kill. Prepare so many medicines for me, aren't you cursing me?"

"It's up to you, it's up to you. I don't need to worry about you." Hua Fushu glared at him and took back the medicine he picked up.

"After I leave, I'll trouble you to take care of the house."

"I know, I know." Hua Fushu said patiently. This was the second time he had told her that today.

"When I go there, you must pay more attention to the King of Qin. If necessary, remind him to be on guard. Also, as for His Majesty, if His Majesty needs to summon you to the palace, you must cooperate with His Majesty." Ye Zelin gave repeated instructions.

Hua Fushu pointed to his head, indicating that he had remembered everything and would cooperate with their actions with all his strength.