The next morning, Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng had breakfast together.
Just as he was about to pick up his packed bag and set off, Xiao Hanzheng's people brought him a letter.
He opened it and looked, "The peach and willow trees have grown."
Shi Qingluo picked up the bag and asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Xiao Hanzheng replied: "Girl."
Shi Qingluo nodded, "The girl is pretty good. Ge Chunru shouldn't do anything to her again."
The news came from the little husband's people that Ge Chunru had someone find a small piece of clothing for a child infected with smallpox.
He also instructed the maidservants in Taoliu Courtyard, who had been bribed by him, to find a way to let the child touch the small clothes if Taoliu gave birth to a boy.
By then it will look like he died of smallpox accidentally.
It has to be said that even though Ge Chunru had lost power, he was still so cruel and ruthless that he even spared no newborn babies.
Xiao Hanzheng said: "If it's a girl, Ge Chunru probably won't do it for now."
Shi Qingluo thought for a moment and said, "If she suddenly changes her mind and even harms girls, it will be troublesome. Have someone keep an eye on her and don't let her people succeed."
That is an innocent little life. Since they have the ability, they naturally want to protect it.
Xiao Hanzheng nodded, "I understand."
Shi Qingluo curled his lips and said, "It's best to let the scumbag father know about this."
Xiao Hanzheng chuckled, "I thought so too."
Instead of keeping a hidden danger in mind all the time, it is better to expose it directly.
Shi Qingluo asked: "How are Ge Chunru's brother and Niu now?"
Xiao Hanzheng replied, "Ge Chunyi is now addicted to gambling and can't help himself. Niu also went to the casino with him. The two of them lost a lot of money. In a few days, someone will come to his sister to collect the debt."
This was planned long ago. After Tao Liu gave birth to the child, he would find something for Ge Chunru to do to prevent her from keeping an eye on the child and trying to harm him in any way.
Xiao Hanzheng did not have any sibling feelings for Tao Liu's half-sister, but he would not be happy to see her being killed.
After all, no matter what grudges there are between adults, children are innocent.
Moreover, Tao Liu was the one who was sent to the general's mansion. Tao Liu also helped him do a lot of things. Helping her maintain her identity and protect her child was the promise he made to her.
Shi Qingluo nodded, "This is good!"
She took the initiative to kiss the corner of Xiao Hanzheng's lips, "Then my mother and I will leave first, you take care of yourself and help King Yi to set up the canning workshop, and then we will be back."
Xiao Hanzheng kissed back, "Okay!"
He sent his young wife to the yard, where his mother and Xiao Baili were already waiting with their luggage.
Xiao Baili has nothing to do at home recently, so she plans to go with her mother and sister-in-law. Naturally, King Yi will not object.
Soon, Liang Yulin also came over from the yard next door.
He greeted Xiao Hanzheng with a smile, "Hanzheng, don't worry, I will take good care of them."
Xiao Hanzheng glanced at him and said, "I just hope they can come back soon after they are done with their work."
Liang Yulin chuckled and said, "I can't say for sure about that."
He patted Xiao Hanzheng's arm affectionately, "It's okay, come and have a look when you have time, it's not too far anyway."
Xiao Hanzheng was speechless, "I will."
Then he went to bring back his mother, his young wife and his younger sister in person.
Next, King Yi and Shi Qingluo and his party got on the carriage and headed for a small town on the border.
The small town was indeed not very far from Heyang County, and it would take about six or seven days to travel by horse carriage.
The main reason is that the roads are in bad condition, with long stretches of bumpy dirt roads, which makes it time-consuming.
Sitting in the jolting carriage, Shi Qingluo suggested to King Yi when he was having a meal on the way that he should have the road paved with cement.
Otherwise, transporting canned food would be a difficult problem, as the cans might be broken due to such bumpy ride.
Then transfer from Heyang County to Beicheng or Beijing. Anyway, there will be cement roads leading from Heyang County to these two places.
King Yi also agreed, so he wrote a memorial and asked someone to send it to the capital.
Let my brother send someone to build the road.
The road was difficult to travel on, so Liang Yulin did not ask people to hurry. Instead, he asked the driver to slow down so that the carriage would not shake too much.
When we arrived at a place with accommodation, he would let us rest directly, even if it was just noon, and set off again the next day.
The main reason is that I don’t want the three women of the Kong family to get tired.
Therefore, it took ten days to reach the destination which could have been reached in seven or eight days.
When the group arrived at the border town, the General's Mansion in North City.
Xiao Yuanshi looked at the child in Liu Ru's arms with a gentle smile on his face, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
He had always been looking forward to Liu Ru giving birth to a boy so that he could bring him up well and train him to be his heir.
Who would have thought it was a girl.
Also sitting in the room were Old Lady Xiao and her two daughters-in-law.
Old Madam Xiao held the child in her arms and said, "This girl is so pretty, she looks a lot like the second child."
It would be good to have a girl, so that the Deputy Governor's Office will be her eldest grandson in the future.
Liu Ru sat on a soft chair, her eyes full of motherly tenderness as she looked at her daughter in the old lady's arms.
When she first found out that the baby was a girl, she was disappointed for a moment.
But soon all his attention was focused on his daughter.
This is the child that she has carried for ten months through her blood. Even if it is a girl, she will treat her daughter like a treasure.
I won’t be like the parents of the past who favor boys over girls and treat girls as grass.
She smiled and said, "That's right, Bai Jing and the general look like father and daughter."
She knew that Xiao Yuanshi was not very happy that she had given birth to a daughter.
But what does it matter? As long as she is happy.
Ge Chunru couldn't give birth to a child anyway, and Xiao Yuanshi had basically never rested in Ge Chunru's yard since he came to Northern Xinjiang.
Even if I stayed overnight occasionally, I never asked for water.
This shows that he still cares about and is disgusted by the green on his head.
Xiao Yuanshi smiled reluctantly, "He does look a lot like me."
He actually didn't see how they looked alike, so it didn't matter to him.
Then he said, "I have something else to do. I'll go out and do it first."
Tao Liu smiled considerately and said, "Then the governor, go quickly."
I secretly cursed this bastard for being son-in-law and daughter-in-law. He only visited my daughter every few days and never even hugged her. It felt very perfunctory.
Just as Xiao Yuanshi stood up to leave, his personal followers rushed in hurriedly.
"Deputy Governor, the people from the gambling house came to collect the debt and said they wanted to see Concubine Ge."
Xiao Yuanshi was stunned. "The people from the gambling house are asking Ge Chunru for a debt?"
The attendant nodded and said, "Ge Chunyi owed the gambling house tens of thousands of taels of silver and couldn't pay it back. The gambling house wanted to chop off his hands, so he asked these people to come to the deputy governor to ask Ge's concubine for the money."
When Xiao Yuanshi heard this, his face darkened instantly, "Go out and take a look."
He knew that Ge Chunyi and Niu were addicted to gambling, but he didn't take it to heart. He thought that the other party was just accepting the bad things and that was good enough.
Who would have thought that the fire would reach him.
There are 2 chapters left, around 16:30~~ Starting tomorrow, I will change the update time to post them all at once in the afternoon. I started writing in the morning and worked late. I was so busy that I couldn't finish writing and posting them all at once. It should be fine in the afternoon~ (End of this chapter)
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