The physician arrived quickly.
Upon arrival, Shumulu immediately instructed him to take Fucha's pulse. The physician began taking her pulse slowly and deliberately.
After a while, she smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations, Madam is pregnant."
Fucha's face lit up with undisguised joy: "Is it really true?"
"Of course it's true."
Shumulu was also happy. Although she didn't urge her daughter-in-law, she also wanted to have a grandson and granddaughter. Now that her eldest daughter-in-law was pregnant, she felt relieved.
"How many months?" Shumulu asked.
"It's been almost a month."
Tong Cheng'er exclaimed, "It's been a month? That's about the same time as when I married my second brother!"
Shumulu smiled and said, "That's right."
Upon hearing this, Lady Fucha quickly replied, "Perhaps it's because of my second brother and sister-in-law's good fortune."
Shu Yu: "Congratulations, sister-in-law."
The news of Lady Fucha's pregnancy quickly spread throughout the Tong family. Although the Tong family had been experiencing a series of happy events recently, the addition of a new member to the family was a rare occurrence that had not happened in many years.
This is indeed a joyous occasion.
They naturally gathered together for dinner that evening.
With her daughter-in-law pregnant, Shumulu focused almost all her attention on her daughter-in-law and wasn't so concerned about Tong Cheng'er and Liu Shaoyi's affairs. She figured she could get involved after her grandson or granddaughter was born anyway.
In short, the reason why Shumulu set her sights on Tong Cheng'er was partly because she had too much free time.
Some people are just naturally restless, and Shumulu was one of them.
Tong Cheng'er could also sense the changes in her mother, and then couldn't help but feel fortunate that her sister-in-law's pregnancy was perfectly timed.
Under Shumulu's care, Fucha's belly gradually swelled up.
The Tong family was all watching closely. Fortunately, Fucha had a good attitude, otherwise she would have been very nervous.
Time flies, and another year has passed in the blink of an eye.
The Tong family had a truly happy New Year.
Aside from being summoned by his father from time to time to inquire about his "illness," Yinzhen in the palace was no different from usual.
Not long after the New Year, Liu Shaoyi was about to begin preparing to remove his mourning clothes. Although he had come from Jiangnan, his father was buried there, so he would have to go back to remove his mourning clothes.
The men of the Tong family were busy and naturally didn't have time to go along, so they had to make proper preparations for him and let him set off from the capital.
After seeing Liu Shaoyi off, Shumulu couldn't help but say to Alhatu, "When Shaoyi comes back, we should mention it to him."
Al-Hartu: "There's no need to bring it up specifically. We'll find some opportunities later to let the two of them get to know each other. If it works out, we'll talk about it after Cheng'er's audition. If it doesn't work out, it won't have much of an impact on our daughter."
Al-Hatu only has one daughter, and his eagerness to marry her off inevitably gives people the impression that he's desperately trying to get her married.
His daughter is very precious!
Shumulu naturally had no objection and nodded, saying, "Then let's do it your way. We'll discuss everything when he returns."
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Emperor Kangxi secretly sent people to find a way to cure Yinzhen's illness, but they had no clue. In fact, it wasn't that they had no clue at all, but they didn't have a reliable method.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see at a glance that this was a deceptive method, so Kangxi naturally couldn't try it on his son.
He had known about Yinzhen's problem for more than half a year, and as his son grew older, he was also worried!
If there's really no way to cure Yinzhen's ailment, according to the imperial physicians, if he continues to abstain from sexual intercourse for too long, it will also cause problems with having children.
I'm so worried!
Yinzhen himself was quite open-minded. He knew what was going on, but he didn't mention Tong Cheng'er. If he did, his father, the Emperor, would probably wonder how the two of them had ended up together.
He felt it was unnecessary; Tong Cheng'er was still young anyway, and it wouldn't be too late to discuss it during the talent show.
Another reason he didn't say it was that he felt resentful seeing how miserable Emperor Yongzheng was in his dream.
Perhaps because an outsider has a clearer perspective, Yinzhen understood that by the late years of Kangxi's reign, his father was no longer raising a son, but rather raising a venomous insect.
Yinzhen was still influenced by the dream. Although he still had a deep affection for Kangxi, it didn't stop him from having a bit of a "mischievous sense of humor."
Therefore, Yinzhen did not intend to say that he had found a woman he could touch, just to make his father, the Emperor, worry more, so that he would not think that his sons were too "smooth" and end up causing so much trouble.
Judging from Kangxi's behavior, Yinzhen's "mischievous taste" clearly achieved its purpose.
Emperor Kangxi was indeed worried!
Yinzhen received a log about Tong Cheng'er almost every day, which recorded what she did each day, including what she ate.
From these diaries, Yinzhen gained a very specific and vivid impression of Tong Cheng'er.
The little girl is rather delicate, doesn't like to move around much, is a bit picky about food, and loves petting cats and reading storybooks, especially detective stories...
After reading it, Yinzhen kept it all in mind.
A while ago, he read in his log that the little girl didn't have enough storybooks to read, saying that the storybooks sold in bookstores had rather clichéd plots and weren't interesting to read.
He then realized that he seemed to be lacking a bookstore, so he immediately had one opened, disregarding profits, and spent a lot of money to hire someone to write unconventional detective stories.
To help those authors write more refined and unconventional works, Yinzhen even sent them some case files with altered names.
With true stories as their basis, and after some embellishment, storybooks were written one after another. Yinzhen paid silver based on the quality of the storybooks, and even set up a special review mechanism. Furthermore, if anyone's book caught Tong Cheng'er's eye, Yinzhen would give them an extra reward.
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