"I know you love Mingwei the most and always consider him in everything," Helanya glared at Zhong Zhiling, with a hint of blame in her tone, "No wonder so many people think you are Mingwei's biological father. Even I doubt it."
"Of course I am Mingwei's biological father. Aren't you Mingwei's biological mother as well?" Zhong Zhiling smiled apologetically, adding, "By the way, didn't you like the bunch of little toys that Mingwei and his wife sent to our baby a few days ago? You also kept praising Mingwei and his wife for being sensible and filial. You weren't like this at that time, were you?"
"Humph! You're always right no matter what you say," Helan Ya snorted. Actually, she wasn't really jealous, she just liked to argue with Zhong Zhiling. While taking a sip of milk tea, she casually asked, "When will Ming Wei send a general to our northwest?"
"I'm afraid it will take another two or three months. This year's military examination will be advanced, and by then we should be able to select a group of talented generals to take over," Zhong Zhiling said in a deep voice, and sighed softly, "Now the court is short of people. When the previous emperor was in power, he valued civil officials over military officials and suppressed military generals, which led to the decline of military generals in the court. When Prince Rong was in power, he was even more of a disaster for the court and affected a group of military generals. The mess left by the father and son has to be cleaned up by Mingwei, but good generals are hard to find, not to mention good generals needed in border areas, which are even harder to find."
"It's not that hard to find one, actually. I've noticed that there are many suitable generals in the Northwest Army, and they were all cultivated by you. Many of them are capable of taking over. But you're afraid that the Northwest Army will dominate, so you've transferred many generals away one after another. Now you're lamenting that good generals are hard to find," Helan Ya rolled her eyes at him. Seeing that Zhong Zhi was about to explain again, she stopped in a hurry, "I know! I know! You're thinking about your Ming Wei again!"
Zhong Zhiling shook his head helplessly: "Of course I have to think about him. When we go to Jiangnan in the future, even if I want to think about him, I can't do anything for him. So I have to worry about him while I am still in the northwest."
"You've been worried your whole life!" Helan Ya sighed, putting the teacup on the table and holding Zhong Zhiling's hand, saying, "You worried about the Great Zhou before, and now you worry about Ming Wei. In the future, you'll have to worry about your baby. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it's really a life of hard work when you think about it."
"You are wrong," Zhong Zhiling looked at Helan Ya with a smile and said softly, "You are the one I am most worried about now."
"Who made you worry? I'm fine!" Helan Ya raised her chin a little proudly, and tilted her head to look at Zhong Zhiling. When she was about to say something else, she suddenly widened her eyes, opened her mouth and couldn't say any more.
"What's wrong?" Zhong Zhiling also noticed something was wrong, and immediately sat up straight, with a look of nervousness on his face, "Yaya, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No... no," Helan Ya came back to her senses after a while, shook her head at Zhong Zhiling, pulled Zhong Zhiling's hand into the quilt, put it on her high belly, and then said in surprise and joy, "Brother Ling, the baby just kicked me!"
Zhong Zhiling then let out a long sigh of relief, and while gently stroking Helanya's belly, he said with a smile: "It's not the first time it's kicked, doesn't it kick all the time?"
"It's different from usual!" Helan Ya explained hurriedly, "Usually it's just fancy moves, but this time it's overwhelming, so it must be a son!"
The corners of Zhong Zhiling's mouth twitched: "...Yaya, didn't we agree not to favor boys over girls?"
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