Cai Yan also has many hidden secrets. A straight man like Li Su may not have to spend some time thinking about it, so he was a little confused when things were about to come. It took several days to slowly figure out his wife's long-term thoughts and concerns.

First of all, it must be admitted that Li Sucheng has been married for more than three and a half years, and it has been nearly five years since he was secretly unrecognized. Although the inner zither is harmonious, due to the traditional concept in the late Han Dynasty, a woman has not had anything to do for three and a half years, and her inner pressure is still relatively high, even though it was not yet the era of ethics and morals prevailing.

Li Su himself doesn't care whether he has children or not. He was too Buddhist in his previous life and what he paid the most attention to was his quality of life. He should enjoy it well and reduce his concerns.

However, it was not Cai Yan's fault that there was no movement in the past three or four years. It was originally because Li Su himself understood it better and could calculate the safety period when the two had not yet passed the road.

In addition, he was not yet eighteen years old at that time. In order to abstain from desire and health, he tried to develop for a while and his height exceeded 7 feet and five inches, so four or even twice a month was enough, and he spread it out once a week. In fact, during the safety period of the first seven and eight, the front was dense twice and the second was dense twice.

Cai Yan did not touch any of these medical common sense at first, but she was smart and smart. During that year of sneaking, she summarized her husband's living habits and found the profound meanings herself, so she was very cooperative. During this period, she had several very unsafe days. Cai Yan took the initiative to show her goodwill, and Li Su tried every means to refuse, but in the end she was inevitably trapped and asked about medical knowledge.

After knowing this, Cai Yan became concerned. She was a person with a clear mind, sentimental and sensitive person. After the formal marriage, she could not be completely relaxed without following the principles of safety.

But what followed was Li Su's conquest in Nanzhong in 191, which was delayed for a whole year, and then went to Hanzhong in 192. When Liu Bei was defeated in Wuzhangyuan due to an unexpected emergency, Li Su personally took charge of Yangping Pass to repel Dong Yue and Fan Chou, and later went to Changsha, Jingnan to live for three months in the spring of 193.

After careful calculation, Li Su went on a battle after marriage for half a year, and only lived at home for two times in the middle. During these three and a half years, he had been away for two years and had been at home for a total of one and a half years. The longest time was when he came back from Jingnan, he lived there for half a year.

This time structure made Cai Yan pay great attention to avoid suspicion. She did not want to be found pregnant only after Li Su went home for a long time and went out again.

Because the medical conditions at the end of the Han Dynasty were too poor, the pregnancy period was not accurate, and there were no witnesses from relatives around him. If Li Su was worried, he felt that "Why am I so lucky? I went home for two months to work hard, and my wife won the bid. Has anything else happened after I left?"

Li Su didn't think so, but Cai Yan herself was sentimental and meticulous. She wanted to prevent the possibility of being circulated and eliminated the possibility of gossip. Therefore, the most stable way is to be a husband who doesn't go home long enough, so continue to adhere to the principle of "not doing things in dangerous periods" until her husband stays at home for more than half a year long vacation before breaking through this principle.

This time, Li Su returned to Chengdu since early July. Since then, Cai Yan has followed him for nearly half a year, and has completely ignored the harmony of the seasons. During this period, he has never seen a man outside. Li Su saw it in person, which made Cai Yan very relieved to implement her plan.

In the end, it turned out that she had no health problems. She started doing this in August and finally won the bid in November.

On the other hand, we have to admit that because the princesses in Hanzhong are pregnant, people with higher status than Li Su in this camp have descendants, which has also caused great pressure on Cai Yan and made her unable to wait any longer.

...

"Calling the day, the princess will be born in February next year. You are not sure about this day. If it is November, it will be September next year. Then you should rest in Chengdu and talk more to the princess.

I will fight with the king. If the attack on Chang'an is smooth next year, and the Northern Expedition will not be left behind after the success of the Northern Expedition. I would like to be the governor of Yizhou, come back to appease the rear, and the governor of food and grass, and accompany you until the confinement period is over. I will consider going to Chang'an for the whole family next year."

After clarifying the cause and effect of the matter and the twists and turns in his wife's mind over the past few years, Li Su could only comfort her in this way, and made some temporary adjustments and arrangements, and even adjusted the rhythm of her career.

Originally, if the northern affairs were complicated after the capture of Chang'an, Liu Bei might have left Li Su there to deal with it. In this way, he would have returned to Chengdu Mushou's side after the Northern Expedition. Anyway, both tasks were very important, and Liu Bei had a lot of talents under him now, and Li Su Lu Su was not around, so Xun Youfa and Zhuge Jin could also handle the Yongliang affairs.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang will be fifteen years old next year. Since the quality of civil servants is not enough, Zhuge Liang can do a little professional work within his ability to exercise his officialdom.

After listening to her husband's arrangement, Cai Yan felt relieved. She also knew that since this pregnancy period was carefully designed by her, it was actually beneficial for her to avoid suspicion and be at peace, but it was somewhat not very good for her husband's career. It would be best if her husband didn't care about these things.

Fortunately, Li Su is a pure hedonist, not an official fan, or he knows how good his ultimate development will be, so he doesn't care whether he goes to Chang'an Central Committee to be an official early or later or later.

Cai Yan said with great consideration for him: "I originally thought that you would take the opportunity to take Jinse to take a concubine. It seems that you don't want to be too hasty and have no emotional foundation. But no matter what, I took them to Nanzheng this time.

I heard that Xun Chanjun and several other civil servants who were going to Chang'an took their families to Nanzheng this time, which is the truth. The king wanted to support the court. Of course, the important civil officials under the king had to bring their families to Chang'an to appease the old ministers in the court and declare their atmosphere. Otherwise, they would be like those who were Li Jue and Guo Si who held the king and had no personality.

Jinse is also the daughter of an important official in the court. Although he has declined, he will not lose his dignity when dealing with people. At that time, the families of the old ministers in Chang'an will host a banquet for the female relatives, and some people in our family will attend, so as not to be rude."

When Li Su went to Nanzheng to fight, he did not bring his female relatives, and no other advisers had to bring him (except Lu Su's wife was originally in Nanzheng), but that was because that was a defensive battle, and he had to withstand Dong Yue and Fan Chou.

This time it was an offensive battle, and we had to act like a permanent residence in Chang'an. Even Liu Bei brought Mi Zhen and Zhen Jiang, but Wu Xian couldn't leave because he was more than seven months pregnant, but according to the plan, he would also go to Chang'an before next summer.

Xun You and other senior officials who were originally framed by Dong Zhuo and left Chang'an had to return home with their wives and children, and their momentum could not be lost.

From this perspective, it is also a political need for Li Su to bring some female relatives to Chang'an to show off his face. After all, he is the head of the civil servants under Liu Bei's account, similar to the fact that some later ministers of state had to bring their wives when they visited.

Li Su thought for a while: "Then let's take it to Nanzheng first, and will it be rude to go to the meeting with the women from other important officials? If you can't take it, it's fine. If you have a proper etiquette, then consider other things in your long-term plan."

...

Because of his wife's pregnancy, Li Su also reduced her activities before the New Year.

With the coldest winter snow in the four years of Chuping, time finally entered the first year of Xingping.

The senior civil and military officials in Chengdu all experienced a short and peaceful New Year holiday. It was short because after the third day of the Chinese New Year, they had to go to Nanzheng one after another, striving to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival in Nanzheng and then fight for the Northern Expedition.

Speaking of peace, it is naturally because this New Year has a lot of delicious, delicious, and fun things that have just appeared this year, and everyone has benefited from the rain and dew.

Everyone used a new steelmaking workshop in Lidao to make iron-making with coal, and a bellows preheated air and high-temperature steel filling to make a thinner iron pot with better heat conduction. Then they got the oyster sauce that Li Su gave a gift and realized that there was no MSG and the delicious seasoning that was better than MSG.

In recent years, Li Su has also promoted the specialties of Nanzhong and Jiaozhou and became a new type of pleasure that dignitaries sought after by the nobles.

Lu Su even said that he would go to Changsha to take office after the Spring Festival, and would consider sending equalized transfer officials to calculate the cost and give more preferential tax policies to the fishermen in Jiaozhou.

In previous years, it was difficult to collect taxes for fishermen because the seafood they caught was too prone to rot, so they could only sell all the fish and pay for it. Therefore, according to the conventional operation of the Rental and Meditation Law, fishermen had to pay a captive tax of 300 yuan, 600 yuan for grain, and 900 yuan for service. They had to sell goods every year to raise 1,800 yuan for copper coins.

Now oysters and oysters can be made into hard currency with high shelf life. It is estimated that three-stone oysters with shells will be worth one stone of grain in the shell state, or one stone of clean meat without shells will be worth one stone of grain. In addition, ten times the concentration during boiling, fuel and labor costs will be costly. Lu Su estimates that one dou of five liters of oyster sauce will be paid every year to the farmer. If you rent all the money, you will probably know that five dou of oyster sauce will be enough.

Of course, this is just an estimate of the production method and output rate he learned from Zhao Yun. He must have to investigate it after taking office. Moreover, this luxury product is licensed to be operated by a license, so it must be done by now being a fisherman. Otherwise, it would be not a good thing to encourage more people to go to sea and fishermen to not farm.

Li Su himself stayed in Chengdu until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. He gave Zhuge Jin all the work in Shu County, asked Zhuge Jin to do it well, and painted her cakes, saying that as long as the king succeeded in the Northern Expedition, everyone would be rewarded according to his merits, Zhuge Jin might be able to become the county magistrate.

Because even Xun You was transferred to the north this time, he went to the front line to counsel the military aircraft. On this acre of three-point land in Shu County, there were indeed not many people who were older than Zhuge Jin and more trusted than Zhuge Jin.

Zhuge Jin also knew that the important juncture of his future was coming, so Li Su was relieved that the logistics work around Shu County during the Northern Expedition would not be lost.

Only then did Li Su take a group of beautiful maids, Dian Wei and a bunch of guards, and rode his horse on Jiange Road to Mianyang. He had to hurry up. If he walked on the Jialing River waterway, although it was not hard, he had to go around a big circle and it would not be possible to get there for ten days.

Jinse Xiuser was also nervous and served carefully all the way, with some expectations and some fear, especially when Jinse was told by Cai Yan that she was responsible for dealing with people, for fear of making a mistake and losing the right general's demeanor.

The group arrived in Mianyang a day before the Shangyuan Festival. Liu Bei also announced a banquet for his ministers in Mianyang to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival. It was also considered as a reward for the three armies and to boost morale in the end before the expedition.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, after the luncheon, an uninvited guest came to Li Su's mansion to visit.

Li Su was still a little surprised when she saw her. It turned out that she was taken to Hanzhong and had lived in the palace for two and a half years.

In recent years, Liu Bei's palace was nominally in Nanzheng, Hanzhong, but in fact, the palaces in Chengdu were far more gorgeous and enjoyable than the palaces in Nanzheng. The reason for this arrangement was to take advantage of Liu Bang's popularity in his character design back then.

However, because Liu Miao defected as a niece of the clan, it was impossible for him to live in the palace. In the past two or three years, he stayed alone in the Hanzhong Palace. Liu Bei did not lack her fee or maid. His living conditions were the same as those of him who was a princess in the fiefdom of Chang'an, but he had no friends around him. When Mi Zhen and Zhen Jiang were in Nanzheng, they could still talk with her and relieve her boredom. After they left, there was no one.

This time, I heard that the Northern Expedition was about to be, and the princess could not get to Wen Junji in advance, so she stayed until the Lantern Festival and asked for a meeting with Li Su for many years. After all, for the sake of Li Su's promise to the late Queen Lingsi, Li Su could not ignore Liu Miao.

So Li Su personally politely greeted him: "Why did the princess visit her humble house in a condescending manner... She only came here yesterday, and she was negligent in cleaning here, so she was very negligent."

Liu Miao looked at it with a slightly sad look, and asked subconsciously, "Have you not come with the Right General? Just at lunchtime, I saw Mi and the two aunts Zhen, too. Many old ministers in the court brought their relatives, why are you alone?"

Li Su: "There is a body of a cumstone, but it is often inconvenient."

Only then did Liu Miao hear a good news that made her happy from the bottom of her heart: "Is that so? My sister-in-law has been in more than three years, so it's a joyful congratulations. I'm here this time, and there's nothing else, I just want to ask... Am I going back to the fiefdom of Wannian County?"

Li Su calmed down for a few seconds, looked at Liu Miao's eyes and said sincerely: "At present, there is nothing to hide from the princess. Anyway, the army is about to set sail, and Shanguan Fengxue is not afraid of leaking the secret. Our army is indeed about to fight the Northern Expedition."

Liu Miao sighed faintly: "You called me a princess again, too. When I return to Wannian County, you promised your mother's queen four years ago, so I can be regarded as fulfilling it. Protect me carefully, and eventually expel the traitors and send me back to the fiefdom safely."

Li Su touched her nose, feeling a little confused about the other party's meaning: "Do you don't want Mo Jiang to be a person who keeps his promises? Otherwise, you should sit down in the room and talk slowly."

Liu Miao couldn't see any expression at all: "It's good to have faith in words, of course, how could my younger sister not want my brother to believe? In the past two or three years, there have been only palace maids around me, and no one close to me talked about me, and my uncle and aunt didn't care about me. However, compared with the two aunts who were caught in the thief's hands and suffered misfortune, I at least have rich clothes and food, so what else can I feel unwilling to accept it?"

Liu Miao complained indifferently, followed Li Su into his inner hall in Beppu in Hanzhong. When he saw the female relatives greeting each other, pouring tea and mats, and sweeping incense, Liu Miao was slightly stunned.

"Ying'er?"

Jinse's face was slightly embarrassed, and Yingying bowed: "Your Highness has a good memory and can also recognize the poor and humble friends."

Liu Miao suddenly fell into a state of delight and felt a little relieved: "I haven't seen you for four years. You're so beautiful, I'm envious. Why did you get here after Zhou Shangshu was killed?"

Li Su was stunned for a few seconds, observing quietly, and then he interrupted gently: "Jinse, your original name is Zhou Ying? When you were in the capital, did you see the princess?"

Jinse smiled shyly: "I was only eleven years old at that time, and His Highness was one year old. At that time... Empress Lingsi and King Hongnong had just been in trouble, and Dong Zhuo had just been tyrannical. Before Yuan Shao confronted Dong, his father was still trusted by Dong's thief and was in charge of the power of all officials. Therefore, I was often able to meet the royal family and was fortunate to be a playmate by Your Highness."

Li Su thought about it and found that it must have happened before Liu Miao was brought to Chang'an by him, and he was not brought to Hanzhong. There was a half-year difference between the time difference between Zhou Li and Xu Jing and others were celebrities in front of Dong Zhuo. It was not until Yuan Shao raised an army that Zhou Li and Dong Zhuo were exterminated.

During that period, Liu Miao was probably a little scheming when making friends with Zhou Wei's daughter. On the one hand, she really needed playmates of the same age, and on the other hand, she was worried and afraid of being harmed by Dong Zhuo. So she found a few female relatives from Confucian officials who were in charge of power and were more elegant.

Of course, it is also possible that Li Su was thinking too much. Liu Miao, who was only twelve years old at the time, might be a coincidence.

Li Su comforted and said, "Since you have an old age with Your Highness, I will not call you Jinse in the future, so I will call your original name Zhou Ying. Although your family has fallen into trouble, I will still treat you like a sister. It won't take long, and you can all go back to Chang'an at that time."

Liu Miao bit her lips, smiled apologetically at Li Su, and then pulled Jinse to the side and whispered: "Sister Ying'er, how did you get to the Right General's Mansion by chance? Could it be...you are his concubine now?"

Jinse's face turned red: "How could he be... he was just a maid. I was not a slave by Dong Zhe and was locked up in Meiwu. Fortunately, when Dong Zhe was killed, the right general broke through Meiwu and rescued us. We were willing to stay as maids, that's all.

The Right General was so dedicated to his love, and he had been married for almost four years. His wife had never been there before, so he didn't mind at all. Although I was a maid, I really admired her noble character."

Liu Miao couldn't help but laugh: "He is still noble? At most, he is not very good at women. In other aspects, he is extravagant and extremely lustful."

Jinse was not easy to refute, and he defended: "That's another matter..."

Liu Miao sighed, "Just kidding, I know you protect your master. Alas, although your life is miserable, at least your family is just like me. Although it is twisted and twisted in the middle, the end of the matter is better than mine. It must be that Zhou Shangshu abolished the party corruption, promoted Youyin, and accumulated virtue and did good deeds, so he left the orphan to get this blessing."

Jinse was startled and knelt down quickly: "Why did your highness say this? How can I afford to be the evaluation of "the end is better than your highness". We must believe in the efforts of the king and the right general and the generals. Chang'an is not far from restoration, and your highness's good days are still coming."

Liu Miao sighed, unable to say something ruthless, so he was too lazy to explain.
Chapter completed!