"Which army's officers are not all from Huaixi? According to you, I don't need to be in the army anymore." After hearing this, the fourth child became a little unhappy.
"Beiping's army." Lao Liu said with a smile: "When the vassal is established, with your father-in-law controlling it, who would dare to make a mistake?"
"He is our father-in-law." The fourth child corrected.
"Okay." Lao Liu admitted with a wry smile.
"Speaking of which, our father-in-law didn't come back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year this year." Zhu Di said a little strangely: "The letter home said that it was because he had hemorrhoids and he couldn't ride a horse. So he won't come back to celebrate the New Year and will raise him in Peking."
Huizu and Miaoqing had already accompanied the Xie family to the north to celebrate the New Year with Xu Da.
Needless to say, Lao Liu will have an easier time this year...
"Think about it again, this year has been surprisingly deserted. Even Brother Wenying didn't come back." Zhu Di touched his stubbled chin and thought:
"Tell me, does my father have any plans?"
"How do I know? The old man didn't tell me anything." Lao Liu shrugged.
"No, I think something big is going to happen in Beijing." Zhu Di believed in his intuition and said, "My father-in-law and the others were probably kept in the army by the old man to prevent changes."
"..." Zhu Zhen was stunned when he heard this. Otherwise, some things are innate. The fourth brother never left home, and his judgment on the court situation was almost the same. His intuition was as accurate as anyone else's.
Already.
"Why, I guessed it?" Zhu Di was about to ask in detail, but a call came from outside:
"Your Highnesses, King Zhou's chariot has arrived!"
"Oh, hurry up." The two brothers quickly stopped talking, asked the palace maid to help them put on their coats, and then rushed out of the reception booth.
When he was about to go out, Lao Liu turned back as if he had remembered something, picked up You Dou'er, who was in the wet nurse's arms, put him in his arms and ran out.
~~
Outside the reception pavilion, the two brothers saw an ordinary carriage approaching slowly on the official road to the south, escorted by dozens of officers and soldiers from the Zhou Palace.
The guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion obviously also saw the movement here and reported a few words to the people on the carriage.
The car curtain opened, revealing Brother Wu's ordinary, forgettable face.
Seeing this face, the fourth and sixth brothers simultaneously showed heartfelt smiles, waving and striding forward to greet him.
"Lao Wu!"
"Fifth brother!"
"Fourth brother, sixth brother!" The fifth brother jumped out of the car excitedly and ran towards the two of them. The three brothers hugged each other excitedly.
The scene was really like a meeting in an ancient city.
After finishing making love with the brothers, the fifth child saw the child in the sixth child's arms and asked with some uncertainty: "Is this a stew?"
"Is it possible to get on the bed?" Lao Liu was speechless for a while and said to Zhu Youdou, "If you are, please call me daddy."
"I don't..." Zhu Youdou shrank into Lao Liu's arms, afraid of this strange man.
"You have Zhuo'er, I really hate my father..." Lao Wu burst into tears. Unexpectedly, when he came back from a trip, his son didn't recognize him.
"Call daddy quickly, or I'll beat you up!" Upon seeing this, the fourth child glared and threatened.
"Wow..." Youdou'er was so frightened that he burst into tears.
Lao Wu was at a loss for a while and quickly took out a rattle from his arms, trying desperately to divert his son's attention.
"Fourth brother, what are you doing?" Lao Liu quickly coaxed the child and complained to Lao Si: "You did the same to Gao Chi?"
He was speechless for a while and said: "Okay, that's true..."
After coaxing for a while, Lao Liu was able to coax You Duan'er. But it was a little too successful and he coaxed the baby to sleep directly.
He handed the sleeping child to the wet nurse so that the fifth child could take a good look at his son.
"Good boy, you've grown so big." Lao Wu's eyes were slightly red, and he looked at You Duo'er intently. "The longer you grow, the more you follow your mother. It's so beautiful. Unlike dad, you can't see him when he falls into a crowd.
…”
The fourth child looked at You Duo'er from the side and whispered to the sixth child: "Does it look good? Why don't I think it?"
"The child is your own good, do you understand?" Lao Liu said softly.
"Why do I feel that Zhu Gaochi doesn't like everything?"
"You don't get along with others." Lao Liu rolled his eyes.
~~
On the way back, the wet nurse took the sleeping Youdouer into King Zhou's carriage. The carriage was so shaky that even the cradle was omitted.
It's just that Youdu'er didn't sleep well and talked in his sleep from time to time:
"You are not my father..."
"I don't have a father..."
Each sentence caused more than 100,000 points of damage to Lao Wu.
Finally he couldn't bear the blow, so he got off the carriage, rode a horse instead, and rode alongside his brothers.
"So I said, giving birth to a child is so dangerous, and raising a child is so troublesome? If I had known this, why would I have had one in the first place?" The fourth child was still complaining.
"..." Old Five and Six all pretended not to hear and kept talking to themselves.
"Fifth brother, tell me about your experience in Ningguo." Lao Liu said with a smile on his face.
Although he already knew in the letter that Lao Wu's smallpox vaccine was a great success in Ningguo, Lao Liu believed that Brother Wu would be more willing to say it again in person.
Sure enough, Lao Wu, who was crying because his son ignored him just now, his eyes lighted up again when he heard this, and his whole person seemed to be in high spirits. That was his glorious career!
"Lao Liu, our cowpox success is even more successful than imagined!" Lao Wu first announced the good news loudly, suppressing his excitement, and recounted:
"When I first went to Ningguo, it had become a hell on earth. People died of pox in every household. This kind of dead people is extremely contagious and can even infect people who come to attend the funeral.
"Then these people went back and brought the disease home with them. Many families or even their whole families died, and no one was allowed to burn them or bury them. As a result, another plague was caused, and hundreds of people died every day in the county."
"The neighboring counties were frightened. They set up checkpoints and dug ditches at the county borders, and sent people to patrol day and night to prevent anyone from escaping into the county from Ningguo." Lao Wu sighed: "The entire Ningguo has been sealed off.
No entry or exit is allowed. I don’t need to tell you how desperate the people are, right?"
"Oh my god, what kind of place did you go to?" The fourth child was shocked. He only knew that the fifth child was going to Xuanhu to help the world, but he did not expect that he would go to a severely affected area that was more dangerous than the battlefield.
"Your boy is dying?!"
"Don't worry, fourth brother, I went with all preparations." Lao Wu patted his left arm proudly and said with a smile: "Not only me, but also my thirty followers, all got cowpox.
. During the year we were in Ningguo County, we went wherever the epidemic was serious, and we came into contact with countless smallpox patients."
As he spoke, he pointed behind him and said: "As a result, all thirty people came back with me safe and sound!"
The guards also nodded and said with laughter: "When I went, I thought I would never come back. I didn't expect that His Highness's magical skills can really prevent the God of Plague from getting close to us!"
"So, I can proudly announce that the development of cowpox has been successful!" Zhou Wang Zhu Ju said in a high-spirited voice:
