On the other side, Zhang Shiren, who had been slapped, quickly came to the study and wanted to see Zhang Hu, who was handling official business inside.

Today, during Mu Xiu, according to Zhang Hu's habit formed over the years, he will still go to the government office to handle some urgent official business, and be prepared to be summoned into the palace by Emperor Yuan He at any time to discuss political affairs.

It's just that the "household affairs" of the Zhang family have spread among the wealthy families, which has affected him to some extent. He doesn't want to see the faces of some people in the cabinet, so he stayed in the mansion today.

"Grandfather, my grandson wants to divorce his wife!"

With half of his face red and swollen, Zhang Shiren rushed to the study room like the wind and told Zhang Hu directly his request: "Prince Fu's palace is gone, and the Holy Father doesn't have much affection for her. If her grandson divorces her, he will marry her."

Lan'er comes in and gives Teng'er an upright identity, so no one will call him a scoundrel!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hu, who had always loved him, became furious. He stood up and slapped him in the face: "Idiot!"

Zhang Shiren was stunned by the slap and covered his face for a long time, unable to recover: "Grandpa, grandpa..."

Zhang Hu looked at him with hatred, and scolded sternly: "Now everyone is watching our Zhang family from outside, and the Holy One is also dissatisfied with me for this matter. You are divorcing your wife at this time and marrying the notorious Lan."

Zhi Guomen, you still think it’s not chaotic enough, right?”

Zhang Shiren was dumbfounded and said: "But grandpa, you don't like that woman to be your granddaughter-in-law, so you want to take advantage of that opportunity to kill her..."

Under Zhang Hu's glare, he swallowed back the last few words.

Zhang Hu really didn't like Princess Jiaming, his granddaughter-in-law. When he first joined the cabinet, his foundation was not stable, so he asked Prince Fu's Mansion to marry her. Firstly, he valued the Emperor's care for Prince Fu's Mansion and it could improve the Zhang family's foundation and family status.

Secondly, Prince Fu is gone, and Princess Jiaming has no brothers to control.

Now that the Zhang family has a better choice, Princess Jiaming has become a stumbling block for him and the Zhang family to go further, which is particularly annoying.

Princess Jiaming's difficult childbirth was a good opportunity. As long as she was left to die and two lives were left unchecked, and this stumbling block was naturally removed, others would not suspect the Zhang family at all.

It's a pity that the Princess Protector's Mansion interfered and all his plans came to nothing.

Looking at his grandson's stupidity, Zhang Hu wanted to slap him again: "If you divorce her before this, it will incur the dissatisfaction of the Holy Emperor, and I will try my best to help you achieve this. Now we

The Zhang family is at the forefront of the storm, and one careless move will lead to big trouble. This is the time when we need to use her to gain a good reputation, so don’t even think about divorcing your wife!"

When Zhang Shiren heard this, his face turned ugly: "Grandpa, she already knows that Teng'er is the son of grandson and Lan'er, and she will definitely not let Teng'er continue to be recorded in her name. What will Teng'er do if that happens?"

Zhang Hu glanced at him and said with an expression of hatred: "She is a housewife with no support behind her. In the future, she can only rely on you as her husband. If you coax her, she will know what to do!"

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As soon as Zhang Shiren thought about it, he understood what he meant, and said unwillingly: "Wouldn't this wrong the mother and son? In the future, Teng'er will be inferior to others because of his birth background when he pursues an official career!"

Zhang Hu patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "You are still young, so you will not have only Teng'er as your heir. In the future, it will not be difficult for you to have a legitimate son of noble birth."

Zhang Shiren was confused and obviously didn't understand: "Grandpa, that woman is very sick, and her vitality has been severely damaged this time. Even if she got pregnant by luck, I think she will be like the short-lived ghost in front of her, and she is not worthy of our family's careful cultivation.

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Zhang Hu didn't say much, and waved his hand to let him out.

Zhang Shiren had many questions in his mind, but he also knew Zhang Hu's temper. As long as he didn't want to talk, he wouldn't get an answer even if he asked, so he bowed to Zhang Hu and exited the study.

After the study door closed, Zhang Hu returned to the table and read the secret letter in his hand carefully until the last word was imprinted in his mind.

He took out the fire seal from the drawer, opened the fire seal and wanted to destroy the secret message, but he thought of something and gave up the idea.

He carefully put the secret message into a box with a sandwich, then unscrewed a mechanism to open the small secret room behind it, and hid the box properly inside.

No one but himself knows how many secrets are hidden inside.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the twelfth lunar month, and Qin Xiaoxiao's belly was almost six months old. Since she was pregnant with twins, her belly looked about the same size as others who were eight months pregnant.

As a result, her body was subjected to a lot of gravity, and her legs and feet inevitably suffered from edema. She had to get up every hour to urinate during the night, making it impossible for her to sleep for a full night.

The same is true for Heng.

Looking at Jingheng's dark eyes, Qin Xiaoxiao advised again: "Brother Li, let's sleep in separate rooms and let Mingyue and the others take turns keeping watch. You don't have to worry about me falling."

Jingheng didn't want to hear her nonsense, so he picked up a sour plum and blocked her mouth.

Qin Xiaoxiao moved the tip of her tongue, and the sour plum was pushed to the side by her, forming a bulge on the right side of her face, which made her cheek appear rounder and rounder, making people want to pinch it twice unconsciously.

Seeing the man's hand that was about to move, she hurriedly covered her face: "I can't squeeze it anymore. If I keep squeezing it any longer, sooner or later I'll turn into a puffy face. It'll be too ugly!"

Seeing that she refused to pinch her face, Jing Heng could only pinch the back of her fleshy hand: "I asked Li Shangshu for three days' leave, and I can go back with you tomorrow to congratulate you."

The day after tomorrow is the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, the day when Hu Qingqing leaves the court and marries Chen Feng; the 26th is an auspicious day for Dabao to get married. The two have similar wedding dates, so they can stay in Qingshan Village for a few more days and come back on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded: "I have prepared two gifts. The new year gift is prepared by my mother. We will take it back together tomorrow."

Jing Heng looked at her belly and was a little worried that she wouldn't be able to bear it on the road: "Will it be very tiring? Why don't I go alone? My second uncle and my sister-in-law can understand."

Qin Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "It's okay. Both children are very well-behaved and almost never make trouble. The weather is good these days and the road is easy to walk. Didn't you ask Qin Tianjian specifically? Qin Tianjian said that there will be no trouble in the next few days.

Is there no rain or snow? As long as the sedan chair is carried steadily, everything will be fine."

She hadn't been back for a long time, and her parents came to the city to stay for a while and spent a few days with them, which made her really miss home.

Besides, since I went back this time, I guess I will have to wait until she is pregnant before I have a chance next time, which may take half a year.

Jing Heng touched her belly. Perhaps the child sensed it and kicked her in the palm. A smile appeared on his stern face unconsciously: "She's getting more and more energetic."

Qin Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "Of course, I even gave up peppers for them. If they don't grow well, they won't be able to bear the sacrifices I made!"

She has been paying close attention to the two children since they made movement for the first time when they were more than four months old. As the months got older, their movements became more and more frequent, and gradually she was able to tell which one was coming.

move.

Of these two children, one is obviously active and the other is lazy. The lazy one may not move for a whole day. If Mingyue and the imperial doctor had not both said that the child was fine, she would have worried about whether there was something wrong.

While the couple was chatting about their daily life, Xingtian walked in and reported that Lian Xin was here.

Qin Xiaoxiao asked her to call Lian Xin in while wondering why Princess Jiaming sent her here at this time.

After a while, Lian Xin came in with two big red gift boxes. It turned out to be Princess Jiaming's makeup for Hu Qingqing and a congratulatory gift for Dabao.

Princess Jiaming did not know Hu Qingqing and Dabao, but she had often heard Qin Xiaoxiao mention them in the past. Knowing the deep relationship between their brothers and sisters, she sent them two congratulatory gifts.

This was Princess Jiaming's wish. Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't refuse it, so she asked Xiqiao to accept the gift and asked Lianxin about Princess Jiaming's current situation.

After Fusheng was buried, she would visit Princess Jiaming every few days, trying to persuade her to take the divorce letter and leave the Zhang Mansion. Princess Jiaming always said she would consider it, but in fact she was perfunctory.

The more they talked about it, Princess Jiaming gradually became impatient, and the two of them also had arguments, but this did not affect their friendship and they quickly reconciled.

"Madam, everything is fine with the master. The weather has been nice these days. She even took the initiative to stroll around the streets and bought a lot of books and came back to study..."

Lian Xin talked carefully about what Princess Jiaming had done recently, and even she felt that her master was getting better and better, even better than before.

Qin Xiaoxiao felt relieved, waved away Xiqiao and the others and asked in a low voice: "Has my aunt ever expressed the idea of ​​leaving the Zhang family and setting up another family?"

Lian Xin nodded quickly: "Yes, yesterday my master read a travel journal and said that if he had the opportunity to travel all over the world in the future, he would have to take a look at the fairyland on earth described in the book to make his trip to this world worthwhile."

Deep down in her heart, she also hopes that Princess Jiaming will leave the Zhang family and live her own life in peace, but she knows that the master has hatred buried in his heart and will not leave willingly, but there seems to be no sign of revenge against the Zhang family.

Therefore, she was not sure what Princess Jiaming was thinking and did not dare to make random guesses. She did not tell Qin Xiaoxiao truthfully what she was thinking.

Qin Xiaoxiao thought that Princess Jiaming was really about to figure it out, and there was a bit of joy on her face: "That's good! My aunt trusts you. Please give me more advice on weekdays. I hope my aunt will listen to something."

Lian Xin responded and thought so in her heart.

After she left, Qin Xiaoxiao's joyful mood did not dissipate, and she said excitedly to Jingheng: "Brother Li, I want to help my aunt find a house near our home, and I will live in it after she leaves the Zhang family.

If you become neighbors with us, you will be taken care of in the future!"

After Jing Heng heard this, he didn't throw cold water on it: "This is a good idea. It's close and makes it easier for you to communicate."

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded, recalling the days when she and Princess Jiaming talked about everything every day: "My aunt likes to indulge in the mountains and rivers, and I also like to travel around. When the time comes, I can go out with her to appreciate the wilderness, green sea, and the mountains in the west.

, the poetry and picturesqueness of the South..."

Jing Heng listened quietly, his expression not looking strange at all. Until she finished speaking in one breath, she ran out of words and took a sip of water. He asked calmly: "What should I do with the child?"

Qin Xiaoxiao was stunned and forgot to swallow the water in her mouth. She had obviously forgotten her child.

Jing Heng continued: "It doesn't matter if you forget me. After all, I am an adult and will take care of myself. The children are still young and will not be able to live without their parents in three to five years. Do you want to leave them?"

Gululu!

Qin Xiaoxiao swallowed the water with difficulty, touched her belly and said dejectedly: "Let's wait until they grow up."

Although there were many maids in the house, and the parents could help look after the children, she didn't see such a small baby with her own eyes, so she had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery outside.

Jing Heng pressed the corner of his mouth and said leisurely: "When the children grow up in three to five years, I will stop working in the Maritime Trade Department and travel with you. How about it?"

Qin Xiaoxiao said casually: "That won't work. My aunt and I are traveling. It's inconvenient for a grown man like you to be there."

Jing Heng's face darkened and he couldn't control his emotions.

It turns out that this girl only wanted to travel with her cousin and never thought of taking him with her.

"But you might as well take off your errands at the Maritime Trade Department. Then you can stay at home and take care of the children, and I will feel more at ease when my aunt and I go out to play." Qin Xiaoxiao didn't notice that he was sulking, and the abacus clicked loudly.

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Jingheng rubbed his forehead, he was so angry with her that he lost his temper.

Early the next morning, the two of them paid their respects to Princess Protector and set off for Qingshan Village.

Originally, they didn't want to take Rhubarb back this time because they were afraid that it wouldn't be able to bear the bumps on the road. Unexpectedly, it and Bieme stopped them at the gate, grumbling and wanting to go together.

Seeing Dahuang's eager eyes, Qin Xiaoxiao's heart suddenly trembled, as if something was blocking him. Finally, he ordered Shitou to hitch a new carriage and lay a thick straw mat on it.

It was not easy for her to ride in a carriage, so she still rode in a sedan chair. Jing Heng and Rock, Paper, Scissors rode horses, and Mingyue Jingque accompanied them in a carriage. There were several cars behind them to bring New Year's gifts and congratulatory gifts to the Qin family.

It got dark very early in the winter, and the group of people walked in a hurry all day long, and they didn't arrive at Qingshan Village until nightfall.

Because they sent someone to the Qin family in advance to tell them what day they would arrive, the Qin family had already prepared meals and were waiting for them. The people in the second room and Xueya's family were all there, and the Qin family was only missing the third room.

It wasn't that Qinhe and Li Yingran didn't come back to attend the wedding of their nephew and niece, it was that Li Yingran got sick halfway through and had to stop where she was to recuperate and couldn't make it back in time.

The whole family was chatting lively when they heard the village dogs barking lively. Knowing that their daughter-in-law and son-in-law (grandson-in-law) had entered the village, they all got up and went to the intersection to greet her.

Qin Xiaoxiao was still a little dizzy. When Mingyue Jingque helped her down, her legs and feet were so weak that she stood for a while before regaining consciousness. She pulled Mr. Qin and Mrs. Miao to act coquettishly.

Qin Shan and Lin Qiuniang went to the capital to visit her a few days ago, so what she missed the most were her grandparents whom she hadn't seen for three months.

After greeting each other, the family entered the main room.

Using a few oil lamps, Zhao Cao'er saw Qin Xiaoxiao's belly clearly and couldn't help but touch it: "Tsk, tsk, my belly is so big. It looks even bigger than when I was pregnant with your second brother. Look.
Chapter completed!