It only took fifteen days for all this to happen.

After that, Bai Hao directly wrote to the court, stating that this year was very likely to be a year of disaster, so that the court should prepare early. The letter caused a huge stir in the court, after all, the word "disaster year" was extremely unknown. Xiao Zhen passed

A few days later, Bai Xiang came to her house to chat with Ziran and found out that Ziran had asked him to submit this document. He actually gave it to the emperor directly without asking the reason. Xiao Zhen was speechless after hearing this trust.

After so many years of separation from the imperial court,

Even if he has no memory, Bai Hao is brave enough, so he is not afraid of making mistakes?

Just when everyone was waiting for the emperor's decree, bad news came from the palace. The eldest prince, the son of Concubine Jin, and the current crown prince, was gone.

It takes more than twenty days from the capital to Jinxian County, which means that the eldest prince died more than twenty days ago.

At that time, Bai Hao was playing chess with Han Ziran, and when the servant handed him the urgent message, everyone thought it was an imperial edict about disaster, but they did not expect it to be such bad news.

Bai Hao stood up fiercely: "How is this possible? When I left the capital, His Highness the Crown Prince was still fine. How could he suddenly die suddenly?" "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is only seven or eight years old now." Xiao Zhen murmured. In Zhu You

In the art, the prince had been living with them in the village to maintain his health when he was young. Xiao Zhen watched her grow up, but in reality, he had no feelings at all.

I saw it when I was a baby.

Han Ziran glanced at Xiao Zhen and said nothing. He didn't understand this and naturally had nothing to say. Seeing Bai Hao's sad look, he sighed softly in his heart.

"This is impossible. His Royal Highness has been in good health since he was a child. He has never had any minor illnesses or pains." Bai Hao seemed unable to accept it.

Xiao Zhen was a little surprised to see Bai Hao looking so hurt.

After Bai Hao hurried back to the county office, Han Ziran packed up the chess pieces. Halfway through, he sat down again and looked at the black and white chess pieces without saying a word.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Zhen also sat down.

"The current emperor has very few heirs. There are only three princes in total. How uncomfortable it must be for this prince to go down." Han Ziran sighed and said. Xiao Zhen hummed lightly and did not answer. Who knows what happened in the palace?

It's hard to say whether the prince is really sick or something else, no one knows. The palace has always been in a state of flux, and there has always been a fight for the prince. If it started so early, what would happen in the future?

Don't be too cruel.

Just as the two of them were thinking about their own things, Zhao Jie hurriedly walked in: "Brother-in-law, I'm back."

Seeing Zhao Jie, Han Ziran became happy: "How much did you buy back?"

"It's more than the 50,000 dan we expected, a total of 100,000 dan of grain." Zhao Jie said excitedly: "I bought all the grain reserves in all the surrounding counties and cities."

"That's great. Madam," Han Ziran turned to Xiao Zhen and said, "I'm going to the county government office."

"Come back early." Han Ziran watched him go out. Xiao Zhen then said to Zhao Jie: "You guys are looking too far ahead. It doesn't matter. You just bought these with the money you earned in the past two years."

food."

Zhao Jie chuckled and lowered his voice and said: "Sister, my brother-in-law became the Prime Minister at the age of eighteen. He must be extraordinary. He must have a reason for saying that this year will be a disaster year. Even Mr. Bai unconditionally agreed.

Trust him."

Looking at the bright weather, there was heavy snowfall before, but in the blink of an eye, the snow seemed to have never come. It was indeed abnormal. Xiao Zhen nodded: "If everything goes well, what are you going to do with the food?"

"Master Bai said that when the time comes, he will ask the Ministry of Revenue to buy all these grains to use as military rations."

Xiao Zhen: ""

"But my brother-in-law said that we can also develop into a grain merchant or something." Zhao Jie laughed, looking very motivated.

Xiao Zhen was a little dumbfounded and sat down to arrange the chess pieces on the chessboard.

Seeing that my sister seemed a little unhappy, Zhao Jie also sat down and helped her straighten it out: "What's wrong?"

"The prince died of illness."

Zhao Jie was stunned for a moment. In fact, he had already heard about this on the road: "Sister, we don't care about this."

"I know." Zhao Jie thought for a moment and said, "But that person really should spread his wings more." He glanced at Xiao Zhen, coughed lightly and said, "In a place like that, if there are too few heirs, it would be better to fight for one."

If one of us dies, if he has a bad temper when he takes the throne in the future, it will be bad for us.

The big guy is of no help."

Zhao Jie's words sounded ruthless, but they made sense. Xiao Zhen lowered his head and arranged the chess pieces without making any sound.

The breath of spring is getting stronger and stronger, and the wild flowers on the roadside are blooming one after another. It is said that the spring breeze in February is like scissors, but this year's spring does not feel cool at all, and its gorgeous spring colors are more beautiful than in previous years.

too much.

There are people outing for spring outing everywhere.

People everywhere are busy with spring plowing.

Three months have passed, and the people seem to have forgotten the snow disaster that brought them. Every household is preparing rice seedlings, preparing to start spring plowing in a few days.

Bai Hao often comes to the Lu Mansion to have a meal. The people in the Lu Mansion have become very familiar with Bai Hao. Even Xiang'er dared to tease Bai Hao about his meal. This shows that the family is very close to Bai Hao. After eating

Rice, just two people

She would stay in Han Ziran's study. When Xiao Zhen occasionally went to deliver night snacks to the two of them, he saw them looking at the border location map. As soon as he saw her coming in, Bai Hao would take advantage of Han Ziran not paying attention and twitch his fingers at her.

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It’s saying: Do you want to come and discuss it together?

It was naturally impossible for Xiao Zhen to discuss it with them, but his heart was really tickled by Bai Hao.

In the past few days, Xiao Zhen's legs were so swollen that he simply refused to get out of bed and walk around. Mrs. Ren had been serving her in the house and did not dare to leave, for fear that her wife would suddenly give birth if she left.

Han Ziran was busy at the shop, so he asked Xiang'er to accompany his wife in the house, and he would come back as soon as he was free. Xiang'er took pleasure in touching Xiao Zhen's belly while she was taking care of her in the house, and said that she should hurry up and get pregnant.

Xiao Zhen is actually not easy to laugh, but every time Xiang'er is like this, especially with the pious look on her face, she wants to

Laugh, she has to tell Zhao Jie about having a baby. The more force Zhao Jie exerts, the higher the possibility of Xiang'er getting pregnant. What's the use of counting on her belly.

This time Xiao Zhen grinned, but his stomach hurt.

Fang Xiang'er hurried out to call Mrs. Liu, whose sister-in-law was leisurely drinking hot tea. When Xiang'er heard that Ah Zhen was going to give birth, she quickly started preparations.

In fact, everything had been prepared, so there was no rush. When the waiter came to Shangju and told Han Ziran, he was busy in the shop. When he heard that his wife was about to give birth, he quickly put down what he was doing and hurried home, walking halfway

, I heard people around me suddenly saying: "What's going on today? There's someone over there."

It was dark for half of the day."

Han Ziran looked up, and sure enough, in the direction of Aza City, half of the sky was cloudy, which was in huge contrast with the scorching sun here. He didn't know who said: "The snow on New Year's Day was also like this.

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"Master?" Seeing Han Ziran's face suddenly become serious, the waiter called softly.

"Go tell Mr. Bai that trouble is coming."

"Yes." When Han Ziran stepped into the house, he looked up at the sky from the yard of his home. It was still a bright sunny sky, and there were no clouds over there. Mrs. Ren and Ms. Zhang were busy going in and out carrying hot water, while Xiao Hanhua and Xiao You

The boy was being held and played by the boys, while Liu stood

I talked to Po Wen at the door, stuffed some money into Po Wen, and then let Po Wen in.

"Third brother, are you back? My sister and I have just started having labor pains," Mrs. Liu said.

"Sorry, sister-in-law." Han Ziran was sincerely grateful to Mrs. Liu. His wife didn't know how to take care of housework, but luckily her sister-in-law was there for everything. "What are you talking about? We are a family." As the saying goes, a sister-in-law is like a mother, Mrs. Liu

She has already taken on the important responsibility of the family's backyard in her heart, and the third brother respects her and her husband very much, and is even more kind to little Hanhua. He has no words to say in his heart.

As a brother: "Is your elder brother still busy?"

"Some important merchants have just arrived at Brother's shop."

At this time, Po Wen, who had just entered the house, came out and said to Liu and Han Ziran: "Mrs. Lu just started to feel pain. I looked at it and I'm afraid it will take a day and a half before she can speak."

"Will it take so long?" Mrs. Liu said sadly, "This is going to be very painful."

"Some people give birth to a baby, but it lasts three days and three nights before the baby is born." Po Wen said with a smile, "Mrs. Lu has already given birth to a baby, so this pregnancy shouldn't be too difficult."

"But we are waiting impatiently."

Han Ziran said: "Please tell me, Mrs. Wen, if the pain is severe, don't hold on and scream."

Po Wen agreed and went into the house.

Fang Xiang'er came in from outside with the child's clothes and said happily: "Sister-in-law, brother-in-law, I brought the baby's clothes from the embroidery workshop. They are so beautiful. They even washed them for us.
Chapter completed!