But when she heard that her menstruation cycle had not come, Cui Fu’s face was not happy, and she looked depressed.
Seeing that her sister looked wrong, Miantang asked, “Are you feeling unwell, Sister?”
Cui Fu was seasick and dizzy. She was naturally uncomfortable, but what made her feel most upset was that she remembered the past when she was pregnant with Jin’er.
Her mother-in-law, Ang-Shi, the wife of Duke Qingguo, is a harsh person. Even when she finally conceived Jin’er, she didn’t give herself any preferential treatment. Now, when she thought about it, she felt terribly blocked.
Now that she was pregnant again, Anguo Residence has just moved to the Capital, and she as the daughter-in-law has to be busy managing and socializing. It is not certain whether her body can bear it at that time.
However, Cui Fu certainly won’t tell Liu Miantang about these matters that expose her undesire situation. Her sister-in-law was a lucky one, just a bowl of bird’s nest, which can make her mother feel very sad. If she is like her mother-in-law Ann, her body must not be able to bear it.
So when Miantang asked, Cui Fu said impatiently, “Will you be comfortable vomiting like this? I don’t know if your medical skill is accurate. I’ll find a doctor for treatment after I get ashore…”
Cui Fu wanted to endure for a few more days until she arrived at the capital.
However, after stopping the ship for a night, Prince Huaiyang found several carriages and was ready to take the land route.
Cui Fu knew that her brother was in a hurry to go to the Capital to report his work, but if he went by land, he would have to delay for several days.
But Cui Xingzhou said, “Miantang said that you are pregnant. If you throw up like this again, you may be very ill. But if you turn to take the land route alone, you may have an accident. In this case, let’s all turn to the land route, it won’t make any difference for a few days.”
Cui Fu was a little worried when she heard this, “The Emperor summoned you to the capital in person. How can you delay because of me?”
Cui Xingzhou knew his sister’s stubbornness, but he had made up his mind, so he stopped her from saying, “Don’t talk about it. It’s not a big issue, it’s just a matter of days. How can days be so accurate on the way?”
After that, he told the bodyguard to transport some necessary items on the ship to the carriage, then let the ship carry other luggage, and then continue to move along the waterway.
After waiting for the carriage, Cui Fu was still complaining about Miantang’s wordiness, which delayed her brother’s journey.
Miantang served Cui Fu a bowl of black chicken and wolfberry soup cooked by Servant Li, warmed her empty stomach, and then smiled, “My body can’t stand it, so I asked the Prince to take the land route. Besides, the Prince said that it won’t be a matter of days later too. You don’t have to think about it, just sleep in peace.”
Cui Fu knows that her sister-in-law has a strong body! After being pregnant for so long, she can eat and sleep, and she has never seen her toss and turn. But Miantang said so, obviously afraid that she blame herself too much.
To be honest, after spending so much time together, Cui Fu also saw how Liu Miantang, who was from an ordinary background, could enchant his brother who was so arrogant.
This girl is not only beautiful, she always has an indescribable sense of grandeur. However, this kind of tolerance is somewhat different from cousin Lian’s previous deliberately virtuous.
In the eyes of the county mayor, many women don’t care about things that are worth mentioning. When Cui Fu sometimes spoke harshly to her, she felt that she was just like a child. In the tolerant eyes of her sister-in-law, her anger gradually disappeared.
Now Miantang took the initiative to take the things that delayed her trip on herself. Cui Fu couldn’t say anything more. She could only take the soup bowl and sighed at her in a relaxed tone, “You… Always remember that your husband is the pillar of the country, not a gentleman. You can be at ease. Don’t bother him about the things in the residence.”
Miantang peeled the orange and said, “My sister is right, I have written it down… How about letting Servant Li cook fish in sour soup at noon? It will be perfect if you have an appetizer and rice, and then steam some pickled radishes.”
She had never eaten any pickled radish since she was young. She couldn’t help saying, “What side dishes are these? It’s delicious to hear you say, but I don’t have an appetite now. What do you like to eat, I’ll follow you.”
Miantang was greedy for pickled radishes. During the “frugal” days in North Street, the side dishes that had to be eaten with rice often came into her dream recently. So she let Servant Li dry some and take them on the road.
At noon, the team found a flat place beside the official road to rest and cook.
Miantang and Cui Fu, two big-bellied women, sat on a folding bed to bask in the sun.
After a while, the rice was fragrant. It was indeed the pickled fish in sour soup and the steamed radish with soybeans ordered by Miantang. Cui Fu felt much more comfortable on the carriage than on the boat, although she had a little turbulence since she got off the boat. Instead, she had a good sleep all morning. Now she smelled the aroma of radish and even felt a little hungry.
Miantang taught her to mix rice with sour soup which was more appetizing. However, Prince Huaiyang who ate beside seemed to hate the dried radish and would not touch it.
Cui Xingzhou certainly doesn’t like to eat this. When he pretended to be a bankrupt merchant on North Street, the table in the small yard was full of dried radish. Although it was also divided into salted, steamed, and mixed with sauce, the effect of appetizing was the same.
Cui Xingzhou didn’t understand why would Miantang suddenly wanted to take this bite after she was pregnant. But the pregnant woman was the biggest. Seeing that she and her sister are eating very appetizingly, he also followed the dispensability to take a bite.
This journey which fully takes care of the food and route of pregnant women is much slower than the original schedule. Later, in retrospect, everything was fated, and God was in pity.
On the second day after they took the land route, someone from the dock sent fast horseback to report to Prince Huaiyang that the big ship was struck by a thunderbolt in the water when it was passing the Lianjiang River. The bow of the ship was blown out into a big hole, and the river water bubbled in. In a short time, the whole ship sank.
Many sailors on the ship who had no time to escape, though familiar with the nature of water, were also dragged into the water by the vortex of the sinking ship and did not return to life.
After that, the officer ship escort captured the culprit who buried the explosives, and it was a group of local boatmen who had always had the habit of exploding fish with explosives, and the local people knew it.
It’s just that they are usually used in the pond, and rarely in the river where ships come and go. This time they came to Lianjiang with the same method and unexpectedly ran into this terrible disaster.
However, the officers and soldiers guarding the boat thought it was wrong. It was reasonable to say that the explosives used by local fishermen would not blow up such a big boat even if they were blown up in the river. After careful investigation, they found that the amount of gunpowder in the explosive bag they used was much more than doubled. The fishermen were scared to death and refused to admit that they didn’t put so much gunpowder in the bag.
Cui Xingzhou frowned and listened, knowing in his heart that these foolish local fishermen were just pushed out as scapegoats.
It was someone who purposely came to him and installed a high explosive bag on the channel that the big ship entering the capital must pass through.
The Lianjiang River channel is surprisingly narrow. As long as explosives are made and the time to be put into the river is accurate, ships can’t avoid it.
Cui Fu also heard it on the side. Her face turned white with fear, and she said she was scared.
She thought that if Miantang hadn’t persuaded her brother to go ashore in time, then at this moment, the whole family would have become the ghosts of the water at the bottom of the river.
Miantang seemed very calm. She only comforted Cui Fu in a soft voice, saying that the prince is lucky. Now he was close to the capital city. He must be more careful in the future.
Although Miantang said that Cui Xingzhou carried good luck, Cui Fu felt that her mother’s words were right. When Old Princess Consort Chu chatted with her privately, she said that although the county mayor was not born well, it seemed that her eight characters were in-match with Xingzhou’s, which saved the Cui family several times.
At that time, Cui Fu thought it was her mother who was afraid of making trouble for Liu Miantang, but now it seems to be true. The mayor of Huaisang County, whom she looked down on, was really blessed.
In the next journey, Cui Xingzhou set up an outpost and explored the way forward. Because the officers and soldiers who guarded the ship were alert and did not announce to the public that there was no important person on the ship at all, and they did not take the official road, changed the path, and did not have to show their identity to the post station, so the enemy who was hidden in the dark did not know the whereabouts of Prince Huaiyang at the moment.
However, when they arrived in the capital without danger, the news that Prince Huaiyang and his family had died from the sinking of the ship in the capital had gone crazy.
The court shook, and Emperor Liu Dan sent the imperial envoy to Lianjiang to investigate. The imperial envoy took the order of the emperor and left the capital on the same day. The speedboat sped to the place where Prince Huaiyang sank.
At this time, there was no trace of the river’s surface. The guard of Prince Huaiyang got the order of Prince Huaiyang and only pretended not to know that the Prince got off the boat, and did not know anything about the news.
At that time, the local government detained all the boats that were traveling on the river at that time, waiting for the court to investigate.
The imperial envoy summoned several ship owners and crew members who were close to the Huaiyang royal ship and inquired in person.
Several ship owners have been struggling on the water for decades and have rich experience. They have all seen fishermen fry the river to catch fish. But this time, the explosive was so powerful that it was the first time they saw it in their life. They saw a huge splash of water popping out from under the official ship of Prince Huaiyang, which wrapped the whole capital of the ship, and the bow of the ship was broken away from the river. Then they heard a loud bang and the sound of water splashing on the river. A few of the guys with good hearing were buzzing.
No one believes that Prince Huaiyang will survive when the dangerous process of these situations was written in the memorial and then transmitted back to the capital.
However, the meritorious men in the northwest who won the battle were buried at the bottom of the river in this way. All the civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty were sad, especially when the new emperor heard that Prince Huaiyang and his newly married wife might have suffered an accident together, he could not hold the grief in his heart. After reading the memorial, he spewed dripping blood.
The attendant on the side was frightened and summoned the doctor to treat his majesty.
At this time, Prince Huaiyang sent people to the capital to report that he had arrived at the gate of the city.
This was like resurrection by feigning a corpse! Empress Shi was shocked and told the eunuchs who came to report to her to tell the story of Prince Huaiyang’s being alive slowly so that his majesty would not be so agitated that he would hurt his root again.
Ruth Ibale On TSFLIP Chapter 1133