Before Uncle Sheng could finish speaking, Xu Zhaoxue had already mounted his horse and rode away.**
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Liu Zhang hurriedly entered the palace, leaving his own soldiers outside the palace, and took several personal guards into the Jiaolan Hall of Changle Palace. In the palace, the imperial doctors and palace maids were busy. Liu Zhang grabbed one of the imperial doctors and said, "How is the Queen Mother?"
The imperial doctor was startled when he saw it was Liu Zhang, and hurriedly replied: "Report to Your Highness, the Queen Mother was pregnant last night, but because the Queen Mother has been depressed and her body is not suitable for childbirth, so..."
"Liu Zhang..."
A moan came out, and Liu Zhang looked at the head of the bed. Fu Shou closed his eyes tightly, apparently unconscious, but big beads of sweat fell from his forehead, and Liu Zhang deeply felt that she was in pain even in her sleep.
Liu Zhang pushed the imperial doctor away, sat on the bedside, and grabbed Fu Shou's sweaty hand without caring about the others.
"Liu Zhang..."
Liu Zhang now knew why the palace maid called him here. Seeing Fu Shou's face twisted in pain, Liu Zhang's heart was also in a knot. But when Liu Zhang grabbed Fu Shou's hand, Fu Shou seemed to feel something while he was in a coma.
, suddenly relaxed.
"It's out, it's out, I can see the little prince's scalp." A midwife suddenly shouted in surprise, and then several other midwives passed by.
"Your Highness, here..." An imperial doctor looked at Liu Zhang in embarrassment.
Liu Zhang knew that Fu Shou had just called him while he was in a coma, and that the imperial doctor and midwife had not been recruited for Fu Shou's difficult delivery, so the palace maid called him. Now that he could give birth, he would be in the way.
Liu Zhang nodded and retreated with his soldiers. After a while, a cry of "Wow" came, and a midwife ran out and kept bowing to Liu Zhang: "Congratulations to His Royal Highness the King of Shu. Congratulations to the Queen Mother of the King of Shu."
A princess was born."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wang Xu shouted from the side.
The midwife suddenly realized that she had lost her words. She also blamed the series of actions just now. Originally, the upper brass of the Sichuan Army and the people in the palace knew whose child Fu Shou was carrying. In addition, Fu Shou had just unconsciously called Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang went to catch him.
Fu Shou's hand is now waiting outside like the child's father.
The midwife had just completed a big task and had not yet reacted. When she realized that she had lost her words, she broke out in a cold sweat. Such nonsense would definitely lead to death.
Originally, the midwife was planning to kneel down and beg for mercy when Liu Zhang ordered to kill him. However, Liu Zhang stretched out his hand to stop Wang Xu and said to the midwife: "Go and collect the reward."
The midwife was stunned for a moment, then she was overjoyed, thanked her profusely, and left.
After the room stabilized, Liu Zhang walked into the room. The child had been placed in the cradle, and Fu Shou also woke up. He lay on the bed, looking straight at the child in the cradle. It was not until Liu Zhang came in that Fu Shou turned around.
Look at Liu Zhang.
"You guys go down. Just wait nearby. I'll be here as soon as I'm told."
"yes."
A group of imperial doctors and midwives walked out. Liu Zhang glanced at the child and sat beside Fu Shou's bed. He grabbed Fu Shou's hand and asked, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
"Why are you here?" Fu Shou didn't break free from Liu Zhang's hand, and he didn't have the strength.
"You called me in your dream. So the palace maid called me here." Liu Zhang said with a smile.
But tears fell from the corners of Fu Shou's eyes. Liu Zhang stretched out his hand to wipe them away: "It's such a beautiful day, why are you crying?"
Fu Shou stopped crying, looked at the cradle, and after a long time said: "Liu Zhang, if I give birth to a boy, how will you treat him? How will you treat me?"
Fu Shou's tone was soft but firm. After asking, he turned to look at Liu Zhang's eyes, paying attention to every gleam in Liu Zhang's eyes.
"What do you think I will do? Will I kill you or your child? Don't forget, that is my child too."
"But..." Fu Shou turned away and said, "For your great cause, there is nothing you can't do."
Ever since she got pregnant, Fu Shou had been worried because she couldn't die with the little life in her belly. But Fu Shou knew that when this child was born, he would have to face some things.
This prince undoubtedly had a great influence on Liu Zhang's son inheriting the great cause of the Sichuan Army. Even though he was also Liu Zhang's child, this child was not nominally Liu Zhang's, but belonged to the Han Dynasty's orthodox royal family.
This child is the nominal emperor, and Liu Zhang's son Liu Xun and Liu Kang are the legitimate heirs of the Sichuan Army. This must be a kind of opposition, and opposition will lead to threats. It is difficult to guarantee that the Sichuan Army will do something to this prince in order to smoothly transfer power.
Fu Shou was really worried, especially when he thought about Liu Zhang, a man who risked the lives of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people for the great cause, and who was willing to risk his own life for the great cause. It was inevitable that he would not attack such a prince.
Now that she has given birth to a daughter, the crisis has been resolved, but Fu Shou wants to know the answer.
Ever since his family was exterminated, ever since Liu Xie died, ever since he became a puppet of the Sichuan Army, Fu Shou kept telling himself to forget Liu Zhang and that night.
But in the past six months, I have been painting pictures. When I heard about Liu Zhang’s bad news, when I saw the crystallization of myself and Liu Zhang, the little life in the cradle, Fu Shou clearly knew that he could not correct the mistakes he had made.
.
Hearing Liu Zhang tell him that he had called him here in his dream, Fu Shou had no doubts, because during the difficult childbirth, Fu Shou was really afraid and afraid of losing the little life in his belly, which was all he depended on for his survival.
When he was confused and frightened, Fu Shou could only think of one person, Liu Zhang. In his dream, Fu Shou seemed to have returned to that three-sided courtyard. Liu Zhang was still there, but when he was in pain and twisting, he was standing there.
He was motionless in the distance, unable to grab anything with his outstretched hand.
Until his hand was caught, all Fu Shou's fear seemed to disappear instantly.
Since the voice in the dream had betrayed him, Fu Shou no longer wanted to hide his feelings.
At this time Fu Shou looked into Liu Zhang's eyes, just wanting to know the answer.
"Even if you give birth to a prince, I won't do what you want." Liu Zhang sighed: "I know you won't believe me if I tell you other reasons now. I'm just telling you, it won't affect me.
's great cause.
If you give birth to a prince, I will hint to my subordinates to spread our scandal."
"Scandal?" Fushou said blankly.
"Yes, although I don't think it is, people who do good things must think it is. It doesn't matter anymore. I don't care about reputation as much as you think.
When the scandal comes out, and your so-called late birth is completely untenable, and you called my name in your dream, who in this palace compound doesn't know our relationship?
As long as I don't stop him, I will arrange for two more senior members of the Sichuan Army to pretend to be very conscientious and not afraid of Liu Zhang's power, saying that these rumors are indeed true.
If I don't pursue the case when the time comes, I will not only have a reputation for being lenient to my subordinates, but also solidify the relationship between us. By then, this will no longer be a prince, but a prince. He cannot ascend the throne with the legitimate status of the royal family. Who else can he threaten?
With?
The power of our Sichuan Army is not based on those aristocratic families. Given my position among the people in the area under my jurisdiction, Liu Zhang, this scandal will at best be discussed by the people after dinner, and will not have any impact on the great cause of our Sichuan Army.
I don't care about reputation, and I believe you are not that kind of person either. Let alone the scandal between the two of us, even if we really walked hand in hand in the palace, who would dare to make irresponsible remarks?"
"You... are shameless." Fu Shou scolded him, and a slight blush appeared on his face unconsciously.
"And when the time comes, I will immediately ascend the throne and proclaim myself emperor. The new prince will not pose any threat to me, nor will he pose any threat to the inheritance of our Sichuan Army policy. Why should I harm my own son?"
Before Fu Shou could speak, Liu Zhang shook his head and continued: "I said so much, but it's actually quite sad. In your heart, I am a cold-blooded person. I know you are not the only one who thinks so. You can imagine how famous I, Liu Zhang, am.
Oops.
Tiger poison does not eat its seeds, but you think I want to kill my son. You are my woman. As a man, you are thought to want to kill your own woman. It is very sad.
Fu Shou, I really want to tell you that you have misjudged me. Yes, I put my great cause first, but if a man wants to use the means of harming his son and women to achieve his great cause, then this man does not want great cause.
No matter what, am I really that unbearable in your heart?"
Fu Shou remained silent for a while, then whispered: "I'm sorry."
"Promise me." Liu Zhang grabbed Fu Shou's hand and held it tightly. Now Fu Shou had recovered some strength, but he only struggled a moment and let Liu Zhang hold it. Liu Zhang said: "Live well and live happily in the future."
, I have already died once, and only when I die do I realize how precious life is, and we don’t have to live so tiredly, right?”
"Are you saying that you will publish the scandal, let others make irresponsible remarks, and still go your own way?" Fu Shou asked.
When Liu Zhang heard Fu Shou talking like this, he knew that most of the knots in her heart had been resolved, so he smiled and said, "Yes."
"You are so shameless." Fu Shou said, and then added, "I am so shameless."
Liu Zhang kissed Fu Shou on the forehead and said, "Okay, let's take a look at our daughter."
Liu Zhang walked towards the little princess. Seeing the awkward look of Liu Zhang holding the cradle, Fu Shou laughed lightly. He felt very peaceful at this moment.
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After coming out of the Jiaolan Palace, Liu Zhang felt extremely tired. He had run all night and fought all day long. When he came out late at night, he felt that he could not even open his eyelids. When he arrived at the palace, he went to sleep.
The next day, I got up at three o'clock in the morning and saw the palace decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. It seemed like there was a happy event. Before Liu Zhang asked, Huang Yue and Wang Xu had already walked over.
Wang Xu cupped his hands and said: "Lord, good news, good news came from the front line. Cao's army of 450,000 led by Zhang Liao has been attacking Qingni Pass for days. It should be to contain our Qingni Pass troops and help Cao Zhang sneak attack Chang'an.
But now he shot himself in the foot. Zhang Liao was in a stalemate with General Zhang Ren at Qingni Pass. General Ma Chao and Wang Shuang led an army of 200,000 from Heluo to Nanyang and attacked Cao's army in the rear."