Mrs. Zheng couldn't resist little Bai Jingxing, but Mrs. Liu didn't agree very much. She still thought that the nickname she chose was the best, so she took her hand to look at him, "Look at his round eyes, with the tails of his eyes raised slightly. Does it look like a kitten raised by my great-grandmother?"
The little boy Bai Jingxing went up to have a look, but his younger brother was sleeping with his eyes closed, so he didn't notice it.
But she refused to admit that she didn't see it, so she nodded and said, "Like it."
Mrs. Liu laughed and said, "That's why great-grandmother gave him the nickname Wuyuan, and the only one in our family who is called sister is the eldest sister, okay?"
Bai Jingxing became happy when he heard it, and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, then what's your name if you have a younger sister?"
Mrs. Liu: "Let's talk about it when you have a younger sister. When you see what she looks like, there are so many good names in the world. Are you afraid that your younger sister doesn't have a good name?"
The eldest sister thought so too, so she happily lay beside the shaker and called him, "Wuyuan, Wuyuan, when can you go play with me in the garden?"
Mrs. Liu touched her little head and said: "It's still early, you play with Da Baoer first, and next year he will be able to play with you in the garden."
After coaxing her great-granddaughter well, Mrs. Liu wanted to settle accounts with her grandson, and asked Zhou Man, "Where is Zhishan?"
Zhou Man: "He went to the government office."
Mrs. Liu was taken aback, "Didn't he ask for leave?"
Because of Zhou's confinement, Bai Shan took a five-day vacation to stay with her at home, and this is only the fourth day, and he will not go to the government until the day after tomorrow.
Zhou Man said: "He said that I went to the government office because I have nothing to do, but I suspect that he went to the palace to file a complaint."
Bai Shan has grown up, without the filter of a teenager, naturally he will not do such things as openly complaining, so he went to the palace to plead guilty. .
First go to cancel the vacation, then finish the official duties at hand, and finally go to the Tai Chi Hall.
The other two seniors in the same office room silently watched Bai Shan leave, and only sighed when his back disappeared, "It's good to be young, full of energy."
"The brain is also easy to use. I just finished reading one notebook, and he has handled two of them." They firmly refused to admit that it was a problem of IQ, that is a problem of age.
When they were at Bai Shan's age, they were also so powerful, that's right!
Bai Shan seized the time to go to the Tai Chi Hall to seek an audience.
This time was the time when the emperor was about to relax. It was the time when he was tired physically and mentally, but he hadn't had a break for lunch. This time was not long, usually between a quarter of an hour and three quarters of an hour.
During this period of time, the emperor would "slack in government" to catch fish. If there were ministers in the study, he would gossip with them;
When Bai Shan was a member of Zhongshushe and was accompanying him, he was often dragged by him to gossip.
So Bai Shan came to ask for an audience with the booklet, and the emperor recruited him into the palace.
The matter Bai Shan brought was not serious, and he already had one, two or three opinions on how to deal with it, but he thought the emperor should make up his mind.
The emperor quickly made up his mind, and left Bai Shan to gossip, "I heard that you have a new son?"
"Yes," Bai Shan said with a smile on his face, "Yesterday I washed three."
Satisfied, the emperor nodded and said, "Yes, yes, you and Zhou Man are both smart and good-looking, let's have more children."
He likes good-looking and smart children now.
Bai Shan responded, hesitating for a moment, but he lifted up his robe and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask Your Majesty for a crime first."
The emperor raised his eyebrows, "Crime? Did you cause trouble?"
Bai Shan bowed his head and said: "The heat in the capital is approaching. Your Majesty is not feeling well at this time of year. I don't want to make Your Majesty angry and worried, but this year I am afraid that His Majesty will be angry."
The emperor raised his chin, motioning for him to continue.
"Your Majesty has a family matter that may cause trouble in the court. I ask you to take the blame first, and I hope His Majesty will not be too angry when the time comes, so as not to hurt your body."
The emperor despised him for being long-winded, and asked anxiously: "When will you be like Liu Shangshu and the others, and you have to lay the groundwork for a long time? Come on, what's the family business?"
Only then did Bai Shan say with a worried expression: "Your Majesty knows that when I got married with Mr. Zhou, there was an agreement that the second child would inherit his grandmother's Xia surname in the future, so as to inherit the Xia family."
After a little thought, the emperor understood that Bai Shan and Zhou Man had an eldest daughter, and the eldest son born now would be considered the second.
He sat up slightly, and asked enthusiastically: "You don't want to, but Zhou Man insists, so if your husband and wife fight, you still want to fight from home to the court?"
Bai Shan: "..."
He paused and then replied: "The minister and his wife have already decided on the child's name, one for each character, Mu, Xia Mu! It's just that Xisan yesterday, and the tribe is also there, and they have a lot of opinions on the eldest son's surname."
As soon as the emperor heard that Bai Shan and Zhou Yi had the same opinion, but disagreed with the clan, his mood faded, "Oh, what, they want to sue the court?"
Bai Shan was silent, and the emperor nodded after thinking for a while and said: "That's right, the eldest son's surname does not conform to the patriarchal clan, but whether this matter is big or small, it is logical, your husband and wife are willing, and your parents and elders have no objections." , you can make up your own mind; but if the clan insists on taking care of it, you can do it, after all, it has something to do with etiquette.”
"That's right," Bai Shan said immediately, "but I can't break my promise, and I don't want to break my promise, so if this matter becomes serious, it will definitely worry Your Majesty, and I'm guilty."
The emperor curled his lips. This is obviously a way to sue him by pleading guilty. After all, he also knew about this matter back then, and he had passed the bright road here in the imperial court.
He thought for a while and said: "Okay, I understand."
The emperor thought of something, and couldn't help asking: "Who will inherit your title in the future?"
Bai Shan said without a word: "Your Majesty, what is left if the minister's title is lowered?"
The emperor thought about it, smiled and asked, "In the future, if you make contributions, you will naturally be promoted again. Who will inherit it then?"
After a little thought, Bai Shan said: "It depends on the situation. If the boy surnamed Bai wins the heart of the minister, the minister will give priority to him to inherit. If he is not successful, then he can give it to whichever child he likes."
He paused and then said: "I have no brothers or sisters since I was a child, and everything in the family belongs to me since I was born, so there is no trouble of fighting for family property, but my wife has many brothers and sisters in my family, and there are many conflicts on weekdays. The sister-in-laws occasionally get angry and curse at each other, but they never compete for the family property, so I think that the future children of the minister should also be able to focus on earning the family business from outside instead of fighting for the family property."
He said: "If this is the case, it's better to disperse the family property and have the right to accumulate merit and let them earn it themselves."
These words touched the emperor's heart. For the first time, he felt like being a father with Bai Shan. He sighed: "Yes, but the children and grandchildren are people who love the most. Naturally, I want them to have a future, but really I can't bear to let them suffer.