Next, Yufu got away from the busy government affairs and completely lived a comfortable life of raising a baby.
All the affairs of the court were shared by her. She either drank the medicine made by Yuehu and Tianshu every day, or ate all kinds of medicinal snacks sent by Yin Jiqian.
In his spare time, he would play with Yuan Zhang, Ning An and Ning Ping, whom Gu Huaijiang brought into the palace, and was very comfortable.
"The baby in the godmother's womb must be my younger sister."
Ning An was chattering, and suddenly said such a sentence to Yu Fu's stomach, which stunned Yu Fu.
Ning Ping also said: "Yes, sister."
"How do you know it's my sister?"
Ning An tilted his head and said with a smile: "I already have a younger brother, Brother Yuanzhang. I don't have a younger sister yet. It would be great if I had a younger sister who is as good-looking as a godmother."
Yu Fu also tilted his head, "I knew at a young age that I like my sister and don't like my brother, hmph, I will tell your mother when she comes back."
"Good mother, don't tell mother."
Ning An leaned close to her and whispered: "If I tell mother, mother will think that I don't love my brother well, and she should be angry."
Yu Fu couldn't help but smile, a little Douding like Ning An has a lot of thoughts in his mind.
She stroked her stomach lightly, "I still can't tell if it's a man or a woman, but I won't be able to tell in a few months. I'm not like you, I like both boys and girls. "
Yu Fu said and looked at Gu Huaijiang, "What did father say?"
Gu Huaijiang also likes girls, but when he thought about what Yufu said last time, he felt that he should not be too explicit, otherwise, what would Yin Jixie, who gave birth to Yuanzhang, think
He said: "It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman, and it's not just this one. In the future, it will naturally have both children."
Having a child is entirely determined by God's will, but fortunately, Bei Li doesn't insist on a man to inherit the lineage, this child will be the head of the royal family regardless of whether it is a man or a woman.
Yu Fu herself also said: "I think so too, I just hope that the child can grow up safely."
The war has not yet completely calmed down, and the peace in front of us is hard-won. She was pampered in the palace, chatting and laughing, while Gu Shubai and others worked hard in the front court.
She knew it in her heart, but she still had to put on a carefree appearance on the surface, and she couldn't live up to Gu Huaijiang's good intentions to come from outside the palace to talk with her every time.
Yao Lan suddenly hurried in from outside the hall, "Master Gu, the mansion sent someone to tell you some good news, the sixth lady is pregnant!"
"What?"
Both Gu Huaijiang and Yu Fu were very happy, they did not expect such a coincidence, Yu Fu just became pregnant not long ago, and Su Yunyan also conceived.
Yu Fu hurriedly said: "Father, you should go back and have a look first, I'm fine here. Congratulate Sixth Brother and Yun Yan for me."
Gu Huaijiang hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Okay, you have a good rest, I will come to see you again tomorrow."
He was overjoyed, but he was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he told Yaolan to take good care of Yufu, and refused her kindness to let Yaolan send him out, for fear that no one around Yufu would be considerate.
Yu Fuxi said: "Earlier, Yunyan said not to have children, that her father has so many sons, and she has no shortage of grandchildren in her belly. Look, this is not to say that retribution is coming soon?"
She could almost imagine Su Yunyan's expression when she knew she was pregnant, she must say that she didn't want to have a baby, but her heart was so sweet.
Gu Yize must be going crazy with joy, and she still wants to comfort Su Yunyan with kind words, telling her to give birth to the baby well.
Yao Lan also smiled and said: "Yes, the sixth son's child is born at the same age as the one in His Majesty's stomach, and counting up, the young master Yuanzhang is about the same age as Ning An and Ning Ping. These children will grow up in the future. How happy to have playmates when I grow up!"
Yu Fu couldn't help but imagine that scene, maybe it was like when Gu Shubai and the others were six children, the brothers were about the same age, they grew up together as companions, how happy they were.
…
Gu Shubai came back only in the evening, with a look of exhaustion between his brows.
As soon as Yu Fu saw that he was busy talking about Su Yunyan, Gu Shubai smiled and said: "I have heard it, but I have to go back to the mansion, I will visit tomorrow."
"By the way, I also have some good news for you. We sent 20 spies who have learned the Sanyi language and pretended to be Koreans to infiltrate Sanyi. The Sanyi people have always had a contemptuous attitude towards Goryeo, and they will definitely not be defensive. .”
Now he reports the good news but not the bad news, he and Tian Yunpo and other important officials in the court will discuss all the troublesome and difficult matters in the court, and never tell Yu Fu, and only mention happy events to make her happy.
Yu Fu was also very cooperative, "That's great, if we can know in advance when they will send troops, at least we can make preparations in advance."
Gu Shubai helped her up, the dinner was already set, and the two of them sat and ate quietly together, this was the most relaxing moment of the day.
"How are you feeling today?"
"It's okay, it's just a little disgusting."
He noticed that tonight's dishes were light, and Yu Fu's usual favorite shrimp and crabs were placed far away, and she didn't touch a single bite.
It seems that the symptoms of nausea and nausea have intensified.
Gu Shubai put down his chopsticks, "Tomorrow I'll ask Yuehu to see if there is any solution. Your body is not strong, and the hot weather is getting weaker. How can you not eat meat?"
After finishing speaking, he gently pinched her cheek, "The flesh that has been raised with great difficulty is about to lose weight again."
Yu Fu shook his head, "Eldest Sister and Second Senior Brother have tried their best to take care of me. I heard from Ji Yu that she had more nausea when she was pregnant. It's not a big deal. It will be fine when the weather cools down. I didn't So pampered."
"It would be great if you were pampered and pampered. I will be happy to raise me however I want. But you always say that everything is fine, and I don't know how to share some of the hard work for you."
He stretched out his hand to touch her belly, thinking that a little life belonging to them was being conceived inside, and smiled unconsciously.
Yu Fu smiled, and gently leaned her head on his shoulder, "It's really not hard, you worked even harder in the previous court. In order to relieve you a little pressure, I decided—"
"Didn't you agree that all those annoying political affairs will be handled by me?"
When Gu Shubai saw that she wanted to bother about government affairs, he immediately interrupted her, but Yu Fu said: "It's not a political matter, and I don't bother. I plan to make you the regent, what do you think?"
Gu Shubai's face froze, and he almost didn't react.
It took him a while to regain his expression, and said gently: "There is a rule in the Beili Dynasty that no king of the opposite sex can be named, and the conferment of princes is even more harsh. Even your own cousin can only be named county king, this move... Would it be too scary?"
Yu Fu smiled and shook his head, "I don't think so. Now that I am pregnant, I can't take care of the affairs of the court, and I have to rely on you. But if the name is not correct, the words will not go well. It is a precedent for monopolizing power in the imperial court. Now I will directly issue a decree for you, and it will be more convenient for you to handle all government affairs."
Before Gu Shubai had time to speak, Yu Fu said again: "The title is one thing, and the official position has to be awarded separately. The highest rank of generals in Beili is the general, and the previous generation's practice is that there can only be one. But it doesn't matter, the rules It is a human decision, there can be two generals in this dynasty."
She had obviously thought about it a long time ago, and she didn't intend to discuss it with the officials.
Gu Shubai thought for a moment, "Actually, there's no need to go through so much trouble. After the baby is born in a few months, you can regain control of the government after your body recovers."
Yu Fu firmly shook her head, "No, I don't want to let what happened to Xikun last time happen again. If I want to make you wronged again and again because of my identity, that's not what I want."
Gu Shu rolled his eyes with a smile, and slowly said word by word: "I don't feel wronged, really."
"I do not care."
Seeing that the persuasion failed, Yu Fu decided to play tricks. Anyway, she is pregnant now, and everyone obeys her in every possible way and dare not disobey her. She does not believe that Gu Shubai will insist on going against her will.
Sure enough, once she acted like a baby, Gu Shubai was helpless.
"Okay, okay, I listen to you, can I eat obediently now?"
Yu Fu turned his face away, and only then showed a satisfied smile.
When the decree came out the next day, although the officials were horrified by the value of the regent's title, they didn't dare to make a fuss in front of Yufu, and only discussed it privately in the court.
"Your Majesty is pregnant, and all the court affairs are handed over to the Regent. Is this too powerful?"
"Yes, besides, there have never been two generals in the same dynasty in the past. Who is the most respected among these generals?"
"Your Majesty doesn't even come to the morning court, take a look!"
The palace people set up another seat on the top of the golden hall and under the dragon seat, and Gu Shubai sat down on the top seat without squinting, listening to all the courtiers' arguments.
At the critical moment, it was Ouyang Qi who stood up, "The regent was originally the husband of the king. Now that His Majesty is pregnant, he is in charge of the court. It is reasonable. As for the rank of general, he should have been promoted a long time ago. Anyway, I have no objection."
Good guy, he is a general, even he said he has no objection, although the courtiers still dare to meddle in their own business
Tian Yunpo also stood up, with a slight smile, but his eyes were very firm, "What else is there to worry about, my lords? Your Majesty and the Regent even have a child, and you are still worried that the child's father usurped your child's position?"
The words were rough and reasonable, and the courtiers were relieved when these words came out.
Gu Shubai glanced at Tian Yunpo, and said: "If you are dissatisfied with His Majesty's will, you can go to the Hall of Eternal Life to find His Majesty. If there is no one who wants to go to His Majesty, now I will talk about the compensation for the fallen soldiers and shipbuilders. Let's make progress."
All the ministers are honest and honest, and they dare not fart.
We all know that Yufu is raising a baby, so who would dare to go to the Hall of Eternal Life to disturb her at this time? As a last resort, I can only cooperate with Gu Shubai honestly.
…
After leaving early in the morning and returning to the Hall of Longevity, Yu Fu ordered someone to serve him an ice bowl to relieve the heat.
She looked excited, "How is it? Is today going well?"
"As you expected, it couldn't go any further."
He took off the crown belt, sat on the couch facing Yufu, took a sip of the ice bowl of sweet soup, and the heat in his body immediately dissipated.
Yu Fu's eyes showed envy, she can't eat more ice now, she can only watch Gu Shu eat for nothing.
This ice bowl is mixed with sliced fruit root, cored fresh lotus seed, fresh water chestnut, and fresh old chicken head, which is called "hexianer". Small pieces of natural ice are placed on the bottom of the small bowl, "hexianer" is placed on the top, and white sugar is sprinkled on it, which is called an ice bowl.
Yufu also ordered people to add peeled fresh walnut kernels, fresh almonds, melons, peaches and other things to the ice bowl to make it more sweet and delicious.
Seeing her greedy look, Gu Shubai carefully scooped out a piece of her favorite water chestnut and delivered it to her mouth, a little bit of cold left made her smile uncontrollably.
Only then did he say: "You are right. If your name is not correct, your words will not go well. Before you returned to Beili and became the throne, wasn't it because there was no one in the court and only the ministers were in charge of the political affairs, so there were many excuses and slack? Now If you give me the status of the regent, I don't have to worry about the courtiers thinking that I have exceeded my authority as I did before, and it is indeed much more convenient to do things."
"That's good."
Yu Fu was relieved a lot, Gu Shubai suddenly raised his head to look at her, "By the way, what is the origin of the position of General? It didn't exist in Dongling before, and I never heard of it in Xikun."
Yu Fu smiled and said: "Dongling respects the system of the former Han Dynasty, with the general as the head of the military officers. This dynasty respects the ancient system of the Spring and Autumn Period, the above-mentioned generals are the head of the military officers, and there can only be one person above the generals to show their status. Honorable."
"I see."
"Why did Hao Duanduan suddenly think of asking this?"
Gu Shubai thought for a while and said, "No wonder General Ouyang came to me privately and said he wanted to resign from this post. I advised him not to mention this. You have also refused to mention it before, why bother to mention it now?"
Yu Fu said: "So it's like this, it's not difficult. In the past I was worried that your prestige was not enough for you, and I know that you want to save face. If people say that you got this position because of me, you must feel uncomfortable. Now this The worries are gone, you are already the regent king with one person under one man and over ten thousand people, can't a mere general be able to afford it?"
"As for General Ouyang, he is not young anymore, and he will be bestowed with a title of honor in the future. I know a little about the situation in his family. His two sons have experienced well in the army. If you show kindness to them, General Ouyang will be more grateful." Happy."
Gu Shubai suddenly put down the spoon and looked at her rather strangely.
Yu Fu touched his face subconsciously, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
He shook his head, "No. I just listened to the comments of the ministers in the DPRK and China, saying that you have changed a lot from when you first came back. In the past, you always had to discuss with the ministers many times when you encountered problems, but now you make more decisions alone."
Yu Fu raised his eyebrows, his eyes were a little cold, "They are talking about whether I can do things arbitrarily?"
What a guts.
Gu Shubai couldn't help laughing, "No, no, it's because you are getting more and more insightful, and you are getting smarter in handling things. Just like the last time you gave an order to the King of Korea, some ministers in the court were worried that the King of Korea would feel humiliated and would not like it." Will cooperate, I didn't expect that he is really a bully and fear of evil, he opened the port as soon as he was frightened by you. If you didn't order it yourself last time, this time we want to send spies disguised as Koreans to travel from Goryeo to Sangyi, I'm afraid it won't be easy."
Only then did Yu Fu show a smile, "The right way to be a king is to give both kindness and power. Since I took the throne, my various policies have been too lenient, and it is inevitable that people will mistakenly think that I am weak and can be bullied. It doesn't matter if they misunderstand me. Take it lightly. Use some severe measures at the right time, so that people can't figure out my routine."
He looked at Gu Shubai as if asking for credit, "What do you think?"
Gu Shubai was serious, "I think it's good."
The two looked at each other for some reason and smiled, and the guards outside the hall heard the laughter and looked into the hall curiously, only to return to their original state at a glance.
Yu Fu gestured to his bowl, "I still want to eat."
Even though there was an iceberg in the hall, it wasn't hot, but Yufu became more greedy after she became pregnant, and couldn't move her eyes from staring at his bowl.
Gu Shubai thought to himself, so the ice bowl was not only prepared for him, maybe Yufu was worried that Yuehu and the others would not let her eat it, so he used his own excuses to get a share of the pie.
Reluctantly, he took another small spoonful of melon and brought it to her mouth, and then ordered someone to put the bowl away, "Take it, so that His Majesty won't be greedy."
The palace lady took the bowl away with lightning speed, but Yu Fu had no time to stop it.
She kept her mouth shut, but just took away an ice bowl, just like someone took away her sweetheart.
Gu Shubai couldn't help laughing, "I just saw fresh lychees from Lingnan were delivered from outside, don't you like that one the most?"
"Really?"
Yu Fu's eyes lit up, and then he quickly realized, "But the elder sister said that you can't eat too much of that, it's not good for the child."
"When I entered the door, I ordered people to pour ten of them into the well, and it was just cold at the moment. The ones in the well were not as cold as the ones that had been chilled, and they were just for you to eat."
As Gu Shubai said, he ordered the palace servants outside the palace to bring up the lychees, Yu Fu finally laughed again, and let him peel the lychees for her by himself.
The sunlight outside the hall stretched the shadows of the trees very long, casting mottled shadows on the bright window in front of the couch, and the sparse chirping of cicadas... The years are just right.