Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

When Qi You returned to the inner city, he happened to meet Cao Mi who was going out for a walk.

Cao Mi is now pregnant and has some inconvenience in movement, but he still obeys the doctor’s orders and goes out twice a day.

Seeing this, Qi You simply stepped forward, took Dong Li’s place, and helped Cao Mi walk around the inner city.

Seeing that the maids were keeping a distance from each other, Cao Mi asked with some doubts, “Why did you come back so early today?”

“Isn’t it better to come back earlier?” Qi You asked with a smile.

Cao Mi glanced at him sideways: “I saw Qi San’s appearance before, and guessed that there should be a lot of important things in the outer city, waiting for you to deal with it.

“You just came back, shouldn’t it be the time to be occupied with affairs?”

“Things are also prioritized.” Qi You said lightly.

He carefully supported Cao Mi’s arm and walked down a few steps to protect her: “What is the most important thing to this king, doesn’t the princess know?”

His love words became more and more smooth, and Cao Mi blushed, but he could already separate out his mind with a snort.

She deliberately asked: “The most important thing is me, or…”

The princess pointed to her stomach: “him?”

In modern times, this kind of question is tantamount to “sending a proposition”. As soon as Cao Mi asked it out, he felt a little unreasonable.

But Qi You replied naturally: “Without you, how could I love him?”

He responded seriously: “Of course you are the most important.”

Cao Mi was defeated, the corners of his mouth evoked a smile that could not be concealed, and he finally stopped embarrassing him.

So she changed the subject and asked about the business: “So… there really isn’t anything important recently, right?”

“Well…” Qi You replied: “Compared to you, it’s nothing.”

Seemingly aware of Cao Mi’s thoughts, he added: “Don’t worry, it’s just as I promised before.

“I won’t leave Jurong until you give birth.

“I have my own measure of things outside, and I will arrange it. You don’t need to worry about it.”

“Yeah.” Knowing Qi You’s ability, Cao Mi no longer thought about it.

She said: “In this way, there will be Lord Lao.”

Qi You looked up at her and smiled lightly.

The days passed by in such tranquility, Cao Mi only knew that Qi You often received letters from outside, but he really never left.

She once inquired about what he was dealing with, but Qi You was afraid of her worries, so he stopped every time he clicked and didn’t say much.

Fortunately, now that she is pregnant, Cao Mi relaxes and eats and drinks every day to support herself and the child in her belly.

After the most unbearable heat, the weather is getting cooler, and the due date is approaching.

One day, Cao Mi looked at his swollen face in the glass mirror and asked Qi You, who was sorting his clothes next to him, “Am I gaining a lot of weight?”

Qi You paused and turned to look at her.

He seemed to take a serious look at it for a while, and said, “Well, I’m more blessed and better-looking than before.”

Cao Mi’s anger when he heard the first half of the sentence was easily extinguished by the second half of the sentence.

She turned her head and said with a smile, “Nonsense!”

After the two cleaned up, they went to the dining room together. Before entering the door, Qi An and Qi Ran ran over to help Cao Mi.

Cao Mi believes that she has not yet reached the point where she needs to be taken care of like this, but it is still very gratifying to be seen by several men in the family.

In the midst of the fun, the Beian Wang family had an exquisite breakfast.

After two years of construction, the reconstruction of Jirong City has been completed, and most parts of the city have been opened to the outside world.

Although Shengrong Market is still only open on the 15th of the first month of every month, Jurong has attracted many businesses and vendors due to its prosperity.

If you don’t delve into the living system of the people in the city eating big pot rice, everything here looks like an ordinary lively city.

It was at this time that Tao Tong walked into Jurong with his two aides.

Zhou Mu’s team was still outside. He originally thought about the background of the 50 years of being taken away from the army. He probably didn’t even have a place to stay in the city, so he chose two strong people among his staff. Let’s go forward together.

They also encountered some businessmen on the way. Although these people told Tao Tong that Jirong was even more lively than Changling, Tao Tong did not believe it.

It was only then that Tao Tong had to admit that his eyelids were shallow when he witnessed this towering city like a desert oasis on the barren grassland.

One of his staff swallowed his saliva: “This place, is it really Junrong?”

As I said before, there is no imperial examination system in this world, which also makes many talented people unable to become officials if they do not have status sponsors.

Tao Tong himself has a good reputation and talent, so he gathered a group of capable but unrelated literati and writers around him as his staff.

However, because Tao Tong was unwilling to be greedy and his money was limited, there were not many people who could support him.

But he knows people only, and those who can be recruited by him have real abilities.

Hearing the companion’s question, another person said: “We have confirmed several times outside the city just now, and it is indeed a rejection.”

He touched the mustache on his chin and said, “What’s strange to me is that the soldiers registered our names and places of origin in the capital just now.

“My lord is obviously telling me by his real name, but… those people seem to have no response at all.

“Don’t they know that the adults are coming?”

Tao Tong thought for a while and asked, “At present, the King of Bei’an should be in charge of this place?”

His staff responded respectfully: “According to the information I inquired about in Beijing before, this is indeed the case.”

Tao Tong nodded.

He looked at the crowds coming and going on the street and the surrounding buildings, and said, “Well, let’s find a place to live first, and let’s talk about the rest later.”

He made a decision, and the two aides did not dare to defy it.

Soon, they led their horses and settled in an inn in the city.

Not far away, the adjutant who watched them enter the inn turned his head and asked Qi San: “Commander… that is the Zhou Mu you said before? Why did he enter the inn?

“Uh… Do you want to send someone from your subordinates to invite him to the prefecture and shepherd’s house prepared earlier?”

Qi San thought for a moment, then shook his head: “No need for now.”

He explained: “There are only three of them in the group, and the team is still behind. Mr. Zhou Mu may have some plans. We went over rashly, which seemed a little rude.”

After speaking, he instructed his adjutant: “You send a group of people to watch them secretly.

“Others, wait until I report to the prince before deciding.”

The adjutant handed over and said “yes”, and Qi San left directly.

Soon, the news reached the ears of the King of Bei’an, who was helping Cao Mi massage his hands and feet.

The maids in the house were all sent back, because they were almost scared to lose their words when they saw the prince serving the princess in person.

In the prosperous dynasty with strict hierarchy, this kind of thing is extremely rare. Although the people in the mansion knew that the prince loved the princess, they did not expect that the prince could do this for the princess.

Cao Mi’s inner core is still a soul who has grown up with the education of “everyone is equal”. Naturally, he will not be surprised by this. Seeing that Qi You can let go of his identity, he enjoys it with peace of mind.

“Here is Zhou Mu?” After hearing the news, her reaction was much bigger than Qi You’s.

Qi You used his eyes to signal the person reporting the letter to step back, and then comforted: “No need to worry.”

“How can you not be concerned?” Cao Mi glared at Qi You, “You told me before that the imperial court sent someone over again, and I thought it was some kind of superintendent!

“Zhou Mu, don’t you want to stay in Jurong for a long time?”

Qi You nodded, but explained: “Although that is the case, I will not let him interfere in the affairs of the city.”

After talking about his plan, Qi You said: “You can treat him as the third master of the children.”

Tao Tong came earlier than he expected.

King Bei’an didn’t expect that he didn’t expect the child in Cao Mi’s stomach to come out, but Tao Tong arrived first, which caused him not to mention it to Cao Mi in advance.

Hearing his words, Cao Mi was relieved.

She nodded, and then asked: “But after all, he is a state shepherd… Can we let us arrange it like this?”

Qi You smiled and said, “I was worried at first, but he changed his clothes to investigate this time, but it caused me a lot of trouble.

“When he has seen Jurong City under your control, does he still have the nerve to seize power with you?”

He was clearly talking about Tao Tong, but he actually praised Cao Mi’s governance plan.

Princess Bei’an certainly understood the meaning of this.

She took a piece of fresh melon and put it into her mouth with satisfaction, and said, “I hope so.”

As expected by Qi You, Tao Tong lived quietly in the city.

As a coincidence, he even caught the big market twice a month on the sixth day of entering the city.

Although he had seen the sudden increase in the flow of people in the city two days before the market, he still felt extremely shocked when he came to the market in person and watched the Rong and Sheng people trade with each other.

Next to him, an aide from the Mo family sighed: “I have been thinking about the use of these ditches before, and today I finally saw it.

“The Rong people brought in the cattle and sheep, and their excrement could just be flushed down the ditch, so that the market would not become dirty and smelly.

“This is similar to the toilets we used in the inn toilets these days!”

“Why do you keep staring at the things in these corners.” Another aide took over.

He motioned to his companions to look at the crowd of people in all directions, and said with emotion, “Do you know how many people came to the market this time? Sheng and Rong people brought their own goods and came from north to south, just to trade in the city.

“This trip, the city has made a lot of money just from collecting rent, not to mention the taxes generated by these transactions.

“Long ago I heard that the King of Bei’an used half of Liaozhou’s army salaries to exchange for three trade points at the border, and I sighed at the means of the king.

“Tsk tsk, now it seems that the prince has benefited more than I thought.”

“You always smell like copper, how can you be better than me?” The companion who was mocked by him just now was a little unconvinced and stabbed coldly.

Seeing that the two were about to argue, Tao Tong hurriedly said, “Don’t quarrel, you both have your own strengths, but you don’t need to despise what the other has learned!”

He pondered while walking: “In the past few days, we have spent a lot of time just visiting the city, and we haven’t even gone outside to see it.

“I just came here, and I heard others say that all the fields and workshops of Jurong are outside the city. After the market is over, we will go out to have a look.”

The two aides who followed behind him respectfully replied, “Yes.”

The three shuttled through the market several times, and finally they were so tired that they found an empty stone bench on the edge and sat down to take a breath.

Looking at the crowded but orderly scene in front of him, Tao Tong felt some kind of powerlessness for the first time.

He murmured and asked the two of his subordinates: “I used to be sent to work in poor areas, and I have rarely lived in such a prosperous city for a long time.

“Originally, I was prepared to go to Jirong this time, thinking that this was the biggest challenge.

“But only now did I realize that I was completely wrong.

“If King Bei’an can take over a ruined city in just two years, what’s the point of me taking over as the prefectural shepherd?

“I’m afraid it’s a dog’s tail to continue the mink, and it’s just a joke.”

The two aides were stunned for a moment, then warmly persuaded each other.

But the real situation of Rejection was in front of them, and they couldn’t say any words of comfort. Tao Tong listened and waved his hand: “No need to say any more.”

He was about to get up and go back to the inn, but found three tall men standing in front of him.

“The next Qi San is under the command of the King of Bei’an.” Qi San bowed to Tao Tong, “At the order of the prince, I have come here to invite the prefectural shepherd to visit the mansion for a chat.”

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