Ten days later, the emperor and empress left the palace, and the capital was filled with excitement.

The date of the emperor and empress returning to Beijing was no secret. Feiyuwei and Jinwuwei began to set up defenses three days in advance, and the Wuchengsi even bombed the small merchants and vendors to the streets and alleys early.

Jinwu Guard had five steps and Feiyu Guard had one whistle every ten steps. Even so, it still failed to scare the people away from watching the fun. From the city gate to the palace, all major restaurants and teahouses were fully booked. The windows on the second and third floors were opened, and excited heads were poked out.

Zhou Wanqian wanted to go to watch the fun, so Daniu booked a seat in advance. On this day, Li Qiniang took Zhou Wanqian and Lu Ying'er, together with Xiaoman who was on holiday, while drinking tea, while watching the fun on the street.

When I just went upstairs, Li Qiniang noticed that there are many half-aged children today.

The academies and schools in Beijing started summer vacation yesterday. At first, the only one who had summer vacation was Lihuashan Academy. However, after the news came out, other academies rushed to follow suit. In this way, even the school also had summer vacation.

A woman pulled a child with one hand and complained as she went upstairs: "I want a housekeeper and socializing. I was too busy at first, but now I have to go on summer vacation. I have to take you two monkeys with me when I go out for tea."

Upon hearing this, Xiaoman hurriedly said, "Mom, I won't drag you down."

The summer vacation was said by Yan Xuehuaixian. Qi Wei suggested to Mr. Lu Er that Mr. Lu Er would discuss with the gentlemen in the academy and decided to come down.

Therefore, Xiaoman was the first to know.

He planned what he had to do during the summer vacation in an orderly manner. Qi Wei would take them and his mother to Wisteria Villa to cool off. In addition to completing the summer vacation homework of the academy, Xiaoman also had three ancient books to repair, and he also brought a book recently translated by his sister and recorded by his hand. In addition, he also had to use this summer vacation to practice piano, calligraphy, sword, and riding. In short, when Li Qiniang saw Xiaoman's well-written summer vacation plan, she was so moved that she almost burst into tears.

Not only Li Qiniang, but also parents in the capital who see their son working so hard will be comforted.

The emperor, queen, princess, princess and princesses slowly walked past, and Zhou Wanqian complained: "It's a waste of time, I didn't even see a single hair of Yan Huaishui."

After saying that, he remembered that Yan Huaishui's mother and brother were still beside him. He wanted to explain himself, but he didn't know how to explain. He grinned and giggled.

Li Qiniang has long been used to it, and sometimes she doesn't understand how her daughter and her niece, two girls with different personalities, became good friends.

Not only Li Qiniang, but anyone who knows Yan Xuehuai and Zhou Wanqian will ask this question.

Xiaoman sighed: "Cousin, you are either watching the fun or missing my sister, right?"

Zhou Wanqian snorted: "I don't miss her. She has been there for so long and has not even written a letter to me."

Li Qiniang smiled and said, "It's okay, she will definitely go back to her parents' home tomorrow. Don't go out then. Wait for her at home and ask her in person why she doesn't write you."

Xiaoman: "Brother Fusheng didn't write you a letter."

Zhou Wanqian stared at him: "Little kid, I won't pick up any pot, let's see if I won't hit you in the butt."

Only a few people knew about Fusheng's trip to Thart, but Xiaoman didn't know about it. He thought Qi Wei sent Fusheng to a military camp.

Li Qiniang quickly changed the topic: "Tomorrow, Sister Huai's return home, you all have to stay in the house for dinner. Tell me what I want to eat, and I will cook myself."

The next day, Yan Xuehuai and Chai Yan returned to the Duke's Mansion. Yan Xue held Li Qiniang's arm and acted coquettishly: "Mom, my mouth faded out of my mouth. I always dreamed of eating the food you made with your own hands."

Li Qiniang looked at her daughter lovingly: "Oh, I've lost weight, I'll give you some good supplements."

Chai Yan was confused. Did Coriander lose weight? When he was trying on clothes in the morning, Coriander said that he had gained weight and that his original clothes were not good-looking.

It's less than an hour before I lose weight?

Li Qiniang went to the kitchen happily, and Lu Ying'er went to help her. When she saw the Duke's wife cooking in person, the cook was busy giving up the place. The lady never hid her own private life. As long as she wanted to learn, the lady would patiently teach her.

However, something happened when Li Qiniang was cooking today.

In today's menu, there is a dish that Chai Yan likes to eat, which is also one of Li Qiniang's best dishes.

Lu Ying'er has mastered her sword skills now. The patterns on the fish were carved by her. The patterns were carved by her. Lu Ying'er evenly applied the fish with salt and egg white. As expected, she brought them to Li Qiniang's chopping board.

Li Qiniang sprinkled starch on the marinated fish. For some reason, she felt that the fishy smell today was particularly strong. Li Qiniang frowned slightly. Lu Ying'er had already left the army. It is logical that she would not even be able to handle the fishy smell of the fish. Li Qiniang simply took the fish to her nose and smelled it. Unexpectedly, this smell made Li Qiniang feel disgusting. She put down the fish and covered her mouth and walked out of the kitchen quickly.

When Lu Ying'er and the cook saw Li Qiniang suddenly go out, they asked, and Li Qiniang only waved her hands at them and walked faster.

She suppressed the nausea that came out of her stomach, and after trotting to a tree, she started to vomit.

Two maids chased after her and saw that the wife vomited, she was startled. One came over to pat her back, and the other went to fetch water. Li Qiniang hurriedly called her: "Don't tell me."

Today, her daughter and son-in-law came over, and she didn't want to disappoint her.

The maid took the water, Li Qiniang rinsed her mouth, and asked the maid to go to the kitchen to find a pickled plum and put it in her mouth. She stood outside for a while before she felt comfortable.

During the meal, Li Qiniang said that the weather was hot and she had no appetite, so she only picked a few light vegetarian dishes to eat.

After using meals, Yan Xuehuai was dragged to Haitangyuan by Zhou Wanqian. Qi Wei asked Xiaoman to accompany his brother-in-law to read the ancient book he had just repaired, but he shut down the people who served around him and asked with concern: "Aqi, you have a bad face, why are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Qi Wei knows Li Qiniang so well. When her daughter and son-in-law come, she will definitely cook in person.

But today there are several dishes that my daughter and son-in-law like to eat, but Qi Wei tasted differently from usual, and this is not the taste of Li Qiniang.

Although Lu Ying'er was taught by Li Qiniang, Qi Wei could still taste it in one bite. Which dish was fried by Li Qiniang and which dish was cooked by others.

If you ask him what the difference is, Qi Fu can't say it, it's just a feeling.

Today, Li Qiniang did not cook in person. She obviously lacked her appetite when eating. Others did not pay attention, but Qi Wei realized that something was wrong.

Li Qiniang smiled bitterly: "It should be fine. When the daughter and son-in-law leave, please ask the doctor to come and have a look."

She silently calculated her days in her heart and shook her head again. It’s impossible, her daughter is so old, and she is not young anymore, so how could she get pregnant so easily?

However, please ask the doctor to take a look. If there is really a stomach problem, you should also diagnose and treat it as soon as possible. She is a chef and can't even see fish and it's disgusting.

Qi Wei saw that Li Qiniang was sometimes confused and sometimes lost, and she became more and more anxious. Why didn’t those two children leave yet?

Fortunately, not long after, Xiaoman ran over: "Dad, the emperor Changsun and Dabai are going to come to Rui's Mansion early tomorrow morning. Can my cousin and I live at my sister's house tonight?"

"Yes, don't read books too late at night. Be careful of your eyes and go to bed early." Qi Wei was worried that his daughter and son-in-law would come over, so he quickly added, "Let your sister and brother-in-law go back early, so you don't need to say goodbye."

Xiaoman felt that today's father was a little strange. He pulled his neck and looked into the inner room. He was about to ask why his mother didn't come out, but Qi Xiu coughed: "It's getting late, don't let your sister and brother-in-law wait."

Xiaoman finally left, Qi Wei breathed a sigh of relief. After sending four of them away, he was able to finally hire a doctor for Aqi.

It is not convenient to hire an imperial physician at this time. Qi Wei originally wanted to invite a doctor from Sishitang. Li Qiniang hurriedly said, "No need to be so troublesome. Just find a doctor in the clinic to invite a doctor."

Qi Wei thought it would be fine if this was the case. He asked a doctor to show Aqi first and went to invite an imperial physician tomorrow morning.

The doctor was invited soon, outside of the sixty years old, and was well-known in the market. He occasionally had the opportunity to go to and from wealthy families, but he had never treated anyone in the imperial city. When he learned that the person who came to invite him was Ding Guogong's Mansion, the doctor was a little excited and convinced himself not to be excited. In most cases, he would treat the servants of the Duke's Mansion. Otherwise, even if the Duke's Mansion did not invite an imperial physician, he would have to hire a doctor from Sishitang.

The old doctor was directly led into the back house and saw a bright young woman in front of him. The old doctor was shocked. He heard that Duke Ding had no children, only a stepson and stepdaughter. His stepdaughter married into Prince Rui's mansion and became a princess. His stepson was still young and was not as old as a wife.

Looking at the female relatives in front of you, could it be the wife of the Duke of Dingguo?

But the other person did not tell his identity, so the old doctor had to pretend not to know. After showing his respect, he took Li Qiniang's pulse.

After putting his right hand and his left hand, Qi Wei didn't want to show up, but he didn't hear the old doctor talking next door, so he walked out and asked, "Doctor, is there anything wrong with me?"

The old doctor was shocked. He had seen the man in front of him, but there were probably not many people who had never seen this person in the capital.

Duke Dingguo comforted him together.

The old doctor was about to kneel down and frowned: "No need to kneel down, is my wife ill?"

The eldest lady was so mature that she could tell from Qi Fu's tone that the prince cared about her very much.

The old doctor smiled and said, "Don't worry, the wife is safe, but the life is still short, and the old man is not sure for a moment, so he delayed some effort."

Hearing this, Li Qiniang's heart suddenly raised, but Qi Wei was stunned and asked, "Which day is still short?"

The old doctor clasped his fists: "Congratulations to the Duke of the State, the wife is happy, but life is still shallow and the pulse is not very obvious. However, the young man has lived for dozens of years and has more or less experience. The wife should be happy with her pulse."

Qi Wei was stunned for a moment, and the maid next to him also congratulated him. Qi Wei finally recovered and quickly sent him to the doctor out. He also told him to give him three times the medical fee and give him another twenty taels of wedding money.

Before she got married, Li Qiniang once told him that she should be unable to have children.

He didn't mind. He had been married for more than a year and he had never expected children. Qi Ying was his biological child after all. Moreover, he was very satisfied with Yan Xuehuai and Xiaoman, the sons and daughters of Yan Xuehuai and Xiaoman. Although Xiaoman inherited the incense of the Li family, the eldest brother already had a grandson and the Qi family had successors, which was enough.

But now, the doctor told him that Ah Qi was pregnant!

Qi Wei suddenly realized that he actually hoped that he and Aqi could have another child.

Regardless of the maids being around, Qi Wei grabbed Li Qiniang's hand: "Aqi, you, have you known it a long time ago?"

Li Qiniang did suspect that she was pregnant, but she couldn't even believe it. Since she gave birth to Yan Xue's pregnancy, she has never been pregnant again. For this reason, Mrs. Guo secretly scolded her for being a chicken that she could not lay eggs.

More than ten years have passed, and Li Qiniang has long been out of her mind for having another child. When she married Qi Wei, she clearly told Qi Wei that she was injured when she gave birth to Sister Huai and could not have children.

So, she found that her body was strange, and just thought about it, she suppressed her thoughts that she shouldn't have. The reason why she hired a doctor was that she was worried that something would have happened to her stomach and intestines, which would affect her cooking in the future.

But unexpectedly, what she didn't dare to think about became a fact.

Li Qiniang was still stunned. She stretched out her hand and comforted Qi, "Pinch me and see if it hurts."

Qi Wei laughed and simply reached out his hand: "Aqi, you should pinch me, I'm a thick skin and a thick flesh, you can use more strength."

The next day, Li Qiniang was still worried. What if the old doctor was not sure about the diagnosis, she asked someone to invite the imperial physician over again.

The imperial physician has always only said three things, saying that the Duke's wife is in good health, so she should not work hard during this period. In two months, he will come to take the pulse again.

After sending the imperial physician away, Li Qiniang asked Qiwei: "What does imperial physician mean?"

Qi Wei kissed her on the face and said with a smile: "He has been diagnosed in almost 100 years, but the months are too shallow, so he dared not speak all the time, so he said he would come back for consultation in two months."

Li Qiniang frowned: "We have become imperial physicians, but we still speak so unreliable."

Qi Wei laughed, the imperial physicians were used to being cautious, so they were like this, and it was no wonder they were.

He simply asked someone to go to Sishitang to invite the doctor over. The results of the doctor in Sishitang's pulse were consistent with the old doctor last night. He was sure that he was pregnant, but his life was too shallow.

Qi Wei was overjoyed and walked around the house. Li Qiniang was dizzy when he walked away and asked, "What are you doing?"

Qi Wei said, "Aqi, would you be happy that Sister Huai and Xiaoman know this news?"

Li Qiniang suddenly remembered Yan Xuehuai's reaction when she brought Xiaoman home.

It took my daughter a long time to accept Xiaoman, her younger brother.

"This...why don't you tell them first."

Qi Wei said, "Then they will know sooner or later."

But Li Qiniang insisted on doing this, and her face turned slightly red: "We are all going to be grandparents at the age of grandparents. Even if Sister Huai and Xiaoman don't care, I'm embarrassed to tell them."

But this secret is destined to be unable to be kept.

In the evening, Yan Xuehuai and Chai Yan came back to see Xiaoman and Zhou Wanqian back.
Chapter completed!