On a spring night in the capital, there is a slight warmth in the coolness. Birds and insects jump out of the flowers and trees, chirping on the eaves under the window.

The room was extremely quiet, with only the crackling of candles and a soft sound from time to time.

The man's warm lips touched Xiang Yi's lips gently.

Warmth continued to spread from the soft contact, making Xiang Yi's whole body tense to the extreme.

Perhaps it was because his palm was pressed against her back, perhaps because he was injured, or perhaps for other reasons, Xiang Yi did not dare to move at all.

But unfortunately, his lips fell on hers and refused to leave.

Time passed by breath by breath amid the crackling of candlelight.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiang Yi almost stopped breathing. He couldn't help but raise his eyes and glance at him quickly.

And he didn't know when he closed his eyes, as if he was intoxicated by the touch of soft lips at this moment.

He even moved his thin lips slightly when Xiang Yi looked over, and pecked her lips gently.

Xiang Yi's mind went blank for an instant.

However, Tan Ting, who closed his eyes, seemed to have tasted some alluring sweetness. The hand that was close to the back of the person in his arms slowly closed, wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to his arms.

The damp heat fermented and generally filled the entire tent.

Unexpectedly, my wife was unusually obedient tonight.

Tan Ting couldn't help but tilted his head, letting his lips come closer to the obedient sweetness, and pecked at the soft lips like flower petals.

The tip of his nose touched the tip of her nose, and his arms gathered her body, completely bringing her into his arms.

The distance is so close that there is no gap.

But Xiang Yi, being so close to him for the first time, subconsciously raised his hand nervously and pressed it on his arm.

It was just that his fingertips happened to touch the injured area.

The pain from the wound affected Tan Ting's movements, and he paused slightly.

Only then did Xiang Yi realize something and quickly retracted his hand,

but at the same time, he also turned his head away from his lips.

she asked urgently.

"Master, are you okay?"

After saying that, he noticed from the corner of his eye that he shook his head, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he looked down at her and said softly.

"It's okay."

His voice was soft, as if he was afraid of scaring away some extremely rare beauty.

The candle flame flickered, and shadows fell on the tent.

Xiang Yi breathed a small sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, in the next moment, he suddenly stretched out his uninjured left arm and picked her up.

His strength was so great that even with just one arm, he could hold Xiang Yi up firmly and sit her directly on his lap.

In this way, compared to just now, Xiang Yi was completely held in his arms, and his eyes were even level with his.

Xiang Yi became helpless and was so nervous that he couldn't even breathe again.

The candle flickered and dimmed a little.

But with a smile on his lips, he took a closer look at her, lowered his head and approached her lips.

But just before the two of them touched each other again, the courtyard suddenly became agitated.

Tan Jian's voice came over urgently.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law! Ah Zhen is vomiting. She feels

very uncomfortable. Sister-in-law, go and have a look!" With this shout, the atmosphere in the tent seemed to be disrupted. What is the atmosphere that the Tan family is most afraid of running away from? He ran away without a trace.

Xiang Yi finally came to his senses and jumped up from the old man in a hurry.

Not even daring to look back at him, he just said one word and hurried out of the room.

"I'll go take a look."

In a blink of an eye, only the injured Uncle Tan was left in the room.

Tan Ting pursed his lips and remained silent.

After a long while, he sighed and raised his hand to pinch his eyebrows.

But the sweetness of that moment seemed to still linger on his lips, and his thoughts began to wander.

...

West Cross Courtyard.

Yang Zhen vomited for a while, but nothing came out.

Tan Jian was anxious to call a doctor, but there was a curfew in Beijing at this time, so it was not easy to call a doctor.

Xiang Yi and Nanny Lu, on the other hand, looked at each other.

Grandma Lu couldn't help but show joy on her face.

"Does the eldest lady also feel that..." she said, lowering her voice a little, and whispered in Xiang Yi's ear, "Second madam, are you happy?"

Xiang Yi curled his lips into a smile and nodded.

In total, it has been half a year since the two got married. They have always been inseparable. Although they have to exercise restraint and abide by the rules, how can a young couple like these two really keep the rules?

It is normal for Yang Zhen to be pregnant now.

However, the two people still didn't know what was going on. One thought about whether he had eaten something bad, and the other just thought he was seriously ill.

Xiang Yi walked over helplessly.

"It's difficult to call a doctor because of the curfew. I'll ask a doctor to come and see if my brother and sister are safe tomorrow."

She said and glanced at the two of them intently.

"I think it may not be a bad thing."

As soon as these words came out, the two people came back to their senses.

Yang Zhen's mouth was wide enough to hold an egg. After being stunned for a moment, Tan Jian rushed over to pick Yang Zhen up and hurriedly put her on the bed.

"Come to bed and lie down! Whatever you want to eat and play with, please just tell me!"

Seeing the exaggeration of the two of them, Xiang Yi was so funny that he told Yang Zhen to have a good rest. He will see what the doctor says tomorrow and give Tan Jian After saying a few things to pay attention to, he returned to the main courtyard.

She lifted the curtain and entered the room.

The room was quiet, and there was a mixture of medicinal aroma and soothing incense in the air.

Xiang Yi inexplicably thought of what happened between him and the old man just now, and stood quietly at the door without going in.

However, Tan Ting clearly heard his wife's footsteps coming in, but saw no one.

"Yizhen?"

Xiang Yi was forced to walk out from the wooden frame in front of the door.

She responded as if unintentionally, without looking at the old man. She went to the coffee table and poured herself some water, and then talked about what happened in the West Cross Courtyard.

"...My sister-in-law is probably pregnant. I will ask a doctor to come into the house tomorrow to take her pulse."

Tan Ting guessed it.

"It's a happy event. It also allows Tan Jian to go to Boyun Academy with peace of mind to study."

Otherwise, he would do something interesting at home...

After hearing this, Xiang Yi felt sorry for the poor second master. Sad for half a breath.

However, she didn't say anything. Instead, Tan Ting saw his wife sitting outside and not coming over, minding her own business and having tea.

He didn't know what she meant, so he looked at her quietly and made a guess. Seeing that she still refused to come over, he couldn't help but call her.

"Yizhen, can you pour me a cup of tea?"

Xiang Yi stood up after hearing this, said hello, poured a cup of tea and sent it over.

Tan Ting looked at his wife and patted his side on the bed.

"Are you tired after walking back and forth?"

He asked softly. Xiang Yi shook his head and handed him the tea before sitting down.

Tan Ting held the teacup and took a sip. His eyes glanced at the edge of the teacup, glanced at his wife, and said softly.

"The second brother and his sister-in-law are going to have children."

These words were said without any sequence, as if they were tapping something, they fell into Xiang Yi's ears.

His eyes also fell slightly.

Xiang Yi knew what he meant, so he just said "hmm" and said nothing.

It was quiet again between the two.

Tan Ting looked at his wife with her head half lowered, wondering what she was thinking about this.

However, it took longer for them to get married than the useless brother, but it was the second brother who got married first.

Tan Ting looked at his wife's fair face, thinking about their intimacy before they were interrupted, and reached out again to hold her on his lap.

Before Xiang Yi could react, he sat on him again and was stopped in his arms.

Only this time, his palms were hot and he pressed them against her waist, and his eyes as he looked at her were tinged with firelight like bright candles.

As soon as he leaned closer, Xiang Yi's hand touched his chest.

"No, sir..."

Tan Ting was stunned for a moment when she rejected her, his eyes narrowed and his voice was muffled.

"But today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year..."

Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, which is good, but he was also injured. The deep wound was on his right arm.

Xiang Yi's eyes fell on the arm in his hand, and his voice became tighter.

"The uncle's injury is so serious, how can he still lose control of himself?"

After hearing this, Tan Ting's eyes fell further and further, but thinking of the happy event in Xikuoyuan, he couldn't help but say another sentence.

"Yizhen, my younger brothers and sisters are going to have children. We..."

He did not continue and looked at his wife's face tentatively.

But when Xiang Yi said this, his eyes lowered and he turned his head sideways.

"Does the uncle really want an heir?"

Tan Ting looked at her and nodded.

"That's natural."

Of course he wanted to have flesh and blood with her.

"But..." Xiang Yi said one word, but did not continue.

Tan Ting looked at her and asked.

"What did Yizhen want to say?"

The bright candle next to the bed was burned to the bottom, the candle flickered, and the room became dark.

"Nothing."

Xiang Yi shook his head.

"Let's wait until the uncle's injury recovers before we talk about these things."

After she finished speaking, she left Tan Ting's lap. Tan Ting wanted to stop her, but he didn't.

He looked at his injured arm and saw that it had been injured at the wrong time.

Xiang Yi thought of something, and asked while tidying up the clutter outside.

"So I don't know who assassinated me yesterday?"

She changed the original topic.

Regarding what happened last night, on the surface it was rogue bandits, but in reality there was something else going on. Xiang Yi still knew this.

However, neither Tan Ting nor Xu Yuanming knew who was instigating what happened yesterday, but what Tan Ting didn't expect was that those people came specifically towards him.

Thinking of this, he said something to Xiang Yi.

"Yizhen needs to be very careful until the person behind the scenes is caught. Maybe they are coming after me."

When these words came out, Xiang Yi was startled.

"Are you here after the uncle? Is it related to the incident with the previous uncle?"

She was talking about the death of Tan Ting's father, Tan Chaokuan.

After she said this, Tan Ting nodded silently, "It's very possible."

He snorted.

"I was worried that I couldn't find any trace of these people. I didn't expect them to show up on their own initiative. Unfortunately, I didn't get any urgent information. However, they couldn't kill me. I'm afraid they will wait for an opportunity to come again."

Xiang Yi's men tightened their grip. .

Tan Ting glanced at his wife's nervousness and quickly comforted her.

"Yizhen doesn't need to be afraid. Whether it's my father's affairs or my affairs, they are all very concealed. If there is no chance to hide from others, they probably won't attack me."

This is true, Xiang Yi nodded. Tan Ting couldn't help but give Tan Ting a silent look.

So he really wanted to have an heir, and the Tan family clan still only had two brothers.

Thinking of this, she secretly sighed.

...

The next day, the doctor came over and took Yang Zhen's pulse with both hands alternately. He stood up and congratulated everyone.

"Congratulations, you are indeed happy!"

"Really?!"

Tan Jian jumped three feet high after hearing this.

Seeing that he was so frivolous again, Tan Ting wanted to scold him, but in such a happy event, he endured it, snorted, and didn't even say anything about sending him to the academy.

Yang Zhen looked at her belly in disbelief. Xiang Yi and Grandma Lu asked the doctor some questions and felt relieved when they saw that Yang Zhen was doing everything as usual.

However, Tan Ting asked Xiang Yi in a low voice while the doctor was not leaving.

"Yizhen also wants the doctor to check her pulse, right?"

Xiang Yi paused and understood what he meant.

But she shook her head and said no.

"I just came here a few days ago to have a little time."

"That's it..."

Tan Ting said, a little lost in words, but then he thought of something again and said again quickly.

"Yizhen, don't worry," he said, holding her hand and putting it against her ear, "We will meet soon."

After he finished speaking, he cleared his throat slightly.

Xiang Yi smiled lightly and was silent for a moment.

The two of them walked back all the way, and halfway through, Tan Ting remembered something and asked Zhengji to get something. Zhengji quickly called back and forth, and handed the thing to Tan Ting, who then put it on the item. In Yi's palm.

"Open it?"

It was a small mahogany box the size of a palm. When Xiang Yi opened it, he found a pair of white plum hairpins inlaid with gold. The gold and jade matched, not tacky at all, but it showed the nobility of the white plums. It was very amazing.

"For me?"

"That's natural." Tan Ting laughed.

Xiang Yi held the hairpin and couldn't help but glance at the man. The old man smiled and let her look at him.

"Thank you sir."

"As long as Yizhen likes it, that's fine."

A gust of wind brought a slight chill, Xiang Yi looked at the white plum hairpin and said nothing for a while.

...

that afternoon, she went out to the street on the pretext of buying some food and entertainment for Yang Zhen.

Tan Ting was about to follow, but she stopped him because he was recovering from his injuries.

She first bought a few things for Yang Zhen, and then went to the drug store.

The doctor was an old doctor with white beard and eyebrows. He asked Xiang Yi when he saw him.

"What's wrong with this lady?"

Xiang Yi didn't feel any discomfort and just stretched out his wrist.

"Please help me take a look at... the pregnancy."

The old doctor had been in Beijing for many years. Although he was not as good as the imperial doctor in the imperial hospital, he checked the pulse of Xiang Yi's hands and frowned.

"Madam, she is suffering from uterine cold syndrome. She may have difficulties with pregnancy..."

After the old doctor said this, Xiang Yi's eyes remained as usual and he slowly closed his eyes.

In the second year after she married into the Tan family, she occasionally caught a cold, and the doctor only found out about it when she came for consultation.

She didn't know where the disease came from, so the doctor asked her if she had suffered from severe cold.

Xiang Yi suddenly thought about it.

That was the year when her father was convicted of a corrupt official and died in exile.

They kept filial piety behind closed doors, and some people came to bully their siblings. Yu Geer was so angry that he had a fight with those people without telling her, but was retaliated by, tied up and thrown on the frozen river.

Xiang Yi was frightened when he heard about it.

It was very late that night, and her sister Xiang Ning could not go out. She had to carry a lantern to find her brother.

When he found his younger brother on the ice, Brother Yu was almost frozen.

She was so anxious that she pulled Brother Yu away who had fainted from the cold. Unexpectedly, the ice suddenly broke. In her haste, she pushed Brother Yu to the shore, but she fell into the icy water.

In the cold weather for several days, the ice water almost soaked all the limbs.

She was in the ice water for nearly half an hour before she was able to escape...

At that time, the doctor of the Tan family said, "Madam, she is suffering from cold syndrome, and the pregnancy is going to be difficult."

No one else noticed this . I don't know, and the doctor also said, "This disease is not incurable, but it will take some years. Maybe it will get better when my wife is older."

At that time, the old man was in Beijing all year round and did not go home . Later, it became common for them to be cold to each other, and his younger brother Xiang Yu passed the imperial examination, so Xiang Yi felt that it was not bad for him to have this cold syndrome.

If she had never had children, she would have been much better off when she left.

...

At the moment, Xiang Yi asked the old doctor in Beijing.

"Can you tell whether my symptoms are better than before, or whether there is no change?"

However, the old doctor examined me again and again, but could not come to a conclusion for the time being.

"I gave my wife a few pills. She takes them morning and night. If I come back to see the doctor in three days, I'll probably be able to tell."

Xiang Yi nodded slowly.

After thanking the old doctor and giving him the consultation fee, she returned to Tan's house.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived home, the house was filled with joy, which was even more joyful than last night when Yang Zhen was pregnant.

"What's going on?"

Zhengji ran over and told her.

"Madam, double happiness has come to my door! The uncle has been appointed. He is the Secretary of General Affairs, Youtongzheng, and he is the fourth rank!"

Xiang Yi was surprised.

General Administration Department, the yamen of the emperor's close ministers.

Tan Ting had previously discussed with his clansmen that if he could fill up the official position of the fifth or sixth rank, it would be enough. Unexpectedly, he was appointed to the fourth rank of General Affairs Secretary Youtongzheng.

It seems that this time it is to appease the candidates that they have made great achievements and are being commended by the palace.

Xiang Yi couldn't help but hurried back to the main courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the old man standing on the steps with a red face.

"Congratulations, uncle."

Xiang Yi stepped forward and saluted him.

He quickly helped her, held her hand in his palm, and smiled.

"Madam, I am delighted."

...

In the next few days, the entire Tan family courtyard was filled with spring flowers, and the spring flowers were in full bloom.

Four days later, early in the morning, there will be a spring banquet at the Lin Mansion.