Chapter 115 is not completely unreasonable
At night, Yangxin Hall.
Wu Yuan envoy withdrew his hand to check Xiao Jingfan's pulse, bowed and said: "Your Majesty is in good health and in the prime of life. As long as you visit the harem often, the issue of the dragon heir will naturally fall into place. There is no need to worry too much about it."
Xiao Jingfan put the Bodhi bead back on his wrist and raised his eyes to look at him, "I am suspicious about something,"
Envoy Wu Yuan immediately put on a posture of listening respectfully.
Xiao Jingfan said: "I heard from Xie Qing that a country doctor once said that it is more important for men to have healthy heirs than for women. Is this true?"
Mr. Xie still dares to talk to His Majesty about such idle things?
Wu Yuanshi felt strange. He frowned and considered for a moment before saying: "Your Majesty, I think this statement is too arbitrary."
Xiao Jingfan nodded and motioned with his eyes to continue.
Wu Yuan envoy said: "A woman is pregnant for ten months, and whether her offspring is healthy or not depends on many factors. In addition to the man's own essence, there are also whether the mother's body is strong, whether the diet is appropriate, whether the mood is good or bad, etc., etc., which cannot be summarized in one word. , but also..."
"I'm not discussing medicine with you." Xiao Jingfan saw that he was going to make a long speech, raised his hand to interrupt, and emphasized, "I just want to know whether what this country doctor said is reasonable?"
Wu Yuanshi: "..."
As long as the person sitting in front of him is not the emperor, he will already curse.
Practicing medicine is not a child's play. A single move can affect the whole body. How can there be such an arbitrary statement?
Seeing that he frowned and said nothing, Xiao Jingfan said: "If it makes sense, it makes sense, if it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. Just say it boldly, and I will forgive your guilt."
Wu Yuanshi: "..."
He dares!
Although he wanted to retire, he didn't want to die.
He was serious about his medical skills. He thought about it carefully for a moment before saying, "Your Majesty, what you said is not completely unreasonable."
Xiao Jingfan raised his eyes and looked at him, "Elaborate."
"Does Your Majesty know that four years ago, Duan Si Cheng of Honglu Temple divorced his wife because she had not given birth to a son and a half daughters for him even when she was forty years old?"
Xiao Jingfan shook his head. He was too busy with state affairs. How could he have time to care about his ministers' household affairs?
The envoy of Wu Yuan said: "Before divorcing his wife, Mr. Duan asked Dr. Li to treat his wife Wu for two years. Unfortunately, no good news came out, so Mr. Duan had no choice but to divorce his wife."
have no choice? Xiao Jingfan sneered coldly. If he really had no choice, he would not choose to divorce his wife.
Fa's wife has no children, and if she really wants to expand her family, she can take a concubine with two rooms. Wouldn't it be a good idea to record the birth of a concubine in Fa's wife's name?
A woman who is nearly forty years old and has no children to live with, what good place can she go after being divorced? This guy named Duan clearly doesn't care about the Wu family's life or death, and he doesn't care about the relationship between husband and wife at all.
Wu Yuan envoy waited and saw that Xiao Jingfan had no intention to continue except for the disdainful sneer just now, and then continued: "After Wu was divorced, his eldest brother took him home. This eldest brother is a benevolent and righteous man. , thinking that the Wu family was helpless, after asking the Wu family, they paid a large sum of money to find a matchmaker for the Wu family. He was a thirty-year-old hunter. "
Xiao Jingfan was a little surprised, "You are already forty, can you marry again?"
Wu Yuan's envoy said that among the people, there are still women in their fifties and sixties who remarry, but they are only forty. As long as you are willing to do so, why can't you remarry?
He said: "The Wu family got married only half a year ago when good news came out. She gave birth to a boy in ten months of pregnancy. The child is now two years old. But Mr. Duan asked the matchmaker to carefully select the girl who is easy to give birth to and get married. Four years later, there is still no good news.”
Xiao Jingfan understood and said, "What you mean is that it's not that the Wu family can't have children, but that Duan Qing and his heirs are having difficulty?"
Wu Yuan envoy nodded: "Your Majesty is wise."
Xiao Jingfan was confused: "When Dr. Li was treating Wu, he didn't diagnose Duan Qing's pulse?"
Wu Yuanshi shook his head: "Master Duan insisted that his wife was ill and did not allow Dr. Li to diagnose her pulse."
These words reminded Xiao Jingfan of the words in Chu Liuzheng's heart, such as that even a man would not admit...cough! It is not advisable to hide a disease and avoid medical treatment. He looked at Wu Yuan envoy suspiciously: "How do you know so clearly?"
You even know when someone remarried and how old their children are. Does this guy have any feelings for Wu?
Obviously, under the influence of his inner voice, His Majesty the Emperor's thinking has unconsciously begun to go astray.
Wu Yuanshi was completely unaware that His Majesty's thoughts were wandering to the horizon. He answered seriously with a serious face: "To answer your Majesty's question, I once bumped into Mr. Duan who was very drunk in a restaurant. He took me and cried for two days. Hours later. What Mr. Duan said was drunk."
That's it?
Xiao Jingfan was inexplicably disappointed.
Not sure if he could see Xiao Jingfan's disappointment, Wu Yuanshi told another story, also taking his colleagues as an example.
"Your Majesty, do you still remember Mr. Huang, the former right minister of the Household Department?"
"Huang?" Xiao Jingfan thought for a moment, "Are you talking about Huang Gonghe, who was late for the court meeting eight times at the beginning of the year and was demoted to Taipu Temple as the chief registrar at the beginning of the year?"
"Exactly." Wu Yuanshi nodded, "Master Huang and his wife have also been childless for many years. They have also asked imperial doctors to help with treatment, but to no avail."
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
Xiao Jingfan raised his eyebrows: "Is he also a person who avoids medical treatment?"
"No." Wu Yuanshi shook his head, "Master Huang accompanied his wife to drink medicine. After more than three years of treatment with no results, she gave up. But less than three months after Master Huang was transferred, there was news from the Huang Mansion that Huang Good news that my wife is pregnant.”
Xiao Jingfan was puzzled: "Why is this? Did they find the secret recipe for giving birth?"
Wu Yuan envoy raised his eyes and glanced at him: "It's not a secret recipe for having children, it's just that the position of the chief clerk of Taipu Temple is much more leisurely than that of the right servant of the Ministry of Revenue. Mr. Huang can go home on time and don't have to stay all night like at the Ministry of Revenue. ”
"Your Majesty, you know that not sleeping during the childbirth period is extremely damaging to your vitality. No matter how much medicine you take, it is difficult to recover. After being demoted to Taipu Temple, Mr. Huang ate well and slept well, and his energy was full. Mrs. Huang was in good health again. , this child naturally has it.”
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
Co-author Can the couple have a child or is the demotion a credit to it?
The envoy of Wu Yuan asked again: "Does Your Majesty know that many years ago, the Minister of Household Affairs heard that your Excellency and his wife were begging for a son?"
Xiao Jingfan nodded: "I heard something."
This incident was quite a big deal back then. In order to have another son, Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Xu, even recruited some great dancers into the house. She also asked Concubine Yun to change her mother's surname, saying that in this way she could have another boy.
After the late emperor learned of this, he summoned Wen Shangshu, who was just a minister at the time, to Yangxin Hall and gave him a severe scolding.
After reading the books of sages for many years, I still believe in these strange things. If Wen Shangshu had not had a good attitude in admitting his mistakes, and the late emperor had always treated his subjects leniently, Wen Shangshu would have been relegated to a nook and cranny, and how could he have survived to the position of Shangshu? ?
Since then, Wenfu has calmed down and no more jokes have been made about begging for a child.
At that time, the late emperor specially gave Wen Shangshu a month's leave, asking him to spend time with his wife at home, so that the family could be peaceful and everyone could live in peace.
"Back then, Master Wen had only been on duty for two months before the good news came from his residence. Eight months later, Mrs. Wen successfully gave birth to a boy."
Wu Yuanshi's tone was rather sighing and nostalgic.
It was only when the late emperor was in power that he would generously let his ministers go home to rest for a month or two, and the money would still be paid. For the current emperor, it would be good if the money can be paid according to the current situation.
There are a lot of officials in the Sixth Department who stay up late. When they are busy, some of them ask their families to bring bedding and sleep in the government office.