Father can be an enemy to the country

"Which army's officers are not all from Huaixi? According to you, I don't need to be in the army anymore." After hearing this, the fourth child became a little unhappy.

"Beiping's army." Lao Liu said with a smile: "When the vassal is established, with your father-in-law in charge, who would dare to make a mistake?"

"He's our father-in-law." Lao Si corrected him.

"Okay." Lao Liu admitted with a wry smile.

"Speaking of which, our father-in-law didn't come back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year this year." Zhu Di said a little strangely: "The letter home said that it was because he had hemorrhoids and he couldn't ride a horse. So he won't come back to celebrate the New Year and will raise him in Peking."

Huizu and Miaoqing had already accompanied Xie to the north to celebrate the New Year with Xu Da.

Needless to say, Lao Liu will have an easier time this year...

"Think about it again, this year has been surprisingly deserted. Even Brother Wenying didn't come back." Zhu Di touched his stubbled chin and thought:

"Tell me, does my father have any plans?"

"How do I know? The old man didn't tell me anything." Lao Liu shrugged.

"No, I think something big is going to happen in Beijing." Zhu Di believed in his intuition and said, "My father-in-law and the others were probably kept in the army by the old man to prevent changes."

"..." Zhu Zhen was dumbfounded, otherwise he would say that some things are innate. The fourth brother stayed at home, and his judgment on the court situation was very accurate. The accuracy of intuition... is almost as good as his opening eyes.

"Why, I guessed it?" Zhu Di was about to ask in detail, but a voice sounded outside:

"Your Highnesses, King Zhou's chariot has arrived!"

"Oh, hurry up." The two brothers quickly stopped talking, asked the palace maid to help them put on their coats, and then rushed out of the reception booth.

When he was about to go out, Lao Liu turned back as if he remembered something, picked up You Du'er who was in the wet nurse's arms, put him in his arms and ran out.

~~

Outside the reception pavilion, the two brothers saw an ordinary carriage approaching slowly on the official road to the south, escorted by dozens of officers and soldiers from the Zhou Palace.

The guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion obviously also saw the movement here and reported a few words to the people on the carriage.

The car curtain opened, revealing Brother Wu's ordinary, forgettable face.

Seeing this face, Lao Si and Lao Lao smiled from the bottom of their hearts at the same time, waving and striding forward to greet him.

"Lao Wu!"

"Fifth brother!"

"Fourth brother, sixth brother!" The fifth brother jumped out of the car excitedly and ran towards the two of them. The three brothers hugged each other excitedly.

The scene was really like a meeting in an ancient city.

After finishing making out with the brothers, the fifth child saw the child in the sixth child's arms and asked with some uncertainty: "Is this a stew?"

"How about getting on the bed?" Lao Liu was speechless for a while and said to Zhu Youdou: "Youdouer, please call me daddy."

"I don't..." Zhu Youdou shrank into Lao Liu's arms, afraid of this strange man.

"You've got Zhuo'er, I'm so jealous..." Lao Wu burst into tears. Unexpectedly, when I came back from a trip, my son didn't even recognize me.

"Call me daddy, or I'll beat you up!" Upon seeing this, the fourth child glared and threatened.

"Wow..." Youdu'er was so frightened that he burst into tears.

Lao Wu was at a loss for a while and quickly took out a rattle from his arms, trying desperately to divert his son's attention.

"Fourth brother, what are you doing?" Lao Liu hurriedly coaxed the child and complained to Lao Si: "You did the same to Gao Chi?"

He was speechless for a while and said: "Okay, that's true..."

After coaxing for a while, Lao Liu finally coaxed You Duo'er. But some were too successful and put the baby to sleep directly.

He handed the sleeping child to the wet nurse so that the fifth child could take a good look at his son.

"Good boy, you've grown up." Lao Wu's eyes were slightly red and he looked at You Duo'er intently. "The longer you grow, the more you follow your mother. She's so pretty. Unlike dad, who can't be seen when he falls into a crowd..."

The fourth child looked at You Duo'er from the side and whispered to the sixth child: "Does it look good? Why don't I think it?"

"The child is your own good, do you understand?" Lao Liu said softly.

"Why do I feel that Zhu Gaochi doesn't like anything?"

"You don't get along with others." Lao Liu rolled his eyes.

~~

On the way back, the wet nurse took the sleeping You Dou'er into King Zhou's carriage. The carriage was so shaky that even the cradle was omitted.

It's just that Youdu'er didn't sleep well and talked in his sleep from time to time:

"You are not my father..."

"I don't have a father..."

Each sentence caused more than 100,000 points of damage to Lao Wu.

Finally he couldn't bear the blow, so he got out of the carriage and rode a horse, riding side by side with his brothers.

"So I said, giving birth to a child is so dangerous, and raising a child is so troublesome? If I had known this, why would I have had one in the first place?" The fourth child was still complaining.

"..." Lao Wu and Lao Liu pretended not to hear, and kept talking to themselves.

"Fifth brother, tell me about your experience in Ningguo." Lao Liu said with a smile on his face.

Although he already knew in the letter that Lao Wu's smallpox vaccine was a great success in Ningguo. But Lao Liu believed that Brother Wu would definitely prefer to say it himself.

Sure enough, when he saw Lao Wu, who was crying because his son ignored him just now, his eyes lit up again when he heard this, and he looked full of energy. That was his glorious career!

"Lao Liu, our cowpox success is even more successful than imagined!" Lao Wu first announced the good news loudly, suppressing his excitement, and recounted:

"When I first went to Ningguo, it had become a hell on earth. People died of pox in every household. This kind of dead people is extremely contagious and can even infect people who come to the funeral.

"Then these people went back and brought the disease home with them. Many families or even their whole families died, and no one was allowed to bury them. As a result, another plague was caused, and hundreds of people died every day in the county."

"The neighboring counties were frightened. They set up checkpoints and dug trenches at the county borders, and sent people to patrol day and night to prevent anyone from escaping from Ningguo into the county." Lao Wu sighed: "The entire Ningguo has been sealed off. No entry or exit is allowed. I don’t need to say more about how desperate the people are, right?"

"Oh my god, what kind of place did you go to?" The fourth child was shocked. He only knew that the fifth child was going to Xuanhu to help the world, but he didn't expect that he would go to a severely affected area that was more dangerous than the battlefield.

"Is your boy dying?!"

"Don't worry, Fourth Brother, I went with all preparations." Lao Wu patted his left arm proudly and said with a smile: "Not only me, but also my thirty followers, all of them got cowpox. . During the year we were in Ningguo County, we went wherever the epidemic was serious, and we came into contact with countless smallpox patients."

As he spoke, he pointed behind him and said: "As a result, all thirty people came back with me safe and sound!"

The guards also nodded and said with laughter: "When I went, I thought I would never come back. I didn't expect that His Highness's magical skills can really prevent the God of Plague from getting close to us!"

"So, I can proudly announce that the development of cowpox has been successful!" Zhou Wang Zhu Ju said loudly and brightly:

"From now on, we can finally defeat smallpox!"