Tianliangyuan

Chapter 364 The urging to give birth may be late, but it's finally here.

Xu Zhaozhao originally divided the progress of some projects in Lantian County into several phases. One reason was that she was short of money and needed to keep some working capital for herself. The other reason was that she did not want to push the progress too fast, so as not to let people notice her financial strength.

But things are different now.

All the nobles in the capital knew that she had borrowed one million guan from Daxing Bank, so they simply invested it directly.

The sooner Yunqi Town is completed, the sooner its costs can be recovered.

Because it is close to Yunqi Mountain Villa, the name was directly approved by Lantian County and named Yunqi Town.

Most of this area used to be wasteland. Part of it was granted to the Princess of Anle by His Majesty, and later some refugees were taken in, so the area gradually became more populated.

Most of the land granted to the Princess of Anle was fertile land.

Xu Zhaozhao herself spent money to buy a large area of ​​wasteland, and now Yunqi Town is beginning to show results.

Xu Zhaozhao's original plan was to transform this place into a prosperous town within three to five years, at least a bustling commercial area. After all, it was adjacent to the official road and a necessary route for some foreign merchants, so building it wouldn't be difficult.

Now that she had an extra million strings of cash, she naturally ordered her people to speed up the process.

Yan Shu is basically living at the construction site now, busy with endless things every day. As for Yunqi Villa, it is mainly managed by Li Sheng and Chang Sheng.

Yunqi Manor is now completed, but because the master is not here, there is very little sense of life here, and the master's family does not have many of the necessary items.

This is mainly a village where a few hundred households live together, and it still has a certain lively atmosphere.

These several hundred households are all Xu Zhaozhao's fiefdom.

The young and middle-aged men either engaged in farm work or patrolled with Li Sheng, while most of the women went into weaving workshops to make a living.

In short, while the people here may not eat exceptionally well, they at least have enough to eat twice a day.

Xu Zhaozhao now eats three meals a day, but she knows that most people eat only two meals a day.

Unless it's harvest season and the farm work is too heavy, they won't eat three meals a day.

Moreover, Xu Zhaozhao had visited those farmhouses and found that they usually ate mixed grain porridge for dinner. Various coarse grains, beans, wild vegetables, etc. were mixed together and cooked together with some salt, which was their dinner.

If it's time to go to the fields to do farm work, then there will be some dry food for breakfast, but not much.

In short, these farmers are in a state where they are not quite full, but they are not starving either.

Only those families that Xu Zhaozhao specially took care of could have such a life; at least they could live in clean and warm houses.

In reality, many farmers' houses are not adequately insulated.

Leaking roofs during rain is common, and houses often collapse under the weight of heavy snow in winter.

It was only after meeting real farmers several times that Xu Zhaozhao truly realized how difficult life was for ordinary people in this era.

It's not that Xu Zhaozhao is a saint, but rather that she cannot truly remain indifferent to the poverty and suffering of these people.

But she was just a woman, so there was very little she could do.

Right now, all she's thinking about is taking care of the people under her protection.

She can't control the other people, nor does she have that much power.

Her fiefdom was in Lantian County, so she decided to find a way to help the people of Lantian County. However, she couldn't guarantee how much she could accomplish.

Because Xu Zhaozhao ordered the construction of Yunqi Town to be accelerated, many people under her command became busy.

Xu Zhaozhao was also caught off guard by Wang Ruolan's arrival.

It wasn't that she was rejecting her mother's arrival, but rather that she was somewhat rejecting what Wang Ruolan said.

"Zhaozhao, you've been married for quite a while now, but there's still no good news?"

Xu Zhaozhao felt a chill run down her spine; it seemed she had truly forgotten about being pregnant and giving birth.

Xu Zhaozhao herself is a plant-type ability user, and her abilities are powerful. It's not just about growing plants; her greatest ability is to absorb and utilize the medicinal properties and characteristics of all plants.

Therefore, without realizing it, Xu Zhaozhao transformed her body into one that was temporarily infertile.

Of course, she can change it if she wants to.

But she only feels like she's eighteen!

At eighteen, she would still be a student in her past life!

Is she going to have a baby at such a young age?

Xu Zhaozhao was finding it hard to keep up.

But she simply couldn't bring herself to retort to her mother's words of concern.

In this era, it is a grave mistake for a woman to be unable to bear children!

“Mother, it’s not that I don’t want to have that, it’s just that I asked Master Sun to prescribe some medicine for Sanlang. Master Sun said that it would be best to wait a month or two after Sanlang stops taking the medicine before trying to have a child.”

Wang Ruolan was stunned.

So it's not that the daughter can't get pregnant, it's because she has to take care of her son-in-law's health?

"No, wait a minute. What medicine did you give Sanlang?"

“Sanlang was wounded several times on the battlefield before. Master Sun said that if he didn’t take good care of himself, he would suffer in the future. Mother, Father and Second Brother were also wounded, weren’t they?”

Wang Ruolan understood this.

Moreover, Xu Zhaozhao had previously asked the hermit Sun to prescribe medicine for both Xu Han and Xu Junfeng.

"That's not right! Isn't your second sister-in-law about to give birth? Why does Sanlang have to wait a little longer?"

Xu Zhaozhao's mind raced; she had to find a way to justify this hastily come-up excuse.

“These bodies are naturally different from one another, and the extent of their injuries is also different. Besides, Second Brother has only been in Jizhou for a few days, while Third Brother has been there for several years!”

Wang Ruolan thought about it and agreed; the reason was quite valid.

We finally managed to fool them.

As Xu Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't help but start wondering again when would be the right time to have a child.

In fact, Xu Zhaozhao's explanation is completely untenable.

Since Xu Zhaozhao has never used any contraceptive soup since her marriage, how did she prevent herself from getting pregnant?

However, Wang Ruolan clearly hadn't considered this and still firmly believed her daughter's words.

After persuading her mother to leave, Xu Zhaozhao naturally realized that her mother must have truly taken this matter to heart, which was why she had made this special trip.

This is her own mother, so she tends to side with her when she speaks.

But what about the old lady and the other elders of the Xie family?

Therefore, if she couldn't get pregnant, she had to find a way to shut the Xie family up.

But you can't just bring it up yourself, can you?

However, my mother's visit today is a good excuse for me to mention it to Madam Yu first, so that the elders won't worry about it behind my back.