The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

Hu Ping'an really doesn't know.

Hu Pingan: [My family situation is rather...special. I am my father's youngest son. Although I am the legitimate son, my mother is my father's fourth wife.]

Hu Pingan: [My father had three wives who died before him. The first wife was the one he married when he was fifteen years old. She was the child bride my grandmother prepared for him. She died of complications during childbirth in the second year of their marriage, leaving behind a daughter.]

Hu Pingan: [My father and this first wife grew up together. I don’t know if there was love between them, but there was definitely family affection. So he mourned for his first wife for three years under the pressure of my grandmother before remarrying. This is his second wife.]

Hu Pingan: [Then the second wife persisted for three years, gave birth to a pair of twins and a daughter, but also died of complications during childbirth.]

Hu Pingan: [My father mourned for this wife for another year and then married a third wife.]

When Li Qingyi heard this, his expression became a little strange.

Hu Pingan paused for a moment before continuing: [At that time, my father had already been known to be unlucky with his wives. Not only was his first wife a child bride, but his second wife was the daughter of an official who was the county magistrate of Qingshan County at the time. It is said that the official was a branch of a large family in the capital, so he was married off to a lower status.]

Hu Pingan: [However, I think this marriage is also based on some interests, but this is just my personal guess.]

Hu Pingan: [By the time of the third marriage, although some bad reputations had spread, because the second marriage gave birth to twins, people here are quite superstitious and think that my family... ahem, is a blessed family. The second marriage could not bear this blessing, so he passed away early.]

[This kind of talk came about because not long after that person passed away, the previous county magistrate offended his superiors and was transferred to a more barren place after his term of office expired. I actually suspect that my grandmother may have had some influence in this, after all, my grandmother was really capable when she was alive.]

Wang Xuan: [I smell a conspiracy.]

Li Zhu: [Eh? Is there? What conspiracy? Could it be that the second one died strangely? ]

Wang Xuan: [I don’t know. If Hu Ping’an hadn’t said that the county magistrate was in trouble, I might not have thought too much about it. After all, the conditions of the time were there. I’ve looked up information before. The death rate of women in ancient times due to dystocia was about 40% to 60%. This is a very scary statistic.]

Li Zhu: [Hiss——]

Li Qingyi: [Hiss——]

Wang Xuan: [So, teacher, you have to exercise your body well. If you can avoid having children in the future, then do so. If you want to have children, it is best to start preparing now.]

Wang Xuan: [Although I think that under these conditions, no matter how much preparation is done, the risk rate will not be reduced to zero. But at least for the teacher's current level, the mortality rate can be reduced to the lowest. ]

Wang Xuan: [Of course, the best way is not to have children. ]

Li Zhu: [This is too scary! ]

Li Qingyi: [I have had similar thoughts before. If it is really that dangerous, I will try my best. As for medical conditions, we are not medical students after all, so we only have a superficial understanding of many things and it is hard to say.]

Li Qingyi: [But we can try to cultivate some talents. As far as I remember, one of the reasons why the maternal mortality rate was high in ancient times was because midwives relied on experience. Some midwives delivered babies, while others became fortune-tellers.]

Li Qingyi: [Another point is that doctors were not taken seriously in ancient times, and they were even cherished, which hindered the development of medical skills. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, it is said that several emperors were killed by mediocre doctors. There is a joke that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were easily soluble in water.]

Li Zhu didn't understand: [Ah? What dissolves in water? ]

Wang Xuan knew more than Li Zhu, and understood it immediately. She laughed out loud: [Ah, I know. Several emperors fell into the water and died, right? Phew. And they didn't drown. When I saw this history, it was really hard for me not to have conspiracy theories.]

Li Qingyi: [That’s right, so it can be seen that medical skills are important, and the people who study medicine are also important. ]

Li Qingyi: [However, these are not things that can be achieved overnight. ]

Li Qingyi: [Why is Hu Pingan silent? ]

Wang Xuan: [Hmm? Hu Pingan?]

Li Zhu: [Could he have fallen asleep? ]

After a few seconds, Hu Ping'an's voice sounded again: [No, the system just told me that the free trial period has expired. To continue using the team chat, you need to pay merit to strengthen the signal. Do you want to switch to the message mode? ]

The other three:...

Li Qingyi: [Ah, I got so into the conversation that I forgot.]

Li Qingyi: [It's like this, because you are too far away from us, so at the beginning the system said that the team chat mode may not allow you to communicate with us in real time. But I think there must be more than one student in your situation... In short, I spent 800 merits to upgrade the team chat mode twice, but unfortunately you are still out of the service area. ]

Li Qingyi: [Then the system said that I could pay a certain amount of merit to strengthen the signal for a short period of time. I thought this was to deduct the merit of me as the host, but it actually deducted yours? ]

The system, which had been silent the whole time, took the initiative to explain: [This is the most cost-effective method. If Hu Pingan strengthens the signal, he only needs to upgrade his individual signal range from lv1 to lv3, and he can touch the edge of the host team chat channel. ]

System: [If the host is to do the enhancement, it will be from level 8 to level 9. Although it is only one level enhancement, the host has upgraded the team chat channel before and knows the upgrade rules.]

This reminded Li Qingyi of what happened when he gritted his teeth and upgraded the team chat channel.

The first upgrade was the most expensive one for Li Qingyi since she bound the system, costing 300 merits, or energy.

The scope of the first upgrade was simply to expand the team chat area from the city of Beijing, including the imperial palace, to an irregular circle of thirty miles including the outskirts of the city.

The reason why it is an irregular circle... the system said that this range is affected by a certain magnetic field. Anyway, Li Qingyi didn’t understand the principle behind it, but it was enough to see the effect.

Then, Li Qingyi looked at his balance and thought that the team chat function was very useful. He would probably have to upgrade it in the future, so he gritted his teeth and upgraded it again.

Okay, this time the scope is doubled, covering Beijing, Shanxi, Shandong and some areas outside Shanhaiguan.

But where is Hu Ping'an?

Hu Ping'an is in Runing, Qingshan County, Runing, Henan, next to the Yellow River.

Judging from the map, it seems that we are only a little bit away from including Hu Pingan in the team chat range.

However, the third upgrade requires 1000 merits.

The first two times, Li Qingyi gritted his teeth and at least he could afford it.

But the third time, that is... there is no money left, so Hu Ping'an has to save himself.