In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

When Bai Lu was in Qingzhou before, she always felt empty in her heart, as if something was missing.

But she didn't think it was a big deal. There was a constant war here, and the people were suffering from the plague. She felt bad, even depressed... and even had emotional illnesses. This was all very normal.

But now that she had seen the children, Bai Lu finally understood that it wasn't that she had any other illness, but that she was sad because she missed the children. She always felt empty in her heart.

It is natural for a mother to miss her children.

It may be ignored at certain times, but it always exists.

Bailu held several children and picked up Yiyue and spun her around.

January seems calmer than before, and February is more well-behaved.

"March, April, your eyes are moving faster than before. Are you thinking of something bad?"

"...Well, May, I think you are even more beautiful than before."

Bai Lu couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Bai Wuyue is so beautiful and cute!

But... Bai Lu fell into deep thought, looking at the blond and blue-eyed little boy next to Bai Wuyue, "This must be Uri."

She smiled at Wu Li and nodded, "Hello, Wu Li, welcome to Qingzhou."

She touched Uri's head again.

Wu Li looked at Bai Lu with bright eyes, and couldn't help but give her a thumbs up and said, "Oh my God, you are so beautiful!"

Hearing this, Bai Lu was amused and said to him, "You speak Dawu dialect quite fluently."

"This kid is very smart and very good."

"I'll teach him Dawu language for a while and he'll be able to do it."

Murong Jinshu smiled at Bai Lu.

Bai Lu smiled beside her and turned to look at June and July.

June is still a little lazy pig. She is the fattest among the children, but she is not annoying.

He is chubby and looks the most likable among the children.

Bailu pinched June's little face and rubbed July's little head.

After the children finished being intimate with each other, Bai Lu turned her head and looked at the boys.

Although Leng Bingnian is only in his teens now, he is already as tall as himself.

With her hair tied in a high ponytail, she looks very youthful, with a stern face full of imposingness.

He looked at Bai Lu with evasive and wet eyes.

Bai Lu patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "You've become a little man now."

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Even though we’ve only been apart for a month or two, it feels like we’ve been apart for a long time…”

Bai Lu used the word "mother" instead of any other name.

Leng Bingnian turned his head away, unable to bear to look at her again, choking with sobs.

Su Jinyu hurried forward and stretched out her hands to Bai Lu, asking her to hug her.

Seeing that Su Jinyu was taller than before, Bai Lu breathed a sigh of relief.

This child is actually what she is most worried about.

These girls are my daughters. After all, they are all at home and must be living well in Liangzhou.

Some boys, like Leng Bingnian... I know what I am doing and they are already grown-up children, so I don't need to worry too much about them.

The young prince and Ximen Liuyun are both royal relatives. They are used to being well-dressed and well-fed and being taken care of. There is no need to worry about them not being able to get away.

But Su Jinyu is different.

Su Jinyu is a child who dares not let himself worry. He has a gentle personality and sometimes cannot save face. He doesn't know whether he can live comfortably at home.

Without his help, there are some things... he might be too embarrassed to tell Murong Jinshu, and he might not be able to take care of them.

Seeing that Su Jinyu has now become a handsome young man with cute chubby cheeks, Bai Lu is happy.

She laughed and said, "Xiaoyu, you've gained a lot of weight now."

Su Jinyu smiled dryly and blushed.

Bai Lu turned her head and looked at the young prince and Ximen Liuyun again.

Well, everything is fine, nothing serious.

But...why does it seem like Ximen Liuyun is much thinner than before?

Bai Lu had just glanced around before and thought they were all the same, but now she found the differences.

Why does it feel like the child's clothes are empty and he looks much thinner than before.

Bai Lu touched Ximen Liuyun's head, with some worry in her eyes.

Murong Jinshu seemed to be hesitant to speak, and it seemed that she also had something to say to herself.

In fact, Bai Lu knew even without her saying it... Ximen Liuyun's identity was closely related to the governor of Liangzhou.

When Bai Lu thought about this, her face turned much uglier.

He then looked down at his eldest brother's three children, Bai Tingjing, Bai Zhuojun and Qingyue, all of whom had grown taller.

He picked them up one by one and put his face against theirs.

Their faces flushed red as they whispered, "...Aiya, aunt, we are all men, you can't do this, men and women shouldn't touch each other!"

"Hey, you little brats... do you still know that men and women shouldn't touch each other?"

Bai Lu was so happy that she couldn't hold all of them, after all, there were so many children.

She pinched the little faces of several children and gave them some warm affection.

The Qingzhou prefect wanted to bring them all to the prefectural government, and he was so happy.

He didn't expect Bai Lu to bring him so many children. He has been very tired recently and has had no time to relax.

These children all have very good personalities, they are not noisy or annoying... It would be really interesting to have them sitting next to me and talking to me.

He was so excited that his mouth was watering.

While sitting in the carriage, the Qingzhou governor pulled several children to sit next to him.

They surrounded the Qingzhou prefect, who then asked carefully, "How are you all doing over there? Are you eating and drinking well?"

"...Well, Miss Murong has always been the one we trust the most. Otherwise, we would never have entrusted you to her."

As the children were talking, they saw people gathered outside the carriage and shouted, "Marquis Anguo, Lord Zhizhou!"

"Marquis Anguo, Lord Zhizhou, please accept the gifts we give you!"

As he spoke, a lot of things were inexplicably stuffed into the hands of the coachman outside.

It was the first time for the children to see such a scene. They opened the curtain in amazement and were immediately hit by big steamed buns and eggs.

They touched their small bodies...it didn't hurt, but they felt that they had too much food in their hands, which made them a little confused.

"Oh my god, the people outside actually gave us so many delicious foods!"

"Alas!"

Bai Lu couldn't help but cover her face, feeling a little ashamed.

She glanced at the Qingzhou magistrate and wondered what he was thinking, actually letting them leave in a carriage.

It would be better to send them back secretly. Now riding in the carriage of Qingzhou Prefecture is too ostentatious. All the people know that he and the Qingzhou prefect have returned.

At this time, the children were giggling happily.

Seeing how much the children admired him and Bai Lu, the Qingzhou governor laughed heartily: "I'll tell you all about it later! Just how powerful the Marquis of Anguo is."

"She's in Qingzhou, and she's really making a big splash!"

“Moreover, the people of Qingzhou gave her the Umbrella of All People and even planned to build a shrine for her.

"What? There are such things, our mother is really amazing!"

January couldn't help but quack.

In February and March, they couldn't help but applaud.

Several children looked at Bai Lu with admiration, which greatly satisfied Bai Lu's vanity.

Only then did she understand what the Qingzhou prefect meant by this action.

It turns out that the Qingzhou prefect wanted to make the children adore him, to make them like him to the extreme, and to adore the Qingzhou prefect at the same time...

After all, this matter is also related to the Qingzhou prefect.

Bai Lu was speechless and said to the children, "Okay, but... give these things to the groom and ask him to help return them to the people."

"People have worked hard to earn some money and save some money to buy some delicious food. We don't lack these foods at home, so we don't want them."

The children all nodded and were very well-behaved and obedient.

Liu Yue said obediently, "Don't worry, mother, we won't take food from the people at will. We all know that people's lives are not easy."

Even someone as greedy as June knows that these foods cannot be eaten casually, because they are bought with the hard-earned money of the people.

They could easily spend dozens of taels of silver every month, but it was different for the common people.

They may not earn more than a few dozen taels of silver in ten years.

When they arrived at the prefectural mansion, the Qingzhou prefect also needed a rest. He did not try to be stubborn at this time, but simply took the children over to eat and chat.

I haven't been so relaxed in a long time.

Bai Lu pulled Murong Jinshu to eat, but she suddenly grabbed her sleeve and said, "Ah, sister Bai Lu! You don't have to bother. I'm not in a hurry to eat these foods."

"...There are some things I have to tell you first. If I don't tell you, I'll feel uneasy. What if I forget later?"

Bai Lu was stunned, having almost forgotten. "Oh, I really forgot to ask! Why did you suddenly run from Liangzhou to Qingzhou? Logically speaking... Liangzhou should be very safe."

"What safety?!"

It would have been fine if he hadn't said it, but as soon as he said this, Murong Jinshu exploded.

He stomped his feet, frowned at Bai Lu, and pulled her to a secluded place to talk.

"Hey, you don't know, that Liangzhou Governor is not a good guy! He is completely incomparable to Sun Governor, one is as far away as the other!"

"He actually profited from the national crisis by raising the price of food for the people!"

"Rice used to be five or six wen per jin, which was a normal price... Now that Qingzhou is at war, we can still accept the seven or eight wen per jin of rice in Liangzhou... But! Now he has raised the price directly to thirteen wen per jin!"

"There's no war in Liangzhou right now, so how could the price increase so much?!"

Hearing this, Bai Lu was genuinely shocked, and a solemn expression appeared on her beautiful face.

"That shouldn't be the case..."

"We control the rice in Qingzhou. The people buy it for seven coins per catty. It even went as high as six coins the other day!"

"The price in Liangzhou fluctuates, but it hasn't dropped to thirteen coins per pound. What's the reason?"

"Could it be that the wealthy merchants over there are incredibly greedy, and seeing me coming here, they're tempted to follow me and steal my business...trying to raise the prices and capitalize on the national crisis?! Or is it that the Liangzhou governor is deliberately raising the prices for some other purpose?!"

Murong Jinshu shook his head, "I don't know about that..."

"But those wealthy businessmen shouldn't get involved. They all know that you control the grain supply of Liangzhou. How could they possibly get involved?"

"..."

Murong Jinshu pondered for a moment, then used her womanly sixth sense to speak seriously to Bai Lu, "Actually, I think the Liangzhou governor must have done this on purpose. He has other motives!"

"As for what this picture is, we don't know. We may have to think about it carefully."

"Please check it carefully."

Bai Lu nodded.

Murong Jinshu said, "Later, the Empress Dowager went to the Governor of Liangzhou and asked him to lower the price... The Governor of Liangzhou disagreed, so the Empress Dowager directly forced him to release the government silver to help the people if he didn't adjust the price!"

Bai Lu took a breath of cold air.

"Official silver is not easily released!"

At most, he might be released when a major disaster occurs. If he is released and the situation is not true, he will be scolded to death by the emperor.

Murong Jinshu looked helpless, "But I didn't expect that the governor of Liangzhou would actually agree!"

"The Empress Dowager thinks...if he agrees, it means Liangzhou isn't completely safe!"

"The Governor of Liangzhou would rather profit from the national crisis, would rather spend all the government silver! But he refuses to lower the price. He must have other motives!"

Bai Lu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. How could the governor of Liangzhou disregard his own reputation and the emperor's rebuttal and demotion and just lend out the official silver?

This means that huge benefits are waiting for him!

There must be a powerful force behind the governor of Liangzhou supporting him.

Could this powerful force be the maternal family of Lady Liang? Not necessarily.

If it was the maternal family of Lady Liang, how could he be so presumptuous?

It must be another group of people.

Moreover, the other group's strength is comparable to his own... maybe even slightly stronger.

Because the governor of Liangzhou actually dared to openly oppose him.

The more Bai Lu thought about it, the more anxious she became. She felt... there was only one possibility.

"The governor of Liangzhou might be colluding with the Turks."

"Or maybe... he didn't collude with the Turks and wanted to rebel..."

"No matter what, he's not a good person."

"what?!"

Hearing this, Murong Jinshu was surprised but not surprised.

She sighed and said to Bai Lu, "Actually, I think so too... The Queen Mother probably thinks so too, but she doesn't have any evidence."