Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Liu Rusi's house is located in the west of the capital. After all, it is a house given by the emperor, so the location is naturally not bad.

Caiyun was eating osmanthus cake, little Qinhao was chewing a big hemp twist, Chu Shiyu was holding a candy man in his mouth, and Liu Rusi was rubbing her slightly bloated stomach. The group was walking on the streets of the downtown area and they would arrive in about a quarter of an hour.

"Your Highness Prince Duan?" A surprised and suspicious voice came.

A sedan chair passed by and a young man wearing an official hat leaned out of the sedan chair.

When Chu Shiyu turned around with the candy man in his mouth, the official's eyes widened! What's going on? !

"Duan Chou, did you just finish court?" Chu Shiyu put down the sugar man and thought, it's almost noon, and you just finished court? I really have to find a way to not go to the morning court, otherwise I won't be able to relax like I am now!

"We just got out of court. Today, the emperor mentioned the case between you and Prince Kang..." said the Right Junior Secretary of the Dali Temple, and he wanted to get off the sedan chair and have a detailed talk with Prince Duan.

"You should go back to the Dali Temple. I have something else to do."

Chu Shiyu nodded as a polite greeting, then turned around and put the candy man back into his mouth. However, it seemed that his teeth were too strong and a piece of the candy man broke, so he simply chewed it up with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

Duan Chou was stunned! After Prince Duan had walked a few steps, he finally reacted, got off the sedan chair and quickly followed him, saying, "The Dali Temple is also in this direction. I will accompany you for a while."

Chu Shiyu first glanced at him unhappily, then he seemed to remember something and said to Liu Rusi: "Speaking of which, your house is not too far from the Sansi, so the security should be good."

"Hmm..." Liu Rusi looked at Duan Chou's anxious expression and couldn't help but guess that Chu Shiyu must be very different from before.

Seeing that Liu Rusi became cautious because of the presence of outsiders, Chu Shiyu was unhappy, and with a slightly cold face, he scolded Duan Chou: "Go on your own, I don't know you well!"

Although he was scolded, Duan Chou felt relieved. Indeed, it was a very secretive matter that the Dali Temple lineage had Prince Duan. He should not have followed them out of surprise. He bowed in apology and returned to the sedan chair following behind.

The sedan passed by quickly, and after walking for a while, the group arrived at Liu Rusi's house.

However, the first thing that caught my eye was the seal on the door...

"Ah! Could this be the house where a murder happened?" Caiyun held Liu Rusi's arm and hid behind.

"It says search and investigation. In recent years, there have been few cases of officials in Beijing being executed along with their entire families, so there won't be any murders." Chu Shiyu explained. Although he also felt it was a bit unlucky, he didn't want to spoil Liu Rusi's mood.

Liu Rusi looked up and saw that the place where the plaque was hung was empty. She didn't care. This was expected. And since she was exchanging a huge fortune for a house, it should be something that the emperor would like.

As an emperor, he could not be stingy with rewards, but seeing that he only gave out 10,000 taels of silver for disaster relief, the treasury should not be well-off. But houses were different. From time to time, guilty officials had their houses confiscated, so the emperor should have plenty of idle real estate, so as a reward, it would not make people feel stingy.

Raising her hand to tear off the seal on it, Liu Rusi already smiled. Tearing off the seal felt like a ritual of opening a gift!

The door opened with a push of her little hand. The first thing that came into view was a screen wall with a big Chinese character "Fu" surrounded by a circle of stone carvings. It was a bit vulgar, but she liked it.

"This yard is so long!" Caiyun looked at the front yard.

"Well, but it's not narrow either, it's pretty good~" Liu Rusi looked at the long front yard with a smile. Normally, a three-courtyard house is a long rectangle, and judging from the sketch on the title deed, her yard is close to a square.

But this is a good thing, because its area is twice as large as that of an ordinary three-courtyard house! The yard is 2000 meters wide and meters deep, which is equivalent to covering nearly square meters!

"Hehe~"

Seeing the ornately carved hanging flower gate in front of her, Liu Rusi couldn't help but laugh out loud! Such a big mansion is hers!

Chu Shiyu, who was standing by, couldn't help but feel happy for her, but at the same time he was a little annoyed. This house was far inferior to Liuyuan.

"Sister Si! Should I still live in the east wing?" Caiyun ran to the door on the right side of the main courtyard.

Liu Rusi looked at the main house and saw that it still had three rooms, so she said to the main house: "You can live in the left room, next to me~"

"Mom! What about me?" Qin Hao also asked.

"You live in the right room."

Chu Shiyu was unhappy and asked with a straight face: "Didn't you say you would reserve a room for me?"

"Stay, the west wing is yours." Liu Rusi made the arrangements clearly.

"Caiyun, I want to switch with you." Chu Shiyu only wants to live in the main house!

Liu Rusi glanced at him and said, "You can't stay here for long. It won't be so lonely if Caiyun lives next to me."

Who said he couldn't live here for long? Chu Shiyu didn't argue with that. He looked around the yard and said quietly, "This house seems to be a bit old. Let's renovate it before moving in."

Liu Rusi's good mood was half gone. Can you be reasonable? How can you use the same threat over and over again? !

"Let's change. I'm just starting to get used to the east wing, so it's better for me to live in this one." Caiyun said. She didn't want to get involved in the conflict between the young couple.

Chu Shiyu raised an eyebrow at Caiyun in appreciation and looked at Liu Rusi proudly.

Liu Rusi glanced away expressionlessly. She would endure it and wait until she moved out of Prince Duan's Mansion before getting back the lost land!

After assigning the rooms, the four began to visit the interior of the house.

In addition to the main house and the east and west wing rooms, the main courtyard also has many side rooms. The study should be on the left side of the main house. There is also a large bookshelf that must have been left here because it was inconvenient to move after the search. There are also some scattered papers on the ground.

There is a small room without doors at both ends between the study and the main room. It should be used as a tea room and has several stoves built in it.

"Is it cold in Beijing in winter?" Liu Rusi suddenly asked.

The three of them had just arrived in Beijing, so they naturally asked him questions. Chu Shiyu was a little surprised, but answered truthfully: "It will snow, and it will be cold for one or two months."

The foundation of the main house was raised, while the tea room was directly on the ground. Liu Rusi gestured and said, "It seems that it would be just right to connect the ground heating here to the main house?"

"Why bother to light a kang when we can just burn charcoal?" Chu Shiyu was a little confused.

Liu Rusi turned around and stopped talking to him. If you don't manage the household, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Charcoal comes in different qualities. Bad charcoal only produces smoke when burned, while good charcoal is as expensive as money.

On the far right side of the main house is a large corridor. The house has a backyard with a shed, a small garden and a stable on the east side, and the corridors lead to various places at all four corners.

"It stinks!"

Before she even reached the corridor, Liu Rusi immediately covered her nose! The side room between the main room and the corridor was a toilet! She had a keen sense of smell and was almost fainted by the stench!

Four people walked past quickly. Although the others were not as exaggerated as her, they also smelled a faint stench!

"Let someone clean this guest room before you move in." Chu Shiyu reached out and pulled Liu Rusi over, and walked quickly towards the garden, where the air was fresher.

"This toilet needs to be changed!" Liu Rusi said angrily. According to the dry toilet design of this era, it will still stink sooner or later. With her keen sense of smell, she will be killed by the stench if she passes by!

Chu Shiyu suddenly had an idea and encouraged: "Then change it. And the ground dragon, why not just do the construction together and go back to draw some drawings?"

Liu Rusi had not yet recovered from the shock of the stench, and nodded repeatedly without any suspicion!

"Then take a look around and see if there's anything that needs to be changed, and change it together."

"Well, there's no toilet over there, so let's build another one in the garden against the courtyard wall. We can build a septic tank to ferment fertilizer and then grow vegetables in the garden~" Liu Rusi looked at the overgrown garden in front of her and had already planned several vegetable plots in her mind.

"You want to grow vegetables?!" Chu Shiyu's eyes were full of opposition.

Liu Rusi was too lazy to care about him being too nosy, so she asked with a smile, "Is that kind of flower okay?"

"Growing flowers can..." Chu Shiyu realized halfway through his words, what's the difference between growing vegetables and growing flowers? One is edible, the other is pretty?

Liu Rusi snorted softly and turned to walk towards the stable in the northeast corner. Next to the stable was the back door, where the guards had already parked a carriage and nine horses - two of which were for pulling the carriage.

But the stable was obviously a little small, and there were five horses standing outside. However, the horses were very docile and just stood there quietly eating the weeds on the ground.

"Expand this stable. Just keep six of the ten rooms in the back. You don't have that many maids, but you will have many horses in the future." Chu Shiyu decided directly. If he wanted to live here, he would definitely need horses.

"I don't need so many horses. If you want to expand, you have to pay for it." Liu Rusi was calculating the account book in her mind. Minor changes should be fine, but if it were a major change, she didn't know how much it would cost. She had to be frugal with her savings of 1,200 taels.

Chu Shiyu was amused and helpless. Did she think he would be short of this little money? If he hadn't known that she wouldn't accept the money if he gave it to her directly, he would have wanted to spend it a long time ago. It's not like now, he has to find a way to give her a red envelope legitimately.

"Leave the reconstruction to me. I know the situation in the capital better than you do. If you do it yourself, I won't know where to find craftsmen." He took charge of all the tasks.

Liu Rusi just realized, that's not right! If they want to renovate, when can she move in?

"Well... don't be in a hurry. Let's make changes slowly after we move in." Liu Rusi thought about withdrawing his decision to make the changes.

"Don't you want to bury a ground dragon? The room also needs construction, so it will be inconvenient to move around after you move in." Chu Shiyu smiled with narrowed eyes.

"I..." Is her IQ off today? ! How did she dig a big hole for herself? !

"Have you finished reading now? Let's go back to the palace?" Chu Shiyu smiled like a successful fox.

Liu Rusi felt aggrieved for a while, then decided to give up and went back to the yard and said, "Let's go take a look at the front yard. I want to make some changes there too."

The four of them returned to the front yard. At about ten and a half feet wide, it was not narrow, but because it was thirteen feet long, more than eight times the length, it seemed very long and narrow.

"What is this small room usually used for?"

There was a small recessed room on the right side of the door. When Liu Rusi walked in, she saw a small window on the wall of the room, one foot long and the width of a palm, which looked like an enlarged mailbox slot.

"This is the gatehouse. You can see it by looking out of that small window." Chu Shiyu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. There are many more places to explore in Prince Duan's Mansion. There are four arrow towers.

Liu Rusi moved closer to take a look and saw the main door she had just entered. If there was someone standing at the door, she would be able to see clearly at a glance.

"It's nice to receive express deliveries." Liu Rusi sighed and picked up her curious son to have a look.

"Express delivery?" Chu Shiyu was puzzled.

"Well...just letters and packages." Was she too excited to visit her little mansion in Beijing? Her IQ seemed to have dropped!

Chu Shiyu didn't ask any more questions. In fact, Liu Rusi would occasionally come up with some strange words, but most of them could be interpreted literally. This should be brought from another world.

After leaving the lobby, there were two larger rooms in the southeast corner. Liu Rusi asked again, "What are these two rooms usually used for?"

"The rooms in the front yard are basically used for servants to live in. Didn't the emperor also reward you with eight eunuchs? You can put them here."

In fact, Chu Shiyu could understand what his father wanted to express. Giving her a house was an acknowledgement that she was not suitable to live in the palace, and giving her a eunuch was a statement that no outsiders would touch her. He could rest assured to keep Liu Rusi as his concubine.

But he felt that this was an insult to Liu Rusi! She had always been loyal to her late husband, and he was the one who acted on his own will and deliberately ruined her reputation. There was nothing he could do except repay her by becoming his legal wife!

Wanting her to stay in the palace is also to let people know that she is not a person who should not be seen in the light! Liu Rusi is the mistress of Prince Duan's palace!

"Is this big room also for the servants to live in?" The four of them came to the southwest corner of the house, where there was a room more than four meters wide.

“It is usually used as an outer study room and for entertaining guests.”

Liu Rusi looked around the hundreds of square meters of space, and her mind became active. She gestured to the south wall and said, "Can we open a door here?"

"The main door is on the other side, why do we need to open another door?" Chu Shiyu couldn't understand for a moment.

"In the future... I want to open a women's clinic here." Liu Rusi was a little nervous. She had only roughly read the medical books given to her by Teacher Li Chunfu. It might take her another one or two years to master all of these medical books.

However, she was already able to diagnose the corresponding symptoms of the twelve Jia chapters and the ten Gui chapters copied from the prescription book. With just these and her knowledge of modern medicine, she should be able to run a clinic.

"Female clinic...meaning a clinic with female doctors?" Chu Shiyu actually didn't want her to come into contact with patients, especially those who were contagious.

"No, it's a clinic that only treats women." Liu Rusi said solemnly.

"Will you only treat women in the future?" Chu Shiyu's opposition was a little less. He would not forbid her from contacting other men, but it would be good if she could avoid contact. Seeing Caiyun touching her, his eyes would be sore, let alone a man.

"No, if I personally meet a patient, I can treat him/her, regardless of gender." Liu Rusi seriously introduced her ideas.

"But there are already many male doctors in the world, and there are countless excellent ones. There are too many men to see patients. Therefore, in this clinic, only women will be received. In this way, some conservative women who have hidden diseases do not have to worry about losing their chastity by seeing a doctor."

Chu Shiyu was stunned, and then felt a little ashamed. He only thought about the gains and losses between the two of them, but he didn't know that Liu Rusi had such noble pursuits.

"Okay, take a look at how to rebuild it, and then go back and draw up the blueprints together with other places." Chu Shiyu secretly gave up the idea of ​​delaying the construction period.

Walking out of the big room again, Liu Rusi gestured to the area between the hanging flower gate and the back house and said, "Since it is going to be used as a business place, let's build a wall here to separate a small courtyard in the southwest corner as the backyard of the clinic."

"Do we need to open a door? Otherwise you'll have to go around the front to get in and out." Chu Shiyu also started thinking from her perspective.

"Open one, but put a bolt on the infirmary side. I'll lock this door after I get to the other end."

Liu Rusi kept thinking: "Oh, right, let's build two or three toilets in the upper left corner, so that it will be convenient for patients to relieve themselves... Let's build a water boiler room and a washbasin..."