After traveling through time, she still led the villagers to make money as a county magistrate

Song Zhixing's face turned pale when he heard this. "Go... go make some ginseng soup for Madam."

Song Zhixing had heard that women who experienced misfortune during childbirth would be unable to scream. The more he thought about it, the more terrified he became. He wanted to push the door open to see what was going on, but he pulled his hand back from the doorknob.

His mind was full of every little detail about Ye Ranqing. He was attracted to her the first time he saw her, so he pretended to be a child and followed her every day to let her guard down. He wanted to take her to the fiefdom, but she was a woman who loved freedom more than wealth.

But when he returned to his fiefdom, she was on his mind all day long, so he resorted to such a self-torture trick to trick her into coming and taking care of him...

"Madam... your husband is having a difficult delivery." The midwife's voice came from the inner room, interrupting Song Zhixing's thoughts.

"What? We must save Qing'er and the child no matter what." Song Zhixing leaned against the door and tried to listen to the movement inside.

"Heavy...hemorrhage"

Hearing the words "heavy bleeding", Doctor Chu came out of the next room with blood on his hands and told the medicine girl outside, "Madam has given birth, go in and take care of her."

Doctor Chu looked at his hands and was about to use his body to push the door open, but was stopped by Song Zhixing, "Doctor, my wife is giving birth in there. Are you going to ruin her reputation by going in?"

Doctor Chu was concentrating on delivering his wife's baby and hadn't noticed the prince coming. He rushed out reflexively only when he heard the words "heavy bleeding". Only when he saw the prince did he react, "Miss Ye's life is at stake, I...I".

Doctor Chu: "Your Majesty, your life is in danger."

Song Zhixing: "If you go in, her innocence will be gone. It would be better for her to die. Don't worry, even after death, I will make him enter the ancestral tomb of my Song family."

Doctor Chu was stunned and said, "Yes... yes."

"Miss Ye, wake up, don't sleep, someone outside quickly bring the ginseng soup," the midwife said inside.

Xier brought in the ginseng soup

Xier, "Girl, wake up and drink some soup"

……

"Miss Ye, wake up!"

Ye Ranqing opened his eyes, "How is it, does Song Zhixing have any doubts?"

Madam Chu shook her head. "The prince cried so hard when he saw your body. I think he really loves you. Are you really willing to let go?"

Ye Ranqing stood up and said, "Compared to my life, I care more about that so-called illusory reputation."

"How can I entrust my life to someone like this? If this is true and not our plan, I'm afraid I'd be a cold corpse by now."

Ye Ranqing's eyes were cold, and his damn heart was broken by Song Zhixing's words that it would be better to die.

Mrs. Chu knew that she had made up her mind and did not try to persuade her.

"Your makeup skills are really amazing. How can you make two completely different faces look so similar?" Mrs. Chu exclaimed

"No matter how good the makeup is, it can only conceal it temporarily. Song Zhixing was sad at the time and didn't think carefully, which gave me the opportunity to escape. If he realized something was wrong, I wouldn't be able to leave, so I have to leave now." Ye Ranqing got up from the bed in the delivery room, and in her place was another female corpse...

"You planned all this!" Gu Niannian couldn't help but speak when she heard the key point.

Mother Li nodded. "That's right. I met Madam Chu while I was studying at the clinic. Knowing that she was a chivalrous person, I asked her for help..."

"She hasn't given birth yet, and it's hard for her to play such a drama with me," Li's mother said with a wry smile.

Gu Niannian, "You hadn't given birth at that time?"

"No, I was pregnant and went all the way south. I gave birth myself in a small inn. After resting for a few days there, I continued on my journey."

Gu Niannian, "Your Majesty has no doubts?"

Mother Li, "I paid a high price to bribe the midwife, but in the end, it was me who faked my death in bed. When he came in, he saw that it was indeed me who had died in the delivery bed. And it was because he didn't let Doctor Chu in to give me acupuncture. When he saw my body, he felt guilty and didn't dare to examine it further. The palace has many rules, and it's impossible to carry my body back directly to the palace for burial. Preparations are needed. That's where I took advantage of the opportunity and used this trick of substituting one thing for another..."

Gu Niannian gave a thumbs up and said, "Great! You really understand the prince very well."

"Yes! If Song Zhixing lets Doctor Chu in for acupuncture, if he carries his own 'corpse' directly back to the palace, then she won't be able to escape even if she has wings." But there are no buts. Ye Ranqing knows that Song Zhixing is the one who cares most about etiquette...

Gu Niannian asked, "Then the reason you weren't found by Prince Qi along the way was because of your makeup?"

Mother Li, "When I was pregnant, I was still very afraid that he would find me, so I painted myself to be in my thirties or forties. After I gave birth, I just painted my face to be more ordinary and brought the child all the way south to Qingshan County."

"Has Doctor Chu's family been implicated?" Gu Niannian suddenly thought that if King Qi reacted, the first person he would look for would be the Chu family.

"It's me who has implicated them. They also know that Song Zhixing will definitely cause trouble for them. Fortunately, Madam Chu doesn't like the cold place like Qinghe County, so she and I arrived in Qingshan County at the same time." Mother Li said with guilt.

"Xie...family?" Gu Niannian connected the whole incident together and knew the ins and outs of the matter. The best-reputed medical clinic in the entire Qingshan County was the Xie family.

Mother Li nodded and said, "They changed their names for me, and I really feel sorry for them."

"Didn't the prince promise you that he would let you go after you gave birth to the child? Why did you plot something?" Gu Niannian was a little confused.

Mother Li looked at the room where Li Jing was sleeping, and after a long moment, she replied, "You haven't been pregnant yet, so you don't understand. I didn't feel any reluctance in the first three months, but it wasn't until the fourth month, when the fetus moved for the first time, that I began to think about taking the child with me. Then the second and third times, my reluctance grew with each additional movement... until I made up my mind."

"But if he stayed in Prince Qi's mansion now, he wouldn't necessarily become the Crown Prince. His life trajectory would be completely different." Gu Niannian proposed another hypothesis.

"I have thought about it. We are born to think that another hypothesis is better than our current life, but the fact is not like this. The situation at that time was that Song Zhixing would marry and have children, but his identity was just the child of a prince and his concubine. We were not married at that time, so it can be said that he had no name or status. Without my protection, you can imagine how difficult his life would be."

"Besides, if I hadn't planned to leave with the child, if I hadn't 'died', but had gone away alone, I wouldn't have become Song Zhixing's obsession..."

"Yes! There must be a cause for every effect, cause and effect are connected..." Gu Niannian sighed after hearing what Li's mother said.

"Okay, I've said everything I need to say. It's so late... It's not safe for you to go back. Why don't you stay here for the night?" Li's mother originally wanted her to go back and sleep early, but when she thought of her being a woman, she changed her mind.

"It's just the two of us living here, and the spare room isn't cleaned much, and the sheets and bedding haven't even been dried in the sun..."

Gu Niannian still had many questions to ask, so she replied, "There is a couch in your room, Auntie. I'll stay there for one night."

What does it matter if the sheets and quilts haven’t been dried in the sun? I’ve slept in a cave before, so why should I be worried about that?

...

At night, in the room, Gu Niannian took away the small table above and made the bed.

Li's mother came in from outside brushing her teeth and washing her face and took the two corners of the quilt. Gu Niannian looked up and was slightly surprised. "Auntie, you look so beautiful now!"

The two of them shook the quilt together.

“I’m older now and not as pretty as before.”

"Others make themselves look good, but you make yourself look as ugly as possible," Gu Niannian said with a smile.

"Didn't you say before that you wanted to open a herbal medicine shop, but it didn't work out?" Gu Niannian remembered that last time she invited Li's mother to do business together, Li's mother did not agree. Now she knew that this was the reason.

From the story, we learned that she wanted to open a herbal medicine shop, so we asked her. Of course, she also guessed that it was likely that she would not succeed.