Zhou Yi gave Mingde a job offer, and left Taizhou Mansion and the imperial court where he had dedicated twenty years.

This choice was made mainly for Xia Jing, but getting to his position and knowing how to retreat bravely is a way to protect oneself.

In the first half of his life, he studied hard for the first [-] years with passion and cold windows, and successfully entered the official career. In the last [-] years, he stood in the court, asking himself that he had done a good job for the people, and he was not ashamed of his heart.

For the rest of my life, I wanted to change my way of life.

That day Xia Jing suffered a massive hemorrhage after childbirth and almost died. Liu Shanglu tried his best to save his life, but he was still in a coma, and he was not sure when he would wake up.

Zhou Yi not only had to take care of the two newborn children, but also had to worry about Xia Jing, and was very distraught for a few days.

Mingde saw Xia Jing's tragic delivery with his own eyes, and suddenly lost interest in him. Besides, he was already lying dead and alive, so it was meaningless to worry about those things in the past.

Perhaps, subconsciously, he no longer regards Xia Jing, who gave birth to a pair of twins for Zhou Yi, as a man like himself.

He left this place at night, and through Zhou Yi's channel, he sent in the decree of pardoning Liu Changdao and reinstating the official. Now that the pirates along the coast of Zhejiang have been almost wiped out, the decree ordered Liu Changdao to lead the navy. Go to the coast of Fujian to clean up Japanese pirates.

As for Zhou Yi, after this incident, the people's livelihood in Taizhou government was in decline, and a thousand wastes were waiting for prosperity. Mingde ordered him to manage Taizhou government in exchange for not pursuing the matter between him and Xia Jing.

But even so, Xia Jing will no longer be able to appear in the officialdom from now on. Mingde cut off his official status, took away most of the power in his hands, and returned to the capital with Ruizhu.

As a result, Xia Jing only has the properties that he secretly purchased in the past, and Xia Chuan is currently taking care of them.

So Zhou Yi brought the unconscious Xia Jing and two children to live in Taizhou Mansion. Fortunately, Liu Shanglu and Ah Yao were there to help, otherwise he would not be able to do business at all.

This period of time was almost the most unexamined in his life, even worse than the sadness he felt after his original spouse left.

He often gets up early in the morning to deal with official business, and restores a state capital that has been devastated by war. He has to take care of every aspect. He has to be busy until late at night, to see the two children who have already fallen asleep, and then go back to the room to sleep with Xia Jing .

Yes, even though Xia Jing didn't know when he would wake up, he still insisted on sleeping with Xia Jing, he thought, this should be what Xia Jing wanted.

Later, according to A Yao and Liu Shanglu's memories, during that period of time, he was very different from the past. He lost his usual gentleness and elegance, and looked gloomy and cold. After listening to the order in front of him, he didn't dare to stay for a moment, and walked as fast as he could, even those two children who didn't understand anything, as soon as he appeared, they were so scared that they didn't even dare to cry.

Only by Xia Jing's side can his breath be gentler, as if there is still a shadow of the past.

When everything in Taizhou was on the right track, Zhou Yi immediately handed over a letter of appointment, and also handed over part of the power in his hand to Mingde along with the letter, expressing his determination to retire. The rest will be divided during the governance of Taizhou. The batch was handed over to colleagues who were optimistic about it before.

Having experienced the ups and downs of the officialdom and the ups and downs, he chose to leave the stage at this station, but this career of "making a life for the people" must be persevered.

Xia Chuan said that Xia Jing had bought the contract of the thatched hut in Zhaozhuang Village, and Zhou Yi asked him to renovate the thatched hut into a courtyard. After leaving Taizhou, he brought everyone to live there.

Ah Yao's parents still stayed in the capital to guard the house.

The days changed from being busy to being free. Liu Shanglu started practicing medicine again while he was treating Xia Jing.

Zhou Yi stayed by Xia Jing's side most of the time every day, as if wishing to make up for something.

His black hair in the past has now been mixed with specks of frost. People who have not been destroyed by complicated government affairs have aged a lot since Xia Jing gave birth and fell into a coma.

Books from the mansion in the capital arrived one after another. While accompanying Xia Jing, he also began to sort out the materials that he was too busy to sort out in the past, ranging from the national economy and the people's livelihood to poetry and poetry.

As a literati, it might not be a good destination to write a book and talk about it, and the days slip by unknowingly.

In the blink of an eye, it was the first birthday of the two children. Because Xia Jing was still unconscious and they had kept the door behind closed doors to thank guests, this birthday was very simple.

Looking at the two children, Zhou Yi thought of Xia Jing's tragic birth one year ago today, so she only teased the two children absent-mindedly, ate something, and went back to the room to accompany Xia Jing .

"It's been a year, Zigao, when will you wake up..." He sighed, and pressed a kiss on Xia Jing's lips, his voice was low and tender, "You know, I miss you so much... "

He sat on the edge of the bed blankly, as if he never got tired of reading it, looked at the face that he had sketched out in his heart countless times for a long time, and then let out a long sigh, got up slumped and went to the desk to continue his unfinished notes.

Because he turned around, he didn't see that the man who had been in a coma for a whole year without moving at all suddenly had a drop of tears fall from the corner of his eye.

Ten days after the child's first birthday, Xia Jing finally woke up in the middle of the night.

Zhou Yi first thought she was dreaming, but when she came back to her senses, she didn't say a word, and knocked on Liu Shanglu's door uncharacteristically disheveled.

It wasn't until Liu Shanglu came to confirm that after Xia Jing woke up this time, he could recuperate and get better day by day, then with extreme surprise and fear, he hugged her tightly into his arms and refused to let go for a long time.

"Zhongchang..." There was a muffled call from Midnight Menghui who had been looking forward to so many times in his arms. He had been suffering for a whole year and was in a state of confusion for a whole year. At this moment, his eye sockets became hot, as if his long-lost soul had finally come to an end. came back.

******

Since Xia Jing woke up, his body has improved day by day, and Zhou Yi's gloomy appearance has gradually faded away, and he has regained his previous gentleness and calmness.

Recently, he is preparing to open a private school to teach and educate people. When he was young, he made a bold statement, "In this life, I want to establish a heart for the world, a life for the people, a legacy for the sages, and peace for all generations."

He has spent [-] years devoting himself to the cause of "creating a life for the people". Now that he has retired from his official position, he will always contribute his part in "carrying on to the past sages" in the days to come.

"But in my drowsiness, I seem to hear you saying in my ear that the first half of my life is devoted to the people of my family and country, and the second half of my life belongs to me." Xia Jing flicked his eyes over, the corners of his lips curled into a smile that was not a smile, under the dim candlelight The beauty on the face is still the same as before, which makes people's hearts pound.

After this year of "purgatory torment", Zhou Yi has long given up the subtlety and euphemism of the past, embraced the person intimately, and greedily breathed the fresh and familiar breath around the other's neck, with the intention of indulging in it , who is obviously a person who has passed the age of no doubt, but now he is a little childish.

After a long time, he finally said: "Nature is yours, and everything about me is yours. In the past, I only felt more guilty, and pity gave birth to love, but now I realize that you are poppy||poppy to me, Once you get it on, you can't take it off and you can't put it down."

"Why do you..." The old-fashioned old man in the past has become so affectionate and affectionate now, Xia Jing was caught off guard for a moment, and enthusiasm surged up on his face, and he blushed immediately.

"How about me?" Zhou Yi refused to let go, and kissed her neck lightly, thinking that half a month had passed since the day she woke up, and Dr. Liu had already nodded, so it was all right.

Xia Jing had been in a coma for a long time and was weak and short of breath. In the past few days, even if the two of them shared the bed, they were just chatting under the quilt. When they were treated like this suddenly, their brain roared, their heart beat violently, and their bodies became weak again and again.

He groaned abruptly, provoking Zhou Yi's more intense exploration, and then he was pushed down on the bed. He always felt that the current situation was very wrong, and this person couldn't wait for him.

But when he caught a glimpse of the streaks of frost falling down his cheeks, he stopped this thought again, and his heart twitched and tightened.

Raising his hand to gently stroke the hair, he involuntarily raised his neck, narrowed his eyes slightly, and was half-confused.

Forget it, just let him go. In the past, he had to do everything possible to ask for it. Now that the other party is so enthusiastic and proactive, why should he push it away.

After all, the future is long, no matter how wrong it is, the person is always the one who fits perfectly, and he still has half his life to spend with this person...

******

Historians of later generations commented that during the great prosperity of the Mingde period, Xia Jing and Zhou Yi successively dismissed their officials and became officials. In fact, Emperor Mingde deliberately did this. Since then, imperial power has been highly concentrated in the hands of the emperor, feudalism has reached its peak, After the heyday, it must be accompanied by decline.

But there are also fans of unofficial history who traced back to the source from the pile of old papers. The two famous officials left the court at the same time because they were investigating the hoarding of rice for disaster relief in a guard's home. The matter of Ke was also cooperated by these two people. Not long after, the two left the court. Who can believe that there is nothing else going on here!

However, people of later generations have not personally experienced and seen what happened, so it is really difficult to guess, and this has become the number one unsolved mystery in the history of Dasheng.

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