Liu Yuben did not object to the Miao people, but he always had to think clearly about the things that cost money and trouble. In fact, Liu Yu also understood what Liu Liniang meant. Liu Liniang was planning to recruit surrendered troops from Lingnan to serve as civilians to build a city for their Miao family. Liu Yu would definitely not let her do it.

"If you want to build a city, you can build it yourself. The court has no money and will not send craftsmen to come." Liu Yu said bluntly in front of Liu Liniang, "If this city is not in a hurry to build, you can wait for two years. When the financial and tax situation improves, it will not be too late to build it again."

Liu Liniang is a smart person and can hear the perfunctory in Liu Yu's words. She promptly proposed that the city could be temporarily suspended. After a long time, the two of them did not discuss any more about this matter.

The matters in the south were almost handled, so Liu Yu had to go back to the north. The female family was still in Jiankang City, and the emperor was not in Chang'an City for a while. It was time to take his family back to Chang'an to stabilize the court and the country. Liu Yu also received a letter from Jiankang City saying that Xu Xuanzhu was about to give birth.

Liu Yu hurriedly made some explanations, using Hua Ji'an and Qi Fang to be responsible for establishing a military office in Lingnan, while he took Zhang Wuzhu, Huo Bing and other generals back north, from Meiguan to north, and headed straight to Jiankang City. Liu Liniang did not go with her. She would temporarily stay and deal with the resettlement of ethnic minorities and get a place to live for the minorities from the court. After that, she would go north with Duolin and Mier, but would not enter Jiankang City, but go directly to Chang'an City.

Liu Yu returned north this time, not only his personal affairs, but also transferred most of the army in the south back to the north, which was also to reduce the imperial court's military expenditure in southern Xinjiang.

Along the way, Liu Yu was also reviewing the gains and losses of the expedition. Although the court pacified the south, there was still no place for Su Yan's whereabouts and the mysterious rebels. Liu Yu could also feel the danger hidden beside him. Fortunately, all the border troubles have been eliminated. He could also settle down and deal with everything behind him.

This is mainly the power of King Su Zhe of Chu.

If the success of the king and the defeat of the enemy, if the foundation was unstable in the past, Liu Yu was also worried that Su Zhe would use the power of public opinion to gather military power to drive Su Yan off the stage. However, after Liu Yu blatantly drove Su Yan off the stage and responded to the infamy of the world, Liu Yu no longer worried about this. Now he is fighting against Su Zhe, he is just a tough fist. Liu Yu is also prepared. When he returned to Chang'an City, he attacked some old-school ministers to establish a court environment that is beneficial to him.

The group set out for more than ten days. On September 13th, Liu Yu finally saw the city of Jiankang City. Liu Yu couldn't wait to bring a group of troops into the city. After entering the city, he took Qu Ning, a doctor, to the direction of the palace. Liu Yu had already learned on the road that Xu Xuanzhu gave birth to the childbirth in these days.

When he arrived at the inner garden of the palace, he saw the female official. Liu Yu realized that Xu Xuanzhu had given birth the day before yesterday and gave birth to a daughter for Liu Yu. Liu Yu rushed forward, but it was still one day late.

When Qi'er heard that Liu Yu was back, she hurriedly brought a few palace maids to greet him. Seeing that Liu Yu had crawled into Liu Yu's arms regardless of his demeanor, she sobbed and cried for a long time.

"It's not you... what happened to my sister, right?" Liu Yu asked in a deep heart when he saw Qier crying. He also felt that the female official seemed to have something to hide.

"Sister Xu gave birth to a baby yesterday, and it seemed very painful... She was getting better last night..." Qier said with a little fear after wiping her tears.

It is difficult to give birth to the first child, which is a common feature of women. Especially in this era, there was no caesarean section, and women could only give birth naturally.

Liu Yu asked the female official around him in detail, and only breathed a sigh of relief after learning that Xu Xuanzhu was just a difficult childbirth and had no fatal symptoms such as heavy bleeding. The safety of the mother and daughter was no longer demanding for Liu Yu.

"Let's go, Qi'er, take me to see your sister."

Qi'er held Liu Yu's hand and the two went towards the inner palace. At this time, the Han sisters also came out, and Qi'er's mother, Meiren, came out together. Because Qi'er had been waiting outside for a long time, she could also see Liu Yu first.

When he arrived at the inner curtain, Liu Yu felt very distressed when he saw Xu Xuanzhu having a pale face after giving birth. He walked up to him and sat on the edge of the bed, holding Xu Xuanzhu's hand.

The mummy beside him flatteredly: "Prince, mother and daughter are safe, congratulations..."

Liu Yu really wanted to kick the woman away so that she would not affect the reunion of the couple after a long time.

When Xu Xuanzhu saw Liu Yu, he smiled happily and his face improved a lot. His long-term worries seemed to be wiped out. In front of the sisters and palace maids, she did not show too much excitement, but just held Liu Yu's hand and held it tighter.

Liu Yu used his other hand to build Xu Xuan's messy temples neatly, and then kissed her forehead. All the women in the inner curtain blushed. No one had ever seen such a affectionate person in public. It was the Regent and Marshal Xu of the Female Army. Even when Qier and the Han sisters met, they felt their faces were hot, although Liu Yu had done this kind of surprise attack many times.

"You guys go down first... wait, bring my daughter over and I'll take a look."

Only then did Liu Yu remember that he was already a father. Although he was a daughter, Liu Yu was open-minded and had no idea of ​​favoring boys over girls. Moreover, Liu Yu did not need to consider the issue of heirs for the time being, and he was not worried about whether he would have a son in the future.

Liu Yu took his daughter from Mu Niang's hand, held it in his arms, and looked at it carefully. The newborn baby seemed to have his eyes shrank together. She was eating her first meal in her life and was still asleep. Her slight breath also made Liu Yu feel the rhythm of life.

Seeing his first life that took root in this world, Liu Yu couldn't help but show a loving smile on his face. Although he experienced wind, frost, snow and rain, and life and death hardships, he was a kind father, not the king who everyone feared.

"So cute. Madam, look... you look like Madam, you must be a beauty when you grow up..." Liu Yu sat on the edge of the bed holding his daughter and showed it to Xu Xuanzhu. Xu Xuanzhu had too much physical loss because of the difficult labor yesterday. Yesterday, he just saw his daughter in a hurry. But now she saw her daughter again, and she still had a little guilt in her eyes.

For women of this era, not giving birth to a son means not fulfilling the mission of a woman. Even a hero like Xu Xuanzhu is still unavoidable. If it were before, she would not care much about this, but now she is wholeheartedly committed to being a good wife and mother.

"Bah..." Xu Xuanzhu spat gently, "How could he say that his daughter is like this..."

Liu Yu was thick-skinned enough that even Xu Xuanzhu, a mother, could not stand it. People say that God is very stingy and cannot be too doting on his children, otherwise God would take away this gift. In ancient times, it was not easy for ten babies to be able to become three or four of them.

Xu Xuanzhu was also afraid that Liu Yu would praise his daughter for being so nervous, so God took the gift away, leaving it to her for lifelong regret.

When the family of three got together, Xu Xuanzhu also had a warm smile on his face, but he still couldn't help but show his regret that Liu Yu could perceive.

"Madam, what should I give her a name? Oh, it's really a headache." Liu Yu seemed very puzzled.

Xu Xuanzhu smiled slightly, and finally relieved the sadness on his face.

"Husband, my daughter is still young, so don't rush to name her." Xu Xuan said.

In this era, it is common for a daughter to have no name, and they don’t need to go out to meet people. Before getting married, they are in their boudoir, and after getting married, they don’t go out to go out. The name is just a simple title, and only needs to know their parents and husband.

But Liu Yu felt that if she had not even her own name for a life, it would seem to have treated the little life unfairly. Why can a boy have a name but a woman not?

"It's good to call Ting'er, or Yi'er, or Qi'er?" Liu Yu said, and the Han sisters and Qi'er both lowered their heads shyly. Liu Yu laughed again, "There is a master of such a good name. If she grows up, I will call it out and call her three concubines over, how can I have a child?"

Xu Xuanzhu suddenly said, "Husband, call her a rooster."

"Liu'er? It's pretty good, but... the girl's name is not beautiful enough. Why is the lady giving this name?"

Xu Xuan blushed and said, "When I was young, my mother called me to my son and said that this is the case, girls are easy to raise..."

Liu Yuxin said that it turned out that Xu Xuanzhu used his name on his daughter. In fact, Liu Yu had asked Xu Xuanzhu what her boudoir name was before, but Xu Xuanzhu always refused to say it. Now Liu Yu finally knew that if Xu Xuanzhu had not been to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, her name should be Xu Liuer rather than Xu Xuanzhu.

"Okay, this name is good. Mother and daughter are connected to each other, and even the names are connected to each other, which is better... Oh, it must be that my father is so happy that she woke up..."

Liu Yu held his daughter, and then burst into tears and rang out of Liu Yu's arms. Mu Niang knew that the baby was hungry, so she quickly took the baby and went to feed her.

Liu Yu shut up the palace maid and Mu Niang. The women of the family gathered together and talked about their experience of going south, but just skipped the matter of marrying a woman for the time being. Although Liu Yu did not want to hide everything from the female family at home, it is not suitable to talk about this matter now. After all, Xu Xuanzhu had just finished giving birth and needed the care of her husband to get out of this period of haze.

It was still early, and Liu Yu naturally wanted to "comfort his wife" at night, but because the Regent suddenly came back from southern Xinjiang, the officials of Jiankang City also rushed to the palace to invite him. There were always many official duties waiting for Liu Yu to deal with.

"Madam, have a good rest. Let's have a meal together later. I cook for you personally. Let you taste my skills..."

After Liu Yu finished speaking, Xu Xuanzhu was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Liu Yu, as he is, would actually cook in person.

"Husband, gentleman..."

"A gentleman is far away from the kitchen, I know for my husband, but Madam, you have a lot of branches and leaves for my Liu family. How can you repay this kindness for your husband? It's just a cooking. Who dares to say that I'm not a gentleman? I cut him with a knife..."

Xu Xuan smiled happily on his face and said nothing, because it was inconvenient for her to get up for the time being, so she had to watch Liu Yu leave.

"Qi'er, Yi'er, Ting'er, do you know if you take good care of your sister? I'll come back for your husband later, your sister will have less hair. I'll do it together with you three!"
Chapter completed!