Chapter Forty-Eight
Lunch is a standard farmhouse meal, and it's Yao Yanyu's latest favorite food: boiled peanuts, sweet potatoes, taro, and fresh corn. There are very few fresh corn at this time, and it is basically ripe and cannot be cooked. At the dinner table, Shen Jiang went to the cornfield and tossed back and forth many times before searching for them.
The dishes are also vegetables, vinegared yam tablets, sesame oil carrot shreds, garlic mixed eggplant, and scrambled eggs with shallots.
Wei Zhang frowned immediately when he saw this: "You have been eating this for the past few days?" β
"yes, it's good for your body. Eating big fish and meat all day long is not conducive to health. Yao Yanyu picked up a taro, peeled it, dipped it in honey and handed it to him: "You taste it, it's pretty good." β
These things can naturally be eaten by Wei Zhang, he has always been not particular about the convenience of eating and drinking, just eat enough, wealth is just a matter of the past few years, what hardships have you not suffered in the northwest military camp before?
But he felt unbearable when Yao Yanyu ate this, so he frowned and sighed: "Our family is not short of food!" β
"Of course there is no shortage." Yao Yanyu said with a smile: "This is the fun of the farmer's house, you will get tired of eating all day long." Eating some farmhouse meals is grounded and good for the body. When it comes to health, I'm an expert. β
Wei Zhang didn't listen to her, only reached out and scooped a spoonful of porridge and tasted it, well, there were red dates, walnuts, white fungus, malt, Jiang rice, and small yellow rice in it, and sugar should be put in it. It tastes pretty good, it's the kind of feeling she likes.
"But are you sure that our baby can only eat this every day?" Wei Zhang's gaze swept towards Yao Yanyu's stomach.
"Of course." Yao Yanyu sneered and said, "You go and see those peasant women, what they eat every day is not as good as this!" Which raw doll isn't alive? And it's effortless when you're born. β
"What a reason!" As soon as Wei Zhang heard Yao Yanyu compare himself with those peasant women, his face immediately lengthened a lot.
After all, the two of them still had lunch happily, Yao Yanyu had the habit of taking a nap, Wei Zhang was busy for several days, and he had long wanted to sleep with peace of mind, so he picked up his wife and went into the bedroom, and the two of them hugged each other and lay down, and they fell asleep after a long time.
After a good night's sleep, Yao Yanyu woke up first, she had eaten and fallen asleep every day for the past few days, although her body was getting more and more bulky, but her spirit was very good, and her daily nap was also habitual, and she couldn't lie down after taking a nap.
lightly got out of bed and went outside to wash, and then instructed Xiang Zhi and the others: "Let's go, let's go catch fish." β
Xiang Xue hurriedly persuaded: "Madame wants to eat fish and let Shen Jiang and them catch it, why bother to go in person?" β
"I want to go for a walk around the lake." Yao Yanyu smiled and tied her clothes, touched her bulging belly again, and said softly: "Good baby, let's go catch fish for Dad." β
Xiang Xue has become accustomed to words like 'Mom and Dad', and Zhilu Dao Dao is another name for his wife to his parents, so he smiled and said: "If the general Zhilu Dao goes to fish for him, I don't know how happy he will be." β
Yao Yanyu smiled, didn't speak, changed her shoes and went out.
When Wei Zhang woke up and found that a pillow was stuffed in his arms, he got up funny and went out to find someone.
By the pond, Yao Yanyu sat on the still green grass in snow-white clothes, the hardy wildflowers were dotted, and the frosted leaves behind her were already a little golden. The sunset in the west shrouded her in golden sunlight, quiet and beautiful.
Wei Zhang slowly walked over and squatted down beside her, looked at the two palm-sized small crucian carp in the bucket, and chuckled: "Yes, the person who went to meet Zhou Gong as soon as he sat down at the water's edge was actually able to catch two fish!" β
"Hah! How dare you laugh at people! Mrs. Yao raised her little chin arrogantly.
"Don't dare, don't dare." Wei Zhang leaned over with a smile, and just wanted to take his wife into his arms, he heard her cry 'ah': "Fish! The fish are coming! So the two of them picked up the fishing rod with all hands and feet, and the fishing rod was so heavy that it couldn't be picked up easily. Wei Zhang immediately snatched the fishing rod from Yao Yanyu's hand and took control of it, and then threw it up sharply, and a carp more than a foot long was thrown into the grass on the shore.
"Let's pick it up!" Yao Yanyu patted Wei Zhang's shoulder again and urged.
General Wei got up and walked over unhurriedly, grabbed the slippery carp, took the hook out of its mouth, and then threw the fish into the bucket with his hand, and showed off: "How is it, I am still a good husband, right?" There is such a big fish as soon as it comes. β
"Cut! Why do you take the bait as soon as you come to the fish? Do you tempt it? β
"Seduction?" Wei Zhang smiled helplessly and stretched out his hand to pull the person into his arms, "If it's tempting, it should also tempt you." It's just a fish, and where is it to find a husband and spend all this effort. β
"Ahh Yao Yanyu turned her head in surprise to look at someone who was close at hand, "I haven't seen you for a few days, the general has actually become funny!" What an impressive sight! Sure enough, it is close to Zhu and red and black to ink, Zhao Dafeng must have been by your side these days, right? β
"Finally can't help it?" Wei Zhang chuckled and rubbed her ear, "I thought you would put up with it and keep it talking." β
Yao Yanyu snorted and raised her hand to push him: "Why should I endure it?" I don't bother to take care of your. β
"Don't, madam, you are the head of our family, you have to take care of what you should do!"
"The implication of this is that there are not many mouths that should not be managed?" Yao Yanyu sneered with her mouth flattened.
"Tsk!" Wei Zhang smacked his lips and sighed: "No wonder everyone says that I have a good lady who is knowledgeable and virtuous!" Now that looks like that! β
"Don't fill me with that." Yao Yanyu angrily stretched out her hand and pushed away his cheek, "I never knew what a virtuous lady is, and I have long been rumored to be an alien by the women in Yundu City. If it weren't for their medical skills, they wouldn't have dared to offend me easily, and they would have spat and drowned me a long time ago. β
"Nonsense." Wei Zhang put his chin on the shoulder of the person in his arms and said seriously: "My woman is the best in the world. They are also dissatisfied because of jealousy, God knows how jealous those people are of my wife's talent! Otherwise, there will be so many women from the family who have signed up in the Chinese Medical Museum, and they will not hesitate to spend a lot of money to study medicine? β
Hearing this, Yao Yanyu was of course proud in her heart. But the stalk in her heart also happened to be here, so she hummed: "What's the use of having great ability? Women are born to be bullied. Marrying your man, you have to serve your husband as the sky, not only to give you children, take care of the back house, but also to buy a house for you, take concubines, when you run out of the house, you have to self-reflect on what you have done wrong, this is not counted, you have done excessive things outside, and the woman's family has to come forward to wipe your buttocks. Hmph......"
"It's all someone else's business, right?" Wei Zhang sighed: "I've never been like this, Madam can't be so wronged." β
"You haven't done that, but you've connived at them. It's just as hateful to say. Yao Yan snorted.
"The gale didn't come nonsense, and I promised my husband and wife. Speaking of which, I have to ask Mrs. to come forward and say a few kind words in front of Cui Ping for the third child, Miss Cui Ping is really ruthless, if she doesn't let go, Zhao Dafeng will become Zhao Da crazy! β
Wei Zhang hugged Yao Yanyu and whispered to her to explain the matter of Jiuju Pavilion.
It turned out that the Jiuju Pavilion was originally the property of the Six Princes, but it was later used by Wei Zhang and became a base for them to exchange and gather intelligence.
Before Wei Zhang and his descendants were rooted in the military camp, and after returning to Beijing to be crowned an official and knighted, they found that the major families in Yundu City had their own intelligence systems, and the previous power of the Wei family had already collapsed.
Like the Feng family of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Zhou family of Anyihou, the Su family of Dinghou, and the Zhen family of the Yushi Mansion, it is really the six Shangshu families who put Weizhang in their eyes. Not to mention the mansions of the princes and princes of the royal family, they even regarded their generals as domestic slaves. It's just that because of the military merits and the bad face of the Zhenguo Gong, the disdain is put in the open.
And Wei Zhang wanted to check what he wanted to do in Yundu City, such as why Prime Minister Feng's Mansion and the Lingxi County Lord looked at Yao Yanyu differently at the beginning, he didn't figure it out for a long time. Later, Han Entropy was injured, and the master of emptiness asked Yao Yanyu to ask for it, and only after hearing a few words from the mouths of the Feng family's sisters and brothers did he know that Yao Yanyu had a life-saving grace for the old lady of the Feng family.
Since then, Wei Zhang has had the idea of re-establishing his own intelligence network, and has put it into action and began to look for suitable industries to pave the way. Therefore, Zhao Dafeng began to be nostalgic for the Qinglou tiles.
Later, Mrs. Xiao fell and was injured in the Chinese Medical Museum, and someone in the court targeted Yao Yanyu, Wei Zhang took the opportunity to observe several princes who were studying in the Chinese Medical Museum at that time, and later found that the fourth prince and the fifth prince looked like each other, each with a set of abacus, and the seventh prince was young and ignorant, plus the stupid mother in the palace, it was difficult to become a big weapon. There are only six princes left.
So the two began to test each other and began to help each other, until now the sixth prince handed over most of his secret property to Wei Zhang to take care of. And he went to the East China Sea to reorganize the naval division with confidence to prevent the East China Sea from provoking the Dayun Sea Frontier by taking advantage of the poisoning incident at the state banquet.
Yao Yanyu was surprised after hearing this, and looked at Wei Zhang with wide eyes: "It turns out that you have already chosen the Sixth Prince so early?" β
"It's a big deal, I'm afraid you'll be stressed, so I didn't dare to tell you more." Wei Zhang whispered in her ear: "But don't worry, you once saved the life of the Sixth Prince, and he said that he would never treat you badly in the future." β
Yao Yanyu was silent for a long time when she heard this, and then sighed in a low voice: "Isn't my honor and disgrace all tied to you?" As long as you do it well. Such a great event is not suitable for a woman. β
Wei Zhang raised his hand and gently held her cheek, making her look at him: "You're not angry? β
"Don't be angry." Yao Yanyu chuckled and shook her head, "There is a saying that if the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if the minister is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will go first." This kind of thing is naturally the fewer people who know the Tao, the better. I don't know the way, and the pressure in my heart is naturally less, if I know the way, I really don't know how to deal with the road in front of the emperor, and the emperor will be aware of it if I don't pay attention, and even you, me, and my parents and family will be convicted. β
Wei Zhang sighed lowly and trapped her in his arms affectionately: "Look, I'll just say that I have the best lady in the world." Which woman in this world would have such a heart as you? β
"Cut! Don't pour me ecstasy soup, I won't eat yours. Yao Yanyu raised her hand and patted away someone's big hand on her stomach, "Get up, that day I asked my second brother to go to Jiuju Pavilion and actually spent three hundred taels of silver on me." If I knew that the road was your business, I wouldn't give money! Also, the Moju boy's flute is very good, and he invited him to his house to blow it to me another day. β
"......" Wei Zhang was immediately dumbfounded when he heard this, and then quickly changed the topic: "The fish is not enough, I'll catch some more, let's still grill fish here tonight." Then, General Wei stood up without saying anything, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to catch fish.
Of course, General Wei doesn't necessarily have to go into the water to catch fish, the general's martial arts are profound, and he has already practiced the magic skill of picking flowers and flying leaves to take people's lives, not to mention a mere fish?
At night, he still grilled fish by the lake, and after such a long time, General Wei's method of grilling fish is still very good, and the method of serving his wife to eat fish has not regressed.
Xiangzhi sat next to the fire and looked back at the general and his wife in the pavilion, and couldn't help but sigh knowingly: Madame has finally reconciled with the general! Although the days of the past few days seem to be peaceful, in fact, several of them who serve in close service have been trembling!
There was only one day to spare, and the next morning before dawn, Weizhang got up and went back to the city. Yao Yanyu was still in a dream, she was happy to grill the fish last night, and by the way, she did something else, so the drunk Yao woman didn't feel that the person next to the pillow had already gotten up to wash up and prepare to leave.
Before leaving, Wei Zhang reluctantly leaned over and kissed her eyebrows, and after seeing a little kiss mark on her neck, he went out with a satisfied smile.
When Xiang Zhi and the others leaned over in the courtyard to send them off, Wei Zhang paused and admonished: "Be sure to take care of Madame carefully, and don't make any mistakes." If there is something, call someone back to me immediately. β
Everyone naturally agreed, Mrs. is now the most important person in the family, and naturally no one dares to be careless.
Yao Yanyu was relieved to raise a baby in a small village, eating and drinking every day, and when she was really bored, she went to fiddle with the herbs planted by Lao Huang's father and daughter, or sorted out the previous manuscripts into lecture notes, ready to make teaching materials for the next medical school. If I have time, I will play with Ling Xiao, give him to recognize words, be poems, and sometimes I try to ask him to memorize "Soup Song" when he is really bored.
Ling Xiao is a good child, although he is not smart enough, but he is obedient enough. Let it be whatever it is, I can't remember it for a while, so I frowned and thought hard, frowning and staring at Yao Yanyu's little appearance of thinking, which is so cute. properly became Mrs. Yao's pistachio.
As the days passed, Yao Yanyu's stomach also bulged day by day. In mid-September, after an autumn rain, the weather turned cooler, and Xiang Zhi went back to the city early to get cotton jackets, cotton silk groups and small sweaters to prepare.
Yao Yanyu leaned on the couch while flipping through her manuscript, and the incense next to her was sorting out her clothes back and forth. Yao Yanyu sorted it out for a while, and suddenly raised her head and asked, "Yu'er's due date is coming soon, right?" Did you go back to see her? β
"Mrs. Hui, I saw you. The second wife over there has already chosen two reliable midwives and two young wet nurses to come here, especially those two midwives who stay by the second lady's side all day. I've heard that the second wife over there will come over in person in two days. Madame don't have to worry, the second lady is fine. β
"Hmm." Yao Yanyu exhaled, in fact, what she was worried about was not Su Yuxuan, but herself.
No matter which of them has a child, as long as they are by their side, they will find a way to keep their mother and child safe, but if they give birth to a child by themselves, can Cuiwei and Cuiping keep themselves and their children safe?
Although some people say that a woman giving birth to a child is like a hen laying eggs, it is natural for the melon to ripen when the time comes. But how many women in ancient times couldn't get over the hurdle of giving birth and lost their lives?
Yao Yanyu has seen too many accidents, so her heart is even more worried, and she only hopes that every woman who is about to give birth can be safe with her mother and child.
No matter how worried you are, what should come will always come.
Early in the morning of September 23, someone in the city came to report: "The second lady began to have abdominal pain last night, and the in-laws and the eldest lady are in the Tang Mansion, but the second lady keeps saying that the lady is there, and the eldest lady has no way to ......."
Yao Yanyu didn't wait for someone to finish the tongue twister, so he waved his hand and ordered Xiangzhi: "Prepare the car, go home." β
The road back to the city is not short, because Yao Yanyu is also five months pregnant, so Shen Jiang does not dare to urge the horse.
Yao Yanyu was a little anxious, and blamed the Ruan family for not sending people back and forth last night. Xiang Xue then persuaded: "Madame, don't worry, the fourth lady will definitely be next to her at this time." With her and Aunt Ping here, I guarantee that the second lady will be fine. The second lady is also a sister with the lady, so she only wants the lady to be by her side at this time. β
Yao Yanyu naturally understands the truth, but I don't know if it's because of pregnancy or something else, her temperament has changed a little recently, and she is always a little anxious when she encounters things, and she is no longer the same as before.
The carriage walked for nearly two hours before stopping at the north gate of the Tang Mansion, Xiang Zhi and Wu Mei helped Yao Yanyu to slowly get out of the carriage and walk inside, and saw Tang Xiaoyi hurriedly coming out of it, and saw Yao Yanyu hurriedly arching his hand: "Madam, you are back!" β
"How?" Yao Yanyu frowned and asked.
"Wen Po said that everything was going well, but I really don't know the bottom of my heart!" Tang Xiaoyi stretched his bitter gourd face and said.
Yao Yanyu became angry when she saw him like this, and scolded directly: "What kind of face are you?" Make me happy! β
"Oh. Zhilu said. Tang Xiaoyi hurriedly squeezed out a smile, which was even more ugly than crying.
"Your daughter-in-law is giving birth! It is a happy event to add people to import, you dare to pull this face for me again, and see how you will be cleaned up when you look back! Yao Yanyu finished scolding, and hurriedly walked to the backyard where Su Yuyu lived.
Before entering the courtyard gate, he heard Su Yuyu's painful screams, and his throat startled Yao Yanyu. followed by the loud cry of the baby for life, which stunned Tang Xiaoyi, who followed later, and almost tripped over the threshold under his feet.
"It's ...... Raw? Tang Xiaoyi looked at Yao Yanyu stupidly.
Yao Yanyu sneered: "Didn't you hear your son crying? β
"Why must it be a son?" Tang Xiaoyi asked stupidly.
A few months ago, Mrs. Ben knew that Lu Dao was her son, so she hid it from you. Yao Yanyu gave Tang Er a roll of his eyes, raised his feet and walked inside. Facing a stable woman who came out of the delivery room with a big red swaddling clothes in her arms, she said hello to Tang Xiaoyi: "Congratulations to General Tang for having a happy son, mother and son are safe!" β
"My son?" Tang Xiaoyi stretched out his hands and hurriedly pulled them back, rubbing them on his shirt before reaching out to pick them up again.
Wen Po put the child in his hand, and General Tang's whole body immediately stiffened, and he could barely breathe.
Yao Yanyu sighed helplessly, shook her head and instructed Wen Po: "Okay, the general won't hold the child, don't be embarrassed for him, hurry up and take the child to his grandmother." I'll go in and see the adults. β
Su Yuyu's smooth birth brought Yao Yanyu a certain amount of confidence and a bit of melancholy.
At night, she leaned on Wei Zhang's arms and thought about it for a long time, but finally couldn't help but sigh faintly.
"Sigh what?" Wei Zhang squeezed her hand and asked in a low voice.
"I'm happy for Yu'er, she gave birth to a son to Tang Xiaoyi, and Tang Xiaoyi was so happy that she was stupid."
"Sigh when you're happy? What is the rationale for this? Wei Zhang looked down at her, "Don't talk to me yet?" β
Yao Yanyu leaned aside, looked sideways into Wei Zhang's eyes, and asked, "Do you like your son?" β
"As long as you give birth to it, I like sons and daughters." Wei Zhang leaned over and kissed the corner of her lips, stroked her earlobe and comforted: "I know that you are pregnant with a daughter in your belly." I said a long time ago that having a daughter like you just showed me what you were like when you were a child. And then when I'm old, I can still see you when I was young, how nice is it? Besides, don't we have a sky? If you give me another daughter, we will have both children. Don't envy them to death? β
Yao Yanyu nodded, leaned back into Wei Zhang's arms, and sighed in a low voice: "You don't dislike Ling Xiao as my adopted child? β
"The adopted child is also a child, although he is not surnamed Wei, but he has entered the door of my house since he was breastfeeding, and he grew up eating my family's rice, and he is my child. Look at He Xi, Tang Xiaoyi, Zhao Dafeng, Ge Hai, aren't they all adopted children or descendants of adopted children in our family? Their relationship with me is not worse than that of my own brothers. Help me block knives and guns on the battlefield, it's all about each other. Look at the brothers and sisters of those big families, even if they are biological? β
Yao Yanyu nodded, stretched out her arm to hook Wei Zhang's neck, and leaned up and kissed him lightly at the corner of his lips: "Xianjun, you are so good." β
"Well, of course I'm fine." Wei Zhang chuckled under his breath and opened his mouth to bite her earlobe, "So, can we do it again?" β
"You tap. The child is getting older. β
"I know it."
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After the bright sparkle, there is a shallow thin water, trickling through. The two of them snuggled up to each other, panting one thick and one thin.
"What do you think is the name of our daughter?" Yao Yan asked in a daze.
"Well, it's up to you."
She didn't speak again, and had fallen asleep.
He kissed her lightly on the forehead, and then fell asleep peacefully.
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