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There were several light rains in Jinguancheng, and after the rain stopped, the wet feeling not only did not disappear, but felt more and more obvious. Standing under the porch and looking out, the scattered ridges of the roof are completely hidden in a thin layer of water vapor.

Bai Li raised his feet and just stepped down the steps, but two people rushed out behind him, supporting him left and right: "Madam, what are you going to do here?" Scared the slaves to death. ”

"After a few days in the house, I wanted to go to the yard for a walk." Bai Li held his stomach.

Counting the days, it is almost time for the melons to ripen, but she is not particularly good in her heart. She is the first time to be a mother, Bai Ze is the first time to be a father, and this belly is still filled with the children of mortals and divine beasts, no one knows if he is not like a mortal child, as long as he is pregnant for ten months.

From the point of view of the pregnancy process, there is nothing special, the morning sickness of morning sickness, the drowsiness of sleepiness, from the second trimester, this low back pain, swollen legs, and swollen feet are all the same, if it weren't for Bai Ze, the husband, who worked hard and complained, and scolded him, she wouldn't want this child a long time ago.

Finally managed to survive until the third trimester, and the belly began to swell like a ball, and I couldn't see my front toes when I looked at it. Just in case, she has been restricted from leaving the house since she was eight months pregnant, and even from the house at nine months.

No, as soon as I lifted my toes, I was pulled back by two maids.

"I'm fine, you can see it, I just have a big belly, and I'm still quite flexible."

"No, no, no, when the master was leaving, he explained that before he came back, he would never allow the lady to step out of this room. If the weather is better, we can still walk around the yard with Mrs. you with one eye closed. Wen Po said that the more you are about to give birth, the more you have to move. But it had just rained, and the yard was very slippery, so what if the lady flashed. Madame can't go out, but if she wants to breathe, she will go to the window, and we'll open all the windows for Madame. ”

"Open the window, and the vapor won't all run into the house." Bai Li glanced at the things in the room: "You also know that there are some things in my room that can't be seen from moisture. Well, I'll not go out by myself, you two will help me, let's go slow down and go to the kitchen. ”

"Kitchen? What does Madame do in the kitchen? Madame, are you hungry? ”

"I don't do anything, I don't get hungry, I just want to see it." Bai Li rubbed his hands: "I haven't been in the kitchen for months, and I miss my pots and pans very much." As you know, I'm about to give birth, and I'm going to have a confinement after giving birth, and according to folk rules, I have to stay in the house for at least forty days. Forty days, in front of a crying child, I will go crazy. So, while I can still move, while this naughty little creature in my belly has not yet come out, you accompany me to the kitchen and let me breathe in the familiar taste. ”

"This-" The two maids looked at me in embarrassment, and I looked at you, "Isn't this good, the kitchen is full of oil and salt, what if it smokes the lady, the little master?" ”

"Isn't it just right to smoke it, I was originally a cook, and since he chose to be my son, he naturally had to accept the edification of oil and salt in this kitchen. Don't talk about it, while the husband hasn't come back yet, let's go to the kitchen for a walk first. ”

In the kitchen, the fragrance of rice porridge and steamed buns fills the air. A little girl dressed in lotus pink was leaning in front of the hearth, adding new wood to the fire, and next to her sat a little girl who was younger than her, wearing a pomegranate red jacket. The heads of the two people were gathered together, and they chatted while adding firewood.

"Sister, you said that Madame, can she give us a fun brother."

"Daddy said, my mother is carrying a younger brother in her belly, but I can't say if it's fun or not." The little girl in the lotus pink dress sighed first, and then said seriously: "Daddy said that if the child is like a mother's character, it will naturally be fun and interesting." But if you imitate your father's temperament, I'm afraid it will be dull and boring. ”

"Then do we still like this brother?"

"Of course I like it, it's our brother."

"What my sister said is that it is our younger brother, the younger brother born to us by Mrs.

"Ahem!" Bai Li coughed lightly, and the two little girls brushed back together.

The little girl in the pomegranate red jacket was the first to react, and she got up and was about to rush into Bai Li's arms, but was stopped by the little girl in the lotus pink clothes.

"Sister, don't be reckless, what's wrong with breaking your mother!"

"Madame!" The little girl in the pomegranate red jacket called softly, and her round face was a little redder than the red jacket.

"It's only been a few days, and our family Miao Miao has grown taller again." Bai Li walked over and touched the little girl's head.

Miao Miao is her nickname, and her father is the Bai Mansion housekeeper who drove the car for Bai Li before.

"Why did my mother come to the kitchen? If the father knows, the mother will definitely be scolded. The little girl in the lotus root pink dress let go of Miao Miao and walked to Bai Li: "My mother is hungry, and I am boiling millet porridge on this stove." ”

"Our family Huan'er is really getting more and more capable." Bai Li touched her daughter's face, her fingertips touched a rough patch, and when she looked at it sideways, she found that it was a snake scale, and it was the kind that had just grown.

"Just grown?" Bai Li asked softly, looking away from the newborn snake scales.

"It only grew this morning, and according to the practice of previous years, it will take at least more than twenty days to slowly peel off."

"Does it hurt?" Bai Li was a little distressed: "Didn't your father say that he had a way?" Why, his method didn't work? ”

"It's not that Daddy's method doesn't work, it's that Huan'er hasn't thought about it yet." Huan'er touched the snake scales on her neck: "Daddy gave Huan'er two choices." One is to peel off the snake scales and be an ordinary little girl. The other is to fade away from the mortal womb and become a real snake clan. ”

"Huan'er doesn't know how to choose?"

"Hmm!" Huan'er nodded: "Huan'er knows in her heart that the reason why Huan'er's biological mother wants to send Huan'er out is so that Huan'er can become an ordinary mortal like her mother and live an ordinary life." But Huan'er was reluctant, because this was the last thing her mother left for Huan'er. Also, if Huan'er chooses to become a snake clan, she can follow her father to cultivate, and she will be able to protect her mother and younger brother in the future. ”

"You don't have to think about your mother, you don't have to think about your father and me, Huan'er just needs to think about herself. Whether you are a mortal or a snake clan, it all depends on Huan'er's own will, and her mother does not interfere. It's just that...... It's just that if Huan'er chooses to be a snake clan, I'm afraid this Jinguan City will not be able to live. It just so happens that your master and they are coming, if Huan'er has a decision, she can go back to Qingqiu with them. That place is more conducive to the cultivation of the snake clan. ”

"Huan'er knows, Huan'er will think about it seriously."

"Don't worry, your master and they still have to live in Jinguan City for a while." Bai Li touched Huan'er's head, leaned over slightly, and looked into the pot: "The fire is too big, and the rice porridge in that pot is going to be mushy." ”

"What's the paste?" With a familiar voice, Gao Zhan appeared behind Bai Li.

"It's better to come early than to come by chance, I just caught a rabbit halfway, I don't know if Sister Bai can make a spicy rabbit." The calf crossed the threshold of the kitchen with a smile on his shoulder.

"What kind of spicy rabbit to eat, I finally came to Jinguancheng for a trip, of course, I have to choose the most characteristic local food to eat. I heard that there is a misty mountain here, and the mountain is rich in all kinds of demon beasts, so I just went to fight a few. The old fox leaned against the door panel and snorted at Bai Li: "Xiao Li'er, why don't you come out to greet your master?" ”

"Master?!" Bai Li hurriedly walked to the door, just saw the shadow of gluttony, and stumbled on the corner of his skirt under his feet, just throwing himself into the arms of his husband. There was no time to greet each other, and wave after wave of labor pains swept in.

Bai Li raised her head, gritted her teeth and said, "Husband, it's not good, I'm going to give birth!" ”

……

Others were confined, at most forty days, but Bai Li was good, and under the considerate care of her husband, master and friends, she was locked up for a full hundred days. As soon as the front foot was out of confinement, the back foot was stuck in the kitchen. If nothing else, just to tidy up delicious food for yourself.

God knows what she's been eating for 100 days!

Sweet and sour crossfish, Poria cocos pot tortoise, Ranyi fish claws, boiled red squid, and steamed Ho Luo fish, etc., are all strange beasts that cannot be found in the mortal world.

In her master's words: "These are all natural, pollution-free, high-end and high-grade top-quality ingredients. ”

In the words of the old fox: "She was not an ordinary child, so she naturally needs to eat something unusual to nourish her." ”

In the words of her husband: "Since the master and the nine-tailed fox have said so, and the taste of this thing is not bad, if you can barely make do with it, you can barely make do with it." ”

Bai Li is really going to be by them!

……

When the child was one year old, Bai Li opened a restaurant in Jinguancheng and named it "Zhiweiju".

This Zhiwei Ju only welcomes guests every evening, and only accepts real-name guests every day, you can dine-in or delivery, but the premise is that you have the courage to taste it.

As the sun sets, the kitchen is busy.

Bai Li turned the spoon with one hand and held the pot with the other, and said to the master who was burping: "The neighbor's uncle has hemorrhoids, please trouble the master to catch a tiger Jiao back, I will stew fish soup for him." The youngest son of the shopkeeper of the Huichun Hall wants to take the top prize, and he wants to eat Shangfu by name, I estimate that after cooking the chicken soup, I can also use the remaining ingredients to make a tiger skin phoenix claw and pepper chicken wings for the master. ”

Tao Tao stroked his stomach, leaned in front of the stove, and said, "Do you know how to be a fox?" Or, add another dish of fried nine-tailed fox at night! ”

Bai Li glanced at his master and said, "People are going back to see their mother and not to do anything else, if the master doesn't believe it, it would be good to go to Qingqiu to take a look." ”

"I don't want to go to Qingqiu." As he spoke, he turned around and disappeared in place.

Bai Li shook his head and shouted at the courtyard: "Husband, a tiger Jiao, a head is still paid, thank you for your hard work." ”

Bai Ze gently pinched his son's little face and said, "Good, wait, Daddy is going to help your mother work!" ”

Wisps of cooking smoke rose from the smell of the house and dispersed by the evening breeze. Firewood, rice, oil and salt, after all, it is still an ordinary life!