Chapter 74 Pregnancy
Zhengqi Academy.
The strong wind is as fierce as the wind blowing from the plateau in the northern winter. Wherever you go, there is no grass growing and the eyes are full of bleakness.
Pei Shuo was wearing a single dress and waved his long sword with his hands. He picked up the long sword that was almost one person tall without any effort. He slashed and swept it with his eyes. But he used the wind in the yard, which was no less than the soldiers in the barracks.
He gave the enemy the last blow to death, and he stopped his momentum. Sweat on his forehead was oozing out, and the fine beads of sweat condensed into sweat the size of fish eyes, passing through the thick eyebrows, flowing through the deep eye sockets, hanging on his eyelashes, his chest was rising and falling, and he was breathing. Pei Shuo clasped his fists at his grandfather, and the demonstration was completed.
"Okay!" Pei Suiyin cheered. "You don't abandon martial arts in Nanxun County, which is very good, but you follow the rules and do not know how to adapt. There are a lot of changes on the battlefield. You have only moves but can't use them all. Are you frustrated? Martial arts and articles are the same truth. If you understand them thoroughly, you will understand them. When you encounter the same situation, you will also use them, so you must practice diligently."
The Pei family followed the emperor to fight the world and caused great fame. In the future, Pei Shuo must be the path of a military general, whether he inherited the throne or made great achievements. For this reason, Pei Suiyin and Pei Zhengwen all had high hopes for him and passed down his sword skills early.
Pei Shuo had a deep understanding of grandpa's words, but he had only a move but could not use it. Seeing A Yao being injured, his reaction was not as good as a little girl.
"Thank you for your teachings," he said seriously. "The grandson will practice more every day to live up to his grandfather's expectations."
Pei Suiyin was happy. Pei Shuo came back from Nanxun County. The man did not change, but his heart was taken back. He was a little taller and he looked steady: "Scholars should look at him with admiration for three days, tell my grandpa about your affairs in Nanxun County."
Push open the door and take the person to the room, the heat wave shop, the front chest and back are both ice and fire.
Pei Suiyin was used to doing everything himself. He didn't like having a maid to serve him. When he entered the house, he threw a sweat towel to Pei Shuo for him to wipe his sweat.
Wipe the sweat on his face, pour tea for Pei Suiyin, sort out what happened in Nanxun County, and pick up some key things. Pei Suiyin has actually heard of it. He listened to his grandson's explanation. He didn't have much to go in and out. He closed his eyes and sat down from time to time. When he heard him say that he was in the Lu family, he hurt his shoulders and hurt Lu Yuanwai severely. He suddenly lifted his eyelids and felt sorry for his iron: "Don't be confused! There are millions of ways to expose that man's evil deeds, but you chose the lowest-level one to kill ten thousand enemies and hurt 8,000 themselves. The strategy in front was good, but why was it so confused after that? Pei Chuan or Pei Bu led the yamen runners to the backyard, leaving clues to digging holes. The things behind came naturally."
"But you're so crazy. Just pretend you appear in a panic and you just take one of the little girls to testify. You have to poke it on your shoulder! Does it hurt?"
Pei Shuo pursed his lips and whispered, acting coquettishly with a little bit of compliment: "It hurts..."
Pei Suiyin's face was slightly relaxed, and he got up and went to the inner room to get a box of ointment: "I know it hurts and I still poked a knife on my body, but it's also considered that you are smart, you haven't hurt your muscles or bones. If you can lift a big knife, it means that the wound is almost healed. Take it back to wipe the wound, and get the woman first before you even go to the battlefield!"
Thinking of Pei Yang's message, Pei Suiyin's impression of Jiang Yao was bleak, and he became heartbroken. His grandson, his future is bright and upright, how could he be controlled by a stinky girl? He is only ten years old and the hero is already sad for the beauty. What should he do in the future? If the enemy captures his wives and concubines alive and threatens him to commit suicide in front of the battlefield, this reaction is unlikely to be impossible.
Pei Suiyin frowned tightly, his forehead was filled with a tight grip, and Pei Shuo felt nervous. At that time, he was only considering his thoughts, without considering the reactions of his grandfather and father after they knew about this.
It's awful now. Before A Yao appeared in front of them, her impression was greatly reduced.
"Yes, my grandson knew his mistake." The most urgent task was to calm the old man's anger first. He still had to discuss things with his grandfather, but now is not a good time to mention this.
Pei Suiyin waved his hand: "The boats and cars are exhausted all the way. After seeing Cui, he came to me again to play swordsmanship. You are tired too. Go back and have a good rest. It's time to have dinner."
"yes."
Honeysuke had already arranged for people to burn water, Pei Shuo took a bath and was clean and looked neat. Then he saw the golden afterglow shining on the wall through the west window, like a layer of gold.
Cui Mengzhang sent his maid to invite him to the side hall for dinner.
When he arrived, his third brother Pei Xingning sat quietly at the table. Before his grandfather arrived, the maid brought cold dishes. When Cui Mengzhang saw Pei Shuo arrived, he decided to let the maid get the dishes soon.
After taking pictures of the cucumber, mix mustard sauce and a small plate of peeled eggs cut into small petals. Pei Xinning was so envious that he didn't believe it. Yu Guang saw Pei Shuo coming and shouted timidly: "Brother."
Pei Shuo responded. Pei Xingning was 9 years old this year, three years younger than him. Because Pei Xingning was brought by Aunt Feng, he was so quiet that he echoed his name. Except for meeting at the dinner table, he was not very together at other times. The relationship between the two brothers was mediocre. Compared to him, Pei Xingning seemed to like to stick to Pei Xingzhi more. He was also close to Xingzhi and did not pay much attention to his brother.
Pei Suiyin walked over and took his seat.
All the dishes were served.
"If the eldest brother doesn't come back to have a meal, the second brother's family gathers together in the yard. Let's eat it ourselves. You can pick up whatever you like. Cui, don't have to work hard to cook for me, sit back." Pei Suiyin rejected Cui Mengzhang's cook for food and asked her to sit back for food.
The Pei family is poor and has few concubines. Pei Suiyin was born in a rough family. He attaches importance to education and cultivates two sons well. The eldest brother's eyes are like a rook and follows the right person. The eldest brother and the second family also attach great importance to cultivating the next generation, especially the second family. Knowing that Pei Xingzhi is not good at taking the path of meritorious deeds, he trains him in the direction of civil servants. Even if he cannot take the imperial examination, he can still seek a civil servant through family protection.
But in the final analysis, the Pei family does not have the foundation of a noble family.
The set of men and women's tables is not working in the Pei family.
In the words of Mr. Pei, our family has more men than women. They make two tables, and then the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law sit at the same table, deserted, and the six of them are crowded at the same table and huddled and huddled. It would be better to just drive the women back to the yard to eat. It's so ugly.
I didn't say anything or say anything. When I had almost finished my meal, I saw the maid coming up with a strange-shaped copper pot.
"That's..." Pei Suiyin didn't understand his intentions, so why did the food come up now?
"Shuoer rushed back from Nanxun County. I felt sorry for his dust all the way, so I decided to let the chef stew a pot of mutton soup. It's cold now, so drink mutton soup to warm up. Dad, you will drink one more bowl later. Xingning, you are still young, so it's not advisable to make up too much. You can only drink one bowl, and you are not allowed to be greedy."
Still didn't mention Pei Shuo a little more.
Pei Suiyin glanced at Cui Mengzhang, and Pei Xingning agreed politely.
As soon as the copper pot was lifted, the smell of mutton made Cui Mengzhang's stomach turbulent, and an inexplicable nausea rushed straight into her throat. She ran out to hold the pillar and retching.
“…”
Everyone's eyes were focused on Cui Mengzhang.
The maid who was responsible for lifting the cover stood there in a daze, and suddenly knelt down a few seconds later.
Cui Mengzhang took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth. When she smelled the mutton smell, she felt a headache and nauseous. She was disgusted from the bottom of her heart. She didn't necessarily vomit anything when she retching. She wiped her mouth and turned around and saw a big, two little and six pairs of eyes staring at her, and the maid serving the food was trembling.
"Dad, I'm sorry." Cui Mengzhang said embarrassedly, and then walked back.
The burning red charcoal fire basked the bottom of the pot, maintaining the temperature of the mutton soup on the copper stove. If the oil floating on the mutton soup became cold, it would gather together and slowly turn into white grease to cover the soup and mutton. The mutton soup was not cold, and it kept fragrance. Cui Mengzhang got closer, but was so smoked by it that he was so angry that his head was dizzy.
Taking another step forward, his eyes turned dark and he fainted on the ground. Before he fell into a coma, he was thinking that Pei Shuo was really her nemesis, and no good thing happened when he met him.
"Hurry up your wife!"
Pei Suiyin shouted, Jianlan took the lead in helping her lady up, pinching her from the person who called her, "Madam, wake up!"
The maid kneeling on the floor got up and forgot to say that she was guilty and rushed out, "Old man, I'll go find the doctor!"
"Help the person back." Pei Suiyin saw her reaction and had a guess in his mind, so he asked Jianlan and the maid who served nearby to help the person back to the room.
The food was interrupted halfway through, and Pei Shuo and Pei Xingning looked at their distant figures.
Pei Xingning didn't know what to do, so he turned his attention to Pei Shuo, "Brother, what should we do now... I'm not full yet."
"Then let's continue eating. We can't help now. Fill your stomach first and then go there. You can't waste the soup prepared by your wife." Pei Shuo sat down and scooped himself a bowl of soup, which really warmed the stomach.
Pei Xingning was restless, and after eating a few bites, he had no intention of eating. He and Aunt Feng both had to rely on Cui Mengzhang to live. If she had made a mistake, she might have a new aunt? So she said to Pei Shuo: "Brother, we'll have eaten, let's go there quickly."
Cui Mengzhang fainted, causing the Pei family to fall over.
Aunt Feng rushed over immediately when she learned that she and Pei Xingning had the same idea. If Cui suddenly got sick, the gift from Pei's mansion might fall into the hands of Li, the second wife. People are selfish. Li has always looked down on her. At that time, there will be no good life for her. I hope it is not a serious illness.
Aunt Feng picked up her skirt and ran away, praying in her heart.
The two families gathered together to have family joy. Pei Zhengshan, Li and Pei Xingzhi formed a table, with four dishes and one soup, all of which were big dishes, roasted lamb legs, roasted venison, soup with cabbage meatballs, braised carp, and a mutton soup.
The family was having a good chat, and the maid hurriedly reported that the eldest lady was in trouble and was unconscious.
Mrs. Li put down her chopsticks: "Why are you not good at being a good person? Don't talk nonsense, let me tell you that I won't tear your mouth."
"Second Lady, please spare me. I heard that it was mutton soup just after it was served on the table, and the eldest lady fainted." The servants who came to report the news were not the people at the scene. At that time, everyone in the side hall gathered in Cui Mengzhang's yard, but they spread rumors, which led to a misunderstanding.
It sounded like mutton soup, so the three of them looked at the mutton soup that had not been lifted yet.
"Let's go here first. Maybe the chef has arrested the chef?" Pei Zhengshan asked. The maid was also unaware of it when she asked questions. When the wind blew, she hurried over to report the news. Except for Cui Mengzhang fainted, she didn't listen carefully.
Pei Zhengshan pointed at the maid and said angrily: "You! How should I say to you!"
Mrs. Li put down her chopsticks: "I'll go over and see what happened to Mrs. Cui."
"Okay, hurry up and go there."
Cui Mengzhang woke up leisurely and saw her red curtain first. She glanced at her head and saw a kind-hearted woman. She knew He Niang, a doctor from He Jitang in the east of the city, who had been familiar with medical books since childhood, had excellent medical skills, and knew women's illnesses well. She often went in and out of the backyard of nobles.
Her wrist was placed on a soft cloth pad, and He Niang pressed her three fingers on her pulse and moved gently.
Soon she stopped and comforted Cui Mengzhang said, "Congratulations, madam, you have been in three months."
“…”
She has been in three months?
There is Pei Zhengwen's child in her belly?
Cui Mengzhang's mind was blank, but his hand was already on his belly and he stroked it back and forth.
When He Niang stepped out of the door, Pei Suiyin asked, "What's wrong with my daughter-in-law?"
He Niang looked happy and said to Pei Suiyin: "Congratulations to the old man, your mansion is about to add a child. The lady is already three months pregnant, so you have to pay attention to your diet and all aspects of the rest."
Pei Shuo had no expression on his face, which formed a strong contrast with the joyful look on Pei Suiyin's face. Pei Suiyin slapped his thigh: "That's great! Come and give me a reward!"
Cui Mengzhang inside the room heard the conversation coming from outside. It was far away, as if the fairy music in the air was misty, and he couldn't find the reality. "Jianlan, Jianlan, pinch me quickly, am I dreaming?"
Jianlan cried with joy and helped Cui Mengzhang sit up: "Madam, we don't dream. You are already a double-body person. You are in your belly with a young master!"
Cui Mengzhang repeatedly stroked his flat abdomen, but he couldn't believe it, as there was a small life hidden inside.
He was pregnant in her belly, and in another seven months he would meet the world.
When Li Shuangyu arrived, he heard the news that Cui Mengzhang was pregnant. He seemed to be struck by lightning. He couldn't come back to his senses for a long time and turned back.
The next day, Pei Zhengwen rushed back from the military camp, and Cui Mengzhang changed his clothes with a smile and told him the good news playfully.
"Husband, do you like boys or girls?"
"Everything is OK." After waiting for a long time, Cui Mengzhang was inevitably disappointed and quickly adjusted his mentality. "I hope it's a girl. There are many boys in our family, either naughty or quiet. If you have a daughter, you can get the love of a few brothers. What do you think?"
"Um."
Chapter completed!