Chapter 297 Happy Event

A few days later, Xu Junying went to Jinhua Hall to pay his respects to the old lady.

He was still the eldest grandson, with a humble attitude and gentle tone, but he no longer concealed the power of the head of the family. He had a solemn face and cold eyes. After bowing to his grandmother, he sat down on the upper seat on the left. The few words he spoke to his brothers and sisters were all about asking about government affairs and how they were learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. After that, he politely declined the old lady's invitation to stay for dinner, saying that he had agreed to have dinner with Heng'er, and that he had been busy with official duties recently and had official documents to read in the evening, so he said goodbye and left. Old Mrs. Xu looked at her grandson's tall and handsome back helplessly, and her heart suddenly ached. She had a premonition that the eldest grandson of the eldest house would be getting farther and farther away from her from now on...

After the A Yao incident, Jinhua Hall lost its prestige. Xu Junying said to Xu Xiping: "Grandma is old and should spend her remaining years in peace. You can come and ask about her health, but please don't disturb her anymore. The Hou Mansion will take care of everything!"

In a word, from then on, Jinhuatang was just a quiet place for retirement in the eyes of descendants, and they no longer had to trouble their ancestors for big or small matters.

In recent days, good news has been coming from the Xu Mansion: Liu Jingyun, the sixth grandmother of Wenhua Court, is pregnant. Soon, good news came from the fourth grandmother. Then, news came from the West Mansion: the third grandmother is pregnant with her second child...

Meimei was flipping through the account book on the couch. She looked up at Xu Junying who was sitting opposite her drinking tea and sighed:

"Can you please stop doing this one after another? It's making it impossible for our Tsinghua Academy to survive, right, husband?"

Xu Junying glared at her: "You are so weird, you want to annoy me, right?"

Meimei tilted her head and bit her lip to hold back a laugh: "Master, are you envious or jealous? Oh, someone told me. Being jealous is a crime of being unvirtuous!"

Xu Junying couldn't stand it anymore, so he came over and grabbed her: "Spank her!"

"No, no! Heng'er, come and save me!"

The couple quarreled on the couch for a while. Meimei's hair was undone by Xu Junying, and her long, smooth black hair fell on her shoulders. She glared at him and said angrily, "Look at what you have done!"

Xu Junying smiled: "I like you like this! Meimei should go to bed, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

"I haven't finished looking at the account books yet. Did you go out of the city with the emperor today? You must be tired. Why don't you go to bed first?"

"No. Wait for you."

"Well, I won't watch it anymore. I'm going to sleep with my husband!"

Xu Junying was overjoyed: "Meimei... Madam is so nice!"

"I want to discuss Cui Xi's marriage with you. She will be getting married in a few days. It was originally supposed to be held last month. Because of that incident, she refused to leave me."

"Hush! Isn't it just marrying a girl? You can do whatever you want when the time comes. Just give her whatever she wants!"

"This is a life-long event for someone..."

"Okay, I got it. Let's talk later. Do you want me to carry you to wash your hands and face?"

"No, wait here and don't follow me!"

The couple went to bed and hugged each other, what else could they discuss? After a vigorous exercise, they fell asleep exhausted. The next day, they woke up in the morning, and hurriedly took a shower and changed clothes, and had long forgotten what they wanted to say the night before.

After breakfast, Meimei went to the cupboard to take out the medicine bottle, took out a red pill, put it in her mouth, and swallowed it with water. Xu Junying saw it and asked nervously, "Meimei, are you feeling unwell? What kind of medicine is this?"

Meimei checked to see if there was anyone else in the room and whispered to him, "Contraceptive pills!"

Xu Junying was stunned for a moment: "Why do you want to eat this? Didn't I... not have enough three years?"

"This one?"

Meimei crossed her chest with her left hand. She put her right index finger on her chin and tilted her head to think seriously: This is a question of eugenics! How can I explain it to him?

Zhang Jingyun specially made five cans of pills to relieve and remove the effects of the stone powder on Xu Junying. He told Meimei that it would take at least half a year, and at most seven or eight months, for the effects to be completely removed. That's what Doctor Su said that day. Meimei knew what he wanted to say when she heard the last word "but". The pulse had changed, and the effects of the stone powder should have been almost removed. According to the pharmacology Zhang Jingyun said. Stone powder paralyzes the nerves, and can be used with other drugs for sterilization. Meimei guessed that even if the effects were removed, Xu Junying's ** at this time might not be healthy, so she had to take birth control pills in advance to avoid getting pregnant with an unhealthy baby!

"Husband, have you heard that cousin Zhuang gave birth to a not-so-good son?"

Xu Junying nodded: "I've heard a little bit about it."

"The child born by cousin Zhuang should be born with congenital deficiency. The most likely reason is that cousin Zhuang took a lot of medicine soup before. There is a saying that goes, 'All medicines are three-point poison'! Some medicines can cure diseases, but they also have other toxicities and can harm the body. For example, a bowl of soup medicine goes into the stomach, which is supposed to cure liver disease, but it has other medicinal properties that can harm people's kidneys! When cousin Zhuang was in Jinhuatang, she took medicine every day. Multiple medicines cured her diseases, but her body also had drug poisons. She should avoid having children after marriage, and have children again after a year and a half, and perhaps this tragedy would not have happened. The reason is similar. Your husband has the poison of stone ball powder. After taking Zhang Jingyun's special pills, it will take at least half a year and at most seven or eight months for the drug effect to be completely eliminated, but the residual effect is still there. At this time, it cannot be guaranteed that you can give birth to a healthy child. We are not in a hurry. I will avoid it first. After a year and a half, we will stop taking the medicine. At that time, we can at least feel at ease if we get pregnant, don't you think?"

Xu Junying looked at her, suddenly picked her up, and kissed her on her pink lips:

"Yes! Meimei, you are so obedient and smart!"

Meimei was sweating: "Can you change your way of saying it? Don't keep imitating me. This is the tone of praising Heng'er!"

Xu Junying laughed loudly and whispered in her ear: "Madam is wise!"

"That's better! If you don't go out now, you'll be late. Come on, Heng'er is at the door, we'll take you there!"

Xu Junying kept pestering her, "So, your husband doesn't have any stone powder on him?"

"That should be it - now we know that the tasteless black balls are more useful, right?"

Xu Junying was a little excited: "Meimei, I originally thought that as long as I have you and Heng'er, I would accept it even if I can't have another child. But now, I suddenly want a child very much - mine and yours!"

Meimei nodded and kissed him: "Wait, we will have it! You have to promise that when you have your own child, you will treat Heng'er as well as you do now!"

Xu Junying patted her butt lightly: "Look at what you said, they are all my children, so of course I don't discriminate, I love them all the same!"

A few days later, Cui Xi got married. In addition to the generous dowry, she also had a maid and a dowry servant accompanying her. Back then, when Qin Meiniang married into the Hou Mansion, she only had three or five maids and a old woman as her dowry. But now, there were twenty servants accompanying Cui Xi to get married. It was even more grand than her own lady's wedding ceremony. No wonder Cui Xi cried and knelt on the ground and refused to get up. In order to catch the auspicious time, several bridesmaids took great pains to pull her away, stuffed her into the bridal sedan, and carried her out of the mansion.

Meimei sat in the room waiting for the sedan chair to be taken away before she ran out. Looking at the empty courtyard, she burst into tears. Xu Junying came over and took her into his arms, comforting her:

"Don't cry, your husband is here! Cuixi is just getting married. Whenever you want to see her, just call her back!"

Meimei leaned into his arms and sobbed, "Cui Lian and Cui Si are also going to get married next month!"

"They live nearby and come into the mansion every day. Orange and Apple are unable to take on the responsibility, so they must take care of the family for a full year!"

Xu Junying wiped her tears and said, "So many servants were given to Cui Xi, what about Cui Lian and Cui Si?"

Meimei took a breath and said, "I have everything. I have prepared it long ago. I asked the housekeeper of the Cen residence to buy some people and put them there for Ruixue to teach. I picked four little girls around ten years old myself and let them follow Cheng'er and Ping'er. They will be able to take over in a few years..."

"Well, you're very thoughtful."

Xu Junying helped Meimei back to her room. Meimei glanced at Xia Lian who was standing in the corridor holding Heng'er's hand and said to him:

"Xia Lian is the same age as Cui Si, so it's time to send them away. As for Chun Yue and Dong Mei from the First Madam's courtyard, they have been with the Madam for many years and are not bad people. I don't want to mistreat them. If you have no objection, I will marry them off to the steward of the front courtyard of the mansion!"

Xu Junying nodded: "You decide. Xia Lian is a house-born girl, a maidservant to the Madam. She should be married to a servant in the mansion. Since you think highly of her and Ma Wei seems to be interested in her, you can ask her. If she is willing, then ask Ma Wei to propose marriage!"

"What is Ma Wei's character like?"

"He was originally one of Bai Zhan's men, not bad!"

"Okay, I'll ask Xia Lian, and you ask Ma Wei. Xia Lian has taken good care of Heng'er, so try to give her a good home."

After Cuixi got married, she visited two places, Qinghua Courtyard and Qin Mansion. Madam Qin was very happy for her, and Wang Mama was even more happy and tearful. The girls who grew up with her finally got married and started families. The young lady she nursed did not disappoint her, and finally made the Lord Hou change his mind. The couple loved each other very much, and he was able to let his maid marry decently. Every time the young lady came back to her parents' home, the gifts she gave her were comparable to those of the lady, and she would often give her silver bills of considerable denominations, which meant that she was treated as her own mother. Wang Mama was very pleased, and it was worth all her efforts since she was a child!

On August 15th, the brothers of the Xu family gathered at Jinhua Hall for the festival. After dinner, they dispersed and only the second master and the second mistress were left. The two girls accompanied the old lady. Looking at the bright lights in the courtyard, old lady Xu burst into tears, her heart chilled.

September experienced another joy and chaos. Cuilian and Cuisi were married off, and Qinghua Courtyard finally completed the transition from the old to the new - Cuixi and her husband Lu Xiangfeng took charge of the external business and no longer returned to Houfu. Cuilian and Cuisi returned to Qinghua Courtyard after marriage and took charge of the internal courtyard affairs as housekeepers. They continued to teach Cheng'er and Ping'er who were promoted to personal maids. Although Cheng'er and Ping'er were only thirteen years old, they were extremely smart and clever. They were willing to learn carefully before their sisters got married, so they were able to do things well as soon as they took over. They completely inherited Cuixi and Cuilian's routine and did everything exactly.

Xia Lian finally got engaged to Ma Wei and married him half a year later. The four maids trained by Rui Xue in Cen's house were also brought into the mansion. The task of renaming them was given to Cui Si. Poor Cui Si went home and thought for a long time, and finally came up with the names: Yuanyang, Xique, Bailing, and Yeying. Bai Zhan laughed out loud, but Mei Mei nodded and changed Yeying to Yingying. The four maids were all taken care of by Cheng Er and Ping Er.