It's finished! My first completed novel. If anyone reads it, I'll release extra chapters; it has been a solo journey for a long time!
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Huai'an Dream 11
After taking the patient's pulse, Doctor Li stood up and bowed, saying, "Congratulations, Madam. Your Shaoyin pulse is strong and smooth, which is indeed a pregnancy pulse."
Hearing this, Huo Weixi couldn't help but laugh out loud, and asked happily, "How many months has it been?"
"More than a month and a half. I'll write a prescription right away."
"Ruolan, follow Doctor Li."
Huo Weixi couldn't hide his happiness, but Huang Yaya was completely indifferent! What the hell! How could she be pregnant?
Huo Weixi sat down next to Huang Yaya, held her in his arms, and said happily: "My dear, did you hear that? You are already one and a half months pregnant."
"Congratulations, my Lord Marquis, congratulations, my Lady. Our Marquis's Mansion will soon have a new baby." Ruomei and Ruozhu stood aside and bowed, saying happily.
Huang Yaya was not happy. She was completely confused. Had she really come to a different world? Was she really pregnant? She touched her belly with her hand. Was there really a little life inside?
"What's wrong? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?" Huo Weixi asked with concern.
Huang Yaya shook her head, and endless panic surged in her heart. At this moment, she thought of her mother. Is her mother okay?
Huang Yaya woke up from a nightmare at night. Huo Weixi also woke up and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
Huo Weixi caressed her belly tenderly with her hand and said in a rare playful tone, "Baby, be good in your mother's belly."
"If you make your mother unhappy, your father will be angry."
Huang Yaya had never seen Huo Weixi like this before. He was like a child. How could she describe her nightmare? She dreamed that she died in childbirth, and Huo Weixi was just holding the child and smiling.
Childbirth is such a solemn and terrifying topic, especially for women. Her grandmother told her that her childhood playmate Qiuxia's mother died during childbirth, and her grandmother's sister also died shortly after giving birth.
Huo Weixi finally noticed that she was sweating profusely, and quickly asked with concern, "Qingqing, what's wrong?"
He had never called her like that before, but he suddenly changed his name to another one, which made her feel scared. She was afraid that her real self would disappear from then on, and only her body that could reproduce would remain.
Huang Yaya shook her head and lay down.
Huo Weixi leaned over and asked with concern, "Your clothes are soaked with sweat, do you want to change?"
She closed her eyes and shook her head.
On the first day of the new year, Huo Weixi got up very early. He wanted to go to Doctor Li's house in person to express his gratitude. After all, Huang Yaya had only been pregnant for more than a month, and she would have to trouble him a lot in the future.
Before leaving, he gave Ruomei and several maids many instructions, asking them to take good care of the lady and to record everything the lady ate and drank clearly.
It was not until the hour of Si that Huang Yaya woke up. She felt completely exhausted and very uncomfortable.
Ruomei, who was standing by, saw her get up and hurried forward to serve her. As soon as Huang Yaya got out of bed, she felt her throat tighten, and the yellow liquid passed through her throat and spit directly onto the ground. At this moment, she felt her mouth was very bitter.
Ruolan immediately called the little girl at the door to clean up, and Ruomei stepped forward and asked, "Madam, are you still nauseous and want to vomit?"
Huang Yaya nodded tiredly.
"Madam, the medicine will be ready soon. You will be fine after taking it." Ruomei comforted.
Ruozhu brought breakfast, which contained all kinds of food. Huang Yaya felt sick at the sight of them. Even the buns tasted disgusting.
Another round of vomiting, more yellow water was vomited out.
Ruolan asked worriedly, "What should we do?"
Ruomei also asked Ruozhu to go and see if the medicine had taken effect. She brought a bowl of porridge to Huang Wawa and advised, "Madam, no matter how uncomfortable you feel, you must eat something."
"I can't eat!" Huang Yaya felt like she didn't even have the strength to speak.
"I'll ask the kitchen to prepare whatever Madam wants to eat."
Huang Yaya thought about all the food, such as Dongpo pork, braised spare ribs, cumin lamb, stir-fried pork with green peppers, hot and sour potatoes, cabbage with vinegar, etc. No, she wanted to vomit even thinking about these things.
She wanted to shake her head, but seeing Ruomei's expectant face, she thought about it and said, "Sour plums, dried sour plums soaked in rice."
She really wants to eat very sour plums now.
"Madam, I will ask someone to prepare it right away." After saying that, Ruomei left.
Huo Weixi came back not long after. Seeing the very weak Huang Yaya, he asked with concern, "Are you feeling better?"
Ruolan said, "Madam vomited right after she woke up and can't eat anything. She just said she wanted to eat sour plums and rice soaked in dried plums. Ruomei has already asked someone to prepare it."
"Yeah." Huo Weixi nodded to Ruolan.
He quickly changed his clothes, sat next to Huang Yaya, gently hugged her in his arms, and said distressedly: "Qingqing, you have worked hard!"
She is not only suffering now, she even wants to die.
Ruomei hurriedly brought a bowl of rice with some pickled plums in it. Huang Yaya took a bite and said, "It's too sweet, not sour enough."
"My Lord, these are the sourest dried plums you can buy." Ruomei replied somewhat dejectedly.
"Take good care of the lady, I'm going to be out for a while." Huo Weixi instructed.
Since she couldn't eat anything, she would vomit after drinking the bitter medicine. There was nothing in her stomach and she felt exhausted. She could only lie in bed to save energy.
After an unknown amount of time, she was awakened by Huo Weixi's kiss. He was holding a plate of sour plums in his hand. Huang Yaya's appetite was immediately awakened. The sour taste of the sour plums was the best appetizer at this time.
"Qingqing, try it first to see if it's sour enough." Huo Weixi coaxed her gently. Then he picked up a sour plum and put it into her mouth.
This is the taste. This is what Huang Yaya wants to eat now. She suddenly felt that she could eat and answered happily: "This is the taste."
Huang Yaya took a bite of sour plum and a sip of rice soaked in water. Ruomei standing next to her was shocked. Pregnant women have really strange tastes.
The Pingnan Marquis's Mansion has been particularly lively these days, with many people coming to give gifts. After all, the news that the Pingnan Marquis's wife is pregnant has spread to all the dignitaries in the capital.
Huo Weixi ran all over the capital for a portion of sour plums. For example, at the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhenbei, the lady of the mansion was old and liked to eat sour food, so they would usually make some sour plums, sour apricots and the like. As a result, Huo Weixi packed them all up and took them away, saying that if the lady didn't want to eat these, she could eat something else. His wife would starve to death without these sour preserved fruits.
The daughter-in-law of the Minister of Rites was also pregnant. Her family specially asked someone to bring a lot of preserved fruits from Wuzhou, half of which was taken away by Huo Weixi.
The old Marquis of Pingnan dedicated his entire life to the State of Yue and had only one son, Huo Weixi. Now that his only son has finally gotten married and has offspring, everyone is happy for him.
The gifts everyone sent included preserved fruits such as sour plums, which caused all the preserved fruits in the capital to be sold out.