Chapter 197 Proposal
Lei Yingying looked at her in surprise: "You don't know?"
"Know what?" Wen Zhenyi looked puzzled.
Meng Caidie smiled and said, "Brother Shen went to your house today to propose marriage, and my brothers and the others went with him."
Wen Zhenyi finally realized why grandma and the others were in a hurry to go back last night. His mother even specifically told him that they would not come today. It turned out that this was the case because Chen Hanxing had something to do today.
Song Huanhuan smiled and said, "Didn't he tell you?"
"No, I don't think I need to be home."
"You won't have to worry about your family taking the betrothal gifts."
"It doesn't matter."
Meng Caidie smiled and looked at Song Huanhuan: "Do you think that your engagement has alarmed the entire county?"
Wen Zhenyi became interested: "Tell me about it."
Lei Yingying smiled and told her, "Huanhuan's future husband's family is in the provincial capital, and they're also a well-known local merchant family. When they proposed, they gave four fruits, four candies, three kinds of meat, a gift box, and so on. Everything was exactly the same, and they were all generous in size."
Song Huanhuan rolled her eyes at her and said, "You're missing something."
"Hey, it's quite different from yours."
"I don't seem to have as much as you do." Meng Caidie was a little discouraged.
Wen Zhenyi seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand, but it felt very troublesome: "When did you get engaged?"
"In families like ours, people start dating at the age of fourteen, are basically settled by the time they're fifteen, and get married by the time they're sixteen."
"Have you seen them?"
"Yes, but it was only once when I was accompanied by my parents or brother."
"How does it feel?"
"I can't say."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the three people in front of him and said, "Let me teach you some sweet soup."
"Okay, I like the ice jelly you make."
"Then I'll teach you how to make ice jelly today, and you can eat it whenever you want in the future."
"Let's go to the kitchen." Meng Caidie asked the maid to put away the things Wen Zhenyi brought, and took the three of them to her own kitchen.
The cook felt a headache when she saw her: "Miss, what are you doing in the kitchen?"
"It's okay. I'll teach you how to cook. You guys go about your business."
The cook was relieved when she saw Wen Zhenyi, otherwise she was really afraid that this little ancestor would burn down the kitchen again.
Wen Zhenyi told the cook what he needed.
The cook quickly brought her what she needed and said, "Miss Wen, can I learn?"
"Sure." Wen Zhenyi let them do it themselves and move their mouths: "Although this ice jelly is delicious, it is still not suitable for women to eat too cold things."
"Okay, I'll remember that."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the three of them and said, "I'm going to tell you something else. You have to keep it in mind."
The three of them were a little surprised to see Wen Zhenyi's serious tone: "Yiyi, what's wrong?"
Wen Zhenyi glanced at the cook and hesitated whether to say it.
Meng Caidie understood what she meant: "Yi Yi, the cook is one of us. She came with my mother as a dowry."
Wen Zhenyi then spoke, "These foods also interact with each other. Some things may seem harmless, but mixing them together can kill you. I'll tell you some common ones, so remember them."
"Can it be poisoned?" Meng Caidie couldn't believe it.
"Shrimp and tomatoes themselves are not poisonous, but if you eat them together, they will have the effect of arsenic."
"What?" Everyone in the kitchen exclaimed in surprise.
Wen Zhenyi's eardrums were nearly pierced by their voices: "Don't make such a fuss. There are probably not many people who can eat them together. Just remember not to eat them."
"We have to remember it, otherwise if we accidentally eat it in the future, we will lose our lives." Lei Yingying looked scared.
"It depends on how much you eat. Eating less won't achieve this effect. But you must remember what I'm going to say next."
Song Huanhuan and the others listened attentively: "You go ahead."
"If you get pregnant one day, you must not touch these things: crab, purslane, coix seed... hawthorn, especially hawthorn."
"Why?"
"Some people crave sour foods when they're pregnant, and hawthorn is undoubtedly the first thing that comes to mind. However, hawthorn can actually cause uterine contractions."
"As for crabs, you can eat less, but it's best not to eat them at all. Crabs are a cold food."
The cook looked at her in surprise: "Miss Wen, can hawthorn really cause miscarriage?"
Wen Zhenyi saw that the cook's face was not very good, and looked at her puzzledly: "Yes, what's wrong?"
The cook suddenly burst into tears: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault."
Wen Zhenyi and the other three were startled and hurried to comfort her: "What's wrong with you?"
Meng Caidie didn't know what was going on, so she quickly asked her maid to call her mother over.
Mrs. Meng saw the cook crying and was also puzzled: "Lu'e, what's wrong with you?"
Lu'e looked up at Madam Meng and knelt down: "Miss, it's all my fault, it's all my fault."
Madam Meng was even more puzzled. She reached out and pulled her up: "Why are you blaming me for no reason? You didn't do anything wrong!"
Lu'e looked at Wen Zhenyi and the others, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.
Madam Meng thought for a moment and said, "Lu'e, come with me."
Lu'e followed Madam Meng out of the kitchen and they came to the kitchen yard: "Miss, I was the one who caused the birth of your first child."
Madam Meng looked at her in shock: "Lu'e, what are you talking about?"
"Back then, when you were pregnant and wanted to eat something sour, I went to the street to buy you something to eat. I saw some hawthorns and thought they were sour, so I bought some for you."
When Mrs. Meng heard this, she understood. Before Meng Yongyuan, she was pregnant with a child who was already six months old and was a girl.
She remembered that she was craving something sour, so she asked Lu'e to buy it. After eating it, she felt abdominal pain and later gave birth prematurely, and the baby was lost.
"What does this have to do with you?"
"Just now I heard the girl say that hawthorn can cause miscarriage. I realized that I made a big mistake back then."
Mrs. Meng looked at Lu'e, who was filled with guilt, and wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief: "Lu'e, don't say you didn't know back then, even I didn't know, right? How can I blame you for this?"
"If it weren't for me, how could you only have three children?"
"After so many years, I can only say that I was not destined to be with that child. I don't blame you." She turned her head and looked towards the kitchen. "Miss Wen, was that what I was just telling you?"
Lu'e still felt very uncomfortable, but nodded. "Well, she said that many things are mutually beneficial and mutually destructive, and then she told us about foods that can cause miscarriage. Only then did I realize that I had made a big mistake."
"It's been so many years since the incident happened, don't take it too seriously. Please ask Miss Wen to come out for me."
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