Chapter 71 Chapter 71 Is the lady willing to give the little one...
The daughter burped softly, and when Su Guanzhang put her back to Xuan Jinyu, he heard his wife's concerned questions.
He lowered his head following her gaze and saw his tattered shirt.
"Not cold." He adjusted the child's position and watched her little mouth move, wondering if she was savoring her food, and then she soon fell asleep.
Okay, no more jokes.
Xuan Jinyu carefully touched her daughter's sparse and fluffy hair. The soft, cotton-like feel made her unable to let it go.
"She fell asleep so quickly."
Her eyes kept lingering on the child's face, which was wrinkled and red, clearly not good-looking and perhaps even a little ugly; but she had a feeling that no one in the world could be as pretty as her daughter.
Su Guanzhang squatted beside the stone bed and chuckled when he heard this. "Like a little piglet," he said.
Xuan Jinyu glared at him. How could he say that about his own daughter?!
But the man's words still affected her. The more she looked at the child, the more she felt that the sleeping child looked like a piglet.
Ahem, this isn't good. Her daughter is going to be a noble lady, the jewel of the capital, how can she be a little piglet?
Xuan Jinyu turned her head away, not daring to look at the child again.
"It's all your fault." She grabbed Su Guanzhang's hand that was on her pulse and bit it.
Her pulse was steady - except for the weakness of qi and blood, this was a very normal pulse after childbirth. Su Guanzhang felt a little relieved.
Seeing her bite him, he just laughed, "It seems Jinyu feels the same way."
His answer was another light bite.
After venting her breath, Xuan Jinyu touched the two teeth marks she had made. She felt the warmth of the man's body. "You're really not cold."
She let go of his hand and glanced at his shirt, which was almost half-destroyed. A smile spread across her face again. "Where did this beggar come from? He's actually quite clean and respectable."
When she glanced over, her eyes were lively and innocent, exactly the same as the look in Su Guanzhang's eyes when he first saw her.
It was because of her eyes that he fell in love with her at first sight and decided to marry her.
His heart was filled with the excitement of first meeting, the tenderness of love between husband and wife, and the joy of becoming a father for the first time. Su Guanzhang was speechless for a moment.
Just looking at her eyes made Xuan Jinyu blush and her heart beat fast, but she couldn't bear to look away.
"Then, Madam, would you be willing to give me a reward?" Su Guanzhang spoke, his voice no longer as clear as before, but low and a little hoarse.
Xuan Jinyu didn't expect him to respond like this and spoke out of turn.
When I came to my senses, I heard the man continue, "Since Madam is silent, it means you have agreed. Don't bother Madam, I will come and get the reward myself."
Her eyes widened and her lips parted slightly, obviously she was extremely shocked.
What is he talking about?
Not only did he fail to tease someone, but he was teased instead. Xuan Jinyu blushed at his bold and teasing words. Just as she was about to speak, a shadow fell on her face.
It was Su Guanzhang who leaned over, and his thin lips fell, and the slightly open lips gave him an opportunity.
Considering her body, Su Guanzhang quickly stepped back, "Will you feel uncomfortable?"
He supported her face with one hand and stroked her slightly flushed cheek with the other.
Because the stone bed was a bit low and he was tall, his waist and abdomen arched into a surprising arc. The thin, sturdy, white skin exposed reminded Xuan Jinyu of something inappropriate, and her face became more and more hot.
"Why is your face so red?" Su Guanzhang was a little nervous. "Are you feeling unwell?"
There was a hint of regret in his tone. She had just given birth to a child, and he shouldn't have let himself go like this.
Xuan Jinyu grabbed his hand as he was about to feel her pulse and stammered, "No, don't be nervous."
Facing his still worried eyes, she looked away awkwardly, "I, I'm just a little hot."
The bottom of the cliff is not cold, it is even as warm as spring, and there is a hot spring in the big cave separated by a thin layer of stone wall.
She had two layers of outer clothing under her and a thin jacket covering her body. In addition, the hot spring heat continued to flow gently from the stone bed, so she was indeed feeling a little hot.
Didn’t you see that Su Guanzhang was only wearing a shirt and he was already very warm?
Hearing her say she was hot, Su Guanzhang breathed a sigh of relief. He touched her head and saw that there was no sweat on her forehead. He then touched her neck and back and found them dry as well.
"You can't stand the cold right now, and we don't have any other clothes." He gave her an apologetic smile. "If you can't stand it, how about changing into your cloak and jacket?"
Xuan Jinyu thought about it and agreed.
Su Guanzhang took Xuan Jinyu's cloak from the other side of the stone bed, unfolded it, and quickly changed her clothes.
While changing clothes, he had already noticed the wetness beneath Xuan Jinyu's body. It was her outer robe that was soaked with blood—it wasn't there when he lifted up her thin coat to look.
Xuan Jinyu also noticed something strange under her body at this time, and that part of her body felt a little sticky.
The aroma of chicken soup that had been lingering in my nose was also tainted with a hint of blood.
Su Guanzhang was obviously prepared for the discharge of lochia and quickly walked out of the cave.
When he turned around again, he was holding two tall triple bamboo tubes in his hands, and the white cloth he had washed was soaked in water in one of the tubes.
Xuan Jinyu could see white mist floating above the bamboo tube, which indicated that the water was hot.
He had done so many things while she was asleep! Her body was still aching, but she felt very soft in her heart as she watched him busying around.
Su Guanzhang quickly cleaned the blood stains from Xuan Jinyu's body and changed her into shorts that he had washed and dried.
The bloodstains on his outer robe underneath had already dried, but because it would get dirty again, he didn't rush to clean it, for fear that Xuan Jinyu would catch a cold when he moved her.
"If mother and the sisters-in-law saw the message brought by Bai Hu, they would definitely know our situation." He leaned over and kissed Xuan Jinyu on the forehead, apologetically saying, "I'll just have to ask you to bear with it for a while."
The old midwife told him that when lochia is discharged, the pants will be soiled all the time. Some wealthy families will tie a soft cotton menstrual belt under the body, and it is sufficient to change the menstrual belt frequently.
As early as three months ago, when they passed through the town of An'nan, which was famous for its weaving, he asked Xuan Wensheng's caravan to buy back a lot of soft and comfortable cotton cloth and a large amount of cotton. He also asked his mother, second aunt and three sisters-in-law to prepare a box of menstrual belts.
But she had never expected that they would end up at the bottom of this cliff, with nothing around them. When had she ever suffered such injustice and hardship?
Thinking of this, Su Guanzhang's face became a little gloomy.
Xuan Jinyu put her arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek, "It's not your fault."
He had tried very hard to create a comfortable environment for the mother and daughter. Due to limited conditions, how could she bear to see him blame himself.
After being kissed by her, Su Guanzhang's eyes regained their gentleness, and there was also a hint of smile. Knowing that she was also worried about him, he changed the subject.
"Are you hungry? I made some chicken soup. Do you want me to bring it over?"
Xuan Jinyu could also smell the rich aroma of chicken soup lingering in the cave, but she really had no appetite and was too tired, so she shook her head.
Su Guanzhang knew that she was tired, but he did not persuade her to eat now. He just started talking about a topic that she would definitely be very interested in.
"I placed my daughter's afterbirth under the peach tree at the entrance of the cave. I hope she and the peach tree will grow up healthily together."
Sure enough, Xuan Jinyu's eyes lit up again, "Did you wrap it with something?"
According to Dasheng custom, the placenta should be placed in an urn and then buried in the soil. But where did they get an urn? They had to use whatever they could find, as long as it could be wrapped properly.
Their situation does not allow them to be picky.
Su Guanzhang changed his daughter's position so that she was sleeping on her side and replied, "Wrap it with your bib."
His clothes, cloak and outer robe were all placed under Xuan Jinyu. The thin jacket was now wrapped around his daughter, so he only had a tattered undershirt to wrap himself in.
She couldn't use his lower garment to wrap it. Although he was her father, it was not appropriate and it would be too unfair to their daughter.
You can't use bamboo leaves either, as that would be too crude.
Xuan Jinyu had obviously figured all this out, and she reached out her hands from under her thin coat and put them around her daughter's small body.
"She's really small." Her eyes were very gentle. Suddenly she remembered something and looked up at Su Guanzhang. "How much did my daughter weigh when she was born?"
She knew that Su Guanzhang was very sensitive to weight because he had been using weapons for many years.
She had once been in high spirits, dragging him along to play around, placing items all over the yard and asking him to estimate their weight. Finally, they used a scale to weigh them, and his estimate was almost accurate, which surprised her for a long time.
Su Guanzhang really knew, "Six pounds and six ounces. Our daughter is considerate of her mother."
Xuan Jinyu heard from her mother, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law what the normal weight of a baby is at birth. Their daughter was neither light nor heavy, and was considered to be a relatively easy weight to give birth to. She would also be healthier and easier to take care of after she was born.
Hearing Su Guanzhang say this again, she smiled and gently tapped the child's wrinkled face.
"I want to drink chicken soup." Xuan Jinyu said.
Xuan Wensheng was overjoyed to learn that the couple was fine and his sister had safely given birth to his niece.
Even when Su Guanyu and Su Guanwen brought back the news that the two were trapped, it did not affect his good mood.
It's just a temporary trap! His sister is so lucky, she will definitely get out.
Maybe being trapped was just a special arrangement made by God because he saw that my sister had just given birth and couldn't bear to see them tormenting her.
Xuan Wensheng's eyes were still very red and swollen, and when he smiled again, even if he had a handsome face, it looked too ugly to look at - if Lin Qingwan or Fang Yuanyuan were here, they would complain about their sons or husbands like this.
"Oh no! What will happen to the soups and meals my sister needs to drink during her confinement period?"
"By the time we finish it, will the White Falcon be spilled or cold when we deliver it?"
"What if she wants to eat at night?"
Xuan Wensheng kept on talking, and it was obvious that he was too happy and started to worry again.
Xu Yu Niang wiped her eyes and comforted her uncle, "Zhang can cook soup and won't let Jinyu suffer too much."
She was not worried about the food, but it was really unfair for her daughter-in-law to live in such a simple place at the bottom of the cliff.
Chang Meiyan also felt relieved at this time.
As her younger sister-in-law and brother-in-law, she would of course be very sad if something happened to Xuan Jinyu and Su Guanzhang.
But she felt more guilty than others.
Xuan Jinyu was trying to save her daughter Wen Jie'er when she got into trouble. When Xuan Jinyu fell off the cliff, Su Guanzhang also jumped down with her.
Three lives for one.
She was really worried about her daughter's future situation, especially since Wen Jie'er seemed dazed last night, which made her sad and distressed.
After learning that the two were safe, Chang Meiyan felt relieved and thought more and more deeply.
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