Chapter 1663 Without Saying
"Fourth Uncle——"
Zhou Silang, who was whispering in Manbao's ear, was startled. He turned around in horror and saw Zhou Lijun standing in front of her door with her hands clasped, staring at him.
As soon as Zhou Silang saw her, many words got stuck in his chest and he turned and ran away.
Manbao watched him run away and asked Zhou Lijun curiously, "What kind of business does Fourth Brother want to start?"
Zhou Lijun complained to Manbao, "Fourth Uncle is so careless. It's only been a short while, and he's already thinking about doing gemstone business with merchants from the Western Regions."
Zhou Lijun gestured to Manbao, "A stone this big would cost several dozen taels. I heard that you have to pay for polishing and carving it. The cost of getting one would be nearly a hundred taels."
Manbao was shocked, "So expensive?"
Zhou Lijun nodded. "If we buy ten, it will cost one thousand taels. Even a rich lady like Miss Liu can't afford to buy gemstones easily. What if Fourth Uncle can't sell them and ends up with nothing?"
Manbao nodded. "It's neither good for eating nor drinking, so it's basically useless."
Manbao hugged his medicine box tightly and decided to ignore Zhou Silang.
She put down the medicine box and ran back to ask Zhou Lijun, "How is Zhuangzi?"
Zhou Lijun smiled and said, "It's already half built. Maybe it will be almost finished by the time Sixth Uncle gets married."
Manbao was satisfied when he heard this, and began to plan with Bai Shan and Bai Erlang to buy some flowers and plants to take care of the farm.
When Yin Huo heard about it, he selected a few pots of nice chrysanthemums from his own garden and sent them to Manbao. When Liu Huan saw them, he felt that as a friend he should also support them, so he ran back home and dug up a money tree that was not well taken care of in front of his grandfather's study and sent it to Manbao.
Manbao was delighted when he saw it, and immediately asked, "Do you have any more? Give me one more."
Liu Huan was stunned. "Is this tree rare? I picked the smallest one to dig up. No, I mean, if I dig up one, it's not obvious. But if I dig up two, it would be too obvious."
Manbao stared at the sapling in front of him and said, "It doesn't look like it's going to branch out very well."
Liu Huan said, "Just take care of it. When it grows up, you can branch out. At first, my grandfather only planted two trees in the flower bed in front of the door, but now there are quite a few branches."
Manbao weighed the pros and cons and felt that it would be difficult to support her if he divided the money between them, so it would be better to give it all to Keke.
However, it was impossible for her to put the things away in front of everyone, so she kept them in a flowerpot and decided to move them to the front of the farm and collect them while there was chaos.
Manbao and Liu Huan said, "I'll come to your house and play when I have time."
Liu Huan felt a little baffled by her enthusiasm, but he nodded anyway, "Come when you're free."
He has no objection anyway.
Bai Shan glanced at Man Bao and said nothing.
This time, Xiu Mu Manbao also went to Yang's house to visit Cui. Cui's belly was now very big and her feet were very swollen, so she didn't dare to walk too much.
Manbao felt her belly and found the baby's position to be quite normal, so he asked, "The doctor calculated the due date to be within these two days, right?"
"Yes," Cui became more and more nervous as the day drew closer. She held Manbao's hand and said, "I always feel anxious and can't sleep well every night. Manbao, do you think my belly is a little big?"
It was a bit big, but Manbao smiled calmly and said to her, "It's normal. Don't scare yourself. I will go to the palace to work tomorrow, but my senior brother is also working in the palace. If you start to act, please send someone to tell my senior brother, and he will take me out of the palace."
Cui was still a little nervous, so Manbao continued, "But maybe you can wait until I have my Double Ninth Festival holiday."
The Double Ninth Festival is a major festival, and the court also has a holiday. They can leave the palace in the evening of the seventh day. The eighth day is the day when her sixth brother gets married, so they will not enter the palace until after the tenth day.
Cui calculated the date, exhaled, smiled at Manbao and said, "You're right. Maybe the baby won't be born two days late. The midwife said it's normal to be born a few days early or late."
Manbao nodded in agreement.
As a result, the child just couldn't nag. Manbao had just come back from seeing her in the morning, and she had just laid down on the bed in the evening to enter the system to attend Teacher Mo's class when there was a knock on their side door.
The servant of the Yang family came hurriedly to report, "Doctor Zhou, my wife is about to give birth, and the master asked for you to come over and see her."
Manbao immediately became alert. She looked up at the sky, turned around, picked up the medicine box and went out.
Bai Shan stood at the gate of the courtyard, looking at her and asked, "Do you want me to go with you?"
Manbao refused and said, "You have to go to the palace to study tomorrow. It's easy for me to ask for leave, but it's not easy for you."
Bai Shan was not too worried about her, so he nodded and said, "Okay, be careful."
Manbao and the servants from the Yang family who came to pick her up hurried out. Fang and others were also awakened. It was the first time for them to encounter someone seeking medical treatment at night, and they were all a little surprised.
Zhou Liru ran out and asked, "Aunt, do you want me to go with you?"
Manbao looked at her, weighed the pros and cons, and then refused. "You don't need to learn this now. Wait two years."
Daji followed silently.
Everyone was used to it, and after sending the person out, they went back to their rooms to sleep.
Bai Shan yawned. He was obviously very sleepy, but couldn't fall asleep. He turned over and thought to himself that nothing should happen to Brother Yang.
Daji drove the carriage into Yang's Mansion, watched Manbao follow a maid to the backyard, and then followed the servant of Yang's Mansion to the gatehouse to rest.
When they arrived at the backyard, Yang Heshu's courtyard was brightly lit. Marquis Yang's second wife, the Marquis's wife, was directing people to deliver things inside. Cui's screams could be heard from the house. Manbao couldn't help but shudder when he heard it. Yang Heshu was standing in the courtyard motionless. Manbao trotted forward and asked, "Brother Yang?"
Yang Heshu shuddered, then slowly came back to his senses. He turned his head to look at Manbao, and it took him a while to focus. "Manbao is here, go in and take a look."
Seeing that his voice was vague, Manbao knew that he couldn't get anything out of him, so he hurried into the delivery room.
There were two midwives delivering Cui's baby inside. Seeing them pressing Cui's belly, she was startled and hurried forward, "What are you doing?"
The two midwives were also startled. When they saw it was Zhou Man, they immediately said, "Doctor Zhou, please come and take a look. Madam fell after dinner and had a bloody discharge right away. Her cervix is only four fingers dilated, but the amniotic fluid... We're afraid if we're too late, the baby will get suffocated in her womb."
Manbao rolled up his sleeves and said, "Get some hot water first. Is the labor-inducing medicine ready?"
"I'll be fine in another quarter of an hour."
The two families lived too close to each other, and Cui sent someone to invite Manbao right after Yang Heshu fell down, so she came too quickly and the medicine was not ready.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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