Chapter 2056 Twins
Bai Dalang laughed heartily and said happily, "Now you understand why your great-aunt wanted to hold a banquet at home, right? Interpersonal relationships are never that simple. And since you've invited all your classmates, do you want to invite the professors as well? Since we've invited the professors from Chongwen Academy, do you want to invite the professors from the Imperial Academy?"
"Regardless of whether they come or not, whether you invite them or not is a matter of attitude," Bai Dalang said. "If you're not careful, you might offend them."
Bai Shan started to have a headache, and when he finally handed the list to Old Madam Liu, he could hardly lift his head.
Who would have thought that Madam Liu only took a glance and then picked up a pen to cross out the names one by one, saying, "Don't be afraid of offending anyone. For such a small matter, you only invite close relatives for your own convenience. Most people can understand."
"If someone is blamed for even these things, then he is a villain. If he is a villain, even those close to him will become estranged, so there is no need to care."
Bai Shan said: "But our family is holding a banquet in a restaurant..."
"I was inconsiderate," said Old Lady Liu. "Since you are all close friends, why not just have a simple meal at home? We adults won't show up and cause trouble. You can just play in the garden by yourselves."
Bai Shan quickly said, "This is a happy event. How can we let Grandmother and the gentlemen avoid it?"
Madam Liu smiled and said, "If we were close to our family, we should have invited them to such a happy event, but our relationship isn't very good. Inviting them would seem like we're showing off. Luckily, your husband has been living with us, so he's family. We can celebrate with a good meal at home. There's no need to invite outsiders just to invite your husband."
Bai Shan understood as soon as he heard it, and nodded and replied yes.
When Manbao heard the arrangement, he looked at the names that had been crossed out on the list and exclaimed, "Wow!" "Grandma Liu is amazing."
Bai Dalang also felt that his great-aunt was very powerful, and he felt a little timid in comparison, so he decided to change his ways.
He rolled up his sleeves and said, "Leave the arrangements for the banquet to me."
Bai Erlang: "...Brother, there are two tables here, and they are all classmates and friends. As long as we prepare food, it will be fine. What else do you need to arrange?"
Except for Wei Chen, no one else was invited from the Imperial College. In addition to Yin Huo Liu Huan, Feng Zongping and Yi Ziyang, only Zhao Liulang was invited from the Chongwenguan. Together with Tang He and his wife, there were only Man Bao's two disciples and three students from the Western Regions.
Including the number of them, there wasn't even enough space for two tables.
Besides, if they are either one of us or a junior, there is no need to greet them specially, okay?
Bai Dalang found that it was true and was speechless for a moment.
Because they all had a good relationship, they didn't need to notify the guests too far in advance. On that day, they just took their own door invitations, wrote the invitations, and asked the servants to deliver them. The banquet could start the next day.
Old Zhou was very pleased with this and said to Qian, "That's right. Eating at home is so much better. Eating out costs money. You don't know. Yesterday at the dinner table, I was shocked when I heard Madam Liu say that she would set aside 20 taels of silver to buy a banquet at a restaurant. Now it's better. We can cook at home and it will be done for one tael of silver."
It was really just one or two taels of silver. Most of the vegetables were produced in their own farm. Xiao Qian also made a few bowls of steamed meat and big meatballs for them. The venison and mutton they bought separately were a bit more expensive, but not much, only about two or three pounds, so the expense was not particularly high.
All in all, it's just over 1,200 wen, which is about one tael of silver, right?
But this was also two very good banquet tables, plus the scenery in the garden was nice. As soon as Mrs. Tang entered the door, she took off her outer robe and said to Manbao: "You are so comfortable here. I can finally get some fresh air."
Manbao's eyes fell on her belly and he asked in surprise, "Xuesao, when did you become pregnant? It must have been... six months, right?"
"No," Mrs. Tang said with a smile as she sat neatly in a chair. "It's only been a little over five months. I was going to ask you to come and see it, but you've been busy lately, and I couldn't make an appointment with you several times. The other doctors all agreed, so I won't bother you anymore."
Manbao said embarrassedly: "I thought you asked me out to play."
But she is very busy these days.
Mrs. Tang said, "Originally, it was not convenient to go out to visit friends with such a big belly, but I saw a doctor yesterday, and he said he heard two fetal heartbeats, so..."
Manbao immediately said, "Let me take a look."
Mrs. Tang immediately rolled up her sleeves and extended her hand.
This was not her first pregnancy. Zhou Man was in the palace when she found out. Since it was not a difficult disease, she asked a doctor she knew to take her pulse.
She was in good health and didn't even need to take pregnancy-maintaining medicine. She had been taking good care of herself and only told her family when she was three months pregnant.
Things like pregnancy should not be publicized, so as not to scare the child and the Goddess of Fertility, which would be bad for the child.
So she never told anyone about it, and stayed at home, rarely even going out.
Everything had been normal. She didn't even have morning sickness, just a little sleepy. This pregnancy was extremely comfortable for her.
As a result, her belly started to grow bigger last month, and it looked the same every two or three days, and she kept eating more and more.
She had been pregnant before and knew that pregnant women should not eat too much without restraint. There was also a nanny around to remind her, but she couldn't help it and was really hungry.
Now she understood Han Wuniang a little bit. She really couldn't control herself.
At that time, she and Tang He wanted to invite Zhou Man, but she was too busy. She didn't show up after being invited several times. They had thought that since she was on leave this time, she could just ask them to come to her house for treatment. But Bai Shan passed the imperial examination and invited them to her house for the wedding banquet.
After Mrs. Tang and Tang He discussed it, they decided to come to the house with their belly bulging. They also asked a doctor to take a look yesterday. The doctor said that he could vaguely hear both pulses, but was not very sure.
Manbao listened carefully, but still felt unsure.
She simply changed her hand, closed her eyes and listened carefully again, and then she vaguely heard another fetal heartbeat.
Manbao opened his eyes and said, "It's double pulse. Do you want to ask Doctor Xiao to take a look?"
Mrs. Tang was stunned and asked, "What do you mean? Is the child not well?"
"No, no," Manbao said, worried that she would overthink and hurt herself, so he quickly smiled and said, "Doctor Xiao is better than me, and we have a good relationship. I just wanted to use the back door to ask a doctor who is better than me to see you."
Mrs. Tang: ...That makes perfect sense. She couldn’t find any words to question it.
Mrs. Tang felt relieved, but still a little worried. "So I am indeed having twins?"
Manbao nodded.
Mrs. Tang was very worried.
Twins sound auspicious, but in fact, few people in families like theirs want to have twins.
Because twins mean danger, not only to the mother but also to the children.
Even a single child may be too weak to be raised well, let alone twins.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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