Chapter 2780: Crowning Ceremony II
Manbao arranged Princess Changyu and Princess Mingda in the same room, which was relatively warm because there was a brazier in the room.
As soon as Chang Yu entered the room, he sat on the couch, kicked off his shoes and sat on the couch, exhaled and said: "It's so difficult to get pregnant. If I had known, I wouldn't have gotten pregnant so soon."
Mingda almost spit out the tea he had just taken, laughing so hard that tears were about to come out. "You talk as if you can decide whether to get pregnant or not."
Chang Yu said, "I don't have a solution, but doesn't Zhou Man have one?"
She raised her chin to indicate Zhou Man and asked, "You've been married for a year now, right? You still haven't gotten pregnant. Isn't there a way to avoid it? It's impossible that you haven't consummated your marriage yet, right?"
Manbao blushed slightly and said vaguely, "You are already old enough, why don't you want children?"
Mingda also said, "How many people want it but can't get it."
There was some envy in his words.
Changyu was stunned for a moment, looked at Mingda and then at Zhou Man.
Manbao whispered to Mingda, "You're still young, you can wait a year or two to have the baby."
Mingda frowned slightly, "Erlang said the same thing, but I always feel that having a child of your own is a very joyful thing."
Chang Yu frowned, "Why, are you going to take a concubine for Bai Er?"
Mingda was stunned for a moment before she smiled and said, "Sister, what are you thinking? I didn't mean that, and neither did Erlang. We're just envious of you for becoming a mother."
Manbao looked conflicted, but he couldn't help but asked, "Didn't Bai Er tell you that he took birth control pills?"
Mingda was stunned.
Changyu also widened his eyes.
Man Bao said, "You are a little weak and young. It's not good for you to get pregnant at this time. The medicinal recipe I prescribed for you is to regulate your body. It's not suitable for pregnancy during this period, so he took contraceptive pills. Didn't he tell you?"
Mingda had always had a good memory, so of course she remembered that when they had just gotten married, not even a full month had passed, he excitedly ran back to her and said, "Manbao is not suitable for pregnancy at this time, so Bai Shan took contraceptive pills. Mingda, I'll take them too, so you can wait until you're older before having children."
He said, "Manbao said that a woman can get pregnant at the age of 20. You should wait until you are 20 before getting pregnant."
Mingda was touched by his thoughtfulness and agreed with a smile.
Mingda: "...He's not always taking medicine, is he? I, I don't smell any medicine, and I've never heard anyone in the kitchen say he's taking any."
Manbao said vaguely: "Oh, that's a pill. One pill will last for a long time."
Wisdom is speechless.
Now it was Chang Yu's turn to look at her enviously. She then turned to look at Zhou Man and asked, "Do you think Bai Shan also took this kind of medicine?"
Manbao didn't answer, and Changyu knew it.
She hummed and said, "You have to give me some of this medicine. I will give it to my husband in the future. I heard that giving birth is very painful. I don't want to have another child in the future."
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I'll study it further."
It seems that it is time to research contraceptives, but she certainly cannot use the contraceptives bought from the mall as a reference. They use biological robots, which she obviously cannot make. Only drugs can work.
However, medicine is poisonous to some extent. How can we use medicine to reduce the harm to men and lower the chance of women getting pregnant?
Manbao started thinking.
Changyu was stunned, and Mingda was also shocked. "The medicine you gave them was immature?"
Manbao felt that if he sat any longer he would be exposed, so he stood up and slipped away, "I'm going to go greet other guests. You guys sit down first. If you need anything, tell Xibing and he'll get it."
Changyu and Mingda: ...
The two of them watched her slip away in silence for a long time.
Xibing went out to bring some food, and soon brought a group of people, all of whom were familiar to them. In addition to Zhao Liulang's wife and Mrs. Tang, there was also Liu Huan's cousin, who was a former friend of the two princesses.
They were all invited by Manbao to talk to them and divert their attention.
Changyu used his chopsticks to move the food on the plate without much appetite, put it down with a sigh, and suddenly smelled a mellow fragrance.
She sniffed, her eyes growing brighter, "Do you smell the fragrance?"
Madam Tang and the others sniffed it, then laughed and said, "I didn't notice it until Princess mentioned it, but now I can smell it. It seems to be the smell of barbecue."
As they were talking, a servant came up with a plate of hot venison and said with a smile, "The ceremony hasn't started yet. Our mistress was worried that the princess and the ladies would be hungry, so she sent some food over to fill their stomachs. Coincidentally, the kitchen had just finished roasting some venison, so I brought it over."
Chang Yu said, "It's not this fragrance. Please move it further away. You're blocking my scent."
Servant: ...
She silently stepped back with the barbecue in her arms. Chang Yu sniffed and said, "Yes, that's the smell. It smells like wine. What kind of wine do you use at home?"
Servant: ...
The one who brought the barbecue was an old servant of the Bai family. She had followed the old lady to Mianzhou since she was eight or nine years old, and from Mianzhou she followed her to the capital. Naturally, she knew what kind of wine they were using, so she bowed and replied, "We produce Shaochun wine in Mianzhou, which is very delicious. When our young master was ten years old, the old lady stored a batch of Shaochun wine in the cellar, saying that she would use it after the young master had finished the wine left by the old lady."
Bai Qi buried the wine for Bai Shan, but he had almost finished it when he passed the imperial examination and got married. Neither Old Lady Liu nor Bai Shan were willing to take out the remaining jar.
It just so happened that when Mr. Bai came to Beijing to attend their wedding, he specially brought with him the Shaochun wine that Mrs. Liu had stored in the cellar a few years ago. This year is exactly the tenth year.
The people below were also intoxicated by the smell of the wine, and exclaimed: "What a good wine, it smells mellow, but tastes soft, not spicy at all."
Chang Yu was already greedy, and when he heard people downstairs talking about it, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva and said, "I want to... smell it too."
Mingda: "...Sister, you are pregnant."
Chang Yu said aggrievedly, "So I just smelled it and didn't drink it."
Mingda was at a loss for words to refute, but she still said, "Smells can also affect the fetus. Why not ask Zhou Man if he can smell it?"
Mrs. Tang suddenly said, "The auspicious time is almost here. Bai Shan is going to have his coming-of-age ceremony, right?"
Upon hearing this, everyone quickly stood up and walked out the door, looking down. Just then, a steward came to greet them, "The auspicious time is approaching. Please move to the ancestral hall."
There is a spacious room in the backyard of Zhou's house that has been vacated to serve as an ancestral hall, where tablets from the Bai and Zhou families are enshrined.
Bai Shanzheng, with his hair loose, knelt before the ancestral hall. Mr. Zhuang, the honored guest, stood to one side. When the auspicious moment arrived, he took up his black cloth crown and combed his hair, blessing him: "On this auspicious day of the month, you are wearing your first clothes. I will give up my childhood name and cultivate your virtue. I wish you a long and healthy life and great happiness."
Mr. Zhuang put on a leather cap and blessed him: "In this auspicious month and day, I present you with honorable attire. May you be respectful and dignified, and virtuous. May you live a long life and receive eternal blessings."
When bestowing upon him the title of nobility, the emperor blessed him with the words: "In the right year, in the order of the month. May all be blessed. May your virtue be perfected. May the teachings of Huang Lao be boundless, and may you be blessed by Heaven."
Bai Shan bowed respectfully to Mr. Zhuang, then faced his father's tablet and bowed down, then turned around to pay his respects to Madam Liu and Zheng who were standing beside him in formal attire.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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