Chapter 86 Pregnancy "She is so clever and clever, why not give her to Lu Nian..."
Chapter 86
Not long after Princess Liyang and her husband got married, good news came out one after another in the capital.
First, it was discovered on the wedding day that the Third Princess Jingwei was pregnant; then the marriage of the Third Prince and the Queen was finalized; then the Fourth Prince and General Gu went on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions to represent the Dayan royal family; now there is also good news from the East Palace, the Crown Princess is pregnant!
When the princess's residence received the news, Lin Zhiyi was fighting with Jing Yue with swords.
She only had three days left of her honeymoon leave, and she and Jingyue had a lot of fun in the past month.
Except for the few days when she was injured and recuperating, she did not practice martial arts. Later, after her wounds healed and the imperial physician confirmed that her practice would not be affected, she slowly picked up the original owner's martial arts again.
Jingyue naturally accompanied her.
Jingyue helped her consolidate the martial arts needed in this era, and she taught Jingyue refined moves such as boxing and Sanda.
The two are each other's teachers and grow together.
During this period, Lin Zhiyi provided ideas and drawings for his eldest sister to sell novel products; helped his third sister and booksellers to customize a plan for operating storybooks; and worked with his fourth sister to customize suitable glasses for three talented elders in Beijing - including Liang Yongfeng, the president of the Hanlin Academy, who was recommended by Xie Junnuo.
Of course, the glasses were sold in a shop under her name, and the elder sister was in charge of negotiating with customers.
From testing eyesight to making glasses and then trying them on for correction, she and her fourth sister did everything themselves.
The Lin Guogong Mansion was once quite famous among the nobles in the capital.
Miss Lin Er went to the Western Regions with General Gu. I'm afraid there will be another female general in the future.
Miss Lin opened a novel and interesting shop and had a pleasant cooperation with her cousins from the Mu family;
Miss Lin Si's creativity is extraordinary. Her creations are very good for viewing, fun, and even educational. The chess set is very popular among children.
As for Miss Lin San, her beautiful handwriting and talent for writing were also well-known among the ladies in Beijing...
The noble families speculated that it was probably because Young Master Lin had become a prince consort that Duke Lin no longer restricted his unmarried daughters at home.
——This requires you to put in a lot of effort to choose a son-in-law carefully!
When Xie Junnuo helped Liang Yongfeng get glasses, he met Lin Zhiqin a few times;
When Xie Junxing helped his grandfather get glasses, he often communicated with Lin Zhihua;
Zhou Bokai took advantage of his younger brother Zhou Mingyan's visit to get his glasses fine-tuned, and unexpectedly, he had a very pleasant conversation with Lin Zhiqin...
Lin Zhiyi once secretly asked her elder sister which one she liked.
Lin Zhiqin fiddled with the abacus in distress, muttering absentmindedly, "I prefer silver and gold..."
Lin Zhiyi: "..." Very good, the elder sister has already had the basic awareness of a modern female CEO.
After exchanging moves with Jingyue, the two of them stopped their moves one by one, smiled at each other, and their eyes were affectionate, as if they were hooks, making people's hearts itch.
Jing Yue took the handkerchief she had prepared in advance and walked over to wipe Lin Zhiyi's sweat, smiling brightly: "You were distracted just now, what were you thinking about?"
Lin Zhiyi tilted her head to let Jingyue wipe her sweat: "I'm thinking about my elder sister... I don't know which one she likes."
Jing Yue couldn't help but shook her head and smiled bitterly when she heard this.
It is indeed difficult to decide on the marriages of the daughters of Duke Lin.
He had known about this when he had changed bodies, and he had personally read the list of candidates for a son-in-law that Duke Lin had handed him. Recently, when he had accompanied Lin Zhiyi to the shop, he had also witnessed the interactions between Zhou Bokai, Xie Junnuo, and Lin Zhiqin...
Xie Junnuo is such a gentleman, very serious.
Zhou Bokai is too cheerful and doesn't care about trivial matters.
It’s really hard to choose.
On the other hand, Xie Junxing and Lin Zhihua are like-minded and even have a bit of a bickering relationship.
Recently, there has been a subtle ambiguity between the two people in their every move, and the relationship is progressing rapidly.
"Give Big Sister a little more time." Jing Yue could only console her in this way, "Don't be anxious."
Lin Zhiyi smiled and said, "Of course I'm not anxious. It's Dad and Mom who are anxious."
As an open-minded and enterprising female boss, she would never do anything disgusting like urging someone to get married.
Even if her elder sister never gets married, she will support her.
At worst, she can support her for the rest of her life.
What's more, the elder sister is so powerful and has a very rich treasury of her own, so she probably doesn't need to support it.
Jing Yue got a glimpse of the strangeness of the other world from her few words.
He couldn't help but think, if it weren't for the strange combination of circumstances that brought him here, and the imperial decree granting him marriage, and making him a 'future prince consort'... Pian Pian would have been more carefree, right? Carefree enough not to fall in love or marry easily...
How lucky he was... to have met her.
Jing Yue looked at Lin Zhiyi gravely. Lin Zhiyi blinked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Jing Yue's eyes curved slightly: "Nothing."
Lin Zhiyi was always confident. She attributed Jing Yue's distraction to her own charm, which had captivated the little prince. So she didn't ask any more questions and only discussed the more important matter with him: "What gift should we prepare for the Crown Prince?"
Jing Yue sighed: "I don't know either."
These trivial matters after marriage are the most annoying.
However, he didn't know that Lin Zhiyi was not good at it either.
"Then go home and ask mother tonight." Lin Zhiyi suggested.
Jing Yue hesitated for a moment: "...Okay."
It is indeed more comfortable to go to the Duke's Mansion to ask the "mother-in-law" than to go back to the palace to ask the mother.
I don’t know what Pianpian said to his mother, but his mother has been very fond of him recently.
What can be speculated is that it certainly does not indicate his male identity.
Mu Hanyan, worthy of being the Duke's wife, gave appropriate advice -
"If you're planning on preparing gifts, focus on picking out gifts for the Crown Princess and the baby. You can't go wrong."
Both of them were intelligent and insightful people, and after Mu Hanyan gave them a few pointers, they understood everything.
If the gift is prepared to please the prince, people with ulterior motives will label you as a princeling.
It is only prepared for the pregnant princess and the baby, and is a legal interaction under the name of "family affection".
Lin Zhiyi and Jing Yue went to Lin Zhihua's Xuanji Building and took away a set of chess toys from her.
The White Dew Festival has passed and the weather is getting cooler. Lin Zhiyi picked out a set of rouge and powder for the Crown Princess for seasonal skin care.
However, the next day, when she was helping Jingyue draw his eyebrows to accentuate his feminine features, she suddenly changed her mind: "You should keep the rouge and powder. I'll get two sets of storybooks for the Crown Princess to read."
Jing Yue's cold phoenix eyes showed a hint of smile: "Okay."
Lin Zhiyi glanced at his thick, long eyelashes and said, "You agree to everything I say, without asking me why?"
Jing Yue said calmly, "Pregnant women are the most careful about what they eat, wear, and use. Giving things like rouge and powder to use on the face is useless, and might even give them a handle, so it's not appropriate. It doesn't matter what I said."
"It's just that... the storybook looks very cheap." Lin Zhiyi said, "Why don't you draw a picture yourself?"
Jing Yue: “…No.” Neither the Crown Prince nor the Crown Princess deserves to own a painting written by him.
He only painted for Pianpian.
Lin Zhiyi: "...Okay."
Then I had no choice but to choose a famous painting by a famous artist and send it over.
Fortunately, the Crown Princess is also a lady from a prominent family, talented and beautiful, so her appreciation ability should be pretty good?
Cheng Manyu did like the paintings and time-killing novels sent from Princess Liyang's Mansion.
But she preferred the chess set given to her unborn baby... It was interesting and novel, and it was perfect for killing time.
"Your Highness... I heard that this was done by the fourth daughter of Duke Lin's mansion. She is so clever and resourceful, why not ask Lu Nian to help match them up?"
Jing Zhuowen had played chess with Cheng Manyu a few times over the past two days, and it was indeed quite entertaining. However, he was reluctant to help Cheng Lunian get together with the Fourth Miss Lin: "Have you forgotten what he did? He wouldn't even agree to match someone with the Duke of Lin's mansion, even if you wanted to."
"Nothing is absolute." Cheng Manyu gently stroked her belly and sat down. "If Liyang can find a good marriage, why can't Lu Nian?"
Jing Zhuowen hugged her, his large palm resting on the back of her hand and her lower abdomen. "Lu Nian is proud and arrogant, and has always coveted Li Yang. He's been fighting and losing time and again. Now that Li Yang's marriage is settled, it'll take him some time to figure it out... If I try to arrange a marriage for him now, I'm afraid I'll run into a snag."
Cheng Manyu listened and finally figured it out—
"Your Highness seems to appreciate Miss Lin Si more, and he seems reluctant to part with her. If Your Highness really likes her, I am happy to arrange for her to be your concubine."
Jing Zhuowen lowered his head and kissed her neck, whispering, "My beloved concubine, when you're jealous, I love it the most."
Cheng Manyu slightly avoided his kiss, a cold look between her brows, but she still spoke with a smile: "I'm not jealous, I just happen to be pregnant, so it's inconvenient for me to serve Your Highness during this period... Having more sisters is a relief for me."
Jing Zhuowen looked at her expression and asked, "Are you serious?"
Cheng Manyu said, "Of course, Your Highness will give the order. So what if it's the Duke's Mansion? Now that the young master has become a consort, shouldn't Duke Lin quickly make some plans for the Lin Mansion? It would be wise to rely on Your Highness as a strong supporter."
Jing Zhuowen smiled and shook his head, "Forget it. You knew full well that the Emperor didn't like us princes marrying Duke Lin, yet you still asked me to take Miss Lin as a concubine... My beloved concubine is certainly jealous, but you're so jealous that you're trying to get me involved too."
Cheng Manyu: "Your Highness always says nice things to coax me... If His Highness ascends to the throne one day, won't I be left behind by all the other sisters?"
Jing Zhuowen: "How can there be so many sisters? The Eastern Palace now respects you as the most respected. If you give birth to a son for me, no one in the entire Dayan Dynasty will surpass you."
"Your Highness just knows how to coax me..." Cheng Manyu was happy with his coaxing, so she lay in his arms and tacitly allowed him to kiss her for a long time.
Her hands gently stroked her slightly protruding belly, and she prayed silently in her heart, hoping that this baby... would be a boy.
In this way, no one can shake her position.
The Crown Prince was now twenty-seven years old, yet childless. Firstly, Emperor Longshun had forbidden him from having children too early, and secondly, in his early years, he had focused his attention on the women in his harem, striving to secure the crown prince position. Perhaps one or two concubines had given birth to daughters, but they were secretly sent away, never raised in the Eastern Palace. Cheng Manyu pretended not to know.
Anyway, she is the legitimate Crown Princess, and the child she gives birth to will be the eldest grandson recognized by his father.
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