They say that confinement is like giving birth. Chen Heng didn't get out of bed for several days during this period. She woke up to eat, ate and slept. She had no milk, so the child was taken care of by two wet nurses. She wanted to hold the child, but her sister-in-law wouldn't let her. She just put the child next to her to lie for a while so that she could recuperate first.
Every day she drank the decoction prescribed by the imperial physician to expel lochia, followed by chicken soup and broth. The eldest sister-in-law even specially invited the best chef in the imperial capital to come over, and the dishes he made were really appetizing. Shen Heng was doing pretty well now.
Furthermore, Nanny Feng insisted on giving her massage every day to invigorate her blood circulation. After interacting with people for half a day, she no longer felt tired as easily as before.
"Yuqing, you are about to give birth, why don't you go home and rest?" Shen Heng saw Min Yuqing and Madam Wu coming to congratulate them and went to greet them.
"She said, 'You're just sitting around doing nothing. I'm here to watch over you.'" Mrs. Wu doted on her daughter-in-law.
"I can't stay alone." Min Yuqing saw people coming one after another, so he smiled and said, "You go ahead and do your work. I'll go find Yun Zhao."
Wu Jin talked to Xie Jian for a few words, and when he saw his wife walking towards the other side of the garden, he hurriedly followed her.
"Sir, Madam, Lord Lu is here." Li Hu said beside him.
Shen Heng looked over and saw Lu Ji'an getting off the carriage. What was rare was that Yu Wei and Gu Feng were accompanying him today.
When greeting, Lu Ji'an found that Shen Heng had been staring at his hair. He felt a little puzzled, but he didn't ask anything. When he entered Xie's house, he couldn't help but touch his hair. It was clean, but there were a lot of wisps.
Almost all the officials in the court came to this full moon banquet, which was divided into three halls according to their official ranks.
Shen Heng exchanged pleasantries with the ladies from time to time.
The young girl and the little boy could not sit still, so the maids took them to the garden outside to play.
In the middle of the banquet, Ah Chan came over and whispered, "Madam, the Eighth Prince left the table in anger."
After Shen Heng offered tea instead of water to the lady who came over to toast, she stood up and walked aside, asking in a low voice, "What happened?"
"The eighth prince's wife's brother committed a crime and was arrested by Lord Lu. The eighth prince wanted to take this opportunity to ask Lord Lu to let him go, but Lord Lu did not agree." Achan told what she had heard.
The Eighth Prince's wife didn't come to the banquet, saying she had betrayed her parents. It seemed she had committed something serious. Shen Heng was surprised: "Why would the Eighth Prince bring up this matter in such an occasion? And even leave in anger?"
"I don't know."
After the banquet, many people said goodbye.
Wu Jin and the Min family also left first.
Just as Chen Heng and Xie Jian were seeing off the Meng family, a servant came running up, breathlessly saying, "Master Xie, Madam Xie, I'm a servant from the Wu family. On the way home, the carriage from Prince Ning's mansion suddenly stopped us. Madam Min was frightened and is probably in labor. Liu Xi is still holding them back, so my son asked me to ask Master Xie to help."
"What?" Chen Heng pursed her lips. If Liu Xi knew that Yu Qing was his biological sister, he would regret it to death.
"Let's go and take a look." Xie Jian turned to Li Huyu and said, "Explain the reason to the remaining adults."
"yes."
When Xie Jian, Shen Heng, Meng Xuanlang and Mrs. Peng were leaving the Wu family's carriage, they saw Min Yuqing getting off the carriage with his hands covering his stomach. When Liu Xi said he was going to hit Wu Jin, he slapped him hard.
The slap startled everyone.
"Mrs. Min's water has broken." Nanny Feng was sharp-eyed and noticed something unusual in the dark.
"Liu Xi, you're getting more and more mischievous as you grow older." Meng Xuanlang really wanted to punch Liu Xi in the face. This guy knew about the relationship between him and Wu Jin, and they had even played together before, yet he could do such a thing.
"Yuqing is about to give birth, hurry back to the mansion, hurry back to the mansion." Master Wu and his wife were not afraid of offending Prince Ning's mansion. They just regretted that they did not bring guards with them when they came out, and they were stopped and could not do anything. Now that the reinforcements have arrived, they will go back to the mansion first to discuss everything.
Wu Jin angrily stepped forward and punched the stunned Liu Xi again, shouting in a voice never harsher than before: "If anything happens to my wife and child, I will not forgive you." He then shouted to Xie Jian and the others: "Ajian, Xuanlang, I will thank you another day."
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