Chapter 144: West Lake Vinegar Fish Pregnancy (Two chapters combined into one, 4000 words)
The fame of her uncle had spread to the capital, and Su Ruojin didn't know that she dealt with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar every day. She hurried to look at the signature on the painting, which was written in seal script as "Caotang Jushi" and "Shaobai".
Confucius once said: Comfort the old, cherish the young, trust friends, and take the middle word "young";
White means plain, which means using a single color - ink to depict objects. It can also be said that the white-drawing technique often leaves many blank spaces for people to fully develop their imagination besides the outlined lines and images, which can be called "leaving blank space".
Su Shaobai!
A large freehand painting of "Dongshan Academy" was personally presented to Master Su.
Su Yanzu bowed and said modestly: "It's just a random doodle. I hope you won't laugh at me."
"Shaobai is too modest. I would like to thank you for the gift on behalf of the dean. On the first day of May, there will be a literary gathering at Dongshan Academy. If Shaobai is free, please come."
"That would be disrespectful!"
Su Ruojin: ...
Su Yanzu is talented, good at dancing and tactful. He seems to be born for this. Although he is different from his introverted father, their literary spirit is the same.
We are brothers indeed.
Why didn't she inherit the talent of the old Su family? No, she also inherited the wealth of the old Su family.
It’s just that this talent is not the same as that wealth.
"Let's go!" Su Yanzu flicked his niece's head with his finger.
Su Ruojin: ...Even the way he flicks his head is just like his father.
But he is not her father, she glared at Su Yanzu angrily.
Su Yanzu laughed, "Can you be angry and go back to the capital? Then you can be angry slowly, I'm leaving first."
Su Ruojin turned her head and saw that the crowd had dispersed at some point. She looked at the sun again and saw that it was almost moving to the top of the mountain, reflecting the forest and mountain in red, with a myriad of colors, which was magnificent.
Siping was right, this was a great place to enjoy the scenery, but unfortunately she didn't have time to see it and turned around to look for someone.
Zhao Lan appeared in her sight.
If we return late, the only person who can make an exception and open the city gates is the prominent Prince Zhao.
She smiled sweetly and ran over, "Little Prince, it's getting late, are you going back or not? Otherwise, shall we go together?"
Zhao Lan: …It’s confirmed that he’s a tool.
Girl, does it need to be so obvious?
The young lady puffed up her lips in grievance and said, "I came home late, I'm afraid Dad will worry."
Zhao Lan: ...Come on, you’re still threatening him with the Master.
The group returned to the city.
After entering the city, Su Yanzu and his niece went their separate ways. Su Ruojin wanted to get off Zhao Lan's carriage, but Zhao Lan wouldn't let her. He sent her all the way to Su's house and even got off to have a meal.
Lu Dani cooked dinner, which included poached chicken, West Lake vinegar fish, scrambled eggs with leeks, fried tofu, stir-fried chicken greens, and soybean stewed pig's trotter soup. It was a combination of meat and vegetables, nutritious and delicious.
The West Lake vinegar fish was especially delicious, sweet and sour, tender and tasty, which pleased Zhao Lan so much that he ate two more bowls of rice with the sour and sweet fish.
Shuangrui secretly asked Lu Dani for the recipe of this dish.
Lu Dani told him that the key to making this dish is: "Starve the grass carp for two days to let it excrete the grass and soil it has eaten. This way the fish meat will be firm and taste better when eaten."
Shuang Rui smiled, "It seems that Madam Lu has inherited the true teachings of Madam Er."
Lu Dani smiled modestly, thinking that she had to learn better so that when the young master wanted to open a restaurant, she could help. She subconsciously reached out and touched her stomach. When she went to the fish market to buy fish yesterday morning, she thought she was irritated by the fishy smell. Unexpectedly, she vomited again when cooking fish today. I guess...
After dinner, Zhao Lan and Su Yanli went to the study.
The two maids who followed handed the towel to Cheng Yingzhen and Su Ruojin respectively.
Cheng Yingzhen waved her hand and said, "You are the young prince's servants." Meaning, don't serve me.
Chun Xiao smiled and said, "Madam, from now on I will be a servant of the Su family."
Cheng Yingzhen looked at her daughter in surprise.
Su Ruojin said, "The young prince thought I didn't look grand enough when I went out, so he insisted on selling two to me."
Chunxiao: ...
Qiuyue: ...
The young prince clearly asked the young lady to stay out of the house, so how did it become considered unpresentable?
Cheng Yingzhen frowned, she was used to the life in a small family with a simple population. Once there were more maids, she always felt like she was back to her childhood, the depressing life where she was bullied by all kinds of maids and old women.
Seeing that her mother was unhappy, Su Ruojin hugged her arm and said, "Mom, let's try it first, and then we can give it back to the young prince."
When the two maids heard this, they knelt down in front of the two men and said, "We will serve you with all our heart and soul." The implication was that they would not give the new masters a chance to retreat.
Su Ruojin: ...
Cheng Yingzhen grabbed her daughter's arm with her backhand, patted her mother gently, and said to the two of them, "I hope so!"
"Thank you, Master."
Su Ruojin asked Mao Ya to take them to the place where they were settled. There was only an empty room on the west side, so she put the two of them there.
The mother and daughter returned to the bedroom, and Su Ruojin comforted her mother: "They are maids from the Jin Palace, and they are definitely different from the previous Bo Mansion. Don't worry that they will be unruly."
"I am afraid that the slave will bully the master."
The slaves coming out of Prince Jin's Mansion are all powerful.
"Then let's test my daughter's ability to control the big slave." Su Ruojin changed her method to persuade her mother, "After I marry into my husband's family, I will be able to handle it with ease, mother, don't you think so?"
Cheng Yingzhen was persuaded, but she felt something was wrong. How could a young prince and a young man take care of the servants of a young lady? How could he be more like a maid than her? Are all the young princesses from high-ranking families like this?
After the young prince left, Cheng Yingzhen immediately told him about Zhao Lan sending two maids, "Sir, how can a young man like him get involved in matters in the inner chambers?"
After the two maids followed into the Su family, Su Yanli thought they were Zhao Lan's maids. For this reason, he secretly complained. He didn't expect that the students were just like the young masters in the wealthy families nowadays. He never thought that they were actually given to his daughter.
The mood changed immediately.
"Maybe he saw that the maids around Ajin were useless." Su Yanli didn't expect that the nobleman's student would be so thoughtful. "When Mao Ya was bought, it was for Ajin's safety when traveling, but he really needs a decent maid to take care of household affairs and business. Since the young prince is so enthusiastic, just keep her."
My husband is not worried, and Cheng Yingzhen is not worried either.
But there was still one thing that worried her. Cheng Yingzhen subconsciously covered her belly and said, "Sir, when are you going to tell Ah Jin about the pregnancy?"
Su Yanli and his wife both felt that their beloved daughter did not want them to have any more children. One reason was that the family already had enough children, and the other was that Cheng Yingzhen's health had just recovered and she was pregnant again. They were afraid of disappointing their daughter and making her sad.
It has been almost two months, and Cheng Yingzhen and his wife dare not say a word.
Mrs. Ding brought Xiao Silang in. Seeing that the couple looked afraid of their daughter, she laughed, "You're already pregnant, what else can you do? I don't believe Ajin can teach you to abort it." If she had known her daughter would be sad, she would have done something long ago.
After living in the Su family for so long, Ding finally realized that the only way her daughter and son-in-law could live such a wealthy and leisurely life was thanks to her capable granddaughter. The couple must have been blessed in their previous lives to have such a capable daughter.
Su Yanli blushed at his mother-in-law's anger.
Cheng Yingzhen felt guilty.
The couple sat under the lamp, staring at each other, neither of them dared to say anything.
"Luckily you didn't react to this pregnancy."
Cheng Yingzhen understood what he meant, but she didn't dare tell her daughter. She just sat there and waited for her daughter to discover her belly because it could no longer be covered.
"Will this...?"
Su Yanli stroked his forehead, "It's all my fault."
Cheng Yingzhen: ...One hand cannot make a loud noise, it's her fault too!
The couple sighed under the lamp, not knowing how to face their daughter during the day.
After a tiring day, Su Ruojin comfortably got into bed with Qiuyue's care and went to chat with Zhou Gong.
In her dream, someone called her, but she couldn't hear clearly because of the thick fog. She didn't know what they called her. It seemed like...
Early the next morning, Chun Xiao Qiu Yue entered the room before Mao Ya to serve Su Ruojin, even washing her face. She thought to herself, if this goes on every day, will she even have to feed him in the future?
Chun Xiao heard her worry and chuckled, "Then did Second Madam see that the young prince needed someone to feed him?"
Su Ruojin: ...Shuangrui is serving the dishes, which is almost the same as feeding her.
But in the end, I put it into my mouth.
Fine! But she insisted on washing her face herself. She was really afraid that she would be wasted by the waitressing.
After washing up and standing in the corridor, before I had time to stretch, Lu Dani rushed out from the kitchen opposite me and ran to the泔水桶 and started vomiting violently.
Su Ruojin: ...
He quickly ran across the courtyard to the other side, "Aunt, are you pregnant?" The young lady's face was full of joy, "Does my uncle know?"
Early in the morning, Shutong went out shopping and was not at home.
Mao Ya brought some water and helped Lu Dani rinse her mouth.
Lu Dani wiped the water stains from the corners of her mouth and said embarrassedly, "I smelled fishy yesterday morning, and I'm not sure if it was true."
"That's for sure." Shu Tongshu had a child at the age of 30. Su Ruojin was happy for him and was very excited. She quickly asked Mao Ya to take the money and said, "After breakfast, go and ask the doctor to come to our house to check your pulse."
"No...no..." Lu Dani waved her hands, "Wait for Brother Tong to come back, and we'll go to the clinic by ourselves."
"How can that be? This is my uncle Shutong's first child, so he has to be treated with pampered care." Su Ruojin waved her hand and said, "Sister Maoya, please go there and ask the child to call you aunt when he is born."
Mao Ya covered her mouth and smiled, "Okay."
Lu Dani felt full of happiness from being cared for. After she vomited and took a breath, she continued to work in the kitchen. Su Ruojin stopped her and said with a smile, "Thank you for your kindness, Madam, but we are used to doing this, it's okay."
"How can that be possible?"
"It's OK." Lu Dani was deeply moved by Su Ruojin's cautiousness. "My mother... everyone around me went through this."
Su Ruojin: ...
When it comes to having a baby, as long as the fetus is stable, it seems that there is no need to be so careful. Well, proper labor is beneficial to childbirth.
"From now on, don't do heavy work like fetching water. Do something easier."
Lu Dani was very grateful: "Thank you, Second Madam."
Su Yanli and his wife stood at the door of the bedroom and watched the whole process. Their daughter was very happy about Shutong's child, and she was very happy about the couple...
The two looked at each other and did their own things silently.
They are also afraid of having a little chef’s daughter at home, okay!
Mrs. Ding looked at her useless daughter and son-in-law, and for some reason she wanted to laugh.
The sky grew from dim to bright. Hua Ping pushed open the door of the Su family and taught Su Ruojin and the servant how to practice martial arts as usual. After Su Dalang went to the academy, that position was taken by the five-year-old Su Sanlang.
The cute little kid didn't learn the same tricks as Mao Ya. He now practices the basic skills - standing still, every day without fail. Originally, Hua Ping was not motivated to teach the two little girls, but since Su Sanlang no longer worked for three days and rested for two days, Hua Ping's attitude became much more serious, and he implicitly regarded Su Sanlang as his last disciple.
That's really meticulous.
Su Yanli stood in the corridor and looked for a while, then turned around to eat breakfast. After breakfast, Shu Tong came back with his shopping and sent him to the Imperial College.
But today the master said he didn't want him to take him there, "I'll go there on foot by myself."
Shu Tong asked, "Young lady, are you going to Wenshan Street today?"
Su Ruojin replied loudly, "No."
"Then I'll take you there, sir."
Su Yanli waved his hand.
It's time to buy a horse and let Dad get on with it.
Su Ruojin smiled and said, "Uncle Hua, don't rush to leave after breakfast today."
"What?"
"I want to buy a horse for my father and help with the military advisory."
"Can."
Su Yanli was about to go out, but when he heard his daughter's words, he turned around and smiled. What a caring little girl. But when he thought of his pregnant wife, he instantly felt guilty and quickly turned around to go on duty.
The little cotton-padded jacket sometimes leaks air, so it’s better to escape quickly.
Shu Tong took a bowl of breakfast and squatted in the corridor to eat. While eating, he asked, "Young lady, where do you want to buy a horse?"
"I don't know. Anyway, let Uncle Hua Ping take me there." Su Ruojin said with a smile, "I'll give you a day off today. Do whatever you want."
"Holiday?" Shu Tong was stunned. "Why?"
Su Ruojin still didn't say anything, "No reason, I just want to give you a holiday."
Hua Ping didn't know that Lu Dani was pregnant, and frowned, "You want to torment me again?"
Su Ruojin giggled, waved her hand, and asked him to lean over and listen. "My aunt is pregnant, but Uncle Shutong doesn't know yet. Maoya will ask the doctor to come back and confirm it later. By then, he will be so happy that he will not know where to go."
Hanahira: ...Giving birth to a daughter? I'm so envious!
An hour later, the doctor arrived. Just as Su Ruojin had expected, Shu Tong was so happy that he couldn't help jumping up and down in the courtyard, just like a little boy, which made people laugh and cry.
Su Sanlang pouted, "I didn't even see where the little brat was, why are you all so happy?"
Everyone: ...
The doctor said the baby is over one month old and everything is fine. Except that he should not lift heavy objects, everything should be as usual.
Shu Tong refused, "I have to buy delicious food for my wife."
Su Ruojin was very upset. "Uncle Shutong, it's not that I don't want to spend money. If you feed the child too big, it will be my aunt who will suffer. I won't agree to that."
Shu Tong asked stupidly, "The food is good, why do I suffer?"
His wife didn't eat well when she gave birth, and her health has deteriorated since then, but he won't allow that.
He forgot what the Su family's living standard was like in the past and what it is like now. Besides, Lu Dani's physique is different from Cheng Yingzhen's, so she can't be given any supplements casually. It is better for the child to be thinner in the mother's womb so that it will be easier to give birth. But if the child is too fat, there was no caesarean section in ancient times, and it would be extremely dangerous for both adults and children.
Su Ruojin rolled her eyes and said, "Aunt, you talk to him yourself." She didn't want to be a bad person, so she took Hua Ping with her and asked him to drive the mule cart to go out and buy a horse.
While her daughter was busy, Mrs. Ding quickly stopped the doctor who was about to leave and said, "Please take my wife's pulse too."
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