Chapter 317 Qi Yanzhou Proposes to Ye Chutang
While Qin Muyun and Jie Yi were eating a lunch that made them feel worse than death, Ye Chutang was eating fresh garlic vegetables.
"As expected, vegetables should be eaten fresh!"
Although the cabbage is well stored, the heart is still very fresh.
But it doesn't taste very good in your mouth.
Qi Yanzhou smiled and teased: "If you didn't know, you would have thought you hadn't eaten vegetables for a long time."
Ye Chutang often took out fresh vegetables from the space and cooked them.
But those are naturally different from the vegetables we watch grow every day.
"The ones you pull from the garden yourself are naturally fresher and more tender."
After saying that, she looked at Qi Yanzhou.
"Can I buy some land? I want ten acres, all of which I want to build a glazed greenhouse."
Qi Yanzhou's eyes widened, "Atang, do you know how big ten acres is?"
"Of course, after all, I grew up in a country farm. Is it hard to buy land, or is it impossible to build a glazed greenhouse?"
"Neither. If you want to build it, then build it. After the Lantern Festival, I will go buy the land. Do you have any requirements?"
Ye Chutang shook his head, "No, as long as I can grow something, that's fine."
Of course she knew that not many people in Tianshan County could afford the expensive vegetables.
But the North is vast, and there are many counties and cities where vegetables cannot be grown in winter, so it is not difficult to sell vegetables.
Moreover, she not only grows vegetables, but also out-of-season fruits.
After all, no matter how poor a place is, there will always be rich people.
As long as it is not planted on a large scale, there is no need to worry about sales.
Seeing that Ye Chutang had no requirements for the land, Qi Yanzhou said, "Then I will buy land closer to the county town."
"Okay, you decide."
“Should we stock up on some vegetable seeds first?”
Ten acres of land is not a small area, and it can be used to grow several crops a year. The vegetable seeds probably have to be packed in sacks.
Ye Chutang put a piece of vegetables into Qi Yanzhou's bowl with chopsticks.
"No, there are seeds in 'Ghost Thief'."
"What about fertilizer and anthelmintics?"
"No need, I had already prepared everything before coming to Tianshan County."
Qi Yanzhou also picked up some of Ye Chutang's favorite dishes.
"Okay, then I'll go prepare the fertile land and the workers needed to build the glazed greenhouse."
Just as he finished speaking, he remembered something.
"Atang, ten acres of land is a large area. If we lay underground heating pipes all over it, the amount of wood and coal burned in winter will be immeasurable."
Ye Chutang has already thought of a solution to this problem.
"When next spring comes and it becomes more convenient to travel, I will go find a coal mine and burn as much coal as I want."
Qi Yanzhou: “…”
The lady was so amazing that he was speechless.
Ye Chutang added, "If we don't pursue quick growth of vegetables, we can grow some cold-resistant vegetables, and the required wood and coal will be much less."
Qi Yanzhou agreed with this point.
"Okay, let's do as you said and lay ground dragons in the ten acres of glazed greenhouse."
After the deal was settled, the two focused on eating.
After eating, the two went for a walk in the back garden to digest the food.
Ye Chutang's belly was so big that the servants avoided her when they saw her.
I was afraid that touching her would cause the baby to be born prematurely.
The road surface in the back garden is dry and salted, so snow and ice will not accumulate.
Qi Yanzhou walked with Ye Chutang for a while and found that her breathing became a little rapid.
He quickly asked with concern: "Atang, are you feeling unwell?"
Ye Chutang also realized that something was wrong with him.
The fetal movements were particularly frequent today, as if reminding her of something.
But she had no contractions and her water didn't break.
She immediately took her own pulse.
Pulse is strong, no issues.
Ye Chutang breathed a sigh of relief, put down his hand, and said, "Maybe she's about to give birth, and her body is a little weak."
Twins are rarely carried to full term.
But thanks to Amira's blessing, the child is still safely in her belly.
Although she didn't feel the burden of her pregnant belly, it didn't mean her body didn't suffer.
Otherwise her body wouldn't be swollen.
Qi Yanzhou picked up Ye Chutang and said, "Go back to your room and rest. Don't move around before you give birth."
Ye Chutang leaned on Qi Yanzhou's shoulder and said with a smile: "I'm digesting my food, I'm not moving around."
"There are other ways to digest food, not just walking."
After returning to Tangzhou Courtyard, Qi Yanzhou was worried and took Ye Chutang's pulse personally.
He felt relieved only after he was sure that she was healthy and the child was fine.
"Atang, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me."
Ye Chutang cherishes the two children in her belly more than Qi Yanzhou.
She nodded affirmatively, "Don't worry, the baby and I will be safe during the birth."
After that, she touched her belly and asked, "By the way, have you thought of a name for the baby?"
She had already told Qi Yanzhou that the children were twins, a boy and a girl.
Qi Yanzhou had already come up with five pairs of names.
"Yuan, Yule, Jinyu, Jinchu, Jinghuai, Jingxi, Shiyan, Shiyi, Zhiyu, Zhinian."
(My dears, which couple do you think sounds good?)
Ye Chutang thought both were good. "After the baby is born, let them draw lots themselves."
After listening to this, Qi Yanzhou chuckled.
"It's good to choose your own name."
Ye Chutang remembered that the neighboring country was going to launch a large-scale attack on Beichen Kingdom in winter.
She asked, "Is there any movement in the neighboring countries recently?"
Speaking of this, Qi Yanzhou thought of the news about the northern barbarians brought by the Qi family army.
He gently touched Ye Chutang's head, "There won't be any movement. The Northern Barbarians are in complete chaos, and the neighboring countries all know that it was my doing."
Now, he has troops in Linzhou City in the northwest, Ningguta in the northeast, and Nanjiang in the southwest.
The east and south sides are adjacent to the sea, so usually only pirates come to attack, but they are not able to cause any trouble.
He used the northern barbarians as an example to scare the monkeys and intimidate neighboring countries.
Neighboring countries will not take any action against Beichen for the time being.
Ye Chutang yawned, "It's good that I won't take any action. I can spend the New Year peacefully."
After saying that, she lay down for an afternoon nap.
Qi Yanzhou tucked in the quilt for her and left the room.
The Qi Mansion has been decorated very festively, with red lanterns and New Year decorations everywhere.
Shan'er and Jinzhi were cutting paper-cuts, chatting and laughing.
Qi Yanzhou called Nan Xiao and said, "Start setting up. Be gentle and don't wake up Atang."
"Yes, Master."
The winter in the northwest is very bleak. The green plants at home are some evergreen trees and various plum blossoms.
Adding some decorations made of red paper can also make it festive.
But Qi Yanzhou has something important to do today, and ordinary decorations are not enough.
He had previously asked Nan Xiao to send people south to deliver some cold-resistant flowers at full speed.
The flowers are fragrant and colorful.
Jinzhi and Shan'er didn't think much about it, thinking that it was their first time celebrating the New Year in Tianshan County, so they wanted to make it grand.
Until Nan Xiao took out some flowers made of colorful tulle.
"Shan'er, I think something is wrong."
Shan'er also felt that the dress was a little too exquisite.
The key is that it doesn’t match the atmosphere of the New Year.
Qi Yanzhou met the two people's puzzled looks, raised his fingers and pressed them on his lips.
The two understood.
It turns out that she was dressed up for the young lady to see.
Jinzhi asked quickly, "Son-in-law, do you need our help?"
"No, just take care of your own business."
Shan Er held up the paper-cut in her hand and asked again, "Son-in-law, are you still cutting this paper-cut?"
"Cut it and paste it tomorrow."
After Qi Yanzhou finished speaking, he went to the study.
When he came out again, he was holding a stack of red paper-cuts in his hand.
He took a bowl of paste and pasted the paper-cuts on the window himself.
This paper-cut is not a window paper-cut, but a small portrait of a person carved by Qi Yanzhou himself.
These are the little things that happened after he and Ye Chutang met.
Of course, he concealed the part where the fire poison broke out and he had physical contact with Ye Chutang in the cold pond.
The scene starts after Qi Yanzhou returns to Beijing from southern Xinjiang.
He reprimanded Princess Anping in Wanbao Pavilion and rescued Ye Chutang.
In the Poetry Chanting Tower, Ye Chutang played "Ten Sides of Ambush" and he composed the music.
When a plague broke out in Jiangnan, Ye Chutang came up with a good remedy for preventing and treating the plague.
The emperor forced Ye Chutang to marry him, and she defeated all the noble ladies in Prince Chen's mansion.
Knowing that she was pregnant, he discussed their marriage and took her to hunt wild geese.
Wearing a phoenix coronet and a red bridal gown, she requested to be exiled.
…
Qi Yanzhou used paper-cutting to depict all the important events that happened during his time with Ye Chutang.
Shan'er and Jinzhi were shocked after reading it.
"Uncle, you are amazing."
"It's great that the young lady has found a good husband."
"But it's Chinese New Year, what's the purpose of putting up these paper cutouts, uncle?"
Jinzhi guessed the reason and a smile appeared on her face.
"To make the young lady happy."
Ye Chutang slept for an hour before waking up.
She sat up, stretched, and drew aside the bed curtains.
The room had not changed much, except for two pots of fragrant orchids and some flowers tied with colorful gauze.
"Shouldn't we use red silk to decorate the New Year? Why is it colorful gauze?"
Ye Chutang muttered to himself, then got up from the bed and went to the bathroom to wash his face.
She heard a noise in the yard and wanted to help.
But when she pushed the door open and saw the paper-cut on the door, she was stunned.
Qi Yanzhou stood in the center of the inner courtyard, holding a red cloth embroidered with blessings and hanging it on the wintersweet tree.
Seeing Ye Chutang staring at the paper-cut on the door, he smiled and asked, "Atang, do you like it?"
Ye Chutang turned around and looked at Qi Yanzhou who was smiling brightly.
“Did you make all these paper cutouts?”
After she finished speaking, she realized that there were many more flowers in the yard, and it was decorated to be festive and romantic.
A word suddenly popped into my mind.
Proposal.
She put away her thoughts and nodded calmly.
"I like it. These paper cuttings must have taken you a lot of time, right?"
"It's okay. I made it in my spare time. Thinking back to everything that happened between us, I finished it quickly."
Qi Yanzhou lied. In order to carve these paper-cuts, he often worked until midnight.
Ye Chutang asked, "Why do you suddenly want to make these paper cuts? And these colored yarns, why decorate like this?"
"Because I want to ask Ah Tang to marry me again today."
After saying that, he took out a bunch of flowers from under the bushes and walked in front of Ye Chutang.
"Ah Tang, the previous wedding was a show for the emperor, it wasn't perfect. I want to marry you again, okay?"
Ye Chutang looked at the flowers in front of him and asked instead of answering, "Did Sun Chu teach you this?"
Qi Yanzhou couldn't describe what he felt at the moment.
The person he holds dearest to his heart, he doesn't know as well as an outsider!
"Yes, the understanding and tacit understanding between you and Sun Chu is beyond my reach, so I went to ask him."
After saying that, he handed the flower forward.
"Do you like it?"
Ye Chutang smelled a hint of jealousy.
She leaned closer to Qi Yanzhou, stood on tiptoe, and kissed his lips lightly.
"Of course I like the gift you gave me. I've agreed to the marriage. After I've finished my confinement and recovered a little, I'll pick a good day to get married."
Qi Yanzhou was immediately coaxed into smiling and his brows relaxed.
"Okay, I'm already preparing, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory wedding."
Ye Chutang accepted the flowers and said with a smile: "We have to find a vase to put the flowers in."
"Qingping, go do it."
"Yes, Patriarch."
Qi Yanzhou was afraid that Ye Chutang's hands would feel cold holding the flowers, so he took the flowers back.
Then he took her hand and showed her the paper cutting.
The wind blows through the corridors, blowing the colorful gauze, making it flow beautifully.
The two of them standing hand in hand form a beautiful scene in themselves.
After watching the paper-cutting, Ye Chutang sighed: "Time flies so fast. In a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed."
After traveling through time and space, she seemed to have never stopped.
Fighting the Ye family, fighting the royal family, being exiled, all kinds of dangers followed one after another.
Fortunately, we arrived safely in Tianshan County and settled down.
Before she knew it, nine months had passed and she was about to give birth.
Thinking of this, Ye Chutang's hand fell on his stomach and touched it.
Only by giving birth to a child can one be said to have taken root in this strange world.
***
The next day was New Year’s Eve.
Ye Chutang and Qi Yanzhou got up early.
The two of them were wearing festive red clothes, like a newlywed couple.
Although the Qi Mansion had been cleaned, the Qi family still took brooms and swept the courtyard.
It means to sweep away the bad luck, evil spirits and disasters of the old year and welcome good luck and fortune.
Then they put up door gods to ward off evil and misfortune.
After a simple lunch, the Qi family went to worship their ancestors together.
The tablets of the Qi family's ancestors had long been sent to Tianshan County, and the ancestral hall had also been built.
The man, his wife, and his legitimate daughter would enter to burn incense, kneeling three times and kowtow nine times.
Others knelt outside and kowtowed.
Ye Chutang's health did not allow him to kneel down, so he just burned incense.
Although the ancestor was dissatisfied with this, he had no reason to blame Ye Chutang.
If they forced Ye Chutang to kneel down and caused her to have a premature birth, their second branch would probably be kicked out.
After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, the masters began to give rewards to their servants.
Ye Chutang only prepared one hundred taels for Shan'er and Jinzhi.
The remaining servants in the first house were all taken care of by Old Madam Qi.
After arriving in Tianshan County, Qi Yanzhou didn't want Ye Chutang to work too hard, so he let the old lady take over the power of managing the household temporarily.
After distributing the rewards, the servants went to the kitchen to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.
The Qi family were talking and chatting in the main hall.
Since the last unpleasantness, the two families haven't had dinner together.
The second wife was invited twice, but the first wife found excuses to decline.
But with the second wife's constant attempts to please her, the relationship between the two families became much closer.
So when we get together and chat, there are still many topics to talk about.
The Chen family’s mother and daughter were also there.
They were already very familiar with the Qi family and were not restrained at all.
Chen Ruoyun's external injuries have improved a lot, but her body still needs good care.
Now that I can walk, I just can’t overwork myself.
She kept staring at the door, as if waiting for someone.
Ye Chutang guessed who Chen Ruoyun was waiting for.
She had noticed before that her attitude towards Song Jingning was unusual.
So, she asked bluntly, "Miss Chen, are you waiting for Master Song?"
Chen Ruoyun is not a shy person. She has a cheerful personality and speaks her mind directly.
She nodded, "Yes, Mr. Song said he would come to the Qi family to have the New Year's Eve dinner today. It's already past 11:00, why hasn't he come yet?"
PS: Listen to everyone's twins' names: Jing Huai, Jing Xi
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