Qin Fang was quite helpless after hearing this. He half-squatted and took out a wooden box from his pocket, then handed it to Yang Haiyan: "May 18th is your birthday. I was in the barracks that day and didn't have time to come back to celebrate your birthday with you, so I made up for my gift. Yanyan, I wish you a happy birthday." When he took it out, he was still a little nervous, afraid that she would dislike it. At the market that day, he saw an old man buying a wooden hairpin, so he thought of carving a wooden hairpin for her.
However, it was not appropriate to use ordinary wood. He heard that there was a kind of wood with fragrance, so he asked General Ao to help him look for it in the county. General Ao entrusted Ao Yiren, and it took more than a month to find it.
During this month, Qin Fang learned to make wooden hairpins whenever he had time, and he finally learned it. Fortunately, Qin Fang was also good at using a knife, so it was not that difficult for him to carve wooden hairpins. But this month was difficult
for him.
Yang Haiyan looked at the wooden box in a daze. She hadn't received a birthday present for a long time.
Seeing that she was a little absent-minded, Qin Fang asked: "What's wrong? It doesn't matter if you don't like it. I will choose something else next time."
Yang Haiyan shook her head and smiled a little reluctantly, but this forced smile carried her happiness and her emotion. She had traveled through the book to here, and she had never cared about the original owner's birthday, so she didn't celebrate it. And in her previous life, she didn't know when her birthday was. When her grandmother was alive, she would celebrate her birthday every year, but that birthday was the day she picked her up, not her real birthday. After all, who could know the real birthday of an abandoned child? So after her grandmother passed away, she never celebrated her birthday, because it was not a real birthday, and she felt that it was meaningless to celebrate it.
Or maybe, there was still a sense of spite in her heart, and she didn't want to celebrate her birthday.
But she didn't expect that Qin Fang would prepare a gift. She opened the wooden box, and a faint fragrance came out, not like sandalwood, but with a timeless feeling. Yang Haiyan took out a wooden hairpin, a black wooden hairpin, low-key and mysterious, and there was a flying swallow carved on the wooden hairpin. When Yang Haiyan touched it with her hand, it was very smooth, and it was obvious that Qin Fang polished it very well. "Husband, please put it on for me." She handed the wooden hairpin to Qin Fang.
Qin Fang finally let go of his worries. He inserted the wooden hairpin into Yang Haiyan's bun. There was nothing on her bun originally, but with the wooden hairpin, she looked a little different. Qin Fang said, "Okay."
Yang Haiyan reached out and touched it: "Go get the mirror so I can look at it."
Qin Fang went to her dressing table and got the mirror. In fact, the bronze mirror is not as blurry as everyone thinks. The person reflected in the bronze mirror is still very clear, but not as bright as a modern mirror.
Qin Fang asked nervously, "How is it?"
Yang Haiyan said, "It looks good, thank you husband." With the wooden hairpin, she looked more gentle and beautiful, and she liked it very much. "I will wear it every day in the future."
Qin Fang's mouth corners slowly raised: "Okay."
Nanny Lian asked at the door: "Madam, is it time for dinner?"
Yang Haiyan put on her slippers: "Dinner is ready." The ankle still hurts a little. When walking, I always feel like snake saliva will flow all over my body. The sequelae are a bit serious.
Han's family
Yang Dahua has been pregnant for seven months, and this is the eighth month. Because of goat milk and eggs, her body is well nourished. Her belly is bigger than that of a woman who is also seven months pregnant, but it is not particularly big.
It was okay when the month was small, but now that the month is big, Han Zhen runs back and forth between the military camp and the family quarters, worried that something happened to Yang Dahua. Today, Han Zhen finished his night shift and came back early. He took a nap in the morning and the couple had lunch at noon.
Han Zhen said, "I'm free these two days. Your belly is getting bigger. Let's hire someone to take care of you for half a year until your confinement is over."
Yang Dahua was reluctant to hear this: "Won't this cost money?" After the confinement, she still had to take care of the child. In the next year, she would not be able to make money, so for her now, she was reluctant to spend a penny.
Han Zhen: "The money can be earned back, but what if you have a million? When I am on duty during the day, I come back at night, so you are safer. But when I am on duty at night, I am not at home. What if you have a million? Listen, let's go hire someone."
Yang Dahua also understood this principle, so she just grumbled a few words and did not refuse, because she cared about her children more than anyone else. "Well, but I have an idea."
Han Zhen asked: "What idea?"
Yang Dahua said: "It's troublesome for us to hire someone, why not ask the sister-in-law next door to take care of it, and we give her some money every month? We can trust people we are familiar with, and it is much more reliable than people from outside."
Han Zhen listened, and it made sense.
So after lunch, the couple went to talk to the centurion's wife next door about this matter. The wife of the centurion next door was naturally willing to listen. Her house was next door, and she could take care of her family while taking care of Yang Dahua. So they negotiated a price. The other party would take care of Yang Dahua three meals a day, including buying vegetables, washing clothes, cooking, etc., for two hundred coins a month.
Yang Haiyan knew about this immediately.
The day after Qin Fang's day off, he took Kunshi and other private guards to the mountains. Qin Fang was under a lot of pressure with a debt of six taels of silver, so he worked diligently to earn money on his day off. Qin Fang had only one way to make money, hunting, hunting, and hunting again.
But the private guards' families liked it very much, because when the adults went hunting, it meant that they had meat to eat.
In fact, other centurions would occasionally go hunting with their personal guards. However, none of them were as active as Qin Fang.
Qin Fang left early, and when Yang Haiyan woke up, he was gone.
"Madam..." Aunt Fan rushed over after delivering goat milk to Yang Dahua. Seeing Yang Haiyan eating breakfast and drinking wonton soup, she bowed and said, "Madam, when I was delivering goat milk to Madam Han today, I saw that Madam Han's family had invited someone."
Yang Haiyan didn't understand for a while: "Invited someone?"
Aunt Fan said, "That's right. Madam Han's belly is big, and she will give birth in a few months. It is inconvenient for her to work by herself, so she asked the wife of the centurion who lives next door to take care of her. The fee is two hundred coins a month."
Yang Haiyan said, "That's as she should. Giving birth is a big deal for a woman, and she needs to be taken care of more carefully when her belly is big."
Aunt Fan said, "That's right."
Aunt Fan and Nanny Lian both knew that Yang Haiyan and Qin Fang had not had sex. They didn't know whether they had a bridal chamber or not, but since they were bought by Madam, Madam and the master had not had sex. As experienced people, they knew it at a glance.
Aunt Fan was puzzled as to why the Madam and the Master did not have sex, but Aunt Lian knew that it was not good for a woman to get pregnant too early. But even if many women knew this, they would still be eager to get pregnant after marriage in order to win their husbands' hearts and to stabilize their status in their husbands' families.
Nanny Lian felt that it was better for her wife to live freely like this. Although the position of a thousand-man captain was low, it was a prestigious status in Yongzhou, in this family, and in this county town. No one would give the wife a cold shoulder.
Moreover, the Qin family was from the countryside, and the adults came from a poor family. The elders behind them would not suppress the wife, nor could they suppress her. Besides, the wife had her own means and abilities, and could make money. According to Nanny Lian, this was a good life. For the past six months, she had lived a happy life with the wife without any intrigue.
At noon, Qin Shoucheng finished his meal and looked at Yang Haiyan with hesitation. He wanted to say something, but felt embarrassed.
When Yang Haiyan saw Zhang, she asked curiously, "Shoucheng, do you have anything to say?"
Qin Shoucheng said, "Sister-in-law, the day after tomorrow is the birthday of my classmate Wei Yanglin, and he invited me to his house."
Wei Yanglin is the grandson of a landlord in the town. He is eight years old this year. Qin Shoucheng's classmates are younger than him because he started school later.
The Wei family is not engaged in business, but because they have more land, they are quite famous in the town.
Yang Haiyan heard it and said happily, "Since my classmate invited you to his birthday, I will go." Qin Shoucheng was very happy to make friends here. Moreover, Qin Shoucheng was really well-behaved and she didn't have to worry about anything. Whether he went to study in a private school or practiced martial arts with a private guard, he was very serious. Yang Haiyan was responsible for the three meals a day and didn't have to worry about anything on weekdays.
"So what should I prepare as a gift?" Qin Shoucheng was still very nervous and concerned when he was invited for the first time. In the past, when he was in his hometown, he didn't have to prepare anything when his friends invited him to play, but he also knew that classmates were different.
Yang Haiyan said, "Of course I have to prepare something. Do you have any ideas?"
Qin Shoucheng: "I'm going to give you a pen. I went to the library to look at it when I came back from school today."
Yang Haiyan said, "Then let Aunt Lian give you money later, and go back to buy the pen."
Qin Shoucheng shook his head quickly: "No need, sister-in-law, I have money, and I haven't used the monthly allowance you gave me yet." Yang Haiyan would give him a monthly allowance of fifty coins every month as his pocket money.
Qin Siya didn't know about this. She gave money to Qin Shoucheng because he was well behaved. In addition, in the private school, classmates sometimes had to socialize and buy food. If he didn't have money, it would be difficult to socialize. Qin Siya gave it as a reward for learning to read, without a monthly allowance.
In fact, it was also a disguised monthly allowance, just in a different way. After all, Qin Shoucheng didn't have a reward for learning to read - as I said, different people, different ways.
Yang Haiyan smiled and said, "Okay, go prepare it yourself. If you don't have enough money, tell my sister-in-law." She didn't force him.
Qin Shoucheng saw that his sister-in-law had no objection, so he happily said, "Yes, I'll go back to the east chamber then."
Yang Haiyan nodded, "Go ahead."
After Qin Shoucheng left, Yang Haiyan said to Nanny Lian, "It's a rare birthday for Shoucheng's classmate, we can't lose face for him, and we have to prepare a gift. Nanny, what do you think we should prepare?"
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