"It must be due to the influence of food culture; the people of Jin prefer sweets." Leng Qingning picked up a spicy rabbit head and handed it to Wen Yanche.
“Yes,” Jin Yan agreed.
"The last time I saw the young prince, he seemed to like spicy food too?" Lu Shiyi remembered that he could eat spicy food.
"I eat everything, meat or vegetables. I've been in the army for years, so I don't care about such things. Sometimes, two steamed buns and a sip of cold water are enough to satisfy my hunger."
"Your Highness is unconcerned with trivial matters; I admire you greatly."
Jin Yan nodded casually and continued eating.
Lu Shiyi made small talk, chatting casually with Jin Yan...
After finishing her meal, Langyue came out with a smile and faced her husbands.
"My lords, Your Highness, I have some good news to announce."
Upon hearing this, everyone looked up at him curiously.
Leng Qingning became interested. "What good news?"
Wen Yanche lowered his head slightly and smiled softly.
"Your Highness, gentlemen, our lord suddenly felt unwell around midnight last night. I immediately summoned the imperial physician to examine his pulse, and the physician said... our lord is pregnant."
"Oh, really?" the husbands exclaimed in surprise.
Lang Yue nodded, "The imperial physician diagnosed that the nascent spirit pearl within the Lord's body has begun to take shape. It has been in its current form for over a month, which is why the Lord can sense its existence."
Leng Qingning looked at Wen Yanche with surprise and delight, "Husband, you..."
Wen Yanche smiled and nodded, blinking his tender eyes in affirmation.
"Congratulations, my lord." The husbands, though surprised, immediately put on smiles and offered their blessings to Wen Yanche.
Sang Yu smiled sweetly, "Congratulations, my lord!"
"Congratulations," Jin Yan said with a faint smile.
"Thank you all." Wen Yanche replied with a smile.
"Ah Che, this is wonderful! We're going to have a baby!" Leng Qingning was extremely excited. After more than two years of marriage, they were finally pregnant!
It was incredibly moving.
"My lord, are you feeling unwell anywhere?" Gu Nanshu asked with concern.
Hearing his question, Leng Qingning immediately thought of what Kong Xuanzi had said: when a reclusive man is pregnant, he will often feel weak. The micro-spiritual energy in his body will automatically nourish the spiritual pearl. During this period, the pregnant man must be especially careful not to get injured, otherwise the wound healing speed will be greatly slowed down.
Besides that, there seems to be nothing else.
Leng Qingning asked with concern, "Husband, were you feeling unwell last night? Were you injured?"
"No."
Fearing she would worry, Wen Yanche explained, "I am not injured. I just feel a slight pain from the initial formation of the spiritual pearl in my body. The imperial physician said that this is normal and that I will no longer feel anything after the spiritual pearl is fully formed in three months."
"Mild contractions?" Leng Qingning lowered her eyes in thought. "Will I feel weak?"
"I only feel weak occasionally, not to the point of exhaustion."
"So, do you feel nauseous and want to vomit? Do you have swollen limbs or a loss of appetite with cravings for sour or spicy foods?"
Wen Yanche shook his head, wondering why she asked that. "No." Although it was his first pregnancy, he, as a man, had never heard of these symptoms.
The husbands also looked puzzled.
Leng Qingning felt strange, "How could that be?" Could it be that the symptoms of pregnancy experienced by reclusive men are different from what she knows about pregnancy?
Kong Xuanzi briefly touched on this point and didn't elaborate further.
Seeing her puzzled look, Gu Nanshu asked, "My lady, where did you hear this from?"
Meng Xu raised a question: "Yes, my lady? Why do you always have some strange and unusual ideas? We've never heard of any of these things you're talking about. We men only experience some discomfort when the spirit pearl is not fully formed during pregnancy. We servants don't know about other things. How do you know?"
Hearing Meng Xu's words, Leng Qingning suddenly understood. So that's how it is. She really hadn't looked into this matter. She then made up a story: "Alas, I read it in a book called 'Guide to Male Fertility.' I don't know who wrote it, but I believed it all along. Now it seems that it was just a fabricated book of nonsense."
The husbands chuckled, realizing their wife had been tricked.
"No wonder my wife always has such imaginative ideas; I never imagined she was reading these wildly imaginative novels," Gu Nanshu teased.
"Even my sister can get scammed!"
"Yeah, hahaha." Leng Qingning responded awkwardly, going along with everyone's words.
At this moment, only Wen Yanche and Cang Yuan reacted. They thought of Xiao Ning. The former remembered what Master Kongchen had said, and the latter remembered the changes in the sky. Immediately, a look of understanding appeared in their eyes.
However, the difference is that Wen Yanche knows the whole story, including that it was Xiao Ning, not Leng Qingning, who stayed at Kongmen Mountain for fifteen years, while Cang Yuan only knows that Leng Qingning and Xiao Ning briefly swapped souls for a period of time after the changes in the sky.
There were some questions Wen Yanche really wanted to ask Leng Qingning. Ever since he learned about Leng Qingning's background, he had guessed that those poems or works were probably not written by Leng Qingning, but by a literary giant from another world.
He didn't seem to mind.
He simply wanted to know whether the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a true historical event or just a fictional book, and what kind of characters and stories were behind those poems and prose.
Exploring unknown knowledge is one aspect, but secondly, he wants to learn more about the places where Leng Qingning once lived in order to gain a deeper understanding of her.
Just then, a familiar voice drifted through the gauze curtain into the ears of the husbands in the private room.
"Amu, this is it."
Wen Yanche's pupils suddenly contracted, and at the same time, everyone in the private room made different noises.
The husbands instinctively craned their necks to look through the gauze curtain, their eyes widening instantly, each revealing a different expression.
Was it him?
How did he find his way here?
Sang Yu was somewhat confused, so he fell silent and followed the gaze of the crowd. He saw two tall and slender figures walking over, one of whom seemed to be wearing a golden mask, making him look very mysterious.
After recognizing the person outside the corridor, Jin Yan's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly, and he then looked at Leng Qingning.
Immersed in joy, Leng Qingning belatedly raised her head and looked towards the door.
Two men were seen walking towards the observation deck directly opposite the private room through the gauze curtain, talking as they went.
"Your Excellency, along our journey, whenever there is a Yellow Crane Tower, you insist on eating here. Don't you ever get tired of it?"
Amu was somewhat helpless during this journey. He didn't understand why they had to take the land route when the waterway led directly to Dayue. What should have been a journey of less than a month was dragged out to two months before they arrived in Jin Kingdom.
"Not greasy." The deep voice carried a hint of calm, sounding much gentler than before.
"My lord, why must we take the land route? If we had taken the water route, we would have reached Dayue long ago."
"I am willing!"
"Okay." Whatever makes you happy...
As the two stepped onto the observation platform, the two voices gradually faded.
Upon seeing this, one of the husbands murmured softly, as if he had already seen through it all.
"Who are they? Do you brothers know them?" Sang Yu asked the group, looking puzzled.
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