On the twenty-third day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Jingtai, the weather cleared up after several days of continuous rain.
Wei Yang was taking a walk in the garden of Yan Mansion accompanied by Yan Gui. The imperial physician had advised her to walk every morning and evening.
On rainy days, Weiyang walked back and forth in the house.
Today, the sky cleared up after the rain, and Yan Gui helped her take a walk in the garden.
Su Changle followed a few steps behind him. In the past few days, Su Changle did not leave the Yan family. Wherever Yan Gui and Wei Yang went, he followed them. He did not go home at night and stayed at the Yan family.
Su Muchen would bring his newly married wife here every day, eat lunch and dinner, and then go back.
Wei Yang knew that they were afraid that she would give birth in the next few days. Yan Gui did not dare to leave even a step and followed Wei Yang.
At this moment, the garden was still deserted, with no leaves sprouting and no flowers blooming. After walking around, Su Muchen led his wife over, and the people in dresses surrounded Wei Yang and returned to the yard in a mighty procession.
"Aunt Jiu, please make another portion of the egg drop and fermented rice dumplings you made yesterday today."
As soon as Su Muchen opened his mouth, his wife secretly pinched him, but he was thick-skinned and was used to eating at Jiu Gu's house, so ordering food was nothing.
Hearing this, Wei Yang glanced at him and happened to see his wife retract her hand. She couldn't help but smile knowingly: "Xiao Cao, go talk to You Lan and ask her to make a few bowls of egg drop wine dumplings."
Su Muchen quickly bowed: "Thank you, Aunt Nine."
They were all family, so the thank you was just a perfunctory gesture. Only Su Changle curled her lips and said, "Xiao Cao, tell Youlan that I don't want to eat rice dumplings with egg drop and fermented rice wine. I want to eat rice dumplings with osmanthus and fermented rice wine."
Wei Yang couldn't help but chuckle: "Then let You Lan do both and we can try them all."
Xiaocao responded and retreated.
Yan Gui doesn't like this kind of sweet food, so Youlan specially made a portion of egg drop wine dumplings, a portion of osmanthus wine dumplings, and a portion of wontons and sent them over.
Everyone was not polite and tried the dumplings and wontons. After they finished eating, Yan Gui started to prepare the roast lamb.
Weiyang is going to go into labor in the next two days, so she should eat and drink as needed while her stomach doesn't hurt. As soon as the baby is born, she will have to stay in confinement and won't be able to eat anything.
Wei Yang also asked someone to invite the old general over.
The old general is different from other elders. He never puts on airs and everyone likes him when he is with young people.
Yan Gui killed and skinned the sheep first, Su Changle and Su Muchen prepared the rack, and Wei Yang and Su Muchen's wife chatted with the old general.
Li Shujuan pondered for a while, and couldn't help but whispered, "Aunt Jiu, when are you planning to go to Chuzhou?"
Wei Yang looked at Li Shujuan and saw a bit of inquiry in her eyes. Even General Yan couldn't help but look at her.
"You don't want to go to Chuzhou?"
"No." Li Shujuan moved closer: "It's the aunt at home. I'm afraid the night will be too long and there will be more dreams."
Weiyang, my hand holding the teacup tightened slightly, Jade Concubine.
Years ago, the imperial concubine Yu caught a cold and died two days later. However, the Su family brought back a widowed cousin a few days ago, saying that her husband had died and she had no children, so her in-laws had driven her back. Her natal family had fallen into decline, so she came to seek refuge with her cousin Su family in the capital.
The Su family originally closed their doors to visitors, so no one saw this cousin's arrival, and there was no news from the outside world.
"It's okay." Wei Yang smiled and poured a cup of tea for Li Shujuan: "Let's set off in March or April. It's not far anyway. It will only take 20 to 30 days by car."
Li Shujuan stopped talking, but she was still a little worried in her heart.