"Chu'er, do you still have that Nan Ke wine you asked me to try last time? Ahem... I want a few more jars." Liu Jian asked Liu Shichu in a low voice, looking around from time to time, furtively.
Liu Shichu couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother, my sister-in-law doesn't allow you to drink too much, but you still sneakily come to me to ask for wine. Don't let me get scolded by my sister-in-law."
Liu Jian coughed lightly and said seriously, "I don't want to drink the wine myself, I want to entertain guests. The last time you gave me the jar of Nan Ke wine, Old Man Li came to me and couldn't forget it after drinking it once. He asked me for it many times. Can't I refuse it? Chu'er, for Old Man Li's sake, give me a few jars of Nan Ke wine..."
The old man Li he mentioned was his good friend, the Minister of Rites Li Yu. Li Yu had indeed come to see Liu Jian, but Liu Shichu didn't know whether he had ever drunk Nan Ke wine. After all, her elder brother racked his brains to think of a way to get wine to drink.
"Brother, I don't want to be scolded by my sister-in-law for aiding and abetting evil, so just give up on this idea. But I can secretly give you a small jar. You have to hide it well and can't be discovered by my sister-in-law, otherwise I will never give it to you next time. I mean what I say." Liu Shichu reminded with a serious face.
"Okay, I will keep it well and won't let your sister-in-law find out. But one jar is too little, can Chu'er give me a few more?" Liu Jian begged pitifully. He was already old but still acting like a spoiled child with his sister. If people saw him, they would say he was disrespectful. Fortunately, although he was fifty years old, he was still tall and handsome with a handsome face. He was not an eyesore.
At least Liu Shichu found it quite useful, so she got excited and really gave Liu Jian an extra jar: "I really can't give you more..."
Liu Jian's face lit up immediately, and he quickly picked up two jars of wine and left. As he left stealthily, he said to Liu Shichu, "Brother really loves you well."
Liu Shichu rolled her eyes, but in order to avoid being discovered and scolded by her sister-in-law, she also gave her sister-in-law two jars of wine.
After brewing wine for a while, Liu Shichu's confidence in opening a wine shop soared. She immediately converted a tea shop that had been doing sluggish business as her dowry into a wine shop, and renovated it in advance, determined to make her wine shop the best in the capital.
While Liu Shichu was busy with his career, Jiang Wenyue began to notice something wrong with his body.
"Ugh—" Jiang Wenyue couldn't help vomiting as soon as she smelled the breakfast. The nanny beside her quickly brought the spittoon over and said with a worried look on her face: "Madam, what's wrong with you? Did you catch a cold last night? Can we ask a doctor to come back and take a look later?"
Jiang Wenyue finally finished vomiting. She felt so uncomfortable that she was exhausted. She nodded and said, "I don't know what's wrong. I just want to vomit. Let the doctor take a look."
The nanny then brought water for Jiang Wenyue to rinse her mouth, and told the maid to call a doctor.
"Madam, besides feeling nauseous, are you feeling any other discomfort? Does your stomach hurt?" the wet nurse asked her with concern.
Jiang Wenyue shook her head: "No, I felt much better after vomiting. It's really strange. Maybe it's not a serious illness. Bring me breakfast. I'm hungry."
The maid brought a bowl of wontons with minced fish to her. Perhaps the cook didn't cook the wontons well, Jiang Wenyue smelled a fishy smell. She immediately felt sick again and couldn't help but dry heaving a few times. She waved her hand and said, "Take these wontons away!"
Seeing this, the maid hurriedly took the wontons away. Jiang Wenyue was already so disgusted that tears welled up in her eyes. After finally catching her breath, she angrily said, "Who made that bowl of wontons just now? The fishy smell was not even removed. Fine him half a month's salary!"
When the wet nurse heard her say this, she remembered that Cui Anhua often came to her wife and locked her in the room for most of the day. Her heart skipped a beat and she couldn't help but make a bad guess.
She hurriedly drove everyone else out, and then worriedly whispered to Jiang Wenyue, "Madam, it seems you haven't changed your clothes this month? You're a few days late, right?"
Nanny's words were a little cryptic, and Jiang Wenyue didn't understand her hint for a moment, so she said nonchalantly, "Maybe? My period is sometimes late or early, isn't that normal?"
"Oh, madam, think about what happened when you were pregnant with the eldest daughter!" The wet nurse finally broke the news.
"What happened at that time? Nanny! Are you saying... I'm pregnant?" Jiang Wenyue finally reacted and said in astonishment.
She touched her belly in a daze and murmured, "Am I pregnant again? It's Cui Lang's child..."
"Madam! You should now think about what to do with the child if you are really pregnant." The wet nurse reminded her.
"What should I do? Of course I should give birth to the child. Cui Lang said that he would definitely marry me, and now I have a child. Could he go back on his word?" Jiang Wenyue blurted out. She knew how infatuated Cui Anhua was with her. Now that she had Cui Lang's child, it would be strange if Cui Lang was not ecstatic. When he finds out, he will definitely propose to her as soon as possible!
"In this case, Madam should tell General Cui as soon as possible, otherwise her belly will be big by the time of the wedding." The wet nurse immediately thought of letting Cui Anhua marry Madam as soon as possible. After all, the fact that Madam is pregnant before marriage cannot be known to others, otherwise Madam's reputation will be ruined. Even if she successfully marries into the Cui family in the future, it will become a lifelong stain on her and the unborn little master.
After hearing this, Jiang Wenyue knew that her marriage with Cui Anhua could not be delayed any longer, so she nodded and said, "I will tell Cui Lang."
Not long after, the doctor came and confirmed that Jiang Wenyue was pregnant. After Jiang Wenyue asked the doctor to keep it a secret, she sent someone to find Cui Anhua.
When Cui Anhua learned that Jiang Wenyue was pregnant, he was immediately overjoyed. He hugged Jiang Wenyue and said excitedly: "Yue'er, you really have my flesh and blood in your belly... It's great, this is our child together, I will definitely train him well in the future and train him to be a man who can stand tall and proud!"
Jiang Wenyue also gently tapped his chest tenderly and said coquettishly, "How do you know it's a man? What if it's a girl?"
"My daughter is also my darling! No matter it's a son or a daughter, as long as she is born by you for me, she is my most precious child, and I will leave everything I have to her in the future." Cui Anhua vowed, not remembering that after the divorce, everything he had now had shrunk a lot and was only 20% of the Cui family's original assets.
"Cui Lang, you are so kind. Meeting you is a blessing for my whole life... Now I have your child, this is a treasure bestowed upon me by God, the fruit of our love." Jiang Wenyue caressed her belly tenderly, full of maternal radiance.