Qin Fang listened, feeling quite helpless. He half-squatted and took out a wooden box from his arms, and then handed it to Yang Haiyan: "May 18th is your birthday, and I was in the military camp and didn't have time to come back to spend your birthday with you, so I made up for it with my gift. Yanyan, I wish you a happy birthday." When he took it, he was 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 that had a fragrance, so he asked General Ao to go to the county town to help him look for it. General Ao entrusted Ao Yiren to look for it for more than a month and found it.
During the past month, Qin Fang had learned to make wooden hairpins whenever he had time, and he finally learned how to do it. Fortunately, Qin Fang was also good at using a knife, so it was not that difficult for him to carve wooden hairpins.
But these past few months have been difficult for him.
Yang Haiyan looked at the wooden box in a daze. She hadn't received a big gift for a long, long time.
She was a little absent-minded, so Qin Fang asked, "What's wrong? It's okay if you don't like it. I'll choose something else next time."
Yang Haiyan shook her head and smiled reluctantly, but this forced smile carried her happiness and emotion. She had never paid attention to the original owner's birthday since she came here, so she had never celebrated it. 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 child that the grandmother picked up from her, not her real birthday. After all, who can know the real birthday of an abandoned child? After her grandmother passed away, she had never celebrated her birthday, because it was not her real birthday, and she felt that it was meaningless to celebrate it.
Or maybe, she was still feeling angry and she didn't want to go on like that.
But she didn't expect Qin Fang to prepare a gift. She opened the wooden box, and there was a faint fragrance coming from it, not like sandalwood, but it had a long-lasting feeling. Yang Haiyan took out a wooden hairpin, a black wooden hairpin, low-key and mysterious, with a flying swallow carved on it. When Yang Haiyan touched it with her hand, it was very smooth, but Qin Fang polished it very well. "Sir, please help me put it on." 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, it looked a little different. Qin Fang said, "Okay."
Yang Haiyan reached out and touched it: "Go get a mirror so I can look at it."
Qin Fang went to her dressing table and brought back a mirror. In fact, the bronze mirror was not as blurry as everyone thought. The person reflected in the bronze mirror was still very clear, but not as bright as a modern mirror.
Qin Fang asked nervously, "How is it?"
Yang Haiyan said, "It looks great, thank you, sir." Wearing the wooden hairpin, she looked even more gentle and elegant, and she liked it very much. "I will wear it every day in the future."
Qin Fang's mouth corners slowly raised: "Okay."
Aunt Lian came to the door and asked, "Madam, is it time to eat?"
Yang Haiyan put on her slippers: "It's time for dinner." Her ankle still hurt a little. When she walked, she felt like the snake's saliva was flowing all over her body. The aftereffects were quite serious.
Han Family
Yang Dahua has been pregnant for seven months, and this is the eighth month. Because goat milk and eggs are nutritious, her body is well nourished, and her belly is bigger than that of other women who are also seven months pregnant, but not particularly big.
It was fine when the month was young, but now that the month is long, Han Zhen runs to the military camp family quarters every now and then, worried about Yang Dahua getting into trouble. Tonight, Han Zhen finished his night shift and came back early. He took a nap in the morning, and the couple had lunch together at noon.
Han Zhen said, "I'm free these two days, and your belly is getting bigger, so let's hire someone to take care of you for half a year until your confinement is over."
Yang Dahua listened and felt reluctant: "Doesn't this cost more money?" After the confinement, she still had to take care of the baby. In the next few years, she would not be able to earn money. Moreover, for her at the moment, she was reluctant to spend even a copper penny.
Han Zhen: "The money can be earned, but what if you have a million? When I am on duty during the day, you can still feel at ease when I come back at night. But when I am on duty at night, I am not at home. What if you have a million? Listen, I will go and hire someone."
Yang Dahua also understood this principle, so she just grumbled a few words and did not refuse, because she loved her child more than anyone else. "Well, but I have an idea."
Han Zhen asked: "What's your 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 can give her some money every month? We can trust people we are familiar with, and they are much more reliable than those we find outside."
Han Zhen thought it made sense.
So after lunch, the couple went to talk to the centurion's wife next door about this matter. The centurion's wife next door listened and was naturally willing. Her family lived next door, and she could take care of Yang Dahua while taking care of her family. So she negotiated the price. The other party took care of Yang Dahua's three meals a day, including buying groceries, washing clothes, cooking, etc., for two hundred coins a month.
Yang Haiyan knew about this immediately.
The next day after Qin Fang's rest, he took Kun Shi and other private guards to the mountains. With a debt of six taels of silver, Qin Fang was under great pressure, so he went to make money even after his rest. Qin Fang had only one way to make money, hunting, hunting, and hunting again.
However, the private guard's family was very happy because when the adults went hunting, it meant they had meat to eat.
In fact, other centurions would occasionally go hunting with their personal guards, but none of them were as active as Qin Fang.
Qin Fang left early, and Yang Haiyan didn't care about him when she woke up.
"Madam..." Aunt Fan rushed over after delivering goat milk to Yang Dahua. Yang Haiyan was having breakfast and drinking wonton soup. She bowed and said, "Madam, when I was delivering goat milk to Madam Han today, I found that Madam Han's family had invited someone."
Yang Haiyan didn't understand for a while: "Hire someone?"
Aunt Fan said, "That's right. Mrs. Han is pregnant and will be pregnant in a few months. It's inconvenient for her to do the work herself, so she asked the Centurion's wife next door to take care of her. It costs two hundred coins a month."
Yang Haiyan said: "That's as it should be. Pregnancy is a big deal for a woman, and she needs to be taken care of more carefully when she's pregnant."
Aunt Fan said, "That's right."
Aunt Fan and Aunt Lian both knew that Yang Haiyan and Qin Fang had not had sex, and she didn't know whether they had a wedding night or not, but since she was bought by the Madam, the Madam and the Master had not had sex. As someone who had experienced it, she knew it just by looking.
Aunt Fan didn't understand why the Madam and the Master didn't 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 getting married in order to win their husbands' hearts and 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 well-known status in Yongzhou, in the family housing, and in the county town, and no one would look down on her wife.
Moreover, the Qin family is from the countryside, and the elders behind them will not suppress the wife, nor can they suppress the wife. Moreover, the wife has her own means and abilities, and can make money. According to Nanny Lian, this life is good. For the past six months, she has lived with the wife like this without intrigue, and it is also happy.
At noon, after Qin Shoucheng finished his meal, he looked at Yang Haiyan hesitantly, wanting to say something but feeling embarrassed.
Yang Haiyan was surprised and asked curiously, "Shoucheng, do you have anything to say?"
Qin Shoucheng said: "Sister-in-law, the guy behind is my classmate Wei Yanglin's boyfriend. He invited me to his house to play."
Wei Yanglin is the grandson of the town's wealthy family. He is eight years old this year. Qin Shoucheng's classmates are all younger than him because he started school later.
The Wei family did not engage in business, but because they had many merchants, their merchants were quite famous in the town.
Yang Haiyan heard this and said happily, "Since my classmate Chen invited you, you should go." She was very happy that Qin Shoucheng could make friends here. Moreover, Qin Shoucheng was really well-behaved and she didn't have to worry about anything. Whether he was studying in a private school or practicing martial arts with a private guard, he was very serious. Yang Haiyan didn't have to worry about his daily life except for taking care of his three meals a day.
"Then should I prepare any gifts?" Qin Shoucheng was still very nervous and concerned when he was invited for the first time. When he went back to his hometown, his friends invited him to play, so he didn't need to prepare anything, but he also knew that classmates were different.
Yang Haiyan said: "Of course we have to prepare. Do you have any ideas in mind?"
Qin Shoucheng: "I'm going to give you a pen. I went to the study to have a look when I came back from school today."
Yang Haiyan said, "Then let Aunt Lian give you some money later, and go back to buy the pen."
Qin Shoucheng hurriedly shook his head and said, "No need, sister-in-law. I have money, and I haven't used the monthly allowance you give me yet." Yang Haiyan would give him a monthly allowance of fifty cents every month as his pocket money.
Qin Siya didn't know about this. He gave it to Qin Shoucheng because he was well behaved. In addition, sometimes classmates in the private school would have to socialize and buy food. If he didn't have money, it would be difficult to socialize. Qin Siya was given the money as a reward for learning to read, and there was no monthly allowance.
In fact, it is also a monthly allowance that has changed, but in a different way. After all, Qin Shoucheng has no more rewards for recognizing words. Different people have different ways.
Yang Haiyan smiled and said, "Okay, go and prepare it yourself. If you don't have enough money, tell my sister-in-law." She didn't force her.
Qin Shoucheng's sister-in-law did not object and said happily: "Yes, then I will go back to the east wing."
Yang Haiyan nodded: "Go ahead."
After Qin Shoucheng left, Yang Haiyan said to Aunt Lian, "It's a rare occasion for Shoucheng's classmate to come, we can't lose face for him, we have to prepare some gifts. Aunt, what do you think?"