Chapter 177: Pregnancy
Meng Ruimo said, “Mrs. Zheng’s mother’s family was very good in previous decades, and there have been several officials above the third rank. Now the highest ranked uncle in the field as a minister, an elder brother is the deputy ambassador of the General Administration Department, other sons and daughters are not high. It is said that the Grand Princess initially fancy her is gentle nature, He family and prosperous, He family girl also more male children ……”
Jiang Yi Shih coldly hummed, “He family girl will be born male, that person back to the house not a few times, Mrs. Zheng also really gave birth to a boy. In fact, Mrs. Zheng is also a poor person, not attracting her husband’s love, and the Grand Princess is strong.
“If she is really as soft and harmless as she appears to be, and is just unwilling to let her family associate with our siblings, then I am at peace with her. If she counts that man’s indifference towards him on my mother’s head and retaliates against Xun’er and I, I won’t be polite either.”
Zheng Xuemo nodded and said, “I won’t be polite either if she dares to harbor bad thoughts.”
He came closer to Jiang Yishi’s face to take a closer look, “Look closely, you and Uncle Zheng really do have a slight resemblance.”
Jiang Yishi was a bit annoyed, breaking away from Meng Zhimo’s arm to sit up straight, muttering, “Who resembles him. They say whoever raises a child is like him, I’m like my father.”
Meng Zimo took her into his arms again, “Yes, you look like father-in-law. Luckily, father-in-law was smart enough to push back your birthdate by three months, so no matter how they did the math they wouldn’t have thought that you would be Uncle Zheng’s descendant. You should try not to go to the Grand Princess’s residence in the future, and also try to minimize your dealings with Eldest Miss Zheng.
“As for Uncle Zheng, my grandfather saw him as a son and disciple, and I count him as a close friend. King Ping, in particular, greatly admires him …… You can have no interactions with him, but in public and private I will continue to socialize with him. Don’t worry, I won’t reveal this matter in front of him ……”
Jiang Yishi knew it was impossible to keep Meng Zhimo from socializing with him. The two talked late into the night and made out before resting.
The next day after asking for peace, the front yard came to report that Zheng Yu had arrived, and also delivered a letter and gift that Zheng Tingting had asked Zheng Yu to bring. Meng Zhimo went to the front yard to see him.
In the letter, the little girl said that she went to Zhaoming nunnery for incense two days ago and stayed there overnight. She also visited Li Zhenbao, who had lost weight again, and the two of them only spoke a few words before she was asked to leave.
The gift was two small bamboo flower baskets bought outside the nunnery, the little girl in the mansion likes this kind of small things full of wild fun. Jiang Yishi had often seen them when she lived in Huzhuang, and the Wu family’s father and son both knew how to weave them.
If it was before, Jiang Yishi would have written back to her and sent a gift back.
This time, Jiang Yishi didn’t send anything.
Thinking of drifting away from such a cute little girl, Jiang Yishi was still very reluctant to part with her.
At noon, Meng Ruimo and Zheng Yu drank and ate in the outer courtyard before Zheng Yu left at the beginning of the day.
Meng Zhimo didn’t go back to the Floating Life Residence, but went to Fu An Hall to have a secret discussion with the old master.
In the evening, Meng Ruimo told Jiang Yishi that after the Empress Dowager’s birthday on the twenty-second day of this month, the Emperor would take all the princes and some of the ministers and their families to go hunting at the end of the month.
Almost every year, the Emperor would bring people to hunt in the fall at the end of August and the beginning of September, which was even more unusual. And this time the place is special, is not far from the mausoleum of the wild Cang ditch.
Meng Zhimo’s military affairs are busy, he will use the Mid-Autumn Festival to go to the Imperial Mausoleum to see King Ping, and try to find a way to make the Emperor remember Concubine Qu and King Ping, and it is best to summon them ……
The Mid-Autumn Festival is closed, Jiang Yishi first thought that Meng Ruimo would come back for a reunion. On this day, many people will go out to eat at a restaurant, the old Duke of the country has already set the food on the thirteen pavilions in the Star and Moon Pavilion, promising to take the whole family to eat and enjoy the moon.
Seeing Jiang Yishi’s disappointed eyes, Meng Zhimo gently pinched her little nose. Laughing, he said, “When you achieve great things, no matter outside the family, it’s all peaceful.”
From the second day onwards, the family began to make preparations for going to the Empress Dowager’s birthday. Previously, the Empress Dowager only organized a big event on her tenth birthday, but in the past two years, the Empress Dowager’s health was not very good, and the Emperor wanted to increase her longevity by organizing a big event for her old man.
The people who go to the palace to pay respect to the birthday include the clansmen, public officials, civil officials of the third rank and above and their families, military officials of the second rank and above and their families, and some specially recruited people.
The Meng family was qualified to go, the old Duke and Duchess, the Duke and Duchess of Cheng, the Meng Resignation Mo couple, and Meng Hua.
Because the second lord’s official didn’t reach the third rank or above, the couple wasn’t qualified to go.
Meng Ruimo was a third rank military official, but he was the Duke Cheng’s son, so he was also qualified.
The gift was already prepared, which was the “Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers”. This pot has many flowers, good meaning, symbolizing many blessings and longevity, which fits the Emperor’s wish to hold a big birthday banquet, and will surely win a good fortune. At this time the flowers are in full bloom, there are twenty-eight as many as, the aroma is strong, from a long distance can smell.
Although the old Duke was full of reluctance, but still give up. He let Jiang Yishi these days must be this pot of flowers to serve well, in the best condition to offer into the palace.
The other thing was to make new clothes and jewelry for the people who were going to pay their respects. Jiang Yishi had never been to the palace before, so the old lady asked the grandmothers around her to teach her the etiquette.
At this time, Meng Hua was especially proud of herself, making the two little girls, Meng Lan and Meng Frost, envious and jealous.
Meng Zhimo didn’t come back on the twentieth day, he would come back on the night of the twenty-first and enter the palace on the second day to pay his birthday.
Jiang Yishi could no longer think of him, and was worried and excited about another matter.
It had been more than four days since her due menstruation, so it was possible that she was pregnant. It is still early in the morning, and I am afraid that if it is not, it is not good to ask the doctor to come to check her pulse.
Jiang Yishi was a good eye doctor, but her other medical skills were not good, including pulse diagnosis. She didn’t feel a slippery pulse, but it didn’t mean she wasn’t pregnant.
She was conflicted. She was afraid to go in case she was tired and slipped, touching the Empress Dowager’s mold, which was going to bring trouble to the Meng family. If she didn’t go, she had to find a good excuse.
The next day, Jiang Yishi quietly told the old lady the truth.
The old lady has been concerned about Jiang Yishi’s stomach, and hurriedly asked people to go to the Imperial Hospital to ask the most skilled gynecologist to come. She didn’t let Jiang Yishi go back to Fusheng Residence, but waited for the Imperial Doctor at Fu’an Hall.
After checking her pulse, the Imperial Doctor smiled and said, “Congratulations to Old Taijun, congratulations to Great Grandma Jiang, Great Grandma Jiang is expecting. Although the slippery pulse is extremely shallow, it can’t be wrong.”
The old dowager was overjoyed, thanking the imperial physician with a pile of voices and having people offer red envelopes.
It was so loud that the old Duke of State who was watering the flowers in the courtyard heard it and came in to ask what was going on.
He was also overjoyed when he heard that Jiang Yishi was pregnant. The eldest grandson was twenty-two years old, had escaped so many calamities, married a good daughter-in-law, and now had an offspring.
He told Jiang Yishi to go back and rest, and not to go to the palace tomorrow.
Jiang Yishi’s nose was sore with excitement, after living two lives, she was finally going to be a mother.
When Sister Wu and Shui Xiang and a few other maids heard about it, they were all overjoyed.
Not long after Jiang Yishi had just floated to the living quarters, the rewards from the old master, the old lady, Fu’s wife, and Meng’s second wife came.
The old master sent a catty of Official Swallow, the old lady sent a set of jewelry and a ginseng, and the second Mrs. Meng sent a catty of Colla Corii Asini. Only Fu didn’t send any dietary supplements, and sent a pair of makeup satin and a fine velvet cloth suitable for making clothes and diapers for small babies.