Chapter 392: Rejoicing Together
Seeing Jiang Yishi and Zheng Tingting behind the plum blossoms, Li Zhenbao trotted over with light footsteps, like a cheerful butterfly.
“Hee hee, I’ve come to make a pregnancy meal for the great Mother.” Li Zhenbao said.
When she came in front of them, she lowered her voice again to report the good news, “My sister, I’ve been taking medicines and medicinal meals for a few months, and my monthly letters are much more normal ……”
Jiang Yishi immediately “shushed”.
Zheng Tingting’s face turned red with shame and she stomped her feet.
Li Zhenbao had already come to the corridor and looked at the small window behind the two of them, which was half-open and inside sat Meng Zhimo and Zheng Yu. Both of them picked up the tea cup, pretending to look down and drink tea without hearing.
Li Zhenbao’s face also reddened. She rolled her eyes at Jiang Yishi and all but mouthed, “They’re in the house, you didn’t say anything in advance.”
Jiang Yishi poked her finger in the side of her head and snapped, “You’re mouthy yourself, and you’re blaming others.”
“Fine, fine, it’s my fault.” Li Zhenbao pointed to the ingredients in Su Wei and the others’ hands, “Look, I even brought the ingredients to personally make delicious food for sister. What you make is not only delicious, but also sister’s love.”
Jiang Yishi laughed, “Little mouth is sweeter than honey, thank you.”
Li Zhenbao put one hand around Jiang Yishi’s arm and pulled Zheng Tingting with one hand, the three of them walked towards the small kitchen in the backyard.
Li Zhenbao had already heard from Zheng Yu about Jiang Yishi and Zheng Ji’s relationship, as well as Zheng Tingting and Jiang Xun’s relationship. She was surprised that Jiang Yishi was actually related to her by blood and was a distant cousin.
Being cousins made the relationship even closer.
Her mouth came close to Jiang Yishi’s ear and said, ”Although I haven’t seen your mother, but looking at you and Jiang Xun’s appearance and demeanor, as well as your father’s infatuation with her, your mother is definitely not bad. Imperial Aunt Yichang’s grandmother had poor eye water and was overbearing, losing a good daughter-in-law, harming his son for the rest of his life, and also harming you.”
Jiang Yishi said softly, “I can’t talk about harming me, my father is very good. Don’t tell anyone about this, including Prince Yong.”
“I know. I’m not stupid, what to say and what not to say, I know in my heart ……”
Several strings of laughter faded away before Zheng Yu exhaled.
Little Jumbo was good at everything, just too outspoken. However, it was a great good thing that that condition of hers had improved. He was the only son in the family, and if the heir was affected, his parents would always be unhappy.
His eyes were filled with joy, and he cleared his throat without speaking.
Meng Zhimo joked, “Older brother, I wish you many children and grandchildren first.”
Zheng Yu blushed a little and muttered, “We’re still early, but congratulations to you all for importing more children.”
Meng Zhimo laughed, “Same happy, same happy.”
Jiang Xun came again before the meal. Since he knew that his sister was pregnant again, he had to come every now and then to take a look.
The men drank and ate in the hall room, while the women ate on the bed in the side room.
Li Zhenbao talked about the preparation of the dowry, there is the Yong Wangfu prepared, there is also the Emperor and the Empress Dowager’s reward. Not to add the food and she engaged in a few workshops, there are more than 100,000 taels of silver, with a few princesses dowry about the same.
This is still some of the dowry that she strongly rejected the Yong Wang gave her, she is not good than the princesses.
The point is, many of the princesses’ dowries do not belong to the extra horse harnessed by the side of a team and her children, and once the princess dies, those things will have to be returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And all of Li Zhenbao’s dowry belonged to herself and her children, which meant it belonged to the Zheng family.
Jiang Yishi laughed, “General Zheng not only held a beauty, but also held a treasure pot, blessed oh.”
Said Li Zhenbao and Zheng Tingting greatly happy.
Zheng Tingting also talked about the Zheng family’s expansion of Zheng Yu’s yard and asked Li Zhenbao about his requirements.
Li Zhenbao was nonchalant and really mentioned a few points of caution.
Jiang Yishi also apologized and told Zheng Tingting about the current situation of the Jiang family’s second house, ”The old lady is here, so you only have to live in the Jiang family temporarily. Although the place is smaller, the good thing is that the population is not too …… large.”
Zheng Tingting said with a red face, “I don’t care ……” As long as she can be with Jiang Xun, she is willing to eat soup and swallow vegetables.
She didn’t have the heart to say the second half of the sentence.
Li Zhenbao also said, “The most important thing is that people are good, those difficulties are only temporary.”
She had even more respect for the Zheng family elders after knowing that they were willing to marry Zheng Tingting to Jiang Xun. Most of the big feudal families, valued political marriage over the happiness of their children. The fact that they were willing to marry their daughters showed that they loved their children.
After the meal, six people sat in the west room drinking tea and chatting.
The warm sunlight penetrated the west window and printed the panes on the floor.
Li Zhenbao had the most to say and made the people laugh at times.
At the end of the hour, the granny from the front yard came to report that Master Ring Nine and Master Ring Ten had arrived.
Jiang Yixi rejoiced, “Master Yu He has returned?”
These two monks also followed Master Yu He to go out on a “cloud tour”, and the excellent seeds the old monk had produced had brought in a large harvest in Huguang and other places.
They must have come today to get good tea leaves.
Jiang Yishi smiled and said, “Invite them in.”
Two monks came in, one carrying a back basket and the other picking two large baskets. Ring Nine had grown a whole lot taller, and Ring Ten’s eyes were even more compassionate and calm.
Ring Nine said, “Master Jiang, this is good tea from the poor monk’s master, still distributed as before.”
Jiang Yishi asked the maids to carry the tea into the east side of the house, and asked them to carry out the previously prepared tea.
Ring Ten took out a pendant and said, “Where are the flowers? The poor monk master asked the poor monk to send the little thing this pendant, before much offense. This pendant is the poor monk withered carving, the poor monk master with medicinal water soaked for a year, and opened the light, on the body of the small things greatly beneficial. And then please Jiang Shi master to convey a message, the little thing looks …… very very handsome, this is the poor monk’s heart.”
Jiang Yishi took it and expressed his gratitude for Hua Hua.
Even though Preceptor Ten didn’t explicitly say that it could prolong his life, Jiang Yishi understood what he meant. Flower’s skin pouch was already seven years old, equivalent to a human’s middle age. Although it could change its skin pouch, the current one was very good, so hopefully it could live longer in this one.
Perhaps there were other benefits as well, Jiang Yishi couldn’t guess.
The small pendant was a cat, only half the size of a thumb, very similar to Hua Hua, but also very cute.
Li Zhenbao laughed, “I’ll visit his old man at the Retribution Temple some other day.”
Ring Jiu laughed, “Amitabha Buddha, dieting young master if you go, you have to wait until after May, the poor monk master as soon as he returned to the temple, he will be closed for cultivation.”
After sending off the two masters and asking them to bring some vegetarian snacks for Master Yu He, Jiang Yishi distributed the tea.
Because the Emperor liked this kind of tea, this time Jiang Yishi and Li Zhenbao still each took out two catties to honor him. Because the Zheng family siblings were there, respectively sent Zheng boss person and Yichang Grand Princess each half a catty, also sent Jiang Xun half a catty.
At night when Hua Hua came back, Jiang Yishi showed that small pendant to Hua Hua and said quit ten apologies and complimented it.
Hua Hua arrogantly rolled its eyes, it didn’t want to bother with that ugly monk. But the pendant was just too pretty and smelled good to hang around its neck.