coobybook Chapter 360 Gu Wenxuan is pregnant
Chapter 360 Gu Wenxuan is pregnant
The Su family and the Bai family have completed all the preliminary procedures such as marriage proposal and engagement, and have already selected an auspicious day for their wedding. They are just waiting for the Bai family to send Bai Jingxin to get married.
The Bai family finally chose the wedding date as March of next year. Firstly, the Bai family would have more time at that time, and secondly, the Bai family could take the opportunity to keep Bai Jingxin for a while longer.
Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi thought that no matter how good the husband's family was, their daughters would definitely not be as comfortable as they were in their parents' home. Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan thought that the servants that Bai Jingxin would bring as a dowry needed to be carefully selected.
Their family was poor and they had no so-called children. The servants would only go to the farm to choose or to the pawnshop to buy things when they needed them.
Considering that Bai Jingxin was going to marry in the next county instead of the next village, if anything happened in the future, her family members would not be able to help in time. So the two of them wanted to equip Bai Jingxin with all the necessary personnel, including a doctor, a cook, a martial arts maid, a maidservant, a coachman, a housekeeper, a shopkeeper, an accountant, and a village head.
In addition, Gu Wenxuan also distributed some seeds and seedlings of crops such as cotton, lotus roots, and sweet potatoes to Bai Jingxin's dowry farm.
She and Bai Jingzhou also sent experienced farmers to teach all the planting techniques.
In addition to Bai Jingxin's dowry farm, the vast majority of villagers in Baijia Village and Jiajia Village, as well as their relatives and friends living in other places, also received seeds and seedlings of crops such as sweet potatoes.
Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan have already begun experimenting with growing potatoes, peppers and tomatoes.
Last year, the members of the Mu family caravan saw people growing these three crops in the southeastern coastal areas. So, according to Mu Hanzhi's earlier instructions, they spent money to buy the seeds and planting methods of these three crops in the autumn.
They sent one copy of these things to the capital and one copy to Baijia Village.
Nowadays, potatoes have become part of people's edible range, but peppers and tomatoes are still regarded as ornamental plants, and only a few people try to grow them on a whim.
Gu Wenxuan was so happy when she got the seeds that she held back her drooling and didn't eat a single potato. She carefully preserved them all for planting this year.
This is one of her favorite foods!
They stored them like treasures until the beginning of this spring, and looked for suitable land for planting with great anticipation. Then they took good care of them, waiting for the crops to mature so that they could harvest more seeds.
Of course, during this period, Gu Wenxuan also ate a few times to try out the new food at Bai Jingzhou's instigation. Other members of the Bai family, other members of the Gu family, the Fang family, Jia Yuelan, Bai Jingshan, etc. also had their share, and everyone enjoyed the meal very much.
The reason why Gu Wenxuan couldn't resist the temptation this time was because Bai Jingzhou always acted first and reported later, leaving her no chance to resist.
On the tenth day of May, Gu Wenxuan's birthday, she started to retch beside the dinner table after eating a bite of the fish balls that Ning Cuizhi specially prepared for her.
Ning Cuizhi was startled, but she quickly reacted.
Bai Chong, Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingxin, and Bai Jingheng were still worried, but Ning Cuizhi had already handed Gu Wenxuan's wrist to her eldest son and said, "Check your wife's pulse."
Bai Jingzhou took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then began to take Gu Wenxuan's pulse.
Gu Wenxuan felt that the two of them were making a big deal out of nothing, but she didn't want to refuse their kindness.
As a result, Bai Jingzhou, who has always had good medical skills, was unable to make a quick and decisive diagnosis this time.
He examined the left hand and then the right hand, and after he finished his own examination, he called Bai Chong over, which made Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but wonder if she had some incurable disease.
Fortunately, Bai Chong was not like him. He only checked Gu Wenxuan's pulse once, and then he said with certainty, "Wenxuan is pregnant."
Ning Cuizhi clapped her hands and laughed, "I guessed it right!"
Bai Jingzhou held Gu Wenxuan's hand with mixed feelings, "This is too fast." He hasn't had enough of their sweet world of two!
Ning Cuizhi glanced at him and said, "What's the hurry? If you don't want a child, your brother's child will be born soon!"
Bai Jingheng, who is still a half-grown child: ...
He hasn't even decided on a marriage yet, and his mother's words are becoming more and more exaggerated every day.
Of course, Bai Jingheng didn't dare say this in front of Ning Cuizhi.
Since then, Ning Cuizhi and Bai Jingzhou began to take meticulous care of Gu Wenxuan.
No matter what Gu Wenxuan likes to eat, they will find ways to get it for her. If there is something in their own fields, they will not let Gu Wenxuan go to waste.
The mother and son divided the work between them. Ning Cuizhi was responsible for preparing delicious food for her, while Bai Jingzhou was responsible for talking and taking walks with her every day and taking her pulse regularly.
Because she was less than two months pregnant at the time, she was unable to go to the state capital in person to congratulate Peng Nian'an on his engagement to her cousin's youngest son.
The girl is already fifteen years old this year. Given her personality, her father, brother and her uncle's family were worried about her marrying into another family. So the two families discussed and decided to find a marriage for her among her uncle's clan.
Her fiancé is eighteen years old this year. He has average academic talent. It took him twelve years to pass the examination and become a scholar, from the time he started learning at the age of five to when he was seventeen last year.
But he also has many advantages. He is calm, careful and gentle, comes from a wealthy family, and his parents and brother and sister-in-law are all reasonable and kind.
In addition, the branch of Peng Nian'an's uncle is the most promising one in their family. Her cousin's family usually relies on Peng Nian'an's uncle for care, so they will naturally be polite to Peng Nian'an in the future.
This is exactly what Peng Nian'an's father, brother and uncle wanted. They hope that Peng Nian'an can live a rich and comfortable life under their protection for the rest of his life.
Gu Wenxuan was unable to go to congratulate in person, but she carefully prepared a gift and asked her servants to deliver it to the provincial capital.
In the following months, apart from being greedy and sleepy, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her.
Because she couldn't stay idle at home, she used the vacant land she had bought before to open two new workshops.
The new workshop was built next to a small river to facilitate the use of water as power. In addition, Gu Wenxuan also brought some mules that had been bred over the years, intending to use animal power instead of water power when the small river could not supply water.
Bai Jingzhou helped her design the drawings of the workshop, taking into account the workshop's water use and flood prevention.
In addition, Bai Jingzhou also drew a blueprint and asked his uncle and cousin to help make some tools.
There are two workshops, one of which Gu Wenxuan plans to use for deep processing of sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, and the other for extracting vegetable oil.
In Xingzhou, the vegetable oil commonly used by people is extracted from sesame and soybeans. In other areas, some people use rapeseed and radish seeds to extract oil.