Chapter 160 Pregnancy

Ever since the first eldest brother, Mrs. Xiao, and the second eldest son, Mrs. Mei, were in confinement, they would take the second young master Jiang Zeping and the third young master Jiang Zeang to the main courtyard to visit their mother-in-law, Mrs. Qiao, from time to time.

When Jiang Zepei was eight years old, he was busy with homework every day. He usually came to his grandmother Qiao's yard to say hello after school in the evening;
The little girl Jiang Yuan is also five years old. She started her enlightenment at the beginning of the year. She has to draw large characters and endorse them every day. Mei also asked people to teach her simple needlework.

The two little carrot heads in the Hou Mansion began to get busy, and the infant baby could just spend time with Mrs. Hou Qiao.

Mei was very proud to have a legitimate son. From time to time, she would mention how naughty, cute and clingy her brother was in front of Tang Bingxuan and Jiang Shunian.
I wish I could go to Tang Bingxuan and say, "Don't envy her. If you envy her, you can take care of yourself."

Madam Hou, Mrs. Qiao, saw that her second daughter-in-law became arrogant as soon as she had a son, so she slowly began to beat her to make her learn to restrain herself;
She doted on Tang Bingxuan even more, letting everyone in the Yongning Hou Mansion understand that the third lady, Tang Bingxuan, was the first person in front of the mistress of the Hou Mansion, no matter whether she had any heirs or not.

Mei's arrogance was suppressed a lot by Mrs. Hou Qiao, but she still went her own way behind the scenes, which was annoying.

Jiang Shunian didn't know everything about the affairs in the mansion, but he had some suspicions. He couldn't do anything to his second sister-in-law, Mei, so he could only secretly find someone to cause trouble for Mr. Jiang in the Imperial College.

Mr. Jiang was in trouble, and Mrs. Mei's attention was diverted to her husband's future. Finally, there was a lot of calm in the Hou Mansion.

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One early morning at the end of October, Tang Bingxuan diagnosed herself with a positive pulse for more than a month. She ordered a doctor to come into the house to diagnose the pulse and tell her elders and family members the good news.

When Mrs. Hou heard the servants coming to report that the third wife had invited a doctor to come into the house, she thought that Tang Bingxuan had contracted the cold, so she took Mother Li and hurried to the third room to visit her.

Mrs. Hou Qiao was about to enter the house when she saw Zhichun sending the doctor away with a smile on her face.

Zhichun bowed and saluted Mrs. Hou happily, "Madam, our young lady is happy!"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Qiao first turned to look at Mother Li, and when she nodded happily, she finally realized that what she heard was true.

At this time, Tang Bingxuan heard Zhichun's words in the inner room and hurriedly came out to greet her mother-in-law Qiao. She was carefully pulled into the room by Mrs. Qiao and sat down.

"Your body is precious now, so you must be extremely careful, and forget about those common etiquette."

"Mother is too careful. My daughter-in-law is in good health."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked about the topic of pregnancy and childbirth for a long time without getting tired, and they were very interested in continuing after lunch.

The child's father, Jiang Shunian, was still drinking and listening to music in Zuixianlou, clamoring with the dandies to go horse racing in the suburbs.

In the evening, Jiang Shunian came back smelling of alcohol and was quite puzzled to see all the maids and ladies waiting in the room beaming with joy.

After changing into his pajamas and washing up, Jiang Shunian hugged his beloved wife who was sitting by the bed reading a storybook, smiling and asking for a kiss.

Even after Jiang Shunian took a shower and washed himself, there was still a faint smell of alcohol in his breath, and Tang Bingxuan stretched out her hand to stop him from approaching.

Jiang Shunian used the wine to act coquettishly, "Madam, you have begun to despise your husband. I am so sad for him."

There was just the right amount of resentment on her face, as if Tang Bingxuan was a heartless man who bullied him and abandoned him.

Tang Bingxuan pushed Jiang Shunian further away in disgust, "Stay away from me, or I won't care if I spit on you."

The two have been married for more than a year. Jiang Shunian goes out to drink a lot, but he always washes up before entering the inner room.

He was very clean today, how could he be so disliked by his wife? Jiang Shunian's tall figure shrouded in front of Tang Bingxuan, covering up the light where Tang Bingxuan was reading, staring at the person in front of her like a stray puppy.

"Miss?"

Tang Bingxuan couldn't stand it when she saw Jiang Shunian's weak appearance. She tapped the foot of the bed with her foot and motioned for Jiang Shunian to sit over.

Tang Bingxuan looked into Jiang Shunian's eyes solemnly, "I am more sensitive to smells now that I am pregnant, and I can't smell the alcohol on your body."

"Pregnant. Pregnant?!"

Jiang Shunian muttered twice that he realized something, and looked at Tang Bingxuan in surprise. When he received a positive reply again, he quickly stepped forward and hugged Tang Bingxuan with the quilt.

"Madam, we have a baby!"

Tang Bingxuan hilariously affirmed again: "Yeah!"

Good boy, because your stupid dad is so happy, just put up with the smell of alcohol on him.

Because Tang Bingxuan was pregnant, Zhidong, a little expert in the kitchen, began to lose his usefulness, and Shen's mother became the "new favorite" of the third family of the Jiang family.

Mother Shen has a complete set of health-preserving recipes specifically for pregnancy. Compared with the health-preserving medicine prescriptions prescribed by Tang Bingxuan, it is more harmless to the body and nourishes the mother and the child.

Since Jiang Shunian learned that Tang Bingxuan was pregnant, he tried his best to stay at home with Tang Bingxuan to raise the fetus. Yun Lang, who knew the inside story, laughed at her several times and didn't care.

The next day, Mrs. Qiao, the Marquis of Yongning, went to the Duke of Rongguo's house to announce the good news in person. Since it was less than three months old, she only informed her in-laws.

Shao, the wife of Duke Rong, and Liu, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Duke Rong, could not help but cry and laugh with emotion after Mrs. Qiao left.

The two generations of matrons of the Rongguo Palace are just ordinary elders who are worried about their children and grandchildren, and are sincerely happy that Tang Bingxuan is pregnant.

The second wife, Mrs. Zhang, was not as emotional and happy as her sister-in-law and mother-in-law, but she was relieved because she was afraid that Tang Bingxuan's inability to give birth to a child would affect Tang Bingqing's marriage.

Mrs. Mei was worried about the future of Jiang Shuyao, the second master of Jiang, and had never paid much attention to the news of the third bedroom. She only found out about it when Tang Bingxuan was three months pregnant and informed everyone of the good news.

Thinking of how she used her children to ridicule Tang Bingxuan, Mrs. Mei felt ashamed to show her face, and she was caught off guard by being slapped in the face.

Mei secretly prayed that the child in Tang Bingxuan's belly would be a girl, so that Tang Bingxuan could feel the pressure of not having a son.

The Mei family's pressure to have heirs comes from themselves. The Yongning Hou couple have no requirements for their daughter-in-law to have a son or a daughter. After all, they already have their eldest grandson Jiang Zepei.

Second Master Jiang is not a stubborn scholar who cannot adapt. He loves his daughter Jiang Yuan very much and has never asked Mei to have a son.

Jiang Shuheng and Jiang Shuyao had valued their parents' relationship since they were young, and did not want concubines to affect their relationship. For so many years, they only had their first wives.

At first, when Xiao and Mei were pregnant for the first time, they both proposed to have a wife for their husbands, and if they were lucky enough to become pregnant, they would take them as concubines, but they were sternly rejected by the two brothers.

Xiao and Mei had been treating their husbands like guests and playing the piano and harp in harmony for several years after they married into the Marquis Mansion, making many handkerchiefs of the same age envious that they had married the right person.

But where there are people, there are comparisons. Not only was Tang Bingxuan better born, better looking, and favored by her parents-in-law, Jiang Shunian was also kinder to Tang Bingxuan than Jiang Shuyao was to herself.


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