Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 207 Ningxiang gave birth to a child, and Lu Cheng became a Marquis!
The red sun was slanting to the west, and it was getting dark, and wisps of smoke began to be emitted from the chimneys on the roofs of every household in Donglin Village.

Ning Xiang walked slowly in the yard by herself. In the kitchen, Cui Ya was sitting in front of the pot to light the fire and steam the buns. The yard was usually very lively, because the children all went to the orchard to pick sand fruits. Today is very quiet and Ning Xiang is special. Not used to it.

"Ma'am, I can smell the aroma, steam it for a while and it will be cooked!" Cui Ya sniffed and shouted cheerfully.

Big buns stuffed with cabbage are steamed in the pot.

Ningxiang smiled and heyed, looked at the sky, and was about to go back to the house to sit for a while, the labor was imminent, and she was exhausted after standing for a long time.

After walking a few steps towards the stove, suddenly hearing a familiar voice outside, the little girl anxiously called her brother and uncle.

Ning Xiang couldn't help laughing, turned around, and walked towards the door again.

Amu ran into the yard first, followed by Anan. The uncle and nephew were probably competing to see who would get home first, and only with Amu could Anan become like a real six-year-old boy, running and jumping vigorously.

"Mother, we're back!" Anan lost to his uncle, didn't get angry, and continued to run to his mother and said.

Ning Xiang bent down to wipe her son's sweat, and asked him softly, "Did you help pick the fruit today?"

"Pick it!" Anan said without hesitation, Amu beside him secretly smiled, Anan looked over, the two boys exchanged glances, they had already discussed it, and no one was allowed to say that they went to the chestnut garden to play with the squirrels.

"Brother is bad, uncle is bad, you don't wait for me!" Lu Cheng stopped the donkey cart steadily at the gate, and Guo'er stood on the board of the cart, staring angrily at his brother and uncle who jumped out of the car early and ran home.

"I'll take my sister down!" My sister got angry, and Anan hurried to the door.

Guo'er didn't use it, she stretched out her arms towards her father.

Lu Cheng easily carried his daughter down.

Guo'er didn't look at her brother or uncle, ran up to her mother, raised her little head excitedly: "Mother, I've made money!" As he spoke, he took out a silver ingot from his chest purse, "The money I earned!"

The daughter couldn't explain clearly, Lu Cheng looked at the two mothers, and explained in particular: "Guo'er picked a basket of sand fruits by himself, weighed them and sold them separately."

Guo'er proudly touched her silver ingot.

Ning Xiang originally thought that Lu Cheng was giving money to her daughter to play with, but when she heard that her daughter could really work, she was very happy. If it wasn't for the inconvenient movement, she would definitely hug her daughter and praise her.

"Hurry up and wash your face, the buns are about to be cooked, let's eat after washing your face." Master Gu Gu said with a smile.

Atao Amu led Ananguoer to bring water, while Lu Ding stayed in the orchard to look at the remaining fruits, and didn't come back much this summer.

Thinking of the resolute refusal of the Wu family to let go, Ning Xiang sighed.

After unloading the donkey cart, Lu Cheng didn't hold the baskets of fruits on the cart for the time being. He stretched out his big hand and shook it with a smug expression as he walked towards his wife.

Ning Xiang smiled, and asked him in a low voice, "500 taels?"

"There are still 20 and [-]." The orchard is making money again, and the wife is about to give him a baby. Lu Cheng is in a very happy mood. He helps Ningxiang to walk to the kitchen, rubs her little hands and says sweet words, "Tomorrow, I will go to the city to save money." In the bank, I will buy you a few horses of good material by the way, you should lose weight after confinement, and dress up well."

The money in the family is getting more and more, Ning Xiang no longer cares about him, and notices that his hands are getting more and more dishonest, so she glares at him.

Lu Cheng let go of his wife obediently, and went to wash his face with the children.

After dinner, Amu Anan and his aunt went back to the old house to sleep, the three of Ningxiang's family sat on the kang, and Lu Cheng took out the bank notes to count for his wife.Every year when the orchard sells money, Ningxiang will count it happily. This time, Guoer is also sitting beside her with a smile. Mother put down a piece of silver, and she picks it up, feels it, and then puts it down again.

"The money belongs to Guo'er. When Guo'er grows up, I will buy floral cloth for Guo'er and make a lot of new clothes." Lu Cheng was curious about his eldest daughter, hugged Guo'er on his lap, and bowed his head to kiss her. a mouthful.

"Buy it for mother too!" Guo'er was the most filial, and told her father seriously.

Lu Cheng nodded.

"And my sister!" Guo'er touched her mother's belly again.

Lu Cheng still nodded with a smile, Ning Xiang frowned slightly.Anan is leaving, she wants to have a son even more, otherwise there must be gossip outside.After giving birth to a son, stop those gossips, and you will not be afraid of having a son or daughter in the future.

"Wash your hands and go to bed." The couple turned the money jar upside down, and after the matter was over, Lu Cheng went to the ground, put away the money jar, and brought water to serve his daughter-in-law.

After tidying up, Ning Xiang slowly lay down on the kang.

Guo'er was not sleepy yet, obediently lying next to her mother, gently touching her belly, "Mother, when will you give birth?"

Recently, the little girl has to ask every night.

Ning Xiang hugged her daughter with a funny face, "Hurry up, Hurry up, Guoer, don't worry."

Guo'er nodded and fell asleep in her mother's arms.

After coaxing her daughter, Ning Xiang slowly moved to Lu Cheng's side, and it was Lu Cheng who coaxed her to sleep.

It was probably because she thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night. Ningxiang dreamed of a bunch of white silver ingots at night, which were so big that they hung all over the fruit trees at home.She and Lu Cheng picked it anxiously, fearing that people would find out their wealth, so they picked the fruit and led a boy doll over, teaching her younger brother to pick it with her in a decent manner.

Confused, Ningxiang asked her daughter where she picked up her younger brother.

Guo'er crisply said that it was born by her mother.

Ning Xiang glanced at the boy, then looked down at her belly, she was startled, why did her belly deflate?

Ning Xiang woke up in shock, the room was pitch black.

She panted heavily, and Lu Cheng woke up, and asked her nervously, "Xiang'er, is it time to give birth?"

Ning Xiang shook her head, just about to say that she was dreaming, when suddenly she felt...

Ning Xiang took a deep breath, after all, she had given birth once, she quickly calmed down, and said calmly: "It seems to be, Lu Cheng, you take Guo'er to the nursing home, and then ask Cui Ya to invite the midwife..."

"I know, don't worry, I'll be back in a while." Lu Cheng quickly put on his clothes and went to the ground, lit the oil lamp, picked up his daughter with the quilt, and strode out.

Ning Xiang was wearing a middle coat, she sat up slowly, grabbed the shirt and put it on, and when she was done, Cui Ya hurriedly opened the door from the front yard, and Lu Cheng called out to Second Aunt from the back yard.

At that moment, Ning Xiang was surprisingly calm.

Its daybreak.

In the yard, Guo'er held her brother's hand tightly, stared at the window sill, and asked her brother for countless times: "Did mother give birth?"

Anan shook his head, "No, sister, don't worry."

Guo'er took a deep breath.

There is Pan's boiling water here, Cuiya made breakfast in the old courtyard, and asked the children to come over to eat, the adults must be in a bad mood.

Atao Amu and Ananguo'er sat at the wooden table two on one side, Atao Amu peeled the eggs by himself, and Anan peeled the eggs for his sister first.

"Brother, hurry up, I'm hungry!" Guo'er anxiously looked at her mother, wanting to eat quickly.

Anan immediately speeded up, and was almost finished peeling, when suddenly he heard a child crying, wow, like when a sister opened her mouth and cried loudly.

The four children looked up together.

"Sister-in-law has given birth!" A Tao was the first to react, put down the egg, and ran out first.Amu Anan followed closely behind. Guoer had short calves. When she stood up from the bench, her aunt had already disappeared, and her uncle and brother were about to step over the threshold.The little girl shouted anxiously: "Brother, wait for me!"

Since he didn't call uncle, Amu pretended he didn't hear him, and chased him out like the wind.

Anan was eager to know whether his mother gave birth to a brother or a sister, so he continued to run forward.

With a sound of "Wow", Guo'er cried, standing alone in the kitchen, crying with her head up and her mouth open, angry and anxious.

"Sister, don't cry, let's go see mother." Hearing the cry, Anan was startled, and hurried back.

Guo'er immediately closed her mouth, grabbed her brother's hand and ran out together, two strings of tears hung on her white and tender face.

The children hadn't been cleaned up yet, and Lu Cheng couldn't enter the house. He pounded his fists and walked back and forth in the kitchen. When he turned around and saw the children coming, he stretched out his hand to stop him, "No, you can't go in yet." After speaking, he saw his daughter's face The teardrops on her face reached out and wiped them away for her.

"Brother won't wait for me." Guo'er didn't forget to complain, and angrily shook off her brother's hand.

Anan looked at his father worriedly.

Lu Cheng stared at the door curtain, put his hands on the heads of a pair of children, and rubbed them perfunctorily, "Mother's stomach hurts, don't quarrel."

Guo'er pursed her lips.

Anan breathed a sigh of relief.

The midwife came out with her baby in her arms, her face was full of wrinkles, she smiled and congratulated Lu Cheng: "Congratulations, Mr. Lu, your wife gave birth to a fat boy!"

"Show me." Lu Cheng took his son excitedly, glanced at it first, and asked the midwife anxiously, "Where's the child's mother?"

"Very good, my wife is in good shape, and I can go in later." The midwife smiled.

Lu Cheng completely relaxed. Seeing that the four children were about to surround him, he laughed and knelt down to watch with them.

The newborn boy, no matter how fat he is, is not too fat. He is small and very white. Lu Cheng's big hands moved towards him, forming a stark contrast between one yellow and one white.Lu Cheng was not happy, he opened his swaddling clothes and stared at his son Xiaoniao, and couldn't help muttering, "Why are you so white?"

"Brother and uncle are white too!" Guo'er turned her head, looked at her brother and uncle and said.

Lu Cheng murmured to his daughter in his heart, what does the little girl know, those two were not born to him.

"Like my sister-in-law." A Tao said suddenly.

"Like uncle." Anan carefully stroked his younger brother's hair and expressed his opinion.

"Like me!" Guo'er said unwillingly.

Lu Cheng: ...

Lu Zhongan came over to see his grandnephew, Lu Cheng caught a glimpse of the elder from the corner of his eye, and asked him hopefully, "Who does Second Uncle say he looks like?"

His son should be like him the most.

Lu Zhongan stroked his chin, shifted his gaze from his grandnephew to Amu's face, looked back and forth, and said, "My nephew looks like uncle, and he really looks like Amu."

But it broke Amumei, and she grinned.

Lu Cheng stared at his son unwillingly, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his son was very similar to him.

"The eyes are like your Lu family's." Pan said something fair in the room, peachy eyes, when he grows up, he must be a scourge who loves to provoke girls.

Lu Cheng laughed immediately, bowed his head and kissed his son.

Everyone laughed, only Anan looked at his younger brother and uncle, his eyes drooped.

A nephew is like an uncle, but he is not, because he was not born in his mother's womb, and his eyes are neither like his mother nor his father.

When the inside was tidied up and Lu Cheng hugged his son and led the children into the house to see his wife, Anan didn't want to go in. He stood in the kitchen and stared at the falling curtain with complicated eyes.

During the second birth, Ning Xiang was much more relaxed. She lay on the kang, smiled and watched her husband and the others play with the child, but after watching for a while, she suddenly found that one was missing. She turned to the door and asked Lu Cheng, who also called the child, "Where's Anan?"

Anan heard his mother calling him, and immediately ran in, trying to smile, but there was sadness in Feng's eyes that couldn't be concealed.

Others couldn't see it, but Ningxiang understood Anan's sensitivity best, and she was very distressed. She deliberately looked at her younger son, and said seriously: "Let me see, his chin is like Anan's, and he must be as good-looking as his brother when he grows up."

Ananfeng's eyes lit up, and he climbed onto the kang awkwardly, looked at the younger brother in his father's arms, and stroked his chin with his little hand.

Lu Cheng and his wife exchanged glances, understood, and continued to talk about the resemblance of the two brothers.

Anan finally smiled, seeing his younger brother is also pleasing to the eye a lot...

Mother and child are safe, Lu Cheng invited Xu Shouliang's family from Liuxi Village to have a big meal at noon, wash and wash before receiving guests.

Niu Niu came, and the children started playing in the yard again. After playing house, they went to pile sand outside the gate. My lord, wearing strange clothes, looks like a stage singer.

Amu stared at the father-in-law in the front, and was taken aback for a while, before the other party could speak, he understood, and turned to call his brother-in-law: "Brother-in-law, the opera singer is here!"

It must be that the brother-in-law was so happy that he invited the theater troupe to have fun.

Lu Cheng was picking up fish in the backyard. After hearing this, he was puzzled, put down the kitchen knife, walked to the north gate and looked ahead.

I saw a group of officials, including eunuchs and guards, among them standing side by side with the eunuchs was Xiao Luo's confidant guard Chu Ren.

Lu Cheng scolded his father in his heart, didn't he promise to wait for his daughter-in-law to finish confinement before coming to pick up Anan?

But no matter how angry he was, Lu Cheng still had reason, and ordered Cuiya to go to the house to guard his wife, not to let the fragrance rise, so he strode over.

"May I ask if it's Master Lu?"

The father-in-law in a crimson robe shook his whisk and asked respectfully.

Lu Cheng was stunned, and looked at Chu Ren suspiciously. Seeing Chu Ren nodded, he nodded blankly.

The father-in-law smiled, took out the imperial decree and said: "Lu Cheng, Donglin Village, Tai'an Prefecture, accepts the decree."

Lu Cheng didn't accept the decree, but he had seen the opera singer and understood it. He pressed the children to kneel on the ground like carrots, and he also hurriedly knelt down. After kneeling, he remembered something and hurriedly explained: " My daughter-in-law just gave birth, so she doesn't have to come out and kneel?"

The father-in-law looked at him, dumbfounded.

It stands to reason that everyone in the Lu family had to come out and kneel, but the emperor said hello in advance, saying that he would not cause trouble to the Lu family. He lived in the town for half a month, just waiting for the peasant woman in the town to give birth to a baby before coming to send a double happiness. .With such great favor, how dare he ask Lu Cheng's daughter-in-law to come out and kneel?

Shaking his head, the father-in-law opened the imperial decree and proclaimed in a loud voice: "By God's fortune, the emperor said, Lu Cheng in Donglin Village, Tai'an Prefecture, is simple and loyal, wise and brave. He once saved me from danger and made contributions to the royal family. Mansion. Nian Lu Cheng's wife, Xu Shi, gave birth to her first son, and she will go to Beijing to receive the reward a month later, and thank you in person."

(End of this chapter)