The Spring Festival in the capital was as lively as ever, and Ye Zhenzhen, who had been there before, didn't feel too much about it, but Huwa and Ye Pengpeng were new arrivals and were very curious about it, almost dazzled by it.
Ye Zhenzhen did not restrict the social interactions between her younger siblings. Huwa had many good classmates in the school, and daily social interactions were indispensable. After Ye Pengpeng got engaged, it was not easy to be in public all day, but on the Lantern Festival, she still shyly interacted with Wei Jinyu
Went to go shopping for lanterns.
Ye Zhenzhen had been squatting in the house for more than half a year, and she was almost sick from boredom. Lively activities like the Lantern Festival were very tempting, but she still endured it, stayed at home honestly, and let the maids around her relax.
Leave it to them to dissipate and dissipate.
During Cui Weizhen's annual vacation, he stayed at home except for necessary social activities, which made Ye Zhenzhen feel less lonely. It happened that the wine brewed in the summer could be released from the cellar, so the two of them had nothing to do and went to the cellar to store the wine.
The cellar door had just opened, and the rich and mellow aroma of wine came to her nose. Ye Zhenzhen took a deep breath and said to Cui Weizhen with a very intoxicated expression: "Try it and see what the difference is between the wine I brew and the wine from the Western Regions."
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Cui Weizhen pulled out the cover of an oak barrel, scooped a spoonful of the wine with a gourd, and drank it after a while. The mellow and smooth taste flowed down his throat, and his mouth was filled with an endless aftertaste, which was similar to the wine from the Western Regions.
In comparison, it is not bad at all.
He was very surprised: "Zhen'er, the wine you brewed was actually successful."
Ye Zhenzhen became more and more proud: "This is natural. As long as I take action, there will be no failure."
Cui Weizhen thought for a moment, nodded in agreement, helped Ye Zhenzhen sit down on the chair beside him, and said: "You sit down and rest, let me take care of the packing."
Because there were not many grapes, only three barrels of wine were brewed this year, but the quantity was quite large after being divided into wine jars. Cui Weizhen had a rare leisure time today. He did not need help from his servants. He had a gourd ladle in one hand and a funnel in the other.
As soon as it was put into the wine bottle that had been prepared long ago, Ye Zhenzhen helped put the cork in the wine bottle. The husband and wife cooperated and quickly completed the task.
Ye Zhenzhen has always been generous, and she had already thought about the distribution of the wine during the bottling process. Friends and friendship were indispensable, and in the end she could only order about thirty bottles.
She said to Cui Weizhen with some embarrassment: "I brewed less this year, but next year I will brew a few more barrels, so that you can drink wine all year round."
Cui Weizhen was not an alcoholic, and even though he only tasted wine worth thousands of gold, he didn't feel bad about Ye Zhenzhen's generous distribution. He said, "This is the wine you brewed. I don't have any objection to how you want to distribute it."
Ye Zhenzhen couldn't drink because she was pregnant, and Cui Weizhen was not interested in eating alone. He planned to hide the remaining wine and drink together when she was out of confinement.
Although it was a pity that she could not drink, it could not stop Ye Zhenzhen's enthusiasm for red wine. She stewed beef with red wine that day. This luxurious and unique way captured the appetite of the whole family. Although Ye Zhenzhen could not eat it, everyone ate it deliciously.
, I feel a lot of satisfaction in my heart.
Ye Zhenzhen taught this dish to Aunt Guilan and Mrs. Wu, and this red wine stewed beef became a Cui family's reserved dish.
Time passed quietly in leisure, the first month of the year was over soon, and the capital city returned to its usual orderly state. Ye Zhenzhen's belly was also more than nine months old. Doctor Yu took her pulse and said that the due date would be within the next ten days.
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As early as a month ago, Ye Zhenzhen asked her servants to arrange the delivery room. All items were washed and exposed to the sun. For example, scissors and other items had to be disinfected with white wine every day. Although the maids were very puzzled, they also
Obediently followed her instructions.
As the due date approaches, everyone is no less nervous than the person involved, Ye Zhenzhen. Linxi County sent a letter from home a month ago. Aunt Ye wrote a lot of experiences and instructions in the letter. Aunt Cui and the family have childbirth experience.
Her nanny often taught her her experience, so Ye Zhenzhen was armed with enough theoretical knowledge and was just about to go on the field to verify it.
February is still a time of warm and cold weather, and you will catch cold if you are not careful. Pregnant women have poor resistance and are extremely susceptible to cold during childbirth. At that time, you cannot even use medicine casually, and most of them can only resist it. For pregnant women,
It can be said to be extremely dangerous.
So Cui Weizhen
Cui Weizhen was perhaps the most nervous one in the family. Before the first lunar month, he had people install earth dragons in the delivery room and lit a charcoal fire every day to ensure that no matter what Ye Zhenzhen gave birth to, the room would be kept warm.
When the due date was approaching, he even asked for maternity leave from Shangfeng, which was unheard of in ancient times. It became an anecdote in the capital for a while. Cui Weizhen focused all his energy on Ye Zhenzhen. Naturally, he didn't care about anyone else's comments. Every day
Doctor Yu was asked to check Ye Zhenzhen's pulse, almost treating her like fragile glass.
Ye Zhenzhen, who was originally very nervous, saw Cui Weizhen's nervous posture, and her unknown fear disappeared. She felt that Cui Weizhen's mood was a little abnormal, as if he was suffering from an anxiety disorder.
Although her first pregnancy is more dangerous, Dr. Yu said that her fetal position was correct and the birth would not be too difficult. He wouldn't be so nervous, right?
She had doubts in her mind, but she never had the chance to find out. At noon that day, she woke up from her nap and found that Cui Weizhen was not in the room. She asked Yu Xiu who was standing by and found out that he was in the study room of the west suite.
Because of his impetuous mood, Cui Weizhen has not been reading recently. Ye Zhenzhen walked into the west suite curiously, holding her belly, and found that Cui Weizhen was writing at the desk, and the ground was covered with crumpled rice paper. Such a messy and unattractive situation,
This was the first time she had seen it.
Ye Zhenzhen had a big belly and it was very difficult to bend down, so she did not choose to pick up the paper ball on the ground and read it, but walked towards the desk.
Cui Weizhen, who had been immersed in his personal world, noticed her presence at this time. His first reaction was not to help her sit down, but to cover the rice paper on which he was writing and drawing with the "Analects of Confucius" on the side.
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Isn't this trying to hide something?
Ye Zhenzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She helped her to sit down next to him and asked: "What are you drawing? Can't I see it?"
There were a lot of paints and charcoal on the desk, so it was hard to guess what he was drawing.
Cui Weizhen obviously had no intention of confessing, so he said perfunctorily: "I was bored and practiced writing for a while. Why did you get up so early today?"
Seeing that he was unwilling to say anything, Ye Zhenzhen did not continue to ask, but stretched out her hand, picked up a wad of paper from the ground, and spread it out with Cui Weizhen's stiff expression. Just one look at it, and she was stunned.