Capítulo 1674: Chapter 1649: Don’t Speak Too Soon
“Fourth Uncle—”
Zhou SiLang, who was whispering to Manbao’s ear, was startled and looked back in horror to see Zhou Lijun standing in front of her door, staring at him.
At the sight of her, Zhou SiLang had a lot to say but it got stuck in his chest, and he turned around and slipped away.
Manbao watched him run away and curiously asked Zhou Lijun, “What business does Fourth Brother want to do?”
Zhou Lijun complained to Manbao, “Fourth Uncle is very ambitious. In just this little ti, he’s thinking of doing gemstone business with rchants from the Western Regions.”
Zhou Lijun gestured to Manbao, “A stone this big costs dozens of taels, and I’ve heard that sending it for polishing and carving costs a fortune too. By the ti it’s done, the cost of one stone will be nearly a hundred taels.”
Manbao clicked her tongue, “It’s that expensive?”
Zhou Lijun nodded, “Buying ten stones costs a thousand taels. Even for Miss Liu and other rich young ladies, they can’t easily buy gemstones. What if Fourth Uncle can’t sell them and they get stuck in his hands?”
Manbao nodded, “They’re neither for eating nor drinking, practically useless.”
Manbao hugged her dicine box tightly, deciding to ignore Zhou SiLang.
After putting down her dicine box, she ran back to ask Zhou Lijun, “How’s the estate?”
Zhou Lijun laughed, “Half of it is already built. Maybe it will be about done by the ti Sixth Uncle gets married.”
Manbao was satisfied upon hearing this and started planning with Bai Shan and Bai Erlang to buy so plants to arrange the estate later.
When Yin Huo heard about it, he picked so nice chrysanthemums from his own garden and sent them to Manbao. Seeing this, Liu Huan thought he should support as a friend too. So he went ho and dug up a money tree from in front of his grandfather’s study, which wasn’t looked after much, to give to Manbao.
Manbao was delighted at the sight and imdiately asked, “Do you have more? Give one more.”
Liu Huan was taken aback, “Is this tree really that special? I picked the smallest one. No, I an, it wasn’t noticeable when I dug one up, but taking two would be obvious.”
Manbao looked at the small sapling, “It doesn’t seem easy to propagate.”
Liu Huan said, “You try to raise it. Once it grows up, you can propagate it. My grandfather just planted two in the flower bed at the door initially, and now there are quite a few.”
Manbao weighed it up and thought it would be hard to keep them all alive if propagated, so she might as well give it all to Keke.
However, under everyone’s eyes, she couldn’t possibly take it away, so she left it in the pot to grow and decided to collect it when moving to the estate.
Manbao said to Liu Huan, “I’ll co to play at your house when I have ti.”
Liu Huan thought her enthusiasm was a bit baffling but nodded, “Co whenever you have ti.”
He didn’t mind anyway.
Bai Shan gave Manbao a glance but said nothing.
This ti during the break, Manbao also made a visit to the Yang Residence to see Ms.Cui. Ms.Cui’s belly was very big now, and her feet were quite swollen, so she didn’t dare to walk much.
Manbao touched her belly and found the fetal position to be fine, so she asked, “Is the due date just around now, as calculated by the doctor?”
“Yes, the closer the date, the more anxious I get,” Ms.Cui said, holding Manbao’s hand. “I always feel panicked and can’t sleep well at night. Manbao, don’t you think my belly is a bit too big?”
It was sowhat large, but Manbao, with an expressionless face, smiled to reassure her, “It’s still normal. Don’t scare yourself. I’m going to work in the palace tomorrow, but Senior Brother is also on duty there. If you go into labor, just have soone inform him, and he’ll bring out of the palace.”
Ms.Cui was still a bit nervous, so Manbao continued, “But maybe you can hold on until my Double Ninth Festival holiday. It’s not impossible.”
The Double Ninth Festival is a big holiday, and the court will also have a holiday. They can leave the palace on the evening of the seventh, and her Sixth Brother’s wedding is on the eighth. They won’t return to the palace until the tenth.
Ms.Cui calculated the days, breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at Manbao, “You’re right, maybe the child will be a couple of days late. The midwife did say it’s normal to be early or late by a few days.”
Manbao nodded in agreent.
However, once you start talking about the baby, they seem to co sooner. After Manbao saw her that morning and returned, she had just laid down to attend Teacher Mo’s lessons in the system when the side door of their house was knocked on.
The Yang family’s servant ca rushing in to report, “Imperial Doctor Zhou, my lady is in labor, and the master has sent for you to co and diagnose.”
Manbao instantly beca alert. She looked up at the sky, imdiately grabbed her dicine box, and went out.
Bai Shan stood by the courtyard gate and asked, “Do you need to go with you?”
Manbao refused, “You have to go to the palace to study tomorrow. I can take a leave, but it’s not good for you to do so.”
Bai Shan wasn’t too worried about her, nodded, and said, “Alright, take care then.”
Manbao and the Yang family’s servant rushed outside. Others, like Ms.Fang and others, were also awakened and found it curious as it was their first encounter with soone seeking a diagnosis at night.
Zhou Liru ran out after her, asking, “Aunt, do you want to go with you?”
Manbao looked at her, weighed it up, and then refused, “You don’t need to learn this now; another couple of years maybe.”
Daji silently followed along.
Everyone else was used to this, and after sending them off, they went back to their rooms to sleep.
Bai Shan yawned, clearly very sleepy, but sowhat awake. He turned over and thought to himself, there should be nothing wrong at Senior Brother Yang’s place.
Daji drove the carriage into the Yang Residence, watched Manbao follow a maid to the backyard, and then went with the Yang Residence’s xiaos to the gatekeeper’s house to rest.
In the backyard, Yang Heshu’s courtyard was brightly lit. Marquis Yang’s wife, the Marchioness, was directing people to carry things inside. The room resounded with Ms.Cui’s painful cries. Manbao couldn’t help but shiver listening to it, while Yang Heshu stood in the courtyard, motionless. Manbao ran up to him and asked, “Scholarly Senior Brother Yang?”
Yang Heshu shivered a bit, slowly ca to his senses, turned his head to look at Manbao, and after a while, his gaze focused, “Manbao, you’re here, go inside and take a look.”
Seeing his distant voice, Manbao knew she couldn’t get much information from him, and quickly ran into the delivery room.
Inside, two midwives were helping Ms.Cui with the delivery. Seeing them pressing on Ms.Cui’s belly, Manbao was startled and hurried forward, “What are you doing?”
The two midwives were also shocked. Seeing it was Zhou Man, they quickly said, “Imperial Doctor Zhou, please co and take a look. The lady fell after dinner, and there was bleeding. Now the cervix is only four fingers dilated, but the water has broken… We’re afraid the baby might suffocate if we delay.”
Manbao rolled up her sleeves and said, “Get so hot water first. Is the labor-inducing dicine brewing?”
“It’s being brewed, another quarter of an hour or so.”
The two households were too close together. As soon as Ms.Cui fell, Yang Heshu sent for Manbao, so she arrived quickly, and the dicine was not ready yet.
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