happy rebirth

Ke Qi pinched a piece of millet cake and handed it to Xie Jinhua before he ate it.

Xie Jinhua couldn't help but hide aside for a while.

"Take a bite." Ke Qi stretched out his hand with great interest.

Xie Jinhua actually doesn't like millet cakes very much, because the taste of rice cakes is a bit bland to him.He likes to eat desserts that taste a little sweeter.As a picky eater who is justifiable, he ducked to the side again, shook his head and said, "I don't want it, you can eat it yourself."

"Isn't it okay to just take a bite? I'm not hungry, I can't finish such a plate." Ke Qi still stretched out his hand.

Xie Jinhua just felt very speechless: "Could it be that you can't finish this one bite?"

"That's right!" Ke Qi immediately climbed up the pole, "My hands are sore from raising it, do you really not want to eat?"

People who are in a special period without knowing it will obviously be very boring, and they can play tricks on a piece of millet cake.If Li Yang saw this scene, he couldn't help shouting in his heart, no matter what, Xiaomi Cake is innocent, let it go, let me do it!

Xie Jinhua looked at Ke Qi helplessly.

Ke Qi stretched out his hand, and the rice cake in his hand was almost touching Xie Jinhua's lips.

Xie Jinhua couldn't help laughing, lowered his head cautiously, took a bite, and muttered, "I really can't do anything about you."

Ke Qi then took his hand back.Xie Jinhua's bite was really just a small bite, only a small corner was missing from the millet cake.Ke Qi stuffed the rest into his mouth, but picked up the second piece.Xie Jinhua quickly shook his head and said, "Okay, okay, I don't want it anymore."

"Really don't want it anymore?" Ke Qi deliberately teased Xie Jinhua and said, "This piece has date paste on it." Date paste is sweet.

The hospitality is hard to come by, Xie Jinhua decided to take another bite.

Ke Qi feeds Xie Jinhua so schemingly.Soon, half a plate of rice cakes was gone.Ke Qi said with a smile: "I just passed by the small garden when I came back. I saw a nun guarding the arch of the garden. I felt a little strange, so I asked a few words casually. Guess what happened?"

"It should be the second brother walking in the garden with the second sister-in-law?" Xie Jinhua immediately guessed.

Xie Er's wife, Zhuang, was found to be pregnant when the Spring Festival approached last year. Now that the month is old, no matter how careful she is, she can't be too careful.If she was interested in going to the garden, someone had to carefully clear the way before going, sweeping away the stones and fallen leaves on the path, and someone had to guard the entrance of the garden, lest someone suddenly enter and bump into her.Although Xie Er is very busy, he tries his best to spend some time at home with her every day.

"You guessed it right. I didn't expect the second brother to know how to love his wife." Ke Qi said with emotion, "Conceived in October, the second sister-in-law should give birth in early September, right? It's a good day, no It's neither hot nor cold, and it's harvest time, so we have to hurry up and prepare the congratulatory gifts."

Xie Jinhua shook his head: "You are wrong. Although it is said that pregnancy is in October, in fact, women usually give birth a little more than September."

A woman's pregnancy is generally forty weeks, and the birth between the 38th week and the 42nd week is considered a full-term birth.If forty weeks are counted, then the pregnancy cycle is nine months and ten days.As a person who has read medical books, Xie Jinhua seriously corrected Ke Qi's cognitive mistakes.

Ke Qi was stunned.

On many things that Ke Qi thought Xie Jinhua would understand, Xie Jinhua often didn't understand; but on other things that Ke Qi didn't know enough, and he felt that Xie Jinhua definitely didn't know too well, Xie Jinhua just behaved Like a seasoned expert.

Xie Jinhua's wonderful knowledge reserve is really unprecedented!

"So, our little niece should be born in early August." Xie Jinhua continued.

"Why don't you say it's your nephew?"

Xie Jinhua immediately covered Ke Qi's mouth, and said very seriously: "Second brother calls 'good girl' and 'good girl' every day, we have to follow up and call little niece, otherwise the child in the second sister-in-law's belly should be confused It’s not good if the little niece grows up to be as tall as my nephew in the future.”

"..." Ke Qi stared at Xie Jinhua expressionlessly with a pair of dead fish eyes.His heart was roaring.He really wanted to pull Xie Jinhua's collar and shout, why do you know that the statement about pregnancy in October is inaccurate, and you even know how long a woman is pregnant, but you still believe this kind of thing!

Xie Er was looking forward to Zhuang's having a daughter, probably because he really liked daughters better.But part of the reason is that he is only a concubine, and Xie Da has no heirs as a concubine, and Xie San has not yet married as a concubine, so he feels that it is better to have a daughter this time, which is not eye-catching.

It's not that Xie Da and Xie San will care about this, but if Xie Er gives birth to a son, the mistress Zhang will definitely not be very happy.

Xie Er was in charge of almost everything in the mansion except for the things Xie Da wanted to manage.Ke Qi wants to cast movable type, which is not only enough to have money, but also needs a group of skilled craftsmen.Xie Chunying asked Xie Er to give Ke Qi some help in these matters.But Ke Qi knew that Xie Er would definitely need more time to accompany his pregnant wife in recent months, so as long as Xie Er gave him directions, he would do it himself.

When midsummer came, Qiulin Academy had a vacation of about fifteen days.

In fact, students in this era do not have the concept of "summer vacation".But Qiulin Academy is close to the capital, so it is somewhat influenced by the nobles in Beijing.The imperial palace looks magnificent, but in fact, every summer it is like a steamer. Emperor Karui couldn't stay in the palace, so he would bring a group of concubines and ministers to live in the summer resort.As a result, there is a habit of summer rest in the capital, and even the time of rest and bathing in the academy has been extended.

However, no matter how extended it was, it was only [-] days, which is not as good as the two-month leave for later generations.

Ke Qi wanted to check the casting progress of the fonts, so he needed to go to Zhuangzi.The elder brother had already gone to the Summer Resort with the emperor, Xie Jinhua thought about it, and decided not to go back to Xie's mansion, and stayed with Ke Qi in the Zhuangzi for two days, and stayed in Wencao Garden to masturbate Ah Huang for the rest of the time.

This Zhuangzi is naturally the Zhuangzi of Qingyang Houfu.This kind of Zhuangzi that raises skilled craftsmen is no better than the kind of Zhuangzi that is specially for the masters to enjoy. There is no beautiful scenery in the Zhuangzi, and there has never been any preparation for entertaining the master before.Hearing that the master was coming, Zhuangtou was so worried that his hair turned gray, and led his wife to tidy up the house in fear.However, the layout of the room still seemed a little unremarkable, except for its cleanliness.

The yards here are all vegetables and fruits, not spring orchids and chrysanthemums.

The ignorant Xie Jinhua smeared mosquito repellant on his body, and finally had the opportunity to take a good look at whether the peanuts were grown on trees or in the ground.He was surprised by everything he saw, and even picked some vegetables himself, planning to have them cooked in the kitchen.

When Ke Qi came back from the workshop, he saw Xie Jinhua holding a big cucumber in his arms.

"What are you doing?" Ke Qi asked with a smile.

Xie Jinhua said triumphantly: "Look, this is the biggest cucumber I picked! Let them make this and eat it later."

Li Yang on the side made an appearance of admiration very cooperatively.However, Zhuangtou's youngest son, the nine-year-old Tu Dan, hesitated to speak.He seemed to want to say something very much, but he always remembered his parents' instructions in his heart, knowing that everything should be followed by the master, so he didn't dare to really say the words.

Ke Qi twitched the corner of his mouth.

Xie Jinhua waited for Ke Qi to praise himself.Such a big cucumber, hidden under the leaves, has never been picked, but he found it!

"It's really a big cucumber." Ke Qi felt that Xie Jinhua was so funny.

Xie Jinhua said proudly: "This is going to be used to make coir raincoat cucumbers, how big a pot does it need to be!"

Tu Dan was so tangled up that his face was contorted.

"This cucumber is old and not tasty." Ke Qi smiled for a long time before telling Xie Jinhua the cruel truth, "You just picked the old cucumbers that people kept their seeds for. Well, if you really If you want to eat cucumbers, just ask Zhuangtou’s son and ask him to pick two tender ones for you.”

Xie Jinhua looked down at the big cucumber with a look of being struck by lightning.

How can such a big cucumber not be eaten?

It's so big!

So so big!

Seeing that Xie Jinhua's face was a little red from the sun, Ke Qi stuffed the innocent old cucumber into Li Yang's arms, then took Xie Jinhua's hand into the room.The servant girl next to the young lady is considered the deputy young lady, and the young man next to the young master is considered the deputy young master. Li Yang, who also doesn't understand anything, hurriedly handed the hot old cucumber to Tu Dan, and asked, "Dan... Dan, what kind of cucumber is this?" It looks so pretty, and it was picked by the master himself, so you can hold it and play with it."

Tudan: "..."

Ke Qi wiped the sweat off Xie Jinhua's face, and then asked Xie Jinhua to wash his hands. Just as he was about to tell Xie Jinhua something serious, Li Yang suddenly walked in from the outside.Li Yang said blankly: "Master, there is an old lady outside who wants to see you, she claims to be an old servant who came to kowtow to the master."

Xie Jinhua asked curiously, "You don't know him?"

Li Yang shook his head: "I don't know."

Li Yang grew up with Xie Jinhua. After Xie Jinhua was three years old, he came to serve him, and he has been there ever since.People that Li Yang didn't know, Xie Jinhua didn't know either.Oh, Xie Jinhua did have a wet nurse.But the Xie Mansion has a rule that when the child opens the yard independently, the nanny will be sent out of the mansion to be raised.Since it was an honorary support, then Xie Jinhua's nanny would definitely not live in this kind of Zhuangzi.

"Go and ask again." Ke Qi said.

Li Yang went and came back soon, still with a dazed look on his face, and said: "She said that she had served Aunt Jiang before."

Who is Aunt Jiang?There is no such person in the house.Marquis Xie has only Aunt Su beside her, who is Xie Er's biological mother. She is very low-key and doesn't get favored very much.In Xie Da's generation, there are no aunts.Xie Jinhua seemed to think of something, his eyes widened slightly.

No one had ever mentioned his biological mother in front of Xie Jinhua, and he didn't know how to ask.That aunt's old friend failed to stay by Xie Jinhua's side to serve him.Xie Jinhua must have questioned him when he was a child, but the people around him, like Li Yang, didn't know anything, and some of them might know a little, but they would never gossip in front of their master.Therefore, Xie Jinhua never got an answer, and stopped asking for a long time.

He doesn't even know his biological mother's last name.