The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 783
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather will enter summer.

Su Yunduo is pregnant with a child, so she is more and more afraid of the heat. She just wants to sleep and build an air conditioner by herself, but she still dare not put more ice basins in the room, and even the only ice basin is placed in the corner farthest from Su Yunduo .

There is no shortage of ice in Zhen Guogong's mansion, and Su Yunduo is not short of ice. Although it is not difficult to get out of the saltpeter in the cave in Yangjiaji, since I have mastered the method of entering the cave, it is no longer difficult for those in Yangjiaji. Men with kung fu.

But Su Yunduo is not greedy, and every time he only asks people to transport enough saltpeter from the cave to make ice.

Of course, the method of using saltpeter to make ice, Su Yunduo only gave it to the small ice shop under her own name. Part of the ice made by saltpeter is sold through the ice shop, and most of it is used for heatstroke prevention in the workshop of Yujiefang Cooling down, and a small part is distributed according to the head, so that everyone can sleep well in the hot summer, and avoid affecting the production of the workshop due to poor rest.

Naturally, such benefits cannot be unique to the Yujiefang family. All workshops, Zhuangzi, and shops under Su Yunduo's name have the same benefits.

Since a large amount of saltpeter was discovered in the caves of Yangjiaji, not only has it greatly facilitated the use of ice in the palace, but also the use of ice by the Zhen Guogong Mansion, the Su Family, the Anhou Mansion, the Ning Family and other officials to protect their in-laws and family friends. .

Although the cost of making ice with saltpeter is very low, after careful consideration, Su Yunduo gave up her plan to monopolize the ice cube sales market. Apart from supplying ice for the palace and several in-laws and family friends, her small ice shop only opens to the outside world every day. Serves five hundred ice cubes.

Even so, the income of Xiaobingpu is also very considerable. In the one and a half months since the opening of the shop in May, the funds invested by Lu Jinhua and his sister have doubled.

There is no shortage of ice in Zhen Guogong's mansion, and Su Yunduo has a very hot ice shop, but now she can only look at it and not use it.

Wiping the teardrops on his forehead, and looking at the ice basin in the far corner with a little bit of mist, Su Yunduo felt more hot and irritable, put the scholar in his hand on the table, snatched the fan from Baitao's hand and clattered hard I fanned it, but felt that the more I fanned it, the hotter it became, and I couldn't help but feel more irritable.

Mother Chen, who was doing needlework at the side, sewed the last stitch quickly, holding the tiger-toe shoes just made in one hand, and a fan in the other, and came to show Su Yunduo the tiger-toe shoes.

I only heard Mother Chen asking softly while fanning Su Yunduo: "Master, do you think these shoes are okay?"

Su Yunduo put down the fan in his hand, and took the tiger-toed shoes from Mother Chen's hand, his eyes lit up immediately.

Although the embroidery on the tiger-head shoes was drawn by her own hands, she never thought that after Chen's mother's skillful embroidery, the slightly cartoon-like tiger head seemed to come to life, so cute!

Su Yunduo also became interested after being interrupted by Chen's mother, and asked Baitao to bring a pen and paper, and she wanted to bring out the embroidery samples.

Finally, Su Yunduo calmed down, and Mother Chen couldn't help but heaved a long sigh of relief.

Pregnant people are afraid of heat, and they can't use the ice basin more during the dog days. Su Yunduo can understand why he is so irritable.

As Su Yunduo's mother, Chen's mother naturally knows the reason why Su Yunduo is so irritable. It's not that Su Yunduo doesn't understand the principle of calmness and coolness, but that Su Yunduo really has a hard time calming down. She is too worried about her relatives in the northern city!

Su Yunduo has not received a letter from Lu Jinkang for half a month. Not only has she not received a letter from Lu Jinkang, but the Duke of Zhen has not received a single word from Beibian City in the past half month, and even the Ning family has not received it for a long time. Ning Zhongping's letter.

Although An's repeatedly told her that it was normal not to receive letters during the war, and Su Yunduo kept using such reasons to convince herself and hypnotize herself, she was still very disturbed in her heart, and naturally it was difficult to calm down.

As the deputy escort officer, Ning Zhongping escorted the war supplies to the northern city. He had returned to the capital once, but he only stayed in the capital for a few days, and then escorted the second batch of war supplies to the northern city. Lu Kun, the first escort officer, also stayed in the border town.

The people responsible for escorting the third batch of war supplies became Lu Yuhua's husband, Chen Mian, and the third and fourth sons of the Zhen Guogong's mansion.

Every time someone came back to escort the war supplies, it was natural that they would bring Lu Jinkang's handwriting and gifts to Su Yunduo, which was a pleasant surprise for Su Yunduo.

With the stalemate of the war, Su Yunduo could receive fewer and fewer letters, and the time interval was getting longer and wider.

However, before June, the longest interval between Su Yunduo receiving letters was only five days, but Su Yunduo could feel how busy Lu Jinkang was in Beibian City from the lines and handwriting of the letters.

From the beginning of June to the middle of June, Su Yunduo could only learn about the battle in the northern city from the battle reports sent to the capital from the northern city every now and then, because she hadn't received a letter from Lu Jinkang for half a month. After the three batches of war preparation materials were transported to the border town, no one from the northern town came back.

Fortunately, whenever a battle report is sent back to the capital, Lu Mingyang or An's will always send someone to Xiaofengyuan to send the content of the battle report in time.

It's just that after entering June, the battle reports from the northern city are almost the same. Although Beichen Kingdom can't break through the northern city, it has been pressing heavily on the border, sending out cavalry from time to time to plunder the border villages and towns.

The Beichen Kingdom is a nomadic people, and their immediate skills are naturally far superior to those of the Dongling Kingdom. This often makes the guards of the Dongling Kingdom lose sight of one another, and the frontiers become longer and longer.

With the stalemate of the war, more and more refugees came towards the capital.

This naturally gave some officials a reason to impeach the town government.

In order not to affect Su Yunduo's mood of raising a baby, Lu Mingyang and An's naturally gave the house a seal order, but Su Yunduo has always been clear-eyed, so how can the seal be able to hide Su Yunduo?
Besides, since the third batch of war preparation supplies was sent to Beibian City, no one came back from Beibian City to escort the war preparation supplies. Lu Mingyang has already started to prepare to personally escort the supplies to Beibian City, so how can he hide it from Su Yunduo?
When Su Yunduo heard that Lu Mingyang was going to personally escort the war supplies to the northern city, he understood one thing in his heart, that is, something must have happened in the northern city that made Lu Mingyang unable to sit still!

When the war started in Beibian City, Lu Mingyang did intend to personally escort the war supplies, but after being dismissed by the Holy Majesty, he never mentioned the matter of personally escorting.

Afterwards, Lu Mingyang plunged into the preparatory work of supervising the war preparation materials. After the third batch of war preparation materials was shipped to Beibian City, Lu Mingyang devoted himself to the preparation work of a new batch of war preparation materials as usual.

Although no one from Beibian City came back to pick up the fourth batch of war preparation materials, after the initial hustle and bustle, and after Lu Mingyang's supervision and operation over the past few months, the court was able to gain the mutual trust of the Holy Majesty and Lu Mingyang, and there were not no people who could escort the war preparation materials. There is no need for Lu Mingyang, who is over sixty years old, to personally escort him.

At this time, Shenggui, who has been buying grain in the south of the Yangtze River, happened to be taking a batch of grain back to Beijing. This time, Su Yunduo did not directly hand over the batch of grain to Lu Mingyang, but proposed to send a group of people from the village of Yangjiaji to escort it. This batch of food accompanied Lu Mingyang to Beibian City.

"Brother Kang's daughter-in-law, don't you believe that grandfather can send these grains to Beibian City?" Lu Mingyang frowned slightly when he heard that Su Yunduo was going to send his own people to escort the grains.

Su Yunduo smiled lightly and said, "Grandfather is old and strong, and the veteran will stand up to both of them. How can the granddaughter-in-law not believe in grandfather?! Grandfather also knows that the men in the village of Yangjiaji were originally the reserve army of the Qianlong Emperor, although they later became The daughter-in-law's person has never let go of his work.

Since the war started in the north, they have asked their grandson-in-law several times to fight. Even if they don't have the opportunity to fight the enemy in person, they still hope to do something for the country and the people.

Now that there is such an opportunity, how can the daughter-in-law prevent them from serving the country? "

Lu Mingyang looked at Su Yunduo silently, and nodded after a long while: "In that case, tomorrow I will report to the Holy One for a decision."

On the second day, Su Yunduo received a reply from His Majesty, and His Majesty promised that Yang Jiaji would send people to accompany Lu Mingyang to escort the war preparations to Beibian City, and praised Yujiefang for its righteousness.

Although the Holy Majesty gave this praise to Yujiefang, everyone knows that the team of Yujiefang belongs to Su Yunduo, and this praise from the Holy Majesty still belongs to Su Yunduo, even if Su Yunduo is no longer Yujiefang largest shareholder.

On June [-]th, the fourth batch of war preparation materials sent to Beibian City was escorted by Lu Mingyang to the Beibian City.

Since then, except for a few masters who were on errands in various ministries in the capital, they were unable to go to the northern city to help in the battle. It can be said that all the three generations of adult males in the Zhen Guogong Mansion, old, middle-aged and young, went to the battlefield.

Since the war started in the north, An's thunderbolt will go to Xishan Temple every half month to worship Buddha and pray for blessings.

Since Lu Mingyang escorted the war supplies and went to the northern city, An's simply stayed in Xishan Temple. After hearing the news, Mrs. Lu and Su Yunduo's grandmother also went to Xishan Temple to pray for their relatives.

Su Yunduo wanted to go to Xishan Temple to accompany him, but he also knew that it was impossible for him to get consent in this situation, so he had to ask people to send more ice and fresh vegetables and fruits to Xishan Temple, and specially made a gift with the presiding officer of the mansion. Several aunts of the family discussed and sent more guards to Xishan Temple.

Battle reports were still sent to the capital every now and then, with almost the same content, the battle was still stalemate, and Su Yunduo had never received letters from Lu Jinkang and others, and even Yang Aoqun stopped sending letters in July.

There was no letter from Lu Jinkang for a whole month, and Su Yunduo was very worried that this person remained silent.

Although there were constant battle reports in Beibian City, and there were no new changes in the war, not only did Lu Jinkang not hear from her anymore, even Yang Aoqun, who had been in touch with her, suddenly cut off letters.

Su Yunduo felt more and more uneasy, wishing to pack up and go to the northern city in person, but looking at the already tall belly, which was almost eight months old, it was difficult to even stand up and lie down, how could he travel long distances, he could only Rubbing his belly, he sighed faintly.

After sighing, Su Yunduo picked up a needle and thread to sew underwear for Lu Jinkang, and sewed all her thoughts and worries into it.

It has been six months since Lu Jinkang left the capital. In the past six months, as long as he missed Lu Jinkang, Su Yunduo would either write letters to Lu Jinkang, or pick up a needle and thread to sew clothes and make shoes for Lu Jinkang.

Although the time for sewing is not long every day, as the pregnancy progresses, the time for sewing will naturally become shorter. Even so, Su Yunduo has filled a closet with underwear, shoes and socks for Lu Jinkang.

"Why did the master start sewing again? The master has already made a cupboard for the son, but he can't do it again. Just like this, when the master comes back, the slaves must be punished. If the master continues to work, the slaves will not be able to stand it." Punishment from the prince." Mother Yang came in with a bowl of bird's nest, and saw Su Yunduo leaning on the soft couch doing needlework, she couldn't help giving Bai Tao who was waiting in the room, put down the bird's nest in her hand, and "snatched it from Su Yunduo's hand." "Through the needle thread.

Su Yunduo looked up at Mama Yang in surprise, and then turned her head to look at the back room. She really made a cabinet for Lu Jinkang?impossible!
Mother Yang understood Su Yunduo's eyes, she shook her head and smiled helplessly: "Master thinks the slave is exaggerating? Why don't the master use this bowl of bird's nest later, and the slave will help the master into the house to have a look."

Su Yunduo was amused by Yang's mother, and thinking about it, maybe she really did so much!

In the past six months, from top to bottom, inside and outside the house, she has not been allowed to worry about it. Even when preparing food and medicinal materials, she moved her mouth at the beginning. Speaking of which, she really lived a life of rice worms for half a year. Read a book, take a walk, and the most he does is make clothes, shoes and socks for Lu Jinkang with his needle and thread.

It's just that she really didn't expect that she would actually make a cupboard of clothes, shoes and socks for Lu Jinkang in the half-timing time, and now she really can't do it anymore, one is that her body is getting heavier and she can sit and do sewing time It is also getting shorter and shorter, and the second is that Lu Jinkang will be angry when he sees the clothes, shoes and socks in this cabinet after returning home, and will feel that the people serving her are not dedicated enough, and punish them.

It's just that in this way, there are no things that can divert her attention. Even if Su Yunduo doesn't want to let herself fall into wild thoughts, she will fall into them from time to time.

After entering the eighth month of pregnancy, the activity of the fetus in the stomach became more and more frequent. Sometimes Su Yunduo slept soundly, and could be awakened by the kicks and punches of the fetus in the stomach.

As her belly got bigger and bigger, her sleep quality was getting worse and worse, and the people around her were doing their best to serve them more and more. The people waiting in the mansion kept their eyes open almost all the time. As long as Su Yunduo made a slight movement, someone would be there She came forward to check and inquire, but Su Yunduo always felt that there was a vacant piece of land in her heart, and she clearly understood that the vacant piece of land was because Lu Jinkang was not around.

The mansion had invited a stable woman and a medical girl early on, and even the genius doctor Gu Zhu came to the city every now and then to ask for Su Yunduo's pulse after Su Yunduo was eight months pregnant. When the temple returned to the mansion, he was afraid that Su Yunduo would have an accident and could not explain it to Lu Jinkang, so he had to go to Xiaofengyuan to ask Su Yunduo in person every day before he could rest assured.

In this way, as the day approached Su Yunduo's delivery date, there was still no news from Lu Jinkang, and Su Yunduo did not know the reason.

(End of this chapter)