novelraw Chapter 463 - 0440: Not Pregnant, Already Had the Baby (1)_2
Chapter 463 - 0440: Not Pregnant, Already Had the Baby (1)_2
Mu Yuanxiu smiled slightly and walked towards the carriage, "Okay."
Li Yuzhu immediately lifted the curtain and also smiled, urging him to get into the carriage quickly.
Over there, Li Xing’an asked Mu Yuanxiu, "Where are you going?"
Uncle Gui said, "Sanlang, I’m asking Yuanxiu for a favor, you all guard the store, we’ll be back soon."
If Li Yuzhu called Mu Yuanxiu away, Li Xing’an would definitely be anxious and disagree no matter what.
But Uncle Gui was with Chai Eying, and also an elder, he was always kind to the family, so Li Xing’an couldn’t argue with him and just said, "Oh, then Uncle Gui, come back soon."
"I know, I am familiar with the county roads, I used to often take your big sister-in-law here," Uncle Gui said with a smile, raised the whip, and drove the mule cart away.
In the cart, Li Yuzhu looked at Mu Yuanxiu and giggled.
Mu Yuanxiu smiled with his eyes and looked at her, "What are you laughing at?"
Li Yuzhu cleared her throat, holding back her laughter, "Nothing, once we buy the stuff you have to carry it for me."
Mu Yuanxiu smiled, "Of course."
What to buy, Li Yuzhu had already made a list.
Uncle Gui stopped the mule cart at a bustling street corner, and Li Yuzhu and Mu Yuanxiu took the list and bought items one by one.
She bought gifts for everyone in the family.
Of course, she didn’t have to pay, the family had given her money and entrusted her to buy them.
Now, everyone in the family was making money, and each was a "rich person" indeed.
Her father wanted the finest writing brushes and ink, her mother wanted some threads and specially asked her to buy as many colors as possible. There were threads sold in the village market, but the quality was inferior, and the colors were fewer, only the usual eighteen colors, while the county had more than sixty colors. But the Great Princess said the county’s threads couldn’t compare with those in the Capital, which had over two hundred eighty colors.
She couldn’t embroider and didn’t care about thread colors, but the Great Princess talked about when they could get a batch of threads from the Capital every day.
Now the whole family couldn’t leave Zhen An Prefecture, so thoughts of things from the Capital were just dreams.
After buying her parents’ items, Li Yuzhu bought what her brothers wanted, the second’s bows and arrows, not many wild animals shot, but plenty of arrows bought. Li Xing’an didn’t want her to buy, as he would stay in the county until the New Year and buy himself.
Next, she bought the soft fabrics Chai Eying wanted for the baby, then snacks for the Second Princess and rouge for the Great Princess.
After putting the purchased goods on the mule cart, Mu Yuanxiu said he still needed to buy something and asked Li Yuzhu to accompany him to be an advisor.
It was rare to stroll, so Li Yuzhu happily agreed.
However, Mu Yuanxiu hadn’t decided on what to buy but had picked a lot of food, eating as they walked along.
Mu Yuanxiu was holding several boxes in his hand.
Li Yuzhu took a piece of shrimp biscuit into her mouth, and said unclearly, "Mu Yuanxiu, what exactly are you buying?"
Said to buy something, yet nothing bought, only food, letting her taste everything; her stomach was nearly full. Well, no need for dinner then.
"Let’s keep looking," Mu Yuanxiu said, surveying each store they passed along the street.
Finally, he pulled Li Yuzhu into a shop, "Let’s go in and take a look."
Li Yuzhu looked around, "Isn’t this a jewelry store? Are you buying jewelry?"
Mu Yuanxiu didn’t speak, walked to the counter, and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have bracelets?"
A chubby, Maitreya Buddha-like man with a smiling face walked over, glanced at Li Yuzhu then Mu Yuanxiu, "Little lady, young man, we recently made a new batch of bracelets, jade, gold, agate, and even carved agarwood ones; which type do you need?"
Mu Yuanxiu placed a heavy money pouch on the counter, "Take out each type for a look."
The shopkeeper saw, inside the loosely tied pouch, several ingots could be seen.
His eyes gleamed, and he smiled, "Alright."
Li Yuzhu moved forward, "Mu Yuanxiu, are you buying a bracelet, for whom?"
Mu Yuanxiu glanced at her, did not speak.
The shopkeeper chuckled, "Little lady, he’s buying for you, can’t you tell?"
Li Yuzhu thought to herself, can’t she ask Mu Yuanxiu?
Finally, Mu Yuanxiu picked a pair of jade bracelets.
Fine threads of ink green swirled elegantly in the light green bracelet.
Very pretty.
The shopkeeper said with a smile, "These bracelets are great; they match the young lady’s clothes perfectly, light green bracelets paired with a dark green skirt, complementing each other."
Li Yuzhu said nothing, thinking to herself, as expected, a seller praises their wares.
Mu Yuanxiu negotiated the price, finally buying the bracelets for eighty taels.
Li Yuzhu was surprised, "Mu Yuanxiu, such expensive bracelets, you’re buying them?"
She thought, ten-tael ones would be enough for her, yet he willingly spent eighty taels!
"I am not short of money," Mu Yuanxiu put the bracelet on her wrist, pulling her out of the store.
Li Yuzhu frowned, "Sure, not short of money now. I remember earlier this year, you were wearing patched clothes!" This extravagant boy!
"Times change; I am not short of money now," Mu Yuanxiu glanced at her.
Li Yuzhu was speechless, "Alright, alright, you have money."
She looked at the bracelet on her wrist, truth be told, the bracelet was beautiful.
Mu Yuanxiu’s taste was good.
"Mu Yuanxiu, why did you suddenly think of giving me a bracelet?" Li Yuzhu asked, looking at the bracelet.
She thought if Mu Yuanxiu gave her something, it would be small earrings or a small hairpin.
Mu Yuanxiu gave her a meaningful look, "The implication is different."
"What implication?" Li Yuzhu looked at him, smiling, asking.
"It’s..." Mu Yuanxiu’s words were cut off by Li Yuzhu, "Wait a minute!"
She saw something? She saw at the alley entrance ahead, a young woman came down from a carriage and hurried into a small house in the alley.
At the house’s entrance stood a woman holding a baby; the baby was crying incessantly.
The young woman scolded the woman with the baby, "Why have you taken the little master outside? He just turned one month old; don’t you know he can’t be in the wind?"
The woman said anxiously, "Fourth young mistress, you didn’t come today; I couldn’t calm him."
"Didn’t I come now? Why are you in such a hurry?" The young woman reached to take the baby into her arms, walked into the house.
The door closed, and the baby’s cries quieted down.
"What are you looking at?" Mu Yuanxiu glanced over at the house and asked Li Yuzhu.
Li Yuzhu furrowed her brow, murmuring, "Strange, isn’t Fourth Miss Qian supposed to be pregnant? How come there’s a baby just over a month old? How did she become pregnant?"
Whether nursing one’s own child or not having nursed a child at all, it’s unlikely for her to get pregnant shortly after a full month.
Just after a month, postpartum recovery may not be complete.
Even those in good health who recover in half a month do not ovulate so quickly to conceive.
Moreover, with the medicine available at the time, one wouldn’t realize pregnancy until two months in.
Two months ago, this child hadn’t even been born.
By timing, one thing must be false, either the child isn’t real, or it’s not Fourth Miss Qian’s, or Fourth Miss Qian isn’t pregnant at all!
Whatever falsification intended, this would be quite unfair to Fifth Miss Zhao who had been dismissed.
"Mu Yuanxiu, you watch the woman who just entered that house; I’m going to find Sister-in-law Chai," Li Yuzhu said.
Mu Yuanxiu curiously asked, "Who is that?"