Time Travel and Love

Chapter 554: Jinse's Birth

Li also echoed her, which finally put her mind at ease. But then she asked again, "Isn't it said that after giving birth once, the next time will be fast? Why does Qihua sound so upset?"

Li couldn't help but hold her forehead and smile bitterly. Her mother-in-law was too well protected by her father-in-law. "Mother, everyone is different. Even if it's fast, it will hurt."

Chu Qingmeng nodded and said, "Didn't I send someone to call the Second Young Master? It's been so long, why hasn't he returned yet?!"

"Mother, please calm down. My husband and uncle are in the military camp. They said they have something important to do today. I'm afraid they are very busy right now."

"Forget it, forget about them. Qingyun, go in and keep an eye on them for me."

Li bowed and entered the inner room.

Shuang Cheng was very quick and came back with two doctors.

At 3:00 p.m., Mrs. Xu gave birth to a daughter safely. The doctors prescribed some blood-replenishing and qi-tonifying prescriptions and then took their leave.

Chu Qingmeng went into the room and saw Xu, who had fallen asleep from exhaustion. He asked her personal maid to take good care of her and then left the inner room.

In the outer hall, the wet nurse brought in the little granddaughter. Perhaps she had a "biological mother filter" for her granddaughter. Chu Qingmeng thought this little ball of girl was adorable no matter how he looked at her.

It wasn't until the evening that the three of them, father and son, finally returned home. Mo Liujin just looked at her, the words he missed her stuck in his throat.

Seeing that Chu Qingmeng was genuinely happy holding the child, Mo Jiangche breathed a sigh of relief. He stood beside Chu Qingmeng and said, "Mother, have you finished your work these past few days? If you are, please come back home. Jinse is still waiting for your help in taking care of her. I have never raised a daughter before, so I don't know what to do. Please help me."

"...I have never raised a daughter...you can ask your brother." Chu Qingmeng did not hear Mo Jiangche's intention to keep him.

"Ahem... Mother, I've been very busy lately, so how can I have time to care about him?" Mo Jiangqing refused.

"I've never carried one before..." Chu Qingmeng suddenly felt that the little baby was hot.

When they were born, Chunhe only let her hold them occasionally during the confinement period, never letting her take care of them. She would take them away if they cried or made a fuss. After the confinement period, she abandoned the two children and went to the border town. How could she have taken care of them?

"Mother, you just need to help keep an eye on it. We have wet nurses and maids here, so you don't have to take care of it yourself." Seeing that Chu Qingmeng had lost her mind, Li quickly reminded her.

“…”Okay~_~The way they talk about taking care of children is not the modern way of taking care of children.

In the end, Chu Qingmeng stayed in the mansion. After dinner, she returned to the warm room. The temperature was still very hot. Chu Qingmeng asked Chunhe to tell the servant who was burning the floor dragon to put out the fire. She would no longer be cold.

Mo Liujin handled official business in the study until almost midnight before he dared to return to the warm room. He was afraid that Chu Qingmeng would drive him out, and he didn't know how to face her when she woke up.

He held her in his arms, warming her body as usual, lowered his head and gently placed a kiss on her head, then slowly fell asleep.

The next day, Chu Qingmeng opened his eyes and saw the familiar wall of flesh again. In fact, the ancients had the habit of wearing underwear to sleep, but she would always put her hand inside and put it on his chest. Over time, he also got used to taking off his shirt to sleep.

The scars on his chest were crisscrossed, the result of more than twenty years of fighting. Chu Qingmeng looked at these scars, his expression was dazed for a moment, and he unconsciously stroked them and shed tears.

Mo Liujin reached out and wiped away her tears. "Don't cry. Please forgive me. Can we go back to the way we were before?"

Chu Qingmeng didn't say anything, but buried her face in his chest and cried. The grievances she had been feeling for over a month finally found an outlet.

Can not go back.

She wanted to end it all.

I have to admit that Aunt Liu succeeded.

Mo Liujin gently stroked her back and let her vent in his arms. He was also uncomfortable and very uncomfortable. Apart from crying quietly with her, he didn't know what to do.

She cried for who knows how long before she drifted off to sleep. Mo Liujin covered her with a blanket, washed up, and went to the meeting room.

She didn't wake up until I came back to see her before lunch.

After lunch, Chu Qingmeng asked Feiying to take out the two identical copies of the dowry list that he had prepared earlier, and asked Chunhe to deliver them to Li and Xu's houses.

Today, the three of them were all at the mansion handling official business. When the dowry list arrived, Li and Xu were chatting casually.

"Although mother said she's prepared dowries for her granddaughters, it's too early..." Li casually flipped open the list and gasped, "This...this much..."

Seeing her expression, Xu also quickly flipped through the list. Her pupils trembled, and she swallowed her saliva and said, "Sister-in-law...this is the entire General's Mansion, right?"

"That's about right..." Li was a little confused.

Ordinary officials wanted to save face when marrying off their daughters, so they would basically give them eighty bearers of carriages, and many of them were fake. Those who were powerful and could afford to give their daughters a ten-mile red dowry would give them one hundred and twenty bearers of carriages.

When they got married, the betrothal gifts were added to the dowry, totaling eighty loads.

In addition to the 120 loads of actual dowry, this dowry list also included a stack of land deeds. Yes, a whole stack. These things were worth more than 2 million taels, which was about the same amount as the princess's wedding.