Chapter 342: Chapter 342 Several Small Countries at the Border Are Stirring (1)
After nearly ten days, the seeds were all planted. Jueqing also started to have people produce charcoal. Eldest brother Feng Xi, seeing that the work in the fields had ended and Prince Mei had returned safely, packed his bags mid-December, ready to head back to Feng Family Village. There was a pile of things waiting for him to deal with. When he had come, there were two of them, but as he left, he was alone; Uncle Ma had already gone back half a month earlier to handle the business of the tavern.
Feng Xuxu, draped in a red fox fur cloak, stood on the city wall, watching as her big brother Feng Xi departed. She remembered his words when they parted, telling her that he would come back when she gave birth to her baby.
As the figure grew more distant, Dugu Chen furrowed his handsome brows, looking at the overcast sky, then extended his large hand to grasp her small, soft one, "Let’s go, big brother has gone far."
Feng Xuxu retracted her gaze and nodded. Just as she took a step forward, she suddenly found herself lifted into the air. She flailed her arms in shock until she grasped a piece of duckweed—only to realize it was his robe.
She glared at him with her phoenix eyes, puffing her cheeks in anger, "You almost scared me and our baby to death!"
"Hahaha, I could never bear to do that." He walked down the stairs of the city wall and didn’t set her down until they were aboard the carriage.
The guards and maids behind them were used to such scenes and followed their master calmly.
At night, when she was asleep and it was the latter half of the night, Feng Xuxu was awakened by a stabbing pain on her calf. The muscles inside her calf were twisting, the pain causing her to inhale sharply. She slowly got up and, unable to reach her lower leg, she had to endure the pain and bend her knee, repeatedly patting her calf.
"Cramp in your leg?" He opened his enchanting peach-blossom eyes and glanced at his wife sitting up.
"Mhm."
Dugu Chen sat up, draped a garment over her, and started to methodically knead the calf that was cramping.
"How does it feel now?" When he didn’t hear her speak after a while, he turned back only to find she had already fallen asleep leaning sideways.
Dugu Chen gently set down her slightly swollen leg due to pregnancy, removed the garment covering her, tucked her in with the blanket, and wrapping his arms around his delicate wife, he also slowly drifted to sleep.
The next day, when Feng Xuxu opened her eyes and saw only herself on the large bed, she glanced out at the still unlit sky and hesitated—had she woken up early today?
"Someone come." She sat up, her belly the size of five months along, which might as well compete with one six months into pregnancy.
Baihe, outside the door, hurriedly came in when she heard the princess’ call.
"Princess, you’re awake." She walked to the bedside, drawing the mosquito net up and tying it to either side of the bed.
"What time is it? Isn’t it daylight yet?" She stood up and let Baihe help her into a loose dress, which seemed thicker than usual.
"Princess, it’s already 9-11 AM. There was snowfall late last night, and it’s still overcast outside. It might snow again in the afternoon." Baihe spoke as she adeptly dressed the princess in the newly tailored cotton clothes, which fit quite well.
"So it snowed. I thought I had woken up early." She shook her head with a smile, walked over to the washstand, and gently lifted the warm water from the basin to wash her face. She then brushed her teeth with a toothbrush made from saltwater and bristles. Speaking of this toothbrush, she hadn’t been accustomed to using twigs when she first arrived and had finally decided to use pig bristles instead. To her surprise, everyone in the Prince Mei Residence had switched to using toothbrushes made from pig bristles. At that time, she even contemplated whether to produce them as goods for sale.
