Two days later, Changfeng got married. The guests who attended the wedding were not so many. The people who didn’t come had no intention to slight the Sheng family. There truly was a reason for this. Lately, Sir Gong has suffered from hair loss and Gu Tingye always wore a sullen face. Minglan assumed that the affairs on the imperial court must be hard to deal with. Minglan was afraid that he husband wouldn’t have no time to spare, so she could only ask him in advance, “Master, will you attend my Third Brother’s wedding?”

Gu Tingye, eyebrows knitted, held the papers folders in his hand tightly and murmured, “They have been hit on the sore spot this time. Now they finally start to make a stir.”

“Master, if you cannot make time for this, I’ll just tell my parents.”

“The problem has lingered for so long, and it cannot be solved in a short period.”

“It doesn’t matter. My parents are both reasonable persons.” If Gu Tingye didn’t go, Wang shi would be very happy. Sheng Hong would understand that either.

“It’s be so difficult to finish them quickly…”

After they talked in two different dimensions for a while, Minglan went over to shake his arms. Gu Tingye raised his head with a confused look. Then Minglan could only repeat her words again. Gu Tingye chuckled, “I work for the imperial court, but haven’t sold my body to them. It’s fine to have a meal in my father-in-law’s family.”

Minglan was touched inwardly, but still teased him, “I think you have not only sold your body to them, but also your heart and soul. When you are asleep at night, you couldn’t stop snoring and grinding your teeth.”

Gu Tingye got dazed for a second and then touched Minglan’s face, saying worriedly, “Did I wake you up? I can sleep in the study.”

Minglan sat on his knees while holding her belly, “It’s fine. The noise you made wasn’t too loud. If I push you, you’ll stay quiet for half of the night. If I kick you, you’ll behave for the whole night.” She put her arms around the man’s neck and said in a cute voice quickly, “Don’t go to the study. I’m not afraid of anything as long as you are beside me.”

She had just eaten custard, which made her breath sweet. Also, her adorable and childish voice made Gu Tingye feel very comfortable as if his heart was filled with honey. Still, he patted on her bottom gently and said with a long face, “Don’t try to trick me with those sugared words. I know you are not afraid of anything.” He remembered that this little villain had thrown his arms away for a few times during her sleep because she had felt hot.

Minglan blinked her big eyes, with her long eyelashes moving up and down, and put one of her little hand on her chest, looking super innocent with that red and tender face, “It’s getting dark. How scary is that? What if a demon catches me and eat me?”

Though Gu Tingye, as an experienced guy, knew that her words were very likely to be a lie, he still was fascinated by her. Until Minglan had left, he still held the crumpled files in a daze and couldn’t bring himself into them at all. He had been friends with those rick childes since his childhood and had a lot of experiences in this area. Also, when he had served the army, he had heard lots of the dirty jokes since there were only men in the military camp. Then, with something occurred to his mind, he started to count with his fingers. ‘It has been a few months. It’ll be fine.’ He thought.

Minglan was sleeping with a pillow in her arms. Suddenly, someone approaching to her on the bed. She felt his soft underwear and wet and bristly hair touching her and smelled the familiar scent of his shampoo. Under the dim light, she asked in a daze, “Why come to bed so early today?”

“I’ll fight those demons for you.”

…

There was strange moan coming through from the room. Danju who was guarding outside the door shuddered and realized what was happening in the room now. With her face turning completely red at once, she felt both ashamed and shocked. ‘Is, is… is this going to be all right?’ She looked at Xiaotao who was standing opposite to her and moved her lips, not knowing what to say. However, Xiaotao, with her head in her hands, took her eyes from the moon and giggled, “Sister, which snack do you think Mama Ge would cook for us tonight? I want to eat mooncakes.” Danju, eyes widely open, couldn’t utter a single word for a long while. ‘Forget about it. I should report to Mama Cui.’ She decided secretly.

Next day in the morning, the couple woke up with their faces attaching to each other. Then, they both blushed with a bashful look as if they were the man and woman who had cheated with each other on the farmland. Minglan felt utterly shy but also very pleasant physically and mentally. Gu Tingye was also very satisfied. As he held his wife in his arms, he even felt her swollen belly quite adorable. The couple caressed each other for a long while with affectionate looks in their eyes, both feeling extremely sweet deep down.

After Gu Tingye got dressed, he kissed on Minglan’s cheek and walked out of the room energetically. The sullen face he had been wearing for days totally disappeared. The pageboys who followed him were all surprised to see that. In the meantime, they also let out a sigh of relief secretly and prayed that he could be like this every day.

Mama Cui had got the message long ago and went over in a hurry. Then she started to help Minglan wash face with mixed feelings. According to her expertise, it was fine to have sex during a woman’s pregnancy, but it was still… better not to do it, considering  the baby’s safety. Nevertheless, it was very rare for a husband not to step into his concubine’s room when his wife was pregnant. Gu Tingye and Minglan hadn’t had sex for almost half a year. He was a young and strong man after all, so his desire needed to be vent out anyway—Mama Cui truly was in a dilemma now.

She didn’t even bother to scold Minglan because she had never won a verbal fight with the latter anyway. After the breakfast, Mama Cui went to invite the imperial doctor at once.

Minglan was a healthy girl and her condition had been quite while during her pregnancy. Also, she followed the code of eating, dressing and exercising strictly. Thus she was the kind of pregnant woman whom the doctors liked a lot. After the imperial doctor checked her status, he told that everything was fine with her. Mama Cui, with redness on her winkled face, told the doctor what had happened last night in a delicate way. As an experienced doctor, the imperial doctor gave a start at first and then said firmly that it didn’t matter. As he glanced at Mama Cui’s wrinkled face, he then left his scruples behind and approached to her to instruct her with the precautions of having sex during pregnancy. Only until then did Mama Cui’s expression clearing.

On the day of Changfeng’s wedding, Shao shi, the widow, Minglan, the pregnant woman and Zhu shi who had just given birth to a child all couldn’t go. That was bad for the Gu’s reputation. So Old Madam Qin go to the wedding by herself. Gu Tingwei who was a party person followed her happily. Since Minglan couldn’t go, she asked someone to send a gift. Well, she also sent Xiaotao over to bond with the people there. Xiaotao was a warm-hearted girl. Seeing that the servants were terribly busy, she offered her help at once. As a result, she came back to the Cheng Manor with lots of gossips as well as three bags of snacks. The snacks were distributed to the servants in the yard and the gossips were told to Minglan, the pregnant woman who felt boring.

It was a boisterous wedding with lots of guests. Some of them came as the Sheng’s friends while the others were invited by the Liu family. Also, all the sons-in-law of the Sheng family were presented, which made the Sheng family look good. On the banquet, Wang shi uttered a few words with a jealous tone. Unfortunately for her, she wasn’t skillful enough, so everyone could feel that she wasn’t as happy as she looked. Old Madam Sheng who was genuinely happy gave a sincere wish to her grandson, “May you can have many offspring and a peaceful family.”

Molan stayed high profile and wished that everyone could know that the honorable bridegroom was her blood brother and the legal daughter of Old Master Liu would be her sister-in-law from now on. As she spoke, she sounded a bit rude and arrogant, which irritated Wang shi. Wang shi wanted to scold Molan, but couldn’t do it in front of all of the guests. However, Hualan, the capable girl, lay a fatal attack to Molan.

“Hey? Where are the other two girls in your family? The sons-in-law are all here, where are they?” An inquisitive woman asked.

Hualan answered elegantly with a smile, “My Fifth Sister just gave birth to a chubby girl less than a month. My Sixth Sister is also pregnant and it is difficult for her to walk freely.” As saying that, she turned to Molan and pretended to be very considerate as an eldest sister, “Fourth Sister, you should talk to your husband. Don’t let him get busy with the business affairs all day. You two should have a child first.”

With Molan’s pretty face turning pale, she gnashed furiously, but also fell into silence at last.

Things of one kind come together. According to this principle, Old Madam Qin and Aunt Kang had a nice conversation with each other and felt like old friends at their first meeting. Minglan assumed that they must have hit it off when they had spoken ill of her. On the men’s table at the outside, Gu Tingwei got acquaintance with Liang Han at once. The more they talked, the more congenial they found each other was. At last, they, hands holding together, wanted to go watch the horses in the stable at once and also made an appointment to watch the birds in the future. Han Cheng also achieved what he wished and made friends with a lot of talented young guys. After he drank two bottles of wine with them, they planned to have a poem competition the day after tomorrow.

Everyone got what they wanted. What a harmonious banquet!—Except for Sheng Changfeng. After the wedding ceremony, he and his bride went to their bridal chamber where he lifted the red bridal veil on his bride’s head. Then, he still had to greet the guests. Xiaotao failed to squeeze herself into the bridal chamber, but she had witness Changfeng’s depressed look in a close distance when he staggered out of the room. Xiaotao claimed that Chang Feng’s face had never been so dejected, even when Concubine Lin had been kicked out of the Sheng family.

Minglan, evil as she was, laughed for a long while. She even leafed through the account books breezily. The servants who stood in the room felt a bit strange and took a furtive glance at her. Little did they know that Minglan could cast her eyes to them.

“Mama, Stewards, according to your sayings, the excessive spending of our family are all because of the people of the Fourth and Fifth family, right?”

Peng Shou’s wife said beamingly, “Madam, it’s not appropriate for me to say this. It’s like we are disdaining the two Old Masters of our family. However…” She kept smiling with her face wrinkled like the chrysanthemum, “Old Master Gu was the kindest and the most considerable person. We can do nothing about this.”