Reborn Together: The General and I Reach for Power-Chapter 470 - 467: Fetal Nourishment

Xie Liangchen looked at her grandmother, her face full of smiles.

"Grandmother," Xie Liangchen said, "I heard that boys call their mothers ’Mother Xiao’, and girls call their fathers ’Father Xiao’, what if it’s the other way around?"

Old Mrs. Chen hadn’t thought about that, it’s easy for boys not to pick up needle and thread, but what if girls don’t enter the kitchen?

Old Mrs. Chen said, "Then the great-granddaughter won’t learn embroidery, nor cooking."

Xie Liangchen could almost picture her grandmother stopping her daughter from touching needle and thread.

Mrs. Gao happened to walk in, heard this and said, "If she doesn’t learn this, doesn’t learn that, then what will she learn?"

Old Mrs. Chen said, "There’s so much to learn, like studying medicine with Mr. Xu, or reading and writing, why must they learn those? My granddaughter..."

"Liangchen’s cooking is quite delicious," Mrs. Gao said with a smile, "isn’t she going to pass that down?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Old Mrs. Chen said, "No, Miss Chen will just be well-taken care of and won’t have to enter the kitchen in the future."

Mrs. Gao moved closer to Old Mrs. Chen: "Do you love Liangchen and the great-granddaughter more, or the rice and oil in the kitchen?"

If the granddaughter enters the kitchen once, she can attract all the kids from miles around, all standing outside the courtyard swallowing saliva, even though the villages in Zhenzhou can clearly fill their bellies, these kids seem just like before, as if they’ve missed eight meals, if outsiders see, they’d think people in Zhenzhou like to starve their own children.

Is she someone who feels sorry for the food? She feels sorry for her granddaughter having to do so much at once.

Besides, it’s not just rice and oil, she’s saved up things for half a month, and her granddaughter uses them all in one meal, having one is enough in the family, but now with a grandson-in-law coming over anytime, who did her kitchen offend? Even the Kitchen God resides there!

The family absolutely can’t have another person messing up the Kitchen God, Old Mrs. Chen was determined, regardless of whether the great-grandchild is male or female, she would guard it strictly and not let anyone in.

"It’s hard to say otherwise," Mrs. Gao said, "this child in the belly, once born, is most likely to be good at bookkeeping."

Liangchen is looking at the books all day, with an abacus in hand all day long, the prices of those ink blocks are decided together by Liangchen and several gentlemen who make the ink blocks.

At first, Mrs. Gao couldn’t really appreciate those dark things, couldn’t understand what was good about them, always felt that those ink blocks couldn’t sell as well as their thread tassels and wool felt.

The first month’s sales came in, and everyone at the ink workshop got three ounces of silver each.

The silver coins weren’t few, but Mrs. Gao still felt they were better, a group of men making dark things all day, with that smell on them... how could it compare to their large spinning wheels.

However, starting from the third month, the ink blocks suddenly sold particularly well, people from Yuezhou also came to learn how to make ink.

Mrs. Gao heard people from Yuezhou talking to their ink workshop gentlemen, saying that this type of ink didn’t require ruining pine trees, if it could replace pine smoke ink, it would definitely be beneficial in the future.

Even though Mrs. Gao felt it was good, she was still unconvinced, couldn’t let those ink block makers outshine them, she remembered those envious eyes when silver was distributed every month.

In the past, in their eyes, women couldn’t do anything significant, during the times when the weaving room collected silver, the men’s eyeballs almost popped out, that kind of satisfaction was indescribable.

There were several women in the weaving room, who were usually accustomed to being beaten and scolded by their families, holding the silver they earned, tears couldn’t stop falling, these things were always on Mrs. Gao’s lips, and were the things she was most proud of.

Was it just about earning a few silver coins in the weaving room? No, although silver is important, what is more important is gaining confidence, Mr. Dongli said this is the rarest thing.

Since they have gained confidence, how could they admit defeat easily.

Mrs. Gao only realized her true purpose today, she glanced outside the door, Chang Yue and Chang Tong were guarding the door, two door gods, watching everything, unless it was particularly important, no one could bother Liangchen.

Fortunately, she was Liangchen’s aunt by marriage, with a golden backing, allowing her to come and go as she pleased.

"Liangchen," Mrs. Gao said, "our spinning wheel needs improvement, this is the blueprint drawn by the workshop, take a look to see if it’s feasible?"

Xie Liangchen took the blueprint and examined it carefully.

Old Mrs. Chen glanced reproachfully at Mrs. Gao: "Isn’t Yongyi at home?"

Mrs. Gao smiled, "How could he compare to Liangchen, there are some things even the fourth brother can’t be sure of, this spinning wheel needs to be improved, the large spinning wheel was first made in Zhenzhou, we can’t let others surpass us."

Old Mrs. Chen didn’t realize Mrs. Gao’s thoughts, just figuring it was because the ink blocks were selling well now, and she was unconvinced.

"With such a big belly," Old Mrs. Chen advised, "be careful staring at it harms your eyes, just look for a bit."

Although Old Mrs. Chen advised, Xie Liangchen responded but her eyes didn’t leave the blueprint.

"When are you planning to make the new spinning wheel?" Xie Liangchen asked, "I’ve been thinking, using a hand crank is too laborious, it’s better to make some improvements."

Mrs. Gao was delighted: "Do you think this new spinning wheel is feasible?"

"Whether it’s feasible will be known once it’s made," Xie Liangchen said, "if you’re worried that making a large spinning wheel is too much trouble, let the workshop make a few small ones first, if the small ones work, the large ones naturally won’t have any problems."

Mrs. Gao’s eyes lit up, if Liangchen says it’s feasible, then it truly is, these things were originally from Liangchen’s hands, now the craftsmen in the workshop are making them for the first time, they’re always uneasy, they must have Liangchen take a look to be at ease.

"Then I’ll head over to the workshop," Mrs. Gao took the blueprint from Xie Liangchen’s hand, "I’ll come back to tell you how it turns out later."

Xie Liangchen nodded: "Alright."

Mrs. Gao left with a smile holding the blueprint.

Xie Liangchen watched Mrs. Gao’s departing figure.

Old Mrs. Chen said: "Now it’s truly something, everyone is so busy, trying to outdo one another, afraid of being left behind." It’s not just in Chen Family Village, the whole of Zhenzhou, even the North is like this.

At the Familiar Medicine Institute, besides familiarizing with medicine, Chen Yuyu and the others are also nurturing seedlings, intending to plant some other medicinal herbs during spring farming.

Currently, Zhenzhou is considered a gathering place for medicinal herbs, merchants coming to the North to purchase medicine all come to Zhenzhou, the West Market in the city has now turned into entirely medicinal shops, you can even smell a hint of medicine fragrance from a distance.

Old Mrs. Chen said: "That young man from the Su Family, also had the steward send some prescriptions to Mr. Xu, all ancient remedies from the folk, asking Mr. Xu to see if they could be useful."

Xie Liangchen said: "Is it a prescription for pig fat?"

Old Mrs. Chen was puzzled: "How did you know?"

Xie Liangchen said: "The Imperial Hospital has allowed pharmacies to sell compounded pig fat ointment, I’ve been working with Mr. Xu to improve the pig fat, Su Huaiqing must have heard about this and sent the prescription."

However, why would Su Huaiqing have the steward bring it to Mr. Xu? And not to her? Mr. Xu would also share the prescription with her for further study.

Isn’t this going around in a big circle?

Earlier Qin Maoxing told her about setting up a Familiar Medicine Institute in Cangzhou, and she promised to help.