The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching. When Gu Jinchu brought her two children to Minghui Hall to pay their respects, Zhu Jie'er thought of the scene of them making Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival, and pestered her fifth aunt if she could take her to make mooncakes.

Old Madam Jiang is old, and although she is not a person who likes to be lively, her daughters are always well-behaved and smart, and she likes them sincerely.

Gu Jinchu glanced at his mother-in-law and saw that she was smiling lovingly and agreed readily.

In fact, mooncake fillings and Yuanxiao fillings are similar in many ways.

Date paste, red bean paste, chestnut, black sesame and nut fillings with green roses.

Zhu Jie'er and Xian Jie'er rolled up their sleeves, wore aprons, and stood in front of the table in a serious manner, placing the rolled mooncake dough into the molds.

Sister Xian is a quiet person, with seriousness written all over her face. She smiled with her lips pursed after taking off the mold.

Zhu Jie'er has failed countless times. The dough and filling are crooked and it is impossible to tell what the pattern is.

After seeing it, Gu Jinchu smiled and shook his head and said, "It seems that we will have to eat a few larger mooncakes for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival."

Zhu Jieer smiled and said, "Fifth Aunt, Zhu Jieer has tried her best. I guess I don't have the talent for this."

Liu looked angry, tapped her smooth forehead and scolded her with a smile, "You are the one who enjoys making noises, don't think of being lazy just because you have no talent."

"Your fifth sister is also learning for the first time today. Look at what you did, and then look at what Sister Xian did. They are all very good!"

Having said that, he still reworked the mooncake dough that his daughter had failed to make.

Just like what Gu Jinchu said, it was much bigger than usual. It was obvious that her craftsmanship was not that good.

Zhang was sitting at the side. Seeing her daughter handing over the baked mooncakes to her like a treasure, she said softly:

"Zhu Jie'er probably doesn't like cooking...it would be great if Xian Jie'er had Zhu Jie'er's talent in music, chess, calligraphy and painting."

But she is not worried, as long as her daughter grows up happily.

Born in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and being the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, she will definitely have a good future.

Zhu Jie'er covered her forehead with her hands, pretending to be in pain, and kept saying "ouch, ouch". She walked backwards and lay on her back on the kang by the window.

Nuonuo and Tuanzi are six months old now. From tossing and turning, both children can now sit steadily for a while.

Zhu Jie'er came over suddenly, holding a piece of apple in her hand, and stared at her cousin with her big watery and lively eyes.

Tuanzi supported himself on the kang with one chubby hand, pointed at his cousin with one hand, and babbled something, revealing two small milk teeth in his mouth.

Zhu Jie'er lay on the kang, touching her cousin's chubby little hand, smiling, "I really envy Nuonuo and Tuanzi, they don't have to work and won't be despised by others."

Tuanzi thought his cousin was playing with him, so he handed the fruit in his hand that was covered with his saliva and smiled at Zhu Jie'er.

Gu Jinchu didn't stop him when he saw this, but just smiled and said, "How can you give your sister something you've chewed on?"

Madam Jiang sat cross-legged on the kang and held Tuanzi in her arms. "How could he understand at such a young age? This is Tuanzi sharing food with his cousin."

She leaned sideways, looking at her grandson with loving face, the satisfaction and love in her eyes almost overflowing.

Mrs. Li had no daughter, so it was not her turn as the aunt to lead the children in making mooncakes. She followed her mother-in-law's example and held Nuonuo in her arms.

He bent down and kissed her soft and tender face, smiling, "This shows that our Tenth Young Master will be a promising person in the future. He is so generous at such a young age."

The twins were born to Gu Jinchu, and she knew the two children best. She smiled and said, "He couldn't bite it off, and it happened that Sister Zhu took care of him, so she was looking for someone to feed him."

Tuanzi seemed to understand. He raised the apple piece in his hand slightly, tilted his head to look at his grandmother, and smacked his lips.

"Wow!" Madam Jiang was full of surprise, "It's true, our little Dumpling is really smart."

When Zhu Jieer saw the servant coming over with a small spoon, she hurriedly said, "Grandma, Fifth Aunt, let me do it! I'm not good at making mooncakes, but I can still scrape some fruit puree to feed my brothers and sisters!"

She was the youngest daughter in the family, and was usually taken care of by her older brothers and sisters. She had never done any work as a servant.

The two children's faces were covered with food from her feeding, and the women in the room watched and laughed.

In order to avoid dirtying Li's clothes, Gu Jinchu reached out and took Nuonuo.

The little girl immediately leaned on her mother's arms, hugged her neck and did not raise her head.

It seemed as if she was very reluctant when Li hugged her just now, but she held back her emotions and didn't cry. She looked cute and well-behaved, and made people feel sorry for her.

After the two children ate half of an apple, Gu Jinchu stopped Zhu Jie'er from feeding them.

Old Madam Jiang asked the maid to fetch some hot water to wash Zhu Jie'er's hands, and also wiped the faces of Nuonuo and Tuanzi.

Except for Tuanzi, the tenth young master who was still in swaddling clothes, the room was filled with women, and it was a feast for the eyes.

Liu combed her little daughter's buns again, and seeing Meng's envious look, she smiled and teased her, "Still no news about your niece's wife?"

"It's time to give Chen Ge'er a sister, so that she can have a few cousins ​​to play with in the future. If it's a few years later, the age gap will be too big and we will have no common topics."

Meng blushed and replied.

She also wants to have a girl as her next child, so that she won’t have any regrets if she has both a son and a daughter.

When her mother-in-law was still alive, especially after her husband returned to Beijing to report on his work, every time she went to the main room to set rules, her mother-in-law would ask her to hurry up and give birth to another son.

It seems that only by giving birth to a boy, or giving birth to more boys, can her existence in the first house be meaningful.

Watching the aunts chatting and laughing with their grandmother, she couldn't help but recall the scene when she delivered things to her mother-in-law a few days ago.

When her mother-in-law was divorced and returned home, the Wang family had fallen into poverty, so Wang went to the farm where she had come as a dowry.

It was not until this moment that Meng and Jiang Chengming suddenly realized that in order to support the Wang family, Wang also had her several incompetent brothers.

The dowry she brought when she married into the Jiang family, plus the money she had saved from managing the household and working hard in the Dingguo Mansion over the years, is now very little.

After filling the deficit in the public accounts, the eldest wife's private property was even less.

How much Wang despised the third branch's behavior at that time, and now she is feeling slapped in the face.

No matter how poor Li was, she could still keep her dowry and leave some wealth for her legitimate son.

As for the eldest wife, the brothers and sisters who have not yet married have a big problem with the gifts and dowries when they get married in the future.

Meng withdrew her gaze from the aunts. If what Wang was thinking at that time had happened, and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion had been divided, the first house would probably have been ruined by her and the eldest master, leaving only an empty shell.

Gu Jinchu changed the two children into clean clothes and noticed that Meng's expression was a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it.

When she returned to Yuanyuan Hall, Master Jiang Wu was lying on the kang by the window.

The court dress she wore when she went out was changed into an ordinary straight-leg dress. A small mattress for the child was placed on her lower abdomen, and her eyes were lightly closed as if she was asleep.

Only when I got closer could I smell the faint aroma of wine in the room.