Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 485 - 483

Chapter 485: Chapter 483

The general’s wife felt relieved after hearing this. With Jingya staying out of the palace due to her pregnancy, she was genuinely apprehensive of someone being reckless around her.

"If you don’t want to watch the play, you can go sit by the pavilion near Bihe Lake. It’s quite cool there, and the air is better." Knowing that these maids couldn’t sit still for the play, the Empress suggested.

"Alright." Both of them nodded in agreement.

Xiao’er accompanied Ming Jingya to the restroom, then they headed to the lakeside.

At this time of the year, the willows had just sprouted, peach blossoms began to bud, and the lotus began to show their tips...

Everything seemed just born anew.

The two sat in Lancui Pavilion, feeling the spring breeze on their faces.

Maids were coming in and out, arranging things on the round stone tables, including incense burners, snacks, and tea.

Ming Jingya was not heavily pregnant, her belly wasn’t too large. Xiao’er couldn’t help but reach out and touch it, "Can you feel the baby moving at this time?"

"Yes, I often feel him moving around, he must be a naughty one."

"I’ve read in some books that when the baby moves around in the belly, the parents can play a game with him."

"Really?" Ming Jingya’s eyes widened with curiosity.

"How so?" Di Shaowei strode over, and sat next to Ming Jingya. He casually took her hand, which felt a bit cold. Then, he instructed Ming Jingya’s maids, "Go fetch a cloak."

Brother Di, is one cloak enough? What about me? You’re being so biased!" Xiao’er joked.

"Yingluo, fetch the Sixth Prince also and let him bring a cloak for Countess Rui’an!" Di Shaowei added, thinking to himself: hopefully, someone would come and collect this glaring lantern soon, it’s too dazzling!

"Don’t you want to know how to play with the baby anymore?" Xiao’er threatened.

"Good girl, Brother Di was just joking with you. You want a cloak, right? I’ll send a box of them to Marquis Shengping Mansion later." On hearing this, Di Shaowei’s face promptly turned docile, like a begging dog.

Ming Jingya also wanted to know, so she asked, "So, how do we play with the baby?"

"During the times when the fetus moves, wherever he kicks you, you can lightly tap that spot, and each time, play with him like this. Slowly, next time you tap a certain area, he will move there. But don’t play with him too long, he will get tired."

"Also, every day you can read some Chinese poetry to him, invite a guqin player to play for him every day, he can hear it."

"Really?" Di Shaowei was a bit skeptical.

"Of course, this is prenatal education. Don’t you think my siblings and I are especially intelligent?"

Di Shaowei: Is it really okay to brag about yourself like this?

Ming Jingya nodded and said, "So you guys started receiving education since you were in the womb. It seems I should also provide prenatal education for my child."

Who wouldn’t want to have a smart and beautiful baby?

Di Shaowei asked, "Wasn’t your mother illiterate before?"

"My dad recited poetry for my mother to hear." Shen Chengyao indeed recited poems to the baby in Mrs. Liu’s belly every night.

"What about the guqin?"

"My mother sang for us herself!"

"My auntie has a beautiful singing voice." Ming Jingya recalled her childhood and chimed in enthusiastically.

"I will invite a famous guqin player to our home to play for our baby starting tomorrow."

Who could have thought that Marquis Shengping and his wife would start educating their children right from the womb? They were really visionary!

Fortunately, their first child had not been born yet! He would invite several teachers, and apply prenatal education to everything. He wanted his child to be proficient in all areas.

If Xiao’er and that Xuanyi ever have a child that’s way too smart, wouldn’t it make their own child look stupid? Absolutely not acceptable!

Poor Ming Jingya is going to be overwhelmed by the extensive prenatal education schedule, so much so that she’s starting to feel like running away from home.

Xiao’er shared some more parenting knowledge with him, then Fu Ranhui came and asked her to join them for a boat ride on the lake.

Not wanting to be a third wheel, Xiao’er agreed.

Di Shaowei decided to be a fast learner on the spot. There happened to be a guqin in the pavilion for the ladies to kill time. He decided to personally play a piece called "High Mountain, Flowing Water" for his unborn child’s prenatal education.

"How’s it? Is the baby particularly excited?"

Looking at Di Shaowei’s hopeful eyes, Ming Jingya felt a bit embarrassed to respond, but still she shook her head, "Not a bit of reaction!"

"Perhaps he’s a boy, boys don’t like guqin, I’ll recite a poem for him!"

Boys don’t like guqin? What concept is that? Ming Jingya was at a loss for words.

Di Shaowei started to recite a poem called "Guan Ju".

"Guan guan ju jiu, on the river isle. A mild and graceful woman, a gentleman’s good mate... A mild and graceful woman, enjoying her music."

With the poem complete, Di Shaowei, full of expectation, looked at Ming Jingya, "How about that? Does our son react?"

"Yes, there is, in particular when you mentioned ’A mild and graceful woman’, he kicked me once." Ming Jingya said excitedly.

"Could it truly be a boy? He already knows ’A mild and graceful woman, a gentleman’s good mate’!" Di Shaowei said with a laugh.

Listening to this, Ming Jingya felt terrible. Imagine a child who, starting from his mother’s womb, knows "A mild and graceful woman, a gentleman’s good mate", what a person would he become when he grows up!

"Shaowei, you don’t think our son will turn out to be a womanizer, do you?"

Di Shaowei: "..."

"It’s all your fault! How could you recite such a poem to him? Look what you’ve done, you’ve corrupted him!" Ming Jingya, imagining her son growing up to be someone who can’t help flirting with any "mild and graceful woman" he sees, couldn’t help but get teary-eyed.

Oh my goodness, prenatal education really is nothing to sneeze at!

Di Shaowei was all over the place trying to wipe Ming Jingya’s tears. "Jingya, stop crying for now. What if our son grows up to be a crybaby? Don’t worry, if he dares to flirt around in the future, I will break his legs!"

"You dare to hit my son!" Ming Jingya glared at him fiercely with her bunny eyes.

"I won’t, I won’t! Whatever you say goes, okay?" Di Shaowei quickly surrendered.

Pregnant women really are prone to mood swings, crying at the drop of a hat, Di Shaowei thought as he mopped his brow.

"Get busy figuring out how to guide him properly!" Ming Jingya sniffed, pulling back her tears. Her husband was right. What if their son grew up to be a crybaby? Who would she turn to then?

"I’ll perform a set of boxing routines for him to see, let him fall in love with martial arts, and grow up to be a strong and upright man!" Di Shaowei proposed after some thought.

Ming Jingya nodded. Yes, that was more acceptable.

So Di Shaowei went off to the lakeshore and began performing the Five-Animal Qigong routine.

In a boat out on the lake were Xiao’er, Fu Ranhui, the Fifth Princess, Ruan Weizhen, and Gu Qi.

Looking at Di Shaowei seemingly practicing martial arts on the shore, Fu Ranhui asked curiously, "What is Crown Prince Di doing over there?"

Xiao’er glanced at the shore, "It seems he’s doing the Five-Animal Qigong."

"Practicing martial arts here and now?" Fu Ranhui couldn’t understand.

"It’s probably his way of prenatal education."

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