“Miss Gu also said that she was afraid you would be tired, so the patterns on the inner garment are already embroidered, and you only need to embroider a pair of mandarin ducks. She has also prepared the mandarin duck pattern for you.”
Shen Xuan said with a smile, watching Afu’s face slowly turn red.
According to local customs, the wedding dress is usually embroidered by the father. However, for servants in farming families or large households, if the groom’s father does not have the time to prepare it in advance, the groom needs to embroider an inner garment himself.
This is to express the groom’s good wishes and to show the bride’s family that the groom is looking forward to the marriage.
However, Gu Yitong felt sorry for Afu, and the wedding date was short. She did not want to tire him out, so she hired someone to make an inner garment, leaving a small portion for Afu to embroider, thus completing the custom and making a show of it.
The clothes would be sent to the mansion by Gu Yitong later, and with nearly half a month left, it would definitely be enough for Afu.
“Husband!”
Shen Xuan, who was teasing, was startled by the shout and turned back in confusion, “How are you?” wap.kanshu伍.net
“Husband, I’m getting medicine for Ada.”
Xu Miao had already been trained by Lu Yu to use this title.
“Medicine?” Shen Xuan glanced at the medicine bottle in Xu Mo’s hand. It was indeed medicine, but it seemed to be for martial artists.
Shen Xuan did not speak, but nodded. Since Xu Miao was giving it to Ada, he really could not make the decision for Ada whether to accept it or not.
“Thank you.” Ada’s voice was a little weak, and he nodded to Xu Miao in thanks.
Xu Miao accepted Ada’s thanks, bowed to Shen Xuan, and hurried away.
Shen Xuan did not pay much attention to the matter. In his opinion, perhaps because Ada’s injury was inflicted by Xu Miao herself, she felt a little guilty, which was why she brought him medicine.
After the rectification today, the servants in the mansion were much more obedient, rumors disappeared on their own, they no longer slacked off at work, and they were even more respectful to Ada and Afu.
Ada’s injury had almost healed in the past few days, Afu was embroidering his wedding dress in his room every day, and Shen Xuan was also busy preparing Afu’s dowry.
Wang Tian did not have anything valuable; everything he had was given to him by his young master when he was still in the Li mansion.
He gave Afu a warm jade bracelet that Shen Xuan’s father had given him when he married Afu’s mother. He had never been willing to wear this precious item, but now that Afu was getting married, it was considered a dowry from him as a father to his son.
The day before the wedding, early in the morning, Gu Yi walked into the Lu mansion with a gift box.
“Why are you here so early today?” Shen Xuan was a little surprised to see Gu Yi. Although Gu Yi had come to talk to Afu every day in the past few days, he had never been this early.
“It’s all my sister.” Gu Yi said, looking teasingly at Afu beside Shen Xuan, his eyes full of smiles.
As soon as Afu saw Gu Yi’s smiling face, he knew that Gu Yitong must have wanted him to convey something, and his face turned red in advance.
“My sister has been carving a pair of jade geese by hand these past few days. She rushed to finish them this morning, and here they are! She hurried me to bring them to you, and also to convey her feelings for you.”
When Gu Yi said this, Afu became even more shy, his face blushing all the way to the roots of his neck.
Gu Yi then placed the gift box containing the jade geese into Afu’s hands, “Now that I have personally delivered my sister’s wishes to you, I can report back to her.”
Afu lowered his head and did not speak, but Gu Yi was not annoyed. Instead, he smiled even more happily, “Why is brother-in-law so shy?”
This address of “brother-in-law” made Afu’s ears turn red.
With this address, he realized that he was getting married tomorrow, marrying the woman he liked, marrying Gu Yitong.
Logically, on the night before the wedding, the father should teach his son about marital affairs. However, due to Afu’s special situation, Wang Tian did not go into detail, but he still had to give instructions in other aspects.
Wang Tian stayed in Afu’s room for a full hour. Ada also stayed in the room, playing with the kitten, leaving space for the father and son to talk.
When Wang Tian left the room, Afu was still sitting on the bed, his face flushed with an unusual redness. He looked at the small booklet by the bed and swallowed nervously.
He had lost all consciousness that day and had no memory. The only feeling he had after waking up was pain, so his first experience was not pleasant. He still wasn’t quite sure what the wedding night was supposed to be like.
The conversation Wang Tian had with him just now was still echoing in his ears, and combined with the images in the booklet, he finally understood.
Furthermore, Wang Tian had also told him that with his current body, he could not engage in marital intimacy on the wedding day.
It was only after three months of male pregnancy that a small opening would automatically appear below, which was the birth canal. The child would be delivered from here after ten months and would naturally close a month later.
When men and women engaged in marital intimacy, sperm entered from the front of the lower body and formed a gestation sac in the body, which was how pregnancy was possible.
However, he was not yet three months pregnant. If they engaged in marital intimacy at this time, the gestation sac might be destroyed, and the sperm would be expelled from the front again.
Therefore, men in the first three months needed to be extremely careful to prevent miscarriage.
After the small opening appeared, a barrier would be formed inside the body, and then engaging in marital intimacy would be fine.
The book Wang Tian gave him also described how pregnant men could please women, which made Afu, who knew nothing about marital affairs, blush and his heart race, but he still forced himself to learn.
His father said that women were sensual, and if he wanted to capture her heart from the beginning, he had to learn all of this. Moreover, he did not want to wrong Gu Yitong because of his own reasons.
The next morning, Afu woke up on his own. He, who had been sleepy during his pregnancy, could not sleep at all now.
He could hear the commotion in the courtyard from inside the house; they were decorating the courtyard.
With a creak of the door, Ada walked in with a smile. He seemed a little surprised to see Afu awake on the bed, “Why are you awake so early today?”
“I… I couldn’t sleep very well.” Afu was a little embarrassed, but he was indeed too excited to sleep.
“Since you can’t sleep, then get ready early and become the beautiful groom today.” Ada did not insist on Afu resting as before, but pulled him out of bed and ordered a servant to bring the wedding attire that had been prepared long ago.
As the servant entered, several officiants followed, holding their respective tools, and filed in.
“These people were all invited by the husband. Hurry up and get up to get ready.”
Shen Xuan had not experienced this before the wedding, so he did not want Afu to go through the same. He wanted to give Afu all the steps and all the blessings.
Before getting dressed, an officiant stepped forward to perform the facial hair removal for Afu. Although his technique was very good, he could not avoid the pain during the process, and he muttered something under his breath.