Chapter 430

"General..."

"It's noon, the sister-in-law is here."

Tie Shitou's voice rang out outside the courtyard.

Duan Yu, sitting on the steps in front of the room, looked at the messy small courtyard, then stood up with his hands on his knees and shook the dust off his body.

"Coming, let your sister-in-law wait outside, don't come in," Duan Yu said.

Following that, Duan Yu, who had simply tidied up, pushed the door out of the courtyard.

Then he closed the courtyard door by the way.

The guards hurriedly stood in front of the courtyard door to block it.

"Husband..."

Diao Chan's delicate voice rang out behind him, and Duan Yu hurriedly turned around, looked at Diao Chan with a smile, and stepped forward two steps.

As time passed, the bellies of Diao Chan and Dong Yi, who were several months pregnant, became more and more prominent, and the signs of pregnancy were becoming more and more obvious.

"Why are you here again? Didn't I say don't move around easily?"

"What if you disturb the fetus?" Duan Yu came to Diao Chan and said with concern.

Diao Chan smiled gently and shook her head: "My body and Yi'er sister's are not delicate."

"Husband, you also know that everything in the family was handled by me before."

"The female physician has already said that the dangerous period has passed."

"Now we need appropriate exercise, and we can't eat too much, so as to avoid the fetus being too big, and exercise can also correct the fetal position, which is conducive to delivery."

Diao Chan, dressed in a red long skirt and covered with a white gauze coat, said softly while walking.

Not long after, the two returned to the back mansion.

Now there was one more person in the back mansion.

Su He's arrival made the back mansion a bit more lively.

Originally, Diao Chan and Dong Yi were both pregnant, and they were discussing taking a concubine for Duan Yu.

After all, after the two women were pregnant, they couldn't have sex, and naturally, they couldn't watch Duan Yu sleep alone at such a young and strong age.

So when they were in Jinyang, they had already started planning to find a concubine for Duan Yu.

And they did indeed choose some who were suitable in both appearance and age to be included in the mansion as maids first.

But Duan Yu brought Su He back, which broke Diao Chan and Dong Yi's plan.

The back mansion of the Prefect's mansion was very large.

Actually, it was called a mansion, but it was more like a small castle, an independent small city within the city.

The huge residence was divided into five general areas: front, middle, back, and left and right sides.

The front courtyard of the residence was mostly used for office work and some guest receptions.

And the structure of the middle courtyard was a garden, as well as some areas for private meetings with important officials.

As for the back mansion, it was mostly for female family members and residences.

Female family members like Diao Chan, Dong Yi, and Su He usually had their own courtyards and servants.

They didn't live together in daily life, and even when eating, they did it separately.

Each female family member's courtyard was like an independent family.

Of course, this family had only one male master.

That was Duan Yu.

Choosing where to live and which female family member's courtyard to live in was entirely up to Duan Yu's own will.

However, Diao Chan and Dong Yi had a very good relationship.

Plus Su He was married from afar from the Xiongnu and had no relatives in Liangzhou, so they ate together.

Besides the front, middle, and back three areas.

There were two areas on both sides of the main body of the mansion.

The left area generally housed the guards on duty in the mansion, as well as the armory and the storage location for horses.

Powerful families and scholar-official families often raised private soldiers and dead soldiers to deal with emergencies.

So they would generally configure places for these private soldiers, guards, and dead soldiers to live and store weapons in the mansion.

As for the right area of the mansion, it was an area where attendants and servants lived together.

And there were watchtowers in the four corners of the mansion or in the corners of the back mansion.

Usually, guards and private soldiers were stationed there to watch the situation in all directions.

In the main hall of the back mansion, food had already been set up.

Dong Yi and Su He had already taken their seats.

Looking at Duan Yu's attire, Diao Chan, Dong Yi, and Su He seemed to have gotten used to it.

"Husband, the Beginning of Autumn has passed, and the autumn harvest will begin next month."

"The autumn clothes in the mansion have all been made, and the preparations for brewing wine have also been completed."

"When Captain Zhang came last time, he brought a letter from Grandmother; Grandmother said she hadn't seen us for several years and plans to come to Jixian before the Mid-Autumn Festival; I haven't seen Grandmother for several years either."

Dong Yi sat on the lower left side of Duan Yu and said while eating.

Duan Yu put down the rice bowl in his hand.

Autumn harvest.

Ancient times did not have the solar calendar of later generations, only following the lunar calendar.

July is the Beginning of Autumn, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the autumn harvest begins.

Generally speaking, in the Han Dynasty, families had two things to prepare at the end of July.

One is making autumn clothes, which are clothes for winter, and the other is preparing for brewing wine.