Chapter 1775 - 1773: Too Skinny
Since all the people working under Nanny Wang were sent over by her, just who is she trying to provoke.
At this time, Ye Ning followed Mu Yeli to the old family estate.
Everyone was gathered outside, busy preparing the items for the ancestral rites, checking what each branch of the family had brought.
A lot of people had come, since they were all going to worship the ancestors together, so relatives from all sides had to show up.
And the stuff for the ancestral offerings couldn’t be shabby, plus there had to be something a bit different every year.
This year’s rites were a big ceremony, so everyone had decided to raise the height of the ancestral grave site, and then add some structures—some families said they wanted to put up a pagoda, some said they wanted to build an altar, and others wanted to construct an underground chamber similar to an underground palace.
Everyone got even busier because of this, bickering and chattering noisily outside.
The womenfolk all went inside, and once Ye Ning arrived, everyone saw Mu Yeli directly take her in with him.
Someone even asked, "I heard she’s pregnant, is that true or not."
"It’s true, I heard even the sex is already known, it’s a boy."
"Oh my, the old master must be over the moon, getting pregnant this fast is really something, her position is instantly secured, if she has a few more in the future, it’ll be a lifetime of riches and glory... the position of the main wife, absolutely solid."
"Alright, enough, back when she hadn’t had a child yet, it’s not like Yeli treated her badly. The man dotes on her, didn’t you see, he’s driven his own mother half-mad with anger. She just filmed a TV drama recently, it just aired, right, and she’s been cursed to death. That role she played, what the hell was that, some petty schemer in a rich family fighting for power and status, she was especially vicious, viewers were furious watching it, she got scolded a ton."
Everyone outside started gossiping about Ye Ning’s new TV drama.
Inside, Ye Ning had gone in; since she was "back home," she hadn’t bothered to deliberately hide her belly.
As soon as she came in, Sui Qinglan looked at that little belly of hers and felt a surge of anger rise up.
Looking at Ye Ning’s thin, frail frame, she felt even more that the girl was deliberately虐待 their family’s grandson.
She took a deep breath so she wouldn’t actually shout out in anger.
"Ye Ning." She walked over and said, "Now that you’re pregnant, stop trying to lose weight. You can lose it after you give birth, can’t you."
Ye Ning blinked her eyes. "I’m not dieting."
Sui Qinglan didn’t believe a single word she said.
When someone doesn’t like another person, no matter how much they explain, she still won’t like them.
That was exactly how Sui Qinglan felt about Ye Ning at the moment.
Sui Qinglan gave a little chuckle. "Anyway, young people these days just love to mess around with their own bodies, never thinking about the child in their belly. The baby’s only been in there a few months, this is exactly when it needs your nutrition the most. Once it’s born, you don’t really have much to do anymore, you can eat whatever you like then. It’s only a few months, what can’t you put up with; what’s wrong with getting a bit fatter or uglier. You’re sacrificing for the child, that’s called being noble. Besides, what pregnant woman doesn’t go through an ugly phase, what are you so afraid of."
Ye Ning wanted to say that she honestly wasn’t doing that.
And even if it were true, that some people watch their weight a bit during pregnancy, that in itself isn’t a bad thing.
As long as the baby in the belly is getting enough nutrition, it’s not like you have to eat yourself into a balloon for it to be good.
All the developmental stuff, the baby gets from the nutrients in the mother’s body anyway, and if the pregnant mom just stuffs herself silly, she only gets fatter while the baby doesn’t necessarily absorb all of it.
So moderation is what matters; as long as you’re full and your nutrition is sufficient, that’s enough. Why force yourself to eat until you really can’t take another bite.