Shocking! A Hong Kong socialite gave birth to three heirs to a wealthy family.

Chapter 238 Helping Wen Nan Prepare for the Family Banquet

Early on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Gu Jinxing accompanied Shen Wancheng back to the He Mansion for dinner.

In the afternoon, the two returned to the Gu Mansion, because Gu Mingqian's branch, as the head of the Gu family, was to host a banquet for the entire family on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

As the new daughter-in-law and the current matriarch of the Gu family, Shen Wancheng is responsible for organizing this banquet.

In previous years, before Gu Jinxing got married, Wen Nan, as the only female head of the Gu family, was in charge of organizing banquets and other matters. However, it would be more appropriate to hand over this task to Shen Wancheng, but Shen Wancheng is pregnant again.

So nominally, Shen Wancheng was in charge of organizing things, but in reality, it was Wen Nan who was busy with everything.

Shen Wancheng wasn't the type to readily hand over her affairs to others. Although Wen Nan had assured her that she could rest assured and that she was already very experienced in doing these things, Shen Wancheng still went to the Gu Mansion with Gu Jinxing on the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year to see if there was anything she could do to help.

Wen Nan was delighted to see Gu Jinxing and Shen Wancheng arrive. She knew that Shen Wancheng wasn't there because of her status as the head of the Gu family, but because of her sense of responsibility.

Wen Nan thought that Shen Wancheng was not available this year, but she would still have to organize the family banquet in the future. Since Shen Wancheng was willing, she let Shen Wancheng come along and explained the process to her one by one.

"On the day of the family banquet, we must first worship our ancestors, so it is essential to prepare all the sacrificial animals and fruits. I usually prepare two sets, one in the kitchen just in case."

"The tables and chairs are also fixed and arranged according to seniority. You can't just sit anywhere. To make it easier for people to distinguish each other on the day, I usually stack bowls of different seniorities with different patterns. Everyone has already accepted this rule."

"Finally, there's the menu for the family banquet. Every year, our family chef cooks, so we need to prepare all the ingredients in advance. The dishes served at the family banquet are actually fixed, but of course, if any new dishes become popular in Hong Kong, we can add them in."

Shen Wancheng stayed by Wen Nan's side, keeping in mind everything Wen Nan said.

When Wen Nan mentioned the dishes, Shen Wancheng glanced at the menu.

Silently marveling to myself, I realized just how vast the difference was between a lavish family banquet and a typical family banquet in mainland China.

Following the original owner's memories, Shen Wancheng recalled that the only difference between the family banquet and the usual ones during the New Year in the Shen family was that there were three or four dishes with meat. This was because the Shen family had good living conditions because her father was in the army.

The banquet menus of Hong Kong's wealthy families are simply heavenly feasts.

Let's start with the Eight Auspicious Dishes appetizer, which includes a Chaozhou-style braised meat platter, a Hong Kong-style roasted meat platter, jade pipa shrimp, tangerine peel and fermented duck tongue, XO sauce abalone pastry, four-happiness roasted gluten, and amber walnuts.

The main ingredients are also divided into twelve layers, including whole suckling pig, Chaozhou frozen flower crab, steamed grouper, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, traditional salt-baked chicken, rich shrimp balls, eight-treasure stuffed whole duck, coral flower rolls, bamboo fungus braised with shiitake mushrooms, preserved meat glutinous rice, and lobster in broth.

There are already a lot of dishes, so the desserts are relatively simple, with only three items: coconut milk bird's nest soup, mango pomelo sago, and a traditional rice cake platter.

Shen Wancheng discovered that rice cake is a traditional food that families of all social classes in Hong Kong Island cannot do without during the Lunar New Year.

After looking at the menu, Shen Wancheng recalled her experiences of living in the future for more than 20 years and realized that there were probably many dishes she had never had the chance to eat.

Even with seafood like grouper and lobster, she has only ever eaten frozen goods bought online in inland cities.

She has brought shame to the people of the new century.

The life she lived in the 80s was even better than the life she had in her later life.

After glancing at the menu, Shen Wancheng was slightly distracted for a moment before she followed Wen Nan to the kitchen.

The kitchen in the Gu mansion was very large and had servants working there, so it must have been very clean.

The kitchen was now filled with freshly purchased ingredients.

Wen Nan was used to checking the freshness of the ingredients herself, so she brought Shen Wancheng to the kitchen.

Shen Wancheng was fine looking at the vegetables and fruits, but when she turned her head, she saw someone killing a duck in the yard. The person twisted the duck's neck to bleed it, and a bowl of bright red blood was left.

Shen Wancheng was immediately overwhelmed.

Her stomach churned, and she swallowed hard, trying to suppress the urge to vomit.

Shen Wancheng didn't want to force herself to stay here. She wanted to leave immediately, but she didn't even dare to say a word to Wen Nan, for fear that she would vomit as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Check all ingredients..."

Wen Nan was still checking the ingredients and talking to Shen Wancheng, unaware of the change in Shen Wancheng's expression.

Shen Wancheng patted Wen Nan's shoulder, then gestured to indicate that she was feeling unwell before turning her head and vomiting.

Wen Nan quickly patted Shen Wancheng's back and then asked the servant who was following her to pour water for Shen Wancheng to rinse her mouth.

After Shen Wancheng felt a little better, Wen Nan looked around and saw that a duck was being slaughtered in the yard.

"Are you feeling nauseous from watching the duck being slaughtered? It's my fault, I shouldn't have brought you to the kitchen. Let's go back to the main house first."

Wen Nan helped Shen Wancheng walk outside, but Shen Wancheng kept her eyes straight ahead and didn't look at the situation in the courtyard.

After walking through the kitchen and backyard, Shen Wancheng spoke, "It's not Mom's fault, I wanted to come to the kitchen myself."

Wen Nan asked with concern, "Are you feeling any better now?"

"much better."

When Wen Nan heard Shen Wancheng say she was feeling much better, she felt relieved and smiled, "But you've already passed the first three months of morning sickness and you're still vomiting, so you might be carrying a son. I've heard that morning sickness is worse when you're carrying a son."

Shen Wancheng already knew through the system that she was pregnant with both a boy and a girl, but she didn't know how to match them.

But she still played along with Wen Nan and asked, "Did Mom also have severe morning sickness when she was pregnant with Jin?"

"Absolutely! I vomited before and after meals, morning and night. Back then, I didn't understand anything. My family said, 'If you vomit everything you eat, how can the baby in your belly develop?' So they made me eat more as I vomited, which made me vomit even more. I suffered so much."

Shen Wancheng hadn't expected Wen Nan to have this past. Judging from Wen Nan's usual behavior, she was a somewhat willful rich girl. She never expected her to be so obedient during her pregnancy.

This also illustrates that at this time, the vast majority of people were still following the incorrect methods of the older generation for pregnancy care.

Shen Wancheng became even more determined to open a postpartum care center and promote scientific pregnancy care.