As soon as they entered the house, Bai Sheng asked Lu Ye to put her down quickly. He had carried her all the way, and his arms were probably almost useless.
Bai Sheng's lower garments were stained red, and Lu Ye's clothes were not spared.
Without sanitary pads, Bai Sheng couldn't sit on a stool or lie on the bed.
Lu Ye looked at the bloodstains on her, quite horrified. He never imagined that when a woman started her period, she would bleed so much.
"Bai Sheng, you... you can't just stand like this. I... I don't have much experience. Tell me... what needs to be done so you can sit or lie down to rest?" Lu Ye seemed a bit flustered.
Bai Sheng looked at him and forced a smile, "Can you go to the street and buy me some menstrual rags?" The kind commonly used by ancient women, with plant ash stuffed inside.
"Menstrual rags?" Lu Ye couldn't imagine what they looked like or what material they were made of.
Bai Sheng nodded, "Yes, go to a women's product shop and ask for something used when one has her period."
"Alright!" Lu Ye turned to rush out but was stopped by Bai Sheng.
Bai Sheng pointed to his clothes, "Change your clothes."
"Oh," Lu Ye, blushing, went into the room to change.
Bai Sheng leaned on the back of the chair, feeling a surge of warmth flowing from between her legs.
Perhaps it was because she had been replenished too much recently, and it was her first time, so the flow was heavy.
Before long, Lu Ye returned, but his hands were empty, and there was a very obvious slap mark on his face. His clothes were also dusty, as if he had been covered in sand.
"What happened?" Bai Sheng didn't understand what had occurred.
Lu Ye forced a casual smile, "I went to buy menstrual rags, and the women in the shop all called me a perverted hooligan. One of them even slapped me and kicked me out of the shop. After chasing me out, she grabbed sand and threw it on me."
He couldn't understand why buying menstrual rags for his wife made him a pervert.
Bai Sheng chuckled, and with the exertion, more blood flowed from between her legs, "I'm sorry, Lu Ye. For embarrassing you."
It was her oversight. This was an ancient era where men and women were strictly segregated. It could be said that throughout the entire Yunzhou Continent, across the five nations and four seas, no man would dare to buy menstrual rags for his household.
Lu Ye, however, said urgently, "That's nothing. We are husband and wife, we can't be so formal. Bai Sheng, what do these menstrual rags look like? Can we... make them ourselves?"
Bai Sheng couldn't suppress her laughter, "We can make them, it's very simple."
"Then tell me, what do we need, and I'll go buy it right away!" Lu Ye was very anxious; he couldn't stand seeing Bai Sheng in pain.
"The needlework space has everything. We also need clean cotton cloth and cotton. If there's no cotton, use clean plant ash."
"Alright, I'm going now!" Lu Ye ran out of the courtyard at full speed.
She never expected that in this different world, the first time she asked her husband to buy menstrual rags, it would result in such a misunderstanding.
This was only her first period; in the future, she would bleed for five to six days every month. Not having sanitary pads would be a very troublesome issue.
However, sanitary pads weren't some high-tech product; they could be made by oneself.
A startling thought suddenly flashed through Bai Sheng's mind.
There were so many women in the Great Xia Kingdom, and so many women in the five nations of Yunzhou. If they all had clean and convenient sanitary pads during their periods, what a vast market that would be!
This business was incredibly profitable!
Bai Sheng planned to grow cotton in the space. She wondered if cotton seeds were sold in the county town.
Lu Ye returned with an entire bolt of cotton cloth. He hadn't bought cotton.
Bai Sheng was dumbfounded when she saw it. Was her backside that expansive that it required an entire bolt of cotton cloth? What a wasteful man.
However, Bai Sheng still accepted it with a smile. Lu Ye's clumsiness in this regard only indicated his purity; he hadn't been involved with any unsavory women, which was something to be happy about.
Bai Sheng asked Lu Ye to borrow or buy some clean plant ash from nearby neighbors, while she, seizing the opportunity, sewed a few menstrual rags.
When the ancient version of menstrual rags appeared before her, she used them with tears in her eyes.
Closing the main gate, Bai Sheng took Lu Ye into the space.
The two of them eagerly looked into the space. Indeed, it had become much wider, and the newly added space also included a small flower garden.
Humph Humph, with its pig's head held high, looked proudly at Bai Sheng, "See? I didn't lie to you!"
By the flower garden, Lightning remained cool and aloof, coiled into a "pile of dung." Meanwhile, Heavy Rain and Snowflakes chased each other playfully.
Dark Clouds didn't bother with these idlers; it was determined to diligently eat grass and grow strong, to become a pillar of support for its master.
Bai Sheng expanded the chicken coop and rabbit hutch a bit more, and then by the spiritual spring, she used her consciousness to construct two very simple wooden houses.
One served as a kitchen, and the other as a bedroom.
She then made a set of wooden tables and chairs.
The wooden tables and chairs Bai Sheng envisioned were very simple and crude. The table was just a flat wooden board supported by four legs, and the stools were simple wooden block stools, appearing very clumsy, like a child's doodle in a first art class.
She actually wanted to make a recliner, but she couldn't conjure up such complex patterns in her mind.
Bai Sheng was training Yellow Doggy to be a carpenter because once these items were outside the space, she couldn't create them with her consciousness. Or, if wood grown outside the space entered the space, she also couldn't create them with her consciousness.
Furthermore, she could only sketch very simple and primitive furniture designs in her mind, so the furniture she made was truly not presentable.
However, the space only contained her and Lu Ye, and as long as Lu Ye didn't mind, it was fine.
But the houses outside were different; they were meant to be seen by people at any time, so she couldn't be so casual about them.
After finishing these tasks, Lu Ye asked Bai Sheng to sit and rest, not to move around anymore.
Lu Ye moved the large bamboo bed into the bedroom, then went out of the space to buy bedding, bricks, pots, pans, and other necessities.
He bought two sets of everything, one set for the wooden house in the space and one set for the room in the small courtyard.
Lu Ye was very happy while doing these things, feeling that it was quite nice for him and Bai Sheng to occasionally have their own little private life.
Lu Ye made the bed, then layered several layers of cotton cloth on it, and then carried Bai Sheng to the bed, allowing her to lie down and rest properly.
Bai Sheng did indeed feel like she was about to collapse. As soon as she lay down, she felt completely at ease.
Lu Ye then went to the kitchen to build a stove, then took a chicken from Lightning's feed, slaughtered it, and planned to make a pot of chicken soup for Bai Sheng.
Besides chicken soup, Lu Ye also ground corn and made corn porridge, and blanched some wild vegetables.
He had learned to make these dishes by watching Bai Sheng do them a few times.
Lu Ye moved the dining table to the bedside. Bai Sheng looked at the steaming food on the table, her heart filled with warmth.
From now on, this man must belong to her. She was determined to win him over completely, to have children with him, and to grow old with him.
No other woman was allowed to lay a claim on him.