Chapter 49: Good Sword
Li Yue said indifferently that Li Fei could temporarily live in Lin Yi and Lin He's house, but after taking a nap, Li Fei did not mention this topic, because Lin He was actually Li Jifan, and his heart was a little weak, or did he know that the doctor next door was in and out, and Zhao Yanheng had a high fever that did not go away, and he had a trace of concern in his heart?
In such a entanglement, this year, Li Fei's father, Zhu Qin, sent someone to send a car to the door of Li's house.
Eight large boxes are lifted down, two boxes are all kinds of cloth and leather, enough to wear all year round; one box is a variety of jewelry, hairpin hairpins, Yingluo bracelets, a year of new jewelry than the two concubines in the mansion only a lot more; a box is bird's nest, ejiao, fungus, snow clams and other valuable tonics; a box is all kinds of miscellaneous books; the last three boxes of miscellaneous eight, kang screens, color powder vases, rain flower stone carvings, four treasures of the study, painting dyes, bronze hand stoves, bamboo carving pen holders, and even the folding fans that are popular among the ladies in the capital now, collected twelve, some of these things are precious, some are just novelty and not worth a few money。
Every year every year, Zhu Qin personally saw everything, and even a large part of it was collected by Zhu Qin himself, thinking that his daughter might enjoy a game or two, so he sent it all the way.
Zhu Qin is like a loving father, although Li Fei's daughter has never been happy under his knees for a day, but every year Zhu Qin wants to send a few boxes of carefully selected things to show his savings to the Li family's mother and daughter.
The people who escort these things every year are also the same people, all of them are Zhu Qin's henchmen, and they treat Li Fei as a girl in every word and deed.
At this time, Li Fei was the only one sitting in the hall, which could be regarded as accepting the invitation of the servants of the Zhu family.
The woman at the head was forty years old, wearing a ginger treasure elephant pattern armor, combing a round bun and wearing a jade flat square, two gold bracelets with entwined branches in her hands, wearing a rich dress, looking tall and plump, with a decent smile on her face, and two dimples on both sides of her cheeks, like a Maitreya Buddha.
"Mother Ji, please sit down, you work hard to run once a year. Li Fei responded very calmly: "Is my father in good health this year?"
Li Yue often said that one is goodbye and two are wide, and everyone is happy. She and Zhu Qin are good to get together and disperse, when they first knew each other for six years, you and I were willing to be husband and wife, and then the world changed, and they did not go to the end when they were unrecognizable, but the days were not very happy, I let you be free, you let me go free, everyone lived their own lives, when they signed and left the book, Zhu Qin and Li Yue did not know that they already had Li Fei, and when they knew, Li Yue did not rebuild the old good for the child.
Li Fei is a child within the marriage contract between Zhu Qin and Li Yue, according to the etiquette law, she can return to the Zhu family and become the eldest daughter of the Xuanguo Mansion, but there is only one father's Xuanguo Mansion, whether Li Fei can grow up safely is a problem, Li Yue is uncompromising, and the eldest is outcast, which is also the misfortune of the Zhu family, so in the end, Li Yue set up a female household, and Li Fei became a child with her mother's surname.
The dynasty rules the world with filial piety, whether it is the need to live in the world, or the cultivation of self-cultivation, the Li family has never taught Li Fei not to recognize his father, so the surname is with his mother, and his father is still his father, Li Fei has always called Zhu Qin's father, but this father is too far away, Li Fei has not seen it, Li Fei is unfamiliar with the role of his father, and the sentence 'Father is in good health', Li Fei asked too politely and seemed alienated.
Mother Ji sat on an old elm chair and said eagerly: "Okay, the master is in his prime, and his health has been very good." It's just that he is deeply valued by the emperor, and last year he received the governor of the Xishan battalion, and the Japanese and military affairs were busy, and he didn't rest in the house for a few days in a month, but that's it, and the lord also remembered the girl......"
Saying that he presented the list of eight boxes of objects with both hands, these lists are Zhu Qin's handwriting, Li Fei flipped through it, Ji's mother said a bunch when she saw the opportunity, the double-sided kang screen, it took four embroiderers more than half a year to embroider it, the pair of colored powder vases, burned a few kilns to burn out a pair, which master of the Yuhua stone carving is engraved, what paper is popular in Beijing now, what ink, twelve folding fans, ivory, red sandalwood, luodian, red, hollow, incense, gold, etc., each is delicate and small.
Ji's mother narrated at length and on these delicate things, expressing Zhu Qin's thoughts and compensation for her daughter.
"Thank you, Father, for remembering. Ji's mother said so much, Li Fei ended with a smile and accepted everything.
Mother Ji smiled wryly, got up from the chair, lowered her hand and said: "There is also a letter here, which is addressed to Mrs., and I have specially explained that the girl can't read it, she must read it by Mrs., after Mrs. reads it, it is best to reply immediately, and the master should prepare early." ”
Li Fei is already seventeen years old, Zhu Qin must discuss with Li Yue in the air, and what he doesn't want Li Fei to get involved in is Li Fei's marriage, the thousand households of the guard, Zhu Qin has something to say to Li Yue.
Li Fei pretended not to understand and said, "Mother is in the inner room, you can give me the letter, and I will hand it over." ”
Ji's mother was thinking that Li Fei invited Li Yue out so that she could present it in person, because Zhu Qin also explained a lot of things to her in person, and she wanted to take the opportunity to relay the past...... Now that Mrs. is avoiding, this girl who grew up in the southwest border is sitting in a simple house, greeting each other gently, but with a resolute attitude, and has a condescending momentum, Ji's mother thought about it for a while, so she could only give up, took out the letter, stood in the room, and waited for a reply.
Li Yue looked at the account book in the room, and the abacus in her hand crackled. Zhu Qin already has a wife, a concubine, a son and a daughter, Li Yue never thought of having anything to do with this ex-husband, his person Li Yue didn't want to see, and Li Yue didn't want to know about his affairs, his courtesy, Li Yue never accepted it, but now it's a daughter's business, and the two of them should be ventilated.
"Your father still said those words, he didn't want you to marry a military attache in the frontier, and said that if one day, the Li family was pardoned and returned to his hometown, you would stay in the frontier forever for the rest of your life, let me think about it carefully, and tell you the benefits and harms. ”
Li Yue read the letter written by Zhu Qin at a glance and ten lines, Zhu Qin's letter was written two months ago, and there was no variable of Zhao Yanheng at that time, so this letter is lagging behind, what Li Fei is thinking about now is not the problem of staying in the frontier for a lifetime, this problem Li Fei herself has already thought about, she has a memory, she lived in Lin'an, and later lived in Kunming for a long time, what is the Li family's original hometown of Chongde, Zhejiang, what is the prosperity of the capital in the north, Li Fei only imagines, can not really experience, so he doesn't care about the desolation of the frontier in comparison。 The people of the Li family have been degraded in this place for 16 years, and if they think about their hometown and the capital day and night, how difficult it will be to live in the frontier, so the problem that Zhu Qin emphasized is not Li Fei's problem at all.
Li Fei grinded the ink, Li Yue picked up the pen and wrote half of the reply, paused to look at her daughter and said: "His Royal Highness King Xiang, do you want to write it to tell your father? ”
Li Fei quickly shook his head, lowered his eyes and said, "Mother doesn't need to write, and my father will know soon." ”
There is the incident of Yuantong Temple, Mrs. Zhu has already written to Zhu Qin, but this letter has only been sent out for a few days now, and this place is four thousand miles away from the capital, and it has not been received yet.
"So be it. Li Yue stopped writing, and a letter was written with a beginning and no end, which meant that it was unfinished, leaving a large blank space.
Ji's mother walked out of Li's house, and was invited by Dong Rang into the next door, Dong Rang's speaking action, at first glance, was a person who was missing something below, and there were rules taught in the inner house, Ji's mother didn't need to ask, she knew that there was a great big man living next door, and when she really saw Zhao Yanheng, who was especially ill, Rao is Ji's mother had seen a lot as Xuan Guogong's henchman, and she was also shocked.
Mother Ji knows a little bit that Mrs. Cai, Mrs. Xu, is planning the princess for the eldest girl, the eldest girl has not paid attention to other young talents for so many years, and she also wants to become a royal daughter-in-law, and now the emperor's seventh son has taken a fancy to the girl who is in exile in the Zhu family, and that is also the girl of the Zhu family. There is no one in this dynasty, the two sisters in the family are both princes and concubines, Li Fei and Zhu Miaohua, and they are destined to only enter one person.
Mother Ji left the street in shock, and was picked up by Mrs. Zhu, compared with Zhu Miaohua, a niece with a reasonable name, Mrs. Zhu loves and values Li Fei's niece more.
The two directors are not talking in detail, Li Fei is sorting out the eight large boxes that her father gave her. Song Duofu said earlier that Li Fei was very stupid, this is a matter of thought, the bright satin, fashionable jewelry, novel furnishings, exquisite and valuable, Zhu Qin is eager to copy the life of the princess of the capital to the frontier, decorate Li Fei's life, but such a father's love is flashy to Li Fei, not worthy of the name, so Li Fei politely accepted the gift every time, picked those things that were too luxurious for her and could only be shelved, and some things were left, such as the box of books, turned to the right book Li Fei will read, and if it is not suitable, it can also be donated to Wenlan Pavilion, and people who have their own hobbies can borrow it。
Each thing is slowly classified by Li Fei alone, some are sold, some are retained, and some are given away, in short, they are used to the fullest.
A box with red lacquer on a yellow cowhide two and a half feet long and five inches wide was brought out, and the weight of the box was quite heavy, and Li Fei was also curious about the contents of the box.
It is a sword, eighteen inches long, the hilt is decorated with five-color beads, inlaid with green jade, Li Fei reached over, took out the sword, held the hilt, pulled it out, and saw that the texture of the sword body was like a star, and the color of the light was like water overflowing on the surface of the lake. Li Fei stared at the sword, turned his wrist, pulled out a sword flower, and the sound of the sharp weapon cutting through the air was groaning and whistling.
Li Fei's breath was suffocated, his eyes were full of light, and a smile gradually appeared on his lips.