Fifth, four, seventh, back to Lu's mother's worries

When I entered the upper room, I saw Lu's mother crooked on a soft couch, a little maid kneeling on the ground and beating her legs, and the other little maids were waiting quietly outside the door. Cui'e slowed down and quietly approached.

Lu Mu closed her eyes and suddenly asked, "Zicao, is it you?"

Zi Cao hurriedly said: "Old lady, Miss Nangong sees that you are here." ”

Lu Mu opened her eyes, and sure enough, she saw Cui'e in front of her.

Cui'e stepped forward and bowed down and said with a smile: "Grandma, Cui'e is not good, I didn't come to chat with grandma to relieve my boredom." ”

Lu Mu smiled, took Cui'e's hand, let her sit on the edge of the couch beside her, and said, "Good boy, it's hard for you, you have been busy all these days, and I don't have time to care about you more." She looked at her face and stroked her tender, smooth, slightly haggard face with one hand, "What tender skin!" she sighed, "Cui'e, you have lost a lot of weight, and you have suffered a lot outside." Alas!" she sighed, "I'm sorry for you. ”

"Grandma," Cui'e hurriedly smiled, "What are you talking about, Cui'e couldn't bring Ah Jing home, so she can't help you." ”

"How is Jing'er outside?"

"Ah Jing is very good," Cui'e said busily: "Don't worry, grandma!"

Lu Mu said: "It's still these two words." Cui'e, is there anything dangerous about Jing'er outside? Tell me, okay?"

"Grandma," Cui'e said busily: "Walking on the rivers and lakes, of course there will be a lot of friends, friends invite, how embarrassed to refuse completely, isn't it? Ah Jing is just helping friends do something, how can there be danger? No, grandma," she smiled sweetly, but her heart was secretly trembling, "You can rest assured." Ah Jing said that this matter is over for a while, and he will come back to see you after a while. ”

Lu Mu sighed and said, "You are a good boy, but you shouldn't hide it from me," she said to Zicao: "Help me up." ”

Cui'e and Zicao hurriedly helped Lu Mu sit up.

Lu Mu sighed: "After being crooked for half a day, my bones hurt. She took Cui'e's hand: "Come with me to the garden." ”

"Old lady," Zi Cao hurriedly persuaded, "The garden is empty, but I'm afraid it's very cold, so don't go." ”

"Yes, grandma," Cui'e also said busily, "Cui'e will accompany you to chat in the room." ”

"It's not in the way," Lu Mu took a few steps: "Walking around can also move your muscles and bones, and it will be warmer." Come, Cui'e, hold me. ”12.19.

Zicao hurriedly fetched a fur coat with big fur for Lu Mu to put on, and followed five or six maids into the garden. Because it has arrived in Layue, Qingwen helped Mrs. Lu and Jin Chuan prepare everything for the New Year, and she was very busy, plus Danfeng and others were here this year, and there were a bunch of children, so there were more things, although Danfeng and Guan Xuemei helped cook, and there were a lot of things inside and out, so Lu's mother's daily life and diet were taken care of by Zicao with six or seven maids.

The group walked into Jingyi Garden, and Lu Mu said slowly to Cui'e as she walked: "I, I've lived for 80 years, what haven't I ever experienced?

She sighed deeply, and sighed infinitely in her heart, "Since I married to the Lu family at the age of seventeen, it has been more than sixty years, and it has only been a month since I got married, and Jing'er and his grandfather have gone on the expedition again. In those ten years, I pinched my fingers and slowly counted them, thinking about it and worrying, how many times did I wake up from a dream that night? ”

"Grandma," Cui'e said, "You are so remarkable, you have been alone for ten years, how long, how difficult, how difficult." ”

"It's not in vain," Lu Mu smiled slightly, and said, "Jing'er's father is also good, Jing'er, I believe he will be promising." Cui'e," she patted Cui'e on her hand, "You're a good boy too." ”

Cui'e helped Lu Mu walk on the path in the plum forest, and bursts of fragrance came to her nose.

Lu Mu said with a smile: "This year's plum blossoms are blooming well! Zicalyx, you can take them to fold a few branches for me and insert them in a bottle, and then fold a few more branches and send them everywhere, so that this fragrance can float everywhere." ”

"Yes!" Zicalyx smiled in response, and ordered a little maid to go to the mother-in-law in charge of the garden to get big scissors to cut the plum branches, and she took the others around to find the branches that bloomed brightly.

Lu Mu looked at them with a smile for a while, then held Cui'e's hand, and walked forward silently, she stroked Cui'e's hand, and said slowly: "Cui'e, don't hide it from me, is something wrong with Jing'er? Or is there any danger? You tell me, I promise you not to tell others, okay?"

Cui'e was taken aback, and then smiled: "Grandma, you are too careful." Her heart was beating suddenly, but she forced a smile: "Ah Jing is really good, nothing happened." ”

"Is it because I'm too careful?" Lu Mu said: "Jing'er grew up with me, don't I know him yet? If it weren't for some unavoidable hardships, how could he not even come back to see grandma on her 80th birthday?"

She looked at Cui'e's face, sighed lightly and said, "I didn't understand it at first, but when he gave me a birthday gift, I wondered if he would dare not come back." I thought he was afraid that his father would force him to marry you, or drive away the white girl, but then I thought: I have asked Datong to bring him a message and let him come back with the white girl, and his father has no objection. Alas!"

She sighed, looked at Cui'e's face and asked, "You and Ah Qin went to look for him, why did you come back this time, why did you put on a different look? Why did the two people who sent you back rush to go back and report to Jing'er? If Jing'er really had nothing to do, he wouldn't be so worried that your sisters would not be safe on the road, would he?"

"Grandma," Cui'e looked at Lu Mu, bit her lip, and frowned slightly: "Ah Jing won't let me tell you, he is afraid that you will worry." ”

"Don't you tell me," Lu Mu said, "Aren't I more worried?"

Cui'e nodded and said slowly: "Grandma, I know you're really worried about Ah Jing, I can tell you, but you really can't blame Ah Jing, okay?"

Lu Mu nodded and said, "How can I blame Jing'er, no matter what he does, he is my good grandson, and I can't think of him too late." ”

Cui'e thought for a while and said, "Grandma, do you also know that Ah Jing didn't take back the silver for disaster relief for the people of the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, and the emperor also named him a first-class viscount." ”

"This is the emperor's grace, in fact, as a courtier, this is just the duty that should be done. What?" Lu Mu frowned: "Jing'er has a problem with this matter?