Chapter 176: Ten Mile Long Pavilion
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Li Shuci stood in the ten-mile long pavilion with ancient carved beams, looking at the distant mountains and peaks hidden in the early morning mist and blurred into an outline, and his eyes were far away. In a short time, a wagon came from far and near with a few stars of dust. She glanced at Li Yi, whose face was slightly gloomy beside her, gently patted him on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry', stepped out of the pavilion, and waited for the car to approach.
The sky will be white, and the grass and flowers on both sides of the official road will still be covered with crystal morning dew. The carriage finally stopped in front of her, Li Shuci ignored the grass and dew under her feet, let her embroidered shoes get wet, and walked next to the carriage at the head of the runway, "Daddy, Auntie!"
Li Weiqing took the lead in opening the curtain and poked his head out, the clear and handsome face was still the same as yesterday, seeing the smiling face of his beloved daughter, he couldn't help but show a little joy with his always indifferent expression: "Ah Ci!" After shouting this, he seemed to remember something, his mouth stiffened for a moment, and he quickly turned around to cover it, let go of it, and opened the curtain widely, "Ah Ci, get in the car first and then speak." Li Yi helped Li Shuci to get into the carriage, and he also got on the horse and stood beside the carriage, the eyes of the father and son exchanged in an instant, and he was uncomfortable to miss it, and the carriage moved around here.
"A-Niang!" Li Shuci got into the carriage, and his eyes couldn't wait to fall on Yao's body, Yao's face was a little sallow, and he lost a lot of weight, lying quietly on the carriage, and when he saw Li Shuci, his eyes lit up a little. Li Xiu was not yet six years old, sitting quietly beside Yao, holding a book in his small hand and looking at it. Seeing Li Shuci bent his mouth and laughed, he called his sister in a milky voice.
"Ah Ci, how can you go so far out of the city from a girl's house!" Yao opened his mouth with a sentence of reproach, but his eyes were full of concern and pity. Li Shuci grabbed Yao's thinner fingers and comforted: "How can my daughter come alone? The eldest brother accompanies me, and there are a lot of girls and mothers-in-law guards, not to mention that this place is not too far from the city, but it is a mother, and there is a younger brother, this journey is hard, after arriving home, it is good to recuperate, don't have to work." ”
Yao smiled, "How did you know it was a younger brother." Mei Bai told you?"
Li Shuci smiled: "I dreamed of it, it must be a younger brother." ”
"What my sister said is true?, is A-Niang really a younger brother in her belly?" Li Xiu's big eyes looked at Li Shuci innocently, "If it's a younger brother, you can read and read with me!"
Li Shuci looked at Li Xiu, there was still a little guilt in her heart, which made her a little mindful and a little afraid to face it, she touched Li Xiu's head and said: "Brother Xiu should learn boxing and kicking from the eldest brother, strengthen the body, and protect A-Niang in the future." ”
Li Xiu and Li Yi are not close, firstly, Li Yi has been studying abroad since he was a child, and secondly, Li Yi is dancing with knives and guns, but Li Xiu is an honest scholar, he is obviously not interested in listening to the first half of the sentence, and he was a little moved after listening to the second half of the sentence, tilted his head and thought about it, and said: "Well, I listen to my sister, and I will protect A-Niang and my sister in the future." ”
Li Shuci was very sad when he heard this, and changed the topic and asked: "Meibai followed A-Niang, can you be intimate along the way?"
Yao propped himself up and leaned against the wall of the car, and said, "Mei Bai is a good girl, she has done her best all the way, and when she returns to Qindufu, if she is not by our side, Xiu'er will ...... Fortunately, Mei Bai is in good shape, and the guards of His Royal Highness the Confucian King also came in time, and everyone is safe. ”
Li Shuci's face changed. Listen to Li Weiqing said: "Ah Ci, the last time I was in danger thanks to the Confucian King, you can marry him, it is also the fate of God, the Confucian prince is a rare person, and he must cherish it." And this Mei Bai, her skills are very unusual, when did you find such a girl?"
Li Shuci looked at him in surprise and was a little strange, although the family affairs of the heavenly family, although it was not the words of the matchmaker of his parents, but the decision was decided, if there were no big accidents and mistakes, how could it be easily changed? Li Shuci didn't understand the meaning of this, and besides, did his father be so optimistic about the prince? She nodded casually, pretending to be another thing in her heart, and didn't think about it carefully, and followed Li Weiqing's words when Mei Bai was mentioned, and said: " The prince of the world received the grace of his daughter's life-saving last time, and he had to repay the favor, and his daughter was a woman in the back house, and it was not good to have too much to do with His Royal Highness the prince, so she asked him for a girl and ended the matter. It was only later that I learned that Mei Bai knew kung fu. Li Shuci half-truthfully told Mei Bai's origin to avoid Li Weiqing's investigation: "What about her? Why didn't she serve her mother here?"
Li Weiqing's face instantly filled with a little embarrassment. Yao glanced at Li Weiqing, and couldn't bear him to lose his majesty as a father in front of his daughter, and said: "We met your father's deceased daughter in Lidu Mansion on the way, the family road withered and she was outcast. Mei Bai accompanied Miss Qin in the carriage behind. ”
Li Shuci secretly sighed that Yao's heart was too soft, and listened to Yao's words quietly, thought about it, and said: "Daddy, Auntie, since Miss Qin is the daughter of an old friend, she must also be the daughter of an official eunuch of a good family. Daddy, do you think I'm right?"
Li Weiqing was stunned for a moment, glanced at Yao, and said, "Yes, what Ah Ci said is right." ”
Yao Shi looked at Li Shuci, then at Li Weiqing, and said, "That's ...... Okay?"
Li Shuci said with a smile: "What's wrong with this? I heard Mei Bai say a few words when she came back, Miss Qin is gentle and reasonable, understanding, and not a maid, so she is brought into the mansion so casually, is it difficult to be regarded as a cousin and cousin who is fostered in our house, and her name is not right...... Miss Qin was also uncomfortable. There happened to be an empty room in my mother's house in Shangjing, and it was perfect for Miss Qin to live there. When you're settled, you'll make plans for a while. ”
Her sentence of 'the name is not right' made Li Weiqing very embarrassed, but it was not good to say anything to her daughter, so she held the tea cup and didn't speak, Li Shuci saw Li Weiqing's appearance, and knew that this matter might not be so simple, like Mei Bai said, 'The third master doesn't remember anything' I'm afraid it may not be true, maybe Li Weiqing is just trying to comfort the Yao family. Could it be that he and Qin Miaoren really had affection in just a few days?" "Daddy, do you think this arrangement is good?"
Li Weiqing put down the teacup, his expression had returned to his naturalness, nodded and said, "Well, what Ah Ci said is, just according to what Ah Ci said." ”
Seeing that Li Weiqing nodded, Li Shuci lifted the curtain and said to Li Yi: "Big brother, ask someone to settle Miss Qin in Shenghua Hutong in Beicheng first, and let Mei Bai go over to take care of it first." After speaking, he turned back to Yao and Li Weiqing and said: "Everything is available in the house, and I will ask Qingge to count a few girls and send them to serve when I go back." ”
Yao Shi looked at her daughter and didn't speak, only touched Li Xiu's little head and nodded slightly.
Qin Miaoren listened to Li Yi's command outside, pulled up the curtain and looked out, Li Yi's handsome face met her eyes, and thought: This should be the eldest son of the Yao family. When she heard Li Yi's arrangement, she wanted to speak, but she slowly lowered the curtain, she couldn't find anything wrong with such an arrangement, and everything seemed to be considered for her, if she opened her mouth to stop it, she wouldn't know what to do. She sighed secretly, if she couldn't follow Li Weiqing into the mansion logically at this time, it would be difficult to get in again. But Mei Bai on the side was still staring at her, so she had to think of another way.
The car traveled all the way to the city gate, and there were three or four officials leaning or sitting at the city gate, some dozing, some chatting, spitting all over the world, as if they were not soldiers guarding the city, but storytellers with first-class vision. In the morning, there were farmers who came and went into the city to sell melons, fruits, and vegetables, and there were not many people, and the carriage and horses entered the city smoothly, and Qin Miaoren's carriage broke away from Li Shuci's team and went to another road.
When they arrived at the Li Mansion, the subordinates were waiting in front of the mansion, and a few people entered the mansion with a crowd of people, Li Weiqing first went to the Kongshan Pavilion to find Li Yu, and Li Shuci accompanied the Yao family back to the courtyard of the third room first. Yao's was really tired, and she was pregnant again, and she couldn't hold it anymore when she entered the house, Li Shuci frowned, she knew that Yao's heart must be for Qin Miaoren's business, let the girls retreat, she said softly: "A-Niang, don't worry, if someone else will definitely persuade you to be more patient, take more responsibility, and keep your duty as a wife, but my daughter won't persuade like this, and she won't watch the moth make a waste in our house in vain, let's not be in a hurry, A-Niang and watch, let's clean up slowly." ”
Yao Shi was startled, and looked at her daughter's tears welling up at once, "Ah Ci...... You know all about it?"
Li Shuci nodded and said, "A-Niang, don't take this matter to heart, leave it to me." A-Niang is now raising the baby with peace of mind, and she must not break her body because of these little things. ”
Yao's confusion, uneasiness, and worry all surged upward, but he didn't know what to say, and let out a soft 'um' sound.
Seeing her like this, Li Shuci said: "Mother, those flies and bugs inevitably have one and a half of them, since they flew in, let her have no return, why bother to take it to heart! ”
"I got the horn of the bull. Yao Shi heard this, and finally wanted to open a few points, but her heart was still inevitably lost, she was pregnant several times and wanted to give Li Weiqing the face of the roommate next to her, but he refused, after a long time, she didn't have these little care, and now she is cold and out of this burden, which is indeed difficult for her to accept for a while. "It's different from before, and I'm always a little uncomfortable. ”
Li Shuci knew what Yao meant when he spoke, and the two husbands and wives had been together for half their lives, and suddenly another person appeared, even if he didn't enter the door in the end, there was a gap in the middle, and it was impossible to be the same as before. She had no choice but to say half-truthfully: "Ah Niang, this Qin Miao is not simple, it is likely that it was arranged by Daddy's political enemies, and now the situation in the DPRK and China is grim, both grandfather and Daddy must be careful, we can't make a mistake, we must not mess up from within." ”
Yao's eyes widened, she had never thought about it. "This?"
Li Shuci said: "Before the matter is clear, A-Niang must not mess with herself first." ”
Yao really left his previous sadness behind, and nothing could compare to his life. She grabbed Li Shuci's hand: "Well, A-Niang knows, you ...... You and the Confucian prince, he ......"
Seeing that she shifted her attention to this matter, Li Shuci also sighed and said, "Don't worry, it's okay, everything is with the prince and the father." ”
Yao nodded: "Could that Qin Miaoren be a spy? What are we going to do with her?"
A-Niang pretended not to know about it, as for Qin Miaoren, her daughter had already planned it. ”