Chapter 16: Finding the Father
Ji Wei couldn't get out of bed in the morning after resting for a night because of her poor health and long journey. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Ye Qian knows some simple medical skills, so he asked Ji Wei to take the pulse. is only forty years old, it shouldn't be Ji Wei's vain and weak pulse, after Ye Qian's pulse diagnosis, he already knows in his heart, in fact, Ji Wei has long run out of oil and dried up, and her life is not long. Ye Qian didn't tell the truth, but just told Ji Wei to rest more, and then prepared to go to the kitchen to decoct Ji Wei and prepare lunch, Tian Shu also went out of the house with her to the kitchen.
"Little sister, I'm really sorry to trouble you like this!" Tian Shu originally wanted to stay overnight and leave, but she didn't expect her mother to be unable to get out of bed and continue to trouble others.
Ye Qian smiled, "It's okay, sister, you don't have to be polite to me, Master often says that meeting is fate, maybe this is the fate between us!" ”
"Master?" Tian Shu looked around, she didn't see anyone else when she came yesterday, and she was suspicious that there was only a little girl and a big fat cat in such a big teahouse? Hearing Ye Qian say this, Tian Shu was relieved immediately, and hurriedly grabbed Ye Qian, and said without thinking: "Little sister, I originally stayed to disturb the master's family, and my sister was a little reluctant to go, but now that I know that there are elders in the family, I can't be rude, I should go and ask for peace." ”
"Uh......" Seeing that Tian Shu insisted on going to Qingyin to say goodbye, Ye Qian bit his lip, a little difficult, blaming himself for not talking too much. When she returned to Yaqu last night, she hadn't seen Qingyin, so she made up an excuse at random: "That...... Master, he's out for something, and he won't be back until a few days! ”
Cheng Huang was taking a nap in the sun by the stone mill in the courtyard, and when he heard what Ye Qianfang said, he half-opened one eye, stretched his waist, and muttered disdainfully: "Little liar! ”
Hearing Chenghuang's voice, Ye Qian hurriedly turned his head, and happened to meet Chenghuang's line of sight. She pointed to the small dried fish that was drying outside the kitchen and smiled meaningfully, meaning that if you dare to sue, you will not talk about the dried fish in the future. Cheng Huang glared at the cat's eyes, and immediately shook his head in tacit understanding, raised one paw and promised: "No, absolutely not!" He yawned, formed himself into a ball, and went back to sleep.
Seeing that the threat of the small dried fish had worked, Ye Qian smiled triumphantly.
Tian Shu followed Ye Qian's gaze, only to see the round big fat cat, and asked suspiciously, "Little sister, what are you looking at?" ”
"Huh? No, nothing. Ye Qian hurriedly retracted her gaze, smiled, and remembered the pulse of Fang Cai Ji Wei, she frowned, and asked Tian Shu tentatively: "Auntie's illness...... Sister, do you know? ”
"I know. Mother her, she herself knows. Tian Shu let out a long sigh.
"Huh? Then you ......"
Tian Shu smiled helplessly, "I know what you want to ask, it is precisely because I know that my mother's time is running out, so I want to fulfill her wish." ”
Ye Qian blinked suspiciously, since he knew that he was not in good health, he should be good at raising him? What a long journey from the capital of Yan Kingdom to Jimo City, and a healthy person may not be able to withstand this long journey, let alone Ji Wei's weak body!
"You're still young, and you may not understand many things." Tian Shu looked up at the sky, didn't let the tears that were rolling on the edge of her eyes flow, sniffed, and continued: "Mother's life is too hard, she has been waiting for someone, waiting for the man who abandoned his wife and daughter for eleven years without leaving a word, waiting for his explanation!" ”
"Sister......" Looking at Tian Shu, who was getting more and more excited the more she spoke, Ye Qian pursed her lips and didn't know what to say.
"Scared you, didn't you?" Tian Shu sniffed and patted Ye Qian's shoulder embarrassedly, "I wonder if my little sister has the time and mood to listen to a story?" ”
Ye Qian nodded, "Okay." ”
Tian Shu turned her face sideways and wiped the tears that secretly rolled down her face at some point, took a deep breath, smiled, and said, "Let's go, while choosing vegetables and decoction, my sister will talk to you slowly." These words, Tian Shu has never been willing to mention these words in the past eleven years, but today she doesn't know why she wants to say so much to a child, maybe she has been suppressed in her heart for too long, maybe her mother's aggravation of her condition made her almost collapse, and she urgently needs to find someone to talk to at this moment.
Tian is the surname of Qi State, twenty-three years ago, Tian Qin is Tian Shu's father went to Yan State, because he was proficient in medical skills, he was an official in the Yan Court as a guest secretary, and later married Ji Wei, the daughter of a nobleman of Yan State. Soon after the two got married, they had a daughter named Tian Shu.
Tian Qin is erudite and elegant, and Ji Wei raised her eyebrows, and the husband and wife are even more affectionate, although there is only one daughter, but the husband and wife love this daughter like a son, and the family of three is happy and happy. Unexpectedly, on that snowy night eleven years ago, King Yan suddenly sent soldiers to surround the Tian Mansion, searched the Tian Mansion in the name of Tian Qin's meticulous work, and took away all Tian Qin's belongings, including medical books. Ji Wei refused to believe that her husband, who had been with her for 12 years, would be a fine worker in another country, so she went into the palace of King Yan alone to ask King Yan for an explanation, but the so-called truth she got was a crime. A few days later, Ji Wei got the news that Tian Qin knew that his crime was exposed, and fled back to Qi overnight. In the end, in order to show his tolerance and generosity, King Yan issued an edict no longer to investigate Ji Wei and his daughter Tian Shu for joint crimes. Originally, the matter came to an end, how could Ji Wei really be a woman with a strong personality, the patriarch forced her to remarry, she threatened her with death and openly disobeyed, the patriarch was angry, and swept their mother and daughter out of the house.
Tian Shu held a fan in one hand and fanned the fire, stirred the boiling decoction in the clay pot with the other, and stared blankly at the dark brown medicinal soup steaming and bubbling, and said: "When I was twelve years old, my mother took me to find a dilapidated house outside the city and make a living by washing and weaving yarn for others. My mother has never had a hard life since she was a child, and she was living in poverty at that time, and she was often hungry after eating the last meal. I hate my father and why he has not heard from us all these years and has ignored our mother and daughter. ”
Hearing this, Ye Qian suddenly stopped what he was doing, put aside the celery that had just picked a few leaves, and looked at Tian Shu with a frown, "Maybe he has some last resort?" Maybe...... He didn't return to Qi at all? ”
Tian Shu shook his head, "Later, my father's relatives secretly went back to Yan Country to see my mother, and he said that he personally sent my father all the way to the border between Qi and Yan, and watched my father return to Qi Country with his own eyes. Moreover, he also returned the jade pendant that his father had with him to his mother, telling his mother that he would come back to pick up our mother and daughter after his father settled down in Qi Kingdom. Tian Shu smiled coldly, "But eleven years have passed, where are the others?" ”
Ye Qian pursed his lips, remembering the jade pendant that he saw on Tian Shu's waist before, exuding a transparent green glow, could it be it?
Tian Shu poured the decoction in the clay pot into the bowl, added water to decoction for the second time, and sighed faintly: "I know that my mother has been waiting for my father all these years, she hates him, but she loves him more." I didn't want my mother to leave with regrets, so we traveled thousands of miles to Qi to ask him what was going on. ”
Ye Qian was a little stunned, hesitated for a moment, and pointed to Tian Shu's waist, "Sister, I'm ...... Can you take a look at your jade pendant? ”
"Huh?" Tian Shu looked down at the exquisite jade pendant with cloud patterns on his waist, untied it, and handed it to Ye Qian. "This is the jade pendant that my father left to my mother."
The strange thing is that seeing it again is not the same as the feeling when he glanced at it in a hurry last time, Ye Qian took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, the transparent green light flickered a few times when it touched the temperature of her palm, and the light was stronger than before. The breath in the jade pendant was familiar and unfamiliar, the slow and rhythmic beating in the palm of her hand, as if the voice from a distant time and space was calling gently and gently with her heartbeat, Ye Qian couldn't help frowning, that feeling ...... It was as if she and the aura in the jade pendant had once been an inseparable whole.
Tian Shu saw that Ye Qian's expression was different, and asked suspiciously, "Little sister, what's wrong?" ”
"It's okay, it's just that I seem to have seen the same hooked cloud pattern somewhere, and I can't remember it for a while."
"You've seen it?!" Tian Shu exclaimed, after looking for so long, there has been no clue, and some people even told them that there is no such person as Tian Qin at all, but now they didn't expect to have an unexpected harvest here in Ye Qian, and they were inevitably surprised and happy. "Hurry up and help my sister think about it!"
Looking at Tian Shu's expression of surprise, Ye Qian lowered her head and was a little ashamed, she hadn't actually seen any jade pendant with cloud patterns, but the hidden things in this jade pendant made her feel familiar. "Sister, can you lend me this jade pendant?"
"This ......" Tian Shu hesitated a little, but finally smiled and nodded in agreement.