Chapter 245 Return to Beijing

The princess was sad for a few days, Li Xiaonuan sent the house a roster of girls who are going to marry this year, and discussed carefully with the princess, first, to choose a good family for Chuncao to marry, and second, other girls and girls, but also to let them all be harmonious, Mama Qiu's son, also in this year's roster, Mama Qiu came in two or three times, wanted to ask Chuncao to go back, the princess was hearted, pulled Li Xiaonuan, and the two looked at Mama Qiu's son back and forth several times, the princess looked at it and was satisfied, but Chuncao didn't fancy it.

A few days later, Shangli Town sent a letter, at the beginning of February, Mrs. Zhou was going to take Gu Xiao and Yan back to the capital, Gu Yunshan also came back with them, a few stewards, mother-in-law advanced to Beijing, to Zhenning Hou Mansion, Yan Mansion and Runan Wangfu and other very close to a few kowtows, passed the word, and was busy going back to clean up the house, the princess looked forward to it again, sent people to the Gu family to see a few times, and sent people to inquire about the itinerary.

Since the New Year, Li Xiaonuan asked Grandma Sun to pick some mothers-in-law who have the ability to speak and go to Ruizitang to and fro as envoys, and go to Ruizitang several times a day to pick up things, send things, and send things, and she is not in a hurry to leave, and tells the short, large and small gossip and anecdotes of the parents outside to the girls who are on an errand in Ruizitang, and also to the old lady.

A few days after Cheng Ke left, the old lady heard about the rebellion in the southwest, and she was a little uncomfortable that night, the prince and the princess were busy, got up in the middle of the night and invited the imperial doctor, and during the day, they invited Song Yizheng and Imperial Doctor Hu to go to the house to diagnose the pulse, and waited in the courtyard every day.

The old lady's illness is not a big deal, but after taking a few doses of the medicine to dissolve the stagnation and remove the fire, it gradually got better, the prince and the princess were relieved, the prince continued to go to the military department to drink tea, the princess and Li Xiaonuan carefully discussed the matter of catching the wind for the Gu family, and in a day or two, the Gu family and Gu Yunshan's family of four will be able to enter the capital.

After being busy back and forth like this, the princess's mood gradually dispersed, and she couldn't care about wiping her tears every day because of Cheng Ke's expedition.

Li Xiaonuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Cheng Ke went on an expedition last time, went for three years, and heard that the princess had been sick for three years, alas, it would be nice if she had a child, and if she threw the child to her, she wouldn't care about anything!

Early the next morning, Li Xiaonuan sent the steward Pingfu, together with Mama Sun, ten miles out of the city, welcomed the Gu family of three and Gu Yunshan's family of four into Beijing, and discussed with the princess, after Zhenning Hou Mansion and Yan Mansion, invited the Gu family to come over to play for a day, catch the wind and wash the dust, and the next day, she invited Gu Yunshan's family to come over.

Mrs. Zhou took Gu Xiao and Yan to Runan Wangfu early in the morning.

Compared with before leaving Beijing, Mrs. Zhou was slightly thinner, but her spirit was very good, and the princess and the princess talked at length for a day, Gu Xiao sent his mother and Yan to the Runan Palace, kowtowed to the princess, and rushed to the Tang family in the lecture hall.

Li Xiaonuan and Yan sat outside talking, waiting to listen to their mother-in-law's instructions.

Yan elaborated on the details of Mrs. Li's burial, and when it came to the remoteness and desertion of Shangli Town, Yan still had palpitations:

“…… Nothing can be bought! No matter what you want to buy, you either go to Hangzhou Mansion or send someone into the capital to buy ......"

“…… I've been living at home for a few months, and I haven't been out of the house for a single trip, so I have nowhere to go and no one to see......"

Li Xiaonuan smiled and listened, slowly and carefully doing needlework, Yan Shi casually gossiped, with inquiry in his eyes, looked at Li Xiaonuan who was doing needlework with a calm face, wanted to say something, swallowed back, bit his lip, opened his mouth and wanted to say again, swallowed back, hesitated back and forth for a long time, and then looked at Li Xiaonuan carefully, and said vaguely:

"Big sister, very thin, when the ancestor left, the big sister was so in a hurry on the road, although she looked haggard, it was okay, but now she is very old, the big sister said that when she gave birth to her youngest son Yushu, the confinement was not done."

Yan Shi said while looking at Li Xiaonuan carefully, Li Xiaonuan's heart sank slightly, stopped the needle and thread in his hand, turned his head to look at Yan Shi and asked:

"When did the big sister rush over? When she returned to her parents' house in the second year of junior high school, she took her children there? In this year, outside the New Year, the eldest brother-in-law sent someone to the house to send New Year's gifts and worship the New Year? ”

"On the second day of junior high school, the eldest sister came back alone with the child, and brought the luggage together, and did not go back, we set off on the sixth day of the junior high school, and walked slowly on the road, the eldest brother-in-law sent two mothers-in-law over a year ago, and sent a car of Tuyi to do the New Year's gift, I saw that those things were prepared very carefully and thoroughly, so I asked the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law said that the second wife prepared it herself, and one was sent to Xiali Town, and one was sent to the capital."

Yan hurriedly replied in detail, Li Xiaonuan's eyes narrowed slightly,

"Second wife?"

"It's the little concubine of the eldest brother-in-law, Xinna, the eldest sister said that she is a noble concubine, I heard that the eldest brother-in-law also solemnly set up a banquet for three or four days."

Yan Shi hurriedly explained, Li Xiaonuan turned his head to look at her, and said with a smile:

"I know, the eldest sister wrote to tell me, saying that Jin Zhiyang accepted the daughter of the boss's concubine as a concubine, it seems that this second wife is extremely virtuous, Jin Zhiyang is very blessed, and he wants to enjoy the blessing of this wife and concubine."

Yan's fox looked at Li Xiaonuan suspiciously, although she couldn't find anything wrong with this, but how could she hear it wrong, in the past few months of marrying into the ancient family, she could feel the shadow of this Miss Table everywhere, "This is the rule set by Miss Table", "Miss Table said, such a thing can be lenient, it is good", "Even Miss Table said that she has a clear account......

Grandfather said that in the previous Gu family, it was the late Mrs. Li who was at the helm, and the one in charge was Li Xiaonuan, who looked very gentle in front of her, and the current Gu family, the one at the helm was the future princess of Runan, and it was herself who was in charge.

What is the attitude of Li Xiaonuan, who can determine the attitude of the Gu family, to the noble concubine Zou who made Gu Yunshan haggard like that, to Gu Yunshan, and to Jin Zhiyang? What about concubines and women's virtues......

She wouldn't let Gu Shau take anyone no matter what!

Li Xiaonuan looked at Yan, whose face was uncertain, and said with a smile:

"Tomorrow I invited the big sister's family to come over to play for a day, speaking of which, I haven't seen the big sister for a while, and the jade book, I haven't seen it yet, in a few days, when the big sister cleans up and settles down, I will invite you to come over and talk with the big sister and the second sister."

Yan nodded hurriedly and took over the conversation enthusiastically,

"The second sister is pregnant again, what a blessing! It's almost four months, right? I told my mother that I would go to the Zheng Mansion tomorrow to see her. ”

"It's been almost four months, this baby is not as bad as the previous one, my appetite is better these days, my spirit is good, and I was thinking about going out of the city a few days ago."

Li Xiaonuan said with a smile, Yan raised his eyebrows, expressing surprise and joy, and gossiped with Li Xiaonuan easily.

Mrs. Zhou's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had dinner at the Runan Palace, and it was not until night fell that Gu Xiao followed the two of them and the family went back to the mansion.

The princess said something for a day, excited for a day, tired for a day, and a little lazy the next day.

Gu Yunshan brought the child over, kowtowed to the salute, the princess couldn't put it down and held the jade book for a while, and Gu Yunshan's parents had a few short gossips, asking how everything was at home, so she put her mind at ease and sent her back to the courtyard with Li Xiaonuan to talk, and she rested on the couch.

Li Xiaonuan led Gu Yunshan and the three children, quit, got into a sedan chair, and entered Qinglian Courtyard all the way.

Mama Sun, Mama Wei and Lan Chu were at the gate of Qinglian Courtyard early in the morning, Yan'er held the hand of the nurse, got off the sedan chair steadily, ran to the sedan chair behind, sensibly took the hand of her younger brother Mo'er, and according to her mother's instructions, bent her knees to return the salute of Mama Sun and Mama Wei.

Mama Sun and Mama Wei pulled Yan'er and Mo'er one by one, praised them with smiles on their faces, and carefully led the two into the courtyard, along the verandah, to the main house.

Li Xiaonuan let Gu Yunshan sit on the couch in the main room, Zhuye came over to greet him, served tea to Gu Yunshan, and held a cup of tea for Yan'er and Mo'er, and put it on the couch, Li Xiaonuan signaled to the grandmother holding the jade book, and told her to put the jade book on the couch.

Yushu is only eleven months old, dancing with his hands, crawling around on the couch excitedly, Yan'er looked at Xiao dd carefully, and Mo'er also followed Yan'er, teasing his younger brother with things.

Zhu Qing took a tray out of the inner room and sent it to Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan took out a gold and steel diamond bracelet from the tray, put it on Yan'er's wrist, and said with a smile:

"Yan'er has a bright and refreshing temperament, and is born so well, just like this diamond."

Yan'er hurriedly looked at her mother, Gu Yunshan smiled and motioned her to accept it, Yan'er stood up, bent her knees in a proper manner and said thank you, Li Xiaonuan pulled her up with a smile, and took a mutton fat white jade vase jade pendant from the tray, tied it to Mo'er's belt, took another smaller bat-shaped mutton fat jade pendant, hugged the jade book that was grabbing an empty cup and wanted to send it to his mouth, and hung the jade pendant around his neck, Yushu stared at the jade pendant excitedly, threw the cup casually, five fat fingers swayed, clumsily grabbed the bat pendant, neatly stuffed into his mouth.

Gu Yunshan drank tea slowly, smiled quietly and decently, and watched Li Xiaonuan and a few children joking.

Li Xiaonuan hugged the jade book and teased him with the puppet, the jade book giggled, drooled a long saliva, and fluttered the puppet in Li Xiaonuan's hand, Yan'er leaned next to him, and kept wiping the saliva of the jade book with the handkerchief in his hand.

Li Xiaonuan teased Yushu for a while, saw him yawn twice in a row, stopped teasing him, stuffed the puppet into Yushu's hand, turned his head to look at Yan'er and Mo'er, and asked with a smile:

"My brother is sleepy, and I'm going to sleep for a while, you two, are you here to talk to your mother with me, or do you want to sleep for a while, or let someone take you two to play in the back garden?"

Next chapter, before two o'clock in the afternoon.