Chapter 3.17
When he arrived at Xinghui Building, Ren Jia got out of the carriage with the help of Pei Yuansi, and when he saw the quiet appearance inside and outside the building, he couldn't help but ask the man who had been very quiet since just now, "You chartered Xinghui Building?" ”
"It's rare for you to come back, I don't want too many people to disturb me." Pei Yuansi's words made Ren Jia feel guilty.
"Let's go, I'll take you to eat something, and we'll be back home later." Pei Yuansi took people in, and immediately a waiter came to greet him, leading the two to the top box in the building, Ren Jia saw the waiter's very respectful appearance, and had already determined that this Xinghui Building might be Pei Yuansi's property.
The reason why Xinghui Lou is famous in Yuanjing is because of the chef's good dishes. Magpie Dengmei, ginger fish fillet, pearl tofu, baihua duck tongue, and lotus leaf porridge are all famous dishes suitable for summer taste, Ren Jia has the heart to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere between the two, and helped Pei Yuansi to sandwich some dishes, "Don't just take care of me, you can eat some more." ”
The ice cubes in the box were escaping the cold, Pei Yuansi was originally carefully helping Ren Jia to remove the fish bones, and when he saw the pearl tofu that was served in his dish, he finally had a smile on his face, and he was embarrassed, "I don't have time now, you feed me." ”
Ren Jia looked at the hand holding him, and then looked at Pei Yuansi's action of picking fish bones, so he had to pick up the spoon and feed it, Pei Yuansi swallowed the tofu slowly, and looked at the girl in front of him with bright eyes, "I still want to eat tofu, you can feed me more." ”
Ren Jia's brows couldn't help twitching, he wanted to refuse, but seeing Pei Yuansi's somewhat happy expression, remembering the embarrassment of the two just now, he somehow didn't want to disappoint him again, sighed in his heart, and carefully fed him again, with Ren Jia's acquiescence, the atmosphere between the two slowly improved.
The two quietly finished their meal, and Ren Jia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your face is still a little bad, it's better to freshen up and rest here before going back to the house, otherwise my father will be worried." Pei Yuansi saw that the girl's eyes were full of exhaustion, and asked her opinion out loud.
When it came to grooming, Ren Jia instantly felt uncomfortable all over his body, and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded in agreement.
"Come with me." Pei Yuansi took the girl's hand and led her to the inner courtyard behind the Xinghui Tower, along the way with lush greenery and lush flowers and leaves, but after a while, a delicate small attic appeared in front of the two.
"I will live here sometimes, you can freshen up and rest here first, and we will go back to the house later, I have sent someone back to inform my father, I will not make him too anxious." Pei Yuansi pushed open the door and led Ren Jia inside, the veil in the house hung low, the brocade quilt was embroidered, extremely luxurious, the small aromatherapy ball on the curtain hook exuded a faint fragrance, it was completely a woman's boudoir appearance, Ren Jia wanted to laugh at Pei Yuansi A big man likes to live in a girl's room, but after looking around, he was a little helpless, this is completely a copy of Liang Yiyun's room, except for the more gauze and sachet balls, it is almost fake.
"You usually live here?" Ren Jia couldn't help frowning and asked, she originally hoped that Pei Yuansi would wait in the Liang Mansion, with his strength, she didn't need to worry about Liang's father's safety at all.
"Occasionally, I will only come back when there is something to deal with, and I stay in the house on weekdays, you don't have to worry about my father's safety, I have ordered someone to take good care of it." Pei Yuansi knew what the girl was worried about as soon as her mind turned, and couldn't help but say comfort.
"I'm not in Yuanjing, I've worked hard for you." Ren Jia smiled, and his heart was very warm because of Pei Yuansi's appropriateness.
"We are husband and wife, your business is my business, if you are willing to let me go out with you, I will not let you down." Pei Yuansi saw that the girl was in a good mood, and took the opportunity to make other requests.
Sure enough, Ren Jia couldn't help but glance at him, ignoring this sentence and turning to other topics, "I want to freshen up first, you can find something to do." ”
"Then I'll wait for you." Pei Yuansi smiled slightly, turned around and went out.
Ren Jia waited in the room for a while, and after a while, a maid brought hot water and combed clothes, she waved off her subordinates as usual, and took care of it herself, immersed in the hot water, Ren Jia only felt that her whole body was very tired, and she even felt a little sleepy in a blur.
"Jiajia, let's take a break after washing." 1528 saw that his master was drowsy next to him, and couldn't help but remind him.
Ren Jia cheered up and cleaned himself up, then lay on the comfortable bed and snuggled up to 1528 and fell asleep.
Smoke rose from the scented balls, and the cold air from the ice cubes in the corners drifted down with the breeze.
1528 was thinking about his heart in the arms of his master, and he couldn't help but hear the sound of the door being pushed open, and saw Pei Yuansi who came over quietly, and it directly blackened his face, what was this man going to do when he came over while his master was sleeping?
Pei Yuansi waited outside for half an hour, and saw that the girl in the room did not make any other moves, knowing that things had already gone as he wanted, so he sent his subordinates back and walked in slowly.
The girl lay on the bed with a calm expression, her face was ruddy, and her breath was gentle, Pei Yuansi slowly approached in 1528's frightened eyes, half-knelt in front of the bed, brushed the hair on the girl's cheeks behind her ears, put her forehead on her, and was silent for a long time.
From the time he got married to the present, his soul, which had always been restless when he saw this girl, finally returned to peace, as if he had been lifted from a thousand pounds of burden, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh in his throat.
After a long time, Pei Yuansi got up, put the brocade quilt on the girl's body, put down the bunk bed tent, picked up the aromatherapy ball hanging on the bed, looked at the incense that was not much left in it, walked to the door with a solemn expression, and said to the old doctor on standby, "Come in." “
"Yes, master." The old man, who was over seventy years old, bowed in and walked behind his master to the bedside.
"Take a closer look at Madame's physical condition?" Pei Yuansi gently took out the girl's wrist through the bed tent, put it on the cushion prepared in advance, and motioned for the doctor to come forward for treatment.
The old doctor hurriedly stepped forward and began to check the pulse with a cautious face, until half a quarter of an hour later, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said to the master, "Return to the master, the lady's body is fine, but she has been overworked and restless recently, so her body is a little weak, and she can recuperate on weekdays." ”
"Is it really all right?" Pei Yuansi was a little suspicious, the girl in the carriage today didn't look like she was fine.
"The old man dares to swear in the name of his many years of medical practice that his wife is indeed in good health." Although the old doctor is afraid of his master, he is not weak when it comes to his strengths, and his wife's pulse is not unhindered, even stronger than that of a man in the prime of life.
"That's the best, you go down first." Pei Yuansi also knew a little about his subordinates' abilities, and when he saw that he couldn't find out anything, he put down his anxiety for the time being.
In the quiet room, Pei Yuansi opened the bed tent and looked at the sleeping girl, the corners of her lips smiled slightly, and only at this time would she be so well-behaved.
1528 didn't dare to take a breath in the atmosphere next to him, he wanted to move slightly, but he was frightened by Pei Yuansi's stabbing eyes as soon as he moved, although there was no image of himself in the other party's eyes, it didn't dare to be careless, so it had to stay in place obediently, and the original plan to wake up the master had to be turned off for the time being.
Ren Jia felt that he hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time, and even woke up a little reluctant, and it was rare to want to lie in bed, but he found that there was someone else's breath beside him, although he knew who it was, but he couldn't help but be a little worried about his lack of vigilance.
"Awake?" Pei Yuansi looked sideways at the girl in front of him, with a smile on the corner of his lips.
"What time is it?" Ren Jia didn't plan to dwell on the matter of the two sleeping together, seeing 1528's meaningful expression in the corner of her eye, she knew that something important had happened when she was asleep, and she suppressed her doubts, she got up and broke away from Pei Yuansi's arm holding her.
The feeling of being empty in his arms was not good, Pei Yuansi got up with the girl's movements, and slowly combed the hair behind her before saying, "You just slept for an hour, maybe you have been traveling for too long and are a little tired, if you wake up, let's pack up and go home." ”
"Father may have been waiting in the house for a while, remember to wake me up next time." Ren Jia looked directly into Pei Yuansi's eyes and said, seeing the uncompromising firmness in the girl's eyes, Pei Yuansi sighed in his heart, but said with a smile on his face, "Listen to you." ”
After the two of them packed up, they went back to the Liang Mansion directly, Ren Jia refused Pei Yuansi's mention of taking the carriage, remembering that he had made many exceptions today, and he was sleeping unsuspecting just now, and he couldn't help but feel a great sense of crisis.
Liang Yi had been waiting for his daughter in the mansion for a long time, and finally heard the news that the two of them had entered the mansion, so he couldn't help but get up and walk out, and after walking a few steps, he saw his daughter with a happy expression hurrying forward, "Father! ”
Liang Yi's heart was full of thoughts, and when he saw his daughter, his eyes couldn't help but be hot, but he couldn't express it, so he had to say dryly, "I'm back." ”
"The daughter greets her father." Ren Jia bowed in a chic manner, and then stepped forward to hug Liang's father's arm and said, "I haven't seen my father for a long time, I don't know if my father is okay?" ”
"It's good to be in the house, but it's your ......" Liang Yi has never been separated for so long since his daughter entered Yuanjing, especially when his daughter went directly to Qinghe Erzhou to suppress bandits as the governor of the left and right leading forces, he was worried, and now he was relieved to see that his daughter finally came back unscathed.
"As soon as the daughter is fine, the father doesn't have to worry." Ren Jia turned around in front of Liang's father, indicating that he had no injuries all over his body, and Liang's father's face finally improved.
"Husband, you go back to the room to rest for a while, and I will go to the study with my father to talk about something." Ren Jia said to Pei Yuansi beside him, Pei Yuansi was silent for a moment in the girl's smile, and then turned around and left quietly.
In the study, Ren Jia held a cup of herbal tea to cool off the heat and nested in the Taishi chair, telling Liang's father everything about his every move to suppress the bandits, and even did not hide the fact that she transferred to Yuzhou to pit the King of Liao.
"You actually went to the border gate? Also got the contract of the silver mine in Yuzhou, King of Liao? Liang Yi couldn't help but change color when he heard these news, and it was really unimaginable to look at his daughter in front of him.
"Don't those barbarians always like to go south, it's rare for my daughter to be free, anyway, I always have to train the army, so I might as well use those barbarians to practice." Ren Jia said it easily, but Liang's father was a person who really participated in the army and fought barbarians at the border pass when he was young, and he knew a lot about Rong Di's ruthlessness, strong soldiers and strong horses, brave and good at fighting on the grassland, seeing his daughter's understatement now, it was really hard to imagine her situation on the battlefield, and for a while he was proud, worried, gratified, and regretful all kinds of feelings were indescribable, if this was a son in front of him, it would be possible to leave a name in history with military achievements in the future, but it was a pity that it was a daughter, and he had such a father......
Seeing that Liang's father's original shock and relief turned into pity, Ren Jia's mind turned to what he was sorry for, so he smiled slightly and said, "Father, do you remember the turmoil at the border back then?" If it weren't for the barbarians going south, my father and I wouldn't have left our homeland. ”
Liang Yi didn't expect his daughter to remember this incident, he fled with his family when the border was in turmoil, his daughter was only two or three years old at the time, and he couldn't imagine that he had already remembered, if it weren't for the unstable and difficult to gain a foothold in the border pass, he would never want to leave his hometown, and even more so until the last family of seven people was left with only himself and his daughter, thinking of these, he looked sad and said, "I didn't expect you to remember this, you were young at that time, and you ran around for your father and suffered a lot." ”
"Speaking of hardship," Ren Jia paused slightly, half-raised his head as if he was recalling something, and said slowly, "I remember that when my father was in the military border pass, he always brought us some snacks when he came home from a break every month, and there was a jujube tree in our yard, and it would bear a lot of jujubes every autumn, and my father would hold us to beat jujube under the tree." ”
"Do you remember any of that?" Liang Yi never thought that his youngest daughter still remembered this, how could a two or three-year-old child remember the things of his youth so clearly, and now it seems that maybe his daughter is really talented, and in the days when he left her, his daughter has become more and more distant from him.
"I still remember that if it weren't for the fact that these people in my family couldn't survive, my father would not have been willing to leave the army." Ren Jia completely accepted Liang Yiyun's memories, perhaps even Liang Yiyun herself didn't know that these memories were cherished and buried in the depths of her soul, and they were one of the rare and precious memories in her short life.
"It's been years since the incident, and what are you doing with it?" Thinking of his ambitions when he was young, Liang Yi didn't want to mention it except sighing.
"I want to join the army because I remember my father's heroic posture back then, although I don't have a brother, but I can still join the army to kill the enemy as a daughter, so it can be regarded as a complete regret of my father?" Ren Jia looked at Liang's father with a warm smile, as if he didn't realize that he had said something terrible.
Liang Yi's heart was shocked, he almost couldn't sit still, he never knew that his daughter was behind the army, he remembered that they had been displaced all the way from the border pass, remembered the happy past of their family, and even remembered that he regretted leaving the army, it turned out that what she said was that the father who values himself in the world is never a joke.
"You—" I wanted to say something at this time, but my chest was full of touch, and I couldn't speak.
Seeing Liang Yi's expression, Ren Jia put down the teacup and got up and said, "Father has been waiting for me for a long time today, and I am tired, so let's rest early." When he walked to the door, he saw that Father Liang was still staring at him stunned, turned around and said with a smile, "Father, in fact, I would rather live happily than a mediocre life, even if it is short, but it is not in vain to go through the world." With that, he turned and left.
Liang Yi looked at his daughter disappearing outside the door, the dampness and heat in his eyes could no longer hold back, as a man who stood up to the sky, when he was young, he joined the army and joined the army, in addition to supporting his family, there was no lack of meritorious service to protect the family and defend the country, if it were not for the turmoil at the border and the family was unsustainable, he would never want to leave his comrades, and then only he and his daughter were left in the family, he stood in the world as a father, and entered the palace as a eunuch in order to survive. blatantly led the army as a woman, if he really had a son, there was only so much he could ask for now.
"A mediocre life? Happy? Liang Yi covered his eyes and laughed, "Lian Yun, our daughter is really the most like me, if you have a spirit in the sky, take a good look at our children." ”
The wind on a summer night is not lacking in heat and dryness, Ren Jia walked slowly through the courtyard and garden in the middle of the house, arrived at her and Pei Yuansi's residence, stopped in front of the pond full of lotus, sniffed the fragrance of flowers in the air, relaxed and rested, Liang Yi gave up a qiē for his daughter, Liang Yiyun really became clear after death, she used to be willful and reckless and didn't understand the heart of a father, didn't know how to be a good daughter, and didn't know how to repair the broken father-daughter relationship, Ren Jia now let her see, as long as she is willing to take a step, Her father was always waiting for her one step away.
It must be known that there are many parents in this world, but not any parents have the courage to be willing to sacrifice a qiē for their children, if it were not for their daughter, Liang Yi would not need to enter the palace at all, he was determined to be in the field when he was young, and left his hometown for the sake of his family, in order to protect Liang Yiyun, the only child, to stand on his own feet as a eunuch.