Three days later, it was finally the day when Mo Zili returned to Beijing, early in the morning, the old lady kept sending people to the city gate to see, she had not seen her baby Jin Sun for half a year, and the couple had long wanted to be sleepless at night, scratching their hearts and livers, and wishing to see them all at once.

The people who were sent went one after another, and it was not until noon that Mo Zili's car slowly stopped at the gate of the Liguo Mansion surrounded by a group of subordinates.

The old lady had been waiting at the gate for a long time, and when she saw her emaciated grandson getting out of the car, she was so distressed that she burst into tears.

"You enemy, how can you grind yourself like this? Aren't you asking for your grandmother's life? ”

Mo Zili recovered from a serious illness, although he was very thin, but his spirit was very good, seeing his grandmother sad for him, he hurriedly took a few steps forward, knelt in front of the old lady, and kowtowed reverently: "The grandson is not filial, let the grandmother bother, in the future, the grandson will stay by the grandmother's side to be filial, and no longer willful!" ”

Hearing that her grandson wanted to repent as soon as she came back, and promised to stay by her side in the future and never leave, although the old lady still felt pain in her heart, but she was relieved a lot, she took a few steps forward, helped up the grandson who was kneeling on the ground, and said with tears: "If you can know your mistakes, just change them, get up quickly, the ground is cold, and the dampness is affected when you turn around, and your legs should hurt again." ”

Mo Qingshan and his wife also got out of the car, and when they saw that the old lady ran outside the gate to greet them, they didn't feel anxious and painful, and hurriedly came forward to greet the old lady.

The old lady looked at the haggard young man and the daughter-in-law who had been reduced, and she was distressed again, and said again and again: "Okay, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, come in quickly, the old man is waiting for you in the lotus lotus pavilion!" ”

As he spoke, he held his grandson with one hand and his son with the other, and went to the house tremblingly...

When they arrived at the Lotus Lotus Pavilion, Li Guogong and Mo Yuanshan had been waiting there for a long time, seeing each other, it was inevitable to say hello, Li Guogong saw his haggard son and grandson, and he was very distressed, although he did not cry and wipe his tears like the old lady, but the old man's face showed deep pain, and at the same time, he was even more dissatisfied with the Shen family's move to cross the river and tear down the bridge.

"Old man, Li'er said that he would not leave again when he came back this time!" The old lady said happily to the old man.

Li Guogong stroked his gray beard, and his regretful face showed a little relief: "Well, after this incident, I am finally sensible, and I have not suffered this crime in vain!" ”

Mo Yuanshan said: "Is Li'er really good?" I still don't look very good, so it's better to ask Yao Yuan to come over and take a look! ”

"Yes, Li'er's illness is half a year old, and the body must be damaged a lot, if you want me to see, from Ming'er, you can rest assured that you can take care of your body at home!"

Wu also said with concern, this was discussed in advance between the husband and wife and the old lady, and when Mo Zili came back, he tried to try to keep him at home and not let him go to see Shen Juhua, and then made a decision when he slowly tested his feelings for Shen Juhua.

If he really fell in love with Shen Juhua, it had to be Shen Juhua, and the Liguo Mansion would do something disgraceful and help him snatch Shen Juhua; If he only regarded Shen Juhua as a substitute just because she was like Xiangyun, then the Liguo Mansion would try to find a more similar substitute and abandon her!

Mo Zili said: "Uncle Lao and Aunt Lao are worried, before the nephew comes back, the most famous doctor Ye in Bianzhou Mansion has already seen it, and said that it is indeed very good, probably because he is tired from riding in the car these days, so it seems that his spirit is short, and it should be fine." ”

Li Guo said fairly: "If there is a big problem, you will know when you look at the judgment of the Yao Court." ”

After that, the people below said: "Come on, take my post to the Tai Hospital to ask Yao Yuan to judge, and he will come over immediately." ”

Mo Zili also wanted to go out to see the Chrysanthemum family, but when he heard that his grandfather had passed on the imperial doctor, he had to stay at home and wait for the imperial doctor, and when the Yao Yuan judgment came, after taking the pulse, he was shocked and said: "The serious illness of the son has hurt seven or eight points of vitality, and now it seems that he has been cured on the surface, but in fact, the pulse shows that his typhoid fever has not been cured at all, and the embers in his body have not been cleaned, so he must stay in bed for a while to recuperate, otherwise, it will accumulate into a serious illness, and it will not be cured......"

He said it very strictly, and Mo Zili couldn't help but believe it, after all, the medical skills judged by Yao Yuan were well known to everyone in the Great Jin Kingdom, and no one could doubt them.

Mo Qingshan and his wife were also frightened by Yao's sentence, and Zhang Luo, who was discouraged, sent Mo Zili back to Qiushuangzhai and arranged for him to start "recuperating"......

Mo Zili wanted to go to see the chrysanthemums, but Mo Qingshan and his wife did not allow it, and the old lady also asked him to calm down and recuperate, not to think about anything else, and wait until he is well......

When carrying him, the old lady sadly told Mo Qingshan and his wife about Shen Juhua's engagement, Bai listened to it, and said angrily: "This Shen family is too much, Li'er almost broke his life in order to save their daughter, if it weren't for Li'er, their daughter would have turned into a piece of loess, how could they do such a thing against their conscience?" No, I'm going to have to go to them for a theory! ”

Mo Qingshan didn't speak with a dark face, but he acquiesced in his wife's opinion.

The old lady said, "What's the use of theory? Now the whole capital knows that the Shen family has recruited an aunt who comes to the door, and it won't look good if we make trouble, it's not like we can't marry a daughter-in-law from our son, and we have to bully people and rob other people's daughters, according to me, it's better for you to stay with Li'er every day and explore his meaning, if he is really a girl from the Shen family, we have to bully people once; If she is not so important in Li'er's heart, let's let go, the twisted melon is not sweet, not to mention that the Shen family and the queen are still old friends, and it is not good to make it too stiff! ”

The old lady said very reasonably, Mo Qingshan and Bai glanced at each other, and said, "It's still the mother's thoughtfulness, it's all up to the mother to arrange!" ”

The matter was decided like this, and Mo Qingshan and his wife took turns to stay by their son's side and became their son's psychological counselor......

In a blink of an eye, the Lantern Festival has arrived, this time of the year, it is the most lively time of the year, because of the annual Lantern Festival, the street will hang lanterns, perform Yangge and stilts, as well as fireworks evenings, guess lantern riddles or something, it is very lively, but to catch up with this year's national funeral, the imperial court has long ordered that the activities of the folk celebration are prohibited, so the whole country is quiet, and there is no atmosphere for the New Year's festival at all.

In the space, Cai Wei is taking three buns to make Lantern Festival, the newly ground glutinous rice noodles, divided into yellow glutinous rice and white glutinous rice, as well as three or four kinds of fillings that she carefully made zuò, including black sesame filling, fruit filling, and white sugar five-kernel filling, all of which are made of ingredients from the space, which are delicious and nourishing.

The three buns didn't know how to wrap the Lantern Festival, so Cai Wei gave each of them a piece of good glutinous rice noodles, and let them sit on the side as plasticine to play, the three buns held the sticky glutinous rice noodles, curiously pinched the glutinous rice noodles into various shapes, and from time to time lifted their works to offer treasure to Cai Wei.

"Mother, you detective-"

Hearing a milky call, Cai Wei raised her head and gave a gentle smile like a pearl offering Bao'er: encouraging: "Zhu'er pinched it so well, pinched it is a ...... It's a.... Belch.... ”

She carefully identified it for a long time, racking her brains and not being able to distinguish what the soft lump was, and then Mingzhu Baozi explained it to herself: "Wudui! ”

"Huh? Is it a turtle? ”

Cai Wei was stunned for a moment, looked at the shapeless lump, twitched the corners of her mouth, and then raised her eyes as if she remembered something, and after making sure that Gui Daxian was not there, she whispered a praise against her will: "Wow!" The beads are really like oh, it's exactly the same, hehehe... ”

Jin'er looked at the lump in her sister's hand, and her pink little face immediately showed disdain that did not match his age, especially after hearing the queen mother's insincere words, a disdainful little face suddenly had a fed up look, he raised the glutinous rice handiwork in his hand, and said arrogantly: "Mother, Guoguo!" ”

The glutinous rice ball in his hand has been basically kneaded into a circle, although it is not very regular, but at least it can be seen that it is round, and it is not impossible to identify it as a fruit, after all, most fruits are round!

Jin'er is only a few months old, and she can pinch out a round shape, which is already remarkable.

At that moment, Cai Wei praised him fiercely without hesitation, and praised Jin Baozi, who didn't like to laugh much, so that the corners of her mouth were curled.

Yu'er pinched it for a long time, but didn't pinch anything, disappointed, simply stuffed the piece of glutinous rice noodles in her hand into her mouth, "Ah woo" took a bite, when Cai Wei snatched the piece of glutinous rice noodles, there were already two rows of sparse small tooth marks on the glutinous rice noodles, like an abstract work of art.

So, the best creative award was awarded to the youngest Yu Baozi by Cai Wei, and he did not hesitate to praise his unintentional creation, which made Yu'er open her little pink mouth and smile crookedly......

The ladies were playing happily in the space, and there was a faint warmth floating in the air, and at this time, Nangong Yi's deep and magnetic voice suddenly sounded outside: "I'm back!" ”

After Nangong Yi finished dealing with the political affairs, he returned to the imperial study, and saw that Cai Wei and the buns were not there, so he naturally knew where they went, so he called out.

So, they disappeared in place and were picked up by Cai Wei into the space.

In the past two years, the space has been much larger than before, about seven or eight acres in size, and the aura inside has become more and more intense.

The forest is lush and green, the hares and pheasants in it run everywhere, walk into the forest, you can see precious herbs and ginseng everywhere, although most of the original ginseng has been dug up, but the place that was dug up has been replanted for the rose, although the replanted ginseng is not as old as before, but the growth rate of crops in the space is ten times that of the outside, and the ginseng planted here for one year is equivalent to ten years outside, so she never worries about people participating in the meeting being sold short.

The edge of the space is planted with all kinds of fruits, most of which Nangong Yi has never seen, such as durian with long thorns, two or three catties of large mangoes, and coconut that can be drunk, as well as mangosteen with purple shells, etc., each of which is delicious, Nangong Yi often flies up and picks it for Cai Wei and the children to eat.

Pheasants and hares are everywhere, pheasants lay eggs everywhere, and every day the children will search for eggs in the space like a treasure hunt, and when they find them, they will put them in a basket in the storeroom, and keep them for their own food or give them to their grandmothers.

There are many kinds of fish in Lingxi, all of which are rare ornamental fish, which are prepared by Cai Wei to open a pet shop specializing in selling ornamental fish, the Great Jin Kingdom is rich, and the people are also happy to spend money to buy fun, so her pet shop will definitely make a lot of money, not to mention anything else, just the phoenix and golden scale fish entered by the Hou Mansion of Jian'an, you can sell it for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Of course, this plan has to wait until the three years of filial piety of the Empress Dowager Mo are completed......

Nangong Yi entered the space, and soon found Cai Wei and the children, and saw that Cai Wei was making Lantern Festival, so she also wanted to help, Cai Wei said: "I'm almost here, you go and catch a pheasant and kill it and clean it up, and I'll stew chicken soup for you later." ”

So, the man obediently went out of the small courtyard and went into the forest to catch chickens.

Today is fifteen, Cai Wei is ready to celebrate with her husband and children on a decent table, so not only prepare a pot of thick chicken soup, but also order the imperial chef to make a sauce plate duck, cold and cut the plate, not spicy, there is a sweet taste of osmanthus, Mu Caiwei loves to eat.

The fish is ready to be steamed, and the children's favorite anchovies are used as ingredients to make a steamed fish, and the sauce is poured outside, which is full of color and flavor, and it can make people have an appetite just thinking about it.

However, only the duck is made by the imperial kitchen, and the rest are waiting for the man to do it, it's not that she doesn't do housework, she said it last night, if she tosses her, he will take care of today's work alone. Cai Wei's waist was about to be broken by the man, and she can still support him today, which is already very good!

Nangong Yi caught the chicken, scalded the chicken feathers with hot water after killing it, and changed several basins of hot water to clean it in a row, removed the internal organs of the chicken, cleaned up the chicken, and brought it to the kitchen.

"I just received a side report from Xianbei, Xianbei's civil strife has ended, and a royal son named Helan Hao has won the throne and will soon ascend the throne."

"So fast? What is this Helan Hao capable of? Why did he win the throne? Cai Wei asked, she had already wrapped the last Lantern Festival in her hand, and she placed the wrapped Lantern Festival neatly on the bamboo curtain and put it on the shelf where the food was stored.

"I don't know exactly how he won the throne, but I heard that he is only twenty years old this year, and he is brave and resourceful, so it is not surprising that he can be the final winner of this battle for the throne."

"Then, will he marry Chao Gui as his queen as usual?"

"Yes!"

Nangong Yi is extremely determined: "He has just ascended the throne, and the situation in the world is not yet stable, so he must need our Dajin to back him up, and if he wants to win over Dajin, the best way is to marry the princess of our Dajin as the queen, not to mention, the Chao Guichang is quite beautiful, and the person is smart enough, he should not refuse." ”

As he spoke, he had already stuffed mushrooms, wolfberries, green onions, coriander and other seasonings into the chicken's belly, and then he put it in the pot.

The stove is burned with burn-resistant fruit trees, and the flames are beating and beeping, so there is no need to add firewood frequently.

"Wei'er, you look at the pot, I'll go catch a phoenix scale fish and steam it." Nangong Yi explained, got up and went outside to fish.

A few buns have had enough of the glutinous rice dumplings in their hands, and when they saw that their father was going out, they chased after their father with their little short legs.

The kitchen was clean, Cai Wei took the opportunity to order another stove, fried some meatballs, sweet and spicy peanuts, small twist flowers, Jiang rice noodles, fried red dates and other dim sum side dishes, and made two cold green vegetables, plus the steamed fish that Nangong Yi was about to make, a big table that could be filled.

There are good dishes, naturally you have to drink a few glasses, Cai Wei went to the banyan tree in the yard, and came back with a jar of fruit wine. To be honest, this fruit wine is really delicious, sweet and mellow, Cai Wei and Nangong Yi like to drink it, but every time Nangong Yi drinks wine, he always loses his morality after drinking, and he tosses Cai Wei so much that he begs for mercy, so even though he loves to drink, Cai Wei refuses to let him drink it.

But today is the Lantern Festival, the day of family reunion, Cai Wei was afraid that he would be sad in the heart of Empress Dowager Mo and Chaoyuelai, so she risked being tossed by him, and came back with a small jar of fruit wine, planning to drink with him when he ate for a while.

The meal was finally ready, the family of five sat at the table, Cai Wei poured Nangong Yi a glass of wine, handed it to him, and poured a glass herself, planning to accompany him to drink it for a while.

"Yi, what are you going to do after dinner?"

“……”

Nangong Yi was silent for a moment, raised his head, with a lazy smile on his handsome face, his eyes were charming, as if he could detain souls, Cai Wei didn't dare to look at him many times, for fear of being bewitched and losing himself.

"Hey, why don't you speak?"

Cai Wei lowered her head, busy clipping a duck leg for Mingzhu, she had just clipped one for Yu'er, Jin'er didn't like to eat duck legs, and was waving her chubby little hand, fighting against a chicken wing.

"Be you."

After a while, Nangong Yi spit out two words playfully, and then raised his wine glass.

Cai Wei's brain had a momentary short circuit, toast with him, and only after drinking it all did he react ignorantly, what, do... She?

Nangong Yi's eyes gradually appeared with a smile, like the rippling waves on the calm water, every time he said amazingly, his lady's reaction was too interesting, originally he wanted to say that he went to Qixia Palace to ask the emperor for peace, but when he saw her serious appearance, the words came to his mouth, and he changed unconsciously.

was teased by her husband, Cai Wei blushed, glared at him angrily, and said angrily: "Shameless!" ”

Mingzhu listened to her mother's anger, and parroted and said, "Don't please—"

made Cai Wei laugh "poof", Nangong Yi shook his head and laughed helplessly......

Next to the table, there is a small low table, on which there are the same meals as the big table, Changmei, Parrot and Gui Daxian, etc., sitting on the small table to eat, Gui Daxian is not in a hurry to eat in the fire room, but after eating with them, he can't help but speed up his speed a lot, because the speed of parrot and Changmei eating is simply too fast, some dishes are eaten by them in a blink of an eye, in order not to be hungry, Gui Daxian had to break his habit of slowing down for hundreds of years, and also became faster....

Among the side dishes on this table, fried jujube is the most delicious in the public, the plump jujube is wrapped in a layer of sesame seeds and thin noodles, crisp and sweet, with fruit wine taste, a few milk buns have eaten a lot.

After eating, Cai Wei took the children to sleep, Nangong escaped from the space and went to Qixia Palace to ask the Emperor Taishang for peace, although he knew that the Emperor Taishang would not see him, but he still had to fulfill his obligations.

The Emperor Taishang has not come out for a year, and even the Queen Mother has died, he has not moved, and he is already completely intoxicated with cultivation, and he refuses to step into the red dust lightly......

……

In a blink of an eye, it was March of spring. March in Beijing is the season of spring flowers, and it is also the season of picking roses the least. At this time, the snow melts and everything recovers, but the road is full of water after the snow melts, and sometimes the snow on the roofs and eaves melts, and it flows like rain.

There is a bluestone road in the palace is better, to the alley outside the palace, because it is a dirt road, the carriage and horses pass, the muddy water splashes, the surrounding people are going to suffer, the clothes and pants are muddy spots.

Cai Wei doesn't like this kind of climate the most, she hides in the space every day and doesn't come out, Xiao Zhi and Chunliu in the palace are no longer strange to her elusiveness, both of them tacitly help her guard the door, let her enter and leave the space freely in the dormitory, they don't come to ask, let alone disturb, Cai Wei will only come out to stay for a while when there is something, and the rest of the time, stay in the space completely.

In the past two days, she has been studying the seeds of various greens in the treasury left by Cihai Zhenren, spring has arrived, she wants to promote a few delicious and nutritious greens to the people, otherwise, the greens eaten by the people of the Great Jin Kingdom are too monotonous, nothing more than eggplants, beans, cabbage, spinach, cucumbers, winter melons, etc., green vegetables such as purple cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes have not yet been seen, so she selected some greens that she thought were worth promoting, planted them in a vacant lot in the space, and prepared for harvesting. Use the harvested seeds to promote plants in a large area in the Great Jin Kingdom!

Although Cai Wei didn't like it at this time, Chrysanthemum liked it very much, because the weather was finally warm, and she could finally take off her bloated cotton jacket and put on a neat jacket to go out to play.

The chrysanthemum after the engagement is not much different from her before the engagement, or that heartless, big grinning look, on this day, she took Xiaokui and Mama Zhou, happily out of the house, to a new buffet in the city to eat good things.

This buffet has only opened in the past few days, and it is divided into a men's and women's area, that is to say, when eating, men and women eat separately, so many ladies and ladies from large families can come here to eat in a grand manner.

Chrysanthemum also listened to Mo Shuya's introduction of how novel it is, how delicious it is, and I can't help but come over to try it. Because for a foodie who is not short of money, it is an unforgivable sin to miss any delicacy.

Mo Shuya also came today, and the two of them made an appointment, but Mrs. Shen didn't allow her to interact with Mo Shuya, so every time they met, they had to act like thieves, not only to get rid of the mothers who were following her, but also to guard against being seen by acquaintances, so as not to reach the ears of her mother.

When she arrived at the door of the cafeteria, Chrysanthemum touched her pocket and said with a sigh: "Suffered, forgot to bring your purse, Xiaokui, did you bring silver?" ”

Xiaokui touched her sleeves and shouted cooperatively: "Oh, I didn't bring Yeye either, Mama Zhou, did you bring silver?" It's better to take out three taels or five taels for Miss Huahua first, and then return it to you when Miss returns home. ”

Mama Zhou heard this and hurriedly took out her purse.

But strangely, she clearly remembered that there were more than two taels of broken silver in her purse, why was it gone?

More than two taels of silver is not a small amount for Mama Zhou, her monthly money is only one tael, this more than two taels of silver is equivalent to her income for more than two months, and now it is gone, which makes her flesh hurt!

She also pointed to saving dozens of taels of silver for her son to marry a daughter-in-law!

"Mama Zhou, why don't you go back and get us some money, I remember that my purse fell on the little red box with gold and peony flowers under the dressing table."

"Hey, okay, the old slave will go back and get it for you!"

It just so happened that Mama Zhou was going to go back to find her own more than two taels of silver, and when she heard Chrysanthemum say this, she couldn't help but agree.

After sending Mama Zhou away, Chrysanthemum said to Xiaokui: "Great, finally get rid of Mama Zhou, Xiaokui, thanks to you this time, Miss Ben will give you a big credit!" ”

Xiao Kui said with a slumped face: "Miss, I don't dare to expect to invite credit, I just ask you to come out a few times less, and let the slave and maid bear a few surprises, even if you love me!" ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and said, "You're welcome to go in later, eat hard, you Miss and I will pay the bill, five hundred dollars each, all-you-can-eat, hehe, it's so cheap!" ”

According to Shu Ya's letter, each female customer here only needs to pay 500 yuan, and she can eat any dish in the restaurant until she is full, and the male customer only needs to pay 700 yuan, which is really cheap.

I heard that the food here is delicious, and many of the dishes are something they haven't eaten before, so who would miss out on a cheap and delicious place?

When she entered the women's area of the cafeteria, Mo Shuya had already arrived, and was standing in front of the rows of shelves containing food to pick up vegetables, and when she saw Chrysanthemum, she immediately showed a big smile, shook her arms, and shouted in a low voice: "Chrysanthemum, here!" ”

Chrysanthemum walked over quickly, but his eyes were attracted by the fragrant various delicacies on the shelf, oh oh, the fragrant kebabs, there are oil stars on it, the steamed fish is also very good, the fish is sprinkled with emerald green onions as thin as hair, the fiery red Shu pepper segments, with the dark soup, it is delicious at a glance, and the crystal elbow cut into thin slices, chicken thighs with sauce, cooked seafood...

There are rice, all kinds of cakes, dumplings, noodles, and many kinds of vegetables and fruits, snacks, what you want to eat, just grab it, chrysanthemum sandwich a plate of red and bright braised prawns, a plate of crystal elbows with snowflakes, and a plate full of crystal shrimp dumplings.

Mo Shuya also sandwiched a lot, the tray in her hand was full, she observed, there were really a lot of female guests who came to eat the buffet, looking at the clothes should be the ladies and ladies of rich families, but they all ate very little, most of them were half a bowl of rice with one or two fashionable dishes that had not been eaten.

"Shuya, have you eaten enough?"

Chrysanthemum had a bitter face, she and Shu Ya both thought the shrimp dumplings were delicious, and sent the maid to take them a few times, but neither of them ate to the fullest, but none of the shrimp dumplings on it were gone, and the ladies and ladies present really had never seen the world, and they looked at the two of them dumbfounded, and she was embarrassed to send the maid to take something else.

"What do you think, it's not enough to stuff your teeth."

Mo Shuya sighed, under her leadership, she had become a foodie, and her appetite was getting bigger and bigger. On weekdays in the house, outsiders don't know if they eat more, it's a public place here, and there are already ladies and ladies around who cast puzzled eyes, she looked at the bottom of the bowl and the residue, her face was reluctant, and she could only put down the chopsticks with a slight sigh.

Chrysanthemum also stood up, pretended to take two steps, pretended to gargle elegantly, and then tapped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, and said softly, "Oh, I'm so full." ”

Mo Shuya also stood up, heard a coquettish cry from Chrysanthemum, and almost kicked over the stool, her face turned white to black, and finally turned red again, and after a long pause, she answered extremely unnaturally and dryly,

"yes."

Finally got out of the cafeteria, Chrysanthemum couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Mo Shuya's arm, shook it and said, "Didn't you say that you can eat enough?" But just now I was in the restaurant, braised prawns and shrimp dumplings, the lady and the lady who went first didn't eat, we ate or made later, who opened the cafeteria, stingy to death, just put a few enough for anyone to eat, I can't eat enough. ”

"Those young ladies are just pretentious, you see that they are all as thin as hemp stalks, and we can't even eat them happily."

Mo Shuya crossed her waist that was getting thicker and thicker, and she also spoke sourly, she definitely didn't admit that she was a foodie, what was the shame of eating a lot, anyway, she had silver at home, she could eat as much as she wanted, these pretentious ladies and misses, just be hungry, anyway, the stomach is carried by herself.

"Oh, isn't this Miss Chrysanthemum!"

A voice with a smile came from behind, and the word "chrysanthemum" was bitten very hard, and the hairs on the chrysanthemum's body stood up.