Chapter 281: Missing the News
After his son left, Zhong Jiantang looked at the few words he had written on the table and pondered. The letter left by his daughter when she left was really shocking to him, was it really written by Xiaomi herself? I can't write that kind of character without more than ten years of skills.
Also, he had never seen that font before. At that time, he asked Prince Xuan with the letter, but as a result, people nodded and said that it was indeed Xiaomi's handwriting.
In this way, the Luo family still taught her something. It's just that the time he spent with his daughter was too short, and coupled with her consistent performance on weekdays, Zhong Jiantang really couldn't match that daughter with that hand that he felt ashamed of.
In fact, even if it was confirmed by King Xuan, Zhong Jiantang still couldn't believe it, Xiaomi is only thirteen years old this year, and she will only be fourteen after the New Year, so how old did she start practicing calligraphy? How hard should it be, how hard to write that kind of words? Or is she particularly gifted with calligraphy?
Fortunately, Xiaomi left this time, and Zhong Jiantang was worried that his wife would be seriously ill if she couldn't stand it. But fortunately, the wife has nothing but worrying about blaming herself for thinking about her daughter and crying. If you don't have a good appetite, you will eat some at each meal.
Zhong Jiantang knew that the content of the letter left by this girl had an absolute relationship. When it comes to letters, I really can't say that the girl has no heart and lungs, and she has no nostalgia for the Zhong family, but she is very special to her mother Huang.
The letter made it very clear that after being outside for many years, I couldn't adapt to the life in the house when I came back, and I didn't want to get married so early. also specially told her mother to take care of her health. waited for her, and asked her mother to save more private money, and when she got married in the future, she would press the bottom of the box.
The content of the letter, for Zhong Jiantang, is simply the disobedient words of the youngest daughter's family, but for his wife. This is the spiritual pillar that sustains her. The daughter didn't say she would never come back. It's not as resolute and ruthless as it is said.
How would Zhong Jiantang know that there is actually a very key reason why this daughter left so ruthlessly.
Millet was not his real daughter in the first place. It's from another generation. If it is in modern times, no matter how big the conflict with the family is, Xiaomi will never choose to leave. Because Xiaomi knows that only parents are in this world. The person who loves himself the most.
Even if there is some small friction between children and parents, it is because of the generation gap. Generation to generation. There will be some of them. Out of concern for their children, parents invisibly want to take care of all aspects of their children.
As for children, because they have their own ideas and opinions, they will feel that their parents are too much in charge. When you're in a bad mood, you feel a little annoyed. Only when children grow up and become parents will they experience that they are parents. It's the same as my parents.
It is said that acquaintance is fate, but in fact, it is not fate to become a family. When I was a child, I grew up under the care of my parents. When I grew up, I couldn't wait to leave home, thinking that I would break free from the shackles and do whatever I wanted.
When they encounter setbacks outside, they think of home, that warm haven. However, when they left home, they did not return for various reasons because of various struggles, even if they were homesick.
Communication is too convenient, you can make a phone call when you pick up your mobile phone, and you can also voice and video. But they couldn't know how much their parents missed them on the other end of the phone.
When they saw their parents again and found that they were no longer young, gray-haired and old, they regretted what they had lost over the years. Some can be made up, and some will always be regretted if they are lost.
Although Xiaomi is also a young person in modern times, it knows this truth deeply. Especially after crossing over, she knew that it would be like this, she would have been obedient at the beginning, but now it's too late to say anything!
After passing through, it wasn't that she didn't want to settle down in one place. cherishes people who are good to her, but there is no way, she grew up in modern times, and her ideology and concepts really can't be integrated with this dynasty.
She figured it out, and if she couldn't go back to modern times, she would be at peace with what she encountered. But he couldn't accept the marriage of this dynasty, he couldn't tolerate his husband's concubine, and he had a room. So ah, feeling that it is useless to fight for the situation, there is only to leave.
When the literati described dandelions, they were so poetic, wandering with the wind. Xiaomi likes freedom, but she doesn't like to be dandelions, because you can't control the direction you want to go. I don't want to be a rootless duckweed, floating on the surface of the water and flowing with the water, looking beautiful but a little desolate.
In fact, Zhong Jiantang can't know and understand these things.
Outside the capital, although snowflakes fell in the sky again, Xiaomi still refused to get into the carriage. The mount she just bought, of course, she is going to have a good time. However, this time she did not stubbornly gallop or anything, but rode slowly.
At this time, she was dressed as a son-in-law, and she and Luo Qingfeng were uncles and nephews. The hired coachman was still wondering at first, and said that what about the little old man who accompanied Luo Gongzi to hire him that day? Why don't these uncles and nephews go out with a little guy or something?
Oops, this little boy looks like a girl, so handsome! Of course, the coachman just thought so in his heart, how dare he say it. He was originally a farmer, and after the autumn, he had to go up to the mountains to chop firewood to support his family.
I want to find a part-time job until the beginning of next spring, but the job in the capital is not so easy to find. Large households don't like to hire short-term workers, but small households, in the current season, there is too much competition for how many idle farmers will have.
Because he was a horse breeder when he was a soldier when he was young, he wanted to see if he could be a coachman or something. I didn't expect my luck to get such a job. Although he went out of the house, he was paid a lot of wages, calculated on a monthly basis, and said that he would be paid a month's salary even if he was not full-term.
According to this salary, even if you can't come back in the spring, it doesn't matter, it is cost-effective to hire someone to help you plant a few acres of land at home. Eat and drink, and keep it, and the silver you get will be net earned.
Besides, the employer is also generous, he gave two months before going out, don't look at the two months' salary, but it is enough for a family of four to spend half a year. So, ah, the coachman departed. Until now, my heart is full of joy.
In addition, these two uncles and nephews are very kind to everyone. After a few days of departure, although there was no meal at the same table, the food was the same. The little boy also bought him a new cotton coat and a sheepskin jacket. A new pair of cotton boots.
This one is live. What a blessing! It's not bad to have a family member at home, so it's not bad to be their driver all the time. When you are old, you can't move, and you can earn enough money to hire someone to take care of you. Giving oneself a pension to the end.
"Sixth uncle, are you really not going back for the New Year? Actually, I'm fine alone. On horseback, Xiaomi stretched out one hand to pick up the snowflakes and asked Luo Qingfeng, who was walking side by side with him.
"It doesn't matter. I've been like this all the time. However, I have already written a letter back to tell them that they will not be going back this year. Luo Qingfeng responded with a smile. He now realizes that he has this girl traveling with him. It's really more interesting than being alone.
"Ah, you wrote back? Don't mention me, they'll check it out there. If you find out that I am with you, you will be mistaken. That's going to hurt you. Xiaomi turned his head to look at Luo Qingfeng and said very nervously.
Luo Qingfeng smiled; "Don't worry, I didn't mention it."
Xiaomi patted her heart and smiled reassuringly; "By the way, Uncle Six, you are not too young, it's time to get married. After so many years of wandering outside, haven't you met your lover? ”
"How do you talk about this?" Luo Qingfeng was used to the way Xiaomi spoke, and would suddenly change direction.
"Oh, Uncle Six, you won't be shy, right?" Xiaomi smiled and teased the sixth uncle, this matter was very curious before.
"What's there to be ashamed of, Sixth Uncle, I am a responsible man, if I marry a wife and have children, I will definitely not run out again. Therefore, I want to take advantage of the fact that the single person is not concerned about walking outside.
How, are you satisfied with this answer? After Luo Qingfeng answered, he asked with a smile.
"It's okay, but how do I feel that it's not what you say? There must be something else hidden in it, do you think I'm too young to say it? Really, maybe I can help you with your ideas. "Millet told the truth.
Of course, she also knows that everyone has secrets in their hearts, some secrets are sweet, some are bitter. She wouldn't force an answer to satisfy her gossip curiosity. Although I was a little unwilling, I put it aside and decided not to mention it again.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's good to be a single all the time, Uncle Six, or we both can be singles, and we can go wherever we want freely, and we have a companion together, what do you say?" Xiaomi was afraid that his question just now would arouse some sad things about the sixth uncle, so he hurriedly joked and teased him.
"you, what are you talking about, how can you keep wandering outside, although the country is big, it will be almost the same in a few years, is it possible that you still have to swim in a loop?" Of course, Luo Qingfeng knew that Xiaomi was joking, and he also joked with her.
"Sixth uncle, I don't think you're a nerd either, why can't your brain turn around? Enough of the good scenery of Yuguo, we can go abroad, there are so many countries, I'm afraid that it is impossible to go to the old one by one.
And the Gentiles, don't you wonder how the Gentiles live? If you change the local customs in another place, the local customs are different from other places, and you are excited to think about it. When Millet said this, he was indeed excited, curious about what foreign countries were like in ancient times.
"Gentile, your heart is really not an ordinary wilderness. We can't understand what the Gentiles say, and don't we become blind when we go? Luo Qingfeng felt that Xiaomi was so young that he said childish things and thought about everything so simply.
"Hehe, Uncle Six, you are underestimating me, aren't you? I've also flipped through the atlas, what is the name of the nearest country, and the language they speak, I've also learned a little bit, although not much, ask for directions, and I can have a simple conversation. Xiaomi said with a little pride.
At this time, Luo Qingfeng began to shake his head, it was nothing to say childish things at a young age, but it would not be good to brag like her. He even said that he would speak to the Gentiles? Are you kidding? Even if he is not in Yunling Town all the year round, he knows that there is no one in Yunling Town who understands foreign dialects at all, and she has learned a little? Who did you learn from?
There are not a few people in the whole country who know foreign languages, and they are needed in the palace, they are also needed by the mission, and some are hired by merchants who do business with foreign countries. How could a small remote place like Yunling Town know a foreign language and not know it?
Besides, millet was injured a few years ago, and the previous memories are gone, and the words after the injury are all living on the eldest brother's side, and if she learns foreign languages from others, there's no reason why the eldest brother doesn't know.
"Learn? What did you learn after you came to Beijing? Luo Qingfeng didn't believe it in his heart, so he still asked more. Because he really can't explain how Xiaomi could blow this cow.
Ah, Xiaomi realized that she was too relaxed, too carried away, and revealed such a big flaw. "Uh-huh, yes, after coming to the capital, I accidentally met someone who could speak foreign languages, and seeing that I was so smart and cute, he taught me a few simple words." Xiaomi thought that this lie could only be so round.
"Really, Sixth Uncle, do you know that the fruit wine that the Gentiles drink, that is, how the wine is made? I tell you, the man who taught me the Gentile language told me that wine is made by the foot of the man who works in the winery.
It is to step on the grape, crush the grape to get out the juice and then start brewing. "Millet hurriedly pulled something else.
Foreign fruit wine, of course Luo Qingfeng knows, that one is very expensive. He's tasted it a few times, and he likes it a lot, and now when he hears Xiaomi say this, even if he doesn't believe her words, he can't help frowning when he thinks of the process that his feet step on, anyway, he never plans to touch that thing again.
"Hearsay is the least credible." Luo Qingfeng shook his head and said.
"Oh, I know, whether it's true or not, just listen to it as an anecdote, Uncle Six, don't you have to be so serious. It's a long journey, let's not talk about something interesting and boring. Millet muttered quietly.
It doesn't matter believe it or not, just don't continue the topic of Gentile languages anyway.
"Want to hear something interesting? The sixth uncle said that he would listen to you, and said, do you want to hear the grievances on the rivers and lakes, or do you have the courage to listen to weird things? Luo Qingfeng also found that his attitude was too much, and quickly corrected it.
"Okay, okay, I want to hear it, Uncle Six, come quickly, and when the time comes, it will be compiled into a booklet, and it can help us earn a lot of money." Xiaomi immediately became interested.
Along the way, I listened attentively to the stories, and I didn't even pay attention to the diners in the restaurant talking about the latest news in the capital...... (To be continued)
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