Chapter 10: What Sleepless Nights?
Jiang Ming didn't move, and lowered his head to look at the person holding his leg.
The man held his leg and wept bitterly, and his robe was a mess, but he didn't say a word.
Ah Feng didn't know who this person was, but looking at his surprise to the point of tears, it should be Jiang Ming's younger brother to listen to him.
But looking at Jiang Ming, there was no expression on his face, it was empty.
Yes, it's empty. It was as if that face was just a mask made by a skilled craftsman, and there was no trace of affection on it. Even the eyes of the man who looked at his feet were empty.
The people who had a lot of love just now suddenly looked down at the crying people at their feet as if they had become clay sculptures.
No sorrow, no joy, no anger and no resentment.
"Big brother, I was overjoyed to hear the news that you were fine, but I couldn't believe it; It wasn't until I saw it today that I believed that God really had eyes. God bless, ancestors bless, big brother, you are back, you are finally home. ”
Holding Jiang Ming's leg, this person was a little out of breath crying.
Ah Feng didn't know how to deal with it, but it wasn't good to watch that person cry all the time, right? But looking at Jiang Ming's appearance, she felt that it was not appropriate to speak at this time.
"I'm really coming back alive."
Jiang Ming spoke, and his voice was empty, without ups and downs, without emotion, worse than those birds who learned to speak—the voices of those birds were still lively.
He looked at the people in front of the Jiangfu Gate: "I'm back, alive." ”
I don't know why, after he repeated it, the person who was holding him and crying stopped crying, and also let go of Jiang Ming's leg that he was holding.
"Jiang Xu, have you been promoted?"
Jiang Ming didn't look at his feet, his eyes were focused on the plaque on the mansion - the Hou Mansion.
Ah Feng knew that the Jiang family had been named a marquis because of their military exploits, and it was a marquis who had been passed down from generation to generation.
But she didn't know what that door plaque was so nice about? There are a lot of Hou mansions in the capital, and there is such a piece hanging on anyone's house, at most the font is different.
Jiang Ming owed a debt and stretched out his hand to ask: "Your Highness, please." ”
After he finished speaking to Ah Feng, he took the lead and led the way, as if he didn't plan to pay attention to his younger brother anymore.
Just when the Jiang family's face became embarrassed, he suddenly turned his head to look over: "Ah Xu, should I call you a general now, or should I call you, Marquis Jiang?" ”
Jiang Xu's face changed suddenly, he got up and wiped his face and said, "Big brother is very tired from running all the way, and my mother is very happy to wait for you for a long time, and she has prepared a lot of things that you love to eat." ”
"Brother will go home first to wash away the dust of the road, and our brother will talk again. There are too many things, and the younger brother wants the elder brother to call the shots. Jiang Xu's words were full of sincerity.
Jiang Ming nodded, and had already walked to the door of the Jiang Mansion, looking at Old Madam Jiang and bowing: "Mother, the child is back." ”
I don't know why, Ah Feng heard him call his mother, and felt that the wind around him was three points colder.
Jiang Ming's words did not pause, almost in one go:
"It is the child's unfilial piety to worry the mother for many days, and the child should apologize to the mother. It's just that the child's armor is inconvenient to bow, and the mother has always been clear that she will not blame the child. ”
The thorns in his words were so clear that it was impossible for others to pretend they couldn't hear them. Hearing this, the corners of Ah Feng's eyes twitched: she is indeed Jiang Ming's fiancée, but she is not ready to fight wits and courage with the Jiang family.
Originally, she thought that she would be in charge of her own life after she got married.
But now just listening to Jiang Ming's words, she feels that she will have a lot of "fun" in the future, and she will definitely not be bored.
Of course, there is a princess mansion when the princess marries, but since Taizong wants to rule the world with filial piety, in order to show that the royal daughter also knows filial piety, the princess who marries is to live with her in-laws.
Either take the in-laws to the princess's house, or the princess stays at the in-laws' house.
Anyway, no one would dare to wronged the princess wherever the princess lived, so the princesses did not object, but they just suffered the families of those who married the princess.
If the princess lives in the princess's house, then the in-laws' family does not have to go to the bow every day; But they lived together, and every day they had to bow down to the princess.
Because the prince of heaven and earth is the teacher, and the king is in front of the parent, even if the in-laws are long, they must kowtow to the princess first, and then the princess will greet the in-laws.
Of course, the princess will not kneel, because she is a princess: there are only a few people in the world who make her kneel: the queen mother, the emperor and the empress.
If the princess's biological mother is not the queen, she doesn't have to kneel when she sees her biological mother. Kneeling in-laws? That's wanting the lives of her in-laws' family.
But when Emperor Taizong gave an order, who dared to say a word of opposition? So to this day, the princesses still live with their in-laws: it's not just the in-laws' family who are troubled, but also the princesses.
How comfortable she is in the princess's mansion, and she has to deal with it with a large family, isn't it annoying?
Although Ah Feng didn't know the details yet, just a few words were enough for her to guess what her future life would be.
The relationship between Jiang Ming and the Jiang family does not seem to be as good as she knows, and therefore her future life is destined to be unpeaceful.
Old Madam Jiang smiled kindly, and she didn't hear the thorns in Jiang Ming's words at all: "Ming'er, you came here on horseback all the way?" God, this is not tired, quickly, go into the house to wash and change clothes and rest. ”
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, you can't go to the border anymore, my mother really can't stand being scared." She greeted Jiang Ming with a cold greeting, and turned her head to greet people to prepare soup.
Of course, she didn't forget to greet Ah Feng, and asked the emperor and the queen mother very respectfully - Ah Feng just answered casually, where could she know?
Anyway, those two people are alive, if they have any illness, the palace would have turned the sky upside down. Therefore, she guessed that the mother and son of the emperor and the queen mother should be very good, very good.
Old Madam Jiang is only called so because her son inherited the title and married a relative, in fact, she is not very old, and if she is well-maintained, she looks like a woman in her thirties.
It is when the charm of the half-aged still exists, and the style revealed between words and deeds is really a little moving.
Jiang Ming's face was not cold, and he suddenly smiled in the face of Old Madam Jiang's care: "Last night, my mother didn't sleep, okay?" ”
Ah Feng glanced at Old Madam Jiang when he heard this, only to realize that sure enough, even no amount of fat powder could completely cover the cyan under Old Madam Jiang's eyes.
Ah Feng blinked, this is not a day without a good sleep, I am afraid that I have not slept well for a few days.
If it was in the past, Ah Feng would have thought that Old Madam Jiang was happy that her eldest son had come back alive, so she couldn't sleep.
But thinking about Jiang Ming's words, now she can conclude that Mrs. Jiang can't sleep at night must have another reason: if she wasn't trying to figure out anything, she could only be scared.
Well, it wouldn't be really scary, would it? Ah Feng turned his head sideways and glanced at Old Madam Jiang again.