Chapter Eighty-Four: Returning Home
The flood made the people in the capital tired all day long, and the spring rain was dripping non-stop, but in the past few days, the eight princes and the second prince of the prime minister's mansion have achieved initial results in controlling the water, and more and more people have joined the team of soup kitchen, and the situation has been much more stable. The capital gradually returned to its former order.
For example, this afternoon, the Guan family's army, which had triumphantly returned to Beijing from the frontier ahead of schedule. The neat and serious army almost covered the entire street, and the one led by him was high-spirited and powerful, and it was Guan Lianghan. A young man who was on a par with him was extremely handsome, and although he was a martial artist, he did not appear rude, but had the elegance of a noble child in Beijing. The young man was unfamiliar, and there was a carriage behind the line, but he didn't know who was sitting in the carriage.
Zhao Yuanfeng's uncle and nephew and Xiao Shao had already left, Jiang Xinzhi rode around the streets of the capital according to what Jiang Ruan said, he didn't think much about it, just Jiang Ruan's little girl's heart and wanted to show off. Jiang Ruan was sitting in the carriage, and Forsythia secretly lifted the corner of the carriage curtain to peek out, and exclaimed: "The eldest young master is really majestic, and the common people are looking at it." ”
Bai Zhi also smiled: "The eldest young master is back this time, and the girl will have a good life." ”
Forsythia rolled his eyes, and a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes: "This time, the one from Yanhuayuan is going to be angry." ”
Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, noncommittal, Xia Yan saw Jiang Xinzhi come back intact, but he was not just angry. This matter is not so simple to end, if you want to calculate Jiang Xinzhi, don't want to get out of this game. Xuan Li, Ang Li, there is still a big gift for the two of them.
Jiang Xinzhi is now young and promising, looking at the posture of him and Guan Lianghan, it is not difficult for everyone to guess that he is the deputy general who has won military merits, but he didn't expect to be so young. Many of the big girls and daughters-in-law who were watching on the street blushed and threw silk flowers on the horses. The corners of Jiang Xinzhi's mouth smirked, after so many years of experience, his emotions were also very well restrained. At first glance, Confucianism is generally chic.
There are also ladies and ladies from official families in Beijing, and when they saw this scene, they began to inquire about the identity of the deputy general, and at this moment, the crowd suddenly shouted: "Isn't this the eldest prince of Jiang Shangshu's mansion?" I heard that I joined the army five years ago, but I didn't expect to return to Beijing with military merits! ”
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and as soon as these words came out, everyone began to talk about it.
"I'll just say that he is so familiar, it turned out to be the eldest son of the Jiang family, tsk, I haven't even heard from him for so many years, and now I can be regarded as raising my eyebrows."
"It turns out that the Jiang family still has a big son, and it seems that he has never heard anything from the Jiang Mansion."
"Huh? What's not to understand about this, the Jiang family is now in charge of the stepmother, after all, it is not biological, isn't the eldest lady of the Jiang family also been heard from for more than five years? Thinking about it, Young Master Jiang left home at the beginning, I'm afraid it wasn't voluntary. ”
"After all, it's good now, Young Master Jiang has made military merits, and Miss Jiang is also a jade-like person, compared to it, Young Master Jiang is much better than Second Young Master Jiang. I don't know what Jiang Shangshu thinks, I don't feel sorry for such an excellent eldest son, but I feel sorry for the second young master. ”
"You don't understand this, man, what's there to say about spoiling concubines and killing wives, when the original housewife was still there, the current Mrs. Jiang was just a concubine."
There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, saying everything, most of them praised Jiang Xin's brothers and sisters and belittled Xia Yan's family, Jiang Ruan leaned on the carriage and smiled faintly, stepping on the low and praising the high, it has always been the trend of the people. Now Jiang Xinzhi is young and promising, and he has a great future in his career, so he naturally has countless praises, and the better he is, the more incompetent Jiang Chao is.
In Yanhua Garden, Xia Yan was leaning on the soft couch and drinking tea slowly, everything was arranged today, the Xia family and the Li family helped each other, I don't believe that Jiang Xinzhi could escape. She took a sip of tea, and in this way, Jiang Xinzhi died, and Jiang Ruan was not enough, and there was time to clean it up. But somehow, when she woke up early this morning, she had a faint feeling of uneasiness in her heart, and her expression unconsciously revealed a trace of anxiety.
Seeing this, Jade comforted: "Madame don't have to worry, this matter is foolproof, just wait for the good news." ”
Xia Yan didn't speak, but saw that the curtain in the house was opened, and Linlang hurriedly walked in, looking a little panicked and said, "Oh no, madam, the eldest young master is back!" ”
"What did you say?" Xia Yan stood up suddenly, his beautiful face was full of hideousness, and he grabbed Linlang's shoulder: "Jiang Xinzhi is back?" How is it possible, are you mistaken? ”
"Ma'am, this is true." Linlang said: "General Guan and the eldest young master led the army to parade through the streets of the capital, everyone saw it, and the people talked about it. It's indeed the eldest young master, that's right. ”
Xia Yan shook his body, fell into the soft couch, and muttered: "How is it possible, he Jiang Xinzhi can't be blessed by the gods, and he can't do it at all!" ”
As he was talking, a small servant hurriedly came in outside, and opened his mouth and said: "Madam, the eldest young master has arrived at the gate of the mansion, and the army and General Guan are also there. ”
"Shall I welcome him?" Xia Yan screamed uncontrollably, God knows, she wants to bite Jiang Xinzhi to death now, but she has to pay for a smiling face and pretend to be a mother to greet him! If she didn't greet her, she would be on the cusp now, and she would really fall into the eyes of the people, and I don't know what kind of vicious stepmother's nonsense she would arrange!
"Okay, I'll welcome!" Xia Yan gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to meet my good son!" ”
Linlang and Jade stood aside, and they didn't dare to come out.
As soon as Xia Yan arrived at the door with the maid and the maid, he heard Guan Lianghan's laughing voice: "Xinzhi, since you have returned home, it is inconvenient for me to stay for a long time, so I will leave." When you turn back to the emperor, General Ben will definitely say a few good words for you, and let Your Majesty make you a big official, and let's go. ”
Xia Yan walked to the door, Guan Lianghan had already turned over and got on the horse, but he just stared at Xia Yan coldly, Xia Yan was stared at by his eyes, and couldn't help but have a cold war, before he could speak, Guan Lianghan whipped his horsewhip, "drove", and left first, and the army behind him also hurriedly followed.
The gate of Jiang's mansion was surrounded by lively people, Xia Yan walked quickly in front of Jiang Xinzhi, the young man who was weak and not as tall as her in the past was now tall and heroic, and when he looked at her, the blood in his eyes was terrifying. Xia Yanqiang suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, looked at Jiang Xinzhi, and said with a gentle smile: "Xinzhi, I can wait for you to come back, for so many years, why don't you even give a letter to your family, your father misses you very much, what is there between father and son, why run away from home, and he will be gone for five years, he is your father." ”
Her words are gentle and kind, and her eyes are very loving, but every sentence is that Jiang Xinzhi is not filial, and he left home when he was angry with his father, and he was cold-hearted. The word filial piety in the Dajin Dynasty is greater than the sky, even if the sky is big, you can't do unfilial things.
Jiang Xinzhi didn't even look at Xia Yan squarely, walked to the carriage parked on the side, gently lifted the curtain, and said with a smile: "Ah Ruan." ”
When the people in the carriage were helped down, everyone saw clearly that it was Jiang Ruan.
Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Ruan Niang, why are you here, didn't you go to pick out jewelry with Miss Wen?" ”
Jiang Ruan smiled apologetically: "It should have been like this, but I saw the eldest brother leading the troops halfway, and I was excited for a while, so I came back with the eldest brother." She walked up to Xia Yan and said with a smile: "If my mother asked, I have already asked my eldest brother just now." Father has always known that the eldest brother is not the material to make a fuss, so he carefully taught the second brother, Jiang Mansion up and down to know the Tao, when the mother was still there, the father taught the second brother to read and write since he was a child, the eldest brother was not able to write, but he didn't want to do anything, when his mother died, he was reckless, thinking that he would simply go out of the road to run for the future, but he didn't expect to come back with a deputy general. Mother don't blame him, it's a blessing in disguise, besides, the frontier is bitterly cold, and the eldest brother doesn't want the family to worry, so he refuses to write back. My father didn't think the same way, so he never wrote to ask about the eldest brother's situation, this is to hone the eldest brother's heart! ”
Xia Yan's words were vicious, and Jiang Ruan's words were not bad. Look, when the original wife was still there, Jiang Quan carefully taught Jiang Chao and snubbed his eldest son. No matter how bad the eldest son in the house is, he will inherit the family business, what does it mean that the eldest son of the eldest son will not hesitate to go to the military camp to fight for a future, the meaning of Jiang Ruan's words is really thought-provoking. I don't think Jiang Quan really misses his eldest son, otherwise for five long years, how could he inquire about Jiang Xinzhi's whereabouts, and how could he not even send a letter to his family. Everyone looked at Jiang Xinzhi and discussed it again, what about getting Jiang Quan's careful teaching? In the end, he still fell behind, but it is not as good as this young master, who relies on his own hard work in everything, but now he is a real molybdenum military achievement.
Xia Yan naturally noticed the change in everyone's gaze, and almost blew up his lungs. But at this moment, I heard a deep voice: "Believe it." ”
Jiang Ruan raised his eyes and saw that it was Jiang Quan, followed by Jiang Chao's brothers and sisters, Jiang Li, Jiang Dan and several aunts, except for Mrs. Jiang, who was not in good health, all the Jiang family members had arrived.
Jiang Xinzhi just nodded extremely politely and unfamiliarly to Jiang Quan: "Father." ”
Seeing him like this, a sense of depression rose in Jiang Quan's heart. This son is now so good, but he is even more uncontrollable. He looked at Jiang Ruan standing beside Jiang Xinzhi, this pair of children were all very outstanding in appearance and temperament, but they crawled out of Zhao Mei's belly!
Jiang Susu couldn't see anything in his expression, but Jiang Chao, his face was tense, staring at Jiang Xinzhi like a poisonous snake. Jiang Ruan noticed his eyes, so he looked over and smiled at Jiang Chao.
This smile fell in Jiang Chao's eyes, it was a naked provocation, he slowly clenched his fists, and his broken little finger curled up, only to feel that the eyes of everyone around him were a joke.
Jiang Ruan's smile remains the same, compare, when there are two people with the same identity in a mansion, people's favorite thing to do is to compare. In the last life, people compared her with Jiang Susu, the more outstanding Jiang Susu was, the more unbearable she became, and such a comparison could completely destroy a person. And the object is Jiang Chao, who has always been held in the hands of Jiang Quan, and Jiang Chao, who is arrogant, let him taste the taste of being compared to an inferior product, will he do something impulsively?
He locked it in the room and couldn't do it, what if he took the initiative?
Jiang Li and the second aunt stared at Jiang Xinzhi hatefully, jealous and hateful in their hearts, Jiang Xinzhi came back, at least no one in the house dared to bully Jiang Ruan openly for the time being. How could Jiang Ruan have such a good fate, to such a point, and there is such a famous brother to rely on her.
Hongying secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glad in her heart that she was not an enemy of Jiang Ruan, Jiang Xinyi came back, or came back with the identity of deputy general, at least Xia Yan's life in the mansion would not be so relaxed. I wonder if Jiang Ruan will fulfill her promise and really make her sit in the position of being the head of the house? Hongying's heart secretly became excited.
Standing at the gate of the mansion and saying a few words to the Jiang family, Jiang Xinzhi showed a trace of tiredness: "I'm very tired, I want to go back and say a few words to Ah Ruan first, and I'll talk about it in the evening." ”
The reunion of these two siblings has a lot to say, and they are not easy to stop. Just as Jiang Xinzhi was about to enter the door, Xia Yan finally couldn't help but ask, "Xinzhi, ...... on your way back." Did you encounter anything? ”
"What does Mother think should happen to me?" Jiang Xinzhi asked rhetorically. The tone was as gentle as ever, and there was a hint of murderous intent. Xia Yan's body stiffened, and he smiled: "I'll just ask casually." ”
Jiang Ruan smiled: "Mother really said yes, the eldest brother met a group of rebels on the way back. ”
"Rebellion?" Xia Yan cried out in a lost voice: "How can it be a rebellion?" "Those people are just ambushing Jiang Xinzhi, how can they become a rebellion, the crime of rebellion is not trivial, and if you are not careful, it will be the end of the Zhulian Nine Clans.
Jiang Ruan said softly: "Isn't it, there are a lot of archers in ambush, but it just so happened that General Guan and Xiao Wangye arrived and arrested all those people, and it is estimated that they will be interrogated carefully, so that they can find out who is behind them." She smiled at Xia Yan, who was uncertain: "If the person behind it is caught, he will definitely be divided by His Majesty." After that, he ignored Xia Yan and walked towards the door with Jiang Xinzhi in his arms.
Jiang Xinzhi came back in a hurry, and the yard had not been vacated for the time being, so he went to Jiang Ruan's yard first. Dew Drop and Mama Zhou were waiting anxiously, and when they saw a few people coming back safe and sound, they were overjoyed and busy making tea for them.
Jiang Xinzhi and Jiang Ruan were sitting by the window, Jiang Xinzhi looked at Jiang Ruan and said, "Ah Ruan, do you suspect that Xia Yan did it?" "He is not an ignorant and reckless teenager at the age of thirteen or fourteen, Jiang Ruan's attitude towards Xia Yan is thought-provoking, but how did Jiang Ruan know these things? Moreover...... "It is impossible for Xia Yan to mobilize so many archers, those people are clearly well-trained soldiers. ”
"Xia Yan can't do it, it doesn't mean that the Jiang family can't do it, besides, there is a Li family, and maybe the Eighth Prince is related." Jiang Ruan looked at him and said, "Big brother, you are the one who went to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Leave the selfish calculations of these backhouse women to me. ”
"How old are you to deal with these things?" Jiang Xinzhi frowned and looked at her, feeling distressed and angry in his heart: "Ah Ruan, I don't want you to get involved in these things, leave these to me, if you don't like the Jiang Mansion, we will move out." ”
"You are the son of the Jiang Mansion, what will others think if you move out? There are so many imperial histories in Beijing, once you have something that can be criticized, they will not hesitate to participate in your copy. What will you do in the future? Jiang Ruan said: "I won't move out of Jiang's mansion." ”
"I don't care about being an official," Jiang Xinzhi said: "Ah Ruan, as long as you are safe and happy, the eldest brother will be satisfied." ”
Peace and happiness? It's just four words, but there are a few people who can really do it. She has lived for revenge all her life, and she is safe and happy, which is already an unattainable mirage.
"You have to be an official, big brother," Jiang Ruan said: "Only in this way can you trample them all under your feet, make them respect you, be afraid of you, and dare not bully you, so that they will not bully me." Big brother, don't worry about me, I've been here for so many years, I can protect myself, and I can protect you. ”
Jiang Xinzhi looked at her: "Ah Ruan, are you hiding something from me?" Why do you have to live in Jiang's Mansion? "His sister has changed her temperament for what she wants, and what she has to do with the affairs of the DPRK and China, Jiang Xinzhi has just returned to Beijing now, and her mind is a mess, and she only knows that there must be something wrong with it.
Jiang Ruan said lightly: "It's nothing. "Zhao Mei was killed, I can't tell Jiang Xinzhi yet, Jiang Xinyi is impulsive, and it is inevitable that something will happen. Besides, in this life, there is only one wicked person with a rotten heart, Jiang Xinzhi wants to live cleanly, and these dirty transactions and conspiracies have not broken his heart.
"I don't force you." Jiang Xinzhi, Jiang Ruan didn't say anything about it, he could also find out. He patted Jiang Ruan's head: "It's just that since you refuse to move out of the Jiang Mansion, I won't move out of the Jiang Mansion, stay in the mansion, and no one will dare to bully you." ”
Jiang Ruan bowed slightly.
Bai Zhi, Forsythia and Dew Drop couldn't help but cry when they saw the warm scene of the reunion of the brother and sister, Jiang Ruan has survived for so many years.
And everyone here is happy, but in some places it is about to turn the sky upside down.
"What do you say? Jiang Xinzhi has returned home? Xia Cheng put his hands behind his back and looked at the person in disbelief: "Nonsense, he can't escape even if he has nine lives!" This is foolproof, unless there is a god and a ghost to help! ”
"Not only that," said the man cautiously, "all those sent have been caught and are being interrogated in prison." ”
"Aren't they all alive? However," Xia Cheng snorted disdainfully: "Those dead soldiers have all been trained, and they won't speak, check where the people are being held, you go to find a few people tonight to deal with it, I don't need to say much about what to do." ”
"But... The person who interrogated was Xiao Wangye. ”
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