Chapter 497: The son-in-law is embarrassed
The wild geese fly south, the river goes east, and several autumn rains in the past few days have dyed the mountains and forests on both sides of the river red, red, yellow and yellow, and the end is gorgeous.
As soon as the curtain was raised, a handsome boy in an autumn-colored robe came in from outside the door, shh
He tiptoed to the inner bed and carefully rested his slightly cool fingertips on the face of someone who was sleeping.
Someone's little face was red from sleep, as cute as the red leaves of the frost, and he didn't wake up for half a minute when he was cold, and he seemed to feel very comfortable, so he rubbed his hand.
Childe was helpless, and stretched out his fingers to clamp someone's nose.
Someone struggled for a while before finally opening his eyelids that seemed to be glued to them.
The stunned sight couldn't find the focus for a while, but the let go nose had already smelled the aroma and inhaled it one by one.
"Little glutton!" Ouyang Kang put down the sugar-fried chestnuts he had just bought, sat up with his daughter-in-law and the quilt in his arms, and patted him dotingly, "Wake up, wake up, wake up, you've slept all afternoon, do you still want to sleep at night?" Get up and walk around, or I won't give you chestnuts to eat. ”
Nianfu yawned without any scruples, and rubbed in his arms for a while, before he came to his senses, sighed, and improvised a poem, "Autumn is not a day for reading, people sleep better on the boat." You can't blame me for this, blame the boat for dangling and falling people to sleep by accident. ”
Ouyang Kang couldn't help laughing, "Are you still reasonable?" Then when you get off the boat today, I see if you'll be able to sleep right away. ”
"My sister doesn't ride a horse, but my sister has a car." Nianfu lazily got out of bed. The tapping and tapping dragged their shoes to dress and wash their faces, and when they were in good spirits, they came out to eat chestnuts.
"Sugar fried, too sweet!"
Seeing that she looked disgusted, and was still holding and eating with relish, Ouyang Kang shook his head, "Since I don't think it's good to buy outside, why don't you make it yourself?" ”
Nianfu glanced at him with a red fruit, peeled a chestnut and threw it over, "Who told you to kidnap my Ah Yao?" ”
"Isn't that the right thing to do? Look, you're too lazy. Wait until you return to Beijing. I wish Master to see you like this, and he may not know how to punish you. ”
Nian Fu sneered, "My master won't test my knife skills now, as long as I get more fresh ingredients." Think of a few new dishes to go back. He's going to have to praise me. ”
Ouyang Kang looked at her little appearance. I hate and love in my heart, I want to be reluctant, I want to let go but I am unwilling. So he put his hand to his mouth and sighed, sacrificed his arm trick, and suddenly shocked Nianfu to the point of losing his face, while hiding, while begging for mercy from his good brother.
Liu Er listened with a smile outside, and put down the brewed tea again.
After the affairs of the family are cleaned up, Ouyang Kang should also do the serious things that the emperor has to explain.
Originally, he planned to do it quietly by himself, but Nianfu was not at ease, so he insisted on following, and then his father-in-law and mother-in-law were not at ease, so he had to follow.
So, Ouyang Kang divided his troops into three routes, and asked the Tan family to take Father Shi, as well as Ouyang Lian and Ouyang Qing, and the large army back to Beijing first, attracting people's attention.
The other way is more secretive, led by Ouyang Zhuang and Cui Heng. Ouyang Zhuang doesn't need to say much, Cui Heng, who has not been seen for a long time, is now available.
Nian Fu said an unintentional word back then, and later prompted him to worship under Ni Taiyu's door. For Cui Heng, who loves painting, it can be regarded as the right teacher. His painting skills have risen greatly over the years, and he has become well-known in the local area, and was accepted as a closed disciple by Ni Taiyu, and married his beloved young daughter to him.
However, although Cui Heng was influenced by the teacher and had no intention of being an official, he was very willing to help Ouyang Kang do a good job as a guide.
Because he needed to sketch in the natural landscape for painting, he had climbed almost all the large and small mountains near Lingzhou. Having a man like him with a picture clip on his back to lead the way is indeed more reliable than asking a guide.
So Ouyang Kang handed over the second brother to him with confidence, neither of them needed to pretend, they just looked like students, and they would not arouse suspicion wherever they went.
As for their family, they pretended to be tea sellers, took Tong Chaoyi's elite guards, and deliberately came to the foot of Xianyuan Mountain in a circle on the grounds of doing business.
Good mountains produce good tea, the whole Lingzhou has the best quality, and the largest tea gardens are all concentrated near Xianyuan Mountain. Ouyang Kang wants to find out the true output of tea in the entire Lingzhou, and this place is the top priority.
After frolicking in the cabin for a while, the little couple went to greet their parents. Dinner is going to be eaten on the shore, and how to perform some scenes has to be stringed.
Over there, Hui Niang seemed to be lazier than her daughter, and she only got up when she was asleep, and she was eating chestnuts sent by her son-in-law.
However, the chestnuts in front of her were all peeled well, one by one, golden and complete, and everything that was a little bad was thrown out of the coffin after Mu Shaoqin asked the maid.
Nianfu looked at the shelled chestnut in his hand again, and suddenly his mood was a little inexplicably complicated. muttered sourly, "Mother, why are you lazier than me?" Eat a chestnut and peel it. ”
Hui Niang raised her eyebrows proudly, and before she could speak, Mu Shaoqin said first, "This chestnut peels too much, and your hands hurt, don't you peel it yourself." ”
Ouyang Kang looked at the sky, and his hands were unnaturally folded in his sleeves.
Nianfu felt a little faceless, puffed out his mouth and said, "This chestnut is only interesting if you peel it yourself, like when I ate plums a few days ago, it was a little sour, and Xianggong helped me eat it." ”
Mu Shaoqin glanced in the direction of his son-in-law quietly, only to hear Hui Niang say proudly, "Your father first bites a little skin of each plum and tastes the sweetness before giving it to me." So, I didn't eat a single sour one. ”
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Nianfu looked at his father-in-law speechlessly, and saw his father-in-law looking at the ground.
Well, people have lived more than ten years longer than them, and their skills are profound, and it is normal for them to be difficult to match for a while.
Fortunately, in an awkward moment, the boat arrived at the dock and it was time to go.
The water at this wharf is a little deep from the shore, and when the boatman sets up the sampan and sends the luggage down first, Ouyang Kang came to take his daughter-in-law.
Nian Fu took him by the hand and complained in a low voice, "You will also taste plums for me in the future, and you will have to peel chestnuts." ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Ouyang Kang responded with his mouth full of words before complaining in a low voice, "That plum, aren't I afraid that you will be dirty after biting you?" Chestnuts are easy to get cold when peeled, and the skin is easy to dry, who is as idle as your father, and he deliberately got a thing to pack the chestnuts that have been peeled? But don't worry, I will definitely pay attention in the future and learn from your father, okay? But do you think it's necessary for both of us to be like your father and your mother in everything? ”
Nianfu thinks about it, it seems to make some sense, but when he is compared, he feels uncomfortable, "Then I don't care, you have to save face for me." ”
Ouyang Kang nodded, but shouted in his heart that his son-in-law was embarrassed.
The daughter-in-law who pleases Lu is bound to offend the old man, and she doesn't know how to clean him up when she turns around? Besides, it doesn't seem like it's good for such a "vicious competition" to develop?
Only then did he think to himself, and suddenly he felt that the sampan under his feet shook violently, and the two of them were unsteady on their feet, and they were about to fall into the river.
Fortunately, they were two or three steps away from the boat at this time, Ouyang Kang yelled "be careful", and pushed his daughter-in-law forward hard, just pushing Nianfu into the arms of the maid who came up on the shore, but he himself was sadly pushed by the reaction force and fell into the river on his back.
Plop, plop.
It was not only Ouyang Kang who fell down. There is also the father-in-law who just took Hui Niang and stepped on the sampan.
Compared with the younger couple in front, the couple's situation is relatively more dangerous.
Because Mu Shaoqin couldn't see, when he felt the sampan shaking, he couldn't react correctly, and wanted to pull Hui Niang back, but he stepped on it.
Fortunately, he knew that he couldn't affect his wife, so he decisively let go and let himself fall.
And Hui Niang was lucky enough to catch a person who flew up and pounced. Holding her with one hand, holding the bow of the boat with the other, he turned over and jumped, and fell back to the boat with Hui Niang steadily.
"Shaoqin! Shaoqin! ”
It's a pity that Hui Niang doesn't have the heart to thank her life-saving benefactor now, she cares more about her husband who fell into the water.
Nian Fu also grabbed the shore and shouted desperately, "Ouyang Kang, Dad!" You're all right, are you? ”
Fortunately, Ouyang Kang knew a little bit of water, so he was not so panicked, and after stabilizing his body in the water, he saw his father-in-law struggling in a daze and disorder behind him, and was about to go over to rescue him, but he plopped and jumped down a few people.
It's the boatmen, and the guards who know how to water.
Some pulled him, some pulled Mu Shaoqin, and quickly rescued both of them ashore.
But Rao is like this, and it also scared Tong Chaoyi, the commander of the guards, almost out of his mind!
Why did such an accident happen? If something happens to the prince and the county horse here, he won't be enough to pay for dying a hundred times.
He pulled the boat boss over and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”
The boss of the boat was also frightened, "No, I don't know what to do...... I guess I just encountered an undercurrent and hit a rock. ”
This kind of accident is very common during the process of embarking and disembarking, especially at this deep-water terminal, which is even more difficult to avoid.
Tong Chaoyi was even more depressed, "I just walked with my luggage, why can't I leave?" You must have been lazy and didn't tie the ropes. ”
"Forget it, big brother." At this time, the man who bravely rescued Hui Niang before spoke, "These two old masters and young masters are soaked, hurry up and let them change their clothes and see if they are hurt." ”
When he made a sound, Hui Niang could be regarded as taking this man seriously.
He touched about forty people, burly, resolute face, hard eyebrows, broad shoulders and thick back, like a big brother, and people can have a sense of dependence at a glance.
"This big brother, I really thanked you just now."
"Madame, you need not be polite. I see that your luggage is packed, if it's not convenient, do you want me to borrow you two clothes first? The middle-aged man's gaze at Hui Niang was very gentle, but there was something strange in that gentleness.
But when Tong Chaoyi became suspicious and wanted to look at it twice, the man's gaze became extremely clear again, as if the strangeness just now was just an illusion of his.
No matter how light the car is, but the palace is not an ordinary family after all, even if the luggage has been packed, the maid will prepare an extra set of clothes. So Mu Shaoqin and Ouyang Kang both quickly returned to the ship and changed their clothes in the cabin.
It's just that the mood of Weng and his son-in-law is slightly different. (To be continued......)