Chapter 93
When Ah Bao saw the man who walked with Xiao Lingshu, although he was full of beard, he still recognized at a glance that he was his father who had not seen him for three years.
"Daddy!"
After screaming in surprise, Po had already picked up her skirt and rushed over, throwing herself directly into the man's arms.
Li Jiyao happily hugged his daughter, patted her back, and shouted: "My good baby, hey......" His eyes were a little moist.
"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy......"
Ah Bao called out, as if she was coquettish, hugged him tightly, buried her face in his arms, sniffed the smell of her father's body, or the smell of agarwood in her memory, which made her feel at ease.
The people around looked at this rare father-daughter reunion, several geese were moved, and the guards of the palace looked constipated.
Sure enough, when the father and daughter were happy for the reunion, the man who was hanging next to him couldn't hold back anymore, although he was still expressionless, but the momentum of his whole body changed, as if someone owed him a debt, he stretched out his hand to separate the father and daughter who had been reunited for a long time, and said with a serious face: "Father-in-law, please respect yourself!" β
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Li Jiyao looked blankly at his son-in-law, who met for the first time today, and didn't understand for a while what he said he wanted to respect himself?
Ah Bao looked at him dumbfounded, seeing that he had a serious and serious face, and when he understood what he meant, the black line was black, and he couldn't help crying and laughing, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Lord Wang, this is my father's ......"
Li Jiyao didn't care at all, the bear paw gently patted his daughter's shoulder again, didn't dare to push too hard, and sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, the good baby is getting more and more beautiful, and Daddy is about to lose recognition." Then there was a hearty laugh.
Ah Bao also smiled, "Daddy, you have a big beard, but your daughter still recognizes you." But on this hot day, isn't it hot to have a full beard? Daddy still shaved his beard, looking like a big bear......" I couldn't help but start nagging again.
Li Jiyao touched the beard on his face, thought about it, turned his head to look at his son-in-law, saw that his chin was smooth, his eyes rolled, and said with a smile: "Son-in-law, my daughter doesn't like men to have beards, and every time she sees me, she asks me to shave her beard." But can a man who has no beard and no hair on his mouth see? β
Xiao Lingshu said with a serious face: "Ah Bao doesn't like it!" "So he shaved it, and no one dared to say anything about him anyway if he had a beard or not.
ββ¦β¦ That's the temper of my good baby. Li Jiyao said slowly, and suddenly felt that his son-in-law was really ...... You canβt judge a book by its cover?
As he was talking, he heard two soft and glutinous voices: "Daddy, Niangniang~~"
Li Jiyao raised his eyes, his eyes moved slightly, and he saw that the two children holding hands not far away were tilting their heads, their white and tender little faces were red in the protein, very endearing, looking at people innocently, looking at people as cute as they wanted, and even the hearts of big men had to be softened for them.
Only then did Ah Bao think of the two children who had been left aside, and hurriedly beckoned them to step forward, pointing at Li Jiyao and saying, "Bags, cakes, this is my grandfather, my mother showed you the portrait before, and I want to call my grandfather." β
Ah Bao taught the children to call people, and they all took pictures to teach the children to call, and when Xiao Lingshu was not there, he also used the portraits to teach them to call them father. Li Jiyao is the same here, Ah Bao was afraid that the children would not recognize him, so he painted a portrait and taught them to call people, although the painting is different from the real person, but it is not much different.
The two children looked at Li Jiyao, and then at Bao, and said softly: "Black Black~~"
The other frowned and touched his chin with his little hand: "Hu Hu~~"
Po quickly understood what they meant, and then remembered that her father's beard covered most of his face, and he lived like a bear, so it was strange for the children to recognize him. The images she had taken were of her father wearing a scribe's robe during his break, and he looked like a handsome middle-aged uncle, not this bearded man like a big bear.
Li Jiyao understood what the children meant, and couldn't help laughing loudly, laughing heartily and heroically, striding over and bending down to look at the two children, and said, "This is not mine, I'll go and shave this beard later." With that, he raised his hand and patted the two children on the head.
A Bao couldn't stop smiling on his face, in fact, when she was at the border, every time Li Jiyao came back from the barracks, he would shave off the beard on his face, and when he returned to the barracks, he was too lazy to take care of it, and when he came back next time, he would have a big beard on his face again.
After a few people sat down in the main hall, Ah Bao looked at him carefully, and saw that there was no difference from three years ago, he had not become fat or thin, and he was still healthy, so he put his mind at ease. When I saw that there was blue under his eyes, I knew that he had not rested well. It should be that after arriving at the post station outside the capital, he freshened up a little, tidied up his appearance, and then when the city gate opened at dawn, he went directly into Beijing and entered the palace to meet the emperor, and he didn't rest much, and after going down to the court, he was directly taken back to the palace by Xiao Lingshu.
After the maids served refreshments, Li Jiyao asked them to bring some water and began to shave their beards.
When he cleaned up, he revealed a handsome face, if he didn't look at his complexion and temperament, just looking at this face, it would make people think that he was a scholar-type handsome man, looking like a civil official. However, his bronzed skin, bright eyes, and fierce and rigid momentum are quite majestic and fierce, and he can be called a Confucian general.
This familiar face was not only Ah Bao excited, but Hua's mother and a few geese also felt quite kind, and the eyes of the two children were also a little bright, and they shouted very obediently: "Grandfather~~"
"Grandfather~~"
The two children saw Ah Bao and threw themselves directly into the arms of their "grandfather", and they knew that this was something they could get close to, so they also pounced. Most of the children like to learn from their parents, Ah Bao and Xiao Lingshu are more than respectful to the emperor and not close enough, so the two little buns are not very close, and Li Jiyao's portrait is used by Ah Bao every day to poison the two little buns.
The closeness of the two children was so happy that Li Jiyao had a smirk on his face, picked them up and put them on his lap with one hand, looked at this, and looked at that, he really couldn't put it down, he couldn't close his smile, and he was busy giving them a small gift prepared for them from his arms, and each person hung a mutton fat jade pendant on their waists. In addition, when he came back this time, he also asked people to pull a few carts of gifts, all of which were for his grandson, but because there were many things, he was slowly escorted back on the road, and it took a few days.
When the twins got the gifts, they all pouted their little pigs, and they smeared saliva on their grandfather's face one by one, saying thank you sweetly, which made Li Jiyao love it even more. Although his grandchildren don't look like daughters, as long as they are born to daughters, he likes them.
"Two little ponyts!" Ah Bao laughed and scolded, seeing the two children looking at him innocently, how did he not know that they were actually not as pure and good as they were on the outside, especially their son, who was a ghost on the inside.
After Li Jiyao put the two children down, Ah Bao changed the herbal tea for his father and asked, "Daddy, how long can you stay in Beijing this time?" β
Li Jiyao looked at her expectantly, and said with a smile: "I entered the palace today to see the emperor, and the emperor allowed me to stay for two months, get together with my family and then return to Jingcheng." β
Although I felt that the time was too short and I was a little disappointed, but Ah Bao quickly cheered up, and the father and daughter began to talk about their parting feelings for a few years, although two letters a month continued, but Li Jiyao was sometimes busy, and could only hurriedly reply "Very good, don't read it", many things are not clear in the letter.
When the father and daughter were happy, the man who had been hanging slowly drank tea, looked at Bao's happy smiling face, held back the uncomfortable feeling, and continued to drink tea calmly. Seeing the two children sitting next to them twisting their little buttocks and sitting unsteadily, they brought a plate of flower cakes and put them in front of them.
"Daddy, eat~~" The sweet cake child intimately pinched a piece of sweet cake to his father who was left out.
The bag child is the same as the younger brother, and she not only gave it to her father, but also to her grandfather and mother, everyone has a share.
Xiao Lingshu nodded in approval, and then took it and ate it.
Although Li Jiyao was talking to his daughter, he kept paying attention to his son-in-law out of the corner of his eye, and nodded secretly when he saw the interaction between him and the child. His daughter got married, and he, as a father, not only couldn't choose a satisfactory husband for her personally, but he couldn't even come back when she got married, and he felt sad and guilty, and the baby he had been hurting for more than ten years was handed over to another man, and he was not at ease in his heart anyway.
On the day his daughter got married, he was far away in Jingcheng, facing the direction of the capital, almost bursting into tears, and he was shocked by the military advisor. Later, although Uncle Yi, the housekeeper, came back to report on his son-in-law's character and how he treated his daughter, Uncle Yi only observed for a few days, what could he see? I'm always worried in my heart, and I've been thinking about it for three years, and I can finally come back and see it for myself. Of course, with Li Jiyao's urine, if his son-in-law treats his daughter badly, he can definitely do something to encourage his daughter to leave her husband, but there is no such thing as a woman marrying someone else's family, which is someone else's, and she must compromise and seek perfection.
After talking for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, Ah Bao was busy letting people set up the meal.
The father and daughter haven't had a light meal together for three years, and Li Jiyao didn't refuse, and ate at the same table with his daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. When I saw the two little grandsons eating the custard with a spoon in style, the son-in-law also took good care of them, and put the meat and vegetables into small pieces of meat and vegetables from the maids into their bowls for them to eat, and I was even more satisfied with this.
"Dad, Nana." Bao Bao looked at him with a face very similar to Xiao Lingshu, refusing to eat the vegetables in the small bowl.
Xiao Lingshu looked back calmly, expressionless.
Because his face was expressionless, Xiao Baozi also made a small face - so the little guy who was so cute was not born with facial paralysis at all, but learned from her father.
"Eat!" Xiao Lingshu ordered.
The little bun flattened his mouth and looked at his mother.
Po quickly looked away, then winked at his father.
Li Jiyao quickly understood what his daughter meant, and when he saw that the little guy turned his face to look at him, he was also busy learning from his daughter to look at him differently.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Xiao Baozi could only flatten her mouth, tears came out of her eyes, and the little fat paw grabbed the spoon and struggled to pick up the green vegetables she didn't like into her mouth.
Then I saw the sweet cake child smuggling the boiled tofu he didn't like to eat into his sister's bowl, and after being discovered by his sister, he hurriedly leaned over and smacked his sister's face. The bag boy wrinkled his face, resolutely not to be bought, and scooped the tasteless tofu back into his brother's bowl.
The sweet cake children also wrinkled their bun faces, and they didn't like to eat this tasteless dish.
"Cake, eat!"
Hearing this cold and hard voice, Sweet Cake was also aggrieved like his sister and ate the vegetables he didn't like to eat.
Li Jiyao was happy, he hadn't been in contact with children for a long time, he went to the border when his daughter was just one year old, and then until his daughter was five years old, he overcame all difficulties and asked the housekeeper Uncle Yi to return to Beijing to take his daughter to the border, and lived for a few months every year to cultivate the missing father-daughter relationship.
Thinking of this, Li Jiyao sighed again.
After the meal, after eating some tea, Ah Bao took the two children to take a lunch break, leaving Weng and his son-in-law to sit in the hall, one was taciturn, and the other saw his son-in-law for the first time, and he didn't know what to say.
After a while, Li Jiyao said: "Although my daughter is spoiled by me, she is the most well-behaved, obedient and caring. I'm sorry for her, when she was young, because she couldn't bear the death of her mother, she left home and went to the border, leaving her at home. Her mother died early, her father was not around, an ignorant child, there were not many people who could love her, and she was not doing well......"
How could it be good, the death of his wife was almost unbearable for him, and his mother urged him to marry again, wanting him to have a descendant. Later, he left his daughter to be raised by his mother, who never forgave him for his disobedient behavior, and was lukewarm to his daughter, and even sometimes became angry with her.
At that time, he was not a general, in the eyes of his family, he was just an ordinary soldier without family protection, sooner or later he would not be able to stand it and go home, there was no future to speak of, who would care about a child whose mother died early and whose father was absent? Especially in a big family like the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, the subordinates are the best at looking at the master's face, although Li Jiyao doesn't understand the twists and turns of the back house, but he also grew up in the back house when he was a child, and he has seen how his mother dealt with his father's concubines, and he has also seen how his father's concubines take eye medicine, and the brothers and sisters who are concubines have one set on their faces and one behind their backs.
This is why when his daughter was five years old, he overcame all difficulties and insisted that he take his daughter to the border and to his side. Even though he was scolded by his mother for being unfilial, he still did it. At that time, he was not a general, the conditions on the border were not good, and the residence of the soldiers was not good, but he had already thought of arranging everything for his daughter in the best way. I didn't leave my daughter in the splendid capital because I felt that the border was not good, no matter how good the environment was, no one was in pain, how good could it be?
After four years, when he saw his daughter again, Li Jiyao knew that he had done the right thing. Such a child who is careful not to make a mistake is well-behaved and docile, and the adult will be very well-behaved and good at everything, better than all the children he has ever seen, and even more sensible than these children who were forced to grow up in the war on the border, which made him regret that he left in the first place and did not give her a better arrangement.
Fortunately, it can be compensated. It wasn't until later that he was promoted to a general step by step, and his daughter finally had a status in the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, no one dared to say that his daughter was a poor child whose mother died early and her father didn't want it, but her kind of cautious character has been formed, she is well-behaved and docile, and if she has grievances in her heart, she will not be seen, she will always be gentle and submissive, and she can get along with anyone, as if she has lost her temper, which makes him both pitiful and helpless.
Until today, seeing his daughter's bright smiling face, he pounced over without scruples, and his disgusted expression towards his son-in-law was more vivid than when he was not married, and Li Jiyao was finally relieved.
Li Jiyao babbled a lot with his son-in-law, all about his daughter, and Xiao Lingshu also listened silently. When it came to the worst, the atmosphere was a little sad.
"Son-in-law, my daughter will have to bear more for you in the future."
Xiao Lingshu nodded, and said in a cold voice: "Ah Bao is my wife." β
The corners of Li Jiyao's mouth trembled, and he resisted the urge to punch the past - Nima, who is a father, can't bear to raise a white, tender, delicate and soft daughter to serve another stinky man, even if this stinky man is a son-in-law. It's just that this stinky man is still showing off in front of his father-in-law that your daughter has married me, isn't this hatred? If it weren't for the fact that this was the prince of the dynasty, he would have been beaten directly.
"You can't beat me!" Xiao Lingshu continued to say calmly, his voice was a little happy, "Father-in-law will be self-respecting in the future." β
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When Ah Bao came out of the two children who were asleep, he found that the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be a little weird.
When Li Jiyao saw his daughter come out, he glared at his son-in-law angrily, and then said to his daughter gently: "Bao, Dad will go back first and go to see your grandmother." β
Ah Bao then remembered the old lady of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, and suddenly shouted in her heart, maybe the old lady was going to be angry again, in fact, she didn't expect Xiao Lingshu to bring her father back directly, and thought that her father would go back to the house to see the old lady before coming to see her, or she could take the child back to see him.
Although he wanted his father to take a break, he also knew the importance of the old lady, and hurriedly said: "Daddy, go back quickly, so that my grandmother and her old man will be angry again." Hey, Daddy should go back to visit Grandma today, Grandma has been thinking about you all these years......"
Li Jiyao listened to his daughter's nagging with a smile, waved his hand and said, "There's no way, His Royal Highness the King of Jin has an order, so I have to go to the Jin Palace." He was right, when his son-in-law blocked him and asked him to go to the Jin Palace, Li Jiyao went very obediently, but Wei Yuanhou, who also wanted to block him, immediately shrank up when he saw it.
Po couldn't help but laugh when she watched her father play a scoundrel.
After sending Li Jiyao out of the door, Ah Bao was still a little reluctant, until he was taken back to the room by the man's shoulder, and then pressed directly under him.
He put his forehead against hers and said in a dumb voice, "Happy? β
Ah Bao smiled and reached out to wrap his arms around his neck, hummed hard, leaned over and kissed his lips, and said gently: "I'm very happy, Xie Lu Xie Wangye." β
Seeing that her eyebrows and eyes were filled with a cheerful atmosphere, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his eyes were also full of pleasure, he lowered his head and touched her soft lips, and then couldn't help but kiss her deeply.
When the two parted breathlessly, the man suddenly said, "Don't touch anyone else casually in the future." He frowned and pondered, "The child is not allowed to be hugged when he is older." β
Ah Bao was stunned for a moment, and then said with some black lines: "Lord, that's my father'......"
"It's the same with my father-in-law!" He said very seriously, with that expressionless face, it only made people feel really ruthless and vexatious.
Ah Bao's eyes rolled, and his face responded very obediently, and he said in his heart that he would talk about it next time. No way, she hasn't seen her father for a few years, so she is naturally more excited, no matter how old she is, in front of her father, she is still a child.
Xiao Lingshu didn't explore her yang and yin, his eyes stared at her face inch by inch, and then took her into his arms, and breathed a sigh of relief with some satisfaction, and his whole body was filled with a relaxed atmosphere.
It turns out that this is how fathers and daughters get along......
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Li Jiyao didn't know that he set an example for his pure son-in-law, and after returning to the house to see his old mother, the mother and son, who had not seen each other for nearly 20 years, hugged their heads and cried, and finally stopped crying under the persuasion of several brothers.
The old lady slapped her son's back fiercely, scolding him for being a ruthless unfilial son and a wicked obstacle, and after scolding to the worst, the topic changed and said hatefully: "Since I learned that you have come back, I have been looking forward to you, and I am looking forward to you for a morning today!" It's good for you, as soon as you come back, you will run to other places, even the old mother is gone, I raised you for nothing......"
"Mother, King Jin stopped his son at that time, and his son couldn't help it." Li Jiyao sighed, "Although he is a son-in-law, he is the prince of the dynasty ...... the end."
The old lady stopped talking, and the eldest son had mentioned this before, but he still had some resentment in his heart, but he was a little jealous of King Jin. Especially in the past year, the emperor has been sick, the prince is in charge, and the king of Jin has also been reused by the prince, and no one dares to provoke the evil star. In the past, when the emperor was disgusted with him, he dared to be so arrogant, and the prince was clearly bent on protecting the King of Jin, who would dare to provoke that evil star? Fortunately, as long as no one provokes him, he won't bite people everywhere like a mad dog, which is reasonable.
Although King Jin is her grandson-in-law, the old lady never thought about how to make King Jin filial to her, so she raised a granddaughter for nothing.
Seeing that the old lady no longer mentioned this, Li Jiyao was a little happy in his heart, and hurriedly changed the topic and began to coax the old lady.
For Li Jiyao's return, the whole of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion is happy, the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion has already declined, and later with Li Jiyao, the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion has been pushed to its current status, although Li Jiyao is not the eldest son of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, there is no title, but he is the Zhenbei general appointed by the emperor, and even the Marquis of Weiyuan has to respect this younger brother when he sees him now.
Yes, the old lady blamed this son in her mouth, but she also understood in her heart that the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion had restored the glory of the ancestor period because of the fourth son, and when anyone talked about her, they were not very respectful. scolded fiercely in his mouth, but he was also happy for him in his heart, and later acquiesced to his behavior.
At the family banquet in the evening, Li Jiyao met with the nephews and nephews in the family, each of them gave gifts, and also learned about the situation in the family.
After waiting for the family banquet, Li Jiyao helped the old lady back to Rongrui Hall, and the old lady also called the eldest son and the second son by the way.
Sure enough, the old lady sat in the top position, waved away the other maids, and left only her henchmen except for her mother to serve, and heard her say: "Fourth, you have been messing around for so many years, and my mother knew in my heart that you were sad for your daughter-in-law before, and I went with you, but for so many years, my mother has been the most unable to let go of you, and I am always worried that the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, for fear that you will be accidentally injured." β
Li Jiyao's eyes were slightly wet, and he choked up: "It's the son's unfilial piety, which makes my mother worried." β
The old lady saw that he had a good attitude and did not suddenly become demented like before, and continued: "Your daughter-in-law is unlucky, but people can't be resurrected after death, after so many years, everything has passed, people always have to look to the future, there is nothing that cannot be overcome......"
After talking for a while, the old lady saw that he was listening silently, and she couldn't bear what he was thinking. This son is undoubtedly excellent, whether it is from literature or martial arts, and because of his young age, the Tian family of the scholarly heirloom is willing to marry his daughter. Later, Tian died, he went to the border to join the army, and everyone was not optimistic about him, thinking that he was a scholar, without the support of his family, when would he have his future? But it made him earn a general back.
"Jiyao, your boss is not small, do you want to live like this for the rest of your life? There is no caring person around to take care of it, and there is no heir, what will you do in the future? Jiyao, you have done enough for the Tian family, no matter how deep your love is, you should forget it. Niang took a fancy to a girl, she is a kind and obedient person, I think she is a good match for my son, if you are willing, another day Niang will let people go to the next hire. The old lady said as she stared at her son's face.
Wei Yuanhou and the second master also stared at their fourth brother's face, for fear that he would oppose it fiercely again like he did more than ten years ago, and then directly want to die or live, as if they forced him to remarry.
This time, Li Jiyao didn't go crazy like before, he only heard him say in a deep voice: "Mother, let's talk about this later." β
As soon as the old lady heard this, she knew that this was his excuse, and her face sank, knowing that her son still couldn't let go of Tian, she was shocked and angry, and she also hated Bao, knowing that if it weren't for her granddaughter's face similar to Tian's, her son wouldn't remember Tian's every time he saw him, but it was hard to forget. If it weren't for the fact that this son went crazy back then, she wouldn't have known that she had actually given birth to a love seed.
The old lady took a deep breath and said, "Okay, you just came back, and you're tired, let's go rest first." β
After the three sons left together, the old lady pounded the table hatefully.
"Why should the old lady be angry? The fourth master's temperament is like this, he is affectionate, but he seems affectionate and righteous. In addition to the mother's reassurance, her eyes rolled, and she said: "Moreover, the fourth master is thinking of the deceased fourth lady, but he can let Princess Jin persuade the fourth master." β
The old lady had a sarcastic look on her face, "Let Ming Jin persuade her father to marry her a stepmother?" I look at her because I wish her father wouldn't marry in this life, and then I can think of her in everything, right? Look at the past few years, every time Jiyao asks people to bring something back, when does he not follow his daughter first? has become a good father of twenty-four filial piety. β
Listening to the old lady's resentful words, except for her mother who knew that she had been holding back for a long time, she didn't interject, and listened silently until the old lady said that she was tired, and Fang brought a cup of ginseng tea to moisten her throat.
"Come on, your children and grandchildren are all debts!" The old lady sighed, "You're right, in two days, please ask Princess Jin to come back and let her help persuade her." β
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