Chapter 167: Small setbacks

The capital, Sibeylor House.

Yuan Ying looked at the sky outside, put down the new book in her hand, and wanted to put a bookmark but found that from morning to now, she had only read less than ten pages, and she had no impression at all when she turned the front.

Sigh and put the book aside. Mama Zhuang came up and said, "Master, now call for dinner, right?" ”

Yuan Ying came out and looked at the watch placed in the hall, nodded and said, "Go and ask Ergege and the fourth elder brother to come over and use it together." ”

Mama Zhuang should go out, and Pomegranate came over and asked, "Where is Mama going?" Just tell me to go. ”

"You girl, go in and wait for your master." Mama Zhuang patted this clever little girl and asked someone to carry a lantern to accompany her to the East Courtyard.

In the east courtyard, Ergege's grandmother saw that it was almost dinner, and saw Ergege holding a bowl of egg custard in his hand to feed the fourth elder brother, and said: "Little master, don't feed Elder brother, eat now, he shouldn't be hungry in the evening after a while." ”

The fourth elder brother sat and ate deliciously, and glared fiercely at the words of the grandmother.

The other grandmother smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I see that our little master is doing just that!" While gently pulling down the sleeve of the first grandmother, the two turned outside, and the second whispered: "Don't be confused." Our little master is feeding at this time, but he doesn't want to ask the fourth elder brother to eat too much over there. ”

The first grandmother suddenly realized, and gently fanned herself and said, "I'm really confused!" I'm still a little master, but I can't bear the fourth elder brother crying hungry. ”

"Our little master is smarter than you. I called over there for dinner at noon, and I think I'll come back in the evening. I can't guarantee it...... "This man sold a pass."

The grandmother hurriedly asked, "What can't you protect?" ”

The first person said in a low voice: "I can't guarantee it...... I want to ask the little masters to move over. Hehe. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled. In the past few days before Master Li left, he had no less face-to-face lectures on Ergege, although they didn't hear what they said, but Master Li was so capable of being alone, he had bolted the master's soul to the East Courtyard, and he was afraid that his eyes would be green all these years and he didn't withdraw.

They didn't go in at all, they just chatted outside. Then I saw a girl named Qinghe next to Ergege coming to the main house, and a grandmother stopped her: "Qinghe, what's wrong?" ”

Qinghe has a pair of phoenix eyes, seventeen this year, and has been waiting for Ergege since he was a child. Because she looks good, she easily doesn't go to the main house, for fear that people will think that she has the heart to climb high branches. A few years ago, when a few grandmothers were asked to live in the Ergege house, she couldn't be seen, but later Master Li called those two masters Ronggui, and she was exposed.

It is his duty to be a man, and he never asks people to grab his pigtails. The two grandmothers didn't like her very much, because Qinghe never had them in his eyes.

Like this, Qinghe obviously heard their words, but he just smiled and said, "Where are the grandmothers resting outside?" The master is in the house, right? After saying that, he lifted the curtain and went in, refusing to even say what he meant.

Bah. The two grandmothers looked at each other, and now it is clear that they don't want to use them, and they can't put out the money of the second master. I had to play with my life to show loyalty to Ergege, whatever I wanted, anyway, I can't make the little girl look down on it.

When Qinghe arrived at the house, Ergege just fed Zuihou into the mouth of the fourth elder brother, and then brought him a cream roll, telling him to take it and eat it himself, and turn around to wash his hands. Qinghe hurriedly stepped forward and waited, holding a handkerchief and whispering, "Master, Mama Zhuang over there has arrived." ”

Ergege smiled and said, "That's right, call her in." ”

Qinghe helped people take down all the things that the fourth elder brother dined in the house, and then went out to bring people in.

In the upside-down house in the east courtyard, Mama Zhuang asked someone to invite here, served tea, and asked someone to accompany her to talk, but she didn't mention taking her in to see the master.

It was useless for Mama Zhuang to scold in her heart. Sing the song of that mountain on which mountain, the rules of the East Courtyard are not a day or two. As early as after the two grids landed, it was like this.

Back then, Ergege was born prematurely for no reason, and the fourth master personally sent a detailed investigation to find out how many ghosts did not mention, whether Ergege was harmed only two months earlier and there is no conclusion until now.

At that time, the East Courtyard was full of anger. Even if someone from the main courtyard comes, no matter what they are here for, they must stay at the door and wait, and if someone returns inside, someone will come and lead them in. There was no one to bring it in. Of course, there is no one who can talk indiscriminately in the east courtyard.

It's been a few years, and the rules of the East Courtyard are not chaotic at all.

Mama Zhuang talked to the eunuch next to her with the tea, and kept looking at the door, finally Qinghe came back, she put down the tea bowl and got up and said, "What do you say about Ergege?" ”

Qinghe curtled his knees and smiled: "We invite you in." ”

Mama Zhuang couldn't help but lift her heart, she also came with a task on her back.

Accompanied by Qinghe all the way to the West Chamber, he saw Ergege when he entered the house, and the fourth elder brother was rolling on the couch, and the girl on one side was wiping his mouth and hands.

Mama Zhuang invited An Fushen, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Ergege, our master asked you and the fourth elder brother to go over there to use it." ”

Ergege said briskly: "Then let's go." ”

The girls hurried to get their cloaks and shoes.

Mama Zhuang had a seat in front of the master with her old qualifications, and said at this time: "The slave and maid can be regarded as watching you land, and I want to talk to you at this time, I don't know ...... you."

Ergege waved his hand without stumbling at all, "Let's all go down." ”

The girls came out in a stream, without a word of nonsense. It's a little unaccustomed to being called Mama Zhuang, and she is also common to live in the courtyard of Fujin, and she doesn't have this kind of majesty at any time.

Ergege also said to her with a close smile: "Mama, please speak." ”

Mama Zhuang tried her best to hold Fan up, and said lovingly and considerately: "Now that Master Li is not here, you and the fourth elder brother live in such a big courtyard, which is always uneasy. What's more, our master has always treated you with great care, and I want you to live with the fourth elder brother, just as a companion, and I am afraid that you will not be happy. The slave is a subordinate, it's not easy to interject, but I just want to tell you that this person's affection is always dealt with. Fu Jin has this heart, you don't wait for Fu Jin to say, you open this mouth first, not only to fulfill Fu Jin's kindness to you, but also to fulfill your filial piety. What do you say? ”

Er Gege heard the end from the beginning, and he didn't even change the smile on his face, and he didn't see annoyance, but leaned closer to hold Grandma Zhuang's hand and said: "Mama is really thinking about me, I also know that my mother treats me well, and there are big sisters and third sisters over there......"

Mama Zhuang heard that this was wrong, and sure enough, Er Gege said lightly: "It's that the fourth brother recognizes the bed at night, and he can't sleep after changing the bed." It's useless for anyone to coax, he will get angry when he cries so much, and once he has to carry it, and every time he has to ask someone to coax him for a long time. He is so young, the imperial doctor said that he can't even take medicine, and I really don't dare to be the main ......."

Mama Zhuang is stuck, how can she answer? If you change to Fujin, you won't recognize the bed? Will you be okay if you change beds and cry? Won't cry and break your body?

She didn't dare to vouch for any of them.

However, Mama Zhuang only came to test Fu Jin, lest Fu Jin speak directly, in case she called Ergege, this little girl came back with a bad face.

Anyway, it is not appropriate to leave the two children alone in the East Courtyard. Li Fangfujin is also really relieved, and this walk has left all the children behind. Before, she guessed that she would at least take the second elder brother Hongyu away.

Mama Zhuang could only vaguely go over at this time, and said with a smile: "Look at me, what are you talking about at this time?" Our master is still waiting over there. ”

After dinner in the main courtyard, Er Gege excused the fourth elder brother to sleep early, and retired before seven o'clock.

After she left, Mama Zhuang didn't know what to say to Fu Jin.

Yuan Ying saw that Mama Zhuang knew that Ergege had not picked up, and sighed: "It seems that she is not happy." ”

Mama Zhuang didn't dare to say that Ergege was wrong, and said: "Ergege said that the fourth elder brother recognizes the bed at night, and if he doesn't sleep well when he changes the bed, he will cry. ”

Yuan Ying shook his head, "Trouble is secondary. "The important thing is not to let two children live in such a big empty yard, and there is not even an old adult in the east courtyard.

Li can leave, because she can think about it. But if she didn't ask, it wouldn't be enough to let the two children live by themselves, just calling them over for dinner every day was not enough.

"Go and call Big Gege over." She said.

Mama Zhuang went to invite Da Gege, and after Yuan Ying asked her and Sangege how they lived recently, she sighed: "You also know, Erhe is now living with the fourth elder brother, I don't worry, I want to ask you to accompany them, what do you think?" ”

Da Gege was stunned for a moment and said: "Of course my daughter is willing to share her worries for Eniang, but I don't know where Erhe is...... Is it convenient or not? ”

Yuan Ying thought about it and said, "Then tomorrow she will come over for lunch, you can ask her." Look what she means. ”

After Da Gege went back, he had mixed feelings. Erhe is a younger sister, but E-niang told her to ask her sister what she meant. So what if Erkh is not happy? Whether she goes to the East Courtyard or not doesn't matter to her. What's more, she moved over, and Sangege definitely couldn't go with her.

Leave your sister here alone? How could she rest assured?

She thought about it, and the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became. Erkh has self-confidence, and outsiders respect him. She didn't dare to pant in her own room. She and her, one like a green bamboo, with a straight posture and towering into the clouds. One is like the duckweed in the lake, rootless and untied, unable to step on the ground under your feet and unable to reach the shore in the distance.

Her girl came in from outside, and saw Da Gege sitting alone in the house again, and hurriedly went out quietly. Da Gege did this every time he came back from Fujin, and the girl sighed softly. She herself is just a waiter, how can she be qualified to sympathize with her master?

Da Gege is thinking about Ergege, and in the east courtyard, Ergege is thinking about Eniang, who is hundreds of miles away.

I don't know if E-Niang has eaten at this time? Eat game outside, right?

Inside the camp, tents at the Four Baylors.

Li Wei tasted the stewed chicken soup, half warm, looked at the stir-fried vegetables, there was a layer of white oil flowers floating on it, and then looked at the fried meatballs and pork ribs, and put one on the side of her mouth to touch, it was cold.

It's frustrating.

After the fourth master left, she took a shower, changed her clothes, and sat on the couch (there was actually a couch, a bed, a bookcase, a screen, and a wool carpet in the tent?!). Isn't it too cumbersome to pack these in your luggage? I waited for more than half an hour for dinner to be delivered. Everything is beautiful, but it looks weird.

It wasn't until she tried them one by one that she realized that these dishes were like ornaments in the window outside the sushi restaurant: they were not for people to eat, they were for seeing.

It's better to eat a palace banquet in Yonghe Palace. At least her heart was somewhere else when she ate the palace banquet, and Zuihou couldn't eat the food. Now she is alone in the tent, and her heart is on the dishes, so she is inevitably picky.

The fourth master also said that she didn't eat as well as at home, and told her not to mind.

After thinking about it, Li Wei asked the jade bottle to move the tea stove over, brought a plate of fried meatballs over and prepared to put it on the stove, and the jade bottle's eyes widened: "Master? ”

"It's okay, it's just baked. Did we bring a stick? I didn't bring a few pairs of chopsticks. "Li Wei is going to eat the barbecue version of the skewers.

Of course, there are barbecue skewers, but they are slightly thicker. Nowadays, the trend is not to cut the meat into small pieces and grill it, but to grill the whole sheep and the whole chicken on skewers, and eat it with a blade after roasting.

zuihou, the jade bottle went to the place where the next person was eating and asked for a pair of clean chopsticks, and brought them back to the master as a sign.

When I came back, I saw that the master couldn't wait to use the long iron skewer of the barbecue to skewer the dry cakes on the table, and one side had been roasted to golden brown and black, and the tent was full of fragrance.

On the side, Yushui and the others were scooping out the chicken and side dishes from the stewed chicken soup on the table, pouring only the soup into a copper large mug, and then putting it on another tea stove to heat it. The jade bottle walked over and took a look, and there were a few pieces of chicken soup made by Eunuch Liu in the soup, and the aroma of the thick soup also came out.

Li Wei was hungry for a long time, and when she was baking, she couldn't help but take a few bites on the edge of the cake, and continued to eat while scalding and blowing.

"I knew that I would have asked someone to prepare an iron net, which is much more convenient than now." What Li Wei thinks about most at this time is the simple barbecue grill sold in the supermarket, which can be baked and eaten on the stove of the gas stove.

Of course, ash is often exhausting.

Waiting for the jade bottle to pick up the dishes on the table that can be grilled and skewered, and bake them close to the tea stove, Li Wei has already eaten two cakes with convenient chicken soup, and after being half full, she is more leisurely, and asks the jade bottle: "What about the ham and sausages we brought?" ”

How can you go on a trip without food? There are also salted duck eggs and beef jerky.

When the fourth master came back in advance, what he saw was a tent full of incense, with four tea stoves in front of Su Su, and she also found a copper plate to put on the stove, and the sausages on it were bubbling with oil.

"What's going on?"

The fourth master smiled, untied the cloak and threw it to Su Peisheng, and said to him with the heart: "Your master Li is so tormented, you don't know how to tell the master?" ”

Su Peisheng laughed with him, didn't he call anyone in when he didn't see him? Just toss around. Anyway, you're just joking, master.

Li Wei got up to greet him, the fourth master came over and the two sat on the couch together, served tea, he rinsed his mouth, and said, "I have to leave tomorrow morning, and the emperor rests early, so he will call us back at this time." He glanced at the things in the circle and said, "You can't get used to the things they sent, right?" Wait a little longer, Liu Baoquan and they will be able to catch up tomorrow. ”

"They're slower than me?" She was curious. Why didn't Eunuch Liu come with her? How many groups of people are going to set off in the fourth master's mansion?

The fourth master smiled: "Of course, they bring their belongings." is not waiting for the emperor, can follow the royal driver. They are our own attendants, and they can't keep up until the royal car is all gone. ”

It's not really complicated.

Li Wei wanted to ask someone to remove this mess, and the fourth master said: "Anyway, I didn't eat anything in front, and I was hungry when I smelled it at this time." Bring me the soup, and give me two loaves. ”

Hearing that he was still hungry, Li Wei was anxious and said, "How can this be done?" You're always like this, how can your stomach be good? "She had already discovered that the fourth master was a little pampered. He himself also knows that he usually pays attention to nourishing his stomach, eats less and cherishes blessings, has a regular work and rest, does not have guests to socialize, and never drinks when he eats.

But even then, you can't go hungry. You can't eat anything raw, cold or hard, because you won't feel comfortable if you eat it. There is some difference with stomach pain and stomach disease, there is no way to treat it by a doctor, I prescribed medicine to drink for three days, okay, stopped taking medicine for a while, and it was like this again.

The fourth master took a big sip of soup, broke the cake into small pieces and soaked it in the hot soup, and said, "It's all the same, everyone didn't cry bitter, and I could only hold on." ”

He saw that her face had been bad, and said to her softly: "Thanks to you, you can still use hot soup and hot cakes when you come back." Otherwise, I'll just sleep like this, and eat it tomorrow morning. ”

That's probably what everyone is waiting for. Li Wei thought about it and understood, like the jade bottle, waiting for her day and night. She doesn't think she's a master who loves to teach people, and she doesn't usually beat and scold them. But even so, they have to go to bed later than her, and wake up earlier than her. When she ate, they waited. Diet, work and rest are irregular, and it is strange that the body will be better.

can compare the fourth master with a few people in the jade bottle, which always makes people very sad.

After using it simply, she called for water to soak her feet, and she slept with him.

Early the next morning, she woke up in the car. It was 5:40 when I woke up, although it was still dark.

The jade bottle helped her sit up and said, "The camp was left at two o'clock, it was the master who brought you in, you slept soundly, and you didn't wake up at all." ”

Li Wei: ......

She used to travel with her classmates, and she slept in the dark on the train, and when she got up in the morning, the two big brothers who were soldiers in the seat opposite said that she was really stealing like this, and they might not know it.

It's definitely a gift.

The jade bottle brought fresh milk tea: "There are goats and cows in the royal car, and this milk is fresh." ”

She was eating dim sum with hot milk tea, and she heard the familiar sound of horses' hooves outside, so she quickly swallowed the dim sum, handed the cup to the jade bottle, and lifted the curtain of the car to probe out.

In the dark night, the sky in the distance gradually became white. In a large group of people who can't see clearly and can only see shadows, the fourth master is like a glowing horse.

Anyway, she didn't know what was going on, but she could see his face from afar, and even the smile on his face.

He rode his horse and followed the car, she quickly lowered the curtain, and told him, who had already raised the whip to remind her to close the curtain, laughed, and could only knock lightly twice outside the carriage, and said, "I counted that you are about to wake up, have you eaten?" ”

"I've eaten, what about you? There is milk tea in the car, freshly brewed, do you drink it? She asked hurriedly.

The fourth master smiled, is there a person riding a horse with a cup and milk tea?

"I drank it in the morning." He came over to ask for something else, he knocked on the car window again, and when he saw her approaching, he whispered to her: "You didn't have time to facilitate it in the morning, if you are in a hurry, use it in the car, don't hold it back, you know?" This walk is a whole day, can you still hold it every day? ”

Yesterday, he heard that she hadn't used the toilet for a day, and he knew that she was awkward again. It's used in the car and no one can see it, I really don't know what she's stubborn about.

In the car, Li Wei's face was flushed! How can such a thing be said in public!

She just wanted to fool him away quickly, and even answered a few times to know, no, I'm fine.

As soon as the fourth master heard it, he knew that he was dealing with him, and if she thought about it for a few days, she should not be able to help it.

After he left, Li Wei refused to drink milk tea anymore, so what if she held her heart every day? Anyway, you can't ask someone to empty the toilet in front of thousands of troops!

It's better to be at home.

From yesterday to today, she remembered several times that her children had the urge to pretend to be sick and go back, so she couldn't help it.

Only by convincing herself that this is for the good of the children and for the sake of training them, can she persevere.

The fourth master told her that when she arrived at the post station, she would receive a letter from home, and Hongyu had Zhang Bao watching in the front yard and could deliver the letter. I can get to the post station today, I don't know if Hongyu has written a letter? If you don't write it, you won't receive it until the day after tomorrow.

Let's hope they're all safe at home.

The author has something to say: good night everyone, see you tomorrow