CHAPTER XIII
Ning Dongdong's hard days really came as she had a hunch. The old lady www.biquge.info has officially handed over the burden of the head of the family to Rulin. Now, in addition to managing the affairs of the house every morning, Rulin's most important task is to repair the relationship with her son and the education of her youngest daughter.
Although Rulin was also naughty when she was a child, her parents' upbringing of her was real, and she did not fall behind in everything she should learn, and she did not want to be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, at least she had to be able to do one or two things, she was better at painting and chess.
As for the rules, she has been instilled since she was sensible, and the etiquette of a noble girl's every move should be deeply engraved in her mind, although she thinks that she has many things that do not meet the standards, but she is generally qualified in front of outsiders.
Behaviors such as rudely wiping your mouth with your sleeve after eating will be beaten by your mother. The old lady dotes on her children, and Ning Mu is a big man, although she loves her daughter very much, her heart is not so fine. In the eyes of most men, it is probably enough for the son to grow up and the daughter to be smart and cute.
No, Dong Dong was detained in his mother's room, learning the Three Character Sutra, learning to write six big characters every day, and understanding what they mean. Correct some obvious bad habits of Dong Dong in the details of life, and also give warnings to Dong Dong's big girl Biqin, the nurse and others, Miss is the master, but after all, she is still young, and she can't look at her crooked and turn a blind eye.
Dong Dong wrote a few big words, it was a little sleepy, two eyes looked at the words written by themselves on the paper, looked a little familiar, just don't know, the mother said to take her to the garden to know the flowers, she was suddenly so busy, in the morning to exercise to reduce meat, huh...... Mother also said that she should find a good teacher for herself.
With a bang, the little head couldn't support it, and suddenly slammed on the table, snorted twice in his mouth, and didn't wake up! Fell asleep directly. Rulin was startled when she heard the voice, and quickly put down the account book she was reading, and saw that her daughter fell asleep like no one, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
He took out the brush in her hand and carried her to the bed and went to sleep. I can't help it if I feel distressed, and not teaching her anything like before is hurting her.
This kind of busy days in idleness makes Rulin's days very fulfilling all of a sudden, in stark contrast to before, although all of a sudden let go of himself and come into contact with all kinds of people and things, there will be unsatisfactory times, and there will be troubled times, but these are much better than those paranoid and desperate lifeless days.
The matter of the private message mentioned by Xu Jingsheng last time was always in her heart, and she pondered repeatedly, what would be the content that he cared about so much? At that time, when she had just married Ning Mu and had a strong relationship with Xu Jingsheng, it was conceivable that there must be something about love and love, vows and the like.
Thinking about it at the most out of place, the most outrageous thing between men and women is just to give up everything and elope together, right?
They had already torn their faces with Ning Mu before, even if they had such a bold idea of eloping, they wouldn't be afraid to let Ning Mu know, right? What Xu Jingsheng wrote by himself back then, what could he be afraid of?
Rulin couldn't figure it out for a while, but after she came back, she calmed down and thought about it, and also thought about whether there would be clues about her father's death, and later overturned this idea herself.
If he had feelings for himself at that time, how could he have told him the truth about his father's death? If you are ruthless to yourself, you just don't care about yourself, so why bother?
It's a pity, it was burned so thoroughly back then, and if you keep it, you will definitely find something. But she didn't regret it.
The letters that once existed seem to have served only a small tentative purpose at best. Not even a trace of ash was left, so don't work on it.
It seems that on the one hand, we can only pin on Ning Mu to find Grandma Sun, and on the other hand, we can find clues from other aspects.
Rulin had been a living dead in the deep mansion for too long, and she felt that it was time to go out and breathe.
Where to start? Let's start from the beginning.
Since marrying Ning Mu, she has rarely returned to the Xue family, where too much happiness and pain have been buried, and after her father and mother have died, it is even more taboo for her.
Xue Yun is her only younger brother, a few years younger than her, she also loves him in her heart, and he was just a little teenager when she left. Although Xue Rulin trapped herself in the Ning Mansion all day long, in addition to not being around to take care of him, she also did her best compared to him and others.
In the first few years, she often sent Su Niang to Xue Mansion to visit him, sent the seasonal clothes she had prepared, and remembered to send a gift every birthday, silently paying attention to him. Once she went to the temple not far away to offer incense and saw him with his companions, when she was wearing a hood, so he did not recognize her.
Rulin stopped him, pulled him aside, pulled down his hat, the young man's joy was overflowing, Xue Yun did not inherit his father's wisdom at all, and his father's talent seemed to have been passed on to his two apprentices, and he did not share some with his children. Although the major changes in his life also affected Xue Yun, they did not leave too much shadow on him.
At that time, he pulled her clothes and told her that he missed his sister, but his sister never came home to see him, and the young man's eyes were full of grievances. Rulin took out a handkerchief and wiped his tears for him, "How old are you, and you still shed tears?" Let the companions laugh. Sure enough, he looked at his companion not far away, snickering.
Xue Yun hurriedly wiped away his tears. "Sister, is Brother Ning good to you? If it's not good for you, you can come back with you, and I'll raise you! ”
Rulin stretched out her hand and flicked his forehead, "Silly boy, it's nonsense." I even gave birth to a child, how can you see that I am not doing well. Brother, sister is very good, you have to work hard, so that you can support a family in the future, my sister only hopes that you will not worry about your small life in the future, just be safe and happy. ”
Later, the facts also proved that Rulin still knows his brother very well, he has not had any great achievements, and he has not moved forward after taking the exam, and continues to study while running the ancestral property. Later, the old lady of the Hou Mansion of Anning, the aunt of her mother, married the daughter of a Wupin official who died unexpectedly, Dong, and the husband and wife were harmonious. Rulin finally felt a little comforted in her heart, and completely put down a stone.
It's time for her to go back and take a look, although her brother is also the closest person, but the place without parents is no longer home, she has to be prepared.
Although she was not very optimistic about whether she would be able to find clues in her hometown more than ten years later, once she determined what she wanted to do next, she no longer hesitated, Xue Rulin made up her mind to return to Xue's mansion, and she felt inexplicably down-to-earth in her heart.