After the imperial doctor and Gonggong Wan left, the Qi family and the Li family sat in the warm pavilion of Funing Hall and talked.

Qi Shi sent the peeled hazelnuts to the Li family, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and asked the Li family: "In this way, I am afraid that Yuan Yuan will not be separated from the next thing." ”

Li nodded, then sighed and said, "The emperor treats our Lin family too thinly, it is not in vain that Xianniang worked for him and died early, and it is not in vain that our Lin family charges for him." ”

Speaking of this, both the Li family and the Qi family were silent. When the emperor was the prince, he neither occupied the heir nor the elder, and the biological mother was not favored, nor did he have a foreign family as a strong support, and it was the Wuguo Mansion and several other nobles who supported the emperor to the throne. Twelve years ago, in a big battle between the northwest and the Tatars, the Lin family's army repelled the Tatar invasion under the condition of insufficient food and grass, and established the crown prince for the emperor, but also in that war, the Lin family also suffered heavy losses, Lin Zhong's father and son in the Lin family's house, as well as several uncles and brothers of the northwest family, were all killed in that battle.

Although Lin Zhong is not from the Li family, he is also a child she raised since she was a child. and Lin Zhong's eldest son, Cheng Gong, was only sixteen years old when he died on the battlefield······ These are the prices paid by the Lin family.

Li shook his head, waved away these bad memories, and then asked Qi Shidao: "The informant went to Jiangnan to visit her mother for more than half a month, but did you say when you will come back?" ”

Qi said with a smile: "I was about to tell my mother, I just received a letter from the third brother and sister, and the third brother and sister and Mrs. Zhuang had already set off from Hangzhou seven days ago to rush to the capital, calculating the distance, and they would be able to arrive in the capital in about three days." ”

Li Shi let out an "oh", sat up straight, and asked, "Old Madam Zhuang also entered Beijing together?" ”

Qi said: "Not only Mrs. Zhuang, but Mrs. Zhuang's nephew, Second Master Zhuang, escorted them to the capital together. ”

Li Shi was happy and said: "That's good, I haven't seen that old woman for more than ten years, and the last time I saw her was when Yuan Yuan was born." The old woman said that she would go back to Jiangnan and let her brother and nephew raise her, but she really didn't set foot in the door of the capital for more than ten years. The last time I heard that she was seriously ill, it made me worry for a while. ”

Zhuang's father was originally a fierce general under the account of the old grandfather, and he was appointed as the commander of the servant. Li and Mrs. Zhuang also corresponded often when they were young, and their relationship was close.

Qi said: "Last time, I said that Mrs. Zhuang was seriously ill, but it was a false alarm. It was said that Mrs. Zhuang was greedy and ate too many lychees, which caused phlegm, and the phlegm was blocked in her throat and couldn't breathe, which made Mrs. Zhuang unconscious for a few times, and frightened several masters of the Zhuang family to quickly send a letter to the third brother and sister, and wrote the illness more seriously, which gave rise to a misunderstanding. When the third brother and sister took the good doctor they found on the road to Jiangnan, they sucked out the phlegm in Mrs. Zhuang's throat, but Mrs. Zhuang was cured in a few days. ”

The Li family sighed for Mrs. Zhuang and said: "The brothers and nephews are separated by a layer of relatives, Mrs. Zhuang has no son, and her daughter is married far away, so the people of the Zhuang family may not be very dedicated to her." If it weren't for the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, why wouldn't you be able to find a good doctor, and you would have to wait for the informant to take the doctor to be cured. I think that when she comes to the capital this time, I will let her stay in the capital for a long time to be my companion, so that she can take care of her. ”

Li said, and then instructed Qi Shi: "You clean up the house at home, and when they come to the capital, they will have a place to live." ”

Qi Shi said with a smile: "This is still to be said by my mother, I arranged it early." Saying that, he told Li about his own arrangements, and said: "Mother, do you think this arrangement will work, there are many empty houses in the third room now, and there is no need to clean the yard separately, so let Mrs. Zhuang live in the third room, and it is convenient for the third brother and sister to take care of Mrs. Zhuang, and the second master Zhuang is a male dependent, so I swept a yard in the outer courtyard and dialed two small servants to serve." ”

Li said: "You have arranged it very well. After a pause, he continued: "I think it is better to arrange Mrs. Zhuang to my yard, Youyu went back to live in the third room, she has always been idle, afraid that it will be noisy." Let her live in my yard, and we two old women and sons will be companions. ”

If it is said properly, it is naturally more appropriate to arrange Mrs. Zhuang in the third room, but the Li family is happy, and the Qi family will naturally not disobey the mother-in-law's wishes, and said with a smile: "Just listen to my mother." ”

At the same time, in the courtyard of the third room, Lin Yan and Lin Wan also received Zhuang's letter.

Lin Wan was only six years old, and she couldn't recognize all the words in the letter, so Lin Wan read the words in the letter to her one by one.

Lin Wan lay on the kang table, holding her chin with both hands, and watched Lin Yan listen to her letter without blinking.

When Lin Yan read "I have set off with your grandmother on September 15, and will arrive in the capital to reunite with your sisters in the near future", Lin Wan was surprised and said, "It turns out that I still have my grandmother." ”

Lin Yan stretched out her hand and flicked it on her forehead, and scolded with a smile: "You girl with no conscience, the gadgets piled up in your house, the wood-carved pony, the tumbler, the Kongming lock, the Nine Rings, and the jewelry and jewelry, including the longevity lock you are wearing around your neck now, which one of them was not found for you by your grandmother from Jiangnan and sent to the capital for you, but you actually said such a thing." If my grandmother heard this, she didn't know how sad she would be. ”

Lin Wan touched her forehead and said unconvinced: "I haven't seen her, and no one has told me about her, how can I know." Could it be that my sister knew her grandmother as soon as she was born without anyone telling her? ”

Lin Yan was stunned for a moment when she heard this, they all left her when Youyu was young, so naturally she didn't have the opportunity to mention her grandmother, and when her grandmother raised Youyu, she might often mention their parents and brothers to her, but it was unlikely that their grandmother would often talk about it, and it was not surprising that Youyu didn't know. In the final analysis, in fact, it is their parents, brothers and sisters who have not fulfilled their responsibility to take care of Youyu.

Lin Yan rubbed her head, hugged her in her arms, and said to her, "Okay, okay, it's all my sister's, my sister said the wrong thing." ”

Lin Wan leaned on her body and was silent for a while, and after a while, she suddenly rubbed her fingers and asked Lin Yan: "Sister, do you say that your mother will recognize Youyu when she comes back?" My mother won't remember me? ”

Lin Yan kissed her forehead and said, "How come, my mother loves Youyu so much, how can she not recognize Youyu." Youyu doesn't know, her mother is talking about whether Youyu is doing well in the house every day in the northwest, whether she has eaten well, whether she has slept well, and whether she will be bullied······ Youyu is the careful liver of your father and mother, how could your mother not remember Youyu. Look at my sister, don't you recognize Youyu as soon as you come back. ”

Lin Wan nodded as if relieved.