Chapter 124, Grandma
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Mu Chenxue sisters and brothers planned a surprise and sneaked out of the house with their mother-in-law Cheng to visit their grandmother in the nunnery outside the city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Aunt Cheng had tears in her eyes, choked up and didn't dare to knock on the door. Although the sun came out at this time, the north wind was blowing, and the cold was thick, and he was afraid that his mother would cry and hurt the wind, so Mu Chenxue had to signal Tong Jiang to knock on the door. Fortunately, Tong Jiang came to inquire in advance, and the old lady has never left since she entered the nunnery. There were several knocks, and soon there was an answer from inside the door.
"Who!" The voice sounded with a hint of vicissitudes, but it was not very old.
"Silverring, it's me!" Mother Jiang helped Aunt Cheng to the door and replied loudly. There was a moment of pause in the door, and then the sound of the door opening was heard.
"It's Mama Jiang! Who am I? "The person who opened the door was about forty years old, dressed in gray cloth and sea green, and his hair was still coiled in the monk's hat, obviously with hair cultivation. When she saw that there was still someone next to Jiang's mother, she couldn't help but be stunned, "This is?" ”
"Yinhuan, this is the second miss, you don't remember!" Yinhuan is the old lady's personal maid, when the old lady took the house, it was to return the deed of the silver ring, but this silver ring actually coiled her own hair, and she followed the old lady to the nunnery. is also a loyal servant with affection and righteousness.
"Second Miss, it's really Second Miss! Old lady, it's the second lady who has come to see you! Silverring was so excited that she didn't know what to do, so she turned around and ran towards the nunnery with a shout.
"Is it Xia'er?" A slightly old voice rang out from inside the house, and the silver ring, which had just run in, walked out of the nunnery with an emaciated old nun.
"Mother!" Aunt Cheng couldn't hold back any longer, rushed to Lao Ni in a few steps and knelt down, hugged Lao Ni's legs and cried loudly. When she left her mother, she looked much younger and looked much better than she is now. It's only been more than ten years, and my mother has grown old like this.
Mu Chenxue pulled her younger brother to stand by the door, and she was secretly wiping away her tears. In the same city, only a few dozen miles apart, but they have not seen each other for more than ten years. This is the sorrow of being a concubine and a concubine.
Jiang's mother also knelt on the ground and cried, but the old lady was the first to slow down, perhaps because she had been reciting the manager Buddha for more than ten years, and there was a trace of mortal emotions and six desires missing in her heart. wiped the tears from his face, and then helped his daughter up.
"Xia'er is also a mother now, why do you still cry like a child!" glanced behind her daughter, "This is the fifth sister and the ninth brother, right?" After being reminded by her mother, Aunt Cheng remembered that her children were still watching, so she hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face and waved behind her.
"Fifth sister and ninth brother, come and say hello to grandma!" Mu Chenxue took Mu Chenfeng a few steps forward, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to her grandmother three times before getting up.
"Okay, good, good boy, get up, it's cold on the ground!" The old lady was very happy to see her grandson, and stretched out her hands to help the Mu Chenxue sister and brother up, and looked carefully from head to toe.
"Grandma, mother, let's go into the house and talk!" When I knelt down just now, Mu Chenxue felt that it was still too cold on the ground, my grandmother was not wearing much, and my mother was crying and kneeling, but I was afraid that the bodies of both of them would be cold at this time.
"Yes, yes, let's go inside and talk!" The old lady nodded to her daughter, and walked in with one hand and her two grandsons in one hand.
Mu Chenxue motioned for Tong Jiang to move things in, and he and his younger brother carried the old lady into the nunnery.
It is said to be a nunnery, but only a statue of Guanyin is enshrined, there are a few futons on the ground, and the green smoke wafts in the incense burner, which looks particularly deserted. Looking at everything in front of her, Aunt Cheng's tears couldn't stop flowing.
"I have taken refuge in my Buddha, although I am bringing out the home, but the heart is like stopping water, although it looks cold here, but it is a good place to cultivate the mind. Xia'er doesn't have to worry about me! Several people talked as they walked towards the inner hall.
Aunt Cheng also knew that she shouldn't cry, so as not to worry and be sad for her mother, but the tears just couldn't stop flowing. Mu Chenxue was afraid that her mother would be too excited, and she would hurt her body by crying again, so she motioned to Jiang's mother to persuade her with her eyes.
The old lady secretly saw everything in her eyes, when the fifth sister was hugged by the eldest lady, she was also worried that the fifth sister would not recognize her mother, but now it seems that she thinks too much. patted the back of the fifth sister's hand, "The fifth sister has grown into a big girl, okay, good!" ”
There was something in Grandma's words, Mu Chenxue understood, nodded and replied with a smile, "I often hear my mother think of my grandmother, the fifth sister is not filial, and I have only come to say hello to my grandmother for so many years!" ”
"It's not too late, it's not too late, I'm glad you can come!" The old lady glanced at Brother Jiu'er again, this child's face was innocent, her daughter taught the two children very well, and she had nothing to worry about in the future.
"Grandma, my mother has brought you a lot of supplements, all of which are light vegetarian food, you can eat more!" Mu Chenxue chatted a few words, and Aunt Cheng eased up a little and collected her tears.
"I don't lack anything here, it's not easy for you to live in the shogunate, save some if you can!" The daughter hadn't sent anything for several years, so how could the old lady not be concerned, so she asked Yinhuan to go out early to inquire. Although she didn't know everything, she could probably guess what was going on in the shogunate. My daughter had a hard time, otherwise she wouldn't have pawned the jewelry and redeemed the shop.
She also wanted to help out, but she used all the money in her hand to build the nunnery. And this nunnery is not open to the public, there is no incense offering, all these years, all pointing to her savings, so it has been almost spent.
"Mother, last spring, my lord helped build the backyard, not only expanded the house, but also made up for the monthly example, and my daughter is doing very well now!" Aunt Cheng knows best who her mother-in-law is, so there are some things that don't need to be hidden, so that her mother-in-law can worry less.
"It's good to be doing well!" When the old lady was still alive, the old lady didn't talk as little as she does now, since the old lady left, her daughter was forced to be a concubine, and after the old lady moved out of Cheng's house in a bad mood, there were fewer and fewer words. If I hadn't seen my daughter and grandson today, I wouldn't have even said a word of gossip except reciting scriptures on weekdays.
Yinhuan was even more happy, served tea to a few people, and pulled Jiang's mother to ask non-stop. When she went out to boil water just now, she looked carefully, and the second lady not only brought a lot of tonic herbs, but even a lot of grains, fruits and vegetables. And a few pieces of blue muslin. Just these people in the nunnery, I'm afraid they will be able to eat for half a year.
Regarding Yinhuan's inquiry, Jiang's mother picked up everything she could say one by one, also to make the old lady feel at ease. It is rare for three generations of grandparents and grandchildren to get together, and naturally they have endless words of self-expression. Mother Jiang chatted with Yinhuan for a while, and saw that Miss Fifth had no intention of leaving, so she went to the stove room, planning to prepare some fasting food. (To be continued.) )