Chapter 117: Plum Soup
Back then, Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji had a stalemate, and the four elderly children may have no prejudice against him in their hearts, but they respect him because they want to keep filial piety. Old lady Ji knew in her heart that among the five children of her sister-in-law, only Ji Shoujia, the youngest son-in-law, was really still a little bit of father and son love for him now.
However, he was still a little unhappy in the face of Ji Shoujia's change in attitude now. He originally thought that Ji Shoujia had always respected him, so he would come back to talk after walking a few steps, but when he heard him say that, Old Lady Ji was angry and hateful, thinking that if he didn't stand up as a father this time, Ji Shoujia would only have a face close to him in the future, and he would look down on him a little like his brothers and sisters.
Old lady Ji said with a gloomy face: "San'er, are you pointing at Sang and scolding Huai to correct me?" Ji Shoujia knew that what he said just now was too impulsive, but he wouldn't recognize what Old Lady Ji said, so he pretended to look at Old Lady Ji with a look of surprise and inexplicability, and said in a slightly higher voice: "Father, why do you miss me like this?"
I just said a few angry words in a moment, I am the son of your in-laws, I just want my father to treat me as close and easy-going, and I forgot for a while that some words are true, but I can't just say it in front of my father. Father, don't worry, the next time I speak in front of you, I will definitely embellish my words, so that my father will not misunderstand me after listening to it. ”
Old lady Ji looked at Ji Shoujia's expression, and also felt that there were some things that were not good to say again, he waved at him and said, "You have something to go, as for the matter of asking for peace, you just need to remember that there is an old father like me, and arrange it according to your heart." Ji Shoujia looked at Mrs. Ji's discouraged look, and his heart softened, but his daughter's crying face appeared in front of him, and he still hated it and left.
After Ji Shoujia walked away, he vaguely heard the sound of breaking things from the backyard, and after he stopped on the road, he still walked towards Sanyuan. That day. Ji Shouye told him heart-to-heart, saying that the children are still young now, and they need his father's companionship.
But once they get older, there is a cause and an effect. What he does today, his children will do the same to him in the future. Ji Shoujia listened to Ji Shouye's words into his ears, and the marriage of his parents, as well as the attitude of his brothers and sisters towards his father, all gave him a clear thought in his heart. He knew for sure. He couldn't give up his two brilliant sons, and now he also rejoiced in his delicate daughters, who were his blood and bones.
Tian is his wife, the woman he once liked deeply, and he doesn't dislike her now, but the women outside are more cute and attract his attention even more. However, Ji Shouye asked him to choose, saying that he couldn't continue to live in a muddy way, and he had to have a choice between his family and his casual behavior towards women. You can only choose one or the other, not both.
Ji Shouye told him clearly that if he continued to cause unhappiness in his career because of women's affairs, and in the future he would bring unstoppable people for the Ji family, he might as well resign as soon as possible and return home to spend his idle life, so as to leave a place for his children to live. Ji Shoujia is the person raised by Ji Shouye, he understands what Ji Shouye means, and this time is the last chance he gave him.
Ji Shoujia slowly paced back to Sanyuan, when he was at the gate of the courtyard. I saw Tian sitting in the courtyard with an embroidery shed in her hand, and she looked at a pair of children not far away with a smile with a pair of eyes, and the pair of children were walking hand in hand. The big one carried the book on his back, and the small one shook his head and listened. The smile on Tian's face at this time is more beautiful and gentle than the delicate flowers in spring, and she is simply wearing a silk hairpin wrapped with Heling jade on her head, and her clothes are also home clothes, but she gives people a posture like a hibiscus out of the water.
Ji Shoujia stomped his feet at the door, Tian looked back at him, and she put down the embroidery shed in her hand. She stepped forward with a smile, looked at his expression, and asked with a smile: "Third master, I ordered you to go down and serve sour plum soup, do you want to drink a bowl?" Ji Shoujia shook his head with a smile and said: "I'm not a woman and a child, I don't like to drink that sour soup, you can drink it yourself, give me a cup of tea." ”
Tian immediately ordered someone to send the tea, turned his head to look at Ji Shoujia's expression, and asked with a smile: "Third master, do you send the tea to the study?" Still is? Ji Shoujia glanced at her, stretched out his hand and pointed to the place where she was sitting just now, and said, "Just add a place for me there." I'll go to the study and get a book back, and you'll have to set up the spot for me. ”
Tian never disobeyed Ji Shoujia's wishes in small matters, and she quickly asked people to sit in a seat. When Ji Shoujia came out, Ji Anning and Ji Shujiao were about to drink juice with a bowl, and when the two saw him coming, they immediately put down the bowl, and when Ji Shoujia sat down, the sister and brother took the bowl and invited Ji Shoujia to drink soup.
Ji Shoujia saw that there was no soup bowl in front of Tian's family, and there was a cup of tea like him, he smiled and rejected the kindness of his children, but saw that in the blink of an eye, the two children put the soup bowl to Tian's mouth, and let her take a sip. Tian smiled and pretended to drink the sour plum soup from Ji Anning's bowl, and when Ji Shujiao was unhappy, he took a sip of the soup in the bowl he held.
A pair of children happily drank the sour plum soup, Tian quickly took a sip of tea, turned to the housekeeper behind him, and said, "This year's plums are too sour, this soup is so sour that your teeth are cold." The lady in charge laughed and said, "This is the plum sent by the ** milk, I heard that it is the eldest lady's favorite plum, specially made dried plum, and sent it to the younger siblings to make sour plum soup at this time." ”
Tian saw a pair of children quickly finish drinking the soup, she laughed, and said: "The eldest lady is pregnant, and when she likes sourness, she naturally feels that this plum is sour." She smiled and asked Ji Anning and Ji Shujiao: "Ning'er, Shao'er, is this soup delicious?" Ji Anning smiled and bent his eyebrows, and said, "It's a little sour, next time you cook it, add more sugar to it." Ji Shujiao also nodded on the side and said, "Sour." ”
Tian looked at the pair of children with a smile, and turned back to the woman in charge and said, "Next time, change another kind of plum to boil water for them to drink, and keep this plum to see who has it to beg for it, so you can give it." The lady in charge smiled and nodded, and she reminded: "Grandma, let's keep some, and wait until winter, such dried plums are ground and crushed to make sour plum candy, which is better than the sour plum candy made from ordinary dried plums, and Young Master Li likes to eat it the most." ”
Tian smiled and nodded, she naturally understood that the woman in charge was reluctant to give things away. After Ji Shoujia drank a cup of tea, he saw that Tian's housekeeper and the two children were still talking about plum soup, and he said funny on the side: "If Ning'er and Zi'er love to drink plum soup, another day, I will help you buy a few more kinds of dried plums on the street to serve you with tea." ”
Tian looked at him speechlessly, the dried plums naturally had to be made at home to be clean, and the dried plums on the street could be bought casually to make soup for the children. The woman in charge had already retreated to the side, Ji Anning looked at him with a smile and said, "Father, when you went to the street that day, can you take your mother with us?" I haven't been on the street since I was born. Ji Shujiao smiled and narrowed his eyes, looked at Ji Shoujia and encouraged: "Father, if you have the ability, you can take us there." (To be continued.) )