Chapter 377: Returning Home
Another heavy snowfall fell, and in this snowy and cold weather, the emperor finally came out of the funeral.
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty sent Empress Taishang away with Emperor Jianyuan in plain clothes, and several elderly officials fell ill in bed, even Zheng Xiang also fell ill.
Emperor Jianyuan sympathized with the hard work of these officials, and ordered the sick officials to rest at home for a few more days.
Because many officials were sick with frost, and because of the accumulation of many official duties in the past few days of mourning, Qi Jing almost lived in the yamen.
Yun Yao was also very worried when she saw that he was busy and tired, so she asked the kitchen to clean up some of Qi Jing's favorite meals every day and sent them, and asked someone to stew some nourishing soup and wait for Qi Jing to replenish him when he came back.
Rao is like this, but after more than ten days of busy survival, Qi Jing's whole person has lost weight, if it weren't for his good physique, and he usually pays more attention to exercise, I'm afraid that he will be tired.
Finally waiting for the sick officials to return to the yamen to continue working, Qi Jing was finally able to relax, this day off Qi Jing originally planned to go out for a walk with Yun Yao, but Yun Yao saw that he was thin like that, and his eyes still had dark circles, where he was willing to let him suffer again, he asked Qi Jing to rest.
Qi Jing was really tired, and he fell asleep after lying on the bed for a while, and he was snoring behind him.
This night, he actually slept all night plus more than half a day, and only woke up at noon, after waking up, Qi Jing felt a lot more energetic, washed his face and discussed with Yun Yao what congratulatory gifts Zheng Balang would send when he got married, in addition, Emperor Jianyuan's cheap son who passed on to Princess Pingyang has not yet entered the palace, should he go and see.
The two discussed for a while, and discussed the congratulatory gift to Zheng Balang, as for the Han Xiaopang Qi Jing, what he meant was to ignore it for now, and wait until Emperor Jianyuan took people into the palace to educate them for a period of time, and then they went to see people.
Yun Yao also felt that it should be so, so she put this down in advance, and then Qi Yue and Niu Niu came over and said that they wanted to go out to play, so Qi Jing simply took the family to find a place to play.
It was said that Qi Jing was going to go to the government on the second day, but in the evening of the first day, Qi Yinzhu came back with a letter, saying that he would go to Chang'an the next day, so Qi Jing took another day off and stayed at home to wait for Qi Yinzhu to come back.
Early in the morning of the second day, Yun Yao and Qi Jing got up and asked the family to clean up, especially the room where Qi Yinzhu lived earlier was cleaned more and more carefully.
This room is cleaned every day, and from time to time there is a stove to smoke the house, the house is very clean, but it is not lived for a long time, and it is inevitable that there is a lack of east and west.
Yun Yao personally inspected it, asked someone to move the newly made bed cover over and paved it, and replaced the old bed tent with a brighter color, and the tables, chairs, benches and all kinds of furniture in the house were also carefully wiped clean, the most important thing is that some incense was put in the house to smoke the house, and two big stoves were placed, but after a while, the three open rooms were as warm as spring.
When the room was warm, Yun Yao simply took off her coat outside, only wore a close-fitting jacket and skirt and checked it again, and asked someone to find a lot of little girls' favorite toys from the warehouse and put them in the house, and took calligraphy and paintings to hang up, put fresh fruits on the table by the window, and took a plain white celestial globe bottle filled with water, and cut a few flowers from the greenhouse that were just right to bloom.
Yun Yao had just finished cleaning up, and a little girl hurriedly came over and said, "Madam, the second aunt and wife are here." ”
Yun Yao hurriedly put on her coat and walked outside.
She didn't go back to her room, but went to Qi Gu's place, and when she asked Qi Yinzhu in the past, she didn't come back, but she had already entered Chang'an City, and she couldn't get there in a short time.
But said that Qi Yinzhu saw the Chang'an City Gate from a distance in the car, looking at everything she was familiar with, she thought of following Xiao Zhi to leave her hometown away from her parents and relatives over the years, and she didn't know how much she had suffered when she arrived in Shuzhou.
There are many natives around Qingcheng who are not subject to discipline, plus there are so many Shengmiao tribes who are good at making cups, these people are extremely disdainful of the court, and they are not convinced by Xiao Zhi's parents, Qi Yinzhu was afraid that someone would assassinate Xiao Zhi at that time, so he really tried his best to protect him.
Later, Qi Yinzhu helped Xiao Zhi gain a firm foothold in Qingcheng, but he didn't know how much effort he spent and how much price he paid.
originally thought that a husband and wife would love each other, and she should be a wife to protect each other, but who would have thought that ...... However, after a few years of hard work, the original love and husband turned out to be a negative man.
Every time he thinks about this, Qi Yinzhu feels a throbbing pain in his heart, and now he finally sees the Chang'an City Tower, thinking that there are his old parents and his brothers and relatives in the city, and this heart is hot and sour, and it is an indescribable feeling.
She hugged Sister Ying'er and pointed to the tall city tower and laughed: "Sister Ying'er have seen it, that is Chang'an City, this Chang'an is the most prosperous big city in the world, there are jugglers, some sell delicious food, there are all kinds of beautiful fabrics and jewelry, and there are many interesting places." ”
These days, Sister Ying has grown a lot of knowledge with Qi Yinzhu on the road, plus Song Pozi and Qi Yinzhu are from her temperament, she is much more lively, as soon as she heard Qi Yinzhu tell her about Chang'an City, she blinked a pair of big eyes and asked: "Mother, is there any sugar to eat in the city?" Is there a beard cake? And fish soup ......"
Qi Yinzhu smiled and nodded: "Yes, there are more, your grandfather's house has more delicious food, as well as toffee, there are a lot of dried fruits, sherbets, and dried meat, fresh vegetables, there is everything." ”
Sister Ying was overjoyed when she heard this, and grabbed a handful of fruits from the box in the car and chewed them: "I want to eat fish and drink sweet soup." ”
"Yes, all of them." Mrs. Song also laughed: "There is everything at home, and there are people to play with Sister Ying." ”
"Really?" Sister Ying stared at Mrs. Song with a pair of eyes: "Mother said that there are cousins and cousins playing together." ”
"Yes, yes." Mrs. Song nodded: "Our sister Ying has a cousin and cousin to play with, and an uncle, Sister Ying'er's uncle will take Sister Ying to watch juggling and juggling, and the slave heard that Mrs. also invited a small play, as soon as we go back, we will sing the drama for several days." ”
Sister Ying clapped her hands happily when she heard it: "Good singing, good singing, Sister Ying wants to watch the play." ”
A few people talked and the car entered the city, Sister Ying looked out through the car window, but she didn't think she could see enough, she originally thought that Qingcheng was a prosperous place, but she didn't expect this Chang'an City to be much better than Qingcheng.
Not only is the street clean, wide and smooth, there are many shops on both sides of the street, and there are many stalls, and the fragrance of the food on the stalls goes straight to Sister Ying'er's nose through the car, making Sister Ying more and more greedy.
Look at the pedestrians on the street who are dressed better than those people in Qingcheng, these people are very clean, the materials of their clothes are good, and they speak and act so politely, so subtle and gentle, after all, everything is good, and it makes people's hearts feel smooth.
Sister Ying is a child, and she doesn't know so many things, she just thinks that everywhere is beautiful, so she giggles and laughs in the car.
After a while, the car stopped, and someone came back and said that the Qi family had sent someone to pick up Yinzhu, Yinzhu showed up and nodded, and the subordinates sent by the Qi Mansion welcomed them into the mansion.
When he arrived at the gate of the house, Yinzhu took Sister Ying to get out of the car, and the people of the Qi Mansion helped drive the car to the back door, and unloaded the luggage on the car and placed it.
Entering the courtyard, there were a few girls in red and green who hugged and stepped forward to greet Yinzhu, calling them the second aunt's wife.
Yinzhu smiled and nodded, a mother-in-law stepped forward to pick up Sister Ying and lead Yinzhu through the second door, from one side of the verandah, bypassing a large pastel shadow wall to see a row of five main houses with blue bricks and gray tiles, this main house is spacious, deep enough, at a glance is the main courtyard, dedicated to the main person in charge of the family.
Sister Ying didn't know what kind of courtyard this was, but Qi Yinzhu knew that this was her parents' room.
With tears in her eyes, she took a few steps to the bottom of the porch, and lifted the curtain herself without waiting for the little girl to open the curtain.
Entering the house, a burst of heating came to his face, and a little girl came over to help Qi Yinzhu take off the big hat outside, bypassing the carved screen of the eight fans, Qi Yinzhu saw Qi Gu who had already stood up on the Luohan couch under the north wall.
"Mother......
Qi Yinzhu choked a thousand words in his throat but couldn't say it, he only called his mother, and tears rolled down his eyes.
As soon as she cried, Sister Ying'er, who followed into the house, also cried when she saw it.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Qi Gushi saw that Qi Yinzhu's whole person was thinner than a few years ago, and his spirit was not married, and he was getting older, which was angry and distressed, and he couldn't help but shed tears, trembling and slightly reaching out to hold Qi Yinzhu in his arms, and the tears couldn't be stopped: "You people who have no conscience, how many years have you gone and won't come back, you really want to die as a mother." ”
"Wow......"
Sister Ying saw an old lady crying with her mother in her arms, she didn't recognize the old lady, so she cried in fright.
"This is Sister Ying." Qi Gu heard the child's crying, pushed Qi Yinzhu away, looked at Sister Ying, took it from her mother-in-law's arms, hugged it and looked at it for a long time, Fang sighed: "It doesn't look like you, but it looks like the surname Xiao." ”
Qi Yinzhu hung his head and didn't know what to say, Qi Gu glared at her: "How did you become a stuffy gourd, what did you say at the beginning, you will never regret marrying someone surnamed Xiao for the rest of your life, and you still make trouble with us, but now what about ......?"
Qi Yinzhu only felt ashamed of his old mother, and he didn't dare to speak more and more.
At this time, a burst of laughter suddenly came, but I saw Yun Yao, who was standing on the side, taking Sister Ying with a smile: "Sister Ying is really good-looking, look at this little appearance, I look at what I love in my heart." ”
Then, Yun Yao looked at Qi Gu again: "Mother too, I didn't think I could do it when I didn't see the second sister earlier, and now that the second sister is back, you don't say that the mother and the two are good to talk, but you are in a hurry to train in vain, you are like this, but the aunts and grandmothers of our family dare not go home, but our father is alone, I still want the sisters to help, and it is too late to get close to these aunts and grandmothers of our family, you are good, the scolding people are stunned, and the sisters and sisters are not close to us in the future, I just have to find my mother to discuss the law." (To be continued.) )