Chapter 102: Father
Cheng Xu went to Hangzhou Mansion, Cheng Lu went to Yuelu Academy, and Zhou Shaojin felt that the sky was a little bluer.
She hummed an unknown song intermittently, making clothes for her father and stepmother, Lee.
The Spring Festival Gala happily ran in: "Second Miss, Second Miss, the master is here, saying that the master and his wife will be there in two days." ”
"Really!" Zhou Shaojin was overjoyed, dropped the needle and thread in his hand, and asked, "Who is here?" In what place? Does my sister know? ”
"It's an entourage next to the master, what is Li Changgui's, the eldest master is asking him in the study! The eldest man asked Lao An to greet the Lao An people, and said that he would go to greet the Lao An people later. The eldest lady also sent someone to report the news, and the eldest lady should also know. ”
"Let's go," Zhou Shaojin hastily straightened his clothes and said with a smile, "Let's go and have a look." ”
The Spring Festival Gala said "um" and accompanied Zhou Shaojin to Jiashutang.
Zhou Chujin and Mrs. Chu have not yet come, Mrs. Guan is changing clothes, and when she saw Zhou Shaojin, she smiled and said: "You came just in time, I just wanted someone to call you - your father will come to Jinling City in two days, how to arrange it, wait for your uncle to come over." ”
Zhou Shaojin smiled and stepped forward to help the maid who served her grandmother to change her clothes.
After a while, Mrs. Chuda and Zhou Chujin came over.
Mrs. Chu didn't wait for Mrs. Guan to speak, and couldn't help but say happily: "I heard that my aunt will come back in two days?" ”
Mrs. Guan instructed the maid to serve refreshments, and said with a smile: "I'll know when the eldest master comes over." ”
As he was talking, a little maid came in and said, "The old man is here." ”
The crowd hurried to the banquet room.
Li Changgui kowtowed to Mrs. Guan three times at the gate of the courtyard, even if it was a greeting.
Mrs. Guan asked Li Changgui to reward Li Changgui with five taels of silver, and the chief manager of the fourth room sent Li Changgui out.
The people in the banquet room sat down.
Cheng Wei said with a smile: "My brother-in-law said that they went to the city on the morning of the second day of junior high school, and after changing their clothes, they came to greet you." I guess I'll have lunch at our side. In the afternoon, he will pick up the Chu Jin sisters and go back, worship the ancestors the next morning, and set off for Baoding on the seventh day of the new year. ”
Everyone was surprised.
Mrs. Guan said: "Aren't you at home for the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Didn't you say that you should take office at the end of August? ”
"It seems that something happened in Baoding." Cheng Chi said with a smile, "Specifically, Li Changgui can't say clearly." I thought that my brother-in-law would come back in two days, and I didn't ask too much. ”
Everyone was disappointed.
Mrs. Guan said, "I can finally come back to see you, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to come back." However, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not enough, and there will be opportunities in the future. The old man instructed Cheng Wei and Mrs. Chu, "The luncheon on the second day of junior high school, you are so prepared." He added, "Did you probe Li Changgui's tone, did my aunt want to come over for a simple meal, or came to visit Cheng's family." If you just come over for a meal, the long room, the second room, the third room and the fifth room, I think my aunt has already prepared the soil ceremony, let's go over and say it in advance. If you come to visit the Cheng family, I am afraid that I will have to invite the old men of a few rooms to come over to accompany the room. ”
Cheng Chi smiled: "I asked." Li Changgui said, brother-in-law, I haven't seen the Chu Jin sisters for a long time, you have supported their sisters on his behalf over the years, and his kindness is like a mountain, he came here mainly to kowtow to you, and after lunch, it is not too late for him to visit the ancestors and several masters. ”
"If that's the case, then you can arrange dinner!" Mrs. Guan muttered, "I'll go back when they've had dinner." ”
Cheng Wei responded with a smile.
Zhou Shaojin and her sister held hands and couldn't stop laughing.
Mrs. Guan said angrily: "Two stupid girls, why don't you go and pack your luggage quickly, it's hard to wait until your father comes to pack the cage?" As he spoke, tears glinted in his eyes.
Zhou Shaojin was blessed to the heart, suddenly smarter, and said with a smile: "Anyway, we only live at home for a few days, and we will be back soon, and we don't have to pack so many things, what is there to worry about cleaning up in a few days." ”
Mrs. Guan loved to hear this, so she hugged Zhou Shaojin in her arms and shouted "heart", saying: "No wonder others say that her daughter is her mother's little padded jacket." I'm getting old, and I have two more little padded jackets. ”
Everyone laughed.
But back at Wanxiangju, Zhou Shaojin and Zhou Chujin both couldn't wait to start packing their luggage.
The fragrant pancreas made by yourself, the rouge of Yu Ji and the powder of Xie Fuxiang...... wanted to bring everything over, and felt that everything didn't need to be brought back, so Zhou Shaojin realized that he had left countless traces in this hut.
No wonder Lin Shisheng said in her previous life that she was related to the Cheng family whenever she recalled the past, and in those days of the Cheng family, she was the most alive.
Zhou Shaojin rubbed Xie Fuxiang's eight-treasure glass incense powder box, and it took a while for someone to open the cage where she put her embroidery.
She pulled out several sets of children's clothes from them. They were all fine silk and satin, and their shirts, shoes and socks, their skirts, and their cloaks...... One by one, or embroidered with auspicious clouds, or embroidered with Xuancao, or embroidered with the baby, very exquisite.
In her memory, her younger sister Zhou Youjin was born at the end of this year.
By this time, Lee should have been four months pregnant.
My father was very disappointed, and it was only in March that he wrote a letter back and said a few words lightly.
Neither she nor her sister had the opportunity to meet her sister.
This time, she hopes to keep her sister.
Maybe his father didn't accept Tinglan so easily, and the Li family would not use thunderous methods, causing his father's disgust, and finally turned against the Li family.
Shi Xiang saw that she took the child's clothes and stood by the cage to look at it, and said curiously: "Aren't these made for the second aunt and grandmother in the long house?" Sending it over now? ”
Zhou Shaojin smiled: "She just begged to embroider a swaddling cloth for Cousin Xiao, I have no use for these." ”
She put the things back in the cage.
Cheng Ji ran over: "Shaojin, Shaojin, I heard that your father is coming back." I'm going to take your sisters back for a few days. You're happy, aren't you? Can I go play with you then? ”
Zhou Shaojin couldn't cry or laugh.
This Cheng Ji is always thinking about playing.
She smiled: "Aren't you worried about the affairs of the Liangguo Mansion?" ”
Two days ago, the Liangguo Mansion sent them something again.
Cheng Ji got a pair of glazed enamel lanterns with marquees, Zhou Miaojin got a rabbit lamp that could be dragged along, and Zhou Chujin got a silk yarn five-bead lamp. It is said to be a gift for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Zhou Shaojin accepted it generously.
Cheng Ji and Zhou Shaojin whispered: "I listened to what you said, went back and thought about it for a few days, and then went to the Listening Pavilion under the pretext of telling my sister-in-law about this matter." She blinked proudly, "So, Brother Zhicong went to talk to my father for a long time, and then my father spoke, saying that he would marry me to no one and marry me to the Liangguo Mansion to make a continuation for others." You also know that my father's words have always been countless, but this time my father was resolute and said that if anyone dared to disobey him, he would invite the ancestor to come forward and drive him out. ”
Zhou Shaojin was very surprised.
In her heart, Cheng Ji's father, Cheng Lu, is timid and fearful, has a weak personality, and is a completely negligible person. I didn't expect him to have such courage in Cheng Ji's matter.
Or, the reason why Cheng Ji was able to marry Li Jing in his previous life was also because Cheng Lu was the master?
But Cheng Ji can find a way to get out of the predicament under her suggestion, and Zhou Shaojin is still very happy.
Cheng Zhi told her: "Anyway, no matter what my mother thinks, it is impossible for me to marry into the Liangguo Mansion now." However, I think we should pretend not to know and give Azhu another gift. She chirped, "Send lanterns? She has already sent us lanterns, and we are too careless to use them as a return gift. Giving gold and silver jewelry or something, it's too vulgar...... Sending fan pen and ink or something, it doesn't seem to be a good ......"
"I'm going to give Azhu a pair of handkerchiefs that he embroidered himself." Zhou Shaojin said.
Cheng Ji pouted dissatisfiedly and said, "You are so unrighteous, how can you only care about yourself?" So what should I send? ”
Zhou Shaojin gave her a thought: "I send a handkerchief, can you send a purse?" You can also decorate the purse with jade plaques and the like, which are both valuable and inconspicuous......"
Cheng Ji went to pat Zhou Shaojin: "You obviously know that I can't embroider things, and you let me send a purse to Ah Zhu ......"
Zhou Shaojin chuckled and turned sideways to avoid it.
The two of them were laughing and laughing in the room.
Zhou Shaojin waited here in a warm and quiet place on the second day of the eighth month.
Although they knew that their father could only arrive at noon, the Zhou sisters still got up at dawn, combed their hair, washed their faces and changed their clothes, they spent twice as long as usual, and when the two sisters met, Zhou Chujin asked Zhou Shaojin for a while if his things had been packed, and asked if the begonia tea tray he said yesterday in the winter evening had been brought with him, and for a while asked if the silver for the incense reward had been packed up...... I was nervous.
Zhou Shaojin is more looking forward to it.
In her previous life, she was ignorant and did not be filial to her father, and she hoped that she could compensate her father in her life.
She shook her sister's hand.
My sister's palms are sweaty, and they are tidal.
Zhou Shaojin felt relieved.
After breakfast, they went to Jiashutang together.
The corners of Jiashutang are clean and clean, even the leaves of the flowers and trees are more green than in the past, and they are cleaned very carefully inside and out.
Zhou Shaojin and her sister accompanied Mrs. Guan to incense.
The mother-in-law who came to report continued.
"The eldest master has already received my aunt!"
"The eldest lord accompanied my aunt to Pingqiao Street!"
"The eldest lord and the aunt are coming this way!"
Zhou Shaojin and her sister exchanged a look, and the joy in her heart couldn't help but pop up.
The last one to report was Qi'er, she panted and said: "Lao Anren, the eldest lady, the eldest lady, the second miss, the eldest master and the two masters came over with my aunt." ”
Mrs. Guan, who was originally sitting on the Hu bed, suddenly became excited and couldn't sit still anymore. She stood up and walked out. While walking, he also said: "Chu Jin, Shao Jin, you go with me to greet you." ”
Zhou Shaojin and Zhou Chujin helped Mrs. Guan left and right, and walked out hurriedly.
Cheng Wei was accompanying a tall man towards this side.
He looked no more than twenty-seven or eighteen, wearing a royal blue lake silk jacket, silk silk around his waist, fair skin, handsome facial features, a warm expression, and peaceful eyes.
Cheng He and Cheng Yi brothers followed behind the two respectfully.
Zhou Shaojin was stunned.
Is this her father?
What about the beard she remembers?
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Sisters, today's update.
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