Chapter 211: Explaining the Aftermath (Part II)
Li Rui, Li Ming, and Li Zhao sent the prince out, and they were also relieved when they came back.
The weather was really hot, and Li Rui was very afraid of the heat, as soon as the prince left, he immediately took off his soft-winged official hat and fanned the wind vigorously. Li Ming and Li Zhao are wearing formal big clothes, three layers inside and three layers outside, and they are collared, and the middle clothes that have been covered for a few hours are wet, but they still have to make a comfortable appearance, and as soon as the prince leaves, he also quickly peels off his shirt.
The three brothers took off their clothes and took off their hats, and they were all disheveled and helpless when they got to the bottom. The three brothers looked at each other after taking off, and suddenly felt embarrassed, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha, ouch, brother, your hair is all covered with sweat, this is really like a big frog just out of the water!"
"Look at yourself, you wear a white middle coat on it, but □ you wear a silk flower pants, like a singer!"
"Hahaha, don't fight, the most embarrassing person must be me, I don't have time to take off my belt, and my whole upper body is a mess!"
The three of them laughed enough, and felt that this morning's chaos was finally a smile, and their mood was a lot lighter, so the three brothers were so disheveled, and they returned to Zhiyun Courtyard with their shoulders on their backs.
"I listened to what the prince meant, as if he didn't want my father to come back?" Li Ming frowned, "Grandma...... Grandma's body is like this now, and when the front-line battle situation is not so tense, it's okay for Dad to come back to visit, right? ”
His grandmother gave birth to five children in her life, and when she reached the end of the year, her father was left with one child, and when she was dying, she hoped that her son would give her a ride by her side, was it also a luxury?
"Now that Fan Yang has lost, the morale of Da Chu has plummeted, and he urgently needs a big victory to boost morale. At this time, my uncle was going to return to the capital, and the front-line supply and deployment suddenly lost the chief officer, and the reinforcements from all over the country were not familiar with each other. ”
Li Rui is different from Li Ming, he has studied the art of war for several years, and his classmate Qin Bin often competes with him. Unlike the Li family, which only has his grandfather who can lead the troops and lead the generals for several generations, his family is a family of military generals, and the family has a lot of military books, and it is even more rare that there are many losses that have been suffered on the battlefield, all of which have been recorded one by one, waiting for future generations to wake up.
So he knows more about the battle ahead than his younger brother.
However, intellectually it is understandable, but emotionally it is indeed a little difficult to accept.
"If His Majesty sends a member to temporarily replace his uncle's important ministers at this time, in fact, it is not impossible to let his uncle come back. It's just a matter of military power, and no one under the emperor can rest assured. ”
“…… Then this emperor is really hard. As soon as Li Ming's words came out, Li Zhao covered his mouth and looked left and right.
Li Rui smiled bitterly.
yes, can it not be hard? Not only hard, but also pitiful.
After being the emperor for so many years, there was only one minister who dared to release military power.
The three children quickly returned to the main house during the conversation, and Fang, who had tears on his face, was holding his daughter Li Mei and was sitting next to Gu Qing, waiting for the children to return.
Gu Qing was not verbose, and told a few children what he understood to the point, and then asked them what they thought.
Li Rui predicted the possible consequences of his uncle's rash return to Beijing, including whether the soldiers and horses who came to the rescue would not be able to work together if there were contradictions with each other, if the supplies deployed in various places were different in distribution, whether the assigned people could suppress these soldiers and horses, and if Zhuo County was broken during the period, who would be in charge of the overall situation, and so on.
Although his uncle is not a military general who leads troops, he is now the backbone of so many generals on the front line. Everyone knows that the Shangshu of the Daoist Military Department is there, and the imperial court will not ignore Juyongguan, if it is replaced by a person who is not enough, maybe they will think that the imperial court has ignored Youzhou.
But in the entire court, apart from his uncle, who other minister could have more weight than him? You can't let the Lord Jin Guogong, who is the prime minister of the dynasty, go, right?
He tends to hide it first, and if his grandmother's health really deteriorates, he will ask his uncle to come back. If my grandmother didn't live like the imperial doctor and Zhang Xuan said, how many more years could she live?
The last thought is actually the truest wish in his heart.
What he hoped most was that Zhang Xuan and the Imperial Doctor were mistaken.
Li Ming hesitated, suddenly feeling that his brother was right, and suddenly felt that this was not good. He learned a belly of etiquette, righteousness and shame, monarchs and ministers, family and country, but none of them told him what to do if he encountered this kind of thing.
"I think...... My dad can handle both sides. Li Ming's blind trust in his father prevailed, "Dad is not a reckless and radical person, and he will not regard national affairs as nothing." Knowing what happened to Grandma, Dad may be sad, but he will not put the front-line soldiers in danger because of this. It's better to let Dad decide for himself. ”
After Li Ming finished speaking, he felt a little weak, turned his head to look at his mother, and pulled his mother as an alliance. "Mother, what do you think?"
Fang knows his husband best, he is actually a person with no ambition or motivation, and he is not as "foolish and loyal" as he shows in the way of monarchs and ministers, if his mother-in-law is really seriously ill, he may really leave the war and rush home.
But this kind of thing cannot be said in front of the children, if it is said that it will lose the face of the husband and the tall image in the eyes of the children, and the word will be rumored, but it will cause trouble for the husband.
So she could only nod in her son's expectant eyes. "You're right, your dad will decide. We...... Let's just tell the truth. ”
Li Ming smiled happily when he heard his mother's idea of supporting him.
"Then it's decided. A few days later, the doctor came to see Ping An Pulse, and I asked him how I was doing now. Zhang Daochang said that I still have three months to live, and now the battle situation is not stable, and when the situation in front is a little settled, we will send a message to the past. Gu Qing frowned, "It's just that His Majesty the Emperor doesn't want us to tell Mao'er about my situation, I'm afraid that the letter won't be delivered." ”
Walking through the post station, it is always necessary to be exposed.
When the time comes, the emperor will be angry, okay, I have told you what to do, and you dare to secretly send a letter, see if I don't wear small shoes for you!
That's so depressing.
"I'll leave this to my grandson." Li Rui narrowed his eyes, "I'll go find Mr. Wu and follow his path to send a letter to Juyongguan." ”
Although his uncle left the capital, the information at home was not broken.
Before leaving, his uncle had told him that if there was an urgent matter at home, he could go to the brothel in Pingkangli to find Wu Yuzhou, and then send a letter to Juyongguan.
It's about going to a brothel......
Li Rui, the boy chicken, fell into deep apprehension.
A few days later, the imperial doctors who had been checking the pulse once every half a month came again as scheduled, and after diagnosing Gu Qing's safe pulse, Gu Qing asked them how long they seemed to live.
These imperial doctors are all human spirits, and they say that they have been maintained for several years, and they suddenly say that it is hot in summer, so they should pay more attention to avoid fainting.
Gu Qing and them went around for a long time, and they were dizzy by the Chinese medicine terminology full of their heads, and they simply didn't ask.
Hmph, it's still traditional Chinese medicine, it's not as clear as the Taoist who engages in feudal superstition!
It's not that these imperial doctors can't diagnose it, but they are afraid that the results of the diagnosis will frighten her if they tell this old lady.
Waiting for Fang and Li Rui to send the imperial doctor out, these imperial doctors told the truth that the blood vein was already very seriously blocked, and it was best not to let her be frightened, and not to eat greasy things, because the pulse looked too bad.
Although Fang and Li Rui had heard the old lady in the family say that they were less than 100 days old, they still felt that the Taoist words were a bit mysterious after all, and they believed in the imperial doctor more, but now the imperial doctor said that it was not very good, and they really felt that the old lady was afraid that it would be difficult to escape this catastrophe.
In the next few days, Gu Qing began to actively invite relatives and friends from all parties to come to the house.
She likes Sun Yanni, the little girl of Sun Ying's family, and intends to arrange the marriage of her two children, so she wants to persuade the Fang family to invite the children of the Sun family to visit her at home.
She is getting longer and longer when she falls asleep now, and she can't see anyone for a day, Gu Qing is afraid that she will be completely paralyzed one day, so the guests she wants to receive in front are all guests who can do big things at home.
Li Ming is twelve years old this year, and Sun Yanni is only ten years old, even if she dies, after three years of filial piety, the two children are still young, this is not a problem.
But the young lady of the Zhang family is seventeen years old this year, if she waits for Rui'er to keep filial piety for another three years, she will be twenty, I don't know if she will complain about her.
It seems to be an "open-minded" person, shouldn't it?
Getting married at the age of 20 is actually the best, having children or something is not easy to be dangerous, and the mind and body have matured.
It's a pity that no one in this era can listen to her advice.
Her poor little relatives, she won't marry at the age of fourteen or fifteen in the future, right?
It's a pity not to see her in a red wedding dress.
The Fang family actually didn't think that the Sun family was a good family affair in their hearts.
Her son must be the Duke of Xinguo in the future, because Li Rui's future will fall to the prince to be rewarded, she herself is not from a high background, and she has suffered a lot in the circle, and she doesn't want to find a daughter-in-law to come back in the future, and she is generally felt that she is not worthy of the position of Duchess of Xinguo.
But the old lady in the family is very accurate, she inquired about several people who are good friends, and they all praised Sun Yanni as a child, saying that she has an excellent personality and is very reasonable. A ten-year-old girl is praised by so many people, then there must be something extraordinary.
The Sun family in Jiangnan has long been broken, and unlike the Lu family, the Sun family was divided into several branches when it was broken, and they developed separately. Sun Ying, the squire of the military department, is a descendant of Sun Wu, a master of war in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, a descendant of Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period. As far as the county wang and the family are concerned, it is indeed not bad, otherwise General Zhao would not have married his daughter to him back then.
But the Sun family had long been dilapidated when it was in the West Hu Chaohua, and now it can only be said to be a declining nobleman, and this branch is also Sun Ying's squire in the military department, which is considered the highest.
And the other branch of the Sun family has been following the Lu family in Jiangnan, and the flood in Jiangnan that year was almost on the verge of annihilation, and it was even more down.
As a parent, the Fang family always feels that their children deserve to be better, such as the Jiang family, the Qi family, and the Liu family. Even if it is not a great family, there are many nobles in the court who have a better family background than this Sun Ying.
Fang's heart was not very happy, and it was inevitable that some would be brought out on his face.
Gu Qing didn't look very happy when she saw that the Fang clan was obviously not enlightened at this time, she was really catching chickens for her.
It seems that before she dies, she has to ask the county lord of Deyang to give more lectures to her daughter-in-law, IQ is hard, and political consciousness is not something that ordinary people can have, and it is all tears.
Hey, she also has political consciousness, doesn't she prove that she is not an ordinary woman?
Fang Shi hesitated, but he refused to say whether it was good or bad. Although she was not happy in her heart, she did not dare to come against the will of the old lady in the family. At this time, when the old lady was angry, it was she who should be crying.
"Idiot! If this is overcome, your husband is already a prince of the country, how can he be promoted again? The emperor is bound to be gracious to his sons and reward your sons. When the time comes, Li Maogong will be the master, and then find a conspicuous in-law, do you think your son is not jealous enough, and you think he will not die fast enough? ”
Zhang Jing's voice appeared faintly in her ears.
Fang Clan tried not to attract attention as much as possible, and glanced to his right with his peripheral vision.
The hem of the sister-in-law's skirt was at her feet, apparently standing behind her to the right.
After so long, Fang Shi already understood that the sister-in-law was a cold-faced and hot-hearted person, and although her tone was not good every time she came out, the places she reminded were exactly what she didn't expect and lacked.
The sister-in-law is afraid that she also regrets that she almost let the Xinguo Mansion have an accident, so she doesn't even dare to reincarnate, so she can only secretly pay attention to the Xinguo Mansion, and when she has the opportunity, she wants to help, right?
If she was still alive, she could not be jealous of her, follow her for a few years to learn the housekeeping director, and the overall situation of the court, I think I wouldn't be so passive now, and I also make people laugh everywhere.
Sister-in-law Xie reminded. Fang was grateful in his heart.
"I'm not helping you. My son is also in your house now, and both are prosperous and the other is lost, and I am only for my own son. My son is different, although Li Meng and I are dead, but the emperor still keeps him in mind and secretly determines the concubine of the Zhang family in Jinyang, oops, when I think of this, I am so happy. ”
Zhang Jing smiled very satisfied, and even the tone of her voice was not so ugly, "Although you don't have much knowledge, the old lady is not as good as you, but her vision is much farther than yours." You didn't learn much before, but now it's always right to listen to her, and there are still three months, so watch more and learn more. ”
When Fang saw that Zhang Jing's skirt was gone, he knew that she had disappeared again as before.
She pursed her lips, and finally nodded in Gu Qing's surprised expression.
"Since the mother is so kind to the young lady of the Sun family, then the daughter-in-law will send someone to deliver a letter to the Sun family."
Maybe it was the Fang family who figured it out and made Gu Qing very happy, maybe it was because he was excited that his little grandson's marriage could be settled, and Gu Qing, who had fallen asleep at lunchtime, was still very energetic today.
Li Rui, Li Ming, and Li Zhao were very surprised to see that their grandmother was able to dine with them today, and after the three children finished dinner, Gu Qing left Li Ming alone and asked the two children to go back first.
Li Ming happily waited for his grandmother to whisper to him.
Is it to give him something good that only he has?
Or is there any task that only a clever and clever man can do?
The more Li Ming thought about it, the happier he became, and countless small bubbles rose up one by one in his heart.
As a result, Gu Qing only said one sentence, which made his face completely red.
"Ming'er, I'm going to propose to Sun Ying's family and help you settle on Sun Yanni."
Gu Qing likes this kind of scene the most.
A first-year-old child blushes and wants to hear about his girlfriend but is embarrassed to listen......
Oops, what a pink mess!
Thinking of this, Gu Qing asked him with a bad eye:
"You've also met Sun Jiayanniang several times. Well, if you don't want to, grandma won't propose. ”
Li Ming didn't speak.
"Although the Sun family's background is not good, and the appearance of the Sun family's Yanniang is not extremely beautiful......" Gu Qing rubbed his chin and pretended to be a little hesitant.
"It's beautiful."
"Huh?"
Li Ming's ears were red, and he hummed like a mosquito: "It's beautiful!" ”
"What do you say? Grandma's health has been too bad recently, and she is deaf and dazzled......" Gu Qing plucked her ears.
"Grandson said that Yan Niang is very beautiful!" Li Ming's voice became louder.
"Oh~ looks so beautiful." Gu Qing smiled meaningfully. "Then I'll be relieved."
Only then did Li Ming realize that Lu Dao was teased by his grandmother again, and jumped to his feet angrily: "Grandma, I'm twelve years old!" I'm not a kid anymore, why do you keep teasing me! ”
"yes, yes, you're twelve." Gu Qing waved his hand indifferently, "So I'm not discussing marriage with you!" ”
Gu Qing showed an expression of "look at how democratic I am", and confirmed it again in a shyly manner:
"Do you really think she's pretty? Isn't there anything else but pretty? ”
Li Ming puffed his face into a bun, but when he said all the embarrassing words, he broke the jar and broke it.
"The younger sister of the Sun family is very good, with a hearty personality, gentle and cute, I like it very much." The more he talked, the more slippery he became, "People say that three years old is lifelong, and when she was only eight years old, she could escape from the bad guys in the downtown area, and asked me for help, obviously a very smart and courageous girl......"
"Oh, so you've been in love with girls ever since, haven't you?" Gu Qing's eyes narrowed with a smile.
Oh, it's so funny for a twelve-year-old to say "I like it"!
"Grandma!"
"Oh, I understand, I understand, it's okay if you don't have an opinion, if you don't have an opinion, grandma will go to abduct your daughter-in-law!"
"You...... You can do it! Li Ming dropped this sentence and hammered Gu Qing's back with a dog's leg.
"Yo, do you have something to ask grandma?"
"Na, grandma, this family matter, Yan Niang is also happy, isn't it? If it is like the lady of the Lu family, wouldn't it be beautiful? Lao Lao, ask the girl of the Sun family, if you don't want to ......"
"Then you're going to forget it?" Gu Qing's eyes widened.
Her little grandson is not such a good talker. looks well-behaved, but in fact, it is much more grinding than Li Rui!
"What, if you don't want to, you can help me ask why you don't want to, and your grandson can change it."
Li Ming hammered Gu Qing's shoulder with a hippie smile.
Gu Qing was amused by Li Ming's words and crooked his mouth, patted his head, and said angrily and funny: "Do you really treat grandma as a matchmaker?" Be careful that Grandma will find you a dominatrix to come back! ”
"The dominatrix grandson also recognized it."
Li Ming's hands hammering Gu Qing's shoulders gradually turned into wrapping Gu Qing's neck from behind, but a very warm action made Li Ming very sad.
He put his face against Gu Qing's shoulder socket and spoke very quietly.
"Grandma, can you be okay? It would be nice if it was a few more years. When my brother marries a wife, and I marry, you will ...... again."
Gu Qing only felt a sour feeling rising from her heart, and then the sourness went towards her limbs and five remains, she bent forward slightly, and her heart couldn't stop throbbing, so painful that she could only gasp and cover her heart.
She wanted to stay a few more years, too. She also wants to watch them grow up one by one, and then marry and have children one by one. Even if she is old enough to be someone's great-grandmother, she is willing.
If this is really a sweet dream, even if it is done for a longer time, it doesn't matter.
But God won't let me.
This body was originally borrowed, and now it has reached the limit of the load.
"I'll miss you." Gu Qing felt that his shoulder socket was hot, so he could only pat the back of Li Ming's hand with his backhand.
She didn't turn her head, Li Ming is not small now, and she also has the self-esteem of a little man.
"Even if I go to another world, I will always miss you, and I will not forget my 'good grandsons'. Your father, your mother, your brother, Li Zhao, Li Jun, Qi Shao, Zhang Xuan...... Everyone, I will never forget. ”
"You have to believe that I have always lived, but in other places."
The dialogue time that only belonged to the grandparents and grandchildren soon ended in this atmosphere of laughter and crying. However, this night will always remain in the hearts of Gu Qing and Li Ming, and they will not be forgotten.
After receiving the post from the Duchess of Xinguo herself, Zhao did not dare to slack off, and took his daughter and his subordinates to visit the Xinguo Mansion in the inner city on the second day.
The Zhao family is actually a relative of the Xinguo Mansion, because Sun Yanni's brother-in-law is Zhang Ning. Zhang Yuan is her cousin. But Zhao's husband is also Li Mao's subordinate, in order not to let people say that his family is in league with the officials, so Zhao's running is not diligent.
But because Li Ming saved the eldest girl of her family on the Shangyuan Festival that year, the Zhao family was really grateful to the Xinguo Mansion, and even Sun Ying had an attitude of "swearing allegiance to the death" towards Li Mao.
Their whole family treats Sun Yanni as a treasure, if they really lose it, they don't know what the sky will become.
So when Gu Qing took Yan Niang away and proposed to the Zhao family that he wanted to propose to Yan Niang for his grandson Li Ming, the Zhao family was only slightly stunned, and quickly agreed happily, and was very happy.
This happiness is born from the heart, and anyone with a discerning eye can feel this joy from the heart of Zhao.
Although the Fang family regretted that his son could not marry a high-ranking lady, when anyone saw that his son was so affirmed, he must be honored, how to see how his own mother was pleasing to the eye.
Zhao is the daughter of Jiangmen, and most of Sun Yanni's heartiness is inherited from her. Under the witness of Mrs. Qiu, she first orally agreed with the Fang family first, and then made an appointment to exchange Geng posts on good days and write matchmakers.
Gu Qing honestly told the Zhao family that she was afraid that she would not be able to survive this year, Li Mao was still on the front line, and she was afraid that she would not be able to return to Beijing, so it was best to make a decision as soon as possible, and she would write to the palace to ask for marriage, so that the in-laws would not blame them for being slow and slow.
The Zhao family is naturally satisfied with this marriage. Although Fang's reputation in the circle of noblewomen is not very good, she has also been in contact with the Li family a few times, and she knows that although she has a bad heart, she really loves her son, and she is not bitter, but she is not very kind and not very smart.
Her daughter knew that she should not suffer from Fang's mother-in-law.
The population of the Xinguo Mansion is simple, and there is no habit of taking concubines to raise a house at home, so this one alone has tens of millions of benefits. What's more, Li Ming has been famous since he was a child, and he looks handsome and smart, he is a world friend with his own family, and he has in-laws, so there is nothing bad about him.
Hearing that Mrs. Qiu said that her condition had worsened, I was afraid that it would be bad, Zhao put away her smile in surprise, full of disbelief.
"If you always do good deeds and accumulate virtues, you must live a long life, how can you ......?"
"The old body is also a mortal, how can he not die. Your family agreed to our family's proposal, and the old man was very happy. Although the old body can't watch Yan Niang marry into the Li family, the old body likes her very much, and will definitely ask Li Ming to treat her well, you can rest assured. Gu Qing smiled disappreciatively, as if he didn't want to die, "It's just that I bother you to go out and sit with my daughter-in-law first, I want to chat with Yan Niang." ”
The Zhao family and the Fang family glanced at each other, the Fang family was used to their mother-in-law's often unexpected behavior, although the Zhao family was not able to adapt to it, but they also knew that Old Taijun Qiu must be asking something.
This is also natural, she is about to become an in-law, and she is approaching, and it is common for her to want to talk more about her future granddaughter-in-law.
Sun Yanni and Gu Qing chatted for a while and came out, and they couldn't raise their heads when they blushed, until Zhao returned home with her daughter, and the blush on her face had not receded.
"What did Mrs. Qiu say to you?" Zhao leaned over curiously and asked his daughter, "Mother doesn't tell the public, you tell your mother in a whisper?" ”
Sun Yanni glanced up at her mother, then lowered her head again.
"I didn't ...... I can't tell you. ”
Asked her what kind of husband she wanted, she asked Li Ming to develop in that direction or something, where could she say it!
What's even more embarrassing is that she was half-coaxed and half-deceived by Mrs. Qiu!
Mrs. Qiu...... Why is Mrs. Qiu so ...... Shocking!
In the temple of Zhiyun.
Gu Qing, whose eyes were all in the shape of a crescent moon, smiled proudly.
"The little grandson has it, and the next thing is to solve the problem of the eldest grandson!"
The author has something to say: Little Theater:
Gu Qing: Say, what do you want!
Sun Yanni: (shy) I, I like the kind of son of Xun Shijia, and I want to be gentle and considerate.
Gu Qing: (annoyed) ...... Is the gentle and considerate of the tsundere model okay?