The winter snow was long, and with the flying snowflakes, a fast horse entered the royal city. The fast horse stopped in front of Fan's Mansion and brought a big news: Fan's convoy had arrived at the boundary of Zezhang and would return home tomorrow evening.

Fan Jihui, the eldest of the Fan family, traveled in Qi and Shandong for nearly two years on official business. Although many letters have been sent back in the past few months to inform him that he will return home, the distance is long, and the places mentioned in each letter are far away from the king's capital. This time, the convoy finally entered the vicinity of Wangji, which made everyone feel that Changjun was really coming back.

When the eldest lady Wen Rui heard the news, she immediately stood up and said happily: "Thank God, I am finally coming back." A smile appeared on her face, and after a moment of self-amusement, she began to roar and command.

"Quick, arrange everything you asked you to prepare, and make sure it is arranged properly by tomorrow morning."

"Go, iron the new set of clothes I prepared for Ming'er again, and send him over."

The husband will return home tomorrow, and Wen Rui is really happy in her heart. In the past two years, her husband has been outside, and her heart is also hanging, and she is not stable for a while. Now, the husband will be able to return home safely tomorrow, and the stone hanging in his heart can be regarded as landing.

The news that Fan Jihui was about to return home soon spread in the house. Fan Jihui is the eldest son, and the eldest is returning home is a major event, different people naturally have different reactions when they hear it, people of the same faction as the elder are naturally happy when they hear it, and those in different camps are naturally in a delicate mood when they hear it.

When Fan Jihui returned home, Fan Di solemnly opened the thick and magnificent vermilion lacquer door. Except for the lowly concubines, all the people who should come out have come out. Especially the eldest lady, who took Fan Ming to wait outside the door for her husband to return home early.

The eldest lady is dressed up very grandly today, and she doesn't like to wear a full head of jewelry on weekdays, but today she wears a complete set of red gold and ruby treasures, and carefully puts on the most popular makeup in the royal capital nowadays, plum blossoms, distant mountain eyebrows and small rouge lips. Fan Ming was also picked up by her, people rely on clothes, and the little fat man who was very smug in the past really has a little bit of the courage of the eldest grandson of the great sect at this time. Black hair bun, black jade tiger hairpin, a deep lake blue wide sleeves straight jacket, embroidered with auspicious cloud rui animal pattern, silver-white collar and sleeve edges, wrapped in a green jade belt and tiger stripe ring, white background and black shoes embroidered with gold thread, extremely magnificent.

Fan Miaoshu was the last to come, wrapped in a thick white fox fur, holding a delicate hand wrapped in a deerskin sleeve, walking without hurrying or slow, leisurely and arrogant.

Fan Ming saw Mingyun following behind his eldest aunt at a glance. Today's Yunmei is better looking than in the past, no longer with a sassy and neat look of Hufu boots, but wearing a more graceful and gorgeous curvature. It was a purple and blue sleeve curly coat, the collar was pearl-white, and the clothes were embroidered with large white magnolia patterns, gorgeous and elegant, bright and dignified.

Today's Ah Yun is really good-looking, Fan Ming couldn't help but stare at Ming Yun for a while, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help grinning. Seeing Fan Ming's expression, the eldest lady cleared her throat and took a small step back without a trace, just covering Fan Ming's sight.

The eldest lady first glanced at Fan Ming, then tilted her head slightly and smiled at Fan Miaoshu, and said, "Ashu, this Yun'er is really getting better and better, and she is already a slim girl." ”

Fan Miaoshu just smiled faintly when she heard this, and said, "That's nature." ”

"The more I look closer, the more I feel that Ah Yun is good-looking, such a beautiful person, whether it is like you or like a brother-in-law, she is a very beautiful person." The eldest lady only looked at Mingyun's face and said with a smile.

Speaking of Gongzi Chengyi, Fan Miaoshu pulled the corners of her mouth coldly and unpleasantly, took a step forward, blocked the eldest lady's sight, turned sideways coldly, and stopped talking.

The eldest lady snorted silently in her heart, secretly rolled her eyes, and touched the hair ornament on her head. The gold was as cold as ice under the cold wind, and it was a little awkward. She has never been accustomed to Fan Miaoshu's appearance of no one in her eyes, as if no matter who she is, she is inferior to her. However, I am afraid that in the future, this Lord of the Fan Clan will have half of the blood of the so-called barbarians in her mouth. As a result, she felt that Fan Ming had to continue to strengthen discipline, and she couldn't relax for a moment.

Fan Ming looked at his mother's eyes, suddenly shivered, and felt nervous for no reason.

Everyone was waiting at the door, the cold wind in winter was very cold, and after a while, everyone was so cold that their cheeks were red, but the hours passed moment by moment, the sky was darkened, and Fan Jihui's convoy did not appear for a long time. As time went on, someone began to whisper.

Wen Rui didn't show it at all, she only smiled and waited quietly, but her hands were tightly clasped together under her sleeves, and the more time passed, the more panicked her heart became. When she turned her head, she inadvertently saw Fan Jizhu standing on the side with a smile, and she couldn't help but feel a sudden sudden.

The eldest lady was in turmoil, and suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves in her ears. The sound of horses' hooves slammed into her heart, and she was both nervous and hopeful. She couldn't help but stretch her neck to look, full of anxiety, her knuckles pinched white.

At this time, I saw that at the corner of the long street, a green caravan carriage engraved with the family emblem turned out, which was Fan Jihui's carriage, which looked simple and atmospheric. The carriage was parked in front of the door, Fan Jihui lifted the curtain, jumped out of the car, and laughed heartily: "Oh, this road has been bumpy, and now it can be regarded as going home." The Fan brothers are tall, but Fan Jihui is more upright, standing upright, with clear eyes, loud voice, and always a frank and hearty smile on his face. He wears a green jade crown on his head, a short beard on his chin, and a blue and purple sleeve straight jacket.

The eldest lady saw her husband get out of the car, gasped heavily, and her heart relaxed. At this moment, she couldn't care about that much, so she hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Husband! ”。

This "husband", with a cry, honestly expressed his thoughts and worries.

"Father!" Fan Ming also ran away after his mother.

"Ari." Fan Jihui has also missed his wife and children for most of the past six months, held Wen Rui's hand tightly, and smiled at her knowingly.

"Husband, you haven't returned home for more than half a year, and Ming'er has grown a lot taller." The eldest lady pulled Fan Ming to show Fan Jihui.

Fan Jihui looked up and down a few times, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It's grown a lot." As he spoke, he patted Fan Ming on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, I have grown so much in the past six months, I don't know if your homework has grown as much as a leader, I will go to your grandfather's place in a while, and when I come back, you go to my study, and I will test you." ”

This development was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Fan Ming, he instantly wilted into a frosted eggplant, with a sad face, not knowing how to deal with his father's "torture" next.

Fan Jihui came to the front of the house with his wife and children, and Fan Jihui took the lead in welcoming him with a few brothers, with a happy face, and said, "Brother, welcome the eldest brother home." ”

Fan Jihui returned the salute, smiled, and said, "Third brother, you and my brother haven't seen each other for a long time." He bit the word "for a long time" heavily, as if it meant something.

"Yes, I haven't seen him for a long time, my brother misses my brother very much, and I am worried about my brother all the time, but fortunately, my brother returned safely, it is really blessed by God."

"God blesses you. Today I met a few wild dogs on the road, wild dogs are crazy, almost delayed my return home, fortunately wild dogs are crazy, they are just wild dogs, just kill them. Fan Jihui said with a smile. With that, he smiled and stepped up the steps.

On the steps, Fan Miaoshu gave Fan Jihui a salute.

In the year before Fan Jihui went to Lu State, he couldn't meet Fan Miaoshu because of official business, and he hadn't seen him in the past four years. At this time, I was very happy to see it, and I smiled at Mingyun, who had obviously grown up a lot, and said: "The longer this child grows, the more similar he is to you, look at this eye, this nose, they are all like you." ”

Fan Miaoshu saw that Fan Jihui's face softened a lot, and a smile appeared on her face, no longer as cold as before. She smiled lightly and said, "My daughter is naturally like me." ”

"Hello like you, pretty like you." Fan Jihui said.

Fan Miaoshu also smiled and said to Mingyun: "Don't hurry up and salute your uncle." "She

"Mingyun has seen my uncle." Mingyun smiled and bowed generously, and his voice was clear.

Fan Jihui looked at Mingyun and remembered his sister's appearance when she was young, and when she liked it, she said, "Xiaoyun'er doesn't need to be polite." ”

Fan Miaoshu said: "The last time you saw her, she was about eleven, and she hadn't grown up yet, but now you see, has she grown a lot taller?"

"Indeed, the last time I saw her, she was still here." Fan Jihui smiled brightly and compared the position of the abdomen. "Well, now not only has I grown taller, but I am also beautiful." Fan Jihui patted Mingyun's top hair and said with a smile.

Mingyun hung his head slightly, just smiled, and did not speak.

When Fan Jihui returned home from afar, he first had to visit his father, and Fan Jihui went to Fan Ying's main hall with him. After visiting his father in the main hall, Fan Jihui hurried to visit the second room. When they went, it was Fan Cheng, Fan Jiyou's eldest son, who was guarding the bedside.

The whole room was filled with the smell of bitter medicine, the bed was scattered with half-drawn curtains, and the material was light brown, embroidered with gold thread. The half of the curtain at the head of the bed was tied with a red tassel rope, and the half at the end of the bed was scattered haphazardly, and the curtain was so long that it almost hung down to the carpet. The ebony table next to the bed was piled up with all kinds of bottles and jars, all of which were life-sustaining tiger and wolf medicines. All the attendants in the room had a sad face, frowning and drooping, without any fresh breath. A sense of decadence emanated from all corners of the house, and no matter how luxuriously decorated, it could not be concealed.

The ground in the room was extremely vigorous, and Fan Cheng rolled up half of his sleeves and half knelt on the couch at the head of the bed. A servant girl knelt on the side holding a copper basin, Fan Cheng wringed the handkerchief with his own hands, and carefully wiped the face of Fan Jiyou, who was sleeping on the bed, with a warm towel.

Fan Cheng heard the sound, turned his head to look over, hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said, "I've seen uncle and uncle." Because his father was seriously ill, his nephew could not go out to greet him, and he asked his uncle not to blame. ”

"Good boy, hurry up, we are all a family, why talk about these lies. What happened to your father? Fan Jihui strode to the bed and sat down. Every time he saw Fan Jiyou's sick face, his heart would ache incomparably. In the past, among the three of their brothers, the strongest one was the second brother, he was good at martial arts since he was a child, and no one could beat him if he talked about the art of archery, but now, he was lying on the bed thin and sick to the point of being out of shape.

"Has your father been asleep like this?" Fan Jihui asked worriedly with a frown.

"Well, although my father now has Mr. Xiao Shennong Xue to take care of him, my father's body is too weak, although his spirit is better than before, but sometimes he falls asleep like this for most of the day, and he is not in good spirits when he wakes up." When Fan Cheng said this, his eyes were a little red, and he was very sad.

"Can you still walk around the ground now?" Fan Jihui knew the answer, but he was still unwilling to ask again.

"It's fine, but I'll get tired after walking for a while." Fan Cheng replied.

Fan Jihui sighed again and again when he heard this, he looked at Fan Jiyou's thin and sunken yellow face, and his chest felt uncomfortable as if it was pressed by a big stone.