Chapter 43, the eve of the birthday
After three days of recuperation from the wound on his head, Li Mingshuo felt that there was no major problem, so he called Li Moge to go out and go home, it was the beginning of winter, the weather was cold, and he needed to wear a cloak to go out every day, he wrapped his head tightly so that he could not see the wind, and took a carriage to and fro to avoid sweating and infecting the wound.
The fifth day of the winter month is Li Mingshuo's mother's birthday, and the family is already busy and jubilant in order to prepare for this birthday.
When Li Mingshuo went home to see his mother and younger siblings, he had to explain his head wrapped like a dumpling.
He lied that he had ridden a horse to the suburbs a few days ago, and had accidentally fallen off his horse and hit the tip of a rock, and had a small cut in his head, and he was bleeding profusely, and he did not dare to come out to see the wind when the wound was fresh, so he stayed at a friend's house in the suburbs for several days.
Mother Li looked at his strangely wrapped head, distressed and angry, and said in front of everyone: "Where do I dare to bother you, it's good if you don't provoke things to the family, now your brother and sister Ziying are in charge of this family, except for you, a lonely ghost, there is peace and tranquility at home and outside." ”
Li Mingshuo said bluntly to his mother: "Then why are you still talking with such a big anger?" Where am I upsetting you again? ”
"I'm not upset, I'm just upset." The mother and son are like children, bickering, childish.
Li Mingshuo frowned and said, "What's the difference between being unhappy and being upset?" Aren't they all the same? Okay, don't explain it to me, just say what you're upset about, right? If I can defeat you, I'll try to help you defeat you. ”
Mother Li pouted and said, "Don't give me the southern fist and the northern leg, ancestor." It's you that bothers me. ”
Li Mingshuo was even more surprised: "What do I have to worry about, my son is such a good son, others can't be greedy-------"
Li Mingshuo suddenly caught a glimpse of his younger brother stealing fun on the side, and said vigilantly: "Mother, it won't be the second child's disaster that has fallen on my head, right?" ”
Li Chongjun hurriedly clarified: "Mother, I've been very well-behaved recently, and I haven't caused trouble at all. Even I felt bored with my well-behaved nature. ”
Mother Li scolded her youngest son and said: "I naturally have a book to remember your account, I will settle it for you in a few days, and I want to teach your brother a lesson today." Don't interject. ”
Li Chongjun hurriedly kept silent.
Li Mingshuo saw that Li Chongjun was also being trained, and gloated: "That's it, the second brother has a lot of accounts, and it takes time to calculate, so I have to take time out to settle it, mine is different, one or two sentences, right, mother------ mother, please tell it concisely." ”
Mother Li said with a sad face: "I also have a heart disease, every year my birthday is approaching, when I think of your aunts, aunts, aunts and the like, every year when you see me, you have to ask me why the eldest son of the long house can't give birth to a child until now, I am very upset, so annoyed that I don't want to celebrate this birthday, I don't want to see these old sisters." Which pot is not opened, which pot they like to mention the most-------"
Li Mingshuo heard his mother complain about the fact that he had no children under his knees, and he was overjoyed, and deliberately pretended to be indifferent on the surface and said: "Cough, I thought there was a big deal to annoy my mother, it turned out to be such a trivial matter----"
Mother Li asked in surprise: "There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, you still say that this kind of thing is a trivial matter?" Do you have water in your head? ”
"Mother is so smart, why don't you know how to be flexible, I'm just a child, so what's there to worry about, there are so many children in the second brother's house, and the one who gave me three melons and two dates is the one who gave me three melons and two dates. There are many children in his room, like cabbage in the alley. I, the uncle, will not treat them badly. ”
When Li Chongjun heard this, he smiled maliciously and said to Li's mother: "Mother, don't be anxious, my brother is still young, and there is time to recuperate, you must not rush him, I am afraid that the more I push, the more I will go backwards." ”
Li Chongjun smiled evilly and said to his brother: "Big brother, even if I have as many children as cabbage in the alley, that is also my dish, not your dish, I won't give you any of them, I want to grow the cabbage by myself, there is no hard work, the harvest is taken, hehe." ”
Su Ziying was very moved by the matter of the child in the second room giving the big house, and she persuaded Li Chongjun softly: "Second master, you really don't know how to lift, if the children in our house are passed on to the eldest brother, then the princess will be their mother-in-law, maybe one day the emperor will be magnanimous, and the princess's child can be named the county lord or something, this is the blessing of our children, it is like the mothers who have no future with them." ”
Mother Li pretended not to hear Su Ziying's muttering to Li Chongjun, and still said to the boss: "I met Mother Cui a few days ago, and she complained to me that you have been more and more lazy to run to the princess's mansion to ask for peace recently, even if you go to a trip, you will go and sit and leave, and you will not stay to accompany the princess for a meal at all, as if you are in Cao Ying's heart, what have you been busy with lately, you are like an old hen who can't nest all day long---"
Li Mingshuo interrupted his mother's words irritably, and said aggrievedly: "This Cui mother is really difficult to serve, I used to run diligently, he said that I was thick-skinned and ruined the reputation of the princess, now I don't run diligently, she came out with this set of rhetoric again, I think she is short of money to spend, in the past, I wanted to spend the night in the princess's mansion and had to get her consent, she was ripped, who did she think she was, and charged tickets at the gate of the princess's mansion?" Hold me alone to collect ---"
Li Chongjun once provoked the little palace maid in the princess's mansion, and was sued by Cui's mother in front of the princess and Li's mother, and the two also formed a relationship. In terms of hating Cui's mother, the brothers Lee Myung-seok and Lee Chong-gun have a rare unity.
Li Chongjun interjected: "Mother, Cui's mother is an old widow, this kind of old widow is the most unpleasant for young people, if she dislikes her brother, it's not good to do this, it's not good to do that, it's better to let her set a rule for her brother, and my brother will act according to the rules she set, so no matter how bad it is, I can't complain about my brother." ”
Li Mingshuo didn't appreciate the love of his brother at all, glared at him, and said concisely: "I don't need you to make suggestions, get out of the way." ”
Mother Li said sharply: "Who do you want to go?" Doesn't your brother have any reason for that? Since what you do is not in line with her wishes, then you simply ask her to make a set of regulations, and you just strictly abide by them. Anyway, you're a man, and you can't afford to lose anything. ”
Li Mingshuo protested: "If I let that old palace maid make a charter for me, won't I be controlled by others?" After a long time, she may still think that she is my mother, and she doesn't know what her surname is. ”
Mother Li thought about it, it seemed that what the eldest son said was right, nodded and said: "Fortunately, there is nothing at home that you need to be busy with recently, why don't you go to the princess's mansion in the name of discussing the birthday banquet, don't let the other side think that our etiquette for serving the princess is not thorough." ”
Li Mingshuo pondered for a moment, made up his mind, stood up, bowed his hand to his mother, and said goodbye: "What my mother taught me is that my son will go to the princess's mansion to visit now, and my son will not come back for dinner at noon, and he will not have to wait for his son at night." ”
Seeing the seriousness of her eldest son's face, Mother Li did not suspect that he had other plans, so she nodded and instructed: "You should concentrate a little when you are with the princess, don't always look like you are in the middle of the house, and ask Mother Cui to say that people are in Cao Ying's heart in Han." ”
Li Mingshuo nodded and promised: "Mother don't worry, I will serve the princess as a mother, and she will be beaten and scolded, you are my mother, she is my mother, this is going down." ”
Mother Li listened to her son's words more and more disagreeable, and hurriedly drove him away: "Don't say these soft words in front of me, it's useless, if you want to say it, go to your princess and wife." ”
Li Mingshuo was amnesty like a dream, turned around and ran away.
Mother Li saw the eldest son's back disappear quickly, sighed and said to the old servant Mother Zhao beside her: "It is said that the child is married, and parents don't have to worry so much, you look at the boss of our family, the whole living ancestor who will never grow up." ”
Mother Zhao comforted Mother Li and said, "Old lady, if you listen to what the eldest son in our family is like, you will be pleased." They all said that although our eldest son has a stubborn temperament, he is indeed extremely kind......"
Li Chongjun interjected again: "That's it, mother, think about it differently, the eldest brother's son will save you more food, I can't touch anyone else for ten days and a half months, I don't know where he lives outside and what he's busy with..."
Mother Li scolded: "He is your brother, even if he does it wrong, there is no part for you to comment on him, I don't have anything to do with you here, you two can go down." ”
Li Chongjun, Su Ziying and his wife saw that the old lady had given an eviction order, so they hurriedly got up and said goodbye and went out.
Mother Li looked at the backs of the second child, sighed again, and said regretfully: "Pity my boss, although he is a concubine, it is not as good as his younger brother marrying a daughter from an ordinary family as a daughter-in-law." At least the second child doesn't have to look at his daughter-in-law's eyes. This is the way a big man lives. ”
Mother Zhao continued to comfort and said: "Old lady, our second son is merciful everywhere, and the second grandmother also shed a lot of tears behind her back, if you ask which son these girls are willing to serve, they all say that they would rather serve the eldest son, from the matter of Dongmei's little girl, everyone can also see that the eldest son is not an abusive person, nor is he a rich child who is unkind and unrighteous and abandons from the beginning." ”
Mother Li prayed: "I hope the Bodhisattva can bless the eldest husband and wife of my family, and the children and grandchildren will be full." ”
may be because of her weak heart, Mother Li always feels that she is making a wish that cannot be realized.