Thinking of the scene when she met Mrs. Cao for the first time, she also thought that she was withdrawn and arrogant, not a good negotiator, and even more difficult to influence than Ning Nanwei.

Who would have thought that now the Cao family would maintain her everywhere like this. Ning Nan was reluctant to go to the North Courtyard, so Mrs. Cao did not see the prince on the grounds of discomfort, until he was forced to go to the North Courtyard to sit for a while, and Mrs. Cao was willing to accept his invitation.

In this way, all kinds of small details make Jiang Chengjia feel warm, as if she has a maternal love that she has never had since she was a child.

Her eyes were covered with a light mist, and she was stunned for a long time. After realizing that he was a little out of shape, he hurriedly lowered his head, raised his sleeve and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said softly: "Mother protects her daughter-in-law so much, and her daughter-in-law is grateful." ”

Cao Shi sighed lightly and said, "It's not without my own selfishness to defend you. Zhao'er, a very stubborn child, will always be haunted by old things. But since you entered the house, although you can't persuade him to let go of the past, once the matter involves you, he will always worry more. Although I stay in this house all day long, I don't hear anything outside the window. But he also knows a little bit about what he is planning now..."

Jiang Chengjia raised his eyes and looked at him, waiting for Cao Shi to continue.

Cao Shi looked at her and paused for a moment and said, "Half a month ago, the two of you quarreled... I don't know why, but I think it has something to do with the war that broke out on the flat ground in the city. ”

Jiang Chengjia frowned slightly, silent.

Cao continued: "These days... I don't want to see him, and that's because of this... But although I blame him for starting a war for no reason, and harming the innocent people of this county. But you can't really blame him. Zhao'er was not as paranoid as he is today, but I can't get rid of the reason why he became what he is now. ”

Mrs. Cao took her eyes off Jiang Chengjia and looked at a calligraphy and painting hanging on the blue brick wall facing the low couch, and after a moment of silence, she pointed to the scroll made of white scrolls of warp silk on the wall with her slender fingers, and said softly: "Do you know... Who made this calligraphy and painting? ”

Jiang Chengjia followed her finger and looked at the brick wall opposite.

I saw that there was a beautiful landscape ink painting of green mountains hanging on it, and two rows of geese with delicate and ingenious painting were flying in the upper row, and the remaining part of the blank was mentioned with four lines of poetry. She was dragged by Cao Shi to the front of the painting, and only then did she see clearly what the poem wrote: "The river is cuidi and the scarlet cloud cave, the spirit of Kyushu surrounds the clouds, the two geese are flying loyally and loyally, and the green mountains are white and white." ”

Jiang Chengjia has words, his eyes are stuck in the majestic atmosphere of the ink white landscape on the painting, which is like a long scroll of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, revealing the bold air in the painter's chest between the strokes, but because of the two rows of black geese flying alone in the sky a few feet above the pen and meticulously depicted, it seems a little lonely and lonely. If you look closely at this painting, you will find that under the mountains and rivers where the wild geese cannot hover, there is a strong wind of thick ink sweeping this vast land of China, as if to destroy everything.

From this point of view, the geese hovering in the sky were desperate to resist the strong wind, as if they wanted to protect this pure land homeland, in a vain attempt to drive away this irresistible force of nature. suddenly highlighted a heroic spirit of Ling Ran.

She couldn't help but admire: "It is worthy of the poems written by Lu Fuzi, which vividly expresses the meaning of this ink painting scroll." ”

Cao smiled slightly: "Ah Luo really deserves to be the sister of Jiang Zhusi, read a lot of books, and know that this poem of Yan Fei's loyal bones and blue clouds was written by Lu Yu, a great Confucian in the literary world back then. ”

Jiang Chengjia lowered his head slightly and said humbly: "Mother has a good reputation, when Lu Fuzi's poem spread all over the land of the Great Wei, the scholars who admired his talent at that time would recite this poem... The daughter-in-law also heard her brother read it often, so she was fortunate enough to know this poem. The calligraphy and painting hanging in my mother's room... Could it be that Lu Fuzi wrote it himself? ”

Cao nodded and said, "Lu Yu was extremely famous for this poem back then... This painting is indeed the source of his poem. Merely.. Although the poems were written by him, the paintings were not his brushwork. The person who paints is my old man, so he is not worth mentioning, so I won't say much. A Luo knows Lu Yu's poem, and must also know his good demeanor. So do you know the Chang Mengjun rebellion case at the end of Yangjia's second year? ”

Jiang Chengjia was stunned for a moment, and said slightly: "This case shocked the Kyushu mainland back then... Nobody knows everybody. ”

"Did you know... The mastermind of Chang Mengjun's case, Yue Qi Yue, and Lu Yu, who was discussed as an accomplice, were framed? Cao continued to ask.

There is another reason behind this matter, and the daughter-in-law knows a little about it. After the Chang Mengjun case, the fourteen-year-old brother rushed to Luoyang to inquire about the situation, and still does not believe that the two of them will do something rebellious. Jiang Chengjia clenched his hands in his sleeves, knowing that the Cao family wanted to explain to her today why Ning Nan was so radical now, so he replied to her words.

These words... It's an extremely private word. A case was in a uproar that year, and Emperor An's iron-blooded approach to the rebellion caused most of the people in Beijing to be Lu Fuzi and Yue Qi's intercession to be demoted, expelled from Beijing, dismissed from their posts, investigated or confiscated their entire families, so there were countless casualties and rivers of blood flowed in a case. So much so that no one dares to mention this matter again today, because once it is mentioned, if it is accidentally spread out, it will be a catastrophe, and the slightest carelessness will kill the whole house.

It has only been half a year since she married into the Hou Mansion, but the Cao family is willing to listen to her such an old story, which was firmly blocked and forbidden by the Son of Heaven, which shows that she completely regards herself as a family member and thinks that she will never betray the Hou Mansion and the prince.

Although Jiang Chengjia had long been clear about the original story of the past, and knew that Ning Nanwu was now doing revenge, she was still grateful for Cao's trust in her, and her eyes were wet with tears.

Cao Shi took her hand, sat down on the couch, and talked to her about the dusty old things thirteen years ago.

After she finished speaking, she saw that Jiang Chengjia's face turned slightly pale.

Cao thought that these bloody past events had finally scared this little girl who seemed to be not afraid of heaven and earth, so he comforted him loudly: "Don't be afraid, these things... Fortunately, it's over now..."

Jiang Chengjia sighed and said, "My daughter-in-law is not afraid... My mother told me so much... I want to tell you... These things that the prince has done now... It's all about revenge for the teacher, right? Let me not blame him, shall I? ”

Cao Shi was a little surprised when he saw her say this directly: "My son is smart, and he knows what I mean so quickly." ”

"Mother... It's not that the daughter-in-law can't understand the prince, but she thinks that what the prince is doing now is very dangerous... And for so many years... It must have hurt a lot of innocent people... Such a harmful and unprofitable thing will only make him continue to become hateful and paranoid. Mother's intention today is to persuade me not to obstruct the prince from taking revenge? ”

Mrs. Cao's face froze and fell silent.

"Half a month ago, my mother also saw that the city of Linhe was disturbed by a war. The Wuhu clan is so bullying my Great Wei territory... The people in Linhe City are panicked, hiding at home all day long and refusing to leave the house, which is even the most lively East Market and West Market on weekdays... Now it's as dead and silent as an empty alley... This morning, Uncle Ji ordered the servants in the mansion to go out to buy the ingredients I needed, and when I returned with my belongings, I was full of lamentation, saying that the ordinary vegetable market was no longer empty, and I needed to go all over the county to buy ingredients, and even needed to go out of the gate of the city to buy what I needed in the neighboring city. Such an empty city... Could it be that this is what the spirits in the heavens Lu Fuzi and General Yue Qi want to see? Besides, these days, aren't you angry with him because of the intervention of the prince and prince in the Linhe war, and you have refused to pay attention to him so far? The daughter-in-law knows... Dissuading the prince is not necessarily effective, but sincerity is the opening of the golden stone. The daughter-in-law can persist and persuade the prince to let go of the obsession in her heart. ”

Jiang Chengjia was reminded by Cao's family, and only then did he wake up from the guilt of Ning Nan yesterday, and suddenly he didn't know what he did yesterday and this morning? What are you feeling guilty about?

Although Ning Nanwei did not make a move against the Jiang family, Gu An and Tong Wu, he chose to do it to the innocent people in the city of Linhe. Most of them are small farmers who live a hard life by farming men and women weaving, or merchants who do small businesses... It was made at sunrise and rested at sunset, and it was honest to earn a living... And now it's suddenly a catastrophe... In the county town, the streets and alleys are like empty cities, and every family is closed, there is no transaction, and there is no way to make a living. When the county town was sealed, grain and commodities could not be transported and sold, and the way of buying and selling trade was intercepted, so these powerless and powerless people could not earn their families, and they were afraid of the Wuhu generals all over the county, so they could only close themselves at home and starve, fearing that there would be a way to live tomorrow.

Yes, in addition to Gu An and Jiang Taigong, there is also a small people in this county, hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, but she patronized to defend the Jiang family for her brother and forgot about them.

Jiang Chengjia said indignantly, and felt that he had lost his etiquette in front of the Cao family, so he retracted his voice and lowered his voice slightly: "My daughter-in-law's words are too radical, please forgive my mother." ”

Cao Shi was not angry at her for such fierce words, but smiled at her: "I know that you and your brother are both people who care about the well-being of the people and hope for the peace of the Great Wei land. It's just that... But I had to think about it. I'm not trying to dissuade you from what he's doing... Rather, I want you to do it another way. In this world... No one can stop him from taking revenge for Lu Yu and Yue Qi, but he doesn't even listen to my words. The estrangement between our mother and son is so deep that it can't be melted in a day, but you and I are different. ”