Chapter Ninety-Seven: Incense (1)
Biunji Temple is west of Kyoto, and it takes about an hour for horse-drawn carriages to travel out of the city.
Tong Mingyu and Li Jiaoying were in the carriage, each holding a sleeping child in their arms.
"These two kids slept like piglets today." Li Jiaoying look at this, look at that, the road is lonely, why is there no one willing to wake up and spend this boring time with herself!
Tong Mingyu gently changed her daughter's position to make her sleep more comfortable, she greedily looked at her daughter's pink face, long and curved eyelashes, and small mouth like flower petals, and her heart was full of pride and happiness. No wonder her father-in-law and husband doted on her so much, and she felt that her heart was slowly melting when she watched it quietly like this.
"Tsk, tsk, it's so happy to have a daughter!" Li Jiaoying was sour by the mother and daughter opposite, sister-in-law, you should also worry about my feelings as a person who has no daughter.
Tong Mingyu nodded at Xiao Yuan in his younger brother's and sister's arms with his chin and his jaw, aren't you also holding it in your arms? Why be jealous of us!
"I don't feel very obvious when this little guy is in my arms, but I can feel that she is growing again." Li Jiaoying touched her little niece's face, and then touched her little hands, the flesh was really comfortable to touch.
"Be careful not to wake her up." Tong Mingyu glanced at his younger siblings, this aunt doesn't look like an aunt, the two of them look like a fat rabbit falling into the clutches of the big bad wolf.
"Sister-in-law, you said that if I wanted to deceive Ruyi tonight...... Take it to Qingyuan for one night, will she agree. ”
"Your Aqi doesn't care about being thin, right?"
"Who likes to sleep with a stinky boy in her arms, how nice a little girl is, tender and soft, and fragrant."
"How good Aqi is, obedient, and steady, don't be in the blessing and don't know the blessing."
"Is Aqi here too?" Xiao Yao, who heard the conversation between the two in a daze, woke up from Tong Mingyu's arms, rubbed her eyes, yawned, and asked in a lazy and soft voice that had just woken up.
"Your fifth brother and sixth brother went to the school today." It's clear that my daughter hasn't fully woken up yet.
Tong Mingyu replied to her daughter's words in her mouth, skillfully tied her daughter's hair, sorted out her clothes, and took out a plate of snacks from the food box she brought, and poured out half a cup of milk.
"Has the vegetarian meal started, why didn't anyone call me?" Probably smelling the fragrance of snacks and milk, Xiao Yuan sat up all of a sudden, and looked around with sparkling eyes.
"I knew that a plate of dim sum would wake you up, why should I bother with it for so long!" Li Jiaoying regretted it.
Failed to find the so-called vegetarian meal, Xiao Yuan reluctantly ate most of the plate of dim sum, and then retracted back into Li Jiaoying's arms, and said aggrievedly: "In order to pray for the fourth uncle, I haven't eaten well for a few days, and I must make up for it at noon today, my grandfather said yesterday that I have lost weight." ”
"Okay, let's make it up." Tong Mingyu readily agreed.
Li Jiaoying, who opened her mouth a few times and finally closed it, nodded indifferently, Xiao Yuan said that she believed it was not a lie, because the only person who saw that her granddaughter of such a size was too thin was her father-in-law.
While laughing and laughing, the carriage stopped.
After standing firmly, Xiao Yao looked up in front of him, a mountain full of pines and cypresses appeared in front of him, and the winding stone steps were not far from his feet.
According to the past practice, female dependents can take a sedan chair up the mountain, but today in order to pray for the youngest son and express their sincerity, the Qin family rejected this proposal.
The elders did not sit in a sedan chair, and the rest of the people had to follow on foot, but fortunately, the temple was halfway up the mountain, not on the top of the mountain.
"Ping An and Ruyi are still young, and you brothers carry them up the mountain." Qin Shi turned around and said to Xiao Jingtai and Xiao Jingyan, who were in charge of escorting tasks today.
Xiao Jingyan quickly stepped forward to pick up Xiao Yao and left his little niece Xiao Yuan to the second brother.
"Second uncle, Ruyi likes to be hugged by you the most, do you like it?" Xiao Yuan, who was still in high spirits and didn't feel that he had just been disliked, shouted happily.
"You're not ashamed." Xiao Jingtai looked at his younger brother with disdain and asked, where can a child be heavy, and return it to his uncle!
"The second brother has a steady hand, and he is stronger than me, but I did it for the sake of Ruyi."
Sophistry, except for the Qin family and Xiao Yuan, the rest of the people thought of it at the same time.
"The second uncle also likes Ruyi, let's go, let's go up the mountain." Xiao Jingtai easily picked up his little niece and walked at the front of the line.
"I'm sorry, please stop." A person dressed as a guard stopped Xiao Jingtai and his party.
Xiao Yao saw the person's outfit, and secretly thought in his heart, the one who dared to openly stop the second uncle must not be an ordinary official's family, could it be that there is a big man in Biyun Temple, and today's incense will not be successful.
"This official, we are here to pray for blessings, can you be accommodating." Qin preemptively spoke before Tong Mingyu said, if today's trip goes well, she will be much more relieved about her son's long trip, if there is an accident, she will be annoyed for a long time, thinking that it is not a good sign, and then feel uneasy.
"I'm sorry, you guys go to other temples, Biyun Temple is not convenient to receive outsiders today." The guard saw that the Xiao family was not like ordinary people, and his tone of voice was a little polite.
"May I ask which house you are guarding?" Xiao Jingtai asked.
"We ......"
"Excuse me, a few of them are General Xiao's family members." Qiu Ying, who happened to come out to fetch things for Princess Jing, saw a group of people talking to the guards of the palace from a distance, and several of them were figures who seemed to have seen it themselves.
When she approached the crowd and saw the little girl in Xiao Jingyan's arms, she became more and more sure that she was not mistaken.
"You are from King Jing's Mansion." Tong Mingyu also recognized Hanying, this is the eldest girl who has been with Princess Jing, and she has seen it at the banquet of the Yuan family. In this way, the nobles in the temple at this time should be Princess Jing.
"Is Princess Jing in the temple?" The Qin family was a little discouraged, if others could still ask for it cheekily, but how could the princess have the right to make her own demands in front of her.
"It's our princess and the prince, everyone wait a minute, let me go in and say hello." Qiu Ying is just a maid and does not have the right to let people into the temple at will, she will definitely not care about this matter if she is another family, but the Xiao family has a deep relationship with the palace, and I believe that if the princess knew that it was the Xiao family, she would definitely let them enter Biyun Temple.
"I'm tired." Tong Mingyu said politely, if her mother-in-law doesn't make incense today, she will inevitably be depressed and sad, for the sake of her old man's body, she has to ask the big girl to help spread the word, and she doesn't dare to assert whether it is successful or not.
After a while, Qiu Ying returned with a smile, ordered the guards to retreat, and warmly welcomed the Xiao family's daughters into the temple gate.
Xiao Jingtai and Xiao Jingyan definitely couldn't enter Biyun Temple, so they had to go back the same way, planning to pick up their families again in the afternoon.
"Our princess said that please ask the two masters to go back by themselves, and the princess of the Xiao family will be responsible for sending them back after the incense."
"Xia Guan thanked the princess on behalf of his family." Xiao Jingtai said respectfully.
"Lord Xiao doesn't have to be polite." After a pause, she continued: "The princess invites the ladies of the Xiao family to enter the main hall. ”
The Qin clan thanked Qiu Ying, and didn't care that his youngest son hadn't gone far yet, so he took the lead and walked inside, as if he would be denied entry if he was a little late.
Xiao Yao once again deeply admired the Qin family, maternal love is really great, and she can ask for her son and grandmother softly; For the sake of her son and grandmother, even if she is not good at socializing, she knows that the other party is a princess, and she has no intention of backing down.
All this is just out of a pure love for the Son!