When Gu Yilan saw the birthday gift sent by Mu Zhengyi to Mu Hongsheng, she had already understood everything. But she didn't say anything, she didn't look sad at all, she wasn't even in a hurry to open the letter Mu Zhengyi sent her, with a smile on her face, she lowered her head, and was seriously busy helping Mu Hongshang open the gift.

On the contrary, the rest of the Mu family all showed the same distressed gaze, looking at Gu Yilan cautiously.

"Lan'er," Old Madam Mu cleared her throat and said stubbornly: "Don't be busy, your sister's big bags and small wraps, let her pack them by herself, and write a letter to you, you can go back and read it." ”

"Hmm." Gu Yilan picked up the letter on the table: "Then I'll go back to the room first, and then come over to say hello to my grandmother at dinner." ”

"No, no, no." Old Madam Mu hurriedly waved her hand: "It's hot, you can have dinner in your yard today, don't run away." I don't have much appetite for the evening, and you don't have to rush here to deliver food and snacks. ”

Gu Yilan didn't continue to insist, and after she saluted the elders around her for several weeks, she took her own family letter and left Mrs. Mu's courtyard. She didn't look back as she left, and she knew that the family, from old to young, was looking at her back worriedly.

She could feel the care from her family, and this care, along with the letter in her hand, made her feel like crying. Gu Yilan didn't want to cry in front of the elders, because she didn't want to cause more worries from the elders, so she didn't dare to look back, if she turned back, her tears would not be able to be hidden.

Gu Yilan never came out after returning to the room this day, she shed tears all night at Mu Zhengyi's letter, she missed her husband, but she also knew that as the wife of a military general, such a day of being alone in the empty room was the normal state of her future life.

It wasn't until the third watch that Gu Yilan picked up her pen and wrote a reply to Mu Zhengyi. In her reply, she told her thoughts and thoughts about Mu Zhengyi, but there was no trace of resentment between her words.

She also carefully wrote about her life in the Mu family to Mu Zhengyi, and told her husband with many small things that she was very good, very happy, and didn't need to worry about it. She also wrote a lot of advice in the letter, one tea and one meal, no matter how big or small.

The letter was long, long, and folded in a thick stack. In the early morning of the second day, when Gu Yilan sealed the letter and handed it to Duchess Anguo, she was even a little embarrassed. And Duchess An Guo looked at Gu Yilan's slightly swollen eyelids and smiled understandingly.

When Mu Zhengyi received Gu Yilan's letter home, it was already early July. This year, the weather in the north is not good, after the summer there will be heavy rains, the city defense construction project has been delayed by the weather, and the bad weather makes the survival of the Rongdi people quite difficult, although the Rongdi Khan is negotiating peace with the Great Zhou, but those tribes who did not submit to the Khan do not care so much, under the pressure of survival, they are still constantly harassing the border of the Great Zhou.

Negotiations were underway in Beijing, so the Muhammad generals in the north understood that they would have to have a greater advantage in the skirmish against Rong Di in the current situation. Right now, Mu Chengxin is in the capital, and Youzhou's defense pressure is the greatest, so before everything settles, Mu Zhengyi can't leave the northern border.

At present, he is taking Mu Tieyi and Mu Chiyi, and the three brothers are guarding Youzhou together, keeping an eye on the city defense project, patrolling, and beating back the Rongdi people who crossed the border, and the days are very busy.

Youzhou's defense is under great pressure, Mu Zhengyi hardly has any respite, and Gu Yilan's letter from home is one of his few consolations. He carefully carried his wife's letter in his arms and carried it with him, whether it was patrolling or sending troops to fight, but whenever he had some time to camp in, he would take out Gu Yilan's letter and read it carefully.

Gu Yilan's meticulous and even trivial advice, somehow, always reminded Mu Zhengyi of a long time ago, when the two first met in Tiantong Mountain. He still firmly remembered that when he sent troops to suppress bandits, Gu Yilan prepared soup and rice for him in the post house, and he once made a joke that did not know how to measure.

"If you go back with such a soup and a meal, won't you have to pay it back for a lifetime."

It's a lifetime. Mu Zhengyi thought of his wife in the distance, and a gentle smile appeared in the corners of his eyes.

"The eldest brother is reading the letter from the sister-in-law again," Mu Tieyi sat next to Mu Zhengyi with a smile, the pair of cat eyes similar to Mu Hongsheng blinked, and the expression was very funny: "Look at it every day, you are not tired." ”

"You don't have to laugh at me," Mu Zhengyi folded the letter carefully and put it back in his arms: "Next year, you and Chiyi should also go back to Beijing to say goodbye, and you will understand by then." ”

"I heard that my sister-in-law is a rare beauty." Mu Chiyi took off the backpack on his back, took out a piece of dry and hard dough from it, broke it and distributed it to his brothers.

"It's beautiful." Mu Tieyi nodded and replied, "I've seen it." I saw it at Princess Pingyang's Mansion a few years ago, and I saw it once at my grandfather's birthday party. But I never thought that she would marry her eldest brother. ”

"She's a friend of my little sister, and it's not just right to marry me." Mu Zhengyi replied with a smile: "We are not at home on weekdays, and there are people who play with my little sister." Speaking of which, Xiaomei also has a friend, Miss Xie Si, have you seen it too? ”

"I also saw it a few years ago," Mu Tieyi replied, "The granddaughter of the Xie Xiang family, right?" That year, she fell into the lake, and my little sister recklessly lost her, which frightened our mother. ”

"Let your sister-in-law be a matchmaker, how about next year who will be the daughter-in-law of the two of you?" Mu Zhengyi asked with a smile.

"She?" Mu Tieyi carefully recalled Xie Shurou's little white face, and suddenly shook his head in fright: "No way, no way!" The girl looked like papier-mâché, and when the wind blew, she fell. I can't coax a girl like that to marry her. ”

"Xie Xiang's granddaughter, you still think it!" Mu Zhengyi stretched out his hand and pushed his brother's head: "I'm afraid that people still don't look down on you." ”

"Huh?" Mu Chiyi, who was sitting on the side, suddenly scratched his head: "No, big brother, I remember you said that it seems that King Yi likes this Miss Xie Si." ”

"That's the thing." Mu Zhengyi nodded: "Most of the King Yi also took a fancy to Miss Xie Si's family background. After all, she is Xie Changjing's daughter. I heard my uncle say a few days ago that Xie Changjing seems to have been promoted to the fifth grade. ”

"Then you and your sister-in-law are messing up with some mandarin duck scores," Mu Chiyi's mouth almost reached the back of his ears: "People will be Princess Yi in the future, what does it matter to me and my second brother." ”

"Strange." Mu Tieyi's thinking deviated in the other direction: "I always feel that Miss Xie Si is a little weird with King Yi. Isn't this Xie family the mother family of King Xin? How can it be the king of Yi? The position of the Xie family is a little delicate. ”

"It's none of our business." Mu Zhengyi stuffed the dough cake into his mouth: "Eat quickly, continue to patrol after eating, and see that the weather seems to be raining again." ”