Chapter 103: The Return
After Mu Hongshang boarded her carriage with her mother, she found that there were more than a dozen food boxes piled up on the car, and Bitong, the maid of Duchess Anguo, helped her master to sit down, and said with a smile: "Just now, a few internal supervisors in the palace brought food boxes over, saying that the eldest lady likes to eat snacks in the palace, and the queen mother rewarded these and brought them home for the eldest lady to eat."
"Hmm!" Duchess An Guo was pestered by those clan girls for a long time, and she was already exhausted, so she closed her eyes as soon as she sat down, and she didn't want to say a word.
Mu Hongshang looked very interested in dim sum, opened the top food box and looked at it, raised her head happily and said, "Mother, it's pine nut lily cake, this is particularly delicious."
Duchess An Guo opened her eyes and smiled faintly at her daughter: "It's good if you like it." Mother is tired, rest first, you be well-behaved, don't let Bitong and them worry. ”
"Okay." Mu Hongshang nodded obediently and did not say anything more. She was afraid of disturbing her mother's rest, so she didn't dare to move at will, but opened a small corner of the curtain of the carriage window, revealing one eye to look at the street scene outside the carriage window.
The carriage rumbled through the long street, but in two quarters of an hour, it was the palace of the Duke of Anguo. The side door of the carriage of the Anguo Mansion had already been opened, and the carriage passed directly through the side door, and then walked all the way back along the road of the horse, and stopped directly at the second gate separating the front yard and the back house.
As soon as the curtain of the carriage was opened, Mu Hongshang saw Mu Qingyi waiting on the side of the carriage at a glance, stretching out her hands high towards her, ready to carry her out of the carriage.
Little Miss Mu pulled her fourth brother's hand aside, grabbed her skirt and jumped off by herself, and only after standing firm did she ask, "Fourth brother, why are you here?" Isn't it time to follow Mr. Sun to read the military book at this hour! Why, I'm not at home, and you're all lazy. ”
"You're very good at worrying." Mu Qingyi reached out and pinched the little sister's nose: "Mr. Sun has something to do today, he read the military book for an hour in the afternoon, and he dispersed early."
"It's cheap for you," Mu Hongsheng curled her mouth: "I went to the palace, and you even found an opportunity to be lazy."
"Where is this lazy," Mu Qingyi helped Bitong to help Duchess An Guo out of the car, and then spoke: "Today, the eldest aunt took you into the palace, and the family was a little worried, grandmother didn't have much for lunch, and kept chattering, I finally looked forward to you coming back, and I didn't hurry up to ask my grandmother for peace." Let her old man see if there is any hair missing when you enter the palace. ”
"Fourth brother and fourth brother," Speaking of asking for peace, Mu Hongshang began to pick up the carriage curtain with an excited face to hug those food boxes: "Come and see, I brought a lot of snacks from the palace back, what about the fifth brother and Jinyi?" There are also three aunts and uncles, invite them all to the grandmother's house, and we will share snacks and eat. ”
"Put it down," Mu Qingyi sighed and pulled Mu Hongsheng's hand, Sen Sen felt that his active younger brothers and sisters really didn't have a moment to make him worry: "Where can you carry so many food boxes yourself, be careful if you fall, everyone will have nothing to eat by then." Don't worry about it, Sister Bitong will call someone to move later, where do you need to make trouble. ”
"Then let's go and call them in Jinyi," Mu Hongshang didn't go to carry snacks, so she picked up her skirt and wanted to run, but was pulled by Mu Qingyi again: "Jinyi, they were originally in Grandmother's house, and I came out to greet you." Let's ...... first Eh, Mr. Sun!"
Halfway through Mu Qingyi's words, he suddenly looked at the position behind Mu Hongsheng, Mu Hongsheng turned around with his gaze, and sure enough, he saw Mr. Sun hurrying with his robe, walking towards the second gate. Hey? Mu Hongsheng looked curious, didn't the fourth brother say that Mr. Sun had something to do in the afternoon......
"Madam, Fourth Young Master, Eldest Miss." Mr. Sun walked in front of Mu Hongshang and Mu Qingyi in a few steps, and Mu Hongshang found that Mr. Sun seemed to have a beaming face.
"Mr. Sun, why are you so happy," Mu Hongsheng asked with some curiosity, "Didn't the fourth brother say that you had something to do in the afternoon?"
"If you want to listen to me, I'm afraid that the eldest lady will be happier than me," Mr. Sun first smiled and looked down at Mu Hongsheng: "Today, the letter from the north has arrived, and Grandpa Guo is busy in the outer study, so he asked me to pass on a message." The eldest prince has already set off from the north to return home in May, and he may be able to return to the capital in mid-May. ”
"Really!" Mu Hongshang grabbed Mr. Sun's sleeve in surprise: "Mr. Sun, you didn't lie to me, did you?" Didn't the eldest brother say at the beginning that he would leave at the end of June? ”
"Yes!" Mr. Sun smiled and nodded: "That's right. However, the eldest young master wanted to go home in June to celebrate the eldest lady's birthday, and because the current situation in the north was quite stable, the second master agreed to let him leave a month earlier. ”
"Fourth brother! Fourth brother!" Mu Hongshang jumped up excitedly, she turned around and grabbed Mu Qingyi's sleeve and shook it vigorously, almost tearing Mu Qingyi's sleeve: "Did you hear that?" Big Brother is coming back! In another month, Big Brother will be back!!"
"Yes!" Mu Qingyi, who is stable on weekdays, was also surprised, grabbed Mu Hongsheng's hand, turned around and ran to the back house: "Go, go tell my grandmother and my mother." My mother has been reading it since the beginning of the year, and she is finally looking forward to the return of her eldest brother. ”
"Eh, you ......" Before Mr. Sun finished speaking, Mu Qingyi and Mu Hongshang had already disappeared. He couldn't help but shake his head and laugh: "These two children, why don't you listen to anyone finish speaking, so you can bring the letter from the north to the old lady for me......"
"Mr. Sun, don't blame," Duchess Anguo, who remained in place, also smiled happily: "The children are so happy." After two years, the children looked forward to it day by day, and finally waited for him to come back. ”
"That's what Madame said." Mr. Sun nodded with emotion, and then handed a stack of letters to the Duchess of Anguo: "These will be taken to the back house by Mrs. Lao, and the second and third sons have letters to bring them."
"Thank you, Mr. Sun." Duchess An Guo was overjoyed, took the thick stack of letters, turned around and walked briskly towards the back house. It seems that the fatigue of the whole day in the palace is gone.
When Duchess An Guo arrived in Mrs. Mu's courtyard, the noise in the house had almost torn off the roof, and the children's loud laughter could be heard from afar, which was mixed with Mrs. Mu's smiling voice: "Okay, it's not too late to wait for your eldest brother to come back and make a fuss." Now I'm happy like this, on the day I go home, you still have to work together to knock down my house. ”
"Tsing Yi and Hongyi are so fast," Duchess An Guo didn't wait for the maid to open the curtain, and directly opened the curtain and walked into the house: "Mr. Sun didn't finish a word, and you ran away." Don't you want to read the letters from the second and third brothers? ”