CHAPTER XXXI
Out of the capital, all the way to the northwest, their purpose is the north.
After walking for a whole day and night, the next day was noon, they just arrived at the post station halfway, Li Qingmin sent Yue Dong'an to line up the carriage and the next people, and led the second master Li Zhiyu and Qingyan into the post station.
Li Zhiyu was untied on the road, and he didn't speak with a black face all the way, and Qingyan didn't know how his brother used to make his father give up the struggle.
In the middle of the inn is an empty lobby, the second floor can be rested, and the corridor surrounded by railings can be seen from above and down from the lobby.
The simplest and simplest wooden table and wooden stool, Qingyan sat down casually with a light brush, and there was a little guy in a blue cloth shirt shuttling back and forth in the crowd, smiling brightly, and constantly saying "Okay...... Good...... Let's let let's let", very busy!
Li Qingmin and Li Zhiyu sat opposite her, and the other sat on her left-hand side, and the elder brother waved to Xiao Er skillfully, and Xiao Er smiled and said, "Son, wait a minute, the little one will come over soon."
Qing Yan looked at him with a pair of dark eyes that were exposed outside, and said with curiosity: "Brother often comes out of this kind of place?"
Qingmin's face was relaxed and bright since he left the Li family, and he told Qingyan some interesting things, and the second old man, who was originally black-faced, had a darker face, and glared at him in a low voice: "Are you going to study or going to the market, no wonder you can do things that disrespect your elders and go against the grain!"
Li Qingmin turned a deaf ear to his words.
The old man was furious, stood up and slapped the wooden table vigorously.
After the sound of "pop ......".
The lobby was silent for a moment, and everyone turned their heads to look at them, seeing that it was just a father and son arguing, and turned back to what to do!
Only the nearest table was an old gentleman, dressed in a green cloth robe and a scarf on his head, which was the usual dress of the Northlanders.
He has a wide face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a high nose, which is extremely strong when he looks at it.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he said boldly: "Brother...... How can you talk about your own child like that, if you want to say it, don't say it in public, it will damage his backbone if you lose the child's face."
Li Zhiyu glanced at him sideways, and saw that it was just a Shu clan's dress, so he snorted coldly and said, "Nosy"!
The man was not angry, but laughed.
Qingyan accidentally saw a saber hanging from his waist, and hurriedly gagged Li Zhiyu before he could speak again, and said to the man with a smile: "Father can't speak, please don't take care of it."
She didn't want to call for trouble, this man was not an ordinary Shu clan at first glance, but like a soldier guarding the border of the northern land, with a straight back, a resolute face, and a sharp light in his eyes.
The man smiled at her and said, "You don't look like you're from the Northland, but you're going to join your relatives."
Qingyan replied to him heartily: "Exactly, what about you?"
The man grinned shyly, and seemed to be very embarrassed and said, "I'll go home to see my mother-in-law and my eldest son."
Li Zhiyu heard this and whispered "rude"
The man didn't just hear it or didn't care, and continued to gulp wine and eat meat.
Qingyan glanced at it helplessly, and said softly: "Father, even if you are still angry, you can't always be so weird, since it has reached a point now, you still want to open it......
I know that you resent your brother for destroying the benefits that your grandmother promised you.
But why don't you want to think about it, does my father have that fate? ”
Li Zhiyu glared at Qingyan, his anger never subsided, and he said gloomily: "It's not because you are arrogant and save your mother very much."
Qingyan stared at his eyes and asked seriously: "Father, your mother was chosen by you to marry home, why don't you look down on her now?"
Qingyan couldn't understand that although his father didn't say that he loved his mother, the two of them also raised their eyebrows and respected each other like guests, what caused him to be so disgusted now!
Li Zhiyu was silent for a moment, as if he was hiding something!
Three bowls of ordinary noodles were served, Qingyan sighed and ate hot food, her empty stomach was filled at once, and she breathed a comfortable sigh.
At this time, the guests who have eaten and drunk enough have a leisurely mood, and when it comes to the east, the family has pulled up the west!
Guest A said: "The days are getting warmer, and you can farm as soon as the rain passes."
Guest B said: "I heard from the descendants of Huofu Grange that their wife has cultivated new seedlings this time with a very high yield, and they have been promoted in the grange of many scholars in the north."
Qingyan pricked up her ears, the lady of Huo Mansion is not her eldest sister Li Qinghua!
Guest A said excitedly: "Is it really happening? The mother of the Huo family doesn't know which way she is a fairy, and she has a lot of means, until the Huo family master married her, and the Huo family is increasing day by day."
At this time, other people joined in, and when it came to the housewife of the Huo family, everyone was respectful and appreciative.
Qing Yan became interested, leaned over there, and asked with a smile: "Brothers, when I heard you talk about the Huo family's housewife, it seems that she can do anything, but what has she done?"
When she asked, everyone became interested, and they were even more interested in telling her from the beginning.
Qingyan listened carefully, and remembered that when he was still in the county king's mansion in Jiangzhou, once the wife of a six-grade official visited the old lady of the county prince's mansion, bringing the fragrant thing called soap they said.
It's just that at that time, she was like a state of running out of oil, where would she care about this, but she listened to people gossiping about that thing, which was deeply liked by the ladies and ladies in everyone.
It is said that even the state of Chu was sold.
Someone said this, and Qingyan asked him: "The housewife of the Huo family also has a way in the Chu State, otherwise how could she go there?"
Another person said mysteriously: "I heard the niece of a cousin who I was on an errand in Huo Mansion say that the mother of the Huo family was friendly with the eldest princess of Chu State, and she just took the door of the princess's mansion."
Everyone let out an "oh".
Qingyan frowned and thought about it, in her memory, although her eldest sister was smart, she was similar to them, and when she was in the boudoir, she also read "Female Commandments" and "Female Training" with the female gentleman, and learned from the female red, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Everyone was in high spirits, and a group of people came in from outside the door, and among the many mothers and maids, a girl wearing a long skirt with a hundred flowers and a white brocade with a white flower piping cardigan walked in.
Such a large formation is rare in such a remote post station, and everyone can't help but stare at it.
The old woman at the head coughed heavily, and her sharp eyes swept over the visitors, making them shudder instantly, and hurriedly retracted their gaze.
Qingyan greeted the black eyes of the woman who covered her complexion like her, and said in her heart: What a pair of stars falling from the sky, she must be unbelievably beautiful if she wants to take off the veil!