Chapter 20 "She Didn't Know It Was Ancestral"
The days slipped away for several days in Su Xiangsi's busyness, and the weather gradually warmed up, and the next person had already knocked down the snow on the trees. The master was walking down and was hit by the snow, and he was punished for blaming it.
The snow melted from the roofs and dripped down the eaves like loose beads, splashing into a circle of water on the stone slabs of the cloister. From the sound of "ticking" in the night, Su Xiangsi thought it was raining lightly.
There was no need to light a brazier in the house, and Su Xiangsi replaced the thick velvet jacket. Wearing a narrow-sleeved tunic to look through the scrolls, he picked up a pen from time to time to sketch.
The shallow sound of conversation outside the door did not interrupt her thoughts. Liu Wu sent someone away in a few words and went into the house to reply to her.
"It's the eldest lady who sent someone to send a new style of pastries from Jinxiu Building."
Su Xiangsi was still buried in the mountains of scrolls, and he didn't raise his eyes, and he let out a light "um".
"Sending the best brocade in exchange for a box of pastries is a big loss. Take it to your mother and try it. ”
Liu Wu's footsteps towards the outside paused, and then turned back: "Third master, third lady, the third young master went to the appointment early in the morning, and the young lady didn't bother before she woke up." ”
My parents and brother also have a lot of friends in the capital, and when they come back after two years away, they always have to contact each other. Filtering the friends that my parents have seen since I returned to Beijing, a big family has emerged. He asked, "Who are you going to see?" ”
"The lord and lady of the Qingping General's Mansion, and ...... Mu Shizi. ”
Su Xiangsi's hand holding the pen shook, and the ink dripped on the paper, leaving heavy ink spots.
It's just that old friends meet, and I don't know why my heart beats faster.
The simple carriage came to a slow stop on the mountainside behind the Puluo Temple, and the coachman was a dark-looking and ordinary-looking young man, who was inconspicuous in the crowd. Waiting for the carriage aside, the middle-aged man in a tall ink-colored robe got out of the car, and the slender woman came out behind him, but the black birthmark on his face greatly reduced his favor. Put his hand in the man's hand, borrow his strength, and jump out of the carriage briskly.
said that he was going to burn incense in Puluo Temple, and when he got off the bus at the inn outside the city to rest, he had already changed his clothes and makeup with people, and left the inn before and after.
The three of them walked up the trail in the back mountain, shuttling through the dense forest for about a stick of incense. I saw a separate yard with a fence surrounding five thatched houses.
After knocking on the door, an old man opened the crack in the door, poking out his head to guard against it. The three of them briefly explained their intentions, and the old man hesitated and thought for a while before opening the door and letting people into the courtyard.
When he entered the house, the old man brought hot water, and his precautionary posture was not there, so he respectfully withdrew. The three of them quickly removed the makeup from their faces, and the tightly wrapped three people entered the house.
"Qinse!" The familiar and surprised woman's voice sounded, and Li Qinse was hugged tightly.
hugged her friend Ling Jiao very nostalgically: "I can finally see each other." ”
The two sat down next to each other at the table, missing and worrying endlessly.
Su Mian and Mu Qian looked at each other and slapped each other's shoulders hard. It hurts so much that it grins. Sit down and make tea, looking like you want to chat for a few days and nights.
Su Mingjin pulled Mu Jinchen aside and looked him up and down, left and right: "Si'er said that you have been poisoned a few times, and now you are still unwell?" ”
"It's okay, sit down and talk."
General Su's Mansion and Qingping's Mansion have no intersection between generations in the eyes of the world, and there is still a faint smell of gunpowder from each other. It is more common to compete in court.
The opportunity to suppress the opponent will never be soft, and he will not be convinced by the opponent's ability to lead troops to fight. In response to that sentence, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.
After Su Mingjin and Mu Jinchen were born, they were compared more intensely.
The ability of the master's generation is not comparable, and several victories have been changed to storytelling. He has made a lot of military achievements and has become a hot and powerful person in the capital, even if King Yu personally cleaned up the waterlogging at a young age, the limelight was not as popular as these two generals.
Mu Jinchen has excellent talents, and he won the battle the first time he led the army, and the emperor rewarded him generously. General Mu Lao threatened that the title of lord of the Qingping General's Mansion would be inherited by this grandson.
In this comparison, Su Mingjin does not have such a good status. After a few victories, he didn't have an official position, so he could only obey his father's name as an ordinary soldier.
After that, Mu Shizi had an accident, and he had no fate with the battlefield again. The Qingping General's Mansion was hit hard and couldn't afford it. He will no longer participate in court politics. On time, he was an idle general in the early dynasty, and he had no intention of competing for the limelight with General Su's mansion.
The two mansions that are incompatible on the surface, who would have thought that three generations of people are close friends.
When they were talking, the old man knocked on the door to remind him that it was not early, and it was too late to go back to the mountain road. A few people were shocked to realize how quickly time passed.
"Don't carry it if you have any difficulties, send someone to deliver a letter to me and this stinky boy." Although Mu Qian doesn't go out of the house often, he still knows the wind and grass outside.
Su Mian glanced at Mu Jinchen on the side, and his voice was obviously displeased: "You stinky boy!" I haven't settled the account with you yet. I wanted to slap Mu Jinchen with a palm, and then I thought of his body and held back the palm that I wanted to raise.
When Ling Jiao heard this, she was happy and angry: "Si'er accepted the jade bracelet, why didn't you tell me." "Joy is that Acacia has been labeled as the daughter-in-law of the Mu family, and the angry son is a trick.
Mu Jinchen spit out lightly: "She didn't know that it was ancestral." ”
Those present were stunned.
It is true that Mu Qian and his wife like Su Xiangsi, but their son's methods are a little shameless.
Mu Jinchen gave a look back, this is called the first strike.
Su Mingjin was so angry that her throat was blocked and she couldn't say a word, and she slapped her hand without any seriousness. Mu Jinchen was sturdy and snorted.
Li Qinse couldn't wait to go home immediately, opened her daughter's brain to see what was inside, a usually clever person was deceived by this tail wolf for no reason, and looked at Mu Jinchen's eyes with unprecedented seriousness, "No matter what happens in the future, you must put Si'er first." ”
Mu Jinchen swore with four fingers to the sky, solemnly promising to live up to Su Xiangsi. I passed the first level.
Su Mian didn't plan to let him go so easily, and left with a cold face and his beloved wife. Su Mingjin glared at Mu Jinchen even more fiercely, and dared to attack his sister while he was not there.
Mu Jinchen was glared at physically and mentally, as long as Si'er was his, it didn't hurt to receive a few more palms.
The mother-in-law agreed, and the father-in-law and brother-in-law had no choice but to give up if they had any opinions.
They have already entered the city, and Su Mian is still angry. A good baby girl, just like that, was set. Mu Jinchen is the ideal son-in-law in his heart, and he intends to match his daughter. But the meaning of being attacked by him first is different.
Li Qinse doesn't worry so much, and the children have their own ideas. Moreover, Mu Jinchen has a calm temperament, and he is a person among the dragons, he looks good-looking, and everyone understands each other.
"Don't you know Si'er's temperament? I have no intention of accepting anything from Jinchen? ”
Su Mian's face became even more stinky when he heard this, and he had already decided to beat his daughter.
"It's almost home, don't put on this look at Si'er." pinched Su Mian's waist, he dared to spoil his children's good deeds and couldn't spare him.
How dare you not listen to your beloved wife's words?
Su Xiangsi had already prepared dinner at this time and waited for them to come back, and his heart was unstable all day, and he couldn't take it back when he was out. Sitting together for dinner, her heart was still beating a little fast.
Su Mian's father and son saw the eye-catching jade bracelet on her wrist and wanted to take it off immediately and break it on the spot.
Su Xiangsi knew that old friends would have endless words to say when they met, but ...... What did a few people say when they got together?
Doesn't seem to be very happy?
Father and brother went out on a trip and came back to see her with a little resentment in their eyes?
"Si'er has also reached the age of discussing relatives." Li Qinse's fluttering words made her almost choke on the soup.
Lowered his head and glanced at Su Mian, but the other party didn't know what he was angry about, so he didn't bother to look at her.
"My brother hasn't decided yet, and I want to spend a few more years with my father and mother."
Su Mian put down his chopsticks, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was meaningful: "My sister can settle down first if she has someone she likes." ”
was furious when he was seen, and he couldn't say anything: "No...... No. ”
Li Qinse gave Su Mian soup, and peeked at her a few times: "Today, Ling Jiao and I are also discussing the Spring Festival party to find a girl for Jinchen." ”
Su Xiangsi calmly took a sip of soup: "It just so happens that my brother hasn't decided yet, and I will pay more attention to the Spring Festival party." ”
"Tsk, the situation is not stable, and I have no intention of having children."
The family finished dinner in a weird atmosphere, and Su Xiangsi made excuses and had some things left unfinished and didn't stay long. On weekdays, I can't leave, and I won't go back to my house until I'm sleepy.
The front foot just walked.
"Sister, what's the reaction? Could it be that you really don't feel for Ah Chen? ”
"It shouldn't be ......" Li Qinse couldn't figure out his daughter's thoughts.
"Hmph, there are so many sons in the world, it doesn't have to be him."
Su Xiangsi asked Liu Wu and Rosin to turn over the neatly ordered scrolls again, and read them several times but did not find the news they wanted.
Rosin held her forehead, and it took a long time to tidy it up, but now it's messy again: "What is Miss looking for?" ”
"Is there any news of Xiangsheng? Am I missing it? "My mind was racing and I remembered that I hadn't looked at her file.
"No, why is Miss so anxious all of a sudden?" Liu Fu carefully recalled the sorted content, Xiangsheng is a sensitive person, and she will not forget her news.
Su Xiangsi sat cross-legged on the ground, with eagerness in her words: "No? Let Nanzhi go to Jinxiu and send the news of Xiangsheng in the past two years. ”
Although the catkins were puzzled, they didn't dare to delay and hurry up.
"By the way, which mansions Madame Chamu has been in contact with recently."
Mu Jinchen was casually draped in bed clothes, and the tips of his hair were dripping with water droplets. The red sandalwood pen flowed smoothly in his hand.
"Master, the letter from Prince Jing Jiu is Miss Su's business." Yu Yi bowed respectfully, the prince didn't like others to disturb him when he was practicing calligraphy, but it was a matter of Miss Su who couldn't drag it out.
I only wrote half a word, threw the pen aside, and took the bamboo tube.
"Acacia is in Cha Xiangsheng and Mrs. Mu."
The two good-looking eyebrows wrinkled together, and I didn't understand why she and her mother were suddenly checked: "Tell Jing Jiu, tell her everything you know." ”
He is also checking Xiangsheng's whereabouts, and now he doesn't know what Su Xiangsi knows. can't let her misunderstand, and the relationship that was so close can't be wasted.
Perhaps, there are some things that should not be waited on.
Mu Jinchen slept very lightly this night, and got up before dawn.
And Su Xiangsi was panicked in her heart, and when she woke up from a nightmare, she couldn't fall asleep over and over again, and she fell back asleep when the sky was white.
The catkins and rosin didn't understand it even more, the young lady was still staring at the jade bracelet a few days ago, and suddenly she was so irritable.