Chapter 3: The Lost Three Years
The Yufu Mansion in the capital was once famous for a while, but now it has long fallen out of the noble circle and has become a broken settlement in the mouth of others.
It's just that Old Lady Yu still bears the false name of Ning Anbo, and the title can be passed down for another generation, although it is demoted to a viscount, it is still a title.
It is said that Yu Zhiyuan is the original son-in-law and should be the heir of Zheng'er Bajing, but unfortunately he lost his mother at a young age, and his stepmother Li regarded him as a thorn in the flesh. I can't even wait to take away my little life, where would I be willing to give him the title?
When the Changfang family was still living in Yufu, the Li family rarely had to deal with the two daughters-in-law, but they made it extremely difficult for the Yao family. Uncle Yu doesn't care about everything, he only loves to walk birds, fight cocks and play crickets, and the house is full of Li's final say.
If it weren't for Yao's own standing, the long house would go up to the master and down to the slave, and I am afraid that there would be nowhere to cry.
Yu Zhiyuan knew very well that the Yu Mansion would only go downhill, and it was really bad to stay in the mansion and fight over trivial matters, not to mention that his wife and children would be tortured.
He tried his best to sort out the relationship and was transferred to Yuzhou, which was far away from the capital, to serve as the assassin.
The terrain here is remote, there are no special products that can be obtained, there is no beautiful scenery sought after by literati, and there are not even a few wealthy families.
In addition, he is an honest official and never goes home to collect money, and his family has lived a very poor life over the years.
Despite this, Yu Can still wants to stay in this small world all the time. In his spare time, he chatted with his neighbor Sister Song, climbed the mountain, and went to the suburban stream to fish in the summer.
But she understands that her father and brother are both ambitious people, and they can't stay in this square inch forever.
Her mother has been away for such a long time, and she must miss her grandfather and grandmother in Beijing. Even if it's just to figure out what is going on in their heads and to guard against it, the family has to go back.
Thinking of this, Yu Can sighed angrily, as long as he is with his relatives, where is not home? She'd better brace herself and face it.
Seeing that she was not in high spirits, Yao Shi made a look and asked Yu Zhiyuan not to mention these unhappy things. "So Cancan, you like to play with Ye'er and Ling'er the most, have you forgotten it now?"
Hearing Yao's words, Yu Can remembered that he had an extra brother and a sister.
"Mother, how old are they? How many years did I forget? ”
Yao saw his daughter who suddenly returned to the appearance of a little girl, and he was so distressed that he hugged her tightly. "Your 'sleep', let alone lost three or four years!"
The three of them carefully compared what they remembered and didn't remember, and finally came to the conclusion that Yu Can had lost his memory for nearly four years, and his thoughts stayed when he had just turned eleven years old.
In Yu Can's cognition, "yesterday" she still pestered her brother, who was four years older than her, to run to the street to play, and watched the old man at the street make sugar paintings with relish.
Yu Shuo saw her pitiful little eyes, and as usual, he took out all the twenty copper plates that she had all her worth, and bought her the two largest sugar paintings.
A majestic tiger, a vivid beauty portrait. Yu Can was so overjoyed that he was thinking about dividing the sugar painting into several pieces and leaving them for his father and brother.
Yu Shuo rubbed her head and said that she would earn more money in the future, so she invited an old man to go home and do sugar painting, and do as much as she wanted!
As a result, halfway through, the two saw a fainted old monk, ragged, skinny, looking very pitiful.
Yu Can thought that those chivalrous and righteous heroines in the script always had good rewards, and after being entangled for a moment, he decided to break off the big tiger and stuff it into the monk's mouth. Unexpectedly, he woke up suddenly, snatched the beauty statue and ate it.
Yu Can was so anxious that she jumped to her feet, did she want to keep one home to eat!
She angrily took away the old monk's broken wooden bowl, and told him that everything in this world should be exchanged for the same, and the old monk should return her a bowl if he ate her sugar.
The old monk got up with a smile, stroked Yu Can's head with a pair of surprisingly clean hands, and walked away reciting some scriptures that he couldn't understand.
Yu Shuo looked funny, and saw that the bowl in Yu Can's hand was shabby, not to mention that it was dirty, so he persuaded her all the way to let her throw it away.
Before going to bed, she was still annoyed that she didn't keep another sugar man, but when she woke up, it had been so long since that incident.
The elder brother is no longer a fifteen-year-old boy, he abandoned his pen and went to the war and made meritorious contributions. Dad's political achievements made people return to Beijing, and they are likely to be promoted. Mother gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and now she is not yet three years old.
And she herself is about to pass the line, and she has become white, and it is said that she has learned etiquette well in the past two years. But now, she can't remember the rules she's learned.
"Seeing that you want to go back to Beijing, what can you do like this?" Seeing that Yu Can was ignorant, and his eyes were full of innocence, Yao's heart tightened.
"It's hard to put away some of the wild nature, if you talk less, you still have a pretty look, but now this ......" This is back to the stage of being stupid in the upper room!
Yu Zhiyuan disagreed. "Cancan just thinks back to eleven years old, and he is not an ignorant naughty child, the amnesia is not strange, we don't have to deliberately hide it, just hide what should be hidden.
"As for the rules, Madame need not be in a hurry. There is still half a month to go, and with a little practice during this time, you can mix in front of people. Jingzhong is not harsh on women, there are so many lively and fun-loving noblewomen, there is no need to be too restrained. ”
Yao nodded, she was not afraid that Yu Can would be embarrassed, but that she was worried that Li would use the rules as an excuse to physically punish Yu Can, and she was also worried that Yu Can would be ridiculed by the nobles of the capital when she was in foreign affairs.
But after thinking about it, her daughter is not really stupid, and the etiquette is always better than those in Yufu. Besides, it is impossible for her daughter to be bullied and silent, thinking about this, Yao is relieved again.
Yao felt that if she could teach her daughter once, she would be able to teach her a second time. "Cancan, you'll follow me for half a month, pick up the rules and learn them, okay?"
"Mother, just let me play for another day! Please, I'll get up early tomorrow morning and learn the rules! "Yu Can is now a child's heart, even if he is afraid of being ridiculed, he still wants to play a little trick, even if he only avoids today.
She wanted to see her younger siblings, she wanted to talk to her eldest brother about this strange thing, and she wanted to see what Sister Song had become next door.
"Cheng Cheng Cheng, I don't have a trick for you!" Yao scolded her, but naturally agreed.
"Let's go, have breakfast first, your eldest brother should also clean up." Before Yu Zhiyuan's words fell, the voices of the maids greeting Yu Shuo came from outside.
"Brother!" Yu Canyu jumped up, ran out with a new dress, and stepped out of the inner room door, where she saw a tall, straight, heroic young man standing outside, looking at her helplessly.
She found that her eldest brother, who had always been whiter than her, had become much darker, and he could grow faster, and she had grown taller but only reached his chest. In the past, the eldest brother's face was still a little childish, but now it has faded and is more like his father!
The well-defined face, the eyebrows and facial features that are getting better and better, and the momentum like the god of war in a painting, all make Yu Can feel fresh and curious.
Yu Shuo saw his sister staring at him with wide eyes, touched his cheek, and said, "What are you doing, don't you want to change the law and say that I am black again?" ”