Chapter Twenty-Three: First Meeting, Promise
Li Tugen's house was built at the foot of Dongmian Mountain, so that he could go up to the mountain to hunt when he was not out to "dart". But sometimes he likes to hunt big game, and he may stay in the mountains for a few days without coming down, so a relatively good place to live at this time is very necessary.
It is said that it is a hunting hut, but in fact it is not a real house, but a moderately sized cave found by Li Tugen in the mountain, and over time, he has arranged it like a house, which is full of daily necessities. After Li Haoyue began to practice martial arts, as long as Li Tugen was at home, he would take him here from time to time to practice martial arts.
This is Li Tugen's private space, and it is also the secret place of the father and son, even Yang Yunniang only knows that there is such a place, but she doesn't know the specific location, and even thinks that Li Tugen built a small wooden house on the mountain.
After Ye Zongcheng and his entourage sneezed at An Mingyu, they hurriedly returned here. Originally, several people also decided that before Yang Yunniang gave birth, except for Li Tugen, the other three would take An Mingyu to live here temporarily.
Li Tugen and Mu Ziqing quickly set up a bonfire, burning the entire cave warmly, and finally a few people who had leisurely settled around the bonfire once again deliberated on the plan that had been discussed long ago, to see if there was anything missing.
It's about herself, An Mingyu pricked up her ears, this is also the first time she heard the specific arrangements made by these people for herself.
Yang Yunniang's birth was really an accident, because she was weak in physique, she was injured when she gave birth to Li Haoyue, and it was difficult to conceive an heir after that. Li Tugen once thought that he would be the only son of Li Haoyue in his life, but he didn't want Yang Yunniang to be pregnant last year.
Of course, maybe it is because over the years, Bawanghua's mother-in-law nagged Li Tugen every day that Li Haoyue had only one child, too little, and searched for all kinds of home remedies to nourish her physique and make it easy to get pregnant, and from time to time she boiled all kinds of strange decoctions for this delicate third daughter-in-law, which really worked.
In short, Yang Yunniang's unexpected pregnancy is a great joy for Li Tugen, and his overlord Hua Niang is even more proud, feeling that she has recuperated the physique of her third daughter-in-law, and she has made great contributions.
Originally, Li Tugen was going to accompany the pregnant Yang Yunniang this time and no longer go out. It's just that Yang Yunniang, who has a weak physique, is pregnant, but the pregnancy is too bad, what to eat and vomit, I see that my stomach is long, but I am so thin that I can blow it away in a gust of wind. Overlord Hua Niang invited a doctor for her, a pulse, it was twins, and Li Tugen was a little worried.
Yang Yunniang, who has a weak physique, is already dangerous to give birth to a child, and another pair of twins, in case there are three long and two short, Li Tugen dare not imagine. So, he went out again, found the Mu family, and borrowed a person from Mu Chengling's side, Mu Xixi.
Mu Xi Xinai is one of the four maids beside Mu Chengling, and she is also the wife of the Mu family's Fu Doctor Hai Zeqi, who was originally a Fu Doctor Girl, she naturally has good medical skills, so Li Tugen asked her to take care of Yang Yunniang, be sure to give birth smoothly, if there is any misfortune, you must protect the adult.
Mu Xixi on the front foot arrived at Dali Village with him, and Mu Chengling on the back foot received the news from the imperial capital. So, for the sake of her granddaughter, Mu Chengling did not hesitate to send someone to find Li Tugen again, and with his consent, she changed the baby!
Yes, Mu Chengling decided to temporarily raise An Mingyu in Li Tugen's house for the past two years. Li Tugen is reliable, don't worry that he will reveal An Mingyu's identity, there is Li Haoyue at home, she has a strict mouth, she can help him cover, Mu Xixi is just there, and she can do it when she gives birth.
The newborn baby has a new identity, which will not let An Mingyu be suspected. As for the gender of the twins, as early as when Mu Xixi arrived at Li Tugen's house, he immediately checked Yang Yunniang's pulse, which was a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. So, Mu Chengling was ready to let An Mingyu take on the identity of the baby boy, and the baby boy would be taken back to the Mu clan by Ye Zongcheng and them.
At that time, it will be said to the Mu clan that Li Tugen's child is weak, and let Hai Zeqi help recuperate, and not too many people will see him in the past two years. And Yang Yunniang's side, of course, also said that the child is weak, but she needs Mu Xixi to recuperate, find a reason to keep it in the hunting lodge, and then Li Haoyue will comfort her and let her have less contact with An Mingyu.
If one of them accidentally sees two children, it is fine, but the little child is the same day as a day, who can remember it so clearly? However, Mu Chengling's original words were that whoever really remembered it so clearly, dared to find trouble, and killed it directly.
Mu Chengling also sent Mu Nannan, who had the highest kung fu and the best disguise skills among the four maids around her, to come over, one is to let her and Mu Xixi take care of An Mingyu closely, and the second is to help her hide her gender when she dresses as a man in the future, and the third is to protect her. Because Mu Chengling was not prepared to arrange too many people around An Mingyu to protect her and avoid attracting too many people's attention.
She thinks that in this kind of small mountain village, two maids who are not weak in kung fu plus Li Tugen are enough to protect An Mingyu. Mu Chengling felt that she had done her best, if someone could find out in such a remote mountain village, something really happened, and it would be An Mingyu's life.
If the plan goes well, after two years, the two children will be replaced, and it happens that Mu Zixuan has been "giving birth" for more than a year, and then let An Mingyu stay in Mu for three years, and when she is five years old, she can go back to Anfu.
In order to repay the kindness, Li Tugen responded to all this without thinking about it, and rushed home, settled everything, and talked to Li Haoyue before catching up with Ye Zongcheng and his party to rescue An Mingyu.
In order to save a small life, his younger brother was only temporarily away for two years, Li Haoyue did not refute his father's intentions, and moreover, in Li Haoyue's mind, like his father, if there was no help from the shepherd's family, his father would have been no longer in the world, so why would they have children?
The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, not to mention the grace of saving lives.
But Aunt Xi said that her mother's pregnancy was not good, and it was estimated that she would be born prematurely, if her father didn't come back before her mother gave birth, wouldn't this life-saving grace not be repaid? Li Haoyue, who didn't know that Li Tugen still had a second plan, thought worriedly.
He was worried inside, but his immature and handsome face did not show half of it, but the soles of his feet rushed to the hunting lodge at a slight speed. However, this time, the result did not disappoint him, and the fire exposed inside showed that there was someone, so that he finally put his mind at ease.
Daddy must be back! Li Haoyue couldn't help but speed up, and even couldn't help but run there in the end.
"Haoyue, that little guy is here, right?" Mu Ziqing, who heard the sound of running for the first time, smiled, "I haven't seen him for a long time, does he look like you now?" He jokingly bumped his shoulder against Li Tugen, winced his eyebrows, and smiled very poorly.
"Shut up!" Li Tugen's face flushed, but he couldn't help but be proud when he talked about his son, "My son is good-looking, don't be jealous!" ”
Hearing this, Mu Nannan laughed on the side, even Ye Zongcheng picked the corner of his lips, and An Mingyu was confused, why is this question a little strange? But she didn't dig deeper, but pondered what these people had planned for her.
In the future, she will have to dress up as a man, which is a good idea!
Along the way, Mu Ziqing's chatter revealed a lot of information, and An Mingyu knew that his grandfather's family in this life was a bandit. Well, from the royal family to a bandit, it feels like the gap is a bit big, but An Mingyu still expresses special love and appreciation for the grandmother who has never met.
Not to mention saving her life, she can also help her arrange a man who is convenient for her to act, she is really satisfied.
The identity of a man is better than that of a woman, and he does not have to be trapped in the back house, he is free. It just so happens that she wants to travel all over the mountains and rivers and taste the world's delicacies in the future, and if she is a woman, it may be a little difficult to achieve these wishes. As for getting married or something, I haven't made it in my previous life, and I don't have to worry about it in this life, I can learn from my grandmother when the time comes, and if I like it, I can grab one and go back directly.
Of course, there must be requirements for appearance, and if you don't choose the national color, otherwise you will lose the face of your grandfather, and the coffin board of his old man may not be able to suppress it!
Just thinking like this, I heard a young man's clear voice sound: "Dad, you're back!" Grandpa Ye is good, Uncle Mu is good, Aunt Nan is good! ”
After asking the elders one by one, Li Haoyue glanced at his father with happy eyes, and then his eyes fell on the swaddling clothes in Mu Nannan's arms, and when he looked over, he just met a pair of black eyes that were dripping.
Seeing that the owner of those eyes couldn't take her eyes off her, she smiled at him very "toothlessly".
"Is this the kid?" Seeing the little baby stretch out her hand towards him, Li Haoyue happily stretched out her index finger and let the little hand hold his finger and tease her.
"Yes, she will be your brother in the future, you have to remember clearly." Li Tugen said with a pun.
"Well, can I hug her?" Li Haoyue nodded, the more she looked at the little guy, the cuter she became, much cuter than the babies in the same village she had seen.
Mu Nannan glanced at Ye Zongcheng, and when he saw that he nodded, he handed An Mingyu to Li Haoyue. He took it carefully, and it was the first time he had ever held a child as he had never had a brother or sister, but it looked quite like that.
I was afraid that something would go wrong with my son who was holding the child for the first time, especially the little baby who was holding the child was still the little lady of the An family, Li Tugen stood beside him when he took An Mingyu, ready to face emergencies at any time.
So, An Mingyu, who was in swaddling clothes, looked at Li Haoyue who was holding her, and then looked at Li Tugen who came over next to her, and after a comparison, she felt speechless for the first time in her life, and only after a long time did she sigh in her heart and said: Uncle, I really think that there is a green prairie on your head, and you can ride a horse and gallop on it! Also, in the future, I will no longer be afraid to look at your uncle's face, as long as I will always have your son's face in the future......
Li Tugen knew about a certain little baby's slander against him, and told his son very carefully: "In the future, you must guard her well and protect her." "These two years.
Li Haoyue replied without thinking about it: "Okay!" ”
Who knows that this "good" is a lifetime, even in the face of the death of a loved one, he has never broken his word once.
Many years later, Li Tugen felt that the reason why he had a very terrible daughter-in-law must be because he had said three words less "these two years"!