Chapter 251: The Banquet
There were still a few days before Xie Huai'an went to Yulin Pass, but Old Lady Wen took the scholars in the academy and walked around the entire Mo City.
Some of the fellow scholars planned to stay in Mocheng as Mr. Teacher, ready to experience the feeling of teaching and educating people, and more people still chose to leave with Mrs. Wen.
Ah Yu knew that Old Lady Wen had deviated from his original plan when he turned to Meaux, but she didn't expect that the time to correct the deviation would be so short, but after three or five days, she had already heard Old Lady Wen's voice urging her to leave.
The subordinates who had not yet had time to familiarize themselves with the names were already packing their luggage in different categories under the command of the housekeeper, and packed out a lot of things in large bags and small packages.
Aoba didn't know when.,I'm also busy going in.。
She ran to Ah Yu with a mahogany box: "Girl, the letters in the box are already full, do you still want to open this letter box on the way?" If I don't need it, I'll put it under my luggage and save it space......"
Ah Yu looked down at the contents of the travelogue, estimating how he would write back if he arrived at the place recorded in the travelogue, and asked casually, "Why did you start packing your luggage so early?" ”
According to her plan, she wanted to spend the New Year in Meaux.
After the New Year, the battle outside Yulin Pass is almost over, and Ah Yu must hear the news that Xie Huai'an and they are all fine before they can leave with confidence.
The future that has begun to change is the most elusive.
It's anyone's guess whether the change will go in a better direction or if it's going to get worse.
But as far as the current situation is concerned, it should be in a better direction!
Ah Yu silently guessed.
Aoba's hand holding the mahogany box tightened slightly, and he looked cautiously at Ah Yu in front of the desk: "The old lady's subordinates are already preparing to leave, I listened to the guards and said that they will leave in a few days, so I started to prepare to pack my luggage." ”
It's weird.
Ah Yu put down the game in his hand, rubbed his chin with his index finger, and said in a deep voice: "Grandfather didn't tell me about leaving, maybe he was going to leave with the students of the academy, but he didn't plan to take me with him!" ”
If things were as she had guessed, it would have been great.
She didn't have to bother thinking about the reason for parting ways with her grandfather, and she didn't have to worry that her grandfather would find out about her abnormality.
Of course, imaginary things are the most beautiful, but reality often teaches everyone to be a new person.
When Ah Yu was called over by Mrs. Wen, she had already made general preparations in her heart, but Mrs. Wen did not mention the matter of leaving at the first time.
He asked Ah Yu: "The news sent by Guan Yi earlier said that when you met the bandits with Bullying Shuang, you accidentally got lost, and Deng Ao said that he took you away. Was Ah Shen scared at the time? ”
Well?
Unexpectedly, many days later, my grandfather asked about it again.
Ah Yu pursed her lips and shook her head: "At that time, the carriage was running too fast, and when I came out of the carriage, my head was dizzy, and before I had time to feel scared, I had already seen Uncle Deng." ”
"It should be a ...... that you are not afraid of"
She replied to Old Lady Wen like this, but she didn't know how pale her face was at the moment.
Old lady Wen took a sip of the tea in the cup, and said to Ah Yu: "Ah Yu has been away from Kyoto for a few months, and he has encountered bandits blocking the road more than once on the way, so he should know that traveling outside is far less comfortable than life in Kyoto. The scenery outside is almost over, isn't it time to think about going home? ”
Turning around, I finally stopped at persuading people to go home.
"Grandfather, I'm seventeen years old." Ah Yu looked up at Old Lady Wen, the face that had turned pale from memories was a little more bloody at the moment.
"When I was a child, there were often women coming and going on the streets of Kyoto, but when I grew up, the people who could walk on the streets were either ordinary people who were married to women, or ladies who were surrounded by people in front of and behind me. The former is alone, and is dressed in ordinary clothes, while the latter has many entourages and wears hats, making it difficult for outsiders to see his face......"
"But even so, there will be people in the street restaurants who maliciously laugh at them."
Ah Yu looked up, she knew that she was talking too seriously about the matter, and that what she had seen was only an example, but she could only say that.
"I don't know what Kyoto will become when I get married, and I don't know what I'll become when I get married." A wry smile appeared on her face, "I just want to do something that may not be able to be done in the future while my grandfather and my father can still make decisions for me." ”
"Grandfather, I'...... Can you take a look at the scenery outside? ”
The little girl's watery eyes were full of hope, and she looked at the old lady Wen opposite without blinking, pinning all her expectations on the person opposite.
Old Lady Wen paused.
He wanted to say that the world today is not as terrifying as Ah Yu saw, and the women and ladies she said were just a special case, and Kyoto did not confine women too much.
However, as soon as he thought of what he saw and heard on the study tour, those words of persuasion suddenly became unspeakable.
I don't know when it started, the sour rotten scholars didn't think about how to improve their knowledge, but they were full of thoughts about how to suppress others, and the geniuses of their peers didn't dare to provoke, so they set their sights on women, and through the words of the saints, they preached everywhere that 'women are talented if they are not virtuous', but there are still many people who believe their words of condemnation.
In the last time Mrs. Wen wrote to the emperor, she talked about this matter.
There are too many things that the imperial court needs to take into account, and it can't straightforwardly prohibit the sour and rotten scholars' heart-wrenching words, although they want to use the upper and lower effects to persuade the people, but the royal family does not have many princesses, and only reluctantly promotes the women's school of the White Horse Academy in Kyoto, which has had little effect so far.
If we don't find a way to stop the sour and rotten scholars' rebuke, maybe the kind of scene that Ah Yu said will really become the norm in Kyoto.
Thinking of this, Old Lady Wen suddenly lost the mind to persuade.
Those of them who are elders naturally want to leave the best things to their juniors, and he sees Ah Yu as very good, but he can't ensure that after Ah Yu marries into someone else's family, people from other families will also think that Ah Yu is very good.
In a person's life, there will always be a few wrong eyes, and Mrs. Wen agrees with Ah Yu's idea of not putting expectations on others, but she is really worried about Ah Yu's safety, and she doesn't know what to say for a while.
The soft-hearted elders can't stand the bitter pleading of the younger generations. Standby station
Ah Yu sighed when he saw Old Lady Wen, and knew that he definitely didn't need to leave with Old Lady Wen.
She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and after returning to her room, she began to prepare for the matter of seeing off Mrs. Wen, she thought that since Mrs. Wen had already told her about going home, she thought that the time for leaving had already been set!
Naturally, someone will sort out the luggage that should be prepared, but there is no need for Ah Yu to prepare it.
There aren't too many things that can be prepared by her own.
It's just that she hasn't waited for the day when Old Lady Wen leaves, and she has already received a letter from Xie Huai'an, saying that he is leaving tomorrow, and is going to invite Old Lady Wen and Ah Yu to talk over to the house today.
The mansion here refers to the mansion that was previously lent to Ah Yu and is now used by the Deng family brothers and sisters.
Originally, according to the plan of the uncle of the Fan family, the banquet was arranged in the house where he lived, but now he lives in the county office, but his house was sold to Ah Yu by Xie Huai'an, and he couldn't arrange the banquet in the county office, so he could only retreat and put it in Xie Huai'an's house.
Jin Xinyan, who had not been seen for a long time, also appeared in Xie Huai'an's house this time.
The moment Old Lady Wen saw him, the hand that touched his beard unconsciously used a little more strength, and accidentally pulled off several beards.
With a slight twist of his fingertips, the broken beard fell to the ground with the wind, his gaze crossed Jin Xinyan, stopped at Xie Huai'an's body, frowned slightly, and sat on the upper seat of the banquet under the greeting of Fan Zeyu.
In addition to the host of the banquet, the seat will also be reserved for the elders, and Mrs. Wen naturally did it.
The small house, and the fact that the main family had no female dependents, did not sit separately for men and women, but were together.
Among those present, only Ah Yu and Xie Huai'an were juniors, and the two of them got together.
Seeing that Old Lady Wen seemed to be chatting with Jin Xinyan, Ah Yu whispered to Xie Huai'an.
"I thought you'd leave a little later!" Ah Yu took a piece of meat from the belly of the fish and ate it in small bites, "People often say that the border is bitter cold, I really haven't seen many fields since I came, and I don't know if your food is enough......"
Listening to Ah Yu say this, Xie Huai'an suddenly thought of the grain that was sent to the border a few months ago.
Compared with military salaries, that little bit of food is naturally not counted, but it does solve their urgent needs.
Xie Huai'an used chopsticks to clip a piece of fish meat for Ah Yu, and after putting it in her bowl, he whispered: "I have to thank you for the food last time, but don't send these things to the border in the future." ”
"I know you have good intentions, but others think you have other plans. They are accustomed to speculating with malice. ”
Speaking of those strange speakers, Xie Huai'an felt that his mood had deteriorated.
Ah Yu ate the fish and meat in the bowl, and drank a little tea, most of the silver she saved was used to buy food last time, and the remaining silver taels couldn't buy much food, even if there was no reminder from Xie Huai'an, she couldn't do the second time.
She looked up at the happy people chatting, put down the chopsticks in her hand, took out two medicine bottles from her sleeve pocket, and carried a white paper in the middle, on which the prescription was copied in regular script.
"I originally wanted to ask Doctor Yang for the kind of gold sore medicine that doesn't hurt very much, but he only gave another one, fortunately I still have two bottles of finished products here, you can use them first." She stuffed the prescription into Xie Huai'an's hand, "You also know how effective Doctor Yang's gold sore medicine is, you can take this prescription to the military doctor, let them dispense some medicine, and when the time comes, if you really go to the battlefield, you can have a few more chances to live." ”
Even if she had never been on the battlefield, she had heard a lot of similar things, and knew that many of the wounded soldiers on the battlefield were not fatally wounded, but died because of excessive bleeding.
With such a picture of medicine powder that quickly stops bleeding, I think it should be able to save more people's lives!
Although the side effects are strong, the pain should be more tolerable than the loss of life.
Xie Huai'an was stunned, he didn't expect Ah Yu to give him these two things.
When he looked up, he saw the little girl smiling.
"The traitor in Mo City has been caught, and it's almost the same when I want to come to Yulin Pass, the scene I saw in my dream shouldn't happen again, but I'm still a little worried about you, but there is not much I can do, so you can accept this medicine!"
Xie Huai'an took the prescription and pushed the two bells and whistles back again.
"I don't think it's hard to find the medicinal materials above, and the medicine warehouse in the army should be able to be complete, and when the time comes, let the military doctor prepare the medicine powder and distribute it uniformly. You should keep these special pills just in case......"
Tomorrow or accidents, no one knows which one will come first.
Of course, he hoped that Ah Yu wouldn't need to disperse the medicine, but just in case, it wouldn't go wrong.
Ah Xin wanted to persuade him a few more words, but at this time, Jin Xinyan above somehow noticed the small corner on their side.
"I think the little girl and the Xie family have a good chat, it looks like a pair of happy enemies, why don't I be a matchmaker for you, and ask the Queen Mother to give you two a marriage, what do you think?"
Jin Xinyan shook the wine jug on the table, the delicate wine jug naturally didn't have much wine to hold, and after pouring three or four glasses, it had already become empty.
Xie Huai'an clenched his chopsticks, his brows furrowed tightly.
Of course, he knew that the Xie family had already intended to marry Ah Yu for him, but it was because of this plan in the family that he wanted to get a career in the army. At least when Ah Yu marries him, he can have a little more face.
But it is by no means in the words of others that the marriage of the two is decided.
Jin Xinyan saw Xie Huai'an's frowning brows, and suddenly chuckled twice, the wine jug in his hand was never put down, but there was a little malice between his eyebrows.
Deng Shuang, who had been staring at him as early as he said the words of marriage, happened to see his hidden malice at this time.
Raised his voice: "You are drunk, do you want to go to rest?" ”
She stood up as she spoke, walked towards Jin Xinyan, took the wine jug in his hand, and led the person out of the banquet half-pulled and half-dragged.
Old Lady Wen squinted, but for some reason, she didn't stop them.
Fan Zeyu wanted to stop the two of them out loud, but Deng Ao pulled his sleeves.
"If you want to talk to him about something, let them talk for a while!"