Chapter Sixty-Eight: Returning Home
By the time the three of them packed up and were ready to leave, it was already twilight, Xie Qingyu didn't want to stay here and wait, but the housekeeper was waiting at the door, and Sister Yan was standing in front of the door, she could only wait here obediently, and after Xie Youruo packed up, the three of them set off together to return to Xie's mansion.
The carriage swayed along the way, and finally rushed back to Xie Mansion when it was almost dark.
When the group arrived at Xie's mansion, Ruan Mingyu was waiting in front of the door to welcome them, but they didn't include Xie Qingyu.
Xie Youruo saw Ruan Mingyu waiting at the door, so he hurriedly got out of the carriage and ran to Ruan Mingyu's side.
"Mother, I answered well this time, and I think I will be able to advance to the second round smoothly." Xie Youruo ran to Ruan Mingyu, immediately took his mother's hand and began to be coquettish.
Ruan Mingyu is also quite eager, and she has not seen her daughter for a few days.
"That's good, that's good, you've worked hard these days, my mother told the kitchen to be ready, you can clean it up and eat it." Ruan Mingyu looked at Xie Youruo and Xie Youran's appearance of working in a boat, and hurriedly wanted the two of them to go back to the room to rest for a while.
"Say hello to my mother." Xie Qingyu also got out of the carriage at this time, and saw that Ruan Mingyu also saluted slowly.
Ruan Mingyu's expression was originally very happy, but the moment she saw Xie Qingyu, she changed her face.
"No need, you haven't seen your aunt for a few days, go back first." Although the words he said seemed to be thinking about Xie Qingyu, the disgust on his face was not concealed at all.
"It's the mother, and the rumors will retire first."
After Xie Qingyu finished speaking, he turned around and left, Ruan Mingyu didn't want her to interfere with their mother-son reunion, and she just didn't want to stay there, presumably her mother and mother were already waiting for her in Yulan Garden.
Liu Yuehan was sitting in the courtyard at the moment, looking towards the door, but she didn't see Xie Qingyu for a long time.
"Yuanbao, are you sure that Miss will come back today?" Liu Yuehan is also a little anxious, such as getting late today, and I don't know if anything will happen when the light rumor comes back.
"Madam, wait patiently, I also saw Steward Liu prepare a carriage this morning, saying that I was going to pick up the young lady and them today." Seeing that Liu Yuehan was very worried, Yuan Bao also walked to the door and took a look, but he didn't see Xie Qingyu's figure yet.
"Madam, Miss must be on her way, and it is estimated that she will be there soon." Qianqiu looked at Liu Yuehan's worried expression, poured a cup of tea from the house, took it out, and put it in front of Liu Yuehan, signaling her not to worry, maybe the young lady was almost there.
Xie Qingyu walked for a while, and finally walked to the door of Yulan Garden.
"Mother, mother, I'm back." Xie Qingyu hurriedly entered the door, and saw Liu Yuehan looking at the door with a sad face, and the moment she saw herself, it turned cloudy and sunny.
"Ah Yu, Ah Yu, you can be regarded as coming back, if it is too late today, my mother still thinks that you will come back tomorrow." Liu Yuehan immediately laughed when she saw Xie Qingyu, and hurriedly stepped forward to take her daughter's hand, but her eyes suddenly turned red.
"Mother, I'm not doing well." Xie Qingyu looked at his mother's already reddened eyes, and his nose was sour, but today was a good day, so naturally he couldn't cry.
"Mother, I'm hungry." Xie Qingyu took his mother's hand and patted it gently, touched his shriveled stomach again, and said coquettishly.
"Okay, I know that you are greedy, Qianqiu and Yuanbao have already prepared dinner, and they are waiting for you." Liu Yuehan is looking at her daughter, she has lost a lot of weight in the past two days, and it seems that she is still good at home.
"Yes, Miss, Asaaki and I have prepared dinner, just waiting for you." At this time, Yuan Bao heard his wife call his name, and hurriedly said that he had not seen Miss in the past few days, and he missed it very much.
"Well, let's go eat first."
Xie Qingyu listened to Yuanbao's words, and immediately glanced at Yuanbao, and then looked at Qianqiu, it was really hard for them to take care of their mother when they were not there these days.
The group came to the room again and began to eat.
Liu Yuehan served Xie Qingyu with vegetables from time to time, and Xie Qingyu did not refuse to come, and they all ate it, as if they were really hungry.
"Ah Yu, you eat slowly." Liu Yuehan looked at her daughter's gobbling up and laughed softly.
Xie Qingyu listened to his mother's words, so he slowed down and ate slowly.
The time of the meal passed extremely quickly, Xie Qingyu had already finished eating, and Qianqiu and Yuanbao had already begun to clean up the plates on the table.
Then Xie Qingyu said goodbye to Liu Yuehan and returned to his room.
The baggage he brought back from Nanfeng Tower hadn't had time to be packed up, so he just put it away casually, and there weren't many things left and right.
Xie Qingyu lay down on the bed directly, and it felt comfortable to go home, so he didn't have to worry about anything, and he fell asleep after a while.
The weather has become colder and colder in the past few days, Xie Qingyu likes to read in the yard, but Liu Yuehan always calls her into the house to read, saying that it is warm in the house.
As soon as Xie Qingyu entered the house with the book today, Liu Yuehan immediately poured her a cup of hot tea.
"Mother, you are weak now, do less embroidery, and it is not too late to do it when your body is well in the future." After Xie Qingyu drank the tea, he looked at his mother who was very focused, and walked to his mother's side to see what his mother was embroidering.
"Don't worry, I have nothing to do during this time, only embroidery can make me have something to do, my mother is illiterate, I can't teach you to read, and now my mother can only make some winter clothes." Liu Yuehan listened to Xie Qingyu's words, and did not stop the movements in her hand, but just said.
She doesn't know how to read and write, so she can't help her daughter, the weather is getting colder and colder this year, and all she can do now is to make some warm clothes for Ah Yu.
Xie Qingyu listened to Liu Yuehan's words and couldn't say anything at this time, she couldn't stop her mother from doing something, although she was rich now, but she finally relied on the money she earned from selling poems, and she couldn't talk to her mother at all.
No one else has ever made clothes for her, and now her mother's body is suitable for recuperation, but now she is struggling to find her winter clothes.
"Mother, then you don't have to be too tired, it's okay if you can't finish this dress." Xie Qingyu knew that even if she stopped it, it would be useless, and now she could only make her mother embroider less and work harder.
"I know, silly girl, my mother has nothing to do now, and my mother still does this." Liu Yuehan looked at her daughter's worried expression, this stupid girl has really grown up, and she knows that she feels sorry for her mother.
"Mother, did you say it will snow this year?" Xie Qingyu looked at the fallen leaves outside the window, and suddenly thought of something, and asked.
Liu Yuehan also glanced out when she heard this, and shook her head to herself.
"There is very little snow in the south of the Yangtze River, and if there is really a snow lady, I want to see it." Liu Yuehan replied.
"yes, I guess I won't see snow this year." Xie Qingyu is still a little regretful, she hasn't seen snow for a long time, it seems that this Jiangnan is the same as modern times, basically no snow will fall.
"If you really want to see the snow, Jiucai went to Yanjing later, that is the Central Plains, the four seasons are distinct, there will be a lot of snow, and the prosperous beauty there is said to be unforgettable in this life." Liu Yuehan looked at Xie Qingyu's regretful look, and suddenly thought of the prosperous snow scene in Yanjing City that she had heard about in the past, if Ah Yu could pass the female officer assessment and go to the capital smoothly, she would be able to see it.
Xie Qingyu was also a little surprised to hear his mother mention Yanjing, didn't her mother always disagree with her to take the female officer exam, why did she suddenly mention the second round of the women's Jiucai exam today.
"Mother, are you now agreeing to me to take the female officer exam?" Xie Qingyu still asked a little incredulously.
"Ah Yu, now that you have grown up, your mother can no longer control your thoughts, now you think about it, your mother supports you." The tone of Liu Yuehan's words was firm, but she didn't raise her head from beginning to end, as if she was talking about something inconsequential.
"Mother, if I pass the exam, are you willing to go to the capital with me?"
Xie Qingyu just shook his mother's hand silently when he heard this, if he successfully passed the second round, he would have the opportunity to leave Xie's mansion, but he didn't know if his mother was willing to go to the capital with her, in fact, when she asked this sentence, she already knew her mother's answer, Xie Tianyang is still in the mansion now, and her mother has no reason to leave at all.
Hearing this, Liu Yuehan just shook her head to herself, and did not answer the question asked by Xie Qingyu.
After asking the mother this question that day, the mother and daughter tacitly did not discuss this matter, and after several days, the house began to be lit up, and there was a festive scene everywhere.
It's just that when Xie Qingyu was sitting in the courtyard today, she found fireworks rising in the sky, she didn't take it seriously at first, but then she suddenly remembered when she looked at the book, and she used this fireworks to communicate with Yi Anju, otherwise who would set off fireworks during the day.
Xie Qingyu cleaned up and hurriedly went out.
When I arrived in the back alley, I changed my clothes as usual and came to Yi'anju.
There are not many people in Yi'anju today, only a few people are sparse, and Xie Qingyu is also a little strange.
As soon as Xie Qingyu stepped into the door of Yi Anju, Mo Huaiyuan saw Xie Qingyu, and he came to him today to have something important to do.
"Liu Gongzi came really fast, I just asked someone to set off a fireworks by Jianhu Lake, Liu Gongzi came in just an hour, but it was very punctual." Mo Huaiyuan hurriedly invited Xie Qingyu to the private room on the second floor.
"Naturally, the shopkeeper Mo has something, and he is going to come early, I don't know what is the matter with being in such a hurry to find him?" Xie Qingyu looked at Shopkeeper Mo's anxious expression, and he was also curious, not knowing what happened.
"Young Master Liu, this is a long story, please take a seat first." Although Mo Huaiyuan was anxious, he was still polite, and asked Xie Qingyu to sit down and say.
Xie Qingyu also sat down directly without refusing, and now that he has something to do with himself, could it be that there is a problem with the poem? She only has poetry to have anything to do with Yi Anju, but she promises that no one has seen these poems in this era.
"Young Master Liu, do you remember the poem you left a few days ago?" Mo Huaiyuan reminded Xie Qingyu at this time.