Yinggui hurriedly came over, and saw that the young lady was thinly dressed** at the bow of the boat, looking sad, and hurriedly put the cloak in her hand on Xin Yao's body, and complained: "It's a cold day, the wind is strong on the boat, and the young lady is weak, but she can't help it, how to make it cold?" The second wife should be distressed again! ”

Xin Yao came back to her senses and sighed faintly: "It's so big, it's always a little strange to take a boat for the first time, and I'll go back after standing for a while." ”

Yinggui stepped forward to help Miss cage the cloak, and said with a smile: "The slave has never seen the young lady have rare things, those jade, treasures, Miss has not been rare since she was a child." ”

Xin Yao's eyes rolled, and she said coquettishly: "You and I, Miss, there are a lot of rare things, and the food made by Yinggui girl is one of them." ”

Yinggui disagreed, "Didn't I teach me all this idea?" Miss, it's cold outside, let's go back to the cabin to warm up. The days on the ship are long, and some of them are scarce. ”

Jiang Xinyao didn't have time to be sentimental, so she was helped back to the cabin by Yinggui. As soon as I entered the cabin, hot tea and hot snacks were already on the desk. Jiang Xinyao took a sip of hot tea, and sighed in her heart that this girl is now more and more gentle and intimate, and she has a bit of Dongmei's character!

The green mountains are endless, and the green water is long.

In the following days, Xin Yao finally realized the exclamation of the poet Cui Hao when he wrote these two poems. A strong sense of time and space and the beautiful scenery on both sides of the strait once made her excited. However, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it can't withstand the day after day. It's like a beautiful woman, when she just got married and went home, she couldn't put it down, and as the days went by, she couldn't look at it.

Man, it is indeed the animal that likes the new and hates the old!

Xin Yao gradually lost interest, coupled with the cold winter wax moon, the farther north, the colder the weather became. Jiang Xinyao only wanted to be bored in the cabin, reading idle books, doing needlework, and accompanying her two younger brothers to talk and laugh.

……

It took more than 20 days to wander around, and it was the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month. The boat travels to Tongzhou Wharf. The servants of the Jiang family, who had been at the dock for several days, saw their ship coming slowly from a distance, and hurriedly sent someone to report it to the second master.

At sunset, the people in the second room of the Jiang Mansion arrived at the Jiang Mansion in Zhengyang Gate.

Jiang Hongsheng opened the main gate of the golden pillar to welcome his mother. Wives and children enter the house. Everyone was tired of driving around, and after a few cold words, they were led by the housekeeper to settle in their respective courtyards.

The Jiangfu Mansion in the capital sits in the north and faces south, occupies a large area, the mansion building is divided into three roads in the east, the middle and the west, it is composed of a number of small and exquisite courtyards, the door is deep and wide, and each courtyard still follows the name of the Jiangfu Mansion in Suzhou.

The old lady still lives in Guiyun Hall, and there are five doors in front of her. All carved beams and painted buildings.

Gu's residence in the East Qiushui Temple. Jiang Xinyao, Jiang Yuanhang, and Jiang Yuanhao lived separately in various courtyards on East Road.

Aunt Zhou lives in Qingshan Courtyard, West Road, Jiang Yuanhang, Jiang Xinshan. Aunt Liu lived separately.

The pavilions and pavilions in the back garden, the corridor turns around, the mountains and rivers are around, the winding path is secluded, and there is a hole in the sky.

The wind blows the leaves and falls, and the cold moon is like snow.

Jiang Xinyao took advantage of the moonlight to look at her own courtyard.

Three main rooms. There are two ear rooms on the left and right, the stones in the courtyard are spread into the road, several laurel trees and plantains are planted in front of the court, the courtyard wall is covered with withered grass and yellow vines, and the vines are drawn to lead the vines, hidden in the night.

Jiang Xinyao didn't have time to take a closer look. Then he entered the bedroom, and when he saw the curtains, the brocade quilts were all new, and he couldn't bear the sleepiness and threw himself on the bed......

Jiang Hongsheng personally helped the old lady into the room. After waiting for the old lady to get into bed, he sat in front of the bed and told the old lady about the movements of the court after the resumption of the palace in the past few months, as well as the movement with the Hou Mansion.

The old lady listened and was silent.

Jiang Hongsheng saw that the old lady had been on the boat for days, her face was haggard, and she was exhausted, so she retreated early.

……

There are only three days left before the New Year, and everyone in the Jiang Mansion is busy packing their luggage and preparing for the New Year, and they are all exhausted.

Gu naturally took over the power of the housekeeper, arranged the dispatching manpower, and was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone in the second room gathered in the old lady's main room, and after worshipping the ancestors, they ate a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, talked a little, and then hastily dispersed.

Jiang Xinyao returned to the courtyard, and then with Li's mother, Yinggui, Danyue, Weiyun, Bimoss, Qingxu, Fangxin, Wutong and a few girls placed a pear round kang table on the big kang, sat in groups, and placed a banquet and pastries on the table.

This time when she went to Beijing, Jiang Xinyao simply placed the old lady in her courtyard with a few restless maids and found an excuse to stay in Suzhou Mansion. The old lady was busy saying goodbye to several good families in Suzhou Mansion at that time, and she didn't care about anything else, and when she knew about it, the boat had already traveled a hundred miles away from Suzhou Mansion.

Now listening to Fengxuan's people up and down are Xin Yao's people, which makes Mother Li feel quite relaxed, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, she broke the dignity of the master and servant, and had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with a reunion.

After the banquet, Xin Yao asked Li's mother to take the red envelopes prepared in advance and distribute them to everyone, even the little girl with the sprinkling and sweeping, and the mother-in-law who washed the pulp, everyone had a share. Listening to Feng Xuan's laughter for a while, everyone was happy.

Xin Yao was poured a few more glasses of water and wine by the big girls, and was helped to the bed by Yinggui, as if she was drunk but not drunk, listening to the laughter outside, and fell asleep.

……

In the Qiushui Courtyard, Jiang Hongsheng hugged his wife who had just been happy, and said with satisfaction: "Looking forward to the stars and the moon, I finally hope for you." You don't know, I'm the only one in this big mansion, and my life is really boring. There wasn't even anyone around who could talk. ”

Gu pushed the man and said with a smile: "I think the second master has lived a comfortable life in the past half a year." The letters to the south are also very simple. The old lady complained a few times. ”

"How do you know that the branches and branches of the officialdom in the capital are extremely complicated, and I, a newcomer, have no other way than to be conscientious and diligent. Even so, I always feel like walking on thin ice, and I feel powerless! ”

Jiang Hongsheng thought about the past six months, and he was quite touched in his heart.

"If you knew this was the case, it would be better to find a fat gap in the south and accompany you to spend your days."

Gu Shiyu's hand caressed the man's chest, and said softly: "Whether it is a high-ranking official or a good person, it is not as important as the peace and well-being of the family. Even if you resign tomorrow and live in seclusion, I will only follow your wishes. It's just that the second master has lofty ambitions and is full of clouds, how can he be a person who can live idlely? If there is a way, it will be safe, and we will get through the past few years first, and then we will make plans. ”

As soon as Jiang Hongsheng heard this, it was as if his whole heart was bathed in the sun, and it was so warm that it couldn't be done. The corrosion of power on men is like drug addiction, which is difficult to quit. In fact, he was just whining.

The couple gossiped and stopped talking.

……

In the courtyard of a deep house in the south of the capital, a woman was half-leaning on the head of the bed, took the decoction handed by her son with her slender hand, drank half a cup with a frown, handed it back to the person in front of the bed, and said lightly: "Ah Yuan, have the people in Jiang's Mansion been settled?" ”

The young man in gray put down the medicine bowl, sat on the edge of the bed, and said: "Mother, the twenty-sixth arrived in the capital, all settled down, living in Zhengyangmen, the house was originally the dowry of the Zhou family, renovated, renamed Jiang Mansion. When the second brother went to Beijing a few months ago, he went to the small house where we used to live and inquired about us. ”

The woman smiled bitterly and said: "The second master of the Jiang family is a kind person, you are officials in the same dynasty, you will meet sooner or later, and when you meet, you must not lose the gift of the elder and the young." If it weren't for him back then, our mother and son would have become lonely ghosts and ghosts. ”

The handsome man approached and said softly, "Mother, I can save it." If he recognizes me, I will tell you the truth. He is now terminally ill, and the hospital is guarding day and night, and in less than a month, he will definitely ......"

The woman said with tears in her eyes: "Ah Yuan, don't speak in vain, beware of misfortune coming out of your mouth." Don't worry, my body, I know it in my heart, this day, I can wait. ”

The man looked sad and said, "Mother, it's all sons who are useless. ”

"Ah Yuan, we are rootless and helpless people, and it is God's blessing to be alive. Report it all the time, the time has not come, see which one God can spare. Mother doesn't want you to be rich and rich, she just hopes that you will get married as soon as possible and leave a future for the Xu family. ”

The handsome man coughed lightly and said, "The revenge has not been avenged, and my son doesn't want to start a family." Mother, there is something I haven't told you, Cui Yuxuan has been locked up for a few years, a few months ago, there was a movement, and my son was inquired about, and Zhang Luo's person was the whole master. ”

The woman was shocked and said in a trembling voice, "It's him...... If it's really him, how did he get into Beijing? Tell me, what's going on in that shop? ”

The man took the woman's hand and comforted: "Mother, don't worry, I just heard the Sixth Prince talk about this matter a few days ago." When my father returned to the old house, he brought his second brother's daughter-in-law, Jiang Xinyao, the fourth lady of Fuzhong, who was six years old at the time. For some reason, her father gave her Jade Xuan on his deathbed. Now Cuiyuxuan has been renamed Jinjue Pavilion, and there are shops in Suzhou Mansion, Jinling Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion, and the business is excellent. Mother, I estimate that the old shop in the capital is afraid that it will open soon. ”

The woman grabbed her son tightly with both hands, and choked up: "Ah Yuan, you mean, our old shop ......?"

"Mother, it should be. Jiangnan is far away from the capital, and it is the world of that one, and the six princes have limited manpower, and some things are only roughly explored. Now that they're in the capital, Mother, look, aren't we ......?"

The woman's tense heartstrings relaxed, wiped her tears, and thought, "Don't alarm them, just watch from afar." When the time comes, we'll see you. Ask the six princes to help take care of it secretly. The husband is not guilty, Huaibi is guilty, and the land of the dragon and the crouching tiger in the capital has to be guarded against. ”

"Mother, don't worry, I have already told the six princes. The son was just curious about the fourth young lady, who took care of the things his father explained to him at a young age. Hearing about Jiang Quan, Jiang Fu only listened to her. The man's eyes smiled lightly, his handsome eyebrows frowned slightly, and his face caught the stars and moon under the candlelight.

"Is there anything bad about the man whom your father has a deaise? In this life, I have burdened him and made him ...... If I have the chance, I would like to meet the fourth lady, who knows best when your father was in the old mansion. The tears that had just been stopped fell again.

The man's heart was sour, but he said with a smile on his face: "Mother, when the time is right, I will definitely arrange for you to meet with the fourth lady." The one above has endured it for a long time, but I'm afraid that it won't be a year and a half, and he will have to do it. When the time comes, we won't have to hide it. ”

The woman sighed miserably: "Ah Yuan, my mother will definitely hold a breath and watch them suffer retribution." ”(..)

( Miss Jiang Si )