Chapter 41: Uncle's Family
Since eating crab once in Yunhe Tower, Fang Xuan made two times of steamed and spicy sandalwood, and ate fresh crab roe buns once, and invited Jiang Heng's brothers and sisters, Xiao Cheng and others to taste it together, and everyone was full of praise.
But Gu Chen didn't know what he was busy with, and he never saw it again.
Three days have passed, the boat arrived at Lin'an Mansion, everyone changed to a carriage, Gu Chen and Xiao Cheng need to go back to the palace first, a few people say goodbye, Fang Xuan and others then arrived in Changfeng City in just two days.
On this day, just after entering the city, the old lady and the Marquis of Jingwu had already brought a family to wait in front of the Hou Mansion, and several people got off the carriage, and without waiting for the family to set up the mattress, they immediately knelt down and bowed, calling "grandmother, uncle, aunt".
The old lady Wu pulled up the Jiang family brothers and sisters one by one, and smiled, "Okay, it's good, it's cold on the ground, get up quickly." ”
and several cousins and cousins of the Jingwu Marquis Mansion one by one.
"This is your second cousin, Zhao Heng." Fang Xuan looked over, but seeing that he was tall and easy, his eyebrows were very relaxed, and he stepped forward with a big grin, "Hey, grandmother, don't say it first, grandson guess, this person who looks like Xizi is probably the sister of the Jiang family, as for this-"
He touched his chin with one hand, looked Fang Xuan up and down, and saw that he had a beautiful and bright complexion, and his gestures were dignified and generous, remembering what Gu Chen said when he drank with him yesterday, he grinned and bared a mouthful of big white teeth, "It should be the cousin of the Fang family." ”
Fang Xuan has always known him, and now he is a thousand generals in the Shanpu Camp, but he has not insulted the prestige of her uncle Jingwuhou, don't look at the unreliable things to do and speak, really when it comes to riding and archery martial arts, none of those noble children in the Shanpu Camp dare not say that they are not convinced.
"Second cousin." He is the second, and he has a sister above, who married the eldest son of the Datong General Military Mansion a few years ago.
"Cousin Fang, Cousin Jiang, Cousin Heng." Behind the old lady stood a girl with bright eyebrows, her voice was as clear as a yellow warbler, and she bent her eyes and saluted with a smile, "In the future, Ling'er and her two sisters will live together, and if there is anything inappropriate, my cousin will have to teach Ling'er more." ”
Jiang Yi smiled softly at her, "What did the third cousin say, I just came, and there are many things I don't understand, so it's good that my cousin doesn't dislike me for being annoying." ”
"That's nature." The old lady took Fang Xuan's and Jiang Wan's hands left and right, and shook them with Zhao Yu, "You are all sisters in the family, you have to get along well and help each other." ”
"Mother, pity the children who have been tired all the way, let's let them rest quickly."
The Marquis of Jingwu, Mrs. Qiao, was a slightly heroic woman, and said to a few people, "If you have anything to say, it's the same when you go back." ”
Jingwu Hou was very handsome and handsome, Fang Xuan saw him quietly squeeze Qiao Clan's hand and echoed.
Although he is a military general who kills people on the battlefield with guns and sticks, he loves the Qiao clan and is the number one in the Changfeng City, and he has only married a wife of the Qiao family, and has two daughters and a son.
In this way, Fang Xuan lived in the washing courtyard that was specially cleaned up for her.
The salute has been moved into the washing of the Tong courtyard a few days ago, although the sandalwood is young, but it is very experienced, not in a hurry to command the people to put things together, and then to call Qin Gan and a few of their guards, move east and west, before and after only an hour, has been a washing of the courtyard in an orderly manner, the bridge side of the grandmother to see, can not help but secretly praise.
Fang Xuan took Wen Xi with him and walked around the Xitong Courtyard twice.
When she came back, she looked at the new house, her depressed thoughts dissipated, and she stepped forward and pinched Sandalwood's cheek to praise her, and her face turned crimson, and she looked at Qin Gan proudly.
Fang Xuan freshened up, changed his clothes, and it was almost time for Shen Shizhong, so he took sandalwood to the Donglin Hall in the front yard.
Brother and sister Zhaoheng had already arrived and were talking to Jiang Fei.
Fang Xuan just heard Zhao Ying ask, "Cousin Fang accepted a righteous brother?" Why didn't I see it? ”
"He also has a relative in Beijing, so he came to visit him first, but his cousin didn't see him." Fang Xuan came and saluted, "Second cousin." ”
She knew in her heart that Fu Yu didn't want her to leave a tongue as soon as she arrived at the Hou Mansion, but in fact, he clearly didn't have half an acquaintance in Beijing.
Zhao Yu got up, took her arm and sat down, but Zhao Heng got up solemnly, "County Lord." ”
Fang Xuan raised his eyes and saw that he was deliberately suppressing a smile, waiting for her to answer, and said in surprise: "Second cousin, what are you doing, don't bother Duanning." ”
But he sat there, not even trying to get up.
Although Zhaoheng loves to play and make trouble, but since he was a child, he grew up in the Xungui pile, and Changfeng is at the feet of the Son of Heaven.
looks dignified and close, in fact, she is the most rigid and does not know how to be flexible, Gu Chen said that she "pretended" to be in the right place.
"The second brother seems to have changed today, and my sister almost doesn't know each other." Zhao Yu teased, "Grandmother said, we are all a family, and you are generally enlightened, but I don't know how to be polite, Cousin Fang, you won't be angry, right?" ”
Fang Xuan's eyebrows and eyes were warm, and he said sincerely: "Third cousin, don't be like this, I and your sister Fei have always been indistinguishable from you and me, if you want to pay attention to red tape, wouldn't you be tired to death every day?" ”
"But tired?" It happened that the Qiao family came in with the old lady's arm, her face was a little gloomy, and when she heard the words, she said, "Your uncle was temporarily summoned into the palace by the saint, and it is estimated that he wants to keep food, so let's not wait for him, just eat it ourselves." ”
After thinking about it for a while, Fang Xuan knew that nine times out of ten it was because of the results of the tax investigation in various places, and there should be a storm in the near future.
She bowed and sat down with the crowd.
Because it was a family banquet and the first time they met, there was no distinction between men and women, and there was no need to serve the meal, the old lady sat at the top, there was an empty one on the left, Fang Xuan followed, the Qiao family sat on the bottom right, and next to Jiang Heng, Jiang Fei and the Zhao family brothers and sisters fell at the end.
Although the old lady has not seen her two daughters for more than ten or twenty years, and now that she has seen her grandchildren and daughters, she naturally has endless words.
When talking about Princess Qing and Mrs. Jiang, she choked up several times, and Qiao persuaded her, "As long as the two sisters-in-law live a good life, farther and closer, their hearts will always be in one place." As soon as your three children leave home, stop making them sad. ”
Fortunately, the old lady has always had a strong heart, otherwise she would not be able to pull a large family to the current situation with one hand, wiped her tears, "It's not good for people to fall when they are old, this will be your home in the future, come, eat more food." ”
Naturally, there was a mother-in-law and maid behind him who stepped forward to serve the meal. The old lady was happy and let a lot of dishes be sandwiched in front of the three of them, and the three of them naturally did not shirk and used them all.
After rinsing their mouths after eating, the people went into the room to talk.