Chapter 25: The Ji Family
Jin Chao found Luo Yongping over and instructed him to prepare something for his grandmother: "...... Asking for a few solemn colored plain satin weavers is the best for Qingju Pavilion. There are also several boxes of pine nut rice dumpling candy, amber sugar, and onion candy, and a longevity golden lock is also prepared...... "The third cousin's sister-in-law is also about to turn one year old, and it is just right to give the child a meeting gift."
Luo Yongping should come down, and the things he bought arrived a day later, all of which were packed in a box of red lacquered pear blossom wood, which was very exquisite.
Gu Jinrong was reluctant to go back with her, and said to Ji's: "...... I still haven't done my homework, and my husband said that to trace the object, I should write an article with the same point of view as the theory of object knowledge......"
Jin Chao was beside him, and asked him without raising his head: "Is it the eight-strand system?" β
Gu Jinrong pursed his lips tightly before he nodded.
Jin Chao said: "You are only eleven years old, and Mr. Zhou has already asked you to write eight shares?" Have you read through the four books? β
Gu Jinrong was speechless for a while, this was just the reason he was looking for, he couldn't write about the eight-strand system now! I didn't expect Gu Jinchao to really understand this, and seeing that Gu Jinrong no longer spoke, Ji sighed secretly.
Gu Jinrong couldn't help it, so he asked Qing Xiu to help him pack up the cage, and followed Gu Jinchao to Ji's house in another blue-curtained carriage.
Sanhe County, Tongzhou, where the Ji family is located, is far away from Shi'an, the Jin Dynasty only brought Qingpu and Caifu, and his father sent a large group of nurses to follow them, and the group of people rushed to the boundary of Tongzhou, and my grandmother had already sent someone to wait for them on the official road.
Jin Chao had already written to his grandmother saying that he wanted to come back, and when he saw that even his grandmother's personal housekeeper was sent here to wait to welcome them, Jin Chao could only smile helplessly, but his grandmother still doted on her.
Gu Jinrong seemed to be angry with her, he didn't talk to her all the way, and Jin Chao couldn't remember where he offended this little ancestor again, thinking that he was afraid that Gu Lan had said a lot to him in private, so he didn't want to pay attention to him. She lifted the blue threaded muslin curtain to look out the window, Tongzhou is the northernmost point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and there are many Baodi businesses along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is very prosperous. There are also wide rivers in Trois-Rivières, which are mighty and mighty, and there is a dock next to the wharf.
If you go to the suburbs, you can still see fishermen's houses, and there are preserved fish hanging under the eaves. The snow was piling up, the farmhouse was covered with red couplets, and the children were running around in the fields.
Jin Chao's eyes were hot, after marrying into the Chen family in her previous life, she never came to Sanhe County again.
She remembered her grandmother.
My grandmother has a different soft personality from my mother, and she is in charge of the affairs of the Ji family.
The Ji family is famous and wealthy in Tongzhou, although there are not many people in the clan who are officials in the court, and there are no high-ranking officials. However, the Ji family has a business name that runs through the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Zhili commercial movement, and there are many fields and real estate in Tongzhou counties. When my grandfather died of a sudden illness when he was young, my grandmother became a surviving person, and she also managed the Ji family well.
Although it is said that there is a difference between respect and inferiority. But a big family like the Ji family still has a great reputation in Yanjing, and the families of officials often correspond with it.
In the eyes of the Jin Dynasty, the grandmother is different from the ordinary elders, she does not like women to be detained in the boudoir, and she does not require the women of the Ji family to learn female virtues. She is even more doting on the Jin Dynasty, and due to the influence of her grandmother, the Jin Dynasty has always been more free than other women when she was young.
She can even go to the grange to play in the field and catch butterflies in the field.
When she went back, her hands were full of mud, and her grandmother sat by the lamp and picked out the lantern to read, smiled and asked Song's mother on the side to help her wipe her hands, and hugged her on her lap to teach her to read. Jin Chao was naughty and refused to read, and Lai was in his grandmother's arms to tell her what he had done today, and who had upset her.
I got tired while talking, and I fell asleep in my grandmother's arms.
ββ¦β¦ Miss Cousin, Young Master Cousin, you can come down. The voice of the accompanying butler came from outside the car.
Another subordinate brought a sedan chair over and asked Jin Chao to step on it and get out of the car. Gu Jinchao raised his eyes and saw that this was a courtyard in the inner courtyard of the Ji family, called Qingbi Pavilion, planted with bamboo forests full of gardens, and piled up rockeries with Taihu Lake stones. They went straight through the Hanging Flower Gate to the inner courtyard......
A handsome woman next to her immediately greeted her, took her hand and said with a smile: "Sister Chao'er has finally arrived, and now grandmother should be happy." She was wearing a crimson silk gown and a pale red moonlight skirt, which looked very tender. Only then did Jin Chao recognize that it was her third cousin-in-law, Liu.
The third cousin took Liu as his wife, Liu is a native of Jiangnan, his ancestors have been out of several Jinshi, and he is also a prominent family.
Jin Chao saluted and pulled Gu Jinrong over: "This is the third cousin-in-law." β
Gu Jinrong didn't want to pay much attention to people, but seeing that Liu was smiling lightly and very gentle, he reluctantly shouted.
Jin Chao wanted to sigh, let go of Gu Jinrong's sleeves and ignored him, took Liu's hand and spoke as he walked: "The third cousin-in-law even came to pick us up in person...... I count Brother Chun is almost one year old, I don't know if I have gained weight, but I have to catch Zhou? β
Liu only got married two years ago, and he gave birth to a son-in-law in a year, which is also blessed. He patted Gu Jinchao's hand with a smile: "Don't bother, if it weren't for the fact that my grandmother was helping you decorate the yard, I'm afraid you would have to come over in person." You are also a coincidence, Brother Chun will be one year old in two days, and now he is white and fat, and he is very active. β
Jin Chao said: "It's good for a boy to be active!" And he said, "Grandmother is helping me decorate the yard?" β
Liu nodded: "Qidongpan, where you used to live, my grandmother heard that you were coming a few days ago, so she asked someone to tidy it up, and asked the florist to move the four seasons begonias out of the greenhouse, and they were arranged with flowers, which was very beautiful." I'm about to take you to Qidongpan to see ......."
Jin Chao couldn't cry or laugh, the begonias bloomed in these four seasons and couldn't stand the cold, and they moved out of the flower room, and they froze in a few days.
Qi Dongpan is close to my grandmother's house, and the two courtyards are connected by a corridor, only separated by a small lake. She has lived in Qidongpan since she was five years old, but she often lives in her grandmother's yard and refuses to go back. She walked outside the yard and found that the locust tree she had planted as a child was still there.
After falling leaves, the branches of the locust tree are thin, and the branches are staggered, as strong as copper and iron.
There were a few little girls standing at the door, saluting them. Walking into Qidongpan, the courtyard was bustling, a large group of people surrounded a person in a sandalwood satin gown, and a woman in a bright red and gold makeup satin dress was holding her hand.
Jin Chao couldn't help but redden.
My grandmother's voice was very calm: "Don't put flower pots on the verandah, my sister likes to stand there and watch the lake......"
"Grandmother, I'm here for my sister." The eldest cousin shouted with a smile.
The grandmother turned her head, still the same as in Jin Chao's memory, with a straight face, which looked very serious, and even gave people a stern feeling. Jin Chao seemed to remember the scene of Qingming and gloomy that year, when she knelt alone in front of her grandmother's grave and cried, and the ashes of paper money floated all over the sky.
My grandmother's maiden family is the Wu family in Yangzhou, and my ancestors have a history of transporting salt for several terms, and they are rich.
"Sister Chao!" Grandmother walked over to her, with a smile on her face, and her steps were even a little fast, "Grandmother hasn't seen you for more than half a year, why have you grown taller again......" She touched Jin Chao's hair, but found that her eyes were red, and she didn't speak, and asked her with a smile, "What, my sister Chao still looks stupid when she looks at her grandmother, is it too tired this way?" β
Say the same thing as my mother.
Gu Jinchao took a breath and replied to his grandmother with a smile: "I just miss you too much!" β
Gu Jinrong stood behind her and also greeted Ji Wu. Ji Wu looked at him and nodded: "Brother Rong is growing up so fast!" He looks like your father, and his temperament is calmer than before. Ji Wu smiled and said, "When you were young, you would be scared to cry every time you saw me......
Gu Jinrong smiled, of course he didn't remember these things.
Ji Wu called the woman over again, in her thirties, with a bright smile on her face, she took Gu Jinchao's hand: "Our sister Chao is getting more and more beautiful!" "It's the eldest aunt, the wife of the mother's only brother-in-law, and her mother's family is the famous tea family of Anxiang Song.
Ji Wu is in his sixties this year, and his health is still very good, and he walks steadily. If anyone sees her for the first time, they must think that she is a very strict person, but in fact, grandmothers are very kind to their children. Jin Chao took her hand, when her grandmother was in charge of the Ji family in her early years, she did everything herself, and often went to the grange, these hands were very rough, but she was particularly relieved.
Ji Wu instructed the housekeeper on the side to prepare the dishes that Jin Chao loved to eat: "...... The four-gill perch brought back by the second master last time he went to Suzhou was steamed, and then the yellow sprouts were taken from the cellar to make vinegar yellow sprouts. There are also braised rabbit heads, winter bamboo shoots and ham, roasted clams, roasted venison......" she thought about it, and said, "Add a snow lotus stewed pigeon." β
Jin Chao hurriedly took her hand: "Grandmother, it's too much!" "That fourgill perch alone is enough of a problem.
Ji Wu smiled: "It's rare for you to come!" It's all about what you like to eat. He turned his head and asked Jin Rong, "I don't know what our brother Rong likes to eat?" Your sister likes to eat steamed fourgill perch, and your second uncle always brings some back every time he goes to Suzhou. β
Gu Jinrong said: "I don't have a special ......" but his heart moved slightly, he also likes to eat sea bass......
Ji Wu took the Jin Dynasty to see Qi Dongpan first, or the layout where she originally lived, but added some more green glazed vases, put a lot of plums, and the yard was also planted with begonias, and clusters of pale red flowers reflected the snow, which was very beautiful and dazzling. In the inner room, a black lacquered beauty couch was added, and the cushions were covered with blue miscellaneous treasure cirrus dark satin, and tassels were woven with gold thread.
Jin Chao looked at these and was silent for a while. She remembered that someone had asked her later if she hated her grandmother.
If it weren't for her grandmother raising her so pampered and not thinking about her future, how could she be the character she was later?
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