Although the second lady said something, it still took a lot of twists and turns, and the lady reluctantly agreed to go back to Yuhang with Luo Zhenxing.

Brother Jin was overjoyed and a little depressed at the same time: "Isn't Daddy going with me?" "Didn't you boast in front of me that no matter who it is, you can get along with people? Xu Lingyi smiled, "I won't be with you this time, let's see if you can get a few friends back." He added, "I went to Jiangnan once sixteen years ago, and when you come back, tell me about Jiangnan." ”

Brother Jin became happy again when he heard this, and ran to ask Mrs. Tai: "Do you have anything you want, I'll buy it for you!" ”

Mrs. Tai hugged Brother Jin in her arms and was reluctant to let go, as if he was going to leave tomorrow: "Grandmother doesn't want anything, she wants my Brother Jin to come back safely!" Then quietly stuffed him with a purse, "Take it!" Don't tell anyone. If you want to walk and you want to buy something and you are too embarrassed to ask your uncle, you use this. We don't look at people's eyes. ”

"No, you don't." , Brother Jin pushed back, "Dad gave me a hundred taels of silver, and my mother gave me two hundred taels of silver." I've got a lot of money! "When you go out, you have a lot of money. Mrs. Tai insisted on accepting it, "Who thinks there is little silver?" Brother Jin didn't like to push and shove like this, thought about it, and smiled: "That's good." I'm not using it up, so I'll take it back and return it to you! "Don't pay me back! Mrs. Tai smiled and said, "You keep it and use it well!" Brother Jin didn't say much to Mrs. Tai, and accepted it happily. Mrs. He said: "This time we will go on the official boat. Master Pang said that the official ship is stable, and it is more comfortable than riding in a carriage. It's my first time on an official ship. I used to just go up and look at it when my father saw him off......"

Eleven Niang was thanking the second lady: "Thanks to the second sister-in-law, otherwise Mrs. Tai would definitely not agree to Brother Jin'er going out." ”

"Without me, Master Hou will come forward, and my mother will agree." The second lady smiled slightly, "I'll come forward, but it's just faster." She said, got up and took a name card on the bookcase and handed it to Eleven Niang, "Since you are going to Jiangnan, it is better to go to Taicang to worship Mr. Feng Qianying Feng." He is a master of astrology, and he has studied arithmetic, I Ching, and Feng Shui. This strange man is not to pass through the door without entering. Thirteen Niang was embarrassed.

Brother Jin'er and the second lady have studied for a period of time, and the astrological signs seem to only clearly distinguish between the south, east, west, and northwest. Arithmetic is what she taught according to the impression Hu 1uan, but she memorized the ninety-nine multiplication formula, and could do "there are three birds in a birdcage, and there are several birds in four birdcages", and other application problems, as for Feng Shui and I Ching, I don't know if Mr. Chang and Mr. Zhao talk about it Anyway, she definitely doesn't understand, and Xu Lingyi doesn't understand eight or nine out of ten...... Let Brother Jin go to meet such a person...... Did you come back just to make a salute?

She thought about it, considering that this was a piece of the second lady's heart, and it was not a difficult thing, so she responded with a smile.

Go back to look at the post, and the payment is Shaohua Jushi Xu Xiang's.

It seems that this Shaohua monk is the number of the second lady.

Say it to Xu Lingyi.

Xu Lingyi smiled: "You just know." The second brother once used the precious jī blood stone to personally carve a spare chapter for the second sister-in-law. Eleven Niang opened the name card and pointed to the red mark: "Is this it?" Xu Lingyi glanced at it: "I didn't expect the second sister-in-law to still use it" The tone was very embarrassing.

Eleven Niang asked him: "Why is the second sister-in-law not a stepchild?" Thinking of stepchildren, who generally have the children of her husband's brother first, and Xu Lingyi's heirs were thin before she got married, Xu Lingkuan had no children, and the third lady only had two sons, and Nanjing directly refused, "Is it because there is no suitable one?" "That's just one of the reasons. Xu Lingyi said, "The main reason is that the second sister-in-law feels that she can't take Xiao children well." ”

"Can't take Xiao children? What do you mean? Eleven Niang was very puzzled.

There are maids and mothers in the family, and the children are taken care of by rǔ niang until they are five years old, so she can just look at them symbolically every day.

A thought flashed, and she suddenly remembered.

The second lady is an only daughter, after getting married, the child was born, and her husband died suddenly, does she think that her life is too hard?

Is it because of this that Nanjing is reluctant to pass the child over?

And although she is good to her children, she never hugs, kisses or other body language.

"What are the plans of the second sister-in-law?" Eleven Niang couldn't help but say.

Whether it is Mrs. Tai or Xu Lingyi, judging from their feelings for the second master, it is impossible for the second room to be extinct.

"The meaning of the second sister-in-law is that after she passes away, we can succeed one in the name of the second brother." Xu Lingyi's expression was a little gloomy.

Eleven Niang couldn't help but look at the northwest corner.

……

Knowing that after the Dragon Boat Festival, Yingniang was going back to Yuhang, and everyone was a little surprised.

"I'm going back so soon!" , Xiang's expression showed a little reluctance, "Didn't you say that I want to accompany you for a few days?" ”

Yingniang xìng is lively, and very diligent, in her spare time, she is either nonghuanong grass, or doing needlework, and sometimes when she sees Xiang coming to say hello, she will also help Xiang hold Yingying. Although Xiang and her did not talk much, they had a very good impression of her.

Eleven Niang dropped a wormwood purse on Yingying's chest and said with a smile: "I left her here, what should her mother do?" Come and stay here with me for a few months, that's enough! Xiang's didn't dare to ask more, but he responded, and after going down, he took Yingying to see Yingniang and gave him fifty taels of silver.

Mrs. Tai, Mrs. Five, Jiang's family, Sister Xin, etc., gave jewelry such as earrings and hairpin rings. Only Xu Sijie, in addition to giving fifty taels of silver, also sent an embroidered bandage to Yingniang: "Didn't you say last time that the bandage was loose and couldn't make the tendons?" I made one. ”

Yingniang was very surprised: "You still do this?" Xu Sijie smiled embarrassedly: "It's not a big deal, it's a bamboo scorn left over from making lanterns." It's just at hand. ”

Yingniang laughed: "What else will you have?" ”

"A little bit of everything." , Xu Sijie listened and said, "It's just not very fine." "It's better to pick one you like and learn it well. Yingniang couldn't help but teach her a lesson, "My aunt said that if you can do one thing well in this life, you can be of infinite use." ”

Xu Sijie nodded and left with a red face.

Ying Niang looked at it, and suddenly felt that she was speaking too harshly, and hurriedly shouted Xu Sijie: "Fourth brother, I am used to being open-mouthed at home, don't take my nonsense 1uan to heart." ”

"It's not!" , Xu Si admonished, "The eldest cousin's words are very reasonable. I'm going to go back and think about it and see what to do. Saying that, thinking of those events, I liked everything, and I was reluctant to give up, and my tone paused, and said, "At least divide the priorities and do everything well." The tone was very sincere.

Yingniang laughed and thought Xu Sijie was very funny. She raised the bandage in her hand: "Thank you, fifth cousin!" He turned around and ran into the main house.

Xu Sijie thought that he might never see this eldest cousin who often laughed again in the future, and his heart suddenly became a little stunned.

……

Eleven Niang watched the big boat slowly leave the dock of the Tongzhou River through the green yarn of the carriage, and the tears that she had been holding back fell.

"With Master Pang to follow" Those guards are all carefully selected, and they still have my name card in their hands, so there will be nothing wrong. Xu Ling grabbed his wife's shoulders and comforted her, "Brother Jin will come back during the New Year." Seven months have passed in the blink of an eye. Shi Niang nodded, wiped away her tears, and said with red eyes: "Let's go back!" "The nose is not clear," and the speech is still a little buzzy, but the tone is very firm.

Now that the decision has been made, there is no longer any hesitation or hesitation.

Xu Lingyi felt her change, a hint of relief flashed in her eyes, and she said softly: "Yesterday I talked to Brother Jin at the inn for most of the night, "You can sleep with me for a while!" ”

Eleven Niang was indeed a little tired, she closed her eyes "In the monotonous sound of wheels, she quickly fell asleep."

I don't know how long it took, but she suddenly woke up.

The carriage stopped, she was still in the carriage, there was no sound around, the candlelight of the red lantern came in through the window of the carriage, and Xu Lingyi sat quietly helping her fan.

"Wake up!" He laughed, "Hungry! Let's go down to dinner. As he spoke, he dropped the fan and lifted the curtain of the carriage and horses, "This is Dongsheng Inn, we will rest here for a day, and we will be able to enter Yanjing City at dusk." He said, holding out his hand to her.

Shi Niang took his hand and got out of the carriage, and then the carriage stopped in a courtyard of xiaoxiao, and there was no one in the courtyard, quietly.

"What about Brother Jin and Brother Jie?" The two children came with them to see off Brother Jin.

"I'll let them go back and rest first!" Xu Lingyi led her to the main room, "Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, I didn't wake you up." ”

Eleven Niang looked up at the sky.

The sky was gray-blue, gray-blue, there was no moon, only a few stars.

"What time is it?"

"It's the beginning of the year." Xu Lingyi took out his pocket watch and looked at it for a long time through the light under the eaves.

It was the end of the year when Brother Chen'er went offshore, so wouldn't she have slept for more than three hours? They are not in a hurry, and yesterday they heard from the steward that they should be in the store at the beginning ......of the hundred years, so didn't he fan himself in the carriage for more than an hour?

"Why didn't Master Hou wake me up?" , Eleven Niang said angrily.

"Seeing that you slept soundly, I didn't wake you up." , Xu Lingyi took her hand and entered the house.

Qiu Yu was waiting, and when he saw them coming in, he hurriedly ordered lunch to be arranged.

I had just eaten two bites when there was a noise outside.

Xu Lingyi glanced at Qiu Yu, Qiu Yu immediately walked out quickly, and quickly turned back.

"Master Hou, madam, it's the second young master!" , her face was full of surprise, "The second young master returned to Yanjing and also rested in this inn." If Mo Zhu hadn't gone to the kitchen to wash the feet of the second young master and saw the nursing home, I wouldn't have known that we would also be resting here. "Invite him in!" The couple said in unison, Qiu Yu had lifted the curtain, and the thin and tall Xu Siyu walked in.

"Father, Mother!" , he didn't care whether the ground was put on the ground or not, he knelt in front of the two of them like that.

"Hurry up!" Xu Lingyi said, "Why did you come back so early?" Didn't you say you wouldn't be back until the end of June or early July? ”