Chapter 2 The Family of Scholars
"Five, five ladies, you are finally willing to speak."
Cui's mother was a little excited, and her voice was raised a lot, so startled that the girl guarding the door hurriedly ran in. Seeing Cui's mother walking around Shaohua's bed several times, she thought something was wrong, and finally Shaohua couldn't stand their harassment.
"Mother Cui, I'm going to rest, I have to get up early tomorrow to give ...... Auntie, please be safe. Shaohua was a little speechless.
Fortunately, Cui's mother didn't take a closer look, to know that she could make the fifth lady speak, she felt that the nagging these days was not too hard. Lian Sheng responded well, and wanted a little girl to stay and keep vigil, but in the end Shaohua refused. Cui's mother was a little scared, but thinking that she could go back to the second lady tomorrow to ask for a lottery, her face was full of smiles, and she repeatedly told her that if she got up at night, she could just call out loudly, and she didn't have to run out by herself. With Shaohua's impatient face, she left with the girls.
The door of the first room was closed, and the shadow outside the door faded away, and Shaohua came out of the quilt again.
After she recovered from her illness and was able to get out of bed, she was a mute for most of the month, listening to Cui's mother's idle routines, and she also knew a thing or two about her new identity. Grandfather Li Xianyang is a few years ago to retire from the old court, originally Li Ge Lao is highly respected, in the court prestige is very good, but for the sake of the future of his descendants, he handed over the fold and pleaded to return home. The emperor was reluctant, but Li Gelao's eldest son Li Liangxun is currently Honglu Siqing, and the eldest grandson Li Sijin Sanyuan and the first champion Lang who asked for release by himself, and Li Sinian, the heir of the third son, is actually Tanhualang in the same year as Li Sijin.
That year, as soon as the emperor's list was posted, the whole capital was a sensation.
This is not just a three-jinshi class, the Li family accounts for two of the three rankings, and they are also uncles and brothers. For a while, the threshold of the Li family was almost stepped on by the matchmakers, whether it was marrying a Langjun, this was a very glorious thing. Even the dignitaries and nobles also moved their minds and asked the harem lady to help match the affairs of their daughter and the Li family. The Li family, who has always been low-key, suddenly sang back to a high note, first Li Ge Lao played to tell the old man to return to his hometown, and without waiting for the emperor's permission to play, he announced the relationship between the eldest grandson Li Sijin and Xin Zixuan, the eldest daughter of General Dingxi. Everyone couldn't figure out how a pavilion elder who was sitting firmly on a high platform could run to marry the general who was guarding the northwest.
The people next to him were confused, but the emperor knew that General Dingxi had a very high reputation in the hearts of military generals, and he was extremely talented in marching and fighting. Just because he married a foreign woman, he was not close to the people in Beijing, so he invited himself to guard the border pass. It is precisely because of General Dingxi guarding in northern Sichuan that the court can be as stable as this, but he is the same as Li Gelao, he is low-key and introverted. If these two join forces, I am afraid that the direction of the court will have to fall aside.
Therefore, the emperor immediately agreed to Li Ge Lao's recital, and Li Sijin, who had just become married, asked for release at the same time, and for a while the nobles in Beijing had to shift their attention to Li Sinian. found that Tanhualang had already focused everyone's attention on Li Sijin, and he went to Shanxi to recuperate on the grounds that he was suffering from a serious illness.
Just when everyone felt sorry for the Li family's self-destruction of their future, some people pointed out the cleverness of Li Gelao.
Not to mention that Li Ge is already old, if he is in power, I am afraid that Li Sijin and Li Sinian will be the outstanding, and the emperor will not entrust him with important tasks. Even if the courtiers didn't poke him in the back, the emperor felt uneasy in his heart. Li Ge retreated, but found a big backer for the eldest grandson to be his father-in-law, because General Dingxi was in Beichuan, even if the position was high, he could not threaten the courtiers, so it was not a good family for Li Sijin, who had just come out. What's more, the emperor has not yet appointed a crown prince, and the eldest son of the emperor and the second son of the emperor are the same age, and the mother's family is equally prominent.
As soon as Li Sijin left, but as soon as his term expired, when he returned to the dynasty to report on his work, the new emperor was in power, and he would naturally be promoted. And whether Li Sinian's illness is true or not, no one knows, some people say that Li Sinian pretended to be sick and absconded, in order to let Li Sijin show his ambitions in the DPRK. Some people said that Li Sinian was really sick, otherwise Li Sijin would have asked to be released, why wouldn't he come back.
Originally, it was a glorious event of a three-jinshi, but in the end, the retreat, the illness, and the walk, the career of the Li family was not as good as the scenery of Li Gelao's reign.
But this is all about the Li family's career, and many people have forgotten that Li Xianyang's family is in Shanxi, but he is a famous Jin businessman. Everyone in the clan is Li Xianyang, and most of the others are local squires and wealthy businessmen, even if their families leave the court, they can't starve.
It's just that Shaohua couldn't laugh or cry that she became the sister-in-law of her sister-in-law in her previous life. Although she accepted her new body and appearance, she still knew who she was. One day, the maid who passed by the door had a broken mouth, saying that General Dingxi and his wife were guests in the house. She didn't say a word, she didn't even put on her coat, she wanted to run to the compound like crazy, she hadn't seen her parents for more than two months, they must have thought she was dead, and they didn't know how sad and sad they should be.
But before she could run out of her small yard, people blocked her back, and she cried and cried to go out to see her parents, but no one paid attention to her. When the Ling family received the news and rushed over, he looked at Shaohua, who was haggard and teary-eyed, and remembered that when she was just taken to Pu'an, his eyes were sour, and he hugged her and cried that he would never leave her again. Seeing her talking nonsense, Ling Shi was afraid of provoking the passer-by again, so he invited a monk to do a water and land dojo for 7749 days.
Since then, Shaohua's every move has become the object of attention, and she has completely dispelled her idea of absconding.
Early in the morning, Cui's mother came over to dress Shaohua, who had been sick for many days and was weak, but under Cui's mother's makeup, she looked a little soft and graceful. This is the first time Shaohua has stepped out of the yard, not only she is excited, but even Cui's mother is excited.
Xu was worried that Shaohua had just recovered from a long illness and was overwhelmed, so as soon as she went out, two stout women were waiting outside with her chariots. Shaohua was not used to being served like this, but thinking that his strength was indeed not as good as before, he didn't bother to argue with Cui's mother, so he was carried to Ling's courtyard and staggered.
She had just come down, and someone was already waiting at the door, and she ran forward excitedly to help her.
Shaohua smiled bitterly in her heart, what kind of treatment is this, when she was named the county lord by the saint, she had never been supported so carefully, at most, she was more respectful in tone, and she thought that there were so many rules in a minister's mansion.
In fact, Shaohua didn't know that there were indeed not so many rules on weekdays, but she was just considerate of her for the first time to ask for peace.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Ling Shigao sitting on the top seat, with a smile on his face, talking happily to the girl next to her. Shaohua raised her steps and hesitated, and Cui's mother had already spoken at the door, "The second lady, the third lady, and the fifth lady are here." ”
When Ling heard this, he hurriedly raised his head, seeing that the youngest daughter was timid at the door and did not dare to enter the door, but the eldest daughter was gentle and gentle, and she looked like a lady, and her heart was a little sour. In the end, it is not a child who grew up by her side, and when she comes back, she is sick and frightened, and she will have to be compensated twice in the days to come. "Quick, come in, let A-Niang take a good look at you."
Shaohua didn't know the complicated mental struggle in Ling's heart, only thinking about how to act so as not to make people think that she was guilty of hysteria again, remembering that she was a monk and a Taoist priest for a while, chanting and spitting around her every day, if she wasn't sick and weak, she would have driven them away a long time ago.
Shaohua's tenacious sense of survival made Ling even more convinced that this was all done by divine power.
"Ah, mother, blessed." With the support of Cui's mother, Shaohua walked up to Ling and bowed to her with a smile. got up and looked at the bright-eyed beauty, and slowly leaned over and nodded, "I've seen the third sister." ”
It was rare for Shaohua to be willing to speak, and he took the initiative to greet her, and the Ling family, who got the news last night, was almost so excited that he couldn't sleep. "Quick, Sanniang, help your sister up."
Wanhua is the third of Li Xianyang's grandchildren, two years older than Shaohua, and when Shaohua was sent to Pu'an Ling's house, she only began to be sensible.
It's just that I have the impression that I have a younger sister, and I have seen it a few times later, but every time she comes home, she always scares the Li family into turning people upside down, and gradually she never sees this sister again. Unexpectedly, after many years, I saw her again and was already a slim girl, between her eyebrows and eyes, she was more like the Ling family than her and Li Balang Li Simo. Especially those eyes, Yingying is lazy, which inexplicably makes people feel friendly.
"Fifth sister, get up quickly, we are family members of our in-laws, so there is no need to make these false courtesies." Wanhua made enough of the appearance of the eldest sister, took her hand, sat down to the side, and asked with concern: "You didn't scare A-Niang less when you got sick this time, and the family is worried about you, but fortunately, God bless the good people, you can be regarded as getting better." ”
Shaohua was a little uncomfortable and wanted to withdraw the hand that was clenched by her, but Wanhua squeezed it tightly, and she couldn't break free, "Let A-Niang and sister worry." ”
"Fool, you and Sanniang are both A-Niang's daughters, how can you not worry. It's all my fault, I wish this illness was born to me, and you don't have to be so painful. Ling said, unconsciously tucking the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief.
Wanhua hurriedly got up to comfort Ling, Shaohua lowered his head, rubbed his small handkerchief, and panicked in his heart. Although before she got married in her previous life, her mother did not give her a lot of bad things to make up for the rules of the Beijing family, and at that time she had already heard the sky, but she was married as a Luobu tribe, and it is said that the palace also specially invited a Luobu cook for her. Let her pretend to be a serious lady occasionally, she can still be competent, but she has to be so literate every day, talking and doing things in a twisted way, she is afraid that she will have to commit "hysteria" again in a few days.
"Auntie, what are you talking about for no reason, are you sick, and the fifth sister feels better? Now that the fifth sister has returned home and is in good health, let's live a good life in the future. Wanhua quietly stretched out her leg and kicked Shaohua, and when she saw her indifferently raise her head, she hurriedly gave her a look.
Only then did Shaohua come back to his senses, and hurriedly comforted: "Auntie, don't worry, I'm fine." ”
Seeing the two daughters snuggling up to him on the left and right, Ling suddenly felt extremely happy, so he burst into tears and laughed: "Sanniang said well, Wuniang, you are going home now, don't be restrained in the future, you must know that this is your home." ”
Can I go out for horseback riding every day without wearing such troublesome clothes? Shaohua thought silently in his heart, but said obediently on his face: "I know." ”
After a burst of family fun between mother and daughter, Wanhua suddenly glanced out of the door, frowned and said, "Hmph, Jinhua, this girl, why is it so late today, Mo is lying in bed!" Book language, go and see what's going on! ”
"Yes." The girl named Shuyu came out, saluted everyone, and turned to leave, but heard a cheerful laugh from the courtyard.