Chapter 331: The Galloping Horse and the Pomegranate
The little girl wanted to refute, but Roulan pulled her sleeves, only to see her pinch the handkerchief and gently wipe the corners of her eyes, her eyes quickly turned red, and she choked in a low voice, "Cousin, Lan'er didn't mean to drag you down, Lan'er just wanted to make amends to Sister Shuang, she was wronged that day, Lan'er was timid, and she couldn't persuade her aunt..."
Wu Lie endured the boredom in his heart and persuaded in a low voice, "Don't cry, you and Yue'er have been friends since childhood, she must know that you are cowardly and will not blame you." After he finished speaking, he turned to the old mama, half pleading and half helplessly, and said, "Mama, there are still a hundred miles to Lingfeng City, Lan'er is not in good health, can't be too bumpy, Mama looks at my face, just endure it for a few days." ”
The old lady is not good in front of him, bowed her head and saluted, "The young general's words are serious, and the old slave is anxious." ”
Roulan heard her cousin's words to defend her, and she was in a good mood, so she actually endured her disgust and ate half a steamed bun and a few mouthfuls of cabbage. After the meal, everyone drank a few bowls of coarse tea and continued on the road.
On this day, Rui Xue felt a lot better, after drinking Amber specially boiled a lot of tonic soup, he slowly walked around the room with the table and chairs, Jian Wu was a little worried, just followed behind her, and helped her from time to time, Niuniu finished practicing martial arts, changed into clean clothes and came in, sat on the edge of the bed and teased the two little nieces and daughters, and asked a few stupid words from time to time, such as, why don't they talk yet, which made everyone laugh non-stop.
At this time, the convoy of the General's Mansion went to the willow tree at the head of the village, and a few old ladies who lowered their heads to peel kidney beans looked up and saw it, and they didn't have to guess, they knew that this must be going to Zhao's house, so they quickly picked up the guy in their hands, and followed the carriage all the way to Zhao's house.
Zhang Dahe was carrying beans with his hands, scrubbing the wood, and the white cotton gauze tofu cloth drying in the yard was layered like ocean waves, blocking the view from the outside. Cowardly, yes, he is a general who has killed countless people, cowardly!
He was afraid to see her indifferent, afraid to see her eyes full of hatred, no, maybe these were not what he was most afraid of, what he was most afraid of was that she was really as the old lady said, forgetting the past, forgetting their mountain alliance and sea oath...
Roulan stood at the door of the carriage, looked at her stunned cousin, and then swept towards the blue brick yard, so hateful that she couldn't stop gritting her teeth secretly, this time she must find a way to completely pick up the ugly girl, even if she can't get rid of her, she must let her cousin die.
The old lady ignored the changes in the minds of the two of them, got out of the carriage, took Xiaocui's hand and hurried inside, shouting, "Miss, Miss, the old slave is back." ”
Zhang Dahe and the others heard the movement, so they gathered over and said with a smile, "Ah, Mama is back, I've worked hard all the way, the boss has just given birth to a little young master, Mama, go and take a look." ”
"Really? Dragon and phoenix fetus? The old lady was so happy that her lips were trembling, and her feet were even more non-stop, and she turned to the backyard like a gust of wind, and then Mu San, who came in, pointed to the outside of the courtyard and said, "Steward Zhang, there are still carriages and horses outside the courtyard, you send someone to carry the boxes on the last three cars to the backyard warehouse." ”
"Yes, Boy Mu." Zhang Dahe saluted, and said, "Our shopkeeper and Bai Gongzi have returned to Tongcheng, and left a letter to Mu Gongzi, I will find it for Gongzi in a while, and Gongzi will go to Amber for a cup of tea first." ”
Mu San raised his eyebrows and turned to the gatehouse.
Zhang Dahe took people out of the gate, and saw that most of the visitors were big men in gray clothes and gray pants, although the two women on the side looked slender and feminine, but they were also ordinary, who knew that they were dressed up for the convenience of the road, so they thought they were the old grandmother's guards and maids, and stepped forward and saluted and said, "Everyone, but Gui Mama's guard maid?" Please take a break from tea inside. ”
Without waiting for those guards to scold, the little maid opened her mouth and scolded, "Blind your dog eyes, who do you say is the guard maid, our young lady is the young lady of the Zhenbei General's Mansion." After speaking, he pointed at Wu Lie and said, "That's the young general who has just made great achievements in the Northern Barbarians." ”
The little maid's voice was a little sharper, not only the Zhao family heard it, but also the villagers who were watching the excitement not far away, and they also vaguely listened to it, and immediately started to talk about it.
Wu Lie couldn't help frowning, Rou Lan saw it, and immediately pulled the little girl back, and said, "Cousin, this girl is used to protecting me on weekdays, and she is a little reckless, let's go in first, Lan'er really misses Sister Yue." ”
Wu Lie glanced at the little maid noncommittally, and she shuddered in fright, and took a step back behind her master.
Wu Lie bowed and said very politely, "Youlao, the steward, we are here on the same road as Mama Gui, and it is Miss Chen's... Old. ”
Zhang Dahe and the others were scolded by the little maid, and they didn't like it in their hearts, but when they heard that these were all people from the Zhenbei General's Mansion, they immediately forgot about their anger and added three points of respect, you must know that without them sacrificing their lives to kill the enemy, how could the people of Wuguo have a happy life, this is a big hero, a big benefactor.
How dare he accept the salute, as soon as his legs were weak, he was about to kneel down and kowtow, but he was helped up by Wu Lie, "The steward is polite, we are guests now, we can't be like this, let's go in first." ”
"Hey, hey, listen to the general." Zhang Dahe's face turned red with excitement, and he shouted loudly that Xiao Liuzi and a few people went to move the old lady's salute, helped unload the car, and then led everyone into the gate, passed through the "white yarn sea" in the workshop, turned to the second gate and stopped, and shouted inside, "Caiyun girl, come and attract guests, it is the young general of the Zhenbei General's Mansion who is here." ”
In the inner room, the old lady was half-kneeling in front of the two children, wiping her tears, and said, "If the grandfather and the lady are alive, how happy they should be, our young lady has children, how good our little master and little young lady look like." ”
Rui Xue saw that the old grandmother had been gone for a month, her original chubby body had been much thinner, and her face was extremely tired, and she was very grateful, so she stepped forward to help her and comforted, "Grandma, don't cry, my father and mother will definitely thank Mama in the sky, without Mama taking care of me since I was a child, how could I have a day when I have both children now." ”
The old lady shook Ruixue's hand, looked at it carefully, and was very satisfied, "Our young lady looks fat, and grandma won't leave when she comes back this time, she must follow Miss every day, take care of the little lady and the little master, and beg the young lady not to pick up the young lady, okay?" ”
She is such an old person, her eyes are red and she begs, and she is running back for her long journey, if she refuses again, it will be really hard-hearted, so Rui Xue nodded solemnly, "Mama, just be by my side, I will support Mama." ”
When the old lady heard this, she cried again with joy, like a child who had finally found a home after many days of trekking.
When the old and young were both feeling close, they suddenly heard the shout at the second gate, and the old lady suddenly remembered, stretched out her hand to wipe her tears, and said, "Miss, the young general and Miss Roulan are here, I stopped the general's carriage and horses at the gate of the general's mansion that day and shouted grievances, the general heard me crying, and read the young lady's letter and bloody clothes, and severely scolded the vicious woman, beat her thirty boards and locked her in the ancestral hall for reflection, the young general came here to find out whether the original incident was really done by the vicious woman, as for Miss Roulan, she said that she missed Miss, I regret that I was timid and didn't intercede for Miss that day, but the old slave looked like she had bad intentions, and Miss should be more guarded. ”
Rui Xue nodded, "Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief." If there was such a good sister who cared about me in the General's Mansion that day, I would not have been thrown out and died. Mama rest assured, I'm sitting in confinement now, but I can't see the male guest, as for Roulan, when I arrived at our house, there was no reason to let her guest be a blessing. ”
The old lady saw that her young lady did not run out happily as usual, but analyzed it so calmly, and sighed in her heart, Miss really forgot about the young general, but this is okay, now that she has given birth to a child for the Zhao family, can she go back to the days when she was not married?
"Then the young lady will rest first, and the old slave will go out and make arrangements."
"There is Mama Lao, the guests living in the east wing have just left, the two of them will have one room for each person, as for those guards, none of them will be left, and they will all arrange to go to the village to spend the night, if there is a black heart like Wu Er, I am afraid that our mother and son will suffer again."
The old lady hurriedly responded, "Don't worry, Miss, the old slave will arrange it." ”
As she spoke, she got up and went out, Rui Xue thought about it, and called Jian Wu and Qin Xin who were sitting in the corner of the room, "There are outsiders at home, and there are some other thoughts, maybe there will be some risks, you two sisters will take turns to stay by the two children from today onwards, and you can't leave for half a step, maybe it?" ”
Jian Wu and Qin Xin glanced at each other and saluted together, "Madame, don't worry, if someone is unfavorable to the little young master and young lady, they must pass the level of our sisters." ”
Rui Xue nodded and smiled, "With you here, I'll rest assured, Jian Wu will go out to help the old lady settle the guests." ”
Jian Wu opened the door in response, and just as Wu Lie and the others entered the courtyard, they raised their eyes and looked at the big red window flowers posted on the windows of the main house, and their faces all changed.
It is customary in the military country that when a child is born in the family, a galloping horse should be posted outside the window of the delivery room, and a woman will be pasted with a pomegranate in the next life, and at this time, on the window, one left and one right, is the galloping horse and pomegranate, as long as the eyes are not blind, they can see clearly.
Wu Lie's face was sometimes gloomy like water, sometimes red like fire, blue and white, extremely weird.
When he came, he was still comforting himself constantly, the old mother's words were all to win the sympathy of everyone, and his moon was probably suffering there, waiting for him to find it.
But now, suddenly waking up by the fact on the head, he immediately felt the anger in his heart overwhelming, he wanted to grab her hand and ask, why did he marry someone else, why did he give birth to someone else, why did he forget their original vow, why couldn't he be his wife?
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and strode up the steps, ignoring the exclamation of the old woman, and reached out to push the two closed ebony carved doors.
Wu Lie didn't think that a maid could do anything to him, but unfortunately, he had been on the battlefield for many days and had never hurt a single hair, but today he was destined to be planted in the hands of such a maid.