Chapter 373 Expensive, leaving

Over the past year or so, the Yiyuan of Weiguo Mansion on Gulouxia Street can be said to have experienced several ups and downs. When Weiguo Gong Luo Mingyuan just came back, there was a lot of traffic in front of the door; Later, Wei Guogong entered the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, but he did not hold real power, and he was snubbed a little here; Immediately following Luo Xu's high school rumor, the Duchess of Weiguo spread the news that she was pregnant, but then Luo Guifei lost her love, and the Duke of Weiguo went out of the Beijing camp to serve the army...... From all in all, few people can understand this changing situation, and gradually those who like to watch the wind in order to see the wind and steer the rudder are simply honest.

Today, like the residences of other officials in the capital, this Yiyuan is visited occasionally, but most of the day is free. It's just that the young grandmother who is in charge of housework in the house is not easy to fool, and the people on the door don't dare to be lazy easily when they are on duty, which is the case at this moment.

"The old man and the eldest young master haven't come back yet, the lady has already asked several times"

"I had already gone out half an hour before the letter was delivered, and I thought it would be time to get to the ground. It's okay for the master to say, whether it can be sent to the palace is credible, the little one really doesn't dare to say" The manager on the door was sweating profusely, and when he saw the mother in front of him was full of anxiety, he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe his wet head, "After all, the eldest young master is doing things in the palace, if it is a thousand-step corridor, it is cheaper to send a message, but now he has to wait." However, I think the master will be back after a while."

"Alas"

The mother stomped her foot, said no more, and hurried inside. From the second gate, she walked along the main road in the center to the Tea Pavilion, and as soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she saw that Mother Lan was pacing back and forth in the courtyard, and hurriedly stepped forward and said the response on the door. Sure enough, Mother Lan frowned when she heard this, and her two hands tightened.

"Although Wen Po and the others have been looking for and preparing for a long time, I never expected that it would be many days earlier, and Mrs. is not such a young man, if there is really something...... No, what Madame is thinking about now is the eldest young master, and she is already in a hurry if she can't see it now, and she doesn't know what to do later, you go to the eldest young master's teacher, Mr. Han, and see if the fourth young master of the Ninghou Mansion in Yang is not, if he is, ask him to help. It is not easy for young grandmothers to enter the delivery room, but she is accompanied by her wife at this time and does not dare to leave for a moment, alas"

Seeing that the mother agreed and ran out, Mother Lan turned around and went straight to the east wing that had been set up as a delivery room. Entering the door, seeing several mothers busy there, picking up and handing things, Zhang Bingyun could vaguely hear the voice of comforting Mrs. Lin, she instinctively wiped her head with a handkerchief, and then grabbed a mother.

"How?"

"Not yet." The mother looked back at her head, and her voice was as high as a mosquito, "The two experienced women both said that the fetal position should be okay, but it's not time yet." It's just that this pain is too bad, after all, Madam has never been since the eldest young master, and it is difficult to use the previous experience......"

"That means you'll have to wait, and you don't even know when?"

Seeing that Mother Lan's face was pale, the mother couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva: "You have to wait, if you are lucky, you should be able to come out at night, otherwise it may be ...... tonight."

When Weiguo Gong Luo Mingyuan hurried back, he was faced with the delivery room with the door closed, and only the painful moans of his wife could be heard from time to time. I think that when Luo Xu was born, he was fighting outside, and when he returned home, he faced a white and chubby child, and those concubines needless to say, they just reported to the next person, and some of them even took a look after a year and a half, and then forgot about it completely. It was the first time he had experienced such a moment of labor, and he could stand the sound at first, but gradually he clenched his fists, and he couldn't help pacing under his feet, and when he came to the big locust tree planted in the courtyard, he couldn't help but punch it.

Because Luo Mingyuan came back, Mother Lan went in to replace Zhang Bingyun. At this moment, as soon as Zhang Bingyun stepped out of the door, he saw the scene of his father-in-law swinging his fist angrily, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and immediately hurriedly stepped forward to salute. It's just that she has little contact with Luo Mingyuan, and she wants to comfort but doesn't know where to start, so she stopped saying a few words.

"Madame, is she feeling good right now?"

"It's okay......" Zhang Bingyun raised his head and glanced at Luo Mingyuan's expression, and suddenly remembered Mrs. Lin's soft muttering when she was enduring labor pains, and she was bold enough to say for a while, "My mother barely ate a lot of things before, saying that she wanted to save her strength, after all, she might have to survive the night." Mother...... Mother has been waiting for you and Brother Xu to come back. ”

Although Mrs. Lin only talked about Luo Xu a lot, Zhang Bingyun thought about it and still added her father-in-law. Sure enough, I saw Luo Mingyuan's face blue and white for a while, and then he left her and strode straight towards the delivery room. I saw that he first banged on the door twice, and when the door opened a crack, he broke in regardless of it.

No one expected Luo Mingyuan to rush in like this, and most people were busy stunned for a while. Even Mrs. Lin, who was sweating profusely on the bed and clutching the sheets, almost thought that she had seen the wrong person when she saw the familiar and unfamiliar figure in front of her. Until her husband's voice came to her ears, she turned her head with difficulty.

"Xu'er should be able to rush back, don't panic Since you can give birth to him safely in the past, of course you can now" Luo Mingyuan had never experienced this occasion, he was stuck after saying these two words, paused for a while, and gently held his wife's hand, "You have suffered so much in the past, and now it will be over as soon as you stand up"

Mrs. Lin was still a little confused, but when she heard this latter sentence, she couldn't help but sneer: "It's easy for you to say, and it's not you who gave birth to a child."

"Of course I haven't given birth, and if a man can have children, then what other wonders are there in the world?" Luo Mingyuan couldn't help but raise his hand and brushed the head on Mrs. Lin's forehead, with a rare gentle smile on his face, "However, this is also the first time I have waited for the child to be born." Whether it is a man or a woman, Xu'er will not be lonely in the future. ”

The two young husband and wife used to be harmonious, but such a gentle gesture was suddenly a memory for Mrs. Lin. Looking at the man with the sharp outline of his face in a daze, she couldn't help but grab his stiff wrists, and even her nails almost sank into the flesh. Seeing him staring at her as if he was unaware, she unconsciously let go of her hand again, and then took a few deep breaths.

"As you wish, I will definitely give birth to him safely" After gritting her teeth and bursting out of this sentence, she shouted at Mother Lan, who was stunned on the side, "Is there any ginseng slice, take a piece and hold it for me"

Until the curfew, Luo Xufang rushed into the door of the tea hall in a rage. Seeing many people in the courtyard, he rushed forward, and easily found his wife, grabbed people's hands and was about to ask, when he heard a loud cry suddenly from the house, and he was stunned on the spot. After a long time, I saw that the door of the delivery room suddenly opened, and Mother Lan leaned out and shouted happily: "Madame is happy, mother is safe"

Luo Xu let go of Zhang Bingyun's hand, rushed forward, stared at Mother Lan and asked, "Mother gave birth to a child?" ”

"The eldest young master is back?" Lan's mother asked, only to see that Luo Xu actually rushed past him and rushed directly into the delivery room, which was not trivial. She turned around and hurried to catch up, but when the hand was about to reach Luo Xu's shoulder, she took it back again, and immediately sighed as if laughing at herself, "The master has been staying until now, and he is not inferior to a big young master." ”

However, Luo Xu didn't hear what he said. When he saw his father holding a swaddling cloth in his hand, his face filled with indescribable joy, he almost didn't pop his eyes out, and when his father saw it, he stammered and asked, "Daddy...... Daddy, you're ...... early Got back early? ”

"I've been back a long time ago, I've been staying since the afternoon, and I haven't even eaten a mouthful" Mrs. Lin showed a slight dismay, but when Luo Mingyuan picked up the child in a somewhat stiff posture, she was already smiling, stretched out her fingers and teased the little baby, and looked up at Luo Xu again, "Come and see your brother, but he is not as strong as you were at the beginning, and I don't think you will be mischievous."

"Mother, am I as unbearable as you say?" Luo Xu stepped forward flatteringly, took the swaddling clothes and looked at them for a while, his face was full of joy and pride, "Ha, I have a younger brother, you grow up quickly, when the time comes, I will take you to ride a horse and shoot arrows, go to the market and sit on a painting boat, hey, in short, you just want the stars in the sky, I can also take them off for you"

"Don't teach your brother badly" Mrs. Lin hurriedly asked Mother Lan to bring the child back, and immediately said to the father who looked at each other and smiled, "Okay, okay, in this bloody place, you two big men don't let people boil water, put more wormwood and other medicinal herbs, and give them two to go to bad luck."

Having said that, when the father and the two were soaking in the huge bath at the same time, surrounded by the fragrance of wormwood, they were a little embarrassed to each other. Luo Xu, who can speak well and speak on weekdays, hesitated for a long time, and stumbled and said: "Dad, junior brother Chen didn't send the news to Wenyuan until the evening, and I was listening to the court discussion in Wenhua Hall at that time, until I came out to know the news, so I came back late." ”

"You've always been protecting your mother, and it's rare to be late and it's okay to worry about it, isn't it me?" Seeing the surprise on Luo Xu's face that he couldn't hide, Luo Mingyuan couldn't help but sigh, "If I hadn't played it before, I wouldn't have been able to pull out so easily." The gates are closed tonight, but to-morrow I will go back, and I will be able to come back when I wash the third day...... I know you're going to be able to take care of the rest, and I don't have anything to tell you, just one word. ”

Seeing Luo Xu nodding solemnly, Luo Mingyuan suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed his shoulder heavily: "You and I have different paths, but some things are the same." Don't neglect your daughter-in-law because of those big things, and don't be greedy for fresh ...... because the family is the same."

When he said this, Luo Mingyuan couldn't help but squint his eyes, and the wrinkles between his eyebrows became more and more profound.

said that he was his father, but Luo Xu went to Beijing with his mother when he was a child, and the memory of his father is really only Luo Mingyuan's few times in Beijing. Everyone else is reading and writing under the teaching of his father, practicing martial arts, but what about him? Mr. Han was inquired hard by him, and tried his best to worship under the door; Martial arts were at the bottom of the fight in the market at the beginning, and those fox friends and dog friends found former veteran generals for him, and practiced them little by little; Everything has nothing to do with Luo Mingyuan. And all the impressions that this father made of him were the messages he heard from his mother's weeping

Therefore, at this moment, he lowered his head and gritted his teeth and did not make a sound, until Luo Mingyuan stood up silently and stepped out of the bath, and then picked up a soft towel to wipe the water droplets on his body, and when he was about to leave the big bathroom, he said coldly: "Dad, I will go to Tianjin Wei tomorrow." ”

Luo Mingyuan paused for a moment, and then said without looking back: "So, your brother's washing, you can't catch up?" I know, your mother will sit down next, I will pay more attention to the affairs of the family, and then there is your daughter-in-law. Bring all the people you transferred at the end of last year, just in case. ”

Seeing his father casually raise the curtain, and then disappear outside the door, Luo Xu leaned against the smooth pool wall behind him, and suddenly couldn't help but hit his hand heavily on the water, splashing high. In this high steaming heat, he only felt that his mind was at a loss, until he returned to his room in a trance, and waited for the person who took off his makeup and clothes and got into the quilt, and he pulled the person into his arms.

"Brother Xu, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Bingyun was keenly aware that Luo Xu did not have any fiery desires at this time, and her hands were trembling slightly, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows in surprise, and then moved her body uneasily. However, after asking and getting no reply, she couldn't help but reach out and rub her jaw, which had begun to grow whiskers, and then whispered, "Did you have an argument with your father-in-law?" ”

"Nope." Luo Xu took a deep breath, and then said thoughtlessly, "You say, is it the fickle nature of men or the fickle nature of women?" ”

"Huh?" This kind of strange question made Zhang Bingyun feel very embarrassed. vaguely guessed the reason for Luo Xu's situation at this time, she tilted her head and thought about it for a long time, and laughed, "What is there to think about, if the change is for the better, it will naturally make people happy, just admit it." What if the change is bad...... I found a way to make people change and asked me to say that the reason why people change is not because they are tired of the same day, so instead of waiting for others to change, it is serious for me to change first."

"Are you talking to me about tongue twisters?" Luo Xu smiled dumbly, couldn't help pinching the nose of the jade man in his arms, seeing that he was writhing and breaking free, he pulled the brocade quilt on his body for him, "You're right, it's me who is fascinated, what is there to think about this kind of thing, Bingyun, tomorrow I will leave for Tianjin Wei, my mother is sitting, and then there will be three full moons and so on, about you will have to handle it." I left you at home after a month of marriage, and my father taught me not to neglect my daughter-in-law at home. ”

"Did my father-in-law say that to you?"

Zhang Bingyun had already changed her name to call Mrs. Lin her mother, but no matter in front of her face, she was still used to calling Luo Mingyuan's father-in-law. At this time, she received Luo Xu's affirmative answer, she remembered the scene when Luo Mingyuan hurried back in the afternoon, so she immediately leaned closer and told Luo Xu what she had seen and heard. Just when she was muttering softly that her father-in-law and mother-in-law seemed to have a good relationship with each other, she felt that her earlobe was being caught, and she froze there for a while, and screamed in anger for a long time.

"Luo Xu, you're making trouble again"

"Mother, are you too sad for me? I'll go to the office on an errand for this marriage, and you don't even have any reaction? ”

"Tianjin is so close, and it's not going to the battlefield, why am I worried about you? Besides, you are such a slippery person, whoever touches you will only suffer from him" That being said, when there was a feeling of gentle biting from the earlobe, Zhang Bingyun had to raise his hand in surrender, "Okay, okay, I'm joking with you, I've prepared a lot of medicines these days, you bring more, it's better than ordinary gold creation medicine or something, and there are also medicinal powders that can work when encountering certain conditions...... You see how much I care about you."

"Yes, yes, I know you care about me."

Luo Xu sighed secretly, hugged the person tighter, and suddenly came to mind those bottles and cans in the east room of Changxinju, although it is not as scary as the scorpion poisonous insects in the book, but those magical colors are really hairy, I really don't know how the father-in-law would let his baby daughter learn this.

This night, the couple went from the gentle whispering at the beginning to the lingering compassion later, and then to the fact that one went out refreshed at dawn, and the other was coquettish and timid. Despite this, the important thing is to hurry up and pack Luo Xu, and when the sun is up, Luo Xu has bowed around from the back of a few yamen outside, and after having a lot of necessary letters on hand, the things at home have been prepared. And the important thing is that the dozen or so guards in the outer courtyard are also here.

However, when the group went out of the alley, there were people blocking the way. Now it was Chen Yan, Luo Xu immediately stepped forward, and when he arrived, he jumped down conveniently.

"Congratulations to Brother Luo, you are so happy" Chen Yan squeezed his eyes with a smile, seeing that Luo Xu didn't say a word, he still bounced his head with one finger at the door of his head, he immediately tilted his head quickly, dodged the blow, and then said, "Although you are not here, I will send the gifts of Xisan and the full moon one by one, and I will send someone to send them a letter." I'm blocking you here today because of another thing, uh......"

Luo Xu knew that Chen Ying, the Marquis of Yangning, was now guarding Suzhou, and Chen Yan, the fourth young master, had become the representative of his grandmother Zhu's family, and almost all the hands and eyeliners of the old lady outside were at her disposal, coupled with the foundation laid by Chen Lan and Yang Jinzhou for him, the little guy could be said to be invincible in the capital, so he naturally would not treat him as a * person and came to see him off, so he immediately waved his hand without looking back. All of a sudden, more than a dozen guards fanned out and looked at all the key points around them.

"A few days ago, there were rumors about the prince in the capital, I think you should know about it, Brother Luo. King Jin is not very restful on his side, although I used a trick to draw salary, but after all, I can't break people's delusions. Chen Yan only mentioned it vaguely, and then said, "It is said that last year, I don't know which bastard instigated His Royal Highness the King of Jin, who was struggling with no money to do things at that time, and asked him to take over a large pawnshop on the seaside dock in Tianjin. It is said that it is a shop that ships Japanese knives to the north of Zhili. ”

Luo Xu still got the will to go to Tianjin Wei yesterday, and it is naturally impossible to collect all the news at this time, but some fox friends have already volunteered to help. Therefore, Chen Yan's words were still a send-off, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Little Brother Chen, you are becoming more and more capable." ”

"I just heard about this incident when I inquired about my sister and brother-in-law." Chen Yan smiled, and when he was hit in the head, he realized that he had missed his mouth, and couldn't help but quickly spread his hands and said honestly, "No way, I didn't know that Senior Brother Luo went to your heart, I will inform you if there is any news, hey, don't worry."

Looking at Chen Yan, whose face gradually faded from childishness, Luo Xu couldn't help but stretch out his hand to give someone a big bear hug, then turned around and got on the horse, and when it was time to pull up the reins, he nodded at Chen Yan and raised his hand, and then galloped out like a sharp arrow. As a dozen horsemen followed as if flying behind him, a puff of smoke and dust rose on the street, and it didn't take long for the figure to disappear completely, and all that remained was the distant sound of horses' hooves.

"Senior Brother Luo, come back early" Chen Yan said and suddenly clenched his little fist and waved it to the sky, muttering in a low voice, "And my sister and brother-in-law, you should come back early."

After saying this, he strode towards a carriage opposite. When he got into the carriage and the carriage started slowly, he said to the person waiting inside: "Father-in-law Jin, do you dare to guarantee that every word and sentence you said before is true?" ”

Eunuch Jin, the former steward of the wine and vinegar noodles outside the bureau, was now dressed in coarse cloth, but he was smiling with a smile on his face: "Fourth young master, the little one doesn't dare to say the slightest word." Since the beginning of the year, Father-in-law Xia has been quite distressed, and he has found a doctor in the Tai Hospital, but he didn't see a reason, and later he didn't know who recommended him to use Hibiscus ointment, saying that he came from overseas. Because the emperor also has the same problem, if it is used well, please recommend it to Father-in-law Xia. My father-in-law tried it a few times, but he always felt a little scared, so he asked the small one to inquire, who knew that the small one had transferred to a few pharmacies, and they all said that it was a good thing from overseas......

"Don't say it" Chen Yan interrupted Eunuch Jin's words, and after thinking carefully for a while, he made a decision, "You go with me to see the master, you can't hide such a thing from her old man." ”

"But Grandpa Xia said, don't let others know, just let you talk to ......"

"A vigilant person like Grandpa Xia is not unmistakable, and when he said this, he had already thought of learning about the eldest princess of Hoi An." said these things in his mouth, but as the carriage moved forward, Chen Yan couldn't help but think about it.

This person either went to Jiangnan or Tianjin Wei, could it be that there was some chaos there?