Chapter 357: A Letter from Home

Liu Yanling gave birth to a son to He Jiaqing in the winter of last year, the big name He Zhuo, and the nickname is Zhuang Zhuang. Originally, because He Dingqing married Li Lin, the affairs of the family could always be handed over to the second son and daughter-in-law, Liu Yanling simply made a hands-off shopkeeper, and Li Lin just joined in, so he took Zhuang Zhuang, who was still in swaddling clothes, to Pingyang Mansion. I don't know how they are doing during this time, but Xiao Biesheng is newly married, He Changan has experienced it, and I think that the relationship between brother and sister-in-law is also in the state of honey blending oil.

Although she has a close relationship with He Chang'an, Jin Na also knows that she is far from being able to share letters with her, and when she sees such a scene, she also proposes to leave with great interest: "It's not too early, Niuniu probably should be noisily looking for me, so I'll go back first, but your sour plum, I smell weird and tempting, and I still want to be shy and ask for a little." ”

He Changan looked at the full mess, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled in his heart. She knows the sour plum pickled by Bai, she also ate it when she was pregnant with three daughters before, after this pregnancy, she felt that the original sour plum was not sour enough, and deliberately let Bai's pickle it in more sour, Lu Cheng once ate one curiously, that is, he wanted to sour his teeth, and in the end he didn't swallow it: "This plum is sour......

Seeing that Jin Na's face showed a flush, He Changan also understood, and raised his eyebrows to look at her: "How long has it been?"

Jin Na was a little embarrassed by He Changan's look, and smiled: "It's not necessarily accurate, it's just that the small day is more than 20 days late." Jiang Ming was busy all day, so I didn't tell him, I wanted to wait and see if it was confirmed. If you do, you may be in good luck. ”

"Look at what you said, if it touches my good luck, I definitely don't have a reason to hide this plum. You go back to take care of Niuniu first, and I'll let the silver needle evenly spread half a jar and send it to your small courtyard later. ”

Seeing Jin Na away, He Changan couldn't wait to open the letter He Jiaqing sent to her, and saw the eldest brother's vigorous handwriting as in the past, as if he had returned to the time before he got married.

"Sister Chang'an:

See the words like meeting.

Time flies, and it has been more than a year since my brother left home and came to Pingyang Mansion in a blink of an eye. When I first arrived in Pingyang Mansion, I was not familiar with the place, and I did not have the help of my classmates, and at that time, your sister-in-law was raising a baby at home, which was really difficult. Now that Zhuang Zhuang was born safely, your sister-in-law also brought him to my side, and I am becoming more and more familiar with everything in Pingyang Mansion. However, when it comes to Zhuang Zhuang, my brother still can't help but ask: What did Mother and you feed Zhuang Zhuang for? Didn't you fertilize him? When I met this kid, he was less than three months old, and he already weighed 12 pounds.

Seeing the more down-to-earth and steady words before, He Changan thought that He Jiaqing was entangled in the mundane affairs of Pingyang Mansion, and it was not until he saw this sentence that he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the brother with strong arms and interesting arms is still there, and no matter what kind of mundane work has not been able to wear away his playful energy.

If He Jiaqing really lost his playfulness, He Changan really didn't know how to face this brother.

"A few days ago, I was shocked to hear that there was a sudden change in my family, and I really sighed. I think my mother and sister have worked hard for their brothers, but I don't want him to be like this, whether it was a few years ago or now, he is really a mud that can't support the wall. But the second uncle's various practices are chilling. Fortunately, the second uncle finally got lost and returned, and it was finally a major event in the family. Listening to what his mother said, Li's younger siblings should be good hands in charge of the family, and they should not be unladylike when they meet people, but they should not miss their lives because of their brothers. I wanted to wait for your sister-in-law to help me take care of the affairs in Pingyang, so I asked her to take Zhuang Zhuang back to help my mother. It's just that now it's not happening, your sister-in-law is pregnant again, so she can only let her give birth to the child in Puzhou. But thinking about it this way, my heart is still quite balanced, after all, your sister-in-law was unable to accompany me to Pingyang Mansion because she was pregnant, but now she has not been able to return to the imperial capital because of pregnancy, it can be seen that God still loves me, but I have to work hard for my mother for a while. ”

Gongchang Bofu has been lifeless since He Dingqing's incident, although he was not led by the neck of Yichun Houfu that time, but when He Dingqing was expelled from the house, He Chenggong's heart was angry with his son's failure, and it was the heartache of the family's unhappiness, and he grew a lot of gray hair overnight. Bai's health is fine, but his spirit is not as good as before. Now that the good news that my sister-in-law is pregnant has returned to Bofu, the joy of Tian Ding's import can finally make the two old people temporarily come out of the haze.

"Now that my sister is about to give birth, I must take care of myself, give a congratulatory gift to the child, and wait until the day when my brother and uncle return to the imperial capital, I will definitely make up a generous gift.

That is, to sing the praises of the near peace.

Written by Brother Jiaqing. ”

The letter is not long, it is very short, He Changan read it from beginning to end, and read it two or three times, only to feel that he was still unfinished, and secretly scolded He Jiaqing in his heart, and finally sent a letter to □□, but it was only so few words. I flipped through the envelope again, but only found a blank piece of letter paper inside, which was a little silly.

When Lu Cheng came back, what he saw was He Chang'an, who was puffing up the letter, and couldn't help but be a little funny: "Who provoked our princess Qin? Look at how her prince cleans up this person!"

He Changan snorted: "It's not my brother yet, it's easy to expect him to hand back a letter from Puzhou, but the letter is just a few words, and I don't know what he thinks, is it so precious that ink is like gold?"

"Brother's letter?" Lu Cheng frowned: "It stands to reason that Brother Yan will send letters to the study every once in a while, and there will always be one last one every month, all of which are official affairs of Pingyang Mansion, but he has never handed a letter to our palace." But he hasn't been in the study for more than two months to send a letter back, I thought it was Pingyang Mansion has nothing to report, but now it seems that it is not at all. Where is the faith?"

Even if He Changan was sluggish, he could hear that things were extraordinary at this time: "But there is something important over there in Puzhou, or an important person, you told my brother to keep an eye on it?"

Lu Cheng wasted no time in complimenting He Chang'an and said, "Sui Ru, you are really the reincarnation of Zhiduoxing! That's right." Before my uncle went to Puzhou to take office, I had noticed some things there. Because he also has a prefect of Pingyang above him, I also paid special attention to this person. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but when you look at it, you notice something strange. ”

"Huh?"

"The prefect of Pingyang Mansion is surnamed Gong Mingshishen, and he has the air of a squire when he looks at the name. It's strange to say that this person won the Jinshi in the imperial examination sixteen years ago, but since then he has been released and has not been able to get the opportunity to enter the imperial capital as an official. Ordinary people have been released for more than ten years, even if they are exhausted, they will always find an opportunity to come to the feet of the Son of Heaven, but this person seems to have a heart like water, which is really strange. So I reminded my eldest brother that he must not act rashly when he arrives in Puzhou, and that he must pay attention to this not quite right prefect to see what this person is. ”

"Are the wives and children of the Pingyang prefect also in Puzhou with the Gong prefect?" He Changan raised his own question from the perspective of the woman's family, if the family members were all in Puzhou together, seeing that there was no hope of promotion, it was not impossible to simply think of staying there for the rest of their lives.

Lu Cheng nodded: "I have also thought of this point you said." But Gong Shishen is in Puzhou, and he doesn't have any relatives, and he doesn't even have a concubine. At the age of thirty-four, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and before he was admitted to the Jinshi, he had already married a Cao daughter and had a son. But I don't know why, since the first release, he has not taken his wife and children with him, but the Cao family has raised his son in the imperial capital alone. For so many years, except for a very few times when he returned to the imperial capital to report on his work, he didn't even come back to see his only son. To be a husband and a father to do this, this person is no longer a little eccentric. ”

At this time, He Changan's curiosity was completely aroused: "Then did my brother find out that there was anything wrong with this person later?"

"The first few letters were ordinary official documents. But didn't Gu Shi, the second uncle's aunt, come to the imperial capital with Gu Ziheng? At that time, I heard that Gu Ziheng's parents had inexplicably fallen into the water and died, and I felt a little strange. Later, I asked Ziheng the truth of the incident back then, and he said that he was still young at the time, and he didn't have much impression of this incident. But I only remember that my aunt once beat the drum and sounded the grievance once, but in the end it should have been in vain. It was also because of this incident that some people in distant neighbors began to covet Gu's beauty, and Gu had no choice but to take Gu Ziheng to leave his hometown and come to the imperial capital. ”

When He Changan heard this, he also felt a little sympathy for the Gu family. Fortunately, she has finally found a home now, although the second uncle is not a person with great potential, but with his back against such a big tree as the Duke of Liangguo, his nephew won the champion again, and she also gave birth to the only son so far to the second uncle, and this kind of life should be considered complete.

While thinking, she flipped out the letter and showed it to Lu Cheng: "I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, what my brother said in the letter is just a short matter of the family." ”