More than two years have passed, and it has been the spring of the sixth year of Jiayou in a blink of an eye.

Spring in the south of the Yangtze River starts from the small bridge and flowing water, the weeping willows next to the river embankment spit out emerald green buds, the pink peach blossoms are brilliant, and the white wall tile is reflected in the calm river water, the lake is light and water, the wind and drizzle, the quaint town with pink walls and tiles is reflected in the colorful spring, the courtyard is deep, and the smoke of the people's cooking is curling.

This morning, Fanning wandered alone in the strange stone lane, the strange stone lane is still as lively as before, all kinds of small vendors haunt here, because this is the only strange stone gathering area in the south of the Yangtze River, the reputation is outside, many outsiders also come here to try their luck, buy goods, sell goods, lively and abnormal.

Fanning now has no real officials, he is still a doctor from the fourth official, and the position of marquis is still there, but the official who advises the doctor is gone, of course, he is not dismissed, but in a state of worry.

Fan Ning's father, Fan Tiezhou, went to Wuxi two and a half years ago to treat a patient, but he was accidentally injured and infected, and he did not take it seriously at first, but his illness became more and more serious, and finally died at the age of 48.

According to the Great Song Dynasty's Ding Wei system, when a parent or grandfather died, the official had to go to his post and return to his hometown to keep filial piety for 27 months.

In addition, the imperial court can also cancel the incumbent official Ding Wei Shou system, which is called seizing affection, and if it is recalled in advance, it is called revenge.

For example, Fan Ning's grandfather Fan Dachuan died in the third year of his tenure as the governor of Kunzhou, because he was not the grandfather who was raised by the next generation, Fan Ning applied to the imperial court to win the favor, and was approved by Taichang Temple, so he did not go back to keep filial piety.

But when the parents die, they must go back to keep filial piety, unless there is a war, the court will not easily allow officials to take away affection, at most they will be recalled in advance.

Fan Ning resigned from the post of Zuo Counselor, and led his family to return to his hometown to guard filial piety, and Bao Zheng concurrently served as Zuo Counselor.

Filial piety is not to build a shed in front of the tomb, do not take a bath and live for three years, although there is a situation of extreme filial piety, but it is still relatively rare, the vast majority of people are in their hometown to spend a leisurely period of worry, as long as they go on time to add soil to their relatives and sweep the tomb, other lives are the same as usual, there are not too many taboos.

"Fan Daguan, I haven't seen you for a few days!"

He was greeted by people along the way, and he has been here a lot in the past two years, and many of the small stall vendors are familiar with him.

"Little San, is there any new goods today?"

Fan Ning came to a small stall selling jade and squatted, the stall owner is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, his father is sold to Fan Ning Xishan Xing Shi Li Amao, died of illness a few years ago, the son took over his father's class, continue to beg for food in Qishi Lane, but Li Amao has long stopped doing Taihu stone business, he found a way, changed to jade business.

Fan Ning wore a piece of the best mutton fat jade around his waist, the texture is warm and delicate, it looks like fat, oil and pure, it feels like holding a handful of mutton fat, without a trace of flaw, it is Fan Ning's beloved thing, and he has been wearing it on his waist, and this piece of mutton fat jade was bought by Li San for twenty taels of silver.

"Great official, if you want the kind of mutton fat jade from last time, there really isn't one, but I got a piece of this yesterday."

Li San took out a cylindrical piece of white jade from the box, and Fanning's eyes lit up, "Yucong!" ”

Jade Cong is a ritual vessel for sacrifice, the Shang Dynasty is more, will also be buried with people, generally placed in the abdomen, Fan Ning took this piece of jade Cong, is cylindrical, one inch thick, the size of a tennis ball, should be carved with Nanyang jade.

Of course, if you look at the quality of jade, it is far inferior to mutton fat jade, although it is also delicate and smooth, and the pulp is thick, but it does not have the fat feeling of mutton fat jade, but it is a little clear.

However, Yucong pays attention to the vicissitudes of time, has a heavy history, and the value carried on it is not comparable to mutton fat and jade.

"I want this Yucong, how much is it?"

Li San took out a paired jade cong and said with a smile: "This jade cong is a pair, fifty taels of silver." ”

"It's expensive!"

Fanning shook his head, "Forty taels at most, at this price, either I will take it, or you will leave it to someone else." ”

"Oh well! Forty taels is forty taels, whoever makes the big officials the old patrons, according to the price you said. ”

Fan Ning took out four ingots of official silver from his leather pouch and handed them to him, and said with a smile: "Actually, I still like mutton fat and beautiful jade, if you have the goods, send them to me directly, I won't treat you badly,"

"Don't worry, I'll help you pay attention, as long as it's on the market, I'll send it to you immediately."

Fanning nodded, he walked around for a while, didn't see any good goods, and then leisurely returned to the mansion with his hands behind his back.

Fanning's mansion is, of course, Zhu Yuanfu's hundred-acre mansion, which was given to him as Zhu Pei's dowry when Fanning and Zhu Pei got married, and his parents have always lived here.

As soon as Fan Ning walked into the house, he saw a little girl stumbling towards him, Fan Ning was so frightened that he hurriedly stepped forward to hug her, "My little baby, how can you walk?" ”

Of course, this is Fan Ning's child, as expected by Zhu Pei's mother Wang, it was Ouyang Qian who was pregnant first, and gave birth to a daughter last year, named Fan Zhen, this is Fan Ning's first child, just nine months old, is a toddler, I didn't expect to be able to run a few steps.

"Fish!" The little guy pointed to the pond not far away and shouted.

She can now say some monosyllabic words, such as the first one to say 'mother', and later to say 'fish, chicken, dog, mother-in-law', etc., but she can't call Daddy yet, which makes Fanning a little regretful, but she likes Daddy the most and pesters him all day.

Following the little guy is Fanning's mother Zhang Sanniang, after having a granddaughter, she gradually came out of the grief of her husband's death, she is almost fifty years old this year, her temples are gray, and she spoils her baby granddaughter all day long, and everyone in the family has opinions, and her own daughter has never seen her love like this.

"A-Ning, Zhen'er asked you to take her to see the fish!"

"Mother! The weather has eased, don't dress her so much, like a cotton ball. ”

Zhang Sanniang glared at her son fiercely, "Where is it warm?" It's not that you don't know that it's cold in the morning and evening, if you take it off for a while and wear it for a while, it's easy to catch a cold, what do you know? ”

Fan Ning smiled bitterly and hurriedly interrupted, "Mother, what about Ah Qian and Pei'er?" ”

"Pei'er has reacted a lot these days, Xiaoqian is accompanying her, I said don't go out all day, have time to spend more time with your wife, you have been married for almost five years, and she is pregnant, is it easy?"

"Ado and Aya are with her! The stars hold the moon like that, and they want me to accompany them, as for it! ”

"How do you talk, you stinky boy! Ado is your sister, Aya is your concubine, and none of them are husbands......"

Fan Ning was most afraid of the old lady's chatter, and hurriedly said: "I'll take Niu'er to see the fish, and then I'll accompany them and promise to go out less in the future." ”

"That's pretty much it, by the way, Xiao Su asked someone to send a letter, in your study! You can stay and take a look. ”

Xiao Su is Su Liang, they have all returned from Kunzhou gilding last year, and they have become Beijing officials, Su Liang is appointed to give Shilang the eighth grade, and he knows Changzhou County, Li Dashou is also mixed well, and he was promoted to Taichang Cheng from the seventh grade, and served as an official in the imperial court.

Fanning nodded, and took her daughter to the pond to watch the fish.

.......

Zhu Pei was pregnant around the Chinese New Year, and now she is about three or four months old, and her reaction is relatively big, and she vomits darkly.

Because she was married for almost five years before she became pregnant, she was shocked inside and out, her mother made a special trip from the capital to take care of her, her grandfather Zhu Yuanfu found more than a dozen experienced midwives to serve her, and even Zhu Yuanfeng wrote a letter to celebrate Fan Ning's happy son-in-law.

Fanning handed over her daughter to her mother, walked leisurely to the backyard, and only when she was halfway through did she remember that Yucong was still holding her daughter in her hands! He hurriedly turned around again and found his mother and the little guy in the outer courtyard, but not only did Yu Cong not want to come back, but the little guy still hugged his neck and refused to let go.

Fan Ning had to carry his daughter back to the inner house, and as soon as he walked into the inner house, he met Ouyang Qian, who was in a hurry to find his daughter.

"What do you hold in your little hand, it seems to be very heavy!"

Fan Ning hurriedly took Yucong from her daughter's hand and said with a smile: "My daughter is amazing!" It's only been nine months to get Yucong. ”

Ouyang Qian glanced at him, "Your daughter is a dead eye like you, and she won't let go if she sees it." ”

Fanning teased her daughter and led the two to the inner courtyard.

"Husband, I also want to have another son!" Ouyang Qian saw that there was no one around, so she whispered to Fan Ning.

Fanning and her used contraception during sexual intercourse, mainly because she had given birth to a child for less than a year, and she had to recuperate, otherwise continuous pregnancy would be very harmful to the body.

Fan Ning smiled, "It's not easy to give birth to a son, I have experience, I guarantee a hit, but I have to wait, Niu'er is only nine months old, and when she is one year old, she will start preparing her little brother, and she will be born exactly two years old, how good do you say." ”

"But I think I'm almost recovered."

"Raise it again! We also want to have a strong and intelligent son, don't we? ”

Ouyang Qian pouted, but she had no choice but to carry her daughter into the inner house with her husband.

The two walked into Jupe's yard, only to see her squatting and retching! There were several people standing anxiously next to him, and Fanning hurriedly stepped forward to support his wife.

Zhu Pei slowly stood up, took a long breath, and put her head on her husband's shoulder weakly, "Husband, how can I react so much, when Ah Qian was pregnant with Zhen'er, I didn't see how she vomited!" ”

Fanning carefully helped her to the room, smiled and comforted her: "I guess it will be like this when I give birth to a boy, the boy is naughty!" ”

"Mother, isn't that so!" Juppe said coquettishly to her mother again.

In the past two days, Wang was a little absent-minded, she was a little worried about her eldest son, and she didn't have any phone calls these days, so she had to send a urgent letter to inquire about the situation, but she hasn't replied yet.

Wang said: "That's the case, I was like this when I was pregnant with your eldest brother?" ”

"Mother, no! What about when you were pregnant with your second brother? Juppé's voice trembled with fright.

Wang came to his senses and hurriedly smiled: "I'm speaking for your husband!" In fact, I didn't react when I was pregnant with your three brothers and sisters, this should have nothing to do with having children, everyone's physique is different. ”

The two midwives next to her also smiled: "Madame is right, we have seen a lot, this really has nothing to do with giving birth to a boy or a girl, some women react greatly, and some women don't." ”

Zhu Pei breathed a long sigh of relief, she didn't want to give birth to a son like her eldest brother.

Fan Ning helped his wife back to the room and sat down, and talked with her again, seeing that her mother-in-law was teaching Ouyang Qian the experience of raising her daughter, and the room was harmonious, so she quietly said goodbye to Zhu Pei and returned to the study by herself.