Chapter 124: Maternal Grandmother

Zhongsu Bo Fang Zhi has been stationed in northern Xinjiang for many years, and the old mansion in Beijing is usually only lived by the eldest daughter-in-law Liu and her two young sons Fang Jing Fangwei, who are studying in the academy. When Yuan Changqing and Shanniang arrived at the Deliansheng Bridge, they saw that the gate of Fang's mansion was full of carriages and horses loaded with suitcases, and the gate of the mansion was blocked for a while.

The man guarding the door was directing people to unload the car, and when he turned around and saw Yuan Changqing's carriage, he hurriedly ordered people to get out of the way, and while ordering people to go in to report the news, he hurriedly ran over, and smiled at Yuan Changqing through the car window: "The eldest young master and the eldest young grandmother came just in time, the old lady has just arrived home with her front foot, and she is instructing someone to send a letter to the eldest young master, but it just so happened that the two of them arrived." As he spoke, he quickly glanced at Shanniang with curiosity, and then commanded the coachman to drive the car into the house.

Shanniang couldn't help but be surprised in her heart. In her previous life, she and Yuan Changqing's wedding was in the autumn a year later. At that time, it happened that his little uncle was going back to Beijing to report on his work, so he brought the old lady and several wives of the Fang family back to Beijing together. In this life, the marriage between her and Yuan Changqing was set in a hurry, so none of the Fang family members who were far away in Saibei could come back.

Yuan Changqing sat there stunned, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said to Shanniang: "This is a big sin, grandma must have rushed back to Beijing after receiving my letter, I'm afraid that even the New Year will be spent on the road." ”

At this time, the carriage had already entered the carriage and horse courtyard. Yuan Changqing said this, and was about to reach out to the car door, not wanting the car door to be suddenly opened from the outside, and a loud voice said loudly: "You kid still knows the word sin!" ”

Shanniang looked up in surprise, and saw a young woman standing next to the car door wearing a man's horseback and a horsewhip in her hand - and generally speaking, the word "Hongliang" is mostly used to describe a man's voice, but this woman's voice seems to match her men's clothes, loud and high-pitched, and very penetrating. Shanniang even felt that she could hear her voice two streets away.

"Big sister?!" Yuan Changqing shouted and hurriedly jumped out of the car.

The sassy and heroic young woman laughed and stabbed Yuan Changqing's shoulder with a horsewhip, looked him up and down for a while, and said, "Lose weight!" ”

"Why don't you say that?" Yuan Changqing turned around and helped Shanniang get out of the carriage, and introduced the woman to her: "This is the eldest sister of the eldest uncle's family." ”

In fact, even if Yuan Changqing doesn't introduce it, Shanniang also knows it, this is Yinggu, the eldest daughter of the eldest aunt Liu. Yinggu is ten years older than Yuan Changqing, and now she is the mother of two children. Yuan Changqing can be regarded as something she grew up watching, so the relationship between her and Yuan Changqing is extremely close.

However, in her previous life, Shanniang and the Fang family did not have much contact, so she was actually not familiar with this "eldest sister-in-law".

Seeing that Yinggu was still dressed in travel attire, and it was obvious that she had just received the notice as soon as she entered, so she took it out again, Yuan Changqing asked her, "Why did the eldest sister pick it up?" ”

"Say!" Ying Gu glanced at him, then turned her head to stare at Shanniang for a while and looked up and down unscrupulously, and her mouth kept complaining like fried beans: "You said that you are such a big person, how to do things are so unreasonable?!" Saying that you will get married, you will get married, and you will not even have any preparation at home, and you will almost make the old lady angry! Wait, old lady, hold your breath, wait a minute, you'll see! ”

After speaking, she also finished looking at Shanniang. Although Shanniang has begun to grow taller now, she is still short compared to northern girls. And she is hesitating in her heart at this moment, whether to pretend to be a shy bride, or simply be herself. As soon as she hesitated, her eyes flickered a little when she looked at Yinggu, so Yinggu immediately defined her in her heart - sure enough, the daughter-in-law that the Yuan family chose for Da Lang was not good!

Ying Gu secretly pursed her lips, deliberately ignored Shan Niang, and directly pulled Yuan Changqing's arm and said, "Hurry up, I'm afraid the old lady will have to wait in a hurry." ”

Like Yuan Changqing's mother, Yinggu is also the only girl in the Fang family's generation. And the eldest uncle's heirs were not prosperous, and it was not until Yinggu was fourteen years old that a pair of twin brothers were added below - that is, the Fang Jing and Fangwei brothers - so she was raised as a boy by her eldest uncle and aunt since she was a child. Although she is now a mother, she still does not change her nature, and her actions are as neat as a man.

Yuan Changqing flickered his eyes, avoided Yinggu's hand grabbing him, turned around to hold Shanniang's arm, and smiled at her: "Don't listen to the big sister's nonsense, grandma is the most kind person." ”

Shanniang smiled noncommittally - what kind of person the old lady was, in fact, she knew very well in her heart.

Na Yinggu was surprised. First, she didn't expect Yuan Changqing to avoid her, and second, she didn't expect that his cold temperament would open his mouth to appease Shanniang, she suddenly looked at Yuan Changqing with wide eyes.

And although she looks as rough as a boy in her gestures, she is actually quite careful in her bones. So Aunt Ying understood, at least for Yuan Changqing, she was quite satisfied with the daughter-in-law that the Yuan family chose for him.

When Yinggu led Yuan Changqing and Shanniang to the main room, Yuan Changqing walked while introducing the layout of Fang's mansion to Shanniang from time to time, and turned back to Yinggu and asked, "Who else is coming back with you?" ”

Ying Gu immediately complained again: "Under the joint, who has time to run to the capital!" The old lady was determined to come back, but they couldn't leave one by one, so I had to follow. ”

"What about the big girl and the little baby?" Yuan Changqing asked about Yinggu's two children.

"What can I do? I'll take it! Yinggu said, "I haven't been back for several years, and by the way, I also asked his grandparents to take a look at their grandchildren." As she spoke, she tilted her head to look at Shanniang and said to Yuan Changqing, "Is your daughter-in-law dumb?" Why haven't you heard her squeak until now? ”

There was a joke in the school, saying that when a student was asked by Mr. about this, the student had mischievously answered Mr. "Squeak". When Shanniang heard this same question, she almost wanted to mischievous and learn to "squeak" the naughty student, but this was the first time she came to the door, and the Fang family did not want to see her in her previous life, she didn't want to be too slippery, so she squeezed a smile, and was just about to open her mouth to say that she was not dumb, and she didn't want to ask Yuan Changqing to steal the conversation.

"Big sister, everyone is like you!" Yuan Changqing hurriedly said: "Thirteen is shy." ”

Shanniang suddenly glanced at Yuan Changqing. Not to mention the question of whether she is shy or not, just from his words, she can see the weight of this "big sister" in Yuan Changqing's mind - now that they have been together for a long time, she can almost understand that Yuan Changqing is just as Lin Ruzhi said at the beginning, and will only expose his true nature in front of the people he is willing to get close to. And just talking so much to him in front of Aunt Ying, you can know his attitude towards this "big sister......

- Shanniang secretly poked and said: A little snack vinegar......

And when Yuan Changqing said this, Ying Gu was also stunned. Yuan Changqing's temperament is not only known to Shanniang, but also to Yinggu. If he hadn't been close to the bride in his heart, he wouldn't have talked so much in front of her. So Yinggu glanced at Shanniang seriously, but she still didn't take the initiative to talk to Shanniang with some reservations, but suddenly picked up her toes and reached out to twist Yuan Changqing's ears, and scolded him with a smile: "Sure enough, it's the one who married a daughter-in-law, and he dares to make fun of your big sister!" ”

Laughing, they came to the upper courtyard of the main house. When a little girl saw them coming, she ran into the yard from a distance to report it. As soon as Shanniang and the others entered the courtyard door, they saw the curtain of the main house ring, and an old lady in good spirits couldn't wait for the maids to open the curtain, so she lifted the curtain and rushed out of the house.

"Da Lang!" The old lady looked at Yuan Changqing and shouted.

"Grandma!"

Yuan Changqing also immediately responded, rushed forward in a few steps, knelt on the ground at the old lady, and was just about to kowtow, but was pulled up from the ground by the old lady.

The grandfather and grandson held each other's arms, looking each other up and down attentively for a while, but neither of them spoke.

In her previous life, Shanniang knew that the old lady's temperament was actually the same as Yuan Changqing's, she was the kind of silent and introverted who was not easy to get close to. And maybe because she is the person who Mrs. Yuan marries for Yuan Changqing, the old lady has always been wary and estranged from her, no matter how she greets her with a smile, the old lady has always been a lover and ignore the attitude, so that the entire Fang family is affected by the old lady, just as she does not exist. Now, even after a lifetime, seeing this unsmiling old lady again, Shanniang is still stunned for a while.

And although Yuan Changqing inherited the old lady's silence and introvertedness, it is obvious that Yinggu is not. The grandfather and grandson, who had not seen each other for a long time, looked calm, but Yinggu, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but wipe her tears.

At this time, the eldest aunt Liu also came out of the house with the old lady, and when she saw Aunt Ying wiping her tears, she glanced at Shanniang, who was a little uneasy, and smiled at everyone: "If you have something to say, go into the house and talk slowly, it's cold outside." ”

Yuan Changqing came back to his senses at this time, hurriedly let go of the old lady, turned around and pulled Shanniang, and smiled at the old lady: "Grandma, this is your granddaughter-in-law, her name is Shanniang, she is ranked thirteenth in the family, you can also call her Shan'er." ”

Shanniang hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, and just as she was about to salute, she asked the old lady to pull her up.

It wasn't until this time that Shanniang knew why Yuan Changqing, who was not weak in martial arts, could be dragged up by the old lady all of a sudden. Don't look at Old Taijun Xu, who is now in his sixties, the strength in his hands is surprisingly great.

"Get up," the old lady pulled Shanniang up, and quickly glanced her up and down, and only said succinctly, "Come into the house and speak." He let go of her, turned around and pulled Yuan Changqing, and quickly entered the house.

While Yuan Changqing helped the old lady up the steps, he turned his head and glanced at Shanniang.

This glance suddenly fell into the eyes of the old lady, so she also glanced at Yuan Changqing.

In fact, when Yuan Changqing introduced Shanniang in such detail, the old lady knew in her heart that her grandson, who has always been introverted, would not be able to talk so much if she was not particularly satisfied with this daughter-in-law. It's just that, like all elders, no matter how shrewd and capable the juniors are, in the eyes of the elders, they are all children, even incapable children. Therefore, the old lady would rather observe Shanniang's behavior through her own eyes than make judgments based on Yuan Changqing's preferences.

Of course, the meaning of the old lady's glance Yuan Changqing also fully understood. So he couldn't help but glance back at Shanniang again, with a little worry in his eyes.

Shanniang kept her head down silently, not knowing that he even looked at her twice. In her previous life, she deliberately wanted to please the old lady, but after touching the wall countless times, she was close to the old lady. Although it has changed her life now, she still feels that the safest way is to continue to keep it close and far, so she has been hanging her head and pretending to be obedient.

After entering the house, Yuan Changqing sent the old lady to sit on the head, and then turned back to greet Shanniang, and the two officially greeted the old lady and gave tea. The old lady nodded slightly coldly, and said to Yuan Changqing: "We have just arrived, and all the luggage has not been opened yet, so let's make up for it after the meeting gift." ”

Generally speaking, in this kind of unexpected situation, if you really want to give a meeting gift, it is also a meaning to take out something on your body, if you don't give it, you are either unwilling to give the bride this face, or you are dissatisfied with the marriage.

When the old lady said this, she deliberately observed Shanniang's reaction. Bishan Niang knew that she would not get any good treatment, so she only pretended to be obedient and lowered her eyes. And when the old lady saw that she didn't show any dissatisfaction or apprehension on her face, she couldn't help but be surprised for a while, thinking that this granddaughter-in-law was either big or deep, so she turned her head and asked Yuan Changqing, "How old is your daughter-in-law?" ”

Shanniang looked up at the old lady and saw that she was looking at Yuan Changqing asking questions, so she lowered her head again.

Yuan Changqing said: "Sixteen." And he said, "Birthday in August." ”

He asked a question or two here, obviously suggesting that the old lady should not make things difficult for his daughter-in-law. The old lady looked at him, then turned to look at Shanniang. Just now she deliberately looked at Yuan Changqing and asked Shanniang's age, just to see her reaction, seeing that Shanniang was deliberately slacking in the face of her, and she was not in a hurry to sell it in front of her, the old lady couldn't help but nod secretly - at least this girl is stable.

So the old lady looked at Shanniang and said, "Have you ever read a book?" ”

Shanniang looked up at the old lady again, and saw that the old lady was looking at her to ask questions this time, so she replied: "I have studied in Meishan Girls' School for a few years. ”

"It's the leader of the girls' school for several years." Yuan Changqing hurriedly said.

As soon as his voice fell, Liu and Yingniang both laughed, and even Shanniang couldn't help blushing. Ying Gu stepped forward and slapped Yuan Changqing on the back, and said with a smile: "What are you doing in such a hurry to protect your daughter-in-law?" What are you afraid of us eating her? ”

Yuan Changqing couldn't help but blush.

The old lady looked at Aunt Ying and said, "You go and change this clothes first, come back, all dirt." ”

When Yuan Changqing and the others came over, Yinggu and they had just arrived. Hearing the report from the next person, she turned around and took it out before she had time to enter the house to change her clothes. Yinggu looked down at the clothes on her body, and saw that she couldn't see anyone anymore, so she hurriedly agreed to go out.

And after receiving Yuan Changqing's hint, the old lady still didn't plan to give Shanniang any preferential treatment, still put her aside, and only asked Yuan Changqing about the process of the wedding sentence after sentence, and then concisely expressed their dissatisfaction with the marriage so hastily, "Although your surname is Yuan, we can't interfere in your marriage, but you still have half of our family's blood, Ming'er, I want to ask your old lady, what is the reason why we don't even let us participate in a wedding." ”

"That," Yuan Changqing raised his hand and wiped the tip of his nose, and said with a bit of surprise: "Something happened in the capital, that ...... The date of marriage is set by me. ”

The old lady looked at him, and suddenly stopped squeaking.

Yuan Changqing knew that the old lady should be angry. He was never a coaxing person, so he looked at Shanniang for help. Shanniang was afraid that the old lady was too late, so she had no idea to help him, so she only lowered her eyes and pretended to be obedient.

was at a stalemate, and suddenly there was a burst of children's laughter outside, and then the Fang Jing and Fang Wei brothers led the two children in.

Fang Jing and Fang Wei are both fourteen years old, and the two children in their hands, the older girl is about seven or eight years old, with two pigtails on her head, and the younger boy is about five or six years old, and has just lost a front tooth, but she can't help but remind Shanniang of her younger brother in the family - although Hou Jue's teeth have already grown out now.

The old lady suddenly glanced at Shanniang meaninglessly, pointed at Yuan Changqing and said to the two little ones, "Do you remember your uncle?" ”

The big girl tilted her head to look at Yuan Changqing and said with a smile: "I remember." ”

Not to be outdone, the little boy exclaimed, "I remember it too." ”

Liu teased him and said, "Do you really remember him?" ”

The big girl pouted and said, "He learned from me!" Then he looked at the little boy and said, "You can't remember!" When your uncle came to the house, you were still nursing! ”

"I remember, I remember!" The little one was in a hurry, and he grabbed his sister for a while, and after shouting twice, his eyes were red, and he cried "wow".

The girl was also anxious, pushed her brother away, and shouted, "You crying bun, I won't take you to play next time!" ”

Shanniang couldn't see the child's tears the most, so she immediately pulled Yuan Changqing's sleeve and gestured to the boy.

Yuan Changqing was puzzled at first, and then suddenly understood, so he stepped forward to pick up the boy, and when he turned around, he stuffed him into Shanniang's arms.

Shanniang was stunned for a while. Because these two children are competing for favor for him, she originally meant to ask Yuan Changqing to be a good person and say a few nice words to coax the child, but this person would be wrong and directly stuffed the child to her......

But she can't help but answer at this time. So she hurriedly took the child, coaxed him and smiled: "Who said we don't remember our uncle, we obviously do, right?" This is my uncle. ”

"Yes, yes." The little boy sobbed in response, and then suddenly realized that it was a stranger who was holding him. He put down the hand that was rubbing his eyes, looked at Shanniang curiously, and then reached out to touch her bright red clothes and said, "I also recognize you, you are the bride." ”

Shanniang couldn't help but blush again.

Yuan Changqing came over at this time and taught the boy, "You want to call your aunt." He pulled the girl over again and introduced Shanniang: "This is the big girl, that's the little treasure......"

In fact, as long as she didn't give birth to herself, Shanniang was not afraid of dealing with children - she didn't have to be responsible for teaching badly anyway, so she coaxed the boy to talk very unburdened. The little boy looked like he was easy to be shy, but he couldn't stand Shanniang's coaxing, so he asked and answered Shanniang in a milky voice. And the eldest girl is obviously more like her mother, she is more than lively, seeing that her brother chatted with Shanniang, and she was curious about the bride, so she also asked around a long and short one. Although Fang Jing Fangwei is already fourteen years old, he is actually still a half-grown child, Shanniang Xu has no experience in young children, but there are a bunch of brothers in the family to deal with half-grown children as a reference, so this group of children chatted happily with Shanniang.

While Shanniang was coaxing the child here, Yuan Changqing was over there to ask the old lady about the road in detail, and then the old lady was unceremoniously caught and reprimanded. Yuan Changqing's "confession" attitude was excellent, and he leaned around the old lady and muttered for a while. Surrounded by children, Shanniang didn't know what he was talking about, but the old lady's eyes fell on her from time to time, so that she could feel it, at least, she was part of their conversation.

When she was distracted here, the big girl happened to ask her something, and when she turned her head to look over there, she reached out and pushed her. The children of the Fang family all practiced martial arts when they were young, but she was still young now, but her hand strength was not small, and Shanniang was not wary, and she was almost pushed off the chair directly by the big girl. And Shanniang was still sitting on Xiaobao's lap, and she suddenly screamed in shock. Fang Jing and Fang Wei saw it, and laughed. The big girl knew that she was in trouble, so she only covered her mouth and blinked at Shanniang pretending to be innocent. Seeing her like this, Shanniang immediately laughed, reached over and twisted her face. When she suddenly noticed that there was no voice next to her, she turned her head and saw the old lady looking at her. That look suddenly made Shanniang stunned, so she suddenly understood in her heart - it turned out that Yuan Changqing didn't make a mistake to stuff the child into her, it turned out that he had already calculated, this was to create an opportunity for the old lady to observe her!

The old lady and her party had just arrived home after a long journey, and when Aunt Ying came over after changing her clothes, a few people said a few more gossips, Yuan Changqing and Shanniang said goodbye, and only made an appointment to come back with Ming'er.

What she didn't expect was that before leaving, the old lady suddenly called her over, took off a purple gold bracelet from her hand and stuffed it to her.

"Take it." The old lady was always concise and to the point.

Sitting in the carriage, Shanniang held the bracelet and was silent for a while. Yuan Changqing leaned over, touched her ear with her lips and said, "The old lady is accepting you." ”

Shan Niang suddenly flashed to the side, and it was the first time since she was newly married that she obviously resisted his closeness.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Changqing was surprised.

"Nothing." Shanniang answered with a straight face, put the purple gold bracelet on her wrist, and turned her head to look out of the car window - what's wrong with her?! She's out of balance! Now she understands that in her previous life, she was afraid that it was not that the Fang family was not easy to get along with, but that Yuan Changqing did not plan to ask her to get along with the Fang family at all. If he could show his concern for her in front of the Fang family from time to time like this in this life, the Fang family would not despise or even ignore her so much!

Seeing her like this, Yuan Changqing couldn't help frowning, and pulled her over. After the two tugged for a while, Shanniang was helplessly hugged by him on her lap.

"You promised me that we would talk about anything." Yuan Changqing pressed her head into his arms and frowned, "What's not happy in your heart?" Is it because of the old lady's deliberate neglect? This is because ......"

This "battle" gradually made Shanniang extinguish the nameless fire in her heart. Anyway, it was already a matter of the previous life, and blaming him for something he hadn't done in this life seemed a little unreasonable for her. So she sighed, nestled in his arms and said, "It's not because of this. I'm just thinking...... If you had been forced to marry me, would you still think of me like this? I don't think you will. It's just that I'd be too pitiful then. ”

Yuan Changqing was silent, suddenly shook his head, raised her face and said, "Are you calling this a worrying person?" ”

Shanniang looked at him and said, "I often wonder, if we hadn't met before the Spring Appreciation Banquet, if the first time I saw you, it was during the Spring Appreciation Banquet, would you and I still be like this?" If you and I don't already have some understanding before I marry you, but blindly marry dumbly, and I still disguise myself as a virtuous person according to the set that the old lady taught me, can you discover my true nature? Or will you be too lazy to understand me, just according to what you said to Lin Ruxuan before, you live your life, I live my life, we have nothing to do with each other? If so, what would you do today? Would you want your grandmother to know the real me? Would you wish we could get along amicably? Or do you simply not care? ”

As she said this, her eyes burned again. So she hung her head and rested her head against his chest, not wanting him to see her red eyes again.

Yuan Changqing hugged her and was silent for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "How ignorant I was when I said that. If so, what difference does it make between taking a wife and not marrying a wife? I'm only glad I married you now, if I had married someone else according to my previous idea, I'm afraid that she would really be as you said, I don't want her to have more contact with my grandfather's family, let alone want to know what she is thinking......" He sighed, kissed her forehead and said, "The more I think about it now, the more fortunate I become." ”

And, when he said this, Shanniang suddenly felt relieved in her heart - it turned out that he had always been the same ...... It turned out that it was neither him who had changed, nor she had changed, but that the time when they met was not right, and then, he was very defensive, he never gave her a chance, and she never seized the opportunity, so in that life, they were destined to miss each other......

"yes, that's a blessing." She whispered, leaning against his chest, feeling truly grounded for the first time.