Chapter 36 Harm others ends up harming oneself
After a month, Lou Qihuai finally returned to the capital with Chu Yuxian, and Chu Yuxian wore a hat everywhere along the way, not wanting people to see her bare head.
Lou Qihuai knew that she was afraid of being pointed at, so he took advantage of dusk to enter the capital.
Chu Yuxian stepped down from the carriage, looking at the current mansion, she was full of emotion, feeling that she had missed too much.
"Xian'er, we're going home." Lou Qihuai stood beside her and said gently.
When she got home, she remembered that she now had a home. She stepped forward and pushed open the door of the building.
"Thunderbolt!"
Behind the door, Zhengde and Wuwu carried a string of firecrackers and held them high in the courtyard.
When the smoke cleared, Chu Yuxian saw two figures, one high and one low, through the hat.
"Auntie." Lou Xuanyi shouted.
Lou Xuanyi and Lou Yunxiao had slightly red eyes, trying their best to restrain the tears in their eyes.
Chu Yuxian slowly lifted the tulle on her hat, she could see the appearance of the two figures clearly, but her eyes quickly blurred again, and tears poured out as if she had burst the embankment.
Over the years, she has long dreamed of how many times she has dreamed of meeting Yi'er and Xiao'er in her dreams, and every time she wakes up, her pillow is a tear stain, and she thought that she would not cry anymore at this time, but she is still crying silently.
The brother and sister stepped forward and fell to their knees.
"A-Niang, you're finally back." Lou Xuanyi was the first to speak.
Chu Yuxian choked and nodded.
Although Lou Yunxiao on the side has never seen her mother, she still cried silently, she didn't know how many grievances she had suffered over the years, and in the dead of night, she had also curled up in a corner in a dark and simple small house, helplessly whimpering and shouting "A-Niang", but no one in the dark house had ever responded to her.
"Yi'er, Xiao'er, hurry up." Lou Qihuai also wiped his tears and helped them up.
Chu Yuxian looked at Xiao'er, who was communicating with tears, and her heart was pinched fiercely. She came over and hugged Xiao'er in her arms, and her indebtedness, reluctance, and longing filled her heart.
"Xiao'er, A-Niang is sorry for you." She trembled and gently stroked Xiao'er's hair.
Lou Yunxiao stiffly put her hand on Chu Yuxian's waist, she felt her mother's warmth for the first time, and this feeling made her greedy. Suddenly, she felt a warm, moist tear on her shoulder, and she knew that it was A-Niang's tears.
Lou Yunxiao hugged Chu Yuxian tightly, and her voice trembled and whimpered: "Auntie, Xiao'er misses you so much." ”
The mother and daughter burst into tears in an instant, and the pain they had suffered from each other over the years seemed to be like poison pouring out of their bodies with tears.
After crying bitterly, the four of them sat down in the back hall, and Chu Yuxian finally took off the hat on his head.
"My appearance, isn't it ugly."
"A-Niang is the most beautiful, more beautiful than the fairies in the sky." Lou Yunxiao said.
Chu Yuxian was amused by Lou Yunxiao's words, and the burden in her heart fell a lot.
Suddenly, Lou Xuanyi stood up and arched his hand: "Father, Auntie, my son has something I want to tell my parents." ”
"What's the matter?" Chu Yuxian asked.
"Su Rongyan, the daughter of the Su family in Anyi Lane, asks her father and A-Niang to come to the door to propose marriage."
"The Su family is the daughter of the crown prince Zhan Shi Su Buya's family." Lou Qihuai said, "Okay, good." My son is now in high school to explore flowers, presumably the Su family will not refuse, and will propose marriage tomorrow for his father. ”
Chu Yuxian looked embarrassed, and unconsciously touched her sideburns.
"I won't go, I and your father were originally reconciled, and now I haven't remarried, and if I go, it's not in accordance with etiquette."
It's not that she doesn't want to go, but she's worried that her appearance will affect her son's marriage.
Lou Yunxiao saw her embarrassment, and immediately said: "Although A-Niang can rest assured, as early as when my father went to Biyuan Temple to pick you up, I made it clear to the saint that Fu and you are equal wives, and the restlessness of the family house had to be resolved by the eldest daughter-in-law of the long house to practice in the Buddhist temple for several years, so you went to Biyuan Temple." And now that the cultivation period has expired, Fu Shi is seriously ill, so he took you back. ”
"Such nonsense must have been made up by Yi'er." Chu Yuxian joked.
"Auntie, this is my fault, this is Xiao'er's idea." Lou Xuanyi's face was wronged.
Chu Yuxian looked at Xiao'er with some surprise, she didn't expect her to be so smart. But this reason is that she is practicing with hair, and she can't let her appear in front of people during the hair growth period.
"But when I say that I can practice on behalf of others, will others wear it when they see me?"
"Ah Niang can rest assured, a month ago, I began to ask the maids in the house to collect their fallen hair, and then wash all these hairs, hook the hair roots on two layers of silk close to the color of the human body, dry for a few days to get a realistic hair cover, as long as it is glued to Ah Niang's scalp, and then use hair accessories to cover up some flaws, you can fake it."
Lou Yunxiao said the Tao at the head, and didn't notice the surprised expressions of the other three people at all.
"It's just that this method can only be used when there is no hair at all, and it can no longer be used when A-Niang gives birth to hair about an inch long, so she can only be wronged by A-Niang to stay at home on the grounds of illness during that time." She had already thought about it, and once she found that this method could no longer be used, she would use some hair growth medicine to make Ah Niang's hair grow faster.
Chu Yuxian put away her shocked expression and nodded, "Then, I'll try it tomorrow, if it's feasible, I'll go to the Su family with Qihuai to propose marriage." ”
The next day, Chu Yuxian put on the wig that took a lot of effort to make, and she and Lou Qihuai went to the Su Mansion to propose, thinking that the Su family would hesitate, but he didn't expect him to agree very decisively.
The two families happily settled the matter, and good news followed.
Lou Qihuai has been a civil and prose official in the capital for several days, and he has not been given any real position, at most it is just a brick, where it needs to be moved. However, Emperor Shun listened to Lou Qihuai's performance during this period of time, and also admired his style of doing things, so he appointed him as the Shaoqing of the Taifu of Zhengsipin.
In the evening, in the solemn and gorgeous palace, the gate of Yihua Palace is closed, and there are guards guarding the door.
The floor of the hall was scattered with dozens of densely written rice papers, and Princess Changhe copied the palace rules with a drooping face and a pen.
"Princess, Concubine Shen Shu has come to visit you and brought you some food."
The maid walked in with a food box, and the sound of chains was heard outside the door.
"I've rewarded you." Princess Changhe replied lightly.
"The servant doesn't dare." The maid knelt down with the food box in her hand in fear.
"Why don't you dare, now that I am imprisoned by my father, my face is lost, and I am afraid that no one will remember me as a princess in the future." Princess Changhe complained, "Everything is because of that Lou Yunxiao!" What's going on with Lou Jia lately? ”
"Back to the princess, the day before yesterday, the son of the Lou family made a marriage with the little lady of the Su family in Anyi Lane, and Dr. Lou also conferred the post of Shaoqing of the Taifu of the Fourth Grade."
"Where's Lou Yunxiao?"
"Recently, her status among the nobles of the capital has been booming, and many little ladies are vying to be sisters with her."
After hearing this, Princess Changhe pressed the pen in her hand on the rice paper fiercely, and the rice paper, which had already been written for more than half of the time, was destroyed by the ink.
"She is a blessing in disguise, and even the whole Lou family is running from time to time! I really underestimated her, my relationship with Cangyuan for more than ten years is actually not as good as her for a few months! It's really a fox! ”
"The princess doesn't have to be angry, General Mu must be greedy for a moment of freshness, maybe he hasn't seen the princess for a long time, and he is very worried about you in his heart." The maid comforted.
"Yes, maybe he wants to see me too, but now that my father looks at me strictly, it's hard for me to see him." Princess Changhe frowned sadly.
"Concubine Shen Shu has already pleaded with the saint, maybe the saint will remove the guards outside the door in a few days, and then let General Mu come to visit you."
Princess Changhe breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little more relaxed, she lifted the pen in her hand, and the rice paper left a huge ugly ink stain, but she continued to write as if she couldn't see it.
Sure enough, within a few days, the guards outside the door withdrew. Princess Changhe has also changed from being able to move only in the dormitory to being able to move freely in the Yihua Palace.
On this day, she asked the maid to dress her up and sit down under the porch early.
It wasn't until noon that she saw a familiar figure that she sat up.
"Cangyuan, you're here." Princess Changhe's face immediately put a smile on her face and she ran towards him quickly.