Chapter 218 The warmth of the house
The alley in his home was quietly standing in front of the door. Zhao Xing did not rush into the house, but stood here quietly, looking at the familiar courtyard gate carefully. After a long time, he raised his hand and gently knocked on the door knocker: "Mom——."
When I got into the room, my mother's voice came: "Hey——"
"I'm back."
My mother replied: "I'll open the door for you."
There is no surprise, no surprise, some are just a child who can't usually scream the door when he comes home.
The gate of the courtyard creaked and was opened by the gatekeeper. The little puppy ran out first. He hugged Zhao Xing's feet tightly, and printed one black plum blossom after another on the corner of her snow-white robe.
When I picked it up, the little puppy had grown up and became heavy. It tried hard to stretch its neck and lick Zhao Xing's face.
Zhao Xing dodged and saw two wives standing in the middle of the yard with his mother.
Zhao Xing put down the puppy, went into the yard, and knelt down for his mother: "Mom, the child is back."
My mother nodded and looked at Zhao Xing for a while: "You're hungry, I'm leaving you with food, it's still hot. Why didn't Mr. Guo come back with you?"
Zhao Xing stood up and replied: "Today I took over the Jinyiwei, and there are many things to do. I asked him to take charge of me first and deal with possible emergencies at any time."
The food was still hot, and there was a pot of wine on the table, which was also warm.
My mother sat opposite her, and the sleepy little girl put her chin on the table, and her eyes never left her brother for a moment.
Two daughters-in-law were accompanied by one on the left and the other on the right, one poured wine and the other picked up food, and the table was filled with peace and harmony.
"Tomorrow you should accompany Cuiyan to the Duke's Mansion to pay tribute to the old Duke. The Duke did not leave and stopped there, just waiting for his daughter to come back to see her last look."
Zhao Xing and Cui Yan nodded in tears and said yes.
"Then accompany Xiufen to go back to the bridge residence and take a look at your father-in-law. He has become a kinship with Widow Su, who is opposite the door. Although life is good, he always cares about his daughter and son-in-law. You have to go over and see and report peace."
Zhao Xing and his wife also nodded and said yes.
"After these things, you can do yours. The emperor's affairs are the most important. We must help the emperor and defeat the Jiannu outside. Always locking down the city like this is not a solution. People's lives are hard."
Zhao Xing agreed, and then began to ask his mother about her health, appetite, and mentality. Then he adjusted the process of his journey to the west to reduce the concerns of his knowledge and told her to her, so that she could let her be relieved of her always-stuck heart.
Then I took the exam to teach my younger sister's studies. Mr. Guo was his teacher, but Zhao Xing's right-hand man. When he was away, he was busy all day long, so my younger sister's studies can be described as a mess.
At the age of being playful, after taking the exam, I can only describe it as terrible.
However, Zhao Xing expressed quite satisfaction with such achievements: "Very good, very good. My little sister is getting closer and closer to books that are both good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. When you are 18 years old, your brother can find you a good family."
"I don't want any good people. I must find a scholar like Zhang Sheng."
Well, I was wrong. This must have been caused by reading some miscellaneous books that I shouldn't have read after reading a few words.
At that time, my mother complained: "I said at the beginning that if you want to be a lady, you have to read the female rings well. As a result, you don't want to let it go. Look at this young age, what are you running around in your mouth? At a young age, you started to choose a son-in-law."
Zhao Xing smiled and said, "Ban Zhao, who wrote the female quarrel, has been bullied and abused since he married into his mother's family. It was based on a dark mentality that I would not be good for and that women in the world would not be good for the future. That is a bad person. How can I read the bad person's books? As for my little sister, I want to find a scholar like Zhang Sheng, and I have a great ideal. But we don't need him to climb over the wall, so I will break his legs. When the imperial examination was released in one year, I will take my little sister and my wife who can beat me to stare at it. As long as my little sister is attracted to me, no matter the top scholar or Tanhua, she will knock her out with a stick and put her head on her sack. Whether he wants it or not, she will stuff it directly into the bridal chamber."
The two wives beat him from left to right: "The more you talk, the more you become distorted, how can you be a brother like this?"
Zhao Xing smiled and said, "I am the commander of the Jinyiwei, should I steal the male and domineering women?"
When my mother heard that Zhao Xing's official name had changed again, she asked in confusion: "I changed my name again, is it a promotion or a downward trend?"
Cuiyan’s interface: “I’ve been promoted, I’m a third-rank senior.”
Xiufen also said: "The most direct advantage is that he has a salary of thirty-five sq. per month."
My mother said, "That year was 420 s of food. It was too much. The emperor was in trouble. You should just take less, as it would be considered as sharing the worries for the emperor."
Zhao Xing smiled and said to the simple and kind mother, "Not much at all. Our family now has so many people, and I still feel tight. Besides, how much money did I give the emperor a year? It's much more than this, so in a few days, I have to get back 100,000 taels of silver from the Jinyiwei and hide it."
Then think about my current situation, the fate of a lonely minister who may be thrown out at any time, and continue to explain: "I want to leave you enough pension money, leave a glorious dowry for my younger sister, and leave enough bones for my puppy to eat to death. There are also the wealth of my two wives, the living expenses of my future children, the education expenses of my grandson, the property of my grandson's son, and the son's son's son's--"
My mother and her two daughters-in-law laughed, and my mother angrily said, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. If you continue to calculate this, that's enough."
Zhao Xing sighed: "So I said that the salary of 450 s is enough? I have to hurry up and give our family a lot of money. I really have a long way to go."
My mother put down her work and solemnly educated Zhao Xing: "The human heart is not enough, and as you say, to support generations, the money you need will be immeasurable, so you can only be a corrupt official. Since you want to be a corrupt official, now I am ready to eliminate the harm for the people and kill you, the ruthless son." Then she looked at the bar of the gate with her eyes.
Chapter completed!