Chapter 1 Xin Hua Tang(1/2)
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It was already early winter when the Ji family abandoned their boats in Tongzhou. After arriving in Tongzhou, the Ji family did not follow Qin Zhen to Beijing, but instead fell one step behind.
Master Ji and Mrs. Ji in the capital had already received news. When Ji Xiaotang helped Mrs. Ji to the shore, he saw Ji Xiaomu with a carriage and horses greeting him.
Ji Xiaomu is the eldest son of Master Ji. He is seventeen years old this year. He has passed the imperial examination and is now studying in the Imperial College. He is a famous talent in the capital. He once went to Qingyuan with Master Ji to attend the funeral for Master Ji, so Ji Xiaotang recognized him.
Ji Xiaotang only met Ji Xiaomu, a few sisters in Master Ji's room.
Ji Xiaomu has a tall figure, fair face and handsome appearance. Judging from Ji Xiaotang, he looks like a typical Ji family, but Old Mrs. Ji doesn't think so. Old Mrs. Ji said that Ji Xiaomu was completely following his mother.
When Ji Xiaomu saw Old Lady Ji, he hurriedly came forward and knelt down in front of Old Lady Ji regardless of the underground.
"The grandson kowtowed to grandmother." Ji Xiaomu kowtowed to old lady Ji.
Old Mrs. Ji looked behind Ji Xiaomu, and there was a large number of followers behind Ji Xiaomu. But what Mrs. Ji wanted to find was naturally not these people.
Before she saw the person she wanted to see, Old Mrs. Ji's face sank obviously.
Old Mrs. Ji is not very good-natured, and she is not used to taking a boat. She has suffered a lot these days. Now when she arrives in Tongzhou, the weather here is much colder than Qingyuan.
Many factors are put together, and Mrs. Ji's body and mood are equally bad.
"Get up," Old Mrs. Ji said in a depressed manner, "Your parents call you to pick you up, they are determined."
This sounds a bit different.
Ji Xiaomu knelt on the ground, not daring to show off. He had never raised Mrs. Ji since he was a child, and he heard Mrs. Ji say a lot of things about Mrs. Ji, and he was a little afraid of Mrs. Ji. Although he was Changsun, he should have been extremely favored. However, he did not dare to make any mistakes in front of Mrs. Ji, let alone act coquettishly and foolishly because of Changsun's identity.
Master Ji Er and Mrs. Ji Er are still behind, and no one else can speak, so Ji Xiaotang naturally can't just watch it.
"Cousin, please get up and talk. Grandma is not used to boarding a boat. She is not very comfortable. She is happy to see her. But in such a cold place, the cousin just kneels on her side regardless of the situation. Isn't it a pity for grandmother to feel sorry for? If you don't get up, grandmother will be even more angry." Ji Xiaotang said this. Then she asked Ji Xiaoyun to support Mrs. Ji. She went forward and stretched out her hand to help Ji Xiaomu.
Ji Xiaomu hurriedly kowtowed again, then stood up, with a smile on his face, and was really grateful to Ji Xiaotang.
Old Mrs. Ji gave him shameless in front of the servant, and he also had the intention of blaming Master Ji and Mrs. Ji for being unfilial.
Ji Xiaotang came forward and covered up the embarrassment with a few words indifferent to him. It seemed that Mrs. Ji was just worried about her grandson, so she took her anger on her son and daughter-in-law. She embellished a harmonious atmosphere of kindness and filial piety and joy.
"Thank you for your hard work in my grandmother. It's still a long way to get to Beijing from here. My father and mother were afraid that the road was bumpy, so she borrowed my grandfather's car. It was more comfortable than ordinary carriages. I would like to ask my grandmother not to dislike him."
Old Mrs. Ji looked at Ji Xiaomu, and then looked at Ji Xiaotang.
Ji Xiaotang smiled at Old Lady Ji.
Old Mrs. Ji snorted softly and said nothing.
At this time, Master Ji Er and Mrs. Ji Er had already rushed up from behind. When Ji Xiaomu saw Master Ji Er, he hurriedly came forward and greeted Master Ji Er and Mrs. Ji Er.
Master Ji Er and Mrs. Ji Er were both happy to see Ji Xiaomu.
"Why did you beat you? Don't be afraid of delaying the Imperial College's homework! With your aunt and I, you just need to send a manager who is familiar with the path." Master Ji Er helped Ji Xiaomu up and said.
Although Ji Xiaomu spoke to Mr. Ji and Er, he felt much more relaxed in his expression.∏∈, although the uncle and nephew didn’t meet much, they were very close. The relationship was good.
"Grandmother and second uncle, and my aunt's family are coming to Beijing, so my nephew should go to Qingyuan to continue. Now that I am like this, my nephew is lazy. Don't say this, so that my nephew is ashamed of it... I will be careless for a day or two of my homework, and live with my second uncle in the future. It's better to ask questions at all times than to be in the Imperial College." Ji Xiaomu said with a smile.
"You can't say this. The Imperial College is full of contemporary great scholars. You must listen carefully to their teachings." Master Ji Er said.
Ji Xiaomu responded respectfully.
Everyone would not stay on the dock for a long time, so Ji Xiaomu asked Mrs. Ji to get into Mrs. Yang Ge's carriage, but Mrs. Ji refused. Qin Zhen gave the Ji family three carriages. When he arrived in Tongzhou, he was so close to the capital, so Master Ji Er left only one and still sat for Mrs. Ji.
The rest of the people took the carriage of the Ji family brought by Ji Xiaomu, and left Yang Ge Lao's car idle.
"Grandma is used to riding this car, so she doesn't want to change it. Don't think too much about cousin." Seeing Ji Xiaomu's embarrassment, Ji Xiaotang said before getting on the car.
From Tongzhou to Beijing, there are smooth official roads. The carriages and horses are unobstructed. When they enter the capital, they turn to Guanliang Hutong and stop at the second gate of Xinhuatang. It is almost dusk.
Ji Xiaotang helped Old Lady Ji get out of the car. In front of the second door, he was already kneeling in the beautiful bushes with Master Ji.
"Mother..." Master Ji took two steps and shouted, but his eyes were already red.
Old Mrs. Ji's eyes tightened, and the hands that were holding Ji Xiaotang's arm also tightened.
"Grandmother..." Ji Xiaotang whispered to remind Mrs. Ji Xiaomu. He had already made Ji Xiaomu look ugly just now. Now that he has arrived in Xinhua Hall, it would be inappropriate to treat Mr. Ji and Mrs. Ji like this.
Old Mrs. Ji still listened to her advice, and her tense face finally loosened.
Master Ji had already reached Mrs. Ji, and spread his arms as if he wanted to hug Mrs. Ji's legs.
Old Mrs. Ji seemed to be frightened. She took two steps back uneasyly, and stretched out one hand to push and reject it.
Master Ji's open arms fell down, and he pressed his hands on the ground, and kowtowed to Mrs. Ji.
"Mother, I want to kill my son, wuwu." Master Ji was full of emotions and shed tears.
"Get up...." Old Mrs. Ji held Ji Xiaotang's arm and pressed almost half of her body on Ji Xiaotang.
Old Mrs. Ji has always been strong, but she is not feeling well. This is rare.
When the mother and son met, there was nothing to say, but Master Ji kept crying, and it was very touching to see the scene. Old Mrs. Ji asked him to get up, but he refused.
Master Ji Er arrived and barely helped Master Ji up from the ground.
"Father, mother, grandmother and second uncle's family came from afar, especially grandmother who worked the hardest and felt a little uncomfortable. Father and mother should invite grandmother and second uncle, second aunt and sister, and younger brothers to go into the house to talk in a warm place." Ji Xiaomu walked up to say.
"That's the reason." Master Ji nodded.
Mrs. Ji nodded, and wiped the corners of her eyes with a veil. Just like Mrs. Ji, Mrs. Ji also had red eyes at this moment.
Everyone surrounded and entered the second door and asked Mrs. Ji to sit in the hall of Qianhua Hall. Only then did Mrs. Ji and his family kneel on the ground again and formally greet Mrs. Ji.
Only then did Ji Xiaotang have the opportunity to carefully look at Master Ji's family.
Master Ji is a middle-aged man with a slightly blessed figure, but he can still see his handsome and handsome outline when he was young. Mrs. Ji is a very luxurious and beautiful woman dressed in a very luxurious and magnificent manner.
After hearing many rumors about Mrs. Ji, Ji Xiaotang couldn't help but look at Mrs. Ji several times. Mrs. Ji is the same age as Mrs. Ji, but her skin is fair and delicate, and she looks very young. She looks like she is in her early thirties.
Mrs. Ji is not like the northern woman that Ji Xiaotang is used to, but she has a bit of the beauty of a southern woman. ()
If we evaluate it objectively, Mrs. Ji can naturally be called a beauty, but even Ji Xiaotang is common in this level of beauty. The legendary general Ji's fascination seems to be not just based on her beauty.
Master Ji and Mrs. Ji kowtowed to Mrs. Ji, followed by Ji Xiaomu and Yang.
Ji Xiaomu's relatives, who became one year older than Ji Xiaomu, are the granddaughter of Yang Ge Lao and the cousin of Ji Xiaomu's relatives.
Then, Ji Xiaolian, Ji Xiaoxue and Ji Xiaoqin all came over to kowtow to Old Mrs. Ji,
Next, Ji Xiaotang, Ji Xiaoyun, Changsheng greeted Master Ji, and then Ji Xiaomu and others met uncles and aunts.
Finally, the sisters meet and talk about their age.
On the side of the grandson, Ji Xiaomu's residence is the eldest son. The second master Ji Xiaoxue, the third son of the immortal life.
On the granddaughter side, Ji Xiaolian is the oldest, then Ji Xiaoyun and Ji Xiaotang. The youngest is Ji Xiaoqin. She is the same age as Ji Xiaotang, but she is two months late on her birthday and is born in the end of September.
"...I arranged a banquet to welcome my mother and second brother." Master Ji smiled very well.
"A family doesn't have to pay attention to these false rituals. You can eat at any time for a banquet. The old lady is tired all the way, so it's better to have a rest early." Master Ji Er said.
"Everything depends on my mother and second brother." Seeing that Mr. Ji looked depressed and was not energetic, he immediately agreed.
Speaking of rest, Mrs. Ji spoke.
"I knew that the old lady and the second master's family were coming, so I started to clean up immediately." Mrs. Ji smiled and spoke in a straightforward voice. "This Qianhua Hall is naturally for my mother to live in."
Master Ji and Mrs. Ji gave up all the five-entry courtyards in the middle road and asked Mrs. Ji to live with his family. They moved to the courtyards on the East Road to live.
"We have already cleaned up and changed the decorations that the old lady, the second master, the second wife and a few nieces like." Mrs. Ji kept smiling, very kind.
Qianhua Hall is the main hall. When Mrs. Ji said she wanted to live with Qianhua Hall, Old Mrs. Ji's face was not only absent, but she looked a little annoyed.
"I can't live here." Old Mrs. Ji said with a tense face.
Before entering Beijing, according to Mrs. Ji's intention, she wanted to buy another house and live in it, and did not come to Mr. Ji's Xinhua Hall.
However, the Ji family did not have other ready-made residences in the capital, and Master Ji Er advised Mrs. Ji that if the family went there, they would not live in Master Ji's house and instead went outside to find another house. This was unreasonable.
The main reason is that doing so has a very bad impact on Master Ji.
Because of the events in the early years, Master Ji had a vague reputation. If someone had not suppressed him and maintained him, Master Ji would have been unable to sit steadily.
Now that Mrs. Ji is like this again, it is obvious that Mr. Ji is unfilial.
In order to convince Mrs. Ji Er, Mr. Ji, said that doing so would make people outside suspect that their brothers were incompatible, which would be very unfavorable to him.
The family repeatedly persuaded him. Only then did Mrs. Ji reluctantly agree to come to Mr. Ji's house to live.
Now, Old Mrs. Ji couldn't stop talking about Qian Huatang. She said it directly and did not hide the disgusting expression on her face.
Master Ji laughed, but looked at Master Ji Er.
Mrs. Ji lowered her eyes and covered the sharpness in her eyes. When she raised her eyes again, she was filled with a smile on her face.
"The old lady means that although she has come, she just comes to enjoy the blessing of her elder brother and sister-in-law, and she is unwilling to take care of her. Living here is not cheap." Master Ji Er said, "What's the big brother and sister-in-law like? It's still good. I'll find two other yards and let's stay with the old lady."
Master Ji Er did not plan to live in the courtyard of the middle road.
"How can this make it happen? When my mother comes, my mother will make the decision at home. Even if there are female relatives visiting and my mother comes to see me, it is also bright on my face. I am young at the abortion. I need my mother to guide everything." Master Ji said eagerly, naturally.
Mrs. Ji didn't say anything, she raised her hand and raised her finger and wiped the corner of her mouth with a veil. She swept her across Master Ji's face from the corner of her eyes, which was unknown.
To be continued...