Chapter 73
Zhou Pei and his two children stayed at the Yanping Hou Mansion for two nights. They were going back after breakfast on the third day of the junior high school.
In addition to the eve of marriage, this is the second time Aji gave birth to the feeling of time passing.
She couldn't bear to leave her uncle and uncle, and even more so she couldn't bear to leave her younger brother buried in her arms.
"Uncle, why don't you let Xiaojiu stay?" Aji discussed with Zhou Pei with red eyes. In fact, she had this idea on the first day of her younger brother's arrival. Due to the many rules of the noble family in the capital, she was just a daughter-in-law who could not be the family and could not make decisions. It might not be appropriate to leave her younger brother without permission, so she suppressed her thoughts. Last night, she tossed and turned around and couldn't sleep. Zhao Chen knew that she couldn't bear to leave her younger brother, so he took the initiative to suggest that her younger brother stay in the Marquis's Mansion until Qiuhou came over and moved out.
Aji declined his kindness at the time, but now she really wants to part ways, so she couldn't help but mention it again.
Zhou Pei is really hard to make decisions about this matter. Please stay with your nephew. He was worried that the wife of the Hou Mansion would be unhappy and not stay. Seeing that his niece was alone here, he couldn't bear to force Lin Chongjiu away. It can be seen that his niece was not very firm. Zhou Pei walked to the siblings and asked Lin Chongjiu: "Xiaojiu, do you want to stay in the capital?"
Lin Chongjiu nodded without hesitation and looked at the elder sister and said, "I want to be with my elder sister, but I promised my mother to be obedient and not to cause trouble for her elder sister. Sister, don't cry. My mother said that after my father was admitted to the juren, our family would move to the capital, and then the elder sister could go back to her parents' home." When she set off, her mother told him that the elder sister was pregnant and had no energy to take care of him, so she told him that she could not listen no matter how her brother-in-law and elder sister stayed.
"Well, then you guys come early." My younger brother was so sensible. Aji forced himself to hold back his tears, and pulled his two younger brothers to give me some more detailed advice. Then he sent the person onto the carriage and said goodbye with a smile.
The carriage quickly drove out of the street and disappeared without a turn. But Aji stood at the intersection and couldn't bear to go in.
Madam Jiang held her arm with heartache and advised softly: "Don't worry, big girl, it's May now, and the wife of the October Month can come over at the latest, just come over to hug her grandson."
Aji's birth date is at the end of October, maybe a few days earlier or a few days later.
Thinking that she would have her own children at that time and her family members came over, Aji felt a little better. Finally, she took a look at the direction where the carriage left and followed Madam Jiang in.
Just thinking about it again, reunion and separation are always lost for a while.
Even Aji was not very happy in Dragon Boat Festival. She tried not to show it when she was with Ning. When she was looking at Zhuxuan, she would compare Zhao Chen's map of the dynasty to guess where his uncle and the others were.
On the same day, Zhao Chen came back and looked at the desk first. Sure enough, he saw that the map was placed there again.
If he could accompany her every day as before, would she not be homesick?
"Aji, I'll go to bed on the tenth day of the lunar month. Do you want to go out and have a look? I promised you at the beginning of the year and I want to take you around the capital." After resting in the evening, Zhao Chen held his wife and said.
"I'm like this now, is it convenient for me to go out?" Aji was a little moved, but she was not very relieved.
"I have asked someone to change the carriage more smoothly. Let's go slowly. It's okay. Why are you thinking about where to go?" Zhao Chen kissed her face, very simple.
He didn't bother her these few nights, but it was another silent care. Aji was very at ease and leaned against his shoulder and said, "I heard that the Bodhisattvas in Longen Temple in the western suburbs of the capital are very effective. I want to go and worship, okay?"
Zhao Chen smiled and pinched her hand, put it on his chest and said, "What's wrong? I'll accompany you wherever you want to go. Longen Temple, Aju, what do you want to ask for? Please give you a fat and fat son?"
Aji didn't tell him. She really wanted to pray for a child, so she gave her a son, and her aunt's daughter she longed for, and she also wanted to ask the Bodhisattva to bless her father to be in high school, so that the whole family was safe and sound.
Is she too greedy if she asks for so much?
Aji smiled herself and said, "Let's call my mother to go together?" My mother-in-law was bored in the Marquis's Mansion all day long.
Zhao Chen naturally responded to his wife's filial piety.
The next day, Zhao Chen went into the palace early. Aji didn't have to go to Rongshou Hall to pay his respects today, so he went to Ning to have dinner. By the way, he mentioned going to Longen Temple and asked Ning if he wanted to go.
It’s okay whether Ning’s wife goes or not. Since her daughter-in-law is thinking about her, she responds with a smile.
The two were chatting in the room. As they were talking, they heard Guo Baozhu's crisp voice. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other and smiled. Before they could go downstairs to pick up people, Guo Baozhu had already run in with brisk steps. She had come here many times, and after calling him, she didn't have to ask Mei for her service. She poured herself a cup of tea and drank several sips in a row.
Ning smiled at her: "Is the meal too salty in the morning?" This niece is not very similar to the elder sister at all. She is like a child and makes people feel headache and like it.
Guo Baozhu sat next to Aji and looked at Ning with aggrieved voice, "My aunt and sister-in-law don't like to go out. Every time I come here. Now it's so hot outside, of course I'm thirsty." At first, she was a little unfamiliar with this aunt who Yi, but later she saw that her mother and brother were close to her, Ning was kind to her, and Guo Baozhu quickly became familiar with her.
Aji said a little guiltily: "It's all me..." The doctor said that something is most likely to happen in the first three months, so she refused to have a banquet from others and took care of her baby at home.
"I know, my sister-in-law is pregnant with her little nephew and can't move easily." Guo Baozhu laughed and lowered her head and gently touched Aji's belly. "Instead of letting my little nephew work hard, I'd better run away. I'll wait for him to be filial to me in the future."
Aji looked down at her belly with her and smiled softly.
Ning shook his head helplessly and said to Guo Baozhu: "You just say this in front of us. You can't just say whatever you want when you go out as a guest. You are a big girl from the fifteenth place, so you have to be more dignified."
Guo Baozhu withdrew her hand in disappointment and sat upright, but couldn't help but complain: "Auntie, why are you like my mother? I'm only fifteen, and there are many people who are married to each other for sixteen or seventeen. Why are you anxious? Like my sister-in-law, I was married to my aunt early, and I can't go out after I'm pregnant. It's so boring. If I meet a bad mother-in-law again..."
The more he spoke, the less he was no longer able to adjust. Ning Shi glared at her, and Guo Baozhu quickly shut up and quietly blinked to Aji.
Aji smiled and changed the topic, "Have Baozhu been to Longen Temple?"
Guo Baozhu nodded: "I have been there. They are all a group of old ladies and old ladies who go to burn incense. There is nothing fun, but Longen Temple has planted a lot of flowers. Now the magnolia and zimuth should be blooming. It looks very beautiful. It's cool there... Ah, my sister-in-law asked what Longen Temple is doing? Do you want to go? I'll go with you too!"
Aji was planning to invite her to go with her, but when she heard this, she looked at her mother-in-law.
Ning glanced at her niece lightly and said in her expectant gaze: "It's okay to take you there, but you have to behave properly. If you make loud noises or run around, I will ask your aunt to take you home immediately."
Guo Baozhu quickly promised that she would be good.
Ning added another sentence: "Ask your mother if she wants to go."
Guo Baozhu suddenly felt bitter. After the Dragon Boat Festival, her mother had nothing to do, so how could she not go?
Ning ignored her and waited for their sister-in-law to visit Zhuxuan and talk privately. She told Mei to prepare well, and her daughter-in-law was pregnant and could not tolerate negligence.
In the evening, Zhao Yunting came back and asked his wife tentatively: "I heard Chengyuan say that he wants to take you to Longen Temple? I am also at home on the 10th day of the lunar month, why don't I send you there? Then you can enjoy the flowers with Chengyuan's wife, and I will play chess with Master Wangyu. I haven't been practicing chess with him for a long time." He had made other arrangements, but his son robbed him of his first, so he had to change his plan.
Ning was finishing a child's bellyband, and said without raising his head: "You can go if you want, but Baozhu has arrived in the morning. When she goes back, she will most likely go there too."
The expectation in Zhao Yunting's eyes instantly turned into disappointment, and he smiled dryly: "Then you go, I'll take you out for a walk next time."
Ning did not answer the conversation.
Zhao Yunting wanted to change his words, but when he thought of Ning Lianrong's cold face, he finally accepted it. My sister-in-law never liked him, so why should he be bored?
The next day, he went to court to meet Guo Yi, and Zhao Yunting couldn't help staring at him for a while.
"What are you keeping staring at me?" When the court went down, Guo Yi strode to catch up with Zhao Yunting, feeling a little confused, "Didn't you have a bad idea to pull me into the water?" This brother-in-law was full of bad water. It would be no good if he saw him for no reason.
Zhao Yunting had a expressionless face: "On the tenth day of the lunar month, I will wait for you in the old place."
Old place?
Guo Yi felt a stern. Before Emperor Wen of Tang was successful, he and Zhao Yunting were enemies on the surface, and they had secretly contacted any major matters. Emperor Wen of Tang had not been there after he ascended the throne. What major matters should I discuss now?
Although he really wanted to escort his wife and daughter to Longen Temple, the main thing was important. After Guo Yi returned home, he found an excuse to apologize to his wife, and said that he could not go that day. Mrs. Guo didn't take it seriously, but she didn't let him touch her for two consecutive nights. She still spoke during the day.
In Guo Yi's opinion, this is already a big deal.
The night of the 9th day of the lunar month, Guo Yi was so angry that he forced his wife and daughter to the car early in the morning, and his face sank. After riding a horse to meet Zhao Yunting. If Zhao Yunting had nothing to do today, he would not be able to beat him to death!
What big thing does Zhao Yunting have? He just wants to play chess with this brother-in-law.
If he can't go, Guo Yi will not even think about going.
When the two sons-in-law of the Ning family had a happy chat, the wives of the two wives had already met at the Xicheng Gate and headed towards Longen Temple without any haste.
Aji and Ning took a car, and curiously enjoyed the scenery along the road through the gauze curtain.
Zhao Chen followed by the side, asking his wife from time to time if she felt uncomfortable. Later, when Aji got into his eyes, he knew what he wanted to say, and sat upright first and ignored him. The mother-in-law was sitting opposite her, so why didn't this person feel a little restrained?
The couple lived like a mix of oil. Ning, who was playing a little, looked at it happily and said with a smile: "Don't bother Chengyuan. This is his first time being a father, so he is nervous."
Aji didn't know how to answer the conversation, but after a while he blushed slightly, "The carriage is quite stable."
Ning smiled without saying a word. After the light of light, he caught a glimpse of a shadow on the tower outside the window and reminded softly: "Aji, look, it is the highest Guiyan Pagoda in Longen Temple. We will be able to reach the foot of the mountain in another quarter of an hour."
Aji hurriedly looked over and saw a tall tower covered by lush trees halfway up the mountain. He wanted to take a closer look, but Zhao Chen leaned over and looked over again, showing a question. A mother-in-law chuckled in her ears, Aji turned red, and she glared at Zhao Chen and immediately sat down again. She made up her mind to let him go to the mountain after going up the mountain. She was with her mother-in-law.
When the heat on her face disappeared, the carriage slowly stopped.
Aji reached out to get her mother-in-law's hat and wanted to serve her mother-in-law, but Ning took her first, "Sit up and help you."
Her eyes were soft and treated her like her biological daughter. Aji felt a lot of emotion, and she lowered her head slightly to help her, and whispered: "Mom is so nice to me." With such a mother-in-law and husband, what's wrong with getting married?
After getting off the car, Mrs. Guo and her daughter were already waiting in front. Aji followed Ning and chatted for a few words. Zhao Chen waved his hand and called the sedan chair servant who had been arranged long ago, with a total of three sedan chairs.
Aji looked at Zhao Chen in confusion, with one man and four women, Zhao Chen left by himself, but one less head?
Zhao Chen raised his chin at Guo Baozhu.
Guo Baozhu smiled, retreated from Mrs. Guo to Zhao Chen, and said to Aji: "Sister-in-law, please sit down. I will walk with my aunt and I only have a few steps. It is better to walk in a sedan chair than to walk."
She did not wear a curtain, and the white-collar pomegranate red shirt with right-sided lapel made her look white and red, bright and charming, with round and big phoenix eyes full of autumn water, playful and clever. Aju was stunned for a moment and praised her sincerely: "Baozhu looks so beautiful."
The little girls like to be praised. Guo Baozhu was so happy that she hugged Aji's arm and acted coquettishly: "No matter how beautiful I look, I can't compare to my sister-in-law. If you take off your hat, your aunt will not have to do anything else along the way. She is just busy blocking you and not letting others see..."
"Baozhu." Mrs. Guo called out coldly, implicitly reprimanded. She was so slick, and she didn't look like a girl? She and her husband wouldn't say this, and she didn't know who her daughter learned it from.
Guo Baozhu shrank her neck awkwardly and quickly helped her mother into the sedan chair in a pleasing manner.
Zhao Chen wanted to support Ning first. Ning shook his head and signaled his son to help his wife. She sat up on her own.
"Don't worry, I'll be with you." Zhao Chen said softly after Aji sat firmly.
A layer of veil could not stop the tenderness in his eyes. Aji did not hide this time. Seeing that the two elders in front had already started climbing the mountain, she quickly lifted up the veil and smiled at Zhao Chen, "You..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Chen put down the veil, followed by his low advice, "Don't let others see it, it's too many people, I'm afraid I can't stop it."
Aji was stunned, and then realized that he was taking Guo Baozhu's words. He quickly lowered his head and urged him to walk away quickly.
Zhao Chen stood up with a smile, stared at the two sedan chairmen and lifted the sedan chair steadily, then followed by a big stroll, protecting his wife.
The incense in Longen Temple is in full swing, and pilgrims come and go.
Shortly after Zhao Chen and others turned along the Linyin Mountain Road, several carriages drove up one after another at the foot of the mountain.
Chapter completed!