I wish for a long time

"Wen Li, what's going on? Why did Jin'er marry a woman?"

As soon as Bai Jian stepped into the main hall of Ziru Garden, Mrs. Lin immediately stood up and asked with a straight face.

He froze for a moment, looked at Mrs. Lin's anxious expression, and collected himself, "Don't worry, Madam, let me speak slowly."

Mrs. Lin clutched a handkerchief in her hand and frowned. She walked to the table and turned her head suddenly: "Wen Li, just tell me, is this person... is it my child?"

Bai Jian poured a cup of tea for her, and chuckled softly, "Madam already has the answer in her heart, doesn't she?"

Seeing his behavior, Madam Lin finally sighed, "Although that's the case, I don't think the behavior of Jin'er and that woman seems to be just playing around. This..."

Bai Jian stroked his beard, "At first I thought that Jin'er was just playing around, but I changed my mind after going this far."

Madam Lin sat down and looked at Bai Jian: "How do you say that?"

Bai Jian's eyes fell on Yin Gui outside the house, and he slowly said: "It's a long story, our road is full of dangers, if it weren't for that girl, I'm afraid Jin'er would have died long ago."

Mrs. Ye was startled immediately, "How could this be, you brought the elite of the Hou Mansion!"

Baijian then told Mrs. Lin everything about how he met from Yuncheng, when he was in danger along the way, even when he was imprisoned and married, and Mei Zhen was in Linjiang.

Mrs. Lin clutched her handkerchief after hearing this, and did not regain her senses for a long time.

"It's true that Jin'er is a woman, but her feelings for that girl are also true."

Madam Lin frowned for a long time, then parted her vermilion lips lightly, and asked, "Where did that woman come from?"

Bai Jian was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head, "That girl lives in the Qi family in Yuncheng, her parents are no longer there... her background is innocent."

Mrs. Lin just stared down at the table and didn't see Bai Jian's expression. She pondered for a moment and said, "If that woman didn't use Jin'er, keeping her by Jin'er's side would be a cover-up."

Bai Jian let out a sigh of relief, "What Madam said is very true."

However, Mrs. Lin's brows did not relax, she raised her eyes slightly, and looked at Bai Jian, "But this matter is related to the safety and survival of the whole Hou family. If she can't be sure, I can't keep her."

Bai Jian's heart trembled, "Yes."

"By the way, Wen Li," Mrs. Lin's expression tightened, "But who else knows Jin'er's identity?"

Bai Jian thought about it for a while, and a few faces from Yuncheng and Lancang County floated in his mind. He put his hand on the table, "No."

Mrs. Lin narrowed her eyes slightly, "Is this true?"

Bai Jian chuckled, "Since Jin'er landed in Yuncheng, she has been wearing men's clothing, so no one knows her true identity."

Mrs. Lin nodded and smiled, "That's good, it will save you and me a lot of trouble."

Bai Jian looked at Mrs. Lin's profile, frowned slightly, and changed the subject: "At this time, there is a national funeral, and Jin'er's declaration of the new emperor's succession to the title may have to be delayed."

Mrs. Lin's face turned cold when she heard this, "Not only that, if the new emperor blames my Marquis Mansion because of jealousy, it will be more than just procrastinating."

Bai Jian stroked his beard and said, "Although it is so, it is possible for Jin'er to enter the ancestral hall first, to recognize the ancestor and return to the ancestral clan, and then present it to the emperor later."

Mrs. Lin nodded slowly when she heard the words, "That's fine, but before that, I have to confirm one thing."

……

bamboo garden.

Ye Jiu pulled Qi Shaoan behind him, staring at the bushes without blinking, "Who is playing tricks there!"

Qi Shaoan poked his head out slightly, frowned slightly, squinted his eyes and held his breath.

I saw two violent shakes in the bushes, and then a small black figure jumped out.

Ye Jiu hastily protected Qi Shaoan and took a step back, but when she fixed her eyes, she saw a black kitten with two shining yellow eyes walking towards them with its tail upright.

Ye Jiu frowned, she and Qi Shaoan looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief.

"It turned out to be a cat."

Qi Shao'an thought for a while about the frightened behavior of the two of them just now, and burst out laughing.

Ye Jiu turned his head when he heard the laughter, and blinked, "Shaoer, what are you laughing at?"

Qi Shao'an shook his head helplessly, "This is the Marquis's Mansion, how dare any thieves break in."

Ye Jiu was taken aback when he heard the words, and then laughed, "You are right, but back then..."

She suddenly fell silent, pursed her lips and peeked at the servant girl behind her, and smiled awkwardly.

Seeing this, Qi Shaoan shook his head, and simply looked at the black cat.

The little guy stopped at a distance of twenty paces from them, and sat looking at them with his head tilted.

Ye Jiu tapped his chin with his fingers, and suddenly his mind froze.

"Ink pill!"

Qi Shaoan was a little unresponsive, but found that the black cat suddenly "meowed", got up and walked towards them again.

Seeing this, the corners of Ye Jiu's mouth rose wildly, he quickly squatted down, and opened his arms towards it, "Mo Wan, come here!"

Qi Shaoan's eyes widened in surprise, "Ajiu, how do you know what it's called?"

Ye Jiu looked at the black cat, although hesitant, but still walking towards him step by step, he turned his head and smiled and said, "Shaoer, do you still remember the scratches on the amber bracelet?"

Qi Shao'an thought for a moment, and suddenly realized, "The old man once said that it was caught by Jin'er's cat, so it was it."

Ye Jiu nodded again and again, "Its name is too funny, so I just remembered it."

Qi Shaoan folded his arms, "Mo Wan? What's wrong?"

Ye Jiu looked at Maomao, who was close at hand, "Think about it, ink pill, mud ball, mud ball, ink pill, how similar~"

Qi Shaoan sneered when he heard the words, but he watched the little black cat in front of him bend its front paws and almost fell to the ground.

Ye Jiu was amused when he saw it, "Hahaha, this guy is not happy anymore!"

Qi Shao'an laughed and raised his forehead, Jin'er has such an elegant name, but when it came to Ajiu's place, it became so... unbearable.

"Come to the mud ball... Bah! Mo Wan, come and let me lick it!"

Mo Wan was a step away from Ye Jiu, arched his small nose, and sniffed vigorously.

Ye Jiu looked at it carefully, and saw that on the black cat fur, there was a stray white hair between the forehead, and the big yellow eyes stared, if it wasn't for the reason of daytime, it would be a bit cautious.

Mo Wan smelled Ye Jiu for a while, then suddenly turned to sniff Qi Shao'an.

Qi Shaoan looked at Mo Wan at his feet, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Mo Wan sniffed twice, then simply sat directly opposite the two, with the tail behind him wagging non-stop.

"Shao'er."

Qi Shaoan turned to look at her upon hearing this.

Ye Jiu frowned, "Do you feel that this guy has a kind of... gossip in his eyes?"

"Ok??"

Mo Wan let out a "meow", lowered his head and licked his paws, then turned away wagging his tail under the burning eyes of the two.

"..."

Ye Jiu pointed at it, his fingers trembling: "It-it-it...does it still glance at me??"

Qi Shao'an chuckled, reached out and pulled her up: "It's just a cat, how can it have so many expressions as you said."

Ye Jiu sighed regretfully, thinking of the group of master cats on a small video app, he had no choice but to spread his hands.

Sure enough, not everyone can produce a cat that can go straight to Tsinghua University.

She suddenly remembered something, and turned around: "I seem to have heard from Uncle Bai that this ink pill is not always in the residence."

The young man at the head responded: "That's true, Mo Wan is not often in the mansion, this time he only came back a month ago."

Ye Jiu nodded, and counted with his fingers again, "Hiss, so it is already fourteen or fifteen years old!"

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt a little depressed.The lifespan of cats is generally fourteen or five years old, and those over 15 years old are quite rare.

In other words, this ink pill is probably...

Ye Jiu pursed her lips, she remembered that Mo Wan walked crookedly and even fell down just now, it's not that it doesn't like listening at all, but that it's time is approaching.

Ye Jiu frowned, with a hint of distress in his eyes.She walked over lightly, seeing Mo Wan wagging her tail and basking comfortably in the sun, she stretched out her hand to stroke her hair.

"Unexpectedly, you are still a long-lived cat."

Mo Wan raised his head, then lay back lazily.

"Otherwise, Mo Wan is old too."

Ye Jiu turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Bai Jian coming out from behind the bamboo forest, walking towards him with a smile.

"Look, it's obviously a cat brought back by the general, but in the end it entangled his son. It's really unreasonable."

Mo Wan rolled his eyes and let out a low cry.

Ye Jiu's heart softened, he stroked its head, "This is called fate."

Mo Wan's nose twitched and rubbed against her palm.Ye Jiu burst into a girl's heart in an instant, the opportunity to play cats must not be lost, and it will never come back!

She picked it up, smoothed its fur, and couldn't help turning her head and said:

"I love this mud ball so much!"

Seeing this, the old housekeeper suddenly froze.

Just for a moment, he seemed to have returned to 14 years ago.

At that time, the bamboo leaves were all over the sky, and the garden was full of golden light in the late autumn. A little guy as delicate as a porcelain doll was holding a black kitten in his arms, smiling:

"Uncle Bai, Jin'er likes this cat!"

The immature voice intertwined with Ye Jiu's solid voice, and the old housekeeper subconsciously blurted out: "Jin'er..."

Ye Jiu looked at him with some doubts, "What's wrong, Uncle Bai?"

At this time, the cat and the other were looking at him with tilted heads, and even Mo Wan blinked his big eyes.

Qi Shaoan also turned to look over.

The old man came back to his senses, coughed lightly to cover up, and said, "Oh, it's almost noon, Madam calls you to have dinner in the hall."

……

The dining place in the Hou's Mansion is not next to the kitchen like ordinary people's homes, but has a separate hall, located between the Bamboo Garden and Ziru Garden.

"Uncle Bai, what's behind that arch?"

Ye Jiu pointed to a round arch door not far away that was similar to a bamboo garden, and asked sideways.

After a slight pause, Baijian replied, "That's the study of the general's former director."

Ye Jiu didn't ask any more questions as soon as he heard it, and just said "Oh".

The dining hall of the Hou Mansion has its own name, and there is a plaque on the beam: Xihetang.

Ye Jiu looked up, feeling a sense of warmth in his heart.

She vaguely saw that the dining table was placed on the side, so she quietly asked, "Is this place specially for eating?"

Bai Jian led them in, and said as he walked, "Not only that, it is also used as a place for discussing rewards and punishments in the backyard on weekdays, but it's not often."

Ye Jiu nodded and followed him into the threshold.She turned her head to look over and found that Mrs. Lin was sitting at the table and raised her head upon hearing the sound.

"Jin'er is here."

Ye Jiu responded, and followed Bai Jian's guidance to sit on the stool.

Qi Shaoan also sat down.

Ye Jiu's seat was next to Mrs. Lin, and from the corner of her eye, she saw the woman next to her smiling and looking at her softly, and her heart pounded.

"Call someone to serve the food."

Mrs. Lin turned her head to give some instructions, and the maid responded and went out.

At this moment, the house was silent.

Ye Jiu sneaked a glance at Baijian who was opposite, and met Qi Shaoan's eyes again, but he still didn't know what perfect conversation to start.

"Has Jin'er been to the bamboo garden?"

In the end, it was Mrs. Lin who spoke.

"Go... I've been there." Ye Jiu was taken aback for a moment, then quickly replied.

After finishing speaking, she was afraid of being embarrassed again, so she added: "Very beautiful."

Mrs. Lin chuckled, "Jin'er loved bamboo when he was a child, and was also fond of playing, so he changed his small yard into what it is today."

The corners of Ye Jiu's mouth went up stiffly, and he gave a dry laugh: "Haha, really, you are so talented."

Mrs. Lin glanced at her lightly, at this moment the maidservants filed in with vegetables.

Ye Jiu stared at the table without blinking, chicken, duck, fish, delicacies from mountains and seas, and he almost couldn't let out his mouth.

Bai Jian was well aware of her urinating nature, so he tried to get everyone to use their chopsticks.

"Today, Jin'er finally returned home, and she was supposed to firecrackers over the house and have a big feast for relatives and friends, but it's during the national mourning period, so I had to keep things simple."

Ye Jiu waved his hands repeatedly after hearing the words: "It's not necessary, it's not necessary, it's better to keep it simple."

Madam Lin bent her lips and smiled, "Jin'er is really sensible."

Holding her chopsticks, she picked up a chicken leg and put it in Ye Jiu's bowl, "Eat quickly."

Mrs. Lin then looked around, "Everyone, don't stand still, move your chopsticks."

Ye Jiu nodded. She was already very hungry and couldn't take it any longer. As soon as she heard this, she began to gnaw on the chicken legs in the bowl.

Seeing that she was eating well, Qi Shaoan felt relieved and picked up the chopsticks.

"Shao...An'an, don't just stare blankly."

Seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time, Ye Jiu picked up a chopstick dish for her.

Qi Shaoan was a little surprised by her sudden change of address, but seeing her wink quietly at him, she immediately reacted, and responded, "Okay."

She turned her eyes sideways, but met Mrs. Lin's gaze.

In that seemingly soft eyes, there is inquiry, scrutiny, and a faint aura.

Qi Shaoan felt a little uneasy in his heart, but still nodded and smiled generously at Mrs. Lin.

Sitting across from Qi Shao'an during the day, his eyes fell on several people, and he suddenly smiled and said, "Jin'er, Girl Qi, how is the food in the Hou Mansion?"

Ye Jiu glanced at Qi Shao'an, and replied: "It's rich and delicious, much better than the food on the road."

Mrs. Lin smiled, and looked sideways at Qi Shaoan, "I heard from Wen Li that Jin'er is already married to Miss Qi?"

Ye Jiu frowned, she stopped her chopsticks, nodded, "Indeed."

It stands to reason that the old man should have already made a report, but Mrs. Lin mentioned it again at this time, and she was not sure what Mrs. Lin was thinking for a while.

Mrs. Lin asked again: "I wonder what Miss Qi's family does?"

Qi Shao'an thought for a moment, then smiled: "The family runs a restaurant, but it was sold after the fall, and there is no other business."

Mrs. Lin nodded slowly, "Really, I don't think Miss Qi is as petty as a merchant's daughter."

Qi Shaoan's heart tightened upon hearing this.

Seeing this, Ye Jiu took over the conversation, "An'an's family attaches great importance to education, which is why they can cultivate such excellent girls."

Mrs. Lin glanced at the two of them, and suddenly chuckled, "Hurry up, the food is cold."

The author has something to say: I am full of the big pills that Jigong rubbed, oh, I am poisonous.