The general's wife is sick

"Mother, the boy didn't mean that. Liu'er performed filial piety in front of you for me and Caixia. This child was well educated by you. His knowledge and etiquette are all what his father wanted his grandchildren to do when he was alive." It's just that the reality is like this, if I don't plan for him, Liu'er can only be matched with a rich businessman, a sour scholar, and a lifetime of mediocrity."

Ji Chengyue bluntly said that it was for Ji Liu's sake, and threw the old lady on her back.

"Okay, okay! Cheng Yue, since you are determined to go your own way and don't care about the happiness of the children, then I will take a look. Qingyun and Zhanpeng learned that their future is based on the sale of their own brothers. They can still enjoy it with peace of mind!"

"Mother, why bother to speak so harshly?"

Ji Chengyue was unhappy, because marriages for various purposes can be seen everywhere in the capital, and everyone did it, why would he be said to be "selling himself" with the child if he did it alone.

"Oh, don't do it if you think my words are ugly. I have been in Zhucheng for too long, so long that you have forgotten how I protected your father from the bandits' attack, and how I tried my best to raise you "The old lady Ji's face was serious, she stood up straight, "In that case, I will live here from today onwards, and tomorrow I will have people move all the things from Zhucheng, and I want to see how you are with me. You pushed my Liu'er into the fire pit right under your nose!"

The mother and son had not seen each other for many years, and this first meeting was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

The uneasiness in Ji Chengyue's heart was confirmed, and he sighed. Long before he let Ji Liu come to the capital, he had thought that the old lady would be resistant when she knew that Xiong Zhengli was in poor health, but he didn't expect the old lady to speak so badly. He didn't save face either.

Having been in the officialdom all the year round, Ji Chengyue has never been pointed and scolded by anyone like this, and he is a hundred unhappy in his heart.

But as a minister of the Ministry of Rites, if his mother-in-law got angry when she first entered the mansion, then his official position would come to an end.

After a lot of thinking, I can only appease the old lady first and try my best to make her happy.

"My son will order someone to do it tomorrow, mother, you are tired from the journey, please rest early."

After Ji Chengyue finished speaking, he lifted his feet and went outside the house, but the old lady Ji called him to stop, "Wait!"

Ji Chengyue turned around.

"Since I'm here, you and Caixia's morning and evening appointments cannot be abandoned. You have a morning morning, and you only need to say hello at night."

Ji Chengyue could hear the beating in the words, but she could only nod her head in agreement, not letting the old lady let out the anger in her heart, there might never be a peaceful day in this mansion.

In the morning of the second day, Ji Liu got up before the rooster crowed, and the small kitchen in the yard was filled with smoke. The porridge had already been cooked, and fresh meat steamed buns were steaming on the stove.

In the capital, Ji Liu has never been in the kitchen except cooking a medicinal meal for Ji's family once. Firstly, he doesn't like cooking, and secondly, no one in this house is qualified for Ji Liu to devote himself wholeheartedly.

As soon as the old lady came, Ji Liu felt as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. He got up early to prepare the old lady's food, which was not at all cumbersome.

Take out the porridge, put it on a small stove specially simmered with charcoal, and order people to carefully serve it on the table. The steamed buns are carried away to keep the heat as much as possible.

These days when he came to the capital, Ji Liu appeared to be as stable as Mount Tai. In fact, he missed the old lady Ji more than anyone else. He grew up with the old lady and had never been away for so long.

I prepared a refreshing cold dish by myself, tasted it, found a food box and carried it to the house.

The old lady over here finished her grooming, and when she saw a pile of food at the table, she was immediately overjoyed, "Look, look, which one of you is luckier than me!"

The old lady had only two maids by her side, and she left with the old lady's nanny a few years ago, leaving only these two maids, one named Lianguo and the other named Zhen'er.

Lian Guo and Zhen'er have been with the old lady for fifteen or sixteen years, and they are serious maids.

"The old lady is very lucky, how can we compare, the slaves get up early to go to Young Master Liu's courtyard, and the young master's small kitchen started to light the fire at that time, the young master is filial!" Lian Guo knew how to tell the old lady I'm happy, I picked Kua Jiliu's words.

Zhen'er waited for the old lady Ji to sit down at the table, "Yes, just smelling the fragrance makes the slaves drool."

The old lady loves to eat, and the maids below can also joke about it. The old lady is kind and doesn't care about them, and she is willing to make fun of them like this on weekdays.

"That's right! Hmph, that old quack doctor Sima should stay in Zhucheng!" Thinking of something, the old lady scolded Sima Jun casually.

In Zhucheng, the herb pickers in the forest suddenly sneezed, their backs were thin and straight.

"Okay, you, let's eat first, and Young Master Liu will be here in a while."

Picking up the chopsticks, the old lady Ji thought about all that happened yesterday, and she was not angry. She wanted to vent her anger on Ji Liu's behalf, so she turned her head and ordered, "Go and ask if my good daughter-in-law is up. I'm going to have breakfast, why doesn't she come to serve?"

The two maids looked at each other, Lian Guo stayed behind, and Zhen'er went to Jia Caixia's yard.

At this moment, the rooster is crowing, the sun rises from the horizon, the air is fresh, and the morning glow is trying to paint the sky on the horizon, signaling a new day.

Xing'er hurriedly combed Jia Caixia's hair. Jia Caixia has been a housekeeper for many years, neither she nor the maids have ever worked and rested so early. Now Zhen'er is waiting in the outer courtyard, and everyone is in a hurry.

When Jia Caixia arrived at the old lady's yard, the old lady and Ji Liu had finished eating.

Jia Caixia's expression turned ugly, "My daughter-in-law is lazy, so I ask my mother to punish her."

"Okay, I'm satisfied if you have this heart. Over the years, I've been a widowed old woman with my grandson in the countryside of Zhucheng. I haven't seen much of the world, and I don't have such big rules in front of me. If you don't come I can't say anything about you, go back."

Jia Caixia's face turned pale when old lady Ji said this ironically.

This is the point of the old lady. They haven't visited Zhucheng for many years, so they left her and Ji Liu in Zhucheng and ignored them.Although there are gift lists sent to Zhucheng every year in the festival mansion, they really didn't go.It's fine if no one mentions it. If someone mentions it, it's unfilial to say the least!

What's more, the old lady said inside and outside that the official wife of the Ministry of Rites has no rules, if such a big hat is put on, her reputation for working hard for Ji Chengyue for many years will be completely ruined.

"Mother, it's all the daughter-in-law's fault, please punish me!"

Seeing her bowing her head, the old lady felt a little relieved, "You are a good man, since you admit your mistakes sincerely, then reflect here."

A look that makes you reflect on me because I have no choice but to ask for it yourself.

Jia Caixia's face was livid, and Xing'er who followed her was inevitable. The two stood in the corridor, facing the wall and thinking about the past.

The servants walking around in the old lady's yard dared not make a sound, for fear of offending the head mistress and being found out.

In their eyes, the old lady is not the master, and Jia Caixia is the only one who is the master of the Ministry of Rites.

In the future, when the old lady returns to Zhucheng, they will still live under the control of the mistress, and no one will be too hotheaded to do anything unclear.

The courtyard was silent, and the servants walked lightly, not daring to make a sound.

Inside the house, the old lady took Ji Liu to eat, opened the steamer, and the steamed buns emitted a burst of steam.

"Go down and eat something, don't hang around here."

After sending all the maids away, Ji Liu served porridge for the old lady, and the two chatted while eating.

"The craft is rusty."

After taking a bite of the steamed bun, the old lady glanced at Ji Liu.

"Grandson's taste is still the same. It's because your taste is picky again." Ji Liu finished eating one, picked up another one, and repeatedly checked the taste.

The old lady picked out a small dish for him with a smile, "Eat more, eat more, I'm glad to see you."

Ji Liu took a steamed stuffed bun and put it in the old lady's bowl, "You eat it too, I know you love me, but I'm in front of you right now, can she still be short of me for a bite?"

If Ji Liu hadn't studied poison medicine with Sima Jun since childhood, she would never have let him come to this capital of tigers and wolves alone.

"You've had your own ideas since you were a child, and you can deal with these low-level outsiders."

The old lady had no biological children, she raised Ji Chengyue, but Ji Chengyue was not close to her, after that she pinned all her feelings on Ji Liu.

It is said that for Ji Liu, although she is strict with Ji Liu, she also relaxes appropriately, regardless of his nature.

The skills that should be learned should not be lost, and they can be used flexibly after learning, and there is no need to stick to the old rules and live a rigid and dogmatic life.

So when Ji Liu in Zhucheng wanted to run a store and reform the medicine hall, the old lady bluntly said that she would support him behind her back.

Watching him subdue Feng Shuning step by step, and then rescue Zhu Changyuan, the two have now become his right and left hands.

Ji Liu has ideas and knows how to do things, she is very relieved.

"Don't worry, Wang Momo beside her bribed Lao Yutou to poison you in Zhucheng. Now both of them are in my hands, and there are witnesses and evidences. It's not that the time has not come yet. Just wait and see."

After the grandfather and grandson finished talking about the bad things around them, the old lady suddenly mentioned the letter Xiong Jinghai had sent her.

"What's the matter with this man?"

She is not stupid, no matter how smooth and tactful Xiong Jinghai's words in the letter, she can still see that it is because of Ji Liu that Xiong Jinghai flatters her so much.

"Isn't Xiong Zhengli the one who betrothed you?"

Ji Liu stopped the chopsticks in his hand and picked up the spoon, "It's Xiong Zhengli, he is Xiong Zhengli's older brother, the son of Princess Guangyang and General Xiong."

The soup spoon was stirred in the porridge, and the rice grains scooped out by the ceramic spoon were all boiled and blossomed.

"Ok?"

The old lady had a question and signaled Ji Liu to continue.

"He...he..." After hesitating twice, Ji Liu couldn't open his mouth. He couldn't use his own words to tell the old lady that Xiong Jinghai had taken a fancy to him. It's good to know this kind of thing in your heart, it's too embarrassing to say it out of your mouth panic.

"I saved him and the people around him. He may be grateful to me." Ji Liu picked out a few unimportant things and said to the old lady, "Later, he took the line with him and cooperated with the city defense army." Got into the army boot business."

"He likes you?"

The old lady hit the nail on the head.

Ji Liu's face was almost buried in the porridge bowl.

"Liu'er, tell your grandmother about your plan."

The old lady Ji didn't expect that Ji Liu had only been in the capital for a few months, but behind her back, he even had to decide on a lifelong event.

In fact, if it weren't for Xiong Jinghai's letters every day, she would not have come to the capital from Zhucheng impulsively in the cold spring.

This Xiong Jinghai is a young general, young and promising, with a prominent family background, and her Liu'er is just a concubine, who has lived with her in the countryside since childhood. It is not enough to have a small fight in a place like the capital. look.

There is such a big gap in identity between the two, if they really get together in the future, there will be endless troubles in the future.

Without a strong natal family to support Ji Liu, it is normal to be bullied.

Furthermore, the most important issue right now is the marriage between Ji Liu and Xiong Zhengli. A concubine and the two young masters of the General's Mansion are ambiguously involved. No matter whether the marriage is successful or not, there will always be gossip behind Ji Liu.

After staying in the countryside for more than ten years, the weather was calm and the wind was breezy every day, so she took it lightly, but Ji Liu was at the age when green bamboos grew, and any major feng shui disturbance would affect his future.

"Grandma, there are some things that are inconvenient to say in a letter, but actually..."

Ji Liu explained Xiong Zhengli's situation to the old lady Ji in detail. During the period, he also added Yan Bao from the Earl's Mansion of Ziyang, coupled with his own guess and analysis. After listening, the old lady narrowed her eyes slightly, kindly There was a sharp look on his face in an instant.

"I want to take you away from right and wrong, but your father, who has no brains, wants to involve you in this dangerous court situation. There is no one in this court that is clean. If it is not too secretive, think of your grandfather at the time. Why would..."

At this point, the words stopped abruptly.

The old lady regretted in her heart, maybe it was too long since she had returned to the capital, and as soon as she came back, those old events in her mind reappeared one after another.

Knowing that she was talking too fast, the old lady stopped talking.

Ji Liu guessed that the old lady didn't want him to know about it. She had never mentioned her grandfather's death for so many years, so she didn't ask any more questions right now, and continued to describe his plan.

"Grandmother, Xiong Zhengli's body is recovering now, but he was poisoned in the womb. Unlike Yan Bao who was poisoned when he was young, Xiong Zhengli's body will recover more slowly. I have an agreement with Princess Guangyang. When Zhengli recovers, he will dissolve the marriage for us."

"Liu'er, your thinking is too simple."

The old lady has been around for a long time, and knows that the mouth of this world is a guillotine, and everyone who goes in can be chewed and turned into scum and spit out.

"Grandmother knows what's on your mind." The old lady saw Ji Liu's reaction when she mentioned Xiong Jinghai, and she knew in her heart that Ji Liu was not heartless towards Xiong Jinghai. "It's just that you had a marriage contract with Xiong Zhengli first, even if it was broken off, and then you have contact with Xiong Jinghai, you might be able to bear the words of the world?"

Ji Liu looked directly at the old lady, "I thought about it, grandma."

Ji Liu solemnly told Mrs. Ji, "I grew up beside you, and you should know me best. Although I am a twin, I am never willing to spend my whole life in the backyard. There are too many rules and etiquette in the capital, isn't it Where I can spread my hands and feet, the people here are rich, and it is only suitable for developing into a commercial stronghold. Xiong Jinghai is a general in the northwest, and he will not always be in the capital. In the future, I will go wherever he goes, and I will follow him. "

The old lady Ji was silent for a while, and slowly smiled, "You child, do you want to leave me so soon?"

Ji Liu blushed with a "bang", he was shocked to realize what he had just said to the old lady Ji.

"No...grandmother...not..."

The old lady kindly stopped Ji Liu from saying, "I know, you will grow up eventually, grandma just wants to tell you that no matter who you meet in the future or what happens, grandma will be here waiting for you, Grandma guards you and won't let others bully you."

Ji Liu is very fortunate that he has such a grandmother who loves and protects him wholeheartedly. Such a good old man is a precious gift from the heavens. The sadness of being cared by others made him want to change the subject involuntarily, "Xiong Jinghai Now it's just lip service, if my marriage with Xiong Zhengli is not resolved, I will have nothing but fate with him."

Sometimes Ji Liu is lucky that he is a doctor, he has confidence in his medical skills and poison skills, otherwise, he will wait until the matter of Xiong Zhengli is completely over, before thinking about his life-long affairs, and he will not let himself surrender his sincerity.

The old lady nodded, what was Xiong Jinghai's appearance and temperament, when she received his first letter, the old lady sent someone to check it out.

The reason why I asked Ji Liu was just to understand what was in Ji Liu's heart. The two hit it off, and she didn't need to be that villain who beat mandarin ducks. She hoped for Ji Liu's own happiness more than anyone else.

"One more thing, grandma, my father's side..." Ji Liu weighed his words, and after thinking about it, he still felt that there was no euphemism for this matter. He said bluntly, "Father kept an outside room."

The chopsticks in the old lady's hands were put down with a "snap", and the chopsticks pillow trembled from side to side and stopped.

"Don't be angry!" Ji Liu stood up and quickly walked behind the old lady to cheer her up, "The other room has been with father for three years and has raised two children, a daughter and a twin."

"He is a dignified Minister of Rites, he thinks that his little tricks can hide so many eyes in the capital? Confused, confused!"

Ji Chengyue was brought up by the old lady. Although she didn't get the respect and love she deserved as a mother, she still considered her children from the perspective of a mother.

"Grandma, I've always wanted to ask, did my mother really die in childbirth when she gave birth to me?"

The old lady turned her head to look at him, "Your mother was weak and exhausted when she gave birth to you. It was indeed a dystocia and died. Why do you ask?"

"I'm just wondering if my father is willing to take the risk of being discovered by everyone to keep this woman outside. Is he afraid of the mistress in the mansion?"

"I watched your mother, she didn't dare to do anything under my nose, but she was really jealous of your mother at the beginning. You, your good looks are all thanks to your mother." Mrs. Ji Patting the back of Ji Liu's hand, "I haven't been in the mansion for so many years, she controls Zhongshou and manipulates those two concubines to death, she completely forgot my method! Dare to extend her hand to my territory, Hmph, let her eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts!"

After finishing speaking, he continued to warn Ji Liu uneasy, "You too, keep your eyes open, the affairs in the back house are a pool of muddy water, I can't figure it out. Who is Xiong Jinghai, he is the general, even if he says now I like you, but there is no guarantee that the emperor will have other people not to give it to him in the future. You have made such a decision, and you may encounter this kind of thing in the future. How to deal with it, you should study hard."

Ji Liu agreed with his mouth, but dismissed it in his heart, if he was a man, he would certainly want to have three wives and four concubines, hugging left and right.But his current position is in a weak position, if one day Xiong Jinghai really has someone else in his heart, then he will break up with each other!

After breakfast, Mrs. Ji came to the yard, "Okay, you've worked hard today, go back."

Jia Caixia's legs were stiff, Xing'er saw her discomfort, and hurried forward to support her.

"Mother, my daughter-in-law is leaving."