An old lady's life

Hayashiya

Lin Hai came back from get off work in the yamen, his brows were frowned, he was very troubled with something on his mind.He is now a pawn of the Imperial Academy. Even if he is the last Tanhua and the son-in-law of Rong Guogong, there is no prince to win him over at this stage. Anyway, he only needs to survive for three years in peace, and then plan for a position. That's the real path to success.So naturally he wasn't bothered by himself.

During dinner at Huifangyuan, Lin Hai was concerned about the things in his heart, so he didn't have much time to talk, and only Ai Cao and Jia Min's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked about various topics with smiles.

After the dinner was over, Jia Min said: "Mom, I want to go back to my mother's house tomorrow. I haven't seen my mother for half a month. I want to go back and see my mother."

Ai Cao thought to herself, she thought that Jia Min should have brought up the matter of going back to her mother's house a few days ago, but she didn't want her to bear it so much until now.Immediately she nodded and said: "As a child, you should respect your parents. Your father-in-law has just gone. You should go back to your mother's house to visit your mother-in-law more often. If you want to go back to your mother's house in the future, you don't need to tell me, just go back. If you want to rest at your mother's house That’s fine, just send someone back and tell the family.”

Lin Hai's double-tasking didn't prevent him from hearing clearly. He nodded, "I'll pick up Miner after get off work tomorrow. Don't worry about Miner, just wait for me."

Jia Min nodded with a shy smile, and took another look at Ai Cao, "Okay, Ru Hai and I will come back tomorrow to accompany my mother for dinner. Mother must wait for us."

Ai Cao smiled and said: "Okay, you just miss my delicious food." It's really not fun to eat alone, but it feels good to be accompanied by someone. Since her son and daughter-in-law are so filial, she has nothing to say.

After dinner, I took a walk in the yard with wormwood. The season of late autumn is actually the same as winter, the difference lies in the degree of coldness.Entering October soon, the early winter season, I often think that the early winter is so cold, how can I survive the cold winter?After staying in the study for more than an hour, Ai Cao returned to the bedroom to wash and go to bed, and continued to do her daily necessities, merging with the flower buds.After nearly a month of hard work, the flower buds have had a significant change in brightness compared to the beginning. She feels that she and the flower buds are getting better and better, and her mood is getting better and better.

In the main courtyard, after Lin Hai and Jia Min washed up, they went to bed for an evening chat.Lin Hai was thinking that Jia Min would go back to her mother's house tomorrow, so she just told her mother-in-law about the situation, and it was up to her mother-in-law to make up her mind.

"Min'er, I have something to tell you." Lin Hai looked sideways at Jia Min. Seeing his seriousness, Jia Min thought that something great had happened, and his hands on his body tightened. , staring at Lin Hai.

"Ruhai, did something happen?"

Lin Hai suddenly laughed, "Don't be so close to the enemy, it's not a big deal, but it's a bit serious. It's just that the eldest brother-in-law is jumping up and down for a while, it's a bit ugly."

Jia Min's eyes were puzzled, and Lin Hai continued: "The eldest brother-in-law's behavior is a bit overdone. During this period of time, he has been in contact with the Crown Princess's natal family, Cheng'an Hou Mansion, and the Prince's uncle's Li family. On the birthday, the elder brother-in-law came to celebrate his birthday."

Jia Min's eyes widened even wider, "What, big brother-in-law is going to do?"

Lin Hai said helplessly: "What else can I do? During the funeral of my father-in-law, the elder brother-in-law was very attentive to the prince. I don't think the prince would be able to take a liking to the elder brother-in-law. I didn't expect the elder brother-in-law to work tirelessly to seek refuge with the prince. It just so happens that you come back tomorrow." My mother's family, tell my mother-in-law that you must prevent your elder brother-in-law's actions from implicating your Yue's family."

Jia Min nodded again and again, then arched towards Lin Hai, the hands under him hesitated for a moment, but still reached out to hug Lin Hai.

Lin Hai teased and said, "Min'er throwing herself into her arms?"

Jia Min blushed and did not look up, buried in Lin Hai's arms, Lin Hai sighed: "Unfortunately, the time is wrong." Jia Min couldn't hold back, stretched out his hand and twisted Lin Hai's waist.

The next day, Jia Min got up early, took care of the family affairs before dawn, and set off to return to her mother's house after dawn.

After Jia Min arrived at Rongfu, Hongye was watching the milking of cows and goats at the cowshed in the back garden.Because none of the servants in the mansion knew how to raise and milk cows, a family was transferred from Zhuangzi to the mansion to raise cows and goats.

This family is an honest and responsible farmer's family in Zhuangzi. The man's name is Li Qiang, the woman's name is Su Xiuju, their daughter is Xiu'er, and their son is Xiao Zhuzi, who are 12 and [-] years old respectively.

Xiaozhuzi also helps his parents and elder sister with work on weekdays, but after all, he is young, and milking is naturally not something he can do. His elder sister Xiuer learned from her parents quite well. Anyway, when Xiuer milks cows, the cows will not Losing his temper, the other people in the mansion may have moved too hard or something, the cow started hoofing and barking non-stop.

Cow's milk and goat's milk have a strong fishy smell, and wealthy people have always disliked this kind of smell, but their farmers don't care much about it. Among the three cows, one of them was raised by Li Qiang himself. The milk produced by the cows is consumed by their family, and if they can't finish drinking, they are used to feed the pigs.

It was the first time for Jia Hu and Jia Zhu to see such a thing as milking a cow. The two opened their eyes and watched curiously. Now Li Qiang, Su Xiuju and Xiu'er are on stage together, milking three cows respectively.Xiao Zhuzi followed her sister with a wooden bucket, helping her.

Xiu'er is very skilled at milking cows, and Hongye praises her again and again. It turns out that the child of the poor has already taken charge of the family.

Watching the milk in the barrel increase bit by bit, Jia Hu grinned, and Jia Zhu clapped her hands drooling: "Milk!" After drinking milk for so long, Jia Zhu already knew what it was, but now The fishy smell hit his nose, he hugged Jia Hu's thigh and buried his face behind his brother's thigh with a wrinkled face.

After Jia Min arrived, the housekeeper told her that the old lady and the two young masters were in the back garden.She looked up at the sky. Although it didn't rain today, the sky was gloomy and there wasn't a ray of sunshine. It was windy in the garden, could my nephew bear it?She knew that her mother was taking care of her nephew's body. Could it be that such a miraculous effect had occurred so soon?

She walked quickly to the back garden, and sure enough, she saw a new cowshed next to the back door, and a group of people were looking at the cowshed.

Hongye only found out that her cheap daughter had returned to her mother's house when her servants greeted Jia Min.

Jia Min walked up to Hongye and bowed to Hongye: "Mother." Then she stood up and took Hongye's arm, Hongye patted her hand, "Why are you willing to come back today?"

Jia Hu took Jia Zhu, "Fourth aunt."

Jia Min reached out and pinched Jia Hu and Jia Zhu's cheeks. His eyes stayed on Jia Hu's face for a longer time, and then he tilted his head and leaned on Hongye's shoulder, "Mother, Hu'er looks really good."

Hongye raised her eyebrows: "It's not good, isn't it all in vain for all my thoughts?" In ancient times, a married woman had to go through her mother-in-law's approval before returning to her natal home. Ai Cao would definitely not stop Jia Min from going back to her natal home. Can't be too frequent, it's only been so long since I came back.

Jia Min thought she would stay at her mother's house for a whole day, so she was not in a hurry, so she pointed her mouth at the cowshed and asked, "Mother, what do you want to milk this milk for? The fishy smell is so strong, it's unbearable to drink."

Hong Ye stared at her with a half-smile, "What's so bad to drink? I'll boil a bowl of milk for you in the afternoon, and keep it without any fishy smell. The imperial doctor said that cow's milk is good for both adults and children. Mother will tell you later You, go back and get a cow and a milk sheep back to raise, let your mother-in-law and Lin Hai drink milk or goat milk as a drink, and women use milk to wash their faces and baths, and it can also beautify their skin."

Jia Min pouted in disbelief, at this moment Liu Li hurried over with something in her hand, and she bowed to Jia Min: "Madam Fourth Gu."

Hongye waved her to get up, and asked, "What happened in such a hurry?"

Liuli lowered her head and presented the letter with both hands, "Old lady, this is a letter sent by the housekeeper Linye."

Hong Ye took it and didn't open it. Jia Min glanced at it: "Mother, is there a letter from the eldest brother and the second brother?"

Jia Hu took a few steps closer to Hongye with her younger brother in her arms, is it a letter from her father?He also wanted to know about his father.

Hong Ye stuffed the letter paper into her sleeve, glanced at Jia Min and the two grandsons, and said to the servants following Jia Hu and Jia Zhu, "You follow the two young masters and walk slowly in the garden."

Then she said to Jia Hu: "Hu'er and Zhu'er walked back to Rongxi Hall by themselves, and stopped to rest for a while when they were tired. Grandmother went back to Rongxi Hall to do business first."

Jia Hu nodded obediently, and Hongye took Jia Min back to Rongxi Hall.Sitting in Rongxi Hall, Hongye opened the letter paper.

Jia Min was itchy in his heart, thinking it was a letter from his elder brother and second brother, Hongye read the two pages of letter paper at a glance, and then smiled: "You think your unworldly elder brother and Mu Mu'er brother will remember to write home letters to me or their wives. letter?"

Jia Min's eyes widened, and she stuck out her tongue: "Mother, you're too much of a spoiled elder brother and second brother, aren't you?"

Hongye snorted: "I'm telling the truth. The letter from Butler Lin, and what your two elder brothers have done along the way are nothing to criticize."

Hongye signaled to the maid behind her: "Liuli, prepare the Four Treasures of the Study."

Jia Min smiled and said, "Mother, do you want to write a letter to the eldest brother and the second brother?"

Hongye smiled: "Since you happen to be here, then I will write for you. Your mother is getting old and I don't want to move anymore." The truth is, her handwriting is quite different from Jiamu's, so she doesn't plan to write by herself in recent years. Things, if you want to write any letters, they will all be written by someone else.If Jia Min hadn't happened to be here, the ghostwriter would have been Liuli.

Jia Min nodded: "No problem!"

Liuli came over with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the study, and laid them on the big table in the main hall. Jia Min sat upright, "Mother, tell me the story, and I'll write it."

Hongye nodded, and began to narrate one by one. This is not good in ancient times. There is a big difference between written language and spoken language. When she spoke oral language, Jia Min automatically switched to written language.

Hongye's letters to Jia She and Jia Zheng are separate, and the first content is to praise the two for what they did on the road. As a mother, she is very satisfied.

But after the middle, Jia Min stopped writing after listening, "Mother, the second brother is better, he always likes to read, the eldest brother is not a material for reading, are you sure that the eldest brother will read those books seriously?"

Hongye turned the teacup in her hand, and sighed: "Your elder brother, when you think about it seriously, your elder brother is more honest than anyone else. If I ask him to read these books, he will definitely read them."

Jia Min blinked, she didn't understand, she was not very close to her elder brother since she was a child, but her sister-in-law was closer to her, where is the second brother, she was close to the second brother, not close to the second sister-in-law.

"Oh, I see." She honestly wrote the letter according to her mother's instructions.

When it came time to write a letter to Jia Zheng, Jia Min was confused again. Why did the mother ask the second brother to write some "feelings after reading", and they were books such as 24 filial piety, the Three Character Classic and Hundred Surnames. Didn't the second brother learn all of them?And what feelings can be drawn from the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Names?

And what does it mean that the mother wants to take the exam for the eldest brother and the second brother Dafeng Law?

No matter how confused she was, Jia Min wrote the letter according to Hongye's instructions. Finally, Hongye took out the seal from her sleeve and stamped it on.

In fact, this seal was taken out of the space. Hongye is always uneasy about using women's sleeves as pockets nowadays.

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