Chapter 81 Consolation
Zi Yan made tea for everyone with his own hands. Yang Dong nodded constantly after tasting it, "This tea is really good. It's better than ordinary drinks."
“I do what I do.”
Zi Lan raised her hand and raised her chin with pride.
"Okay, you are the best, give your uncle some taste."
Yang Dong smiled gently.
"I'm ready, everyone has a share."
Zilan asked Mu Xiang to take out the small gifts he had prepared long ago. They were flower tea dried by himself, including jasmine tea and tangerine peel chrysanthemum and other flower teas. There were two or three different types.
This flower tea is the simplest, the most fragrant but the best taste, and it tastes good. It is all produced in the space. Last time, Yang took it out and brought it back from the village, just to provide her with cover.
"It's still our Lan'er's most considerate."
"That was dried by a tenant farmer, so she just packed a bag and turned it into a dry one. She is quite good at robbing credit."
Yang rolled his eyes in anger and covered it up.
"That's what I've left."
Zilan smiled and defended.
"We Lan'er are the most filial, so don't say that we Lan'er is not good."
The old lady hugged Zilan and smiled happily.
The next day, Zi Lan and Zi Yan followed Song Zhengtian and Yang back to the Song family to worship their ancestors. The father and brothers in the clan also drank and chatted until late at night before going to bed.
Zi Yan also has his own friends. The boys in the clan take good care of him and get along well with each other. They go to the yard to set off firecrackers, and go to the library to find books to read, and give each other gifts, which improves their feelings a lot.
Zilan also brought small gifts to his sisters, and Shishi's sisters also had gifts for return, including paints and tools for painting, beautiful small jewelry, rare but not expensive spices, beautiful purse, veil, and round fans, etc., all kinds of small gifts.
Staying in the Song family for a night, my father and my uncles and brothers chatted. The brothers also set off for the outdoor place after the New Year. It is rare to chat and party together, and they cherish each other very much.
Song Zhengtian specially brought them a lot of practical gifts, etc., and stayed at the Song family for another day the next day and returned to the Yang Mansion in the afternoon.
In the third year of junior high school, I went to the new house to take a look. Zilan saw that the place was different and became brand new and beautiful. This house is a five-in-one house and is very big.
If it weren't for the help of grandfather and uncle, it would be difficult to buy it. The houses in the capital were still very intimate. This area is home to the houses of officials and is relatively safe and quiet, and ordinary people generally do not come here.
As for her four-entry house, she simply repaired it, but the furniture was not replaced, and she rented it to the family of a seventh-rank official. She signed a contract for five years. They were also from the capital and were considered colleagues. The price was not expensive, and the rent was still long.
Yang didn't want anything else, but just hoped that someone would take care of the courtyard and not waste it. He didn't want to make much money. Renting it to his colleagues can help her husband become a good relationship, and the other party was also very grateful.
The yard has been completely renovated, and even the furnishings and bedding in the house have been laid. Zilan's yard has been specially decorated. The furnishings inside are carved furniture made of yellow rosewood and red sandalwood, which show low-key luxury and exquisiteness everywhere.
"Mom, will we move for the New Year?"
Zi Lan couldn't wait to move into her house.
"Not yet. I want to invite you a master. Your brother is going to the Song family to study for classes. In addition, your grandfather promised to give your brother the current martial arts master to continue teaching.
I discussed with your father and learned it for free for the children of the clan. I just gave the master a single place."
Yang wanted to help his son build personal connections for his clan.
"Then I can go to the clan school to attend classes. Isn't there a female teacher in the clan school?"
Zi Lan thought about it and asked.
"It's not impossible, it's just that I'm hesitating whether to keep you in the Marquis' Mansion and continue to be with Huier, and I think that the Song family can't fall behind."
Yang touched her head and smiled.
"I'll go to the Song family to study. Can I often go to play with my sister? It's the same if I stay for one night and then go back during the day. My grandfather and grandmother are so kind to me, and I also think about going back to see them from time to time.
I heard from my grandfather that my father is young and promising, and he still needs to spread his skills to accumulate merit. He may have to go out again in the future, otherwise it will have an impact on his promotion."
Zi Lan smiled and reminded that officials should have at least two experiences of exposing themselves, one is at the grassroots level, and the other is at the middle-level cadres.
Now Song Zhengtian misses his middle-level exterior experience.
"You are right. At that time, your grandparents and grandmother will help me take care of you."
Only then did Yang smile.
"Yes, my brother may be going to the academy to study, and my cousins will also go together, or go to the Imperial College for study, and they will still be together.
And I can still be with my sister, so that I can take care of both ends, and the sisters of the Song family take great care of me."
Is it true that relatives can get along when they are free, and they are not far away.
"So, that's the decision. If you go to the clan school, let's go back to the grandma's house to see your grandmother and the others."
Yang thought about it and agreed.
"It's all right."
After seeing the house at home, Yang made an appointment to ask someone to buy some more things for his daughter and son's house, burning the ground dragon in advance to warm the house, and it was still very cold in the capital.
After arranging these, they returned to the Marquis' Mansion.
"I'm back, have you been to see the house?"
The old lady asked.
"I've seen it and I'm ready. My clan uncle asked me when will I let my child go back to school?"
Yang asked about his mother's meaning.
The old lady thought for a moment, "Well, it's right to go back to school. After all, the Song family is the family of two children. You can't neglect relationships. Can you get along with each other more and have feelings?
Your father said that Brother Yan would take Master Martial Arts back. If you are willing, teach them martial arts and cavalry in the clan. It would be the same. Brother Yan needs to focus on him first.
You should pay the money from going to the clan, so you won’t be able to get it clear.”
"Okay, my daughter has written it down."
"Madam Qi will take it back, but Madam Qi will not go to the clan to teach girls. She has been in the spring and autumn and cannot afford to work, and she doesn't need that much money. I asked Madam Qi, if Lan'er is willing to support her in her old age, she will always follow Lan'er.
She has no relatives at home, and her nephew is not close to her. Madam Qi has also lost her idea of letting her relatives take care of her. It would be fine if she earns some money to buy a piece of land and bury herself in the future."
When Yang heard his mother say this, he was overjoyed. You must know that having a nanny in front of the empress dowry with her daughter is a huge honor and a lifelong guarantee. No one can bully her daughter in the back house.
"Thank you, mom, for thinking about it for me. It's great. I will never treat Madam Qi unfairly."
Yang immediately promised.
"Why are you polite to me? I really like this child Lan'er. You always remember to come and see me when you go back."
The old lady was quite reluctant to part with her two children, but she also knew that the Song family had to go back and left a way out for the children. The Song family cannot neglect emotional contact.
"Of course. Lan'er also said that there will be two days off in the school every few days, and you can come back to visit your grandfather and grandmother. Look, you didn't raise these two children in vain. It's true that you have inquired about it."
Yang smiled proudly.
Chapter completed!