Lu Fenghe winked at Bihe. Bihe understood, walked around the screen, opened the door and went out to greet the two ladies.
Lu Fenghe heard Bi He chatting with the two ladies and said, "Madams, please greet me. You are eating well in the evening. Madam suddenly started to act. Please forgive me for any inconvenience."
Bihe invited the two of them to the window behind the Arhat bed where Lu Fenghe was lying, and Lu Fenghe also greeted the two sisters-in-law through the window.
"Thank you for coming. I'm fine. The room is stuffy and I won't invite you to come in and sit down."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry about us. I'll come over and ask if you need any help." This was the voice of Shen Dong?'s wife, Wu. She was from Kyoto and had the unique arrogance of a Kyoto lady.
This is an interesting thing to say, not to mention how long it has been since I gave birth, and how long it has been since I had eaten the evening meal. Although the Prince's Palace is big, it is not so big that it takes an hour to walk from Shanfu Hall.
Of course Lu Fenghe thanked Wu, "Thank you for your concern, my brothers and sisters. Things happened unexpectedly, but we had already made arrangements."
"That's good, then I won't disturb my sister-in-law's rest, and I will bother her again another day."
Mrs. Liu didn't say a word during the whole process, as if she was just accompanying Mr. Wu for a walk, and waited until Ms. Wu had finished speaking before speaking.
"I will send the second sister-in-law out. The elder sister-in-law should not worry about the house."
"Thank you for your hard work, brothers and sisters."
The two of them went out without saying a few words. Lu Fu sent them out, and Bi He quickly returned to the house.
"Where's Brother Bao?" Lu Fenghe asked again.
The second master and his family are about to say goodbye, and the Shanfu Hall is about to end. The old lady has not let Brother Ba come back for a long time. This is because she is determined to keep Brother Ba.
Sister Zhen yawned delicately, and Lu Fenghe asked Mrs. Zhang to take her to sleep, and told her to take good care of her at night.
Ms. Zhang nodded in agreement. This was because she was hungry at night and asked them to feed her, so there was no need to come and disturb her.
Lu Fenghe walked around the room twice, and just as he was about to ask Bihe to change her clothes, she went to Shanfu Hall to bring the child back, when Lufu came in.
"Where's Brother Bao?" Lu Fu asked again.
"The old lady said that my brother was too tired from playing, so she stopped bothering and insisted on keeping him. He played with Brother Zhi and Brother Feng in the afternoon and didn't even take a lunch break."
From the perspective of outsiders, it is very common for a grandmother to leave her two- or three-year-old grandson to stay overnight.
Not to mention the people at Shanfutang, even the people around Lu Fenghe couldn't understand it.
It was hard for Lu Fenghe to tell people that the old lady left the child behind on purpose. Who would believe that her own grandmother would harm her eldest grandson?
"By the way, I just sent the third wife out. The third wife said to the servant that it is still not possible for the next generation to take care of the children. Brother Zhi went to his grandfather's house for three days and became very angry when he came back."
Lu Fenghe was stunned. Outsiders would only think that Mr. Liu was complaining about Brother Zhi's temper, but Lu Fenghe didn't think so.
Mrs. Liu talked to a maid about what her child was doing for no reason. It was business to bring Brother Pao back, but Ms. Liu must have known something.
"Quick, quick, quick, change my clothes, I'll go pick up Brother Bao." Lu Fenghe didn't want to delay any longer. If he delayed any longer, the old princess and the child would fall asleep, and there would be no reason to bring the child back.
The two of them hated Aunt Li for not going home at this time of year. What did the eldest lady really want to do? No one among them could persuade her except Aunt Li.
"Madam, you can't go out to see the wind."
"Madam, I will go... for one more run."
The princess is determined to keep her brother, not to mention running several maids, even if her legs are broken, it is useless.
Even Lu Fenghe himself could only fight for a princess. For the sake of giving birth to her eldest daughter, the princess might be accommodating.
The room was in such chaos that Lu Fenghe didn't even notice the movement outside.
There was a bang, as if the door was kicked open.
"What's going on? What's wrong, madam?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Fenghe saw Shen Nanxun striding around the screen.
Lu Fenghe couldn't care that Shen Nanxun didn't have any love for him, let alone that Shen Nanxun was covered in prostitution.
He pounced on Shen Nanxun and just grabbed him, as if grasping the last straw.
"Bring Brother Bao back, bring my Brother Bao back quickly, please, give Brother Bao back to me."
Lu Fenghe had tears streaming down his face. He was only begging Shen Nanxun to bring Brother Lao back, and didn't pay attention to Shen Nanxun's slightly swaying figure or the turbulent undercurrent in his eyes.
Shen Nanxun touched Lu Fenghe's hands with his other hand and said, "Mother He, don't worry, I will go to Shanfu Hall to pick up Brother Bao and reunite him."
No one thought there was anything wrong with Shen Nanxun's words. The Dragon Boat Festival was supposed to be a reunion, and Shen Nanxun was ordered to leave Beijing almost twenty years ago, so it made sense to rush home under the stars to pick up his eldest son.
"Bi He, take good care of the lady." After Shen Nanxun finished explaining, he turned around and walked out without stopping.
Bihe and Lufu helped Lu Fenghe sit down. Lu Fenghe calmed down a little, and then thought again, why is Shen Nanxun back?
In her previous life, she also gave birth a few days prematurely, and Shen Nanxun also came back in a hurry.
However, despite hurrying and slowing down, it took three days to arrive. Because he traveled day and night, he encountered bandits. Although he was young, he was not aware of it and was hit by an arrow in his arm. For this, he was complained by his mother-in-law.
I felt that I was being arrogant, and it was not like I had never given birth to a child, so I insisted on urging the husband to come back. If I didn't do it myself, the husband would not have been traveling day and night, in a daze and injured.
In the conscience of heaven and earth, Lu Fenghe had never urged her. He just asked Fu'an to send a message telling Lang Jun that his mother and daughter were safe and not to worry about them.
But in the eyes of her mother-in-law, this was just urging Lang Jun to return to Beijing. In order to prevent her mother-in-law from being unhappy even more, Lu Fenghe followed her and kept Brother Lao.
Now that I think about it, my mother-in-law has always disliked me, so there is no need to blame her for it.
Besides, I don't like it at all. No matter how much I try to please him, it may just be treated as a joke in the eyes of others.
"Is Mr. Lang injured?" Lu Fenghe didn't notice it himself and could only ask Bi He and Lu Fu who were present at the time.
The two people looked at each other and shook their heads. But their words were different.
"Didn't pay attention."
"Did not see it."
Lu Fenghe was wandering around the room here, and Shen Nanxun was not at ease on the way to Shanfu Hall.
The scene when Lu Fenghe caught him crying and asking for brother Bao just now seemed to him like déjà vu, as if it had happened before. Even every word she said seemed to have been engraved in his mind.
He thought again of the dream he had three days ago. In the dream, He Niang disappeared and passed away silently in the middle of the night. However, he only found out about it after taking a rest at noon the next day.
He Niang was lying alone in the deserted Buddhist hall, with no children around her, not even a maid who was willing to help her on her journey.
He also dreamed that he picked up He Niang's already stiff body, held her in the bath water with her, softened her body little by little, helped her dress, groomed her, and decorated her with her favorite features. Cuitou noodles.