After half a month of busy work, seeing that tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lin Jinxiao has not yet returned, Chu Nanzhi became more and more worried.
During this time, she went to Anlin Village to sort out the things in the old house, thinking that Li Ce was traveling with Lin Jinxiao and brought Li Ce's daughter-in-law, Xiao Zhou, into the city.
She spent seven to eight hundred taels of silver to buy a small house with a yard in the east of the city. She told little Zhou that it was for rent, so that she and her family could live in peace of mind, and it would be convenient for her and Chu Nanzhu to live there every day.
The Chu Nanxiang sisters studied recipes and sauces together.
The school and utility room have been built in the old house. I am counting the time and getting closer to the opening date of the restaurant I booked.
I don’t know when the pretty boy can go home.
She had been thinking about the big horse in the kitchen for a long time, and she couldn't bear to eat it without seeing Lin Jinxiao.
That evening, Qian Hongwen came back from Hongwen Medical Center after teaching her suture surgery, and brought back angelica seeds. Seeing the quadruplets sitting in the hall, feeling unhappy, she couldn't help but feel a trace of loneliness in her eyes.
Secretly walking to the little ones, she sat down, looked at them with a smile, and asked gently: "Do you miss your father?"
The quadruplets nodded together.
Sanbaolin Ruichong first asked: "Mom, when can daddy come back? I haven't seen daddy for a long time."
In my memory, my father has never been away from home for so long.
"It should be soon. He will definitely be back in a few days."
Saying this, Chu Nanzhi actually had no idea.
I heard from people in the county that Lin Jinxiao lost a lot of soldiers as soon as he arrived at Haiyuan Village.
Another Yulong Gang appeared unexpectedly, and she was always on tenterhooks.
Moreover, there have been Dongsang people in Haining County, and he has more than a thousand sergeants in his hands. If the Dongsang people really catch up and invade the territory in a large scale, it will be difficult for him to deal with the merger of the two forces.
"This Du Sankui is at best a loser of the Qi family. Why is he still colluding with the Dongsang people?"
Chu Nanzhi was a little confused.
Songhai is hundreds of miles away from the coastal counties. Could it be that the Dongsang people had already lurked into Luyan Port?
She thought about it for a while but thought it was impossible.
However, she heard that Captain Chen Chuan of the Haiphong Camp only took an hour to invade Haiyuan Village and found out a lot of evidence of Du Sankui's collusion with the Dongsang people, which convinced her again.
After thinking about it, she always felt that this was Lin Jinxiao's conspiracy.
Just as she was racking her brains thinking about these troublesome things, Chu Nanzhu suddenly whispered in her ear: "Sister, Mr. Hu came to the house today. It means that someone from the imperial court will come to the county tomorrow, and the shuttle bus to pick him up has also arrived.
, he will go to Jinling City in a few days. He wanted to see you, but you were not at home, so he only left a few words, saying that he would look forward to getting together when he comes to Beijing in the future."
"Master Hu is leaving?"
After hearing the news, Chu Nanzhi was still a little reluctant to let go.
After all, we have been through thick and thin together.
In Haikang County, he said that he would invite his family to his home for dinner when he returned to Luyan Port. He never thought that it would be such an unfortunate coincidence that he would go to Beijing just when Lin Jinxiao was away to quell the chaos.
And he didn't say anything else, which shows that he was not the one chosen by the imperial court this time.
Although I was a little disappointed, it was really not the right time for me to leave at this time.
Someone has to take care of the little ones.
Little Si Baolin Ruijia came up to her and said sweetly: "Auntie, Grandpa Hu brought us a lot of pastries today. Are you hungry? I'll get some for you to eat."
"Mother is not hungry. Mother has had dinner at Dr. Qian's house."
Chu Nanzhi glanced at the unfinished pastries on the table: "Have you all eaten?"
"We all ate, and we ate a lot."
Er Baolin Ruixi patted her bulging belly: "We have finished all the dishes cooked by Aunt Zhou and my aunts today."
"That's good."
Chu Nanzhi showed a relieved smile. Fortunately, there were sisters Chu Nanzhu and Chu Nanxiang, otherwise she would really not be able to take care of her.
Thinking about Lin Jinxiao, she still felt a little uneasy.
While she was hesitating, she suddenly remembered that Chu Nanzhu had just said that someone would be coming to the court tomorrow.
With her eyebrows twinkling, she looked closely at Chu Nanzhu and Sister Chu Nanxiang, and said with a smile: "Azhu, Axiang, you guys should rest for a day tomorrow and bring over Sister Zhou and her whole family.
, go buy some good ingredients and wait for me to come back to cook."
"Sister, what are you going to do?"
Chu Nanxiang said in confusion.
"You'll know then."
Chu Nanzhi looked mysterious.
"But I heard that Jin Hui just came over and said that the area west of the city all the way to the county government office will be under martial law tomorrow. I'm afraid it won't be easy to go shopping."
Chu Nanxiang frowned.
"Martial law?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at her suspiciously. He had been walking around the city all day and had never heard of this.
Chu Nanxiang explained: "Tomorrow is the day when the imperial concubine Yue Guifei returns to her hometown to visit relatives. The ceremonial driver going to Tong'an Village has to pass by the outside of the west gate. The county magistrate has ordered the people in the city not to go outside the west gate to watch."
"Is it necessary to impose martial law when passing by the West Gate?"
Chu Nanzhi almost said a few words one by one.
This scene is truly extraordinary.
It would be understandable if martial law was required when entering the city, but when passing by, troops would be mobilized to make the whole city uneasy.
After thinking about it, she had no choice but to give up her original idea and said instead: "Then tomorrow, A-Xiang, get up early and accompany me and the little treasures out of the city to visit Chang Lao's house."
Lin Jinxiao has been out fighting the chaos for more than half a month now, and there has been no movement from the court.
If you want to know more details, I'm afraid you have to go to Mr. Chang and Mr. Nie to discuss it.
But after all, I was not welcomed by the Chang family, so I took the babies with me. Lin Jinxiao, the mistress, would be more willing to receive them.
Having made up her mind, she got up and prepared gifts for her visit to Chang's Mansion tomorrow.
When they heard that they were going to Grandpa Chang's house, the little ones except Dabao were a little scared. They all followed her and begged unhappily: "Mom, why are you going to Grandpa Chang's house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? Why are you going to Grandpa Nie's house?"
is it not OK?"
"We will go to Grandpa Nie's house later. Besides, Grandpa Nie likes you very much. We don't need to visit you. Your classes will start in a few days, so you have to go visit Grandpa Chang first."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't tell her little treasures what was in her heart, so she had to deal with them like this.
The person Lin Jinxiao went to find at the critical moment was Chang Yanjue. It can be seen that although Chang Lao retired, he must have held power in his hands and must have known more about the political situation than Nie Huaian.
Seeing that the little ones still looked unhappy, she had no choice but to compromise and roughly explained: "If you want to see Dad as soon as possible, you can only go to Grandpa Chang."
When they heard that it was about their father, the little ones immediately turned from worry to joy and agreed obediently: "Then let's go and ask Grandpa Chang tomorrow to let our father come back early."
"That's how you behave."
Chu Nanzhi bent down and gently caressed the babies.
Although it is not possible that Chang Lao can help Lin Jinxiao in any way, it should not be difficult to get some information from him that the lower class people do not know.