Li and Liu held hands and sat down on the main seats. Shen Wan, Shen Ming and Chu Ling all sat on the chairs at the lower right.
"You're the only one here, but my father-in-law is not here?" Mrs. Liu asked Mrs. Li when she didn't see Mr. Shen's father.
Ms. Li smiled and said, "He didn't come. School has already started and he has to teach the children."
Although the child's father really wanted to go to the imperial city to see his daughter, the private school really couldn't leave him.
"Hi..." Mrs. Liu said: "Your Ming'er has won the first prize and will stay in the imperial city in the future. What else can my father-in-law teach? Your family has moved to the imperial city. How nice it would be if we stayed together!"
Now that there is no Heng'er in the mansion, and Ling'er's child will leave in a few days, she feels that the mansion is very deserted. If all the in-laws move to the imperial city and live in this general's mansion, she can also have someone of the same age. People chatter.
Moreover, she, an old woman with poor health, could not help Wan'er much, but she had two in-laws who could still help her.
"Ming'er also told us this, but Wan'er's father really couldn't let go of the children in the village and didn't want to come to the imperial city. I came to the imperial city to see her because I couldn't worry about Wan'er. After she gave birth, I want to go back too." I have to stay in the Imperial City for at least a year. Without her in the family, I wonder what Wan'er's father will do.
"You want to go back?" Mrs. Liu said, "Let my father-in-law come to the imperial city after teaching this year!" Instead of teaching in the countryside, it is better to come to the imperial city to enjoy the blessings of children and grandchildren!
"He can't cook well, what will happen if I don't go back? What a person he is! I just can't let go of the students in the village. If my private school is closed, it will be difficult for the children in the surrounding villages to study. So if I don't wait until he teaches He will not come to the Imperial City when he is not a student." Before coming, she also entrusted her husband's three meals a day to the neighbor who lived next door, and paid all the food expenses for a year.
Mr. Liu smiled and said, "My father-in-law is really a good gentleman who thinks about his students!"
Shen Wan admires men like her father who choose to stay in the countryside to teach for the sake of their children's education.
Mr. Liu rarely chatted with people of his own age. Now that Mr. Liu was here, the two held hands and chatted for a long time before letting go.
Butler Yun had someone clean up a spacious courtyard for Li, and also assigned a mother-in-law and a maid to serve her.
After chatting with Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Li went to the courtyard to rest for a while.
In the evening, Ms. Liu asked the kitchen to prepare a table of delicious dishes for Ms. Li.
When Song Ziyu and Song Ziling came back from school, they went to the courtyard where Mr. Li lived to meet their grandmother.
Song Ziling has been raised by Shen Wan for a long time, and the little mouth has been raised to be very sweet. She misses and likes her grandmother every time, and makes Mrs. Li smile from ear to ear.
Song Ziyu seemed a little distant, so she called her grandmother to salute, accepted the greeting gift and thanked her. After all, she hadn't seen her for several years, and she couldn't get close to her grandmother for a while.
When Mrs. Li saw her like this, she didn't think much about it, just thinking that the girl was too shy and embarrassed.
After dinner in the evening and chatting with Mrs. Liu for a while, Mrs. Li followed Shen Wan back to Qiushi Courtyard.
Shen Ming knew that his mother had not seen her sister for so many years and was afraid that she would have a lot to say about her. So he took Ling'er and Zi Ling to his courtyard and gave them the specialties he brought from Luoshui.
After entering the main room, Mrs. Li sat on the couch and looked around.
He frowned and said, "You live in this courtyard, why is it so small?"
This yard looks worse than the yard that was built for her.
Seeing this courtyard, she felt that when Song Heng was married to an equal wife, he bullied her daughter and drove her into this small courtyard.
Shen Wan was afraid that she would think too much, so she said: "As soon as my daughter entered the general's mansion, she fell in love with the courtyard. The courtyard is a bit small, but it is warm and cozy. My daughter likes it very much."
Mrs. Li nodded, it turned out that was the case, it seemed that she was overthinking.
"How old is my little grandson?" Ms. Li looked at her daughter's slightly protruding belly.
Shen Wan touched her belly lovingly and said, "It's been more than three months."