Not long after Li Wei left, An'er walked in with a happy face and said to Ling Ruofu: "Master, the Ling Mansion sent someone to say that they want to see the master."
Ling Ruo raised her eyebrows, quite a bit surprised. Before she could say anything, Shui Xiu, who was holding the lamp, suddenly let out a soft cry. However, when the red candle inserted in the pure copper gilt-eagle double crane candlestick was lit, suddenly "
"Beep" and "Bip" burst out several lanterns.
Xiaocui laughed at the side and said: "In my slave's hometown, bursting out lanterns means a happy event is coming. I don't know what happy event will happen here, Master."
"This kind of thing is just talk, how can we take it seriously." Ling Ruo said casually and then said to An'er: "Go and bring people in."
Not long after, a dark-skinned middle-aged woman wearing a blue floral dress walked in happily carrying a basket of unknown things. She knew the rules. As soon as she came in, she put down the basket and kowtowed, saying:
: "Slave Bai Zhu wishes Ling Fujin good luck, Ling Fujin is blessed."
An'er saw that she was so dark and yet she was called Bai Zhu, which didn't match her at all. She couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckled. It wasn't until Ling Ruo turned around and glanced at her that she could barely hold back her smile, but the corners of her mouth were still there.
Can't help but tilt up slightly.
Ling Ruo withdrew her gaze, signaled Bai Zhu to stand up and said, "Who asked you to come here, and what's the matter?"
When Bai Zhu heard this, he hurriedly said: "When I return to Fujin, the slave woman has been ordered by the eldest son to bring good news to Fujin. Last night, the eldest young lady began to suffer from abdominal pain. At the end of the day, she gave birth to
The next fat and white boy will come, and both mother and child will be safe."
"Sister-in-law has given birth?" Ling Ruo asked in disbelief, because based on the previous days, it would take at least ten days for Jiang to give birth.
"Yes, no one expected that the eldest wife would suddenly give birth early, but I have already seen the doctor and said everything is fine with my little brother, and there will be no impact due to the early birth." After answering, Bai
Zhu opened the cloth covering the bamboo basket, revealing a basket of red eggs inside. "My lady asked the slave woman to bring these red eggs to the master."
This is an old custom that has been passed down. Every home where a child is born, a pot of eggs is boiled, then painted red, and distributed to relatives and neighbors everywhere to bring good luck.
After An'er took the basket of red eggs, Ling Ruo said to Shui Xiu, "Go and get the gifts I prepared for my sister-in-law and nephew."
Shui Xiu agreed and left with Shui Yue. When they came in again, they each had several brocade boxes in their hands. Ling Ruo pointed to the brocade boxes and said to Bai Zhu: "Take these things back, then
It's just my wish. It's getting late today, so I'll go to the mansion to visit you tomorrow after I return to the prince."
Bai Zhu agreed and took the heavy or light brocade boxes one by one. Before leaving, Shui Xiu stuffed a twelve-weight small ingot into her sleeve, which made her beam with joy and thank her repeatedly.
"Master treats his family so well." Looking at Bai Zhu's leaving figure, Xiao Cui suddenly said with some envy. With Ling Ruo's current status, the things she could get her hands on would not be any worse.
"It takes ten years to cultivate in the same boat, and a hundred years to cultivate together and sleep together. To be able to become a family, I don't know how many years of cultivation it took to get the fate, and it should be better." Ling Ruo said nonchalantly, and suddenly became a little curious.
Authentic: "By the way, Xiaocui, who else is there in your family?"
"My mother passed away due to illness a few years ago. Now I only have my father and one younger brother. The younger brother is now fifteen years old and is learning blacksmithing with his father. The father said that in two years, he will find a wife for his younger brother.
"Speaking of family, Xiaocui talked a little more than before, and talked about some interesting things at home in the past.
Ling Ruo had been listening to her side with a smile. When she stopped, she said, "When I listen to you, it feels like I have read a book?"
Xiaocui said sheepishly: "Yes, I used to be envious when I saw others reading and literate, so I ran outside the private school to eavesdrop, so I could barely recognize a few words."
Ling Ruo nodded. For a woman from an ordinary family like Xiaocui, it was already a great thing that she could read. Although studying and taking exams can make you stand out, that is only for men. In the eyes of the world, it doesn't matter whether a woman can read or not.
You have to get married, and you have to spend money to go to private school; so even from wealthy families, there are many girls who are illiterate.
"Eniang, let Huzi study with me from now on." Hongli suddenly interrupted, with a bit of longing in his eyes. Although he has two brothers, they are not close to each other due to various reasons.
Over the years, Hongli has been relatively lonely. Although he is very sensible and never mentions this, he always looks forward to having friends of the same age. Huzi is only two years younger than him and is Li Wei's son. Naturally,
Extremely kind.
Ling Ruo was really moved when she heard this, but then she said: "It depends on whether your Uncle Li will stay in Beijing or not. If he doesn't stay in Beijing, then Hu Zi will have to go back with his parents. How can he stay here with me?"
You study, not to mention that you yourself also want to enter the palace to study with your imperial grandfather, and the tigers in this palace will not be able to follow you."
Hongli thought about it and said nothing more, but privately he still hoped that Li Wei could stay in the capital this time. Even if they couldn't study together, they could still meet Huzi often.
"Master, the food has been prepared. The kitchen came to ask if it should be served now?" Xiaoluzi came in and asked.
Ling Ruo heard the words and said: "Bring them all over, cover them with silver lids first, and then we can eat together when Li Wei comes."
Hearing this, Xiao Cui hurriedly waved her hands and said: "Master, there is no need to wait for Li Wei, you can just use it first."
Seeing the people filing in and putting delicious dishes on the table, Ling Ruo smiled slightly and said: "That's not okay, this meal is for you to take the wind and wash away the dust. How can you say that I will eat it first?"
Reason, besides, I’m not hungry at the moment.”
At Ling Ruo's insistence, all the dishes were covered with silver lids, and the banquet would begin after Li Wei came back from Yinzhen. In order to prevent them from getting bored waiting, Shui Xiu brought melon seeds so that they could chat while eating them.
"Huzi, what is this?" Hongli was not interested in melon seeds, but he was curious about a rectangular piece of bamboo and a bamboo stick that Huzi accidentally took out. There was also a small hole drilled in the center of the bamboo piece.
The size of the hole is about the same thickness as the bamboo stick.
Seeing his interest, Huzi quickly explained as if offering a treasure: "This one will fly when you spin it."
Can you fly? Although Hongli didn't say anything, Huzi clearly saw the disbelief in his eyes. He was so anxious now that he didn't even eat the grapes. He jumped down from the chair with those two things and said: "
If Brother Li doesn't believe it, I'll show it to you."
"Okay, let's go outside." Hongli has always been a child at heart. After asking Ling Ruo's consent, he pulled Huzi and ran into the courtyard. By this time, it was getting dark. Fortunately, lights were lit everywhere in the courtyard.
, but also bright.
Huzi stood in the courtyard, inserted the bamboo piece on the bamboo stick, and then rubbed it hard with both palms. With the rapid rotation of the bamboo stick, the extremely thin and polished bamboo piece suddenly flew up, like a dancing butterfly.
Hongli didn't expect that such a simple twist could really make the bamboo stick fly. He excitedly took the bamboo stick from Huzi's hand, picked up the bamboo stick and put it on it, and then rubbed it hard like Huzi did.
, and sure enough, the bamboo pieces flew up again and hovered in the air for a while before falling down.
"It's so fun." Hongli clapped his hands happily and kept repeating the action of picking up and flying up. Every time the bamboo pieces flew into the air, he laughed happily.
Ling Ruo looked at Hongli in the courtyard in silence. Only at this moment did he really look like a five-year-old child, laughing and having fun.
[Author's digression]: I'm going to update a chapter tonight. Some of the content was pulled on the office computer and I forgot to copy it back. I can only update it after I go to work. It's about nine o'clock. I've been seriously lacking sleep recently and my memory has declined. Alas.
, what I remembered a moment ago was forgotten in the blink of an eye, it was really depressing.
These recent chapters are somewhat transitional in nature. After all, Yinzhen is about to ascend the throne, hehe.