Will she have another twenty years? Now that she has great-granddaughters, how many more years will she have to live?
Lan Caidi smiled and comforted after hearing this: "I didn't know that my aunt returned to Yizhou this year, otherwise she would have come back with me a long time ago. Even if I get the news now, I am afraid that the road will be blocked by ice, and Xiangru will not dare to let her back."
Yes. When the ice thaws in the spring next year, I will ask my mother to bring her newly married daughter-in-law back to me to see her."
Lan said angrily: "Why do you want your mother to come back to see me? I have to go and see them someday."
Lan's relationship with Zhou's sister-in-law is very good.
When Lan first got married, her dowry was arranged by Zhou. If it were left to Lan Antai's mother, I'm afraid her stepmother wouldn't be able to give her anything good.
After hearing this, Lan Caidi smiled and said: "Xiangru's term will be up next year, so he can take a detour home to pay homage to his father before going to Beijing. The family just came back to pay homage to their ancestors, meet with their aunt, and then go to Beijing to complain.
It’s not too late to get your job.”
After hearing this, Lan nodded in agreement.
Lan Caidi's eldest daughter-in-law, Ms. Qiao, was very affectionate towards Qiao Mingjin's family because she liked that Qiao Mingjin's family was also a member of the Qiao family and she was the direct wife of the family. Before she got married, she often followed her father and brother to the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestral home.
After pulling Qiao Mingjin to chat for a long time, and with the lively Lan Huizhen joining in the fun, Qiao Mingjin got to know Yizhou better.
Qiao's son, who was under one year old, seemed to like Qiao Mingjin quite a lot. He was very obedient in Qiao Mingjin's arms. His dark eyes rolled around, looking at one person after another, and he listened quietly to the adults talking.
Qiao and Lan Caidi teased him. They said they were keeping him here and spent time with cousin Mingjin. He seemed to understand, turned around and hugged Qiao Mingjin's neck, causing everyone to laugh non-stop.
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Mrs. Qiao then slapped his little buttocks and scolded him as a white-eyed wolf. He also smiled happily at Mr. Qiao, saliva dripping down his face.
In the afternoon, Mingyu, Mingqi and Wan'er came back from the girls' school first.
Another lively meeting.
Huizhen was very happy to have two cousins who could talk to her. It was rare for her to take charge of the family, so she talked about Yizhou's customs and customs to her two cousins who had just arrived in Yizhou.
By the time Mingjue and Mingheng came back, she hadn't stopped talking.
By the time Father Qiao came back, dinner was already on the table.
Lan came here because of the blue butterfly, so she originally sent someone to look for him, but she didn't expect that he went to see the sacrificial field outside the city. He didn't come back until the sky was dusk.
"Cousin, you won't show your teeth to my sister again, will you?"
Lan Caidi deliberately sat next to Lan, took Lan's arm and said to Father Qiao who had just entered the door.
Father Qiao's face turned slightly red and he said, "How come..."
It made everyone laugh.
Mingjue and others had also known the reason for a long time. They knew that this cousin and his father had been raised together almost since they were children, and they were very affectionate towards Lancai Butterfly.
"I sent someone to Cui's house as soon as I came back. Unexpectedly, my cousin went to see my aunt."
Father Qiao returned to Yizhou and was very excited when he saw some old people. It was rare to see a relative and childhood playmate at home today. He was very happy.
Lan Caidi said with a smile: "It's rare that my cousin still remembers me. If Xiangru knew that my cousin had returned to Yizhou, he must have been anxious to come back to see him. When he was a child, he was my cousin's follower."
Father Qiao also laughed when he thought about what happened when he was a child. Then he asked Lan Caidi about Lan Xiangru.
I was very moved when I learned that Lan Xianggru was now prosperous in officialdom. This cousin was not as good at studying as he was when he was a child.
Seeing him like this, Lan Caidi felt pity in her heart.
I was afraid that I would make him sad if I said it again, so I said angrily: "It's true, my cousin. In the past few years, when life was difficult, he would not send people to find me and Xiangru. So he took the whole family to eat bran-thick vegetables. It must be
I look down on my sister."
After hearing this, Father Qiao shook his head and waved his hands.
"How can this be..."
At that time, he was afraid that the Qiao family would find their mother and son, and that they would be retrieved in this way. He was afraid that his identity would be difficult to protect, and he was afraid that the family might be exterminated. So he didn't contact anyone. When the family was in trouble, he never asked anyone for help.
The blue butterfly was just to divert his attention.
As early as when I heard Lan's talk about their family's life over the years, I felt heartbroken, and I didn't want to make the family sad by saying more.
So I found some happy things to talk about. I told him some old stories, and Father Qiao also listened attentively, adding a sentence or two from time to time, or expressing some feelings...
When Lan Caidi took her daughter-in-law and daughter away, Father Qiao led his family to the gate in person and told her to move around more.
Seeing that her car was out of sight in the distance, she took the family back.
In a blink of an eye, it is the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and the new year is getting closer.
In the twelfth lunar month, the stewards in the farms and shops everywhere took their account books to report accounts to their new masters.
Qiao Mingjin became busy again and no longer had time to count ants.
Now their family has settled down in Yizhou and is slowly adapting to this place. Now they have more manpower. It is time to take a good look at various properties and check whether the shopkeepers are loyal.
Therefore, I looked at the accounts very carefully, and also took out the old accounts and compared them.
The Lan family left the stewards to live in the ancestral house, and only sent them away after settling the accounts and paying them New Year bonuses.
Qiao Mingjin and Lan were busy looking at the account books, and Mother Qiao couldn't help, so she took over the affairs of the ancestral house.
Now that she is under the guidance of Lan Shi and has two mothers by her side to guide her, she will generally not make any mistakes.
There were stewards everywhere in the ancestral house, and there were old rules to consult for everything. She just sat in the flower hall and listened to the servants and women reporting on the affairs, and stamped the orders for money and people. She couldn't decide things.
I will report to the Lan family and know.
After a few days of continuous rotation, it was the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, and the new year was getting closer.
The family’s New Year’s goods are about to be prepared.
This is the first year that Lan and Qiao Jingkun have returned to their ancestral home. The clan members and acquaintances in Yizhou City are watching, and there cannot be any mistakes.
Furthermore, if you have filial piety in your family this year, naturally you can't behave like ordinary people. You have to be careful and don't make any mistakes.
If something goes wrong, the Qiao family's first wife will really be laughed at. The Lan family doesn't want to be laughed at because they came from the countryside.
When they were twenty, Lan threw the account book at Qiao Mingjin and took Qiao's mother to Zhang Luo.
Qiao Mingjin looked at several thick boxes of account books, her head as big as a bucket.
This requires not only carefulness but also speed. The shopkeepers are still waiting for her to finish checking the accounts and go home for the New Year.
Fortunately, after entering 20, Mingyu and Mingqi also took a break from school. They also came over to help.
Ming Qi and Wan'er learned the abacus from Qiao Mingjin. Although Ming Yu is not experienced in the abacus, he is now good at reading accounts. Although he cannot keep up with the speed, fortunately he can share some of the burden.
Qiao Mingjin breathed a long sigh of relief.
The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is the day of Xiaonian.
Qiao Mingjin and her two sisters were sitting in a room with several braziers, working on the abacus, and the whole room could only hear the crackling sound of the abacus.
Chunya opened the curtain and came in to report in a low voice that the old lady asked her to go to Sanchun Hall to meet guests.
Qiao Mingjin didn't even raise her head: "As long as the old lady meets me, I'm busy right now."
Anyway, as long as the Qiao family's relatives include Lan Shi and Qiao's mother, she is a married woman and her family doesn't necessarily have to see her.
Chunya raised her eyes carefully and looked at her. Then she said, "The old lady said that visitors must see the eldest lady."
Qiao Mingjin paused and looked up at her.
Chun Ya was afraid that she would disturb Qiao Mingjin's work, so she lowered her head uneasily.
"Is the visitor a man or a woman?"
"Yes, it's a man."
Qiao Mingjin's heart skipped a beat.
Why did the male guest insist on meeting her by name? Her grandmother also asked her to meet him?
After looking at Mingyu and Mingqi, they put down their pen and stood up. Mingyu and Mingqi thought about it and stood up with her.
Who must meet my sister? Maybe they know each other.
When Qiao Mingjin led his two sisters to Sanchun Hall, Yue Zhongyao had already drank several cups of hot tea.
He was very anxious on the road.
Thinking about meeting my wife and daughter, I just immersed myself in the journey and didn't go to an inn when I entered the city. I just spent the night in the wild, mixed with cold water and dry food. I was in a hurry to get on my way again at dawn the next day...
In this way, I arrived in Yizhou on Xiaonian's day.
I think that if I spend a complete New Year with my wife and daughter, I can achieve my wish.
Yue Zhongyao felt a little emotional when he thought about his journey to find his wife.
It is not difficult to make the decision to divide the family. Everyone in the family is prepared. My father also said that the family will be divided after the New Year, but he has moved the time forward.
It's just that the decision to work as a guard at the county prince's mansion was very difficult.
At first, he thought about making some achievements, protecting his wife and daughter, and allowing them to live a prosperous life. That's why he accepted a job in the county government.
Later, when he saw his wife drifting away from him, he felt anxious and uneasy. So he resigned from his job and just wanted to go home and be with his wife.
It took a lot of effort to adapt to the life of a farmer who works from sunrise to sunset. Accidents occurred frequently at home, causing his wife and daughter to run away...
Working in the county government is completely different from working in the county prince's palace.
Although he is working under others, as a police officer, if he does not make a big mistake, the county magistrate cannot deal with him at will. After all, he is also considered an official.
But if you work as a guard in the prince's palace, you may have some ambitions in the future, but your life will be in the hands of others.
In fact, he really didn't like this feeling.
On the battlefield, although life and death are only a matter of seconds, you may not be able to wake up from your dream, and the future is equally unknown. But at least your life is still in your own hands. If you are not as good as someone and your head is chopped off, you can't complain.
other people.
But entering the county prince's mansion...
He was really at a loss from front to back...
He originally wanted to go to Yizhou to meet his wife and daughter before entering the capital. Unexpectedly, Yu Ding was so complacent that he sent a message to the capital early. Only halfway through, the county prince's palace sent someone to meet him.
Reluctantly, he changed his route and entered Beijing again.
He expressed his position in front of the king and begged the king to give him a month's leave so that he could go to Yizhou to see his wife and daughter and then come back to work for the king.
I thought the request was too much, but unexpectedly the prince agreed.
He was in a hurry on the road, but he didn't expect that the closer he got to Yizhou, the more timid and uneasy he felt... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest
motivation.)
ps: There should be another chapter. I fell ill after returning from a May Day trip. I had a cold and a cough. It turned out to be just a small cough. I didn’t want to take medicine, so I carried on with it. I boiled mung bean water and ate it for a few days. I just wanted to clear away heat and detoxify. After drinking it
My throat felt comfortable, but it was still itchy after the next day. The cough has gotten worse in the past two days. When I woke up today, my sides hurt from the cough. I crawled out and bought a bunch of pills and cough drops. I really fell asleep after eating them...
