When Qiao Mingjin took her things and was about to go back to her room, Yue Zhongyao spoke.
Looking at Qiao Mingjin, she said softly: "Madam, come and talk to me."
Qiao Mingjin looked at him after hearing this.
"Madam, I'm leaving the day after tomorrow..." Yue Zhongyao spoke again, with a hint of pleading in his tone.
Qiao Mingjin relented.
He put the things in his hands on the round table, looked at him, and said, "Well, what do you want to say? These hands can't touch the water. Do you want to take a bath?"
Yue Zhongyao looked at his wife and nodded happily.
Qiao Mingjin looked at him, stood up and helped him mix the hot water.
When Yue Zhongyao was taking a bath, Qiao Mingjin helped him clean up the room.
Of course, she didn't have to wait for her to do these things. The maids had already packed them up, and she just helped him put away the clothes he had changed and the clothes he was going to wear.
"Madam, pass me the cotton towel..."
Yue Zhongyao's voice came from the clean room.
Qiao Mingjin was stunned.
But after a while, I found a cotton towel and handed it to him.
Across the screen, hang the cotton towel on the screen.
In less than a moment, Yue Zhongyao called again: "Madam, help me get some clothes..."
Qiao Mingjin took a breath: "Didn't you just take it in?"
The clean room was quiet for two breaths. After a while, a voice came again: "I took the wrong one, it's not this one. I want the smoky blue one."
Qiao Mingjin was stunned, but turned around and helped him find the smoky blue middle coat from the suitcase and handed it to him. It was still hanging on the screen.
The dense water vapor in the clean room filled the inner room, making it a bit dreamy.
Yue Zhongyao came out wearing a middle coat, with his black hair dripping with water.
"It's so late, why are you still washing your hair?"
"I'll wake up a little after washing my hair. I want to talk to my wife..."
Qiao Mingjin looked at him steadily and handed him a thick cotton towel.
Yue Zhongyao just called out: "Madam..." When he saw the cotton towel Qiao Mingjin handed him, he swallowed back the unfinished words.
Wife, please wipe my hair...
In the end, I couldn't say it out loud.
"...Are many people going to the clan leader today?"
"Yes. The clan leader is very knowledgeable. He also gave guidance on Mingheng's homework. He also liked Mingheng's cleverness and said that he would let his father-in-law take them there often..."
"Is the clan leader's family a big one?"
"Well, it's very big. There is also a large garden with many precious flowers. Oh, by the way, there is also a house with precious orchids, and there is a fire pot in the corner for heating... Hey,
You said, if we build a greenhouse like that at home and grow all kinds of vegetables, will we be able to eat all kinds of fresh vegetables in winter?"
Qiao Mingjin laughed softly after hearing this.
Such greenhouses can be seen everywhere in later generations. But nowadays they have to be built, which costs a lot of money. Just to eat fresh vegetables seems a bit luxurious.
"That uncle's greenhouse where he grows orchids is burned with smokeless charcoal, right?"
"No. Well, let's put it this way, burning these smokeless charcoals every day just to eat a few bites of vegetables seems a bit uneconomical, right?"
Qiao Mingjin turned to look at him, nodded, and laughed.
But after thinking about it, he said: "It doesn't necessarily mean burning a brazier."
"Oh, what else?" Yue Zhongyao looked very interested.
"Well, let's talk about it later when conditions are met."
Yue Zhongyao took a deep look at Qiao Mingjin and said, "Well, when our family has the conditions, I will also build you a greenhouse like that so that you can eat summer vegetables in winter!"
Qiao Mingjin gave him a steady look and said with a smile, "Isn't Wan'er going to have a good meal?"
Speaking of Wan'er, Yue Zhongyao also laughed and said: "She doesn't necessarily want this blessing. As long as she is given meat to eat, she doesn't care about anything."
Qiao Mingjin also laughed after hearing this.
Her daughter is different from other daughters in that she can eat meat. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have vegetables, as long as she has meat. Since the conditions at home have improved, she has been looking forward to eating meat every day. I don’t know if she was hungry because of the lack of clear soup and water when she was a child.
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Yue Zhongyao rubbed, rubbed and shook his long hair, but it was still not dry.
On such a cold winter night, it's not easy for that long hair to dry out.
The two of them talked incessantly.
Later, someone said that it was too cold to sit there, and for some reason, the two of them leaned on the bed together and covered themselves with quilts.
One person is leaning on the head of the bed, and the other is occupying the foot of the bed.
A serious couple. Thinking about it makes me feel a little funny.
"Jin Niang..." Yue Zhongyao's eyes were burning with male desire.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at him. It wasn't that she didn't understand, but she didn't want to respond yet. She had to find various topics to chat with him about.
On winter nights, it's still very cold even inside the house.
There was some warmth in the thick quilt.
Yue Zhongyao didn't expect Qiao Mingjin's response, but he was very happy to be able to share the same bed with his wife. He would remember this night for a long time.
"Jin Niang, are your feet cold? Let me cover them for you..." As soon as he finished speaking, he clamped Qiao Mingjin's feet between his feet and started rubbing them.
Qiao Mingjin's cotton socks were rubbed off by Yue Zhongyao in a few strokes.
"No, no need. I'm going back. After your hair is dry, go to bed early. You have to get up early tomorrow."
Qiao Mingjin wanted to get up, but her feet were pinched tightly by Yue Zhongyao. Even her cotton socks were removed, and she shook them off.
"Madam...just sleep here tonight. I, I won't touch you..."
Qiao Mingjin's face felt a little hot: "I'm back. Wan'er woke up at night and wanted to find me."
Yue Zhongyao's face darkened, he looked at Qiao Mingjin and said: "Then please talk to me, madam. When my hair is dry, I will send you back. I, I just want to find someone to talk to, and I'm afraid I won't be able to talk to you when I get to Beijing."
Someone is talking to me..."
After hearing this, Qiao Mingjin sat back down.
"What do you want to say?"
"You can say whatever you say. I am willing to listen to whatever the lady says..."
It was snowing outside the window, and the sound of rustling snow could be heard. It must have been quite a lot of snow.
It was getting nighter. Qiao Mingjin felt that her eyelids were a little heavy. But Yue Zhongyao was still very interested, so she couldn't spoil his interest...
When Qiao Mingjin woke up in a daze, she found that she had fallen asleep on Yue Zhongyao's bed.
Yue Zhongyao's head was right next to hers. His long black hair was scattered on the pillow and mixed with hers.
The curtains were down, but the lights in the room were still on.
The dim light shone through the curtains on Yue Zhongyao's face, making his face a little softer and less stiff and rigid as seen during the day.
He didn't know what he was dreaming about. There was still a bit of a smile on his lips. He leaned sideways and held Qiao Mingjin's body with one hand.
Qiao Mingjin looked at his side face in confusion.
The sound of snow continued outside.
Yue Zhongyao woke up when Qiao Mingjin woke up. He was always awake. Anyone who came down from that bloody field would be on guard. No one knew whether they would still be alive when they woke up.
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Although he has been back for a long time, he still wakes up whenever he hears the slightest movement.
Today, with his wife by his side, he slept soundly. He wanted to sleep like this forever.
He heard his wife waking up and sitting up again. He could also feel her looking at him and her sighing...
He closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and pretended to be asleep. He didn't want to disturb his wife.
The lady lifted the quilt and stood up.
The lady climbed down from him quietly.
He heard his wife take off her shoes...and felt her stop...a moment later, she tucked him in...and then went out softly...
Then the lights went out.
Yue Zhongyao pricked his ears, fearing that he would hear the sound of his wife falling.
All I heard was the door closing softly.
In the dark night, Yue Zhongyao opened his eyes...
The next day, the eighth day of the first lunar month, Father Qiao took his son-in-law and two sons out early in the morning and came back at noon. In the afternoon, the whole family did not go out.
Perhaps because Yue Zhongyao was leaving tomorrow, Wan'er clung to her father when she woke up early in the morning. Yue Zhongyao followed her lead and took her out early in the morning.
In the afternoon, the family gathered in Lan's courtyard to talk. Father Qiao came in and out. It seemed that he had never had a leisurely day since he returned to Yizhou.
He will not officially take over the affairs of the clan until the first lunar month, but there are many things waiting for him to do beforehand. Even in the new year, he will not be idle for a moment.
In this year, Mingheng and others seemed to have some changes in their view of Yue Zhongyao. Especially Mingqi. I don’t know when they stopped looking at Yue Zhongyao angrily. They could also say hello in a friendly manner when they met.
Gradually, I started to call him "brother-in-law, brother-in-law".
Qiao Mingjin saw Yue Zhongyao laughing the most happily when he heard Mingqi call him "brother-in-law", and he deserved it the loudest.
The two of them would occasionally get together to chat in private, and it seemed that they had some secrets between them.
Qiao Mingjin asked several times but failed to find out. Yue Zhongyao just smiled and told Qiao Mingjin that she had a good sister.
After lunch, Qiao Mingjin went back to the courtyard to help Yue Zhongyao pack his luggage. Wan'er was also followed back to the courtyard with Yue Zhongyao riding on his neck.
The father and daughter played in the courtyard for a while, and then fell asleep on Qiao Mingjin's bed.
Qiao Mingjin looked at the faces of father and daughter sleeping together, and realized that they looked very similar. I don't know since when, Wan'er started to look more and more like her father.
Except for the pair of round black eyes that look like Qiao Mingjin, every facial feature on the face is actually the same.
Qiao Mingjin smiled, no wonder Yue Zhongyao loved her so much.
On the night of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, after the family had dinner, Qiao's father called Yue Zhongyao to the study.
It wasn't until Qiao Mingjin almost fell asleep from waiting that he returned to the yard.
"Why have you prepared so much luggage?" Yue Zhongyao looked at the dozens of large and small luggage on the ground in confusion.
"Most of them were arranged by my grandmother and mother. I just helped wrap them up."
"This is too much." Yue Zhongyao was shocked when he looked at the seven or eight large and small bundles and several large and small boxes and cages in the room.
"How can I take care of this by myself?"
"I'm not letting you ride away alone this time. Didn't dad help you make an agreement with Fourth Uncle to let you go with his carriage?"
"But it's not the capital that his family wants to go to."
"Didn't Uncle Si Tang say he would take you to the capital? Even if you don't let them take you, when you break up with his family, it's only half a day's journey to the capital by hiring a carriage."
Yue Zhongyao was still worried: "Even if I don't ride a horse but take a carriage, it's too much. I can do it alone. Besides, I still live in the palace, and I don't know what kind of house is arranged. Maybe I have to go with him.
Several people share a room.”
Yue Zhongyao unpacked his baggage as he spoke: "There's no need to bring this big cloak. One is enough for me...and these, these...why are there so many clothes? There are uniform clothes in the palace...
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"Take them all with you. You still have too many clothes. It's not like you won't go out."
Seeing that Yue Zhongyao was about to unpack the box and cage again, he quickly grabbed his hand and said, "Don't move. I packed it with great difficulty. There are many local products in this box that you want to give to the palace, and they are not yours. That's it.
It’s just a piece of love between our family and you. Dad said you must take it with you. Besides, if the room arranged by the palace cannot fit, you can take your things to my grandfather’s house in Beijing. Didn’t the second uncle and the third uncle mean that my family
Are the housekeepers and servants guarding the house in Beijing? They told you, right?"
Yue Zhongyao nodded. His father-in-law also asked him to live in that house, but he declined.
Yue Zhongyao stared blankly at the luggage that took up half of the room, feeling indescribable in his heart. Before he even left the house, he was homesick for his family... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome.
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