Chapter 9 The harmony of grandparents and grandchildren
The people outside dispersed, and Li Minglou also started to have breakfast. This time, after the food was delivered, Jin Jue stopped people on the porch and refused to let them into the house, and Bu Cai also came by himself.
She made up her mind to keep the eldest daughter safe and never let other people see the eldest daughter's injuries.
Li Minglou looked at the busy Jin Jue and couldn't remember whether he had a reliable servant in the Li family when he was thirteen years old.
She has never cared about this kind of thing. She didn't need it when her father was here. When her father was gone, she went to Taiyuan Mansion and the Xiang family was there, so she didn't need it. She had never encountered any difficulties, and she didn't know what trouble was. Everything went smoothly.
Smooth sailing until death.
Li Minglou smiled.
"Miss." Jin Jue reminded from the side.
Li Minglou withdrew his attention and sat down in front of the table. He stretched out his hand to untie a piece of cloth on his face so that he could eat easily. Jin Jue bowed his head and retreated, standing guard outside the door.
There are two types of servants around Li Minglou, those who follow from Jiannan Road and those assigned by the Li family. Jin Jue belongs to the latter.
Li Minglou seems to be an arrogant and extravagant little girl, but if you get in touch with her, you will know that her temper is not arrogant. What the servants have to do is to take good care of her and play with her, whether it is Jiannan Road or the servants assigned by the Li family.
It is not difficult for people to do this.
Li Minglou also doesn't care about whether the servants around her are close or distant, because she doesn't need to care at all. She just needs to replace someone when it's not easy to use. She doesn't lack people, and she doesn't need to trust anyone. She is Li Fengan's daughter, and others only
If you need to satisfy her, you only need to satisfy Li Fengan.
But now Li Fengan is gone.
A child without parents is like a grass, Jin Jue knows this very well. After her parents died, the people in her clan occupied her house and land and falsely claimed that they had lost her. In fact, she was sold to Yazi. Fortunately,
Lucky was sold into the Li family.
Jin Jue looked around with vigilance and sadness. The girls were standing outside the courtyard gate, but it was not as quiet as the previous few days. There were low and whispered voices, and there were girls and servants walking around. Occasionally they dared to go in.
Looking around.
The people in the poor mountains and rivers are unscrupulous and can eat people and drink blood without blinking an eye, but not everyone in this rich family's mansion is necessarily kind.
What's more, the two siblings, Li Minglou and Li Mingyu, do not live in a dilapidated house.
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The Li family's mansion is very large, and each of the four brothers can be assigned a courtyard. In addition, there are many children in the family. In order to treat them equally, Mrs. Li opened a courtyard for her grandson and granddaughter to raise them together. They were fed and clothed until they got married.
All the reading expenses were paid by Mrs. Li.
When Li Fengchang brought Li Mingyu over, Mrs. Li's house was already crowded with people, including her daughter-in-law, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Because of the accident in Li Minglou, Mrs. Li was troubled day and night, and her daughter-in-law and grandchildren were also worried and waiting for her every day.
"My darling." Mrs. Li hugged Li Mingyu and cried, stroking his shoulders, "I scared you."
Li Mingyu leaned in Mrs. Li's arms and reached out to pat her on the shoulder: "I scared grandma."
Zuo stepped forward and persuaded: "Now that we are home safely, mother and brother Yu, please stop crying. Brother Yu hasn't eaten yet, has he?"
Mrs. Li quickly stopped crying when she heard that she hadn't eaten yet: "Why haven't you eaten yet?"
Li Mingyu said: "I came here at midnight last night. I went to bed late talking to my sister and woke up late. I just woke up."
Mrs. Li didn't wait for him to finish speaking and kept calling for food to be served.
"Brother Yu, you must be starving." Zuo said, and took her two sisters-in-law to prepare the food in person.
"I didn't feel hungry before." Li Mingyu said, reaching out to rub his stomach, feeling a little embarrassed, "I'm really hungry now."
"You couldn't care about it before." The third lady, Wang, said softly, "You can't care about anything else as you hold your breath."
"Not only are you not hungry, but you're not sleepy either." Mrs. Lin, the fourth lady, lowered her body and looked at Li Mingyu's face, "Look at the pain in her eyes."
Li Mingyu looked at Mrs. Li: "Grandma is also hungry, and grandma's eyes are also red."
Mrs. Li once again reached out and hugged him and cried...
Zuo said softly: "Everything is fine now. We are all at home. Don't worry. Eat well and sleep well."
Li Minghua, who was standing by the window, walked a few steps to the side, called a girl and asked a few words in a low voice, and then walked to Mrs. Li: "My grandma has already eaten, and she has two more bowls of rice than yesterday.
We are starving too, everyone is starving."
Li Mingqi smiled and remained silent.
Li Mingran nodded: "Grandma, I'm hungry too."
As soon as the little girl opened her mouth, there was a lively chatter in the room, and Mrs. Li laughed with tears in her eyes.
"Okay, we're all hungry. Let's sit down and eat," she said.
The granddaughters, grandsons, and great-granddaughters all sat at Mrs. Li's table, and Zuo's three daughters-in-law did not have to wait to eat at the table outside.
"I didn't know that Brother Yu was so good at talking." Wang said with a smile, "In the past, I only followed Xian'er at home and never talked or laughed."
That's because he doesn't need to speak.
With Li Fengan here, it didn't matter whether he spoke or not. If he didn't say anything, they had already spoken for him.
"Brother Yu is young and is also the son of the eldest brother. Now that the eldest brother is gone, he has to support the family business." Li said, "He is now the head of the family and he is sensible now."
Zuo turned her head and looked indoors, and saw him holding a bowl and asking for more rice. Mrs. Li happily urged the girls.
"Eat slowly, there is plenty." She wiped the rice grains from the corner of Li Mingyu's mouth, "What happened to your sister? Did the Xiang family disrespect her?"
Li Mingyu swallowed the rice in his mouth and shook his head: "No."
Everyone at the table inside and outside pricked up their ears. Why did Li Minglou suddenly disappear? This matter has troubled them for many days. They all have private suspicions. Now they are about to know the answer?
"Sister, I just miss home." Li Mingyu didn't think this matter was serious and said easily.
homesick.....
So simple?
Li Mingyu took a big mouthful of rice with a spoon: "She's scared."
Fear?
"Actually, I'm scared too." Li Mingyu held the spoon and lowered his head, speaking in a muffled voice, "Dad is gone and my sister is leaving. I am alone in Jiannan Road. I, I also want to run away."
Mrs. Li hugged him and cried again. Zuo's three daughters-in-law also put down their uneaten meals and hurried in to comfort him.
This time Mrs. Li was not so easy to console and called all her three sons, Li Fengchang, Li Fengyao and Li Fengjing, to scold her.
"Xian'er is only thirteen years old this year, and Brother Yu is only ten years old. They are both still children. One was thrown to Taiyuan Prefecture to get married, and the other was thrown to Jiannan Road. Their father is gone. Are you uncles also?
Dead."
"They don't go anywhere, they just stay at home. I'll see who dares to drive them out."
When night fell, Li Fengchang was able to go back to his room to rest. Although it was still a busy day and he didn't eat well or sleep well, he was in better spirits than the previous few days.
"Is it that simple? You missed home so you ran back?" Li Fengchang frowned, "What can't you say?"
Zuo smiled: "It's not that we can't talk about it, it just depends on who we talk to, Xian'er is still not familiar with us."
Li Fengchang didn't like hearing this: "How can a family talk about rawness and maturity?"
Zuo said in a different way: "They are not close to us. After all, we have not been together since we were young, and the children are all born separately."
Li Fengchang did not refute this point.
"So she was afraid to come back halfway, but she didn't dare to say anything. No matter it was the Xiang family or us, she didn't believe that they would listen to her, so she just ran away secretly." Zuo continued, "I didn't expect that she almost died when she encountered a landslide.
I was so frightened that I ran away and lost my way."
Li Minglou has never been out, and the coachman Fang Er is from Jiannan Road. He is unfamiliar with the terrain here. It is normal to get lost. Li Fengchang nodded. This matter can be explained, and the past events can be explained.
unimportant.
"I see, that's good. After this scare, we have become closer to the family." He said, "But they can't stay at home."
Being close and staying at home are two different things.