After arguing for a long time, it turns out that Shen Shuyan was finally fooled by Cao Yiren: she went to Cao Yiren to argue with her without telling her elders, and Cao Yiren proposed to compete with her. Unfortunately, she grew up in Jinxiu Dui and spent her free time. How could Shen Shuyan, who uses pearls and jade as marbles, do this
But Shen Shuyan also has her support: she has been very smart since she was a child, and she can understand everything just by looking at it. So although I have never been beaten in vain, I don't think Cao Yiren will be able to do it after being beaten a few times? How could a person as talented as her lose to a little girl from the countryside
However, Cao Yiren was not only a master at this, but also tricked her. During the fight, she changed her tricks to prevent Shen Shuyan from seeing her movements clearly, and said proudly: "How could a spoiled little girl like you know? What kind of hardships have I experienced as a child who helped my mother with laundry and cooking? The good thing is that I have been working since I was a child and am stronger than you. Looking at your delicate appearance, you don’t look like you have learned how to box. How dare you? Compare this to me?”
Shen Shuyan believed it to be true. She only said that to fight in vain, you need to be strong, and it is best to learn boxing.
So she ran to find her sixth uncle Shen Liankun...
In fact, it's all a matter of skill...
After knowing the truth, Wei Changying couldn't laugh or cry. He gave Cao Yiren a lesson and punished them both to copy a book and let them go.
After the two of them left, Wei Changying told Mr. Huang who came over to report the incident, and said with emotion: "Compared with Yiren, Yan'er seems innocent." She had always thought that Cao Yiren was a child after he lived in Mingpeitang. They need to be protected by themselves. I didn't expect that if the adults didn't intervene and it was left to them to do it themselves, Shen Shuyan would be the one who needed to be reminded.
Mrs. Huang also thinks so: "Miss Cao looked cowed earlier, and the servant thought she was timid. Unexpectedly, Miss Si Sun often suffered in her hands."
"After all, she is the granddaughter of Mr. Ji. As a shrewd elder, he has been influenced by Qiu He." Wei Changying said a few words to forget about the conflicts between the children, and took the list handed over by Huang and started to read it. -This list is a local ritual that I brought to each family when I returned to Beijing. After all, Wei Changying stayed in Xiliang for two or three years. Although Xiliang is bitter and cold, it still has some specialties. After returning home, I always bring some to my relatives to try.
The master and the servant discussed for more than an hour before roughly drawing up the order. Wei Changying said again: "I will send it to my eldest sister tomorrow to give her a slap in the eye."
Then he asked, "For the mine over there in Mengshan, last time I asked for a few good pieces, but have they been delivered?"
Huang said with a smile: "It should have been delivered a long time ago, but the steward said that when I loaded the jade that was going to be delivered to the car, I found another piece of top quality material, but it was difficult to cut it, so it was delayed for a while. They arrived last evening, and after handing over to us, the people escorting the car were relieved, saying that they were worried that something went wrong on the road and they couldn’t explain it!”
Wei Changying frowned slightly when he heard this and said: "From Guanzhou Taohuaxian Town to our Xiliang City, isn't the main bandit the Mengshan Gang? Hasn't the Mengshan Gang been disbanded and reorganized into Xiliang and sent to guard the Mengshan Jade Mine? Are you in the army? What else can go wrong on the way?"
"I also heard what that person said: There were civil uprisings in several counties to the south of Guanzhou. The governor of Guanzhou, Shi Tiaozhouyong, went to suppress it. Although the uprising was suppressed, not many were killed. Most of them have dispersed, but some people have gathered to occupy the mountain as bandits. "There are not many bandits like this, but they are very ruthless. There are several dangerous places in Guanzhou from Taohuaxian Town. They are all forbidden by one man. But when we enter Xiliang, we are afraid of encountering a small group of people sneaking in on the road close to Mengshan Mountain."
"This is so scary!" Guard Chief Ying shook his head and said, "Tell them to send more people to escort next time."
Huang sighed: "The visitor said that if we could add more people, we would have done so earlier. After all, what you want, young lady, how can you dare to neglect it? It's just that since there has been trouble in Guanzhou, I'm afraid that the unruly people will make up their minds." When we get to the mine, the managers there don’t dare to use more people!”
Wei Changying had a headache and said, "Alas, this world is like this!"
After calming down, he asked Jade again, "Auntie, I've seen that everything is good?"
"My maid doesn't know much about this, but everyone who sent it said it was the best batch mined this year. Especially for the part that delayed the trip, a group of people patted their chests and promised to the maid, if If you can't cut out the best jade, let's do whatever you want!" Huang said, "It's still wrapped in stone - if you don't feel confident, Madam, you can tell them to cut it into a few pieces and take a look?"
"Just cut up the best one." Wei Changying thought for a while and ordered, "If you can get good jade, put it in a box and give it to your parents when you get back. Put the rest just like that, so as not to make things too big. I couldn’t take care of him, and the road was broken.”
Huang accepted the order with a smile.
As this word spread, the person who brought the jade chose a skilled person to cut the jade material, and he actually took out several fist-sized pieces of flawless jade - they were carried by brocade and sent to the back hall. Shen Zangzhu and Shen Zangzhu looked at it and praised it: "What a beautiful jade!"
This piece of jade is made entirely of white jade, with a color like snow and ice, semi-transparent, almost no impurities, and exuding a gleaming brilliance. Even a layman knows that this appearance alone must be priceless.
Wei Changying made the decision on the spot and put the three largest pieces into the brocade box as a token of filial piety to Shen Xuan, his wife and his uncle Shen Zhou after returning to the capital. As for the other pieces, she and Shen Zangzhu split them.
However, because the jade craftsmen in Xiliang were so untrustworthy, she also took the Shen Zang Pearl with her. After returning to the imperial capital, she asked the Ye family to make jewelry for Shen Zang Beads. If it was jade of other colors, Shen Zang Beads would still be given to her. May not be willing to do so.
But the white jade was suitable for a widow to wear, and the jade was so pure and pure that Shen Zangzhu couldn't help but be moved.
The two put away the others, leaving a thumb-sized piece, and gestured to decide whether to make it a pendant or a jade pendant for the children... A servant outside reported a letter: "There is a man outside the door who calls himself Fengzhou." The people from Ruiyu Hall are here with Mrs. Song’s letter.”
"Your Majesty has written a letter? Could it be a happy event? I remember your younger brother has reached the age of marriage, right?" Hearing this, Shen Zangzhu smiled and said to Chief Wei.
Guard Chief Ying nodded slightly: "Changfeng has been crowned, it is indeed time to marry Miss Su's family."
Both of them thought it would be good news, but at the end of the day it was just a letter of greetings from home - but they didn't expect that it turned out to be a funeral letter.
The person who died was close to Wei Changying by blood, but not familiar with her... She was Wei Changying's direct maternal grandmother, the old lady of the Song family, Mrs. Wei.
Mrs. Wei returned to Jiangnan more than ten years ago because her husband Song Xinping returned to his hometown after serving as an official. Wei Changying was brought back to Fengzhou to grow up when he was an infant, so he was only held by Mrs. Wei a few times when he was an infant, but she had no memory of it herself.
But after all, my maternal grandmother is a close relative of flesh and blood. During the holidays, Wei Changying, my direct granddaughter, has the benefit of being sent to Fengzhou in person.
Now that he read the letter, Wei Changying couldn't help but burst into tears: "Earlier, my mother also said that my grandmother loves children the most. If she saw Guang'er and Xie'er, I don't know how much she would like them. I'm still thinking about it. If there is a chance, I will take them to Jiangnan to meet them. Unexpectedly, my grandmother went there before I returned to the capital!"
Shen Zangzhu was also greatly surprised by the news. Hearing the words, he consoled her: "Three brothers and sisters, please express your condolences. Mrs. Wei is old and there is nothing we can do about it. Besides, Mrs. Quanxia knows that she is reluctant to let go." My brothers and sisters are so sad.”
Although Wei Changying cried a lot for his grandmother and couldn't lift his spirits for several days, in his grief, he was doubly worried about his mother, Mrs. Song, and his cousin Song Zaishui - Mrs. Wei was Mrs. Song's biological mother. She passed away. Needless to say, Mrs. Song's grief; Song Zaishui's mother died young, and she was raised and taught by this grandmother. The relationship between ancestors and grandchildren is extremely deep, and she is determined not to be inferior to Wei Changying and his own grandmother, Mrs. Song.
After weeping, Wei Changying wore filial piety, as did Shen Shuxie and Cao Yiren.
However, Wei Changying still had to concentrate on the busy work of returning home to his grandmother because he had nowhere else to go.
In the meantime, the battle report came from Dijing. After more than a year of war, Wu Gumeng and Ayitahu finally decided the winner. In the end, Hougumeng won, completely defeated Ayitahu, killed Ayitahu, and captured Ayitahu's beloved daughter and counselor, Princess Mansha, known as the most beautiful woman in Di. The reward was given to his subordinates. Ayitahu's remaining children were all beheaded.
However, the Ayitahu tribe did not surrender as Wugumeng thought, so that the Di people could reunite. Nearly half of the tribe actually fled to the Rong people after their defeat.
Wu Gumeng originally wanted to stop him, but because he was surrounded by troops sent by Shen Youjia, who had been watching eagerly, he had no choice but to give up his plan to chase those people and evade deep into the grassland again. Shen Youjia didn't get much advantage this time. Except for a large number of cattle and sheep that were inconvenient to take away, the army chased for half a month and beheaded less than a hundred people.
This record was already good a few years ago, but after the great victory of killing Musheer, it seemed boring.
When Shen Liankun paid his respects to his sister-in-law, he smiled and said, "Yu Jia was very angry and said that the things he brought back from this trip were not enough for the army."
As for Mo Ye, the son-in-law of the Shen family and Princess Mansha, he disappeared more than a year ago, and this time he was not even mentioned. When Wei Changying listened to the battle report, he thought of the gloomy young Di man and his father-in-law's arrangements, and sighed secretly in his heart.
After summer, everyone in the house became busy because the departure was imminent.
At the beginning of May, Ji Qubing's wife Zhao Fuliu gave birth to a son safely and smoothly with the support of doctors from the Ji family. Ji Gu named him Ji Jiashu. It is said that when the child was carried out of the delivery room by Huang and handed over to Ji Gu, the old man, who could not be described as sinister and sinister, could not stop shaking his hands and hugging him. The great-nephew smiled so happily that he cried with joy in front of everyone.
Because Wei Changying was wearing mourning, it was inconvenient to join in the excitement of such a happy event, so Shen Zangzhu led Cao Yiren - allowing her to go back to reunite with her relatives - and Shen Shuyan, who was purely in Mingpei Hall Tired of waiting, I wanted to join in the fun and went to congratulate him.
After the three people came back, Shen Zangzhu let the two children do their homework or play by themselves. After talking to Wei Changying about the congratulations, he talked about returning to the capital: "The Ji family has just had a son. I'm afraid he won't be able to be with us this time." Set off together."
"It's natural. Mr. Ji takes this child very seriously. It was because of him that he turned back from halfway." Wei Changying said, "But Yiren still comes with us."
"Have you packed all your things?" Shen Zangzhu reminded, "We are going a long way, so don't leave anything important behind. It will be troublesome to use it later."
Wei Changying smiled and said: "It's all packed up. I was in a hurry when I came here and there was nothing urgent."
While the two were talking, a maid came in quietly.
Wei Changying turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
The maid looked strange and said, "Miss Sisun chased Miss Cao into Miss Cao's house."
"What?" Wei Changying and Shen Zangzhu frowned at the same time, wondering why Shen Shuyan went to provoke Cao Yiren again? The maid said cautiously: "The people serving Miss Sun and Miss Cao said that Miss Si Sun went to comfort Miss Cao."
"Why is she comforting my beloved?" Both the aunt and the aunt were confused.
The maid coughed dryly and said: "Miss Sisun seems to be worried that Miss Cao will not be happy because she has an extra cousin..."
"This child!" Wei Changying and Shen Zangzhu laughed helplessly when they heard this: Shen Shuyan still has the shadow of being left out because she had a younger brother? (To be continued)