Li Shike was dismissed from his post. Although he was spared from prison, this result had a heavy blow to the Shangshu Mansion and had a bad impact.
In the eyes of others, Li Wei intended to use Li Shi's affairs as a basis to deal with the eldest son.
Mrs. Wen had slapped the Queen Mother for this before, but after these days, half of her anger was gone. After all, Li Wei is now the Queen Mother. If Li Shi comes back to work in the future, the Queen Mother will still take care of her. The relationship cannot be too tense.
"It's rare for the Queen Mother to return to her parents' home, and it won't be a big deal if she doesn't have anyone with her. Moreover, I have been rude to the Queen Mother before, and I haven't apologized to the Queen Mother yet." Mrs. Wen stood up as she spoke.
Li Wei also hurriedly stood up and said hurriedly: "Auntie, you are too polite." She returned the gift.
After Mrs. Wen sat down again, she also had a smile on her face, but she smiled slightly awkwardly.
"Last time I was too impulsive and offended the Queen Mother. After I came back and thought about it carefully for a few days, I felt that what I did at the beginning was very inappropriate. After thinking about it, I should apologize to the Queen Mother."
Li Wei said: "Auntie, please don't take it personally. I'm a very tolerant person. Let the past go by. Why bother mentioning it again."
Mrs. Wen continued following Li Wei's words: "The Queen Mother is still broad-minded."
The two people above were talking like this, but Li Shi's daughter-in-law sitting below felt very aggrieved. Before this, she was the governor's wife with infinite glory, and the majestic official wife. But because of those bad things, her past glory and glory were gone in a blink of an eye. It becomes empty. As a relative, life in Li's family room was too frustrating.
Mrs. Wenda followed Li Wei and said a few words, and then added: "This family needs more trouble from the Queen Mother. You still need to pay more attention to your eldest brother's affairs in the future."
Li Wei knew what she was thinking, so she nodded and said, "Auntie, you might as well tell your eldest brother and ask him to rest at home for some time. As long as his abilities are still there, there will definitely be no shortage of places to use them in the future. He made a small mistake here, Just stay at home and think about your mistakes, and then you can make changes. I won’t make any big mistakes when I go out again, otherwise I still won’t be able to protect him.”
Although Mrs. Wen didn't feel comfortable, she still agreed.
Li Wei glanced at the people in the room and said: "Our Li family has developed for several generations to reach its current status, and under the care of the late emperor, those who serve as officials can be said to be prosperous and brocade, and the oil is cooked by the fire. As the saying goes. , If you don’t worry about the immediate future, you will have to worry about the distant future. I am also a daughter of the Li family. I naturally hope that our Li family can be prosperous from generation to generation. But if we want to do this, each house must restrain itself. Because I am a relative, I am a bit old-fashioned and uncivilized, so when the time comes that you can't protect me, don't complain about me and say that I am cold and heartless. Even if I can protect you for a while, I can't protect you for a lifetime. Please keep a low profile and do your best. Constraining my own behavior has done me the greatest favor.”
Li Wei said something from the bottom of his heart in front of these people at home. After listening to the people below, some felt that the Queen Mother only said some high-sounding and ridiculous lies. Some felt that Li Wei was actually very hypocritical and ruthless towards the family. However, some thought that Li Wei was really doing this. The Li family thought about it carefully, so they really listened to what Li Wei said.
Li Wei lowered his head and took two sips of tea. Lunch was already prepared in the kitchen.
In the room next door, a high-quality table was prepared and Li Wei was invited to sit down. Li Wei asked the elders, brothers and sisters-in-law to sit together, so as not to be too formal. She doesn't like a lot of people standing around to wait on her when she's eating, so she doesn't need anyone to set the rules.
Facing the delicacies carefully prepared at home, Li Wei didn't have much appetite, but she still insisted on tasting a little of each dish and eating all the rice grains in the bowl without leaving a single grain. This is still the rule Liu Chunzhi gave her, to take good care of the food.
The cook hired by the Li family can naturally cook good food, and the dishes he cooked are the same ones that Li Wei liked the most before. But as time has passed, what Li Wei misses is Liu Chunzhi's craftsmanship.
After dinner, Li Wei asked Mrs. Wen to wait for them to go back to their rooms. She wanted to have a few private words between mother and daughter with her mother.
Li Wei wanted to visit the Rose Garden, and Mrs. Fu naturally agreed. She had been living in Qiangweiyuan since Li Wei was seven years old when she lived alone, until the night before she entered the palace.
Rose Garden carries too many memories for her.
Stepping through the somewhat old threshold, the houses and flowers and trees that appeared in front of him felt like opening a box of memory for Li Wei.
There were sparse flowers blooming on the rose shelf, but because of the hot weather, those flowers did not look very energetic.
In addition to the rose trellis, there is also a jujube tree in the yard. The jujube tree is much taller and hung with green leaves. The breeze blows and the leaves rustle. This is the flowering season. The branches are densely blooming. Those small yellow flowers have a slightly sweet fragrance.
When she was a child, she would stand under this tree and let the maid climb the tree to pick dates for her.
"Mom, I was very naughty before, right?"
Mrs. Fu glanced at her daughter, smiled and said, "You still remember."
"Of course I remember. When I was little, I was not only naughty, but also very clumsy. I would often come to you crying with bruises all over my body. You must have been very troubled at that time. Why did you only give birth to an unhappy girl? What if a Boy, maybe you can give me a good beating, but you love me so much that you never want to give me a beating."
Mrs. Fu said: "Yes, at that time, raising you felt more tiring than raising your fourth and sixth brothers."
The mother and daughter talked about what happened at the beginning, and both of them couldn't help but laugh.
After laughing, Li Wei felt very sad.
Since Li Wei entered the palace, the Fu family still sent people to maintain the Rose Garden. All the furnishings are exactly as they would be when my daughter is at home. The mother and daughter entered the house, and Li Wei looked at the corresponding furniture and furnishings, the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, and her favorite ornaments all placed in the Duobao.
Li Wei sat down slowly, and she came back, full of fatigue and vicissitudes of life.
The mother and daughter finally sat down, and all the maids and servants in front of them were sent out, leaving them alone in the room.
"Don't worry too much about father's illness, mother. He is lying there unable to move now. He must be feeling more uncomfortable than mother. I don't know how he will recover in the future. He is not that old, so he can live his life slowly. Father This disease is still going to last, so please take good care of yourself, mother, and never fall down again, otherwise your daughter will not be able to bear it mentally. "
Mrs. Fu nodded and said, "I know everything."
(End of chapter)