Hehuā didn't know what Qi Jintang told Qi Yongzheng, nor what punishment he gave Qi Peng. He didn't mention it after he returned to the room, and Hehuā didn't ask.
During dinner, Xiao Zhen ran in happily and said: "Grandma, there is a letter from uncle."
He Hua's brows relaxed, and his eyebrows instantly became curved. He reached out to take the letter and read it carefully. He smiled and said to Qi Jintang: "Bo Ning and Shuan Zi will arrive in Hangzhou in four or five days. We will finally meet each other." These two brats have grown taller, but the journey has been smooth."
"Since we are almost here, you should pack your things and leave for eldest brother's house tomorrow!" Qi Jintang said after swallowing the food in his mouth.
"Tomorrow?" Hehuā was stunned when he heard this.
"Yes, you set off tomorrow. After you arrive at eldest brother's house, you can rest for a few minutes just in time to greet them, so that they can see you as soon as they arrive." Qi Jintang said. He stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of pork ribs for He Huā. "I see that your appetite has not been very good these days. You eat very little of everything. You don't even use your chopsticks to eat the dishes you loved in the past. Your chin is pointed."
"Perhaps it's because the weather is getting hotter and people feel like they've lost their appetite!" Hehuā said without paying much attention, "I'm not in a hurry. I'll wait until there's news about repairing the river channel."
"It won't come a few days earlier if you wait with me, why bother!"
"How can I rest assured if you let me go now?" Hehuā glared at him, "I have the final say when to leave, don't rush me."
It dragged on like this for a few more days, He Huā almost counting the days on his fingers, but he didn't dare to do it in front of Qi Jintang. Occasionally when I was in the room, I couldn't help but whisper to Miao'er.
"Counting the days, those two boys should have disembarked in Hangzhou, and they should have met my eldest brother..."
"They should be home now. I wonder if they are used to southern food..."
Qi Jintang once came back and walked outside the house and happened to hear it. He paused for a moment, but still pretended not to hear it and did not mention it to He Huā. The dilemma.
The two of them spent several days suffering each other. Suddenly someone delivered a letter to my door, but it was not from the Qi family or the Zhu family. The handwriting on the envelope was also very unfamiliar, although the handwriting was very grand. But it can still be seen that it was written by a woman.
The envelope said "Sincerely Hehuā", so she opened it with doubts and looked at it carefully. Unexpectedly, this letter was actually written by Mrs. Zhou. In it, she first thanked Hehuā for her hospitality and company after Daoqingxi County, and specially I mentioned the barbecue that day, saying that I really liked it and it was delicious, until the end of the letter. She just casually mentioned that the Qingxi County funding issue has been decided, but there are two other matters that have not yet been finalized, so the official document will not be sent out yet, but she gave He Huā a heads up in advance. news to save her from worrying too much.
After reading it, He Hua threw the letter into the sky, opened his hands, hooked Qi Jintang's neck, and pressed her whole body against it. He kissed Qi Jintang hard on the face and said in a very cheerful tone: "Brother Jintang, there is a letter from Mrs. Zhou. It says that the allocation for Qingxi County has been confirmed, but the official document will have to wait for a while."
"Really?" Qi Jintang could hardly believe his ears. Over the past month, his feelings about this matter had slowly changed from full of expectations to uneasiness, and finally he was almost facing failure. He was working in his heart, and now such a big piece of good news suddenly fell from the sky, which almost made him dizzy, and he could hardly distinguish between east, west and north.
He hugged Hehuā tightly with his arms, as if holding her in his arms, as if this was the only way to prove that this was true. This is not a dream of mine.
After the two of them finally regained their composure, He Huā asked the cook to add more food. Then after the meal, Qi Jintang mentioned it again: "How about we go to Big Brother's place tomorrow?"
Hehuā responded quickly, smiled a little sheepishly, raised his hand to touch the tip of his nose and said, "To be honest, I really miss those two brats."
The girls took care of the ceremony. He Hua only looked at the gift list, deleted a few items, and added some, but she didn't need to worry about the rest. Miao'er was careful and took care of everything.
After breakfast and getting ready to leave, Qi Jintang couldn't help but remind him: "No matter where the two brothers plan to stay, remember to ask them to come home and stay for a while. I may not have seen them for a long time, and I feel panicked thinking about it." .”
"Okay, I'll tie them up even if they are tied up." He Hua joked, but the smile did not enter his eyes. He stared at Qi Jintang for a long time, and his voice gradually became gentle and said: "Although I have Mrs. Sun now. letter, but this matter has not been announced in the end. We just know it in our hearts. We burned the letter immediately after reading it... Also, if I am not at home, you must take good care of yourself. If you can't do business, don't eat on time. And sleep, if I see you lose weight when you come back, I won’t spare you."
"Don't just talk about me, you yourself are the same." Qi Jintang blocked the realization of the person behind him, stretched out his hand to pinch He Hua's cheek, and said closer, "Don't just be so happy that you forget to go home, I will miss you. "
Qi Jintang rarely said such love words, especially in public. He Hua's cheeks were slightly red, but his heart felt very warm. She covered it with her wide sleeves, stretched out her hand to hook his little finger, and gave him a slight squeeze : "I will definitely come back as soon as possible, Lagou..."
The actions that the two people often did when they were young, now have a different kind of affection in them. Even when the carriage has left the city, Hehuā is still staring at her little finger with a gentle smile on her face.
Hehuā was anxious to see Boning and Shuanzi, so he traveled day and night on the road. He almost didn't stop except for meals and necessary rest. It took him only two days to reach Lingyuan County. This was not the first time the driver came here. Miao'er went down to knock on the door, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old came out and opened the door.
"Can you please go in and let me know that my aunt from Qingxi County is here." Miao'er saw the young man's face and thought that maybe she didn't recognize him, so she said.
At this moment, an old man came out of the door. He had been guarding the door of Borong's house. When he saw it was Miao'er, he quickly opened the door and said, "No wonder magpies have been chirping on the house today. It turns out that a noble person has arrived. It turned out to be... It’s up to my aunt.”
"You are still so good at talking." Miao'er stretched out his hand and handed over the reward, then turned around and helped He Hua get out of the carriage.
At this moment, the boy who came out earlier had already run to the back to report. As soon as He Hua stepped through the door, he saw a man almost as tall as himself rushing over and diving into his arms. She said coquettishly: "Second sister, why did you come here? I miss you so much."
"Shuanzi." Hehuā hugged Shuanzi, and after a while he pulled him away to take a closer look. "He has grown taller again. He has become stronger. He is much darker than when I left home, but recently in ** Got a tan?"
"I can't hide anything from my second sister. My second brother can bear my temper. He sees in the cabin every day that I can't stand it, so he follows the people on the boat to help everywhere. Now if you give me a boat, I can look good. Just play with it a few times!" Shuanzi couldn't stop talking when he saw Hehuā, and kept talking.
Hehuā put his arm around Shuanzi's shoulders and said with a smile: "You have grown up so much. I'm afraid I won't be able to hug you next year."
"It's okay. When I grow taller, I will squat down and let you hug me." Shuanzi has the deepest relationship with Hehuā at home. Although Hehuā is also the one who controls him the most, the kind of relationship established since childhood up feelings. But it cannot be replaced by others, so Shuanzi has always relied heavily on Hehuā.
He Hua raised his head and looked in the direction of the door, and saw a thin young man standing in the courtyard. Because of the backlight, he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but He Hua knew in his heart that the person was Boning.
Bo Ning looked at He Hua quietly. Although he hadn't seen her for almost a year, and although He Hua was now dressed as a woman, in Bo Ning's eyes, she still seemed to be still at the age of five or six, with a Go fishing by yourself, feel sorry for yourself being beaten, teach yourself how to read and memorize...
In fact, the two are twins, born only a short time apart. But Hehuā always seemed to know more than him and see further than him... In the end, whenever something happened, Hehuā would become Hehuā to protect him, so Boning rarely called her sister. He Hua is short, and he always wishes he could do better and be able to take care of He Hua. But there is always one step missing.
Therefore, Boning felt that he was very conflicted about his feelings for Hehuā. On the one hand, he envied Shuanzi because he could act coquettishly and enjoy Hehuā's favor without any problem. However, he could never get over what was in his heart. A hurdle was that since he was a child, he felt that he should regard himself as his elder brother in everything and should protect Hehuā at all times. However, the fact is exactly the opposite. Although this will not make him miss Hehuā and reduce his affection for him in the slightest, it has also doomed him. His attitude toward He Huā will not be as affectionate as Shuan Zi's.
Hehuā didn't know his messy thoughts, so he let go of his hand holding Shuanzi, walked a few steps forward, hugged Bonin into his arms, deliberately stretched out his hand to ruffle his hair, and then smiled to himself. He looked at Bonin crookedly, looked up and down and said: "I have grown taller, but why do I feel so thin? Is it because I am not used to eating on the ship?"
"No, I ate well all the way." Boning looked at He Hua's tired face, frowned and asked, "Have you not slept well these days?"
"I've been on the road and wanted to see you two brats as soon as possible. Although the carriage was heavily padded, it was still a bit bumpy. How could I sleep well?" Hehuā waved his hands casually, nonchalantly. He said, "It's okay, I'll make it up in two days."
Xiao Xiu came out of the house and said: "Why don't you come in quickly when you are here? What are you doing in the yard? What I know is that you can't wait to talk. What you don't know is that I, my sister-in-law, don't allow you to come in!" "
"It's only been a few months since we last met, and my sister-in-law is getting better and better at talking." He Huā looked at Xiaoxiu in surprise, "Big brother finally led my sister-in-law to bad things."
"Go, I'll allow you to talk and crowd in." Xiaoxiu greeted a few people into the room. Before Hehuā could sit down, Bao'er and Lizi both threw themselves into her arms, calling their aunt in soft childlike voices.
"Be good, be good!" Hehuā stretched out his hand to hold Li Zi in his arms, then patted his side and asked Bao'er to sit on him. "Are grandma's body bones still strong?"
"Second sister, don't worry. My grandpa and grandma are doing well. During the Chinese New Year this year, my parents took them to the city to celebrate the New Year. Grandpa and grandma were very happy." Shuanzi said happily.
"Both my parents are in good health, and the chickens in our village have doubled in size. However, we no longer grow mushrooms. We buy them from Brother Liangzi. This saves trouble. The shops in the city are doing a booming business. Now The store has been enlarged a lot, and the house next to it has also been rented." Boning knew Yihe's temperament, and he must be thinking about everyone in the family, so he took over the conversation and said, "Uncle and aunt are living well. , there are occasional stumblings. But the uncle has a good temper, and the aunt is not the kind to be unreasonable and act recklessly, so the life is relatively stable. The fourth uncle's family also sells mushrooms now, but to two other counties. Sell. The business is quite prosperous, my aunt's house, my grandma's house... Anyway, everything is fine at home, so you don't have to worry about anything."
Although Boning said everything was fine, Hehuā still asked each person in detail, especially Zhu Yongxin and Fang. Hehuā wanted to know all the details of their daily lives.
Shuanzi finally couldn't sit still. On the pretext of taking the two children out to play, they fled from the house, leaving Boning alone to deal with He Hua's cross-examination.
Bonin was never impatient and answered Hehuā's various inquiries very patiently. Finally, Hehuā stopped when he was tired from asking questions. He looked at Bonin and said with some relief in his eyes: "My brothers have grown up." .”
"It sounds like you are much older than me." Boning couldn't help curling his lips when he heard this and said, "You keep asking about family affairs, how are you doing? Is Brother Jintang good to you?"
"Am I the kind of person who doesn't say anything when being bullied?" He Huā asked with a smile.
After hearing these words, Bonin remembered what happened when he was a child. He couldn't help but put a smile on his lips, "Who knows if you will become stupid when you grow up!"
"You brat." He Huā stretched out his hand to rub the top of Boning's head again, his voice softening. "You've been talking about others for a long time, but what about yourself?"
"I'm not like that myself. As you can see, I have both arms and legs. What's there to say?" Bonin emphasized with a cynical expression.
"Don't do this with me." He Huā slapped Bonin on the back of the head. "In the past, you ignored me when I told you not to chew on books. Why are you willing to come here as soon as the elder brother says it?"
Boning suddenly fell silent after hearing this. After a long time, he looked up at He Huā, as if hesitating whether he should speak directly.
He Huā looked at Bonin's expression and felt that this matter must be serious. So he became serious, sat up straight, his tone returned to normal, and encouraged: "Is there anything you can't say to me?"
"Actually, I don't know what to say..." Bonin sighed. "When I was a child, I always felt that I should be your brother, but no matter what aspect, I can't seem to be as good as you. Maybe it's because you were earlier than me. You were born just a short time ago, so you have always been a very competent sister, but I cannot be a good brother like Shuanzi who can rely on you to act coquettishly..."
Hehuā opened her eyes wide when she heard this. She really didn't expect Boning to think like this. Could it be that she has had such thoughts since she was a child? She opened her mouth to speak, but was stopped by Bonin's eyes. He continued: "I'm not jealous of you, but I feel like I'm useless. I obviously want to take care of you like an older brother. I But I couldn't do it at all. I hoped that I would become very powerful, so that I could help you and protect you. Later, I found that I seemed to be suitable for studying, so I worked hard to endorse and write articles. When I saw Brother Sun getting married When I was young, the girl's family gave me Shili Hongzhu as a dowry. I just wanted you to marry with such splendor, but you married too early..." After saying this, Bonin's mouth pursed unconsciously.
Although these words shocked Hehuā, at the first moment she even thought of the worst case scenario. Could it be that her performance beyond her age had put huge pressure on her twin brother? When will you have a nervous breakdown or something.
However, after listening to Bonin talking about Hehuā, I felt half relieved. After all, he was still a teenager, and he only knew how to study. All his thoughts and motivation were on how to make Hehuā live a better life through hard work. Well, there is no such paranoid mood.
"You silly boy, you have been holding something like this in your heart for so many years. If you had said it earlier, it would have been fine." Hehuā considered the words, looked at Bonin with his chin in his hand and said, "Actually, it's not that you are not as good as me." , it’s just that the focus of our energy is different. Girls always become more sensible earlier than boys, especially in our countryside. Girls have to help the family when they are young, so when they were young, You have a simple mind, and I have always felt that my daughter will get married sooner or later, so I have to work hard to fulfill my filial piety while I can still be happy in front of my parents. From now on, my parents will have to rely on you three brothers. No matter how filial I am, I still have my husband's family, so I can't wait at my bedside day and night."
"You have been studying for so many years, and you must know a word - accumulation. All the efforts you have made from childhood to now are accumulating and building momentum. Only by making sufficient accumulation at this stage can you become a more stable leader of the whole family in the future. Backer. If you spent all your energy on raising chickens, fishing, and picking jujubes when you were a child, what would you be like now? You should have read far more books than me, and you should know no less than me. If you understand these things better, how can you get into trouble by yourself?" Hehuā took Bonin's hand and said, "Don't compare your own shortcomings to others' strengths, otherwise it would be the same as self-abuse."
When Hehuā was talking, Bonin had been listening carefully. In fact, as Hehuā said, he understood these truths himself, but what he cared about was not how this matter should be, but what he wanted to know more about Hehuā's attitude towards these things. What is the view on the matter? After listening to He Hua's analysis, he suddenly felt relaxed. He turned his head and stared into He Hua's eyes and said: "Second sister, I have figured it all out."
"Just think about it." A smile appeared on Hehuā's face again. "Don't keep it to yourself in the future. If time goes by, it will be easy to get into trouble. Talk to your elder brother or me. Otherwise, you can also talk to your brother-in-law. Anyway, don’t hold it in alone, you know?”
"Yeah." Bonin nodded.
A girl came in from outside and said, "Auntie, Second Young Master, grandma invites you to come over for dinner."
"Okay, let's go right now." He Huā said and stood up, but felt that his feet were soft and his vision went dark. He fell down and lost consciousness.
"Sister...sister..." Boning stepped forward to catch He Hua and shouted in fright.
The little girl was also frightened and hurriedly went to the dining room to tell Boning and Xiaoxiu. Everyone immediately lost their thoughts on eating and ran to the room to see He Huā.
Boning had already placed the lotus flower on the couch and was lying down. She was sweating from the sweat on her forehead, her face was pale, her lips were almost pale pink, and she had dark circles under her eyes because she hadn't had a good rest for several days. The person looks haggard.
Borong sent for a doctor, and Xiaoxiu asked the girl to fetch warm water. First, she wiped the sweat from He Hua's forehead. When she touched He Hua's hand, she felt it was cold. "Why are my hands so cold in this weather?" After saying that, he quickly asked the girl to pick up the quilt and cover her with it.
Not long after, the doctor was invited, and gauze curtains had been hung in the room. He stretched out one hand with a soft handkerchief on his wrist.
The doctor sat down to check his pulse, his eyes were slightly closed, and there was no expression on his face. No one could tell anything.
Shuanzi couldn't help it first, and opened his mouth to ask, but Bonin reached out and covered his mouth, and only made a few muffled sounds of "Uh-huh."
After a long time, the doctor finally opened his eyes, stood up and said with a mixed expression: "Congratulations to this lady for being pregnant for nearly two months. However, she has been overworking and thinking too much recently, so the fetal condition is not very stable. From now on to For three months, I have to stay in bed for rest. I will prescribe some anti-fetal and nourishing prescriptions, take medicine on time, take a good rest, and especially keep a good mood. If you can do these three things, the child can still be saved, but If you can’t do this, it will be hard to say.”
At first, everyone was overjoyed by the news that He Huā was pregnant, but when they heard the next words, it was like a bucket of cold water being poured over their heads. In the end, Xiao Xiu was the first to react and said to the doctor: "Thank you very much. Please come out and treat me." Fangzi." After saying that, he ordered the girls to arrange the inner room of the house into a temporary bedroom for lotuses. Bo Rong carefully held Qingchun and placed her on the paved bed in the back room, looking at her with a slight frown. With a frown on his face, he couldn't help but go out and ask the doctor: "Why doesn't the person wake up?"
"It doesn't matter. She is just catching up on her sleep now. Her body is already very tired and she has been relying on perseverance to hold on, so she is just sleeping to regain her strength."! ! !