"Come in." Zhen Ping said with a smirk again, turning sideways to lead Yao's way.
Yao's carriage was parked at the entrance of the alley, and she didn't even bring the housewife.
She stepped into the yard.
When she didn't come, Zhen Ping was uneasy, but when she really came, Zhen Ping was even more uneasy.
For no other reason, the yard is too simple.
Yao shi's face was not the slightest strange.
If he knew that Yao shi had been to a more humble courtyard than this one, and that her biological daughter, son-in-law, and son had lived there, he would have understood why Yao shi was so calm.
Zhen Ping welcomed Yao into the main room, and said nervously and excitedly: "There is no hot tea, wait, I will let Yuexiu burn a pot."
"Is her name Yuexiu?" Yao shi looked at him and asked.
Zhen Ping was stunned for a moment. He didn't want to mention his wife's name. He didn't think it was appropriate, but he said it, and he couldn't take it back.
He bravely said: "Yes, Yuexiu, not from the capital, but from other places to do business in the capital."
"The people are very nice." Yao Shi said.
Zhen Ping didn't know how to answer these words. After a moment of embarrassment, he suddenly remembered the business and said to Yao, "My mother is in the next room, I will take you there. The house is really simple and neglected... I didn't expect you Really coming... I'm glad you came..."
Zhen Ping was incoherent.
Yao Shi wanted to say that you don't have to be nervous, but when the words touched her lips, she felt that she might be the same as herself.
Zhen Ping opened the thick cloth curtain and let Yao shi enter the room first. Yao shi bent slightly and walked under the curtain he had made.
This is the first time after more than ten years that the two have been so close. Zhen Ping's nose is full of her breath, but Zhen Ping did not let himself lose his temper. He tried his best to keep himself high and not touch it. to her.
After Yao shi entered the room, he also entered the room.
The house was filled with a strong scent of medicine.
I had a stroke a few years ago, and it is easy to smell bad after lying down for so long, but there is no room in this room. It can be seen that the husband and wife take good care of the old man.
Mrs. Zhen was lying on the hospital bed, with white hair and pale complexion.
Yao Shi's memory was suddenly pulled back to more than ten years ago. Mrs. Zhen had a very pungent temperament, and she was stronger than a man in her work. Who would have expected her to lie on the hospital bed with her dying breath one day.
She groaned, silently, as if she was in great pain.
Yao shi didn't dare to take a second look, and hurriedly lowered his eyes, the tip of his nose was sour.
Zhen Ping came to the bed, leaned over and gently touched his mother's forehead, and said, "Mother, who do you think is here?"
"Well..." Madam Zhen looked dazedly in the direction that Zhen Ping pointed, and in a split second, her cloudy old eyes burst into a surprise edge, "Yao'er... Yao'er..."
Yao shi took a deep breath, held back her tears, walked over as usual, smiled slightly, "Old Madam, it's me."
Madam Zhen stretched out her hand, wanting to sit up and take a good look at Yao Shi.
Yao shi sat down beside the bed, moved towards her, and said, "Don't get up, it's snowing today and it's very cold."
"It's still Yaoer who loves me." Madam Zhen said in a hoarse voice. She was a little slurred after the stroke, but she could hear that she was very happy.
Yao Shi married into the Hou Mansion at the age of seventeen, and gave birth to Gu Jiao and Gu Yan at the age of eighteen. Fifteen years have passed, and she is only thirty-three now.
The years have treated her particularly well, leaving no traces on her face, except for the innocence and innocence of a girl in her eyes, but these are nothing to Madam Zhen.
Mrs. Zhen took Yao Shi's hand and was as happy as a child: "Are you married in peace?"
Yao Shi was startled, turned his head, and looked at Zhen Ping for unknown reasons.
Zhen Ping whispered: "My mother suffers from dementia, and I have mixed up many things, or I just can't remember them clearly."
Yao shi understands that it is indeed easy for people to do this when they get older.
Yao Shi looked at Madam Zhen's expectant eyes and nodded, "Yes, we are married."
Zhen Ping was heartbroken for a while, and the circles of his eyes were red.
Madam Zhen suddenly laughed like a child.
Mrs. Zhen is actually not dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law Yuexiu. Yuexiu has been a husband and a child, serving her parents-in-law, and hard-working. She is a little dull, but her conscience is not a choice.
It's just that Mrs. Zhen knew Yao shi first, she never thought that her son's marriage with Yao shi would undergo great changes, and she had taken Yao shi as a daughter-in-law in her heart.
In addition, Mrs. Zhen fell off the ladder one year and was seriously injured. It happened that Zhen Ping was going to the rural exam. In order not to distract Zhen Ping, Mrs. Yao secretly came out from Yao's house to take care of Mrs. Zhen every day.
The two are not mother and daughter, but they are better than mother and daughter.
Later, the Yao family came to resign, and Mrs. Zhen was more saddened than her son.
This matter has become her long-cherished wish. She can't bear to mention it on weekdays, but after putting on dementia, she can't bear it anymore. She talks about Yaoer all day long. Why haven't you married Yaoer back home
"Then you can't be called Mrs. Madam, it's time to change your name to Mother!" Mrs. Zhen said like an old child, with a serious face.
Yao Shi choked and nodded: "Yes, mother."
Zhen Ping turned his back and wiped his tears with his sleeve.
"Hey!" Mrs. Zhen smiled happily.
Yao Shi put her thin old hands into the quilt: "Be careful of catching a cold."
"I'm not cold." Madam Zhen said with a smile, thinking of something, she raised her right hand with difficulty and turned over the pillow on the left.
"What do you want? I'll help you." Yao shi stood up and said.
"The box, there... there's a box under it." Mrs. Zhen said laboriously.
A simple action almost drained all her strength.
Yao shi leaned over and took out a small flat box from under the left end of the pillow.
This box is a few years old, the engraving is a pattern from more than ten years ago, and the paint on the top has also fallen off. It can be seen that Mrs. Zhen often takes it out to look at it on weekdays.
Madam Zhen took the box.
Her hands were trembling, but she still insisted on opening it herself.
Inside is a pair of gold bracelets.
Condition is excellent.
The style is very old.
Old Madam Zhen picked up the bracelet tremblingly and took Yao Shi's hand, but she didn't take it on for a long time because she was too trembling.
Yao Shi saw beads of sweat coming out of her forehead.
"Mother, let me come," she said.
"Okay." Madam Zhen finally put the bracelet on for Yao Shi, "I said it was given to you when you got married, but the family conditions are not good, and I've wronged you."
Zhen Ping failed in the township exam, and has been in a state of slump since then. He hasn't passed the exam for many years. Later, he figured it out and gave up the imperial examination.
This head and face was prepared by Mrs. Zhen more than ten years ago. She took all her dowry head and face to the shop and melted it. She wore a pair of gold bracelets, and Yao's boudoir name - Yao was engraved on it.
This pair of bracelets had been lying beside Mrs. Zhen's pillow for more than ten years, so Mrs. Zhen took it out and touched it.
Zhen Ping always knew that his mother had a very precious box, but he didn't know that it was actually a wedding gift for Yao Shi.
Of course, when Yuexiu passed the door, Mrs. Zhen did not treat her badly. She lent money to Yuexiu to buy a pair of golden heads.
Just the meaning is different.
Yao Shi had been enduring it since she entered the room, but at this moment she couldn't bear it any longer. She hugged Madam Zhen's hand and tears fell down!
Madam Zhen was terrified: "Why is Yao'er crying? Don't you like bracelets? Mother, mother will buy you a new one!"
Yao Shi shook his head with tears in his eyes: "No... I like it very much... I really like it... Thank you mother... I'm so happy... "
Mrs. Zhen waved her hand: "Hey, what's so good about a pair of bracelets? Go back to Ping'er to be admitted to Master Juren, let you be a wife of Juren, and give you a lot of jewelry!"
Yao shi accompanies Mrs. Zhen to talk for a while.
Madam Zhen was sleepy, so she took Yao Shi's hand and fell asleep.
Yao shi stayed in the room until Madam Zhen snored, and she gently took out her hand and tucked Madam Zhen into the corner.
During the whole process, Zhen Ping in the house was in a state of being ignored by his mother.
"Go out and talk." Yao Shi wiped her tears and said to Zhen Ping.
Zhen Ping slammed the curtain to let Yao shi go out first, and then followed him out.
The two came to the main room.
There was hot tea in the main room, but no one was there.
Thinking it was Yuexiu's tea, she put it down and left.
Zhen Ping took a deep breath and said to Yao, "Sit down."
Yao shi shook his head: "I have to go, I'll give this back to you."
She said and took off the bracelet from her hand.
Zhen Ping hurriedly grabbed her hand. He intended to stop her, but after realizing that his actions were inappropriate, he let go again: "Sorry... I..."
"It's okay." Yao Shi shook his head slightly.
She is very clear about his character, not a frivolous person.
Zhen Ping said: "The bracelet is for you, you should accept it. If you accept it, my mother will feel at ease. Otherwise, you will return it to me, and I will leave it at home for her to find out. She should be stimulated again."
Yao shi thought about it for a while, but didn't insist any longer.
"I'll take you off." Zhen Ping saw her intention to leave.
"No." Yao Shi said.
Zhen Ping smiled: "No, that door bolt is broken, Yuexiu can't open it, and your strength may not be able to open it."
Yao shi did not refuse again.
The two set foot on the corridor together and went to the front yard.
The house is quiet.
Zhen Ping suddenly said, "Actually, I didn't expect my mother to always yearn for the imperial examination. She told me back then that if you don't want to miss it, don't force it. We don't have to study to live. I thought she was sincere..."
After listening to her mother's words today, she realized that her long-cherished wish was not only not marrying Yao's daughter-in-law, but also whether she saw her son Jinbang's inscription.
He was very guilty.
Yao asked, "What did you do after you didn't study?"
Zhen Ping smiled: "I've done everything. I went to a private school to be a teacher of Mongolian school, I went to an inn to be a cashier, and I went to the wharf to carry goods for people... Now I do a small business of tea."
He said, scratching his head, "Actually, life is not as difficult as you see. The business has been good in the past two years. I bought a house on East Street and will move there next month."
"It's good." Yao Shi said.
After that, there was another silence.
Yao shi opened his mouth: "My eldest brother was..."
Zhen Ping waved his hand and interrupted her with a smile: "It's all over."
Yao Shi said with guilt, "I'm sorry."
Zhen's only has one son, Zhen Ping. It is conceivable what kind of heartache she experienced when Zhen Ping was rejected by the Yao family and her legs were broken by Yao Yuan.
But when she got dementia, she forgot about it.
She forgives.
Yao Shi's throat felt another burst of pain.
"It's here." Zhen Ping said, he glanced at Yao Shi, his eyes were red, he hurriedly lowered his head, "I'll open the door."
They didn't say a word if they shouldn't.
This may be the last time they meet in this life.
Some things are missed.
There is no chance of it happening again.
However, just as Zhen Ping was about to open the latch, the sound of a carriage came from the door.
"here?"
"Yes! It's here! I heard the man say it with my own ears!"
It was Lord Gu and Gu Chenglin!
Yao's complexion changed!
Although Zhen Ping didn't know the voices of the two, he somehow felt that the other party was not good.
Yao Shi really did not expect that the conversation between himself and Zhen Ping in the restaurant would be listened to by Gu Chenglin.
Moreover, Gu Chenglin also brought Gu Houye to catch his "rapist"!
Yao Shi suddenly realized that things might not be so simple.
She asked Zhen Ping in a low voice, "Why did you go to that restaurant today?"
Zhen Ping said thoughtfully: "A guest asked me to go there to talk business, but it's very strange, I went there but didn't wait for him."
Yao Shi said, "Is it a guest you just met recently?"
Zhen Ping said: "That's right, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with that guest?"
At this point, if Yao shi still can't guess that it was Concubine Ling's handwriting, then it's impossible to justify it.
"I don't have time to explain to you now, is there a back door?" she asked.
Don't let Gu Houye see her here, Gu Houye will kill Zhen Ping!
Zhen Ping Wei: "Yes, but they are all piled with firewood, and the firewood must be removed before the door can be opened..."
"Hey! Open the door! It's inside, open the door!" Gu Chenglin started to slam the door, "Huang Zhong, kick the door open!"
Yao's complexion changed, and he was about to find a room to hide when the door was kicked open with a bang!
Is there a monthly pass
The kind that can summon miracles.
(End of this chapter)