Not long after, news came from the Song family, saying that Yu Jing's child was gone. The news was told by the Qiu family to Yuxi himself. After Yuxi listened, he was silent. She felt that it was a good thing that the child died early, at least now that he is gone, he won't have to suffer. A motherless child is a root grass, and when he encounters a vicious grandmother, it is estimated that he will not even be as good as a root grass. It's just that you can think about these words, but you can't say them.
The Qiu clan looked at Yuxi's heavy expression and asked, "Yuxi, do you think your mother is cruel?" In fact, up to now, the Qiu clan doesn't think that there is anything wrong with being indifferent to Yu Jing's affairs. Aunt Meng Rong, who had entered Han's house, started to trouble her, and always instigated discords, causing the government to drift away from her. At that time, Yujing often helped her in front of the grandfather. In these years, she has been kind enough for not killing Yu Jing. It is absolutely impossible for her to get ahead. Moreover, she also calculated her marriage into the Song family, the cause of the day and the result of today.
Yuxi shook her head and said, "No. I just think that things are impermanent." Thinking about how prestigious Yu Jing was in the Guogong Mansion back then, she took pleasure in bullying her and Yuru. But now? Not only did he die violently, but even his daughter could not keep it.
Qiu's thoughts were different: "Humans, we still need to repair merit." Aunt Rong has committed too many crimes, so she will take retribution to Yu Jing. If she hadn't done things so absolutely that day, how could she have made Yu Jing where she is today.
Yuxi didn't take this statement in her heart, and she nodded on the face and said, "My mother said yes." In this life, a person can live a good life without being kind. Excessive kindness will only make people feel that you are weak and deceptive. Therefore, you still have to be able to survive your life.
It is common for a child to die, so the Han family did not come forward and let the Song family handle it.
In a flash, it was the end of July.
The fire in July is too hot to breathe. There are two large buckets of ice cubes in Yuxi's study, and there is a chill when he walks in.
Yuxi read the book with all his attention, and heard Zisu hurriedly walk in and said, "Girl, Mother Quan is back."
Yuxi yelled, and asked in amazement: "Grandma is back? Didn't you make a mistake?" When Grandma returned to her home in Shaanxi that day, she was going to go back to provide for the elderly. How could she return to Beijing? So after hearing this, Yuxi instinctively didn't believe it.
Zisu smiled and said: "How could you be mistaken? Grandma is in the house, so I went to see the madam first! I thought I would never see Grandma again, but I didn't expect Grandma to come back."
But Yuxi was not as happy as Perilla, but frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not a good thing." The grandmother is going back to her hometown to provide for the elderly. Now she must be something to go back to the capital. While she was talking, she heard the little maid telling her that Liu Yin had come. Liu Yin entered the house and said to Yuxi: "Girl, the grandma has returned to the house, and the lady asked the slave and maid to invite the girl over."
Yuxi nodded and said, "Grandma's most important etiquette, I will freshen up before going over." It is disrespectful in itself to go to see guests in a home-style clothes.
After freshening up, Yuxi took Perilla and Caidie to the main courtyard. As soon as I entered the room, I saw Grandma. Sister Quan was wearing a stone-cyan dark patterned waistcoat and a brown skirt of the same color. Her clothes looked a little old; she wore a round bun and two silver hairpins on her sideburns. The skin is dark and the figure is thin. The only thing that hasn't changed is that serious look.
Yuxi didn't believe her eyes a little, but after only more than three years, Grandma had white hair. Moreover, with the old clothes, she knew that Grandma was having a bad time.
Seeing Yuxi standing still, the Qiu family said, "Yuxi, what are you doing there? Do you still don’t know Mother Quan?" It was also because Mother Quan taught Yuxi sincerely, so the Qiu family was right. Grandma is also very polite.
Yuxi calmed down immediately and bowed to the grandmother.
Mother Quan looked at Yuxi with relief in her eyes. Although she hasn't been in the capital for a long time, she also knows that Yuxi is now living in Dafang and has set a good kiss. The good old days are long: "I haven't seen you in three years, the girl is getting more and more beautiful."
Yuxi smiled and said, "Mother praised her."
The Qiu clan smiled and said: "Yuxi, you take Grandma back to Tao Ran and live there, and the two of them have a good talk." Grandma went and returned, there must be something going on. Since I don't want to tell myself, then I must tell Yuxi. If not, he won't come to the Guogong Mansion.
After the people left, Mother Li said, "Looking at the grandmother's appearance, life should have been very difficult." It was strange that it was a good time as a guest in old clothes.
The Qiu family said: "It should be here to join Yuxi. It just so happens that Yuxi lacks a working mother. The person I chose before, Yuxi, doesn’t look up to him. If the whole mother can be the working mother, it would be great. "The Qiu family is still very convinced of the grandmother's ability.
Mother Li nodded and said, "That's true!"
Sister Quan followed Yuxi to Tao Ranju. Looking at Tao Ranju's layout, she nodded slightly and said, "This yard is good." This yard is several times more spacious than Qiangweiyuan.
Caidie brought up the tea, and then another maid brought snacks and fruits.
Smelling the scent of tea, the grandmother knew it was Kuding tea. "I didn't expect the girl to remember the tea I like to drink."
Yuxi smiled and said, "It's only three years, and no matter how bad my memory is, I won't even forget what tea my mother likes to drink."
The grandmother smiled: "I'm old, and I have forgotten many things." She always wanted to stay away from the capital and return to her hometown to live in peace, but in the end she had to come back.
Yuxi looked at the white-haired head on the grandmother’s head and asked: "Mother, have you encountered any difficulties? If I can help, I will definitely not refuse." As long as she can, She will definitely help.
Mother Quan put down the tea cup and nodded: "My hometown was hit by a disaster, and I don't know much about other places except Beijing, so I went back to Beijing."
Yuxi frowned when she heard this, and her eldest brother occasionally told her about things in the court. But she hadn't heard of a disaster there recently. Thinking of this, Yuxi waved his hand to let all the maids standing aside go down, not even Perilla left.
There were only two people left in the house, and Yuxi asked, "The mother said that your hometown was hit by a disaster? What kind of disaster? Is the scope of the disaster large?"
The grandmother nodded and said: "Most of the places in Shaanxi and Gansu were affected by drought. When I left, the food was 10% higher than the same time last year. I don't know what the price is now." Shaanxi is thousands of miles away from the capital. It took the whole mother three months to travel from Shaanxi to Beijing.
Yuxi had the final say, and asked, "Mother, could it rain again after you left your hometown? If there is a drought in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, the court will definitely give relief. But now, it's only a little bit. Nothing happened?" Those officials should not have the courage to hide such a big thing.
Mother Quan shook her head and said, "I don't know about this." She had been away from her hometown for a few months, and she had no source of information. Where did she know about this.
Yuxi thought for a while and asked, "Did she return to Beijing alone?"
Mother Quan shook her head and said, "No, I brought my nephew and his family here. With me, there are a total of seven people. There are also many children, otherwise I wouldn't have gone so far."
After hearing this, Yuxi asked very strangely: "Mother, even if there are natural disasters in Shaanxi, it is only temporary. Why did the mother come to Beijing with them?" People have homesickness, if only natural disasters Just let the grandma's nephew and her family leave their homes, Yuxi didn't believe it. There must be other things in it.
Seeing Yuxi asking, she didn't hide it, and said: "The taxation over there is too heavy, and I can't fill my stomach after working in the field for a year. Although I have some savings on hand, I can't sit and eat."
Yuxi still wondered: "Why don't you open a medicated food shop in my hometown? Madam, you have a high grade, and you won't dare to mess with others." With the skills of the grandmother, opening a medicated food shop is not a source of money. Billowing.
After hearing this, the grandmother smiled bitterly: "Girl, the medicinal food shop did not open, but a pastry shop was opened last year. But within half a year, it was bought by someone." The grandmother also had a hard time seeing her nephew's family. , And it's not a problem to rely on her to make up for it all the time. There is always time for money to run out if only going out and not in. So she wanted to open a pastry shop to supplement her household. The pastry shop opened by the grandmother is not big, but the result is that the business is so good that it attracts people's attention.
Yuxi knew it, and asked, "I was forcibly bought?"
Mother Quan nodded: "I was bought by the county madam." Although Mother Quan had a rank on her body, it was just a false job and had no real power. Xian Cheng is a local snake, and Mrs. Xian Cheng took a fancy to Grandma's shop, and if she didn't sell them, she would mess it up. In the end, there was no other way but to sell the shop. It was also this matter that made Grandma feel very uncomfortable in her heart. Seeing that the drought was serious this time, she was very worried that something would happen, so she persuaded her nephew to move her family to the capital. No matter what, she still has contacts in Beijing, and she can't be hungry no matter how bad she is. The most important thing is not to worry about being frightened.
Yuxi also knows a little about this kind of twists and turns: "Does the Madam Xian Cheng have any great backers?" Otherwise, a Madam Xian Cheng would not dare to be so arrogant.
Mother Quan nodded and said, "Mrs. Prefect is her cousin." With such a big backing, Mother Quan didn't dare to stand firm and could only sell the recipe of the pastry.
After hearing this, Yuxi asked: "A small county madam is so arrogant. Is the officialdom over there already corrupted? It's because of this that the mother is planning to move to the capital?" The so-called corruption of officialdom is Means that the officialdom is full of corrupt officials.
Mother Quan didn’t expect Yuxi to be so transparent. She nodded and said: “Yes. This time Shaanxi and Gansu were affected by droughts. Regardless of whether the court provided relief or not, the people who suffered in the end were flat-headed people.” In fact, natural disasters are not terrible. What the mother is most worried about is that the people will rebel if they can't survive.
Grandma is also a knowledgeable person. Seeing that the people's life is getting harder and harder, she is worried that if this goes on, the people will have no way to survive. If you really can't live, you will probably rebel. If that were the case, they would definitely be affected. Therefore, Grandma thought about going, but she still felt safer to go to the capital. After all, it was at the feet of the emperor, and it was safer than there.
Yuxi is not stupid, how can he not understand the meaning of Grandma's words. Although she had heard from Han Jianming about the corruption of government officials and the Song family playing power with the Yu family, the people below were in distress, but she hadn't seen it with her own eyes. But now the grandmother is dragging her family and planning to settle in Kyoto. If it weren't for staying in her hometown, why would the grandmother take this step? This shows how hard the lives of the people below are. In this world, it might really be messed up, as the elder brother said.