"Your Majesty." Ji Mingxiu looked at the emperor's expression, and it seemed that there was something weird about it, but it was impossible to say what was weird about it.
"Oh." The emperor responded, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to Ji Mingxiu, "The Tomb-sweeping Day is coming soon, are you going to visit your mother's grave?"
Ji Mingxiu nodded: "I'm going. Mother hasn't seen Xiaowei and the others yet. I plan to bring Xiaowei, Mingye and the two children with me."
The emperor touched the token in his hand and murmured: "You should let your mother see it. She didn't expect it when she was alive. Now if she knows that the family is safe, she can rest in peace under the Nine Springs."
"Are you going this year?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
The emperor smiled bitterly: "I won't go. Recently, I seldom worry about state affairs. I have piled up a lot of official duties, and I am too busy. Help me... burn a stick of incense to your mother."
"good."
The emperor brushed off his wide sleeves: "Oh, I haven't played this game yet, but I'm already tired. I'll play chess with you another day. I'm going back to the palace to rest."
After saying that, he returned the token to Ji Mingxiu.
Eunuch Fu came over cleverly and held the emperor's arm: "Your Majesty, be careful."
Ji Mingxiu stood up, cupped his hands and bowed slightly: "Respectfully send the emperor off."
The emperor raised his hand: "You... you can go back too."
After all, he walked down the steps while supporting Eunuch Fu's arm, and stepped on the air on the last two steps. The surrounding palace people were frightened to death. It was the last two steps, and he jumped on the ground without falling. Come.
Ji Mingxiu looked at the emperor's receding back with a thoughtful expression.
After coming out of the imperial garden, it was already sunset, so Ji Mingxiu went to the prime minister's hall in the government palace to deal with official duties for half an hour, and then got into the carriage and went back to the mansion.
In the blink of an eye, it was Ching Ming Festival, and Nanshan Academy was on holiday for three days. Ji Mingxiu decided to take his wife, children and brother to the Princess Mausoleum to visit his mother's tomb. The tomb of Ji's family is far away in Qiuzhou, and there are three rooms to clean it, so no one will be sent here. , and Qiao Zheng sent a letter, asking Qiao Wei and the others to go to Qiao Wei's cemetery to sweep the graves of Qiao Wei's grandparents. come over.
Qiao Wei had no relatives or friends in her previous life. The few grave-sweeping objects were martyrs who died for the country. Those martyrs didn’t know her, and she didn’t know them. The dean’s mother took them to the grave, and they went Yes, she sweeps very clean every time, because the cleanest can be rewarded with a piece of chocolate.
It's the first time to visit the grave of a relative, and it feels...a bit different.
The first day of Ching Ming Festival is the Cold Food Festival. Fire is banned throughout the country, and only cold food can be eaten. Everyone eats lightly. A few overnight steamed buns and a few plates of overnight snacks are the whole meal.
The leader and the two little guys are people who have come through hardships, and they don’t care about eating cold food. Brother Liu’s stomach is delicate, and after eating half a cold steamed bun, he started vomiting and diarrhea in half an hour. Mrs. Ji feels sorry for her little grandson Son, quietly asked the kitchen to cook some hot porridge.
On Tomb-sweeping Day, the spring is bright and sunny, Qiao Wei was awakened by the biological clock in her body early, Ji Mingxiu has already woken up, busy with something in the study, Qiao Wei stretched herself, opened the window and looked As the sky is getting brighter, the golden sunlight falls into the yard, shining on the green branches and leaves, and also on the buds that are about to bloom. Just looking at it, it seems to smell a burst of fragrance.
On the treetops a little farther away, there are chirping birds. Because the distance is too far, you can't hear it if you don't open the window. In fact, there are many big trees planted in Qinglianju and the surrounding area. Asuka, however, was caught and eaten by two whites.
Qiao Wei washed up, dressed neatly, and went to Jing Yun and Wang Shu's room.
Jing Yun has already woken up, and is sitting in front of the window sill practicing calligraphy. His small body is straight, his face is stern, his eyebrows are picturesque, and he is holding a brush in his small hand, and he is very serious.
Qiao Wei walked over, bent down, and looked at her son steadfastly.
Jing Yun's small face turned red at a visible speed. In fact, he found out when his mother entered the door, but he didn't move, because his father said that women like men when they are serious, so he practiced so seriously. Words, I must have fascinated my mother so much.
"Jing Yun."
Look, mother is going to praise him!
"You have eyes."
Jing Yun: "..."
Jing Yun dropped the brush and ran away!
So embarrassing, so embarrassing, so embarrassing...
…
Qiao Wei picked Wang Shu up from the quilt. Wang Shu slept so soundly that she didn't realize that she had been stripped naked. She turned over and pouted her butt like a piglet. Kneeling on the bed, snoring little by little.
Qiao Wei laughed angrily, patted her chubby little butt, grabbed her into her arms and put on her clothes.
She was all dressed, but she still didn't wake up. Qiao Wei was also convinced by this sleeping skill.
Qiao Wei was about to wake her up. At this time, Ji Mingxiu had finished dealing with the matter at hand and walked over from the study room. Seeing that Qiao Wei was pinching her daughter's face, which turned red, she couldn't help feeling distressed: "What's wrong?"
"You can't wake up this guy." Qiao Wei flicked her head, her head was shaking from side to side, and she was still sleeping soundly. Qiao Wei lost her temper and shoved her into her father's arms, "Come on, Wake her up, let her brush her teeth and wash her face, and then come over to eat."
Ji Mingxiu hugged her daughter and hummed.
When Qiao Wei left the house, the prime minister thoughtfully went to the door to have a look. After confirming that his wife had gone far, he hurriedly carried his daughter to the ear room, picked up the small toothbrush Qiao Wei made herself, and brushed it for her. teeth.
After brushing and washing her face, Qiao Wei entered the room.
The Prime Minister thoughtfully stuffed the small toothbrush into his daughter's hand.
Qiao Wei looked at the little fat man who was drooling in Ji Mingxiu's arms, and her expression sank.
Ji Mingxiu said without changing his face, "She brushed it herself." After a pause, she looked at the little guy in her arms, with a look of surprise, "Why did you fall asleep after brushing?"
Qiao Wei's eyes were cold!
…
When it was time to eat, Wang Shu's little bun finally woke up, opened his eyes and saw a big table full of steaming food, jumped out of his father's arms in excitement, climbed onto the small chair, and stared at the table full of food , Hulala drooling.
Although he was very greedy, Wang Shu also understood the reason for the whole family to eat together. After waiting for a while, the leader also waited for him, and finally picked up the chopsticks.
The whole family had enough to eat, and they took the three little ones out of Qinglianju, Wang Shu hugged Xiaobai, Jing Yun hugged Dabai.
Xiaobai is still small, but Dabai has grown a whole circle, Jing Yun will not admit that he has a little difficulty in hugging.
"Sister, shall we change it?" Jing Yun said.
"Why?" Wang Shu blinked his eyes and asked.
"Because good things need to be shared together." Jing Yun said without blushing.
This reason should not be too ridiculous, but Wang Shu couldn't turn the corner anyway, so he exchanged Xiaobai and Dabai very readily.
Jing Yun hugged Xiao Bai, feeling that his whole body was full of strength.
Suddenly, Wang Shu grabbed Zhu'er, stuffed it into his elder brother's arms, and said generously, "I'll give you Zhu'er too."
Jing Yun wanted to cry.
…
When he walked to the door, Ji Shangqing also arrived. He sat in the carriage and looked at the mighty family. He was both relieved and lonely. The relief was that the eldest son got married and the youngest son went home. I'm not as close as I was when I was a child.
'grandfather! '
The two little buns greeted each other sweetly.
Ji Shangqing smiled dotingly, rubbed the heads of the two little guys: "Do you want to take grandfather's carriage?"
"Okay!" Wang Shu responded very simply, hugged Dabai, and ran into Ji Shangqing's carriage.
Jing Yun also sat up.
Ji Shangqing looked at the leader, who snorted coldly and got into Ji Mingxiu's carriage.
Ji Shangqing told the coachman, "Let's go."
The coachman raised his whip: "Drive!"
Can't drive.
"drive!"
Still can't drive.
The two steeds tried their best to eat grass, but they couldn't move.
In the end, it was Qiao Wei who hugged Wang Shu, and Ji Shangqing's carriage moved.
Every Qingming Festival, Ji Mingxiu and his son would come to the Princess Mausoleum to sweep the tomb of Princess Zhaoming, and the emperor would also come. This year, it was said that they were busy with official duties, but Ji Shangqing was a little surprised. Back then, the two marriages were not happy, and they finally stayed together. Princess Zhaoming died young again, and the relationship between the emperor and Ji Shangqing was actually not as harmonious as the rumors said, so Ji Shangqing felt a little more relaxed when the emperor didn't come.
A group of people passed through the east gate, traveled southeast for twenty miles, and arrived at the Princess Mausoleum.
The Princess Mausoleum covers a very large area, about the size of two Ji families. The carriage stopped at the gate of the mausoleum, and everyone abandoned the carts and walked for about two quarters of an hour, passing through several gardens lined with green willows, before arriving at the place where the princess was buried. The place.
The servants guarding the mausoleum knew that the emperor and Ji Mingxiu liked to be quiet, and they would not come forward to disturb them on Ching Ming.
The cemetery is very clean, there is nothing to clean, some fresh willow branches have been inserted on the grave, and some fresh sacrifices are placed under the tombstone.
The servants will not place sacrifices for the princess on Qingming Festival without authorization. Who put these sacrifices
Ji Shangqing's eyes fell on the sacrifice, and he frowned and said, "The emperor has been here?"
Ji Mingxiu put down the joss stick he was carrying: "No, he said he wouldn't come, and asked me to burn a stick of joss stick for mother."
"Then whose are these things?" Ji Shangqing asked suspiciously.
Ji Mingxiu said thoughtfully, "Maybe someone else came to see my mother."
The Princess Mausoleum is not only open to the Ji family, every year besides the Ji family, there are also many royal relatives who come to pay homage to the princess, but it is earlier than them, and this is the first time I have met.
It was also the first time for Xiao Baozi to sweep the grave, and he didn't quite understand what it meant. Qiao Wei told them that this was the tomb of his grandmother, and the grandmother slept under it. He kowtowed to the cold tombstone and called grandma.
They don't understand why grandma sleeps here all by herself, why doesn't she move back to live with them
The leader looked at the crowd indifferently.
Ji Shangqing said: "My mother."
"not called!"
Ji Shangqing's face darkened: "Nonsense, this is your mother."
"Just don't call!"
The leader flicked his sleeves and left!
Ji Shangqing had nothing to do with this son. He offered sacrifices to his wife and wiped the tombstone. Both father and son are not people who love to talk about the tombstone. They are not like other people. When sweeping the grave, they said that this is my wife. This is what my children are like, what do you want to do with your spirit in the sky, and so on. The two of them just silently worshiped and left with their families.
Outside the Princess Mausoleum, on another carriage, the maid opened the curtain on one side, looked at a group of people coming out of the mausoleum, and said, "Miss, look, it's the Ji family!"
The maid had inquired about Ji's family and learned that they would come to worship the princess at this time, so it was not difficult to guess that this group of people was them.
The woman looked out from the gap in the curtain. She just glanced at it casually, wanting to see what the Ji family looked like, but unexpectedly, she saw two familiar faces: "It's them?"
When the maid heard that the tone was not right, she asked strangely: "Miss knows them?"
The woman's gaze fell firmly on the leader, and after seeing him, she looked at Qiao Wei at the side, her bare hands under the wide sleeves clenched into fists.
The maid followed the young lady's eyes and found that the young lady was looking at a young woman and a man wearing a black robe and a jade mask. She knew who the woman was, she was the young lady of the Ji family. As for the man who followed her The man behind—
"Miss, the one in white in front is the young master of the Ji family."
The heroine's gaze was about to shoot a few holes out of the leader's head, she gritted her teeth and whispered, "How could he be from the Ji family?"
"Miss, miss, miss!" The maid's fingertips waved in front of the woman's eyes.
The woman regained her senses and said calmly, "I know who is the young master of the Ji family."
The maid said: "Then you keep staring at the one behind?"
The woman looked at the maid coldly: "Who am I staring at, what does it matter to you?"
The maid lowered her head: "The slave overstepped, please forgive me, miss."
The woman took one last look at the leader and lowered the curtain coldly.
The maid said cautiously: "Miss, Changfeng Envoy seems to have had an accident. A few days ago, he also contacted four copper knife guards, intending to escape from Daliang, but in the blink of an eye, news spread that he was recuperating at Ji's house."
"Where's the copper knife guard?" the woman asked.
The maid said: "They are all dead."
The woman's eyes moved: "It's worthy of being a priest who can kill four copper sword guards at once."
The maid asked, "Should we go to Ji's house to rescue Changfeng Envoy?"
The woman said lightly: "Don't worry, I'll go find out the news first."
The maid thought for a while: "Let me go, miss."
The woman said seriously: "No, you stay in the inn and wait for me."