The noble ladies gathered outside the hall, craned their necks to look around from time to time, and when they saw the old lady finally came out, they hurriedly surrounded her.
The princess invited the old lady to sit beside her, and ordered someone to prepare cakes for Yu Xiang, and then said slowly, "Did the old lady get a satisfactory answer from Master Kuhai?" As for what the old lady asked, she didn't care. Spying, after all, is from a big family, and the tutor is there.
The old lady smiled and said, "Satisfied, very satisfied. I didn't dare to ask about the situation. I only asked about Yan'er's safety. She said that she survived a near death and will return safely."
Yu Pinyan said that getting military merits was equivalent to the crown prince's help, and the crown princess laughed happily when she heard this. The noble ladies knew that the old lady valued her grandson more than anything else, and the grandson fought on the battlefield and almost died. It would be surprising if she didn't ask about this.
So it was a good time to ask about the cold and warm.
Yu Xiang endured for a while, but finally couldn't sit still, pulled the old lady's clothes, and said softly, "Ancestor, I want to go to the Daxiong Palace to pray for my brother, can I go first?"
"Okay, you can go, the ancestor will come later." The old lady patted her head lovingly.
After Yu Xiang left, the old lady and the princess talked for a while, and the two moved to the Daxiong Palace, and saw the little child kneeling on the futon, bowing his head reverently every time he read a scripture, and it took only two quarters of an hour. , his forehead was already red and swollen, and he looked at the Buddha in the hall full of prayers, begging him to bring his brother back safe and sound.
The old lady burst into tears when she saw it, she quickly lowered her head and wiped it with a handkerchief.
The Crown Princess sighed, "Old Madam Yu, your granddaughter is worth raising! Which family's brothers and sisters can be as affectionate as your family's. It's really rare."
The old lady pursed her lips and smiled, her tone contained a bit of pride, "What the princess concubine said is that my Xiang'er is the best, filial, sensible, courteous, and smart."
The Crown Princess chuckled and left the hall to the grandparents and grandchildren who wanted to be safe.
After reading the scriptures in the hall for a day and donating five hundred catties of sesame oil, the grandparents and grandchildren went down the mountain in the sunset. The old lady and Mother Ma took the first car, and the second car was reserved for Yu Xiang and her personal maid.
After being exposed to the sun for half a day, the mud on the road had dried up, and the journey was much smoother than when it came, but the old lady was even more restless. Monk Kuhai's comments were always in her mind, and she couldn't get rid of them no matter what. She took apart those words one by one, broke them into pieces, rubbed them into pieces, and put them back together again. Infinitely magnified.
Her direct granddaughter is indeed a lone star!
Mother Ma was also thinking about it, hesitated for a long time before speaking softly, "Old Madam, Master Kuhai said that Miss and Master Hou have opposite fates, if they are brothers and sisters, they must fight each other and cannot coexist. What do you think should be done?" Do you want to get it back? What if master Hou is restrained
Fight each other and cannot coexist. That is to say, the granddaughter will compete with the grandson for fate. But the granddaughter's fate is hard, and the grandson will end up with an unhappy end? The old lady was frightened by her own speculation, her lips trembling for a long time unable to speak.
But after all, she is not an indifferent and ruthless person like Lin's. She can't do things like letting her granddaughter live on her own. The brothers and sisters stay far away, and then make a marriage as soon as possible, and marry far away."
"Miss's fate, I'm afraid it's a bit..." Mama Ma didn't dare to say what happened next. Promising a lone star of the evil spirit to another family is not marriage, but enmity!
The old lady pondered, "Naturally, you can't harm others, and you should find someone with the same fate, no matter whether it's a stepmother or a poor family, as long as the hatchback can be safe, at most, the Yongle Hou Mansion will give some more dowry to keep her rich for the rest of her life." .” Then he let out a long sigh.
"What the old lady said is that if two fates come together, you can't hold me back, and I can't hold you back, so everything will be fine." Seeing that the old lady was in a bad mood, Mammy racked her brains. Jokingly, "But you don't have to worry about it. Don't we have a treasure of a town house? With Miss Xiang'er here, nothing will happen to the Hou's mansion! Miss Xiang'er does whatever she wants to do. Open your eyes, the one-in-a-million lottery king will win as soon as you get it, and you are very lucky!"
When the old lady heard it, her mood improved a lot, she nodded and smiled, "Then the Shen family is really at a loss, what a lucky star, it was brought to my Yonglehou's mansion, it's really..."
At this point, she quickly stopped, feeling a little delicate. That's right, the Fuwa of the Shen family was taken away by the Yongle Hou Mansion, and the lone star of the Yongle Hou Mansion was taken away by the Shen family. How is the situation of the Shen family now? Wouldn't it be a series of disasters? I can't think about it anymore, the more I think about it, the more I feel guilty!
The old lady covered her mouth and coughed.
Mother Ma also thought of this, her expression was a little embarrassing, and she thought to herself: At the beginning, Madam said that she was hurt by the Shen family, but she didn't know that the Shen family was the real sufferer! The Bodhisattva is still facing our Yongle Hou Mansion, Amitabha, so good!
However, after Yu Xiang accepted Yu Pinyan from the bottom of her heart, she no longer stayed in Yonglehou Mansion with the mentality of dawdling. Whenever the old lady has a headache, she will definitely accompany her around. The two recite scriptures together, become female celebrities together, and their relationship grows stronger day by day. After half a year, Yu Xiang was finally persuaded by the old lady and began to take over the post of Houfu.
In her previous life, she also ran a few small companies, not for making money, but purely to pass the time, but she also managed them well, and managing a Hou Mansion with two or three hundred people was just like playing.
At first, the old lady was worried that she would be fooled or controlled by a group of nuns in charge, so she often watched from the sidelines, and saw that she was not only not troubled, but also subdued by the nuns in charge, she was very satisfied. .
What's more, Yu Xiang knew that he was a counterfeit, and he would have to leave the Hou's mansion sooner or later, so he made the account books very carefully, even where a few coppers and taels of silver were spent, he could remember clearly where they were spent. It is clear at a glance.
She thought about returning Zhong Feed back in the future, so that no one could make things difficult for her.
The old lady didn't know her small thoughts, but she saw her talents in her eyes, and she loved her even more. She immediately pushed all the trivial matters at hand to her, planted flowers and fish by herself, lived leisurely, and lost money due to fatigue Her body gradually improved, and a few strands of hair even grew out of her frosty temples.
A year and a half later, Yu Pinyan quelled the rebellion of King Yu and returned to Beijing with a great victory. He was promoted to the fourth rank of Guangwei General, and he held 180,000 military power. Moreover, he is seventeen years old, courageous and resourceful, and his future is limitless.
On the day when the army entered Beijing, the old lady did not go to the gate of the city to welcome Yu Xiang because of her inconvenient legs and feet. The grandparent and grandson still hid in the wall and listened to the uniform sound of horseshoes, this time with smiles in their eyes.
As soon as Yu Pinyan went to court, he hurried home, and as soon as he stepped through the threshold, he saw his sister sitting in a wheelchair smiling at him. The old lady was standing behind her, and she was also smiling, but somehow she burst into tears, afraid of losing her interest, she quickly lowered her head and wiped her tears.
The young man has grown taller and stronger. He is wearing a crimson battle robe. His face is still as handsome as before, but with a bit more maturity and determination. There is still a bloody look in the depths of his eyes that cannot fade away. gas. His fierce reputation on the battlefield has already spread to the capital, and only after seeing him today did he understand why the rebels called him the Jade Faced King of Hades.
If he stood there expressionless, the sharp temperament honed by the blood and the flames of war would be like a knife, cutting the people around him black and blue, and he would not dare to approach.
The old lady stood where she was, with a daze in her eyes. Before he knew it, his grandson had become a more valiant general than his grandfather!
But Yu Xiang didn't seem to feel the change of her elder brother, so she spread her arms and called "Brother" loudly. If her legs were intact, she would be like a suckling swallow in the forest at this moment, and she would plunge into his arms without hesitation. in.
Yu Pinyan laughed lowly, his voice was thicker and more sexy than before, the gentleness in his eyes dispelled all the blood in his body, he bent down and hugged his more beautiful and lovely sister into his arms, weighed her in the crook of his arm, and then opened his mouth in dissatisfaction, "Thin!"
Eleven years old can be said to be a big girl in the Han Dynasty, and she should no longer be in the arms of her elder brother. But Yu Xiang didn't have that self-consciousness at all. She put her arms around her elder brother's neck and complained, "You don't come home safely, and I don't eat well or sleep well with my ancestors. How can you not lose weight! You don't know how to lose weight every other day?" I sent a letter back every month, and my ancestors and I stood at the door to check every day. When the soldiers delivering the battle reports entered Beijing, we hurriedly sent people out to inquire. Look at our necks, they are three inches longer than before... "
After pouring out the grievances of these days one by one, Yu Xiang started to choke up as she spoke, and buried her head in smearing all the tears on Yu Pinyan's body to vent the hatred in her heart.
The old lady poked her forehead dumbfounded.
But Yu Pinyan couldn't laugh at all. Big drops of tears poured into the skirt of his clothes and landed on his bronze skin, which made him shiver uncontrollably. Until this moment, the thumping of war drums, the screams of fighting, the roar of artillery fire, and the shouts of fighting dead souls, which were still ringing in my ears, faded away from my mind one by one. Countless sobs of grievance and longing replaced it.
Only then did he transform from a heartless and ruthless sword into a man of flesh and blood.
"Don't cry," he rubbed the top of the little girl's hair vigorously, and said in a hoarse voice, "Brother is back, brother is back alive!"
Yu Xiang stopped crying slowly, wiped away the tears on her face with her sleeves, pressed her face tightly against her elder brother's face, and laughed briskly, and couldn't help rubbing the tip of her nose against her elder brother's nose while laughing. He breathes the same air.
"Crazy girl, what a shame to cry and laugh, let your brother come in and rest for a while." The old lady reprimanded her, but her eyes were full of joy. She stepped forward to pinch her grandson's strong arm, and sighed, "Strong, taller than your grandfather!"
Yu Pinyan also stared at her temples in surprise, and said with a smile, "The old ancestor looks younger than before."
"You don't know, our Xiang'er is capable, and will help me manage the Zhongfu. She has the final say on the ups and downs of this house. I don't have to worry about it. I only eat fast and chant Buddha every day, grow flowers and plants, It's easy to live, can't you be young... "
The grandparents and grandchildren laughed all the way back.