Qin Fang didn't think about the matter of splitting up the family. After all, it was not something he could control. His grandfather and his father were both there. If he wanted to split up the family, it would be unfilial. Even if his father and mother wanted to split up the family, he would agree. After all, a big tree has many branches. Moreover, his wife was not used to so many people living and eating in the same house. His wife liked cleanliness and ate carefully. She certainly didn't like the matter of grabbing food at the table.
Moreover, the Qin family eats frugally, and they only eat like this at noon once a year. But if they continue to eat like this, his wife will definitely not be able to stand it. Besides, his wife has her own private room, so why should she eat simple meals with everyone else? But if they eat together, won’t everyone have to eat her private room
Thinking of this, Qin Fang said, "If grandpa and grandma don't mind, it would be best if I don't learn."
When Mother Qin heard this, she understood what he meant.
After chatting with Qin Fang, Qin's mother went home.
Yang Haiyan was helping out in the kitchen these days, occasionally saying a few words about how to eat the dishes. Grandma Qin listened, and although she didn't say much, she knew that her granddaughter-in-law was a particular person, which was probably a habit developed in a wealthy family.
By dinner time, the Qin family members returned.
For dinner, they had pancakes, soup, and potatoes. The soup was shredded pork and radish soup, and the meat was the same as the ones Yang Haiyan and Qin Fang bought, but there was some left over for dinner.
Grandma Qin wanted to make some extra porridge for Yang Haiyan, but Yang Haiyan refused.
At the table, everyone had a plate of pancakes and a bowl of soup, and the food was very delicious. The number of pancakes was limited, so those who didn't have enough could use potatoes to fill their stomachs.
Although Qin Fang was taken good care of by Yang Haiyan after Yang Haiyan traveled through the book, especially in terms of food, he didn't care about the food in his hometown. After all, he was used to a rough life. But when he saw his wife drinking soup and eating pancakes with everyone else, he felt that she was a little wronged. She could obviously eat better.
Thinking about it this way, he felt that the separation was right. After the separation, his wife could eat whatever she wanted. However, after the separation, his grandparents and their eldest son's family were the same, and it seemed that they could not eat whatever they wanted. If there was meat every day, his frugal grandmother and mother might have some ideas.
Then... let his wife live separately? That's impossible. Who knows what others will do to her.
After dinner, Yang Haiyan helped clean up, but was stopped by Qin's mother, who told her to go and rest. Yang Haiyan did not continue and went to boil water.
The Qin family did not have another bathroom. Whoever wanted to take a bath had to do it in their own room. This was very inconvenient, and one had to adapt to the local customs even if one was not familiar with it.
After the water was boiled, Yang Haiyan asked Qin Fang to bring the hot water and the new large bathtub into the room, and she went to the room to take a bath.
She took a slow shower. After applying soap and lathering, she rinsed herself like a shower. The water splashed outside, so she washed carefully. After washing, she dried herself with a towel and put the towel back on the platform. "Husband..."
Qin Fang waited at the door: "Yes."
Yang Haiyan: "I'm done, just pour some water."
Qin Fang: "Okay, you go in."
Yang Haiyan was wearing fine cotton trousers and her cotton pants were facing the door.
Qin Fang walked into the house and smelled a fragrance. He moved his nose and asked, "Are you still going out?"
Yang Haiyan: "No, I'm done washing up." After taking a shower, she washed up, and the water from washing up was also used in the big bathtub.
Qin Fang: "Then you take a rest first, I'll go take a shower first."
Yang Haiyan: "Hey... where are you going to take a shower?"
Qin Fang: "There is a small thatched house behind the kitchen door, where you can take a bath."
Yang Haiyan had never seen it before and couldn't imagine it: "Then go quickly."
Qin Fang took a quick shower and came back in less than half an hour. Yang Haiyan was already lying on the bed. The cotton of the quilt was new and it was very warm after being exposed to the sun in the afternoon. Qin Fang got into the bed and rubbed Yang Haiyan, who was lying on the bed with her eyes squinting. Knowing that she was not asleep, Qin Fang said, "Wife, let's discuss something." Qin Fang was not a modern man with the domineering CEO style. If his woman was a rural woman who had not seen the world, he might make some decisions on his own. But Yang Haiyan was different, so when he encountered something, he liked to discuss it with her.
Yang Haiyan leaned on her arms: "What's the matter?"
Qin Fang asked, "Granny and mother, have you heard about what happened when they asked for the amulet?"
Yang Haiyan asked: "What's wrong?"
Qin Fangwen said, "Then what do you think? Grandma and mother said that the master said you will have a great calamity this year, so what they mean is that your great calamity may be at the border. After all, the border is unstable, and barbarians sometimes sneak into the county to cause trouble. So they hope that you will stay in your hometown this year and go to the border after you learn about your great calamity this year."
Yang Haiyan: “…” She didn’t even know that Grandma Qin and Mother Qin had this idea.
Qin Fang added: "Mother, the reason why you stayed is not public. She is in poor health and needs a blessed person to accompany her for a year before she gets better. And that person is you."
Yang Haiyan was very moved after hearing this. After all, everything that Grandma Qin and Mother Qin thought and did was for her own good. However, she didn't want to stay here. It was inconvenient to eat, live, and live here. The whole family was together, and they had to be very careful at ordinary times, and they had to be careful about the difference between men and women. She couldn't even take a bath if she wanted to, and she couldn't even wash clothes if she didn't want to. Thinking about this, her head hurt. However, Grandma Qin and Mother Qin had good intentions, and even if she didn't want to stay, she had to have a good reason.
Yang Haiyan opened her eyes and put her hands on Qin Fang's chest. Although there was a shirt between them, the man's strong abdominal muscles felt so good. She raised her head and looked at him with a pitiful look: "Husband, do you believe this?"
Qin Fang: "It is better to believe it than not to believe it."
Yang Haiyan stroked Qin Fang's chest and whispered softly, "Then listen to my opinion and analyze it to see if I'm right."
Qin Fang clenched his teeth and said, "Please stop touching me, I'm about to catch fire."
Yang Haiyan didn't know his reaction. She analyzed it slowly, "First, because the master calculated that I would have a great calamity this year, grandma and mother thought that my great calamity would be at the border. I naturally know that they love me, but what if my great calamity happens to occur in the village? They leave me at home, and something happens to me? What should I do then? Wouldn't grandma and mother blame themselves to death? Besides, did the master who read the horoscope know that my great calamity would be at the border?"
The original plot describes this: General Han Zhen retired from the army and returned to Baicheng Village with his wife Yang to settle down. The village chief greeted him at the village gate. On the way, he saw Qin Fang and asked, "This seems to be Qin Fang, how is he now?"
The village chief said: "Qin Fang's wife passed away a long time ago. It seems that she slipped from the shore and fell into the field in the middle of the night, and hit her head on a rock. After that, Qin Fang never married and has lived alone until now."
Qin Fang's mind was in a mess after being scolded by Qin's mother before. Now after listening to Yang Haiyan's detailed explanation and thinking about it carefully, it makes sense.
Yang Haiyan didn't need his answer, and continued: "Second, if the master can really calculate so accurately, then throughout the ages, especially those high-ranking officials with high salaries and noble status, they must know a lot of eminent monks, so why did they still get into trouble? Take my previous master's family, the Yang family, for example. They are a dignified family of Taifu. When they participated in the fight for the throne, didn't they ask the eminent monks to calculate the possibility of success? If they knew there was no possibility, would they still fight for the throne and lose their lives? So, they don't believe these things at all. Husband, what about you?"
Qin Fang listened to his wife's analysis and felt that it made sense: "Yeah, there is some truth to it."
Yang Haiyan smiled and continued, "Third, if fortune-telling is really that accurate, then it would be disrespectful. Why didn't the late emperor ask a fortune-teller to calculate his own fate? Would the succession fight still happen? Can we take precautions in advance?"
Qin Fang pursed his lips.
Yang Haiyan: "Fourth, if I am here and my husband is at the border, what should I do if I miss him so much? I can't eat or sleep. Maybe I will be lovesick and die. I just checked the fortune-telling and found that I will be a short-lived ghost."
Qin Fang felt his heart was collapsing. His wife's beauty gradually seduced him.
Yang Haiyan had another trump card. She moved in his arms, then turned over, sat on his waist, and hugged his neck with both hands. Her lips, with a flowery scent, were imprinted on his lips. After just a light touch, she said, "If I'm not with my husband, who will kiss him, who will let him touch me?"
Qin Fang pushed her down to his side and said, "You bad woman."
There was a ripple in the room.
The next day
Qin Fang felt refreshed today. Although he did not eat his wife, he also experienced another kind of happiness yesterday. He never knew that a woman's hands could have such magic.
When the couple got out of bed, Qin's mother had already cooked porridge and made pancakes. Seeing them, Qin's mother asked, "Why are you up so early?" She saw that the second and third rooms were not up yet.
Qin Fang said: "Let's go see the female master later. She said that my wife will not live this year, so she will know what the catastrophe is related to."
Mother Qin was stunned: "What are you doing?"
Qin Fang: "I thought about it yesterday. If I leave Yanyan at home, what if something bad happens here? Wouldn't that be even more dangerous?"
Mother Qin: “This…” I haven’t thought about it before, but it is indeed possible.
Qin Fang: "So, mother, I thought about it and decided to go to the temple myself. I don't know which temple or which master you are asking about."
When Qin's mother talked to Qin Fang before, she only mentioned the temple, but didn't specify that it was a nunnery, because nunneries were not places where men could enter, so she didn't go into detail. But now that her son wanted to go, she could only say, "But that's a nunnery, you can't go there, otherwise it will be bad for you to go there."
Yang Haiyan: "Please ask mother and grandmother to come with us, and then my husband will wait for me outside. Is that okay with you?"
Mother Qin was also worried about this matter, so she was naturally pleased when she saw this.
So after the other members of the Qin family got out of bed, Qin's mother and Yang Haiyan, who had already finished their meal, got in the carriage and prepared to go out.
Nunnery
Because we took a horse carriage, it took only half a quarter of an hour to get from Baiying Village to the nunnery. When we arrived at the nunnery, although it was earlier than usual, the nunnery gate was closed earlier.
Qin's mother and Yang Haiyan got off the carriage and entered the nunnery.
Because this temple is remote, not many people usually come to burn incense here. Therefore, the temple does not have many incense sticks and looks a bit desolate.
But it was convenient for Qin's mother and Yang Haiyan, as there were not many people here.
When Qin's mother and Yang Haiyan went in, they saw two little girls sweeping the floor.
Qin's mother said: "This nunnery often takes in abandoned and discarded girls, and these two are among them."
Yang Haiyan was a little surprised. She didn't expect that this nunnery would do such a good deed: "The nun is really a kind person."
Mother Qin said to the little girl, "Girl, is your master here? I am Master Tai."
The girl said: "The master is here, doing morning prayers. Please wait a moment. I will serve you some tea and then go call the master."
Mother Qin: "Okay."
Mother Qin and Yang Haiyan sat in the hall for a while, and then an elderly nun came out. The old nun looked quite old, with kind eyes and a gentle look.
The old nun was also a little surprised to see Mother Qin. Mother Qin and Grandma Qin had met yesterday, so she had an impression of them. "Donor Qin is here, who is this?"
Although Mother Qin was angry when she returned yesterday, she was polite and considerate today: "Master, this..."
"Aunt." Yang Haiyan interrupted Mother Qin and said to the old nun, "Hello, nun. I heard that you are very accurate in fortune-telling, so I want to ask you to tell me my marriage."
Mother Qin was stunned, a little surprised, she didn't expect her to be so stable. She immediately said, "Yes, yes, this is my husband's niece. I want to calculate the marriage fate. What do you think, Master?"
The old nun said: "Of course you can. We will draw lots to predict our marriage. Please come to the temple, young donor."
Mother Qin and Yang Haiyan followed and arrived at the Buddhist temple. The old nun said, "Bow to the Buddha three times before asking for a fortune."
Yang Haiyan: "Yes, Master. Before I draw the divination, I want to ask you, Master, do you read faces? I heard that all fortune tellers read faces, do you?"
Old nun: “I know a little bit.”
Yang Haiyan: "Then can you look at my face and tell me?"
The old nun said, "Of course you can. Please sit here."
After Yang Haiyan and Qin's mother sat down, the old nun looked at her face carefully. It would have been better if she hadn't looked at it. After looking at it, the old nun was shocked: "You..."
Mother Qin looked at the old nun's expression and asked worriedly, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with my son... my niece's face?"
The old nun shook her head: "It's not right if it's not right, and it's right if it's not right."
Yang Haiyan was also curious: "What does Master mean by this?"
The old nun said: "Looking at the young donor's face, you are a person with a short life, but your short life is also blessed with good fortune. You are a blessed person. This is the first time I have seen such a face of yours."
When Qin's mother heard the old nun say that Yang Haiyan would die young, she was really worried. But when she heard the old nun also say that Yang Haiyan had a blessed appearance and was a blessed person, she felt relieved.
Yang Haiyan asked: "Master, what do you mean by this? I don't quite understand."
The old nun said, "You have two facial features. The short-lived face is just your appearance. But as the Buddhists say, appearance is determined by the mind. What I mean is that a person's facial features are determined by the mind. When the mind changes, the facial features will also change. If you originally had a short-lived face, but your mind changed, your facial features also changed. Although this kind of facial features is rarely seen, I think you have this kind of facial features. Since you have a lucky face, you are a lucky person. You don't need to ask for a good marriage. A lucky person will definitely have a smooth marriage."
Mother Qin breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang Haiyan leaned forward and said, "Thank you, nun." Then, she took out a tael of silver and said, "nun, this is the incense money for the nunnery. It's not much, but just a token of my appreciation."
The old nun took the money and said: "Thank you, little donor."
Mother Qin and Yang Haiyan left the nunnery. She was greatly relieved. The old nun's daughter-in-law's face had changed from a short-lived face to a blessed face. That meant she was no longer a problem. Then her son... Thinking of this, Mother Qin suddenly said, "Yanyan, go wait in the carriage for a while. I suddenly remembered that I forgot to give the incense money yesterday. I'll take it to the nun now."
Yang Haiyan: “?”
Mother Qin ran into the Buddhist hall, where the old nun was cleaning: "Master."
Old nun: "Donor Qin, is there anything else?"
Mother Qin said, "Master, I want to ask about my niece's offspring."
Old nun: "Don't worry, Mr. Qin, you will have many children and grandchildren."
Mother Qin smiled so hard that her mouth curved: "Thank you, Master... Thank you, Master..."
Yang Haiyan and Qin Fang waited outside the carriage, watching Qin's mother come out. In fact, she was well prepared today. If the old nun still judged her as having a short life, she would use Qin Fang's identity to overturn this fate. The old nun calculated the fate of Qin Fang and the original owner according to the original plot based on the eight characters.
However, Xiaoxiao, Qin Fang was a commoner, but now, Qin Fang is already an official appointed by the court, so by using this, he can overturn the fortune calculated by the old nun based on the eight characters.
If that is not enough, there is a second step. She can say that she was sold to a pawnshop by her biological parents when she was five years old, so her birth date and time may not be true.
But she didn't expect that before she took any action, the old nun died, and her face changed from one of short life to one of good fortune.
Auspicious appearance? Appearance is determined by the heart
Yang Haiyan thought about it. She had inexplicably traveled through a book in the real world. She didn't even know if she was dead in the real world. But being able to come to this world was a blessing, but also an accident. This was probably a blessing in disguise.
Although she didn't care whether her real self had died, and she missed everything in the real world, such as wifi, air conditioning, and watching TV series, she was helpless and lonely in the real world. On the contrary, with Qin Fang and the Qin family who cared about her because of Qin Fang, this might be much warmer than the real world.
Yang Haiyan: "Has mother given the money for incense offerings to the nun?"
Mother Qin: "I gave it to you. This is also very strange. Yesterday, the nun said that you will die young and Afang will be alone for the rest of his life. But today, she said that you will be blessed and Afang will have many children and grandchildren. Isn't this very strange?"
When Qin Fang heard the words "a house full of children and grandchildren", his ears moved.
Yang Haiyan said: "In my opinion, Master's guess yesterday was based on the eight characters, which are inaccurate. Today, it was based on the face, and the face changes according to the state of mind, so the face is the real one."
Mother Qin: "That's right, I was really scared yesterday."
Qin Fang concluded: "Then Yanyan doesn't have to stay at home." This is what he cares about.
Mother Qin looked at her son. She couldn't blame him. They were newlyweds. Who would want to separate from their wife? "You guys make your own decisions. I don't care about you anymore. By the way, you and your wife should go to your parents' home tomorrow. Your grandparents are thinking about you."
Qin Fang: "Okay."
Yang Haiyan: "Mom, do I need to prepare gifts when I go to my grandpa's house? What gifts should I prepare?"
Mother Qin said: "Buy a pair of shoes for your grandparents, and buy some meat." What other gifts are there? It's a waste of money.
Yang Haiyan: "Then I'll listen to my mother. It's still early to go home. Let's go buy shoes for grandpa and grandma."
Mother Qin: "Let's go tomorrow morning. Go to the town to buy shoes and meat first, and then go directly to the market. Otherwise, if we buy meat here, it won't be fresh enough and won't be good enough. If we leave it at Old Qin's house, everyone will be greedy and eat it again."
Yang Haiyan: "I heard Si Ya say yesterday that my elder sister is going to school today. Let's go to the town today and buy some meat to bring back. It would also be good to get some oil for my elder sister's mouth."
Mother Qin: "She is so lucky to have a sister-in-law like you."
Yang Haiyan: "I am also very lucky to have a mother-in-law like you who considers everything for me."
Qin Fang drove the carriage and listened to his mother and his wife bragging about each other as they went along.
Yang Haiyan thought of something: "Mother, my husband and I were not here when my eldest sister got married. Logically, my brother should also give gifts to this sister. We are back home this time, and my sister also wants to go to school today, so why not make up for it by giving gifts to her."
Mother Qin did not refuse. After her children got married, they also relied on the support of their brothers, so it was very important for her daughter and daughter-in-law to get along well. "It's up to you."
Yang Haiyan: "What about your in-laws? Is it a reasonable family like yours? If they are a reasonable family, I will give your sister a silver hairpin. If they are not a reasonable family, a hairpin is too much, so I will give her a few taels of silver from the bottom of the box or my private money."
Mother Qin felt that her daughter-in-law was very thoughtful and flattered her, so she felt very comfortable: "Her in-laws are good and honest. Her eldest sister's family has many brothers and uncles. Her in-laws dare not give her a hard time."
Yang Haiyan smiled softly: "That's right, your son is now an official, who dares to bully my sister?"
Mother Qin couldn't help laughing.
So Qin Fang took his mother and wife to the town. Yang Haiyan bought shoes for grandpa and grandma in the town, as well as wedding clothes for her and Qin Fang, a bronze mirror, a hairpin for Daya, some meat and vegetables, etc.
When the carriage arrived at the village gate, Qin Si Ya was seen again: "Big Brother..." This time, Qin Si Ya was enthusiastic and ran to school by herself. She didn't comb her hair when she got out of bed in the morning, and she still had her braids in the same style as yesterday. In order not to mess up her hair, she was very well behaved when she slept yesterday and didn't move.
As soon as Qin Si Ya got in the car, she said, "Mother, sister-in-law, my elder sister is back."