rich concubine

Chapter 476 There is a kind of distance, not distance

Jiang Shunxiao looked at the door in front of him, sighing in his heart. He was neither entering nor retreating. Seeing him suddenly paused, Yu Heng looked at him in confusion. He was about to ask something, but saw him walking away with a dark face. After entering, before sitting down, he looked at the servants in the room and said coldly: "Get out."

Rong Yi stood up subconsciously and glanced at Granny Bai and Xin Rui, who were standing on her left and right, wondering why.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, they all retreated out. Only Jiang Shunxiao and Rong Yi were left in the room. Looking at the corners of his mouth that drooped, Rong Yi blinked and said, "Master... are you here for dinner?"

Jiang Shunxiao walked over without saying a word, sat down, looked at the food on the table, looked up at her, and motioned for her to sit down. After she sat down, he picked up the chopsticks and said in a muffled voice: " Have a meal!"

Rong Yi: "..."

The atmosphere was strange. Seeing that he looked unhappy, Rong Yi didn't dare to speak. She only glanced at him from time to time, then ate the food in front of her.

Since she was full at home, she really didn't have much for dinner. Rong Yi ate half a bowl and felt it was enough. As soon as she put down the bowl and chopsticks, she heard him suddenly say: "How about today's stir-fried pork?"

Rong Yi looked at the fried pork on his hand and said hurriedly: "It tastes very good, please try it."

Jiang Shunxiao said "hmm", and then looked at Rong Yi silently. Rong Yi looked at him, a little confused, and then realized that the plate of fried pork was a little far away from him, so she picked up the chopsticks and put some on his In the bowl, and then looked at him again, his face had improved a lot.

Rong Yi put down the serving chopsticks, still a little confused.

In fact, Jiang Shunxiao didn't really want to eat meat. He ate too much at Fu's house at noon and was a little tired of it, but he was naive and wanted her to serve him the food himself, just like ordinary people.

He still remembered that when he was a child, the family was not like it is now. Emperor Meng had not yet revolted, and his father, mother, and he were a family of three. There were servants in the house, but his mother often washed her hands and made soup herself, waiting for him to come back from his studies. When dad comes back from his business, mom will serve them food with her own hands. She knows what father and son like to eat, and mom will serve them without having to talk to dad. At that time, they were considered a prominent family, but mom didn't. With so many things to pay attention to, Mother always said that she had to take good care of her husband and son with her own hands. Even the cuffs that he sometimes tore naughtily were all sewn by Mother stitch by stitch. Mother said, this is what it feels like to be at home.

Home, a word of warmth, is far away from him.

Ever since he had Rong Yi and two children, he felt like home every time he returned home.

Mom took away a family, and now someone gave it back to him...

Jiang Shunxiao ate the rice in the bowl and put down the bowl and chopsticks before Rong Yi called someone in to clean it up.

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As the sky was getting dark, Jiang Shunxiao took Rong Yi to the backyard to relax. The two of them stood by the pond and stared at the fat fish in the water.

The wind in the evening was very cool, lifting the corners of their clothes, the leaves in the yard were rustling, and the fish were swaying their tails in front of their eyes. Tonight was a comfortable night.

The moonlight illuminated the pond, and the water surface was crystal clear. Rong Yi raised her chin and felt the cool breeze blowing on her neck. She sighed comfortably, turned her head and glanced at the silent master, trying to warm up the scene, and said: "Can I accompany you today?" I’m home and I’m happy.”

Jiang Shunxiao gave her a cold look and said, "You have said this no less than five times today."

Rong Yi counted on her fingers. Did she really say it so many times?She was really grateful, so she thanked him again and again. After all, not every concubine could have such a great honor, allowing her husband to accompany her back to her parents' home. "Your repeated thanks will only make me feel that you are far away from me."

Rong Yi suddenly looked up at him, with confusion in her eyes, and said, "How could it be? I'm right next to you."

Jiang Shunxiao looked at her. Their eyes met. A strange yet clear feeling arose in their eyes. Suddenly, they didn't know what to say. His eyes were too serious and too deep. Rong Yi couldn't figure out the meaning behind his gaze.

He said: "There is a kind of distance, not a distance."

Rong Yi fell silent, his eyes were no longer as cold and sober as before, as if a mature cause and effect had been smashed, taking root in his heart, making his eyes stained with the complexity and entanglement of the world, and at this moment he The silence seemed to be telling Rong Yi that at this moment, he was stuck in the swamp from which he could not extricate himself, with no one to save him.

There is a kind of distance, not distance...

Rong Yi seemed to have thought of the deep meaning of his words, but she didn't seem to understand, so she fell silent.

"Rongyi, how close are you to me?"

Rong Yi looked at him and said, "It's so close."

Jiang Shunxiao smiled, looked at the fish spitting bubbles in the pond, and said: "When I was young, my father and mother were very close to each other. My mother would occasionally have a bad temper. Even if she did something wrong, my father would obey her. The two of them If there is a quarrel, the father is always the one who bows his head first. At that time, the father only has mother, and he can no longer tolerate anyone else in his eyes. If any family does a good deed and gives father a beautiful girl, mother will always treat him without mercy. Drive away. For this reason, dad just smiled and thought mom did a good job. But mom, she is from a young lady, but there is no trace of arrogance in her body. She will learn to cook for dad, and she will behave like an ordinary woman. Normally, my mother’s embroidery skills are not that good when it comes to mending my father’s ripped clothes. At first, the mended clothes were too obvious. In a family like ours, if one or two pieces of casual clothes are torn, why do we need to mend them? But my father likes it very much. Even when she went out to have wine with her friends wearing her patched and wrinkled clothes, my mother also learned a lot of wine-making techniques, just because my father loved a glass of hot wine before going to bed."

This should be what Jiang Shunxiao has said the most. As Rong Yi listened, she thought of that scene. She knew that Emperor Meng was also from a famous family before the uprising. Naturally, the people who followed him would not be unknown. Generations ago, the Jiang family and the Zhang family were both well-known families, but from his words, he seemed to see an ordinary couple, loving each other and staying together for the rest of their lives.

How can one not envy such a feeling?

Jiang Shunxiao looked at Rong Yi and saw that her face was calm and her eyes were filled with a soft light and a hint of envy.

He said: "After I grew up, I envied the relationship between my father and my mother, and the mutual trust between them. There was no distance between them, they only looked at each other. If my mother were still here, my father would be very happy now."

When my mother left, my father's happiness was gone, and so was his home.

Rong Yi paused slightly, looked into his eyes, nodded, and said: "Such feelings are rare in the world, especially among noble families. It is very difficult."

Jiang Shunxiao looked at her deeply and said in a calm tone: "It's not easy. If we have the intention, we can have it."

Rong Yi suddenly looked at him and remained silent.

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(End of this chapter)