The Road to Doting Wife

Chapter 175 A Different Situation
Early in the morning, under Guo Baozhu's playful gaze, Lin Zhu served tea to Guo's elders one by one. When it was Guo Baozhu's turn, as a sister-in-law, she had to greet her sister-in-law. Of course, she also gave Guo Baozhu's son a big greeting. red envelopes.

"Brother Yong's name is aunt." Guo Baozhu coaxed his son in his arms.

Brother Yong, who was only seven months old, looked at his aunt quietly and curiously.

Lin Zhu has seen the little guy several times.

It's strange to say that these nieces and nieces don't follow their parents.On the elder sister's side, the brother-in-law seems to be quite stable, let alone the elder sister, but Cancan and the two nephews are lively and active, laughing at everyone.Ning said that the children followed their father, and that her brother-in-law was also very naughty when she was a child. Lin Zhu thought about her brother-in-law and didn't quite believe it.Here, Ji Zhao and Guo Baozhu together can almost turn the world upside down, but Brother Yong is obedient, clever and quiet, and he was often bullied when he was with Brother Ping and Brother An.Cancan also obviously knows that they are close, Brother Ping stretches his legs to Brother Yong's side, Cancan doesn't care, if Brother Yong accidentally puts his hand on Brother Ping's stomach, Cancan will take it away immediately, and Pretending to tell Brother Yong not to bully others...

"My nephew looks like my uncle, and Brother Yong looks like Zijing." Mrs. Ji always said this, not to mention how happy she was when she said it.Guo Zijing was young and promising, it would be nice if his grandson looked like him, but if he really looked like Ji Zhao, she should worry.

Thinking of Mrs. Ji's words, Lin Zhu looked carefully at Brother Yong's eyes, but found that it was difficult for her to tell whether he looked like him, because until now, she had never looked at Guo Zijing carefully.It was pitch black in bed last night, and I didn't dare to look at him when I woke up in the morning.

After serving tea and having breakfast, Mrs. Guo looked at the faint bruises in her daughter-in-law's eyes, and said lovingly: "Okay, you two must be tired after a hard day yesterday, go back to your room to rest, anyway, there is nothing wrong with us at home." thing."

Guo Zijing got three days off to get married.

Lin Zhuhong lowered her head, not daring to think whether her mother-in-law had any deep meaning in her words. Seeing the man across from her stood up to say goodbye, she also stood up, said goodbye to her mother-in-law Guo Baozhu, and then walked out with the man.

Guo Zijing walked in front, and Lin Zhu took a few steps behind to watch his back.

She never thought that Guo Zijing would like her.At first she regarded Guo Zijing as a relative, it doesn't matter whether she likes it or not, anyway, they usually don't see each other very often, but after King Rui's incident happened, she didn't want to see Guo Zijing more and more. Quickly settling on the marriage, she was always thinking about the second half of her life that she had no hope for.

Then he told her that he never looked down on her, and even liked her, so he deliberately tricked her into marrying him.

Was it the truth, or was it just to coax her at that time?

They are all his people, but Lin Zhu wants to seize any possibility of living a peaceful life.Maybe she still doesn't like Guo Zijing now, as long as Guo Zijing likes her, she will live well with him, so that she can live comfortably and let her family feel at ease.

"What are you thinking about?" Guo Zijing turned around on the path leading to his own yard, and asked the little girl who was walking absent-mindedly behind him.

Lin Zhu didn't expect him to turn around suddenly, and when she came back to her senses, her eyes just met the man's. She looked away in panic and shook her head nervously.

Guo Zijing didn't ask any further questions, he took a few steps back and held her hand, leading her forward.

His hands were big and hot, Lin Zhu looked down at the hands they held together, thinking that the man should really like her, right?
At the gate of the courtyard, Guo Zijing let go of her again, and continued to walk one step ahead.

Lin Zhu suddenly wanted to laugh.

When he said that last night, he also covered the quilt to prevent her from seeing him. In fact, he was not as calm as he showed?
Maybe it was a change of mood, but Lin Zhu thought that Guo Zijing had also stared at her blankly. Thinking about it this way, she was not so nervous.As long as, as long as she can be sure of Guo Zijing's thoughts, she no longer has to be afraid of him.Whether it is father, uncle or brother-in-law, their attitudes towards their wives tell her that as long as a man has a wife in his heart, as long as the wife is not too stupid, a man will always love his wife very much.

It's just easy to think, but not so simple to do. After returning to the inner room, he found the man leaning on the kang to read a book. Lin Zhu went directly to the window to see the two pots of dowry she brought over. The two pots of elder sister gave her The orchids seem to be called some famous green products.

"Do you like orchids?" The man on the kang asked her suddenly.

Lin Zhu nodded indiscriminately, but was absent-minded when looking at the orchid.She doesn't like orchids very much, she always thinks they are too plain, not as good-looking as peach blossoms and apricot blossoms, of course peonies, lotuses and chrysanthemums are also good.I can't say what I like the most, most of them are casual appreciations, and I don't usually raise them deliberately. Compared with these flowers and plants, she prefers reading books and calligraphy and painting.

Reciprocity, she also asked the man what he was looking at.

Guo Zijing looked away from her, and his voice was softer than usual: "Miscellaneous books, about the folk customs in the northwest."

Lin Zhu became interested, and asked Lan Hua, "Are you from Shaanxi?" My brother-in-law is in Shaanxi now.

Guo Zijing nodded. After nodding, he remembered that his wife couldn't see, and said, "It's further west than that, in the Hexi Corridor."

Lin Zhu understood, and a flash of thought flashed in his eyes: "That's the Ganzhou Office, right? General Zhenbei is there."

"What kind of books do you usually read?" Guo Zijing raised his eyebrows in surprise, he had no intention of reading at all, looked at the girl by the window and asked, and suddenly realized that Lin Zhu might not be a squeamish girl who only thought about being rich and famous.

Hearing the surprise in the man's tone, Lin Zhu was a little proud, and fiddled with the slender orchid leaves and said, "I didn't read anything, they were all miscellaneous books from my father's study to pass the time."

The corners of her mouth were curled up, and she was sitting in the bright autumn light. The soft and smooth material on her body outlined a moving line.Guo Zijing was a little hot, so he picked up the book on the kang and asked her: "Then, would you like to read this one? I have another one here, so I'll give you one, so that you won't be bored sitting by yourself."

"Okay." Lin Zhu didn't think much, seeing the man handing out the book out of the corner of her eye, she got up and walked towards the edge of the kang.Noticing the man's scorching gaze after walking a few steps, she couldn't help but slow down, her heart beat faster as she got closer, but she could only pretend to be indifferent and continue walking forward.When she was two steps away from his hand, she pursed her lips and stopped to pick up the book.

Guo Zijing didn't let go.

Lin Zhu bit his lip, and pulled towards him forcefully, turned around and was about to leave when he pulled over, before he lifted his foot, he was hugged by someone, and the next moment when the book was taken away, he threw him onto the kang. The man pressed forward, the distance was too close, Lin Zhu closed his eyes nervously.

The expected kiss did not come, only the man's rapid breath brushed against his neck.

After being silent for too long, Lin Zhu plucked up his courage and quietly opened his eyes.

He stared at the man quietly.

Lin Zhu instinctively looked away, then turned back immediately, staring at the man boldly.

On the way, she still wasn't sure about Guo Zijing's feelings for her, but now, she was [-]% sure.

For the first time, she looked at this man seriously.

If the brother-in-law is like a fairy, Guo Zijing is an ancient pine standing alone on the top of the cliff. He does not have the astonishing appearance of his brother-in-law, but in the vast crowd, no one can ignore his existence.Moreover, Guo Zijing's fine eyebrows added a bookish look to his fortitude and calmness, and softened the coldness of his body.

"What are you looking at?" Guo Zijing asked in a low voice.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Zhu asked softly, Tao Hua's eyes were seven points provocative and three points tentative.

Guo Zijing smiled, "Look at you." She was bolder than he imagined.

Lin Zhu followed with a smile: "Then I'm looking at you too." There's nothing to be afraid of, at most he will toss you once.

The girl is charming and playful, just like a fox monster running out of the forest. Guo Zijing suppressed the urgency in his heart, smiled, stared at her eyes and said slowly: "We are married, the king of Qing County sent a wooden carving, guess what it is?" ?” Some accounts have to be settled.

Lin Zhu's face changed slightly, and she looked at Guo Zijing for a while, but couldn't see any emotion, she sneered and turned her head: "I thought you were willing to marry me, so you shouldn't care about that."

"I don't care." Guo Zijing held her face and turned her back. Lin Zhu closed his eyes and didn't look at him, as if he didn't believe what he said.Getting angry so easily, Guo Zijing was amused, and rubbed her red lips lightly with the pulp of his thumb, "I'm just curious, why did he and Kang Wang fall in love with you at the first sight, but you are indifferent to me? I'm worse than them?"

His tone was calm, Lin Zhu slowly opened her eyes, and seeing that there was really no emotion other than doubt in the man's eyes, she snorted, then turned her eyes away and said, "Then I also want to ask, why did they immediately look at me when they saw me?" I was thinking, why didn't you? Could it be that I am too tall to catch your eyes?"

Why should she be tempted by a relative who is indifferent to her?
Guo Zijing stared at the sharp-mouthed girl below him, hesitantly said: "You mean, if I showed affection for you as soon as I saw you, you would probably treat me the same?"

Lin Zhu didn't speak, and she wasn't sure, but at least she wouldn't just see him as a relative.

Guo Zijing felt a little wronged: "You were only thirteen then."

Lin Zhu pouted: "I was only thirteen when that man saw me."

Guo Zijing's expression turned cold: "Don't compare me to him."

Lin Zhu turned his head to the other side: "You were the one who mentioned him first..."

On the day Sanchao returned home, Cuiyu was asked to watch the twins in the room, and Aju led Cancan and Liu Shi to the door to wait for someone.

"Auntie is here!" Cancan said excitedly as a carriage turned around at the entrance of the alley.

It was indeed Guo's carriage, Ah Ju nodded, suddenly very nervous.

How is my sister doing?

When the carriage stopped, Guo Zijing got out of the carriage first, his expression was the same as before, and he was always polite to them.Ah Ju stared at the curtain of the car tightly, and when her younger sister came down with pink face and bright eyes, standing beside Guo Zijing and looking at her with a blushing face, Ah Ju couldn't help laughing.

Her younger sister is also lucky.

After half an hour, the couple headed back home, and Ah Ju was also preparing to go home.

Mrs. Liu was very reluctant to let go of her brother Ping and An Geer. The two children sat on the grandmother's lap, one on each side, and they still didn't understand what the adults were going to do.Ah Ju was putting on clothes for her daughter, and she said as she put them on, "Mother is bored at home, I often go there to sit, my mother-in-law is also happy to have you as a company."

She was also reluctant, but she still wanted to go back after all. It was good enough for her mother-in-law to let her go home for so long.In the first few months when Zhao Chen was away from home, when the two sons were the most troubled, she had her mother's family to help take care of her. What would she not be satisfied with?
A quarter of an hour later, Ah Ju sat in the carriage with Brother Ping in his arms, teaching him to say goodbye to his grandmother.

The two children only cared about the novelty carriage, only Cancan sat obediently beside her mother and kept inviting her grandmother to visit her house.

Mrs. Liu looked at the three children one by one, fearing that the autumn wind outside would blow to the children, she put down the curtain of the carriage no matter how reluctant she was, and stood at the door to watch the carriage go away.When the carriage turned a corner, she turned her head, thinking that Lin Zhu was also married, and suddenly felt that the house was empty.

Ah Ju also felt this way when she stepped into her yard again.

She lived with Zhao Chen in the new house for more than half a year. Wherever she looked, there were men's shadows, but if she looked carefully, there was nothing there.Carrying the child to the inner room with the mother-in-law and helping Brother Ping take off his shoes, Cancan walked around the room slowly and looked up at her.

Ah Ju smiled at her daughter: "Isn't Cancan very happy to finally go home?"

Cancan nodded after a while, looked away, then seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, grabbed her mother's clothes and asked: "Mom, we are back, is daddy coming back soon? I miss daddy. "

Aju smiled and turned her head, and continued to help the eldest son take off the thick coat, "Cancan misses Daddy, so do you still remember what Daddy looked like?"

Cancan shook her head and nodded again, pointing to her own eyebrows and said: "My eyebrows are like daddy." Then pointing to brother Ping's eyes, "big brother's eyes are like daddy. Mom, where is daddy? Come back?" Brother Yong has a father, and she also wants him.

Aju put brother Ping inside and asked him to play with his younger brother, then stretched out his hand to hug her daughter, and coaxed her while walking: "Daddy went to the northwest to buy delicious food for Cancan, and he bought a lot of delicious food here Time to bring them back together for Cancan to eat."

Cancan was originally lying on her mother's shoulder, but when she heard this, she raised her head, looked at her with teary eyes and said, "Give it to mother."

Ah Ju kissed her daughter's eyes in relief: "Mother also eats, so who will give Cancan to?"

Cancan turned her head, looked at Ning Shi who was sitting on the top of the kang, and said, "Give it to grandma, and the eldest brother and the second brother will also eat."

Ah Ju laughed, and put her daughter on the kang to tease her: "The eldest brother and the second brother haven't grown teeth yet, what if they can't bite?"

Cancan blinked, looked at the two white and fat younger brothers, and giggled, "The elder brother and the second brother have no teeth, so they can't bite!"

Her laughter was crisp, and Brother Ping and Brother Ang looked at their sister together.

Ah Ju and Ning Shi looked at each other and smiled.

Zhangye.

As dusk approached, Zhao Chen, who was dressed as a businessman, was leading Chen Ping for a walk on the street.

Zhangye is the necessary fortress leading to the Western Regions. Merchants from all over the place gather here. In terms of prosperity and prosperity, it is not inferior to the capital city. Because the folk customs in the northwest are more open, it is a little more flexible than the cumbersome capital city.

"Daddy, I want to eat kebabs!"

Suddenly a clear and clear child's voice came from the crowd, Zhao Chen paused, followed the sound, and saw a gentleman in silk and satin holding his three or four-year-old daughter standing in front of the kebab stand to watch the excitement.The girl wanted to eat kebabs, but the rich man thought the street stalls were not clean and agreed to go home and ask the cook to make them for her. The girl refused to eat it now, so the master had no choice but to buy a skewer.The girl happily kissed her father, took the kebab and ate it, and obediently asked her father to carry her forward.

"Go and buy two skewers." Zhao Chen said to Chen Ping when the little girl was no longer in sight.

Knowing that his master missed his daughter, Chen Ping didn't show any surprise, and went to the stall quickly, and bought ten skewers in one go.

The mutton skewers are sprinkled with chili and cumin, which is a bit hot in the mouth, but in this cold northwest evening, it is better to be hot.The roast mutton was tender and easy to chew, Zhao Chen was very satisfied, and thought he would bring a cook back here to cook special Northwest snacks for his family.There are also in the capital, but they are not as authentic as those invited here.

Ten mutton skewers, the master and the servant ate them as they walked, and they ate them all within a short distance. When the last one was left, Chen Ping pretended to be polite and asked Zhao Chen to eat it. Zhao Chen saw that the boy hadn't eaten enough. I rewarded him with a smile, and promised to go back and buy more for him, and he paid for it.

There will be a curfew in half an hour, and there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and those who are still shopping are all near here.Chen Ping quickly finished the last one, threw the bamboo sticks on the ground, wiped his mouth, pointed to the wonton shop diagonally opposite and said, "Second boss, let's go eat a bowl of wontons. The meat skewers are too spicy, and my throat hurts."

"Uncomfortable? Then don't eat it in the future." Zhao Chen said calmly, and walked towards the wonton shop. Chen Ping quickly explained that he was not particularly uncomfortable, looking like a dog.

The stall owner was a couple in their fifties. Seeing them coming, the woman wearing a gray scarf greeted them warmly: "It's a coincidence that the two masters came. We will close the stall in a little later. Come, sit here. It's empty right now."

Zhao Chen acted like a gentleman, he didn't go to the seat pointed by his mother-in-law, but chose a table near the corner to sit down.The mother-in-law was relieved to see that he didn't go to the innermost part, and asked the two what they wanted to eat.Chen Ping let out a "Yo" and turned to ask her, "Could it be that you have other food besides wontons here? What do you eat when you come to the wonton stand and don't eat wontons? What a joke!"

The mother-in-law was still smiling, "Look at me, it's all because of my stupid mouth that I misunderstood you. What I mean is, do you want to order two side dishes? We have beef and donkey meat in sauce, and the lighter ones are mixed with tofu..."

"All meat is the same." Zhao Chen glanced around the small stalls and said.

The mother-in-law smiled even more happily, "Okay, wait a moment, master, it will be ready soon!"

When she left, Chen Ping said in a low voice: "Don't worry about the second owner, that person will come here every eighth every month to eat a bowl of wontons, and he always comes before the stall owner closes, so he should be here soon." People have already found out.

Zhao Chen nodded slightly, with a calm expression.

The wonton dishes were brought up in no time. When Zhao Chen was adding chili sauce to the bowl, he heard the woman greet someone. He looked back and saw a man in a dark gray robe walking in. He was about forty years old. The facial features are not outstanding, but the heroic spirit in the eyebrows can't help but attract people's attention.

Looking at each other, Zhao Chen smiled and nodded at the other party, then sat upright and poured the chili sauce from the spoon into the bowl.Putting back the spoon, when the man passed by his table, he was stirring the soup wontons in the bowl with the spoon.

The man sat facing out at the table opposite him. He should be a regular customer, because the mother-in-law didn't even ask him what he wanted to eat, and immediately brought in a chopping board. On it was a bowl of wontons, a plate of sauced beef, and a pot that had already been reheated. wine.

The mother-in-law left, and there were only three people left.

The man poured himself to drink, Zhao Chen stared at the jug, and said to Chen Ping when the man looked up: "So there is still wine for sale here, it smells good, you go out and tell them to warm a jug for us too .”

Chen Ping went immediately, and stood at the door to give orders to his mother-in-law, but stopped coming in after giving orders, saying that he wanted to watch them warm the wine.

The man glanced outside, put down the wine bowl brought to his mouth, and looked directly at Zhao Chen: "You are looking for me?"

Zhao Chen smiled, "The general is really smart. Li did come to see the general on purpose, but it's not convenient to talk here. When the general is free, please come to Datong Restaurant to talk. Li will be waiting for you at any time."

Wu Qi lowered his eyes, looked at the wine bowl reflecting the light and said, "If I don't go, what about you?"

Zhao Chen didn't speak, took out an ingot of broken silver and put it on the table, stood up, and pushed the wonton on the table towards the opposite side before leaving: "If the general doesn't go, then we can only come here every month to see things and think about others , It's a pity that I didn't make it by myself, and the taste is still worse, the general said, right?"

Wu Qi raised his eyes suddenly, his gaze was like a knife.

Zhao Chen arched his hands and walked away.

(End of this chapter)