Glory all the way

Chapter 121 Human Heart
"Miss, are you serious? Uncle is going to be promoted again?"

In Lanxin Pavilion, Liusu and Liuying were sorting out the gifts in the box, looking at Bai Yingluo excitedly and asking.

Shaking her head, although Bai Yingluo was a little uncertain, she said full of hope: "Uncle is a practical and capable person. Back then, how many people overwhelmed their heads and wanted to enter the Hanlin Academy. Being an editor has leisure and salary. But my uncle didn't agree, he did the opposite. Although he had suffered a lot, he was considered the best among his peers. Therefore, the old sayings had a certain truth. Uncle has been in the position of Zhizhou for many years, and now he has made achievements, I think, when the hundred officials are assessed at the end of the year, maybe he will make a move."

"Zhizhou is a fifth-rank official, and if you go up, you will be a fourth-rank official. Miss, do you think uncle will come back to the capital?"

Liusu took out the large and small objects from the box and put them on the brocade table, flipping through them one by one, without looking back.

This time, Bai Yingluo shook her head resolutely, "Uncle likes to do practical things the most, he will definitely not come to the capital."

The two elders of the Liu family have passed away for many years, and no one from the same clan is in the capital. Now there is only one old house vacant in the capital. When Liu Tinghuai wrote a letter, he joked that the house would be used as a dowry for Bai Yingluo.

Walking to the brocade table and looking around, I saw that they were all Jiangnan specialties, and I had prepared a lot of each item, so it was obvious that they were given by Bai Yingluo, so I picked them up and saw that Bai Yingluo ordered Chen Xiang and the other three to share the gifts. Separate them into brocade boxes and send them to various houses in a while.

Turning around and sitting down, Bai Yingluo murmured to herself: "With my uncle's qualifications, it may not be easy to be promoted to the fourth rank. From the fourth rank, there will be no problem. But I don't know, it will be the magistrate of Zhili Prefecture." , or to be the local magistrate."

After thinking for a while, she felt that this was not something she should worry about. Bai Yingluo laughed at herself, got up and changed her clothes, and prepared to go to Qing'an Hall for dinner.

Entering Qing'an Hall, she saw Mrs. Xue was there, and when she saw Bai Yingluo, Mrs. Xue stopped her mouth.

Bai Yingluo immediately knew that before she came, the conversation between Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Bai must have been related to her.

"Sister Luo, in a month or two, you will be able to see your uncle and aunt, are you happy?"

As if coaxing a child, Xue looked at Bai Yingluo and asked.

Bai Yingluo was overjoyed, "Auntie, my uncle also wrote to you? Is he really going to come to the capital? Is he returning to Beijing to report on his work?"

Questions came one after another, with excited anticipation for Liu Tinghuai's visit to the capital, Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Bai couldn't help laughing. The next moment, Mrs. Bai's words made Bai Yingluo think deeply.

"When I come back this time, maybe I will take root in the capital. Your uncle will come with his family. At that time, our sister Luo will also have relatives to move around."

The old lady Bai said with a smile.

Just now in Lanxin Pavilion, Liu Ying whispered to Chen Xiang about the Liu family's ancestral house, and the uncle who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River said that he would make a dowry for his young lady in the future.

At this moment, it was heard that the Liu family was going to Beijing with their whole family.

It's not that Bai Yingluo is thinking about that house, but, based on what she has learned over the years, her uncle Liu Tinghuai is a person who cares about the common people. Judging from his age, which has just passed his thirties, in terms of place, as long as If you are willing to put your heart into it, you will definitely become a local official in the future, but if you enter the capital without a foundation, and go to the top step by step, it may not be so easy.

No matter what, Bai Yingluo felt that this would not be her uncle's idea.

"Grandmother means aunt's family, right?"

Bai Yingluo looked at the old lady Bai calmly and asked.

Sighing at Bai Yingluo's intelligence, the old lady Bai turned her head to look at Mrs. Xue, then she nodded at Bai Yingluo, "Your aunt is the youngest daughter of the Wang family, and she has been loved by her parents since she was a child. In the past, the Wang family had no power. You Your aunt marries a chicken as the chicken marries a dog as the dog, and your uncle will do whatever he says. Now that the old man of the Wang family has become the elder of the pavilion, the status of the Wang family has risen accordingly. Naturally, it is understandable to want my uncle to not work so hard. After all, Their parents have been separated for more than ten years."

One person attains the Tao, chickens and dogs rise to heaven, isn't that how the big family in the capital grows day by day like this?
If it is a mess, how can it take root in the capital? Come to think of it, this is the idea of ​​the Wang family.

She didn't know whether she should be happy to see her uncle's family soon, or feel disappointed that her uncle couldn't realize what she wanted in her heart. After dinner, Bai Yingluo didn't know what to eat.

After pestering old master Bai and old lady Bai obsessively, they inquired about Liu Tinghuai's whereabouts. It was already very late at night when Bai Yingluo came out of Qing'an Hall again.

The starry sky was vast and the autumn wind was blowing. Bai Yingluo took a deep breath, looked at the slow-moving dark cloud in the southernmost part of the sky, and sighed regretfully.

Bai Yingluo still remembered that even though they only met once, there was a trace of eagerness for success and recognition in his uncle's eyes, which was the endless hope that an ambitious young man had for his upcoming career. Confidence, and now, is in the period of accumulating and thriving in his career, his ambition is cut off like this, and he has to change according to the wishes of others, is it painful in his heart?

For several days in a row, Bai Yingluo sighed a little.

At the beginning of November, Liu Tinghuai's letter was delivered again. This time, the date of the return journey has been confirmed, and Liu Tinghuai's family will be able to arrive in the capital at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month.

The person who came to deliver the letter was the housekeeper of the Liu family. After delivering the letter, the housekeeper took the servants who came back early to tidy up the house in the Liu residence. Looking at the dark sky, Bai Yingluo sighed resignedly, and went back to the house to get ready. Gifts for cousins.

"Miss, this pair of gold bracelets is quite heavy. You'd better keep them for yourself. It's fine to send some pearls, emeralds, agates or something. These gold bracelets are heavy. If something happens later, you can still use them in an emergency."

Following Bai Yingluo's instructions, she searched out all the gifts from the small storeroom, and Liuying hesitated as she weighed the pair of glittering golden bracelets.

"I'm really a money fanatic. In the past few years, there have been fewer good things from my uncle? Now that we meet for the first time, my gift to my cousin should be more generous."

Rebuking softly, Bai Yingluo pursed her lips and laughed.

Chen Xiang at the side saw it, and said disapprovingly: "Miss, I think what Liuying said is right. There are two young ladies in my uncle's family, and they are both in the age of cardamom, but the young lady only has a pair of gold bracelets like this. , When the time comes, which lady will it be for? I gave it to one of them, and it will be another matter whether the one will accept the lady's favor or not, but the other will have a heart of complaint anyway. "

After hesitating for a while, Bai Yingluo responded humbly, "It can be seen that I was confused. Then, you should think about your preparations. In short, it is better to be polite than to let people find faults. After you have made up your mind, then Report it to me."

Chen Xiang and Liu Ying responded crisply and went down to get ready.

Knowing that Liu Tinghuai's entry to Beijing is a certainty, Bai Yingluo no longer argues with her, but accepts it gladly, so she eagerly looks forward to it every day.

When the first heavy snow fell in early winter, it was already mid-November, thinking that Liu Tinghuai's family was on the road now, and Bai Yingluo looked at the fluttering snow, and became a little worried.

There were hurried footsteps in the yard, Bai Yingluo couldn't help but turned her head to look, and saw Liuying entered the room with a flushed face.

"Miss, Second Brother Zhang came to look for me just now, and said that at the wonton stall of the second elder of the Bai family, he saw the elder sister of the Bai family. Her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had cried."

Knowing that Bai Yingluo cared a lot about Bai Xiu's family, upon receiving the news, Liu Ying immediately reported back.

Sure enough, Bai Yingluo's complexion suddenly changed.

"What else did you say?"

Bai Yingluo looked at Liusu eagerly and asked.

Liu Ying shook his head.

Frowning tightly, Bai Yingluo pondered for a while, but she didn't have any idea at all. Seeing that, it was time to go to Xiao Ya Zhai for class.

"Liu Ying, take a few taels of silver, just say, just say, I want to eat Yuweixuan's red bean cake, go out of the house to see it for yourself, be sure to find out about me."

Bai Yingluo came up with an unreliable idea.

Nodding her head in response, Liuying urged Bai Yingluo to go to class, cleaned up by herself, and went out of the mansion towards Dongdajie.

All afternoon, Bai Yingluo felt restless.

Hearing that in front of the wonton stand, Bai Xiu shed tears while pulling the bellows, and the two elders of the Bai family also looked sad, so Bai Yingluo began to guess wildly. Could it be that Bai Xiu's in-laws are making things difficult for her again?

Baixiu has been married to Li Dazhuang for five years, but she has only given birth to one daughter so far. In the countryside, this is a big deal.

In the previous life, Bai Xiu and Li Dazhuang were deeply in love as husband and wife. For Bai Xiu, Li Dazhuang was often complained by his parents, but now, with Bai Xiu separated by hundreds of miles, it is difficult for Bai Yingluo to know about Bai Xiu.

After a game of chess was messed up, Bai Yingluo came back to her senses, and half of the country had been destroyed. In front of her, Master Yao had a playful look on her face, as if laughing that Bai Yingluo had her daughter's family on her mind.

Without denying it, she apologized, and Bai Yingluo hurried back to Lanxin Pavilion.

Knowing that Bai Xiu came to the capital this time not because of any quarrel with her husband and son-in-law, Bai Yingluo secretly let out a sigh of relief, but when Liu Ying explained the whole story, Bai Yingluo's expression was much uglier than when she made random guesses in the afternoon point.

At the beginning of spring, Bai Yingluo followed old master Bai and old lady Bai to the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing. It was also there that Bai Yingluo not only saw the small courtyard of the Bai family that she was thinking about, but also saw Bai Ling's haughty and hateful face.

The neighbors helped Bai Xiu drive away the housekeeper of the Sun's residence. They thought that the Sun's residence would retreat in the face of difficulties. Unexpectedly, so many changes have taken place in just half a year.

"You mean, the small courtyard of the Bai family has already been taken over by the Sun family, and the several mu of land cultivated by the Li family has also been secretly used by the Sun family to be taken back by the housekeeper of the Hou family?"

With a livid face, Bai Yingluo looked at Liu Ying and asked in a deep voice.

Liu Ying nodded indignantly, "Not only that, the husband-in-law of the eldest sister of the Bai family used to be a butcher and seller in the village. Now, whenever anyone has a pig to be slaughtered, the Sun family will send someone to grab the business." , now, the husband's family of the eldest sister of the Bai family is only living on their own one-acre three-point field."

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, is Bai Ling going to cut off the livelihood of Bai Xiu's family?
In Bai Yingluo's eyes, a strong cold air accumulated.

(End of this chapter)