Traveling through the mountains and fields to be leisurely

Chapter 168
"Mom, are the meatballs fried?"

The car for the New Year's gift was sent out early, and Lan Lingxue went to find her mother.

"How old is this, and I still think about this little food, and the days are getting better and better, and I am still willing to eat this vegetarian croquette and fried fruit. I don't know how this food is so delicious."

Lin Qiutang scolded her daughter, but her face was full of love, and she took one from the fried basin and stuffed it into her mouth.
"I don't forget my roots."

Because of the vegetarian meatball stuffed in her mouth, Lan Lingxue was slurring her words, and the little hoe who followed in rushed to her mother,
"I want it too, I want it too."

"This is another one that does not forget its roots."

Joking with his mouth, he still picked one for his son to bite, but the little fence that Qiuyue carried in saw him, and tied his hands to let his mother feed him. There was no way, Lin Qiutang stepped back from the stove and replaced it with Qiuyue to continue frying. The cook next to her was cutting the dishes to be used in the evening, and looked at the family enviously. Although they were the boss, the master and the wife, they could always see the warmth of ordinary people. and happy.

When the fireworks streaked across the sky in the middle of the night, the new year began, and all the disturbances remained in the past year. After eating the Jieshen dumplings in the middle of the night, Lan Lingxue hid in the bed, feeling that she had already I am very sleepy, but I can’t fall asleep anyway. Scene after scene over the years, like a movie, recurs in my mind. However, the memory of the previous life has begun to blur, and the faces of my parents are finally unclear. One line is clear. Tears slid down the corners of the eyes and fell into the soft cloth pillow, wet and damp, very much like Lan Lingxue's mood at the moment,

"Miss, do you want some water?"

Hearing the sound of rolling the bed to and fro in the room, Chunhua couldn't help asking, the eldest lady never bothers anyone at night, even drinking water and getting up at night, so she always sleeps outside instead of in On the soft couch in the young lady's room, the young lady who can't sleep peacefully like today made Chunhua very worried.
"I don't want to drink water. It's probably because there are too many firecrackers outside, and I can't sleep. Go to sleep, and I will sleep too."

Hearing what the lady said, Chunhua closed her ears and listened outside the window. Although there were some sounds of firecrackers, but after all, it was in the suburbs, and they were all large villages, so they couldn't hear too many firecrackers. Putting it in the city, it was the time when the firecrackers were beeping, beeping, and beeping, and the lady could not sleep well. Fortunately, she was in Zhuangzi now. Chunhua was a little lucky, turned around, and was safe. fell asleep.

Immediately after the new year, there are New Year greetings on the first day of the new year. They are all relatives. The Lan family is in the capital, that is, Li Yongtai's family is considered relatives, and then the family of the master of the little hoe. Get up early to visit these two houses After the new year, the whole family has nothing to do, and the New Year seems to be a boring thing, except for eating and drinking for a day, the second day is the day when the daughter-in-law returns home, it is far away from home, Lin Qiutang did not Fa'er went home. Besides, even if he went back, no one would see him. There was only one elder brother left in the family. After marrying his sister-in-law, he listened to her sister-in-law's words. Lin Qiutang was still thinking about it for the first two years of marriage. Looking at my brother and sister-in-law, I didn't forget to go back and have a look when I was in the second year of junior high school, but every time General Tie locked the door, and when I asked him later, he said that my sister-in-law was going back to her mother's house in the second year of junior high school, so Lin Qiutang stopped thinking about coming again. Until the saddest years in the Lan family, I didn't wait for my brother to come to see her. It seemed that I had forgotten about this sister, and Lin Qiutang died and returned to her natal family. Her heart is only on her small family, and her four closest relatives are all in front of her eyes, so she doesn't have anything to worry about.

After the second year of junior high school, it was the third year of junior high school. On this day, the whole family got busy. They received a lot of posts about the Spring Festival banquet at home. They each picked two that they had to go to, and returned the posts for those who couldn’t go in person. , everyone was dressed properly, and each of them took a carriage and went to various places in the capital. Seeing the family members walking out in such a hurry, the little fence was so anxious that he patted Qiuyue's shoulder and went out step by step, he understood. , This is to stay at home alone, but the adults have things to do, and there is no way to stay at home with him, so they have to turn around again and make various promises, which can be regarded as calming him down Even so, when the carriages of several people drove away, Xiaoli's eyes were red, and he was not happy. Qiuyue hurriedly found some of his favorite gadgets, such as wooden carved ponies, and small pot throwers. Porcelain, colorful jigsaw puzzles, etc., finally attracted his attention, and Qiuyue was already sweating profusely.

It was almost time for dinner, and before the city gate was closed, several people drove out of the city one after another. Lan Lingxue and Xiao Hoe also met together. The two vehicles drove back to Zhuangzi back and forth, and saw the carriage of parents The one who had already parked at the stable, the two of them also took the things promised to the little fence, and went straight to their parents' house.
"Look, this is the small leather drum that my mother bought for our little fence. Shake the little fence and see if it sounds good."

As Lan Lingxue stepped into the door, she saw her mother holding a bright red rattle painted with Chiba peonies, shaking left and right in front of the small fence nose, attracting his attention,
"Mother, you're too close. If you hold the rattle in front of the little fence's eyes for a while, he will become cross-eyed."

Only then did Lin Qiutang notice that Xiaoli's eyes were staring at the rattle in front of him, and he was about to become cross-eyed. Lin Qiutang was so frightened that he quickly moved the small drum away, but it didn't matter, Xiaoli grinned away. The mouth is about to cry.

But the little hoe was quick, and took the rattle from the mother's hand, and stuffed it into the hand of the little fence. The little guy shook his head and heard the sound. He seemed to hold back his tears and began to shake the small drum vigorously. There was a dozen thumping sounds that made people feel numb, but the little guy smiled a little. When everyone brought the things brought back to him and held them to his side, he would look at this for a while, and look at it for a while. That, I was already grinning from ear to ear, how could I care about being abandoned by these people, I just hugged my new toy in my arms, it was so rare to hold it in my arms, and I was tired of playing after a while, With the rattle and the seven-star lock in his arms, he fell on the bed and fell asleep. The time in winter always seems to be very short. It was shortened, as if the time of the day was shortened a lot. When Lan Lingxue came out of the house with a small fence, she saw that there was snow falling one after another outside.

Nested in the quilt early, the quilt was smoked before going to bed, and two warm women were stuffed in the soles of the feet and the head of the quilt, the quilt is really warm now, Lan Lingxue is warm and comfortable here She fell asleep quickly in bed, probably because she was tired from a busy day, and she didn't turn over almost all night. In the morning, she was awakened by the noise in the yard. Lan Lingxue opened her eyes and looked out the window. Pale white, it seems that the sky has not fully brightened yet, what will happen at home so early, today is my birthday, but my parents don't get up so early to be busy, let alone, the birthday things have already been prepared Ready, there's no need to toss around so early in the morning. Lan Lingxue, who was guessing wildly, suddenly felt a thump in her heart. She got up from the bed in a daze, quickly tidied herself up, opened the door and rushed Going out, there were quite a few people in the yard, Lin Qiutang stood close to the door, when she heard the sound of the door, she immediately turned around, saw her daughter standing in front of the door, she immediately turned around, turned her daughter back Pushing back into the room, but just this back and forth, Lan Lingxue saw the opposite of her mother just now, that tall, healthy young man with a handsome complexion, who else could it be but An Zhiyuan.

"Mom, why did you push me in? What's going on outside?"

Pushed into the house by her mother so confusedly, Lan Lingxue hurriedly asked, she was really worried about who were the people outside, but she clearly saw An Zhiyuan, if he was there, there should be nothing wrong Let's do it, but why did my mother push herself into the room?
"What are you talking about? There are so many men outside. You are a girl. How can you go out to show your face and stay in the house honestly?"

These words made Lan Lingxue happy,
"Mom, I've been running around outside all year, just to show my face, why can't I just leave it at home?"

Lin Qiutang was choked up by these words, she was so angry that she slapped her daughter hard, Lan Lingxue gasped in pain, and stretched out her hand to rub her shoulders, wondering why mother was angry.

"You silly girl, you go to the city now in a carriage, and when you arrive at the shop, you go in through the back door, and you go directly to the rest room of the shop. How can you show your face? Today is your fifteenth birthday. , at this time next year, you will be in your prime. Do you know that you are still so reckless, and you don’t know what kind of people can take a fancy to you? Remember, stay in the room honestly and don’t go out.”

Lin Qiutang turned around and was about to go out, but Lan Lingxue grabbed the skirt of his clothes,

"Mother, don't leave yet, but tell me, who are the people outside, and what are you doing in our Zhuangzi so early?"

When she asked this question, Lin Qiutang became energetic, found a chair and sat down, and patted the chair beside her to let Lan Lingxue sit down too.
"It's General An and the Second Prince who returned to the court in victory. I heard that they have surrendered the large grassland of the Tartars. No, when you just left, I was following Zhiyuan... Oh, Prince An is talking , I heard that the emperor will reward you generously when you return to Beijing this time, after all, this not only guards the border, but also expands the territory!"

These two sentences were said by An Zhiyuan just now, because Lin Qiutang immediately remembered them because they were so heroic.

"Really, did they really capture the Tartars and capture their grassland?"

Lan Lingxue asked excitedly.

(End of this chapter)