The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 114

Aunt Yao is over fifty years old. Although she is a little old, but because she has always paid attention to her appearance and body maintenance, she seems to be only in her early forties, but she is still dignified and graceful, and her charm still exists.

The girls' school now has more than 30 girls coming to the school every year.After class that day, her 11-year-old daughter Wanhou was the first to run out of the classroom, followed behind her, and said with a smile, "Mother, I'm going to play with Brother Yun and Brother Sheng."

"Go, remember to go home for dinner when the time comes." Aunt Yao is used to her daughter going back to Jinling's house every day.

Jinling now has four sons, besides Yun'er and Sheng'er, there is also a Ming'er who is as old as Wanhou, and a seven-year-old Zheng'er.

But Houhou likes to play with Yun'er who is six years older than her the most, which makes Aunt Yao a little puzzled.Usually Yun'er has to go to Qiufengtang. When he comes back, he will either do his homework or go to the workshop to work with his parents. He seldom has time to play with Houhou.But Yun'er is rare for her cleverness and cuteness, and loves her like her own sister.

Wan Hou runs to Yun'er's house excitedly every day, even if she only sees Yun'er and doesn't say a word, she can come back happily.

Aunt Yao saw Wanhou running to Jinling's house, while she herself came to Yingniang's house.

Ying Niang was sitting in the yard and was reading a list, many of which contained the girl's name and family details, all of which were prepared for Nian'er.There are also many men's names and family backgrounds, which are prepared for Qing'er.

Aunt Yao also knew that Yingniang was worried about her children's marriage recently, "Yingniang, Qing'er still refuses to marry?"

"Isn't that right? She doesn't look down on anyone, and her eyes are almost upturned. I can't marry her blindly. Ask her if she has someone she likes, but she refuses to say. She's still sixteen. Not engaged, it is very rare in our Yongzhen. Xiaonuan got married at the age of 15, and now she is only 20 years old, and she has two children. Xiaoyu and Xiaohui are also married at the age of 15. gave birth to a child."

Aunt Yao said with emotion: "Time is not forgiving, even they have become parents, and I have become an old woman. However, seeing that the female students I educated are doing well after getting married, I feel at ease. "

Speaking of this, Yingniang murmured, "Yeah, we were not optimistic about the marriage of the three of them back then, but I didn't expect that they are all doing well now, and the husband and wife are loving and harmonious. Xiaonuan married into Landlord Tan's house in the county. At first, Zhaodi was worried that she would be bullied by her powerful mother-in-laws when she married, but she never thought that her husband-in-law is a responsible person who usually protects Xiaonuan, but now the family is separated and he is living his own life. What's more, Yu even married into Ge's family, and her aunt Mingyue became her aunt-in-law. Mingyue had a quarrel with the main wife, Mrs. Zheng, but now it has eased a lot because of Xiaoyu. Sisters, come. Xiaohui is married to Mr. Yang's eldest son, and the young couple come to Yinyue's house with their children in their arms for three days.

Aunt Yao said with a smile: "You are becoming more and more worthless, what is there to be envious of? Are you afraid that you will not be able to hold your little grandson in the future?"

Yingniang felt embarrassed, she felt that she was only in her 30s, and she was really not used to being a grandma.

Aunt Yao suddenly had a thought in her mind, "Mr. Yang's two sons are really good. I heard from Nian'er that when Mr. Yang taught them, his two sons never took pride in thinking that their father was a gentleman. They were humble. And the homework is also very good. I heard that Mr. Yang's youngest son likes Qing'er very much, why don't Qing'er and Xiaohui become a pair of sisters-in-law from a pair of cousins..."

Aunt Yao hadn't finished her sentence when Qing'er ran out of the house. She was afraid that her mother and godmother would marry her to Mr. Yang's youngest son, so she said anxiously: "Mother, that Yang is better than his father. Mr. Yang is far from the third brother-in-law, so I don't want to marry him."

Aunt Yao retorted: "It's not far behind his father and his elder brother. I heard that his homework is no worse than your brother's. In the spring, he will go to the palace exam with your brother."

Qing'er sat down, supported her head and said, "Is it considered good if you are not worse than my brother? My brother is not considered very good."

Aunt Yao looked at her and said with a smile: "Hey, in our Yongzhen town, and the neighboring towns, is there any man who can compare to your brother's talent and appearance, and who can compare to his speech and demeanor? You dare to look down on me, I am afraid that there is really no man in this world who can fall into your eyes."

Qing'er blushed slightly, and blinked her eyes, "Godmother, my brother is your godson, so you naturally think that all the men in the world are better off without him. As far as I can see, there is one person in Yongzhen who is better than him." .”

Yingniang and Aunt Yao were startled for a moment, and asked in unison: "Who?"

Qing'er stood up suddenly, "Mother, there are a group of people riding horses from the north of the main road, what are they doing?"

Aunt Yao and Yingniang both stood up and looked, they saw twenty horses running towards the north, and the riders were wearing uniform official uniforms.There was a cloud of dust behind the horses, and there were still many people standing and watching on the side of the road.

Aunt Yao's expression turned serious after seeing it, "This seems to be a light cavalry team on errands for the emperor."

"Ah?" Yingniang and Qing'er exclaimed at the same time, "Your Majesty?"

The emperor is such an unattainable and noble person, why did his light cavalry come to Yongzhen?What frightened them even more was that the light cavalry team stopped in front of the women's school.

Yingniang told Qing'er to hurry back to her boudoir, she followed Aunt Yao out of her yard and came to the women's school.

Seeing Aunt Yao coming, the leader of the light cavalry team asked, "Excuse me, is this Li Chang'an's mansion?"

Aunt Yao saluted him, "Your official, this is where my husband Li Chang'an lives. I wonder what you can do with him?"

Although the leader has been in the palace for many years, he doesn't know Aunt Yao. After all, Aunt Yao has left the palace for 20 years.

He jumped off the horse with a happy face, "You are Li Chang'an's wife? Please quickly bring me in, I have brought the emperor's imperial decree, and I want to read it to Li Chang'an."

imperial decree?More than ten years ago, the Li family received an imperial decree. As a result, the Li family fell, and the father and son were judged.Another imperial decree came today, Aunt Yao felt a little uneasy, but still nodded to the leader very dignifiedly, and led him in.

People are going to read the imperial decree, and Yingniang, as an outsider, cannot go in.At this time, I saw Hou Hou running out of Jin Ling's house quickly. She is Li Chang'an's daughter, so she can go in and kneel to listen to the imperial decree.

Yingniang has been waiting outside, anxious and anxious, thinking to herself, what happened to the emperor, he is already a bad old man, why is he always thinking about Li Changan?

Could it be that the emperor came to pay back the money?Yingniang shook her head, thinking it was impossible, because these people didn't even bring a silver box.Did you bring a bank note?Yingniang shook her head to herself again, although there has been no war in the imperial court for more than ten years, there have been many disasters in various places, and the taxes collected can support the royal family, the army and so many officials in the world, which is already very good.

When Yingniang was racking her brains to think about what imperial decree the emperor would issue, Houhou suddenly ran out crying, "I don't want to go to the capital, don't go!"

Yingniang held her back, "Wuhou, what's wrong with you? Who wants you to go to the capital?"

"The imperial decree said that both my parents and I should go, that a mansion was vacated for our Li family, and that I...let me..." I couldn't continue, and ran to Jinling's house crying. , maybe because she wanted to cry to Yun'er and Sheng'er.

At this moment, Li Changan and Aunt Yao escorted the leader out.

The leader cupped his fists and bowed slightly to Li Changan, "I have to go to Jinling to proclaim the imperial decree, so I will bid farewell!"

The leader jumped on his horse and galloped away with his men.

Yingniang followed Aunt Yao and Li Changan into the backyard of the women's school, sat down and listened to Aunt Yao explain in detail what was going on.

Li Changan sat beside him without speaking, with a serious expression on his face.

Aunt Yao let out a long sigh, "The emperor must have become merciful in his twilight years. He felt that he had owed the Li family, but the court was unable to repay it, so he thought about rewarding a mansion to the Li family. Said, when we go to the capital, we will give another 10 taels of silver so that we can take care of our lives. As for the 400 million taels of silver, I won’t mention it anymore. The emperor must have thought that we would be grateful to Dade, but in fact, Chang’an and I don’t want to Going to the capital, Wan Hou doesn't want to go either. But this is an imperial decree after all, and it must not be disobeyed."

When Yingniang heard that Aunt Yao had to go to the capital, tears welled up in her eyes, she was very sad.They have been friends for almost a lifetime, seeing that they are going to part, how can they be willing to part with each other?
Seeing that Aunt Yao and Yingniang were too sad, Li Chang'an pretended to be relieved and said: "Life is the same everywhere, the capital is the capital, there is no feast that lasts forever. Even if they are not separated in life, don't they have to go to hell when they die? "

With tears in her eyes, Aunt Yao said in a hoarse voice: "You said it lightly. It's fine if we part, but as for Wanhou, she doesn't want to go to the capital at all. What's more, the imperial decree says that Wuhou is a beautiful woman Well, it is said that three years later, we will choose a concubine for the crown prince, and I hope our family will educate her well. Are you still expecting that Wanhou will be selected as the crown prince's concubine, and she will be the mother of the world in the future?"

Li Chang'an had long been disappointed with the imperial family, he was not willing to let his daughter enter the imperial gate, he sighed, and hadn't thought of a way to deal with it.

Aunt Yao has always been tough and never shed tears easily, but at this time her tears rolled down, "Do you still remember that I was suddenly selected as a show girl, and then I was dismissed because I failed to choose a concubine?" Go to the Sizhi Bureau, don’t you want to follow in my footsteps? Didn’t you hear that she was always Yun elder brother Chang Yun elder brother short?"

(End of this chapter)