Ordinary clear day

Chapter 226 Parents
Tongying's eyebrows were knotted, and Shuning looked at him worriedly.After finally persuading Prince Jane to think about establishing a son, the eldest brother Yarjan's heart knot was mostly resolved. At this juncture, such a rumor suddenly appeared, will it affect the relationship between brothers again?There may be another change in the matter of the birth of the son.

Shu Ning didn't know what to say, so she could only comfort her: "After all, this is just a rumor, and it can't be taken as true. Maybe it's just that other people have this idea when they see that the Duke of the state has been promoted to a noble. Isn't it true that the military achievements you made earlier Have you already rewarded it? The emperor will definitely not reward it again."

Tong Ying shook her head, took a deep breath, and said: "Now that the emperor is not in Beijing, the rumors are just rumors. Even if there is a decree, it will be a matter of the future. At my age, it will be too late to go up, the emperor will not be so Confused. Let's forget about it and live here for a while."

Shuning changed her smiling face and nodded.

However, the facts seem to be somewhat unsatisfactory, and the residence given to Tongying caused him to tie his eyebrows again.Because the groom is not allowed to share the same room with the bride during the period of the opposite month, otherwise it will be detrimental to the bride's family, so he can't live in Shuning's boudoir, so he can only arrange another room.

Nala originally arranged for him to live in the main courtyard, but Tong said: "Even if he is more distinguished, he is a junior after all, so there is no reason to occupy the old man's house. Although my sister-in-law is kind, don't ruin his life." That's all.But under Duanning's suggestion, Nala arranged for the chrysanthemum courtyard.The whole family of Sifang is in Sichuan, only a few maids and women are left to look after the house, and they clean it up for Tongying's master and servant. It is absolutely suitable for living, and the environment is good.

But the problem is that the Chrysanthemum Courtyard is quite a distance away from the Huai Courtyard. To come from there, one must either pass in front of the main courtyard or pass through the garden.For Tong Ying, the newlyweds cannot be intimate, and if they really live so far away, wouldn't it be inconvenient to be together during the day?
Duanning smiled and said: "There is no other way. You have seen the situation in Huaiyuan, it is full. This kind of weather, you can't let you live in the study room? It must be very cold at night, and my room makes Xiaobao I live. As for my yard, it’s small, and my wife and children are there, so it’s not convenient for you. Although the chrysanthemum yard is not close, it’s all in the back house. How far can it be? And it’s the cleanest place, and the house is Warm, make sure you live comfortably."

Although Tongying was depressed, she suspected that her brother-in-law was playing tricks on her, but it was true that Huaiyuan was small.Although he himself didn't mind living in a small house, and Shu Ning's family didn't pay that much attention, but with his status, he was afraid that other members of the family would gossip, so he had to agree, and just came to accompany his wife every morning.

However, he soon found out from his two brothers-in-law that his mother-in-law Tong had made an arrangement to move Xianning to the east warm room of the main house, and let Xiaobao temporarily live in Xianning's room to free up Duanning. Give him the previous room.The room is relatively big, and there are maids sleeping on the bed outside. It is not a problem to sleep a little Lanzi. As for the other servants, they have already prepared their accommodation.

Tong Ying became even more depressed, couldn't help complaining a few words, and said to Duanning privately: "Old Duan, you are too unkind, we are all a family, and you still plot against me. When you married a wife, I did it before. Do your best." Duanning said with a half-smile, "You married a wife, didn't I do my best?" Seeing that Tong Ying was speechless, he chuckled and said, "Okay, for the sake of our family, Just bear with it." Then he smirked and turned away.

Tong Ying had to suffer from being dumb, but he also knew that Duan Ning and Shu Ning were deeply in love with each other, so he didn't say anything in front of Shu Ning.It's just that he tried harder to get close to his wife's natal family, so as to add weight to himself, so as not to be tricked by Duanning again.Shuning was funny when she saw it, but she didn't want to discredit her brother for such a trivial matter, so she watched the fun with Tong Shi and Zhenzhen.

Tongying comes over early every morning to accompany his wife to brush her hair and have breakfast, greets her mother-in-law and nominally-named mother-in-law, practices riding and playing with her two brothers-in-law, and flatters her sister-in-law Zhenzhen and nephew Mingrui.He even treated the people in the big house and the male and female servants in the mansion very kindly.As the days went by, there was no one in the whole house who didn't like him, and they all secretly said that the third aunt married a good family.And those few Ruis chased after him even more. Derry, the oldest among the boys, even forgot what his grandmother and parents had told him, and rode on Tongying's neck, having a great time. Happy.

Shuning has always been mediocre to Dafang's nephews and nieces, but thanks to Tongying's blessing, she has become much closer to them recently.It's a pity that the only girl, Xue Rui, is almost seven years old, and Li's discipline is extremely strict, and Jin Bao personally supervises the rules and etiquette, so she can't play with the brothers.

Shuning's favorite is naturally Duanning and Zhenzhen's child Mingrui.Brother Ming had just turned one year old in the summer, and now he can call people. He has a solid appearance, and his short legs pedaled very steadily. If he didn't pay attention, he would disappear.Zhenzhen dotes on her son so much that she can't help being indulgent sometimes, but luckily Duanning and Ermo both have a sense of proportion and take care of Brother Ming very well.As grandparents, Zhang Bao and Tong Shi are also kind and powerful. In front of Tong Shi, the little baby is even more well-behaved.

Now Shuning doesn't need a housekeeper, when she has nothing to do, she takes over the responsibility of taking care of the children from Zhenzhen, and pulls Tongying to tease Brother Ming together.Although Mingrui is a bit dark and thick-headed, he is not as pitiful as Yongrui, nor fatter than Manrui, but looking at this nephew, she always feels like seeing her brother when she was a child, and she likes it very much.Seeing that she likes children, Tong Ying smirked from time to time, and was offended by his wife, so she accompanied her to take care of the children embarrassingly.Sometimes when Xianning is out of school, she will fight for favor when she sees it.But every time, he would be dragged away by Xiaobao in the name of doing homework.

They do have a lot of homework.Mr. Yang failed the ranking again this spring, so he decided to concentrate on being a wife.Xiaobao and Xianning moved back to Beijing. He was worried about the two elders of the Yu family and didn't want to come with him. Later, when the master of the Yu family heard that Jin Bao wanted to invite Mr. Yang to be his wife in the baron's mansion, he urged him to come to Beijing.Now Mr. Yang and his wife, Mrs. Yu, live in the mansion. Besides Xianning and Xiaobao, they also teach Derui and act as An Ning's tutor by the way.He felt a heavy responsibility, and he became strict with the students, especially for the older Xiaobao and An Ning.

It is said that since Shuning returned to her mother's house for a month, apart from the occasional invitation to the big house, relatives occasionally invited her to visit.Although Erfang only invited her once, Suo Chuoluo's ostentatious words were annoying, and Wan Liuha's bitterness was also annoying. She originally wanted to inquire about Yuanning's situation and Fifth Elder Brother's injury , but Suo Chuo Luo couldn't tell clearly, because the people in Wubeile Mansion lived in secluded places now, and Yuanning seldom even went back to her mother's house.Seeing this, Shu Ning simply stopped going.

On the contrary, Fucha's family invited her to dinner with all the young women from the Baron's residence.At this banquet, she met Xin Ran and Bao Yao, whom she had not seen for a long time, and she was very happy.Coupled with Zhenzhen who has become a sister-in-law, her former boudoir friends are almost all here.She watched everyone talking and laughing, and couldn't help but think of Zhou Yinlan.

Long before the draft, it was inconvenient for her to go out, and she could only communicate with Zhou Yinlan through correspondence, occasionally sending things, but at least they still kept in touch.When they sent someone to go after marriage, Zhou Yinlan hinted that the Fan family was worried that they would be accused of clinging to the powerful, and asked their daughter-in-law not to associate with Beizi's residence.Shuning couldn't help being sad, but Zhou's uncle had already left the capital because he was promoted to Guizhou procuratorate, and Zhou Yinlan's uncle, Li's family, was released from the previous year, and there was no one to make a transfer.For Zhou Yinlan's sake, she had no choice but to reduce the number of times she sent things to Fan's house, but she did not intend to cut off communication.

Although the girls who had been friends with her in the past had their own experiences, Zhou Yinlan's situation was obviously more difficult than the happily married Xinran and the others.

She felt sorry for her friend here, while everyone on the other side was already chatting and laughing around Mingrui and Mingyu.The two children went to play together, and among several children, they seemed very close.Mingyu looks like a big sister, and gave Mingrui all kinds of delicious cakes. When Mingrui was happy, he gave Mingyu his favorite little cloth tiger to play with, and took her to eat cakes together.

Seeing this, Baoyao smiled and said, "Their names are so similar, why don't the children recognize a sibling?" Xinran's sister-in-law Fei Moshi said, "What's the point of recognizing a sibling? According to me, it's better to order a baby relative." Well, even though Ming Yu is older, it's not much worse."

After hearing this, Zhenzhen was a little moved when she saw Mingyu Yuxue's cuteness, but she was a little worried because the other party was from the clan.Shu Ning listened to it from the side, and didn't like this way of getting married, so she said: "They are all children, and they are not sensible yet, so why do you get engaged so early? Let's talk about it after they grow up and ask them what they want." .”

Xin Ran also nodded, and said indifferently: "If they really hit it off in the future, we will naturally not stop them." She was not worried that the palace would point out marriage or something. Although it is common practice for clan nobles to marry Mongolia, such an idle clan like them , I don't have that "blessing".

Fei Moshi was a little embarrassed, but Baoyao quickly changed the topic. Everyone continued to be in harmony, but they had their own ideas in their hearts.

After hearing the words of the juniors, the wife of Wu Ya's family was also a little moved.Mingrui's tiger-headed and tiger-headed personality is quite cute, but it's a pity that someone is interested in it, and her granddaughter has to pass the draft, so she won't consider it for the time being.On the contrary, Xuerui from Tala's family is dignified and steady at such a young age, with gentle words, which is really rare.With Aunt Wanning in her family, she doesn't know what the prospect of the draft will be in the future, but judging by Xue Rui's appearance, she must have a higher chance of losing the election.The grandson in my family is extremely naughty, if there is such a gentle wife, it should be better, right?
Mrs. Fucha's family took Yongrui's little hand to talk to Mrs. Sitara, occasionally glancing at Xuerui.His eldest grandson is only one year older than Xue Rui, but he has the same stable temperament...

When Shu Ning returned home, it was already evening.Tong Ying had already had dinner and was reading in Huai Yuan's study, seeing his wife was a little tired, so she went to her room to help her beat her back, which made Shu Ning laugh, and hurried him to sit down and talk.

She mentioned the situation of today's gathering, and incidentally mentioned Zhou Yinlan's matter, her expression was a little sad.Tong Ying thought for a while, and said with a smile: "You want to send someone to deliver letters and things to the Fan family, but you are afraid that your friend will be gossiped about, so why not go in the name of Er Niang. Anyway, the two of you are family friends. The niece's family members are not around, so it is common for Er Niang to care about the younger generation. When Er Niang is not in Beijing, it is normal for the daughter-in-law to do the work for her."

Shu Ning's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she hurriedly said: "That's exactly what you said, thank you for reminding me." Tong Ying said again: "What are you thanking husband and wife? I have another idea, I have an uncle who works in Guizhou , although it is a military post, but the yamen is in the provincial capital. How about I write a letter and ask him to take care of your friend's father?" Shu Ning was even more delighted.In fact, she knew that Zhang Bao had this intention a long time ago, but she was too embarrassed to tell her son-in-law. It would be even better now that Tong Ying proposed it on her own initiative.

She was in a much better mood, so she told Tong Ying all the interesting things at the banquet, including Mingyu Mingrui's "baby kiss" incident.She said it as a joke, but it would be a good thing if the two children really see each other correctly in the future.But Tong Ying couldn't laugh when she heard it, she just laughed dryly on her face, and then quickly changed the subject.

Afterwards, he thought twice, and carefully asked Duanning about the death of the old earl.But Duanning knew in his heart that this matter had something to do with the old lady, so it was not easy to tell him, so he dealt with it indiscriminately.Ask Shuning again, and the answer is similar.

Tong Ying's misunderstanding deepened, thinking that the whole family knew that the old earl's death was a bit unjust, but they were concerned about the possible involvement of powerful people, so they didn't want to make it public, and they probably didn't know who the real culprit was.So he was a little unhappy, that "baby mother", if it was just a joke, if it becomes true in the future, once the truth comes out, adults will inevitably be sad, what about the children?But now he can't tell the truth.

He was in a bad mood, so he was bored in the study all day drawing, Shu Ning noticed it, asked him what was wrong, but only got the answer of "nothing", and was about to ask again, but got a report from the subordinates, saying that Fang Ning was about to give birth .

Fang Ning suffered from pain for three full days and exerted all her strength before giving birth to a pair of twins, both of whom were sons.The mother and son of Shu Mulu's family were so happy that they hurriedly asked the doctor to take medicine to take care of Fang Ning's body. Mrs. Shu Mulu even went to ask the old lord of the Sitala family to bring back a century-old ginseng.

Tong's sister-in-law sent by Mrs. Lu is older, experienced and prudent. Thanks to her and Mrs. Wen's joint efforts, Fang Ning's life was saved. Although Fang Ning is still weak, she is not seriously injured. .Aunt Chen cried for a long time, then begged for Nala's grace that night, packed her luggage and moved to her son-in-law's house to take care of her daughter.

On Xisan's day, Shu Ning went to Shu Mulu's house early with her mother, sister-in-law and members of the eldest family, and even went into the room to see Fang Ning.Seeing that although Fang Ning was weaker, she was still in good spirits, so she was relieved.Although the two newborns looked a little thin, they cried loudly, and everyone was amazed.After eating noodles in the outside room at noon, everyone gathered by the kang, ready to wash.

Thirteen statues of gods have already been enshrined in the house, and all the utensils on the kang have been placed, such as flowers, flowers, roses, buckets, locks, scales, small mirrors, toothbrushes, and tongue scrapers. , green cloth tips, green tea leaves, new combs, new cages, rouge powder, pig pancreas soap balls, new towels, copper tea trays, green onions, ginger slices, mugwort balls, baking cages, incense candles, money and grain paper yards, raw Boiled eggs, mallets, etc., are double servings.The midwife grandma sent by the Sitala family and one from the Lu family came to the kang with a child in their arms.

Originally, Shu Ning was considered the highest status among the people in the house, so she should be the first to add pots, but the old Feng Jun of the Sitara family was there, she was the oldest, and Tong and Nala were present, so she gave in and only agreed The first to add pots among his peers.If everyone can't be persuaded, it's okay.Lao Feng Jun first added a pair of small gold ingots, and even kissed the child specially.

Soon it was Shuning's turn.She has participated in this kind of ceremony several times, knowing the rules, she added some water first, and the admission grandmother hurriedly said: "Long flowing water, smart and clever", and then added two pairs of gold and silver zippers, Master Lu quickly said: "Gold and silver are full of warehouses, and wealth lasts forever."All in all auspicious words.

After "refilling the pot", the grandma who admitted the baby and everyone in Lu took up the sticks and stirred it into the pot together, saying: "Stir once, stir again and again, and the elder brother will lead the younger brother to run away. Seventy children, eighty children, Crooked hair, mischievous, and Xilihulu are all here!" Then began to bathe the baby.The children both cried loudly, but they didn't care. They just said while washing, "wash your hair first and become a prince; wash your waist after that, and each generation will be taller than the previous generation; wash your eggs and become a county magistrate; wash your ditch and become a magistrate of the state", Then they roasted mugwort leaves with ginger slices, combed hair and rolled eggs.

After washing, they wrapped up the child, picked up a scallion, and lightly hit the child three times, saying: "One dozen are smart, two are smart, and three are evil and crooked." Yihai took the green onions outside and threw them on the roof.

Shu Ning and everyone were watching happily, but they heard someone knocking on the front door, and they didn't know who came.

Nala was suddenly very excited, hurriedly asked someone to open the door, then smiled and said to Mrs. Shu Mulu: "The second aunt who was sent to pick up the child earlier, presumably she has arrived."

(I didn't notice the taboo that new couples can't share the same room during the month-to-month period, so there is a bug, I'm really sorry~~ ^_^b )

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