Daughter Raiders

Chapter 71
The next morning, when it was still dark, Tao Ran woke up automatically, and softly called the maid on duty in the room: "Sister Hongxia, is she awake? Turn on the lamp and tell me to see what time it is."

Daddy not only left her some silver bills and the girl Suxue last night, but also gave her a pocket watch with a silver case, saying that he told her to watch it after school so as not to be late.

Hongxia responded swiftly, touched the fire sickle and lit the melon-shaped palace lantern beside the bed. Seeing Tao Ran take out the pocket watch from under the pillow, opened the cover and looked at it very seriously, she couldn't help laughing and said: "Young lady will recognize this foreign watch. A little bit, it still looks good."

Tao Ran raised his head and smiled at her: "When my father gave me this watch yesterday, he taught me how to read it. It is a quarter past four on this watch, which is what we call a quarter past Yinzheng."

"Then I'll help the girl get dressed, the third master and the third wife are about to leave." Hongxia hastily lifted up the shoes on her feet, and stretched out the sleeves of the jacket she was wearing to fasten the buttons.

Waiting for Tao Ran to wash up, it was more than a quarter of an hour later. Although it was early summer in the capital at the end of April, it was also early in the morning. Hongxia lit the lanterns again, and then led Tao Ran out of the East Chamber. The courtyard is already brightly lit.

Daddy and mother came to bid farewell to grandparents again, Tao Ran thought while looking at the string of lanterns in the corridor.

If this is the case, I am afraid that I will have to have breakfast with my father and mother later, and I don’t know if she will shed tears during the meal... You must know that she has been holding back at the dinner yesterday, and her eyes were full of tears. The seeds are sour.

"Why does Sister Tao get up so early?" After entering the room, they greeted everyone one by one, except for Mrs. Yu, the old lady and Su Hao were all surprised.

"Sister Tao was so focused on not missing the time to see her off, Yinzheng woke up a moment later." Tao Ran said with a shy smile.

The old lady smiled meaningfully and looked at Mrs. Yu—sister Tao, who is more than six years old, was thinking about her parents leaving, so she got up early, and Sister Yan was in front of the whole family last night. I cried a lot at the banquet, but now I'm still sleeping late. It would be strange if people with discerning eyes couldn't tell which was true and which was fake!

Naturally, Mrs. Yu knew the meaning of her mother-in-law's look, and immediately explained to the eldest daughter without blushing and heartbeat: "The third master and I came too early, and I was afraid that bringing sister Yan with me would disturb the purity of my parents even more, so I decided to give it a try. Instruct Qi's mother in Xieqiu Pavilion to take Yanran directly to the sedan hall in the front courtyard."

The old lady laughed silently.

These two couples have been here for a long time, until now she has not asked why Sister Yan didn't come, Sister Tao just came in, but Mrs Yu explained it for Sister Yan without 300 taels of silver here, she was really afraid of others I don't know that she is a eccentric mother.

It's also thanks to the fact that the third child is going to take Yu Shi away this time, otherwise the two girls will be doted on by Yu Shi relentlessly, and the other will be bullied by being beaten and scolded, and they will all become cripples in the future!The Su family doesn't want a trash girl!
Yu Shi thought her mother-in-law's smile was a compliment for her thoughtful thinking, so she also laughed with You Rongyan, not to mention that the old lady and Su Hao looked funny, even the old man turned his face away, looking contemptuous look like.

Tao Ran blushed a little - although she made up her mind not to cling to her mother softly, so as not to end up with a bad end, but the mother is her mother after all, and she would lose face if her mother did not behave properly...

"Since Sister Tao is here, let's have breakfast earlier. She didn't eat much last night, and she woke up early again, so she might be hungry and flustered." The old lady ordered Cui Chan.

When Cuichan responded and went to deliver the meal, Su Hao couldn't help calling his daughter to come and sit beside him.Tao Ran strode over, stretched out her arms coquettishly and asked her father to hug her to the chair, and as soon as she sat down, she couldn't wait to hug her father's arms, tears fell like beads with a broken string.

Looking at the grandmother sitting on the kang was also seduced by her and burst into tears, the grandfather also seemed to have red eye circles, and it seemed that there were hot tears from his father falling on his neck, Tao Ran covered his eyes and sniffed vigorously , but her voice was trembling: "It's sister Tao's fault, sister Tao, sister Tao shouldn't be crying!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he whimpered more and more, hot tears gushed more and more crazily along the cracks between his fingers.

What a joy to live again.If she hadn't come back again, how would she know that some relatives treated her very well, and how would she understand why there was so much reluctance in her heart before she passed away.

No wonder someone once told her that only gains come from losses.

She just lost her ignorant life, but in this life, she rediscovered many people and emotions that she cherished and cared about, but they were all people and emotions that she ignored many years ago; it's a pity that she spent those 17 years in a muddle , I wholeheartedly thought that only being filial to my mother was the right thing to do, and it didn't matter to others...

"It's okay to cry now." The old lady took the warm towel from Cui'e to wipe her face, and asked Cui'e to get one for everyone: "If you cry like this again later in the sedan chair hall of the front yard Those who wiped away their tears and cried so loudly might have frightened even the horses pulling the cart."

Tao Ran broke his tears into a smile, and the old man and Su Hao also faintly smiled. At this time, Cui Chan had already led the little girls to the East Room to set up a meal. Everyone wiped their faces and left the West Room to go to the East Room. They all sat down at the table.

"Mother asked Cuichan to bring me her pickled pickled melons in a jar, right? And potherb mustard." Su Hao looked at the several pickled dishes on the dining table, and suddenly suggested.

Cuichan still learned the skill of pickling pickles from Shen's mother. When Su Hao was young, he really liked to use Shen's mother's pickles to make porridge; Talk about homesickness.

The old lady smiled and asked Cuichan to pack the pickles, but she turned her head and did not forget to tell her third son: "When you were young, you always coughed as soon as the winter came. A few times. Now that you are an adult, the habit of eating pickles is still the same, Liaodong is cold, so you have to control your mouth, don’t eat pickles and pickles as a meal.”

"Mother, don't worry, my daughter-in-law will take good care of the third master, and don't tell him to eat more of these disgusting things." Yu volunteered to answer the words with a smile.

Su Hao lowered his eyebrows in noncommittal, and the old lady just nodded lightly, and everyone had breakfast after a while, and it was time for the real departure.

"Old lady, Aunt Ma brought Brother Cen here. I asked her to bring Brother Cen in. She insisted on waiting in the corridor, saying that she would follow everyone all the way to the sedan hall in the front yard." Cui'e Seeing a little girl poking her head outside the door, she came back to report after going out for a while.

In normal times, even though Aunt Ma is a good concubine, she would not be able to enter the second courtyard of Songlingtang at all. Today is the day to see Su Hao off, and she brought Brother Cen with her, so the gatekeeper's mother-in-law decided to let her go. The two of them came in.

"Since we're here, let's ask their mother and daughter to come in, so that Brother Cen can kowtow to his parents." The old lady pretended not to see the displeasure on Yu's face, and ordered Cui'e to invite someone.

(End of this chapter)