Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 11
The atmosphere was a bit awkward for a while, Lin Ruyi laughed quickly and said, "Huaiyu, hurry up and help your sister up! Your grandmother has been ill for the past two days, and she often talks about the pearl on weekdays, but today she feels helpless." .”

She would not offend anyone, and explained this unharmonious relationship seamlessly.

"Sister, get up quickly..." Huo Huaiyu and Su Yu helped Huo Mingzhu up together, then bounced to the imperial concubine's bed and knelt down, smiling and said to Mrs. Huo: "Grandmother, your headache is Didn’t you commit a crime again? Huaiyu rubbed it for you?”

Huo Huaiyu obviously saw that Mrs. Huo's complexion suddenly changed, and she smiled from the bottom of her eyes. It was a sincere smile. She patted Huo Huaiyu's hand, and even squeezed it in the palm of her hand. She sighed and said, "Oh, I, Yu'er, am the most sensible and know how to be filial to my grandmother."

Huo Huaiyu smiled childishly: "Isn't this what it should be? My sister has never been by my grandmother's side, and I have no power to be filial to my grandmother. Grandma, don't blame my sister, okay?"

After listening to Mrs. Huo, she raised her head and glanced at Huo Mingzhu standing there again. Although there was no displeasure in her eyes, she didn't see a sincere smile, she just smiled on the surface and said: "Oh, I'm getting old. I don't expect you to serve tea and water, but as long as you are half as smart and sensible as Yu'er, I will be content."

"Grandmother taught me that." Huo Mingzhu looked at the scene of love and filial piety in front of her, wondering in her heart, one sang red faces, the other sang bad faces, should she be regarded as blind?This is the good sister and mother she misses so much.

"Old lady, stop praising that girl Huaiyu, she is so stubborn, she should be taught a lesson!" Lin Ruyi looked at Huo Huaiyu reproachfully, and took Huo Mingzhu's hand again: "On the contrary, it is Mingzhu who I haven't had a mother by my side since I was a child, and it's a pity that I must be exhausted after traveling all the way. Old lady, let Mingzhu go back to rest first, her legs and feet are not very convenient."

The old lady Huo's face was full of impatience, and she waved her hand and said: "Go, let's take a rest. It's also my old lady who is very tired. She neglected her granddaughter too much, and was scolded by your mother like this."

"Old lady, what are you talking about again? Like a child." Lin Ruyi has always been a virtuous daughter-in-law, with a dignified ladylike attitude cultivated from the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, and her words are smooth and smooth: "Pearl, mother will accompany you Go back. Butler, bring the old mountain ginseng that His Majesty rewarded you in the storeroom, let the kitchen cook some ginseng soup that nourishes Qi, and give the eldest lady a good boost. Oh, and the old lady’s Linglong pills, also prepared early ..."

The entire deserted General's Mansion suddenly became busy, causing everyone to know that it was the eldest lady who had returned.

But no matter how lively it is, it can't hide the gloom in Huo Mingzhu's heart - when she was in the border town, she was lonely but at ease, but when she came back to the general's mansion, she became an outsider, no matter whether her mother, sister, or grandmother, she was just in Acting in front of her.

Three years in a dream, how stupid must she have been in her previous life to try to win everyone's happiness with tolerance?At that time, a 15-year-old weak girl, her only wish was to have a harmonious family and a happy marriage, so she never cared about it, and only concentrated on being a good daughter in the eyes of her parents and a good sister in the eyes of her younger sister...

Lin Ruyi is indeed a virtuous mistress and a loving mother. Not only did she personally send Huo Mingzhu back to "Chenxiang Garden", but she also disliked the clumsiness of the maids, so she personally made her bed and folded the quilt for her, and recruited maids and wives, regardless of food and daily life. , everything was arranged properly.

After finishing all this work, Lin Ruyi wiped the sweat from her forehead, looked at Huo Mingzhu kindly and smiled and said, "Mingzhu, you should take a rest, if there is anything wrong with girls and women, just tell mother, don't worry about it." Forget that you are the eldest lady of the general's mansion. Don't take what the old lady just said to heart. When you are old, you will inevitably be confused. As juniors, we only need to be filial to her. This is your home. , you should show the attitude of the master. Also, your ankle is sprained, and mother has asked the housekeeper to invite a doctor for you."

"Thank you, mother." Huo Mingzhu bit her lip slightly, and smiled quite touched.

Lin Ruyi was slightly dazed under her gaze, and reached out to touch Huo Mingzhu's face, as if recalling the past, and sighed sadly: "Although I was born with my sister and the same mother, I don't look very much alike. , but you are exactly the same as my sister. Whenever I see you, I always think of how well my sister treated me when I was a child. I ate and slept with my sister. Those women, etiquette, everything was taught by my sister. My... Mingzhu, Aunt really loves you more than Huaiyu, do you know?"

Lin Ruyi said, crying.

Huo Mingzhu couldn't express how she felt about Lin Ruyi. In the whole family, only her aunt treated her best. She didn't have many memories of her mother. Most of them learned from her aunt's dictation. The nostalgia for his mother is also pinned on his aunt, treating her like his own mother and Huo Huaiyu like his own sister.

"Auntie, my biological mother died young. In my heart, you are my mother. Take care of yourself." Huo Mingzhu comforted.

Lin Ruyi wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, nodded, and smiled again: "Good boy, it will be your 15th birthday soon, and mother will discuss with your father to give you a great gift and tell those good people that we will The young lady of the General's Mansion has reached the age of marriage..."

Huo Mingzhu thought of the people who came up to Ji Li in her previous life, and couldn't help thinking in her heart, it doesn't matter whether she is up to Ji or not, but the guests who came are very interesting...

As if thinking of something, Lin Ruyi hurriedly said: "Oh, I have to discuss this matter with your grandmother and uncle. After all, you grew up next to your uncle, and your grandmother loves you..."

"mother!"

Suddenly a delicate voice came out from the path of the tree shadow, and then a pink figure jumped up and took Huo Mingzhu's arm, Huo Huaiyu clinging to Huo Mingzhu coquettishly said: "Sister, you are going to visit your grandmother Why? Take me with you, I haven’t been to my grandmother’s place for a long time! Mother only cares about whispering to my sister and won’t talk to me anymore! Hmph!”

I don't know whether Huo Huaiyu and Lin Ruyi have a good heart, or she was eavesdropping there early in the morning. Now that Huo Mingzhu sees her sister, she can no longer love her. The only thing left is Huo Huaiyu's promise to build a monument of merit for her dying.

Lin Ruyi scolded without saying a word: "Yu'er, your sister just came back, and you're making trouble with her again? It's not too late to go to your grandmother's after the doctor comes to see your sister's foot injury. Don't pester your sister for nonsense!"

Huo Huaiyu acted dissatisfied, swaying Huo Mingzhu's arm as usual in those years, childlike reluctance, but also knowing that she was wrong, she pouted and stopped talking.

"Mother, Huaiyu is still young, so don't blame her." Huo Mingzhu restrained her nausea, held Huo Huaiyu's hand, and said with a smile: "Huaiyu, let's go in with my sister. stuff."

……

After Lin Congyue, Marquis of Pingyang, took a bath and changed his clothes, he rushed into the palace for a banquet.As soon as he entered the Deyang Hall, he did not see the Ninth Prince and the Crown Prince, but many ministers had already arrived and surrounded him to congratulate him.

"Mr. Lin! Congratulations! This time, General Lin's victory is really like a father! Haha!"

"The Marquis of Pingyang was originally the hero of Dayong's founding of the country, and there will be several characters in any dynasty. General Lin is really heroic and extraordinary. The blue is better than the blue!"

"Master Hou..."

"Thank you, thank you..." Lin Congyue replied one by one with a smile, and suddenly a person walked over and asked with a smile: "Master Lin, General Lin has also reached the marriageable age, which lady has he promised to marry? I heard that the niece of Master Hou It's about to reach Ji, don't you want to get closer to General Huo?"

(End of this chapter)