Princess Fuyao

Chapter 7 Mother is here

The summer in northern Xinjiang is so beautiful, green everywhere, the air is filled with the fragrance of plants and trees, the sky is blue and clear, and occasionally a few clouds float, making it bluer and bluer, and whiter and whiter. Just like other creatures in this beautiful world, it is thriving.

It wasn't a holiday, but Ji Zhenggang came back, and Fuyao could see deep worry from his frowning.

"Daddy, did the general reprimand you?" Fuyao really couldn't think of anything that could make him so sad.

"No!" Ji Zhenggang shook his head, and after a while, he finally said, "Your mother is here."

"Ah?" Fuyao's eyeballs could fall out, "Here? How do you live?"

"I asked about it, and I was told that there is a gate about ten miles to the east that allows passage, and there is a market town there."

Fuyao patted his head suddenly. No matter how the military confrontation inside and outside the customs, the trade cannot be banned. After all, the furs of the nomads have to be sold, and the salt and grain necessary for life have to be bought. , forming Guanshi, which must be near the barracks.

"Let mother live in Guankou Town?" Fuyao understood why Dad was worried, he was a very low-level military officer, his monthly salary was pitifully low, and the supplies here were scarce, especially the food was extremely expensive.

"I shouldn't have written to your mother, saying that I've become an official." Ji Zhenggang drooped his head dejectedly. He intended to give his wife hope and make her feel hopeful in life. Unexpectedly, his wife would come up with such absurd words. idea.

Fuyao was also very speechless. In the little memory she had left, she didn't have a good impression of this biological mother. A woman with no strings in her mind always felt that life was as simple as she imagined.

"How about, Daddy, let them go back again!"

Fu Yao had a hunch that this suggestion would not work, and sure enough, Ji Zhenggang shook his head vigorously: "Your mother, alas!"

Fuyao can imagine that mother is the only daughter of grandfather, and she has always felt wronged by marrying her senior brother Daddy. Master, being able to marry his daughter to him, he feels that if his daughter-in-law has a bad life, he is really ashamed of the master's upbringing.

"Let's watch as we go." If there is no food, he will go back naturally, Fuyao thought.

Ji Zhenggang looked around in the shack for a long time, but there was nothing to take out, so he walked eastward with his daughter empty-handed, his brows were tangled into a big pimple.

Guankou Town was quite lively, and all the people coming and going were Han Chinese. It turned out that some soldiers guarding the pass in Zhongying and Dongying hung things from the city walls, exchanged them for furs and medicinal materials, and traded them here.

This bazaar only opens to the public once a month, and all the soldiers are fully armed, like prisoners, closely monitoring the Tartar merchants who come to trade. On that day, there will be trades such as horses, bulk grain, medicinal materials, and cloth.

The merchants who open stores here are backed by high-level generals.

At the intersection of Guankou Town, a group of men and women with tired faces were standing. Before Ji Zhenggang approached, he saw a woman, with a crying voice, and called out to Senior Brother.

This is her biological mother, Mrs. Lu. It turns out that she looks more like her, with a white skin and oval face, but her eyes are not big, her eyebrows are not dark, and her whole face is red lips with a little color.

Behind her, there are three children, the youngest has already rushed over: "Daddy—"

Seeing his precious son, Ji Zhenggang still had a look of excitement on his face: "Yao Ming!"

The corner of Fuyao's mouth twitched, no wonder his name is Fuyao, Yaoming is the real master, he was born to help people, what?

"Father!" the older girl Ji Yaoqian also called out.

The family burst into tears at the intersection, Fuyao looked around, pulled Dad's skirt, and motioned him to go to a nearby big tree, where there were a few flat rocks for sitting down.

"Yao Yao!" The eldest sister Ji Yaoqian walked last, holding Fu Yao's hand, looking up and down carefully, tears streaming down her face.Back then, the old lady gave birth to two children at once and couldn't take care of them, so Fuyao grew up with the elder sister.Yaoqian is at home, more like a housewife than Lu's.

After actually sitting down, the excitement had calmed down, and his tears were gone. Ji Zhenggang immediately looked sad, how to arrange for his relatives?
Lu frowned and stared at her husband. Seeing that he hadn't spoken or moved, his thin eyebrows frowned all of a sudden: "Why don't you take us to the government office?"

Returning to the official office, the big tent where the marshals live.

"Did you marry another woman and dare not let me see it?!" Lu's voice suddenly became louder, and his small eyes widened. It was really fierce.

Ji Zhenggang hastily explained: "Where do I have any official office, there is no official office here, and everyone lives in tents."

"Then go to your tent."

"Mom, daddy is as big as a sesame seed, and eight of us sleep in a tent, can I take you there?" Fuyao said coldly.

"Your father is an official—"

"There are a lot of officials here. It's just such a big barracks. There are hundreds of officials as big as Daddy. How can there be so many tents? Besides, women are not allowed to enter the barracks, and the marshal's family members are not allowed to go."

Lu's was dumbfounded, even Yaoqian squeezed Fuyao's hand nervously.

"Mother, didn't you say that when Daddy becomes an official, we can eat delicious food and drink spicy food?" Yaoming stared with the same big eyes as Fuyao, with a naive expression on his face.

"It's all your fault. I wrote a letter saying that I became an official and let me and my child come over. What can I do?" Lu suddenly patted Ji Zhenggang's chest and began to cry.

Ji Zhenggang looked around nervously, his face flushed, and he said in a dull voice: "I didn't let you come, why did I let you come? I told you to wait at home, maybe I can go back -"

"Yao Yao, don't scare mother, is there really no place to live?" Yaoqian asked with the last bit of hope as she habitually assumed the role of hostess.

Seeing Fuyao shaking his head, Ji Zhenggang frowned, and Ji Yaoming also started crying, Yaoqian hurriedly comforted her.

"Crying! Crying! I know I'm crying now? My second uncle asked you to write a letter to ask clearly before you make any plans. You are afraid that you will not be able to enjoy any blessings here, and you won't listen to anyone. Is this all right now? You can't go to the village and go down If you don’t go to the store, it’s up to you!” The third sister, Ji Yaolan, has a very hot temper.

Fuyao turned her head and looked over. The third sister's appearance was the same as hers, and she only picked out her good points. She had a fair oval face like a mother, and big black eyes like a father. Even her mouth was plump and bigger than Fuyao's, but they were all sweet and upturned. Yaolan is a very beautiful girl.

At this moment, Yaolan's willow eyebrows are erected, her eyes are staring round, quite imposing.

Being reprimanded by his daughter, Mrs. Lu choked up, and his voice suddenly became quieter.

"Daddy, on the way we came here, there is a shack." Before Fuyao finished speaking, Ji Zhenggang stood up with a huff: "Oh, yes, we can also dig one, let's go."

Lu and the others don't know what a shack is, and when they heard that there was a place to live, they all looked relieved.After walking a few steps, Ji Yaoming shouted, "I'm hungry!"

"Oh, Dad, let's go back quickly, and we can catch up with the barracks for dinner. Since my younger brother is here, I don't need to call him by his name, right?" Fuyao finally found the benefits of their coming here, women have to be careful when disguised as men , so tired!

Ji Zhenggang didn't have a few pennies in his pocket, so naturally he didn't dare to buy food here. Hearing this, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, let's go!"

Before they had walked two miles, both Lu and her precious son began to groan and yell that their feet hurt.

"Let's go, we won't have food until late." Ji Zhenggang frowned, and suddenly pulled Ji Yaoming up, carried him on his back, half-armed and half-pulled Lu Shi with one hand, and continued to walk like flying.

"How did you get here?" Fuyao asked in a low voice.Thousands of miles away, haven't they exercised yet?
"Take a carriage." Yaoqian blushed a little, and said in a low voice, "Mother sold the house and raised money."

"Aren't you planning to go back?" Fuyao almost jumped up, she had never seen Lu's so careless.

Yaoqian looked worried, but said nothing.

Asking the four people to wait outside the barracks, Fuyao and Ji Zhenggang hurried to the stove to cook.

The situation at Ji Zhenggang's side was better, and he filled a little more, but no matter how he looked at it, it was not enough for six people. When the meal came, he smiled and divided it into five portions, and didn't keep it for himself, which made Fuyao feel very distressed.

Lu's precious son took a bite out of the bowl and dropped his chopsticks: "It's even worse than pig food, mother, I want white rice!"

Mrs. Lu hurriedly picked up the chopsticks, and coaxed him for a long time, but the master kept crying, and Fuyao got annoyed, and stuffed his rice into Ji Zhenggang's hand at once: "Daddy, eat quickly, There is still training tomorrow."

"Your brother—" Ji Zhenggang said hesitantly.

"My brother is not hungry."

Lu's eyes widened, and Fuyao's eyes widened: "When you're hungry, eating bran is as sweet as honey, and when you're full, eating honey is not as sweet as bran."

"Hmph!" Lu's chest was raised in protest, "Hey, don't cry, I'll buy you cakes later."

"Don't!" Ji Zhenggang stuffed the bowl into his son's hand again, "The cakes here are too expensive, one can buy two catties of coarse grains, you should save some, be careful that there will be no more food in the future." Ji Zhenggang hurriedly stopped him.

"You are an official now!"

"Food is very expensive here. What I earn a month is not enough to buy thirty catties of wheat noodles."

Lu was suddenly dumbfounded.

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