Chapter 134 Gathering
After a month's absence, Jiang Shu felt very familiar when he returned to the familiar Shangjing.
It was not appropriate to make her relationship with Yu Zheng public at the moment, so Yu Zheng walked her to the door of Jiang's house and left without getting out of the car.
The previous carriage was destroyed by a landslide, and now we were riding in an ordinary carriage. No one could see anything special about it, and it didn't attract any attention.
"Dad, Mom." Jiang Shu went straight to Father Jiang and Mother Jiang's yard.
Soon after Jiang's father woke up from his nap, he was basking in the sun under a tree in the courtyard. Jiang's mother was peeling walnuts for him to eat.
"Shu'er." Seeing Jiang Shu, Jiang's mother was overjoyed. She threw the walnuts in her hand and stood up to greet Jiang Shu.
"Ouch!" Jiang's father was hit in the mouth by a walnut, with a look of resentment on his face.
When the mother and daughter saw each other, they burst into laughter.
"If I call you greedy, even God will look down upon you." Jiang's mother teased Jiang's father.
Jiang's father twitched his beard and said angrily: "What you eat is what you eat, do you understand?"
Mother Jiang smiled and said, "Then you should eat pig brains."
"You're the one who eats pig brains." Jiang's father retorted.
Seeing his parents laughing and having fun, Jiang Shu felt warm and at ease, with a hint of envy.
"Mom, I'm thirsty." Jiang Shu held Mother Jiang's hand and acted coquettishly.
Mother Jiang quickly pulled her to sit down at the stone table and poured her a cup of tea.
"Thank you, mother." Jiang Shu took it and drank it clean.
"How have you been on your journey?" Jiang's mother asked with concern.
Jiang Shu's hand stiffened when she placed the teacup. She didn't want her parents to worry, but there were some things she couldn't hide, so she could only avoid the most important things.
On the way back to Beijing, he was in danger twice, but Jiang Shu only talked about landslides.
When she heard that there was a landslide on the road and most of the escorts were killed or injured, Jiang's mother's heart clenched and Jiang's father's expression also darkened.
"Are you injured?" Jiang's mother asked eagerly, touching Jiang Shu's body.
Jiang Shu took Jiang's mother's hand and said softly: "I'm fine, thanks to King Jing for saving me."
If Yu Zheng hadn't protected her from this landslide, she might not have been able to come back.
"It's okay. I'll make sure to pay homage to King Xie Jing someday." Mother Jiang breathed a sigh of relief.
"And those guards who died, please give more money to their families as compensation." Jiang's father said with a serious look on his face.
Jiang Shu nodded, feeling very guilty and sad in her heart.
The father and daughter encountered landslides one after another when they went out, making Jiang's mother very uneasy.
Although Jiang Shu comforted her again and again, Jiang's mother was still worried.
"Finding a day, let's go to Zhaojue Temple to pay our respects, pray for your peace, and pray for your father and Ning'er." After thinking about it, Jiang's mother felt that this would make her feel more at ease.
Jiang Shu discussed: "It's feasible in a while. I have to be busy for a while recently."
She left in January, and Jiang Ji must have had a backlog of matters that needed to be dealt with.
"Okay, I'll go after you finish your work." Mother Jiang agreed.
After a brief conversation, Jiang's mother asked Jiang Shu to go back to freshen up and change clothes, and wait for Jiang Ning to come back from school to have dinner together.
When Jiang Shu returned to Shutongyuan, Chu Yu had carefully prepared hot water.
"Girl, you are back." Chu Yu's eyes were slightly red.
Since he and Jiang Shuqi had been separated for so long, Chu Yu couldn't get used to it.
Especially after hearing Tan Yu talk about the hardships and dangers along the way, Chu Yu felt even more uncomfortable.
"It's better to be at home." Jiang Shu sighed as he looked at Chu Yu.
"That girl will go out less often from now on." Chu Yu helped Jiang Shu into the inner bathroom and waited for her to wash up.
After a long journey, Jiang Shu felt exhausted in his bones. She soaked in the bath with her sleepy eyes contentedly, letting Chu Yu wash and massage her hair.
There was no need to go out in the evening, so Chu Yu brought Jiang Shu a dress, dried her wet hair and dressed her up.
"Just do whatever you want." Jiang Shu reminded Chu Yu.
Being accustomed to men dressing up these days, Jiang Shu found dressing up to be very troublesome.
Chu Yu said while twisting her hair: "Is it possible that the girl is addicted to pretending to be a man?"
"Cough!" Jiang Shu coughed uncomfortably, which was regarded as acquiescence.
"That's not okay. Girls still have to wear dresses and dress up occasionally."
Speaking of this, Chu Yu remembered washing Jiang Shu just now, frowned and said: "The girl's hands and skin are not as smooth and soft as before."
"Ah?" Jiang Shu raised his hand and looked at it, a little panicked.
If she becomes thick-skinned, will Yu Zheng dislike her?
No, no, she can pretend to be a man, but she can't really turn into a rough guy.
"Go quickly and get all the Skin Gel and Jade Skin Cream and apply it all over my body." Jiang Shu said in a slightly anxious tone.
Chu Yu heard it funny, her young lady finally remembered that she was a delicate girl.
In addition to skin lotion and jade skin cream, Chu Yu also brought hair oil and carefully nourished Jiang Shu's hair.
After all the busy work, it was already evening.
"Sister." Jiang Ning came back from school. When she heard that Jiang Shu was back, she didn't even return to her own yard and went straight to Shutong Courtyard.
"Brother." Jiang Shu stood up from the bronze mirror and greeted him with a smile.
Jiang Shu, who wore makeup and hair in a bun and a hairpin, looked dazzlingly beautiful.
Jiang Ning was stunned to see Jiang Shu wearing a dress after not seeing her for a long time.
"Sister, you are so beautiful." Jiang Ning marveled, feeling that Jiang Shu was no different from the fairy who walked out of the painting.
"Really?" Jiang Shu walked around in front of Jiang Ning, deliberately teasing him: "Don't I look good in men's clothes?"
Jiang Ning frowned and said tangledly: "It looks good, but I prefer sister and don't want a brother."
"You brat, you actually learned to make fun of me." Jiang Shu raised his hand and patted Jiang Ning's head.
The almost fourteen-year-old boy was already much taller than her, and he was almost out of her reach.
Jiang Ning puffed up her chest and said proudly: "Of course, after all, I am a scholar now."
"Ah?" Jiang Shu was surprised.
Jiang Ning was also surprised: "Didn't your parents tell you?"
"No. Are you really admitted to be a scholar?" Jiang Shu was pleasantly surprised and a little unbelievable.
She only left for a month, and when she came back, her brother became a scholar? This is like a dream.
"Of course it's true. Master also asked me to study harder and take the provincial examination next year." Jiang Ning raised her chin slightly, looking very proud.
Jiang Shu smiled and rolled his eyes after hearing this, and said to Yourong, "My brother is really awesome."
"My sister is also very powerful." Jiang Ning replied.
The siblings were silent for a moment, looking at each other and laughing.
Dinner was served in Jiang's father's and mother's yard, and the whole family sat together, enjoying themselves.
"I'm so happy today, let's have some wine." Mother Jiang ordered her servants to get some wine.
After the wine was brought, Jiang Shu poured it himself. Finally, he raised his glass and said, "Father, mother, my brother has been admitted as a scholar. We must respect him."
"Shu'er is right, Ning'er will be the backbone of the family from now on." Father Jiang and Mother Jiang looked pleased.
The three of them raised their glasses to Jiang Ning in a serious manner.
The thin-skinned boy was embarrassed to be called, so he clinked glasses with them with a slightly red face.
After drinking all the wine, the family began to eat vegetables.
Jiang Ning brought the shrimp plate over, patiently peeled them and put them in Jiang Shu's bowl.
"The shrimps my brother peeled were so delicious." Jiang Shu smiled happily.
Jiang Ning hummed: "I won't listen to your flattery."
As he said this, the corners of his lips couldn't stop rising, and there was a smile on his eyebrows.
Jiang Shu looked at the awkward boy who spoke insincerely, and felt happy and soft in his heart. He picked up a meatball and fed it to him.
There are many kinds of emotions in this world. Family love is the most precious and cannot be replaced by any other emotion.
Jiang Shu cherishes the time spent with her family because she understands that sooner or later she will get married and leave, and Jiang Ning will grow up and marry a wife.
In this kind of day, every day will be less.
