Liu Mingzhi swallowed all the candied fruit in his mouth that seemed to be bitter to the bone. He stood up from the chair with difficulty and walked to Liu Zhian's side and stopped.
"Since you are tired and want to take a rest, then take a rest."
Liu Zhi'an gently took the pipe out of his mouth and knocked the long-burned tobacco against the window sill.
"You, a young bastard, finally spoke a human word.
I thought you would keep me busy until the day I die! "
"Hehehe... It turns out that this young master is so heartless in your eyes, old man? When you say that, I suddenly don't want you to go back to Jiangnan with my mother.
Not to mention keeping you busy until the moment you die, at least I have to keep you busy for another twenty or thirty years before I can let you go back to your hometown in the south of the Yangtze River and live your old life with my mother in peace and contentment.
It's a pity that people who want to leave can't be kept after all, just like grandpa, uncle, aunt, old man, Xuan'er and all of them.
They have all made up their minds to leave the capital. I, the young master, cannot stay even if I want to. Now you and your mother are the same. Since you have told me about leaving, it means that you have made up your mind.
Now that you have made up your mind to leave Beijing, what's the point of this young master even if he feels reluctant to let go?
Forcing him to stay is just an unfilial reputation, and I don’t want to get such a reputation in a daze.
old man. "
Liu Zhi'an paused while filling the tobacco pot, then silently turned to look at Mr. Liu who was standing next to him.
"Um?"
Young Master Liu looked at the tobacco pot that had been filled with tobacco again in the old man's hand. He hesitated for a moment, then took out the fire stick from his sleeve and blew it.
"When you are tired, take a good rest. Your back is much bent compared to what it was twenty years ago.
Not only is his back bent, but his beard and hair have also turned white.
I remember twenty years ago at the old house in Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River, you were so angry while waving the training stick. Looking at your current appearance with white hair and beard, the difference is huge, if not worlds apart.
You are right, old man, you are old now, really old. "
Liu Zhi'an silently looked at the crackling fire in Young Master Liu's hand, raised his pipe and leaned over it.
After quietly taking a few puffs of smoke, Liu Zhi'an raised his hand and patted Young Master Liu on the shoulder, took a look at his son's fairly upright body and sighed.
"Don't talk about me, why are you the same?"
"That's different. I have so many wives, and if I can straighten my waist, I'm pretty good.
And you are just my mother, who wants to go out to steal something but is afraid of wolves before and after, how can you compare with this young master and me?
My young master's back is a little bent, that's natural. "
"Just play harp, you are so uninhibited and carefree. If you can live to my age, it is because the ancestors of our Liu family have appeared in the sky."
"Hey! My young master is happy to die under the peonies and be a ghost.
In the long term, life is only a hundred years; in the short term, it is only a few decades.
It only takes a few decades or a hundred years to live in a hurry, so why should you care about so many rules and regulations that restrict your thoughts?
Live your life and enjoy yourself in time. While you are alive, you should enjoy yourself in time! "
"Hehehe...you are quite open-minded."
"This is how life should be, isn't it?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes! I am short-sighted, can't you?"
"When do you plan to leave for your hometown in the south of the Yangtze River?"
Liu Zhi'an didn't expect that his son, who had just been joking with him, would suddenly mention such a sad question, and he let out a puff of smoke with a faint look in his eyes.
“About three to five days, it shouldn’t take too long.
It will be October soon, and once it snows and the roads are blocked by heavy snow, we probably won’t be able to go back this year. "
"Okay! By the way, regarding Xuan'er's life-long events, old man, what are you..."
Liu Zhi'an knocked his cigarette pot on the window sill, directly cutting off Liu Mingzhi's next words.
"Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Xuan'er has grown up and knows what she wants. I don't intend to interfere with these anymore.
This girl is very sensible, so sensible that it makes people feel bad!
I don’t want to use the so-called...
Oh, no more, no more, I called you here just to tell you that I, your mother, and we are going back to our hometown in the south of the Yangtze River.
I have pretty much said what you need to say. Today is the court meeting and you must have gotten up very early. You should go back and rest first. I have to continue settling accounts.
By the way, don't forget to close the door. I'm getting older and I can't stand the cold. "
Liu Mingzhi looked at Liu Zhi'an who had already walked towards the chair, murmured for a moment and nodded silently.
"Okay, I will go back first."
"Yeah! Go ahead!"
Young Master Liu absentmindedly left the old man's study and wandered aimlessly into Qi Ya's courtyard. When he saw Qi Ya sitting in the pavilion embroidering, he walked straight over.
"Sister Ya."
"Husband? You got up so early for the imperial meeting today. You must be in low spirits. Why didn't you catch up on some sleep after you sent your little sister back?"
"I'm not tired of being a husband. You shouldn't be busy now, right?"
Qi Ya immediately put the half-embroidered fabric in her hand into the thread frame and stood up gracefully.
"I'm not busy. Is your husband looking for a concubine?"
"It's fine if you're not busy. I don't have anything to do with my husband. I just feel a little busy. How about going to the backyard to have a few drinks with my husband?"
Qi Ya carefully looked at her husband's expression and nodded with a smile.
"Okay, let's go there after I send the things back to the room."
"Okay, my husband is waiting for you."
After a few cups of tea, the couple appeared on the withered lawn in the backyard of Liu Mansion.
Young Master Liu held a wine glass filled with peach blossom wine in his hand. He lay quietly on Qi Ya's round and slender jade legs and stared at the clouds in the sky. He poured glass after glass of wine into his mouth.
Qi Ya quietly looked at her husband who was drinking silently in her arms. She suppressed the worry in her beautiful eyes, raised her wine glass and touched her husband lightly.
"Husband, I will drink with you."
"Okay, Sister Ya, let's drink together."
On the second day of October in the fifth year of Dalong's reign, as the sun was rising, a luxurious carriage slowly drove away from the street in front of the gate of Liu Mansion amid the cries of a group of children.
"grandparents."
"Oh, oh, oh, grandpa and grandma, Yunxin will go back to Jinling to see you."
"Grandpa, grandma, don't go, don't go."
"Grandpa, grandma, wait for Zhengran. Zhengran will go back to Jiangnan with you."
"grandfather……"
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the children beside him who were crying and struggling in the hands of their mothers to chase away the carriage, and sighed softly.
Looking at the carriage going further and further down the street, Liu Mingzhi squinted his eyes and remained silent for a long time, then turned around and walked into the mansion with a melancholy expression.
With everyone gone, the once bustling Liu Mansion will become empty from today on.
All the beauties heard their husband's sigh and turned to look at his lonely back walking slowly towards the mansion. They looked at each other, sighed tenderly, took the struggling children in their hands, turned around and walked towards the gate of the mansion. middle.
After Liu Zhi'an and Mrs. Liu left the capital, the scene in the Liu Mansion was quiet for more than a month, and then gradually became lively again.
It's just that compared to the previous days, it feels like something is missing.
"Little Liu Song asks to see the young master."
"come in."
"yes."
"Xiaosong, what's wrong?"
"Go back to the young master, Xiao Chengzi. The matters that the young master ordered have been completed."
"I understand, please step back."
"Yes, please excuse me."
