Lin Rong was standing there, feeling strange, when he heard the lady sitting upright put down the tea cup. She said with narrow eyes: "Your eyes are very much like your mother's, and your arrogant, surly, and arrogant temperament also follows her." .”
Grandma Yu Si stood aside. When she saw this, she immediately interrupted: "My wife has not been feeling well these past two days. Do you want to ask Taoist Master Qingxu to come and take a look?"
Lin Rong sighed inwardly. Mother's debt is paid by her daughter. She was whipped all those years ago. Just say a few words to her. Anyway, it won't hurt her to say a few words. Just pretend that she didn't hear what she just said. He said: "I wonder if my wife has called me here to teach me anything?"
The wife had a sneer on her face, but she immediately turned cold when she heard this: "Let me tell you clearly, I don't like girls from your Cui family very much. They are coquettish and very restless. Your mother used to be in Luoyang, and she became a guest of the emperor. , you, huh, you can't hide your scandal from anyone. Even Cui Liu Niang of your family, a daughter of a boudoir, likes to run some kind of poetry club. For the daughter's wedding banquet, she composes poems to overpower the master's family. She is also a very good person. People who love to be in the limelight are more likely to suffer the death of their husbands and children now than before.”
Lin Rong didn't care when she said that the eldest princess was messing around. She also vaguely felt that the eldest princess had done a lot of evil in the first half of her life and deserved to be talked about. That said, although it sounds ugly, it is still true. But, she shouldn't talk about Cui Qi!
Lin Rong still had a smile on his face and walked slowly aside. Shi Shiran sat down and stroked the wrinkles on his skirt: "I wonder where did my wife hear these words? Which family has such a petty attitude? Seeing a young girl of cardamom age write two good poems, she feels that she has been robbed of the limelight, so that she becomes resentful and talks about it everywhere? Jiangzhou Haoying clan, heirlooms of poetry and calligraphy, although they are female, they are also called recognized In just a few words, the banquet is just a boudoir game.”
As she spoke, she paused and looked directly at her wife: "As for my scandal, my wife is very right. It's just that I have too many scandals and my memory is not very good. I don't know which one my wife is talking about. Can you tell me clearly?"
The wife stood up, her wrists trembling slightly: "You are indeed a wanton person. You thought you were the daughter-in-law of the Lu family and pointed it out without knowing it, which made you happy. You had an affair with the scholar surnamed Liang in Jiangzhou. Go away, don't you think others don't know? How can an unchaste woman like you be worthy of entering the door of my Lu family?"
In this case, even Grandma Yu Si was scared to death. She couldn't leave, couldn't persuade her, so she begged: "Madam, no matter how angry you are, you can't say such things!" She turned to persuade Lin Rong: " Sixth younger brother and sister, you are a junior, my wife is so angry, why are you following her?"
Such a thing would make people speak out and criticize her in public, and a true lady of ancient times would certainly be ashamed and angry to death. It's just that Lin Rong is not an ancient lady. This is not what Lin Rong did. She doesn't feel ashamed or angry. Instead, she nods as usual: "Oh, that's what Madam was talking about. Madam is right, people like me She is not worthy to be the daughter-in-law of the Lu family. My wife is the elder and the head mother of the family. It is better for you to write a divorce letter to me and drive me out of the house. Of course I will go back to Jiangzhou immediately and offer incense to my wife every day. , I am grateful for my wife’s kindness.”
When the wife heard this, she glared at Lin Rong angrily, her hands shaking uncontrollably: "Okay, okay, let's ask the waiter in the study to come and write her a letter of divorce immediately."
Lin Rong pulled back her skirt and said, "If Madam has nothing else to do, I will resign first. As soon as Madam's letter of divorce comes, I will immediately set off back to Jiangzhou."
Jing Qin followed Lin Rong all the way out of Tingtao Courtyard. Before he could go far, he saw a woman in the corridor shouting urgently: "Quick, please come here, Taoist Master Qingxu, my wife is not good, my wife is not good, I am worried." : “County Lord, could something really happen? "
Lin Rong was startled, turned around and walked quickly into the courtyard. After only three or five steps, he heard his wife's angry shout in the distance: "What are you doing in a hurry? I'm very good. I'll get my pen and ink right away..."
Lin Rong paused then, turned around and walked out, thinking to himself: It's really good to hear that the voice is full of energy.
After returning to Yanshan Courtyard, Lin Rong changed clothes and had lunch. She felt pain in her lower abdomen again. She drank a bowl of medicine and lay down on her back, lazily reading a book. Kingfisher sat aside doing needlework, looking up at Lin Rong from time to time and sighing, as if he was hesitant to speak.
Lin Rong put down the book: "You can't blame me entirely. I've never been pointed at and scolded like this before?"
Jing Qin put down the embroidery cloth and sighed: "My slave knows that the county master has been very tolerant of his wife. However, as a daughter-in-law, how can she not be scolded and not wronged? This is how a prince governs Yongzhou with filial piety. How can I not punish the county lord when my heart is toward the county lord?"
Lin Rong was startled: "So, this is the disadvantage of marrying someone." He picked up a pen and wrote his name on the rice paper: "This man is an old minister of Duke Pei. I heard that he has a volume of Duke Pei hidden in his house. The handwriting, I wonder if I can borrow it and look at it?"
Kingfisher was puzzled: "Mr. Pei Linggong?"
Lin Rong turned to look at Kingfisher: "You once told me that there is a way to live by walking, and there is a way of living by staying. But if you ask me to choose, I would still like to live the same life as before." So it is even more important. Be fully prepared and don’t rush like last time.
Kingfisher asked: "Did the county leader say that he was in Jiangzhou in the past?"
Lin Rong shook his head: "It's even further than that..."
The two of them were chatting, and Feng Xiao came out of nowhere with a dish of pine pulp goose oil rolls in his hand, and said with a smile: "The county master, please try it, my mother's special skill in the kitchen, it's crispy and not greasy, it's very good." "
Kingfisher immediately stood up and went to twist her ears: "I told you to turn around. It's getting dark and I saw your figure now. Tell me, where have you been hiding?"
Feng Xiao hurriedly begged for mercy and said many good words, and then King Jingqin let go: "My servants heard that the county chief steward has come to talk to me, and they couldn't get away for a long time."
He said mischievously: "County Master, do you know that the old lady is from the first marriage, the wife is from the second marriage, and Grandma Yu Si is the wife's niece. When the Lord was here, there were eleven people in the mansion. , Later, the master died of illness, and it was the fifteen-year-old Junhou who made the decision. Except for the second master and the fourth master, all of them went out to separate houses. The second master died in the war, and the old lady saw that the second grandma was pitiful, so she left her to take care of her. Yu The fourth grandma grew up by my wife’s side since she was a child. The old people in the house said that she became the director of the family at the age of nine, just like an adult, taking care of my wife’s belongings all the time.”
Before Lin Rong could do anything, Kingfisher exclaimed: "What? My wife is getting married for the second time?" So what did she say about chastity and chastity when she pointed at the county boss this morning?
Feng Xiao looked like she was asking questions: "My wife was originally married to the Xun family of Yongzhou. Later, the Xun family surrendered, and then she became the Lu family."
Lin Rong peeled off a pine nut candy and realized: "She is Jiang Chen's wife, not Jiang Chen's daughter."
Feng Xiao nodded and took out a stack of yellow paper from his arms: "That's right, County Lord, you see, I took a cursory look at these people and they can be used. In the future we will definitely replace our own people in critical places, no. Other than that, it’s more convenient to send letters and so on.”
When he saw the mountain of brocade boxes on the case, he exclaimed: "Where did these come from? There are so many of them?"
Kingfisher hurriedly pulled her back: "After the ceremony this morning, there are also jewelry gifts from elders from all sides. Don't look at those for now, let's talk about my wife first..."
Feng Xiao had already opened a brocade box in his hand, and saw a vermilion lacquer inkstone box inside. He opened it again and found a green-black She stone banana leaf inkstone. He muttered: "Who gave this? It's a black lacquer inkstone." Painted stones, can such things be given away?"
As he spoke, he turned over the inkstone and saw a few words engraved at the bottom: "Lin Lin..." He handed it to Lin Rong: "County Lord, look, what is written on the back? It's so strange, it's not running script or official script. , and it doesn’t look like a character either?”
Kingfisher refused: "Don't worry about that for now, go on, you are."
Lin Rong smiled and took the stone inkstone, and suddenly froze when he saw that it was engraved with: "linlin"
My senior brother's words seemed to come to mind: "Hey, academic exchange meeting, why did you choose such an English name?"
Lin Rong asked, "Then do I have to choose Lisa, Selina, Luci or something like that? Why can't I use my Chinese surname?"
Kingfisher saw Lin Rong's expression was wrong, so he took the brocade box and saw a letter inside: "County Lord, is there another letter in it?"
Chapter 68
It was a piece of yellowed water-patterned paper, and when it faced the light, there was a looming pavilion in the clouds. Only if you look carefully, you will find that the shape of the pavilion in the clouds is completely different from this time.
Lin Rong took the letter and her hands were shaking uncontrollably. As soon as she opened it, she saw a line of eight small characters in simplified gold written on her head - My sister Lin Lin, seeing the words is like meeting each other!
Slowly looking down, I saw——
My sister Lin Lin, seeing words is like meeting:
Brother and sister have been separated from each other for more than fifty years. The friendship we had as siblings when we were young is still vivid in my mind, but it is a real pity that I don't know the whereabouts of my younger sister. If by chance she survives in this world, I hope my sister will take good care of herself. This brother is over eighty years old, suffering from various illnesses, and feels that his time is running out, so I have a few words of farewell.
After reading this, Lin Rong's nose felt sour, and her vision gradually blurred. It seemed that her senior brother understood the faint thoughts of abandoning the world in her heart, and advised her to cherish it at the beginning of the letter. It seemed that he was standing in front of her, his green shirt fluttering, still looking the same as when he first met her in his twenties. Fifty years later, he waved to her gently: "Lin Lin!"
Lin Rong was so choked that her throat hurt and she replied silently. It took a long time before she continued to read. I don't know how many years the letter paper had been there, and it was yellow and moldy. There was a large pool of ink and water stains in the middle. I could just barely make out a few words: "Lin Lin... has long been... brother...", and then there were At the end of the letter, there is a line of small words attached: "My hometown is so small, it's so easy to go back and think about it. Brother, I'm going back to the wilderness, and I'm just thinking about my old friend!"
After Lin Rong finished reading, he sat blankly for a long time, feeling a sense of bewilderment. Seeing this, Jade Qin and Feng Xiao looked at each other. They were silent and said in unison: "County Lord, I want to find out who this square inkstone is." Whoever sent it, I’m afraid it’s not simple!”
Lin Rong nodded and slowly folded the letter in the Sheshi inkstone box: "The inkstone doesn't matter, it's just that this letter is unusual. I just sent it like this, so either I can't find it, or I'm not afraid of checking it. You guys go and have a rest. I want to know something." Stay here for a while."
Jing Qin and Feng Xiao nodded and exited the door. They walked in silence for a long time, and then one of them asked: "Then what was written in the letter that made the county owner so sad when he saw it?"
He sighed and murmured: "It turns out that the county master didn't want to come to Yongzhou. I just thought she was confused, but I didn't expect this place to be so difficult to stand, with so many right and wrongs."
Lu Shen was handling government affairs in the office. After finishing the review, he pushed the door open and saw that the snow had stopped for an unknown period of time, and the night sky was filled with stars. Shen Yanben was in the left corridor room, waiting for hot tea. When he heard the sound, he came out immediately and bowed and presented a stack of letters: "Sir, there is a reply from Jiangzhou. All the attendants around Cui Jue and his wife tortured them one by one. However, it is said that since Madam recovered from her illness, her temperament, food preferences are very different from before, and even her accent is somewhat different."
Seeing that Lu Shen was looking at a civet cat on the eaves, and had no intention of taking it over to take a look, he replied carefully: "The old servants in Jiangzhou said that my wife used to ride horses in the street, but she never rode a horse after she recovered from her illness. . She used to like to eat fish and meat, but she stopped eating it after she recovered. My wife grew up in Luoyang since she was a child. Even when she came back to Jiangzhou, she often spoke Luoyang Yayin, but after she recovered, she only spoke the sounds of Jiangnan and Wudi. "
When the civet cat saw someone staring at it, it quickly climbed up the tree and hid in the branches, meowing vigilantly. Lu Shenlue stretched out his hand and twisted the cat into his arms and asked, "So the real Lord of Wuyang County has already passed away." Damn it, that couple, Li Dai Tao Jiang, found an impostor from somewhere?"
Shen Yan shook his head: "It's not much of a resemblance. The servants who asked the lady to identify her portrait said they were exactly the same as the Wuyang County Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Cui had also suspected that the rose-red birthmark on the lady's back was exactly the same. The doctor said, With such a serious illness, it is a blessing to be able to wake up after sleeping for half a year, and it is normal to have symptoms of soul loss."
The cat called Lu Shen and did not dare to resist. Every time Lu Shen stroked it, the cat growled lowly. Aphansia? Is there such a strange disease in this world?
Lu Shen asked again: "Did Cui Shiyi understand medical science before? Have anyone read the prescriptions she wrote?"
Shen Yan replied: "The head of Wuyang County knew nothing about medicine in the past. He collected dozens of prescriptions written by his wife. Qingzhou and Guyuan sent people to visit them and asked famous doctors from Yongzhou to identify them. They all said that the person who prescribed this prescription was extremely General medical theory. Although many of the medicinal materials have not been heard of, there is Xiaoqinglong Decoction for treating typhoid fever, which cannot be developed without twenty years of skill."
Lu Shen asked: "Has the old doctor Ling who practices medicine with her been checked?"
Shen Yan replied: "After investigation, the villagers said that when these two people practiced medicine, the wife dictated the prescriptions and the old man wrote them. It seems that the wife taught the old man, not the old man who taught the wife medical principles."
Lu Shen threw the cat in the snow, and ran up to the roof with a whoosh. He slowly walked down the steps, seeming to ask Shen Yan, and seemed to be talking to himself: "What is she like?" Where is the woman?"
Shen Yan followed Lu Shen for a long time and didn't know how to answer: "I feel that Madam is different from other women in this world, whether she is a lady from a big family or a beautiful girl from a small family."
Shen Yan almost blurted out these words. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that he had made a mistake. How could the master speak for himself? He looked at Lu Shen's face and immediately apologized: "My slave made a mistake, please forgive me."
Lu Shen only glanced at Shen Yan coldly, then rode off to the Junhou Mansion. As soon as I entered the door, I saw several famous doctors from Yongzhou City, asking people to send them out from the corner door next to them.
Shen Yan patted his head: "I'm sorry, I'm so confused that I forgot to report this matter. Today, my wife saw her relatives, and she called her to lecture her. Only Grandma Yu Si was waiting inside. I vaguely heard the words "divorce my wife". Then my wife went back to Yanshan Courtyard. She said she was about to faint and it was not good, so she invited the doctor. Second Grandma and Fourth Grandma Yu all went to attend to the illness. "
Lu Shen entered Tingtao Courtyard. When he entered the house, he saw the doors and windows wide open, and the cold wind filled the room. The wife had a cotton towel on her forehead and her face was pale. She was leaning on the brocade pier and sighing weakly, looking haggard.
The second grandma and the fourth grandma were standing by, one holding a bowl of medicine and the other carrying bird's nest porridge. They all advised: "Madam, take care of yourself. No matter how angry you are, you will always take this medicine. When the old lady sees you like this, Don’t you know how worried you are? Just treat it as a pity for us juniors and take the medicine first before talking about anything else."
However, no matter how the two tried to persuade them, the wife remained silent and only said: "Don't let the old lady know, it's my filial piety..." He suddenly raised his eyes and saw Lu Shen standing at the door, and stopped talking.
The Second Grandma and the Fourth Grandma turned around and saluted: "Your Majesty!"
Lu Shen nodded: "Sisters-in-law, please go down and have a rest. Mother and I have something to say." Second Grandma and Fourth Grandma said yes, put down the medicine bowls, and left.
Lu Shen brought the medicine bowl to his wife's bedside and sighed: "Why does mother need to be the same as her? If mother likes it, she will see her more often. If she doesn't like it, she will be sent away. If she makes a mistake, I will punish her. "
After hearing this, the wife laughed bitterly and drank the bowl of medicine: "Forget it, I am so angry today and want to divorce her. After all, I am the one who brought shame on myself. It's just me. Let me ask you, if you cover up for her like this, does Ms. Cui care about you at all?"
Lu Shen remained silent while his wife smiled and shook her head: "If she had you in her heart at all, she wouldn't have jumped off the cliff and abandoned her home. If she had you in her heart, she wouldn't have refused to come back with you. If she had you in her heart at all, she wouldn't have refused to come back with you. You would not have caused such embarrassment with me, an elder, and refused to give in at all. Shen'er, her heart is not in Yongzhou."
Lu Shen thought for a while and said, "Mom is too worried."
The wife reached out and stroked Lu Shen's frown, and said with some seriousness: "Shen'er, you were born by me. The blood of mother and child is thicker than water. Don't I know your heart? It's just that such a free-spirited woman is worth it." Do you love me so much? When you were in the boudoir, you dared to elope, and after you got married, you even jumped off a cliff to escape home. In the future, there will be people like Liang Qi. I'm afraid that you will be in vain!"
Seeing that Lu Shen's face was getting harder and harder to look at, the wife waved her hand and said, "Go ahead, I won't do anything to her. With things like this, it's hard to say that she doesn't care and is sleeping peacefully?"
The wife's words were true, and Lu Shen felt that he didn't care. But when he entered the Yanshan Courtyard, he saw that all the lights in the courtyard were turned off, and it was pitch dark with no one on duty. People don't care, how about sleeping peacefully? These words were like a thorn in my flesh, growing wildly in the night.
Pushing the door open and touching the curtain, he saw the little woman lying with her back to him, seemingly not asleep. She heard a noise and turned around to sit up with her hands on her hands. Her black hair hung on her chest, and her voice was rustling with a lazy charm: "So late?"
It was as if the wife was complaining that her husband came home late. Lu Shen saw that there were still tears on her face and her eyes were swollen, so he touched her and said, "Are you crying?"
Lin Rong shook his head: "No!"
Huh, I obviously cried. Lu Shen rubbed his fingertips gently: "I heard from my servant that you received a lot of gifts today, and there was a letter inside the only square inkstone. You cried when you saw it, and you asked the maids to go out, and you sent it alone for a long time. Stay? Who wrote the letter? "
Lin Rong was shocked when he heard this. Lu Shen asked someone to stare at him? She lowered her eyes and shook her head: "I don't know, it seems like someone misplaced it. The paper is quite old, it's an old letter."
Lu Shen groaned and asked, "Did you cry after reading someone else's letter? Is it a man's letter or a woman's letter?"
Seeing that there was something in his words, Lin Rong paused. He stood up and took down the brocade box containing the stone inkstone from the ancient shelf. He took out the water-patterned letter paper, threw it on the brocade quilt, and pursed his lips: "There are always ten sentences." If you ask me a hundred words, why don't you just see for yourself?"
Lu Shen picked it up, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then said: "It turns out they are brothers and sisters I haven't seen for fifty years. They have nothing to do with you. Why are you crying?"
Lin Rong hated him for pestering him endlessly, and said angrily: "It makes people miss the brother-sister relationship for fifty years. Isn't it worth crying? If I have a brother who misses me so much, I'm afraid I'll cry every day?"
Lu Shen closed the brocade box and put it aside. Hearing this, he looked at Lin Rong and asked quietly, "Don't you have someone who misses you like this?"
Lin Rong stared at him so hard that he couldn't say a word. After a while, he pushed Lu Shen's shoulder: "Go and wash up and go to bed. Aren't you going out tomorrow?"
Lu Shen refused, still sitting on the edge of the bed, reaching out to grab the little woman's wrist, his eyes burning, and asked again: "Don't you have one?"
Lin Rong made him stare so hard that he turned his head and looked at the dark-striped grasshopper on the green tent. After looking at it for a long time, the green grasshopper seemed to come alive. A pair of eyes stared straight at her. She suddenly After a pause, he said in a voice like the sound of a mosquito: "Yes!"
Lu Shen continued to ask: "What's there?"
Lin Rong turned around and looked at Lu Shen, with helplessness on his face: "Is it okay to have someone who has been thinking about me?" Then he pushed him: "Go and wash up quickly, I'm afraid the water is cold."
Only then did Lu Shen let go, went into the clean room to take a shower, turned off the quilt and went to bed. He touched the little woman's belly and saw that it was still cold, and asked, "Does it still hurt?"
Lin Rong was confused: "A little!"
Lu Shen's hand was big and warm, and he gently kneaded and massaged acupuncture points such as Sanyinjiao, Diji, Shiqizhui, and Ciliao. Lin Rong hummed in comfort, as if he remembered what he had said but was too sleepy to remember. .
Lu Shen only felt that the woman in his arms seemed to be shrouded in mist. She didn't seem to care much about things in this world, and people in this world didn't seem to care much either. She was in the world of mortals, but her heart was... Outside the world of mortals. She is definitely not Cui Shiyi, so who is she?
