What is her name, where is she from, who are her parents, and how did she end up at Jiang Governor's Princess Mansion? What is the purpose of willingly giving up his original identity and replacing Cui Shiyi? Prosperity and wealth? If you are greedy for wealth, why don't you want to come back with yourself? And it seems like there is nothing else to ask for?
She is afraid of the cold, and the heavy snow in the north feels fresh to her. She must have grown up in the south of the Yangtze River. She has good medical skills, which must have come from her family. It's just that for such good medical skills, the handwriting is not visible to others. It's just that the handwriting is not good. There are still some missing words, as if he doesn't even know the strokes and sentences, but he seems to have never read a book.
It’s just that I haven’t read a book, so the poems I usually recite casually are all rare and beautiful lines. Lu Shen suddenly thought of the old letter he had just read. It seemed that it had the same missing characters as hers. Some of the words were missing exactly the same places?
Chapter 69
Thinking of this, Lu Shen kept stroking the soft willow waist with his hands. He lowered his head and caught a glimpse of her slender, white and tender neck. His hands unconsciously moved up to wrap around the trembling lump and murmured in a low voice: " The so-called fragrance hanging from the temples, the clouds covering the lotus root powder, the orchids on the breasts, the snow covering the plum blossoms, is nothing more than this!"
Lin Rong was dazed and about to fall asleep. Hearing this, he opened his eyes and secretly cursed Leng Bingbing in his heart: "It seems that the Lord really likes this body of flesh!"
Lu Shen took out his hand and said, "It seems a little bigger than last time?"
Lin Rong rolled his eyes, pushed Lu Shen away, rolled up another quilt and wrapped her tightly with her back to him: "It's only the second day of my childhood, you go find someone else."
There was no words on the other side of the bed. After a while, the bed curtain moved. Lu Shen let out a long sigh of comfort and said, "Pass over your sweat towel."
Only then did Lin Rong emerge from the tightly wrapped quilt, glared at him angrily, stretched out his hand, crumpled up the hanging ginger sweat towel and threw it over: "Throw it away after use, I don't want it anymore. "
Lu Shen snorted, stood up and went to the clean room. After a while, I heard the sound of rushing water. It was unknown how long it would be before the two of them fell asleep again.
I don't know how long it had passed, but Lin Rong was half asleep when she suddenly heard a rustling sound outside the door. She was about to ask when she heard Lu Shen say: "What's the matter?"
Outside, Jingqin whispered through the window: "Your Majesty, madam, Manager Shen of the outer courtyard said that there is urgent military information to report."
After Lu Shen heard this, he immediately put on his clothes and stood up, pushed open the door and left. He saw that it was snowing heavily again, and the snowflakes were flying all over the sky, slanting and dense, covering the sky and the sun. Shen Yan was waiting at the foot of the steps and presented him with a cowhide military letter: "Master, please report on the horse. There are traces of the Huns."
Lu Shen took it, looked at it briefly, and said with a clear look: "It's been snowing for almost twenty days. If we don't come out, we will starve to death. Send an order to the mighty camp and order troops in the school field!"
Lin Rong woke up and simply sat up. He saw a gold-plated copper elephant carrying a pipa and a pendulum clock in the corner. He had only slept for less than an hour. His head felt dizzy. He stood up and got a cup of tea. The tea was still warm.
Lu Shenfu came into the room and saw Lin Rong standing: "Why are you up? There are still two hours before dawn."
As he took the clothes from the rack and put them on, he said: "There are traces of the Huns. God will not take them away, but they will be blamed. I have to lead the troops to pursue them. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back on New Year's Eve."
Lin Rong put down the tea cup after hearing this, and for some reason, the dream suddenly popped up in his mind. Will Lu Shen die with an arrowhead? Will it come true? If it comes true at this time, it is not impossible to be a widow, but the wife is not easy to deal with.
As he was thinking about something in his mind, he slowly walked up to him unconsciously, took the jade leather belt and tied it silently around his waist.
While reaching out to caress the folds of his clothes on his chest, he saw that his heart was beating very fast, and he frowned and said, "Sooner or later you will die suddenly like this."
While pulling his wrist: "If you feel chest tightness, rub this point. This is the Neiguan point. If you have insomnia, press these two points. These are Daling point and Shenmen point, which are mainly used to treat insomnia."
Lu Shen didn't answer, but looked at the little girl in front of him faintly, and the place she touched gradually became numb. He held her in his arms for a long time: "How can I lose sleep when you are here? Don't worry, I can't die. Please wait for me at home."
Lin Rong called him so hard that he couldn't breathe. She felt that he seemed to have misunderstood something, and thought to herself: Who is worried about you? Am I worried about you?
After Lu Shen finished speaking, he pushed the door open and walked to the gate of the mansion. He climbed onto the rock and mounted his horse. He suddenly bent down and told Shen Yan: "Today, Madam received a letter with some missing writing. It looks like the writing on those prescriptions." The difference is not too big, you can check it secretly without disturbing her."
This meant keeping him in the house. Shen Yan said yes and watched the torch-bearing sergeant surround his master as he headed towards the school grounds.
Lin Rong yawned and went back to sleep on the embroidered bed. After closing his eyes for a while, he felt his hands and feet were cold. Kingfisher and Fengxiao heard the noise, and brought in several more Tang Pozi: "County Master, it's snowing heavily outside, and there are ice tips more than a foot thick under the eaves."
Lin Rong felt warmer now: "No wonder it's so cold."
Pian Fengxiao said with a smile: "The Lord is gone, and the County Lord is too cold to sleep? I think the County Lord must not be cold when the Lord is here."
Lin Rong snorted: "If you talk too much, I will marry you off tomorrow to see if you still talk too much."
Feng Xiao immediately blushed with embarrassment: "County Master, why don't you marry me? Your servant is still young?"
Kingfisher pulled Fengxiao's ear and laughed and scolded: "A girl who has not left the palace is saying these things. Master will spare you, but I won't spare you." While covering Lin Rong's tent, he pulled Fengxiao out.
However, Lin Rong never fell asleep again that night. Listening to the whistling sound of wind and snow outside, it wasn't until dawn that he closed his eyes and fell asleep for a while.
Gradually there was the sound of people clearing the snow outside. Xiao Shiliu stepped out of the snow with a pair of deerskin boots and ran to the porch. Behind her, her mother couldn't help shouting: "Girl, slow down, slow down, there are all kinds of things on the ground." It’s snow and ice, so you won’t be naughty if you fall.”
Xiao Liu was wearing a bright red serge satin and fine wool cloak, a snow cap on his head, and an autumn-colored jade belt tied around his waist. He ran over in a hurry: "Sister Fengxiao, is Sister Shiyi here?"
Feng Xiao hurriedly hugged her, raised her index finger and shushed: "Miss, please be quieter, the county master hasn't woken up yet?" While taking her cloak to shake off the snow, she asked: "Can you please have breakfast?"
Xiaoliu shook his head: "I want to eat with Sister Eleven."
Feng Xiao led her into the left hall: "Girl, go ahead and get some snacks and a cushion. It was windy last night and the county master didn't sleep well. I don't know when he will get up."
Lin Rong had already woken up. He sat up, rolled up the tent, and said, "Let Xiao Liu come in."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaoliu opened the curtain and came in with a little face flushed red from the cold, and holding a snow bunny in his hand: "Sister Eleven, let's go out and build a snowman, it's so snowy outside. "
Lin Rong touched her hands and face, which were already freezing cold. He quickly put the snow rabbit aside and said, "Go and warm up in the fumigation cage." Kingfisher and Fengxiao came in to help dress and wash, and replied: " Master, why don’t you sleep a little longer?”
He whispered back: "I got the gift list right. The Fang Yan is not on it. I don't know who put it in. I asked the girl and they all said that no one had touched it. It was there when it was delivered."
Lin Rong nodded: "I'm not going to sleep anymore. I've had breakfast. I'll go to the old lady's place later."
Lin Rong always used light food in the morning, because he had a small day in the past two days, so he replaced the bird's nest porridge with Jianlian red date soup. Since Xiaoliu was here, he also added mushrooms and salt-fried pork, and a plate of tofu skin buns. , a large bowl of steamed milk, and a bowl of silver chicken noodle soup.
Lin Rong told Xiaoliu: "You are still young, you should eat more milk every day." Then he asked her: "How are you studying?"
While Xiaoliu was eating, he replied: "In the school, there are some nuns who teach rules, manage the house, and women do needlework, or lead people to read some "Biographies of Women" and the like, but they never teach reading. I That day I read a poem about winter scenery, and even asked my grandma to teach me. She said..."
When Lu Shen was around, Xiaoliu didn't dare to come over. Lin Rong was afraid that she would be lonely, so he only asked her to study in the clan school. The little girls from the same clan were familiar with her and asked, "What did you say?"
Xiao Shiliu said: "Mommy said, if you read too many poems and lyrics like this, you will only read your mind wildly. You will learn the noble temperament of a scholar, the lingering and pathos look of reciting poems and composing poems, which will ruin your reputation. What kind of good family should I marry?"
Lin Rong laughed after hearing this: "Then what did you do?"
Xiaoliu had a lively temper after all, and smiled slyly: "I told grandma that if a man writes such good poems and lyrics, he has literary talent, but if a woman reads them, her reputation will be ruined, and she will just sit there. Naked Qiao's lingering sentiments? After hearing this, grandma didn't say a word and even said she was going back to the old lady."
Lin Rong stroked her forehead: "Whether you like poetry or not, if you have your own hobby, a boring life will be much more interesting."
Just as he was talking, he heard footsteps on the corridor outside, and the maid opened the curtain: "Master, the Fourth Grandma is here."
Grandma Yu Si took off her cloak and clogs at the door. She was wearing a big red and gold embroidered Zhai bird pattern double-breasted jacket, and underneath was a crimson four-in-one Ruyi horse-faced skirt. The pearls were swaying, and she looked very radiant. Before she even entered the door, she heard her gentle voice. Laughing: "It disturbed the sixth brother and sister's breakfast. Miss Sixteen is also here?"
Lin Rong waved his hand and ordered the maids to serve tea: "This is the Huoshan tea that I often eat. Try it, Sister-in-law Four, to see if it suits your taste." Then he smiled: "I'm not afraid of Sister-in-law Four's jokes. I feel friendly as soon as I see you. I’ve met before, but it seems very familiar, as if I’ve seen him before.”
Grandma Yu Si smiled lightly, with a gentle and gentle look, as if she was not too used to Lin Rong's warmth. She chatted some more and ordered the girls to come in with the account books and cards: "The old lady told me to call me First, show this year’s account books of the mansion to the sixth brother and sister, and ask for the cards from the warehouse to be sent over as well.”
Lin Rong groaned, flipped through the pages, and saw the girls holding four or five account books. He pushed them back and said, "It's the New Year's Day soon, and there are a lot of things. Don't be afraid of the fourth sister-in-law's jokes. I've only been here for a few days, no. As for the maids in the house, even the relatives in the clan don't recognize them very well. It's been very cold this year, and it's been snowing day after day, and I'm always feeling bad. I can't help but... I can't help but ask my fourth sister-in-law to do more work. Daily errand.”
Grandma Yu was not surprised when she heard this and smiled: "What's wrong with my sixth brother and sister? Can we invite a doctor to take a look at it?"
Lin Rong waved his hand and ordered Jade Bird to bring up the square stone inkstone: "It's not a serious illness. I asked the doctor and he said it was just for treatment. I thought it must be acclimatization. Oh, there is one thing. This inkstone yesterday, girl. When we were filing it, we saw that it was not on the list, so I wanted to ask my fourth sister-in-law if she had missed something on the list."
Grandma Yu Si took it and opened it and said: "It's this square inkstone. The girl was careless and sent it here by mistake. It turned out to be a birthday gift prepared by the people below, saying it was Pei Linggong's square inkstone. I was the only one looking at the inkstone." The mark on the bottom is a bit strange, but I’m not sure whether it’s genuine or not. I thought I’d ask someone knowledgeable outside to take a look at it, so as not to embarrass myself by sending a fake.”
Lin Rong looked very interested: "Oh, Pei Linggong, I would like to collect some of his calligraphy and paintings, but it's a pity that I can't do it."
Grandma Yu Fourth said: "The sixth brother and sister asked this, but they are asking someone else. Most of Pei Linggong's calligraphy and painting manuscripts were destroyed in the war, and not many of them are still alive. But my father got such a box when he broke into the city. I don't know. The landscape paintings that the sixth brother and sister love, or the manuscripts of medical prescriptions?"
Lin Rong lowered his eyes and peeled off the blue and white tea cover in his hand: "Are there any letters or anything like that?"
letter? Fourth Grandma Yu looked confused, but she still said: "I'll write and ask my father. I don't dare to say that there must be one, but if I ask more, I can always make the fourth brother and sister get their wish. It's just that his old man is currently stationed in Jiangzhou, and he comes and goes. , I’m afraid we won’t get the news until the first lunar month.”
Lin Rong laughed: "Thank you so much to Fourth Sister-in-law. Speaking of which, I have to ask Fourth Sister-in-law to spend more time on housework and take care of it for me until the first month of the year."
Grandma Yu Si didn't seem to understand. She refused and asked Lin Rong to persuade her for a few words before she agreed: "Okay then, I'll just take care of it for the next two months."
While waiting for Lin Rong to finish his meal, they went to pay their respects to the old lady. The old lady was sitting on the kang, holding up glass glasses in her hand. A girl in green clothes and a white skirt in the yard was teasing the parrot for her to see.
The parrot followed the instructions and flew around, saying "Old lady is well, old lady is well", which made the old man laugh. When he saw the two people coming, he waved hurriedly: "Come and sit and watch, this bird is amazing." He’s really become a spirit, and he can speak a few human words very well.”
Lin Rong watched for a while, and then told the old lady what they had just discussed about the housekeeper. The old lady directed this girl: "Ask the parrot to jump on the chiming clock and see if it can move the pendulum?"
Wen Yan came back, looked at Lin Rong carefully, and said, "Sixth Brother is gone. You were so worried that you didn't sleep all night. Do you look like this?"
Lin Rong sat there awkwardly. Although he did not sleep all night, it was so cold and windy that he couldn't sleep. When the old lady saw her lowering her head and keeping silent, she thought she was ashamed of her young age. She patted her hand and said, "Being the wife of the Lu family, this is normal. Brother Six has set the rules. If you don't welcome or see off, otherwise you will get married. The young couple asked you to go see him off."
As he talked, he got excited and called people in and asked, "When did you break camp?" The man replied, "We broke camp at dawn!"
After hearing this, the old lady counted on her fingers: "We won't break camp until dawn." She turned around and said to Lin Rong: "You take my carriage and go around the small road. There is a small county thirty miles away. You stand on the city wall to see him off. , and it also fills your heart.”
Lin Rong was a little confused. Didn't he talk about the housekeeper's affairs? Why, after a few words, he arranged to see Lu Shen off again. He had to travel thirty miles by carriage, which was sixty miles back and forth. .
Lin Rong felt a headache when he thought about the sixty-mile journey in such a cold weather, and declined: "It is the whole grandson's wife's heart to honor my grandmother here. Junhou has already made a rule of not welcoming or seeing off, so I How can you violate it?"
The old lady just pretended not to hear: "I'm going to take a nap soon, why do I need you to be filial?" At the same time, she ordered people to make arrangements: "Pack out my good horses, hitch them up, and call two hundred guards. I waved flags all the way to clear the way."
Facing Lin Rong, he said: "Go ahead, don't be embarrassed, he won't be able to come back in a month or two with his temper."
Lin Rongming persuaded him to go out in a daze, and asked someone to help him board the carriage. It took him a while to calm down. What sentence was wrong? It seems that he didn't say anything about sending Lu Shen off, right? The old lady and Lu Shen are indeed two generations, talking to each other from the same line.
Although it was only thirty miles away, it was a muddy road in winter, which was already difficult to walk. However, the carriage was driving very fast. Lin Rong held on to the wall of the carriage, her heart seemed to jump out of the window, and she hurriedly called the driver outside. Sergeant: "Slow down, or the carriage will overturn."
The sergeant received the old lady's order and was worried that he would not be able to make it in time. He said: "Madam, please relax. I have been driving the carriage for the old lady for twenty years, and nothing will happen to me. The old lady came down to give the order. If I am delayed, I will not be in time." No one can bear the consequences, please forgive me, madam, and bear with me for half an hour."
Lin Rong lamented in his heart that it was better to miss the time. Just as he was thinking about it, the carriage suddenly jolted violently, causing Lin Rong to hit the wall of the carriage with a loud bang.
The two girls, Kingfisher and Fengxiao, were frightened and hurriedly went to Lin Rong: "County Master, are you okay?"
Lin Rong twitched the corner of his mouth and said angrily: "He's not dead yet!"
At any rate, the post roads near Yongzhou were relatively complete, and there were not too many bumpy roads. Even so, when Lin Rong arrived at the gate of the city, she was dizzy and aching all over.
Because the flag was flying, the county magistrate hurried over from outside the carriage and knelt in the snow: "I, Qingping County Magistrate Jia Ruping, are paying homage to my wife. I didn't know she was coming, so I couldn't greet her from afar. Please forgive me, madam."
Lin Rong waved his hands feebly and asked: "No need to be polite, Mr. Jia, please get up. Have you ever passed the mighty camp of the Lord?"
The county magistrate immediately raised his head: "I just sent Weiwuying out of the city gate, and my wife arrived."
Lin Rong felt relieved when she heard this. Just as she wanted, she was about to order people to go back home when she heard the county magistrate say: "We have only been gone for a while. Madam will definitely be able to see her when she goes to the city gate."
Lin Rong was silent, and he didn't know whether he had eyes or not. He asked Kingfisher and Fengxiao to serve him and got out of the carriage. He slowly climbed up the city wall, and saw a meandering line of flags in the white snow. The black-armored cavalry could not see where Lu Shen was for the moment.
Lin Rong stood for a while, taking care of his errands, but then he felt that the wind on the city wall was really hurting his face, so he quickly ordered: "Look out of sight, let's go back."
As soon as Lin Rong turned around, he heard Kingfisher pointing in the distance and saying: "County Lord, look, it's the Lord!"
Lin Rong looked around and saw a man suddenly coming out of the line of cavalry. The man came galloping on a white horse with a silver saddle, but he did not come to the city wall. He reined in his horse and stopped far away. He couldn't see his face clearly, but he looked brave and brave.
Lu Shen looked at the little girl on the city wall from a distance, wearing a bright red cloak with black hair. He stared at it silently for a moment without saying anything, then suddenly turned around and urged his horse away.
Chapter 70
Feng Xiao exclaimed: "Why did the Lord leave again?" It was just a matter of missing the sixty-mile journey back and forth, but when he saw it, he didn't even say a word?
Then he turned to look at Lin Rong and saw that almost her whole body was covered in the gorilla felt cloak. Only a white face was exposed. There was still a hint of impatient tiredness on her face, and she ordered: "Go back, it's very cold. !”
