Feng Xiao didn't know why, maybe it was snowing too hard or the wind was blowing too hard, but she suddenly became depressed. Until she got on the carriage, she still looked depressed.
Lin Rong looked amused and leaned on the pillow to tease her: "I think it's you, little girl, who feels reluctant to see the Lord go. If you really can't bear to leave, I'll send someone to take you there. That's right. At this time, ride fast. The horse can still catch up."
Feng Xiao nodded and shook her head, and said seriously to Lin Rong: "It's really no fun for the county master to get married! It's no fun to get a wife, and it's even less fun to get married..."
As soon as he said this, Lin Rong and Jing Qin both laughed. They looked at each other and then tapped Feng Xiao on the forehead of the little girl three times: "Are you aware of it?"
Feng Xiao covered her forehead: "Why did the county chief beat people?"
Lin Rongxiao: "I'm here to see you realize it. I'll knock you on the forehead three times and tell you to come to my room at three o'clock so that I can teach you my skills."
This girl had just read Tang Monk's book of Buddhist scriptures and retorted with a pouted mouth: "County Master, you will make fun of me. I am not a monkey. How can I still be a child?"
Lin Rong then looked like he suddenly realized: "Oh, you are not Monkey King! You are not monkey, but you speak Hozen language."
Feng Xiao turned around angrily and snorted lowly.
On the way back, I was not in a hurry and walked slowly and leisurely for more than an hour before I arrived at the Junhou Mansion. Sure enough, the old lady had taken a nap and still hadn't woken up. Seeing Lin Rong coming, Grandma Yu hurriedly opened the curtain and came out: "It's sixty miles a trip, madam, are you tired?"
Lin Rong shook his head and asked: "I am young, and no matter how tired I am, I am limited. Is the old lady awake?"
Aunt Yu then said: "She has been sleeping for almost two hours, and she still ordered people not to wake her up." She said with a smile: "The old lady is getting older, and she becomes more and more like a child. She doesn't sleep at night. Playing leaf cards with the little girls, I have to sleep for two or three hours during the day. The old lady gave instructions before going to bed, saying that the housekeeper's affairs are up to you. Whenever you feel comfortable, you can take over. These days It doesn't matter if you ask Fourth Grandma to do both. You're not in good health and you'll have to hire a doctor to take care of you tomorrow."
Lin Rong stood up and said with relief, "Thank you grandma for your understanding."
Aunt Yu sent her off and said, "Madam, please go back and rest. It's been a tiring day."
Lin Rong nodded and returned to Yanshan Courtyard. After lunch, he lay down lazily and refused to move. Kingfisher and Fengxiao were roasting peanuts and longans on the charcoal stove nearby. They asked in confusion: "Why doesn't the county master take over the housework? Instead, he asked Grandma Yu Si to take care of it for two more months?"
Lin Rong said: "How can you not give me any benefits when you entrust someone to do something? Besides, if you don't dangle a carrot in front of you, how do you know whether someone is sincerely doing something for you?"
The two girls understood this truth, so they just asked: "Why is Pei Linggong's letter so important?"
Lin Rong didn't answer, just silently flipped through the pages of the book, and said vaguely for a long time: "Of course it has its important points."
The next day, the old lady and Mrs. Guo invited famous doctors from all over Yongzhou to nurse Lin Rong back to health. They took turns checking her pulse through the curtain, and discussed medicine for a long time. It was noisy until mid-afternoon that she wrote three letters. The prescription comes out.
Reported back to the old lady: "Madam, there is some deficiency of qi and blood, cold palace and blood stasis. Take a few doses of Warming Menstrual Decoction. The blood stasis will be warm and will go away. It is also a prescription for replenishing qi and blood, so it is not a serious problem."
The old lady cupped her hands and smiled: "Okay, okay, it's nothing serious. I can borrow the good words from the old gentlemen."
On the other hand, he told Lin Rong: "This woman's body is the most important thing. Look at me, I have no strengths. I only have one thing that others are good at, and that is to be strong and live a long life."
Lin Rong thought to herself that this old lady was so frank and cute, she smiled and nodded: "Yes!"
After everyone had dispersed, Feng Xiao and Jing Qin brought the prescription in and asked: "County Master, do you want to take the medicine according to the prescription?"
Lin Rong looked at it and nodded: "It's a good recipe, and it's also good for me. Just do whatever the old lady wants." In this way, there is no need for the girl in Yanshan Courtyard to bother, she has Aunt Yu in the old lady's courtyard. , I cooked medicine in the small kitchen every day and brought it over to serve Lin Rong to take it, rain or shine.
However, every time Nanny Yu brought medicine, she always brought some gadgets, such as a rhinoceros horn fairy cup, a long hairpin dotted with emerald coral, or a magnolia cup carved from ivory, as if she was coaxing a child to take medicine.
Lin Rong laughed dumbly and ordered people to collect them one by one in the box.
In this way, after a month, it was already the twentieth of the first lunar month before I knew it. According to the rules of Yongzhou, the New Year is not yet out of the first lunar month, and the old lady likes to be lively. Several young ladies in the house, and several close relatives outside, all flattered the old lady and played cards and horses for fun.
That day, the old lady got excited and asked people to clean up the copper pavilion on the water pavilion. She also ordered a group of twelve young actors to sing in the pavilion opposite. I don’t know how the bronze pavilion was built. As soon as I entered, there was a rush of heat and unusual warmth. It's cold outside the pavilion, and it's next to water. When it gets cold or hot, white vapor rises around the pavilion, making it look like a fairyland from a distance.
The girls have already set up tables and chairs for the banquet and laid out a pair of ivory dominoes. The old lady waved her hand and led everyone to sit down. While touching the ivory plaque, she told everyone about ancient times: "This set of ivory plaques is old. It was given to me by the elders in the family when I gave birth to my sixth brother. It was not as good as it is now." , I have never seen a good thing, so I kept it like a treasure for three years before taking it out for use?"
The family members flattered: "Old Madam, such high-grade ivory cards are rare at this time of year! They are also made into chopsticks, hairpins, and small cups. Such a large set of cards, we have lived for many years, and in the Old Madam It’s an eye-opener here.”
The old lady didn't respond to everyone's words and turned her head to Lin Rong next to her and said, "When you have good news in the future, I will pass this card to you. It's kind of a meaning."
Lin Rong was not good at horse-drawing, and the rules at this time were almost the same as modern chess and card games. Since the New Year's Eve day, she had accompanied the old lady to meet relatives in the first month of the year, and she had spent countless hours at the card table, and then she finally got a little familiar with it.
She was looking down at the cards when she suddenly heard the old lady's words and froze. She couldn't say anything, so she just lowered her head in a shy gesture.
The old lady refused to expose this problem and looked at Lin Rong with a smile: "After raising her for more than a month, her complexion is much rosier. I heard from you maids that you walk around the lake several times after meals every day. . Take care of yourself, that’s what you should do.”
Everyone agreed. They were all relatives of military commanders and their wives, so they were also elders. A married woman will speak in a non-vegetarian manner, speaking in a direct and explicit manner.
The wife was sitting aside drinking tea, not even raising her eyelids, just pretending not to hear, but the old lady was still very interested, listening with a smile, and occasionally interjected: "Is this useful for pillows? I didn't hear that at that time. Pass?"
A man in his thirties sitting next to him, who was quite senior, called the old lady: "Sister-in-law, you have to pay attention to the method of placing pillows, one under the waist and one under the thighs. Only use the pillow under the waist. Didn’t it all flow out? How could it be possible?" Lin Rong nodded as he spoke: "The pillow also has a saying, don't use a jade pillow or a stone pillow, use a lily-scented pillow, it also has the meaning of adding to the fun."
It all came out... to add to the fun, even though Lin Rong felt that he was thick-skinned, he made these people laugh so hard that his face was red and his ears were burning. He couldn't sit still, so he casually played a bad card with a slip of his hand and turned to Yu Si. Grandma said: "Fourth sister-in-law, come and support me for a while while I go change my clothes."
Everyone refused to comply and told her to listen to her words before going. It was the eldest aunt who saw that Lin Rong was really embarrassed, so she came to her rescue and said: "I am a new daughter-in-law, and I asked you to tease her like a wolf, and she was so embarrassed that she couldn't even stand." She said to Grandma Yu Si He pressed Lin Rong's position and rescued her. At the same time, he shouted at the old lady: "Grandma is too biased. My four siblings have given birth to three sons, and you don't even see you rewarding her with this ivory plaque."
The old lady felt most distressed about her eldest granddaughter. She was not annoyed when she heard this and nodded her forehead: "You hozen, you came here to stir up discord? What good things do I have, why don't you just tell me to buy them?" Fortunately, the fourth family is filial to me, unlike you, like a mud monkey?"
However, this interruption caused Lin Rong to run away, and went inside to change his clothes. He sat there with hot tea for a long time, breathed a long sigh of relief, and thought to himself: "These ancients are better than imagined." Even more vigorous!"
After finally hiding for half an hour, a maid came from outside and urged: "Madam, the old lady has lost two games in a row. She is looking for you everywhere. Can you help her read the cards?"
Lin Rong stretched out his hand to explore and saw that his face was still a little hot. He also saw that the maid kept urging him, so he didn't care. He opened the curtain and walked around the black screen with hundreds of birds facing the phoenix, and slowly walked out.
The old lady waved to her: "Come on, come on, please replace your eldest sister. She is always lying here at the card table. I don't know how much she has done, and she has to scratch all my body."
Lin Rong agreed. As soon as he sat down and stacked the cards, he heard a woman leading the chief of the outer courtyard to come in and reply: "Old lady, madam, the lord is back, the lord is back."
The old lady stood up immediately and asked: "How?"
The Chang Sui was out of breath and asked for a bowl of tea before he could say: "Victory, great victory. The princes rushed to the court of the Xiongnu, fought thousands of miles, captured the Xiongnu Youxian King alive, and beheaded him. There were more than 10,000 people, and almost all the elite troops were wiped out. The king had already arrived at the gate of the city and ordered his servants to come back and report to the old lady that they were safe."
Two generations of the Lu family's heads were both killed at the hands of the Huns. This battle seemed to have wiped away all previous shame. Everyone was stunned for a moment: "Seriously? Captured the Xiongnu Youxian King alive?"
Na Changsui nodded: "Yes! It's absolutely true."
The old lady was greatly relieved, stroking her hands, and said three good words: "Okay, okay!"
Everyone in the pavilion stood up and saluted: "The old lady is very happy, the king is very happy!"
The old lady said hello repeatedly and told her: "Today is a good day, everyone has a reward." Then he said: "Everyone sit down and let's play the cards. I have a good hand in this game, so I can't run away. Wait for others When he comes back, he will naturally come here. He has set his own rules. If he doesn't welcome or see you off, he can't blame us. "
One of the family members here followed Lu Shen in pursuit. He was worried for a moment, but even though he was sitting here, his eyes were wandering outward. Lin Rong's heart was beating for some reason. Why did he come back in just over a month? Die without an arrowhead, but return with a great victory?
She was thinking this way, absent-mindedly, and the cards she played became more and more unorganized, causing the old lady to eat several cards and make all kinds of mistakes.
The old lady smiled and shouted at everyone to give them money, and played another round of nonsense, with a clear meaning: "Sixth daughter-in-law, you are so good at playing cards. You have learned all these days around me in vain. If your heart is not steady, your hands will not be stable." It’s not stable.”
Lin Rong sighed, having lost all the chips in front of him, and said: "It's better for me to be a big sister. I've lost all my monthly money to you this month. If I lose any more, I'll have to remove the hairpin from my head."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the maid waiting outside hurriedly saying: "Old lady, madam, the lord is here, the lord is here."
Lin Rong happened to be standing, looking through the red plum blossoms beside the carved window. When he turned his head, he saw Lu Shen standing on the Aishui Stone Bridge. He had changed into another set of clothes, with moon-white straight-leg sleeves and a face like brocade silk. Lang Lang is like the moon.
But after a moment, the girls opened the curtain, and Lu Shen came in to greet the old lady: "How is grandma, how is mother?"
All the relatives and women also stood up immediately and performed the courtesy of a monarch and ministers: "Greetings to the monarch."
The old lady said hello repeatedly, hurriedly pulled him up, looked at him carefully, and said with a calm smile: "We are fine, but your wife is not. She is from the south and doesn't know how to make Pai Gow here, but Lost all your money.”
Lu Shen groaned when he heard the words, as if he just realized that Lin Rong was here. Seeing that she was still bending her knees, she waved her hand: "Elders, please get up. This is a family banquet. There is no need to be restrained." There are only differences between men and women, kings and ministers, inside and outside. As soon as Lu Shen arrived, the younger female relatives retreated one after another, leaving only a few relatives of the elders.
The old lady was very unhappy when she saw that almost everyone had left, and she pretended to be angry: "When you come back, I don't even have anyone to play cards with me?"
Lu Shen just smiled, sat next to Lin Rong, and looked at her cards: "My grandson will play a few games with the old lady."
The old lady laughed. This grandson has talked about losing his temper with toys since he was a child. Now he is interested in playing with her? She just pretended not to understand and said: "This is what you said. Don't imitate your wife and think about running away as soon as she loses. I won't agree to it."
Lu Shenguo didn't just speak casually. He played two games with the old lady and won both games even though he was a bit rude. In the third hand, I gave the old lady cards, and she was all confused, as if she was happy.
Lin Rongben stood quietly next to Lu Shen. He didn't know how long these people were going to play, and he was bored. He could hear the melodious singing of the little actors coming through the sound of water. He was about to sit back and listen to the music, but unexpectedly Lu Shen stretched out his hand and called: "Tea!"
Lin Rong was stunned, paused, took a cup of hot tea from the little girl's Begonia flower leaf tray, and put it into Lu Shen's hand: "It's a bit hot..."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Shen suddenly withdrew his hand to touch the dominoes, and the cup of hot tea suddenly fell over, with most of it splashing on Lu Shen.
The eldest aunt made a sound and asked, "Why are you so careless and careless? Did you get burned?"
Lu Shen glanced at Lin Rong who was standing far away, dusted his clothes and said, "It's okay!"
The old lady waved her hand: "Go and take off your clothes and have a look. Even if you don't get burned, wearing wet clothes on such a cold day is not a big deal." As she spoke, she ordered: "Go and get a set of clothes belonging to your prince." Come."
Lu Shen then put down the cards in his hand and asked the old aunt at the side: "You play a game with grandma first, and then come out after I change my clothes."
After that, he walked around the screen and went to the gallery behind the pavilion.
Lin Rongben stood there, thinking that he could finally find a place to sit for a while. Unexpectedly, his eldest aunt took the bundle from the maid's hand and asked, "Send it over?"
Lin Rong must have been used to being carefree for more than a month. Hearing this, he still didn't react. The aunt frowned, as if she disliked her and said without a look: "If you don't follow me quickly to help change clothes, who will go in?"
Lin Rong had no choice but to grab the clothes and go to the back porch. As he walked, he secretly cursed Lu Shen in his mind for being such a messy person. He only got a little wet. What clothes should he change into?
Lin Rong opened the curtain and saw Lu Shen sitting next to a dim glazed lamp, tapping his hand on the table every now and then, as if he was thinking about something. When he heard the noise, he didn't raise his eyes and stared fixedly at nowhere. , seems to be in a trance.
He was still wearing the moon-white brocade robe, and the tea was filled with water. Lin Rong slowly walked over: "Junhou, please clean your clothes!"
Lu Shen still tapped the table with his hand. He just hummed when he heard the words, but he sat firmly and had no intention of standing up to change clothes.
Lin Rong stood there, not knowing what he meant. He was stunned for a while, then suddenly raised his head and glanced over, paused: "Change it!"
Does this mean you sit down and let her change? Lin Rong was helpless, pursed her lips, and leaned over to untie the embroidery on Lu Shen's lapel. The two of them got closer, and Lu Shen's moist and warm breath sprayed on Lin Rong's jade neck. After a while, it gradually turned into a scarlet color.
Lu Shen just pulled it lightly, and the little woman's clothes immediately fell apart, revealing a soft, white and tender body. He gently pinched the little woman's chin and asked her to look up with a small white face, still shining. With some faint tears in her eyes, and with a frail and flirtatious attitude, she asked: "Why, we haven't seen each other for almost two months, are we separated?"
Chapter 71
The hand gradually moved down and traced the light-blue tube top with dark patterns of tangled branches and flowers on the fingertips. His eyes became darker and darker, and what he said was straight from the heart: "Are you clean?"
He had been marching in the snowy field for more than a month, even when he was sleeping and riding on a horse. His hands were thickly calloused and rough. Even though he felt that the force was quite light, Lin Rong felt a slight sting.
Hearing the words 'Are you clean?', Lin Rong sneered, frowned, pushed away his clothes, straightened them a little, stood up and left: "I'll ask a girl to come in and change your clothes."
Lin Rong licked her hair and just walked to the screen when she heard Lu Shen chuckle: "The Cui family of Jiangzhou wrote a letter to you. You just arrived. Don't you want to take a look?" She looked back and saw Lu Shen. Holding a page of letter paper between his fingertips, he paused when he looked at the slightly blurred small words from a distance. He didn't quite believe it and asked: "Whose letter? Why is the letter from Cui of Jiangzhou given to you and not to me?"
Lu Shen unfolded the letter paper and read slowly: "The eleventh sister Fangjian has the first snow in the Jianghuai River, and the buckwheat is still green in the past. The beautiful place on the west side of the bamboo is now the abandoned pond of Yunwu..." As he said that, he put the letter paper on the On the desk: "It's better for you to read your sisters' personal words, I won't read them again."
There is indeed a Yunwu in the Princess Jiang's Mansion. The letter was written gracefully and elegantly, indeed like the tone of the sixth sister Cui Qi. Lin Rong was doubtful about the letter for a moment, walked slowly over, picked up the letter paper, and saw that it was extremely upright. The elegant and harmonious pavilion-style small regular script reads: "I, Zuo Sitai, have learned Duan Chengshi, and I sincerely wish you peace..."
Where was the family letter from the female family members of Jiangzhou? It was obviously a statement written by a subordinate to Lu Shen. Lin Rong threw the letter away and snorted: "What a family letter?"
He immediately turned around and was about to leave, but Lu Shen asked Lu Shen to hold his wrist and pull him into his arms. After struggling for a few times, he saw that his breathing became more rapid, and he was afraid that the female family members playing cards outside would hear him, so he yelled in a low voice: "You are crazy, there are still people outside. There are so many people, and they are not just soldiers wearing black cloth, but they are all relatives of the family."
Lu Shen saw that her cheeks were crimson, as bright as peach blossoms, and her eyes were very clear. During her struggle, her round white shoulders were revealed, and he grabbed her hand. His voice was hoarse and hoarse: "You touch it, can you bear to let me treat you so badly?" Are you going out like this now? Who told you not to stay in your own yard and come here to play cards with these chattering women? "
For a moment, Lin Rong felt as if his hands were being touched by fire, and he felt very wet and greasy. He wanted to bite him: "Let go, I can't bear it!"
Lu Shen placed her on the beauty's couch, leaned over her, and immediately heard the woman's faint whimpering.
After a long time, a round of play had been played on the card table outside. The old lady touched a card. Suddenly she remembered Lu Shenlai and asked the maid waiting: "Why hasn't Sixth Brother come out after changing his clothes? You're such a clever person, Now let’s just wait and see.”
