At that time Yanyang was nestling in the house, sitting by the charcoal basin to keep warm. She also has a plate of preserved fruits and dried fruits on hand for her to eat and play with when she is free.
At that time, she was drinking a cup of hot water. Suddenly, the door facing her opened with a creak, and then she saw the maid beside her running in excitedly, shouting in surprise, "Madam, the second master is here!"
Um? Yanyang's hand paused.
She suspected that she heard wrongly, but her eyes subconsciously glanced behind her.
"He's here?" He looked slightly surprised, with disbelief in his eyes.
When he saw the empty space behind her, he raised his eyes to look at her again.
Huan Zhi nodded happily and hurried to her side, "That's right! I just came back from picking vegetables in the garden and saw the second master dismounting. He should have walked to the yard by now."
Yan Yang still has a hard time believing that he is really here? He is busy all day long, so how can he find time to come to Lingchang County?
Blinking his eyes, he stood up and went straight out.
He even forgot to put on one side of his hooded cloak, and his hair was unadorned, with only two hairpins holding up his black hair. So when Qi Changyan stepped through the second door here, he saw Yan Yang just walking under the eaves, her snowy black eyes looking right at him.
She was dressed a little thinly, her clothes were plain, her belly was swollen, she was holding it slightly with one hand, and she seemed a little stunned when she looked at him.
Qi Changyan calmly lowered his eyes. On such a cold day, she only wore this much? Moreover, he seems to have lost weight. She never returned to Jiuji County and stayed at Lin's house in Lingchang. On the contrary, she lost weight.
After glancing at her twice, he stopped talking to his brother-in-law beside him, nodded slightly, and walked towards Yanyang instead.
Coincidentally, Huan Zhi, who was taking care of Yan Yang, came out with Yan Yang's hooded cloak in his arms. When Qi Changyan came over, Huan Zhi happened to stand behind Yan Yang. She hesitated to speak, as if she wanted to ask Yan Yang to put it on, but Qi Changyan happened to be walking over, and she was afraid of disturbing the conversation between the second master and his wife, so she sized up the situation and just waited behind Yan Yang.
Qi Changyan, on the other hand, glanced at the hooded cloak in the maid's hand and somehow reached out and took it. Then he put it on Yanyang's shoulders and asked, "Are you not afraid of the cold?"
Yanyang was silent.
Out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but glance at the hooded cloak that had just been placed on his shoulders.
After taking a look, she raised her head and looked up at him, "Why are you here?"
Qi Changyan was most unhappy with this sentence. She asked why he was here? She was a little irritable about this. She didn't come back for a long time, and Ji'an and Shaoshu were making trouble at home? What can he do?
Later, the matter in Lingchang County came up again, so after the official roads were cleared at noon today, I took advantage of the opportunity to come to Lingchang County Office to understand the situation here and stopped by here.
I'll rest here tonight and return to the county town tomorrow.
But when he spoke, he only spoke concisely and to the point, "The rocks collapsed and the official road in Lingchang County was blocked. I came to see the situation and stopped by."
That's it... Yanyang nodded.
Nodding, he suddenly thought of Shaoshu and Ji'an. He is here, what will happen to the two children? He raised his eyes and wanted to ask again, but before she could speak, he saw Qi Changyan's eyes moving first, looking in another direction.
Not only that, he also bowed slightly and said, "Father-in-law."
It's my father, Yanyang looks back.
Father Lin rubbed his beard and smiled, then came over and said, "I thought I heard wrongly when I heard someone coming to report, but I didn't expect it was really you."
Qi Changyan: "Something happened in Lingchang County. I came over to check on the situation."
He added: "Now the official road leading to the outside has been cleared."
Father Lin nodded, praised it, and said several good things with a smile.
After saying that, he glanced at the sky and said, "It's almost nighttime. It's not safe to drive at night. Why don't you just rest at home tonight?"
Qi Changyan nodded, "Okay."
Father Lin was happy and said, "Are you busy with anything at hand? If not, we, father-in-law and son-in-law, can play chess?"
Yan Yang couldn't help laughing when she heard this. She knew that her father admired Qi Changyan's chess skills very much. Whenever Qi Changyan came home with her, his father would drag him to play chess.
But... Yan Yang suddenly couldn't remember the last time his father and Qi Changyan played chess. It seemed like a long time ago. At least, for several years.
Just as she was lost in thought, when she regained consciousness and focused her gaze, she found a gaze looking at her, it was Qi Changyan.
Wen Wen's indifferent gaze raised an eyebrow when he saw her regaining consciousness, "Are you lost in thought?"
Yanyang: "..."
He smiled and said, "Yeah."
Qi Changyan nodded, "Then I will go play chess with my father. My baggage is with Xu Ji. He will bring it over later. Inside is my change of clothes."
"good."
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After Xu Ji brought the bundle, when he turned around and was about to go down, Yanyang suddenly called to him.
Xu Ji stopped and turned his head back, "Madam."
"When did he come over to handle the matter in Lingchang County?"
"Back to Madam, at noon the next day when the road was blocked by rocks, your Excellency rushed over. He has been in charge of Nanyong County recently."
No wonder, the roadblocks were cleared much faster than expected. When she first heard the news, she thought she would have to enter the twelfth lunar month before she could go back.
Yanyang nodded, and then she asked a few more questions about the children. When she learned that the two of them were being watched by someone close and reliable, she didn't ask any more questions and let him go.
"Well, there's nothing else to do. You can go down."
Xu Ji did not leave.
He hesitated and said specifically: "Madam, the young master and young lady in the house miss you very much."
He didn't hear from her words just now that she said when she would return to the county town, so Xu Ji couldn't help but use this method to covertly.
Yanyang raised her eyebrows, glanced at him, and then laughed, "I know."
"I will go back with Qi Changyan tomorrow."
She originally planned to leave the day after tomorrow, but Qi Changyan will return tomorrow, and she has been at home for more than ten days. It makes no sense to leave him alone for a day and then go back the day after tomorrow. That would cause her parents to worry too much.
Xu Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief, that's all.
At night, the dinner was very light, because the Lin family was still in Xiaozhong. However, Qi Changyan has a good appetite, because although it is difficult to go out in Lingchang County, the climate around the mountains is relatively warm. There has been snow in other places in Jiuji County, but there have been only a few frosts here so far, so the ground There are still vegetables, and after the frost, these vegetables taste light and sweet.
This was the most satisfying meal Qi Changyan had eaten since leaving Jiuji County, and he unknowingly ate too much. After finishing the meal, the family sat around and talked for a while, and then Qi Changyan and Yan Yang went back to the house.
After returning to the house, Yanyang slowly walked into the innermost room and said as she walked, "Your clothes have been smelled by Huanzhi. You can put on new ones later to keep you warmer."
"Also, to change my shoes at night, I found a new pair of shoes that no one in my family has ever worn. Which pair will you wear later?" She said, looking back at him.
Looking at it, I saw that he had stopped at some point and was standing by the window.
Yanyang wondered what he was looking at?
At this time, she suddenly saw him looking back, his eyes seemed to look deep into her eyes, sharp and heavy at the same time, which shocked her.
As for him, he just cast a dull look and said, "Why haven't you replied yet?"
"It's not like I'm just going to come back for a few days."
