184. Mountains and Flowing Water
As soon as He Zijin got home, she returned to her busy life. She either went to Chaoyunguan or raised flowers and grass at home. Last year, she built two acres of flower fields, one acre of roses and one acre of jasmine. She had already collected it once in the early summer. Early this morning, she took Xiao Fuzi to the field to watch the picking of flowers with the third girl He and took Xiao Fuzi to the field to watch the flowers.
The weather was getting hotter, and Shen ordered his maid to cook some rose sugar water and drink it with her husband in the afternoon to cool off the heat. He Gong said, "So, my mother, on such a hot day, what do you have to go to the countryside to do?"
Shen smiled, "Don't worry, your mother is willing to join in the fun with the children. She is not happy if she doesn't ask her to go." The couple didn't persuade her, but they were scolded. Old Madam He wanted to go there, so she could only follow her.
He Gong thought about his mother's personality and was also a pleasure.
The couple spoke softly, and He Gong said, "This time I went to the prefecture and saw Brother Fan. He said he wanted to go on a study tour at the end of May."
Shen said, "Is it Fan Xiucai from Wushui Town?" Shen recognized her husband's friend.
He Gong nodded, "Yes, he asked me if I wanted to go, I was a little worried about my home."
Mrs. Shen took a sip of rose sugar water filled with flowers, put down the teacup, and said in silence for a while, "You don't worry about your family, I don't worry about you either. Outside, there is only a little lucky boy following you, and it's always hard. In fact, Brother Jun is older, his mother is tough, and the children are sensible, and there is nothing to do at home. How long will it take?" Mrs. Shen is not the kind of person who hopes for her husband to be noble. She feels that the children in the family are sensible, have a wealthy life, and the couple is loving, which is also good.
Seeing that his wife was like this, He Gong immediately couldn't bear to let her go, and put her on her shoulder and said, "Or why I'll stop going."
Shen smiled and said, "Go. Now that I'm in the autumn exam, I'm only three months old. Don't you all pay attention to reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles? Since it's up to others, where is it easy to break the promise? When to leave, where to go, is it decided?"
He Gong said, "I will leave at the end of May and early June. I will go to Qingcheng Mountain to visit Xue Daru first. I will come back to worship my ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival."
"That's fine." Hearing that he had not been out for a long time, Shen was relieved and said, "I'm back on Zhongyuan Festival, Brother Jun might even recognize you as his father."
He Gong laughed, "How can we not recognize our father and son when we are in love?"
Shen said softly, "Go, I think you wanted to go to the palace for study last year, but I was pregnant with Brother Jun, and you were not at ease, so I didn't go there. Since I went to Qingcheng Mountain, I will pack up the bedding for you and bring Xiao Fuzi with me. Don't study too hard. Although it's good to get a good exam, it's nothing if I don't pass the exam. When I think of you becoming an official from all over the world after you have fame, I don't want to be an official wife."
He Gong was funny, "What's the point? I just failed the exam. I'll do it first. In the future, A Nian and A Lie can save some trouble." He Gong knew it well. He felt that he was limited to his qualifications and it depends on his destiny in the imperial examination. But his son and A Nian must also take this path in the future. He was familiar with it first, so the children could save some effort when they walked.
Mrs. Shen leaned gently on her husband's shoulder, "Just go and just study, don't think about the home. We are at home, and relatives and neighbors are taking care of you, and there is nothing to do. You are outside, and come back quickly after the matter is done. Remember that the whole family is thinking about you."
Listening to his wife's earnest advice, He Gong sighed, "Beauty's knees, hero's tomb. Although I am not a hero, why did I marry a beauty and I couldn't bear it before I left."
"You joked about me again." Shen Shi smiled and spat, giving him a pink fist.
The couple agreed on this matter and had to talk to the old lady. Mrs. He and his third girl, He Zijin, came back in a ox cart in the evening. Each of them had a hat woven with reeds on their heads, and the brim of the hat was decorated with green gauze, which became a veil. As soon as Mrs. He entered the house, he took off the hat, sat on the couch, took the herbal tea served by Mrs. Shen, and ate it all. Mrs. Shen hurriedly added another cup and said, "Mom, don't go in the future. How can we bear such fatigue?"
Old Madam He drank half a cup of pain, and her expression showed pleasure, and she smiled, "Hey, you two, one must study and the other must look at Brother Jun. Isn't this time there? Just have me and two girls, and it's nothing to do. Sitting under the big tree, it's cool."
The third girl also smiled, "Grandma's grandma can tell anyone, and a group of people are surrounding her grandma and listening to her grandma's words."
He Zijin rolled his eyes, and Mrs. He said, "Look at what this looks like." Mrs. He was dissatisfied today and was dissatisfied with her own girl movies, and said to her son, "You don't know, how many people praise our girl today, my god, there are many people who came from other villages, saying that they want to watch 'Chrysanthemum Girl', so she hid in the house and disappeared. She was not ashamed before, the bigger the one, the more stupid it became. What's the shame? People are kind enough to come to see you."
He Zijin's lips twitched, "Grandma is really, she shows off everyone she sees, and she is just laughing at me." "Miss Chrysanthemum Girl" and so on, who has a grudge against her, actually gave her such a name!!! He Zijin always wants to vomit three liters of blood whenever he thinks of it!
Mrs. He said, "What is stinking? People ask, can I not tell me?"
He Zijin snorted and went to the house.
Mrs. He complained to her son, "It's like this today. The more people want to see the chrysanthemum girl, the more she hides and disappears. Alas——" she sighed.
The third girl smiled, "It's okay. I didn't see the chrysanthemum girl, but the same thing happened when I saw the chrysanthemum grandmother."
"That's right." Old Madam He was very happy anyway and said to her son and daughter-in-law, "I don't know if I don't go out. It turns out that the reputation of our girl has spread to the countryside."
He Gong was a student since childhood and was a very humble and gentlemanly style. He understood his daughter very much and advised his mother, "It's just Zijin who is free to make flowers. It's better to be humble outside. You know your own children. Mom, please don't praise her outside."
Mrs. He glanced at her son, "What do you know? Others praise my granddaughter for being good, don't I praise you?" Seeing that two years later, she was fifteen years old and had a good reputation, she could say that she was a good family. She didn't even understand this.
Shen understood his mother-in-law's thoughts very well and said with a smile, "I'm just going to tell my mother something." Then he told him about He Gong's preparation for a study tour.
Mrs. He was a little reluctant to part with her son, but when she thought about it, her son was in a state of peace in the family for the sake of progress, and she said, "If you want to go, go. Anyway, there is nothing wrong at home. Remember to come back on Zhongyuan Festival to burn paper for your father."
His wife and mother agreed happily, and He Gong had nothing to worry about.
When his son was about to go out, Mrs. He didn't show off her girl's heart everywhere. The next day he discussed with Shen's family and went to the clan leader's house. After all, He Luo had been in Qingcheng Mountain for several years, and he came back with Xue Daru last year. He knew that he had a good relationship with Xue Daru. In other words, He Luo still had some advice when he went to Qingcheng Mountain. This time he went to the clan leader's house to inquire about He Luo's situation. He Gong went to Qingcheng Mountain and had an acquaintance.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a total of two pots of flower tea that He Zijin had dried and two cans of pickles from Shen's shop the next day, and took He Zijin and the third girl to pay their respects to the clan leader's wife Liu. Originally, the third girl was not easy to go out, but one was the first, the clan leader's family was not extraneous, and the second, the Shen felt that Mrs. Liu was a knowledgeable person, so it was not bad to ask the third girl to go twice more. As for He Zijin, Shen's view was the same as that of his mother-in-law. It seemed that when he was a kiss, it was not bad to see people more, and some reputation was not bad.
Mrs. Liu was very happy when she saw the four grandparents and grandchildren, and said with a smile, "I heard that you have gone to the prefecture. Are you back?"
Old lady He smiled, "A few days after I came back, I was old and had old legs. I followed the girl to the flower field to see it again." As he said that, he asked the meatball to hand over the things that Mrs. Liu, "It was two kinds of flower tea that my girl hangs by herself, soaked in water and drink it deliciously. There are also the pickles that Brother Gong'er and her wife pickled by herself, so the old sister tasted it."
Mrs. Liu ordered someone to take it and said with a smile, "Come on, what else can I bring?"
"This is not something I bought from outside, it is from my own home." Old lady He smiled and said, "Last year, I asked me to leave two acres of land for her to plant flowers. I planted it and dried it and made tea. The ones I brought for my sister were all good. My sister just ate it, and I still have more at home, not only making tea, cooking sugar water, and making snacks."
He Luozhi's mother Sun smiled, "Oh, my aunt scared me. I thought Zijin had planted two acres of chrysanthemums. I was still thinking, if your family planted two acres of chrysanthemums, they wouldn't have caught thieves."
Sun's father is a Jinshi master, so Sun claims to be a scholarly family. When he first married into the He family, he was a little uncomfortable. In the past few years, he often put on some sour airs of scholarly family, but in recent years he has become more and more easy-going. He laughed and said, "Luoge'er's mother is getting more and more funny, and she knows how to coax me, the old woman."
After saying a few words, Mrs. He asked about He Luolai and said that He Gong was going to Qingcheng Mountain to ask for teaching. Mrs. He said, "I think, Zijin's father is going to go anyway. I heard that A Luo went to Qingcheng Mountain in the early spring. Is there anything my sister-in-law and A Luo's mother have to take with me? I happened to ask Zijin's father to take with me." This is also the cunning thing about Mrs. He. In fact, I wanted to ask He Luo to introduce me to Xue Daru to ask for teaching. The old lady was a bit unfaithful and didn't say anything. First, ask Mrs. Liu, Sun's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law if there were any things she wanted to bring with me.
He Luo was raised by his grandmother Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu laughed, "Why didn't you? Fortunately, my sister is thinking about me. I really miss him." As she said that, she couldn't help but sigh, and her concern was beyond words.
Shen quickly comforted, "The young young students in our county are counted as one. A Luo is really the best. Such a young child is studying in Qingcheng Mountain alone. When the people in the county say it, who doesn't praise it? This is all the teachings of my uncle and sister-in-law."
Sun was so happy that he smiled with joy. Mrs. Liu felt relieved. However, she was a humble person and said, "Ye, there is nothing to praise for this. I have told him that his family is limited and he wants to go to the imperial examination, but his family may not be able to help him. He has to rely on himself. Since the family cannot be able to use his strength, he has to work harder himself."
Shen asked, "A Luo Jinke is going to end, right?"
Sun was so happy to tell people that she became the beloved son of a scholar at the age of fifteen. Not only was she a scholar early, but she also worked hard. She thought that her son was also raised by the family as a phoenix. But in order to study, she went to Qingcheng Mountain after she passed the scholar and only brought a servant around her. When she went to Qingcheng Mountain, although she had a simple handwritten letter, Xue Daru did not accept apprentices. Her son was disappointed and didn't go home. She just found a Taoist temple to live in. This was a small three years. Now, of course, Daru still did not accept apprentices, but she had no advice. Even though Hu Shanzhu of the county wanted to invite Xue Daru to the academy to give lectures last year, she got her a lot. The son said good things in front of Xue Daru, and only Xue Daru came. Even Hu Shanchang said that her son had outstanding character. Since then, as soon as someone mentioned He Luo to Sun, Sun immediately became excited like a gusting old hen, and the words were not over. Now he had been holding it in front of his mother-in-law for a long time. Now he couldn't hold it in his arms and laughed, "Yes, I asked my sister to tell you. Originally, I said that the child was still young and was not in a hurry to take the exam. As a result, he asked him this spring and insisted on trying it. During the Chinese New Year, his uncle came and read his article and said it was good. I just thought, if I want to end up, I can't resist him, let him go."
Mrs. Liu hired her son as a daughter of a Jinshi family, but she felt that her family was not as talented as her family and wanted to borrow the literary spirit of a Jinshi family. Now, seeing that her grandson is studying, she has borrowed literary spirit, but her wife's IQ. Oh, forget it, just have the same benefit, and be content and happiness, and you can't be picky everywhere. Mrs. Liu listened to her daughter-in-law showing off her useless words of hatred, and she felt speechless. He Gong had several times lost her autumn exams. After the halberd, He Luo was a little successful young man. Why do you say these words in front of his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? Fortunately, this family is not a petty family, otherwise they would be unhappy even if they keep up. Mrs. Liu took the words of her daughter-in-law and smiled, "I won't care about the children's affairs. However, there are many scholars in our county this year. I have calculated that there are always seventeen or eighteen. If we go to the prefecture together, we can take care of each other."
Mrs. Liu is a generous person, but it doesn't mean that she is stupid. On the contrary, Mrs. Liu is very smart. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought things over, not just to bring things for her grandson. After thinking about it, she understood, but it was not just not. When Mrs. Liu mentioned this, Shen heard the song and knew the meaning of her elegant voice and immediately said, "It's better to go together. I used to go with Zijin's father once. I had to get up and queue outside the Gongyuan for the third day of the exam. If I entered early, I could divide the good exam room. , If you are late, you can only get some grades of the exam room. I heard that the test room with unlucky scores can not only stand up straight and stretch your legs, but you can see the stars at night. Hot and cold are the same thing. If it is cloudy and rainy, how can you do it? If you go together, you will not talk about it. You can queue up early and divide a good exam room. If you don’t say that you will get twice the result with half the effort, at least you won’t suffer any losses. And Alu and his friends took the exam this year, following them, the big ones are actually cheap. If you have any problems, the elders will remind them.”
Mrs. Liu smiled at the corner of her lips. When she heard it, she said that this was the difference. Don’t think that her son would jump like a hen who wanted to lay eggs. She was just a god. There was only a limited number of people alone. As the saying goes, a hero needs three helpers. Mrs. Liu smiled, “It’s very true.” He asked He Gong when he was going to go. After hearing Shen talk about his days, Mrs. Liu said, “At that time, ask Luo Ge'er’s father to write a letter, and Lao Zijin’s father will take it.”
Shen smiled, "What's the point of not working? Don't say a letter. What's the point of food and use for my aunt and sister-in-law? I want to bring it to Luo Ge'er. Just cook it and ask Zijin and her father to take it with you." You can't just ask Xue Daru to find He Luo. I'll take some things for He Luo, killing two birds with me, and bringing the two families closer together.
The third girl He Zijin is all smart. Seeing the elders laugh, you can understand it in your heart. Just like Old Madam He, who is the most straightforward person on weekdays, he really deals with outsiders, and he has many thoughts.
He Zijin just felt that his grandmother was a wise person. After getting his son to go to Qingcheng Mountain, he began to show off his true colors. The ones he wanted to show off were either others, or her girl movies. He laughed, "I went to the flower field with the girls and watched the picking flowers. After a while, a group of people came, which made me confused and wondered what was wrong. I heard people say, "Ah, what's the chrysanthemum girl, Oh, I realized that it was my girl. Several people in the village heard about it, and came over to see it, making this girl embarrassed."
Old Madam He originally intended to show off her own girl movies. When the corners of He Zijin's lips began to twitch, Sun said, "Auntie, it's similar to what happened when I was taking the scholarship in our county this spring. Isn't this a March scholar exam? When I went out early in the morning, I saw a group of young young men worshiping in front of my house, which scared me. I said what's wrong, and I looked at it carefully. There were also boys from Brother Tom'er's house. I called him to ask, "What's the matter? I arrived at the door early in the morning, but I didn't come home. The boy said, "My family's Feng Shui is good, and Wenquxing is taking care of me. I can win the scholar once you pay a visit! You said I'm smiling~"
Next, I listened to Mrs. He and Sun, one showing off their own chrysanthemum girl, the other showing off their own feng shui, and the other showing off their own good feng shui, and the two of them were talking, and they were full of interest, as if they were injected with chicken blood. Everyone was speechless.
He Zijin: Is this the legendary mountain flowing water meeting a soulmate?
Chapter completed!