【Chapter 16】Doubt arises from the old past
When Qianshan brought the vegetarian meal onto the cloth plate, Dou Taijun kept staring at it. Smelling the fragrance floating in the room, the greedy worms in her stomach started to roar.
When she saw Jiang Chengjia enter the seat, she kept smiling secretly, she was a little curious and asked, "What is Xiao Mengluo laughing?"
Jiang Chengjia secretly looked at Ning Nanyou, who was sitting with him, and then pursed her lips and said lightly: "Grandma, I found out today... Erlang didn't like to eat sour food... I blamed me for buying some sour food a few days ago... He had a fuss with me today."
She said this on purpose. The young man beside him paused with his hands holding the bowls and chopsticks, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
Dou Taijun looked at Ning Nanyou again, and saw that he was really depressed, so he smiled and blamed: "Zhaoyuan... As a man, you are so arrogant... how can you make trouble with your wife all the time?"
Ning Nanyou was stunned, looked up at Dou Taijun, and said helplessly: "Grandmother, grandson did not make a fuss with A Luo..."
Jiang Chengjia lowered her head, covered her mouth and giggled. Seeing that he suffered another loss from Dou Taijun, he felt funny.
The family was talking and laughing for lunch.
Dou Yueshan ate this vegetarian meal and swallowed it all over and said, "Sister-in-law... These vegetarian meals are so delicious... I have never eaten such delicious food in Chang'an..."
Jiang Chengjia ate less, and now she had already served tea and rinsed her mouth. She sat aside and stared at him with a loving smile and said, "If you like to eat... let Qianshan make some in the future..."
Dou Yueshan nodded suddenly and said happily: "That's the best... It's just that I have to work hard for my sister-in-law and Miss Qianshan..."
He ate voraciously, without any sensation. Dou Taijun stood aside and pointed and said disgusted, "Look at what you... look like? At the banquet, let your sister-in-law and brother laugh at it?"
Dou Yueshan said in a speechless manner: "Grandma... my sister-in-law is pregnant and she still has to do her best to cook delicious food for us... If I don't eat it, how can I be worthy of her... It's a pity that I can't eat the dishes my sister-in-law cooks... It's a pity. Miss Qianshan has taught her sister-in-law's cooking secrets... and she can make such delicious food. If my sister-in-law cooks herself, it will definitely be a savory thing in the world..."
He praised without limit.
Ning Nanyou was authentically sipping the tea, but as he tasted it, his face drooped and he said coldly to Dou Yueshan: "Such a delicious dish... can't even block your mouth?"
Dou Yueshan buried her head in eating the vegetarian food piled up in the bowl. She suddenly felt a layer of chill on her forehead, and she felt a little guilty. She felt a little regretful at this moment, why did she deliberately tease this jealous king?
He laughed dryly with a piece of clear melon and cold fruit in his mouth, and stopped gnawing.
Mrs. Cao was a little angry when she heard what Ning Nanyou said to Dou Yueshan. She was about to scold her, but she was stopped by Dou Taijun's expression.
Jiang Chengjia saw the little movements of the two elders and vaguely guessed in his heart.
Dou Taijun... seems to love Ning Nanyou very much. Her almost doting care even made her feel that Dou Taijun is Junhou's real grandmother.
Almost no one in the Huai Palace carries cares about Ningnan’s worries.
Although Mrs. Cao loves this son in her heart, she sometimes deliberately alienates Ning Nanyou due to madness attacks.
But Dou Taijun had no reason, because he was close to his friendship with Mrs. Cao, and loved Ning Nanyou very much.
Jiang Chengjia looked around and lowered her eyes and didn't know what she was thinking.
Ning Nanyou saw it accidentally and asked curiously: "What are you looking at?"
She temporarily stopped her thoughts and leaned quietly into his ear and asked, "Erlang...I'm a little curious...How did my mother meet Dou Taijun?"
Ning Nanyou said in surprise: "Why did you suddenly ask this?"
Jiang Chengjia said in a sweet voice: "I want to know..."
The young man nodded slightly and said, "Go back and tell you."
She nodded obediently.
After lunch, Ning Nanyou accompanied her back to the yard for lunch break.
After entering the house, he personally brought the charcoal basin into the house, poured a hand stove for her, stuffed it into her arms, and was about to coax her to sleep, but he saw that the little lady was more clingy than usual, holding his neck and refused to let go, and said unyieldingly: "What you said... When you come back, you tell me how did my mother and Dou Taijun meet..."
Ning Nanyou raised his eyebrows and held her firmly with his hands, for fear that she would accidentally roll off the couch.
"How could you chase me and ask these questions today?" He asked softly, pressed against her forehead.
Jiang Chengjia pouted her mouth and said unhappily: "If you don't want to say... then forget it..."
He couldn't resist her, and smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, I'll say!"
"My mother and Dou Taijun were considered to be the sect of previous years. I also heard about the two of them getting to know each other. It is said that in the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, when my mother left the city from Longxi, the first place she went to was Zuo Fengyi. When she passed by this place, she accidentally saved a disciple of Dou, and was invited into the mansion by Dou Taijun as a life-saving benefactor... Then she met her. Unexpectedly, although the two were much older, they fell in love with each other as soon as they saw each other and became friends who forgot their ages."
Jiang Chengjia heard this and felt that there was nothing special, so she frowned a little tighter.
Ning Nanyou saw her worried face, and the questions in his heart became stronger. He grabbed Jiang Chengjia's slender hands and looked at her and said, "A Luo... Have you been hiding something from me recently? Why are you always absent-minded?"
His eyes were as sharp as a torch, staring at her seriously.
Jiang Chengjia frowned, thinking that Mrs. Cao's past was confusing. If she was inquiring about it from the people around her, she would probably not get useful news. So she let go of this matter for the time being. But the truth about Mrs. Lu's wife Gu's tragic death that year attracted her whole heart. This matter involved Zhuying and Mrs. Lu, and she also wanted to investigate it clearly. But in the ninth year of Yuanchu, she was terminally ill due to cold and poison in her body, and was locked in a water building to recuperate, and knew nothing about the outside world. Later, she relied on the files of Qianjichu to find out that Mrs. Gu died tragically outside the outskirts of Wuling.
She looked at Ning Nanyou and thought to herself that he had been investigating Mrs. Gu's death over the years, and perhaps she knew better than her about what happened back then. So she hesitated and said, "I have something... I want to ask you..."
Ning Nanyou stared at her, frowned, and slowly said in a low voice: "You ask."
She paused for a moment, with the same solemn expression: "Erlang... has been looking for someone all these years?"
He was stunned for a moment, and three gullies frowned between his eyebrows, and said in confusion: "I have indeed been looking for you for the past few years."
Jiang Chengjia shook her head and said, "Besides me... have you found someone else?"
Ning Nanyou looked surprised and stared at her for a moment and said, "What do you want to say?"
She was always hesitant, and finally she seemed to have made up her mind and said, "I heard that you have been searching for Master Lu's only parent-child - Lu Shiqing, over the years, right?"
I saw that the young man's expression changed a little, and I didn't know whether it was surprise or suspicion in my eyes...
In order to prevent him from thinking too much again, Jiang Chengjia held his hand and said solemnly: "The Lu Shiqing you are looking for...I know where..."
Sure enough, he trembled suddenly, his eyes full of expectation, and looked straight at him, with hesitation on his face, and asked carefully: "Are you...re you saying it true?"
Jiang Chengjia nodded and said, "There is such a person around me who has been wearing a unique jade pendant since I was born. His name is Cui Yu, and heirloom of the Lu clan."
Ning Nanyou heard the word Cui Yu, and his dark eyes were immediately filled with light. He asked anxiously: "Where is this person...he is he now? Is he doing well?"
Jiang Chengjia hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, he is doing well...he is very safe."
The young man seemed to have seized some hope, suppressed the excitement and strong joy in his heart, held her hand in the palm of his hand, and asked: "You... did you meet him? What have he been doing all these years?"
Jiang Chengjia replied patiently: "In the year of Yonghe, my brother and I met him through Baqiu. Over the years, he has traveled around the world and fulfilled the dream of a knight in Master Lu's heart back then. He lived a very free and easy life."
Zhuying didn't know his life experience, nor did she know that she was carrying such a heavy blood hatred. She had indeed lived a very free and easy life under the protection of the Water Pavilion over the years.
Ning Nanyou curled his lips slightly and whispered: "That's good...it's good for him to live a comfortable life."
Jiang Chengjia looked at him, paused and asked, "Do Erlang want to meet him?"
Unexpectedly, the young man immediately shook his head and said, "No need... Nowadays... I should not meet him. For his safety... Aluo, can you promise me... don't tell anyone where he is, and don't mention his true identity to him?"
She fell silent and stared at him without saying a word.
I only heard the young man murmuring to himself: "Don't let him bear what I am and Lu Xun...."
The sour and astringent murmur made Jiang Chengjia feel a little painful.
She hugged him firmly and comforted her softly: "Okay. Don't worry. I will protect his true identity well and not let anyone know, including himself."
Ning Nanyou leaned his head on her shoulder. A huge rock that had been sinking in his heart for many years seemed to have fallen at this time, which made him feel much more relaxed.
He promised Master Lu that he would definitely find Master Lu back. Over the years, he has worked hard to find Mr. Lu Shiqing's traces... There is no clue, but he never thought that fate has gone through such a circle and made Aluo find Mr. Lu.
Ning Nanyou believed Jiang Chengjia's words without any doubt. After learning that Young Master Lu was doing well, the guilt and guilt that had accumulated in his heart seemed to be lighter.
Jiang Chengjia saw that he was trapped in a spontaneous round of sadness and excitement. The questions in his heart were blocked in his throat at this moment and could not be said for the time being.
Chapter completed!