Chapter 288: The vicissitudes of life
The loud sound of bells and drums on the city tower at the hour of You can spread throughout the city. In the quiet Guofu Garden, the arc-shaped wooden overpass at the exit of the back garden is like an artificial rainbow in the afterglow of the sunset. The lake in the middle of the garden is sparkling with an orange-yellow luster.
The walls are separated here, and the atmosphere is completely different from the outside. There is no noise and struggle in the city, and it is like being isolated from the world. Mrs. Zheng is not here, and Guo Shao can't see anyone during the day. Yulian and Yang are the ones at home. Their relationship is as good as a bond and as close as a sister, and they are always together.
"Do you think Ah Lang will come back tonight?" Yang asked Yulian who was helping him while packing up the pipa and music score.
Yulian muttered, "Don't worry about him, he will send someone to say hello if he doesn't come back. We will have to eat by ourselves... and call the little Taoist priest who sleeps all day long to have a meal together."
"Eat every day, can you think of something else?" Yang covered his mouth and smiled.
Yulian seemed to have thought of something, blushed and said, "What can I think?"
Yang leaned over, reached out to block his mouth, and whispered: "If Alang doesn't come back, I'll go to your room tonight."
Yulian's face turned redder and she spitted: "If you say this again, I'm going to be angry!"
Yang was not angry and said kindly: "Men won't care about such things. Last time I asked you to serve Alang together. Do you think he cares? We don't enjoy it in time and will be unable to think about it if we suffer in the future."
"Why do sister have this idea? Is life safe and stable now?" Yu Lian frowned.
Yang shook his head and sighed, saying, "Do you remember what I told you before? At that time, why did you want to be thrifty in your family? I will tell you that what Alang lacks in his position is not money, but how to maintain his power. I was right?
Is it useful to be so frugal before? Think about it more than a month ago, we both had to hide in other families. In that case, no matter how much money the Guo family has saved, it would be useless. Alang failed in one step, and his wealth would be wiped out overnight."
Yulian was moved, and what Yang said really makes sense. Yulian is now learning to dress well and eat well, and is too lazy to save money, but sometimes she still feels uncomfortable in wasting money.
Now that Yang is persuading this again, Yulian can listen. She thought that she couldn't even give birth, and it seemed that she was right to have fun in time...
She sighed and said, "I really don't want to make trouble. If I can't rely on Alang one day, I will follow him, so as to avoid suffering from being alive and suffering... I will never want to go back to the same place as before."
"Alang is also having fun in time." Yang advised kindly, "Chen Jiali probably has already gotten along with him. Maybe her cousin Zhou Xian has been taken away."
"Zhou Xian?" Yulian frowned,
Yang said: "The wife of Li Yu, the prince of Southern Tang Dynasty, I have had letters with her before."
Yulian blushed and whispered: "But what you said... we all look the same, is it interesting?"
Yang put his soft red lips against Yulian's ears and said softly: "It's more interesting than doing it yourself."
"Bah!" Yulian gently lifted her up. Yang covered her mouth and smirked, stared at Yulian and looked at him: "You are so beautiful, as white as the water lotus, and the name Yulian is appropriate."
Just then, Dong Sanniang walked to the door and said, "Alang is back."
After hearing this, Yang laughed and whispered to Yulian: "But it's still more interesting to Alang. He just doesn't let go, we have to teach him."
...The two quickly went to Guo Shao's living house with Dong Sanniang, and the hall was in the entrance. Guo Shao was not wearing armor, but just sat there drinking tea and waiting to prepare food. When he saw the three women, he said, "Sanniang, let's have dinner together."
"I dare not sit with my master." Sanniang said with her head down.
After hearing this, Yang looked at Dong Sanniang without saying a word. The little girl was fourteen years old and her breasts were obviously bulging. She had been in the Guo Mansion for several years and was raised in a white state. She was small and her waist and hips were outlined because she was full. However, Dong Sanniang had Guo Shao treat it extra mainly because of her second brother... the hero who killed Zhao Sanlang. I heard that Guo Shao took him everywhere he went.
Guo Shao whispered: "Don't be afraid, it's been a few years since I came from Hedong to Tokyo. I've never beat and scolded you? Besides, it's not the first time you've been sitting at the same table with me for dinner."
Sanniang didn't say anything.
Guo Shao turned around and looked over again: "Yu Lian, Yue'e, I had some official duties a few days ago, so I came back a little late."
When Yang heard this, he almost laughed out loud. Did he meet the official duties of Widow Chen and Li Yu's wife? But she was not laughing at Guo Shao for lying. He, the most powerful person in Tokyo, lies in front of his concubine?
However, Yang thought that Guo Shao was the most happy. In the past, Yang wanted to repay kindness most, but now she felt that repaying kindness is secondary. She was willing to stay with Guo Shao without kindness.
At this time, a thick black woman and a middle-aged woman came up to serve, and Sanniang hurried to help. Guo Shao frowned and said, "Where is Qingxu?"
Yang smiled and said, "I'm still sleeping."
"When will she wake up? Are you stupid if you don't sleep?" Guo Shao said, "Yue'er will get her up."
Soon, Yang brought the little girl with sleepy eyes and a delicate face. Qingxu heard that she would still get up after eating... But her room was really messy and she never folded her quilt.
"These dishes are again!" Qingxu complained, "Can't you change the style?"
Yulian whispered: "I'll cook tomorrow."
Guo Shao sighed and said, "The girl doesn't know the taste of sorrow, maybe it's a good thing."
Yang remembered the mutiny more than a month ago. Qingxu stayed in the mansion at that time. If the situation was wrong at that time and some soldiers rushed into the mansion, Qingxu would still sleep soundly and sweetly in the bed. What a funny scene.
Qingxu said: "I helped you save the Queen's life. The kindness of saving life is as great as the sky. Just by this matter, you have to eat and drink to support me. I don't want your money, right?"
"Forget it, I'll support you, and you can do whatever you like." Guo Shao said.
Qingxu asked again: "When will you go to the palace with Jingniang to see the queen?"
Guo Shao said: "He is already the queen mother!"
After hearing this, Qingxu was stunned and calculated: "One day in the sky, one year on the ground. The world has changed!" Yang couldn't hold it in, so he covered his mouth and buried his head and laughed for a while.
After dinner, Yulian put tea on. Guo Shao sat in front of the table, took out a booklet, and then took out a booklet from the cabinet from the note of the Privy Council, asking someone to grind ink and write and draw.
Yang reminded from the side: "Alang came back early today, so take a break."
Guo Shao said without looking back: "Wash it and wait for me on the bed. Don't beg for mercy later."
Yang's face turned red: "My body is a little weak, and Sister Yulian... I have already asked someone to boil the water, so I ask Alang to take a shower and change his clothes."
Guo Shao said: "It's getting cold now. I just washed it last night and I won't wash it anymore."
"Ah Lang took a bath, I will use other methods to serve you later." Yang said softly.
Guo Shao turned his head to look at her, and Yang gently touched his lips with slender nails painted with delicate nail polish. Sure enough, Guo Shao's face turned slightly red... Yang thought to himself, just a little hint at the bad guy and you will understand. Could it be that Chen Jiali's pretending to be elegant, he has already asked Alang to experience it?
Yang smiled and said, "I also sent someone to buy some medicinal materials, soaking them in water can nourish your health."
...Guo Shao put away his things and waited at the back door to prepare hot water. Looking at the night view of the garden outside, he suddenly felt that this garden was indeed a good place to be lazy. Fu Yanqing must be a person who knows how to enjoy it, so that he would build such a house in a small place.
But for some reason, he always felt that something was short... it was Fu Ermei. So he always felt a little empty.
There was no Fu Ermei here before, and Fu Ermei only spent a few months here. But once she belonged to this place, she was very unaccustomed to being called Guo Shao. No matter how many women she raised, it would not offset his feelings.
He looked back and thought that Yulian and Yang were both poor people caused by war. They were just right to meet them and could live a stable life. It was nothing to raise them... But how did he provoke Zhou Xian and Li Xiaoniang even made him very confused. After thinking about it, he couldn't even think of it.
In fact, he thought it was enough to have Fu Jinzhan and Fu Ermei.
Guo Shao immediately thought about it. The rectification of the imperial guards would not be completed for a while, because the 20,000 people in the left wing of the Long Jie Army had not returned to Tokyo yet; but as long as the left wing of the Hu Jie Army was successfully integrated into the Hu Ben Army and complete the first phase of the rectification, they would be able to get out.
At this time, Dong Sanniang came in with a bucket of hot water, and Guo Shao hurriedly said, "Why did that strong woman come from? Let her do this kind of work lighter."
"It's okay." Dong Sanniang said very little, and she often feels a little inferior to Guo Shao.
Guo Shao said: "The next day, I will tell your second brother to accept you as your elder sister. When you grow up, I will make a decision to find a good family for you and pay for you to prepare a thick dowry."
"Bang!" Suddenly a bucket of water fell to the ground.
"I'm sorry, Alang, I..." Sanniang hurriedly lay on the ground and used her arms to gather the water on the ground, but how could the water be kept? She could only watch a large bucket of water wet a large area of the floor.
Guo Shao heard her voice choked and said, "It's okay, the door will dry when it is open. Don't cry, I won't blame you... Is the water very hot?" He hurried forward and touched it with his hands, thinking it was warm water.
Dong Sanniang sobbed, "Does Alang hate me very much and want to send me away early?"
Guo Shao: "..."
He pondered: "The little girl will always grow up and always have her own family. She has a high status and a rich dowry. She can choose good things in all aspects... You are my beloved sister, and even an official family is happy and willing to marry her. Isn't that a good thing?"
Chapter completed!