Chapter 24

Feeling the approval of her parents, Zhen Yiyun felt a little smug in her heart, but she still looked like a good sister, and both sides persuaded him to make peace: "Second sister, the younger brother also made a slip of the tongue, so don't take it to heart."

However, Zhen Tingyun did not answer.

Zhen Yiyun looked surprised and stared at her: "Second sister, don't you want to forgive my younger brother?"

Zhen Tingyun shook his head: "Eldest sister misunderstood, it's a family after all, and I'm not so narrow-minded. It's not that I refuse to forgive my younger brother if I don't speak, I just want to hear what my parents say. Father and eldest sister are like mothers, but now that our parents are still there, as children, we should listen to our parents’ teachings first, and then talk about other things.”

In the final analysis, Father Zhen and Mrs. Pei are both there. No matter how bad it is, there is Mrs. Zhen who is a grandmother. The eldest sister, Zhen Yiyun, jumping out and talking at this time is too expressive, right?

Having said that, Zhen Tingyun turned his head slightly to look at Father Zhen again, with a black bun like a cloud, slightly exposed snow cheeks, and a small pear vortex on his cheek, which is beautiful and cute: "Dad, am I right?"

Father Zhen was about to teach his son a few words, but when he saw the young girl looking at him with a smile, he couldn't help laughing, and said jokingly, "Why, Sister Ting wants to say, 'The son doesn't teach, the father's fault'?"

Zhen Tingyun pursed his lips and smiled, with a look of "you already know, I won't say it".

Seeing the quirky appearance of the youngest daughter, Zhen's father did not feel uncomfortable but felt relieved, thinking about the nature of father and daughter, after all, there is still some kind of consonance. He was relieved in his heart, but his face did not show at all. Instead, he looked at the young son with a solemn face, snorted, and scolded: "How did I teach you in the past?! I still haven't apologized to your second sister?!"

Zhen Hengzhe was told by his eldest sister, and now he has heard his father's stern lesson. He has long regretted it. He hurriedly bowed his head and apologized to Zhen Tingyun: "It's my fault, I said the wrong thing."

Zhen Tingyun didn't hold on to it, smiled, and reached out to pull Zhen Hengzhe's hand in his palm, really like a pair of close siblings, mocking himself: "I know my little brother is worried about me when he says this. , I'm always worried that I won't pass the exam..." She looked up at Zhen's father, her eyes were bright, and she joked, "When I was at home, I often heard my grandmother talk about my father, and I heard about those in the village. The stubborn donkey who doesn't obey is obedient when he sees his father, but he is majestic. When I saw him today, my grandmother really didn't lie to me!"

Zhen. stubborn donkey. Heng Zhe: "..."

Although Father Zhen had a cold face, he couldn't help being amused by his daughter at this time, and feigned angrily: "Naughty!"

Fortunately, this topic is also liked by Mrs. Zhen, but for a while, she forgot about the previous things, and praised her son's old affairs, every single thing, just like yesterday.

The originally stiff atmosphere among the people was also much more relaxed, but Zhen Yiyun bit his lip unconsciously, looking at Zhen Tingyun's eyes deeply.

Only Zhen's father recalled the old things, and when Mrs. Zhen became more and more filial, she personally helped Mrs. Zhen to go to the courtyard to rest.

When she came out of the old lady Zhen's courtyard, it was already dark.

Father Zhen will go to court tomorrow, so he didn't say much, he just asked the maid to send Zhen Hengzhe back to his own courtyard to rest, and then let Zhen Yiyun, the eldest sister, take Zhen Tingyun back to the hospital to rest, while he was holding Pei. Shi returned to the main courtyard.

Speaking of which, Father Zhen hadn't seen his mother and daughter for many years, and he had always missed him very much. Today, he was reunited, and he was really happy. It was inevitable that he drank too much.

It was Mrs. Pei, she had something in her heart, and she didn't ask the girl to serve by her side. She changed into a homely dress and took off the hairpins little by little while looking in the mirror.

The peach wood was combed on the blue silk of the cloud-like satin, and the black hair of the crow was scattered down, and the light can be seen. Even the face in the mirror was as beautiful and bright as the old days, as if time had been extra tolerant to her. After more than ten years, she was still as beautiful as a girl.

However, no matter how beautiful and young she is, she is already the mother of three children, and her two daughters are also slender, like the buds that are about to bloom in the early spring, and the buds are about to bloom...

For some reason, Mr. Pei felt a lot more emotion in his heart today.

Father Zhen waited on the couch for a while without waiting for anyone, so he couldn't help calling out, "Jun Yuan, it's getting late, let's rest early."

Unlike her husband, Mrs. Pei sighed secretly. She didn't get up or turn her head, she just stared at the mirror and whispered, "...how can I fall asleep!"

Father Zhen put his head on his head and asked, "Why can't you fall asleep?"

Pei said lightly: "I only think of those things at the beginning, and thinking of our sister Ting, I feel that my heart is burning so badly that I can't sleep."

Speaking of this, Father Zhen didn't smile anymore, and said uncomfortably, "Well, how can I say this?"

In fact, Father Zhen didn't understand Pei's words in his heart, but he was a man, and he was shrewd in foreign affairs. Seeing that the family is now reunited and happy, he didn't even think about it, he was happy first.

Pei's is a careful person, and it is inevitable to think long-term. Looking at the lines on the Linghua bronze mirror, she seemed to be sighing: "Young couples are old companionswhether parents or children, they can't accompany us forever. You and I are husband and wife, and we are people who want to grow old together forever. , I don't want to hide some words from you."

Father Zhen paused and whispered, "Jun Yuan..."

Pei Shi ignored him, her eyelashes drooping slightly, as if she was caught in some kind of unspeakable thought.

As if recalling those difficult days, she subconsciously pursed her red lips and said in a very low voice: "You know, I really couldn't do anything at the time. That year, my father recovered, my mother, sister-in-law, and the others were too. They all followed me back to Beijing, but it just so happened that the new king was enthroned, and he had to open an Enke. You will have to go to Beijing to take the exam in a few months. I am the only one left at home, and there is no one around to talk to... Sister Ting is another one. The girl was just born, and my mother-in-law was very angry. When I woke up the next day, I only had porridge and rice available... I was also very angry at that time. Carrying my daughter to Beijing to look for you, I also feel anger towards you in my heart, just thinking: If you don’t like it, just leave and go home!”

In the end, they have been married for many years and have a deep relationship. Zhen's father listened to this at this time and remembered how his wife looked when she brought her eldest daughter to Beijing, and her heart was sour and soft: ordinary women are mostly plump and fat after giving birth, but Pei's confinement was not sitting at that time. Well, after that, led the two girls and hurried to the capital with the eldest daughter in arms. By the time got to the capital, the whole person was pale and thin.

Thinking back to the beginning, Father Zhen felt very uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but sighed: "It's me who doesn't care about you, I shouldn't have left you at home back then."

Pei pursed her lips, and continued: "At that time, I was thinking of bringing my two daughters with me—whether it was Sister Yi or Sister Ting, it was all the flesh that fell from my body, My heart hurts the same way. What's more, Sister Ting was only born, she was so small, she would cry non-stop when she left me, and my heart softened when I cried... It's just that she is too young! Yi Yun also cried a lot at the time, hugged me and said, 'Sister is so young, will she get sick on the road', my heart softened and I couldn't bear to tell my sister to stop bumping along with me, so I left her down."

In fact, after entering Beijing that year, she was very worried about the young girl she left behind, and she thought of taking the young girl to Beijing, and she said a word to the eldest daughter.

At that time, Yiyun was in her arms, tilted his head, opened his eyes wide, his pupils were black, and he looked pitiful and cute.

She said, "Mother, my sister is here, is my grandmother coming too?"

Childish language, innocent and innocent.

But it was such a sentence, which pierced into her heart like a needle, reminding her of the unbearable days after giving birth to her young daughter.

At that time, she was lying alone in the dark room, struggling for a long time, and her strength was almost gone, but the child did not come down. At that time, she was both worried and scared, and she was about to cry dry: her husband and her parents' family were thousands of miles away, and there were only a two-year-old eldest daughter and two little girls beside her, and her mother-in-law was so bitter With a mean temper, even if she died on the couch, no one would know.

With great difficulty, the child was born after nine deaths. The midwife looked at it and said, "It's a daughter."

The smile on her mother-in-law's face disappeared immediately, she slammed her face and left, leaving her lying on the bed that had not been cleaned up, covered in sweat, and there was a blood-soaked mattress under her, she was in a state of embarrassment.

Like an old dog that freezes and sheds its hair on a winter street.

The mother-in-law was angry, she turned her head and sent the mother-in-law on the stove. She only gave her porridge and rice for three meals a day. When she was hungry, she almost couldn’t sleep at night. Had to ask the young girl to follow her to starve. The child is also small, and he always has to have something in his mouth before he can sleep, otherwise he will choke and choke, and his voice is as small as a kitten.

She almost thought she was going to die there.

…………

Therefore, Mrs. Pei gave up the idea of ​​picking up her daughter without realizing it, and never mentioned it again.

Thinking of this now, Mrs. Pei closed her eyes unconsciously, then slowly opened them, and said in a low voice, "I didn't think so, this stay is thirteen years!"

In a blink of an eye, my daughter was thirteen years old.

For this daughter, Pei's heart is indeed a bit grumpy and unhappy, but she is a mother, or she still has a little bit of guilt and pity for her daughter, and she wants to treat her as kindly as possible.

Zhen's father was also very sighed when he remembered this, and comforted Mrs. Pei: "It's not your fault. Now mother and sister Ting are back, mother is much kinder now, and sister Ting is such a clever temperament, love to say Love to laugh, just like when you were young, I also like it very much... Let's reunite as a family, don't think about those old things anymore."

Pei Shi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "How can you not think about it? You also said that she is so clever and so articulate, that even Sister Yi'er can't compare to it. It's just that Sister Ting is in the realm of the world, When I grow up to be thirteen years old by my mother's side, I really feel very sad when I think about it..."

"Also, she's already thirteen!"

"You can prune the branches and try to straighten the small tree when it is crooked, but the tree is already formed. At her age, in a few years, it will be time for marriage. I don't dare to think about the right family. ——Marriage is a major event. People marry a daughter-in-law to live, so it’s not easy to get married and make enemies. If you look for a lower rank, with her sister as a comparison, I’m afraid this child will resent us in her heart.”