Chapter 576 He is indeed a talent
"No, absolutely not!" Jun Lie quickly distanced himself from the matter upon hearing this, saying, "I know you've been working with Fengchunlou for half a year."
"Haha!" Xiao Jiuyue looked at him with a smile, stretched out her hand to pinch his waist, and asked: "Then tell me, what else are you hiding from me?"
"No." Jun Lie shook his head without thinking.
"You said no without even thinking about it?" Xiao Jiuyue raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of disbelief.
Jun Lie thought for a while, and seeing her look of wanting to get to the bottom of things, he asked hesitantly: "Probably not." She didn't know anything about her previous life.
"I'll believe you for now." Xiao Jiuyue didn't ask any more questions. She said, "Did you live in this house before?"
"I heard before that this house is unusual." Xiao Jiuyue asked curiously. Living in a familiar house, he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. After traveling all the time and meeting Tang Tian again, Xiao Jiuyue was tired.
She was half lying on the couch. There had been a charcoal fire burning in the room, making it warm and not cold at all.
"This is where my mother used to live." Jun Lie sat beside her and peeled Fu'an oranges for her. Since Fu'an oranges became tribute oranges, they can be seen everywhere in Hongdu.
"My mother-in-law's?" Xiao Jiuyue sat up straight. No wonder. She had always thought that the house was decorated very quietly and elegantly. The hostess must be someone who knew how to live. Especially the half-planted flowers and plants and the other half-planted vegetables in the corner, she felt it was very down-to-earth.
"Wait, this isn't just where my mother-in-law lives. The emperor will live here too, right?" Xiao Jiuyue reacted belatedly. From the version she knew, when Concubine Rou met the emperor, he wasn't even the emperor yet and had been living in Hongdu.
"Yes." Jun Lie nodded. "Most of those who know this are veteran officials in Hongdu Prefecture."
"Well, my mother-in-law has very good taste and aesthetic sense." Xiao Jiuyue praised. Although she had never seen her future mother-in-law, she tried her best to protect Jun Lie in the fire. She still admired such maternal love.
"Yeah, in my memory, mother was very gentle, and she looked very pretty when she smiled." Although Jun Lie had never used the word 'aesthetics', she roughly knew that Xiao Jiuyue was praising her.
"She must be a good mother." Xiao Jiuyue said with emotion.
"Hmm." Jun Lie thought for a moment and looked at her and asked, "Jiuyue, I want to take you to worship her."
"What?" Xiao Jiuyue stood up in shock. She looked at Jun Lie and said, "Grandma is buried in Hongdu? You, why didn't you tell me earlier? We should go and pay our respects to Grandma first."
"I thought you didn't want to." Jun Lie's words fell, and Xiao Jiuyue directly grabbed his face and pinched it, saying, "Jun Lie, why would I not want to pay tribute to my mother-in-law?"
"It's far from here, and it's freezing cold. It rained a few days ago, and the mountain is muddy." Jun Lie hasn't decided whether to take her there now.
"Let's go, let's go now." Xiao Jiuyue was thinking about going back to pay respects to her mother-in-law for the first time. She should at least bring all the necessary things with her. She said, "Lianxin, hurry up and buy some incense, candles, paper money, gold ingots, and so on."
Lian Xin was just thinking about what to buy these for when she heard Xiao Jiuyue say, "No need, I'll choose them myself."
"Jiuyue, it's too late today. Let's go together tomorrow." Jun Lie also knew that he might have done something wrong.
"Alas." Xiao Jiuyue sat down again, sighed, and looked up again, her eyes full of disappointment as she said, deliberately misinterpreting his meaning: "I know, you must think I'm not worthy of visiting my mother-in-law."
"Jiuyue." Jun Lie felt extremely guilty after hearing this. He reached out and pulled her tightly into his arms, explaining, "You're my wife. How could you not be worthy of visiting your mother? I just felt it was freezing cold, and I was worried you wouldn't be able to handle it."
"Hmph, am I such a pampered person?" Xiao Jiuyue reached out and poked his chest. She knew that he didn't mean that, but she had to show her attitude!
Worshiping the mother-in-law is a big deal. When did she become so pampered?
"I'm not being squeamish, I just can't bear to do it." Jun Lie admitted his mistake obediently.
"Then, will you accompany me to pick things in the afternoon?" Xiao Jiuyue said.
Jun Lie nodded repeatedly and took a brief rest. Then Xiao Jiuyue took Jun Lie to buy things for the worship.
The next day, at dawn, Xiao Jiuyue and Jun Lie took a carriage to the place of worship.
"This, isn't this the mountain of Fu'an Village?" Xiao Jiuyue looked at the familiar road. She was very familiar with the road from Lancang County to Fu'an Village.
"It's in the back hills of Fu'an Village." Jun Lie pointed to the forked road and said, "Go this way."
The carriage went to the side, circled to the top of the mountain, and then went up along the steps. The bright sunshine was already shining on the earth. When she arrived at the place and looked at the cemetery, she was surprised: "This, is my mother's grave?"
This doesn't seem to be in line with Concubine Rou's identity.
"This is the cenotaph." Jun Lie took her hand and walked forward. Since he grew up, he would come to pay homage to his mother every year when he took the opportunity to pick herbs.
"My mother's tomb is in the imperial mausoleum. This is where I built it for her." Jun Lie lowered his eyes. When his mother died, she was burned to ashes. The one in the imperial mausoleum was just for show.
He still remembers his mother saying that she liked Hongdu.
"Mother must be very happy." Xiao Jiuyue looked at the words on the tombstone. They must have been carved by Jun Lie himself. She lit the incense and candles, bowed and said, "Mother, I'm sorry for coming to see you so late."
"Mother definitely doesn't know me. My name is Xiao Jiuyue, and I'm Jun Lie's wife." Xiao Jiuyue spoke as if she were facing her mother-in-law. Her words became more and more gentle, and she talked about her and Jun Lie in a nagging manner.
Jun Lie was burning paper money and gold ingots on the side, looking up at her. Her gentle voice reminded him of the time when he mentioned Xiao Jiuyue to his mother.
If my mother were in heaven, she would definitely be happy, right?
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After the worship, Xiao Jiuyue accompanied Jun Lie on the way back and said: "If my mother is still alive, she will definitely be happy to know that she has such a good daughter-in-law like me."
"Of course." Jun Lie nodded affirmatively: "If my mother were still alive, she would definitely like you."
"I think so too." Xiao Jiuyue's eyes narrowed with laughter.
They did not return to Hongdu, but went directly back to Fu'an Village.
"In the blink of an eye, another year has passed." Xiao Jiuyue looked at the newly built memorial archway in Fu'an Village from afar and said, "When I left, this memorial archway wasn't very good yet. Now, it's so big!"
"Hmm, it seems like there's another memorial archway built next to it?" Xiao Jiuyue walked a little further and found that there was not only the memorial archway of Fu'an Village, but also the memorial archway of Tanhualang.
"This was built by the villagers when Mr. Jiang came back last year, right?" Xiao Jiuyue praised, "I really have a keen eye for talent, having lured a talent like Mr. Jiang here!"
Jun Lie said sourly: "Mr. Jiang is indeed a talent!"
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