Chapter 74 Chapter 74 A group of people realized that Bai...
Su Guanzhang postponed cooking the fish soup and packed his bags first.
"Each of them wrote us a letter." Su Guanzhang said, holding up a thick stack of envelopes in his hand.
Xuan Jinyu became interested and said, "I want to see it."
Su Guanzhang shook his head, "I'll read it to you later." There were so many words on the envelope, unlike the rice paper words that were easy to read this morning. She was lying on her side, and it would hurt her eyes.
After he had packed his things, he took out the envelopes he had just stuffed in from his pocket, opened them and looked at them one by one.
As soon as he saw the letter belonging to Xuan Wensheng, he noticed something strange.
It seems like a letter within a letter.
He calmly opened the envelope and quickly read the letter on the outside.
Then, taking advantage of the opportunity when Xuan Jinyu and Bai Suan were talking and not paying attention to him, he quickly stuffed the thick letter paper in the dark into his arms.
The days go by one by one.
The baby’s full moon day soon arrived.
The white falcon brought back various gifts that the Su family and Xuan Wensheng had asked it to send early in the morning, filling up a corner of the cave.
Then, it flew out of the bottom of the cliff with Su Guanzhang's reply letter in its mouth.
The torn wound on Xuan Jinyu's lower body had long since healed, and the lochia had been completely discharged a few days ago. Now she could walk around in the big cave with her child in her arms.
Of course, she would only hold the child secretly when Su Guanzhang was out and couldn't take care of her.
It only took less than a quarter of an hour, and she was satisfied.
Su Guanzhang said that holding a child during the confinement period would hurt his hands. Therefore, he usually held his daughter, and only cuddled her body when she was breastfeeding.
But looking at this little girl every day, who was born after nine months of pregnancy, how could she bear not to hold her?
The child opened his eyes completely when he was half a month old. Now the vernix caseosa has completely shed its skin, and his rosy complexion has gradually turned into the delicate skin unique to babies.
She looked so young that Xuan Jinyu didn't dare to use force when holding her, for fear of hurting her.
Su Guanzhang's feeling was not wrong, the child's eyebrows and eyes did look like his.
When she fully opened her eyes, the indifference in them was exactly the same as her father's.
But she was still too young, so her indifference wasn't very obvious. If her parents hadn't been constantly observing her, they would have simply thought that this child had clear eyes and would surely be a bright child in the future.
"Isn't it good to be like me?" Su Guanzhang asked Xuan Jinyu when he heard her complain.
Xuan Jinyu used her childish hand to hit him, but the force was light and fluttery. The child thought she was playing with her and smiled.
"I didn't say anything bad." Xuan Jinyu's heart melted at the child's laughter. She quickly took back what she had just said and pretended that she hadn't said anything.
Su Guanzhang held the child's hand and said, "Yeah." He responded in an ambiguous tone.
"My daughter only looks like me in the eyes and eyebrows. Her nose, mouth, ears, and features are all like yours."
Su Guanzhang felt the strength of the child's grip on his fingers, and his voice became much softer. "Jinyu, our sister Lan will definitely grow up to be a healthy, smart and beautiful girl."
He chuckled again, "Just like her mother."
Xuan Jinyu glared at him. She admitted she was healthy and beautiful, but no one had ever said she was smart. Even her grandfather, who held her in his arms, called her a foolish girl who was too lazy to use her brain and had a pretty face for nothing.
Was he teasing her, perhaps to get back at her for calling him a cold, jade sculpture and a nuisance?
However, Su Guanzhang didn't laugh at her. He just looked at her seriously and said, "Grandfather just said that you are too lazy to use your brain, he didn't say that you are not smart, right?"
He is particularly good at finding angles to think about problems. "From Shengjing City to Huaizhao County, Jinyu has shown his intelligence and talent many times."
"Just the night before yesterday, I told you that something might happen, and you guessed that someone was going to attack us, right?" he gave an example.
In fact, Xuan Jinyu not only guessed that someone was going to attack them, but also guessed who was going to do it.
She blinked. "Isn't this obvious?"
The dog emperor had long disliked their family. If not, my grandfather wouldn't have worried about him secretly taking action, giving up his efforts to get a joint trial by the three courts and offering the golden belt in exchange for their exile.
Su Guanzhang was still holding the child, and only had one free hand to stroke her cheek. "That's why I say Jinyu is smart."
His eyes were very focused, and the way he looked at her was as if he wanted to engrave her appearance in his heart, and as if he wanted to show the sincerity of his words.
Xuan Jinyu blushed and felt embarrassed when he looked at her.
Fortunately, she was still cautious and suspected that he was up to no good, so she looked away guiltily.
The child yawned, and his eyes, which had been open all the time, closed at some point.
Su Guanzhang held his daughter and rocked her for a few times, and she fell into a deep sleep.
This child was particularly easy to take care of and loved to laugh. She only whimpered when she was hungry, urinated, or had a bowel movement. She was so well behaved that the couple had no worries. However, they were also worried about her good temper and what would happen if she was bullied in the future.
Su Guanzhang put the child down and held Xuan Jinyu in his arms instead.
"Our Jinyu has many advantages." He put his mouth close to her ear, and his breath hit her sensitive earlobe, causing her to hide against him.
Unable to hide, she reached out and covered his mouth and nose to stop him from teasing her. She said angrily, "I do have many advantages. You can continue to talk about them, but you are not allowed to tease me like this."
Su Guanzhang kissed her hand, pulled it apart, and quickly pressed his lips against hers. "Well, I'll tell you slowly."
The sound died between her lips which had regained their color.
Thinking of the passionate kiss they had yesterday, Xuan Jinyu's face flushed again.
She had already walked around with the child in her arms, but the heat on her face still hadn't dissipated, so she lowered her head to look at her daughter.
The little child lay in his mother's arms, looking at the void with his big bright eyes.
Xuan Jinyu knew that a child of this age could not see clearly what was happening in the distance, and at most could see clearly the person holding her.
"Good girl, tell your mother what you are looking at?" Xuan Jinyu couldn't help but kiss her pink little face, and then she saw her yawn, raised her little hands above her head, and slowly closed her eyes.
Xuan Jinyu laughed and carried her back to bed.
"What a little piglet." She hooked her daughter's nose while she was already asleep.
There was a knock on the bamboo door outside.
It was Su Guanzhang who returned.
Because he was worried that pushing the door open would scare her and the child, every time he came back he would knock on the bamboo door of the small cave outside a few times to remind her.
"Did you secretly hug your daughter again today?" Su Guanzhang pushed open the bamboo door of the cave and looked at Xuan Jinyu who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a smile.
Xuan Jinyu was not in the right but was angry, "Su Guanzhang, you are wronging me." She glared at him, but without much momentum.
"Well, I wronged my lady." Su Guanzhang washed his hands with the mountain spring water flowing out of the depression in the stone wall, and walked towards her. "Do you want me to rub your arms?" he asked with a smile.
After he asked this, Xuan Jinyu realized that her hands and arms were indeed sore.
She guiltily extended her hand to him and let him press it skillfully.
Ever since Xuan Jinyu was able to get out of bed and walk, this conversation has continued until today. The two of them, one playing tricks, the other indulging, have become a tacit team.
"Bai Falcon hasn't come back yet?" Su Guanzhang looked around but didn't see Yuzhua.
When he went out, the bamboo door was locked; but recently the white falcon has learned to peck at the door, and Xuan Jinyu will open the door when she hears its call and pecking sounds.
Thinking of Bai Falcon, Xuan Jinyu smiled unconsciously, "No."
The teasing in her eyes overflowed, "I guess Third Brother fed it some delicious food again, so it's reluctant to come back."
Hearing her say this, Su Guanzhang also smiled.
Xuan Jinyu said this for a reason.
Some time ago, Bai Falcon got angry one day because of frequent travel between the bottom of the cliff and the house outside Huaizhao County.
After throwing the letter written by Su Guanzhang to Su Guanyu, it was about to spread its wings and fly away, but was caught by the Su family's quick-eyed and quick-handed eldest son's wings.
"Where are you going? Won't you wait any longer?"
The white falcon stretched its head and pecked at Su Guanyu's hand. Fortunately, he let go in time, otherwise his hand would have been cut several times.
"He has a bad temper." Xuan Wensheng, who watched the whole process, sighed.
These days, the white falcon has been working tirelessly and conscientiously to deliver letters and parcels. They have become accustomed to it, but they have forgotten that it is still a ferocious bird in the sky and a wild animal on the cliffs in the forest.
The wind from the white falcon's wings blew across Xuan Wensheng's face. He stood there in a daze, watching it glare at him arrogantly and fiercely, and then quickly flew away without looking back.
This happened again.
Bai Hu brought Su Guanzhang's letter, but he was only willing to hold the thick envelope in his mouth and refused to grab the large package they had prepared.
The group of people finally realized that the white falcon was in a bad mood.
"Is it because it's too heavy and it doesn't want to do it?" Xu Yu Niang guessed.
Mu Ge'er interrupted while eating dried meat, "Aunt and Uncle both feed it meat."
Children's words should not be taken seriously, but they woke up a group of adults.
They looked at each other awkwardly for a while before looking away uncomfortably.
"That's right!" Xuan Wensheng forced a smile, "No one would let Falcon work for nothing."
They were also a little too slow.
From then on, Bai Falcon received all kinds of delicious food prepared by them, and he resumed his hardworking and dedicated "porter" appearance, willingly carrying the heavy packages to the bottom of the cliff.
When it was handed over to Su Guanzhang, it would still be rewarded with a meal of raw meat.
It can be said that it has the best of both worlds.
"When I first met it, it didn't eat for half a month." Su Guanzhang smiled, remembering the complaints in his third uncle's letter. "Who knew it would become like this now?"
It is too greedy, which does not match its image as a ferocious bird at all.
As they were talking, the white falcon that was being teased by the two men had already reached the entrance of the small cave outside.
"I'm back." Su Guanzhang said to Xuan Jinyu.
Xuan Jinyu touched her daughter's soft hair as if nothing had happened.
Are you feeling guilty now? Su Guanzhang kissed her on the cheek. Why didn't he seem to feel guilty when he just said bad things about him?
A strong aroma of food filled the entire cave domineeringly.
The white falcon flew into the bamboo gate with a large bamboo basket in its claws.
Xuan Jinyu had already discerned the sweetest, tartest aroma: it belonged to the ginger pork trotter. Half a month after she gave birth to her daughter, Xu Yu Niang had personally prepared this tonic and had Bai Falcon deliver it to her.
Smelling such a rich aroma and thinking of the sweet and sour pork trotters, Xuan Jinyu unconsciously touched her stomach.
Oh, it's time for lunch.
She seemed hungry too.
Su Guanzhang also reached out and touched her belly. After she glared at him, he touched his nose and stood up to take the bamboo basket that Bai Hu was holding tightly.
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