Chapter 85 Chapter 85 My sister is like a little turtle
Not long after the sacrifice ceremony, it was Lan Jie'er's hundredth day. The couple, who had resumed communication with the outside world, received a lot of supplies, most of which were hundred-day gifts for the child.
Sister Lan can now turn over, and every day when she is awake she always likes to turn over in bed.
Sometimes she couldn't turn over, and even after twisting her body until her face flushed red, she would just stay where she was. Xuan Jinyu would gently poke her with her hand, and she would fall to the soft mattress with a "plop".
Then she would burst into a very happy laugh, "Ahahaha!"
"What are you laughing so foolishly about?" Xuan Jinyu picked her up and kissed her increasingly round face. "You can still laugh even after falling down, what a silly little girl."
Sister Lan blew a bubble at her and smiled even sweeter.
Su Guanzhang put down the pen in his hand, lowered his head and looked at the small portrait he had just drawn for a moment. There was a very obvious smile in his eyes, and the corners of his lips were unconsciously raised high.
"The ink has dried." He stood up from the bamboo table and walked to the bed. "Let me hold it. See if you can."
This small portrait was to be sent outside the mountain, where it would be passed around among the family.
Xuan Jinyu said that the portrait of Lan Jie'er when she was three months old was given away not long ago. At that time, it was a picture of her cute sleeping face. But this portrait of her one hundred days old should be a little different. It would be best if it could make the family very happy when seeing it.
Su Guanzhang felt that the small portrait he painted satisfied what Xuan Jinyu had said and was very satisfactory.
Sister Lan was also very comfortable staying in her father's arms. She blew several bubbles in a row and made herself giggle.
Su Guanzhang rubbed her little head and wiped the saliva from her body without getting tired of it.
Xuan Jinyu had already seen Lan Jie'er's hundred-day-old portrait. She tried to hold it in, but still couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Sister Lan will blame you when she grows up." She said, but she couldn't stop smiling.
This was the first time she laughed so happily since she learned of her grandfather's death.
Su Guanzhang took a deep breath and said softly, "Grandma, parents, and my third brother will definitely be very happy when they see this."
Xuan Jinyu raised her eyes to look at Sister Lan in his arms, who was waving her little hands and yelling "Yeah Yeah" excitedly, then she looked down at the little statue and said, "Indeed." She suppressed her laughter and replied.
She had no objection.
When the people outside the mountain received Sister Lan's hundred-day portrait, everyone laughed with joy.
"My sister looks like a little turtle." Mu Ge'er poked the small statue, as if he wanted to poke Sister Lan in the statue to turn over.
Su Guanwen was very happy. "Yes, he is still a little turtle that can't turn over."
Everyone in the room had slowly stopped laughing, but upon hearing this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The little girl in the statue was sticking out her body, halfway through turning over. Her face was flushed red, but she could only stay stuck in mid-air, her eyes wide open, full of confusion.
"Isn't my younger brother this cute when he was a child?" Su Guanwen put his hand on his elder brother Su Guanyu's shoulder, with a sly smile in his eyes.
He was only two years older than Su Guanzhang. When Su Guanzhang was one hundred days old, he still couldn't remember anything, but Su Guanyu was already six years old at that time, so he must have remembered it.
Su Guanyu saw through his third brother's hidden evil intentions and did not follow his wishes. "Sister Lan is of course more adorable."
Su Guanwen was a little disappointed. "Look at Sister Lan's eyes. She looks so much like me." He tried to guide her. "Was I like this when I was little? I couldn't turn over, like a little turtle?"
He was devoted to spreading bad words about Su Guanzhang, trying to add some black history to his younger brother's cold and elegant image, and he was completely unaware that his mother beside him had been staring at him with death for a long time.
Su Guanwu, who was watching his brother committing suicide, silently took a step back to make room for his mother.
Sure enough, as soon as he stepped back, Second Aunt Su slapped Su Guanwen on the back with a very loud sound, "Why do you talk so much?" Second Aunt Su raised her eyebrows.
On the morning after Lan Jie'er's hundredth day, Su Guanzhang said to Xuan Jinyu, "Let's go a little further today and see if we can find a way to the outside world."
"Senior has spent more than forty years and still hasn't found a way out. Can we find it?" Xuan Jinyu asked him uncertainly.
Su Guanzhang touched her much thinner cheek and said, "We have to go for a walk anyway, so it doesn't hurt to look around and look for something." He said gently, with heartache in his eyes.
Because of the news of her grandfather's death, she became thinner and thinner, and the plump figure she had cultivated after pregnancy and childbirth disappeared.
Xuan Jinyu has now returned to the state she was in before she became pregnant; except for her eyes that are occasionally dim, her face and body have become softer after becoming a mother; more often than not, she is the same as the beautiful and charming girl from the Xuan family in the capital.
But he really felt sad.
He said he was looking for a way out, but in fact he just wanted to use the opportunity to divert her attention and make the months of mourning less difficult for her.
Xuan Jinyu nodded, "Then let's go!"
They quickly changed direction and headed towards the towering rock cliffs.
Xuan Jinyu and Su Guanzhang began to look for a way, but as expected, they found nothing.
A few days later, snow fell in the mountain - the first snow at the bottom of the cliff came two months later than outside the mountain.
Worried that Xuan Jinyu and the child might catch a cold, they shelved their plan to find a way out. Meanwhile, news arrived that Su Guanmian, the second Su sister, had also arrived in Huaizhao County.
Su Sheng briefly mentioned his second daughter's visit to Huaizhao County, and then turned to mention the black-robed warriors lingering outside the Huaizhao County house, saying that they failed to assassinate the Su family and were killed instead.
He didn't care much about this group of black-clothed warriors. Now the Su family had completely taken control of the secret communication channels in Huaizhao County, and the hidden Su family secret guards had protected the house where they were tightly.
No matter how many people the new emperor sends, the result will be the same, unless he does nothing about it and mobilizes tens of thousands of troops from the military camp thousands of miles away to encircle and suppress them.
Su Sheng's letter told Su Guanzhang to stay at the bottom of the cliff and not to rush out.
Wasn't my second sister stationed in Tongcheng with her husband? Why did she come all the way to Huaizhao County?
She's here, but what about the kids?
Why didn’t my father mention it at all?
It can be seen that Su Sheng was in a hurry when writing this letter, and his handwriting is a bit erratic.
Was it because she had encountered some emergency and couldn't calm down to write him a letter? Or was it because the second sister's arrival caught her father off guard and he hadn't been able to get more information for the time being?
Su Guanzhang held the letter in his hand, frowning. Could it be that the new emperor had already taken action against his second sister and the others?
He pondered over it, quickly picked up the pen to write a reply, and handed it to the white falcon that was waiting beside him, staring at Sister Lan, "Thank you for making another trip today." He touched its head.
The white falcon was extremely happy, but it still looked at Sister Lan for a long time before it grabbed the letter, flapped its wings, flew out of the cave, and quickly soared into the sky.
Lan Jie'er, who was nestled in Xuan Jinyu's arms, was shouting "Oh oh oh" at the white falcon. In the blink of an eye, she saw it fly away and she couldn't help but open her eyes wide.
"Ahhh!" She pointed in the direction of the bamboo door of the cave and turned her head to snuggle into Xuan Jinyu's arms.
Xuan Jinyu was nudged by the soft flesh ball, and her heart softened. "It's getting dark, Sister Lan, let's go out tomorrow."
Sister Lan's little hand was still pointing at the door, and she kept shouting "Ahhhh".
"Oh," Xuan Jinyu understood, "Bai Falcon has gone to deliver the letter and will be back later."
"Dong, Dong, Dong", the sound of rattle rang out.
Lan Jie'er's attention was instantly attracted. She no longer remembered that the white falcon had flown away. She excitedly kicked her little feet and opened her arms towards Su Guanzhang.
Su Guanzhang sat down, put his arms around her chubby little body, and put the rattle in her hand.
The little one, who is almost four months old, can already start practicing grasping.
Seeing the rattle that could make sounds, Lan Jie'er subconsciously reached out to grab it, but the rattle quickly slipped from her hand and fell into the hands of Su Guanzhang who was holding it below.
Put it down again, and then slide it down again...
Xuan Jinyu looked at the father and daughter with a smile, seeing one of them playing with a rattle and the other unable to catch it but still happily reaching out her little hand to grab it.
Snowflakes were falling outside the cave, but it was warm inside.
Soon, the white falcon flew over the bamboo door like the wind and landed on the small bamboo bed.
It lowered its head to look at Lan Jie'er on the small bamboo bed and found that she was already asleep. It tilted its head, handed the letter in its paw to Su Guanzhang, and buried its head in tidying up its feathers.
Xuan Jinyu took a clean towel and wiped it. She had once again harvested a white falcon with its feathers ruffled. She was in a good mood and cleaned its feathers up.
Su Guanzhang quickly finished reading the letter and said to Xuan Jinyu, who was rubbing Bai Falcon's little head, "Nothing's wrong. It's just that my second sister came so suddenly that my father was a little scared."
He was explaining the matter of the first letter.
Xuan Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little worried, "Is second sister okay? Where are the children?" She touched Bai Hun's still round belly, turned around and sat back on the bed.
"The children came with my second sister," Su Guanzhang replied, wetting a handkerchief, sitting down next to her on the bed, and began to wipe her hands. "Don't worry, they are all fine."
When Lan Jie woke up hungry and wanted to drink milk, Su Guanzhang had already finished telling Xuan Jinyu about Su Guanmian's affairs.
The white falcon also stood beside the small bamboo bed, its head buried in its wings, asleep. As I got closer, I could still smell the lingering aroma of its meat.
"It's more like Third Brother is raising a son for us." After Su Guanzhang burped his daughter, he put her back in Xuan Jinyu's arms and opened the letter Xuan Wensheng gave them.
Bai Falcon had just brought two letters, and they were just opening the second one.
Xuan Jinyu glared at him, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Last time, we joked that Bai Hun was their son. It was fine because Sister Lan was still young and didn’t understand. But now that Sister Lan is growing up and becoming more clever, it’s better to avoid such jokes.
Su Guanzhang was good-tempered, "Well, I won't say it anymore in the future." He started reading the letter.
As he read, he smiled and asked Xuan Jinyu, "Do you know why the handwriting in my father's letter just now was so elegant?" Out of respect for his father, he did not use the word "elegant".
Without waiting for her to guess the reply, he started talking to himself, "So it's related to the white falcon." he said.
Xuan Jinyu turned her head in surprise to look at Bai Hun who was sleeping soundly, then stared at him again, urging him to speak quickly.
"Father didn't mention it in the letter, but Third Brother did." Su Guanzhang also glanced at the sleeping white falcon. "It was because it had finished eating and was in a hurry to leave. My eldest brother almost couldn't catch it, so Father hurriedly put down his pen."
Xuan Jinyu burst out laughing.
She knew that the food Xuan Wensheng prepared for Bai Falcon was always delicious, and that it recently liked to stay in the house where the Su family lived outside the mountain and eat and drink for free.
Apart from its daily fun in the mountains, if Xuan Jinyu and Su Guanzhang didn't see it at the bottom of the cliff, they would know that it must have gone to ask Xuan Wensheng for delicious food.
I just never thought that it would act like this when it was outside the mountain.
"I said it was greedy before, and it turned out to be right." Su Guanzhang had finished reading Xuan Wensheng's letter and found that the whole letter was full of "complaints" about the white falcon. He couldn't help laughing.
Xuan Jinyu gently hit him with Lan Jie'er's little hand.
Su Guanzhang didn't react much, but Lan Jie'er started to get excited again, screaming "Ahhh", "Ahhhh", "Ohhhh", and making a lot of noise.
"It's quite lively for our family of three on New Year's Eve." Su Guanzhang moved sideways to block Lan Jie'er's sight, kissed Xuan Jinyu's face, and then picked up his daughter as if nothing had happened.
Xuan Jinyu touched the place where he had kissed her and smiled faintly.
They hadn't been close since their grandfather's death.
She had to observe mourning for her grandfather for five months, and even when the couple slept in the same bed, they were very well behaved, not as close as they had been in the past.
This was the first time he kissed her since that day.
"When Sister Lan speaks alone, she can speak as much as Brother Mu and his seven siblings." Xuan Jinyu gently pinched her daughter's nose and teased.
you do not say!
Since Sister Lan was almost two months old, they walked out of the area near the cave. After she saw the vast scenery, she seemed to have changed her personality.
When he was a few months old, every day was quiet, but now, there is no peace at all every day.
Especially recently, she has been able to utter more syllables and turn over, which has become even more serious. When she is awake, her parents have never had a peaceful ear.
Su Guanzhang chuckled, kissed his daughter's forehead, took out the little hand she was sucking in her mouth, wiped it, and held it in his hand.
"What's wrong with you?" He gently shook her little hand, making her laugh foolishly at Xuan Jinyu.
"This divine power comes and goes," he raised his eyes and looked at Xuan Jinyu. "When you were holding your daughter, were you ever hurt by her?"
Xuan Jinyu smiled and shook her head. "Sister Lan loves her mother," she said, hinting, "Every time I hold her, I don't feel that her strength is any different from other babies."
Su Guanzhang laughed. Did his daughter always use her magical powers on him?
However, it is also a good thing. He has thick skin and is not afraid of pain. At least he will not hurt Jinyu.
Tonight is New Year's Eve. A family of three sits on their bed at the foot of the cliff, chatting and waiting for the arrival of the new year. Meanwhile, outside the mountain, in the house outside Huaizhao County, the atmosphere is also bustling.
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