Chapter 1932 Meeting the Old Lady on the Road
Before the middle-aged couple could approach, Da Niu spoke to Shu Yu first, "Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang knew I was coming to Changjin Prefecture, so they asked me if I could hitch a ride with them. Shu Yu, has Tang Wenqian really become the county magistrate?"
Shu Yu nodded. It seemed that her grandmother and third uncle had guessed wrong. Although Tang Wenqian's parents were anxious, they did not rush over.
It's unclear whether it was the letter Tang Wenqian sent back that had an effect, or whether their personalities had changed.
The Tang couple walked up to Shu Yu. Tang's mother looked at Shu Yu with a complicated expression, then smiled and said, "Princess Lu, County Princess Lu."
Who would have thought that the second daughter of the Lu family would become a county princess?
She received a letter from her son during the Chinese New Year. When she learned that he had become the magistrate of Chenggu County, she was so excited that she almost fainted. She sat in the house in a daze for almost the entire night, crying and laughing. She read the letter over and over again, and even asked a literate person in the village to help her confirm it, just in case she was afraid she had misread it.
My son has studied diligently for so many years, enduring the cold winters and scorching summers, never daring to slack off even a little, all for the sake of passing the imperial examinations and becoming an official. When he passed the provincial examination, his ranking wasn't high, so he said he wanted to study for a few more years before taking the metropolitan examination.
Tang's mother had always thought she would have to wait a long time, but she never expected the surprise to come so suddenly.
They originally thought their son was already very successful, having become the most outstanding person in Shangshi Village. However, the second daughter of the Lu family was even more remarkable; she became a county princess without relying on her husband's or her own family.
A young girl with no power or influence, without the path of the imperial examinations, relied on her own abilities to rise step by step from an exiled prisoner to a village lady and then to a county princess. How many people in this world can do that?
Shu Yu felt that Tang's mother was looking at her strangely. She looked down at herself and saw nothing wrong.
"Aunt Tang, you're here to see Tang Wenqian, right? He told me he sent a letter back to you, and that he'd send someone to pick you up once things settled down here. Why are you here at this time?"
Tang's father quickly replied, "Yes, Wenqian did send us a letter. We were all very happy to know he had become an official. We couldn't wait to come and reunite with him, since it had been more than a year since we last saw each other. However, Wenqian repeatedly warned us in his letter not to travel alone, otherwise he would be worried. We had been waiting for him to come and pick us up, but then we heard that Da Niu was coming, and that he had even hired a bodyguard and had a large group of people, so we couldn't resist and came along too."
What Tang's father didn't say was that after receiving the letter, Tang's mother did indeed start packing her luggage without saying a word, and was in a hurry to leave immediately.
It was Tang's father who persuaded her to stop. He brought up the fact that she had impulsively told Lu Jiashu about being exiled years ago, which caused a disaster and almost ruined her son's future.
Tang Wenqian was furious about this, and his mother was really frightened.
At that time, Tang Wenqian was just a scholar who had just returned from the provincial examination; now he was a county magistrate. As parents, how could they let their son down?
Although Tang's mother usually looks down on this and that, she has nothing to say about Tang Wenqian. For her son's sake, she should at least be more composed.
This time, I figured that with so many people in Da Niu's convoy, it would be safer than having Tang Wenqian send someone to pick them up later.
(End of this chapter)
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