Chapter 131 Don't Cry
Chunzhi took it and wiped her tears, then said to Madam Mu with a smile, "Don't cry, mother. I am doing well now."
Madam Mu nodded, "Don't cry, mother."
The family was talking, and soon they arrived at Huo Zheng's new house.
There was no plaque hanging on the house, but the steward and maids who stayed there were waiting at the door early.
The carriage stopped outside the gate. A servant immediately came forward to place the riding stool, and a maid stepped forward to lift the curtain. Everyone said in unison, "Welcome the master home."
Mu Qingshan got off the carriage, took a look at the capital city he had not seen for a long time, and then turned around to support Madam Mu.
It has been eleven years since the couple and the young Mu Kaiji left the capital.
Now when I come back, I feel very unfamiliar with this place.
Mu Kaiji stood in front of the new house with his parents, thinking of the bitter cold and poverty in the north. They had lived in a dilapidated house for so many years and dared not imagine that there would be a day when they would return to the capital.
Huo Zheng helped Chunzhi get off the carriage and said to them, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, and big brother, please come in."
Mu Qingshan raised his hand and said, "Your Highness, please."
After entering the house, maids and servants came forward to serve them and brought hot water for them to wash.
Huo Zheng reminded Mu Qingshan: "Father-in-law has been summoned back to the capital this time. The first thing he should do when he arrives in the capital is to go to the palace to see the emperor."
"Yes." Mu Qingshan didn't even bother to wash his face. "I'm going to the palace to see the emperor right now."
Why worry about his dusty face? What the emperor wants to see is how much he has changed.
Mu Qingshan immediately went out and took the blue cloth carriage he used to return to Beijing to go to the palace to meet the emperor.
Mrs. Mu and Mu Kaiji were both a little worried.
Huo Zheng comforted the two and said, "Since the emperor has decided to summon father-in-law to the capital, he means that he will be re-employed. Mother-in-law and elder brother don't have to worry."
Having said that, it was hard for Madam Mu and Mu Kaiji not to worry.
The emperor's favor and thunder are only a thought away, and no one knows what will happen next.
Chunzhi said, "Mother and brother, you've had a long journey. Please wash off the dust and change your clothes first. I've asked someone to prepare food, and we'll be eating soon."
Mrs. Mu replied "Okay", but her eyes were always on Chunzhi.
Chunzhi said, "I'll help mother bathe."
Madam Mu nodded, "Then I'll trouble Zhi'er."
There is a shortage of water in the North, and bathing is a luxury there.
Mu Kaiji had suffered so much hardship over the years that he had long lost the habits of a young master. When the maid offered to help him bathe, he quickly refused, closed the door and washed himself.
Huo Zheng instructed the steward to prepare a banquet to welcome the Mu family.
Chunzhi helped Mrs. Mu take a bath, and the mother and daughter talked alone.
Mrs. Mu's hands are very rough. She has been doing rough work for years, working day and night without a break.
If he hadn't been unable to let go of his daughter, he would have collapsed and been buried in the wind and snow of the north.
Madam Mu whispered to Chunzhi, "Zhi'er, does Prince Chang'an treat you well?"
"Good." Chunzhi said, "He treats me very well."
Madam Mu saw that Prince Chang'an had to personally help Zhi'er get in and out of the carriage, so she thought it should be no different.
Few people in the royal family are sincere. If she had a choice, Mrs. Mu would prefer Chunzhi to find a husband with a less noble status.
But the mother and daughter had been separated for eleven years, and it was not easy for them to meet each other alive.
There is no need to mention those things that have no trace.
Chunzhi scooped up some water and gently poured it over Madam Mu. The image of her mother bathing her a few years ago flashed through her mind...
She put her hand to her forehead.
Seeing this, Madam Mu quickly reached out to support her, "Zhi'er...what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing." Chunzhi said, "I just remembered some things from my childhood and it gave me a headache."
Madam Mu said, "If you want to forget about the past, just forget it. There's no need to remember it. Our family can see each other from time to time. Just remember the present."
Chunzhi said "hmm".
Mrs. Mu asked Chunzhi to sit aside and rest while she took a bath.
Chunzhi sat obediently aside and said softly, "I just remembered that when I was a child, my mother used to bathe me like this..."
Mrs. Mu loves her daughter very much and does everything for her personally.
When they separated, Zhier was only nine years old. She would cry when she had nightmares at night and couldn't find her mother.
Mrs. Mu didn't know how Zhi'er had lived in the past eleven years since she left her.
She was so spoiled before, why did she get up early and work late to make and sell tofu?
Mrs. Mu cried silently while taking a bath, and her tears fell into the bathtub silently.
"Mom, don't cry. We will have a good life in the future."
Chunzhi discovered that Mrs. Mu was crying.
"Don't cry...don't cry, mother." Mrs. Mu wiped her eyes casually, washed off the frost on her body, and changed into the silk clothes that Chunzhi had prepared for her long ago.
Chunzhi personally combed Mrs. Mu's hair into a simple and elegant bun and put a jade hairpin and earrings on her.
Madam Mu sat in front of the bronze mirror, a little dazed.
She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had dressed up properly. After wearing coarse linen clothes for so long, she had long forgotten what it felt like to wear silk.
The eleven years in the North were like a very long nightmare, and I thought I would never wake up from it in this lifetime.
But they didn't expect that one day, someone would break this nightmare and wake them all up.
Madam Mu looked at herself in the bronze mirror and sighed softly, "Zhi'er has just grown up, but mother is already old."
Chunzhi said, "Mother is not old. She just suffered too much. She will recover if she takes good care of herself."
Madam Mu smiled and said, "As long as I can see Zhi'er every day, mother will be very happy."
"There are many things that are worthy of mother's joy." Chunzhi helped Madam Mu to her feet and said to her, "Mother not only has a daughter like me, but also a grandson. However, he is still too young, so I didn't bring him out today. I will bring him to you later."
"Grandson?" Madam Mu didn't expect her daughter to even have a child. She couldn't help but ask, "You and Prince Chang'an..."
Chunzhi said, "Prince Chang'an and I were married back in Linshui Town, and we had a child then. It's a long story between us, and I'll tell you in detail when I have some free time."
Mrs. Mu touched Chunzhi's hair lovingly. The mother and daughter walked out of the yard and into the front hall, where they saw Mu Kaiji talking to Huo Zheng.
Mu Kaiji was already handsome, and after washing, his features became even more picturesque. He wore a brocade robe and a jade hairpin in his hair, and already possessed half the charm of Mu Qingshan that had captivated the capital back then.
When they saw Chunzhi and Madam Mu coming, they stood up at the same time.
Huo Zheng called out, "Mother-in-law."
But his eyes were always on Chunzhi.
Mu Kaiji said, "Mother and sister are here. The prince and I were just discussing how Daddy is doing after going to the palace to see the emperor."
Mrs. Mu was already worried about her husband. She knew Mu Qingshan's stubborn character very well and was afraid that he would contradict the emperor again and that the emperor would throw their family back to the northern border. She was extremely uneasy.
Seeing her mother like this, Chunzhi couldn't help but feel worried too...
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