Chapter 946 Mother, your son is back!
As they emerged from the old folks' house, Qiu Xiang and Lao Shi were already waiting at the door. After getting into the carriage, Lao Shi Yi cracked his whip and headed to the most famous mutton stall in the West Market.
After carefully selecting a good piece of meat with a good balance of fat and lean, and buying some spices needed for stewing mutton, Li San Niang got into the carriage and headed home.
After returning to the Li family home, Li San Niang handed the mutton to Li Da Sao and had a good meal with Lu Zhu'er at home. Then, she took on the task of delivering nourishing soup to Li Da Xiong in Wuhoupu.
Carrying the dewdrops, they headed towards Wuhoupu, where Brother Li was on duty. On the way, they passed a pancake shop and bought quite a few pancakes.
The freshly baked wheat cakes have a sweet wheat aroma.
Next to the pancake shop was a stall selling mutton soup. Li San Niang also bought a bucket, paid the shopkeeper a copper coin, and took the bucket away.
What was to be given to Brother Li was naturally the mutton soup that Sister-in-law Li had carefully stewed with medicinal herbs, but how could Brother Li be the only one in Wuhoupu?
At this time, wouldn't it put Brother Li in a difficult position to eat all the food by himself?
The food and drink served to Brother Li's colleagues was naturally the mutton soup bought from outside.
Upon arriving at the entrance of Wuhoupu, the four men got out of the car and waited at the entrance for a while. Brother Li, with his unshaven beard and bloodshot eyes, who looked exhausted at first glance, finally came out.
"Third Sister? Pearl?"
"Brother! How did you end up like this?"
"uncle!"
Brother Li smiled at Third Sister Li. He saw the bucket that Tenth Brother was carrying, and steam and a fragrant aroma were wafting from it.
Seeing Brother Li like this, Dewdrop felt heartbroken. If she weren't so old, she would have hugged him when she was a child.
“Sister-in-law is really worried about you, brother. I went to buy some good mutton today and stewed it for a full hour,” Li San Niang took the food box from Qiu Xiang and handed it to her brother. “This is a nourishing stew that I added medicinal herbs to for you. You must drink it.”
The pancakes inside were made by my mother herself; they're soft, so my elder brother can enjoy them with soup.
Then, Li San Niang pointed to what Lao Shi was carrying: "This bucket was bought from outside. Brother, you're sharing it with your colleagues. And those cakes, I bought thirty of them. I don't know if that's enough."
After Li San Niang finished speaking, Lu Zhu'er couldn't hold back any longer. She looked at her brother Li with a pained expression and said, "When will Uncle return home? If he doesn't return soon, he must take care of himself!"
Seeing her uncle like this, Zhu'er felt extremely distressed.
Dewdrop was good at saying nice things, but she really felt sorry for Brother Li. Dewdrop lowered her head, grabbed the purse from her waist, and stuffed it into Brother Li's hand.
“Uncle, take this money. You must buy some good meat to eat. Your aunt and grandma are busy at home and can't make soup for you every day. So, Uncle, take the money and buy some soup for yourself.”
If my elder brother comes back and sees how thin our uncle has become, he'll be even more heartbroken than Zhu'er."
Brother Li looked at the purse embroidered with orchids in his palm and couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.
Brother Li, how could you possibly be short of money?
“If the dewdrop is given to my elder brother, then he should keep it.”
Just like Dewdrop said, you need to take care of yourself. Eat well, and if you've been working too hard, you need to nourish yourself.
Finally, Brother Li had no choice but to carry a bucket of mutton soup in his left hand, a food box prepared by his sister-in-law and mother in his right hand, a bag of flatbreads tucked under his right arm, and the purse given to him by Dewdrop in his chest as he entered Wuhoupu.
Dewdrop mentioned Li Dalang, but it was already half a month later when she finally met him.
Li Dalang finally got a day off. The night before he went home, he couldn't sleep at all. He finally managed to doze off around 4 a.m., but then he was too excited to fall asleep again.
After packing up the gold and silver bestowed upon them by their superiors, Li Dalang, along with Wang Dadan and Gao Haiping, waited for a horse-drawn carriage outside the military camp in the suburbs and headed towards Chang'an City.
It was a sunny day, and although it was only dawn, there were already quite a few people on the official road. The carriage was fast, and it arrived at Anhua Gate in less than half an hour.
However, no matter how early you arrive, you still have to queue up and have your information checked before you can enter the city.
By the time the three of them entered the city, it was almost 9:00 AM.
The changes in Chang'an in the past two years have been enormous. The outer three cities have been expanded considerably, and even the inner city has undergone minor changes every three days and major changes every five days.
Li Dalang hadn't been home for almost a year, not even to the place where he grew up. Looking at the scene on the street, he felt somewhat lost.
"Boss, let's go to the West Market first. We can't just show up empty-handed, can we?"
As Wang Dadan said this, he looked at Gao Haiping, who naturally nodded in agreement with Wang Dadan's words.
"That's right, boss. Regardless of whether it's the first time we've visited, we're on good terms, but when it comes to a visit, as the younger generation, Dadan and I should bring gifts. Otherwise, what kind of impression would that be?"
Since things had come to this point, Li Dalang naturally couldn't say anything more like "no need," so the three of them hailed a car on the street and headed to the West Market.
Even though the three men were unarmed, their years of military service gave them a fierce and untamed aura that set them apart from the people who had lived in Chang'an for a long time. In fact, the difference was quite obvious.
Therefore, the three of them encountered the Imperial Guards checking them at the entrance of the West Market.
To avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings, the three of them had no choice but to take out their identity tags from their bundles.
"So you're a brother of the Shi family army? Are you here on vacation?"
The guards on duty bowed to the three men and said, "It's my duty, brothers, please don't mind."
The three men returned the greeting to the Imperial Guards with clasped hands and then entered the West Market.
By the time the three of them returned to the Li family's door with their bags and packages, it was already past noon.
The first to discover Li Dalang and his two companions was Xiao Wulang, who was being held captive by Li Erxiong at the door, forced to memorize the pharmacopoeia.
He looked up and saw Li Dalang carrying large and small bags, his face full of excitement.
The last time Kogoro saw Li Dalang, he was already six or seven years old and could remember things.
So, upon seeing Li Dalang, he immediately let out a loud "Aow!"
"Brother! Brother!
It's my eldest brother who's back!
My eldest brother is back!
Xiao Wulang shouted as he ran into the house. Before Li's father, who was treating patients inside, and Li's second brother, who was weighing medicinal herbs on the medicine cabinet, could react, Xiao Wulang had already run into the yard and was shouting loudly to Jiang Shengnan, Li's eldest sister-in-law, Li's second sister-in-law, and Li's mother, who were drying beans in the yard: "Big brother is back! My eldest brother is back!"
Jiang Shengnan, who was tossing beans with a winnowing basket, was so startled that she almost dropped the basket. After calling out to Xiao Wulang, she saw several dogs following behind him, along with Xiao Liulang following behind the dogs. Then she ran back to the door.
Jiang Shengnan then realized what was happening, put down the winnowing basket, and ran towards the door.
The couple stood at the door, gazing at each other across the medicine cabinet.
Li Dalang watched helplessly as Jiang Shengnan's eyes welled up with tears in just a moment, and within two or three breaths, two lines of clear tears were streaming down her cheeks.
Seeing Li's father and second brother standing up and heading towards the door, and seeing Li's mother being helped out of the courtyard by Jiang Shengnan and Li's sister-in-law, Li Dalang could no longer hold back. This tall and strong man's nose tingled and his eyes reddened, and two streams of hot tears welled up in his eyes.
After putting down his bags, Li Dalang threw off his clothes and knelt down on both knees in front of his relatives who had rushed over.
"The unfilial son Li Hu greets his grandfather, grandmother, mother, and second uncle,"
Li Dalang's tears finally flowed when he saw Li Dasao. "Mother, son, you're back!"
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