Chapter 932: If you're good to me, to my mother, to Sister Qiuxiang, and to my tenth uncle, that's enough!
Qiu Xiang's words shocked Song Fuling, who had never left Chang'an.
Looking at Song Fuling's small face filled with surprise, her mouth slightly open and her eyes wide open, Li San Niang couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"The world is so big, there are all sorts of things."
It's my fault for keeping you by my side all this time, which is why you haven't had the chance to go out and see the world.
If you could learn from my junior brother and travel around the Tang Dynasty with my master to practice medicine, it would not only improve your skills and allow you to see all sorts of things, but also broaden your horizons.
"Master Lai, once the academy is on track, I will send you to take charge in a certain place and gain experience for a few years. My Fuling's talents will surely reach new heights."
"master!
I don't want to leave my master!
I'll stay by my master's side and follow him; I still have so much to learn."
After exchanging a few more jokes, the three of them got down to their busy paperwork.
Regarding the matter of Zhenlapo Hebu's Zhenna coming to ask for something today, Li Sanniang had some ideas in mind. Taking advantage of the time before her shift ended, she carefully considered and wrote a report.
She planned to first talk to Wang, the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau, about this matter, and then, after the Imperial Medical Bureau had made an internal decision, she would go to the Court of State Ceremonial to discuss the matter of adding more people.
These days, it gets dark a little earlier. When the bell rings to signal the end of the shift, Li San Niang looks up from her desk after hearing the bell and finds that candles have already been lit inside.
"Master, shall we stay a little longer?"
Song Fuling held up a candlestick and looked at Li Sanniang. "Let's put it out. There's no time to finish official business. This matter isn't urgent. We can talk about it tomorrow."
Hearing Li San Niang say this, Song Fu Ling blew out the candlestick in her hand. The three of them tidied up the documents, put them away, locked the cabinet, checked the doors and windows, blew out the lamps, and then locked the door and left.
As soon as we left the government office, Lao Shi was already waiting at the entrance with his carriage.
Sitting in the carriage, Li Sanniang looked out the window at the street outside, where lanterns, some egg-yolk yellow and some goose-yellow, were hanging. A gentle breeze blew in, ruffling the hair beside her ears.
"This is Chang'an."
As Li Sanniang sighed inwardly, she heard Song Fuling pleading with Qiu Xiang to tell her about what she had seen during her missions in the Alliance.
Qiu Xiang teased Song Fuling for a while, feigning modesty, and then, under Song Fuling's subtle flattery, began to tell her about the various customs she had seen elsewhere that were different from those in Chang'an.
"...That's where they don't treat people like human beings. They call themselves their clansmen, but they're really like slaves..."
The carriage slowly made its way to the Li family's doorstep.
The people waiting at the door with lanterns were none other than Dewdrop and Li's mother.
"Mother!"
Sister Qiuxiang!
Sister Fuling!
Tenth Uncle!
Song Fuling, who had just been listening to Qiu Xiang tell stories, jumped off the carriage and smiled at Lu Zhu'er, who was walking towards the carriage.
"It gets dark early, we should hang lanterns to at least provide some light."
Li's mother nodded to Song Fuling, who was bowing to her. As she spoke to Li San Niang, she saw Song Fuling and Lu Zhu'er walking hand in hand towards the Li family's house.
Tonight we ate batu (a type of steamed bun). The whole family sat at two tables and enjoyed a very harmonious and pleasant meal.
After the meal, everyone gathered in the main hall. The main hall door was wide open, and the lights in the courtyard were also lit. The family's big yellow dog was lying in its kennel with its head sticking out. The dog's puppies were running back and forth in the courtyard, following Xiao Liulang and the others.
The children were playing, and inside the house, everyone was chatting about everyday things while holding a cup of tea; it was a very warm and cozy scene.
"Counting the days, Dalang should be back in about ten days. I wonder where he is now?"
When Li Erxiong brought up the topic of Li Dalang, everyone naturally joined in the conversation.
Hearing this, Jiang Shengnan, sitting next to Sister-in-law Li, felt even more eager for the day her son-in-law would return home.
However, so far she has not received any bad news, and Li San Niang has also confirmed Li Da Lang's safety with the Bad People, so she is not so worried.
We'll be able to see him in about ten days, so there's no rush.
After chatting for a while, Li San Niang called over Song Fuling and Lu Zhu'er, who were sitting together in the courtyard whispering to each other.
After the two women bowed and bid farewell to Li's mother, Li's sister-in-law, and Jiang Shengnan, Li San Niang led the two women and Qiu Xiang out the door and into the carriage. Lao Shi drove the carriage and took Song Fuling back to the Song family.
After watching Song's father take Song Fuling home, Li Sanniang and the others turned their carriage around and headed back home.
Back home, they boiled water, and Li San Niang, Qiu Xiang, and Lu Zhu'er sat together on the bed, soaking their feet by the bedside.
“Mother, Sister Fuling just told me that in the small country to the south, women marry men!”
It's quite different from our Tang Dynasty!
"I was wondering why you two were whispering to each other, and it turns out that Fuling told you about this."
Li San Niang briefly explained the wedding customs of Zhenla to Lu Zhu'er, who listened with great interest.
"These kinds of customary matters are not discussed much in the academy. Later, your mother will go to the bookstore to find you some miscellaneous geological articles or something. If you are interested, you can take a look."
Once my mother had finished dealing with all her affairs, I took my little Dewdrop to visit other places. Every place has its own customs, and even the food is different.
What you read in books can never compare to seeing it with your own eyes.
Dewdrop nodded. She knew that if Li San Niang promised her something, she would definitely do it.
However, Dewdrop also understood that Li San Niang was a female official, and she knew that officials couldn't just leave whenever they wanted.
“In the future, I will follow your grandmaster’s example and take on a junior apprentice, just like your junior uncle, to pass on my skills and knowledge. That way, my medical skills will not be wasted.”
“Then Mother, take me with you, and Sister Qiuxiang too,” Dewdrop said, sitting between Li Sanniang and Qiuxiang, now hooking her arms on either side of them. “Let’s travel together!”
"Haha, who knows? If you get married, how will you be able to go out and have fun with us?"
Qiu Xiang gently tapped Lu Zhu'er's forehead with her finger and said this with a smile.
“I won’t get married. I’ll follow the example of that Zhenla woman and marry a man. Then I can take him with me and stay with my mother, right?”
"What my Dewdrop said isn't entirely unworkable!"
Haha, my little dewdrop is truly my precious darling!
However, this is not common in Chang'an, and it is not easy to find a man willing to marry into the family.
If you also need someone you find acceptable, wouldn't that make it even harder to find?
Li San Niang smiled at Lu Zhu'er with her eyes crinkling. When Lu Zhu'er heard Li San Niang say this, she remembered that she had said before that she wanted to find a handsome husband as good-looking as Xu Jingzhen.
For once, Dewdrop blushed with embarrassment, and she lowered her head somewhat uncomfortably: "Mother is still making fun of me."
I already know that men as handsome as Uncle Xu are rare, and men as tall as my elder brother are also uncommon.
"It doesn't matter if you're not handsome, as long as you're willing to come to our house and treat me, my mother, Sister Qiuxiang, and Uncle Shi well, that's enough!"
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