Chapter 23 Poor Old Wife VS Scholarly Husband (6)
"Try the bracken I stir-fried," Shi Yi picked up a large piece of bracken with chopsticks. "I picked these with Huang Ersao in the mountains. I saved the tenderest part and dried it. It's very convenient for making soup or cooking."
Chen Yushi raised his chopsticks, picked it up and put it in his mouth. It tasted really good. He couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
"Try the vegetable dumplings I made." Shi Yi picked one up and put it on the table. He boasted, "Don't look at it as insignificant, but it's enough to fill you up. If you take one up the mountain, you won't be hungry for the whole afternoon."
Chen Yushi looked at the simple dishes on the table, choked up, and almost cried.
His wife, who lived such a poor life at home, always waited for him to return.
"Eat more. I'll go out and dry the eggplants. When the market comes, Huang Ersao and I will carry them to the government office to sell them and buy you new clothes." Shi Yi's eyes were filled with real heartache.
She is a strategist with integrity and morality. Since she has accepted the task, she will put herself into the role wholeheartedly and do her best to fulfill the client's wishes.
Chen Yushi put down the chopsticks in his hand, held his wife's hand, and took out the seal of the prefect from his arms.
"What is this?" Shi Yi took it curiously.
Chen Yushi then remembered that his wife was illiterate, and smiled innocently and childishly, "It's the seal of the prefect."
He expected his wife to show a look of shock on her face, and then she would be extremely happy. However, what he saw on his wife's face was worry.
"Chen Yushi, tell me, where did you get this thing from?"
He knew that his wife must think he was deceiving her. After all, how could a prefect appear in a coarse linen shirt.
"It's really the seal of the prefect," he showed her the side with the words, "Look carefully, are there any words on it."
He saw that his wife was still shaking her head.
"Chen Yushi, we should be upright. Now that you are back, let's live a peaceful life. Don't do these things."
"I really didn't lie to you." Chen Yushi didn't know whether to cry or laugh now.
He wanted to test his wife as an ordinary person, but he didn't expect to dig a big hole for himself.
"Okay, okay, don't say anything. You continue to eat, I'll go out to dry eggplants."
He saw his old wife step out of the door, smiled bitterly, and thought that he could only go to the government office to take up a position and let the people in the government office prove it for him.
In the evening, Chen Yushi was slightly drunk at dusk, and he took his old wife to sit at the door to watch the sunset.
He didn't relax until the sun set and the sky darkened.
The days of accompanying the king in Chang'an were not as happy as he imagined. What he felt most comfortable was the time when he used to accompany his old wife and quarreled.
"Old wife, I have to thank you." He held Shi Yi's hand.
Compared with the noble ladies he had seen in Chang'an, these hands were rough and yellow and black, but they were the most beautiful hands in his eyes. It was his old wife who had kept the whole belief about "home" for him.
"Why thank you? Husband and wife are one."
Chen Yushi saw the indifferent expression on his old wife's face, knew that she was speaking from the heart, and was even more touched.
His old wife's contribution to this family was taken for granted by her, but he could not take it for granted.
The words of the woodcutters he met today frightened him, but he had not heard her complain since he stepped into the house.
His wife, how should he repay her? !
"Wife, look at this?" He took out the thing that meant the most to them from his sleeve.
"Hairpin", the surprise in Shi Yi's eyes was obvious.
Chen Yushi put the silver hairpin into her hand, smiling brightly, with fine lines at the corners of his eyes, "Today, this silver hairpin has returned intact to Zhao."
When life was difficult, it was this silver hairpin that helped him get through. Later, when life was really unbearable, he had no choice but to pawn it. But he kept thinking about it every day, wondering when he could get the money for the pawn. When he became the governor, the first thing he did was to take the reward money to the pawn shop to redeem it.
"I'm really happy." When he took out the silver hairpin, Shi Yi was ready to never get it back. Unexpectedly, he could have it again in his lifetime.
"I'll buy you whatever you want in the future." Chen Yushi smiled and hugged his old wife tightly. He glanced at his old wife's face from the corner of his eye, and it was obviously unbelievable.
He didn't explain any more. Because he knew that without real proof, his old wife would definitely not believe that he really became the governor of the government office.
After spending a comfortable night at home, Chen Yushi went to the government office early the next morning.
Although the people in the office knew that the old governor had died and the court would certainly send a new governor, they would never have thought that the middle-aged man standing in front of them, who looked like a country bumpkin, would be their new chief. So he didn't care even if they looked down on him.
"What are you doing here?" The leading yamen runner questioned him.
"Look at what this is?" He took out the seal of the prefect in his arms.
The leading yamen runner of course recognized the seal of the prefect, and ran out of the door, saying, "This is incredible, this is incredible, the new prefect has arrived."
The other yamen runners gathered around him, "Are you sure it's him?"
They kept looking at Chen Yushi, and they felt that he didn't have the bearing of the prefect, and wondered if the leader was joking with them.
Some yamen runners even laughed at the side, "If he is the prefect, I am the emperor."
The other yamen runners heard this and laughed.
"Everyone kneel down to receive the order." The entourage holding the emperor's edict arrived in time and testified for Chen Yushi.
The kneeling yamen runners' faces turned from blue to white, and then from white to red, and they were all worried about whether they had just offended the new prefect.
At this time, Chen Yushi straightened his clothes, holding the seal, and walked in front of the yamen runners leisurely, "Now everyone believes that I am the new prefect."
His expression was neither sad nor happy, and his eyes were full of kindness and majesty.
The yamen runners trembled three times, knelt down, and begged for mercy, "Master Prefect, please be magnanimous, don't bother with us."
Chen Yushi smiled faintly and did not comment.
"Please forgive us for our blindness." The leading yamen runner took the initiative to stand up and apologize, "It's all my fault. I didn't recognize the identity of the prefect in time."
Forgive others when you can. Chen Yushi opened his mouth softly and said, "It's normal that we don't know each other when we meet for the first time. In the future, we must work together and help each other."
The coachman and the guards of the government office shouted "Yes, sir." The whole yamen trembled, and big beads of sweat rolled down the foreheads of the yamen runners.
(End of this chapter)
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