"Qingtong, pour me a cup of tea," Xiao An suddenly interrupted Gu Qingtong and pointed to the side hall, "I'm suddenly very thirsty."
"Oh." Gu Qingtong hurriedly put down the medicine bag and walked towards the side hall while lifting her skirt.
"Sister Qingtong, there are some freshly made pastries in the kitchen. Please bring them over on your way." Meiya said hurriedly.
"Okay." Gu Qingtong agreed crisply.
"Madam, the two gentlemen miss you and me very much, but the two elders have always been very stubborn. They are afraid that coming to the capital will cause trouble to you and me and attract criticism. So no matter how we persuade them, they are unwilling to come to the capital." Xiao An watched Gu Qingtong enter the side hall, and then her eyes fell on Mei Ya again, her eyes full of sadness and guilt, "I am really sorry that I couldn't bring them back to the capital together."
"It's not your fault," Mei Ya lowered her head and looked at the medicine bag in her hand. She said softly, paused, put the medicine bag back into the bundle, tied the bundle, and carefully put it in the drawer. Then she sat down next to Xiao An and said with some regret, "I guessed early on that they didn't want to come to the capital, but I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart. On the day General Kong returned to Ningguta, I had people clean up the Prince An's Mansion, and I also thought of leaving it for them to use for their retirement." When she said this, her eyes were slightly red. After a pause, she sighed, "It doesn't matter if they don't come. Although Ningguta is bitter and cold, it is a rare good place in the world. Mr. Gu and Mr. Ding must prefer to live a comfortable life."
"It's the best if you can think this way," Xiao An comforted her, patting Mei Ya's hand and smiling, "Besides, it's not like we won't meet again someday. Ningguta is far away, but it's not impossible to go there every two or three years. After all, there is the old residence of Master and Madam, and the ancestral tomb of Madam's family. It's not convenient for me to stop Master and Madam from going to Ningguta to visit the graves of my father-in-law, right?"
Fang Zuotang created a new identity for Meiya, and set Meiya's hometown in the home of a farmer who died early in Ningguta. The farmer couple were authentic farmers from Ningguta, and their ancestors were clean and honest. The key point was that by their generation, they had no other relatives to interact with, which saved a lot of trouble.
"Yeah, why didn't I think of it? Sister An, you are really smart!" Mei Ya heard what Xiao An said, and immediately cleared the haze in her heart, and then she said with surprise and joy, "I was thinking before, can I go to Ningguta for inspection with Mingwei, but I always felt that it was not appropriate. I can't go to Ningguta every time for inspection, right? Now it's good, I can go back to Ningguta openly."
"Then Nianqin and I will accompany Master and Madam back," Xiao An said with a smile. She held Xiao Nianqin's hand and gently shook it towards Mei Ya, while looking at Nianqin with a smile and saying, "Nianqin, meet the Queen."
"It's not the Queen, it's Auntie," Mei Ya looked at Xiao Nianqin, and saw Xiao Nianqin's black jade eyes rolling around. She really liked him more and more. She rubbed her hands and said to Xiao Nianqin, "Come, let Auntie hug you, okay?"
"Okay," Xiao An hurriedly stood up, carried Xiao Nian to Mei Ya's arms, and seeing that Mei Ya was so nervous that she couldn't move her hands and feet, she hurriedly taught her with a smile, "Don't be too nervous. You don't have to raise both hands so high. You don't have to keep them stiff. Relax your shoulders..."
"Is that so?" Meiya adjusted her movements according to what Xiao An had taught her. Xiao Nianqin was indeed much more obedient. He lay in her arms with his hands and feet busy. His chubby hands stretched upwards to reach the red gold phoenix tail agate tassel on Meiya's hair. Meiya was so busy that she tilted her head downwards, and the tassel fell into Xiao Nianqin's hands. The little kid grabbed the tassel and immediately smiled and blew bubbles from his mouth. Meiya also smiled and said to Xiao Anshi with her face turned sideways, "Look, Sister An! He's smiling! He keeps smiling at me!"
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