Chapter 787, Yan Yishan (two chapters in one)
Yan Wentao had a half-month wedding leave, and then the whole Yan family was forced to eat dog food for half a month. After he went to work, even Zhou Jingwan breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no way, she was really embarrassed to face everyone's ambiguous looks.
In the old lady's room, the women of the Yan family sat together chatting and laughing.
"Wentao and Jingwan are so affectionate. I guess it won't be long before I can hold my great-grandson in my arms again!" Old Mrs. Yan said with a smile.
Hearing this, Zhou Jingwan immediately lowered her head in shame.
Mrs. Wu's face was full of joy. Now that her youngest son was attending a private school, she had plenty of time to help look after her grandson.
"I'm sorry, sister-in-law!" Han Xinran walked over with a smile, held Zhou Jingwan's shoulders, and joked with her to ease her embarrassment.
The Yan family had split up a long time ago. Although the third branch still lives with the first branch, it is because the Yan family has just arrived in the capital and needs the support of each other and work together to gain a foothold in the capital.
When the Yan family is able to gain a foothold in the capital in the future, the third branch will definitely move out, otherwise, the second branch will also cause trouble.
Everyone in the third room was very respectful and knew their place. After her third brother's wife married into the family, she observed her carefully and found that she was not a nosy person. So, she was willing to show her kindness and closeness.
Madam Li smiled and said, "Old Madam, our family will have more and more children in the future. You should be careful not to have too many great-grandchildren to hold."
Old Madam Yan said with a smile: "I can carry them. I am still strong and healthy. I can carry one a day."
Hearing this, everyone in the room laughed.
Old Madam Yan looked at Madam Li and asked, "Is Wenkai's new room decorated?"
Madam Li smiled and nodded: "It's all done, don't worry."
Old Madam Yan nodded, and then asked, "How is Daohua's wedding dress embroidered?"
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "I went to check it out yesterday, and it's almost done."
Old Madam Yan was still a little worried: "Go and tell her that she doesn't need to come to pay her respects to me every day, and that she should concentrate on embroidering the wedding dress."
"Also, the palace has strict rules. We need to prepare plenty of things like purses, gold and silver coins. We can't let the servants in the palace look down on Daohua."
Mrs. Li listened patiently: "Don't worry, I have prepared all these."
Old Mrs. Yan nodded. She was relieved about her eldest daughter-in-law, but because there were many happy events in the family recently, she was afraid that she might have neglected something, so she couldn't help but give her a few reminders.
Mrs. Li had a lot of things to do, so she sat for a while and then left.
Han Xinran followed and said, "Mother, my husband told me yesterday that my eldest and second uncles might arrive in the next two days. Do you think we should send someone to wait for them at the dock?"
Madam Li paused and said, "Look at me, I almost forgot about this." Then she smiled at Han Xinran and said, "Thank goodness you reminded me, otherwise your two uncles wouldn't be able to find our house if they came. You should tell someone to do this."
Hearing this, Han Xinran's face lit up with joy: "Don't worry, mother. I will definitely take good care of bringing my two uncles to our house."
Rice Flower Pavilion.
In front of the window, Daohua was concentrating on embroidering a wedding dress. Because she also had to make Xiao Yeyang's wedding dress, time was a bit tight.
"Girl, you have been embroidering for a long time. Do you want to get up and stretch your body?" Guyu came in with a needle and thread basket full of freshly embroidered purses and carefully put them in the cabinet.
Daohua raised her head, stretched her neck, looked at the sky, and put down her needlework: "It's almost noon. Let's go, I'm going to have lunch with grandma."
Guyu immediately smiled and said, "Miss, this morning the Madam sent Sister Pingtong to pass on a message, saying that the old lady asked you to concentrate on embroidering the wedding dress and not to go over to accompany her every day."
Daohua shook her head and said, "While we are still at home, we should spend more time with grandma."
After hearing this, Guyu stopped talking.
The girl is marrying into the royal family. There are many royal rules, and she may not be able to return to her parents' home often in the future.
Daohua tidied herself up and walked out of the house.
On the way to the old lady's yard, Daohua passed by the rockery in the yard and unexpectedly saw a little girl of five or six years old climbing up the rockery tremblingly.
Seeing this scene, Daohua was shocked and hurriedly called Bishi to go over and pick up the little girl.
"Kite, my kite!"
The little girl was carried down by Bishi, and she couldn't stop looking at the rockery.
Daohua glanced at Bishi and told her to pick up the kite. Then, she looked at the little girl and bent her knees slightly, looking at her: "Are you Yishan?"
The little girl was a little timid and nodded weakly: "I recognize you, you are the big sister."
Daohua smiled and said, "Why are you here alone? Where are your wet nurse and maidservants?"
After Concubine Lin was released from confinement, Madam Li never treated her harshly. She provided all her maids and old women with her. Even Yan Yisan was assigned a wet nurse and two little maids.
Yan Yishan replied softly, "Nurse is sleeping. I don't know where Lian'er and Xi'er went to play."
Daohua frowned slightly, then continued to ask with a smile, "Do they often let you go out alone to play?"
Yan Yisan nodded, a look of grievance on her face: "They don't like me, they don't talk to me, they don't play with me, and they don't let me leave the yard. I ran away secretly today."
Hearing this, Daohua's eyes flashed with anger: "Have you told your aunt about their behavior?"
Yan Yisan felt even more aggrieved: "Aunt doesn't like me either." After saying that, she lowered her head and said nothing.
The rice flowers fell silent. At this time, Bishi came back with the kite.
Looking at the kite in front of her, Daohua smiled.
This is not a kite at all, it's just two pieces of colorful paper randomly pasted together, and it's as perfunctory as it can be.
"Gurgle gurgle~"
Suddenly, the little girl's stomach rumbled.
Yan Yisan covered her stomach embarrassedly, lowered her head and looked at her toes.
Daohua sighed, but couldn't bear to ignore her: "Are you hungry? Big sister will take you to eat, okay?" As she said that, she stretched out her hand towards her.
Seeing this, Yan Yisan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she immediately wanted to reach out to hold Daohua, but she retracted her hand halfway: "Nanny said that Big Sister doesn't like me and told me not to get close to Big Sister."
Daohua couldn't help but frown any longer.
She had no good feelings towards Aunt Lin, but she wouldn't be so stingy towards a child.
"Your nanny is talking nonsense. Big sister doesn't dislike you. Come on, big sister will take you to eat."
Originally, Daohua was going to go to Old Lady Yan's yard, but when she met Yan Yisan, she changed direction and went directly to the main courtyard.
It’s time to replace the maidservant beside Yan Yisan!
Main courtyard.
Mrs. Li was at Yan Wenkai's new house. Daohua waited for a while, then had the food served and ate with Yan Yisan first.
Seeing Yan Yisan wolfing down her food, looking as if she hadn't eaten for days, Daohua's face darkened slightly: "Guyu, go get the third young lady."
Guyu looked at Yan Yisan with pity, then turned around and walked out quickly.
When Daohua put down her bowl and chopsticks, Yan Yishuang arrived.
Looking at Yan Yisan, who was sitting next to Daohua, hugging a box of snacks tightly, Yan Yishuang was stunned: "Big sister, are you looking for me?"
Daohua and Yan Yishuang talked about their encounter with Yan Yishan, and then asked Bishi to bring the kite up: "So far, no one has come to look for Yishan."
Yan Yishuang was so angry that her face turned red. Seeing her sister guarding her food, she knew at a glance that she was often hungry. She felt very uncomfortable.
Daohua: "Do you know how Aunt Lin usually takes care of Yishan?"
"I"
A look of guilt appeared on Yan Yishuang's face. She often went to Shuangxinyuan to visit her aunt, but she didn't notice that her biological mother neglected her sister at all.
Daohua: "Yishan is my father's daughter, a young lady of the Yan family, yet she has been treated so poorly. I have had her wet nurse and maidservants kidnapped and will sell them off after reporting this to my father and mother."
"I called you over here to show you Yishan's true condition. This will prevent you and Wenbin from thinking I did something wrong after father makes his decision, and thus creating unnecessary misunderstandings."
Yan Yishuang looked at Daohua and said, "Big sister, my fifth brother and I are not indiscriminate about right and wrong."
Daohua smiled and didn't respond. Yan Yishuang and Yan Wenbin were both grown up now, and she didn't want any more trouble in this family. "I don't want to say much about Aunt Lin. Everything will be decided after father returns home."
"Now, do you want to take Yishan to your courtyard, or leave her in the main courtyard?"
Yan Yishuang quickly said, "I'll take Yishan to my yard."
Daohua nodded and smiled at Yan Yisan who was sitting obediently beside her: "Yishan, would you like to go play in her yard with your third sister?"
Yan Yisan looked at Daohua with a look of reluctance on her face, but then she nodded obediently and walked to Yan Yishuang with the box of snacks in her arms.
After Yan Yishuang took Yan Yisan away, Guyu shook her head and said, "This Aunt Lin really doesn't care about the Fifth Miss. The maids and servants were so careless. Fortunately, nothing happened."
On the other side, after Yan Yishuang brought Yan Yisan back to her own yard, she squatted down and asked Yan Yisan: "Yishan, tell my third sister, is your aunt usually good to you?"
Yan Yisan lowered her head and pursed her lips. After a long while, she timidly said, "Auntie doesn't like me. She says I'm a jinx and she even pinches me."
Seeing Yan Yisan holding her arm, Yan Yishuang quickly pulled up her sleeve and saw many bruises on her thin arm under the sleeve. Her legs went weak and she fell directly to the ground.
She knew that her aunt disliked her fifth sister because she was not a boy, and later because she was confined to her room for three years, her temperament became a little gloomy, but she never thought that she would abuse her fifth sister.
Yan Yishan was startled and hurried to help Yan Yishuang: "Third sister, what's wrong with you?"
Yan Yishuang looked at Yan Yisan with pity and stroked her arm: "Does it hurt?"
Yan Yisan nodded, then shook her head: "Third sister, don't be afraid, it doesn't hurt now."
Yan Yishuang hugged her sister and sighed in her heart.
After my father knows about this, I'm afraid he will dislike my aunt even more.
That evening, when Yan Zhigao returned to the main courtyard after leaving the yamen, he saw three servants kneeling in the yard. After asking, he found out that they were serving Yan Yisan.
Afterwards, Ping Xiao told Yan Zhigao about Yan Yisan's affairs.
Yan Zhigao was furious after hearing this. Although Yan Yisan was a concubine's daughter, she was still his daughter. How could a servant have the right to mistreat her? "This Lin is becoming more and more outrageous." After a pause, he asked, "Where is the madam?"
Ping Xiao: "Madam said that she couldn't make the decision on her own and was waiting for the master's decision."
Yan Zhigao thought about it and walked towards Shuangxinyuan.
No one knew what Yan Zhigao said to Aunt Lin, but in the end Yan Zhigao left Shuangxinyuan with a gloomy face, and Aunt Lin fell on the threshold crying.
The next day, everyone in the Yan family knew that Aunt Lin was under house arrest again, with an undetermined period of time.
As for Yan Yisan, after Yan Zhigao and Madam Li discussed it, they moved her to the back room of the main courtyard and re-selected maids and old women for her.
When Aunt Liu found out, she sighed, "Fifth Miss is lucky after all. The man she met happened to be the eldest girl. Otherwise, who knows when she would be able to get rid of Lin."
Yan Yisan moved from Shuangxinyuan to the main courtyard, which did not cause much commotion in the Yan family. Even Yan Wenbin and Yan Yishuang did not react.
"It's best for Yishan to be raised by her mother. But after this incident, I'm afraid my father is completely fed up with my aunt."
"That's fine. In terms of elegance and virtue, Auntie can't compare to Mother; in terms of youth and beauty, she can't compare to Auntie Liu. And Auntie is also very proud and wants to compete for everything. Now that she's confined to the house, she can calm down a bit."
On September 25, Li Xingchang and Li Xingnian arrived in Beijing, and Fang Liangji and his family came with them.
This time, the Li family brought several carts of things, some of which were purchased by Mrs. Li, and some of which were wedding gifts for Yan Wenkai and Daohua.
In the past two years, Li Xingnian has traveled all over the country and accumulated a lot of good things. Now that his nephew is getting married and his niece is getting married, of course he has to show his appreciation.
"Big brother, second brother, why did you bring so many things?"
After Mrs. Li picked up her two brothers, she saw several carts of things and was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Li Xingnian laughed and said, "The items are big, so they only look a lot, but there aren't many in fact."
Mrs. Li led the two into the house and asked about the situation of her parents' family in detail. When she learned that everything was fine there, she smiled more.
"Uncle, second uncle, third cousin!"
When Daohua knew her two uncles had arrived, she hurried out to greet them. Seeing a few people in front of the hanging flower gate, she said, "Hey, didn't they say Cousin Zixuan was coming too? Where is she?"
Li Xingnian smiled and said, "Your cousin Zixuan and her family went to visit the Fang family first." Then he immediately added, "Your cousin's husband said he will come to the Yan family tomorrow."
Daohua smiled and said, "My cousin's husband's family is a branch of the Fang family. When we come to the capital, we should go and pay our respects to the Fang family's main branch first."
Then, the group went to Old Lady Yan's yard first, talked with her for a while, and then went to the main courtyard.
"Yiyi, come here. I know you like seeds. This is what your second uncle brought specially for you when he went to the south." While sorting things out, Li Xingnian handed a small bag of seeds to Daohua with a smile.
When Rice Flower opened it, she was immediately delighted: "Corn!"
Li Xingnian laughed and said, "Corn? That's quite appropriate, but people in the south call it corn."
Rice Flower: "It's also called corn. Uncle, how did you get this?"
Li Xingnian: "I was passing through a county town in Yuezhou and saw someone growing it, so I brought some for you. I heard it was brought from overseas and the yield seems to be pretty good."
Daohua nodded quickly: "The corn yield is indeed quite high. Are there people growing it in the south?"
Li Xingnian: "There are some, but not many."
Daohua smiled and said, "Since someone has won, there's no need to worry about not being able to promote it. As long as people know that corn has a high yield, they will rush to plant it. Corn is a staple food."
(End of this chapter)
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