Chapter 127 Time
When mother gives an order, you must obey it.
Jiang Wan quickly changed into clean clothes, then lightly pushed open the inner door and walked in. It was unknown what the mother and daughter discussed, but one could faintly hear Xu's suppressed sobs and Jiang Wan's apologies.
Jiang sat calmly in the outer room, his fingers flying across the surface of his shoes as he prepared clothes, shoes, and hats for his newborn baby.
You should stick to your duties as a relative and not ask about things you shouldn't ask about. As for how to raise your little sister, her parents will take care of it.
So three days later, Jiang Wan started his miserable life of commuting to school again.
Time is long, and several cycles of spring and autumn have passed on the treetops. The road is long, and we can enjoy the bright moon and mountains together from thousands of miles away.
By the time the flowers and plants in the Qiuya Garden of the Duke Ling's mansion and the small bonsai in the Queen's side hall had bloomed and withered, and withered and bloomed again several times, and Jiang Wan had collected the fox, deer, bear, and tiger skins from the package sent by Li Chengxiu, four years had slipped away quietly.
Four years, more than a thousand days and nights. It's not too long, but not too short either. It's enough time for many things to happen.
For example, two years ago, Duke Ling was seriously injured in an attempt to kill the leader of the remnants of the previous dynasty. He had to withdraw from the battlefield to recuperate. He was afraid that he would never be able to lead troops to fight in the future and could only retire in the capital.
Fortunately, the Fourth Prince had been trained by following Duke Lingguo, and successfully replaced his father-in-law to guard Dongling Mansion. In four years, he had accumulated a lot of military merits.
The most troublesome fourth child was actually disciplined and taught the rules by his father-in-law, which made the emperor and empress very happy.
The emperor waved his hand and Li Chengxiu was granted the title of King of Qi, and his fiefdom was the place he was currently guarding. According to Li Laosi, the Dongling Mansion he had conquered was inhabited by a thief who had a strong attachment to him.
Four years was enough time for the timid Jiang family's second daughter to grow into a stunning beauty. Don't ask why she was still a beauty even though she was stunning. The reason was that she had an older sister who was even more beautiful than her.
Jiang Han's beauty can make people come up with many words of praise. But Jiang Wan's beauty, almost everyone agrees to use one word to describe it: enchanting!
The queen was flipping through the Book of Songs page by page, and her eyes were always drawn away by the pretty maid in front of her who was copying the palace rules.
The clouds resemble garments, the flowers resemble beauty; the spring breeze caresses the threshold, and the dew drenches the flowers. If we hadn't met atop the Jade Mountains, we would have met beneath the moon on the Jade Terrace. There truly are some in this world as beautiful as fairies; the ancients were not deceiving me.
The queen raised her hand and touched her face. She always thought she looked okay before, but as the Jiang sisters grew up day by day, the queen gradually couldn't say the word "okay" anymore.
I remembered her correspondence with her elder sister, where she kept saying how beautiful the Xu family was. Even though Xu Ruoyu's appearance had been ruined, she still looked elegant and graceful. I wonder how stunning Xu Ruojin, who was even more beautiful than her, must have been back then?
The elder sister jokingly replied, "The Xu family holds a third of the world's beauties, and Xu Ruojin is even more powerful than them. Now her own daughter has been given to your own son, so you can just be secretly happy! You'd better keep a close eye on her, or else the pearl might be stolen one day."
Four years ago, she just laughed it off; four years later, she took it as a guiding principle. Wan Jie'er's face was probably the most striking in Dayu, and perhaps even the entire world!
Tsk, that fool Lao Si got away with it. I'm his real mother, but for my own selfish reasons, I've even thrown away my conscience!
Oh, I wonder what the grandchildren that my sister will give birth to will look like in the future? Just thinking about that beautiful, fat grandson or granddaughter in the future, the queen's heart is burning with joy.
As the last word fell from the pen, Jiang Wan put down the pen and looked up helplessly.
"Mother, can you please stop staring at me like that every day? I'm not a criminal, why are you looking at me so closely?"
"Who said that only criminals need to be watched closely? Generally, those who are closely watched are treasures! You said you look so rare, if I lose sight of you and you escape, won't the fourth brother be hanged on the gate of my Fengming Palace?"
The Queen was an open-minded person, and she always did things in an open and aboveboard manner. All the secret thoughts in her heart were laid out in broad daylight.
For example, after Jiang Wan came of age, even though she hadn't officially married into the royal family, the empress unreasonably arrested the Jiang family and forced their daughter to change her mind. She also emptied the emperor's private funds to pay the Jiang family a betrothal gift, and then legitimately brought the future Princess of Qi into the palace to be raised.
Under the pretext of fostering a relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who in reality didn't know what the emperor and empress were thinking? Aren't they simply afraid of losing their chance, so they acted preemptively without any moral pretense?
After all, the Jiang family's second daughter was known to everyone for her beauty. Ever since the prime minister's wife asked a matchmaker to come to her house and propose marriage for her second son when she was eleven years old but failed, she has been obsessed with her.
Every famous family in the capital, if they have a son of marriageable age, has tried their luck at the Jiang family!
If the royal family hadn't been so shameless as to take action first, how many people would have had to fight over the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, who was even more beautiful than the second daughter of the Jiang family, before they would stop?
From ancient times to the present, beauty is a dead end unless it is seen alone. But no matter who it is with, it will definitely be a king bomb!
The two beauties of the Jiang family have the blood of Xu family of Gaoyang, and are born as legitimate daughters of the Duke's Mansion. They are both proficient in civil and martial arts, and can manage the household and are extremely beautiful.
They almost simultaneously met all the high standards and strict requirements that the elders in the aristocratic families had for the mistress of the house, while also taking into account the sons' love of beauty. What parent would deliberately try to frustrate their son's feelings?
So just think about it, how popular has the Jiang family become in the past two years? It's no exaggeration to say that the gatekeeper, Old Zhang, is now a very respected person in the gatehouse world!
Forget it, we have strayed off topic, let’s get back on track.
Jiang Wan picked up the palace rules she had copied, walked gracefully to the queen, and handed them to her with both hands.
"Mother, please check."
"Um."
The queen took it, looked at it for a few seconds, and then pretended to lecture her.
"A few days ago, I was showing off in front of Concubine Xian, saying that you are now gentle, dignified and graceful, but then you turned around and beat up Old Five.
What can I say about you?
"Wanjie'er, Laowu is your brother-in-law, not your little dog. You are his sister-in-law, not his creditor! Why do you find him so unpleasant lately?"
This daughter-in-law is good in every way. She is as beautiful as a masterpiece from afar or up close. But she can't move, because if she moves, it will ruin her beauty.
The queen had taught her earnestly for so many years, thinking that she could train her to be a lady from a noble family, but she didn't expect that she had cultivated her into a hypocrite.
The more good she pretended to be on the surface, the more cruel she was in private. Alas, this was really frustrating for the queen who had no experience in raising a daughter successfully!
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