Yu Shangheng wrote to Yu Tanqi on the third day after arriving in the capital, inviting her and Jiang Shi to go to the house where he currently lived.
This house is just an ordinary small house with two courtyards, and most of the people living around it are common people and scholars.
Yu Tanqi and Jiang Shi came to the gate of the house and roughly guessed that this should be the courtyard where Yu Shangheng lived when he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination.
The copper ring in front of the wooden door has turned patina, indicating that this house has not been lived in or cleaned for a long time.
Yu Tanqi clenched his fingers, but still couldn't avoid the nervousness in his heart.
Danqing went forward and knocked on the door: "Is Lord Yu home? My prince and Miss Yu are here to visit."
The wooden door was opened from the inside. A middle-aged man with a beard first looked at Danqing, then at Yu Tanqi and Jiang Shi. He hurried out and walked to Yu Tanqi, looking at her with surprise.
"Miss is here. I haven't seen her for many years. She has grown into a very graceful young lady. I almost didn't recognize her."
Yu Tanqi looked at him and found out his identity from her memory: the housekeeper of the Yu family and a servant who had watched her grow up.
She nodded politely, her eyes curved: "Uncle Yu, long time no see."
Uncle Yu smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the young lady still remembered me."
After a pause, he looked at Jiang Shi, "This is your fiancé, Marquis Wu'an Jiang Shizi, right?"
Jiang Shi nodded slightly, revealing a gentle and polite smile: "Hello, Uncle Yu."
After a brief greeting, Uncle Yu invited them in.
At the same time, he did not forget to speak well of Yu Shangheng: "Your Excellency is still in good health, but it's inevitable that he is a little tired from the long journey. He rested for two days before he was able to regain some energy. Now that he feels a little better, I hurriedly asked the young lady to come and see him."
Yu Tanqi said, "I understand my father, but as his daughter, he is not in good health, so I should come to him as soon as possible to show my filial piety and take care of him."
"My lady has had poor health since she was young. My Lord loves you so much that he didn't let anyone tell you, fearing that you would worry."
Uncle Yu looked at the now graceful young lady and couldn't help but sigh: "My Lord will surely be very pleased to see your rosy complexion."
Moreover, the young lady's eyebrows and eyes vaguely reflect the delicate and gentle appearance of the lady back then.
Uncle Yu muttered to himself but didn't say it out loud.
After all, the lady has passed away for many years, and mentioning her will only add to the sadness.
The second courtyard of the house was not big, and Uncle Yu quickly brought them to the main hall. Yu Tanqi and Jiang Shi finally met Yu Shangheng.
The man was wearing a gray robe and had a thin figure. There was a hint of desolation between his handsome features. He was very different from the tall and handsome father in Yu Tanqi's memory.
In her memory, it had only been six years since we last met. She had grown from a young and immature girl into the graceful young lady she is today, while her father seemed to have aged in an instant, and his long hair had some white strands.
Yu Tanqi opened his lips, but seemed to have suddenly lost his voice and could not make any sound.
Uncle Yu said, "Sir, the young lady and Prince Jiang are here."
Yu Shangheng slowly looked at Yu Tanqi. After just one glance, his pupils shrank and he stared at her in a daze.
The girl was wearing a cherry green dress, with a slender figure, soft eyebrows and eyes, and rosy cheeks.
The bright spring sunshine fell on her, and her little face was pink and translucent, as beautiful as a fairy.
In a trance, he seemed to see another more delicate girl.
Although more than ten years have passed, he still vaguely remembers what she looked like when he first met her.
Her face was always pale, even in the bright sunshine, it was still white and almost transparent.
Like a delicate and beautiful white porcelain doll, it needs to be carefully cared for, otherwise it will break easily.
Yu Shangheng's dazed look was too obvious, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was thinking of someone else.
Linlang and Taohua both said that Yu Tanqi's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to those of their wife when she was young.
Yu Tanqi stood there, suddenly feeling a little helpless, not knowing whether he should speak up to interrupt his recollections.
Jiang Shi politely bowed to Yu Shangheng and said, "Junior Jiang Shi greets Uncle Yu."
Yu Shangheng came back to his senses a little and his eyes fell on Jiang Shi.
Unlike the absent-minded look when he looked at Yu Tanqi, Yu Shangheng's eyes became stern and harsh when he looked at Jiang.
It's hard for the father-in-law to like his son-in-law.
Yu Shangheng is a strict person. He was very strict in educating Yu Tanqi since she was a child. He would not spoil her just because she was born weak, let alone this young man who would spend the rest of his life with his daughter.
Judging from his appearance alone, Yu Shangheng was dissatisfied: "Prince Jiang's figure is very thin, but has the illness he suffered since childhood not yet recovered?"
Jiang Shi lowered his eyes and said gently, "Thank you for your concern, Uncle Yu. The illness I had since childhood has healed. I may look thin, but I'm not weak at all."
Yu Shangheng said calmly, "You can't just say you're not weak. After all, Tan Qi has had poor health since she was young, and I don't want her future husband to be in poor health too. With you in this state, I can't trust her to be in your hands."
Yu Tanqi couldn't help but say, "Zi'an isn't weak at all. He even taught me how to use a spear."
"Zi'an?" Yu Shangheng looked at Yu Tanqi in confusion.
Yu Tanqi whispered, "Zi'an is his nickname."
Yu Shangheng narrowed his eyes slightly and said with an ambiguous tone, "You two seem to have a very good relationship."
Yu Tanqi didn't dare to speak, thinking that they had been together for two years, how could their relationship not be good.
Yu Shangheng also thought about the fact that she had been with Jiang Shi for the past two years, and it was with his tacit approval.
He pursed his lips slightly, looking at the well-behaved girl in front of him. Thinking that the first thing she said when she saw him was not to call him daddy, but to speak for the boy next to her, his face looked a little unhappy.
However, thinking of his daughter's poor health since childhood, he softened his tone and said, "It's tiring to stand and talk. Please sit down."
"Yes." Yu Tanqi sat down very obediently.
Jiang Shi subconsciously wanted to sit next to her, but seeing Yu Shangheng's cold eyes, he paused and sat down a seat away from her.
In front of his future father-in-law, he naturally cannot behave disrespectfully, so as not to affect his future father-in-law's impression of him.
The young man sat with his back still straight, his eyebrows and eyes clear, his face gentle, and he was very self-disciplined and polite.
Yu Shangheng glanced at Jiang Shi and was reluctantly satisfied with his sitting posture.
In order to make a good impression in front of her father whom she had not seen for a long time, Yu Tanqi tried hard to control her lazy bones and not hunch her shoulders, but straightened her back and tried very hard to make the elegant posture of a lady from a noble family.
She is a lady with a quiet and elegant temperament.
The girl looked very quiet and well-behaved with her lowered brows and pleasant eyes. The elegant temperament cultivated by her mother Xie Lin and the Xie family since childhood made her look like a graceful and elegant lady of noble birth.
Yu Shangheng looked at her, his eyes gradually becoming empty.
He inevitably thought of the girl who had captivated him at first sight.
When I first met her, she also looked quiet and elegant.
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