The speaker may not intend it, but the listener may take it seriously.
The three of them returned to Chen's house. Xu Zitao was fine, but Chen Ziyue and Jiang Yufen were both feeling uneasy.
Jiang Yufen even refused to show up for dinner, saying that she was not feeling well. She asked her maid to tell Madam Ye that she was sick and hid in her own courtyard.
Madam Ye arranged for the kitchen to deliver food, and said to Chen Ziyue at the dinner table, "Look, your sister-in-law can't eat much herself, and the food she feeds those two dogs is more than what the people in her yard can chew together!"
Chen Ziyue smiled and said, "Mother, my sister-in-law gave me those two wolfhounds. But I have to go to school, so I still ask my sister-in-law to take care of them and feed them."
Madam Ye frowned: "I think you are afraid that I will scold your sister-in-law! Your eldest brother is not at home, so don't hang around her!"
We cannot kill it as soon as it shows any sign.
Chen Ziyue secretly rolled his eyes: "My son will go to the Imperial College to study tomorrow. He only comes back once every two weeks. How can he have time to wander around?"
Mrs. Ye said after a while: "Your eldest brother will be back in a few days."
When Chen Zijing received a letter from home and heard that his family had already found a wife for him, he took leave in advance and returned to the capital, leaving behind the victorious army.
Chen Ziyue paused and said, "Oh, big brother, you haven't met big sister-in-law, right?"
Madam Ye snorted, "It was your father who arranged the marriage. Your eldest brother has never met anyone, but he has heard your father talk about it. I don't think he will be bored."
Chen Zijing, who was thought by his mother to be unhappy, rode as fast as he could and returned home in just three days instead of five days.
"Mother, I'm back!" Chen Zijing didn't go to the military camp to report, but went home first: "How is Grandmother?"
Madam Ye was startled: "Did you sneak out?"
He came back two or three days earlier than expected. I guess he was deserting his post.
Chen Zijing took out his father's handwritten letter and gave it to Mrs. Ye to prove his innocence: "Father specially allowed me to come back first!"
Madam Ye stared at her son's toes and was almost impatient to turn outside. She was unhappy: "Jiang is tending to the flowers and grass in the back garden instead of staying with your grandmother in her room. She married her just to have someone to serve your grandmother. Now look what happened!"
If the master hadn't sent a letter strictly instructing her to treat Jiang well and not to restrict her with rules, she, the head lady in charge of the household, would have broken the family rules long ago!
Chen Zijing understood: "Son understands, thank you mother!"
Thank you, mother, for not disciplining me.
This is extremely rare in the capital!
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Jiang Yufen squatted on the ground, carefully tending to a small-leaf red sandalwood tree, pressing the soil with her fingers to prevent her feet from stepping too hard.
Hearing footsteps behind her, she noticed that Lai Fulaigui didn't stand up and bark loudly. She thought it was Chen Ziyue, so she laughed and said, "You just went to the Imperial College today, how can you come back at this time? Are you pretending to be sick again?"
Chen Zijing replied with a smile: "Don't pretend, I'm really sick!"
Jiang Yufen turned around suddenly, exerted too much force and fell to the ground: "Ouch!"
Chen Zijing stepped forward and squatted, bending his arms to serve as a handrail: "Do you want me to carry you up, or do you want to get up by yourself?"
Jiang Yufen said simply: "Hold me!"
Chen Zijing reached out and scooped Jiang Yufen up into his arms: "Go back to your room? Or go to grandma's?"
Jiang Yufen spread out her ten black paws: "It's all dirt, and there's sweat on my face!"
I must go back and wash myself, change my clothes and smell nice before going to visit my grandma. Being dirty will spread disease.
The little maid ran obediently in front to prepare clothes for Jiang Yufen, not daring to look back at the eldest master holding her eldest daughter.
Chen Zijing smiled as he walked: "Are you used to it here?"
Jiang Yufen shook her head and nodded again: "I'm not used to it, but your brother is here, he and Xu Zitao took me out to play."
As always, nothing is hidden, no matter how big or small.
Chen Zijing smiled: "It's good that mother didn't find out. Where else do you want to go? I can take you there."
After winning the battle, the border can be stable for another five to ten years. He will not have to guard the border anymore, but can seek a job in the Right Guard in the capital.
Jiang Yufen said: "Jiangnan!"
That was where her grandfather once worked. He had told her about it countless times, and she could even dream of what the real Jiangnan looked like.
Chen Zijing agreed: "Okay!"
No conditions were mentioned.
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Half a month later, Chen Ziyue returned home and asked his elder brother about Xu Zitao's studies.
At that time, his elder brother and his wife were in the back garden. They had a new swing set with a rocking chair hung on it. The two of them were sitting huddled together, holding hands and whispering.
Chen Ziyue's heart skipped a beat and he stopped in his tracks: "Brother!"
He had only been in the Imperial College for ten days, how come these two people became better friends than he was with him!
I suddenly felt that Xu Zitao's original questioning made a lot of sense.
Chen Zijing looked over with a smile: "Ziyue!"
Jiang Yufen pulled her hand back, jumped down and stood up with a smile: "The Imperial College student is back. Is the Imperial College fun? How does it compare to the Qinglu Academy?"
Chen Ziyue coughed uncomfortably. "The workload is heavy, and everyone is very motivated. It's not as casual as Qinglu Academy."
The family's charity school was originally used to educate the family members to become illiterate. How could it be compared with the Imperial Academy in the capital?
Chen Zijing instructed Jiang Yufen, "It's getting a little chilly here without the sun. Go back to your room and practice calligraphy. Ziyue and I will go see Father."
Jiang Yufen agreed with a smile, smiled at Chen Ziyue when she passed by him, and left with the little maid.
Chen Ziyue asked casually, "Brother, are you relieved to see that my sister-in-law isn't the ugly monster she's been rumored to be?"
Chen Zijing was silent for a while before he said, "She was even prettier when she was a child."
Now that I'm not dressed up and not conspicuous, I feel relieved.
Chen Ziyue was surprised and asked, "Have you met my sister-in-law before?"
Chen Zijing smiled: "Well, she was only five years old at that time."
"You fell in love with my eldest sister-in-law when you were ten?" Chen Ziyue asked without knowing why. "Did my parents know about it at that time?"
Think about it, ten years ago, he seemed to be still in the capital, and his family hired a teacher to teach him how to read and write.
Chen Zijing nodded: "It was my father who arranged this marriage for me back then."
Chen Ziyue was dumbfounded: "Why didn't you tell me earlier! Mother doesn't seem to know either!"
It turns out that the intimacy between these two people just now was not newly cultivated.
My eldest brother and his wife met five years earlier than I met him.
Chen Zijing laughed: "With my mother's temper, how can I talk about such a thing!"
From Ye's point of view, if she lived in the countryside, in the suburbs, or in a farm, and was still a commoner, it would be good enough for her to be a maid in the Chen Mansion. Marrying into the mansion was simply a dream.
There's nothing wrong with saving two lives, just give her money as a thank you. If you insist on marrying her as your legal wife, then you have to bring her into the house and discipline and cultivate her from a young age.
For a five-year-old girl who was still ignorant, this was equivalent to a child bride. Jiang Yufen's grandfather Zhu Qingwei certainly did not agree.
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