Chapter 126 Chapter 126
Before she knew it, Yao Niang's next generation also started to go to school one after another. She felt a little dazed when she saw her daughter coming home from school, because it seemed like the days when she used to learn piano were just yesterday.
Xie's grandfather has already passed away, and her old concubine, who never let her call her grandmother, is said to be seriously ill and may not live long.
This is how life is, some people or things are dying, while others are reborn.
My sister-in-law, Mrs. Li, gave birth to another boy. This child was my brother's third son, nicknamed Che Ge'er. The full-month ceremony was held with great fanfare. She also brought Fu Jie'er and Zhi Ge'er back to her parents' home.
Sister Fu plays with her uncle and cousins. She is over five years old this year and is very tall, probably because Yao Niang and Shen Linfeng are both very tall.
Jingci was already seven years old and precocious. He asked Fujieer like a little adult: "What have you learned at home now?"
"I have started reading the Four Books. My mother said that I can learn music when I am a little older, but she doesn't know what I like. She plans to let me try everything and learn whatever I like." Ruofu was stronger than others when she was young. Her parents were loving and reasonable, so she has an unexpectedly cheerful temper.
When Run Geer heard Fu Jieer say this, he said, "Cousin Fu, are there any more of the tangerines that Third Aunt sent? We all ate them last time and they were delicious, but Cousin Wen didn't get to eat any."
Sister Fu always felt that there was something wrong with this statement, but she was still young and didn’t know the difference, so she shook her head and said, “I don’t know either. Those were given to me by my father’s people.”
Run Ge'er smiled and said that there were cakes in front and where to buy them. The children gathered together to eat. After eating, Fu Jie'er ran around and played like crazy. She had excellent Achilles tendons and ran very fast. Several boys could not outrun her. Such a young child was very dexterous and could weave grasshoppers and dragonflies.
"Uncle, this is for you." Sister Fu handed it generously to Jingci, who looked very eager with his hand stretched out.
"Thank you." Jingci held the little grasshopper, his eyes sparkling.
She pulled the other little dragonfly to the ground to play with it. Run Ge'er wanted one too, so he immediately ran behind Fu Jie'er to beg for it. Fu Jie'er smiled and said, "Okay, then you have to recognize me as the boss, otherwise I won't give it to you."
"Then why did you give it to your uncle?" Run Ge'er asked.
Sister Fu snorted, "My little uncle is my good friend, but you are not." Then she said to Sister Wen, "Cousin Wen, let me make you a little butterfly."
Sister Wen was also very happy.
As a result, the three of them started playing together. Seeing this, Run Geer started crying and even sat on the ground kicking his legs...
When Sister Fu saw him crying, everyone around him gathered around him. She didn't panic, but said, "Cousin Run is a crybaby. If you cry again, I will throw it away instead of giving it to you."
Seeing that the situation was getting out of hand, Wen Jieer came out to calm things down and wanted to give her butterfly to Run Ge'er. Unfortunately, before Run Ge'er could take it, Fu Jieer snatched it away: "You like to borrow flowers to offer to Buddha so much, I won't play with you anymore in the future."
The adults saw this scene, and they were not sure what to say, for fear of hurting the relationship between the adults. Yao Niang said to Shen Linfeng: "Here, I leave it to you."
Shen Linfeng walked over with a smile, pretending not to know: "Hey, why is someone crying here? Can anyone tell me what happened?"
Jingci lowered his head silently. He was a person who never argued with others. Wen Jie'er was also afraid and hid behind the nanny. Only Fu Jie'er said, "Cousin Run wanted me to help him weave a small animal out of straw, but he refused to beg me. He started crying and making a fuss when I didn't agree. Daddy, didn't mother say that you can't get anything by making a fuss? If you are a fuss, just ignore me. When Zhi Ge'er wanted to do something and cried because he couldn't do it, mother ignored him and didn't let me pay attention to him."
Shen Linfeng praised his daughter and said, "My daughter has a good memory, it's true. But everything should be done fairly and justly. If you don't want to give, then don't give. If you want to give, then give. Otherwise, it's biased. Although it's not that you have to listen to whoever is older, but if one day, others only give to those around you and not to you, will you be unhappy?"
"I'm sorry, Dad, it's my fault." Sister Fu said.
Shen Linfeng squatted down again and said to Run Ge'er, "You are a boy, and Fu Jie'er is younger than you. Just tell her that you will stop crying and we are still good friends, okay?"
Run Ge'er looked at Fu Jie'er, stopped crying, and said, "I'm sorry, cousin. I won't cry anymore."
Sister Fu said, "Cousin Run, if you don't cry anymore, I will be a grasshopper for you. The four of us will lead them to the open space over there to see who runs faster, okay?"
Yan Run immediately stood up and stood beside Sister Fu obediently: "Okay."
The children soon started playing together again. Shen Linfeng came back and said to Yao Niang and the others, "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission."
Yao Niang said to Li, "Sister-in-law, I have spoiled Sister Fu at home." She didn't really think that her daughter was wrong. Just like Shen Linfeng said, in a noble family, one cannot do things entirely based on one's own preferences.
When children are young, no one will care, but in the eyes of those who are interested, problems can easily arise. Yao Niang respects her daughter very much, and Shen Linfeng did not criticize her daughter, but just asked her to think from another perspective.
Sister Fu is actually a kind and generous girl. She played until she was sweating all over, and took a flower petal bath at her grandmother's house. When she came out, she was still young, so she ate in the house, drinking turtle soup and eating hand-torn chicken, and she enjoyed the meal very much.
She was open-minded, just like her father, and had long forgotten the unhappiness. When Yao Niang came to pick her up, she was so sleepy that she rubbed her eyes and was about to fall asleep, but Run Ge'er still couldn't bear to leave his cousin Ruofu.
Shen Linfeng had no choice but to say, "Brother Run, come to our house and play in a few days."
After they left, Li was still puzzled: "I originally thought that Run Ge'er usually liked to play with Miss Wen more, but I didn't expect that he was more reluctant to leave Miss Shen."
"The young lady of the Shen family is young, but she has an extraordinary bearing and is very powerful. Everyone likes her and she never loses her temper. She fell to the ground and just brushed the dust off herself and smiled happily again." Of course, the people around Li were more optimistic about Sister Fu. They were also afraid that the lady would lose her mind and look at the young lady of the Wen family.
Although Sister Fu is young, she has a cheerful personality. The most important thing is that Miss Shen has a successful career. In just a few short years, she has become a lecturer at the age of only 28.
Although the Wen family's aunt is a good person, she was not able to enter the government due to her kindness, and now she still has to rely on the influence of her ancestors, which is naturally different.
Li smiled and shook her head. In fact, the eldest master also proposed a closer marriage, but the sister-in-law and her husband said to wait until the children were older. It was also true that Shen Linfeng's marriage had many twists and turns, so they were also cautious.
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After returning home, Yao Niang remembered that Xin Wan was getting thinner and thinner, so she sent Zi Teng to bring some supplements to her: "If I hadn't seen you today, I really wouldn't have known that Third Sister-in-law had become so thin."
Yan Jingwen is the eldest son of the first wife. He has no hope of becoming an official in the past few years and has a harmonious relationship with Xin Wan. It is said that Zhen was very dissatisfied and thought that Xin Wan had brought Yan Jingwen astray. In fact, everyone in the Yan family knew that Yan Jingwen's personality was not suitable for pursuing an official career.
The officialdom today is dark and not something that ordinary people can enter.
As she was talking, Shen Linfeng came in from outside, "Yao Niang, Zhou Lingguang has been demoted by the emperor because he wrote a letter to the emperor asking him to appoint a crown prince. I think he is really too bold to do this."
"Oh, such a big thing happened. But I saw that my elder sister was fine today, talking and laughing, nothing serious. But why did he do this?" Yao Niang thought that Yan Ningxin had been living a good life in the past few years after her marriage, and she often heard that Zhou Lingguang was doing well in the Hanlin Academy. Why did he write a letter to the emperor to establish a crown prince now? The emperor hated such things the most.
Shen Linfeng shook his head: "It's just luck. My mentor, Prime Minister Zhao, has been in the position of Prime Minister for many years now, and many people are attacking him. What they are most dissatisfied with is that he did not write a letter to the emperor to establish the foundation of the country. Brother-in-law Zhou has repeatedly advised me to give advice to my mentor. However, my mentor is more anxious about this matter than others, but there is nothing he can do. It all depends on the emperor's wishes."
Yao Niang said to him, "He is accumulating reputation now. In a few years, the Qingliu will still employ him. Even the future crown prince will remember his kindness. He is indeed a man of strategy."
Most people in the Hanlin Academy have to accumulate experience. Shen Linfeng was promoted quickly because he was the best student of the Imperial Academy and the favorite student of the Prime Minister. He also studied the art of Qingci and was favored by his superiors.
In addition to him, Yan Jingzhao has served in the Kedao for three years and is now sent to Sichuan to serve as a political advisor.
Yan Jingzhao was not able to adapt to the change from the clean stream to the muddy stream at first, but he was promoted very quickly after being sent out, which was completely different from the situation in the Hanlin Academy, where some Hanlins were only editors after more than ten years.
Zhou Lingguang also thought so. Rather than looking for chapters and sentences in the Hanlin Academy and possibly wasting his time, he might as well try his best. In this way, if the emperor succeeded to the throne in the future, he would remember him and he would have a good career outside.
Moreover, the reason why he is so fearless is because his father-in-law is there. As long as his father-in-law is there, he will not have to worry about rebellion.
Thinking of this, Zhou Lingguang saw Yan Ningxin's panic and hurriedly comforted her softly, "Don't worry, I did this for the court. The country's foundation is the cornerstone of the country. The emperor has not appointed a prince for a long time, and has not invited a teacher for the prince. How can the prince govern the country in the future? It's also for you."
Yan Ningxin was very surprised. She had been childless after getting married for several years, but Zhou Lingguang was very good to her. He did not urge her like others did and even forbade her family to mention the word "having children". He was unimaginably good to her.
Now she heard that he was demoted for angering the emperor, and it was partly because of her? Yan Ningxin was puzzled: "For me?"
Zhou Lingguang nodded: "Because you love freedom by nature and don't like being restricted. After we are sent out, you can fly freely in the sky and swim freely in the sea."
Yan Ningxin was deeply moved.
Zhou Lingguang thought that Yan Yingqi would not really let them suffer just for the sake of her daughter.