There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 265 Mother's Memento (Part [-])

Old lady Lu turned away the servants, and only took Luo Cheng into the bedroom.

Luo Cheng was very surprised.

"Sit down." She nodded to Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng didn't sit down, but said humbly, "I'm a junior, it's fine to stand."

The old lady Lu looked back at him, shook her head, and walked to the back of the bed, "There is something that I have kept for many years, and I have always wanted to return it to you."

Luo Cheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked in the direction of Mrs. Lu.

After a while, Mrs. Lu came over with a copper box the size of a book and one inch high.

"This is left to you by your mother. When she sent you to me, she said that when you are 20 years old, I will show you. At that time, you were only one month old."

Luo Cheng didn't raise his hand to catch it, but tightly clenched his hands into fists in his sleeves, "I can probably guess what it is, so there's no need to catch it."

He smiled shyly.

"You...you know?" Mrs. Lu was surprised, "Did...Luo Qin say it?"

"Grandpa didn't say, I saw the hidden letter at home." Luo Cheng smiled, "I don't plan to recognize that relative, so my cousin and grandmother don't need to show it to me."

"What kind of grandfather is Luo Qin? He's just your family's housekeeper!" Old Madam Lu sighed, "The government has rehabilitated your mother and father. You are no longer the son of a sinner, and you don't have to live in seclusion in the countryside anymore."

Luo Cheng said, "Nursing kindness is greater than life kindness. His family raised me, even if it is not a relative, it is better than my own."

The old lady Lu said, "Well, you are right to think so. However, your biological parents are not wrong either. They have no choice but to send you away."

Lu Cheng did not speak, but lowered his eyes.

"If you don't want to live in Lin'an, you can live with me in Yuezhou. When you were young, Luo Qin's family was with you, but now they are gone, and life in the countryside is hard. I don't worry about you living there alone. "The old lady Lu shook her head, "I am your mother's foster mother, you can treat me as a relative."

Lu Cheng bowed deeply to Mrs. Lu, "You are my grandmother's cousin, my cousin and grandmother."

Mrs. Lu sighed, "That's false, it was told by outsiders. Your current grandmother and I are just from the same hometown. You, you... your current grandparents, who were born in poverty, have no influence on your future career. help."

"I never thought about becoming an official." Luo Cheng said lightly.

"You child, don't become an official, but will be a businessman and a farmer all your life?" Mrs. Lu's face darkened, "You don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children and grandchildren. Do they want to be an official? They Don’t want to be a farmer and want to be an official? As long as you go to Lin’an and recognize the official family, your children and grandchildren will be the children of the aristocratic family.”

"The people of this dynasty want to become officials in the dynasty, firstly rely on the aristocratic relationship, and secondly rely on the imperial examination. If they want to be an official, they should take the exam based on their ability." Luo Cheng said calmly.

"You..." Mrs. Lu shook her head and said helplessly, "Since you insist on thinking this way, well, I won't force you. However, your biological parents must not be forgotten. Three days later is their memorial day, I will find a place Put on the sacrificial offerings, and you sacrifice to the north."

Luo Cheng saluted the old lady Lu, "Thank you for the arrangement."

"Oh, let's go."

Luo Cheng left the room, ignoring the box from the beginning to the end.

Mrs. Lu opened it by herself.

Inside, there is a jade seal, which says "Princess Chengyang Seal", and a roll of sheepskin.

On the sheepskin scroll, Luo Cheng's birth date and the biography of his parents were written.

……

Tang Wan took Li Jiaoniang to wander around the Lu residence.

Tang Wan is an enthusiastic narrator, and she will explain allusions in detail wherever she goes.

Why are there a few clumps of bamboo planted here, why is there only peonies in this garden, and why is this garden called Crescent Moon.

"Your memory is really good, remembering such details." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

"I have to remember." Logan smiled bitterly.

"Why?" Li Jiaoniang asked curiously, the majestic Third Young Madam of the Lu Mansion, what are you doing remembering these allusions to the garden?
There are more than a dozen gardens and nearly a hundred houses, but she actually remembers them all.

"Every time there is a banquet in the mansion, I will take everyone to the garden." Tang Wan lowered her eyes and smiled faintly.

Li Jiaoniang was stunned.

It is an honor to have a knowledgeable daughter-in-law in the mansion, but it is also a tiring thing for the person involved.

"Let's take a rest in the front." Li Jiaoniang pointed to a small pavilion in front of her and said, "A few maple trees there are starting to grow red leaves. Let's take a look."

That pavilion was exactly where Logan cried last night.

Seeing the pavilion, Tang Wan's face suddenly turned pale, "I... let's go somewhere else. The pavilion is built on a high place, and the wind is strong. I have been exposed to wind and cold for the past few days, and I am afraid of the wind."

Tang Wan smiled apologetically, reached out and rubbed her temples.

I don't want to go to that place. Could it be that there is something weird about that place?
Li Jiaoniang smiled slightly, "Okay, let's go to sit elsewhere. By the way, third cousin sister-in-law, why didn't you see third cousin?"

When Lu You was mentioned, Tang Wan's expression became even more gloomy, "He's been busy with his studies recently, so he's not much at home."

"Oh..." Li Jiaoniang glanced at her face and didn't ask any more questions.

Logan's health seems to be very poor.

The two stopped and walked, but Li Jiaoniang didn't feel tired at all, and Tang Wan's complexion became paler and paler.

This is an expression of extreme qi deficiency.

When we met for the first time, the relationship was not deep, so Li Jiaoniang pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Sister-in-law three, I... my feet hurt from walking. Let's stop here today, and we'll go shopping another day."

Logan smiled slightly, "Okay, I'll take you back."

Her head maid breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Jiaoniang waved her hand, "I'll go back by myself, the moon cave in front is where I live, it's only a few dozen steps away, no need to send it off."

As she spoke, she smiled slightly at Logan, turned around and left.

Tang Wan's girl said at this time, "This Mrs. Cheng, finally stopped shopping. I was afraid that she would finish walking this house, but she walked happily. How can Young Madam be able to bear it?"

"Don't talk about people behind their backs. She is a guest. It's the first time I come to the house. What's the matter with me? It's not every day." Tang Wan reprimanded the girl.

The girl muttered, "Young Madam's body... has never rested since your miscarriage..."

"Okay, don't talk about it anymore, it's my life." Tang Wan closed her eyes, "Help me back, I have to serve the old lady for lunch at noon, I'll go back and sleep for an hour."

"Yes." The girl sighed silently.

……

Li Jiaoniang returned to her residence and found that Luo Cheng had also returned, standing in the small courtyard, looking up at a osmanthus tree in the courtyard in a daze.

"Brother Luo Cheng, are you back?" Li Jiaoniang smiled and walked towards him, "Hey, why are you in a daze here? What are you thinking?"

Luo Cheng came back to his senses and smiled slightly, "I'm not in a daze, I'm looking at the Osmanthus osmanthus tree, tell me, how old is this tree? The branches are so thick."

"This tree, I heard from my third cousin that it is more than a hundred years old." Li Jiaoniang said, thinking of Tang Wan's expression, she whispered again, "Brother Luo Cheng, I suspect that the place where the third cousin cried yesterday , it's weird."

"What's weird?" Luo Cheng withdrew his mind and looked at her.

Seeing Li Jiaoniang, the boredom in his heart was immediately swept away.

"It's hard to say, I said that I want to go to the pavilion with her, and her face immediately changed, with panic, sadness, and a very complicated expression." Li Jiaoniang sighed, "She has a very serious mind. .”

Luo Cheng looked at her and frowned, "What's on your mind?"

Li Jiaoniang shook her head, "I don't know her very well, and I don't know how to ask too many questions. I also found that she was not in good health, and her face turned pale after walking a long distance. I found an excuse to say that my feet hurt and I wanted to come back. came back."

Luo Cheng smiled, Li Jiaoniang was still so kind.

"By the way, I heard from a servant of the Lu family that the third cousin will come home in the afternoon. What do you want him to write? I'll go find him to inscribe." Luo Cheng remembered something and said.

Li Jiaoniang was stunned for a moment, "Third... third cousin? Is that Lu You?"

"Yes, he's three, I call him third cousin."

"He can write whatever he wants, as long as it's poetry. I'll prepare some blank booklets first." Li Jiaoniang was so happy that she turned and ran to the bedroom.

On the way to Lu's house, she bought a lot of pens, ink, paper and inkstones at the market along the way, so that one day, she would ask the great poet Lu to write an inscription for her.

She knew that she couldn't go back, but it didn't prevent her from collecting calligraphy of ancient literati.

Because, this is also the wealth saved for her descendants.

For making money, she hopes that the more the better.

When Li Jiaoniang took out the blank booklets from the box and piled them on the table, Luo Cheng couldn't help but twitched his mouth, "Jiaoniang, did the third cousin write all these?"

There are not fifty volumes, but there are forty volumes, right?
Luo Cheng roughly counted.

"Young man, what's the matter with writing thirty or fifty books? I'm so tired!" Li Jiaoniang was still lying on the side of the box and flipping through it.

She bought a hundred blank booklets.

She planned to ask Lu You to write [-] books, and then arrest some other literati to write [-] books.

Such as Qin Hui, such as Qin Hui's grandson Qin Xun.

If she doesn't leave some literati calligraphy for future generations, she is afraid that she will be scolded by her grandchildren for traveling in vain.

Besides, Tang Wan's crying in the middle of the night was probably caused by the straight man of the great poet Lu.

If she couldn't directly vent her anger on Tang Wan, then she would ask the straight man to be punished for copying poems.

Luo Cheng frowned as he looked at the pile of brochures.

Third Cousin Lu might have been scared to death before he died of exhaustion.

(End of this chapter)