Ordinary clear day

Chapter 68 Thousand Miles
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

In the middle of Beijing, it is already late autumn. In the earl's mansion, the last few yellow leaves fell from the tree outside the big study room, and Duanning's face appeared in the opened window.

He was reading a book seriously, and after reading a page or two, he wrote something on the white paper at hand.

Suddenly, a cry came from the courtyard: "Fourth brother, are you there?" It turned out to be the third child Cheng Ning.

Among the cousins, the two of them are the closest in age, and after a period of running-in, they get along fairly well.

Duanning responded to him, knowing that when he came, he would not be able to continue reading for the time being, so he had to put down the brush.

After Cheng Ning came in, he glanced left and right, looking ghostly.Duanning saw it was funny, and said: "Mafa is not here, don't worry."

Cheng Ning breathed a sigh of relief, changed back to his original smiling face and said, "Are you studying again? Don't you have anything else to do? You are either studying or practicing martial arts all day long, and occasionally go out to play with our brothers let's play."

Duanning smiled lightly and said, "I don't like what you guys play, and going there will spoil your fun."

"How could it be?" Cheng Ning said, "Didn't you also have a good time when you went back to hunt outside the city?"

"It was only once, and I didn't go there a few times later. I didn't like it very much. I just hunted. Why did I make trouble everywhere? It made the people nearby feel uneasy."

Cheng Ning smiled: "That's no big deal, we didn't cause any trouble."

Duanning didn't want to continue this topic, so he asked him: "What are you looking for me today? Let's make it clear first, I don't want to go hunting anymore."

Cheng Ning smiled and said: "No, no, who is not tired of hunting every day? I just feel bored, so I came to talk to you."

"Talk?" Duanning looked at him, "You want to find the 'Clairvoyance' you met last time, right?"

Cheng Ning was distracted by him, blushed, stiffened his neck and said: "Where...how can it be? That's not for fun, don't talk nonsense!"

Duan Ning smiled faintly: "It's good if you know. That 'clairvoyance' is secretly made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is only used by high-level military officers. Even in our family, only the eldest uncle has one. It's a treasure. Even the second sister is his own." Daughter, I don’t want to let her take a look. He will never put such an important thing in the study outside. If you really want to play with it, brother advises you to give up as soon as possible. "

Cheng Ning was speechless, bowed his head and thought for a while, and said, "Forget it, I don't want to be beaten, if Mafa finds out, at least I will get a dozen lashes."

Seeing that Duanning picked up the book to read again, he said, "Why don't you get bored by reading every day? Go out and play with me? I'm really bored by myself."

Duan Ning said, "You just go to your friends. Last time you said it was fun to go out with them."

Cheng Ning was discouraged, and said with a wry smile: "Don't mention it, you know who they are, they are all the children of everyone who Wan Ning introduced us to know, although our family has a little money, but compared with those people, they are not as good It’s far away. The last time I went with them to listen to a little song, someone tipped me ten taels of silver. I don’t have that much money a month, and Ama Erniang is in charge, so how dare I follow them? Are you going out together?"

Duanning was a little surprised when he heard this: "Didn't the second sister often play with them? Why didn't I hear her mention it?"

Cheng Ning said: "With Wan Ning around, there are usually elder brothers or Baylor who go with them, and they don't dare to go too far. Besides, Wan Ning is rich, and my mother-in-law is outside. For business, she gets dividends every month, which is a lot of money in the first place, and grandma and the others often reward her with things, and she spends nothing at all for her daily food and use. She goes shopping outside, When I meet something I like, I spend dozens of eyelids without blinking, how dare I compare with her?"

Duanning was startled, and said: "I never knew she was so generous with money, it's not a good thing."

Cheng Ning curled her lips: "Why is it a good thing to be rich? The children of those princes and noble families like to play with her, even the prince is no exception."

Duan Ning said: "The only four elder brothers and fifth elder brothers who she usually has a lot of contact with, I see that the fourth elder brothers don't seem to be very warm to her."

"Having fifth elder brother is enough for her to be arrogant." Cheng Ning said, "I really don't know what Wan Ning wants from him, he is stupid and has no wit at all."

Duanning frowned: "It's fine to talk in private at home, but you can't say such things in front of outsiders."

Cheng Ning waved his hand indifferently: "Of course, we are not fools."

Mentioning the two elder brothers, he remembered something: "Hey, I said brother, have you heard? It is rumored that the palace will choose a few elder brothers to study with. There are several families that I often go to. They said they planned to send their son to run for election." He stretched out his hand to twirl the book in Duanning's hand, "You study so hard, don't you also have this plan?"

Duan Ning smiled lightly and said, "How could it be? The only ones who can be selected are the children of first-class families, how can it be my turn? I read more books because Mr. Xueli wanted to check his recent homework. "

Cheng Ning believed it, and said: "Yes, according to me, what is it to be a companion for the elder brothers? If you choose a companion for the prince, I will definitely apply for it without saying a word. If you are selected, this The capital is full, why don't you let me walk sideways? Who doesn't give me face?"

Duanning couldn't help laughing, and was about to say something when she heard Wanning's call from outside: "Brother Chengning, did you find anything? I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Duanning looked at Chengning, Chengning blushed.

Duan Ning whispered: "Why are you..." Cheng Ning looked remorseful, and also whispered: "Short handed... I was also forced..."

Wanning ran in, saw Duanning was there, and immediately stopped, feeling a little embarrassed.Recently Duan Ning persuaded her to study more and become a female star whenever she saw her. She couldn't hide from him, but who would have met him here.

"Duan...Brother Duanning...are you there too?" She falteringly greeted.

"Yes, I'm here." Duanning said indifferently, "Why does the second sister come to the big study when she is free? Is it to read a book? That's really great. Yesterday I went to ask Mr. Cai about the six arts of a gentleman. Complain to me that the second younger sister is always skipping classes. Now that the second younger sister knows how to study consciously, Mr. Cai must be very pleased to know, right?"

Wanning forced a smile and said, "Yes... yes... I'm here to look for books..." While talking, she walked towards the big bookshelf, pretended to look for it, took a book casually, and came out.

"Second sister." Duanning stopped her, "How do you use the art of war?"

Wanning didn't pay attention to what book she took. She looked down and saw that it was indeed "Sun Tzu's Art of War". She smiled and said, "Yeah, I've been interested in it recently. I've studied it..."

Duan Ning deliberately said: "Second sister is worthy of being a girl from a military family, but it's just a girl's family. It's better to read more books such as "Women's Training" and "Women's Commandments". The art of war is something that boys learn. ..."

Wanning immediately jumped up: "Brother Duanning is right, I'll go back and read it right away!" After saying that, she left like a whirlwind.

Cheng Ning was dumbfounded, and couldn't help giving Duan Ning a thumbs up: "Brother, you are amazing."

Duanning smiled, sat down again, looked at the bare branches outside the window, and thought of his relatives thousands of miles away: "In half a month, Erniang will give birth, right? Where's my sister?"

======================= I am the dividing line thousands of miles away ======================== =
Brother Duan didn't expect that Mrs. Tong was giving birth right now.

Originally everything was fine, and the old doctor Chen also said that the fetus was fine.His old family members came back from South China Sea and reported that they had been found and the house was tidied up.He planned to go back to his hometown to meet his relatives, thinking he would be back in three to five days.Unexpectedly, he had only been gone for a day when an accident happened.

Early this morning, Wang Ruibao's family had a quarrel with Thursday's Lin's family, and deliberately poured washing water under her feet, who knew that the master was not harmed, but it caused Tong, who passed by, to slip and give birth prematurely.

The whole family was in a mess.Changfu hastily sent people outside the city to inform Zhang Bao who was out of the city to inspect the farmland, and asked several daughter-in-laws to take good care of Tong.

Now they had no choice but to find another doctor. Although the South China Sea was not far away, they couldn't come back in a short while.Fortunately, just in case, he had inquired about the nearby reputable doctors and stable women in advance, which came in handy now.

Wang Ruibao's family was originally the person with the most experience in delivering babies, and because of this, Tong's family kept her despite her various problems.Unexpectedly, now that she thought that she had caused a catastrophe, her whole body was as soft as mud, and she was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't get up.Her husband would just stand aside, begging Changfu to let them go.Seeing them like this, Changfu became very angry, so he had to let the Lin family and Wang Er's family come into the delivery room to help on Thursday.

Shu Ning looked at the people coming and going in her family, and heard Tong's cry of pain in the room, she was a little scared, but she had no such experience before and after time travel, so she had to worry, and could only pray secretly in her heart, hoping that God would bless her My mother passed this level smoothly.

It may be that God really heard her heart, the sound of a carriage came from the front door, and the Liu sisters came.

They originally came to see Mrs. Tong because of the good weather today, but this happened to them.Without saying a word, Mrs. Liu calmed down the servants and arranged them to prepare for the delivery in an orderly manner.Xiao Liu immediately went into the delivery room to comfort Tong.

She said to Tong in a soft voice: "Sister Tong, don't be afraid. It's not the first time you have had a baby. You have been doing well before, but you gave birth a few days earlier. When I gave birth to my son, it was a month too early." , isn’t everything safe and sound? You calm down, don’t make too much effort to shout, it will be fine soon.”

Perhaps her words had an effect, Tong Shi calmed down, recalled the situation of giving birth before, and re-adjusted her breathing.

After a while, Mrs. Wen came.Although this local middle-aged woman knew only a little Mandarin, she was very experienced and calm.With her in the battle, Xiao Liu and his two daughters-in-law helped Tong's situation improve quickly.

When Zhang Bao returned home, he heard a baby crying from the backyard.

(End of this chapter)