Jiang Jie finished the rice in the bowl in a few seconds, then pestered his sister and asked: "Sister, did you really hit the barbarian to death with a stone as big as a millstone?"
"No." Yingbao poured the leftovers into Dahei's rice bowl and watched him gobble it up.
"Haha! Let me tell you, Brother Hu Zi and Jiang Wu must be bragging." Jiang Jie joked.
Huzi was anxious: "I don't have one! The cherry blossoms are obvious..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Wu covered his mouth and dragged Hu Zi into the house together with Jiang Jie regardless of Hu Zi's struggle.
Jiang Yunniang lay back in the room after eating and cried silently.
My daughter Hongxiao comforted her: "Mom, you don't have to go tomorrow. I can go by myself."
Jiang Yunniang wiped her tears with the back of her hand and sobbed: "I'm sorry for your father, letting that little bitch's family abuse him. He was obviously well, but he was taken away by the bitch's brother and eaten five stone powder. They I just wanted to kill him on purpose.”
Hongxiao also cried: "Mom, what's the use of saying this now?"
Dad also came to ask for peace at first, but mother was unwilling.
Hongxiao felt heartbroken watching her father leave lonely.
Hongxiao got up early the next morning. She wanted to go out secretly, but Jiang Yunniang also got up and followed her.
Just like that, the two mother and daughter went to Zhang's house again.
Jiang Cheng also arrived early and kowtowed and burned incense in front of the mourning hall.
Although the Zhang family did not like to see Jiang Yunniang, they were extremely polite to Jiang Cheng.
Even the concubine’s father and brother were extremely respectful and polite when they saw Jiang Cheng.
Because of this, the eldest brother of the Zhang family and the concubine’s family did not dare to ridicule Jiang Yunniang.
On the way back at noon, Jiang Yunniang took off her mourning clothes and the white flowers on her head and threw them in the wild.
She is now living in Yingbao's niece's house and cannot enter the house wearing mourning clothes. Moreover, her parents are still there, and she cannot wear white flowers on her hair.
Hongxiao and her brother Yuying did not come back with them, so they had to stay in the Zhang family to pay filial piety to their biological father for three months.
The filial piety can only be removed after the filial piety period has passed.
On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, during the Ghost Festival, Yingbao went to the Taoist temple with his master and brothers to perform rituals.
There are many taboos on this day.
It is forbidden to have haircuts, sweep tombs, hold happy events, go out late, hang clothes to dry, avoid looking in the mirror, tease others, and pick up coins and items on the road.
It is also forbidden to sleep facing the door or window to prevent evil spirits.
Three days later, Yingbao, her two younger brothers and Huzi got on the carriage and went home.
Zhou Wuchang went with his eldest disciple and his second disciple.
Yingbao saw many pedestrians along the way, most of them riding mules, horses and ox-carts, carrying a lot of luggage.
Did something really happen in the capital?
Back to the village, Chun Niang rushed over, hugged her daughter and son, cried and scolded them.
Ying Bao wiped A Niang's tears and said, "Mom, I'll bring you a bamboo pole later, and you can give Xiao Wu a good beating."
Chunniang laughed, pinched her daughter, and pinched Jiang Wu again, "Sooner or later I'll be **** off by you two debt collectors. Wash your hands and faces quickly, and I'll cook some noodles for you."
Having said that, go to the kitchen to make noodles.
Jiang Jie squinted at his sister and brother and snorted: "Mom is biased. If I do something wrong, she will definitely chase me for two miles with a bamboo pole."
“I’m not chasing you!” Jiang Wu retorted: “He’s chasing both of us.”
Yingbao ignored them and went to fetch water for her master and senior brothers to wash away their dust.
After that, he cleaned the two side rooms, took out the beddings to dry for a while to remove the mold, and gave them to the master and senior brothers to live in.
There is no need to clean my house because my mother-in-law cleans it every day.
The bedding has also been freshly dried, and still has a faint fragrance of the sun.
Chunniang cooked a large pot of noodles and put vegetables and eggs in it.
I also made a large bowl of shrimp paste with sun-dried soybean paste, and put a large spoonful in each bowl of noodles. Zhou Wuchang and his disciples each ate a large bowl of noodles but were still unsatisfied, and finally added half a bowl more.
Huzi, Jiang Jie, Jiang Wu, Yingbao and others also finished a large bowl, stroking their bellies and shouting that they were full.
The shrimp paste is really delicious, with dogwood and green beans added in it, and it is fresh and spicy when mixed with the noodles.
After eating, Ying Bao ran out to eat, and took a look at her grandparents, eldest aunt, and second aunt.
Yanru’s belly is already very big and she will give birth in more than two months.
Her face was rosy and she seemed to be much fatter than before.
Yingbao listened to her fetal breathing and then told her: "From now on, eat less rice and pasta every day, eat more fish, shrimp and vegetables, and try not to eat before going to bed at night. You have already gained weight, don't get fatter again."
If the fetus is too large and Yanru is the first child, it is easy to have dystocia.
Yan Ru nodded and said sheepishly, "I've suddenly had a huge appetite these days, and I did eat too much."
In the past, she was full after just one bowl of rice, but now she eats five meals a day, including a bowl and a half each time, not including vegetables and meat.
Erni put her head in and said, "Mom, I will go to the pond to catch shrimps for you to eat later."
Yan Ru nodded: "Okay."
Ying Bao came out of her second uncle's house and went straight to the school.
Five more houses were built behind the school, where Li Xu's mother and Mrs. Wen's family lived.
Li Xu and Mr. Wu lived in the original house.
"Master! Sister Wen!" Yingbao saluted Mrs. Wen and Wen Shu, and then blessed Anshi who was sitting next to her: "Aunt An."
Anshi smiled and said, "Yingbao, you are back. Your mother is worried."
“It was me who was reckless and made A Niang worry about it,” Ying Bao said.
Wen Shu came over and hugged her, "I haven't asked you how you got to Jingzhou yet."
Ying Bao and Wen Shu sat together and talked about the whole story, finally saying: "Thankfully Chu Yan and Xiao Mo led troops to rescue, otherwise Jingzhou would have been lost."
Mrs. Wen frowned slightly: "I heard that Tokyo has been besieged, and I don't know if anyone is going to rescue them."
Her father-in-law and uncle's family are all in the capital. If the city is destroyed, the consequences will be disastrous.
Ying Bao: "Xiao Mo has already led his troops there, but it will take about twenty days to start from Jingzhou, right?"
Not all of Xiao Mo's team were cavalry. They ran on both feet. Even if they traveled fifty or sixty miles a day, it would still take them twenty or thirty days.
Mrs. Wen shook her head: "It's too late."
Now we can only pray that Tokyo is safe and sound.
They chatted for a while, and Wen Shu took Ying Bao back to the house to whisper.
"My marriage to the Xiao family has been cancelled." Wen Shu whispered to Ying Bao: "You are right, there is indeed something wrong with that Xiao Chengjun."
Because of this matter, my mother specially asked someone to secretly investigate Xiao Chengjun's situation. As a result, she discovered that Xiao Chengjun secretly returned to Beijing and took Chen Tiantian and her daughter out of the nunnery.
“You don’t know that Chen Tiantian lives in Xiao Chengjun’s villa in Luzhou now.”
Wen Shu frowned and said, "Thankfully you reminded me, otherwise..."
She felt unhappy when she thought that her grandmother would let her marry such a person.
Although the Xiao family has a distinguished family background, what that man did is shameful.
"If he cares about Chen Tiantian and takes her in, no one else will say anything. However, he secretly hides the woman in a secret place with an unfair reputation. What does this mean? Is he raising an extramarital wife? Or is he preparing for the future? Is Ming Media getting married?”
“The matchmaker is getting married!” Yingbao said, “Xiao Chengjun will definitely marry her in the future!”
If the two of them are not together for life and eternity, then God has not opened his eyes.
So they must have lovers and get married eventually.