Chapter 38 @038
After Jing Yi left, it was late at night and everyone was lying alone on the bed. Xiao Ting regretted that his intestines were blue.
If he had known that she would have been there for more than half a year, he would have endured the pain last night and should have given her it. Jing Yi was so anxious that she was sweating, as if she had been hungry for several meals. He was holding a plate of braised pork in front of her, and when she tasted a little before removing the plate, it would be strange if she was not angry.
But what's the use of regret? People don't know which mountain lump I brought to that old man Xu Guang!
Xiao Ting turned over and smashed the bed hard, smashed it a few times, and his fist hurt.
Tossing and turning, I don't know when I fell asleep.
The next day, Mingxin came to call the princess to get up early. She shouted several times through the gauze tent, but the figures inside remained motionless. They were all old people who were used to serving. Mingxin was brave and picked up the gauze tent and pushed it gently, "Princess, it's time to get up."
Xiao Ting woke up, but he just didn't want to move. He thought the two girls were nagging, "Get out!"
Mingxin was so scared that her hands shook. Minghu sighed, put down his tent, and quietly went out with Mingxin. After getting married, the princess had a more and more strange temper. Sometimes she smiled every day, and she looked better than the flowers in the yard. Sometimes she lost her temper for no reason and spoke... a little rough.
The princess couldn't get up, Minghu went to Liu's side to explain.
"I feel uncomfortable, or feel uncomfortable?" Liu asked inquiry. If his daughter-in-law is really sick, she must ask the imperial physician to come and see him. If her son is thinking about it because he is thinking about martial arts in the mountains, then she will go and comfort her.
Minghu lowered his head and whispered: "Look, it doesn't seem like he's sick."
Mrs. Liu smiled and arranged several trivial matters, so she went to Taoranju in person.
Xiao Ting was still lying in the quilt, and when he heard his mother coming, he still didn't move.
In fact, when mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along, they don’t know any etiquette like Xiao Ting now. They either put on a princess airs and deliberately don’t take their mother-in-law seriously, or the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is particularly good. The daughter-in-law treats her mother-in-law as her mother-in-law, acts coquettishly and acts as she wants, but reveals intimacy.
Of course, Liu knew that his daughter-in-law was the latter.
After sending out the maids, Liu tilted her body and sat beside the bed, and asked her daughter-in-law who was lying with her back to her: "Does the princess want Ting to give birth?"
Xiao Ting is annoyed when he hears anyone talking now, so he pulls up the quilt to cover his head.
Liu was stunned. Why did his daughter-in-law's actions look a bit like his son before he turned anew? Could it be that the couple had been in a subtle way after being together for a long time?
However, the same trick of cheating makes the son angry, but the daughter-in-law makes the wife look so cute.
Liu gave birth to four sons, and the most hope was to have another daughter. Now it seems that it is 80% unwilling to do so. It is rare that the daughter-in-law will not meet her. Liu treats the princess and daughter-in-law as a daughter. He pats his daughter-in-law on the shoulders. Liu sighs: "Actually, if the princess doesn't say it, I know you are uncomfortable, but Tingsheng chooses to practice martial arts, and he will probably follow his father's path in the future. He will be unable to return home easily. As women, the more we think about it, the harder it will be. It's better to think about it and get used to it earlier."
Xiao Ting slowly opened his eyes.
Liu told her daughter-in-law about her old story, "I married your father-in-law at the age of fifteen. I got married for three months. He went to the battlefield. When he came back, your elder brother would crawl. When he was pregnant with your second brother, I almost had a difficult child. Your father-in-law was not at home... I gave birth to four times, and only when Shengting was born, he was guarding him..."
"Mom, stop talking."
Xiao Ting suddenly turned around and lowered his head to lie in his mother's arms. His mother had never told them these words to their brothers. His grandmother seemed to have mentioned them once to him, asking him to study hard and not make his mother angry anymore, saying that his mother's life was not easy, but he could not understand his mother's difficulties at the time. He felt that his mother's status was noble, and his father valued his mother and did not take concubines. His mother obviously lived a very comfortable life.
Now that he had Jing Yi, he suddenly had to part for so long, and Xiao Ting finally understood the difficulty of his mother.
If he could start over, he would definitely work hard to be a filial and good son.
Liu touched his daughter-in-law's head, and his voice was low and gentle, "In a blink of an eye, twenty years, I almost became my grandmother. Looking back, my mother also has times when she is upset. She blames your father-in-law and is so resentful that she has never married him. But when he comes back, when she sees your father-in-law's cold face, she seems to have forgotten those resentments, and his heart and eyes are full of him, and gradually get used to it. Oh, who should I blame? If there are more good generals in the Great Zhou Dynasty, if the world is peaceful, your father-in-law will not have to carry the Daliang of the northern border alone, but the world is not peaceful. Since he has the ability to carry it, who will he not go? Mother can't drag him to let him go just because he can't bear to leave.
Besides, Tingsheng, he hadn't learned martial arts and had almost never traveled far away. He could see people every morning and evening, but what's the use of seeing them every day? I was angry when I saw him. Now he was willing to make progress, and my mother was particularly pleased. He would rather learn to be a general who was famous in history than to attract cats and dogs all day long and accomplish nothing."
Xiao Ting felt guilty.
If it weren't for Jing Yi, he would definitely be angry with his mother.
"Tingsheng is promising, mom only feels sorry for you." Liu Shunshun's daughter-in-law said with a wry smile, "They are busy with big things every day, and we are worried about it, but this is nothing to do. Until today, Brother Chun is only five years old. I have to take care of him and have to worry about your elder brother and second brother's marriage. I don't have much time to miss your father-in-law anymore. But when I first got married, when I thought about him being uncomfortable, I made clothes for him, and sew a few stitches when I had time. I will take care of him. I will take them with me next time I leave home."
Speaking of this, Liu suddenly laughed and lowered his head to his daughter-in-law's ear and said, "We are in love with each other, and men may think more than us. Otherwise, how can we say that a small separation is better than a newlywed? Other couples are tired of each other every day. Over time, the man's heart will easily be caught by the women outside. Your father-in-law is not. Every time he comes back, he will hold me like he was when he first got married. Don't worry, princess, when Tingsheng comes back, you will understand."
Xiao Ting curled his lips. His parents had a good relationship and Jing Yi didn't like him. Finally, he had an excuse to avoid him. Jing Yi might be happy at this moment.
But he can no longer just do whatever he wants. Jing Yi doesn't feel sorry for him, and his mother is still there.
"Mom, my girl is not good, please teach me how to make clothes, let's pass the time together." After staying in my mother's arms for a while, Xiao Ting sat up and said with his head down. As a woman, he couldn't go out for fun, he had to find something to pass the time. As for whether Jing Yi appreciated the clothes after they were ready, he would not care.
After his daughter-in-law figured it out, Liu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, Ting is back only in the twelfth lunar month, so let's make a winter robe. Well, he will definitely be so tall in the past six months. I'll ask someone to find your elder brother's old clothes. Ting looks like your elder brother."
Let his daughter-in-law get up and have dinner, and Liu left first.
Looking outside the shaky window, Xiao Ting stretched and got up. Jing Yi was not there, he had breakfast by himself, Erlang squatted beside him, looking at him with watery black eyes. Xiao Ting has always liked the wolf dog he chose, but now his wife is gone, he finally remembers Erlang's goodness and throws a few pieces of meat for Erlang.
After dinner, he went to Liu's place to learn needlework as promised.
The daughter-in-law said that her daughter-in-law was not good at being a girl, and Liu should listen to her humble words, but soon she realized that her daughter-in-law really knew nothing about her girl-in-law, just like a child who was a beginner. There was no way, so Liu had to teach her again and take some time a day. The mother and mother were both learning and passing the time.
Just like Liu's self-comfort, Xiao Ting's mind is indeed smart. As long as he uses it on the right path, he will learn things very quickly. From being unable to tell the color of the thread to being able to pick up the needle and fabric at will, from being threaded to being fine and neat, Xiao Ting only took three months.
As an exercise, Xiao Ting spent another month to make a small dress for Brother Chun.
The sister-in-law gave it to her, Brother Chun put it on beautifully, and then turned around to show her to her mother and sister-in-law.
"The sleeve on the left is slightly shorter." Liu discovered a problem first.
Xiao Ting held the outer robe made by the embroiderer who had changed his younger brother, but immediately realized his lack of embroidery skills. The excitement of having just finished the clothes was gone and he was dejected. As for him, the embroiderer, he was afraid that Jing Yi would not be able to wear them even if he had made the clothes.
"Embroidered women have been crafted for more than ten years. The princess just got started, and it would be a coincidence that she did too much in the future." Liu cheered her daughter-in-law in time, "Besides, the princess makes clothes for Tingsheng, the important thing is her heart. Don't worry, Tingsheng will definitely like it."
Xiao Ting was half-believing and half-doubted. He returned to Taoranju, picked the clothes himself, and began to make winter robes for Jing Yi.
The autumn is clear and the weather is cool in September, and the October day is obviously cold, especially in the late month, even if you sit in the warm room, it is not very convenient to thread needles.
"Princess, take a break." Mingxin, Minghu received the instructions from Liu. Seeing that the princess was sitting there for another two quarters of an hour, she spoke and reminded her. The princess was obsessed with sewing clothes recently, and the lady was worried that the princess would break her eyes.
Xiao Ting said "yes", but his hands didn't stop, wanting to embroider the auspicious cloud before resting.
Suddenly, Brother Chun shouted excitedly from the yard, "San Sister-in-law, it's snowing!"
Xiao Ting was startled, put down the needle and thread, turned his head and saw that snowflakes were indeed falling outside the glass window.
Brother Chun was yelling to build a snowman, but Xiao Ting sat in front of the window, but his eyes turned to the distance. When Jing Yi went out, he only wore two winter robes, not even a big fashionable one. Will she catch a cold in this snowy and snowy place? Is she a place to live in the mountains? What to eat?
The more I think about it, the more I worry.
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It snowed, and it took two days and one night, and it was covered in white everywhere.
In a mountain forest hundreds of miles away from the capital, Xu Guang led four disciples out of the cave and began to assign errands: "Tingsheng, respectfully go hunting, Hu Wu goes to chop wood and make fire, and Shitong cleans up the snow in front of the door."
The four people received the orders separately.
Jing Yi took his homemade bow and arrow and set out in a separate way with Chen Gongjin. The snow on the ground was more than two feet deep, and it creaked when I stepped in. After walking a few steps, snow fell into my boots, and the bone-bone chill ran straight to my heart. However, after practicing in the mountains for several months, this pain was nothing to Jing Yi.
When two rows of rabbit footprints were found, Jing Yi followed the traces and chased after half an hour, he finally found a gray-haired rabbit. Jing Yi did not move down the plate, silently pulled out a long arrow, and pulled the bow and aimed. With a "swoosh", the long arrow shot out quickly. The gray rabbit was frightened and turned his head, but before he could dodge, the long arrow had already penetrated its neck.
The gray rabbit struggled for a moment and stopped moving.
Jing Yi strides over, picks up the rabbit, walks back, with wide shoulders and long legs, and a tall figure.
She hunted a rabbit, Chen Gongjin hunted two birds, and the five masters and apprentices roasted them to eat meat.
After finishing the meal, we started today's professor.
Without a long discussion or careful mention, Xu Guang walked to a dry sapling with snow on his branches, and his hands grew. With a gun swept, he saw a silver light flashing. The tip of his tiger-headed cloud gun was pressed against a small branch of a small rice grain. The fine branches were under force, and the snow on it fell, but the other branches were not affected at all.
"Practice, when will we reach my level, and when will we go down the mountain?"
Leaving the four disciples who looked straight, Xu Guang continued to go back to the cave and lay down.
"This, how is this possible?" Hu Wu murmured, took a few steps back and tried to shoot out the gun.
As a result, when the shot went out, all the snow on the trees fell.
Tan Shitong laughed loudly.
Jing Yi smiled too, and finally looked at the little tree. She held the long gun tightly, turned around and practiced elsewhere.
Chapter completed!