Chapter 603: Bones by the Wuding River
There are still no new buds on the trees along the streets of the capital, but the spring breeze arrives quietly along with the bright sunshine.
Jiang Qingzhi woke up in the morning and muttered, "The cat meowed all night last night."
Li Tian was still lying there. "Most likely he came to look for Duoduo."
"This cat has become a nuisance." Jiang Qingzhi touched Li Tian's still bulging belly and said, "Why is this child growing so slowly?"
Li Tian closed her eyes and felt it for a while, "Husband, I feel him moving inside!"
The two rookie parents were greatly encouraged by their anticipation.
"You should eat more carefully recently and not be picky. Also, are walnuts and peanuts... that's all. Eat what you ate before. But keep it light and avoid spicy food."
Jiang Qingzhi muttered that he remembered that peanuts should have been introduced into the Central Plains at this time, but it would take another hundred years before they were widely planted.
As for whether to supplement nuts during pregnancy, Jiang Qingzhi was a little hesitant. After all, nuts are high in fat, and pregnant women are prone to obesity. Adding some fat...
Jiang Qingzhi felt a little worried just thinking about his wife turning into a fat woman in a few months.
"Also, don't be greedy with steamed buns and pancakes."
Jiang Qingzhi finally thought of one thing: high blood sugar during pregnancy.
Seeing his wife's nonchalant attitude, he said seriously, "I am serious."
"I understand." Compared with the serious Jiang Qingzhi, Li Tian is more like a free-spirited person.
what?
Should I eat less of this?
But I've been eating this way since I was a kid.
I have been eating this way since I was a child and it was fine. Now you tell me that I have been eating it wrong?
But there's nothing wrong with me!
If it were in the future, this elder sister would be a female man who ignored authoritative experts.
The weather was still cold, and breakfast was freshly baked pancakes, similar to the baked buns of later times, thick and chewy, plus mutton soup.
The scones are rich in flavor, with a layer of perilla seeds and sesame seeds on top. When you take a bite, you really...
There are only two words to describe it: delicious!
After taking another sip of mutton soup, eating a piece of mutton, and picking up a radish from the bottom of the bowl, Jiang Qingzhi watched his wife eat slowly and said with emotion: "A man works hard all his life for this moment."
"My husband is a man who is capable of great things! You must not indulge in love affairs or trivial matters." Li Tian did not like eating fatty meat, so she gave a piece of fatty mutton in her bowl to Jiang Qingzhi.
Jiang Qingzhi shook his head. "When it comes to family and country, the family comes first. If you can't manage your own family, how can you manage the world? I am just like this. To put it in a small way, it's my wife, children and a warm bed. To put it in a big way, the so-called serving the country and the people is to make the Ming Dynasty better and better, so that this small family can be better."
Li Tian was surprised, "My husband actually wanted this?"
"What do you think?" Jiang Qingzhi stood up and leaned over. Li Tian closed her eyes shyly.
Jiang Qingzhi kissed her forehead once, then again, "This is for the child."
This is the couple’s most recent addition to the show.
As soon as Jiang Qingzhi went out, the outside became lively.
Huang Yaner came in and saw Li Tian sitting there blankly, so she said, "Mr. Xia said before that men become adults only after they have children, and only then do they know how to make progress. If for no other reason, seeing a wife and a child in front of him, any man can't sit still, and will think of ways to make money and stand out."
Li Tian understood this very well. "Yes! Mr. Xia is right."
"Master looks different now!" Huang Yaner said happily, "I heard those women gossiping before, saying that Master used to be handsome, but now he has become more stable and looks even more attractive."
——In my eyes, the so-called Ming Dynasty is just something that holds my little home and protects my wife and children. I do my best to make the Ming Dynasty better and better, and my purpose is just to make this thing that holds my little home better.
Only when the small family is well, the whole society will be well.
If everyone is good, the family will be good.
It may seem confusing, but it explains the family, country and the world from another perspective.
That's his husband!
The corners of Li Tian's mouth curled up slightly.
If a woman has a husband like this, what more could her husband ask for?
Outside the capital city, a young woman was sweeping the doorway of her house.
"Chen Nan's, Chen Nan's!"
A familiar woman ran over and said, "They said there's a good variety show at Huguo Temple today. Do you want to go?"
The woman shook her head, "I need to weave today!"
The woman sighed, "Didn't your Chen Nan say he was going out to make a lot of money? Why are you still weaving cloth?"
"Children cost money!" The young woman said longingly: "When I have a child, I will find a way to send him to school. The child must be as handsome as him..."
"That's a nuisance!" The woman laughed and said, "Your Chen Nan looks like that. He will bring trouble to women when he goes out."
"Let him cause trouble! Just don't bring him home."
The young woman laughed.
Footsteps came from the right.
The two women looked sideways and saw a majestic middle-aged man walking towards them, surrounded by several Jinyiwei.
The man looked intimidating without even getting angry, and when he approached, the two women couldn't help but step back.
The man asked, "Is this Chen Nan's home?"
"Yes. You are..." The young woman looked at the man timidly.
"That's Lu Bing!"
At this time, a scholar passing by exclaimed, and then quickened his pace and ran away, as if the middle-aged man was a tiger.
Lu Bing?
The young woman had also heard of Lu Bing's name, and she couldn't help but tremble with fear.
Lu Bing reached out, took a heavy bag from the Jinyiwei behind him and handed it over.
"Take it."
"Slave...slave dare not." "You are allowed to hold it!"
The young woman took the bag timidly, but misjudged its weight and almost stumbled.
She glanced into the bag and found that it was actually silver ingots.
"This……"
Lu Bing stood up straight and suddenly saluted.
Just as the young woman was panicking and the neighbors were whispering, Lu Bing said, "Brother Chen died fighting for his country abroad! Before he died, he was still thinking of you, and thinking of... the Ming Dynasty!"
Lu Bing moved his lips, "From now on, if you have any problems, just go to the Jinyiwei Yamen." He glanced at the neighbors around him, "This place... from now on, have someone come to inspect it frequently."
"Yes." The Jinyiwei behind him responded loudly.
That silver was something that would bring disaster, but Lu Bing gave it to them in public without worrying that anyone would be tempted.
This is a family protected by the Jinyiwei, why don’t you try to rob one?
The young woman stood there blankly.
Watching Lu Bing mount his horse and leave.
She just felt her head buzzing, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
Her husband will never come back.
"Husband!"
Her grip loosened and the bag fell heavily to the ground.
In a small house in the west of the city, a woman who was doing needlework suddenly let out a soft cry. She lowered her head to look at the finger that was pricked by the needle and sucked the blood that came out.
"But it hurts your hand?" The old woman's voice came from outside.
The woman said, "Mom, it's okay."
The old woman said, "Da Lang said he was going to the border with a caravan, and we don't know when he will be back."
The woman thought of her husband's words before he left: "I will be away for two or three years. If everything goes well... I will have enough money for my children to learn martial arts."
The woman looked up at the rising sun outside and found it very bright.
"mother!"
A kid about twelve or thirteen rushed in and said, "I'm hungry."
"I just had dinner!" the woman said angrily, "There are still some pancakes in the kitchen. I'll go heat them up for you."
She walked out of the room and stood in the spring sunshine. Suddenly, her eyes became hot and tears flowed out inexplicably.
"What's wrong with me?" The woman covered her chest, feeling an inexplicable pain. She walked out of the house, and the neighbor's woman laughed and said, "Could it be that your Yang Zhao has been hooked up by those wild women and refuses to come back?"
The jokes of the common woman were bold but without malice.
But the woman was stunned. She looked towards the north and felt like she had lost something.
"Mom! Mom! Look, that's a top-notch horse!" The child gnawed on a cold biscuit, pointed at the dozen or so riders in front of him, and said enviously, "Dad said he would buy me a horse when he comes back. When I learn martial arts well, I can ride it to kill the enemy."
The child was tall and strong, as tall as his mother. He looked at his mother. "Mom, I will earn you a title when the time comes, okay?"
"Good!" The woman stood on tiptoe and touched her son's head, feeling extremely relieved.
More than ten riders came slowly over, dismounted in an orderly manner, and more than ten men surrounded a middle-aged man and walked over.
"It's the Royal Guards!"
"That's Jinyiwei Commander Lu Bing. God, who is in trouble? It must not be my family!"
"We are all ordinary people. Even if someone has committed a crime, it is not your turn to arrest him personally."
"That's right, but why did he come to our poor place? Look... Yes, Yang Zhao is a flag of the Jinyiwei. Did he commit a crime?"
Lu Bing walked over. The child hesitated for a moment, but finally stood in front of his mother and looked at Lu Bing bravely.
"Is this Yang Zhao's home?" Lu Bing asked.
Although they have been married for more than ten years, the woman feels that her husband is never the vicious Jinyiwei as others say. Instead, he is more gentle than other men.
She pulled her son but failed, then bowed and said, "Yes."
Lu Bing reached out to take the bag and handed it over.
"This is..." The woman didn't dare to answer.
"Take it." Lu Bing said in a tone that brooked no refusal.
"Take it!" The child is as fearless as a newborn calf.
"Brother Yang died fighting for his country in a foreign land. Before he died, he was still thinking about you and your family, and thinking about the Ming Dynasty." Lu Bing's voice was very calm. "My condolences."
The woman's body shook.
Lu Bing looked at the child, "Want to learn martial arts? When you grow up, you can go directly to Jinyiwei. Zhu Hao."
"Commander." Zhu Hao came over.
"Send someone to teach the children, both civil and martial. The money and food they need will come from me." Lu Bing said, "Also, according to the old rules, let the brothers patrol here more often. If anyone dares to cause trouble, kill him!"
"Yes." Zhu Hao looked at the bewildered child and patted his shoulder. "Your father... is a real man. Don't let him down. I will teach you how to kill people myself later."
Lu Bing turned around and was escorted away by the crowd.
There was a scream behind me.
"Husband!"
Under the same morning sun, a scholar stood at his doorstep, reciting poems with high spirits.
"I vowed to wipe out the Xiongnu without caring about my own life, and lost five thousand minks and silks in the dust of the Huns. It's a pity that his bones are by the Wuding River, but he is still the man in my dreams."
(End of this chapter)
