Chapter 227: The real daughter of her father [07]

Chapter 227: The real daughter of her father [07]

After pulling the hook, Ye Xiangjin's cub was still reluctant to let go of the chubby hand that grabbed Ye Mingzhu's sleeve, but Yuan Jia came over and picked him up: "Xiang Jin, my sister is going to the sedan chair."

Ye Xiangjin hiccupped, looked at her sister with big watery eyes, and muttered, "My sister remembers to pull the hook, it's a puppy to lie."

Ye Mingzhu showed a sad and reluctant smile on her face, and bowed deeply to Yuanjia.

Xi Niang next to her covered her with a red hijab, and a cousin from the Ye family came over and squatted in front of Ye Mingzhu, carrying her on the sedan chair.

When the bride gets on the sedan chair, her brother will carry the sedan chair herself, but Ye Mingzhu's only younger brother, Ye Xiangjin, is still young, so he can only let the cousin from the side of the Ye family do it for him.

Yuan Jia hugged Ye Xiangjin and watched Ye Mingzhu being carried on the sedan chair, and then the sedan chair was carried away by the sedan chairman, and felt a sense of loss in his heart.

Ye Xiangjin's chubby hand wrapped his neck around his neck and asked with a whimper in his ear, "Father, sister, sister, what are you doing? Yes, can you go home earlier?"

Yuan Jia patted him on the back and said in a soothing tone: "My sister is married and married, and Xiang Jin will have another brother-in-law to love you in the future."

The little cub said unhappily: "I don't want a brother-in-law, I just want my sister, and I want my sister to come back."

But fortunately, the little cub is not a brat who likes to be noisy and ignorant. He knows that he and his sister have agreed to wait for her to come home three days later, so he doesn't have to ask her to come back immediately.

After muttering and complaining for a while, he fell asleep on Yuan Jia's shoulder.

After the little cub woke up, he counted with three fingers, wishing that one second would count as a day, and finally three days later, Ye Mingzhu and Zhang Yizhi returned to the door.

The little cub was so happy that he jumped into Ye Mingzhu's arms, hugged her leg and refused to let go: "Sister, elder sister, elder sister, you are finally back, I thought elder sister was going to become a puppy. "

Ye Mingzhu smiled and picked up the little cub, scratched the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile: "Sister promised you to come back today, how could she lie to you?"

Zhang Yizhi next to him also smiled gently and took out a small wooden horse with exquisite workmanship from his sleeve and handed it to the little cub, to please his brother-in-law: "Xiang Jin, this is a toy given to you by my brother-in-law."

In addition to this little Trojan horse made by Zhang Yizhi, the Zhang family also prepared some other gifts for Ye Xiangjin. However, this little Trojan horse represented Zhang Yizhi's brother-in-law's heart, so he gave it to Ye Xiangjin himself.

Ye Xiangjin liked these little toys very much, so Yuanjia made a lot of wooden toys for him by himself. Compared with the toys made by Yuanjia, the little wooden horse made by Zhang Yizhi was a bit rough, but the little cub was still well-behaved. Next: "Thank you brother-in-law."

The little cub had a polite smile on his face, but his eyes on Zhang Yizhi were full of vigilance. This brother-in-law stole his sister three days ago. Today, he must protect her sister well and not let her be taken away. He is a warrior who protects his sister, and he can't be bought by a small wooden horse.

Zhang Yizhi looked at his little brother-in-law's cute and well-behaved appearance, and he had already begun to imagine his future child's appearance. It is said that a nephew is like an uncle, and his child must be as beautiful, smart, cute, well-behaved and sensible as his brother-in-law...

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Ye Mingzhu went back to the door, but she still had to leave. Even if the Zhang family didn't mind her returning to her mother's house from time to time, she would be busy integrating into the Zhang family, and the time to return to the Hou's mansion would only become less and less.

Yuan Jia silently beat his son-in-law before letting him go.

When Ye Mingzhu and Zhang Yizhi were about to leave, Ye Xiangjin, who thought that her sister would not leave when she came back, cried a lot, and sat on the ground holding Ye Mingzhu's calf and refused to let go: "Sister woo woo, don't go, sister don't go. !"

It is useless for anyone to reason with him this time, Ye Mingzhu will make an appointment with him for the next time to come back, and the little cub will not listen, he is smart: "The next time you come back, you must leave soon. , my sister is a deceiving puppy, I won't let my sister go!"

Yuan Jia came over and saw that the little brat was talking quite clearly. He couldn't help laughing. He walked over and stretched out his hand to pick him up. , you don't want to take me away, I want my sister!"

He was crying while talking, looking very sad.

Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Wang, who doted on him the most, were very distressed. Mrs. Ye even disregarded the rules and said that Ye Mingzhu should stay for a few days.

Wang Shi was in a hurry: "Xiang Jin, don't cry, be careful that your voice breaks from crying, my sister is already married, and I can't live at home as often as before..."

Wang tried to reason with the little cub, but for the cub who didn't want his sister to leave, this was a bolt from the blue. He was stunned for a moment, crying even more sad and miserable.

Yuan Jia squatted beside the little cub and looked at him crying equally, neither worried nor sad, but asked very naturally, "Are you finished crying?"

The little cub hiccupped: "No. Woohoo..."

Yuan Jia said, "Then tell Dad when you're done crying."

While crying, the little cub took the time to say, "Okay. Woohoo..."

Then, when Yuan Jia stopped others from comforting and coaxing him, the little cub cried for a while, maybe he felt that he had cried enough, so he stopped sobbing, and let go of a hand that was holding Ye Mingzhu's leg. Wiping away the tears on his face, he looked at Yuan Jia with watery eyes: "Dad, I'm done crying."

Yuan Jia said, "Well, can you talk to Dad after crying?"

The little cub nodded: "Yes."

Yuan Jia told him about his sister's marriage in a way that a child could understand, and told him: "If you really want to see your sister, you can ask Butler Song to take you to see her at your sister and brother-in-law's house, okay? ?"

Ye Mingzhu also touched his little head and said, "Yes, Xiang Jin, you can come to my sister anytime in the future, and my sister will often come home to see you."

The little cub was taught by Yuan Jia to be very smart and sensible, and he reasoned with him earnestly. He realized that he could not stop his sister from leaving him, he could only choose to accept it, and offered his own conditions: "I will follow today. Sister, let's go, father, call Steward Song to take me there."

He had to go to recognize the way first, so that he wouldn't remember where his sister's new home lived next time.

Yuan Jia smiled and rubbed the little tug on his head, and agreed: "Okay."

Then he called Butler Song, and told him to bring his servants and guards, take Ye Xiangjin, and follow Zhang Yizhi and Ye Mingzhu to the Zhang family's recognition place, and bring them back before dinner.

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Zhang's father and Zhang's mother never thought that their son and daughter-in-law would go back to Hou's mansion, but they actually brought back the little prince of Hou's mansion.

At first, Zhang's father and Zhang's mother were still a little cautious, worried that the noble and noble son would not be happy in Zhang's house, but he was soon coaxed into a smile by the cute, sensible and sweet-mouthed Ye Xiangjin, wishing that this was his grandson.

Ye Xiangjin played at Zhang's house for a while, and Zhang's father and Zhang's mother wanted to keep him, but Butler Song said that before coming, Hou Ye ordered him to bring the young son back to Hou's house before dinner, and Zhang's father and Zhang's mother were not good either. retain.

Ye Xiangjin reluctantly said goodbye to his sister and got on the carriage back to the Dingyuan Hou residence.

After Ye Xiangjin left, Zhang's mother couldn't help but sighed to Zhang Yizhi and Ye Mingzhu: "The little prince is really well-behaved, sensible and smart. Lord Hou taught him very well, and he will surely inherit his father's business in the future."

Ye Mingzhu couldn't help but smile when she heard her mother-in-law compliment her brother.

Mother Zhang looked at Zhang Yizhi and Ye Mingzhu, and joked: "Yizhi, you and Mingzhu have to work hard, and in the future, you will have a child as smart as the little prince."

Ye Mingzhu was still calm, but Zhang Yizhi couldn't help but blushed.

After Ye Xiangjin returned to Dingyuan Hou's mansion, he was called by Mrs. Ye and hugged him in her arms. He shouted loudly for his dear grandson, and asked him if he was having a good time at Zhang's house, for fear that his precious grandson would be mistreated.

Ye Xiangjin talked about his fun in Zhang's family with a small mouth.

After dinner, Mrs. Ye left Ye Xiangjin in her yard.

Wang Shi was reluctant in his heart, but he showed on the face that it was their mother and son's honor that his son could be kept by Mrs. Ye.

In the evening, Yuanjia came to the main courtyard to rest, and Mrs. Wang couldn't help but tell him about it: "Master Hou, mother should take a good rest when she is old, Xiang Jin is lively and active, he lives with his mother A yard is easy to make trouble with my mother..."

As soon as Yuan Jia heard it, he knew that Mrs. Wang was implicitly expressing that she was not willing to let Mrs. Ye pick up the child.

On the surface, it seems that Mrs. Wang is always thinking of Mrs. Ye, but in fact, she is putting eye drops on Mrs. Ye.

Since Ye Xiangjin was born, this kind of battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has not happened less often.

Mrs. Ye was originally very dissatisfied with her because the Wang family had not been able to give birth to a direct son and refused to give her son a concubine, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was tense. Now it was Mrs. Ye who wanted to raise her grandson, whom she had been looking forward to for many years, under her lap. The Wang family was unwilling to let go, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deteriorated again.

This ancient nobleman is different from the modern ordinary family. The modern ordinary family has a daughter-in-law who has to go to work and hopes that her mother-in-law can help her take care of the child. Parent-child interaction.

So how could the Wang family be willing to let her mother-in-law take her son to raise her, and finally raise her son so that she is not close to her?

She is already old, Ye Xiangjin should be her only son, she is the hope for the rest of her life, how could she be willing to be raised by her mother-in-law.

Yuan Jia is also very embarrassed to be caught in the middle, but he still agrees to let the child live with the mother, and blocks Old Madam Ye's request to raise her grandson.

But Mrs. Ye occasionally lets her grandson stay with her for a day or two. This kind of closeness between grandparents and grandchildren is not too much, but Mrs. Wang is overly nervous about her son. While saying something similar, he heard her routine by heart.

This time, Mrs. Wang told him about Mrs. Ye's letting Ye Xiangjin live in her yard as usual. Yuan Jia only said one sentence: "Mother will let Xiang Jin come back tomorrow." After speaking, he turned over and fell asleep.

Tomorrow morning, before dawn, he will go to the morning court, and he really has no time to listen to Wang's unreasonable complaints.

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Since Ye Yuanchen and Ye Yinyin went to Jeju Mansion, life in Dingyuanhou Mansion has entered a quiet period.

Even though the relationship between Mrs. Ye and Wang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was tense, but Yuan Jia was the mediator, even if they were dissatisfied with each other, they were still in harmony.

Ye Mingzhu married Zhang Yizhi and became pregnant the second year after marriage, giving birth to a pair of twin sons.

Zhang's father and mother's attitude towards her has always been supportive, and Zhang Yizhi also put all his heart on her. There is no concubine between the husband and wife, and her life is undoubtedly very happy.

After Zhang Yizhi's imperial examinations, he was supported by a father-in-law like Yuan Jia, and he had the skills himself, so his official career was naturally smooth and smooth.

Originally, Yuan Jia also thought that if Zhang Yizhi had a flowery intestines after marriage, he would suppress people, so that he would have to rely on Ye Mingzhu for the rest of his life, and he would not dare to treat Ye Mingzhu poorly.

However, Zhang Yizhi's character is really good, and he has been tempted a lot in the officialdom, but he is consistent. He didn't drink flower wine, and he didn't take concubines. Even if he was ridiculed for being intimidated, his wife was strict, and he was afraid of Yuan Jia's father-in-law's power, he didn't waver in the slightest.

This also made Yuan Jia sincerely treat him as a junior and was willing to help him. Zhang Yizhi's official rises higher and higher, and Ye Mingzhu's official life also rises. Zhang's father and Zhang's mother are also grateful to their daughter-in-law's family for their help in his son's career.

As time passed, Ye Xiangjin got older and older. When he was seven years old, Yuan Jia asked him to move to the front yard to live with his father.

It's not that Yuan Jia also likes to pay attention to the rules that men and women do not sit at the age of seven, but that Madam Ye and Mrs. Wang dote on Ye Xiangjin too much.

So he simply took his son to the front yard and brought it by himself, to reduce the influence of Mrs. Ye and Wang's on him, lest Ye Xiangjin grow crooked in the future.

With Yuan Jia's dedicated teaching, Ye Xiangjin gradually grew into an excellent young man.

"Mother, I'm back." Ye Xiangjin walked in, sweating profusely.

Wang hurriedly took out the handkerchief to help him wipe the sweat, and said with concern in a reproachful tone: "What are you doing? How did you make yourself sweaty?"

Ye Xiangjin smiled brightly, reached out and took Wang's handkerchief and wiped it himself: "I took Xiaozhuo and Xiaoyue to play Cuju."

Wang shi frowned slightly: "You are about to take the exam soon, why is your sister so ignorant, and you have to let Zhang Zhuo Zhang bother you more and more to review."

Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue are the twin sons of Ye Mingzhu and Zhang Yizhi, who are only six years younger than Ye Xiangjin, and are ten years old this year.

The twins and Ye Xiangjin are not too different in age. The three nephews and uncles are as good as brothers, and they often play together.

Ye Xiangjin has long been accustomed to his mother's unkind speculation about others. It is not a bad idea to say that Wang's family has bad intentions. Zhang Zhuo and Zhangyue are also her grandsons who grew up with her, and she is usually very kind to her two grandchildren. It's just that no matter how good it is to meet Ye Xiangjin, she has to shy away from it. In Wang's heart, her son is the main thing.

Ye Xiangjin said: "Mom, just because I'm going to take the exam soon, I need to exercise more and exercise, so as not to be unable to withstand the torment of the exam days. Dad also said that the body is the capital of everything, and proper exercise can make healthiest."

Wang has other complaints: "The Marquis is also true, you are going to inherit the title in the future, is it necessary to go to the imperial examination with the poor students? Studying so hard, you have to squeeze the little one with so many people. The numbered room examination, mother heard that every time someone was taken out of the imperial examination, if you have something, how can you ask mother to live?"

Ye Xiangjin's ears had become calloused when he heard this. At first, he would reason with his mother and say it well, but every time he said that his mother would not listen, the more he listened, the more annoying he became. .

If the father hadn't said that the mother's symptoms were called menopause, he would have to be considerate of the menopausal mother as a son, and he would have been arguing with his mother.

He is sensible, but he knows that it is two different things to enter an official position in the imperial examination and to rely on his father Yu Yin to enter an official position. Only by working hard can we have a future.

Ye Xiangjin changed his clothes, said to Wang Shi, and slipped away again.

Because the exam is about to end, his father said he would not put pressure on him, and allowed him to play unrestrainedly these days.

Wasn't he just like a wild horse who had let go of the reins and ran with joy?

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Ye Xiangjin ran out to meet the Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue brothers: "Xiao Zhuo, Xiao Yue."

Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue greeted him with a smile: "Uncle!"

Ye Xiangjin rode his horse and asked his two nephews to sit in the carriage, "I will take you to Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing. That Zhuangzi was given to me by my grandmother, and there is a large forest next to it, so I can go hunting."

Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue asked excitedly, "Are there any big bugs?"

Ye Xiangjin glared at them: "How can there be such a dangerous big bug? Even if there were, they would have been killed long ago. There are only some small animals such as pheasants, hares, wild foxes."

Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue were a little disappointed, but not less excited. After all, it was their first time to go hunting. They were at home on weekdays, and the father of the weak scholar would not take them hunting.

Ye Xiangjin rode a horse and followed the carriage. When he was leaving the city gate, among the queues waiting to enter the city, there was a carriage that seemed to be rich and noble, and the curtain was suddenly lifted. A fat lady He stared straight at the carriage that Zhang Zhuoyue was riding.

The lady's undisguised gaze caught Ye Xiangjin's attention. He looked over and noticed that the carriage that Mrs. Gui was riding even had the logo of the Ye family on it.

Each family has its own clan emblem, just like the carriage that Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue rode in, which Ye Xiangjin brought out from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion. It not only has the Ye family's clan emblem, but also the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion's logo. Anyone who knows them will know at a glance that this is the carriage of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion. When they meet on a narrow road, they will not cause unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles.

Ye Xiangjin recognized the sign on the lady's carriage, guessed that she was probably from a side branch of the Ye family, and recognized the carriage of the Dingyuan Marquis's mansion, so she kept her eyes on their carriage.

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"This son, my wife invites you to come over. She has something to ask you."

Ye Xiangjin hesitated for a while, but for the sake of his family, he rode his horse over: "This lady, what's the matter?"

Ye Yinyin looked at the young man who looked five or six points similar to Dingyuan Hou with complicated eyes. After calculating his age, he also guessed Ye Xiangjin's identity.

She smiled and said, "Are you Xiang Jin? I'm your second aunt. When my second uncle and I left the capital, you were just born not long ago. Now you are so old. I wonder if your elder brother and sister-in-law are okay? Your sister Are you okay?"

Ye Xiangjin has heard that he has a second uncle, but his second uncle was not sent to Jeju, and hasn't come back for more than ten years? The family also almost excused not to mention this second uncle.

Now meeting the second aunt, Ye Xiangjin felt a little embarrassed, but just smiled and didn't speak.

Ye Yinyin lived in Jeju for more than ten years, and her life was not as good as she imagined. Brothers and cousins ​​are visiting the old lady. Xiang Jin, where are you going out of the city?"

Ye Xiangjin replied, "I went out of the city to hunt."

But when I met my second aunt and my cousin, my hunting trip was in vain.

Ye Yinyin called out a pair of children in the carriage to greet Ye Xiangjin.

At the beginning, she followed Ye Yuanchen to Jeju Prefecture. In order to conceal her identity, she tried to eat fat herself.

If you want to be so fat that your acquaintances can’t recognize you, you have to gain at least twenty or thirty pounds. The more fat you have on your body, the more your looks will drop.

Ye Yuanchen originally liked her because of that real dream. He substituted too deep into the dream, so he would substitute Ye Yuanchen's feelings for Ye Yinyin in the dream into his real self towards Ye Yinyin.

However, in fact, he dreamed that his previous life was different from Ye Yinyin's rebirth. When Ye Yinyin's image changed greatly, Ye Yuanchen's passion for love began to cool down rapidly.

Fortunately, Ye Yinyin was already pregnant. Her thin body was beautiful before, but it was not good for her health. After eating fat, she became much healthier, and her pregnancy nutrition could keep up.

It’s just that when you’re pregnant, you’re more likely to gain weight if you eat well and drink well. It's also harder to get back in shape after giving birth.

When Ye Yinyin came back to her senses, she and Ye Yuanchen had drifted farther and farther, and his feelings for her were getting weaker and weaker.

The specific expression is that he is getting more and more impatient with her attitude, and vaguely reveals a bit of regret that he contradicted his mother for her, and came to Jeju for her.

After Ye Yinyin was sad, she quickly became strong again.

After giving birth to a pair of children, she is no longer the girl who was in love.

Ye Yuanchen's feelings for Ye Yinyin gradually became cold, but he still kept his promise to Ye Yinyin.

It's just that the relationship between husband and wife has changed from passionate love to mutual respect.

This time in Beijing, Ye Yinyin and her two children were just here to lead the charge. She wanted Yuanjia to allow Ye Yuanchen to be transferred back to Beijing from Jeju Prefecture.