Each and every one of them regretted that they arrived too late and failed to interact with the Duan family.
If I had known that there was such a giant Buddha living in the alley, I might have had some luck if I came here to take advantage of it.
By the time everyone was filled with regrets, the Duan family had already boarded the carriage heading to the capital.
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Inside the Yamen of Tongzhou Prefecture.
When An Yong heard that the Duan family was on the road, his expression changed slightly, "Why did you leave so soon?"
The people below recounted what happened to the Duan family in the past few days.
After hearing this, An Yong tapped his fingers lightly on the table, "It's better to send an escort to follow, and then send someone to check the Du family to avoid future troubles."
"Yes, sir."
An Yong felt that the Duan family must have known something to go out at this time. The Du family's matter sounded a bit suspicious. If there was no one behind it, he would not believe it.
Since he was entrusted by his friend, he must handle this matter properly.
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The east wind thaws and the stinging insects begin to stir.
After the ice and snow melt, it will be a beautiful spring scenery all the way.
Qiao Lan sat in the carriage, listening to the chirping of insects and birds outside the window. She opened the map she unlocked when she left the capital and looked at it, thinking about how long it would take for her to reach the capital.
"Ah sneeze! Ah sneeze!" A loud coughing sound frightened many birds flying away from the branches.
Duan Siyu lay beside the carriage window and saw all the birds flying away. She quietly returned to the small table in the carriage and watched her sisters playing with the chessboard.
Seeing Duan Siyu's appearance, Mrs. Wang felt a little helpless. She patted her back gently and turned to Qiao Lan and said, "Mom, we will arrive in the capital soon. I just happened to go to the capital to find a doctor for the second master to take a look at."
Qiao Lan had been worried that the children at home would catch colds after going on the road. Unexpectedly, none of the children got sick, but Duan Mingjing fell ill.
Passing through various towns and state capitals along the way, the young master of the Duan family asked a doctor to treat Duan Mingjing and give him medicine. However, the disease was getting worse and worse, and it never stopped.
It wasn't until spring that I got better. I would occasionally cough, and it would get better if I stayed in the carriage.
In the past, Duan Mingqing and Duan Mingchen were the ones driving the car at the front. Coincidentally, they were almost arriving in the capital, and someone needed to go back to their old home to make arrangements in advance, so the important task of driving the car fell to Duan Mingjing again, which was why this shock happened.
Heaven's cough.
In Qiao Lan's view, Duan Mingjing was still too frail. He stayed in his study all day long, and when he was on the road, he just sat in the carriage without moving, thus developing a delicate body.
"When spring comes, it will be good to let him go to the ground more often. It is better to exercise more to keep his body healthy!" Qiao Lan sighed.
As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Duan family, Mrs. Wang often goes out to attend banquets to meet other people's children. After farming in her old house for several years, her own children are indeed much stronger than other people's children, even those in the countryside.
Even better.
The old lady's method of raising children is absolutely right.
Mrs. Wang nodded and said, "That's what mom said."
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When the carriage arrived at the gate of the capital, Qiao Lan opened the curtain and looked at the towering city wall and the long queue at the gate. He looked at it slightly and withdrew his gaze.
The bricks and tiles were all gray, well, just as she imagined, earthy.
In the eyes of Wang, who landed on the carriage, the old lady was worried about her hometown.
She should pay more attention to the old lady's mood these days. As the old lady gets older, her body will suffer if she is in a bad mood.
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It was only when she arrived in the capital that Qiao Lan realized that she could still choose a house, whoever wanted to live there. In addition to the original house where Duan Yuexiu was appointed as an official, His Majesty also granted Qiao Lan another residence of a female monarch.
As for Qiao Lan herself, she doesn't have much affection for the Duan family's old house. The Duan family yard in her memory was decorated by Qiao and Duan Yuexiu, and every bit of it is interesting about the good relationship between the couple.
Of course Qiao Lan would rather live in a new house, but for the sake of the descendants of the Duan family around her, she would eventually go back to the Duan family to have a look.
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The carriage stopped in front of the Duan family's old house. Qiao Lan got out of the carriage with the help of Mrs. Wang. She saw an old woman with half-white hair and wrinkled face wearing gray cloth rushing in front of her and crying in an extremely excited voice.
Saying: "Miss! You are finally back!"
Qiao Lan looked at the old woman's excited face, and a lot of memories about her original body came to her mind.
Qiao was born into a marquis family. As the legitimate daughter of the family, she had many maids and women serving her since she was born. When she got older, the family also bought her four maids of similar age, so Qiao took care of her.
Jing'er in the yard named the four of them, Xiangzhu, Hongye, Green Ping, and Zixia.
She was only six or seven years old at that time, and several maids accompanied her to study and read, and even married into the Duan family with her.
After the Duan family was ransacked, the servants who served her were also sold together.
The old woman kneeling in front of her and crying endlessly was Xiangzhu, the maid she grew up with and was later promoted to a nanny.
As for the remaining nuns, it goes without saying.
"Xiangzhu, I haven't seen you for many years." Qiao Lan reached out and gently stroked the white hair on Grandma Xiang's head.
Xiangzhu is younger than her, and she doesn't even have gray hair, but Xiangzhu has half of her hair gray.
"Miss!" Upon hearing this, Grandma Xiang trembled and cried even more sadly.
"Okay, don't cry. Come in with me and have a look." Qiao Lan said and helped Grandma Xiang up.
I took my family into the old house.
The old residence of the Duan family is located on the street close to the imperial city. Non-high-ranking officials and nobles are not allowed to live here. All the people going in and out of it are rich and luxurious cars.
Occasionally, a carriage passing by heard the movement in front of the Duan family's old house. Looking at the simple carriage and the men, women and children in coarse cloth, I thought to myself that some down-and-out relative from his hometown had come to enjoy the autumn breeze.
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Unlike Uncle Duan Mingjing and Sun Bo, who was so excited that his eyes filled with tears, Qiao Lan behaved extremely calmly, and the faces of the men, women, and children in the family were more or less full of emotion.
After all, this is the house I have lived in for more than ten years. After many separations and separations, I never thought I could come back.
There are only a few servants living in the old house, all of whom were servants of the Duan family in the past. Their faces have been ravaged by years of wind, frost and suffering. They are naturally very happy to see their original masters back.
The original old housekeeper came forward with a box and opened it. Inside were various keys, large and small.
There are those in the Duan family's house, in the street shops, and in the Duan family's village. They were all retrieved from the government. Now that the owner has returned home, it should be handed over to the owner, so he handed it over to the owner.
In front of Mr. Wang.
In the old housekeeper's impression, the Wang family was still in the official family, and the old lady didn't interfere much.
Wang took the box and handed it to Qiao Lan. She said with a smile through her tears, "Mom, this is the key to the inside and outside of our home."
When he was in the old house, it was the old lady who took care of him. Mrs. Wang didn't mind handing over the housekeeping rights at all.
Qiao Lan looked at the pile of keys with little difference in front of her for a while and said, "Just give me Zhuangzi's key, and you can keep the others."