The years are invisible, and the days are here in the blink of an eye. On the third day of May in the fifth year of Dalong Shengping, Liu Mingzhi, who was immersed in paperwork in the study, suddenly heard a knock on the door from outside the study.
"Come in."
Qi Yun gently opened the door, and Shi Shiran walked into the study with a tray in her hands.
"Husband, are you done?"
When Liu Mingzhi heard Qi Yun's voice, he put down the ink pen he was using to review documents, and a self-deprecating smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "I have just finished approving half of the documents and memorials submitted by each ministry.
I thought that the world would be peaceful and the Haiyang River would be clear, and my husband would be able to live the same life of three days fishing and two days drying nets as before, but I never thought that I would become busier and busier.
There are many seemingly ordinary documents, but as a husband, you still have to do it yourself.
I don’t know when this kind of day will end.”
Qi Yun placed the tray in her hand on the table, picked up the porridge bowl and placed it in front of Liu Mingzhi.
"I've stewed some fresh fish soup for you. You can drink some while it's hot."
"Is it the fresh fish that Yue'er, Lian Niang and the others brought out from the Qingling River again?"
Qi Yun pulled up the chair and sat next to Liu Mingzhi with a smile: "Who else could be there besides her? Even though this girl is getting older and older, her temperament is getting smaller and smaller.
After finishing the official duties in the Palace of the Ten Kings, she would either disguise herself as a man and wander around the fireworks place, or take her younger brothers and sisters to fish and catch shrimps outside the city.
She relies on our father and mother as her backers, let alone sister Wanyan, even you, husband, can't do anything about her!
Zhenghao, Lingyun and their brothers and sisters, who are still underage, are closer to Yue'er than they are to their mothers. As long as Yue'er is at home, the children below will fall apart.
The sky seems to be good."
Liu Mingzhi picked up the fresh fish soup and put it into his mouth with a spoon to taste it.
"When the children get older, we can no longer control them.
Go ahead and do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't turn the capital upside down.
It doesn't matter if you get into a little trouble, as long as you don't lose your true intentions."
Qi Yun silently looked at her husband who was savoring the taste of the fish soup. She hesitated for a moment and took out an envelope from her sleeve and put it in front of Young Master Liu.
"Sister Qingrui left early in the morning carrying a simple baggage. This is the letter she left for you, husband, and asked me to deliver it to you."
Liu Mingzhi, who was tasting the fish soup with a slight smile, suddenly stiffened, and then his expression softened, making it impossible to tell that he had any thoughts, and he drank the fish soup silently again.
"Let's just go! Half a month ago when she was at the fortune-telling stall, she told her husband that she was going back to Shu to visit her parents. These days, her husband has been busy with government affairs and has almost forgotten about it.
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It is normal to get together and separate, and there is always a banquet in the world. As a husband, you can't stop someone from returning to their hometown to fulfill their filial piety, right?"
Qi Yun looked at her husband with a casual look in surprise, pursed her red lips and asked softly in silence for a moment.
"What do you think about sister Rui's husband? My sisters can see clearly what she is thinking. Husband, you can't really not see it, can you?"
"Does it matter what her thoughts are? The question you asked was asked by Sister Ya once to my husband a few months ago. What do you want to hear from my husband? What kind of answer do you want to hear?
If Yun'er and you insist on giving me an answer, I can only tell you that I don't know it myself."
"I know, but I think that my husband, you, shouldn't be such an indecisive person! No matter what the result is, you have to give me an answer, right?
Gold and silver are valuable, but youth is priceless.
The most beautiful youth of a woman's life only lasts for a dozen years, and sister Qingrui has already spent five years of her youth in vain.
Even if we are not destined to be together, we still have to make it clear to them face to face!"
Liu Mingzhi put the bottomed porridge bowl on the table with a sad expression, took out a handkerchief and wiped the soup from the corner of his mouth: "What I should say to my husband was already told to her a few years ago.
I've told her time and time again what should be discussed in both major and minor ways, but this girl is so stubborn that her husband doesn't know how to deal with it.
Yun'er! My husband is thirty-nine this year, and she is only about four years older than our eldest children Yiyi, Feifei, Chengfeng and their siblings.
A hundred years from now, even if they are no longer as beautiful as jade, they will only have just passed the age of a mature lady.
If something really happened, wouldn't this ruin that girl's life?
My husband will not deny that I am definitely not the kind of person who dislikes beauty, but as a human being we have to have a bottom line.
Do you have to be like those waning heads of high-ranking officials and famous families who marry a pretty little beauty who is almost the same age as their own daughter and then die within a few years?
Isn't it too cruel to leave someone alone to guard an empty house and die alone?
This is only secondary, the most important thing is this girl's mind... Hey... There are some things that it is not convenient for me to tell you, and I don't know how to explain them to you.
A husband has his own considerations, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, just take it one step at a time."
The elusive expression on her husband Liu Mingzhi's face made Qi Yunfang vaguely realize that her husband seemed to have something unspeakable.
It's just that I can't understand the reason for this unspeakable secret.
Qi Yun nodded thoughtfully, stood up, picked up the porridge bowl on the table and walked towards the door with light steps.
"Since my husband has made his own decision, I won't say much anymore. I drank the fish soup and brought the letter I handed over to you. If there is nothing else, I will no longer delay you, husband, in handling government affairs.
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By the way, I have already asked Liu Song to bring your husband, your horse Fengxing, to the door of the house. Now if you rush there quickly, you should be able to catch up with sister Qingrui. As for whether you go to give it off or not, it depends on you, husband.
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I’m going back first.”
Young Master Liu sighed and sat down on the chair, looked at Qi Yun's back and said helplessly: "I can't understand why I am a husband. Women from other families are eager to look at their husbands, for fear that he will go to attract bees."
Attract butterflies.
It would be better for you, instead of trying to prevent your husband from getting involved with women, just stuff the little girl into your husband's bed.
Can you be a little jealous? You are not used to being a husband like this now!"
"Did you listen to me when I didn't let you go out and have sex? Did you stop me again? You refused to let me go and you even brought back a dozen sisters for me.
We already have more than a dozen sisters. Now one little girl less than Ren Qingrui is a lot, and one little girl more than her is not much.
I don’t want to do something like beating a mandarin duck, and get a reputation as a jealous woman who doesn’t follow the rules of women for no reason.
Anyway, I have figured it out now, and it is better to block it than to open it up. Anyway, I have to take in concubines, so why not let you take in a house of women who know the concubines well.
Save it when the time comes and you marry an ignorant little tigress and come back to openly and secretly oppose this eldest wife, my concubine, causing unrest in the whole house.
Since there is a woman you can control easily, why do I need you to find a annoying little goblin to make me angry?
Do you think this is true?"
"This is the director's theory, but Yun'er, your thinking is a little too reasonable, isn't it?"
"It's up to you. Whether you want to take a concubine or not is your own business. If you want to take a concubine, I will help you arrange it. If you don't want to take a concubine, I will be free.
The letter has been delivered to me, so I will go back first."