In the blink of an eye, she is now forty-one years old. In the few years since she came there, she has been down-to-earth and diligent, and her children have all made steady progress according to her goals.
It’s not about being rich, but having enough food and clothing is not a real thing.
Although the confinement period in Xiangdong is dull, it is rarely comfortable. Hongyunxi has a premonition that as Xiao Wu moves forward step by step, the dull confinement period in her family will become less and less.
As I walked step by step, I came into contact with more and more people. People's hearts are complicated, and it takes a lot of effort to deal with the world.
Of course, these tasks are not for the fifth daughter-in-law, she can only participate in them occasionally.
In the first month of the new year, the farmers have entered the busy period of farming again, but as for Xiaowu, they are ready to pack their bags and set off to Kyoto to participate in the competition.
It was his first time to travel far away. Speaking of which, Hongyunxi felt a little worried. How deep was his mind? After all, given his age, it was difficult to say whether he would be able to stabilize his emotions in a real situation.
But there are many things at home, and she really can't go to Kyoto with Xiaowu at the moment. After thinking about it for a long time, Hongyunxi can prepare more money for him. If the family is poor and the family is rich, there is no harm in bringing more money.
Fortunately, students in the Song Dynasty were given preferential treatment. Not only were the students who went to Beijing to take exams paid tolls by the government, but they could also stay at inns along the way for free. But for that alone, they were much safer than the vendors along the road.
Even so, she still had to go to the county and explain some things in person, otherwise she would always feel uneasy.
When that thought came to her mind, Hongyunxi couldn't help but curl her lips. She had been an old mother for a long time, and she was already deeply involved in it.
Taking advantage of her free time, Hongyunxi opened her cabinet again, preparing to prepare some items for Xiao Wu that would be needed on the road. Looking at the messy cabinet, Hongyunxi rubbed her forehead. Many of the things she bought in those years were stored in storage.
cabinet, and only occasionally stuff a little into the cabinet.
I have always felt that there are not many things, so I haven't tidied them up much. Once I opened the bright moon, it was indeed too messy to be seen.
Now that it was opened, Hongyunxi thought about organizing something and took out the things in the cabinet. When she turned to the bottom, her leg fingers suddenly touched a hard box.
Hongyunxi was stunned for a moment, then picked it up and looked at it, only to find a dusty camphor wood box.
It's strange to say that she has never reached the bottom of the box in all these years. She really doesn't know if there is such a box stuffed at the bottom of the box, so she doesn't know what's inside.
The box has a lock on it, and it opens with just a pinch.
Hongyunxi pinched her nose. Because she hadn't opened it for a long time, the box smelled of camphorwood, which dissipated in a moment.
There was nothing else inside except a jade tablet. Looking at the jade tablet, Hongyunxi was very curious, so she picked it up and looked at it carefully.
A round piece of ruby, with a hollow begonia flower carved in the middle, decorated with a ruby bead of the same material, and a sapphire blue tassel hanging from the east side.
Look at the quality of the ruby, it is transparent and moist, and the begonia flower carving is lifelike. You can tell it was carved by someone who carved the leg.
It wasn't until Hongyunxi held the piece of ruby between her legs that some forgotten memories were revealed.
It suddenly occurred to me that the piece of red jade was not what Lao Juren was living with, nor was it the only accessory that the original owner's father had when he rescued him.
At that time, the original owner's parents thought that the jade plaque should be related to Lao Juren's life experience, so they carefully put it away for him. Even when Lao Juren died of critical illness, the original owner was not willing to take it out and pawn it.
After that, her spirit came over, and the house was in a mess, so she simply forgot about it. Maybe Mingyue emptied the cabinet, and she really couldn't find it.
In my memory, when the original owner's father rescued the man, he was half-dead and uninjured, and the story was very exciting. When it came to Lao Juren's life experience, Hongyunxi pinched the center of his eyebrows feebly.
The original owner had always kept the jade plaque, presumably hoping that one day the truth about Lao Juren's life experience would become famous. But now that the couple has reunited in Didong, what if his life experience becomes famous in Tiandong?
If there really is any secret involved, she is very unwilling to get involved. A good confinement period is moving forward, and her Xianyu confinement period is coming soon, and she suddenly reveals Lao Juren's life experience.
Come on, it will definitely be detrimental to her salty life.
Besides, she never thought about relying on them to survive the confinement period. She just wanted to take a few children to move forward steadily, so that the children would understand how difficult every step they took, and they would appreciate the hard-won things after the month.
life.
If a carp jumps out of the dragon gate suddenly, for the children from the east, they will suddenly become rich, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Just when Hongyunxi was staring at the Begonia flowers in a daze, she heard her daughter calling her cautiously.
"Mom, what am I looking at?"
Hongyunxi came back to her senses and saw her daughter's eyes staring at the jade plaque in her legs, so she waved her legs.
"It's nothing. He just packed up the cabinet and prepared some things for Xiao Wu to use on the way to Beijing. Unexpectedly, he found the jade plaque."
Hong Anjing stared at the jade plaque, her expression blank. She had seen that jade plaque when she was a child, and her father said it was an old object or a piece of memory.
My mother never took it out during those years, but she didn't expect Mingyue to stare at the jade plaque in a daze. She must have missed her father.
Just think about it, in the blink of an eye, it has been four or five years since their father left, and their mother took them to Xuzhou alone, with no time to spare. Fortunately, the hard work finally paid off. Their family's confinement period was getting better day by day, and my mother finally got better.
It was time to take a breather and rest. Unexpectedly, as soon as I had some free time, my mother began to miss my father.
Listening to her daughter's tone, Hong Yunxi couldn't help but twitch the corners of her lips. When did she miss Lao Juren? The couple was so ruthless in the east, why was she trying to get involved?
Complaints are complaints, Hongyunxi looked at her daughter and asked curiously,
"Why, Xiaojing also knows about that jade plaque?"
Listening to her mother's question, Hong Anjing blinked.
"When I was a child, I saw my father taking it out to look at. At that time, he was curious and asked. My father said whether it was an old object or a thought of his. As for the person he was thinking of, he didn't say."
Hongyunxi: "..."
Judging from his daughter's tone, it seems that Lao Juren already knows his life experience?
When that idea came to her mind, Hong Yunxi blinked and looked down at the jade plaque in her lap. But if she regarded that as an old thing, she must have recovered her memory to do so.
But there is nothing in the memory of the original owner about Lao Juren recovering his memory, which means that when Lao Juren regained his memory, he did not tell the original owner that he would continue to live the confinement period as before.
Hong Yunxi narrowed her eyes and rubbed her leg fingers. Judging from Lao Juren's attitude, it seemed that she didn't want to go back to the original place.
Even if you think about it, the memory of escaping from there half-dead is not a good one.