my grandmother

Chapter 168 This Broken Mouth

The place chosen by Mrs. Wei Fourth is not far from where Li Xiaonan reads. There is a half-side pavilion next to the rockery, and the pavilion on the opposite side is connected to the Jiuqu Bridge.

Wan Qing stood outside the Xiaoxuan Pavilion with her hands down, and Yulan stood opposite Wan Qing, both of them were worried, their eyes were slanted and worried about their own, and neither of them could take a look at each other.

On the terrace facing the water, Mrs. Wei Si and Mrs. Pan Jiu are fishing with their rods.

Li Xiaonan arrived a little late, Mrs. Shi sat on the brocade couch leaning on the rockery, leaning slightly.

Li Xiaonan sat on the gooseneck chair on one side of the pavilion, turned around and looked around, then turned to look at Mrs. Shi.

"Excuse me." Mrs. Shi was silent for a moment, lowering her eyes.

"Don't bother, I'm not busy." Li Xiaonan looked at the thin and gloomy Mrs. Shi, feeling a little sad.

There are too few outlets for women in this era, especially noble girls like them.

"Our family has been with Prince Rui's Mansion, Pan's, Wei's, Wen's, and Fu's families since the founding of the country, and we have been in-laws for generations. Prince Rui's Mansion, Pan's, and Wei's are even better friends."

Mrs. Shi lowered her eyes and spoke softly.

"As far as I can remember, I spent as much time in Prince Rui's Mansion as I did in our house. Later, when I grew up, I often heard the second aunt and the princess joke about wanting me to be the son's wife.

"Later, he and I grew up a little bit, and we were ignorant. Once, the prince traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, returned to the capital, and gave me a stack of handkerchiefs. I said I don't need the outer handkerchiefs. Why should I use them?" Send me this?"

Mrs. Shi's throat was choked, she looked at the handkerchief in her hand, after a while, lifted the handkerchief slightly, looked at Li Xiaonan and said, "Do you know what this handkerchief means?"

"Horizontal silk is also vertical silk." Li Xiaonan smiled dryly, "The flower twisters in the weaving workshop sang this kind of song the most. There are thousands of silks in the pattern, and the silks are endless."

"Well, after the son's 12-year-old crown ceremony, we got engaged. Ever since I was sensible, I knew I was going to marry him. All these years, I only have him in my eyes and in my heart. How to assist him, how to take a good look at Prince Rui's mansion, even!"

Mrs. Shi's words stopped abruptly, for a moment, she said in a low voice: "What if I can't give birth to a son, how to raise the child, if there are two or three sons, how to arrange their future.

"Originally, Qin Tianjian had already set the date of marriage. Last spring, I was supposed to marry into Prince Rui's residence, but he withdrew his marriage. There is no reason."

Li Xiaonan sighed.

Everything in the world arises and ceases due to conditions, and nothing happens without a reason, but she doesn't know the causes and conditions.

"My mother persuaded me, my father persuaded me, my second aunt persuaded me, everyone persuaded me, but I used to hold pearls and jade in my hand, but now I'm asked to grab a piece of gravel, and I don't even have a decent gravel."

Mrs. Shi choked again, and for a while, she looked at Li Xiaonan with bitterness on her face, "If it were me instead, wouldn't you just let it go? How can you not let it go?"

"Hey, people are different. If I were replaced, I would not be suitable for such a big and powerful palace. The princess would definitely look down on me, and I would..."

Li Xiaonan hesitated for a moment, swallowed back her disdain for three words, and changed her words: "I don't like marrying someone like Shizi. In my eyes, Shizi's only good thing is that he is pretty good-looking. If I were you... ..."

Li Xiaonan spread her hands and smiled dryly.

If it were her, it would be smashing the golden lock and returning to the sea, and she would die laughing several times.

Mrs. Shi glared at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan remembered Gu Yan's confession, and hurried back.

"People are different from each other, I think, you have to think about it first, you want to marry the prince because everyone thinks so, everyone says that since childhood, you are told by them over and over again, that you want to marry Prince, if you still want to marry, it comes from your heart.

"If you want to marry from the bottom of your heart, think again and see if you can figure out the reasons and put them in order. If you want to marry him, the first one is because he treats you well? Give you a handkerchief Or is it because he is good-looking? Because his family is rich? He is generous? Because he is the son of a prince, has power, or something else.

"Emotions, what about you, it's a matter of feelings, that's also a matter, right? No matter what you are dealing with, you must first clarify the cause and current situation, find the key points, and then outline the key points, directors, etc. You must be much better than me .”

Li Xiaonan tried her best to talk nonsense, trying to make the nonsense seem to make sense.

Emotions, she has always felt like the stunning beauty of travel, you don’t know where you will meet, maybe you look up through the car window, maybe it’s a turn, and you find yourself standing in a fantasy scene , but in a blink of an eye, the light and shadow change, and the wonder does not exist.

When you see and meet, feel it wholeheartedly. When the scenery disappears, you can move forward calmly. There is no need to be sad. The beautiful scenery is like delicious food. After seeing and eating, it will become a part of yourself and make yourself better.

The same goes for feelings.

Mrs. Shi frowned gradually, stayed for a while, and murmured: "I've never thought about this, so why should I think about it?"

"Then what do you usually not want to do?" Li Xiaonan scratched her head a little.

She is very good at persuading girlfriends who are broken in love, such as not going to the old one and not coming to the new one; for example, breaking up a relationship is the best for wealth, concentrate on work and make money quickly; for example, every man who leaves you is because he is not worthy of your future...

But now the time and space are very different, and the only career of these noble girls is to be a husband and a child.

"The son is irritable. The princess told me since I was a child: Watch carefully. If the son is impatient, you can persuade him. Later, if there is anything, they let me persuade the son. A Niang said, you Be careful, don't always wait for the princess to point out. I usually think about him."

Mrs. Shi's voice was extremely low, Li Xiaonan leaned forward and could only hear clearly by pricking up her ears.

"He went to the Hanlin Academy to listen to the lecture, and after listening to it for half an hour, he said that it was pedantic. I wanted to find an opportunity to persuade him. He has a quick temper and loves to gallop across the street. He always said that he would raise troops... I was thinking of him. Worried about his virtue, worried about whether I can persuade him."

Li Xiaonan raised her eyebrows when she heard this, "Then you often persuade him?"

"This is what a wife should do." After a pause, Mrs. Shi's expression turned gray.

The buyer must also, she has always been his unmarried wife, but he withdrew the marriage.

"I think this is what a mother should do, and it has to be when the child is young, before the age of five, six, seven or eight." Li Xiaonan hesitated for a moment, and said it bluntly.

Mrs. Shi was astonished.

"It's the same as if you sewed up your brother's clothes and made him sleep in socks.

"What's wrong with him not listening to Hanlin's lectures? Could it be that Hanlin's lectures are boring? What if they are really pedantic? Isn't it a waste of life to listen to their nonsense?

"He crossed the street with a horse, trampled to death? Kicked a street? If nothing happened, he has the ability, why can't he cross the street with a horse?
"There is also Xingbing, it is even more difficult to say, why are you persuading him?"

"As a prince, he is accompanied by the prince, how can he disrespect Hanlin? He has never stepped on anyone while crossing the street, but how can he be so unsteady? This hinders public opinion! Do you want to raise troops?" Mrs. Shi leaned forward and spoke extremely fast.

"You!" Li Xiaonan sighed, "I should have thought of it when Fourth Lady said you punished your younger brother like that.

"The good wife you want to be is to frame your husband into your standard. If you think that a standard man should be steady and serious, but if your husband likes to laugh, you must try to force him to be serious and not to laugh. What do you think a good man looks like, you have to do everything possible to transform your husband into the good man you think.

"Perhaps the prince saw it, so he retired."

After Li Xiaonan said the last sentence, she raised her hand and patted her mouth.

Her broken mouth!
Mrs. Shi pursed her lips tightly, looked directly at Li Xiaonan, and after a while, she said word by word: "The son is an important minister of the court, he is not an ordinary man."

"Well, as a husband, is there any difference between an important official of the court and an ordinary man? In short, you are rigidly set into your standard, oh!" Through your son to display your political ambitions?

"You are such a smart person, you probably have lofty ideals, I think if you have any ambitions, you can do it yourself, there is no need to use the method of manipulating men, it is too troublesome, it is too much work, it would be better if you just do it yourself. "

Mrs. Shi was angry and impatient, and she pointed at Li Xiaonan, shaking so hard that she couldn't speak.

"I don't mean that. I really think that if you want to do it, you can do it yourself. There is no difference between a woman and a man. We are all human. Everyone has ambitions. A drunk handsome guy is pregnant and wakes up to rule the world.

"No, no, that, I mean, I don't have that ability, I just want to be the richest man.

"You don't look very good. It must be too windy. I'll go first. Don't take it to heart. I'm just talking nonsense. Just treat me as a fart."

Li Xiaonan backed up while talking, backed to the entrance of the pavilion, turned around and ran away.

She felt that she had to find a place to hide from the limelight.

(End of this chapter)