The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 205 The Righteous Sister (1)
After the time to light the lamps, the sky was getting darker and darker. Zhao Jing thought that she would go back because she was afraid that the people in the Hou Mansion would worry about her going out all day.Yuan Shi was worried, so she only let Zhao Jing stay at home with her two children, and went to Piaoxiang Building to find Zhao Yong.

Zhao Jing looked at the cold pots and stoves at home, and started a fire in the kitchen with Zhao Da Niu. She hadn't been in the kitchen for a long time, and she still felt a bit clumsy when picking up the spatula. Fortunately, Yuan Shi made it at noon Zhao Jing steamed the steamed buns, fried shredded pickled cabbage and carrots, and stewed the leftover broth from last night, waiting for Yuan Shi and Zhao Yong to come back.

Zhao Yong twisted his heavy eyebrows when he heard Yuan Shi's words on the road, followed behind Yuan Shi, took a breath and said, "Mother, we can't keep these things, or we will use them as a dowry." Send the girl to the Hou Mansion."

After hearing this, Yuan Shi stopped in her tracks, frowned and looked at Zhao Yong and said, "Don't think that I don't know what you're thinking, that my sister is not our real sister, so we can't get this benefit, right? You Why are you so honest?" Yuan Shi said, wanting to poke Zhao Yong's forehead with her finger, but she endured it after thinking about it, and continued: "My sister doesn't know that she is not my own, but she is still our real brother and sister-in-law. You have drawn a clear line with her like this, so you won't be afraid that she will become suspicious? She thinks of us first when she gets a good thing. This is her whole heart. If you want to be alienated like this, then you can say it yourself, and I won't say it. "

After thinking about it, Zhao Yong felt that it made sense, and handed the small package in his hand to Yuan Shi and said, "Here, this is the red satin you asked me to buy for my sister. I picked the most expensive kind, and there are other miscellaneous ones. I also bought embroidery thread, these things are really not cheap!"

Yuan Shi reached out to look through the things inside, and said with a smile: "Hurry up, I have to send my sister back to the Hou Mansion in a while!"

Zhao Jing had dinner at her brother-in-law's house before going out with Zhao Yong.There were not many people on the street at night, and it was really inconvenient for her to walk at night with a girl's house.Zhao Yong stood one or two feet behind Zhao Jing, looked at her back, and couldn't help but said: "Sister, when you leave the cabinet, take all your things as dowry. Look at our house. Just that small broken yard, I can’t afford those things, so your sister-in-law and I can’t sleep well at night, what do you think?”

Zhao Jing stopped in her tracks after hearing this, and turned her head to glance at Zhao Yong who was following behind her. A man born and bred in the capital, looking at the five big and three rough, if the neighbors in the neighborhood watched them grow up together, no one outside could tell The two of them are dragon and phoenix twins.But for such a brother, Zhao Jing really didn't want to have a relationship with him.

"Brother, you are too polite. The emperor rewarded me with two or three carts of things. I just knew that you would not accept them, so I declined them all. If you think it is not safe to live on Gulou Street, I still have a house deed, right?" You and your sister-in-law can also move to the house given to me by the emperor, but the road is a bit far away, and it is not as convenient as this side."

Hearing this, Zhao Yong waved his hands again and again, and said vigorously: "That kind of house is not suitable for people like us to live in. What the emperor bestows on you is yours. After you marry Lord Hou, it will belong to Lord Hou. We still live in our small courtyard, and feel at ease."

Zhao Jing smiled and said: "Then brother, don't give up those few things. In fact, they are not good things. They are out of the palace. It is not easy to sell them for money, but they are just passed on at home."

Zhao Yong sighed and smoked the dry tobacco. Even if he had never seen the world, he knew that the things that come out of the palace must be priceless. Those few things are just the same, and they are enough for a family like them to live a few lifetimes that's it.But he thinks that Zhao Jing is not a girl for money, but if she refuses again, it will be like what Yuan said, afraid that Zhao Jing will be suspicious.

"Then I'll save it for you first, and then take it back when you remember it later." Zhao Yonghan said with a smile, but Zhao Jing still felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. After all, her brother and sister-in-law were more polite to herself.

It was already the end of Xu when the two arrived at the Hou Mansion, Zhao Jing stepped forward and knocked on the door, the servants of the Hou Mansion concierge were waiting for her to come back, when they saw Zhao Jing, they rushed out to greet her, Zhao Jing looked at the night It was already deep, and I was about to prepare a carriage to take Zhao Yong back, when I turned around, I saw Zhao Yong standing outside the door and greeted him: "Sister, I'm leaving first!"

Zhao Jing quickly stopped him and said, "Brother, wait for a while, I will let the car from the Hou's Mansion take you for a ride."

Zhao Yong's footsteps were very fast, and he had already walked thirty or fifty steps in a short time. He waved at Zhao Jing and said, "No need, I'll walk back, but it's only half an hour later."

Zhao Jing didn't insist anymore, and shouted at Zhao Yong: "Brother, you go back and tell your sister-in-law, I will send someone to pick up the big girl tomorrow, and ask her to prepare some clothes for the big girl."

Zhao Jing didn't know if Zhao Yong heard it, but she watched his figure go farther and farther. She stood at the door and watched his back disappear at the intersection, and turned back to the mansion.

(End of this chapter)