The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 421 Mid-Autumn Festival (1)
The Mid-Autumn Festival dinner was held in the water pavilion in the back garden of the Hou Mansion. It was surrounded by water on three sides and faced a lotus pond in the east. The moon rose from the water, and it was the best place to enjoy the moon by the water.

After a busy day, the maids and wives finally tidied up the place properly and put on the newly cut azure soft smoke curtains. There were all kinds of palace lanterns hanging around, illuminating the entire water pavilion brightly.

Mrs. Xu had already changed her clothes and came over. It was very windy on the water at night. She suffered from backaches when she was young, but now she doesn't dare to be cold.Boys from outside also came in, and Feng Wei, Lord Hou's adoptive son, was not at the house because he went back to spend the holiday with his mother.Zhao Erhu and Zhao Da Niu were also picked up by Zhao Yong one day earlier, and the family reunited for the festival.

The girls all got together to talk, and Mrs. Xu beckoned Qi Jiabao to pass by. The little baby has grown a lot recently, and now she has lost a lot of weight from her previous chubby mass, but fortunately, she has a strong body.The old lady was originally from the village, pinched the bulging muscles on his little arms, and stopped nagging that he had lost weight again.

"It's a pity that your eldest aunt is not in good health. Otherwise, on a day like today, we should have taken her here and reunited together." Mrs. Xu couldn't help sighing when she thought of the Qi family's aunt. Tone, I don't know how the two sisters celebrate the festival when they are at home?

Qi Jiabao's temperament is calmer now, after hearing this, he only opened his mouth to comfort the old lady and said: "Old Ancestor, what a pity, you can come over when your aunt recovers next year, there is Mid-Autumn Festival every year! "

Mrs. Xu also became more and more old-fashioned when she saw him talking, she was completely different from the naughty and jumpy temperament before, she was both happy and uncomfortable in her heart.The joy is that Qi Jiabao is sensible after all, at least she didn't spoil the only seedling of the Qi family; but thinking of him at such a young age, he already understood the burden on his shoulders, and couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

"Brother Bao is right, we still have New Year's Eve if the Mid-Autumn Festival is not available! If the New Year's Eve is not a Lantern Festival, we can still be reunited. In short, the whole family can be reunited." The old lady took a small plate of hazelnuts and handed it to Qi Jiabao to eat Going, looking up, I saw Xu Junhong sitting alone on a chair not far away, staring blankly at the moon outside, looking rather pitiful.

This child was adopted by Mrs. Xu in Yanzhou's hometown when Mama Sun was around.At that time, there were quite a few children in the clan, either too big or too young, and only this child was of a moderate size. I thought that after raising him for a while, I would be able to get acquainted with him eventually, but who knew he had only come here not long ago. Xu Siping died in childbirth.The old lady was also reluctant to part with the twins, so she took them back to the Hou's mansion to raise them, so she didn't have much energy to take care of the children.

Later, Xu Si'an hired a husband, and when Xu Junhong reached his age, he was raised in an outer courtyard. Since then, he has seen Mrs. Xu even less.With twins and girls around her, the old lady gradually didn't care much about her adopted grandson.

The old lady Xu thought about it vaguely at this time, when Xu Junhong was a child, he was cute, although he was not as clever as Qi Jiabao now, but he was still tiger-headed and tiger-headed, not the bookworm he is now.

"Brother Hong, come here!"

The old lady beckoned to Xu Junhong, the child stared at him cleverly, the maid at the side saw it, and said to him with a smile: "Second young master, the old lady is calling you!"

Only then did Xu Junhong stand up from his chair, walked up to Mrs. Xu and saluted, "Greetings to our ancestors."

Mrs. Xu nodded with a smile. She didn't know what to say for a while, so she smiled and said, "Don't just sit around and eat fruit with Brother Bao!"

Xu Junhong's face was slightly red when he heard this, as if shy, the old lady took an agate plate of peeled pomegranate from the fruit plate at hand, and handed it to him: "Go, go!"

The child took it with a silly smile, and happily went to find Qi Jiabao.Seeing him go, the old lady Xu sighed, with a slight smile on her face, and Zhang's mother on the side smiled and said: "Brother Hong is also a sensible person, the old lady is really full of children and grandchildren now." !"

Mrs. Xu was naturally happy, but what she valued most right now must be the baby in Zhao Jing's womb.

Xu Si'an changed into casual clothes in the room, a crow blue silk robe with dark patterns of fanciflower. He usually wears official robes of generals, which looks too serious. This set of clothes was made by Mrs. Xu before Zhao Jing passed the door. Let the needleworker come and tailor the clothes for him.Now that it's autumn, wearing it on the body, the chest area is a little tight.

(End of this chapter)