Tong Jia anecdote

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On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Huizheng rose and opened, and the 29th day.

Tong Jiu was very drunk yesterday, and when he woke up, the sun was shining on the kang from the window, and it was already time for the sun to shine.As usual, on 29 Yangzhengtang will distribute dividends to each family, and the patriarch will bring the filial sons and grandsons of the Fucha family to worship the ancestors.So early in the morning, Ji Lan went to the Yangzheng Hall.

Jing Fu's arm injury was a little better, so Hong Xiao came over to wait on Tong Jiu to wash and change clothes.

"Pick out a plain gown. After dinner, I'm going out." Hong Xiao didn't know whether Tong Jiu didn't see Ji Lan because she opened her eyes, or she felt uncomfortable. face, feeling puzzled.

He muttered, "Where do you not wear something bright when you go to the New Year, and you have to choose those plain ones for what you do?" I had to put down the pink silk cotton cloak I was holding in my hand, and picked out a beige one with Jin Yunshou pattern. The gold-woven satin robe came out and put it on for her.

Stretching out her hands to fasten the gilt-copper and chiseled buttons on the robe one by one, when she reached the button under her arm, Hong Xiao took advantage of the situation to look in front of Tong Jiu's eyes and asked tentatively, "What's on your mind again? "

Tong Jiu was pinching the snuff bottle and smelling it. After sneezing, she sniffed and said, "Bomuer committed suicide in fear of crime. Later, let the boys prepare the horses. I will go to the west of the city by myself, and you don't have to follow." .”

Not long after Tong Jiu left, Ji Lan came back from the Yangzheng Hall and came in through the front door of Hui Zhengsheng, but she didn't see Tong Jiu.

The shopkeeper saw that she just came back from the outside, and briefly reported the business in the shop and some contacts with the Prime Minister and us.

Hearing that Tong Jiu hadn't been to the shop today, Ji Lan walked towards the main room at the back and entered the room without seeing Tong Jiu.When she was wearing a thick cloak, Hong Xiao came over and said that Tong Jiu had eaten and had gone to Shiliting in the west of the city.

"Duanduan, why did you think of going there again?" Ji Lan frowned when she heard that she went out with only a servant.

Ever since Jing Fu was injured, she has been locking Tong Jiu on the cabinet to prevent her from going far.Today, I went back to the stall of Yangzhengtang, but Tong Jiu just ran out by herself.

"I don't know who she heard from, but the youngest of the Guan family committed suicide in fear of crime." Hong Xiao replied.

After thinking left and right, Ji Lan still felt uneasy, so she said to Hong Xiao, "Jing Fu's injury is also better. Let them take a car, and you take a few people to meet her in the west of the city. If there is nothing wrong, let She'll come back earlier." Then he asked Fuchami to call for someone, and accompanied Hongxiao all the way.

He said again, "It's twenty-nine years old, and she's still going out for a walk. Grandma is going to have a reunion dinner at noon, so it's too late to find her now."

Besides, Tong Jiu took a young man out of the house, bought wine, meat, snacks and burnt paper, and went to the cemetery behind the west mountain in Shili Pavilion in the west of the city.Since the last visit, the small fenced courtyard before has been converted into a small temple for Tong Jiu's natal Buddha.

The path outside the courtyard has also been repaired, the inside and outside of the cemetery has been fenced off, and there are a few more elderly gravekeepers.It doesn't look as bleak as it did when I first came here.

The boy tied up the horse, and Tong Jiu stepped on the green snow on the mountain road, carrying burnt paper, and walked to the cemetery.When I arrived at the cemetery, I saw a man kneeling in front of the main grave.

The filial piety that the man was wearing at the moment, under the reflection of the winter sun, was as dazzling as the speckled snow on the graves near and far, and made people feel chills.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the man turned his head, with a bloodless face and bloodshot eyes.

"Mu Yun—." Tong Jiu was a little surprised, and called out in a daze.

"Jiu'er? Jiu'er!" Mu Yun looked at Tong Jiu who suddenly appeared in front of him, and heard her calling him, feeling a little dazed.Tong Jiu under the sun was like a dream, Mu Yun blinked her red and swollen eyes, stood up slowly and stumbled towards Tong Jiu.

Rubbing Tong Jiu's face tentatively with trembling hands, feeling that he was frozen to the point where he almost lost consciousness on his fingertips, when the warmth came from the real touch, Mu Yun choked up and hugged Tong Jiu tightly, woo I cried out loudly.

"Jiu'er, take me away. Let's go to the grassland, go to Horqin, wherever we want, as long as we are together." Mu Yun collapsed in Tong Jiu's arms, sobbing uncontrollably, "Jiu'er, take me away, take me away I'll go, okay—"

"Mu Yun, Mu Yun—" Hearing Mu Yun's heartbreaking cries of despair and repeated begging, Tong Jiu's heart seemed to be squeezed by an invisible hand, and the pain made her almost Can't breathe.

Pulling off the cloak and wrapping it around the shivering woman in her arms, I could smell the familiar and depended on her since childhood.With a gust of cold wind, Tong Jiu shivered, looking up at the sky above her head, not letting her tears fall.

"Jiu'er, take me away." Mu Yun hugged Tong Jiu's neck firmly, looked at Tong Jiu with blurred eyes, repeated these words like a demon, his voice was already hoarse from crying.

"Mu Yun, Mu Yun, don't cry." Seeing her crying like this, Tong Jiu held her face, gently wiped the tears on her face with her cuff, and said, "Mu Yun, I will take you away." , let's go now."

After speaking, he took Mu Yun out, pulled the reins of the horse at the door, hugged Mu Yun onto the horse, turned himself over, whipped the horse and rushed out.

"Hey, isn't that Master Jiu!" On the official road, the coachman who was driving Hong Xiao and Fuchami's carriage watched Tong Jiu riding past in front of him, and said to Hong Xiao in the carriage behind him, "Both of you Auntie, Master Jiu is coming back, shall we go to Shiliting?"

Hong Xiao lifted the curtain of the car and poked her head out to look into the distance. She vaguely saw two people immediately, and hurriedly said to the coachman, "What are you waiting for, hurry over."

After chasing for a long time, Fang caught up with Tong Jiu's horse and forced her to stop on the side of the road. Hong Xiao and Fu Chami in the car got out of the car quickly, regardless of their messy makeup.

"This—." Seeing that Mu Yun was in Tong Jiu's arms, Hong Xiao's face changed drastically, and she snatched the rein in Tong Jiu's hand with hatred, and scolded sharply, "Brother Jiu, what are you going to do?" what!"

Seeing Tong Jiu's distressed face, she must have lost her head, Hong Xiao threw off the reins, grabbed Tong Jiu's belt with both hands, and said, "Get down first." Tong Jiu's face was ashen, and she didn't move.

Hongxiao snatched the whip from her hand, grabbed her belt with one hand and whipped her back with the other, shouting angrily, "Come down! Come down!"

"Presumptuous, what are you going to do?" Tong Jiu felt the pain, turned over from the horse, glared at Hong Xiao angrily, and grabbed the whip in her hand.

"Madam is still waiting for you to eat at the mansion." Hong Xiao stood in a stalemate with her for a moment, looked at her and said something, seeing Tong Jiu's brows twitch, pushed the horsewhip in her hand to her, and said decisively to the people behind her. A boy said, "Please get Master Jiu into the car!"

"Jiuer—" Seeing Tong Jiu being dragged into the carriage by several servants, Mu Yun got off the horse as if awakened from a dream, and ran towards the carriage shouting, but was stopped by Hong Xiao hugged.

"Miss Biao, hate me if you want." Hong Xiao hugged Mu Yun who was about to break free, and said out of breath while struggling, "Brother Jiu and Madam are already husband and wife, I can't let her , let her be confused for a moment, and do such unconscionable things."

Hong Xiao felt her body sink, and Mu Yun, who had been tossing about for a long time, passed out.

Tong Jiu, who returned to the mansion, went to wash and change clothes in a dull mood.After that, go through the main hall in front, and have lunch with Grandma Han and other people in the house.

When she had just washed up, Fuchami had already arrived at Jilan to speak.

Tong Jiu just entered the entrance of the hall, and saw Ji Lan standing by the door with a cold face, looking at him coldly, as if he wanted to see through him.Tong Jiu moved over listlessly, lowered her head, and looked at Ji Lan and her own shoes.

"Let's eat first." Ji Lan sighed, turned around and walked in.

"Ama!" As soon as Tong Jiu came in, Su Le ran over, grabbed Tong Jiu's arm, and talked about learning how to ride a horse.Tong Jiu was busy these days, and the two children only took a hasty look at her when they were greeting her. The two children, especially Su Le, still cared about her.

Seeing that Tong Jiu was seated, the grandma of the Han family said, "Lu Qi, what important business has to be done on the [-]th or [-]th year? The money can't be exhausted, and the family is happy , no amount of silver can be exchanged."

"Yes, yes." Tong Jiu nodded receptively, looked at his pocket watch, and said with a dry smile, "It's getting late, so let's wait a long time. The children are hungry, let's have a feast."

After lunch and some tea with Grandma Han, they went their separate ways.

Tong Jiu and Ji Lan went back to the room one after the other.

The two were silent for a moment, but it was Ji Lan who spoke first, "Since you have made up your mind to go to the grassland with her, then go."

"Aji, I didn't think about what to do with her." Tong Jiu frowned and explained, "I just can't see her like this. She just died and was alone in Guan's house. I—"

"That's your business." Ji Lan took the Four Treasures of the Study from the case, put it in front of Tong Jiu, and said, "Xiu Li or He Li, you choose."

Tong Jiu looked at the pen and ink in front of him, his expression changed, and he said, "Aji, we are husband and wife."

"Husband and wife?" Ji Lan nodded with a smile, took off the jade wrench from his thumb, threw it on the desk, and said, "When you were about to run to Horqin with Qi Jia Muyun in your arms, did you ever think that we are husband and wife? What? Have you thought about it!"

"Aji, I was wrong." Tong Jiu picked up the finger wrench on the case and took Ji Lan's hand.

But was thrown away by Ji Lan, Ji Lan raised his voice a few times, and asked, "In this case, did you say less? Who asked the third girl to be a witness, saying that those old things are over. It's Who answered me repeatedly, telling me about Yu Hetang and her, Qi Jia Muyun, and never bothering me anymore?"

"It's me." Tong Jiu rubbed the finger in his hand, and said weakly, "It's me, I overestimated myself."

"Han Luqi, it's better to think about what you want first, and then make a wish for others." Ji Lan got up and said to the outside, "Sister Qin, pack your things, let's go back to the main hall."

"Aji, don't go." Tong Jiu embraced Ji Lan and said weakly, "I won't let you go."

Ji Lan tried her best to suppress her anger, pushed Tong Jiu away, and said angrily, "You hugged another woman, don't hug me again!"

"Aji——." Ji Lan became angry, Tong Jiu was already afraid, and it was justifiable for him to do such a thing.He had no choice but to stand in front of Ji Lan and not let her go.