latelenovela Chapter 228 Staying Overnight
Chapter 228 Staying Overnight
Seeing that everyone agreed, Shangguan Yue took out a large bag of silver and a waist badge and gave them to Li Qingzhu.
Li Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted it. The journey to the capital was long, and it would cost a lot for food and accommodation for the family, and the money at home was not enough.
He doesn't plan to sell this house. If they can't stay in Beijing anymore, they can still come back and have a place to stay.
"Uncle, these are for your use on the road. This waist badge is a token of our Shangguan family's business branches. You can eat and stay for free at any restaurant or inn marked with this waist badge.
If there are shopkeepers who don't believe in the token, you can show them this letter and they will not neglect it. "
Li Qingzhu took the letter and handed it to Li Bing. Li Bing unfolded the letter and took a look, feeling a little suspicious. There was nothing written in the letter, only: The distinguished person is traveling and must not be neglected.
The signature was stamped with a very special large seal with a unique shape and printed on it: special seal for business trips for some group.
Li Bing saw this kind of seal for the first time and found it very strange. He folded the letter and wanted to give it to Li Qingzhu to keep together, but Li Qingzhu asked Li Bing to keep it.
He was afraid it might be unsafe to keep all the things at once, so he thought it would be safer to keep them separately.
Shangguan Yue saw that everything had been explained clearly, so she asked her grandfather's family to set off as soon as possible. After all, the journey was too long, and the carriage journey would take a month or so. Given Li Bing's personality, he might not be willing to rent a carriage.
If she rents a ox cart, it might take two or three months. Fortunately, she can turn into a bird and fly for only a few hours. If she really has to ride in a ox cart for several months, she will be exhausted.
Seeing that his granddaughter, whom he hadn't seen for more than ten years, wanted to leave, Li Bing was unwilling to let her go. However, the house was really simple and his granddaughter was delicate, so he felt a little embarrassed to force her to stay.
How could Shangguan Yue not understand all this? If she left now, the relief and goodwill that Li Qingzhu had just felt would probably disappear completely. Not only would he not move to the capital, but they might even stop having any contact.
Li Qingzhu used to be a hot-tempered and vindictive person, but now he doesn't show it. Perhaps it's because his family has fallen into poverty and he has become depressed, so his temper has calmed down.
But it is precisely such a person who, once he explodes, is unimaginable. I don’t know what Li Qingzhu’s ability is. If he has outstanding abilities, he would be a talent.
It’s not that she didn’t want to stay, but she took a quick look at the place. Apart from a small hall, there were only five rooms, and the study was already used for teaching.
The remaining four rooms should be occupied by each of them, so where should she and Xiaolan sleep? Could it be that they turned into birds and occupied other people's bird nests in the middle of the night?
It was fine for her because she could go into her space to sleep in the middle of the night, but Xiao Lan didn't know that she had a space, and she didn't want too many people to know about her space for the time being.
Moreover, she has not tried whether this space can bring people other than herself, so she has to ease the atmosphere now.
"Grandpa, I want to go to the toilet. Where is it? Oh, Grandpa, I want to leave in a few days. Is there a place for me to stay?"
"Ah? Oh, oh, then let your aunt take you there, and you can stay for a few days. How can you not have a place to stay? It's just that the place is shallow, narrow and simple. I'm afraid but I'm not used to it."
"I'm used to it. How can I not be used to it? My father ate wild grass and tree bark when he was on the march and fighting, and slept in a cowshed with a mountain of corpses. Grandpa's unique little courtyard is like a paradise on earth, a paradise on earth!"
Shangguan Yue was not lying. Shangguan Yan's military achievements were won at the risk of his life. This remote mountain village has only a dozen households. The Li family living at the end of the village is truly a secluded paradise.
"That's good, that's good. You sleep with your aunt, and I'll take care of Doudou. The little book boy will sleep in Doudou's room. Is this arrangement okay?"
Li Bing wiped his eyes happily. This granddaughter was well educated. His decision to let his second daughter marry Shangguan Yan was right. Shangguan Yan was indeed a good person and she kept her promise when she proposed to her.
"He, did your father really eat wild grass and tree bark when he was on the march? He slept on a mountain of corpses..."
Li Qingzhu hesitated for a long time but still couldn't help asking Shangguan Yue.
"That's natural. My father said that on the battlefield, things change rapidly and no one knows what might happen. We might win or lose.
If you win, you can't be complacent. If you lose, you can't be depressed, but you have to boost morale. If there is no food, grass roots and bark can also be food. If there is no bed, then use the enemy's corpse as a bed. "
"Good! Very good! My brother-in-law is truly worthy of being called a great general."
Li Qingzhu's tone was full of excitement and admiration.
"Okay! Dad, brother, let me take Xiaoyue to the toilet first. You can ask her when she comes back. Xiaoyue will be staying here for several days anyway!"
Li Ruomei smiled and took Shangguan Yue's hand and walked out of the house.
Shangguan Yue was stunned for a moment. That's right! She forgot the excuse of going to the toilet. She was not in a hurry. She was not in a hurry at all. She really wanted to talk to them about Shangguan Yan, the cheap father.
I have to praise Shangguan Yan. He is indeed a great general worthy of praise and a very good husband. However, he is not a good father because he is like a gift.
Shangguan Yue had a very pleasant day at the Li family. They talked about many things that had happened in their Li family over the years. Shangguan Yue also talked about everything that had happened in the Shangguan family over the past decade.
Li Bing felt distressed when he learned that his second daughter had also experienced so much hardship. Fortunately, she had survived it all and now had such a well-behaved daughter and had given birth to three legitimate sons. Good days were yet to come!
Li Qingzhu had never expected that his cowardly and introverted second sister could be so tenacious and survive in the cannibalistic general's mansion. She not only rectified the mansion but also became the only hostess of the mansion. He was really impressed.
He really wanted to go to the capital to see his second sister now, but what he wanted to see even more was his second brother-in-law, the great general, to ask him whether his brother-in-law's martial arts were really as Xiaoyue said.
The evening's arrangements were as Li Bing had said, Shangguan Yue and Li Ruomei slept together.
When I arrived at Li Ruomei's boudoir, I didn't expect that although the room was simple, it was very clean, elegant and comfortable. The bed curtain was actually made by Li Ruomei herself and was embroidered with hibiscus flowers.
There are many small dolls made of fine cloth and bird and animal fur hanging outside the bed curtains. They look fun and childish. It seems that Li Ruomei has grown up, but she is still very innocent at heart.
On the dressing table in front of the bed was a large wicker basket filled with embroidery cotton thread, scissors and many semi-finished embroidery products.
Shangguan Yue picked up a half-embroidered handkerchief from the basket. The embroidery was of a little bird standing on a branch of red plum.
The bird's eyes are surprisingly lifelike. Ordinary cotton thread is used, but the transition between light and dark colors is used to make the bird's feathers shiny and lustrous, as if they were embroidered with silk thread.
She turned around and looked at the back, which surprised her...