Wishing You Eternal Happiness - Chapter 117

This evening, Gaffer did not go back.

The courtyard where she and Pei Youan lived was still empty, the sandalwood was cleaned up, the bedding was laid, and Jiafu stayed in.

Cui Yinshui also came later, and the young emperor sent an dictum that he ordered the imperial physician to stay in the Guogong Mansion for full treatment, while Cui Yinshui served Jiafu.

“Long live the slaves and maidservants to spread the word, please take care of your wife and don’t be sad.” Cui Yinshui said.

Gaffer was a bit pleased, a bit proud, and a bit sad.

Her Ci’er is only so big, but what she says has a bit of old-fashioned meaning.

She was not sleepy either. She sat under the lamp, accompanied by sandalwood, talking gossip and sewing, and suddenly heard a few voices outside. Sandalwood took a look and came back: “It’s the girl from the second master’s house. She is in a mess, and she ran here.”

The girl’s name was Sister Hui, and Jiafu hurriedly asked Sandalwood to bring her in. Sandalwood agreed, and after a while, Sandalwood led sister Hui in. The little girl stopped after a pingji, her hair disheveled, and her face was stained with stains of tears after crying. She looked at Jiafu timidly, not daring at first. near.

Jia Fu walked over with a smile, took her hand, and led her to sit by the bed. Sandalwood went to wash her face and hands with a basin of warm water, Jia Fu removed her disheveled braids, took a comb, and smoothed her slowly, tied her with two braids, and looked closely. He stopped and smiled and said, “Auntie doesn’t have a daughter. If you are fine in the future, remember to come to Auntie to play often.”

Zhou Jiao’e was not bad to this daughter before her death. It was just that she was irritable, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were at odds, her husband did not love, and her life was not going well. In this way, for many years, coupled with the fact that her grandmother and father didn’t show much love for her, sister Hui was timid since she was a child. In the past three years, Jiafu lived in the Guogong Mansion. Zhou Jiao’e, because of jealousy, would not allow her daughter to come to Jiafu on weekdays, but in the bottom of her heart, Sister Hui looked so kind to this young aunt who looked so nice and smiled extremely well. , But cherished a deep feeling of admiration. Suddenly her mother was gone tonight. The nanny and the girl in front of her were worried about their way out in the future. They were panicked, and people didn’t know where they went. She was scared in her heart and found it unconsciously.

Sister Hui opened her eyes wide and stared at Jia Fu blankly for a moment, tears welled up again.

Gaffer took her into her arms and patted her on the back.

Gradually, the little girl closed her eyes in her arms and fell asleep.

At this time, there was another movement outside.

The nurse finally found out that Sister Hui was missing, and found her here.

Jiafu gently laid Sister Hui on the bed and told Tanxiang to go out and spread the word. Sister Hui fell asleep and told her to stay here for the night, and come and pick her up again in the morning.

The nurse promised to respond and bowed and retired.

Gaffer covered the girl with a quilt and asked Sandalwood to rest, and slept on the outside.

Second, there was news from the second room that Pei Xiuluo was seriously injured and had just died.

Jiafu got up and dressed and hurried over. Before the people entered the hospital, he heard a cry and walked in. He saw Cao holding his one-year-old son in his arms. Several people gathered around the bed, crying in sorrow. .

The imperial doctor said: “The third master was injured too badly, and I am unable to recover…”

He sighed, bowed to Gaffer, and backed out.

The second wife sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes flushed, her eyes straightened, and she looked at Jia Fu, and gradually, her eyes fell in the direction of the doorway behind her, as if she had seen something, her eyes suddenly widened, stubbornly. Staring, showing fear.

Gaffer turned her head and saw that behind her was empty, the door was dark and there was no foreign body.

The second lady couldn’t even sit still. She slipped on her knees and kowtowed her head crying: “Please, let my son go… I didn’t mean it… You don’t come to me… I will burn it for you. Paper money, I’ll do things for you, you go back quickly, don’t come to me…”

“Second lady! Second lady!”

The servant woman yelled in panic and went up to help her, but the second lady yelled, as if she saw a ghost, pushed away those hands, got up from the ground, turned around and ran like a deadly head, and hit the wall with her head, “Gudong “With a sound, his eyes turned white, and the person fell to the ground and passed out into a coma.

The servant wives were shocked and frightened, and they all looked at Jia Fu.

Jiafu asked her to take her back to the house, and ordered the servant wife to perform their duties. There was also news from the big room that Mrs. Xin was also ill, and she had a fever and talked nonsense. Fortunately, Brother’s injury is not bad. Stable, and did not continue to deteriorate, Jiafu asked the imperial doctor to go for a treatment, and then arranged a rest.

This messy night finally passed completely.

In the middle of the night of the next day, Pei Youan rushed back and listened to Jiafu’s recount of his passing. When he was silent, the servants came to report and said that Pei Quan was asking to see him outside.

Jiafu followed to the door and saw Pei Quan holding his grandson, and the two were standing in the courtyard. He looked haggard, his eyes were swollen, and his whole person looked a lot older. Seeing Pei Youan, he couldn’t make a sound before he could speak, and he raised his robe to kneel down.

Pei Youan stepped up and immediately lifted him up, and asked Pei Quan to go to the ancestral house at home for a while. After speaking, he saw the child looking up at him, pure eyes, ignorant, touched his head, and then called someone. Go and pass Pei Xiuzhi together and say: “You tell him, I have something to say.”

The subordinate accepted the message, turned and hurried away.

Pei Youan was about to go out, but stopped again.

He turned his head, looked at Gaffer standing in the door and was staring at him, and smiled at her with a warm smile.

Waiting for Gaffer to return to him with a smile.

He nodded, then took the child’s hand and walked out with him.

Gaffer watched him and gradually walked out of the courtyard.

In the middle of the night, in the ancestral house of the Guogong’s mansion, the candle was brightly lit and ignited for a long time. Pei Youan, Pei Quan, and Pei Xiuzhi stayed here for a long time. Except for the ancestors of the Pei family, no one knows what he said to them. The servants waiting outside the ancestral house only faintly heard Pei Xiuzhi’s crying from the door.

After Pei Youan left, he still knelt in front of the ancestor’s seat, and could not afford it for a long time until dawn.

When Pei Youan returned to the room, it was nearly four shifts. Gaffer had been waiting for him, hearing the familiar sound of steady footsteps, joy in his heart, and immediately rushed to the door to meet him.

In this life, from the acquaintance to the present, it has been more than ten years in the blink of an eye. She lost her youth with cardamom, and he stood too early and began to enter middle age. The people around you, come and go, go, and right and wrong are hard to judge, but only two hearts are still the same.

In front of him, she will always be the charming girl who called his eldest cousin in the post house, and dashed towards him desperately, only willing to cling to him.

Pei Youan pushed the door and walked in. Seeing her with a smile on his face, he greeted him quickly. That night, the heavy and regrets still in his heart disappeared in an instant.

He smiled, picked her up and put her on the bed, whispering to her for not sleeping.

Gaffer leaned back on the pillow, and tugged his sleeves: “You haven’t returned, I won’t sleep!”

Pei Youan smiled, with a bit of helplessness, took off his coat, lay down with her, turned sideways, embraced her with one arm, and patted her heart gently: “I’m back, go to sleep .”

Gaffer’s arms clasped his waist habitually.

“Big cousin, is there anything I need to do?”

After a moment, she asked softly.

Pei Youan was silent for a moment.

“Fuer, there will be a funeral at home tomorrow, and the outside world will only say that the warehouse is on fire, the fire has spread, and unfortunately, it has affected lives. I will come forward for external matters, and the rest…”

“I know.” Gaffer nodded immediately, “I have ordered sandalwood to pack my things in the morning. I will stay for some time and take care of things.”

“Thanks for your hard work.” Pei Youan stroked her long hair.

Gaffer smiled at him: “I don’t work hard. You are.”

Pei Youan kissed her, and finally hugged her tightly in his arms, and sighed: “Fu’er, uncle will raise the child well, and Xiuzhi will also swear in front of the ancestors. From now on, he will be angry and take good care of him. Mother and a pair of children. Just before I came back, I also went to see Xin’s. Seeing her like this, I remembered the scene when she resented and cursed in front of her father’s tablet when she was sixteen. Because I was born that year, their Their lives have also changed, just like the Xin family, a life of grievances, and now, there is no relief. Sometimes I suddenly wonder if they have never had me in this world, should their lives be happier than this world?”

Gaffer shook his head.

“Big cousin, a few days ago, I read Buddhist scriptures and talked about the sufferings of life. What are the eight sufferings? Birth, old age, sickness, and death, loving farewell, unwilling to ask, resentment, sorrow and sorrow. Born to live, suffering Just like a shadow, the wise are detached, and the insane is bound to themselves. Even without you, they will have other pains in their lives. The root is not in you, but in the human heart.”

“I don’t care about them. I only know, big cousin, without you, I will never be happy in my life. If I say, God arranged for you to come into this world and call me two lives, just to fulfill me, you believe it. Do not believe?”

Pei Youan looked slightly surprised, but did not interrupt, waiting for her to continue.

“Big cousin, do you still remember that you said before that you didn’t know what you did in your previous life. You have me in this life. How did I respond to you at that time?”

Without waiting for him to respond, she continued: “I said at the time that you saved me in your previous life, and I remember it in this life, so although you have forgotten me, I am dependent on you.”

“What I’m saying is true. Even if those are just a dream, I can only know that I have become so lucky because of you, big cousin.”

“In this life, even if there are unsatisfactory things, but I am a blessed person.”

Her tone was very solemn.

Pei Youan stared at her.

Gaffer cuddled up, wrapped his arms tightly around his neck, pressed her lips to his ears, and said in a low voice:

“Big cousin, at that time, you were also my eldest cousin, and I was also your cousin, but I don’t know how good you are, let alone the pain you bear. Mo Lu, until later, the only time I met again in the rest of my life, when I was the most desperate and helpless, you saved me without hesitation. Then I knew that there were still men like you in this world. After all this life, I remembered you, big cousin, you said, how could I miss it again?”

There was a faint light flashing in the bottom of Pei Youan’s eyes.

“Fu’er, I want to hear you tell me about your previous life dreams. I want to know how I saved you in your dreams.”

With a smile on her brows, her fingertips stroked his thin and handsome face lovingly, and finally leaned in and kissed him: “Then you have to be prepared. After all, that is not a pleasant story.”

Pei Youan was startled slightly, then laughed out of voice, picked up Jiafu, rolled her around on the bed, and finally let her lie on her chest.

Looking at each other, the two saw the self reflected in each other’s pupils.

“Didn’t we already have this world? Fuer and I will never be separated in this lifetime.”

He smiled and tightened his arms around her bit by bit, until he hugged her tightly in his arms.

There is no more gap between the two.

…

postscript.

…

In the early morning, the mountains were bright, the morning sun rose, and accompanied by a melodious morning bell, outside the gate of the Royal Ci’en Temple, a pair of special pilgrims arrived. Middle-aged men, tall, thin and handsome, dressed as ordinary scribes, women are extremely beautiful, the most rare thing, the eyes are still as clear as a girl, the corners of the lips smile slightly, and there is no extra decoration around the body. But relying on her husband, the two stood side by side outside the mountain gate, but they were truly simple and expensive, not the same.

The monk naturally knew the middle-aged couple. The abbot heard the news and expressed his respect. He also personally came out to greet the couple outside the door. After the two returned to the abbot, they entered the mountain gate and went inside.

The man is Pei Youan, and the woman is Jiafu.

This year is the nine years of Yongyi.

Two years ago, Pei Youan, who was designated by the first emperor as Minister of Gu Ming, had been regent for many years and returned to power at the age of fourteen. The young emperor began to pro-government.

In the past two years, Pei Youan still lived in the temple and assisted the emperor, but the emperor himself decided to let go of many affairs.

Three months ago, the emperor reached the age of sixteen. After another minister, Zhang Shiyong, was aging and declining, he reported to him that he had worked hard for many years in the ministerial affairs. Big wedding again.

Afterwards, just after the wind broke out outside the customs for many years, Pei Youan sent a petition to the young emperor, saying that he had been wrongly loved by the ancestor emperor and had been in a high position for many years. Fortunately, the emperor, the emperor of true dragon, has excellent talents, and is now an adult. He has been in power for two years. I am willing to take the lead for the emperor again, but my heart is not the court, but the place outside the pass where he had sprinkled blood to defend him when he was young. He would like to petition, go outside the pass, be the emperor, the people of Wei, and also for his own heart, guard the border and defend the city, and beg the emperor for permission.

The young emperor refused, Pei Youan was determined, and went two more descents.

After the three sparses, the young emperor was in tears. He issued an imperial decree to retain all the titles and positions of the Taifu’s auxiliary government for nearly ten years. The king never kneels down and worships, and the palace inherits forever and rests with the country.

In the past nearly ten years, Dawei can be described as “the way to do everything, the way to do everything, the sages, the ministers and the virtuous, the good fortune”, Pei Youan is in charge of national affairs, and the prestige has always been, and the young emperor, as he grew up, In the past few years, he has also emerged, not only calm and wise, but also faintly beginning to reveal his state of reigning and prosperous emperor. It was secretly passed on by the ruling and the opposition that Zhang Shiyong’s confession was actually caused by the young emperor’s dissatisfaction with his tendency to form a party in recent years, and he was forced to do so. It not only demonstrates the emperor’s adulthood, but also soothes people’s hearts. After two years, how can the world at that time be said clearly?

Since a few years ago, some people have talked privately. Although the monarch and his ministers have been in harmony over the years, one is a powerful minister who has been in power, and the other is a young emperor with a sharp edge. After Pei Youan has been in power for nearly ten years, he must He will return to power in the future, and the process will inevitably lead to ups and downs.

Never thought that three sparse and one purpose, just a few months, before the storm, the dust will be settled.

Pei Youan is about to leave Beijing in the near future. This morning, he took Jiafu out of the city. The two of them came to the Royal Ci’en Temple together. Going to the courtyard where the aunt had stayed before her death, the couple entered, in the courtyard towards the residence and the tomb of the first emperor, knelt on the ground and bowed to each other, after Yaokong knelt down, came out and talked about the monks. Staying in this courtyard empty, you can make the best use of everything, this should also be the wish of the Tianxiyuan Queen.

The two of them wandered around in the temple until the evening before they left, and they were sent out of the gate by the monks.

Pei Youan took Jiafu’s hand and led her down the mountain to the middle of the mountain. The two stopped and stood on the Yangchang Mountain Road to watch the sunset, but seeing the mountains and plains, layers of gold stained with gold, and hundreds of birds returning to their nests, Lin Xiu was picturesque.

Pei Youan smiled and said: “The sunset made by Li Yishan is infinitely good, but it is near dusk. Although it is a good sentence from the past, it is too decadent. Who said that near dusk is not good? After tonight, the Ming Dynasty will be a new day. I’m not talented, I changed it to the setting sun is infinitely better, driving Dongxi at night, what do you think of Fuer?”

Jiafu smiled and sipped at him: “You have such a big face, how dare you criticize Yishan’s poem! Why don’t you say the first two lines of Li Yishan’s poem? Xiang Wanyi feels unwell, and drove to the ancient plains. In such a state of mind, you How do you want him to make your words about driving Dongxi at night?”

Pei Youan was in a happy mood, laughed loudly, and the laughter shook across the mountains and forests, and a few homecoming birds fluttered and flew into the sky.

When the setting sun returned, he continued to hold her hand and returned to the foot of the mountain. The two of them returned in the same car. Jia Fuyi was in her husband’s arms and walked halfway, and suddenly he heard his voice: “Fuer, not a day.” You are going to leave the barrier with me, and it hurts you.”

When Jiafu sat upright, seeing him staring at herself, her eyes were pulsed, and the silent place was more than a thousand words, she smiled: “Big cousin, Ci’er will be able to fill his position, you and I will go After that, don’t worry about it, where you are, is what I want. If you study under the window, I will cook tea for you to add fragrance, if you play in a battle, I will wait for you to return. Together, why do we suffer? “

Pei Youan hugged her in his arms: “Fu’er, no wonder that deep in my heart, I always miss Suyecheng. If there is really the place where my bones were buried in my previous life, then in this life, how lucky I am, because of you , The city where bones were buried in the previous life, now I am back home. The life is peaceful, mostly unsatisfactory, so do I, but how many people can be like me and be fulfilled because of you?”

He kissed her tenderly, and between sighs, it was all content.

When the carriage entered the city and stopped at the door when returning home, it was almost three shifts.

Pei Youan got out of the carriage, hugged Jiafu down, Jiafu stood still, and saw a tall horse parked next to the horse stone at the door. The horse had a golden bridle, high-spirited and healthy, and an extraordinary horse. Seeing her appear, it seemed to recognize her. Out of her, the front hoofs paused lightly, and the tail was happily tossed.

Jiafu recognized it at a glance. This is Taxue. Many years ago, Pei Youan sent it to the imperial horse guard and let it grow with Ci’er. After Ci’er was ten years old, it became Ci’er’s mount. Accompany him to this day.

Unexpectedly, at this moment tonight, he would suddenly be here and see Ta Xue appearing again.

Gaffer’s heartbeat suddenly speeded up and she hurried in. Before she could speak, the concierge knelt down, saying that His Majesty the Emperor had arrived tonight, waiting for him in the study room, and he still hadn’t left at this moment.

Jiafu and her husband looked at each other, hurried to Pei Youan’s study in the back hall, and saw Cui Yinshui standing at the door, and seeing him and two inside, hurriedly greeted him, and bowed and said, “My lord, ma’am, long live there… “

Gaffer left her husband, pushed open the door of the concealed study room, stepped in, raised her eyes and saw the desk, and sat quietly with a handsome young man, his eyebrows and graceful spirit. Between the eyebrows, but there is a stern solemnity, wearing a green suit, holding Pei Youan’s pen in his hand, bowing his head slightly, as if he was writing something attentively.

On the desk beside him, there are the piles of his hours of homework and pen practice that Pei Youan still keeps. The paper is now yellowed, but it is bound up one by one, neatly, strokes on the paper, immature. Climbing, but also enough to see, the seriousness when writing.

Gaffer stopped abruptly and stared at the figure of the young man, unable to move for a while.

The young man was startled by the sound of footsteps, and finally raised his head, staring at Jiafu, his eyes were unblinking, and slowly, he put down his pen, suddenly got up, and quickly walked in front of her, who now stands taller than her. The boy, just like a young boy, stretched out his hand, grabbed her sleeves tightly, called “mother”, dropped his knees, and knelt in front of her.

In an instant, Jiafu burst into tears, hugged her son’s head tightly, and stroked his hair lightly.

Pei Youan stood outside the door, watching this scene quietly, did not enter or bother.

After a long time, the boy was pulled up by Gaffer.

She had wiped her tears, and the young boy’s eyes were slightly red, but with a smile on her face, she led Jiafu to the table, pointed to the sticker that she had just come on above, and said: “Mother, come and see, my words are now Is there any improvement since I was a child?”

Gaffer couldn’t help feeling sad and joyful, forcibly holding back the tears that came from her eyes, watching one by one, nodding her head in praise.

The young man stood aside, silently looking at his still young and beautiful mother, with a smile in his eyes, and his eyes full of tenderness.

He raised his eyes and saw the figure standing outside the door, he helped Gaffer sit down and walked towards the door by himself.

The gentle smile on the young man’s face when he faced Jiafu had disappeared. He looked solemn and walked closer to the front. After looking at the stalwart man for a moment, he slowly knelt towards him.

“Father, my child is here tonight, just to accompany my father to finish the game that I didn’t play back then.”

The young man bowed his head respectfully to the ground and said.

…

The boy took out the chessboard that Pei Youan personally made for him when he was three years old.

The chessboard is old, and the places where the chess pieces are often touched are still as bright as new.

When Pei Youanzha saw it, for a moment, he was in a trance, as if he had returned to the old days of the year.

That night, a father accompanied his son to play chess. Halfway through the game, he went out. When he came back, the son had fallen asleep on the chessboard. After waking up, he still remembered the unfinished chess, and was his father’s convenience. Said that he remembered the chess set, and will accompany him to finish it when he is free in the future.

“Father, you probably don’t know. These years, when I was in the palace and had trouble sleeping late at night, I would take out the chessboard, split my mind and play against myself. I know that father, you are a master of chess, how good is my son today? Please father to give pointers.”

Pei Youan took a chess piece, touched the smooth wood texture with his thumb, took a long breath, closed his eyes, meditated for a moment, opened his eyes, and placed the chess piece in his hand on a square on the chessboard. Above.

One after another, soon, the unfinished game of that year appeared in front of the boy.

He smiled slightly at the boy opposite: “But so?”

The young man slowly lifted his gaze, his eyes flashed with a gleaming light, and he nodded.

…

This game of chess has been played until the fifth shift.

When the **** crows, the winner will be won.

Pei Youan regretted losing the overall situation by the mistake of one son.

He checked the chess game, threw down the chess piece, shook his head and sighed, “I am old, not as good as you.”

The young man smiled: “My father only let me, would I not know it? Just like my parents. Over the years, in order to make me feel at ease, there are no more siblings…”

He turned his head and stared at the sleepiness. He curled up on the couch and slept on his own. After a while, he said in a low voice: “Daddy, I was not sensible before, but now I am Growing up, I started a few years ago and hoped that my mother could give birth to another younger sibling for me. If I can get what I want, Tzu’er will have no regrets in this life.”

Pei Youan looked at the beloved wife who was unaware of her sleep, and a smile slowly appeared on her lips.

The young man summed up the chess pieces one by one, and finally put away the chessboard as a treasure, holding it tightly in his hand, and finally got up, knelt down again towards Pei Youan and Jiafu, solemnly bowed his head, and said, “Daddy, Taxue is more suitable for the wide area outside the Guan. Heaven and earth, it likes to gallop as much as it wants. The palace is like a cage to it. I gave it to Daddy.”

“Daddy will take care of my mother for me again.”

He glanced at the woman who was still asleep one last time, and after speaking, he turned around and hurried away.

Pei Youan watched the young boy’s blue back go out, drifting away, and after a moment of trance, he picked up the sleeping Jiafu and escorted her back to the room.

Gaffer was half awake, her face leaning against her husband’s warm chest, rubbed comfortably, suddenly remembered, suddenly grabbed her husband’s arm, and opened her eyes: “Where is Ci’er?”

Pei Youan said: “After playing chess, we are gone.”

Gaffer hurriedly got down from him and rushed out. When he arrived in the courtyard, he saw Dongfang Chenguang faintly. The courtyard door was open, the branches of the treetops, the morning dew, and the surrounding was empty. Where is the handsome young man?

She stayed in place, fixed for a moment.

Pei Youan came up, put the coat that had just fallen from her back on her shoulders, and said softly: “I’m afraid you will cry, so I didn’t wake you up.”

Jiafu’s eyes were flushed, she threw herself into her husband’s arms, closed her eyes and choked, “What did Ci’er say?”

Pei Youan lowered his head and said a few words in his ears that he didn’t know what, Jiafu burst into tears, and blushed, pushed him away, ignored him, turned and walked inward.

People who are middle-aged, if lucky, can have another child with her…

It’s pretty good.

Pei Youan looked at the back of her sweet wife, smiled slightly, and followed with his hands behind him without hesitation.

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