Chapter 333： consternation

"Mother, auntie, we're back!" Before reaching the door, Mu Yangling shouted, indicating their return, and many people opened the door to see them and asked with a smile: "A Ling, you guys What are you doing? Why haven't you been home for more than a month?"

Someone also asked directly: "A-Ling, I heard that your family built a cattle farm in Hanzhong Mansion? Why did you go out of town to get it? If you want to get it, you should get it here."

Mu Yangling smiled and said: "I want to get it here, but I also need to have land. The surrounding land has been used for farming, so I can only find it outside."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door in front of them opened with a bang, and two round children rushed out. They didn't open the way.

Xiuhong and Bowen saw the two small dumplings, and immediately jumped out of the mule cart, rushed over to hug one of them, and asked with a smile, "Who opened the door for you?"

The two children are only waist-high, and they can't even reach the door when they stand on tiptoe.

"Auntie, it's Auntie!" The two children pointed back, and then they saw the aunt standing at the door with a sullen face. Everyone laughed and greeted her, "Grandma (aunt)."

Mu Yangling also smiled to please: "Auntie, I will drive the mule cart back."

Although my aunt was angry that the children had been gone for more than a month, she still didn't teach them a lesson in front of outsiders. She just opened the door and let the mule carts in. For those who wanted to watch the fun, her aunt didn't have such a good temper, she just said " Bang" closed the door.

The people outside touched their noses. Although they were unwilling, they did not dare to speak ill of the Mu family in front of the door. Now that the Mu family was in full swing, they dared not speak ill of them in front of their door.

My aunt turned around, and then aggressively went to find a few children to settle accounts, she skipped the clever and timid Xiulan, and directly twisted Xiuhong's ears and said, "I won't stop you if you want to build a cattle farm and raise cattle. , I won't stop you if you want to run around and do business, but now you are too daring, you have been gone for more than a month without even showing your face, you are better, you will not go home for almost two months One trip, that's fine, tell me how many letters you wrote to your family during this time?"

The more she talked, the more angry she became, "I know that Hanzhong Mansion is a border, and there are no barriers to block it. I don't know if we will be worried?"

"Grandma, we know we're wrong. We've been really busy during this time. When we're almost done, we lie down on the kang and sleep..."

"How much time will it take you to write a few words? If you don't mind, you just don't mind, don't make excuses for me."

After the lesson, Xiuhong taught Mu Yangling and Bowen, "So are you two children. Usually you look stable and sensible, but you don't know anything. What do you think your mother is worried about for you?"

said and slapped them on the shoulders angrily, "It's really a waste to feed you guys. According to me, you shouldn't be let out, or you won't know when you will run away and disappear."

Mu Yangling hurriedly admitted his mistake, "Auntie, we know that we were wrong. No matter where we are in the future, we will definitely write a letter home every ten days to report safety."

Bo Wen nodded again and again, "Auntie, we will definitely not dare next time."

The aunt wiped away her tears and said in a slow tone: "It's not that you have to do anything, but how can you not come back during the winter solstice? You don't come back with a message, your mother and I were so worried that we couldn't even eat. , I waited for you at the entrance of the village for a day, if I hadn’t met someone in Mingshui County the next morning and said that you were still doing well in the cattle farm, my mother and I would have gone to find you…”

Mu Yangling was immediately a little ashamed. It was finishing work at that time, because she needed a lot of copper coins to pay everyone's wages. She just thought about going to exchange it, where did she remember to send a letter to her family saying that she would not go back to the winter solstice?

A few people talked a lot, and then my aunt let them pass the customs. Seeing that her mother hadn't come out for a long time, Mu Yangling asked, "Auntie, where is my mother?"

"In the house, that day your mother stood at the tuyere all day, and was frightened all night. The next day, she thought of going to Hanzhong Mansion to find you. After knowing that you were safe, she fell ill and is still taking medicine. Well, these two little ones haven't seen your mother for a few days, for fear of giving them the sickness."

The dragon and the phoenix were sitting on the left and right beside Bo Wen, asking for something to play with, humming from time to time, and my aunt sighed when she saw it: "Well, I can't see your mother, I am the old woman who took them both these days. , kept humming."

Hearing that his mother was sick, Mu Yangling became anxious, "I'll go see my mother."

Bowen also stood up quickly, "I'll go too."

The two twins followed closely, but they were locked at the door of the house, and Shu Wanniang said calmly inside: "A Ling, come in, Bo Wen, take your brothers and sisters out to play, you are not healthy, you can't I'm sick."

Bo Wen was in a hurry, "Mother, Mr. Pang Pang said that my body has been recuperated..."

"Even after recuperation, it's worse than other people's. If you let you go, why is there so much nonsense?" Maybe it was because Shu Wanniang's tone was a little bad during the illness.

Mu Yangling patted him on the shoulder and said, "You take your brothers and sisters to the main room to play first, I'll go in and have a look."

Shu Wanniang was leaning on the kang, her face was slightly pale, but she was in good spirits. When she saw her daughter come in, she hurriedly grabbed her and looked around, and after a while, she breathed a sigh of relief: "You child, I didn't do anything before. It makes people worry, the older you are, the more ignorant you are, come and sit next to your mother, and talk to your mother, what are you all busy with, why don't you even come back on the winter solstice?"

Mu Yangling said ashamed: "Mother, I didn't expect you to attach so much importance to the winter solstice. You must know that I will definitely come back. Even if I can't come back, I will ask someone to deliver a letter to you."

Shu Wanniang's beautiful eyebrows furrowed, "The winter solstice has always been a very important festival, how could you not know it since you were a child?"

This is the sequela left by the festival in her previous life. She didn’t spend much of the winter solstice festival in her previous life. After coming here, although she would worship her ancestors every winter solstice, she would also send cold clothes to her ancestors and eat more abundantly, but other festivals in the village It's the same, so I don't think it's too grand.

After receiving the letter from home and realizing that it was wrong, she went to check it and found that the ancients really valued the winter solstice.

There is a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the new year", the festival is three days, the king does not go to the government, the officials congratulate each other, and the folks also have to close the market for three days. Well, they will also have a holiday. She doesn't know about the south, but in their area, The winter break begins on the day of the winter solstice.

It is recorded in the book that the doctors will also hold a "cold-relief meeting", and everyone will have a cocktail party to eat, drink, recite poems, and draw "cold-relieving pictures" by the way.

This is only recorded in the book. The people will definitely value the winter solstice more than what is recorded in the book. Think about the worry of the family if you don’t go home during the Spring Festival?

So Mu Yangling recognized his mistake quickly.

This made Shu Wanniang sigh slightly, thinking that her daughter is young and some things are not in her heart, so she touched her head and said, "Okay, this matter is over, you can just take it to your heart in the future, mother doesn't blame you, but mother has something to ask you."

Shu Wanniang sat up slightly and asked, "Why did you promise Haoran's marriage privately? Don't tell your family."

Mu Yangling's eyes widened and he said in a lost voice, "Mother, when did I agree to marry Qi Haoran?"