Chapter 62: An Important Turning Point
"I don't know what the iron egg means, but it must mean that people are stupid, and it was my brother who opened the head first." Yan Le saw that his mother and father also asked him with the same eyes, and quickly explained the situation.
"You kid, how can any brother talk about his sister like that, nonsense!" Wu Linhou listened to Yan Le's words, and realized that his son had been saying that his daughter was a fool, so he couldn't help but favor Yan Le and teach Wu Tingmo a lesson.
Hui Shu felt that her daughter was not only bullied but also affected, and pointed at Wu Tingmo and said, "Your sister just came back, and you taught her badly like this, you!" ”
Yan Le looked at Wu Tingmo with amusement, she had already begun to prepare to coax the adult's words, she knew that this word was a bad word to say to others, but her brother said that he loved himself, so she didn't care, so she kept calling back and playing with him.
Wu Tingmo pretended to be frustrated and said: "It seems that my brother's hard-working sister can't understand it, father, mother, iron egg is a nickname, which my son learned at the border pass, it is an intimate title, not an iron egg written in our Chinese characters." ”
Nickname, my brother is really good at breaking down, Yan Le took the opportunity to answer, "Nickname? Since then, I have called my brother Tiedan, but brother, you are not allowed to call me Tiedan, I am a girl, I can't be called by such a masculine name, daddy and mother, don't you say? ”
Wu Linhou and his wife are not confused, they know that this son naturally likes to tease people, although his daughter was stunned when she first came back, and after asking this son a few more words, he gave him this title, and his daughter is not stupid and knows how to fight back.
"That's it, Ting Mo, don't call Xiao Lingxi these two words in the future, otherwise I'll let your eldest brother ground you."
Their eyes were full of love, looking at the children on the right side of the table, their hearts were full of emotion, their family was finally reunited. Wu Linhou happily picked up the wine glass, and asked everyone to have a drink first: "Come and let's have a drink first to celebrate the return of our little Lingxi." He choked up when he spoke, and Hye-sook quietly wiped away her tears and accompanied her husband to pick up the wine glass.
"Ling Xi and Commander Mu are injured, you can replace wine with tea." Hye Sook said with concern.
"Thank you, ma'am." Mu Lingyi picked up the teacup, looked at Yan Le, who answered "good" sweetly, and couldn't recognize which cup was wine and which cup was tea, and was looking down.
Yan Le is not stupid, although the shape of the two cups is about the same, one is small and one is large, and the big one must be tea, after she picked it up, she proudly looked at Mu Lingyi, who had been patiently waiting for her confirmation, and winked at him mischievously.
Everyone raised the porcelain cups together and drank them all, Yan Le watched Wu Tingmo swallow the whole glass of wine without any reaction, wondering why he didn't exhale like his father, nor did he swallow with the frown of his eldest brother. She asked him in a low voice, "Brother, are you drinking water?" Why didn't it happen? ”
Mu Lingyi wanted to solve her puzzles, her father must have specially prescribed good wine to celebrate her safe return, but this good wine has a common problem that it is too strong, so Hou Ye and Shizi, who are not good at drinking, reacted more, but Wu Tingmo has been at the border all year round and is used to drinking spirits, so he feels normal when he drinks now. But this was the topic of their brother and sister, Mu Lingyi didn't want to interrupt, but heard General Wu and his sister blowing.
Wu Tingmo waited for the maid behind him to fill the wine glass again, and brought it to Yan Le's mouth, "You smell it, is it wine?" ”
Yan Le leaned closer after hearing this, smelled the sweet aroma of wine, and didn't feel that she wanted to take a sip, but she couldn't drink it now, so she looked at Wu Tingmo curiously and asked, "Brother, it's so fragrant, but it's also so choking!" ”
Wu Ting retracted his hand indifferently, drank it all, and looked at Yan Le without changing his face, "That's right, this wine is strong, fortunately, my brother is powerful, and I don't feel anything when I drink it." ”
Yan Le looked at him amusefully and raised himself, isn't it just that the amount of alcohol is better? When did it get involved with the awesome? But in that case, let's tease him. She picked up her wine glass and sent it to Wu Tingmo's hand, "Then brother helped me drink this cup." ”
Wu Tingmo looked at Yan Le's sly smile, and didn't poke at her that she wanted to pour herself wine, and according to her, he took the wine and drank it all, he didn't expect Yan Le to be satisfied with just one glass, and looked at her so funny that she was so satisfied that she picked up the food for herself, and flattered: "Brother is amazing, come to eat." ”
Yan Le wanted to pour her brother a few more glasses of wine, but the eyes of her cousin sitting opposite her were too uncomfortable, her watery eyes rose and fell with the wine glass in her brother's hand, and there was worry in her eyes, which made her really unbearable to make such a good-looking person frown.
Wu Tingmo listened to the praise and was sweet in his heart, and happily ate the dishes that his sister picked up for himself.
Hui Shu was far away, and it was inconvenient to pick up vegetables for Yan Le, but she pushed her husband to clip for her daughter, and saw that Yan Le had her brother around her diligently and kept clamping for her, so she gave up this idea, and she found that Commander Mu was very careful, so he picked all the fish and meat and gave it to his daughter to eat.
Yan Le looked at the porcelain bowls piled up into a hill and buried herself in hard work, but she couldn't finish eating, and her brother and Ling Yi were like they were in a game, and they didn't give themselves time to rest at all. She swallowed the food in her mouth, pressed the chopsticks that Wu Ting had put into her bowl with chopsticks, and said angrily: "Brother, you eat by yourself, don't clip it to me again!" ”
Wu Tingmo looked at her cute appearance and compromised: "Okay, that brother eats it himself." ”
She breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Mu Lingyi, and watched him put the soup spoon full of fish meat from his thorns to the side of his bowl, and coaxed herself in a gentle tone: "Yan'er, you have injuries on your body, you should eat more, and your recovery will be faster." ”
Yan Le looked at his charming eyes, and couldn't refuse at all, so he just nodded woodenly and lowered his head to eat the fish.
Adhering to the tenet of eating without saying a word, everyone quietly finished the reunion dinner, and Liang Yining had to go back before the curfew at the palace gate, so he went back to the palace. Yan Le was pulled aside by his mother and asked about his daughter's heart.
On the stone table under the tree, Hui Shu lovingly watched Yan Le blow the hot tea in her hand and drink it in small sips.
"It's a pity, it's all because of the mistakes that my mother made when she was young, so that you have suffered for so many years." The sadness was hooked again, and Hye-sook helplessly wiped the wetness from her eyes.
"Mother," she put down the cup and looked at her crying mother distressedly, "It's not your fault, I haven't suffered anything over the years, and when I did, I met Ling Yi, so I didn't suffer either, so let's stop talking about these things, and we will be together as a family in the future." ”
It's not that I don't want to think about it, but my mother is the biggest innocent, and no matter what words she uses, she can't make up for the pain she has endured over the years, so she can only let go and let her know that her daughter is lucky, and these years are just a flash, and she has not left painful scars on herself.
"God bless, my spirit is finally back, and my mother will never let you get hurt in the future."
There was a particularly firm strength flashing in her gentle eyebrows and eyes, which made Yan Le's heart warm.
Yan Le remembered that his brother had said the same thing today, and said mischievously: "My brother also promised it today." ”
She remembered her brother's appearance, and suddenly found that her brother was very similar to her mother, with similar eyebrows and eyes, but her brother tanned himself more than ordinary people, so it was not easy to notice. Yan Le suddenly thought that if his brother was thinner and fairer, he would definitely be a beautiful man. "It seems that my eldest brother and I are like my father, and my brother is like my mother."
Hui Shu thought that when her second son had not yet gone to the army, she often worried that her appearance was too feminine, and she was teased by other noble children in the study hall for looking like a woman. She shook her head with a light smile, and said helplessly: "It's too much like a mother, and this thing has caused your brother a lot of trouble." ”
Yan Le was curious, isn't it good to look good? She asked puzzledly: "Why doesn't my brother cherish his innate advantage, beauty, but ordinary people want but can't get it." ”
Hui Shu woke her up funny: "Silly and cherished, women care about beauty, but men want to be more powerful, not feminine." ”
"Feminine?!" Yan Le finally understood, "So my brother deliberately tanned himself and practiced strongly, just to hide the softness under his handsome appearance," she thought of the situation when her brother had just entered the barracks and was teased by a group of old men in the army, and sighed: "Hahaha, my brother is so cute." ”
"You said he was cute, and he knew it, and he was so angry." Hui Shu looked at Yan Le and smiled so much that her eyes narrowed, and she was also infected, and the corners of her mouth kept curved. She suddenly thought that there was another man in the capital who was full of faces, who was her daughter's sweetheart.
"Lingxi, Commander Mu is really considerate to you, and my mother is very happy for you."
When she mentioned Mu Lingyi, it was like touching the most important root in Yan Le's heart, her smile changed from naughty to sweet, and her mind was full of pictures of Ling Yi's kindness to herself, and she nodded shyly and replied: "Mother, I like Ling Yi the most." Meeting him is the most important turning point in my life, and the days after him will be happy. ”
Hui Shu smiled and nodded, she gently stroked Yan Le's shoulder, and smiled at Mu Lingyi, who had come out of the main hall, Yan Le patrolled the direction of his mother's gaze, turned around and saw Ling Yi looking at this side in front of him, he was smiling, and after nodding and saying hello to his mother politely, his eyes were very different when he came to himself, and he became extremely affectionate.
Yan Le turned around very quickly, leaving a sentence, "Mother, I'll go find him." Then he walked towards Mu Lingyi with cheerful little steps.
Mu Lingyi's eyes were full of pampering, he was afraid that she would accidentally step on her skirt, afraid that she would run too fast and hurt her body, so he hurried up to meet her without waiting for her to run a few steps. Mu Lingyi realized after he stepped out of his leg that the previous assumptions were not real thoughts, but that he missed her too much, missed her too much, and wanted to take her into his arms as soon as possible.
Yan Le threw herself into Mu Lingyi's arms, hugged his solid waist as before, and rubbed her head against his chest, but she paid great attention, her hand avoided the wound, and her head retracted her strength.
Mu Lingyi ignored his own injuries, he hugged Yan Le tightly, and held her waist with his hand, making her closer to him, but he quickly realized that it was better to admit his shame in front of everyone's eyes, and he was reluctant to lighten the strength of his hand. She had heard what she had just said to her mother.
"Yan'er, I like you the most."
Mu Lingyi's snort poured into Yan Le's ears, making her body crispy, and her tone didn't feel a lot shy, she only responded with one word, but the weight of this word was enough for Mu Lingyi.