MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 201 New beginning
Chapter 201 A New Beginning
The moon is above the treetops, and the place is quiet.
The bustle in the general's mansion has also returned to calm.
The firecrackers and confetti on the floor at the door were slowly blowing in the cold wind.
In Xitang Courtyard.
Shang Ji and Du Jingyi lay down in their clothes, hugging each other and sleeping.
“I will go back to the camp after the Lantern Festival, and I probably won’t have much time to spend with you by then.”
Shang Ji hugged Du Jingyi in his arms, and while talking, he patted her back gently, as if coaxing a child to sleep.
Du Jingyi was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyelids.
So when I heard this, I just muttered something.
“General, don’t worry, I will take good care of you, and my grandmother and aunt are here to support you, so everything will be fine.”
Shang Ji naturally knew that nothing was wrong, but he couldn't help but care.
Today is New Year's Eve. Originally, I wanted to talk to her more, but it was obvious that she was really tired, so she had to put her mind aside and whispered one more sentence in Du Jingyi's ear.
“Go to sleep, I’ll watch over you.”
"Um."
Du Jingyi fell asleep without even struggling.
After feeling the person next to him breathing smoothly, Shang Ji smiled lightly.
Once upon a time, if someone told him that he would not even turn over in bed, and just wanted to live a life with his wife and children on the hot bed, he would probably be dismissed.
But now that I have really experienced it, I know what it means to have flowers and a full moon stay together forever.
Closed his eyes and leaned his head on Du Jingyi's forehead, feeling her warm breath, and fell into a deep sleep.
It is dawn all night long.
The new twenty-sixth year of Xiande came quietly in the cold.
The rules of the Daxing Dynasty were that there was no curfew from the first day of the first lunar month to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and the people could make noises as they pleased.
Therefore, except for the Gyeonggi Division who was under greater pressure, everyone else was enjoying themselves and having fun, so whether it was day or night, there was a lot of excitement in Suian City.
Since the gate of the General's Mansion was opened on the first day of the Lunar New Year, it has been crowded with people.
Today the person is not here to give gifts, but tomorrow the person is here to visit relatives.
On the other hand, the gate of the Duke's Mansion seemed a little bleak amidst the bustle.
The first day of the first lunar month.
Shang Ji took Du Jingyi, his elder sister-in-law Liu, his eighth sister Xue Niang and his nephew Shang Zhiping back to the Duke's mansion for a "reunion".
When the carriage and horses stopped in front of the Duke's Mansion, someone came to pick it up.
Just looking at all the new faces, Du Jingyi inevitably had some speculations in his mind.
Sure enough, when they entered the mansion and headed towards Yunjin Courtyard, her guess was verified.
In the past, those servants who were undisciplined and unkempt were just doing it to show them.
Nowadays, most of the people living in the Duke's Mansion are of Mrs. Wei's blood. The rules are stricter and the servants are sensible.
It looks more like the door of a deep house than before.
She discovered it, and Shang Ji could naturally discover it too.
It's just that the disdain in her eyes was fierce. Mrs. Wei's thoughts were really Sima Zhao's, and everyone on the road knew it.
Unfortunately, sometimes careful calculation is useless.
As long as he is here, the palace will have to be returned to Shang Zhiping sooner or later. Now, she is just asked to guard it "temporarily".
While thinking about it, I kept walking.
In Yunjin Courtyard, the number of people arriving today was quite uniform.
But compared with previous years, it is still much “lonelier”. The fifth house in Zhuangzi is trapped, and the third house in Guihua Lane is also precarious. Naturally, they will not appear in the Duke's Mansion.
Hence, qingjing is clean, but it also seems a little tasteless.
If Shang Ji and others hadn't come back, there would only be eight people in the main room.
In addition to the Duke Shang Yukuan and Mrs. Wei, there are also Shang Silang's family and Shang Qilang.
At the beginning of the new year, naturally everyone wears new clothes and new jewelry, which is for good luck and good luck.
However, the new clothes were put on, but everyone's faces were not necessarily very good-looking.
Shang Yukuan was in trouble, and Mrs. Wei was cold.
Shang Zhihe looked at Shang Ji and others with disgust, while Shang Zhiyin still looked arrogant.
Shang Silang had no expression, but the eyes of Silang's wife were going back and forth between his elder sister-in-law Liu and his sixth sibling Du Jingyi, showing some unwillingness from time to time.
Standing behind their family of four was an inconspicuous Shang Zhixian.
That is the concubine daughter of Shang Shilang. Except for seeing her every year during the New Year, she is not seen at all on weekdays.
In the entire Duke's palace, if there is anyone who sincerely looks forward to Shang Ji and his companions' return, it is probably Shang Qilang alone.
It's just that because of what happened at the gate of the General's Mansion a few days ago, he was a little embarrassed at the moment and couldn't rush to join in the fun in front of Shang Ji.
Shang Ji glanced at the people present with cold eyes, then stood with his fists clasped and saluted Shang Yukuan.
“The son has seen his father.”
As soon as he opened his mouth, several people who followed him also opened their mouths.
“The daughter-in-law has met her father-in-law.”
“The daughter has met her father.”
“The grandson has met his grandfather.”
The words were spoken, but they were completely different from when he met Mrs. Gu.
How could Shang Yukuan not feel it, but he couldn't make the decision on these things, so he could only turn a blind eye and say.
“It’s good to come back and have a family reunion dinner.”
He wanted to keep someone in the house, but even if he did, he wouldn't have a place to live, so he might as well not say anything about it.
“Well, it’s my father’s arrangement.”
Shang Ji never smiles much, so Shang Yukuan can't find a place to speak.
After seeing Du Jingyi's slightly bulging abdomen, he asked lovingly.
“When will the child be born?”
“I’ll go back to my father-in-law in the summer, probably in May or June.”
“The summer is good, and it will be easy to feed the child when he is born. I will definitely bring something to greet him when the time comes.”
“Thank you, father-in-law.”
It was not a relationship where we could talk non-stop, so the atmosphere became cold again.
In the past, it was always Mrs. Wei who found a topic to talk about.
Today she was like a giant Buddha, refusing to speak. Naturally, there was no one in charge of the situation in the room.
Shang Ji and the others are not afraid of the cold. Anyway, they are just here for a formality.
On the other hand, Shang Qilang felt that they were family members after all, so he naturally wanted to ask a few questions.
Seeing that his sixth brother and his sixth sister-in-law were having a hard time making a move, he thought of it and said to his eighth sister, Xue Niang.
“There are still two months left, and you’re about to get your haircut. What do you want? Brother Qi has prepared it for you!”
Shang Qilang’s relationship with Xue Niang was quite harmonious, so he asked such a question, and Xue Niang answered with a smile without any hesitation.
"Seventh Brother is interested, but I don't lack anything from Sixth Brother. So, if Seventh Brother wants to give me something, why not... why not give you the "Snow Fishing Picture" that I got last time."
(End of this chapter)
