Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 593 Stealing food

Since the old lady and Mr. Guo have passed away, banquets and banquets are forbidden in the palace. Duke Zhen Guo and Li Xian have to worry about their respective mothers, and the rest of the people are also on the same side.

After arranging the funeral, Xu Wanning said thankfully: "Fortunately, brother Kun's wedding has been completed, otherwise, it would have been delayed."

Li Xian smiled and said, "If you delay brother Kun from marrying, you will be even more resentful towards my mother."

Xu Wanning said: "Did you know that your mother was still hoping that you would divorce me before she died?"

Li Xian came over and hugged his wife, coaxing: "She is an ignorant woman. She has wronged you all these years."

"I don't care about this anymore." Xu Wanning said cheerfully: "If I couldn't look away, I would have died before her."

He sighed again: "I just feel sorry for Dong Qing. She just got married and she has to follow the filial piety and have little water every day. I think this child has lost weight in the past few days."

Li Xian knew that his wife loved his daughter-in-law, and sighed: "Although etiquette stipulates that you must not eat meat, it doesn't hurt to close the door and eat a little secretly. This will last two years, without eating a morsel of meat. They are young How can anyone bear it?"

"That's right." Xu Wanning glared at her husband: "It's rare that you are not foolish and filial now."

After saying that, he called the girl close to him and whispered: "You will take my belt out of the house soon, go to the shop and buy some dried meat, and give it to Brother Kun, his wife, Brother Ping, and Sister Zhuang after dark. Send it to me quietly, and don't let anyone see it."

After the girl took the order and went out, Li Xian said to his wife: "You should also eat some. Let's see how haggard you have become these days."

Xu Wanning said: "I don't have to. Since you don't want to eat, I must accompany you so that the children can satisfy their cravings every now and then."

Li Xian smacked his lips silently.

 Because there was a period of mourning in the mansion, all the houses and courtyards were extremely quiet.

The moon was rising above the willow trees. When Li Kun returned from work, he saw his wife was copying at the desk. He walked forward with a smile and joked: "Are you studying again?"

Dong Qing suddenly raised her head and saw it was Li Kun. She smiled faintly and said, "The eldest son is back."

Li Kun looked at the words his wife was writing and praised: "It's so well written." He then raised his eyes to look at his wife: "There was a funeral in the house a while ago, and you were tired of following the arrangements of your mother. You just need to rest for a few days, and you have to do whatever you want every day. Have you been practicing calligraphy hard?"

Then he smiled and joked: "Is it possible that Madam is going to take the merit examination?"

"What you said is exactly the same as what my stepmother teased me about." Dong Qing put down the wolf hair in his hand and replied: "I don't have much hobbies in my life, I just like writing."

As she said that, she subconsciously glanced at the calligraphy that the prince gave to the couple hanging on the wall, and said, "My calligraphy is actually just general, and it is still incomparable with that calligraphy that is good."

After listening to his wife's words, Li Kun subconsciously looked at the prince's book and said with a smile: "Who are you competing with? The prince's younger brother?"

Dong Qing's heart trembled when he heard this, and the hands under Guangxiu clenched subconsciously.

Just when she didn't know how to socialize, Li Kun took out an oil paper bag and stuffed it mysteriously. Dong Qing was surprised and asked, "What is this?"

Li Kun opened it for his wife himself, and what he saw was a bag full of dried meat. Dong Qing was surprised: "What are you doing? We are observing filial piety?"

Li Kun replied: "I have to stay for two or three years. I haven't eaten meat all the time. How can you bear it?"

“Look at how thin you are.” He glared at his wife, then picked up a piece of meat and put it into her mouth without any explanation.

Dongqing held the meat in his mouth, but did not dare to chew it. He lowered his voice and said, "How can this happen?"

Li Kun winked at her: "After eating, close the door, who knows."

"Besides, to express filial piety, we don't have to use this kind of self-suffering method. I think it's enough that we can always remember the goodness of our great-grandmother and grandma in our hearts." Dongqing hesitated and said, holding the meat in his mouth: "I was still young when I got married, so I may have noticed that my great-grandmother was a very transparent person, and she was kind to the younger generation. However, my grandmother was always ill in bed. I didn't know much about her, but listening to my mother-in-law's words, she seemed to Not very fond of grandma.”

Li Kun sighed: "My grandmother was sometimes confused. She used to make things difficult for my mother, so the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was not harmonious."

With that said, he asked his wife: "It is said that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are the most difficult. How does my mother treat you? Do you get along well when I am away?"

Dong Qing chewed the meat in her mouth subconsciously: "My mother-in-law treats me very well, you don't have to worry about this."

Li Kun smiled happily: "That's good."

 As he spoke, he stuffed another piece of meat into his wife’s mouth: “Eat more.”

 Dong Qing chewed and swallowed the meat in his mouth.

I haven’t touched meat for a few days, but now this piece of inconspicuous meat tastes like dragon’s liver and phoenix gallbladder.

Dong Qing casually picked out a piece from the paper bag and gave it to her husband: "You have to practice martial arts every day, which consumes the most energy, so you also need to eat some."

Li Kun replied: "I am strong and can endure it."

As he said that, he handed the oil paper bag in his hand to his wife: "If you can't finish eating, hide it quietly so that the girls don't see it."

He lowered his voice and whispered: "I'll be on duty tomorrow and I'll bring it back to you."

The young couple were whispering here when they heard the maid's voice calling from outside the door: "Young Master, Young Madam, the Madam has sent someone to deliver something to the Young Master and Madam."

"Let someone come in." Dong Qing replied, trotted into the inner room, and hid the package of dried meat. Just when he was about to see people, he felt it was inappropriate, so he looked at the bronze mirror and used the brocade Pa wiped his mouth and took a few sips of tea from the table to remove the smell of meat from his mouth. Then he ordered someone to invite the visitor in.

Li Kun couldn't help laughing when he glanced at his young wife's nervous look.

Seeing him snickering, Dong Qing muttered in a low voice: "Don't bring this with you tomorrow. It's sneaky and makes me feel so panicked."

After a while, the four girls beside Xu Wanning followed the maid in. When they saw Li Kun and Dong Qing, they presented a small box and said, "This is what the lady ordered the slave to give to the young master and the madam."

 Dong Qing took the box and asked doubtfully: "What is this?"

“Anyway, it’s a good thing.” Si’er winked at Dong Qing and whispered, “Madam specifically told me that the young master and young lady should wait until no one is around before opening it.”

 After the people left, Dong Qing looked at Li Kun, pointed at the box, and wondered: "What is my mother doing?"

 Mother and son are close to each other, but Li Kun guessed his mother's thoughts. He smiled and said, "If my guess is correct, my mother is also worried that you can't eat well, so she secretly sent you good things."

As he spoke, he opened the box and saw a large box full of dried meat.

 The young couple looked at each other, then smiled knowingly.

 Li Kun pushed the box to his wife: "Since mother has acquiesced, you don't have to panic this time."

Then he whispered: "Eat with confidence, just don't let the girls and servants see you, so that they don't go out and gossip and damage your reputation."

 (End of this chapter)