Chapter 3: Veterans take action

As the date of the patrol approached, the preparations for the Wei Mansion were almost done. Xie Jiu really sorted out the luggage bag that was claimed to be the most suitable one as she said. Empress Changsun considered that the two children in the Wei Mansion would also follow him, so she specially transferred a carriage out to pack their luggage items. The careful and considerate aspects were touching.

When we set off, we followed His Majesty Li Er's army and it was a very formal occasion. Private farewell can only be two days in advance. Wei Chi has been busy with the issue of transferring business recently, in order to spare the time a few days before departure. First, we can let the adoptive father and mother say goodbye to say goodbye, and second, we can also make the final preparations calmly.

In the spacious and bright side hall of Wei Mansion, there were food and snacks on the table, and the family sat and chatted. A large Persian carpet was laid in the middle, and the Kirin twins rolled around and played, occasionally jumped up, ran over to find their parents to hug them, acted coquettishly, and the family was having fun.

The Qin Mansion has invited the matchmaker to the Huo Prince's Mansion to talk about marriage. The marriage between the two mansions has been settled, and we will wait for everything to marry Niu Niu step by step according to customs. Wei Chi was very happy to hear it and was very emotional. The little girl in the past is now a big girl who wants to be a wife, and she is very emotional.

"You and Sisigu are on duty at Shang Pharmacy. As an imperial physician, Your Majesty is going to go on a patrol. It is your duty to be with him. It's just that you have pity for your two children. You have to follow your parents when you are young."

The godmother walked over and picked up Lin Lin, touched his tender face with heartache and smiled foolishly. The godmother loved these two children very much, but in comparison, she valued boys more, saying that boys were the ones who inherited the incense and that their daughter would belong to someone else’s family one day.

Wei Chi and Xie Jiu didn't care about this idea. After all, the older generation would not require her to open it like a young man, especially the two young people who traveled through time. Wei Chi believed that her daughter would get married in the future, so she should take advantage of the time when she was at home to avoid being deceived in the future. Girls should be raised like treasures so that they would not be easily deceived by others with sweet words. The boys should withstand the beatings, otherwise how can they stand alone in the future.

Wei Chi smiled and said, "Don't worry, godmother, Li'er and Liu's wife will follow you then. They will take care of you with the help of them. Qi'er and Lin'er have never left Sisi and me since childhood. They will cry loudly if they don't see each other for a day. Otherwise, I would rather leave the child to my godmother and ask my godmother to take care of her."

Speaking of this, the old lady's big head, which was a little painful and hated, said angrily: "It's this ghost spirit who smiles all day long. When she disappears, her mother will cry loudly. She can't coax her, and she can't coax her, and she's clingy!"

After clicking twice, I couldn't help but kiss Lin Lin in love. The relationship with Lin Lin was quite contradictory. The Kirin twins had the idea of ​​taking them here for two days in the past. The old man had basically nothing to play at home except mahjong poker and checkers, and was very happy to help take care of the children. However, the Kirin twins accepted their birth, and it was okay to hold them for a while, but it was absolutely not possible to stay overnight. There was no mom coax or father to hold them at night. The crying of the two siblings would definitely make people tinnitus. The old lady once carried them over without believing in evil, but she was sent back overnight that night. She really couldn't withstand the crying of the two siblings one after another.

Wei Chi and Xie Jiu are both going out. The affairs of the Wei Mansion are temporarily led by the housekeeper and Wei Wen. Dahu followed Wei Xie and his wife out. Erhu stayed to help Wei Wen and the housekeeper guard the house. After all, Erhu already has a family, and it seems a bit unkind to call them to go. If there is any major thing, they can go to the Qin Mansion to see Mr. Qin and Qin Wei, and they will make the decision. It can be said that everything has been arranged.

After talking about trivial matters for a while, my godmother and her adopted mother always kept reminding each other again and again, which made Mr. Qin a little unable to listen. He said impatiently: "Okay, okay, you two are really old ladies, nostalgic! Silang just went on a tour with His Majesty, and there were welcomes and receptions from various prefectures along the way. Compared to when I was marching and fighting, life was much more comfortable. Wherever I went, who was not a good and delicious hospitality? How could you be so nagging!"

After saying this, the old man was so angry that the two old ladies were both criticizing the old man. They worked hard to manage the family business when they married the old man, fought outside all day long, how they were worried about it, and they kept complaining until they are old now, how the old man disliked them. In short, they were just like they were going from the first day of the first day to the fifteenth day of the year.

"Look, I still say I won't nag. This happened many years ago. I'm still talking about it. Is it embarrassing! Boss, fourth brother, let's go out and don't be as knowledgeable as girls!"

Old Master Qin felt a headache when he heard this, and quickly waved his hand, called Wei Chi and Qin Wei out, and implemented the best strategy of "hiding if you can't afford to offend". Wei Chi laughed and gave Xie Jiu a wink. Xie Jiu nodded with the gods, and then Wei Chi followed the old man and Qin Wei out. After the three men went out, Xie Jiu smiled and persuaded the two old ladies to calm them down. The three of them chatted together and played with the children. The two old ladies were reluctant to part with the pair of babies, and they were sad before they left. Xie Jiu had to comfort him kindly.

The three father and son sat down at the main hall, made a pot of tea, and started chatting again with the scent of tea. The old man had long experience in traveling. Wei Chi thought of the long journey that he could expect, and he had the urge to turn green in his face, so he simply asked the old man for his experience on this question.

The old man rolled his eyes and laughed and scolded: "There is no secret, it's just the word "tolerance". Do you think everyone is a lazy boy like you? When I was a father, I really tied my head to my belt. I lived one day, and I earned all my life. I just wanted to have enough food, survive, and make my wife and children safe. I shine my family and be prosperous and wealthy. How can I think about suffering and suffering? "

Wei Chi was quite ashamed of being said, and it felt like an old man told him that when he was a doctor, his salary was only a few dollars and everyone wanted to rush to do it. Now the salary is several thousand. Some of them still dislike the low salary, tiring work, differences in the times, and differences in concepts. So there are always people from the older generation lamenting that people are more difficult than generations.

Wei Chi smiled and simply changed the topic and lured the old man to start talking about the years of war. When people get old, they like to talk about the past, like to miss it, and do small things, and don’t ask you to do many great things. They just need to calm down occasionally and tell the old man about his past and listen to his nagging patiently. Sometimes, the old man really has no high requirements for young people, just like the song that was sung so badly, it’s like when you go home and read it. People are afraid of loneliness.

The women were talking and laughing in the side hall. The father and son were talking loudly in the main hall, but they spoke with great spirits. They lifted their sleeves and their faces were red. They were obviously drinking tea, but they were excited as if they had drunk wine. The people who spoke were happy and the people who listened were happy. Wei Chi even applauded from time to time, shouting for the old man, and occasionally whistling, which made the old man more and more excited and spoke more excitingly. The words and tone often heard Qin Wei.

When he laughed with Wei Chi, he was so excited that the old man actually talked about the gossip of the other veteran generals of the Locust Army when he was young. Who fell in love with the pink head and brought gold and silver to redeem the pink head, but the pink head refused to agree. Who had been betting and drinking with others for interesting things, and what was the brightest thing about Wei Chi's eyes, he secretly wondered if he wanted to write it out for future generations, and the name was to expose the true face of the famous historical generals.

After chatting happily for a day, in the evening, Wei Chi decided to cook and tease a table of delicious food. The old man was in high spirits and carried Qin Wei's collar and said he wanted to go and do something for Wei Chi. He said that he wanted to perform well today and kept asking his two old wives to serve and take care of them. Today he also showed some tricks and took care of the two old wives. When he heard his adopted mother, his godmother was crying, and his adopted mother said, "Old man, today you made a bowl of wooden stakes for me, and I would eat them as delicious food!"

The godmother nodded in agreement while wiping her tears. The old man turned red when he heard this. He glanced at Wei Chi who was smirking aside, and then looked at the eldest son who was a little stunned and obviously couldn't react. He simply took one hand and went into the kitchen with his collar.

After wiping away tears, the two old ladies had a red face. They actively ran to the dining room to sit down early, stretched their necks and curled their heads, waiting for the old man to "show off their skills". Xie Jiu chuckled, hugged the child, and spoke with the two old ladies who were obviously absent-minded, listening to them nagging the old man intentionally or unintentionally. "Half-aged with me" and "Growing old until old", but that's just the same. In the future, when she and Wei Chi are both white-haired, will they be like this? Xie Jiu is looking forward to it.

Xie Jiu thought it was beautiful and moist in the dining room, but Wei Chi's hair was getting white in the kitchen. Originally, the old man started to do it well, but seeing that Wei Chi seemed to be very simple in cooking, he actually became interested and wanted to make a dish himself. The name of the dish was wild vegetable soup. It is said that when the marching and fighting, this was a regular meal.

Spring is when wild vegetables are fresh and tender. Wei Chi likes to make food. Some merchants go to the mountain to get it. When they see it, they always buy some from others and make it for themselves. Over time, the merchants also know the interests of the owner. Wei Chi and Xie Jiu and his wife are both famous and well-known among merchants. They are very popular and loved by them. They know that the owner and the owner's wife also like to eat some wild vegetables like them. When the wild vegetables come out in spring, they will remember to let their children or free people go up the mountain to get some to send them to the Wei Mansion.

Every time I give money, the farmers don’t want it. They say that even the vegetables in the vegetable field, familiar relatives and friends can pick them when they want to eat them, not to mention that some wild vegetables picked from the mountains are not bad, and they are even more embarrassed to collect Wei Chi’s money. The villagers in the village are embarrassed to meet people after collecting the money.

Seeing that others did not charge money, Wei Chi also understood in his heart that they did not want to do this, so they would just go around the farm when they had free time. Occasionally, when someone was sick, they would show it for free. It was also a neighborhood help and help each other. Everyone was happy, and he would collect things with peace of mind. They were all farmers, and no family had any surplus grain. They were not a big businessman like Sayed. A gentleman loved money and made it a good way to get it. Wei Chi's way was that at least he would not feel uneasy when he collected money, and he would not sweat coldly when he was dreaming one day and night.

The old man said he wanted to show off his skills, and Wei Chi and Qin Wei were obviously reserved. Wei Chi even asked: "Dad, can you tell which one is salt?"

This was exchanged for the old man slapping Wei Chi on the back of the head, and a glaring glance. The old man snorted: "Look at you! When you cook and eat salt, you didn't know where you were cats! Look, I'm showing off my skills so I can save you from showing off all day! "

Then, the old man started a knife performance - chopping wild vegetables! A bundle of wild vegetables, just a few strokes, the knife technique was fast and neat, and the one was straightforward and neat, so that Wei Chi's eyes were almost out of sight. I don't know if the old man was too devoted, or the strength was too strong, or the Wei Chi family's cutting board was too thin. At the last knife, it actually cracked into three pieces, and the wild vegetables were scattered all over the floor. The father and son looked at each other and were speechless for a moment.

The old man's face did not change his expression. At this moment, he was no longer alone. At this moment, Cheng Zhijie was possessed by his soul. At this moment, Cheng Zhijie fought with him. So the old man said lightly: "What kind of cutting board are you? It's so useless and too thin. Another day, the father asked someone to saw a piece of pear wood for you. As long as this piece is twice as thick, you won't crack even if you chop firewood on it."

"Oh, that's my father."

Wei Chi looked at the sky with his eyes and replied lightly. By the way, the cutting board of his house is thirty centimeters thick, is it still thin? Can you expect the so-called thick pear wood cutting board as thick as one meter? By the way, the old man's hand strength is really scary, and he deserves to be a martial arts practitioner.

The chaos in the kitchen was apart from the accident of splitting the cutting board, and the old man's big show of skills finally went smoothly and ended without any danger. Of course, if you ignore the mess in the kitchen, it should be a successful, great, and positive activity. I just hope that the chef of Wei's mansion will not cry while cleaning the kitchen later.

When the adopted mother and godmother almost turned into a husband-hopping stone, the dishes were finally prepared and they brought all the dishes one by one. Wei Chi and Qin Wei both took the bowl at the same time and said, "Try this wild vegetable soup first, it looks quite fresh."

The two looked at each other and smiled. One person with a tacit understanding served a bowl, looked at each other again, and encouraged each other. Wei Chi silently thought of Uncle Lei Feng, Brother Dong Cunrui, Comrade Qiu Shaoyun, and then took a sip with a solemn expression: "It's pretty good, it's very fragrant, fresh and tender, and the fragrance of the dough. My adoptive father is good at craftsmanship!"

As he said that, he raised his thumbs up without hesitation. The old man touched his beard and smiled and looked well-deserved. He said happily: "Try it all. I was the best at making this back then. Your Uncle Cheng and Uncle Li all like to eat it."

At that moment, one person served a bowl and drank it. Wei Chi had a good appetite and drank two bowls in a row. However, strangely, Mr. Qin did not drink a sip. Wei Chi couldn't help asking the reason. The old man rolled his eyes and looked at Wei Chi with contempt and said, "If you have been drinking batter soup for several years, can you still drink it now?"

Wei Chi was stunned and couldn't help laughing, saying, "Son understand, son understand, then the adoptive father will invite other dishes. This batter soup is made by us. It's really good!"
Chapter completed!