Chapter 262: Greetings from the West Palace
"My Lord is back!"
When Jia Cong returned to Ningzheng Hall, Xiaoque'er, Qingwen and Xiangling, along with a group of maids, were waiting to greet him in the courtyard.
"It's so cold, why are you waiting outside!" As he said that, he stepped forward and pinched Xiao Que'er's rosy face, "It's so cold, hurry back to the house! All the maids in our courtyard will be rewarded with three months' salary! You three will each be rewarded with ten taels."
"Thank you for the reward, sir!" Everyone saluted happily, and Xiao Que'er and the other two happily surrounded Jia Cong and led him into the main hall.
"Master, you've been away for several months and even suppressed a rebellion. You must be tired!" Qingwen asked as she changed Jia Cong's robe.
"I'm not tired, I just miss my master Qingwen! Ask someone to prepare hot water, I want to take a bath in a while!" Qingwen responded with a blushing face.
Xiao Que'er came up to protect Jia Cong, "Master, do you miss Xiao Que'er?"
"I do. I also miss Xiangling! You guys are all my maids. How can I not miss you?"
"Have you received the gifts I brought back for you?"
"The Second Madam has been sent to us. Madam and the First Madam went to the old lady in the West Mansion, saying that they were going to see the Second Madam. Xiao Que'er was going to go too, but Qingwen said that Master would definitely go back to the mansion later, so she didn't go and waited for Master to come back at home."
"Well, our little bird is naturally the best behaved!"
Xiao Que'er was obviously very satisfied with Jia Cong's praise, and then she started chattering about the interesting things that happened after Jia Cong left.
After a while, Qingwen came back and said, "Master, the hot water has been prepared. "
"Then I will go take a bath first. You must be tired after waiting for a whole day, so go to bed early! Tomorrow you will have to follow me to the West Mansion to pay respects to the old lady."
Xiao Que'er and Xiangling agreed, and then went into the house to make the bed for Jia Cong.
As Qingwen entered the bathroom, she felt a warm feeling coming towards her.
"The weather is cold, so I'll use a charcoal cage to warm up the room first!" Qingwen said.
Jia Cong stepped forward and held Qingwen's petite body in his arms. "I know that my Qingwen is the best. During these few months since I left, has Qingwen missed me?"
"I thought about it!" Qingwen said with a red face.
"Hahaha!" Looking at Qingwen's blushing face, Jia Cong couldn't help but laugh . No matter what time, home is the warmest place and it is the place where people can let down all their defenses. Only such a place can be called home.
After helping Jia Cong take off his inner and outer clothes, Qingwen also took off her outer clothes and only wore her underclothes to wash Jia Cong.
However, she was only half-washed before her whole body was soaked. Jia Cong then carried her directly into the bathtub, and the only remaining clothes on her body fell off.
Qingwen shyly lay in Jia Cong's arms. She didn't know how long she had been working so hard. She had to use her hands and mouth together to barely finish the bath.
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The next day, Jia Cong woke up and several maids also got up early. After helping Jia Cong wash, dress and eat breakfast, the master and servants went to the West Mansion.
Although they arrived early, in the old lady's courtyard, not only Wang Xifeng and Li Wan were there, but all the young ladies were also there.
Obviously, they knew Jia Cong would come, so they gathered here early and waited.
"Oh, our eldest marquis is here? Is it because someone in your East Mansion is missing that he rushed here to look for him so early in the morning?" Wang Xifeng said with a smile.
Keqing's eyes were originally fixed on Jia Cong, but when Wang Xifeng said this, she quickly nodded.
"Second sister-in-law, what you said is true. We only have these few masters in the East Mansion. Even if we are concerned about them, they are concerned about the people in the West Mansion! Ping'er, don't you think this is true?"
Seeing that the master and servant dared not reply, Jia Cong laughed and stepped forward, "Grandson greets the old lady. I haven't seen her for several months. I thought the old lady must be worried about her grandson's poor appetite and poor sleep. But I never thought that the old lady is full of energy, as if she is 20 years younger!"
"Grandfather, my grandson is sad."
Jia Cong's words made everyone in the room burst into laughter. "You little monkey, you only know how to make an old lady like me happy when you come back!"
"My Lord, you may not know that ever since you left for the south, the old lady has been worried all day long. When she learned that there was a war in the south, she has been uneasy for several days!" said Yuanyang on the side.
"It's not bad!" Jia Cong patted his chest, "I thought I had fallen out of favor with the old ancestor after only being away for two or three months. If that's true, it would be a big loss."
Everyone laughed again, and then Jia Cong walked up to sit next to the old lady, holding her hand and saying, "My grandson is doing well in the south, but I made you worried."
"I hope you come back safely!" Grandmother Jia patted Jia Cong's hand and said, "I don't ask for anything else now, I just hope that you grandchildren are safe and sound, which is my greatest blessing."
"Don't worry, old lady. Not only will our family be safe and sound, but it will also become more prosperous!" Jia Cong said with a smile.
"This time I went back to visit our old relatives in the south on behalf of the old lady. All the uncles and aunts are looking forward to the old lady's return. I am thinking that when the weather gets warmer next year or the year after, our whole family will accompany the old lady to the south. Sister Bao and Sister Lin are naturally familiar with the south of the Yangtze River, but the other sisters have never seen the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River."
The old lady patted Jia Cong happily and said, "It's good that your grandson is so filial, but I don't know if my body can endure it."
"Madam, our ship is very stable. When the time comes, it will be easy to ask Brother Cong to borrow two imperial doctors from the palace to follow him. Isn't that a simple matter?" Wang Xifeng said.
The old lady laughed even more happily when she heard this. It is said that fallen leaves return to their roots. The older people get, the more they want to go back. Jia's mother is naturally the same, but one is her health, and the other is that as the wife of a duke, she needs to stay in the Jia Mansion. However, now that she has a promising grandson, maybe she can really go back.
After chatting for a while, the old lady suddenly said to Jia Cong, "Grandson, did you meet Mrs. Jin when you returned?"
Jia Cong nodded and said, "Of course I have met them. My grandson has also promised them that he will bring them to the capital in a few years. After all, Sister Yuanyang is in front of the old lady. If the flesh and blood can be reunited, it will also show that the old lady is kind."
Hearing this, Grandmother Jia sighed and nodded, "Mrs. Jin was also a person close to me back then, and she was the most useful to me, so I was relieved to leave our old house to them and their husbands to take care of it. In this way, I owe Yuanyang a lot."
Yuanyang said he dared not, but the old lady pulled Yuanyang to her side and said, "I know you are loyal, but you can't delay you because of me."
