SFS Chapter 490: General Qin's Mansion, but encountered difficulties
Chapter 490: General Qin's Mansion, but encountered difficulties
"Mom, my bird is gone." Qin Yongle looked at his mother and cried pitifully.
Zhong Lingzhu picked up her daughter and said, "Be good, Lele. The bird misses its mother, so it wants to fly away."
Qin Yongle listened to her mother's words, and she looked at her with a puzzled look on her face and asked, "Mom, does the bird also have a mother?"
"Silly girl, birds also have mothers, otherwise how can they give birth to chicks?" She comforted her daughter and said, "Le Le, don't cry, okay?"
Qin Yongle listened to his mother's words. Although he was still very dissatisfied, he stopped crying and sobbed, "Well, I will listen to my mother."
Shen Ruolan also came over and said, "Lele is so good. Auntie Lan will catch you a more beautiful bird later, okay?"
"Okay," Qin Yongle replied.
Zhong Lingzhu also smiled at Shen Anhe and said, "Anhe, don't be sad. The bird went to find its mother and flew away by itself."
Shen Anhe nodded to Zhong Lingzhu and said, "Yes, Aunt Zhu, I understand."
Although Xiao Anhe knew it, he still looked unhappy.
Shen Ruolan saw what was on her daughter's mind, and she coaxed her, "An He, when we get back later, let's go find another bird for Lele, okay?"
"Okay," little Anhe replied happily to her mother.
"So good." Seeing that her daughter was no longer hesitant, Shen Ruolan took her daughter to play in the yard.
While playing, little An He said to his mother: "Mom, I want to hear you sing."
After Shen Ruolan heard what her daughter said, she glanced at everyone and said to her daughter, "An He, there are too many people here, it's not easy for mother to sing."
Little An He said coquettishly: "Mom, please sing. I will sing along with you."
Zhong Lingzhu, who was standing by, also said to Shen Ruolan with expectation: "Ruolan, we are all family here, just sing."
Zhong Lingzhu heard from her husband that Shen Ruolan sang in the palace back then. The lyrics and the voice were so amazing that no one has surpassed it to this day. Now, she also wanted to listen to it.
"Auntie Lan, I want to listen to music too." Little Yongle said with sparkling eyes.
Shen Ruolan looked at the children who were looking forward to it. She smiled and said, "Okay."
After Shen Ruolan finished speaking, she thought about it for a while and said to the others, "Then I will sing a song for you today, The Girl Picking Mushrooms."
"Okay," several children responded happily.
Shen Ruolan took a few children to sit down, and asked them to clap their hands to accompany her, and then began to sing Zhu Fengbo's "The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms", "The little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket, walking barefoot in the early morning through the woods and hills..."
The moment Shen Ruolan's singing started, everyone looked at her, especially Qin Zhen. Although Shen Ruolan was singing a nursery rhyme, he was also fascinated by it for a moment.
Apart from hearing her singing in the palace that year, he had never heard Shen Ruolan sing again. He didn't expect that after several years, her singing was still so beautiful.
However, Shen Qi and Shen Hui were already used to it, because when they were in Fuzhai, Shen Ruolan would sing for the children whenever she had time, and they also took the opportunity to feast their ears.
After Shen Ruolan finished singing the song, everyone came back to their senses, except for Zhong Lingzhu's family who were still savoring the memory.
Little An He was the first to applaud his mother and said, "Mom, you sing so beautifully."
As Xiao Anhe finished speaking, Qin Zhen's family also came back to their senses. Zhong Lingzhu looked at Shen Ruolan with admiration and said, "Ruolan, I didn't expect you to be so talented. I admire you so much."
Shen Ruolan smiled at Zhong Lingzhu and said half-truthfully, "Sister Zhu, you think too highly of me. The songs I sing are not my own. I was lucky enough to receive them as gifts from an old senior."
Zhong Lingzhu said: "Even if this is the case, you still need to have talent. Otherwise, no matter how good something is, you can't learn it without talent."
As soon as Zhong Lingzhu finished speaking, she heard Qin Yongle clapping his hands and saying happily, "Auntie Lan, it sounds good."
Shen Ruolan pinched Xiao Yongle's face and said with a smile: "Thank you, Xiao Lele."
Just as they were talking happily, the steward of the mansion suddenly came over to report: "General, the meal is ready. Do you want to eat?"
Qin Zhen smiled at everyone and said, "Let's eat."
"Oh, it's time to eat." When Shen Anhe heard that it was time to eat, she hurried to the dining room.
However, she hadn't run a few steps when a pair of big hands lifted her up high and said, "An He, do you miss your father?"
When Shen Anhe saw her father coming, she hugged his neck and shouted excitedly: "Daddy, you are here."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and shouted to her mother, "Mom, Daddy is here."
When Zhong Lingzhu saw Jiang Dichen coming, she quickly took her two children and bowed to him, saying, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you."
After she finished speaking, she said to the two children, "Zi'an, Lele, quickly pay your respects to the prince."
After hearing what their mother said, the two children said to Jiang Dichen, "Zi'an, Lele, meet the prince."
Jiang Dichen looked at them and said, "No need to be polite."
Qin Zhen nodded to Jiang Dichen and said, "Since the prince is here, please come in and have dinner together."
Jiang Dichen responded with a "hmm", then came to Shen Ruolan and said, "Ruolan, you went out without asking me to go with you."
Shen Ruolan smiled at him and said, "I thought you were busy, so I came with grandpa and the others."
Jiang Dichen said: "Fortunately, the wedding ceremony has been arranged. Now we just have to wait for the auspicious day to arrive."
Qin Zhen listened to the conversation between the two. He paused for a moment and asked Jiang Dichen, "When is the auspicious date for the wedding of the prince and Ruolan?
After hearing what her husband said, Zhong Lingzhu also looked up at Jiang Dichen and Shen Ruolan.
Jiang Dichen said: "May 9th."
"May 9th?" Qin Zhen paused for a moment, frowned and asked, "So urgent?"
He wanted to resign before their wedding, but there were only two months left, and he wondered what the emperor's mood was.
Jiang Dichen rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily, "There are still two months left, why are you in such a hurry?"
If there hadn't been any good days recently, he wouldn't have chosen to get married in May, because every extra day of waiting would be torture.
Qin Zhen ignored Jiang Dichen and let Zhong Lingzhu push him into the house. He began to think about resigning from his official position.
At the dinner table, perhaps because of Jiang Dichen's arrival, everyone in the Qin family, except Qin Zhen, felt a little restrained.
Jiang Dichen looked at the not-so-rich meal on the table and thought about the news he had received. He looked at Qin Zhen and asked, "Is General Qin's Mansion encountering any difficulties?"
After hearing Jiang Dichen's question, Zhong Lingzhu and her husband looked at each other, and they were too nervous to know how to answer.
Qin Zhen comforted his wife with his eyes and said to Jiang Dichen, "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I am doing well in my mansion."
Jiang Dichen heard Qin Zhen's stubborn attitude, so he said nothing more and just ate his meal.
After lunch, Shen Ruolan handed the child to Jiang Dichen. She talked to Zhong Lingzhu again and asked her about the complicated relationships among the various families in the capital.