Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 203 - 202 Gathering Together
Chapter 203: Chapter 202 Gathering Together
Scholar Mo, over the past two years, had been so preoccupied with exams and later with making a living that he hadn’t intentionally taken the time to appreciate the prosperity of the Capital City.
However, today he seemed particularly inclined to appreciate it, walking down each street, observing every shop he passed, wanting to engrave the details of this place in his memory.
Perhaps upon leaving here, he might not return for half a year or two years. Later, when speaking to others, he could recount the splendor of the Capital.
He took the letter to the post station and mailed it. Then he headed back to the city center. Thinking of his mother-in-law taking his wife along, he was certain they wouldn’t prepare lunch for him, so he stopped at a small eatery to casually enjoy some local snacks from the Capital.
Mrs. Zhong did not go shopping with her daughter immediately but had the carriage return home first.
His mother had brought him home without telling her husband, possibly fearing that the family would object to seeing him.
No matter what, seeing his family today meant that they wouldn’t feel regret after he left.
His daughter followed him home obediently, and Mrs. Ding was very pleased with her daughter’s behavior.
She felt that seeing her daughter today was a wise choice. She brought her daughter into the house and instructed the maid to gather all the family members in the living room. They were to prepare good wine and meat for a family reunion lunch today.
Obediently, the maids set about making the arrangements—some headed to the kitchen, others went to different courtyards to summon other masters.
Mrs. Mo took in the sights of her parental home, the grass and trees unchanged after half a year. What had changed were the past years and her transformation from a young lady into a woman.
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No matter what, she had no regrets about marrying her husband; her only feeling was guilt towards her parents and family.
Mrs. Zhong brought her daughter to the living room of their own courtyard and found that her husband wasn’t there. She only learned this after asking the maid.
Old Master Zhong had gone to his room to sleep after she left.
Normally, the Old Master would be in the study at this time near mealtime. It must have been because she went to see her daughter, which upset him.
Mrs. Zhong returned to the room and indeed found her husband lying on the bed.
“Old Master, come out quickly, guess who I brought?”
“Hmph, you shouldn’t bring that unfilial daughter back,” Old Master Zhong, of course, was upset by his wife’s insistence on seeing their daughter, so much that he couldn’t bring himself to say she should never return once she left this house.
Lying in bed, fuming silently, he somewhat regretted not joining his wife to see their daughter. Hearing his wife’s voice, his anger hadn’t abated and his words were merely stubborn.
“Keep being stubborn, do you really not want to see your daughter? Then I’ll take her away.”
Mrs. Zhong said mockingly as she pretended to walk away.
“Hmph, this is my house. Why can’t I go out? If anyone should leave, it should be that unfilial daughter.”
Old Master Zhong sat up from the bed, grumbling, but already started tidying his clothes and adjusting his hat.
“Yes …, this is the Old Master’s house, whatever the Old Master says is law.”
Mrs. Zhong, hearing her husband’s tone soften, happily helped him tidy his garments.
Old Master Zhong usually didn’t care much about his appearance, but at this moment, he picked up a small mirror to check himself and decided his beard needed trimming.
So, he picked up scissors to trim his beard and used the mirror to tidy up his nasal hair as well.
Mrs. Zhong stood by smiling, also straightening her clothes and adjusting the jewelry on her head.
When the couple reappeared in the living room, they saw their daughter already surrounded by their children.
“Sister, does your husband treat you well? Are you happy marrying him?”
As her sister asked, Mrs. Mo nodded lightly. Her brothers, being men, found it inappropriate to ask such questions. Like their father, they didn’t want their sister to marry a poor scholar and endure hardships with him.
She didn’t go to pick her up because she was still feeling resentful.
Old Master Zhong and his wife went to the living room and saw their children reunited, so Mrs. Zhong asked someone to prepare a meal.
The family moved to the dining hall to eat.
Mrs. Mo’s elder brother had already married and his wife was pregnant and had just given birth, so it was not convenient for her to come out and meet her elder sister-in-law.
Mrs. Mo didn’t disturb them, thinking she would visit her sister-in-law and nephew when she was free.
The family joyfully ate in their parents’ yard. Young Madam Zhong, who was in her confinement period, was informed by her maid that her elder sister-in-law had returned home.
Since she was in confinement, it wasn’t convenient for her to meet her elder sister-in-law. She told her maid to ask her elder sister-in-law to come see her after they had finished eating.
She and her elder sister-in-law were close friends in their youth, and since the family prohibited them from meeting, they had no choice but to endure it.
Actually, he also didn’t want his elder sister-in-law to marry a poor scholar, but she was insistent, to the point of threatening to die, which saddened her parents-in-law and angered her husband and other family members.
She was also upset with her elder sister-in-law, and now that her mother-in-law had brought her elder sister-in-law back home, there must be something she didn’t know about.
The Zhong family was happily dining, with Mrs. Zhong occasionally serving dishes to her daughter.
This even evoked her younger daughter’s charming banter.
“Mom, you’ve forgotten about me now that sister is back,” she said.
Mrs. Zhong knew her daughter, who had been pampered from childhood, must have been conserving food over the last six months, unwilling to indulge in good meals, which pained her as a mother to see her daughter so thin.
“You little one, your sister is leaving for another place tomorrow, and here you are, jealous,” she replied.
“Sister is going to another place? Where?” asked the sister, and everyone in the family, who had lived only in the Capital City, was curious about where Mrs. Mo was going and what that place was like.
“She got a job teaching children to play musical instruments. It’s a day’s travel from here to the Imperial Capital. I heard the place has beautiful scenery; it was introduced by our cousin whose daughter-in-law married into the Tang Family Imperial Merchant and lives in that county,” she explained.
Mrs. Mo’s siblings looked curious and envious upon hearing this.
“The scenery is very beautiful? Hearing sister say this, I also want to see the outside world,” said Mrs. Mo’s younger sister.
Right after her words fell, their father scolded her, “Nonsense, your sister is going to work, not to play. You going there would just cause trouble for others.”
Second Miss Zhong, hearing her father’s words, abandoned the idea. She had grown into a young lady and it was not convenient for her to go out, merely expressing her curiosity about the outside world timidly.
No sooner had the idea been voiced by the sister than it was scolded by their father; the youngest brother, sensing the intention, thought it was a good idea but didn’t dare speak it in front of his father. Instead, he planned to secretly request permission from their mother and then sneak along with his sister.
Just after finishing their meal, a maid came to Mrs. Mo and said her sister-in-law wanted to see her.
The intention was mutual; she wanted to see her sister-in-law and nephew as well.
She hadn’t prepared a red envelope specially when coming out, but she had prepared some money to buy things with her mother.
Knowing prior that her sister-in-law had given birth to a nephew, she had secretly bought a gift for him and brought it along while going out with her mother, planning to hand it over to her mother to give to her nephew later.
Mrs. Mo went to her brother and sister-in-law’s yard, her younger sister tagging along.
Upon meeting her sister-in-law, she politely exchanged a few words and then reassured her to take good care of herself during her confinement period.
She glanced at her nephew sleeping in the cradle, noting that he looked like her brother.
She took out a golden lock from her bosom and placed it on her nephew, watching his face; even though she was married, she hadn’t conceived yet, but seeing her little nephew made her long for a child of her own.
