Chapter 441 Banquet

The 441st Dragon Boat Festival

Zhu Zhongjun quickly made some work, took a few bodyguards, arranged family affairs, said goodbye to his family and the empress dowager, and set out from the capital to control the peach blossom flood along the Yellow River.

After he left, the royal palace was heavily guarded, and Gu Jinzhi was also relieved.

It's just Yan Ying, crying and looking for her father every day.

Gu Jinzhi told him many times that his father was busy with official business and came back a few months later, but Yan Ying couldn't help crying.

Even his master Chen Dingwen can't persuade him.

He insisted on going to find his father.

Gu Jinzhi half squatted down every time, knelt on one knee, gently hugged Yan Ying, and patted him on the back until he didn't cry.

After several times, Yan Ying stopped crying, but repeatedly asked Gu Jinzhi, "Mom, when will Dad come back? Why didn't he take me?"

Gu Jinzhi had to explain to him patiently: "Your father is on official business. I have official business, so I can't take you there. When your father comes back, let him take you to play, okay?"

Yan Ying pouted her little mouth and was unhappy.

He actually understood that this was his mother's perfunctory.

Gu Jinzhi took Yanshan and Yanying to find Lin Yi, hoping that Lin Yi could make some fresh tricks for the children to play.

Lin Yi is also at a loss.

He is just a Taoist priest and has never raised a child.

He felt that Gu Jinzhi was a little difficult.

Finally, he gave the children short stories from Taoism.

Yan Ying gradually listened to it.

Gu Jinzhi asked Lin Yi to only speak one thing a day, and the rest of the time, he taught Yanshan to practice calligraphy.

"I used to teach Yanshan. I'm always worried that people will say that he was taught by a woman. You are his godfather, and you are better than me. Gu Jin's way.

Lin Yi readily accepted it.

He was willing to teach Yanshan to write, but he didn't ask why the royal palace didn't invite a gentleman.

When Yan Ying saw that Lin Yi called Yan Shan, he was also greedy and wanted to learn.

After studying all morning, he felt that his arm was sore and more tired than practicing martial arts, so he put down his pen. I went to find Chen Dingwen.

However, he usually goes to Lin Yi to listen to stories every day.

At the end of April, the weather is getting warmer and the flowers are in full bloom, indicating that spring is gradually coming.

There is no good needle and threader on Gu Jinzhi's side.

On the other side of his mother Song Paner, the keeper in the sewing room was still Master Cheng, who taught Gu Jinzhi embroidery in those years.

Master Cheng's craftsmanship is the best, and ordinary embroiderers are invincible to her.

Gu Jinzhi ran to ask his mother, "Have you finished your summer shirt? If it's done. Help me make a few sets..."

Song Paner smiled and said, "It's almost the Dragon Boat Festival to make summer clothes?" When did you become so lazy? On my side. I'm about to make autumn clothes. I asked Master Cheng to stop the matter at hand. What kind of clothes do you want to make? Let the children come and measure them, and I will help you make them. I still have some cloth sent from Jiangning last autumn in my library..."

Song Pan'er is very particular about clothes.

Every year, someone in Yanling Mansion comes up to deliver rent or New Year's goods, and bring a boat of Jiangning cloth to Song Pan'er by the way.

This is Song Pan'er's favorite.

Her clothes. There is always the latest cloth, which is comparable to the new one in the palace.

"Thank you, mother." Gu Jinzhi was busy and acted coquettishly beside his mother, "In this world, my mother loves me the most."

Song Pan'er laughed and scolded her for being slippery: "It was not like this when I was a child. Now that I'm married, I look like a little girl.

In the afternoon of the same day, Gu Jinzhi called the children and Lin Yi here to measure their clothes.

Gu Yanzhen happens to be at home.

He heard that Lin Yi was the one who saved the lives of his grandson and daughter. I want to see Lin Yi immediately.

Gu Jinzhi said, "It's Mr. Lin who asked our pharmacy back then..."

"It's been eight or nine years since then. Where does your father remember?" Song Paner helped to speak, "What, is Mr. Lin still afraid of birth?"

Gu Jinzhi's smile. He said, "Mr. Lin loves purity."

"Our family is not clean?" Song Pan'er asked back.

Gu Jinzhi couldn't do it, so he had to ask Lin Yi if he would like to come again.

Lin Yi doesn't care about these.

He came over immediately.

Gu Yanzhen and his wife looked at Lin Yi in a Taoist robe, his hair was white and elegant, and he looked like a modest gentleman, and they all had a good impression on Lin Yi in their hearts.

Before, Lin Yi worked as a sitting teacher in Gu's pharmacy. Except for his grandfather, eldest brother, Gu Jinzhi and Si Jian, others were indeed not familiar with him.

Gu Yanzhen and Song Pan'er met Lin Yi once and had already forgotten what he looked like.

Now that I see his appearance, I am also relieved.

Song Pan'er thought that Gu Jinzhi and Zhu Zhongjun's personalities were a little strange. Well, get a Taoist priest to be the godfather of the child...

"Mr. Lin has good medical skills. How did he become a Taoist priest?" Gu Yanzhen asked Lin Yi in a kind tone, like a friend chatting.

Lin Yi also explained patiently: "Poverty Tao is originally an outsider. When the teacher passed away, the poor man inherited the master's mantle..."

He has always been a Taoist priest, but he was not formal at that time.

Gu Yanzhen nodded.

He has little research on Taoism and doesn't know medicine, so he has nothing to say. He just said, "I heard that Mr. Lin recently taught Yanshan to read and write? Thank you for your hard work..."

"Yanshan is my adopted son, which is all a matter." Lin Yi said.

He mentioned this with a faint smile on his face.

It can be seen that he likes Yanshan very much.

Song Paner saw Lin Yi's expression and couldn't help smiling. Mr. Lin likes Yanshan very much.

Whoever likes Song Pan'er's grandson will like Song Pan'er.

She opened her mouth and left Lin Yi to eat in the house: "... It's a light meal, sir, don't dislike it."

They all followed the habits of Gu Jinzhi and Zhu Zhongjun and called them Mr. Lin Yiwei.

Lin Yi looked at Gu Jinzhi.

Gu Jinzhi nodded to him and asked him to agree.

Lin Yi said, "That's disturbing."

Song Pan'er ordered the kitchen to prepare food and asked Gu Jinzhi to take all the children over.

Gu Jin's way is.

The Yanshan brothers also came soon.

As soon as Yan Ying saw her uncles, she immediately ran away; Yanshan sat down next to Lin Yi, looking very clever. Song Pan'er hugged Yan Shao.

Yan Shao has been 19 months and can walk and talk.

He just can't say long sentences.

Song Pan'er taught him about his grandmother, and he learned it. Now as long as he is coaxed, he will still call Song Pan'er's grandmother, which makes Song Pan'er smile.

The atmosphere at home is very good.

During the meal, Lin Yi sat with Gu Yanzhen, Brother Xuan, Xiao Shi, Xiao Eleven, Yan Shan and Yan Ying. Song Paner and Gu Jinzhi took Yan Shao and set up a small table behind the screen.

The voice in front of the screen is not high, and Gu Jinzhi and Song Paner can chat.

It's almost the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the old custom, Gu Jinzhi wants to go back to his mother's house to hide in the afternoon.

"Who do you want to invite to the banquet?" Gu Jinzhi asked his mother.

Many people in Beijing have married far away from other places, so it is impossible to go back to their mother's house to hide in the afternoon. Like Song Pan'er, who is already a grandmother, she no longer cares about this.

But there are still many people she knows who have nowhere to hide in the afternoon.

Gu Jinzhi thought that Song Paner was going to hold a banquet.

"What you said reminded me." Song Pan'er said with a smile. It's your aunt's control every year. I'll tell you this year. Let me do it for a year. Isn't it bad?"

Gu Jinzhi's smile.

My mother is energetic, which is a good thing. She didn't interrupt.

"It's better to be early, not late." Gu Jinzhi said to his mother, "If you plan to do it. It's time to prepare in advance so as not to repeat..."

Song Pan'er nodded.

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After lunch at Gu's house, Gu Jinzhi and the children went back to the royal palace, and Lin Yi also followed them.

After handing over the children to their respective nursing mothers, Gu Jinzhi thought of something and had no time to say to Lin Yi, so he took today's opportunity to mention to Lin Yi: "You took some of the poppy seed paste we planted in those years. Is there anything else now?"

"I have a lot." Lin Yi said, "I left seeds, planted a lot of seeds for the master's filial piety, and also made a lot of ointment. It's useless now. It's all in the hut in front of my master's grave. Do you want it?"

Gu Jinzhi nodded repeatedly.

She said, "I'm running out of mine. Give me all yours."

Lin Yi took a look at her and didn't ask anything more in the end.

How did you use it up? Didn't you say that it was very dangerous?

This was put in Lin Yi's heart and didn't ask in the end.

He temporarily went back to his master's cemetery, took out things from the small wooden shed built during the time of filial piety, and turned back to the royal palace.

It's been three days since I went there like this.

Gu Jinzhi is very grateful for what he brought back.

This is about ten times more than Gu Jinzhi brought from Luzhou.

All of Gu Jinzhi's worries are gone.

She cherished it very much. She locked it in the warehouse in person and waited for her batch to run out before replacing it.

She is now on hand, and she still has 80% of ten miles left.

She is already slowing down the dosage for Tan.

Tan was more uncomfortable. He used up the one-month weight sent by Gu Jinzhi in ten days, and asked Gu Jinzhi to send it again.

Gu Jinzhi thought, send it for another five days, so that she can use it every two days now.

Such a deliberate reduction made Tan feel dissatisfied from the bottom of his heart, but increased the weight,

Gu Jinzhi just wants her to increase her weight.

The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, she went to the palace to deliver medicine.

The Empress Dowager called her to the Renshou Palace and said to Gu Jinzhi, "Is the queen okay? Why do you feel sad to see her, getting thinner and thinner? And the skin is yellow..."

"The effect of the medicine is over." Gu Jin said, "After eating for a long time, the effect of the medicine will be reduced by 50%. Now, as before, it needs to double the effect of the medicine. But I don't have much medicine on hand..."

"Then try to get some more for her." The Empress Dowager said, "She looked very good before, and she looked happy."

"It's not easy to do." Gu Jin said, "I need to think about it."

The Empress Dowager nodded and said nothing more.

Then, she asked Gu Jinzhi about the child in his stomach: "Are you still making trouble?"

"It's no longer noisy." Gu Jinzhi smiled and then said, "Mother, she can move. She kicked me a few times last night."

Her child also began to kick Gu Jinzhi a few days ago.

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "That's the child's liveliness." Then he asked, "How are Yanshan's brothers?"

Gu Jinzhi said it was good.

After asking again, the defense of their house is safe. Do you need to send some more bodyguards? Gu Jinzhi refused.

After talking for a long time, the Empress Dowager let Gu Jinzhi leave.

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