“Uncle Shen.”
Song Wangyue shouted with a smile.
Looking at her face which resembled Xu’s, Shen Yan’s hand behind his back moved slightly and nodded, “What do you want from me?”
“My mother’s matter was thanks to Uncle Shen’s help, I have specially made some pills for wind and cold to send to you as a token of our gratitude.”
“Pills?”
Shen Yan sat up straight.
The border pass had a long winter and was unusually cold, every time at that time there were very many sick soldiers, and there were often not enough herbs to go around, this time when he came back, he heard that there were pills in the pharmacy in the capital, and went to ask about them, but an ordinary pill for wind chill cost one tael of silver.
“Come in.”
Song Wangyue raised her voice and said to the outside.
The door curtain was lifted and Xiao Si was in front, followed by a few boys, one by one in front of each one, opening the box and filling it with pills.
“There are too many.”
Shen Yan thought she had bought them, these looked to be tens of thousands of pills, meaning Song Wan Yue had spent tens of thousands of taels of silver. The Song family was not rich, these silver should have been given by the Xu family after she had come to the capital.
“With hundreds of thousands of generals at the border, these pills are actually less, but I can only make so many for you, if there are more, I’m afraid it will arouse suspicion from others.”
“You made them?”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “I won’t hide it from Uncle Shen, my family is in the pill business, because I don’t have a backer, I don’t dare to make it known, I sell a small amount to a medicine shop in the capital every month.”
Shen Yan narrowed his eyes.
The reason why wind chill pills could be sold for one tael of silver a piece in the capital was because they were extremely rare, even the doctors in the Imperial Hospital couldn’t make them, so how could Song Wangyue, at her young age, make them?
“So, please help me keep it a secret, don’t let it out that I gave you this pill, the tree is big and attracts wind, I don’t want to get into that trouble.”
Shen Yan nodded his head, “I know, I won’t tell anyone.”
After saying that, he called the guards in and told them to take the box and put it away.
“In that case, we will leave Uncle Shen alone, I hope Uncle Shen has a safe journey back.”
“Yatou ……”
Shen Yan called out to her.
“Uncle Shen still has something to do?”
The words of wanting to meet with Xu Qingwan hit her lips several times, but eventually fell back.
Knowing that she was doing well, that she had a loving husband and a smart daughter, he was content.
“Take good care of your mother in the future, don’t let her suffer.”
“Uncle Shen, don’t worry, my mother didn’t suffer without her mother’s family, now that she has a mother’s family, she will not suffer any more, but Uncle Shen, take care of yourself, don’t forget that there are many people who are looking forward to your safe return.”
The corner of Shen Yan’s mouth pulled out a bitter smile, even if there were millions of people waiting for him to return, so what? The person he most hoped would be waiting for him was already someone else’s daughter-in-law.
Shen Yan personally saw them out and watched their carriage go until their shadows were no longer visible before he turned around and returned to the house, instructing the guards, “Keep an eye on those boxes, no one can touch them.”
……
When they returned to the mansion, Gu Yi went to play chess with the old man, and Song Wan Yue went to Xu’s courtyard, where Song Lin was holding a pile of books and Xu was sunning them one by one.
“Father, mother.”
Xu put away a book in her hand and asked her with a smile, “Why are you back so early today?”
“There was nothing else going on over there, so I came back.”
Song Wangyue didn’t tell them that she had gone over there to make pills, so they thought she had gone to the pastry shop to help.
Saying that, she took a book and put it away like Xu did, and in a short while she finished drying the pile of books.
Sweat broke out on Song Lin’s forehead and Xu took out a handkerchief to wipe it off for him, “We’ll dry these today, we’ll dry the rest tomorrow.”
“Aiyayaya ……”
Song Wan Yue deliberately covered her eyes, “My eyes are being blinded by the flash.”
For her to pop up some strange words from time to time, Xu has long been used to it, put away the paddle and nodded her forehead in a doting manner, “Making fun of father and mother again.”
Song Wan Yue let go of her hand, smiled and took Xu’s arm, and said to Song Lin, “Father, I would like to drink the tea in Grandfather’s room, please go and ask for a pot for me.”
“Yes, father will go right away.”
Song Lin happily responded, went inside and took the teapot and headed out, the capital was fine, when Si’er returned, the three of them could go back.
As she watched Song Lin leave the courtyard, Song Wan Yue took Xu’s arm and walked into the house, not waiting for her to speak, Xu said, “What’s so important to tell Mother that you have to avoid your father?”
Song Wan Yue laughed heatedly, “I knew I couldn’t hide it from Mother, you sit down first.”
When Xu sat down, Song Wan Yue moved a chair and sat in front of her, “Just now Gu Yi and I went to Zhen Guo Gong’s residence.”
The smile on Xu’s face faded.
“It looks like Uncle Shen will be leaving the capital in the next two days, I think Mother should meet him.”
Xu subconsciously went to get the tealight, and only after she brought it over did she remember that the teapot was not there, she held it tightly in her hand and did not speak for a while.
She didn’t know how to face Shen Yan, since she had thought of everything that day, every time she woke up at midnight from a dream, there was a piece of her heart that hurt so badly.
It was because of the fate they had missed; it was also because the young man who had been so spirited and unbridled back then had turned into the lonely figure he was today.
If she had not trusted Huo back then, she would not have been set up by them and would not have disappeared, and then, she would have married Shen Yan, and from then on, she would have been in harmony with her husband and wife.
But now, there was no going back.
“Although he didn’t say anything, I could see that he wanted to see you very much. Maybe after this farewell, you won’t have the chance to meet again in this life, and if that happens, Mother, you will have regrets for the rest of your life.”
“Stop it.”
Xu closed her eyes, her mind flashing back to that day when she woke up, the room full of red, and Shen Yan’s back almost fleeing in haste.
“When is he leaving?”
“It should be just in the next two days, I saw people from his mansion packing up when I went over there today.”
The sound of footsteps came as Song Lin came back with a teapot in his hand, “Yue’er, the tea is here! I was there just in time, your maternal great-grandfather had just made the tea and when he heard you wanted to drink it, he hurriedly asked me to bring it over.”
When he heard that you wanted to drink it, he hurriedly asked me to bring it over.” As the words left his mouth, he also entered the house, seeing Xu holding a teapot in her hand, he thought she was thirsty too, so he poured it for her first, and then poured one for Song Wan Yue as well, placing the teapot on the table.
He did not like to drink tea, a small sip was too unpleasant.
Song Wan Yue got up, “It’s better to leave this pot of tea to Mother, I’ll go to Grand Great Grandfather’s side.”
“You child ……”
Not waiting for Song Lin to finish, Song Wan Yue had already gone out with quick steps.
Song Lin felt strange.
Song Lin looked at her, “Dangjia’s, I want to tell you something.”
“I want to go and see Shen Yan.”
Song Lin’s body stiffened.