Chapter 516 Foolish Man (39)
After staying in Kyoto for half a year, Mrs. Zhao said goodbye to Jiang Tang and Zhao Chao, and boarded the boat to the south of the Yangtze River with Mr. Zhao.
That whole day, Zhao Chao's mood was not very high. He stopped eating and playing with kites. He sat in the study with his head hanging down in a daze.
At dinner in the evening, Zhao Chao ate less than Jiang Tang, and he wilted for a while and said:
"Jiang Tang, I don't want to be the prince's teacher anymore."
"It's okay if you don't do it right. You resign and we go back to the countryside to farm."
"Then I will resign after I find a doctor to treat you."
Zhao Chao had long since not wanted to stay in Kyoto, but every time he brought it up, the emperor would smile and say there was no rush, no rush. After leaving Kyoto, he would not be able to find such a good doctor to treat Jiang Tang.
Zhao Chao then gave up the idea of resigning.
Jiang Tang reached out and rubbed Zhao Chao's hair.
"Do you know what it means to enjoy the present moment? Don't worry about things that can't be changed. I can still live for a long time. Don't think about it all day long."
Zhao Chao didn't talk about random thoughts, but he was very worried. Before he was thirty, there were silver threads on his temples.
He is already the world's leading master of landscape painting and the prince's enlightenment painter.
But the master still maintained his youthful hobby. The apricot tree transplanted from the county town died within a month. Zhao Chao was very sad for a while. Jiang Tang planted a sunflower for him. The backyard of the house.
Over the years, Zhao Chao personally harvested sunflower seeds in summer, kept some as seeds, and fried the rest into walnut-flavored melon seeds. Then next spring, he would sow the seeds early and take care of them carefully every day. . Jiang Tang never lacks melon seeds to knock, but Zhao Chao is still stingy and always hides melon seeds behind her back, like a hamster.
Every time Jiang Tang found melon seeds hidden by Zhao Chao from the study drawer, he would eat them one by one in front of Zhao Chao.
Painter Zhao could only watch aggrievedly as Jiang Tang turned the fruits of his hard work over the past year into a pile of melon seed shells, and then asked him to clean them.
Jiang Tang liked to bully Zhao Chao. He would see him staring at him helplessly and aggrievedly with his beautiful eyes. After a little coaxing, he immediately became happy again and shouted to Jiang Tang from behind.
When Zhao Chao was thirty-five years old, he adopted a child. He picked it up by the river when he took Jiang Tang to the temple to pray for blessings.
Zhao Chao did not want to raise the child, and just wanted to give the child to Jiang Zhiqing to raise, but Jiang Tang insisted on taking the child back. The explanation to Zhao Chao was: "When the old one between us can no longer move, there will always be a child to help them raise their children." A monument.”
This is a boy, about five or six years old. When asked how old he is and what his name is, he just shakes his head.
Nine times out of ten, he was a child who fled the country and moved to Kyoto. Although he was a little dark and thin after being cleaned, he had a pair of clean eyes. Jiang Tang liked his eyes and kept asking him to call him Aunt Jiang.
Jiang Tang didn't want to be a mother, so he asked the child to call him aunt. Zhao Chao was his uncle and changed his surname to Zhao. Jiang Tang named him Zhao Tang, nicknamed Ergouzi, and his age was considered to be five years old.
Zhao Tang is young, and he doesn't know why his uncle always looks a little angry when he looks at him. Therefore, what he fears most at home is not Jiang Tang, the head of the family, but Zhao Chao, who has the gentlest temper.
His aunt was in poor health and had to take medicine every day. The medicine was very bitter. He secretly took a sip of it once, and it was so bitter that he almost shed tears. Even eating some candied fruit could not cover up the bitter taste.
(End of chapter)