There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

Shi Zhongzhu was afraid that Wei Zhenniang would be worried, so he sent her back to the bedroom first, and then brought a few children to the study to discuss matters. He didn't have the concept that women could not participate in politics, let alone Shi Zhenzhu.

"No wonder I said that in the past two years, the atmosphere in the family has been so strange, and the third brother is also depressed. It turned out to be because of me." Zhenzhu sighed. "Father, don't be angry with third brother, it's all for me, you can scold me and beat me, but don't get angry."

"Okay, I'm already a 16-year-old girl, don't act like a little girl." Shi Zhongzhu pulled Pearl away blankly, this was already his most severe expression towards his daughter.

"I'm not angry with you, get up." Shi Zhongzhu waved his hand to wake up the three brothers who were still kneeling on the ground, and said: "What's the use of pleading guilty and crying now, if there is no way, tomorrow I'm afraid that all the families in Zhongjiahou's mansion will cry blind Eye."

Hearing this, Shi Ning bowed his head in silence, clenched his fists, and tears flowed down again.

Pearl put her hand on Shi Ning's back, and comforted him lightly, saying: "Father, Third Brother knows he's wrong. Don't you, Third Brother~" Pearl motioned to Shining to say something soft, her own father didn't Do you understand, when I was 16 years old, I have never heard of a father who is more kind and caring for his children than his own father.

Shi Ning is also a stubborn type, he clenches his teeth tightly and refuses to utter a soft word, which makes Shi Zhongzhu feel distressed.In fact, Shi Ning has been tortured by the guilt and remorse in his heart for the past three or four years. He wished he could die so as not to implicate his family.

Seeing that the third brother didn't speak, Pearl changed her mind and said, "Father, elder brother, second brother, you don't need to do this, as long as I marry His Highness the Crown Prince, such a problem will be self-defeating."

"No!" "No!" "The third brother will be wasting his efforts!"

"No!" Shi Zhongzhu said categorically, "The historians have never sold their children for peace!"

"Father, this isn't a betrayal. No matter how many women in the world, they can't even ask for an honor." Pearl persuaded.

"If it wasn't about your third brother, would you ask for such honor?" Shi Zhongzhu asked.

Pearl didn't say a word, her life, in the planning of her parents and herself, is to make a marriage this year, to marry a child with a clean family style and self-motivation, the royal family, she has never even dreamed about it.Influenced by her parents since she was a child, she yearned for a lifetime of being a couple. How could she want to go to the palace to fight for the so-called "wealth and honor".

"What's more, the reason why Ningning got into trouble was not because he felt sorry for you. Don't you fail to help you, but instead push you into the fire pit, are you trying to make Ningning feel guilty?" Shi Zhongzhu calmed down.

Pearl looked back at Shi Ning who was trembling slightly, and suddenly exclaimed: "Third brother, third brother, let go, relax, relax."

Shi Zhongzhu, Shi An, and Shi Ping poked their heads over, and it turned out that Shi Ning's palm had been pinched by himself, and it was bleeding continuously.Pearl went to break his fingers, but couldn't.

Shi Zhongzhu signaled Shi An to get the medicine box, walked forward by himself, bent down, put one hand on Shi Ning's back and gently comforted him, and slowly opened Shi Ning's right hand with the other hand, and said softly: "Your body is skinny, it's because of your parents." , don’t dare to hurt, the beginning of filial piety. Don’t hurt yourself, it will only make daddy worry, um, be good, Ning Ning, be good, relax, relax..."

Shi Ning seemed to have reacted suddenly, and plunged into Shi Zhongzhu's arms fiercely. Shi Zhongzhu bent over to let him hit him, and sat on the ground directly. He didn't cry, he just murmured: "Ningning, relax, I don't blame you, Ningning, there is a father here, Ningning..."

Shi An and Shi Ping treated Shi Ning's wound silently, and Pearl simply knelt down on the ground and hugged Shi Ning.

Shi Zhongzhu looked at Shi Ning's right hand wrapped into a steamed bun, and he had a sudden inspiration, and said, "Yes, I thought of it." Shi Zhongzhu dug Shi Ning out of his arms, and said, "When exactly did you write to Wen Yu?" Believe it?"

"Ah?" Shi Ning cried a little dizzy, looked at his father's expectant eyes, and said involuntarily, "July [-]." He remembered this day especially clearly.

"I remember that An'an sent a letter during the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, saying, did you hurt your hand?" Shi Zhongzhu asked.

"Well, Ning Ning just wrote the letter, and three days later someone threatened him with a copy. Ning Ning scratched his hand with a paper knife on impulse." Shi An replied.

"That's right, come on, get up, you write two words for me to read." Shi Zhongzhu pulled Shi Ning up, pushed him to the desk and sat down, Shi An, Shi Ping, and Pearl didn't know, so they also followed and watched .

"Write it, remember what was written in the letter at the beginning, don't you, keep quiet." Shi Zhongzhu saw that Shi Ning was in a daze, and said loudly.

Although Shi Ning didn't understand, he still honestly wrote down the unforgettable letter silently. Shi Zhongzhu looked at the letter with a smile on his face, and ordered Shi An to find out the previous homework of their brothers in the bookcase.Shi Zhongzhu found an article from Shi Ning's imperial examination, put the two pieces of paper together, and asked, "Did you see it?"

Shi Ping was the smartest, and immediately realized: "The handwriting is different?"

"Exactly!" Shi Zhongzhu replied.

"Ning Ning, when did you start writing running script?" Shi Zhongzhu asked. The brothers had been educated in imperial examinations since they were young, and their writing must be in regular script.

"It's just... After Wen Yu's incident, my son couldn't calm down, and he didn't dare to do anything out of line. He could only write to vent his anger. The faster he wrote, the more sloppy he wrote. When you write it, it becomes a running script." Shi Ning explained that when something happened at that time, he didn't even want to go to the martial arts arena at home, and he was nested in the room moldy. Losing control, he was suggested to practice calligraphy, and Shi Ning continued to write like a masochist.

"In the past few years, have your handwriting been kept outside?" Shi Zhongzhu asked.

"Except for official documents, there should be nothing else." Shi Ning replied. After Wen Yu's incident, he had a shadow on writing letters and the like, so he didn't correspond with friends or write inscriptions for shops.

"Don't say you should, think carefully, think from the beginning, don't miss anything." Shi Zhongzhu urged and reminded.

Shi Ning held his head and thought, Pearl pulled Shi Zhongzhu's sleeve and said, "Father, do you want to change your appearance, is there a time difference?"

"Time difference? This is the most appropriate word. That's what it means." Shi Zhongzhu said.

"Father, what about official documents?" Shi An asked.

"Ning Ning has been in the Ministry of Accounts for the past few years, and has never been transferred to another department. Now he has the ability to take out official documents, rewrite them and put them in. I will do the old ones myself, don't worry, it will be fine." Shi Zhongzhu replied.

Shi An and Shi Ping looked at each other, and they always felt uneasy. It would be a big project to rewrite all the official documents for three or four years, and I don't know if it will be easy to operate.

Shi Ning thought for a long time with his head in his arms, and he was sure that only the official documents left his handwriting.Shi Zhongzhu roughly talked about the plan with them, and sent them to bed.

Shi Zhongzhu returned to the bedroom lightly, and just as he opened the curtain, he saw Wei Zhenniang staring at him with wide eyes.Shi Zhongzhu said: "Did you sleep?"

"How can I sleep, is there a way?"

"Don't worry, I've found a way, as long as they don't jump out to make trouble immediately, they will always be able to get over it." Shi Zhongzhu said.

"Tell me about it."

"Oh, you just love to worry. Your body needs to be carefree and peaceful to get better soon. With me, um, don't worry, leave it to me." Shi Zhongzhu comforted, the pillar is back, so why bother Hold on to half the sky.

"I'd be more worried if you didn't tell me. Tell me. In fact, I have never understood. I have read the copy of the letter written by Ning Ning. Although there are big treasonous words, if the sage does not pursue them, it is nothing more than a crime." The elder brother cherishes the younger sister, the folk marry a daughter-in-law, and the brother-in-law's killing power, according to your holy family, the saint should not pursue it?"

"You are only half right. There are precedents for this kind of thing. When the saint is in a good mood, it is naturally a joke between relatives; when the saint is thinking, it is to offend the holy car and offend the royal family. It also depends on the timing. Today's The timing is not good for us, His Royal Highness has not yet married a concubine, and His Highness is the sixth son, and there are four grown older brothers in front of him, the seizure of the heir apparent is at a time of chaos, and the saint is very sensitive at this time." Shi Zhongzhu explained.

"What about Ningning?"

"Don't worry, Ningning is just a pretext. Those people are still targeting me, targeting our family of historians. The purpose is to drag us onto a certain prince's boat. The current situation is dangerous, and they will not be caught by the fish. Yes. Our historians are notoriously protective, and they dare not push too much." Shi Zhongzhu said with relief.

"The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light, so it's hard to deal with." Wei Zhenniang sighed.

"There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Whenever you do something, there will always be traces. I will go to Brother Zao to discuss it tomorrow. The three little bastards are scared by themselves. I have already asked Brother Zao for help."

"Well, I was the one who suggested talking to elder brother first. You are not in Beijing, so you should ask elder brother to make up your mind." Wei Zhenniang said.

"It's the right thing to do. When I come back, the day lily will be cold. It's right to find my brother. I'm going to discuss it with him tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow. Chen Yun has already passed the news to the family. Tomorrow the sage will issue a decree to add an official to you. I'm afraid you will have to wait at home and go to the palace to thank you!" Wei Zhenniang joked.

"Well, the higher the official position, the less likely those people in the dark will let go, and the family's situation is even more dangerous." Shi Zhongzhu sighed, and as soon as he said the words, he regretted it. He shouldn't talk too much in front of Wei Zhenniang, and said again: "It's taboo to think too much when you're sick, I have everything to do with you, don't worry, um~"

"Of course I'm at ease. It's time to sleep. I've been tired all day. Go to sleep." Wei Zhenniang straightened the quilt and lay down first.

Shi Zhongzhu got up early today, played in the outskirts of Beijing for a long time, went to the palace to receive a banquet, drank a lot, got angry again when he came back, talked, exhausted, countless brain cells, lying on the bed, stained with pillows fell asleep.

When Shi Zhongzhu's breathing became stable, Wei Zhenniang opened her eyes and looked at Shi Zhongzhu's sleeping face. In the past two years, she had insomnia and dreams, and she always slept restlessly. She was too worried and worried, and her body gradually collapsed.He pretended to be asleep first, because he was afraid of disturbing Shi Zhongzhu's sweet dreams.Wei Zhenniang thought that tonight would be the same as before, she opened her eyes until dawn, she did not expect to hold her husband's hand, and fell asleep in a daze. When she woke up the next morning, Shi Zhongzhu was no longer in the bedroom.

I sleep so deeply?Wei Zhenniang was puzzled for a while, and happy for a while. This is a sign that the illness has recovered.

The news revealed by Chen Yun was correct, the angel came to announce the decree early in the morning, the three brothers Shi An went to the Yamen, Shi Zhongzhu gathered his family members and received the decree in the hall.