The Jade of the Republic of China

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, and this was Shen Yutong's first New Year when she returned home. The Shen family attached great importance to it, and started preparations early, and began to be busy from the eve of childhood.

On the 29th of the new year, a guest came to the Shen family, and it was Long Jialin who was originally in northern Henan.

The Long family has a big house in Shanghai, which is in the French Concession, not far from the Shen family's garden.It was the back garden of the Long family. When Long Zhenfei was in power, he went out to lead troops, and when he lost power, he came back to be an apartment.

Logically speaking, it was reasonable for Long Jialin to return to Shanghai for the New Year, but instead of returning to his own home, he ran directly to the Shen's house, claiming that his home was too cold and wanted to celebrate the New Year with the Shen family.

Shen Xingzhi and Shen Yu'an have been annoyed by the young master of the Long family for many years, but the Shen family are all decent people, and they can't do evil things to drive him away. In addition, the Long family is different now, not only can't drive him away, but he has to serve him well. OK.

So this year there was an outsider on the Shen family's New Year's dinner table, and this outsider not only stayed at the Shen's house for New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, but also ate and drank until the Lantern Festival was over on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and had no intention of leaving.

Shen Yuan saw that this guy was clinging to her younger brother every day, and she shot countless times in the back.Fortunately, there are so many rooms in the Shen family, the old man personally said "how can Master Long and Yutong share a room together", which barely dispelled Long Jialin's idea of ​​sharing a room with Shen Yutong.

On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Shen family had a Lantern Festival banquet.

Shen Yutong thought that in these years in England, although there are Chinese people celebrating traditional festivals, they are not comparable to the grand occasions in China. Just a lantern festival in the Town God's Temple has made him read it countless times.

This year I finally go home to celebrate the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, so naturally I have to visit the Town God's Temple.

Originally, he wanted to bring his nephew and niece to play together, but I don't know if it was because Shen Yuan always closed the door and said bad things about Long Jialin, and the two children didn't want to get along with Long Jialin. In the end, Shen Yutong and Long Jialin could only take their own A young boy got into a rickshaw and went straight to the old city.

A street in Chenghuang Temple, brightly lit, noisy with gongs and drums, crowded with people watching the lantern show, food stalls, jugglers, all kinds of lights, fish lights, clam shell lights, dragon lights, lion lights, looking around, a piece of Fire tree silver flower.

The adults are nothing more than to watch the excitement, only the children are there to play, and they are interested in any gadgets.Shen Yutong considered himself an adult, so he was very calm among the crowd.Long Jialin, on the other hand, is curious about everything he sees. He buys food for a while, eats two bites and then throws it away, buys something interesting for a while, and after taking it for a while, he either throws it away or stuffs it to his followers.This demeanor is exactly the same as when I was a child.

"Hey Xiaofeng, there are foreign films here. I only saw them at the Beijing City Temple Fair before. I didn't expect that our Shanghai City God Temple also has them. Let's go and have a look."

The folk artists of Nala foreign films have already started to perform, one is beating gongs and drums, the other is rapping, and they are singing a piece of "Havoc in the Moon Tower". Several audience members in front of the film box are lying on the round hole in front of the film box to watch with great interest. .

Long Jialin rolled his eyes, seeing that there was no place, raised his brows, stepped forward, grabbed a young man by the collar of his neck, and lifted him away from a box.

The man was looking at Xing's head, but was suddenly interrupted, and immediately raised his head to show an angry look, and opened his mouth to curse.

Today is the fifteenth day, there is a full moon in the sky, and there are bright lights on the ground. It can be said that the lights are like daylight. From a distance of one and a half meters, it is not a problem to see whether people have eyebrows or eyes.

Shen Yutong didn't expect Long Jialin to do such a domineering behavior in the street, and it was too late to stop it. Seeing that the incident had already happened, when he was about to step forward to make a rescue, he realized that the young man in front of him in a long-distance running mandarin jacket and with a shiny hair and parted hair was quite Somewhat familiar.

And the man's originally angry face, after facing the tall and straight Long Jialin next to him, first showed a trace of hesitation, then quickly turned into a big smile, clasped his fists and said shyly: " Yo, it's Master Long, long time no see! Do you want to watch a play? I'll give you my seat right now!"

Speaking of this, he saw Shen Yutong beside Long Jialin again, his eyes lit up, and he politely said: "Second Young Master, I heard that you have returned from English studies, I am still thinking about when to go I came to visit Shen's garden, but I didn't expect to meet here. You and Master Long are really good brothers who are inseparable from Meng."

Shen Yutong smiled and cupped his fists in return: "Mr. Wu has not seen you for a long time."

This Mr. Wu's full name is Wu Fengwen. His parents were in the restaurant business, and his family was quite wealthy.They were studying in the same middle school back then, and Wu Fengwen was one level older than him and Long Jialin, and was their senior.This person is a typical dandy, proficient in all kinds of food, drink, and entertainment, but his studies are a mess, and he has gathered a few dandies like him in the school to bully others.

Given that Shen Yutong is the second youngest of the Shen family and has excellent popularity, Wu Fengwen and his like dare not bully him, but the poor little worm beside him, Long Jialin, has not escaped the vicious hands of this wave of dudes and vicious youngsters.

However, Feng Shui took turns, the evil young man who bullied Long Jialin in the past, now being forcibly occupied by Long Jialin, dared not even complain, not only did he not complain, but also groveled to please him.And it can be seen that he is very scared - he has to be scared, who told him that he bullied Young Master Long back then, and every time Long Jialin returned to Shanghai in the past two years, he wanted to hide, because once he bumped into him, he would always be beaten.

Regret at the beginning, who would have thought that the Long family, which lost power due to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, could still stand up in this troubled world.

Shen Yutong didn't know what Long Jialin had done in Shanghai in the past few years.He originally wanted to save the siege, but seeing this situation, he naturally gave up that idea.

He doesn't have a good impression of Wu Fengwen. Whatever the cause and effect, it's just a retribution for the world.

Long Jialin sat down in Wu Fengwen's place, then turned around and waved to Shen Yutong: "Xiaofeng, come here!"

After finishing speaking, he was about to push away the man who was lying on a box watching a show next to him.

This man is a serious stranger, Shen Yutong hurriedly stopped him: "I'm not interested, you can see for yourself."

Long Jialin didn't force it, but glanced at Wu Fengwen who was standing beside him with a shy face, waved his hands and said, "Mr. Wu, please buy me a cup of sugarcane juice."

As if flattered, Wu Fengwen nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I'll go right away."

Shen Yutong shook her head secretly, and said, "Xiaolong, you stay here and watch, I will walk around casually, and we will meet at the gate of Yu Garden in half an hour."

Long Jialin curled his lips reluctantly, unwilling to part with him, but also reluctant to part with the foreign film in front of him, so he nodded and said: "Okay."

Seeing his big head stuck in front of the box, Shen Yutong sighed, and led his servant, Changgui, into the bustling crowd.

"Brother Meng, I still want to eat a piece of candy, and I want a pony."

In the crowd, Bai Zijun, who was wearing a small mandarin jacket and a melon skin hat, held a rabbit lantern in one hand, and Meng Liansheng, who was next to him in a long robe, raised his head and asked.

He had just eaten a phoenix painted candy. In order to make the phoenix bigger, he even asked the sugar painter to draw nine tails, which is called Nine Tails Phoenix.

A nine-tailed phoenix was completely eaten, and there were still glistening sugar stains on the corner of his mouth at the moment, but it was obvious that the little guy hadn't eaten enough.

He is timid and rarely goes out, especially in crowded places. Of course, he seldom eats these street foods, which is unavoidably novel.

It has been two months in the Bai mansion, and Meng Liansheng has adapted very well. Even though his injury healed, Uncle Zhong didn't give him anything to do. He helped cut flowers and branches and sweep fallen leaves all day long.

He is honest and hardworking, and when he sees someone in need of help, he goes up to help, which is very popular with the people in the Bai Mansion.

But the one who likes him the most is the young master of the Bai family.

Because Bai Zijun was tied up once when he was three or four years old, he was terrified. He usually hides when he sees strangers. Except for a grandmother who takes care of his daily life, and Uncle Zhong, the housekeeper, he also treats other servants in the family with respect. Not close.

But within a few days of Meng Liansheng's arrival, the child took the initiative to cling to him all day long. He never went out without Bai Qinghe, but now he dares to be with Meng Liansheng.Even today's Lantern Festival with people coming and going like City God's Temple, I was a little apprehensive at first, but after walking for a while, I gradually relaxed, but I just kept holding Meng Liansheng's hand.

Meng Liansheng lowered his head, saw his shiny red lips under the light, and smiled lightly: "Didn't your father tell you not to eat too much sugar? Let's buy some more drinks, shall we?"

Although Bai Zijun still couldn't stop thinking about Huatang, he nodded obediently: "Okay."

"Eh? There's a monkey show."

Children are always half-hearted. Bai Zijun, who was obsessed with sugar paintings just now, was immediately attracted when he saw the monkey show booth. .

Meng Liansheng followed his gaze, and sure enough, he saw someone playing a monkey show not far ahead, surrounded by many people, watching and applauding.

He led Bai Zijun and walked over.

Because there were so many people, he asked Bai Zijun to hand over the rabbit lamp to the bodyguard, and picked up the little guy himself so that he could see clearly.

They are two monkeys, one big and one small, dressed in former official uniforms and wicker hats. They are funny, but they look very smart. Under the command of the monkey tricker, they danced and danced in circles, and then held a bowl. , ran to the audience and asked for money.

Meng Liansheng smiled and took out two copper coins from his pocket, and threw them into the bowl in the monkey's hand.

He likes monkeys very much. When he was young, he played in the mountains of his hometown. He once knew two monkeys, one big and one small. They were his best playmates at one time. When the famine came, the two monkeys didn’t know Where did you go.

The two big and small monkeys performed for a while, probably because they were tired. The whistle of the monkey player was useless, and the food was also useless.So the monkey tricker took out his whip and lashed at the lazy little monkey.

The monkey ate the pain and immediately jumped up and went through the hoop. The funny appearance made the audience burst into laughter.

But Bai Zijun was so frightened by the monkey man's action that he covered his eyes, leaned on Meng Liansheng's ear and said, "Brother Meng, I'm afraid!"

Meng Liansheng hurriedly hugged his head and pressed it against his shoulders, narrowing his dark eyes slightly.

The little monkey was beaten, and came to ask for money again with a small bowl. This time, because he didn't ask for enough, he was whipped twice by the monkey tricker again.

The little monkey who had been beaten squeaked moved to Meng Liansheng, and bowed pitifully to Meng Liansheng with teary eyes. His funny and pitiful appearance made the spectators roar with laughter.

Just when the monkey man's whip was about to fall again, Meng Liansheng cut the whip in the air with one free hand, then touched the little monkey's head, took out a silver dollar from his waist, and put it in the little monkey's hand in the bowl.

That's real money.

The monkey player's eyes lit up, he took two steps forward, and with a happy face, he picked up the silver dollar from the monkey's bowl, shook it in his hand, bowed his head and said to the little monkey, "Quickly bow to the guest officer."

The little monkey put his palms together and bowed quickly.

This amusing appearance made people overjoyed.

Meng Liansheng didn't smile at all, he just whispered to the Monkey Man: "Stop beating me."

Taking a big ocean, the monkey player naturally nodded in cooperation, and said with a smile: "No more fights."

But in his heart, he only regards this young man as being taken advantage of, how can there be a monkey tricker who doesn't beat a monkey.

"Are you still watching?" Meng Liansheng asked Bai Zijun, who buried his head on his shoulder, in a low voice.

The little guy raised his face tentatively, glanced at the two monkeys, and saw that he hadn't been beaten again, so he raised his head completely, and then shook his head: "I don't want to look."

"Then let's continue to look at the lights." Meng Liansheng put the man down and led him for a walk.

"Second Young Master, do you want to see a monkey show?" Ah Fu saw his young master standing by the roadside, looking at the monkey show opposite for a long time, but he didn't come forward, so he finally couldn't help asking.

Shen Yutong shook his head, looked away from Meng Liansheng and his party, and said, "Everything has spirits, and the monkey show relies on bullying monkeys, which is boring."

He just stared at the monkey show because he recognized Meng Liansheng.

Originally thought that child was a trafficker, but judging by his appearance today, he should be working in a big family.At first he wanted to go up to say hello, but seeing him and the young master followed by two bodyguard-like people, he was afraid that it would be inconvenient for him, so he decided to give up after thinking about it.

However, he could see clearly what he did just now.

He bent his lips and led Ah Fu to take a step. After a while, Youzai Youzai arrived at the entrance of Yu Garden.

Long Jialin and his two attendants had arrived first, and Wu Fengwen was also there, standing in front of Long Jialin humbly. He didn't know what he said, but Long Jialin suddenly raised his hand and slapped him.

"Xiaolong!" Shen Yutong frowned softly, and walked over to look at Wu Fengwen's reddened left cheek. Although he felt that this person deserved it, he really didn't like Long Jialin's atrocities, "What are you doing?"

Long Jialin grinned, put his arms around Wu Fengwen's shoulders, and said with a smile, "Brother Wu and I are just kidding!"

Wu Fengwen also quickly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, it's just a joke! Second son, Master Long, I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first."

Long Jialin let go of him and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, let's meet again when we have time."

Wu Fengwen bowed to him and Shen Yutong as if he had received an amnesty, and fled away.

Seeing that Shen Yutong's face was not looking well, Long Jialin raised a bright smiling face and poked the other person's shoulder in a rascally manner, saying, "Xiaofeng, are you angry? You don't think I'm bullying others on purpose, do you?"

Shen Yutong glanced at him, sighed, and said: "If you bully someone like Wu Fengwen with your power, I won't be angry, he deserves it. I just hope that now that you have the power and ability, don't bully people who shouldn't be bullied. people."

Long Jialin seemed relieved, hugged his shoulders, and said with a smile: "Of course. It's not like you don't know how Wu Fengwen bullied me back then. If you hadn't protected me, I wouldn't even have known that I would have been bullied. What kind of thing. Right now, I'm just giving him some flair, and I don't really want to retaliate against him, it's considered a lot of adults."

Shen Yutong squinted at him, and said with a smile: "Yes, Master Long has a lot."

There is a Lantern Festival in the Yu Garden, and compared to the Town God's Temple outside, there are even more crowds of people.

Bai Zijun was less than four years old when he was kidnapped, and now he is more than six years old. Tonight is the first time he has come to a place with so many people since he can remember. Ru Zhou, for children, is really novel and interesting, even if they are afraid of people, they still have to watch and play as much as they want at a time.

It's just that he is small, squeezed in the crowd, his sight is always blocked, and he was squeezed several times.Zijun was a timid and shy child. He wanted Meng Liansheng to hug him, but he was too embarrassed to say so, so he grabbed the other's little hand and grabbed closer and closer.

Meng Liansheng was originally a child, and when he came back to this place, his eyes were full of novelty, but he didn't ignore the young master beside him, noticing that his little hand was already sweating, he lowered his head to look at Bai Zijun by the light, and saw the young master. The guy's white face under the melon skin hat had already begun to sweat faintly. Seeing that he was nervous, he asked very understandingly: "Master, do you want me to hug you?"

Bai Zijun hesitated for a moment, nodded and said in a low voice, "There are too many people, I can't see them."

Chang An, who was following the two, heard this and said, "Master, you sit on my shoulder, I am tall, you can see better."

Bai Zijun turned his head and glanced at him. Although he didn't refuse, his little face clearly showed reluctance.

Chang An, who was carrying a rabbit lamp, touched his nose embarrassingly in the face of his young master's silent rejection.

Meng Liansheng smiled softly, knelt down and pulled Bai Zijun who was stunned on the spot onto his shoulders. After standing up straight, Bai Zijun sitting on his shoulders looked down at the dark crowd around him and the beautiful scenery. Immediately smiled happily, pointed his little hand forward, and said loudly: "Brother Meng, there are lantern riddles ahead, let's go and guess the lantern riddles."

"okay."

As the crowd flowed, they passed through the Tingtao Pavilion and came to the Jiyu Water Corridor. There are two rows of red lanterns hanging on both sides of the corridor, illuminating the clear water on both sides.

There are lantern riddles pasted on the lanterns, and many people are guessing with great interest.

Meng Liansheng's private school teacher when he was young, loved to guess riddles, he got the true biography of the other party, ordinary lantern riddles couldn't help him, and he guessed several lanterns in a row, which made Bai Zijun elated and clapped his hands.

Until under a flower lamp.

"The rivers and valleys are separated, and the world of mortals is playing games. What's the fun? Fame and fortune are worthless, and the future is hard to follow."

Bai Zijun couldn't even understand, let alone guess, he frowned and asked, "Brother Meng, what does this mean?"

Meng Liansheng stared at the enigma, thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "This... I can't guess it either."

At this time, a voice came in: "The answer to the riddle is the monkey playing."

Hearing the sound, Meng Liansheng turned his head suddenly, only to see a jade-like face under the light suddenly appearing in his sight.

He opened his eyes wide and said in astonishment, "Shen...Young Master Shen."

Shen Yutong smiled and said, "Brother Meng, what a coincidence."

When Bai Zijun saw someone coming, he didn't know whether he was afraid that Meng Liansheng would be embarrassed, or he felt ashamed to be riding on someone's shoulders, so he twisted his small body and motioned for Meng Liansheng to put him down.

Meng Liansheng hugged him and put him on the ground, and said to Shen Yutong, "This is the young master of our master."

Shen Yutong nodded, just looked at it from a distance, but actually guessed it.After all, Meng Liansheng didn't look like a rich young master when he appeared several times.

He smiled and said, "I just looked like you from a distance, but I didn't expect it to be true. How is it? Guessing the lantern riddles went well?""

Meng Liansheng smiled shyly: "I'm just playing around, I didn't guess this just now, and I need you to explain it to me."

Shen Yutong said with a smile: "I didn't guess this, it's a mystery that Shi Xiangyun, the eldest daughter of Shi Xiangyun in "The Story of the Stone". Look at the separation of streams and ravines, and the game of the world. How interesting is it? Think about the monkey playing Son, are they all captured from the mountains and made fun of in the city. As for the fame and fortune..."

Although Meng Liansheng hadn't read "The Story of the Stone" carefully, he suddenly realized when he heard it. He remembered the appearance of the two monkeys in the monkey show just now. He opened his eyes and nodded: "I see, I mean Monkeys put on human clothes and pretend to be civil servants and generals. It is often said that the monkey wears the crown."

Shen Yutong nodded and said with a smile: "That's right. As for future generations, it will be difficult to continue..."

Meng Liansheng was rather excited and said: "Because monkeys who play monkey games always have their tails cut off to pretend to be people."

Shen Yutong nodded approvingly, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiaomeng is very smart. If I hadn't seen this riddle before, I should not be able to guess it, but little brother can understand it."

Meng Liansheng patted his head shyly after being praised by him: "It was Mr. Shen who reminded me, so I thought of it."

Shen Yutong said: "Then let's continue to guess."

"Okay."

Meng Liansheng lifted Bai Zijun onto his shoulders again.

Small in stature, a thousand taels of gold is priceless, loves to put rouge all over her face, and is often under the moon before the flowers. "

"Seal." The two said in unison.

"Two wings are hard to fly. You can make both clothes and a house. It is better to let the flood blow into the sea than let the sun dry the house."

"Clam." They spoke at the same time.

After several times, Shen Yutong was also surprised at the tacit understanding between himself and the boy, and couldn't help tilting his head to look at him with a smile under the light, and it happened that Meng Liansheng also looked at him with a smile.

So this glance became a tacit understanding between the two.

At the same time, more and more people came to watch the lanterns. Chang Ping'an's two attendants were crowded so that they were several people away from Meng Liansheng and the others.

Two people next to them quarreled over lantern riddles, and there were relatives and friends beside them. After a few words, the quarrel between the two gradually turned into a shoving between two groups of people.

In the small corridor, there are so many people densely crowded, it can be said that a single hair can affect the whole body.

Meng Liansheng was still immersed in the excitement of guessing riddles with Shen Yutong, and lost his usual sensitivity to what happened outside his body. The first claw appeared out of nowhere and pushed him, because there was still a hand on his shoulder. A Bai Zijun was caught off guard and suddenly lost his balance.

When he reacted, he couldn't help but fell backwards and fell out of the fence next to him.

While staggering, he could only hastily put Bai Zijun down first, but he couldn't stabilize himself no matter what. Seeing that he was about to fall out, his body was suddenly pulled by a hand and crashed directly into a body.

Shen Yutong was also squeezed just now, but luckily he reacted quickly, seeing that Meng Liansheng was about to fall, he quickly stretched out his hand and pulled him in front of him.Because there were too many people, I was afraid that I would not be able to hold them back, so I simply hugged the person first, and did not let go of my hands until both of them stood still, and said with a sigh of relief with a smile, "It's so dangerous."

Because it was too crowded, even though they let go, the two were still sticking together.

Meng Liansheng raised his eyes to look at the face in front of him, which was so close, only two inches away, so he could see even his eyelashes clearly.Under the lights, this face is clean and flawless, as beautiful as the person in the painting.

The other party's warm breath rushed towards his face, his heart suddenly beat like numbness, and the roots of his ears also became inexplicably hot.

Until the clothes around his waist were grabbed by a small hand, Bai Zijun's voice was stiff, and he heard amidst the noise: "Brother Meng, are you alright?"

Only then did Meng Liansheng come back to his senses, he reluctantly took a step back against the crowd, rubbed the little guy's head wearing a melon skin cap, lowered his head and said, "It's okay." After finishing speaking, he raised his head again, smiled at Shen Yutong in front of him, and said, "Thank you Mr. Shen for holding me in time, otherwise I would have to be pushed down."

Shen Yutong smiled and shook her head: "There are too many people here, it's inconvenient to bring children."

Meng Liansheng nodded, then asked Bai Zijun, "Do you still want to guess the lantern riddles?"

Bai Zijun was really frightened at that moment just now. Although he was fine, if it wasn't for holding him up, Brother Xiao Meng wouldn't have been pushed and almost fell out. He didn't dare to let the other party hold him up again. Holding the other party's hand, he said, "Brother Xiao Meng, I've seen enough, let's go back."

Meng Liansheng nodded, and said to Shen Yutong: "Then Mr. Shen, let's take our leave first, and we will meet later."

Shen Yutong smiled and nodded: "There will be a period later."

As soon as the group of them turned around and disappeared into the crowd, Long Jialin squeezed over panting and said, "Xiaofeng, why are you walking so fast? I just guessed three lantern riddles. In a blink of an eye you were gone."

Shen Yutong smiled and said, "Who told you to guess so slowly?"

Long Jialin said: "Don't tell me, this year's lantern riddles in Yu Garden are really rare, and I only guessed a few. Forget it," he put his arm around Shen Yutong's shoulders, and said with a smile, "You can just guess and I'll see. When I guessed it too."

Shen Yutong shook her head amusedly.

After the incident just now, he actually didn't have much enthusiasm for guessing riddles, but seeing that Long Jialin was in high spirits, it was not easy to disturb his elegant mood, so he continued to watch the lantern together.

Meng Liansheng walked through the corridor of the crowd, and when he was about to go out, he thought of something again, turned around, looked back over the bustling heads of people.

I saw a tall young man appearing beside Shen Yutong at some point, holding his shoulders, looking very intimate.

The author has something to say:

The plot of a location does not want to be developed separately, so there is a super long chapter.