[Red Mansion] Marrying a wife like jade

Lin Ruhai was not as unreasonable as Shen Yue thought - the Imperial College even gave Shen Yue half a month's leave. As Shen Yue's husband, it was fine if he didn't bring Shen Yue to pay a visit. During the Zhongju, I forced people to write poems every day, even if I didn't participate in the contact between the years?

However, he also told Shen Yue that no matter if he was looking at a flower or a tree or a potted landscape, he would try his best to think about what kind of language he should use to describe it if it were to be included in a poem.Don't ask for success, even if it is a word or a sentence, you must write it down.Shen Yue thinks that this method is feasible. When visiting the same year, if the topic is boring, he can fill the room with some interesting things to look at, and then smile and think about it, making people think he is Focus on what the person is saying.

From the outsiders' eyes, this kind of expression is that the little boy has no arrogance of the young middle school, and his attitude is humble and kind to others.It's not that he didn't ask him for paintings through the friendship of the same year and Shen Yue's humble attitude, but he refused because of his recent mental fatigue and difficulty in drawing a pen.

Except for a few nerds, everyone in Jingzhong knew that Shen Yue often entered the palace to paint portraits of nobles.Hearing his refusal, he stopped insisting—what if the nobleman had confessed that he was unwilling to let Shen Yue paint portraits for others?As for those nerds, have you ever seen nerds like other things besides books?

So the annual meeting between Shen Yue and Shen Chao went smoothly, and the two brothers were both well-educated and good-natured.With the background of the Shen family, it became famous in Beijing for a while.Some people even turned the phrase "Moshang is like jade, a gentleman is unparalleled in the world" into "Shen's family is like jade, and the gentleman's name is Chaoyue", and they actually called the two brothers Da Shen and Xiao Shen Qi.

Together with this name, the Shen Chao brothers were directly detained at home by Shen Shangshu. It is enough for the children to have a reputation of being able to read. What big Shen and small Shen, is it because they want to imitate those three Su?The end of Sansu and his son is not so satisfactory, Shen Jiaerlang doesn't need to learn from him.

Fortunately, the banquet that should be attended at this time has almost been attended, and the Shen family can send out invitations to congratulate the Shen family brothers just waiting for Fang's return to the capital.Except for those whom Shen Shangshu had passed, the Shen Chao brothers picked up the book again and started to read.

This day, Shen Yue was looking for poetry materials for a pot of Polygonatum odoratum, and Shuangxi reported outside: "Young master, grandma has sent a letter, saying that you can arrive in Beijing tomorrow morning, the old lady invited you to Wanhui Courtyard."

Shen Yue was shocked when he heard that, he hadn't seen Fang for more than three years, even if he had a letter every five days, how could he be as considerate as face to face?In addition, Fang was the first person he came to this world to depend on for life, and no one can replace this feeling.

Seeing Shen Yue rushing forward, the old lady smiled at him and said: "But I hope you will come back, and pick up your mother early tomorrow."

This mother's cry almost didn't make Shen Yue's tears fall, he bowed his head in yes, and forced back the wetness from his eye circles.Then I heard Shen Chao's voice from behind: "Second Aunt is coming back tomorrow, I will go pick up Second Aunt with Yue'er." The old lady also agreed: "This is the truth."

Therefore, compared with when Jia Min came to Beijing, there was one more tall and handsome boy on the pier, but the clothes of these two people were the same, even the patterns were only divided into left and right, so that people could tell who was older and who was younger at a glance.

When the ship slowly landed in Shen Yue's expectation, Shen Yue shouted to the deck: "Shen Fu, try to go one step further." The child on the deck who was waving to the shore was After a pause, he took a step back, but still shouted happily: "Brother!"

Another chubby child ran out of the cabin, this one was about a head shorter than the first one called brother, he grabbed the one called brother and asked, "Where is it, where is brother?"

At this time, the boatman had already set up the plank of the boat, and Shen Yuezao stepped on the slightly trembling plank to get on the boat: "Brother Ming?" He called out to the short one.

Brother Fang raised his little head, looked carefully at the person who called him, and pressed his hand on his purse, calling out tentatively: "Brother."

Shen Chao also followed Shen Yue onto the boat, and when he heard that his brother was called Big Brother Shen, he hurriedly corrected him: "Wrong, I am the big brother, he is the second brother."

Brother Fen let him say he was confused, and looked at the one he had always called Second Brother: "Second Brother?" What's going on?

Asking whether brother is older, standing up by himself, and giving brother Wen a hand, bowing to Shen Chao: "Brother." Then saluting to his own elder brother: "Brother." Character.Brother Fan followed Brother Xun's actions, while calling his brother, while looking at Shen Yue with good eyes.

Shen Yue immediately hugged him up, the child's face flushed suddenly, he wanted to struggle but didn't dare, so he called again in a low voice: "Brother?"

Brother Xun said to his elder brother: "Brother, let him go, this kid is too heavy. Grandma must be waiting, brother, come with me."

Shen Yue didn't let Brother Wen go down, carefully protected the child's head from touching the cabin, and followed Brother Xun to the cabin.Jin'er in front of Fang's was already dressed as a woman, and when she saw Shen Yue, she also saluted in surprise: "My lord."

Shen Yue glanced at her head twice, then went to look at Brother Xun, seeing that Brother Xun didn't show any disgust on his face, he said: "Get up. I didn't expect you to be married."

Jin'er blushed when she said that: "Yes, last year grandma graciously pointed me to Shen Fu." Where did Shen Yue still listen to her nagging?He had already passed her and entered Fang's house.

"Brother Ai." When Fang Shi saw the elder son holding the younger son, he couldn't hold back the tears. After a cry, he couldn't say anything else. He just pulled his son's sleeve tightly, fearing that he would not see him again in the next moment. up.

Shen Yue put Brother Ming'er on the ground, and knelt down in front of Mrs. Fang: "My son is here to take mother back home." Tears flowed down his face as he spoke.It is precisely because of the past three years, Shen Yue has insisted on sending letters back to Yangzhou every five days, Fang and Shen Ren must also reply, and later added that Brother Xun would send his homework to Shen Yue every five days , so the family's feelings have not faded because of the distance.

The relationship has not faded, and Fang can only listen to his son's growth, but cannot personally participate in it, so he misses his eldest son even more.What's more, this son is very competitive. At a young age, he has made his official position higher than the second master's official position, and now he has won the Juren.

"Greetings to Second Aunt, and ask Second Aunt to clean up. Let's talk after we get back to the house." Shen Chao, who had always been unreliable in Shen Yue's view, diverted Fang's attention very discerningly at this time.

Fang's tears couldn't be held back for a while, but a smile appeared on his face: "It's Brother Yong, you have grown taller, and you look like a grown-up after being hit. You are good-looking, you are all good-looking boys .”

Shen Chao made Fang boast a little embarrassed, helped Shen Yue up by himself, and laughed at him: "Second Aunt doesn't know, but since he returned to Beijing, he has compared me everywhere. It happened that Second Aunt came back to give me justice. "

As soon as these words came out, Fang was brought back to the years before he left Beijing. The uneasiness in his heart was swept away, and the tears finally stopped. He smiled at Shen Yue: "Take your brothers off the boat and wait for me. Let's go." I cried for a while, and I have to tidy up before going to see my grandma and mother-in-law.

But Shen Yue refused to leave: "Son, let's serve mother." As he said that, he was about to pick up the water basin held high by the girl, and said to Fang Shi: "Just now I saw that Jin'er is already dressed as a woman, and the person my mother uses here Everyone's eyes awoke."

Fang Shi pursed his lips, Gu Zi washed his hands and didn't seem to hear Shen Yue's words, which made Shen Yue's heart skip a beat.Shen Chao was just speaking quickly, and didn't really care about the city, so he pulled Brother Xun and walked out of the cabin: "Let's go and see if the sedan chair has been brought."

Brother Ming naturally followed Brother Xun, and there were only mother and son left in the room.Shen Yue's complexion is not very good-looking, but his voice is still calm: "Second Master, the magistrate is doing well, so he wants to be happy even regardless of the ancestor's precepts?"

Fang couldn't hold it back, and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder, but forgot that his hand was still in the water basin, which directly made Shen Yue's clothes wet: "Ah, how good this is." Shen Yue Yue couldn't care less about his clothes, he still looked at Fang relentlessly: "I can see Master and Grandfather every day in Beijing, why didn't mother mention it in the letter?"

Fang knows that his eldest son is not usually concerned about the affairs of the inner house. Even when sending letters back to Yangzhou on weekdays, he will often send himself a separate letter, saying that he is afraid that he will be far away from Beijing, and there will be no one to complain about if he has a grievance.Now that Qiqing is like this, he is also afraid that he will have something to say in his heart and not let it go.

So Gu Zi washed himself and said, "You don't know the character of the second master, so you won't be blinded by others casually. However, some people think that they are outstanding, so they have to try how much they are. The second master himself It just developed people, and I don’t need to worry about it.” But I was still angry for a few days.

She didn't avoid the girls when she spoke, and Shen Yue knew that this also meant beating, and there was a bit of sternness on his face: "Second master is soft-tempered, when I know who the slave who betrayed the master is, I will Everyone related to her family was sent to open up wasteland in the northwest."

The girls lowered their heads one by one, the second master directly ordered Luo Er to be beaten to death in the yard, not to mention, the whole family sold it all over the world, never even wanting to meet each other, in the eyes of the young master, he turned out to be just soft-tempered.

Seeing the expressions of the maids, Fang's reliance on the eldest son in his heart increased, and his subordinates stepped up their efforts in drawing.After a while, he had already put on the veiled hat, and was supported by Shen Yue to get out into the sedan chair, and Shen Yue and Shen Chao were heard to take Brother Xun and Brother Wen off the boat one by one.

Knowing that Mrs. Fang is going to live in Beijing for a long time, besides Brother Shen Yue, there are also people in charge.Brother Shen Yue escorted Fang Shi back to the mansion, and his own steward went forward to check the luggage with the people Fang brought back from Yangzhou, loaded them into the car and sent them back to the mansion.

The Fang family's mother and son who returned to the mansion earlier were greeted by all the respectable stewards in the family, and at the second gate, they saw the Liu family, Yan Ge'er, and Ne Ge'er who had been waiting there early.Mrs. Fang bowed down early: "Sister-in-law has been filial to the old lady these years. It has really worked hard. Please accept my respect."

Mrs. Liu went to help her in the morning: "I have been away for a few years, and this talk happened by chance. Zheng and Yu'er are the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

If Mrs. Fang hadn't been too excited to see the eldest son on the boat, she would have asked aloud. Now that Mrs. Liu said it, the smile on her face deepened: "I heard that my sister-in-law is going to be a mother-in-law. Let me meet someday. Yu'er has long said that Miss Li is outstanding in everything."

"Yu'er is good too." Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Fang entered hand in hand, leaving four children who had never met before staring at each other.Shen Chao patted his brother's head: "This is Brother Xun, don't you always talk about him? The younger one is Brother Wen."

The two children looked at each other and bowed at the same time.Brother Yan called out, "Brother Three." He turned to Brother Yan again.Brother Yan is also five years old, and seeing the portrait sent back to Yangzhou by Shen Yue, he bowed to Brother Yan: "Fourth Brother." See you, and call them one by one.

When the six brothers entered the main room of Wanhui Courtyard, they filled the room to the brim at once, and even washed away the sigh of reunion after a long absence in the room.The old lady didn't wait for the children to finish the ceremony, she called Brothers Xun and Brother Wen to come to her: "Let the old lady take a look, I didn't expect to see you again." Touch this, hug That, one also wants to fall.

Taking advantage of the time when the old lady changed hands, Nege squeezed himself into the old man's arms: "There is still me, the old lady still has me."

Surrounded by her great-grandchildren, the old lady could only be happier: "Yes, there is also you, and now you are not alone, and someone will play with you."

Brother Fan corrected the old lady in a serious manner: "Second master said, you can't miss your homework when you go back to Beijing, and I have to go to school every day before I can accompany my sixth brother."

Mrs. Shen had been greedy for a long time, and took the opportunity to pull her grandson to her, and asked him who opened the mask for him, and did the husband say anything after he went to Beijing.Brother Xun also ran in front of Shen Yue earlier, and showed his merits to him: "On the way here, I also showed brother Brother Wen's portrait, did he recognize brother right away?"

Although this brother tricked himself from time to time, it was just a trick to get attention. Shen Yue saw him with the same mentality as Fang Shi saw Shen Yue, and he also patted his head and said, "You did a good job."

This was enough to satisfy Brother Xun, and he stretched out his hand to Shen Yue without any shame.With a smile, Shen Yue took out a piece of candy from his purse and put it in his hand: "This is a tribute from the West. It is called toffee. I will keep it for you when I get it."

Brother Yan had already followed Brother Xun. Hearing what Shen Yue said, he looked at Shen Yue with a bit of accusation and said nothing. He looked at Shen Yue with embarrassment, and took out another piece and handed it to him: "This is I entered the palace two days ago and got a new one, I forgot to give it to you when I went out to visit."

The two little ones over there couldn't sit still anymore, and they all huddled around one after another. Shen Yue had no choice but to tear his purse off his waist, lift it upside down and pour all the sugar on the small table beside him: "There are only so many , share it among yourselves." Everyone in the room couldn't help laughing.

The old lady said to Mrs. Shen: "Seven or eight years ago, where would we dare to go? Our children are short of this kind of food, just to see if his brother is fair, and he is thinking of himself."

Mrs. Shen also smiled: "It's all thanks to the blessings of the grandfather and the old lady. The children grew up safely, and the brothers are also harmonious. In the future, when Chao'er gets married, the old lady will have great-great-grandsons. Ma'am, this room is more lively."

The old lady who said it also remembered: "Now the grandfather is more and more unwilling to move, let their brothers go to see the grandfather."

Fang's face turned red: "My grandson's daughter-in-law is rude."

The old lady waved her hand: "You can just stay here, now the grandfather sees Yu'er in addition to seeing his grandchildren." She smiled and said to Fang: "Yu'er has a clever mouth and a smart heart. Grandpa likes the poems more than Yueer. You are going back to Beijing, and the child will definitely come tomorrow."

After hearing this, Fang could only be happier: "It's rare that the child can talk to the grandfather."

Mrs. Shen nodded: "Also careful and considerate. You'll know when you get back to your own yard in a while, and I'll tidy up the house for you with Yue'er."

Liu Shi heard this and said to Fang Shi: "If you have any dissatisfaction, you can't come to me this time, just settle the score with Yu'er tomorrow."

Mrs. Fang said with a smile: "She is just talking. Doesn't my sister-in-law need to worry about this gun looking for things?" Mrs. Shen and others asked her to go back to her yard to rest first.

They were all from his own family, so Fang Shi stopped being polite, and went back to the west courtyard surrounded by maids and mother-in-law.There were maids and women standing straight at the gate of the courtyard. When they saw them coming, they all said together: "Welcome grandma back to the house." Then they bowed down.

Mrs. Fang nodded slightly, and her mother-in-law called out, and then more people surrounded Mrs. Fang, and they all followed her to the main room slowly.Fang walked slowly, looked carefully, although he didn't bend down deliberately, his eyes saw the side of the passage, under the bushes, and in the small pool, but he saw that there were no scratches on it, but he cleaned it up spotlessly. Thinking it wasn't something that could be done by hasty cleaning, he nodded in satisfaction.

After entering the room, there was even more heat and a faint fragrance, and Fang's mind was refreshed again: "Why does it smell like orchids?"

Hongliu stepped forward and replied: "Grandma, this is the young master and young lady who moved in from Mr. Li yesterday, just to smoke the house for grandma." Baba, the back will become smoother.

Mrs. Fang knew that this girl was picked by Mrs. Liu for Shen Yue, and now she looks pretty and she is well-organized in her speech. The most important thing is that her eyes are clear and straight. The color of pride.So he nodded: "Well, wherever his greenhouse goes, he will move there."

Shen Yue followed Brother Xun and Brother Wen into the house together. It was the first time for the two children to come to Beijing, and they looked around curiously.Fang's eyes kept looking at the eldest son: "Your aunt has taken good care of you."

Shen Yue answered yes with a smile, but he still couldn't let go of Jin'er who was already dressed as a woman and the new girl.Even after leaving for three years, Fang still saw that he was hesitant to speak: "Has the yard of the two of them been cleaned up?"

"Brother Xun lived in the west courtyard first, and Brother Wen cleaned up the west wing of his mother's place for him. My own yard is the east yard." Shen Yue told Fang Shi about the place he decided to clean up.Fang Shi asked people to take his two brothers to see their house, and asked them to just talk to themselves if they had any dissatisfaction.

After the two little fellows were taken down by the girl, Shen Yue sat down next to Fang Shi: "Isn't mother really depressed these days?"

Mrs. Fang tapped his forehead lightly: "If Second Lord knows that you are still so concerned about the inner house, I will have nothing to do with you."

Shen Yue looked at Fang Shi with a smile, and felt a little embarrassed when he saw Fang Shi: "Perhaps Luo Er changed his mind when he heard that I was going back to Beijing. Her grandma is not a good one, because she is mine." Mammy, from time to time, I whisper in my ear that the second master has no one to take care of him, and we should leave a considerate girl to take care of the inner house for the second master."

"This is wishful thinking." Shen Yue made a final decision for the grandparent and grandson.

Mrs. Fang also disdainfully smiled after hearing this: "That's right. I also told my mother-in-law that the Shen family, like the Fang family, has a rule of not accepting concubines or passing houses. Seeing that it doesn't work here, that mother The two three don't know how to bribe the boy in front of the second master, and while the second master is out on a party to get drunk, he goes to deliver soup to the second master under my banner."

These people don't seem to have any better tricks.Shen Yue smiled as disdainfully as Fang Shi, and listened to Fang Shi's smile and continued: "I don't even think about the children of the Shen family, how can there be someone who is so drunk and unconscious? At the beginning, the second master really thought I sent people to go. When she got angry, she wanted to come to the backyard and ask me. The girl said something when she was in a hurry. She admired the second master since she was a child, so the second master kicked him out of the study."

Speaking of this, Fang's eyes were full of tenderness, and Shen Ren's move seemed to greatly suit Fang's heart.Just now, Shen Yue had been secretly paying attention, and found that her nanny was not among the people surrounding Fang Shi, and she probably was also dealt with.Yin asked: "Then by the second master's side now?"

Mrs. Fang tapped the little table on the kang lightly: "It's not a big problem if there are cooks and servants. Besides, it's time for the second master to go to Beijing in two months." After finishing talking, he just asked Shen Yue: "It's such an important matter for you to take the exam, and the second master and I can't come to Beijing, are you wronged?" During the exam for scholar, I was still angry for two days.

Shen Yue smiled embarrassedly: "When did it all happen, grandma still remembers? What's more, I have brother Chao as my companion, and uncle didn't send him off."

The smile on Fang's face gradually disappeared, and moisture appeared in his eyes again: "I always owe you. At such a young age, I have to rely on myself for not talking about everything, but I have earned my life. Sigh, and If you compare it, Brother Xun's two hearts are much thicker."

Looking at the eldest son, Fang said about his loneliness in the past three years: "When you were here, there were people who talked about it, and Mrs. Lin can talk to each other when you leave, and Yu'er can also relieve my boredom. Wait for Yu'er and the others to talk about it. When I went to Beijing, I felt that there was nothing to say."

Wiping away tears, he said: "It's fortunate that you came up with the idea of ​​lettering every five days, but it's a pity that some things are hard to say in the letter." Then he asked Shen Yue carefully about the first time he entered the palace, how did he match up with the sage? So he asked for an imperial order for himself, and he was one level higher than Shen Ren.

This is Fang's pride.For women in this life, their husbands have never been their ultimate reliance, and what they trust more is their own son.Shen Yue's deeds over the years made Fang feel that he was really reliable for the rest of his life.It's not that Fang doesn't care about Shen Ren or that something will happen to Shen Ren, but that's what most women in this era think, and Fang is just not exempt.

When Shen Yue said that he had prepared things for going to his grandmother's house tomorrow, and asked Mrs. Fang not to worry about going to bed early, Mrs. Fang remembered something: "Oh no, this is a dilemma."