Chapter 777

As night falls, the autumn breeze gradually rises, and the lake surface ripples with layers of microwaves. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The large canopy boat stopped on the dock that was temporarily erected, in the cabin, the stove was lit, Su Peisheng and other servants arranged the residence of the four masters of Erfu, and got off the ship one after another, the time is limited, the conditions are limited, and the old rules of different seats for men and women at the age of seven are not taken into account, Erfu's low bed is placed between Xiaoqi and Hongxuan's bed, and the middle is covered by a translucent glass screen with green mountains and green willows, and the fourth master lives alone on the bow of the boat, and the stern position is a temporary clean room covered by a brocade embroidered screen.

Considering Hongxuan's situation, it is impossible for him to leave Beijing and take the official ship with great fanfare like ordinary nobles going out of Beijing, the carriages are all linoleum shed carriages temporarily rented from the car dealership, where is Erfu willing to stay up late with him, she personally laid out the bedding for the two children, and brought the hot water on the stove to fill the two children with the soup woman, one by one put it under the soles of the feet to warm, smiled and greeted Hongxuan, who gradually couldn't open his eyes, and said softly: " Rest early, say that you are walking in a carriage, you don't need to spend too much energy, but there are bumps along the way, you can't sleep well in the carriage, and when you arrive in Tongzhou, you have to take a boat to go, and the waves are rolling, so you can't sleep well. ”

Hongxuan, who was forced to be pressed on the bed by Erfu, looked at Erfu and the fourth master who were sitting on the brocade bench opposite, and said in a hoarse voice with red eyes: "Eniang, it's so late, you should rest early." ”

"E-Niang slept a lot during the day, I'm not sleepy at this time, you sleep first, E-Niang is here to accompany you for a while, it's rare to have the opportunity to coax you to sleep in person, E-Niang is going to sing you a lullaby!" Erfu smiled and folded the quilt for Hongxuan, and urged the fourth master to go to his own bed at the head of the bed to rest, turned his head to look at Hongxuan, who was still staring at him, and said softly, she knew that if she did this, it might make Hongxuan even more reluctant to sleep, but she was really reluctant to sleep like this.

She lifted the brocade stool closer to Hongxuan's bedside, gently patted Hongxuan's shoulder, and hummed those lullabies that she was not familiar with, although the tune was a little weird, but with the sound of the wind in the pine forest by the lake, there was a hypnotic effect.

Listening to the children's breathing gradually lengthening, watching the red candle burst out of the candle, she turned her head to look at the fourth master who returned to the bed, smiled sweetly, and whispered: "Ye is reluctant to have children, I thought you should fall asleep heartlessly!"

The fourth master walked to Erfu's side, gently put the cotton brocade cloak he was carrying on Erfu's shoulder, and added some red charcoal to the stove to make the fire more vigorous, so as not to freeze Erfu, who was too thinly dressed, and joked with a smile: "Ye is like this in your eyes......

You have no conscience, the child is not just the meat that fell from your body, it is also the continuation of the bloodline of the master, especially the child Hongxuan, at that time you just gave birth to Xiaoqi not long ago, and the body was not well recuperated before you found out that you were pregnant again, if you don't blush, at that time the master really hated Hongxuan who was still in your belly.

If it weren't for the fact that you were afraid that you would be crooked, I really thought about asking Imperial Doctor Hu to decoct a pair of medicines for you. In the end, he deliberately leaned into Erf's ear, making her cheeks red. The tips of his ears were red, and then he sat up straight, took the delicate Erfu into his arms, whispered love words, soothed the increasingly reluctant emotions in Erfu's heart, and also looked at Hongxuan's gradually growing eyebrows, this child was what he wanted to stay by his side to teach, but he didn't expect that Hongxuan had left home early, and he was reluctant, but he was a man, he was the child and Erfu's dependence, he had to suppress the weak side of his heart, and face the sadness of the child's departure strongly.

The night breeze is howling, and the waves are rising.

Although the crater outside the village is an artificial lake, the inlet and outlet are connected to a clear stream not far from the village, so even if the waves are not as rough as the river, the boats parked at the temporary pier by the lake still sway slightly as the wind rises.

Seeing this, Erfu and the fourth master, who had been guarding the cabin, hurriedly moved the cups and bowls of tea sets on the low table to the bamboo basket that had already been prepared with shockproof cushions, and fixed the beds for Xiao Qi and Hongxuan respectively on the wall of the ship, which extinguished a few red candles on the wall of the ship, leaving only a small oil lamp covered by a glass lampshade in the corner, and exited the cabin one after another, lest the children wake up and talk to them again, delaying the time to sleep in vain.

However, as the wind became stronger and stronger, Hongxuan and Xiaoqi still woke up.

In the second half of the night, a shining lightning split the dark night sky, followed by rumbling bursts of thunder, and then the bean-sized rain fell crackling on the linoleum shed on the roof of the cabin, and it was also a loss that when the bed was arranged, Su Peisheng took into account the weather conditions, afraid that the wind would rise in the second half of the night, so he specially fixed the curtain of the ship's hatch fluttering in the wind, and moved two partition doors from the courtyard to block the wind, otherwise the life of Erfu and their family of four would be sad.

Through the door, Erfu looked at the wind and rain outside the cabin, turned his head to the fourth master, and muttered in a low voice: "Stormy night, stay in the guest day, this is even God doesn't want Hongxuan to leave our side, or we will stay in Hongxuan for one more day, so we can wait for the weather to be better, and then let the child go, otherwise this wind and rain, we will not be at ease to stay in the village!"

Actually, the fourth master also thinks so.

It's just that he doesn't want to say this without a certain amount of words, for fear that the sky will be sunny early tomorrow morning, and Hongxuankong will be happy in vain, but Erfu has already said it, so he can't pretend to be stupid anymore, he turned his head to look at Hongxuan, who was full of expectations, sighed in his heart, turned his head to Erfu who was on the cabin door, and whispered: "Don't stand there, the children are going to help you." ”

In the end, it was for her mother's love, she saw that Xiao Qi had already lifted the quilt and wanted to get up, and walked back to the brocade stool in the middle of the cabin as a busy talk, and while moving the glass painting screen in the middle of the cabin as a shield, she said to Xiao Qi and Hongxuan with a smile: "It's cold, don't get up and toss." ”

As she spoke, she didn't forget to continue the topic just now, and pulled the fourth master to mutter.

The fourth master shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "It's better to wait until dawn tomorrow, if it is still so stormy, the master will let Hongxuan stay in the village for two more days, after all, we can let Hongxuan stay, but the passenger ship for Hongxuan does not wait for anyone, once this passenger ship is missed, Hongxuan is afraid that he will have to take a carriage down to Jiangnan, and there will be more delays along the way, the weather will be cold in a blink of an eye, you are willing to Hongxuan's big cotton jacket and two cotton pants to wrap it, and go all the way to Jiangnan against the cold wind!"

"Well, let's wait and talk. Erf looked at Hongxuan and nodded reluctantly.

This is different from modern times, where a taxi with its own warm breeze is parked nearby, and there are air tickets, ferry tickets, and Train tickets and other convenient means of transportation, from south to north, either to make a boat down the river, or to take a carriage from the land to hurry and run slowly, in short, nothing is easy, but compared to the bumpy carriage, in the end it is more comfortable to sit on a three-story large passenger boat, spend a sum of silver, can always charter a comfortable small room on the boat, and it is also suitable for Hongxuan, a child who has grown up in the rich nest since childhood, if it is really to let Hongxuan nest in the carriage to go to Jiangnan, Erfu is afraid that he will have to let Xuancaifang fund to arrange a passenger boat.

It backfired, and this sentence was very much in line with Erph's mood at the moment.

With the slight sound of the ticking of the gilt and jade-inlaid pocket watch, the hour hand inlaid with broken diamonds slowly moved to the position of the Roman numeral six, Erfu raised her head irritably, looked at the blue sky outside the cabin, looked at the rising sun that was about to jump out of the water, and gritted her teeth secretly, especially there is no more absurd mood than this dog, her heart is as if there are millions of divine beasts galloping by, speechless, why is God so naughty, with what she thinks in her heart, is it really so difficult!

But it's time to come, and it's finally here.

The family of four had a hasty breakfast, and before Erfu had time to say a few more words to Hongxuan, Mr. Dongfang, the great Confucian who was invited by the old man Kangxi from his hometown in Zhuji, Shaoxing, led Hongxuan's companion and the little servant to the lake.

"This old man is really annoying. ”

Erfu, who has always respected Mr. Dongfang's talent and virtue, looked at Mr. Dongfang who was standing by the lake in the wind, scratched his head irritably, and finally said a somewhat impolite word, and smashed the small window of the ship's bulkhead in front of Mr. Dongfang.

"Amma, Eniang, the child is leaving, and I will write to you when the child arrives. "Hongxuan respects Mr. Dongfang very much as a teacher, during this period of time, Mr. Dongfang not only showed extraordinary literary brilliance and knowledge, but also showed the handsome temperament of different four masters and Erfu's style of doing things, and influenced Hongxuan who had three views of the beginning of the three views by word and deed, and also cared about him from all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, like an elder, although he was also very reluctant to leave Erfu and the fourth master's side, but when Mr. Dongfang appeared by the lake, he still quickly stood up and bowed to Erfu and the fourth master sitting opposite.

"Then let's go, don't let your master wait any longer.

When you go out, you must take good care of yourself, if you have any troubles, send a letter to the family, don't worry too much, you are Amma's son, and it is natural for Amma to be your umbrella. The fourth master helped Erfu to get up, stretched out his hand to pat Hongxuan's shoulder, which was not even under his own ribs, and said earnestly.

His eyes flashed with reluctance to Hongxuan, and his expectations for Hongxuan were revealed.

Erfu couldn't say a word, in order to let Hongxuan go at ease, all her attention was on controlling her emotions, she didn't want her children to see her crying and weak, but she was too weak.

The two of them sent Hongxuan out of the cabin hand in hand, and politely saluted Mr. Dongfang.

"I'm tired of Mr. Dongfang taking care of Hongxuan's child, this child has been spoiled by Fang Fujin since he was a child, and sometimes it is inevitable to be squeamish, and I hope that Mr. Dongfang can tolerate this child more. As the head of the family, the fourth master stepped forward, took Hongxuan's little hand, and sent it to Mr. Dongfang, and said politely.

Mr. Dongfang is also very satisfied with Hongxuan, a student who was born rich and noble, otherwise he would not have gone out of the mountain at this age, as Hongxuan traveled the world, he smiled and bowed to the fourth master, respectfully and reservedly, polite and not flattering, and whispered: "Lord Wang, you are really too polite."

Brother Hongxuan is kind-hearted, generous, intelligent and precocious, clever and studious, and there is no lack of tenacity in his bones, compared to the studious heart of poor students, it is not the slightest difference, and he has cultivated a high vision since he was a child, and he can get such a good student as Brother Hongxuan in his later years, which is already a great surprise, not to mention that Brother Hongxuan treats the old man like a teacher and more like a friend, and it also happens to solve the loneliness of the old man in his later years. After speaking, he took Hongxuan's little hand, bowed his head and smiled at Hongxuan, really like an old man who teased his grandson, there is such a wise old man with both ability and political integrity, and a kind heart to accompany Hongxuan, which can really be regarded as a great blessing for Hongxuan.

The fourth master became more and more distracted, and Erfu also breathed a sigh of relief, slightly relieving his sorrow.

She watched Hongxuan and Mr. Dongfang get into the carriage together, disappeared at the end of the path in the blink of an eye, leaned on the fourth master's arms sadly, buried her face deep in the crook of the fourth master's arm, and murmured: "The child is gone, my heart is empty, as if a piece is missing, it is difficult, and I don't know when I will see Hongxuan again." ”

"I'll see you soon, at the latest by the end of autumn next year, Lord promises. ”

"That's still a few months away, and I hate the feeling of separation. Erfu muttered with a crying voice, and then remembered Xiao Qi who was still waiting in the cabin, sniffed hard, wiped the tears on his face, looked up at the blue sky like a mirror, put away the tears in his eyes, and staggered back to the boat.

In the cabin, Xiao Qi also cried like a tearful man.

She knew the news that Hongxuan was still alive later than Erfu, and she was even more reluctant to Hongxuan's younger brother, don't look at her jealousy when she was a child, Hongxuan occupied Erfu's attention as soon as she was born, but in the end, it was the sister and brother of the same mother, and the cousins of other uncles didn't know how jealous she had a younger brother, and she was also used to showing off Hongxuan's younger brother with her cousins since she was a child, and she especially enjoyed the life of Hongxuan's younger brother to talk and play with her, but in just three days, Hongxuan left again, although she understood that Hongxuan's departure was a helpless choice, but it was also reluctant from the heart。

She looked pitifully at Erfu who walked into the cabin, ran to Erfu's side with her little short legs, and asked with a raised face: "Eniang, my brother is just leaving, did he say that he wanted to write a letter to Xiaoqi?"

"Of course I said it, Hongxuan said it, and he will write to us as soon as he arrives at the place.

But Eniang has something to tell you, the news that Hongxuan is still alive is a secret, you can't just tell this secret to others, otherwise Hongxuan's younger brother will be in danger outside. Erfu raised her hand and rubbed Xiao Qi's head, wiped away the tears on Xiao Qi's cheeks, smiled and comforted Xiao Qi, and finally remembered to tell Xiao Qi to keep it secret, after speaking, she led Xiao Qi to the lake, this boat is her sad place, she really can't stay for a moment.