Although the life of this old husband and young wife is not harmonious, but they have a good heart in arranging the twins, the Li family does not want to get along with them day and night, Shu Hongyang wants to keep the children in the Yue family to continue studying, and feels that it is far from being comfortable and safe to stay in the capital with him.

Of course, it was inconvenient for him to express this meaning directly to the Li family, but he found other excuses, but he didn't expect that what he said later would be even more direct to his wife's heart.

"Ah Sheng's evil animal hasn't run down yet, Ah Yi must stay at home." In the study, Shu Hongyang buried himself in sorting out the important books, and at the same time explained to the Li family.

"Jing Zhao Yin's trial is hanging, not hanging, and now the official document has been delivered to the Criminal Department, and if the verdict is not changed, he will be executed in the future. After getting the exact news in the new year, Ah Yi either had to go to General Duan to ask for a commutation of his sentence in front of the saint, or he had to guard the funeral for his eldest brother. ”

"Hanging?!" When Li heard these two words, he suddenly felt that his heart began to cramp.

Her legs were weak, and she hurriedly propped herself on the desk to barely stabilize her footing, and then said with a pale face: "Didn't you say that the sentence could be changed?" Can't you flow three thousand miles according to the law?

"Hey, who let there be that palace turmoil a few years ago? The saint was particularly jealous of the matter of the brother's wall, but whenever he encountered it, he was punished severely. After Shu Hongyang finished speaking, he raised his head, and at a glance, he saw that the Li family was actually crying and fragile appearance.

His mind moved, his face gradually darkened, and the hand holding the book was subconsciously clasped, and the palm of his hand suddenly became green, but he no longer said much in his mouth, only said that he had to be busy for a long time late at night, so let Li rest first.

After his wife turned around and left without saying a word, Shu Hongyang sat in the study for a long time, and then he quietly paced back to the upper room, stopped the slave and maid from asking for peace and did not order anyone to hold the lamp and candle, and stood quietly in front of the window alone for a short while, and vaguely heard a light and suppressed whimper from inside.

“…… Evil beast, evil animal! Shu Hongyang's hands trembled with anger, and he wanted to kick the door open to question Li, but suddenly paused, then turned around and walked back to the study quickly, staying awake all night.

Early the next morning, when Xingyi and Yan Bing went to ask for peace, they both found that Grandpa's eyes were dark and bloodshot, they just stayed up late as if he was sorting out the paperwork, and Yan Bing persuaded coquettishly: "What is Grandpa busy with?" Don't do it at night, beware of hurting your eyes. ”

Ah Yi put down his chopsticks and sat up straight, volunteered: "Mr. said that my regular script is quite passable, why don't I come to help Grandpa?" ”

"No, I'll show you another day after I made it myself." Shu Hongyang touched his son's head and pinched his daughter's face, his heart was warm.

Thinking of his wife's ignorance in an instant, another nameless fire suddenly rose up, and he finally forced it down and squeezed out a smile to accompany his children to eat and drink.

This year's festival, everyone in the Shu family had a particularly uncomfortable time.

I can't drink and have fun during the mourning period, the female protagonist is in a trance, the male head is full of depression, some of the juniors are sad, some are self-grieved, and it is rare to sit in a room for dinner, and there is no joy and reunion for the New Year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, outside the courtyard wall is the hustle and bustle of the people of Chang'an City all night, and even if you don't go out, you can guess from the drumming, flute and firecracker explosions that everyone is playing.

Within the courtyard wall, more than half of the masters of the Shu family gathered in the main hall of the front yard to keep vigil, although they gathered together, they did their own things.

Yeon Qingyi listened to her lecture by Lee's side, and was reluctant to leave her mother's arms despite the constant yawning. Shu Hongyang sat cross-legged on the Hu bed and drank buttermilk with Si Yan, talking about various matters that need to be paid attention to when going to office with him in the future.

Xingyi and Yan Bing kneaded the dough on the table together, grinding the dough, and wrapping the balls. That is, Yan Bing's former family shouted "soup dumplings", when Chinese New Year's Eve or New Year's Day must eat dumplings.

Shu Hongyang only thought that the two of them were joking, and he didn't believe that he could make anything that could enter his mouth. Yan Bing is very calm, even if others don't cheer up, there is still a sibling brother who can be a "customer".

It didn't take long for the mushroom soup to be ready and cooked, and the mushroom was picked by Rong Jialang and his classmates Lin Kai, Liu Zixu and others when they went hunting in the mountains and forests not long ago, and they were cooked in the soup and were extremely fragrant.

Eating prison pills, Shu Hongyang couldn't help moistening his eyes and sighed, "My family has a girl who has just grown up", and then he thought of another daughter, so he simply sent someone to send a bowl to Yanjie who locked himself up.

Who would have thought that Yanjie didn't appreciate it, and as soon as she heard that it was Yanbing who did it, she even threw out the bowl with a bowl.

Shu Hongyang listened to the slave's relay, immediately blew his beard and glared, and wanted to scold when he slapped the table.

Yan Bing hurriedly pulled Grandpa's sleeve and said, "Forget it, let her go, probably she's still angry with me." During the Chinese New Year, Grandpa couldn't be angry about it, and when she went to Shu to find a good family for her sister, she would naturally be happy. ”

“…… Yo, you're kind—" Li reflexively looked at Yan Bing, and said sarcastic sour words. It's a pity that before he finished speaking, he was shocked by Shu Hongyang's cold glance.

Since then, he has finally been completely disappointed and dead set on his wife, and no longer fantasizes that he can see his wife and concubines and happy children and grandchildren with his own eyes.

As soon as the New Year passed, the sage ordered Shu Hongyang to be promoted to the governor of Yizhou, and actually managed Peng, Shu, Han, Jian, Ling and other Kyushu.

The governor of the Yizhou Metropolitan Mansion is Zheng Yuncong, the king of Shu, the eleventh uncle of the present, the half-brother of the first emperor, and Yizhou is both his fief and the monitoring office. It can be seen that Shu Hongyang's position has been promoted, but the errand is not easy.

Before leaving, Shu Hongyang deliberately took advantage of the Li family's excuse to buy and take Yanqing out for a walk, and called Xingyi and Yanbing brothers and sisters to go to the study to talk.

He first explained to Xingyi that in the late summer and early autumn, he should remember to intercede for his eldest brother, and if he really couldn't find it, he had to help collect the funeral.

Then he walked to the beams and pillars of the study, stomped on a square brick on the ground, and at the same time instructed the two siblings: "Below this is a secret compartment, where all kinds of important deeds are placed at home. ”

When Yan Bing heard him say this, she immediately remembered her grandfather who really went after saying "hot to death" before.

She hurriedly stopped Grandpa and didn't let him continue to say unabashedly: "What is in case of nothing." There won't be! ”

Shu Hongyang couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Okay, okay, don't talk about this, in short, you just remember it." ”

……

When it was warm and cold in early spring, Shu Hongyang led his family and servants, and a large group of people set off in full gear. Xingyi and Yan Bing sent each other at the Shili Pavilion on the outskirts of Beijing.

Just as they watched the horse that Grandpa was riding gradually disappear into the sky, suddenly two black crows flew overhead, croaking and making people annoyed.

It was a long time before Yan Bing realized that everything in the world seemed to have its own fixed number, and it seemed that all unlucky words would eventually come true.

Not long after Shu Hongyang set off, the case of the eldest brother Xingsheng was punished for lack of evidence and was sent back for trial by the Criminal Department. He was bent on condemning the crime, so he was afraid that the Li family would be involved, so he simply hung a sweat towel in the prison pen and killed himself in prison!

Hearing the bad news, Yan Bing was directly stunned, and Xingyi, who was originally running for his case, was also very embarrassed, he originally hoped to give his brother a way to live. No one expected him to be so affectionate.

When Xingyi picked up the pen to report Shu Hongyang's funeral, he didn't know how to put down the pen at all, and the paper manuscript was wasted a large pile, and he almost pulled his bald hair.

"To put it simply, he said that he left a message with his fellow inmates, and felt that the future was hopeless and ashamed of his grandfather, so he gave up his life." The eldest man of the Rong family saw that Xingyi was embarrassed, so he built yì - the matter of substitution for death is not substantiated and unfounded, and it is not easy to say it directly.

"Yes, Brother Wen Yuan is right," Yan Bing also nodded after hearing this, and sighed, "Anyway, it's useless to say it, it can only make Grandpa angry in vain." ”

Subsequently, the two siblings, with the help of their maternal grandfather and the Rong brothers, quickly completed the eldest brother's funeral.

The days of Qi decay and mourning for two consecutive times, just went on step by step, and in the coming year, the two brothers and sisters went back to the Li family's home school and continued their studies. Suddenly, I heard that Siniang had married her grandfather, and Yan Bing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was another year of Chinese New Year's Eve, this time the brothers and sisters were at their uncle's house for the New Year's Day, and they even went to watch the jubilant and lively expulsion ceremony with the Rong brothers, and had a good joke.

It didn't take long for the spring festival to take the exam. Yan Bing personally made the dry food that Wen Yuan carried during the exam, and most of the others brought cakes, but she made delicious and easy-to-swallow and not easy to spoil, similar to compressed biscuits, with various flavors rich in nutrition, and melt in your mouth one by one, clean and convenient.

Before the owner could use it, Ah Yi took the first step to try a few pieces, and then joked with a smile: "With such skillful hands, you can get married." ”

"I'm only thirteen, so I'm not ready yet!" Yan Bing glanced at him, grabbed the snack and began to fill it.

"You can also discuss marriage." Xingyi muttered in a low voice, and after speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced at Brother Wen Yuan, who was sitting on the side waiting to take the food box, only to see that he was wearing a plain Wenzhu dark pattern brocade robe, with a faint smile on his lips, looking like a dignified and upright gentleman, and there was no superfluous action after listening to the joke.

Xingyi couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and said in his heart that most of these two people were lost. His younger sister doesn't seem to have opened up yet, and Brother Wen Yuan seems to have never been tempted by only treating her as his own sister, he is also nineteen, and when Chunqiu encounters a son-in-law under the list, he is likely to immediately become half of someone else's family.

As everyone knows, Rong Wenyuan looked at Yan Bing, who was wearing beaded silk flowers on her hair with a double ring hanging bun, and watched her busy housework, her dress was fragrant and pleasant, and she had stepped from the cardamom years to the list of fair girls when she raised her hands and feet, but her heart couldn't help but move. Instead of letting my sister cheapen others, it is better to marry her yourself and take care of her for the rest of her life.

Immediately, he also began to secretly think that it was impossible for Shu Hongyang to come to rob his son-in-law if he was not in the capital, and most of the Li family looked down on his background. Is it difficult to say it directly with the uncle of the same clan? I don't know if he will agree.

Originally, it was discussed to treat his own Jinshi and the first official banquet guest to show his heir, and then find a suitable person to discuss with his relatives......

Thinking of this, Rong Wenyuan couldn't help but laugh at himself. This is the most critical step, if you can't make a splash, then the next qiē is a fantasy.

He settled down, got up to say goodbye as soon as the food box arrived, and specially instructed the Shu family brothers and sisters: "You don't need to come to the tribute courtyard tomorrow to send it, there are many people and miscellaneous, and you may not be able to see me when you come." However, when the end of the game is over, I can pick it up, and I will definitely come out first. ”

Before Yan Bing and Ah Yi could speak, Wen Heng was already laughing on the side: "Brother, you are too thick-skinned, right?" Because his mouth grew too big and he inhaled cold air when he laughed, he began to wheezing and coughing slightly, coughing and laughing at the same time.

Seeing the two brothers striding away in laughter and coughing, Yan Bing also covered his lips and chuckled: "You see his confident appearance, his expression is similar to when Cousin Yan entered, it should be no problem." ”

"Of course!" Xingyi thought about tomorrow's meeting and his heart was also agitated, "Although the eldest uncle is stubborn and doesn't recognize his disciples, he is actually a proud protégé of Brother Wenyuan, how can he not have any real skills?" Let's wait to see him parade through the streets in fresh clothes...... In the coming year, I should do the same! ”

"Naturally, naturally, my brothers should all be Jinshi!" Yan Bing also smiled, as if she didn't think that Wen Yuan would land.

However, nine days later, when she really arrived at the gate of the imperial city to pick up her brother of the Rong family, she sat in the tea shop on the opposite corner of the street outside the door, but she felt extremely flustered, and the hand holding the tea cup trembled slightly, always feeling as if something strange was going to happen.