Three times in a row, Shen Wen found that Shen Xiang was absent-minded when he came to see her. After the two talked a few words, Shen Xiang kept silent, and sat silently by her bedside. After a while, he seemed to wake up and bid farewell in a hurry.
After Shen Xiang left, Shen Wen said to Su Wanniang: "Go and ask her what's on her mind."
Su Wanniang went to Shen Xiang's yard in the afternoon when she estimated that Shen Xiang had finished practicing martial arts. After Shen Xiang took a bath, she was sitting and had Chunlu brush her hair. Hearing that it was Su Wanniang who came, Shen Xiang let her into the house. When Su Wanniang saw it, she went over and said, "I'll brush Master's hair."
Chunlu laughed, and Shen Xiang also smiled and said to Chunlu: "Go and get some tea."
Chunlu gave the towel to Su Wanniang, Su Wanniang turned it to the dry side, twisted Shen Xiang's hair, and said, "Master's hair is really thick and dense."
Shen Xiang said: "You have also learned sweet talk from my sister. Her hair is not good? She eats so much and sleeps every day, so it must be thick."
Su Wanniang smiled: "She is her, you are you. Why don't people tell you how good your hair is?"
Shen Xiang sighed: "I can't say enough about you."
Su Wanniang took the opportunity to ask: "What's the matter with you? Why do you seem to have lost your soul recently?"
Shen Xiang sighed again. Su Wanniang twisted her hair with a towel: "Tell me quickly!"
Shen Xiang smiled: "Are you forcing a confession
Su Wanniang smiled and said, "That's right! Say it quickly!"
Shen Xiang remembered that when his elder brother was leaving, he told Su Wanniang to discuss something, and she really wanted to confide in someone, so she glanced at the door and whispered: "During the Lantern Festival, the third prince was on the street and told me...he wants to marry I..." At the end, his voice was as quiet as a mosquito, and his face was flushed.
Su Wanniang frowned after hearing this, and it took a long time before she whispered: "He is bold enough!" After drying Shen Xiang's hair, she put the towel aside, sat next to Shen Xiang, and asked, "Are you angry?" ?"
Telling this kind of thing directly to the girl is considered an abrupt beauty, and Shen Xiang is not yet thirteen years old. The third prince said so carelessly. Even if Shen Xiang didn't like him originally, he would still be influenced by him. Put your heart on him. If this marriage fails in the future, what will Shen Xiang do
Shen Xiang lowered his eyes, blushed and said: "It's a bit..." Su Wanniang was about to scold the third prince, but Shen Xiang immediately said: "He is also... There is no other way..."
Su Wanniang glared at Shen Xiang: "You still defend him?!"
Shen Xiang lowered his head and said: "The emperor will definitely not think about him, otherwise he will not allow the prince to assassinate him. The queen will not treat him well... Does he have any elders who can stand up for him? I can't come in person Our family proposes..."
Su Wanniang frowned and said, "What if the emperor doesn't let him marry you in the future?"
Shen Xiang lowered his eyes and said: "Then I... don't marry anymore..."
Su Wanniang's jaw was about to drop: "Don't you think... other people are not good?!"
Shen Xiang blushed as if bleeding, and said in a low voice: "Others... are not so good..."
Su Wanniang lamented: "Miss! That's a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair!" What Shen Wen is thinking now is to pull down the crown prince and replace it with the third prince. Share a husband with many women? But this can't be told to Shen Xiang, Su Wanniang can only say: "How can the third prince be a prince in the future, even if you become the main concubine, then there will also be side concubines, would you like it?"
Shen Xiang said sullenly: "Then I... don't get married..."
This sentence again! Is this not hanging from a tree? ! Su Wanniang waved her hand: "What! You can't just identify a person like that! Do you know how good his character is? Don't think that all the young masters in our mansion are clean, you don't know outsiders! Maybe he doesn't at all. worth… "
Shen Xiang whispered: "He is also clean..."
Su Wanniang asked in shock: "How do you know?! What did he tell you?!"
Shen Xiang replied in a low voice: "He told my elder brother before that the empress had stuffed him with people when he was eleven or twelve years old, and some palace maids... stripped naked and climbed on his bed... He kicked them out. Don't... At that time, the eldest brother was still joking with him, saying that he was lucky... otherwise he would definitely be so vain, let alone pull the bow hard, that the slingshot couldn't even be pulled away... "
Su Wanniang scolded: "Can those nonsense talk like that in front of you?!"
Shen Xiang lowered his head and muttered: "They didn't know I was around. I was young at the time, and I was curious about what they were doing. After I left, I went back secretly to listen..."
Su Wanniang was so angry that she pushed Shen Xiang: "Miss! Even if he behaved in the past, there is no guarantee that he will not mess around in the future."
Shen Xiang allowed her to push him a bit, but didn't fight back, and whispered, "I don't think... he's not that kind of person..."
Su Wanniang asked, "How do you know?"
Shen Xiang said: "Because... when he was hunting in winter, he didn't leave me and run away..."
Su Wanniang sighed deeply, put Shen Xiang on the shoulder and said: "You are not ready yet, let's not be in a hurry, take a look, see people's hearts for a long time, don't just admit him, okay?"
Shen Xiang nodded, but Su Wanniang felt that she couldn't believe her, so she said again: "If you have any concerns, you must come and discuss with me. I treat you like a younger sister and can give you advice." Or your sister who has a good heart? Will figure it out for you.
Shen Xiang blushed and said, "I've always regarded you as a sister..."
Su Wanniang patted Shen Xiang on the shoulder: "You must find a good person, and you must be happy, otherwise I won't recognize you as a master!"
Shen Xiang laughed all of a sudden, looked at Su Wanniang with bright eyes, grabbed her hand and said, "Okay, we all need to be well."
The two nodded at each other.
When Su Wanniang returned to Shen Wen's place, her smile disappeared. When no one was around, he told Shen Wen about it. Shen Wen gritted his teeth and said to Su Wanniang in a low voice: "No one in the royal family is worry-free! People say that the third prince is straightforward and simple. Look at what he did! He used the simplest, most direct and most effective method! He Is it really stupid or fake stupid?!" Indeed, instead of looking for the emperor, Zhenbeihou and his wife, he went directly to Shen Xiang, and determined this person for himself from the most fundamental point.
Su Wanniang sighed: "It's really stupid. I don't think he did it with his heart. He probably just told the eldest lady in a daze. Stupid people have stupid luck, but if he did this, let the eldest lady Miss moved."
Shen Wen sighed: "How can my sister be a queen! How can she be in charge of the harem? A foxy one will make her stunned for a while."
Su Wanniang said: "Maybe the third prince won't be as bad as the crown prince? You see, he didn't accept so many people who gave him gifts in the past."
Shen Wen was depressed: "I am a pessimistic person..."
Su Wanniang asked: "What is pessimism?"
Shen Wen replied: "It's just thinking about the worst in everything."
Su Wanniang said: "You don't have to think about it that way. The third prince seems to be a hearty person, and he can't beat a treacherous person himself, so he probably won't like that kind of person. If he really wants to marry the eldest lady, the two of them are pretty good in temperament. It's a good match. Don't you always want him to be in the position?"
Shen Wen sighed: "This is not the same thing. He is pure in heart, not as narrow and insidious as the prince. If he becomes emperor, with Ji Wenzhao as his assistant, at least he won't destroy himself. But emotionally, I don't care about it." Got it. If my sister was with him, would he have been nice to my sister at that time? Not to mention at that time, even now, I don’t know if he wanted to marry her just to protect himself with the power of Marquis Zhenbei. My sister."
Su Wanniang was also depressed: "It's really hard to tell."
The two took turns sighing and sighing, worried about Shen Xiang's future.
In February, the weather turns warm. The fourth prince, who didn't go out of the palace often because of the cold in winter, started to visit Guanyi Pavilion frequently. He rarely saw Zhang Yunming, but he often saw Shen Zhuo wandering around, and occasionally Shen Jian. The two brothers often came to play games with him, even though they were both defeated by him, he felt that Shen Zhuo, who was about the same age as him, was more interesting, there were some oddities in his chess moves, although Shen Jian was meticulous and rigorous, they were predictable.
After winter hunting, many people knew that this young man sitting in the Guanyi Pavilion was the Fourth Prince. Usually, there are people who come to play chess with him to get close. As soon as this kind of person got on the chessboard, the fourth prince would know that he had no intention of winning in chess, and was just coaxing him to play. The fourth prince was unhappy, although he didn't show it on the surface, he quickly defeated the opponent on the chessboard, and he would never play chess with the opponent again.
As time passed, everyone knew that to win the favor of the Fourth Prince, one had to beat him on the chessboard. It's a pity that a real chess player will not go to a prince to show off his chess skills: who is full and hungry and wants to find the royal person unhappy? Not even a crippled prince who fell out of favor. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and you never know when you're going to be in trouble. As for the wealthy families, those who want to be respected by the prince, few can beat the fourth prince. Therefore, the fourth prince sought defeat alone, and missed Ji Wenzhao a lot.
Liu Shi's belly was already big, but one day she was panting and asked the maid to support her, and brought a few people to Shen Wen's yard.
Shen Wen has now evolved from "resting" in the house to basking in the sun outside. When she saw Liu Shi, she hurriedly got up from the reclining chair, and Liu Shi hurriedly said, "Sister, get up quickly, don't lift the blanket off your body."
Su Wanniang hurriedly moved a chair from one side and placed it beside Shen Wen. Shen Wen smiled weakly and said, "Sister-in-law, I've been tired lately and I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you?"
Perhaps Liu's second child was tired because her husband was not around, so she hurriedly said, "Sister, don't say that, I didn't come to take care of you. Your elder brother entrusted me repeatedly before leaving, I'm really sorry..." When Shen Yi was mentioned, Liu Shi felt a little sad.
Shen Wen said with a smile: "Sister-in-law has worked hard enough, don't make it difficult for yourself."
Mrs. Liu smiled, pointed to the people behind her and said, "Your elder brother asked me to find some people from the Liu family to help you. He said that our Liu family has been scholarly for generations, and the servants are very polite. I told my mother, she Saying that you and Missy are both old, there should be two more people. I asked the Liu family to choose a few people, and I will send them here now. You choose, and I will go to Missy's side." Among the people watching in the yard , Xia Zi snorted: Does this mean that Su Wanniang is not polite
Shen Wen understood what the elder brother meant, and was afraid that she would be surrounded by eyeliners, and thought that if a few people from the Liu family came, they would be reliable. Then she turned to Su Wanniang and said, "Sister Wanniang, go pick it out, as long as it suits you, Sister Wanniang."
Mrs. Liu was stunned for a while, and now she understands why her husband asked her to find a servant for this young lady—the young lady is not a master at all, this servant girl, Su Wanniang, is completely in charge.
Su Wanniang took a good look at the few people brought by Mrs. Liu, and picked them out with a smile: "This younger sister still has this younger sister."
Everyone saw that she picked the two girls with the most ordinary looks, and they all understood what she meant: Isn't it because she is afraid that someone will be prettier than you? Su Wanniang continued her efforts and said, "This younger sister is called Xia Qing, and this younger sister is called Xia Lan."
Well! That's how she named it. Mrs. Liu had never experienced Su Wanniang's tricks before, so she was naturally startled again, turned her eyes to look at Shen Wen, Shen Wen nodded with a smile and said: "Okay, okay, just listen to sister Wanniang, call them Xia Qing and Xia Wen." Lan, how does sister-in-law feel?"
Liu frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "This is the person I found for you, so you don't have any... ideas?"
Shen Wen shook his head blankly: "Sister Wanniang has already thought about it for me, so I don't have to think about it."
Xia Zi who was on the sidelines secretly despised Shen Wen.
Su Wanniang smiled and said to the two servant girls, "Follow me, I will take you to the room."
Seeing Su Wanniang leading the people away, Mrs. Liu sighed, and motioned for someone to help her up. Shen Wen wanted to stand up again. Mrs. Liu stopped her, leaned over to Shen Wen's ear and said, "If you feel that you have been wronged , just go to my place and tell me." She thought that the reason her husband told her to take care of Shen Wen was because there was no one in the house to support Shen Wen.
Shen Wen kept nodding, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law is really nice. I'm fine."
Liu sighed secretly again, helped the man and left.
In the evening, Shen Wen spread out the paper in the room, Su Wanniang was grinding it for her, and said to Shen Wen in a low voice: "Your sister-in-law seems to be worried about you, this is to send you a helper."
Shen Wen also smiled: "At least, they are not from that side. You get along first, and if you get along, you will receive your subordinates. If you want to fight against you, I will find a chance to return it to her."
Su Wanniang sighed: "My reputation is definitely going to be ruined."
Shen Wen also smiled: "What do you think I have a good reputation? The two of us have to be companions." She dipped her pen in ink and didn't write for a long time.
Su Wanniang asked, "What do you want to write?"
Shen Wen frowned: "I just want to write, that, there is a note in the sachet I gave you before, read it, let's meet."
Su Wanniang hurriedly asked: "Which word in this you can't write?"
Shen Wen twisted his shoulders: "Sister Wanniang, you can't laugh at people like that!"
Su Wanniang was puzzled: "Why did I laugh at you?"
Shen Wen stared: "It's so difficult for me to write, is it because I can't write? Of course not, it's because I can't write poetry!"
Su Wanniang frowned: "Why do you want to write poetry?"
Shen Wen acted like a baby: "It's what you said, it's the first time we invite people to meet, we need to have some style! We can't let the other party look down on us. We need to show that we can also write a story and make a few nonsense. Sister Wanniang, please help help me."
Su Wanniang asked: "Who do you want to see?"
Shen Wen said: "It's Miss Zhang Family."
Su Wanniang doubted: "For so many years, no one has seen that young lady, will she see you?"
Shen Wen nodded: "She should see me after reading my poem."
Because in the sachet I gave "her" when I was six years old, there was a note with only four words written on it: Zhang Yunzheng, male.
Su Wanniang thought for a while, then said hesitantly: "Back then I gave you a sachet..."
Shen Wen nodded hurriedly: "Okay, let's write it like this." After writing, he waited for Su Wanniang.
Su Wanniang continued: "It's hidden in the brocade pouch."
Shen Wen muttered while writing: "A note isn't considered beautiful, but it doesn't matter if you say it well..."
Su Wanniang thought for a while: "If you ask if there is anything wrong."
Shen Wen smiled: "Great, great! That's it..." hurriedly wrote it down.
Su Wanniang didn't speak for a long time, Shen Wen couldn't wait: "What should I do?"
Su Wanniang was also anxious: "I need to rhyme, Jiang Yangzhe has mulberry, long, light, yellow, and shang..."
Shen Wen said: "Business! Discussion!"
Su Wanniang nodded and said, "Meet and discuss in detail?"
Shen Wen happily wrote down: "It's okay, it's okay, Sister Wanniang is a talented woman!"
Su Wanniang was frightened and said, "Don't say that! These are doggerel, which will make those scholars laugh out loud."
Shen Wen folded the paper sign and said: "I think it's very good, it's better than my note, it gives us a lot of ambition!" She handed the paper sign to Su Wanniang and said: "Find a good-looking seal. It's best to have some pine, bamboo and plum on the outside." And so on, it’s so elegant that people don’t dare to throw it away just by looking at it.”
Su Wanniang accepted it with a smile, and asked, "When did you send the sachet? Why didn't I know?"
Shen Wen said: "That was before you came. I gave it to you in the spring when I was six years old. It has been almost five years."
Su Wanniang asked: "Will they still keep it?"
Shen Wen said: "I put a piece of jewelry on it, but Pingyuanhou's mansion is so rich, maybe people don't like it. If he didn't throw it away, Miss Zhang Liu would soon invite me and my sister to spend time in the house. If he threw it away , there will be a painless reply note or no reply at all, and I have to go at night."
Su Wanniang said, "Then she'd better not throw it away."
Shen Wen sighed: "Both will take some effort."
The next day, Su Wanniang went to find Shen Jian and gave him a letterhead, saying that it was for Miss Zhang, Marquis of Pingyuan, and asked Shen Jian to hand it over to Mr. Zhang. Naturally, Shen Jian didn't know that this Miss Zhang was not actually a "Miss". Although it was strange how Shen Wen could have contact with Miss Zhang, but now this sister is the center of the whole plan, so she must do it.
Shen Jian didn't want to directly submit a letter to Pingyuanhou's mansion to ask for an interview, so as not to appear too formal, so he first sent a letter to invite Mr. Zhang to ride a horse.
Zhang Yunming was hiding from the limelight at home, feeling uncomfortable, then the invitation came out, and he met Shen Jian and Shen Zhuo outside the city, and the three of them rode horses outside for a long time. Naturally, neither Shen Jian nor Shen Zhuo dared to mention the matter of the fourth princess, so as not to be used as a punching bag by Zhang Yunming.
When they parted, Shen Jian sealed a letterhead to Zhang Yunming and said, "My little sister gave it to your eldest sister, please help pass it."
Zhang Yunming was taken aback for a moment, and caught a glimpse of Shen Zhuo who was unaware, with a smirk on his face: You guys have today too! In the past, Shen Zhuo coveted my sister, but now, you must not know that your sister is sending letters to my brother, right
He picked it up with a busy smile, thanked him, said goodbye to Shen Zhuo and Shen Jian, and returned to the Hou Mansion.
Back home, Zhang Yunming went to see Marquis Pingyuan and Mrs. Li, talked about the activities of the day, took out the seal and handed it to Marquis Pingyuan.
Marquis Ping Yuan took the seal, frowned and thought: "Since when did Second Miss Shen care so much about our eldest miss?" In the mansion, people who knew the inside story would call him "the eldest miss" when talking about Zhang Yunzheng. ".
Zhang Yunming said: "When she was a child, she often asked about... him. Recently, but it has been a long time since she mentioned it. I don't know what it means to send a seal suddenly."
Marquis Ping Yuan put down the jade ball in his palm and was about to tear apart the letter paper, Zhang Yunming hesitated and said: "However, it's all for him."
Mrs. Li shook her head and said: "That can't be given to him! This is a gift from a girl. I don't know who he sent it over there. The truth will be revealed in the future, and I will send a letter to my cousin privately, which will damage the two. Ma'am's name."
Marquis Pingyuan opened it and read: "The sachet was given as a gift in the past, and it was hidden in the beautiful sachet. If you ask if there is anything, please meet and discuss it."
Li was surprised and said: "This is a poem asking to meet, how old is the second lady?"
Zhang Yunming looked contemptuously and said: "Mom, how can this be called poetry? It's just..."
Marquis Pingyuan raised his hand, stopped Zhang Yunming, frowned and asked, "What's the matter with the sachet here?"
Zhang Yunming recalled: "That year, my mother and I took our second younger sister and sixth younger sister to the flowering party in Zhenbeihou's mansion. The second young lady must have been six years old at the time, she was chubby..."
Mrs. Li also figured it out: "When did that happen? It must have been five years? I also remember her appearance at that time..."
Marquis Ping Yuan impatiently pointed his finger at the table, Li Shi immediately shut up, Zhang Yunming continued: "That time in the Library Pavilion of their mansion, the second lady asked the eldest lady of our mansion, knowing that she can't come, She said she was very pitiful, so she gave me an ugly sachet she made herself, but a piece of precious jade was sewn on the outside."
Mrs. Li nodded and said: "By the way, I also wrote the Xie Jian for you. Compared with the value of that piece of jade, I put gold beads on the outside of the purse..."
Ping Yuanhou asked, "Where is that sachet now?"
Zhang Yunming replied embarrassingly: "During that time, he...was in a bad mood. I wanted him to smile, so I gave him the ugly sachet..."
Ping Yuanhou frowned, put down the letter paper, picked up the jade ball, and turned it on again with a clatter.
Zhang Yunming said cautiously: "Then I'll go ask him, take back the sachet, open it and have a look?"
Ping Yuanhou nodded and said: "You go now, if you want to come over, let me have a look."
Li said: "I have to see it too. My God, a six-year-old girl sews something into a sachet, the child's mind..."
Ping Yuanhou said: "Maybe it's just some flowery and grassy things written between little girls."
Mrs. Li nodded and said, "Maybe, what else can there be besides those?"
Zhang Yunming walked for a long time, then came back with a look of failure, his hair was a little fluffy, met Ping Yuanhou and said: "Father, I told him that I wanted that sachet, but he immediately said that he couldn't find it, obviously he was fighting against me. I said I didn't believe it, so he asked me why I wanted it, I couldn't tell him, so I had to say that Miss Shen Er wrote a letter, he said to show him, I said... I gave it to my father, he got angry, and said something for him How could you give it to my father, and he started to fight with me and hit me... "
Zhang Yunming looked aggrieved, Li Shi was also in tears, and beckoned to him, "Come here, let mother take a look."
Zhang Yunming was a little embarrassed, and only moved a step.
Marquis Ping Yuan curled his lips: "It's hard for you to suffer such a little grievance. He has been shamed for so many years, isn't he crazy?"
Zhang Yunming bowed his head and said nothing, Li Shi wiped away tears: "My poor son, mother is sorry for you two."
Marquis Pingyuan was about to stand up: "I'll go with you."
Zhang Yunming hurriedly said: "Father is resting, I'll go again and tell him no, why don't you show him the letter?"
Ping Yuanhou waved his hand, Zhang Yunming took the letter and left.
Mrs. Li was still in tears, and Ping Yuanhou sighed: "You, I just can't see through it! Although he has a bad temper, Da Lang is by no means a vegetarian. It is not so easy to beat Da Lang."
Mrs. Li stopped crying, frowned and said: "Didn't you say that after his master was beaten away by him last year, there was no one who could restrain him. He often goes out at night recently, and you can't stop him."
Ping Yuanhou shook his head: "Although no one can restrain him, but Da Lang is not slippery, he may not be able to restrain Da Lang."
Mrs. Li was puzzled: "Then why did Dalang act like that?"
Marquis Pingyuan snorted: "It's just to lie to that letter. If you feel sorry for you, you won't care about the defense of men and women. Didn't Da Lang take it away and show it to him?"
Li's eyebrows raised: "This little... big rebellious son!"
Marquis Pingyuan laughed, and Mrs. Li looked at him: "Why didn't you stop me?! It was written by a girl."
Marquis Pingyuan asked, "What happened after seeing it?"
Mrs. Li replied: "Won't that ruin the reputation of the girls over there?"
Marquis Pingyuan looked at Li Shi and shook his head with a deep sigh, the jade ball in his hand rattled.
Mrs. Li looked around and asked in a low voice, "Master Hou, what are you thinking?"
Marquis Pingyuan also replied in a low voice: "Didn't I tell you? If you can't get rid of the fourth princess, you have to choose a girl from the Marquis of Zhenbei. At that time, it was said that Da Lang had opened the letter by mistake, and it was considered a private affair." Pass it on, my family is responsible and let Da Lang marry that Second Miss Shen!"
Mrs. Li exclaimed in amazement: "Master Hou, you are so smart!" But immediately worried: "That Second Miss Shen has a very bad reputation, I am really sorry for our Dalang."
Ping Yuanhou looked up: "Why do you always forget who you should compare with? The fourth princess! Do you want the second lady, or the fourth princess?"
Reluctantly, Li said: "Of course... it's Miss Shen Er."
Ping Yuanhou curled his lips: "Isn't that enough? Besides, if I can reject the fourth princess, I'll say that the letter was lost. Anyway, if I don't reply to the letter for a month or two, there won't be any reminders. In this way, when the time comes, he will When you reveal your identity, you can say that you have never received a letter from a girl, whose reputation can be ruined? So at this moment, what difference does it make if he reads it or not? Let Da Lang succeed, happy, What's wrong?"
Mrs. Li finally smiled: "Your Majesty! You really have a heart of all shapes and sizes!"
Ping Yuanhou smiled reservedly: "Madam praised you."
Mrs. Li pinched the silk and stuck it to her chin, her eyelids drooped slightly, and said in a low voice, "Why is it a compliment? Master Hou...you turned into a vixen..."
Marquis Pingyuan looked at Mrs. Li and smiled, and leaned over: "Fox spirits are all good-looking. Tonight, madam is going to..." The jade ball stopped ringing.
When footsteps came from the door, the two sat up straight at the same time, both of them looked serious, and Ping Yuanhou spun the jade ball again with a clatter.
Zhang Yunming looked sad again, Li Shi didn't show sympathy this time, and asked with a frown: "What's the matter?"
Zhang Yunming glanced at his parents, sighed and said: "When I went back, I saw a cut sachet on the table, he had already read the note."
Ping Yuanhou immediately asked: "What is written?"
Zhang Yunming shook his head and said, "He said he wouldn't tell me."
Marquis Pingyuan also frowned, and asked sarcastically, "Didn't he hit you again?"
Zhang Yunming said without changing his face: "Not this time."
Pingyuanhou snorted coldly: Did it happen last time
Zhang Yunming went on to say: "He said he wanted to meet that Second Miss Shen, and then tell us what was written in the note."
Mrs. Li immediately said: "How can it be done? Men and women are in great defense, Miss Shen's family over there must be more than ten years old, she is already sixteen, this is..."
Pingyuanhou raised his hand, Li Shi stopped talking, Pingyuanhou stared at Zhang Yunming, Zhang Yunming looked back frankly this time, and said: "Father, otherwise, let them meet through the screen, and I will watch from the side?" You Probably also curious? ! Ping Yuanhou saw through Zhang Yunming's intentions.
Mrs. Li said, "How about I stay by the side?"
Zhang Yunming shook his head and said, "I told him to let my mother stay with me, but he said no, since he didn't go through his parents and went to him directly, he would handle it himself."
Marquis Pingyuan pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, let Jin'er write a post and invite the two young ladies of the Shen family to enjoy the flowers. You arrange a place, and say that the eldest lady is sick and can only meet and talk through the screen. You can On his side, it can be regarded as a testimony."
Mrs. Li remembered Pingyuan Hou's plan just now, and asked Zhang Yunming, "Son, do you... intend to marry Miss Shen Er..."
Zhang Yunming hurriedly interrupted: "Mother, I have seen her since she was six years old, she has always been like a younger sister, I really never thought of marrying her..."
Pingyuanhou scolded: "You are quite picky! Go to sleep!"
Zhang Yunming stopped talking, sighed, turned and left. Pingyuanhou and his wife were left to discuss the esoteric question of whether Pingyuanhou was a fox.
Two days later, both Shen Xiang and Shen Wen received posts from Zhang Yunjin, asking them to go to Pingyuanhou Mansion to enjoy flowers on March 3rd, without anyone else, it was a gathering of girls from the two mansions. Shen Xiang was naturally happy, and Shen Wen was also happy: finally he could meet the person he had been calculating since he was six years old.
In order to be able to leave the mansion at that time, Shen Wen began to increase his range of activities, no longer confined to his small courtyard, but asked Su Wanniang to support him, and walked around the courtyard of the Hou Mansion, indicating that his body had begun to recover. Sometimes when Shen Jian or Shen Zhuo saw Shen Wen's groaning, chirping, and shaking every step, and remembered that she threw herself a few blocks away that night, they couldn't help but hate and get angry with her.
On March 3rd, Shen Wen got dressed, and together with Shen Jian, Shen Zhuo and Shen Xiang, went to greet Mrs. Yang and the old lady. Because she didn't go out for a long time, Yang specially made new clothes for Shen Wen. Maybe she wanted Shen Wen to keep her childhood appearance, so she chose bright yellow for Shen Wen.
This was the first time for Shen Wen to leave the mansion after the winter hunting last year. Mrs. Yang and the old lady gave good advice, and Shen Wen agreed one by one, as if he was careful not to answer his request in time. It made Yang feel uncomfortable for a while.
Yang also told Shen Zhuo and Shen Xiang who were traveling with her to take good care of the younger sister, and then let them out.
When they arrived in the yard, Shen Qiang suddenly ran over, waving a small iron pot in his left hand and holding something in his right hand.
He ran in front of the group of people, screaming wildly, Su Wanniang leaned down and asked, "What's the matter?"
Shen Qiang was drooling, and handed over the thing in his right hand. Shen Wen saw that it was a half-dead sparrow, and Su Wanniang yelled on the spot: "Little Heipi!"
Shen Wen took the opportunity to express himself, quickly took out a handkerchief in his hand, and said to Shen Qiang in a trembling voice: "Quick, give it to sister, this bird is so pitiful, don't kill it!" Tears were streaming down his face—attempted. Shen Wen felt a sense of failure. She used to cry whenever she said she wanted, but recently her mood has not fluctuated much and she often can't cry.
Shen Qiang put the sparrow in Shen Wen's handkerchief, shouted happily, and raised the pot to the sky, indicating that he should hug it. Su Wanniang saw that Shen Wen wrapped the sparrow with a handkerchief, and that Shen Xiang was also dressed for going out, so she hugged Shen Qiang, patted his back with her hand, and said, "Little Heipi, how old are you to catch sparrows? Don’t climb the tree, what if you fall off?”
A woman came by and said, "Young master, instead of climbing a tree, took a pot and ran around. Just now, I saw a sparrow. I ran after it. I tripped over it. I was holding the pot on the sparrow. Start the pot, and the sparrow fainted in it." Everyone who heard it laughed.
Su Wanniang went to weigh the small iron pot in Shen Qiang's hand, only to find that it weighed at least three catties, and she couldn't help saying: "Little Heipi is so strong, he can swing this pot at such a small age, he is born with strength!"
Shen Qiang seemed to know that Su Wanniang was talking nicely about him, he was so excited that he heaved on Su Wanniang's shoulder, and his saliva flowed down like a small river. Su Wanniang hurriedly said, "My clothes! Don't get wet!"
The woman next to her came over and said, "Let me hug you, girl, go change your clothes."
Shen Qiang grabbed Su Wanniang and couldn't come down, Su Wanniang said: "No need to change, Xiao Heipi's saliva is not dirty. Let's go together, and let him down when we get to the front." But in fact, after walking a few steps, Su Wanniang couldn't move. I can only put down Shen Qiang and drag him away.
When they arrived at the front door, Shen Zhuo asked someone to drive the carriage over, and Shen Jian walked over to take Shen Qiang's hand.
When Shen Qiang saw the scabbard around Shen Jian's waist, he screamed again, and went to pull the scabbard. Shen Jian hurriedly hugged him to his shoulder and said, "I can't give it to you. You almost pulled out the sword last time. Damn it!" I'm dead, what if you cut off your finger?"
Shen Zhuo turned his head and smiled: "It's a trivial matter to cut off your finger, if you do..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a "hoo", Shen Qiang swung the small iron pan in his hand and hit Shen Zhuo, Shen Zhuo screamed and jumped away, opening his mouth in surprise.
Several people talking at the same time:
Shen Wen: "Qiang'er, you can't hit someone, what should you do if you hurt someone..."
Shen Jian: "Such fast arm strength, you will become a tiger general in the future!"
Shen Xiang: "You deserve it! Let you bully the child. Fourth brother, it's okay, just beat him! He has bullied me and your second sister in the past, help us vent our anger..."
Shen Zhuo: "Does he understand?! He can't even speak, how does he know what I'm talking about?"
Everyone laughed. Shen Jian patted Shen Qiang in his arms and said, "I'll take you to the martial arts training ground." Shen Qiang yelled. Shen Jian said to Shen Zhuo again: "You guys go, go back early, don't play for too long."
Shen Zhuo nodded, Shen Xiang and Shen Wen took Chunlu and Su Wanniang and went out with him.
Shen Xiang and Shen Zhuo rode horses, while Chun Lu and Shen Wen and Su Wanniang rode in a car. Seeing Shen Wen holding a handkerchief wrapped in a sparrow with only its head exposed, Chunlu asked with a smile, "Miss, where did this sparrow come from? Why don't you let it go?"
Shen Wen said: "It's frightened, I have to slow it down a bit."
Su Wanniang told how Shen Qiang caught the sparrow, and she and Chun Lu started chatting and laughing, while Shen Wen remained silent.
Unlike calculating Ji Wenzhao, when she went to see Zhang Yunzheng, Shen Wen didn't have any confidence in her heart, and when she got in the car, she only had a rough idea. How to persuade this sixteen-year-old boy gave Shen Wen a headache.