During this period of time, the emperor liked Xue Meiren from Jiangnan very much. Beauty Xue comes from the Xue family of a rich man in the south of the Yangtze River. She is seventeen years old. She has been skilled in playing chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. Raised to the rank of imperial concubine.
Now the position of queen is vacant, and the harem has long been involved in a scuffle for this seat: some people are poisoned to death, and some people fall into the lake... The emperor was very impatient, and said: whoever has a prince can ascend to the throne . He has learned a lesson from past experience, if a childless queen is brought up now, then there will be no children in the harem. Therefore, the concubines temporarily stopped killing each other, and they all tried hard to let the emperor spend the night in their palaces. Everyone tried their best to please, and the emperor was considered even, but up to now, no one has been able to conceive.
The emperor felt that Xue Meiren had the potential to be a competent queen. She was not as vicious as Jia, she was more educated than Jia, and she was kind and beautiful, with the demeanor of Concubine Chen, although the emperor couldn't help being a little angry when he thought of Concubine Chen.
The emperor hoped that Xue Meiren could conceive a child, so he visited Xue Meiren several times. Some people in the palace were jealous. I heard that arsenic was found in Xue Meiren's diet. Because she was cautious, she didn't know the truth. But every time the emperor went, Xue Meiren warmly greeted him, and never mentioned any unpleasant things to him, let alone cried to him. This kind of magnanimity made the emperor appreciate it very much, and felt that Mei Xue was not ordinary.
It was time to go to Xue Meiren's place that day. The emperor was in a good mood after he came down to court. When he went to the study and heard that the third prince had sent the second son of Shen out of the city, and there was Miss Shen with him, he smiled faintly. When the person went down, he said to Eunuch Sun: "I want to see how long he can last the child's tricks." The emperor decides the marriage, so what's the use of you messing around? If the emperor doesn't want to, you can't express it anyway.
Eunuch Sun bowed, and the emperor waved his car, and went to the place of his confidante, leaving these trivial matters behind.
The prince didn't think it was a trivial matter, and listened to the reports of his staff, he kept frowning. This may be because Shen Xiang's estrangement from the third prince was not reflected in the message to the prince: "The third prince personally bid farewell to the second son of the Marquis of Zhenbei to the five-mile long pavilion outside the city, and Miss Shen went with him." This kind of words and sentences, the outline of a trip where the two of them didn't say a word is a peachy news. As for "a team of merchants also went to the north with the second son of Shen", it has not received much attention. In this era, many travelers hope to travel with a military convoy, let alone the number one general in North Korea. Hou's convoy is gone.
The staff were all preparing for the prince to be furious, but the prince kept his lips tightly shut and didn't say anything until the secret meeting was over. Everyone secretly wondered: Could this be the so-called outrage
After all the staff members left, the prince sat for a while, feeling that weeds were growing wildly in his chest. He really wanted to talk to someone about his worries, but he didn't know who to turn to. Finally, he got up and felt that his legs were as heavy as lead. He decided to go see his mother, Concubine Jia Jing.
He rode the palace chariot outside the cold palace, stopped the palace chariot, and walked slowly towards Concubine Jia Jing's palace gate. He was full of remorse—why didn't he listen to his mother's words, pay attention to the details, and finish with one blow? ! If the assassin had killed the third prince at that time, there would be no such situation as today. If it fails once, it will be more difficult next time. If it fails again, it will be almost impossible later. Now there are only two healthy princes in the palace, myself and the third prince. If I attack the third prince, the emperor will probably hate himself for being disobedient, and use this excuse to demote himself, and train another prince well. Now he looks back and thinks about his mother's earnest teaching to him, and realizes his mother's painstaking efforts at the beginning.
Concubine Jia Jing became more and more depressed. She lay down all day and only drank some porridge mixed with minced meat and vegetables every day. My throat hurts when I speak, and I don't even have the strength to get angry.
When the crown prince walked in, Concubine Jia Jing only opened her eyes.
The prince greeted Ann in a low voice, with a very respectful attitude. Concubine Jia Jing was really too lazy to move, but the crown prince didn't come here very often, so she had to cheer up and ask about the things she still cared about.
Concubine Jia Jing swallowed a few times before she spoke with some difficulty: "Your sister's... marriage..."
The crown prince bit his lower lip, he had already told the fourth princess that when she was old enough, it would be a done deal, let her marry Pingyuanhou's eldest son. There is a lot of property in that mansion, and when she passes by, she may be able to manage the family by supporting her. But these words cannot be said to the mother, the prince replied: "I am looking for it."
Concubine Jia Jing felt her throat hurt like a knife every time she spoke, but in order to explain her intentions to the prince, she still tried her best to speak out: "I... used to say that I was looking for... a loyal family... now... don't look for someone else... that's... it's you Uncle... Changlehou Mansion..." After so long, the crown prince hadn't finalized the marriage, and Concubine Jia Jing didn't want him to look for anything, so she directly appointed her elder brother Changlehou Mansion.
The prince hurriedly said: "The child also watched it, but mother forgot? A few months ago, my sister went to Changle Hou Mansion to pay respects to her uncle's birthday, and met some young masters of that family. But, she hasn't made up her mind yet."
Concubine Jia Jing struggled and said, "You... have to persuade her..."
The prince replied: "Why, I have to wait until my sister and Ji..."
Concubine Jia Jing groaned in her throat, she probably wanted to get angry, but she lost her energy and said desperately: "First... settle..."
The prince quickly said: "Okay, I will do it."
Concubine Jia Jing let out a sigh of relief, closed her eyes and did not speak. The prince said in a low voice: "I want to thank my mother for teaching me in the past."
Concubine Jia Jing was expressionless, as if she had fallen asleep.
The crown prince sat for a while, and quietly took his leave, but Concubine Jia Jing did not respond.
The prince walked out of the cold palace, the sun had already set. Twilight is first coming to the palaces, and the shadows spread rapidly in the remaining skylight. The prince frowned and looked to the west, feeling like countless ants were biting his heart, irritated and in pain, which could not be resolved.
He returned to the East Palace, invited some beauties to accompany him, and had dinner. Then the crown prince, who was drinking a little too much, recruited three new concubines, and chose the courtyard next to himself and the crown princess to spend the night.
Surrounded by several women, the prince staggered towards the palace that he wouldn't usually go to. Every step he took, the anger in his heart grew stronger.
Over the years, the prince's harem has tripled in size compared to when he was conferred, but there is no child at all! The prince's resentment has almost driven him crazy. If it wasn't for the fact that the Lu family was his most stable support in court, he wouldn't have said that he would have divorced the princess, and he would have had her heart cut into pieces.
Now he can't see that woman at all, and when he sees her delicate and small face, he will really vomit! How many children! In the beginning, he still had a number, but later, he didn't have a number. No matter how he defended it was useless, the backyard could never be guarded by guards, if he did not allow the concubine to summon those side concubines and concubines, he would lose the way of dignity.
He can't really tear himself apart with the princess, he has said everything that needs to be said, but this woman is so vicious and shameless! Knowing that he can't do anything to her now, he will do it without any scruples!
After being married for so many years, let alone a son, he doesn't even have a concubine daughter! How did he become a prince? Now the third prince doesn't mention the matter of getting married, it's because the eldest daughter of Marquis of Zhenbei is not yet ready. They are going out of the city together now, and when she reaches the age of Ji, the prince can imagine that the third prince will definitely ask for a marriage. And the third prince will be twenty years old at that time, who can stop him from getting married? That is, if he doesn't marry Zhenbeihou's daughter, whoever he marries won't have children? If one day, the third prince has a child... the prince's heart is tightened—father! Just for the consideration of the heirs, the father will re-elect the prince!
He tossed these three concubines desperately, and made a fuss for most of the night, singing songs and swallows, and being turned red.
When it was time to go to court, the prince got up tiredly, and the eunuch came to help him dress and tie his hair. The prince had a good night and wanted to sleep a little longer, but he didn't dare to miss the court, so he closed his eyes and let the eunuchs help him wash and dress up, and someone fed him his breakfast. But even so, the prince still didn't really wake up when he went to court. When he was about to get on the palace chariot, the prince was still half-closed, he stepped into the air, lost his center of gravity, and was about to jump into the chariot, a hand stretched out to hold him, and he whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, be careful of your feet. "
The prince frowned and opened his eyes, and saw a court lady next to him, who must have lifted the curtain for him, her appearance was extremely ordinary, her eyebrows and eyes were not beautiful, she must be too old, there was a fine line at the corner of her eye when she smiled, but her smile was gentle, seeing him , hurriedly let go, bowed his head and saluted. Just as the prince was about to get on the chariot, he turned his head and asked, "What's your name?"
The older court lady was a little surprised, hesitated for a moment before saluting again: "The servant's small character is Churong." A terrified look flashed across her face.
The prince knew what she was afraid of, so he got on the chariot and left without any other expression.
Such a simple support made the prince feel worried. He had never seen this court lady before, and the only ones who could come before him were young women, maybe she came here temporarily today. When he stood silently facing up, he was also a little puzzled. He didn't get comfort from his mother, and he didn't get relief from the beauty, but this ordinary-looking court lady gave him an inexplicable sense of intimacy, and she seemed to radiate warmth that he had never felt before.
After he went down to the palace chariot, the person next to him was no longer the maid from the morning. The prince is determined to find that Churong, but this must be done in secret, and the princess must not find out.
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In the summer, the windows were all open, listening to the noise from the courtyard next door, the Crown Princess naturally couldn't fall asleep, and when she woke up the next day, the blue halo in front of her eyes was not much lighter than that of the Crown Prince.
The number of people who came to say good morning to the Crown Princess was less than one-third of the number of people in the Prince's backyard, and even those who came had a bit of contempt in their eyes, at least the Crown Princess saw it that way.
When the crown princess answered the gift, she spoke very slowly, so that the other party had to give a long gift. The greeting in the morning was delayed for half an hour, and the concubines were almost humiliated, before the crown princess signaled that they could leave.
As soon as these Yingying and Yanyan came out of the gate of the princess's palace, they coughed loudly, talked and laughed loudly, lest the princess could not hear them, and walked away slowly.
The princess's palm-sized face was still dry and unadorned under the dazzling summer sun.
There was no one else in the hall except a maid who was close to her. The princess sat on the chair for a long time before asking in a very low voice: "Have you got the medicine?"
The maid standing next to her also whispered, "I got it."
The princess asked again: "Does it really work?"
The servant girl nodded: "Really, this Duan Zi Tang sells very expensive, a pair of gold." In the past, it was only a miscarriage medicine, but now it is a medicine for people's miscarriage, so it is naturally very expensive.
The crown princess showed an ice-like smile, and said slowly: "Try it for the two side concubines first, they were so easy to conceive in the past, if it seems to be useful for them in the past six months, then use it for them! fall."
The servant girl swallowed nervously: "I only bought three pairs, if you want all of them... it's almost forty taels of gold..."
The princess said lightly: "If it's useful, eighty taels of gold is nothing, just sell my dowry."
The servant girl nodded, the Crown Princess stared forward, and remained still for a long time like a porcelain statue, and the servant girl did not dare to move. She was so stalemate, and vaguely heard the unscrupulous chatter and laughter of the late risers in the palace next door.
The princess blinked her eyes, and said softly: "Make black-bone chicken and angelica soup, give them a good nourishment, use it right away, I can't wait for a day." Her face twisted: "Young mother raises a lowly bastard. Treat me as a What? I came from a good family, and the son and daughter are the right ones! How can I make you happy?" The words were obviously vicious, but the Crown Princess spoke calmly and confidently, as if she was speaking very ordinary words.
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After the fourth prince watched a fight by the lake that time, he returned to the palace in fear for several days, and asked Ding's servant to listen to the movement around him all the time. After a while, the palace did not respond to Huo Luo being beaten. It seems that Didn't find out at all, the fourth prince relaxed. After Bei Rong's envoy team left the capital, the fourth prince went out of the palace again. He still went to watch chess and chess as usual, unaware that he was misunderstood by the prince as spreading gossip for Mr. Zhang, and was further drawn into the blacklist hated by the prince.
What displeased the Fourth Prince was that since that incident, he has never received any contact from the Zhenbei Hou Mansion. It seems that after he was used, he was left aside. He came and went, even Zhang Yunming didn't come often, the fourth prince felt melancholy, and inevitably looked depressed, looking at the street with people coming and going under the window.
The official Bao came over and suggested in a low voice: "Young Master Jiang seems to be in a bad mood, can you play a game of chess with me? You will be very happy if you win the game. Young Master Jiang doesn't want to try?"
The fourth prince really couldn't let himself sink into that situation, so he could only change the subject to divert Bao Guanren's attention, and asked, "Did Bao Guanren buy food?"
Bao Guanren sighed: "I didn't buy much last year, and now I regret it! The price of food has increased tenfold. It was only three or four yuan a bucket last summer, but now it is thirty or forty yuan, which is too expensive. House land It’s cheap, I fancy a piece and want to buy it.”
The fourth prince shook his head heavily and said: "This is not the time to buy land, Baoguan. Every time a famine starts, the price of food rises and the price of land falls. Although thirty or forty coins and a dou are more than last year, ordinary people It is still affordable, and it is much cheaper than a tael of silver or gold during the famine. Baoguan, if I were you, I would have to sell the land and buy grain at this time." He knew how many times there would be In the year of calamity, I speak with confidence.
Without Ji Wenzhao, the Fourth Prince would be considered a top chess player here. Bao Guanren admired the Fourth Prince very much—look at him, he defeated himself at such a young age...Of course, everyone defeated himself , but the fourth prince is the youngest!
Hearing what the fourth prince said, Bao Guan felt guilty. How many famines have been experienced by human beings, and everyone has a panic gene for famine in their bodies. At the beginning when the third prince said the words, Baoguan didn't fully believe them, now that the fourth prince said the same, Baoguan couldn't believe it, and immediately clasped his fists at the fourth prince: "Thank you, Young Master Jiang, for reminding me, I'll go back and make preparations." Turn around and left.
The fourth prince had another period of quiet time, where he could sit there and think wildly to himself. But Baoguan ran back home in a hurry, and asked his mother and wife to take out all the money, and asked them to sell all the jewelry and soft goods, so they hurried to buy food. The price of food changes every day, so there must be no delay. Official Bao doesn’t usually stay at home, but he is also a pillar of the industry. He came back so blatantly, and said mysteriously that the people in the palace told him to do this. Mrs. Bao was frightened and thought It was the emperor in the palace who got reports from all over the world that the famine was coming! How can ordinary people know? Baoguan got the letter by opening a Guanyi Pavilion. Such precious news can't be ignored! Mrs. Bao really sold her jewellery, and bought food with all her savings. After that, I told my neighbors about seven aunts and eight aunts, and for a while, a rush for food started from a corner of the capital. Everyone rushed to buy food, and the price of food was pushed up several times in a short period of time.
These people who bought grain have no regrets at all.
The drought that started at the turn of spring and summer intensified in summer. The weather in many places was dry and hot, and creeks and rivers dried up one after another. After autumn, disasters were urgently reported everywhere, and the vast fields were devoid of harvest.
The emperor had to listen to all kinds of memorials crying about the tragedy of the drought every day, and gradually became irritable. Fortunately, the grain reserves are sufficient, and most of them are to order local officials to open warehouses to relieve the hungry people, and several regions work together to repatriate the refugees back to their hometowns.
The prince is completely a decoration. He has never experienced a disaster year in the past, and now he is trapped by heavy selfish distractions. Facing the disaster, he has no clue. Dare to speak, let alone make suggestions.
Once the emperor became impatient and asked, "Does the prince have any suggestions for disaster relief?"
The prince bowed and said: "All according to the emperor's wishes."
Seeing this, the courtiers all frowned secretly.
Before the crown prince was canonized, he fought against the seven-year-old daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei, disrespected the military generals guarding the border, and then the queen poisoned the third prince in public, and then there was an assassin who clearly targeted the third prince... I thought he was so It's possible to provoke so many troubles, but now it's really about political affairs, why is it so incompetent? If I knew that I was like this, why was I so insolent at the beginning? The standing of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion is not based on a few empty words like "all according to the father's will", it is the result of the blood of many people on the battlefield. From this point of view, the prince is too overreaching.
The Zhenbeihou Mansion, which everyone looked back to sympathize with, had a very peaceful summer.
Shen Xiang and Shen Wen celebrated their 14th and 12th birthdays.
Since Shen Jian left, Mrs. Yang had been bedridden for a month before getting up to raise Shen Qiang again. All the affairs of the mansion were handed over to Mrs. Liu. Fortunately, Shen Qiang is very energetic, sometimes Yang feels that being busy with him is more tiring than taking care of the whole family, so her mood gradually improves.
Since Shen Jian left, Shen Xiang practiced spear every day like crazy, his face was tanned and red. Yang yelled in distress, but Shen Xiang didn't listen at all. Shen Wen remembered that it was the same in his previous life, Shen Xiang was so alienated from him, the two gradually drifted away, and finally they didn't talk much. At that time, Shen Xiang looked down on his laziness and weakness, and at that time he looked down on Shen Xiang's savagery.
This time, Shen Wen was still powerless to change. She sometimes went to find Shen Xiang after Shen Xiang practiced martial arts, and Shen Xiang was always a little impatient in his words, contemptuous of Shen Wen's idleness. And Shen Wen is indeed very lazy, she often sleeps in until noon - because she always has to go out at night.
Zhang Yunzheng finally arranged the furniture outside the secret room. On the outside of the wall is the Baibao Pavilion stretching from the ground to the roof. There are books and a few antiques on it. Only one of the shelves can be opened, and behind it is the door of the secret room. .
The room with the secret room is simple and sloppy. It is a half-study room with a reclining chair. Next door is the bedroom, which is connected by a door. On the other hand, the room at the opposite end of the secret room is very exquisite, with expensive furniture, and the antique vases on the shelf are obviously good goods, which can be regarded as the living room.
After everything was arranged, Marquis Pingyuan came forward and called a couple of honest servants from a family in Marquis Pingyuan's mansion to guard the gate. Outsiders only said that this property was bought for the nephew of Yuan's house.
It took Shen Wen more than ten days to arrive at the courtyard because of his birthday and so on. This time, three houses in a row were all lit with candles, Shen Wen still chose the one with a secret room and knocked on the door, Zhang Yunzheng inside said loudly: "If you are a liar, come in!"
Shen Wen repeatedly warned himself that he was a thousand years old, so he couldn't be as knowledgeable as this bastard! But he pushed the door open and said, "Hey, why didn't you hear human voices other than the puppy barking?"
Zhang Yunzheng was just taking a piece of cloth to wipe the furniture indiscriminately. Hearing this, he shook the cloth vigorously in front of Shen Wen. Bitch! Where's your brother?!"
When Zhang Yunzheng heard her coming up, he asked Zhang Yunming, continued to shake the cloth viciously, and said, "What are you talking about? I can't hear you."
"Damn it!" Shen Wen ran away, went to another corner, pointed at Zhang Yunzheng and said, "Stop making trouble! I want to find your brother!"
Zhang Yunzheng snorted: "Go and find him! He should be on the ground of the wine cellar you mentioned."
Shen Wen was overjoyed: "He wants to do it himself?"
Zhang Yunzheng curled his lips: "I see you are happy, do you still know the north side?"
Shen Wen pointed at Zhang Yunzheng with his hips akimbo: "You, don't be messed up! Let me go to the secret room."
Looking at Shen Wen's appearance, Zhang Yunzheng said contemptuously: "Does your mother always talk like this? How old are you and you are like a mother?"
Shen Wen was in a hurry: "This is the way I treat you! You ignorant, ignorant bastard!"
Zhang Yunzheng glared at Shen Wen angrily: "You're stupid! Look at this place, what have you done?! You paid for it? Did you work hard? It took you time? Why do you criticize me as soon as you come here?!"
Shen Wen was choked and tongue-tied—she realized that she had actually made a mistake that a person with a thousand years of experience should not make: thinking that she knew more, she looked down on others.
Zhang Yunzheng snorted harshly at Shen Wen, turned around and wiped the dust on the furniture with a cloth.
Shen Wen bit her lower lip. She has been acting coquettishly since she was a child, and it is so easy to admit her mistakes now. She coughed lightly, and said in a tired voice, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that about you." Zhang Yunzheng didn't look back, and continued to shake the cloth. Shen Wen knew that Zhang Yunzheng had probably never done housework in the mansion all his life, but here, because she said at that time that only the two brothers could build the secret room, Zhang Yunzheng actually built the walls, plastered them, and moved furniture with Zhang Yunming. Now she is cleaning the furniture again... Shen Wen was really ashamed, she walked behind Zhang Yunzheng, and said in a low voice, "Well, can't I stop scolding you from now on?"
Zhang Yunzheng turned to Shen Wen and said, "But I will scold you again in the future!"
Shen Wen burst out laughing: "Then I will scold you too in the future!" But he secretly told himself that he could not scold Zhang Yunzheng casually anymore, Zhang Yunzheng was no longer the bastard he used to be.
Zhang Yunzheng pulled open a piece of furniture, revealing the door of the secret room. He pushed it open, lifting his chin indifferently.
Shen Wen smiled and entered the secret room. It was just a small cubicle with a square of four steps, and there was a desk and two chairs inside, which were full. The four walls are lined with candlesticks holding candles, illuminating the secret room brightly. Shen Wen turned around and said with a smile, "It's really well built! It's so bright, so I won't waste my eyes when I draw things! The arrangement is really thoughtful."
Zhang Yunzheng immediately turned away sullenly, not looking at Shen Wen, and left from the door between the two rooms.
Shen Wen arrived at the table and looked at the Four Treasures of the Study on the desk. She found that the ink was pine smoke ink, and the written characters would not dissolve in water. The hanging pens include Lanzhu, Xieyi, Yejin, Yiwen, and Xiaojinggong, which can meet the requirements of most calligraphy and painting. The inkstone is the extremely precious Taohe green stone inkstone. The compartment under the table case has four-foot dan, white silk that can be written, and silk that can be painted. There is a stretcher beside the case, if silk is used, it can be stretched on it.
Shen Wen understood that the person who arranged these things put a lot of thought into it, and she was ashamed of her arrogance again: she thought she was someone else's savior, so she ignored other people's hard work.
She sighed for a while, then stretched a piece of white silk tightly on the stretcher, and then placed the stretcher flat on the desk. She scooped up water with a small spoon and put it in the inkstone. While grinding the ink, she thought about what she was going to draw.
By the time Shen Wen picked up the pen, she had completely calmed down and entered a state of mind similar to meditation. The maze diagram she wanted to draw was figured out by her drawing on various materials and theories over the years. The maze had already been built in her mind, she just had to draw it out carefully.
She began to draw outlines and patterns, and gradually, the walls of the secret room seemed to disappear, and Shen Wen was completely immersed in her thoughts. The season was late summer and early autumn, although there was a breeze in the secret room, it was still stuffy, but Shen Wen didn't have any enthusiasm.
Zhang Yunzheng couldn't stand Shen Wen's whiny talking, so he sat in the other room for a while, and then went to the secret room. The door of the secret room was open, but it was very quiet inside. Zhang Yunzheng went to the door and looked inside, Shen Wen was drawing. She writes slowly, with a focused expression. Today she happened to be wearing the night clothes made of thin material bought by Zhang Yunzheng. The clothes were close to her body, showing the faint curve of her waist. Zhang Yunzheng was suddenly upset, and quietly walked away from the door.
He sat in the room, listening to the movement outside, and prepared to close the door of the secret room if there was any suspicious sound. But slowly, as if he fell asleep, he entered a state, thoughtless and carefree, as if he was in a dream, but he was very awake. Everything is gone, only the silence at this moment, speechless, calming down the tired and noisy body and mind...
Suddenly, there was more drumming in the distance, Zhang Yunzheng woke up with a start, walked to the door of the secret room a few steps and said, "Four corrections have been made!"
Shen Wen's pen stopped in the air, knowing that it was two o'clock in the night of later generations, and said: "Then I should go back!" She pointed to the white silk in front of her and said: "Help me hide this well..."
Zhang Yunzheng glanced at Shen Wen's meticulously drawn outline, frowned and said, "What is this?"
Shen Wen said: "It's the outline of the maze."
Zhang Yunzheng pointed to one place and said, "Why is there a double dotted line here? Do you want to build a two-layer wall? Why is it thicker here? Do you need a thicker wall? Why is this place not straight? Do you want to build this kind of water wave?"
Shen Wen argued: "Is this a brushstroke? Humans are not machines. How can they draw horizontally and vertically? And it's still a brush! It's impossible to draw smoothly, okay? Maybe it's enough, and they will understand it." .”
Zhang Yunzheng's eyes widened: "What if you don't understand? You can't be watching their construction at the border, right? If your drawing is not detailed and meticulous, who do they ask?"
Shen Wen said stubbornly: "They can use their imagination!"
Zhang Yunzheng said angrily: "You keep saying that you have thousands of years of experience, who knows more than you? You must think better than others. Since you want to draw pictures, you have to draw your thoughts, you can't do that Draw a rough sketch!"
Shen Wen complained: "But this is my best drawing! What do you want from me? If there are pencils and rulers of later generations, it will be much better. If it is really impossible, I will draw with charcoal."
Zhang Yunzheng shook his head and said, "The charcoal drawing will become blurred, and it will not last as long as the ink marks. Well, you go back first, and I will find a way."
Shen Wen knew that Xia Ye was short, so she had to go back in the dark, and after hearing what Zhang Yunzheng said, she stopped bothering, walked to the door, and said, "That little Seiko is going to be bald, it must be cheap. "
Zhang Yunzheng retorted: "That's not true! I want the best, I have to fight, and they dare to lie to me!"
Shen Wen giggled and ran away—it seems that Zhang Yunzheng prepared the things in the secret room.
Zhang Yunzheng came back to his senses, and said in a low voice: "Little liar." Looking at Shen Wen's painting again, although the brush strokes are uneven, the structure is strange and extraordinary. He washed the pen and inkstone, put them away, took off the silk painting by Shen Wen from the shelf, dried it, folded it, climbed onto a chair and hid it in a secret hole on the roof, and then blew out the candles , out of the secret room, closed the Babaoge, and lay down in the next bedroom.
In the dark, Zhang Yunzheng closed his eyes, thinking about how to help Shen Wen finish the picture, but soon fell asleep dimly, and in a trance, he felt that he had returned to the door of the secret room, looking inside...
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Shen Wen, however, slept soundly. When it was noon, Su Wanniang waited for most of the night, but she had to get up early in the morning, and she was full of panda eyes all day long. Seeing this scene, Shen Wen decided not to go to Zhang Yunzheng's place to draw pictures every day, but only once every two or three days, so that Su Wanniang could sleep well for a few nights.
Shen Jian had been away for a while, and Shen Wen wanted to comfort Yan Shi. When she arrived at Yan's courtyard, Yan came out when she heard the maid's announcement. Shen Wen was surprised to find that Yan was full of energy, completely different from Liu who had been depressed for a long time after Shen Yi left.
Su Wanniang and crucian carp were chatting in the yard, Yan Shi smiled and welcomed Shen Wen into the house, let her sit down, and said to her: "Come, drink tea, I actually want someone to invite you."
Shen Wen hurriedly asked: "Is it about the wine cellar?"
Yan nodded, and said in a low voice: "My third aunt has sent a letter, but she didn't name the location, she just said that she and the other side have made an agreement, and this year it should be completed and produced wine..." She almost stuck to Shen Wen's ear: "She said that the other party told the wine-making ingredients that she would give, which scared her..."
Shen Wen nodded: Where there are raw materials for wine making, that is food.
Shen Wen said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, please help me, thank you third aunt, it's not easy for her to work so hard."
Yan sighed: "Didn't I say it last time? She came out fine. My grandmother has always been very harsh on her, and she always picks her faults when we meet. She doesn't sit or stand. She only gave birth to two Daughter, my grandmother said that she was not from a scholarly family and was not suitable to teach her two daughters, so she took them all under her knees. My grandmother also asked my uncle to take concubines. My uncle hid with my third aunt Those in Tibet will never go home if they can’t go home.”
Shen Wen also sighed, and said in a low voice: "It's really not easy for your third aunt, it's rare for her to be so happy."
Yan Shi nodded and said, "That's how she is. No matter what, she can't be beaten down. I have to learn too. You follow me." She got up and took Shen Wen out, and arrived at a room in the yard. In the side room, when I entered the door, I saw that a hall was completely emptied, and only two large tables with eight immortals were placed.
Yan said to Shen Wen seriously: "You know, I wanted to follow your second brother to the border right away, but then I thought about it, I am going now, it is a burden for him, I can't walk fast, I can't run Yes, how to fight him on the battlefield?"
Shen Wen panicked, "Second sister-in-law, you can't go to the battlefield!"
Ignoring Shen Wen's exclamation, Yan said to Shen Wen: "Look, I'll walk for you." Then, he walked around the Eight Immortals Table and said, "I thought it was too far away for you to be fourteen years old." Now, I think it's just right! I walk for three or four hours a day. After two years, will I be able to travel hundreds of miles a day? Should I become a scud? Got it... ”
Shen Wen nodded: "Second sister-in-law, I completely agree with you! That's what I think! Running fast is better than anything else! But let's not go to the battlefield or anything!"
Yan Shi said to Shen Wen while walking: "Your second brother, in my opinion, is quite stupid! He can't think of bad ideas in a daze! It's a disadvantage! You should understand what I mean, right? I'll go, at least I can give him a wing or something. You should have seen it from the chess game? I'm much smarter than him, but we can never tell him this, the man is a little bit hard …”
Shen Wen stared blankly at Yan Shi, whose complexion was gradually turning rosy while walking, and Yan's spirit was radiant, and he could only admire him wholeheartedly.