Shen Junqian had the intention to divert Guo Baobao's attention, and only after finishing speaking, he looked around and asked, "I don't seem to have seen Sister Xiaohe, didn't she come to the school today?"

Guo Baobao immediately forgot to ask Shen Junqian what to ask, and immediately sighed, "Alas, don't mention it, she wasn't in the capital a while ago." ”

"Not in the capital, then where did she go?" Shen Junqian was very surprised, the current traffic was much more inconvenient than her previous life, and it would take a day or two to go to a place a little farther away. Even if a wealthy family has a carriage, the carriage is not easy to sit on, and the bumpy feeling is no less than that of a tricycle driving on a road full of cobblestones. Moreover, at Zhang Xiaohe's age, if he wants to go far away, he must follow the elders, so there must be something wrong.

"Her grandmother passed away a while ago, her father and mother took their sisters and brothers to the funeral, her mother is from Zhuojun, this one back and forth will take more than ten days, and they will have to keep at least forty-nine days of filial piety before they can come back. Therefore, she has already asked for leave from the school, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to come. Oh, she asked someone to inform me when she left, and as for you, I guess you happened to be on Zhuangzi when she sent someone, so I didn't notify you. ”

Shen Junqian smiled embarrassedly, "So that's the case, it's all because we left in a hurry and didn't have time to inform you." Is that sister Xiaohe okay?"

Guo Baobao tilted his head and thought about it seriously, and said: "I went to see her before she left Beijing, and she should have cried when she looked like her, and her eyes were red when she saw me." Sister Xiaohe said that her grandmother had always been in excellent health and had no pain, and she treated their siblings very well on weekdays, but this time she fell asleep and fell asleep, very suddenly, and she couldn't believe it when she heard the news. ”

Guo Baobao and Zhang Xiaohe are the first good friends of Shen Junqian in this era, and they went to Zhuangzi to play once and forgot about their friends, even Zhang Xiaohe didn't know that he was away from Kyoto, and he was a little ashamed for a while, and thought about it and said: "Why don't we write to Sister Xiaohe, she must be very sad to keep filial piety in her grandfather's house now, we can write to comfort her, and we can also tell her the homework that the master taught us, so that she is in her grandfather's house, and she will not fall behind in her homework." ”

"Okay, oops, I didn't think of that. Guo Baobao said that he wanted to grab Shen Junqian's hand and go together to write a letter to Zhang Xiaohe.

"Wait," Shen Junqian hurriedly pulled her, "Don't worry, do you know the specific address of Sister Xiaohe's grandfather's house?

"Then how do I know, I only know that her mother is from Zhuojun, and I don't know where it is, you know?"

Shen Junqian shook her head, "I don't even know where her mother is from, where will I know this." ”

Saying this, the two immediately looked at each other, looked at each other stupidly for a while, Guo Baobao asked unwillingly: "Then what should we do, I don't know the address, this letter can't be sent?"

"Don't worry, let me think. After thinking about it for a while, Shen Junqian said: "You see if this will work, let's send someone to Zhang's Mansion to ask, they should always have someone to know, and if we ask it, we are looking for someone to send the letter together." Or, let's see if anyone in Zhang's Mansion goes to Sister Xiaohe's grandmother's house to run errands, and ask him to help us bring the letter to Sister Xiaohe. ”

After a pause, Shen Junqian added: "I think there should be someone in the Zhang Mansion who goes to Sister Xiaohe's grandfather's house, after all, now Sister Xiaohe's family is at her grandfather's house, and there is always someone who delivers news back and forth, so it's good that we let them help us bring the letter to Sister Xiaohe." ”

"That's right, I'll let people go to Zhang's house and ask. As soon as he heard that it was feasible, Guo Baobao immediately pulled Shen Junqian to write a letter.

The spring sun is shining, and the courtyard of Shou'an Hall is even more lush and lush, and the various flowers in the yard are blooming very brilliantly, and even butterflies are not attracted to fly around, but Fu'er, who is standing at the gate of the courtyard, does not have half the heart to see these. As the personal maid next to Mrs. Shen's wife, Fu'er did not have half of her usual steadiness today, and at this moment she was walking back and forth at the gate of the courtyard with anxious hands, and from time to time she stretched out her head to look out of the courtyard gate.

In fact, it is no wonder that Fu'er is not as stable as before, and now the main hall of Shou'an Hall gathers the hostesses of the Shen family, and the first is the Shen family's wife, Feng. The lower left head of the Feng family sat on the eldest lady of the Shen family, Shen Yuzhen, who rushed over yesterday, next to Shen Yuzhen was the eldest lady of the Shen family, Ma, and the lower right head of the second Feng family was the Xiao family and the county lord of De'an, and the girls in each room also sat behind their respective mothers.

Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo sat behind Xiao Shi and De'an respectively, probably because the atmosphere in the room was too strict and tense, and the sisters also sat quietly and did not dare to be as casual as usual.

Ma Shi sat as motionless as the others, but as soon as she moved, the sound in the quiet room was particularly abrupt, so she had to carefully change her sitting posture. I wanted to say something, but I looked at the room and kept silent, and I wanted to speak up a few times, but Shen Junxuan, who was sitting behind her, pulled her sleeves and shook her head slightly to stop her. I had to look at the furnishings of the house silently and so on.

Xiao Shi sat the most steadily, straightened his back, and sat there silently with a comfortable posture, which was simply a standard picture of an ancient lady. Shen Junqian, who was sitting behind her, was full of admiration in her heart, and couldn't help but want to give Shen Junluo a thumbs up to Shen Junluo next to her.

It's a pity that Shen Junluo has been absent-minded and doesn't know what she is thinking, completely ignoring Shen Junqian's actions. No one responded, so Shen Junqian had to silently put away his hand, obediently do it, and secretly peeked at everyone in the room.

De'an, who was sitting in front of Shen Junluo, could be said to be the most restless person, and she wanted to go to the door impulsively several times, but she couldn't help it, but now she was almost half a small ass sitting on the chair, most of her body was leaning forward towards the door, and the handkerchief in her hand was even more unsightly.

At this moment, Feng Shi didn't want to be as calm as in the past, although it seemed that she was lying on the couch half on her side as before, but the kind smile on her face was completely different from the past, and now although she also had a light smile, her eyes looked at the Buddha beads that were turning on her right hand.

Mama Yan, who was standing on the side, saw that she had been quiet for too long, took a cup of tea and asked in a low voice, "The old lady wants to drink tea to moisten her throat." ”

Feng's eyes didn't move, only waved slightly with his empty left hand, and Mama Yan had to carefully put the tea on the coffee table next to her. Looking out of the door, she just saw the eldest lady of the Shen family winking at her, nodded immediately, and walked around the door from behind Feng to look.

Neither like other people who are anxious nor like Xiao Shi who is sitting seriously, the eldest lady of the Shen family, who looks most like a normal person, leaned forward towards the Feng family and whispered: "Mother, don't worry, I think the third brother should be almost there, Ji Zhong and Ji Tang must know that the mother and the third brother and sister are waiting anxiously, and they will not delay on the road longer." ”

Shen Ji'an, who was in prison because of fraud in the field, came back today. After the floods in the south of the Yangtze River stabilized slightly, the Shengshang really personally sent people to vigorously investigate and deal with the fraud, and because the Kyoto Prison really locked up too many children of eunuchs or families, the officials investigating the case first investigated the scholars involved in the Kyoto Prison.

All the scholars in the Kyoto prison who have no obvious evidence of fraud for the time being will be released first, but the released scholars are not allowed to leave Beijing until the fraud case is thoroughly investigated, otherwise they will be sentenced to fraud. Therefore, Shen Ji'an was finally able to be released from prison and return to the Shen family after spending more than half a month in Kyoto. Shen Jizhong and Shen Jitang even went out to pick him up at the door of the prison.

Shen Yuzhen said and turned her head to the anxious De'an and said, "If the county lord is really uneasy, you might as well go to the door to take a look, it's all your own family, and you don't need to worry about that." ”

When the county lord of De'an heard Shen Yuzhen say this, he glanced at Feng, and Feng also nodded and said, "Go!"

De'an immediately stood up and blessed Feng and Shen Yuzhen, "Then De'an is rude, Mrs. Lao will take care of you, and thank you to the eldest sister." With that, he hurried out.

As soon as she saw De'an rushing away, Shen Junluo also wanted to run out with her, but De'an rushed too quickly to take care of his children, today not only Shen Junluo sat behind her, but Shen Junluo's three-year-old brother also sat next to Shen Junluo with the nurse.

Shen Junluo turned his head to look at his younger brother Tuanzi, only to see that he immediately cleverly stretched out a hand and grabbed one of Shen Junluo's sleeves, looking at her with big black eyes, and his expression was clearly saying "I want to go together". Looking at the door again, De'an had already walked outside the door and couldn't see it, so he had no choice but to continue to sit there.

Ma's face on the side suddenly felt a little bad, and he pouted unnaturally, it was logical that De'an should have been a little blessed with her and Xiao before he went out, but he looked at Xiao Shi's still immobile expression on the opposite side, and there were Feng and Shen Yuzhen on it, so he had to be secretly depressed, and he was all as if she was a big lady and had nothing.

As soon as De'an walked to the door, he heard Fu'er's voice standing at the gate of the courtyard, "I'm back, I'm back, I'm back, my lord, they're back......"

De'an hurried to catch up, and Mama Yan was walking towards Fu'er with her, and immediately asked, "Are you all back?" Seeing that Fu'er was still saluting, she said impatiently: "Oh, don't rub it off, hurry up and tell me if the third master is back?"

"Yes, yes, I'm back, I'm back, and now the eldest and second masters have accompanied the third master into the gate and are coming to Shou'an Hall. Seeing that De'an was in a hurry, Fu'er replied hurriedly.

When De'an heard this, he stood there and laughed, clenched his right hand into a fist and stretched out his left palm, hammered it hard, and said to himself: "Great, great, it's finally back." ”

When he came back to his senses, he saw that Mama Yan and Fu'er were still on the side, and waved his hand to them, "You guys hurry up and go in first and talk to the old lady, I'll take a look at the gate of the courtyard." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Mama Yan and Fu'er to react, they took the maid to the gate of the courtyard first.

Mama Yan smiled and said to Fu'er, "Okay, let's go in first to report the good news to the old lady and the ladies, the old lady can't wait for a long time." ”

"Old lady, eldest sister, Ji'an is really back, back. Not long after Mama Yan spoke to Feng Shi and the others, De'an's voice sounded from afar at the gate.

Then there was a sound of footsteps, and the maid at the door had already lifted the curtain, only to see Shen Ji'an walking in front of Feng Shi and kneeling down, "Say hello to my mother, it's my son's unfilial piety and my mother is worried." ”

Shen Jizhong and Shen Jitang also stepped forward to salute, just kneeling on both sides of Shen Ji'an, Feng Shi had already walked down from above, helped Shen Ji'an up, looked Shen Ji'an carefully up and down, left and right, and muttered: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, it's still thin, go back and let De'an make up for you." You go back and look for some people from the storeroom to make up for your body, and ask the third child to bring them back. The last sentence was instructed by Mama Yan on the side, and seeing Mama Yan smiling on the side, she said to Shen Jizhong and Shen Jitang, "You guys should get up too." ”