On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the restaurant was not open, so Hongzhu stayed at home to rest, and found someone to tell the Li family about Zhu Boxiu's place when Cheng Wenhan was away.

Li Shi said with some doubts: "Your father's books?" I remember keeping them, but there are no books that he copied by hand, but I don't remember them carefully." At that time, it was a mess, and the place to move here was small, so I really don't know if it was leaked. ”

Hongzhu smiled: "Mother, I don't know you yet, it's my father's things, even if we throw away all our things, we have to keep my father's things." ”

Li Shi also smiled, looking a little embarrassed, "What nonsense? Your father has so many things, and he can't fit them all in two more rooms when he moves back." As he spoke, he asked again: "Bo Xiu said, if you lend him your father's book, will he help Wen Han with going to the academy?"

Hongzhu said: "If you say so, you have to see how it is." ”

That's why Li Shi was also happy in his heart, and only said: "Even if you can't get to know good gentlemen, with Bo Xiu leading you in the future, Wen Han can learn better." ”

Hongzhu smiled and said, "Mother, do you think Wen Han will definitely be able to pass the exam?"

Li glared at her and said, "Don't make fun of your brother. ”

Hongzhu remembered that Zhu Boxiu had spoken before, and she was still a little puzzled, so she asked, "Brother Boxiu said that he wanted to borrow it...... But there's nothing wrong with those hand-copied books, is there?"

Li Shi was stunned for a moment, sighed, and replied, "What's wrong." Yes, it was your father's very precious thing, and he copied it very carefully...... But no matter how precious it is, it's just a few books, and I don't know what is more important than your brother's business. ”

Hongzhu thought about it too.

Li stopped talking, turned around and began to look for the things he had put away before. Because he has been packing up his things for the past few days, the house is very messy, and it is not easy to find many boxes at this time, even the Li family also turned over for a while to find out the old boxes.

"Here. Lee bent down to pull the box out from under the bed, but because of its weight, it was very difficult to move.

Hongzhu hurriedly went over to help, as soon as he opened the box, he was almost choked by the flying dust, quickly turned around and opened the window door, coughed twice, and complained: "Mother, the more this house is cleaned up, the more uninhabitable it becomes......"

Li covered his mouth, bent down to look into the box, and sighed, "It's all your father's stuff." ”

Hongzhu saw that her expression was a little stunned, and she knew that she was thinking of the old past. Her mother Li is not a scholarly family, but in the end the family is wealthy, when she was young, because her mother was still living a few years of idle boudoir days, poetry and books are not fine, but she also knows a few words.

Hongzhu saw her appearance, and couldn't help laughing: "Mother, when you married my father, did you have red sleeves to add fragrance......?"

Li Shi stretched out his hand and slapped her, "Nonsense again! A girl's family, these are the words that open your mouth, and you are still teasing your father?"

Hongzhu laughed, dodged away, and said, "Okay, I think you can clean it up, I'm afraid it won't be able to do it for a day, I'll look for it." So saying, he came over to look at the books in the box, and rummaged through them one by one. On the surface, some of them are a collection of current texts, as well as idle books of verses and prose, and Hongzhu doesn't seem to have any memory of his father's pastime of reading these idle books, so he took them out and looked at them curiously.

There is a small character annotation written by Cheng Guitang next to a book of poems, Hongzhu touched the words on it, and said with a smile: "My father's handwriting is quite beautiful." Flipping back again, she saw two pages sprinkled with some ink, and a very ugly "red" word was written on it, she was stunned, smiled and turned back to ask her mother, "Is this ...... I can't write it, right?"

Li Shi turned his head and smiled, "Where is it, when you were young, you liked to write nonsense in your father's calligraphy and paintings, and I couldn't hide it with your father...... Sometimes I see that your father is so annoyed that I am afraid that he can't help but scold you and beat you...... I didn't think about it for a while, your father was angry again, and hugged you to tease, so I really didn't know what to say. ”

Hongzhu was even more interested in rummaging through her father's things, and when she looked into the box, she saw a large stack of letters, which were well tied by her mother with a small rope. She untied the rope and looked at those envelopes, most of which were letters sent by friends who had been friends with Cheng Guitang in the past, which had been intermittent since ten or twenty years ago......

"Mother, are these all letters received by my father?" Hongzhu asked, remembering something and asking: "Mother, I remember that when my father went, it seemed that few friends were there......"

Li sighed, "Your father was too sudden at that time, and I haven't experienced such a thing, so I can't take care of this end but not the other...... Although I found someone to report the funeral, I am afraid that I have not been notified completely. ”

Hongzhu nodded, found a letter at random, opened it, and sighed: "Look, this letter is still sent from Yuezhou, even if my mother found someone to notify me, it's too late." ”

Li frowned, and only said, "It's all your father's letter, and it's nothing to look at." ”

"Mother, I want to see what kind of person my father is. Hongzhu smiled, glanced back at her, and remembered: "Mother, haven't you seen it for so long? Mother, we have all moved, if the news was cut off back then, we can't get in touch now." Looking at these letters, I can't say that I can still find my father's friend at the time. ”

"Everyone has gone, what if you find it?" Li's expression darkened, "We are in such a situation......

"Mother, you're not right, I'm not asking for anything, but maybe my father's friend doesn't know the details, and seeing that my father didn't reply to the letter, I'm still worried. "Red Bead Road.

Li Shi thought about it and seemed to be the same truth, but he felt guilty, "This is also, I didn't expect this, it has been delayed for two or three years." ”

Hongzhu thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but say: "It's nothing, it's not convenient to send a letter from a long distance." "According to the slow life at this time, it is common for a letter to be sent for a year and a half. Now she's pretty much used to it. After reading two more letters, they were all about discussing knowledge, and Hongzhu could only sigh secretly, what else could her father's nerd say to correspond. When she looked for it again, she saw a letter that had not yet been opened, and she looked at it in her hand in surprise, and from the envelope it was newer than the letter next to it.

Hongzhu opened it and looked at it, and found that it was written by Mr. Shen from Yuezhou before, and the day of writing the letter was not long before her father left, and at the end of the letter, Mr. Shen also mentioned that he was going to Tong'an in the near future......

"Mother, there is a Mr. Shen who said three years ago that he was going to Tong'an, and he said that he was going to see my father. Hongzhu pinched the letter and said.

Li looked at it and said, "Yes, I don't remember meeting a gentleman surnamed Shen." ”

Hongzhu couldn't help complaining, "Mother, I see that you don't even know who my father knows." ”

Li had no choice but to shake his head, his face suddenly showed a little dazed, and said, "It seems that there is such a person." ”

"Huh?"

Li Shi let out an "ah" and said suddenly: "The person your father was going to see at that time was a gentleman surnamed Shen." ”

When Hongzhu heard this, she also remembered that her father would have an accident outside, and it was because he was out to visit friends that he was hit by a carriage. Hongzhu frowned and said, "Then did my father see people or not, why, didn't this person come to see my father later." ”

“…… Who knows, it's all fate. Li sighed and said, "Okay, don't read it, hurry up and find those books." ”

Hongzhu responded, and it took a lot of effort to find out the hand-copied books, and after counting, I found that there were twelve or thirteen books, most of which were copied from ancient books, and the most recent ones were from the previous dynasty.

Hongzhu took out those books and looked through them carefully, and she didn't feel anything wrong left and right, thinking that it was probably because Zhu Boxiu had a strange temperament, so she had some doubts...... But after thinking about it, he still took three books and went to Zhu Bo's room first.

"Is that all?" Zhu Boxiu frowned, his expression not very happy.

Hongzhu only said: "We are cleaning up a mess there, and Brother Boxiu also knows, my hands and feet are not good, and I turned out these books after looking for a long time...... If there are still them, I'm afraid I'll have to look for them later. She paused, then smiled and said, "Brother Boxiu, you have to copy it left and right, and copy these books first." ”

Hearing her say this, Zhu Boxiu had no other way, but said, "I know." Then he looked at the book in his hand, couldn't help but smile, and sighed: "This is the Shuyu Collection......"

Hongzhu saw the smile on his face, and knew that he was still happy in his heart, so he asked, "Brother Boxiu, how about Wen Han's trip to Xishan Academy?"

Zhu Boxiu said: "I remember, what are you anxious about." ”

Hongzhu smiled, "Yes, Brother Boxiu's leg is still injured, you can take care of the injury, it is still early before the time of the entrance test." ”

Zhu Boxiu nodded, his eyes looking at the manuscript and not turning.

Hongzhu was amused in her heart, so she took him a paper and spread it, and polished the ink. As soon as Zhu Boxiu looked up and saw that she was still there, he signaled that she could go out. Hongzhu turned and left.

At the beginning of the sixth day of the new year, the three members of the Cheng family began to be busy with things in the restaurant again. Because it is not yet the beginning of the year, most of the restaurants are still busy making all kinds of dim sum, and Hongzhu also thought of a way to package it into good-looking and convenient small portions, so although the business was not booming on the first day, it also sold a lot.

There were also some neighbors who started work early who wanted to eat outside, and Zhong's desire to make money immediately rose again, and he didn't care about the beginning of the year, so he was busy. Because of her, the three members of the Cheng family had nothing to say, thinking that they could earn some, so they followed suit. A few days ago, there was not much crowd, and the amount of food to be prepared was not large, but in a few days, the news of this restaurant spread, and the customers from those stalls in the past also came, and slowly even the lunch and dinner markets also came.

This time was busy, the days passed very quickly, Hongzhu didn't come back to her senses, and when she saw Zhu Yanmei coming with a happy face, she remembered the day when Zhu Biyun got married.

The author has something to say: interrupted shift syndrome......

I can't find the feeling of codewords anymore......