Coming out from Cui's house, the carriage goes on the street, Kyoto under the Mid-Autumn Festival is a city that never sleeps, the most lively place is close to the Biluo Square in the center of the city, every year in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be held here to enjoy the moon and enjoy the song, the big stage is set up, what locals, outsiders, Shinong industry and commerce, female music is spread, famous prostitutes and plays, young women and girls, children and children, Qingke helpers, etc., etc., regardless of the rich and poor, men, women, old and young, all gather here, make a noise is the drum and gong in unison, the earth turns the sky, the thunder is boiling, the call is not heard.

The carriage of the Yan family walked slowly through the street, enjoying the moonlight and the street scenery all the way, the old lady Yan sent her mother-in-law to the back to ask everyone if they wanted to get off the car and play on the street.

Young Master Yan Shi played hard for nearly a day with a few young masters of similar age among the guests in Cui's Mansion, and this time he had already yawned and was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and Mrs. Yan San was in a hurry to go back to coax him to sleep, and it was impossible for Miss Yan to go out alone even if she wanted to play, so she had to reply with a stupid "don't go".

Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu are not idle people, and they still have something to go back to the house to do, so they both said "not go", so the group didn't get out of the car and went straight home.

After entering the summer residence, Young Master Yan Jiu followed Yan Qi to her house, and sent the boiled rain and cooking clouds and a group of little maids to the back yard to admire the moon and eat moon cakes, and only two sisters and brothers were left in the fourth courtyard.

Yan Qi began to dismantle the futon, while Young Master Yan Jiu was holding his hands beside him, looking at Yan Qi's room inch by inch.

His sister's room furnishings are really simple, a bed, a cabinet, a dressing table, plus this small kang near the window, there are almost no furnishings, if someone hides something in the room, where can they hide it?

Yan Qi dismantled and stopped, and said: "I don't think it looks like it's hidden in the futon, the old bedding in previous years was given to cook the rain and cook the clouds, and I didn't see any adverse reactions from the two girls, and there should be no in the pillow, I now use the jade pillow given by the uncle, in addition to these two, I can't think of anything else that I can touch and cook the rain and cook the clouds don't often come into contact with." ”

"Why don't you change the way," Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly, "From today on, every night when the girls go to sleep, you will quietly come out of the house and go to sleep in the room of the father and mother in front of you, so that you will get up earlier in the morning than everyone else, and then go back to your room quietly, and try it for a while to see if there is any improvement." In addition, the jewelry and clothes are only given by the uncle, and if you bathe, find an excuse to send the girls away, wash them in the father's room, and don't be found by anyone, so as not to leak the news. Go to me every day after class, and don't stay in your study anymore, maybe it will be in your study. In the past few days, taking advantage of the good weather, let the girls move all your books to the yard to dry, and as soon as all the stationery is brought to my study, they will say to supervise my reading. ”

"Good. ”

The sisters and brothers came out of the room, went to the third courtyard of Young Master Yan Jiu, took out two reclining chairs, put them in the moon field, and lay down side by side, just like every night on August 15 in previous years, quietly admiring the moon as companions.

"The letter to my father and mother should be over there today. Young Master Yan Jiu's voice was faint, "I'm afraid their letter won't arrive until tomorrow." ”

"The moon of fifteen is sixteen round, and my mother is too pursuit of perfection, so I have to let us receive the letter when the moon is the fullest. "Yan Qidao.

Young Master Yan Jiu smiled: "My mother always said that the moon in the desert is rounder than Kyoto, and it is frighteningly bigger. ”

"Do you still really want to go to the desert?" Yan Qi turned her head to look at her younger brother.

"I don't want to think about it suddenly," Young Master Yan Jiu's voice was cold, "I'm more interested in the person who drugged him behind now. ”

"Am I offending this person badly?" Yan Qidao.

"Some people don't see the good of others. ”

So, it proves that we're better off than this guy. Yan Qi reached out and patted his brother's hand on the arm of the chair.

Young Master Yan Jiu smiled again, this time with a strong smile in his smile. How do you live better than others? Father and mother have not been around for nearly ten years, the old lady is inconvenient to meddle in the affairs of the house, even if he cares about it, it is only limited to his studies, the old lady fought with the aunt a few years ago, and she can't take care of their sisters and brothers at all, not to mention the aunt, she can't take care of a bunch of children under her knees, and she is also from a businessman's family, no matter how big her family is, and her actions are also full of a mercenary little family spirit, the third aunt doesn't need to mention, in this inner house, if it weren't for the uncle who often took care of his sister and brother in his busy time, who could take care of their warmth and anger?

How are you doing better than others?

The only good thing is that he has a sister, a sister who is different from anyone here, or even anyone in this era.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he was raised by her, although she is only less than two years older than him. It was she who had transplanted a magnificent world far larger than the world in front of him since she was a child, so that even if he had never left Kyoto since he was a child, he could still indulge in the big world of his mind.

From this point of view, their sister and brother are indeed better off than the rest of the family, these people who live in the high walls and deep courtyards, look really pitiful, because they will never know how wonderful the outside world is, although he has not yet had the opportunity to go out to see this wonderful, but his sister has drawn that gorgeous world for him, just by imagination, he is already intoxicated, yearning for infinity!

This high-walled and deep courtyard can lock up their bodies, can't shut their hearts, those villains behind them can take advantage of them, can't occupy their world, thinking about it, Young Master Yan Jiu couldn't help but laugh again, these people are really small and pitiful, no wonder his sister has never cared about this, the ant stretches out his legs and trips over the elephant, and this kind of thing can only appear in the joke that his sister told him.

"What will the desert be like?" Young Master Yan Jiu put his arm behind his head, what the desert was like, of course he had already learned from all kinds of books, but he still wanted to ask the person next to him, and wanted to hear her talk about the desert in her heart.

"Well," she said, "in a place like that, you want to jump out of your skin, and then roll, and run, and roar, and sprinkle every drop of blood and flesh all over every inch of sand, and you want to expand yourself to infinity, and fill the whole world with it, and you want to be blown everywhere by the wind, and you don't want this anymore Because it's too heavy, too small and too restrictive, you will want to simply turn into sand, lie there quietly, open your eyes and see the end of the sky, fly everywhere with the wind every day, when the wind is strong, you can go up to the sky and enter the clouds, and even hide in the feathers of the eagle, when the sun is big, you will be hot, your bones are soft, reflecting the dazzling light, more dazzling than the world, the most amazing thing is that you lie there, you can't feel the passage of time, a moment can be regarded as a thousand years, a thousand years can also be slid away in the blink of an eye, at that time you will no longer feel small, you are everywhere, whether in terms of time or spaceYou have become eternal, you have been eternal. ”

Nothing could be more beautiful than that.

Young Master Yan Jiu looked at the moon in the sky, and through this light wheel, he seemed to see the desert sand thousands of miles away, as far as the eye could see, the silver sand was like snow, the sky was vast, and the sunset was raging.

He slowly admired such a magnificent picture painted by his sister to him, imprinted it deeply in his mind, and collected it with countless other paintings, and every night before going to sleep, he would draw a scroll from it, spread it out, set his heart and eyes into it, and fall asleep in the free swimming, and the good dreams were endless.

……

Mrs. Yan was so sad that the osmanthus tea in her hand did not have the slightest sweetness in her mouth.

"Listening to Jin Satin, the third lady of the Min family didn't give her sister a good word," Mama Gong lowered her voice and continued Fang Cai's words, "Miss Min San didn't deal with our sister much in the academy, and the two of them had a lot of quarrels with each other. ”

Mrs. Yan frowned: "The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, Mrs. Min."

"It's okay," Mama Gong hurriedly relieved, "Then Miss Min Er thought that it was because the host's family always had to take care of the guests, and then called our sister to talk for a while, and the old slave went to the sister's room to send osmanthus candy, and took a closer look at the sister's face, but there was nothing, I thought it was because Miss Min Er resolved those unhappiness." ”

Mrs. Yan's eyebrows stretched slightly: "Therefore, this friendship is also to be carefully selected, and make friends with smart and reasonable people, so that you can learn to deal with people and things, and you will not be very wronged. In my opinion, if you take your dreams to Puji Nunnery a few more times in the future, you can offer incense, worship the Buddha, and make friends, so that you can be broad-minded. ”

"Madame is right. Mama Gong thought so.

Mrs. Yan took the cup, looked at the half-warm osmanthus tea for a moment, and asked casually: "Is the master still in the study?"

Mama Gong's face was a little complicated, and she said in a low voice: "The old man asked Yizhi to bring a message over, saying that his colleagues invited him to drink, and he had already gone out, I'm afraid it will be tonight...... Can't come back. ”

Mrs. Yan swallowed the tea in her mouth with difficulty, only to feel so bitter that her stomach constricted.

The fifteenth day of the new year is the day when serious husbands and wives have sex together, in other people's homes, even if the man spoils the concubine room, he will go to the wife's room to report on the first and fifteenth days of the month, not to mention that today is the most reunited day.

When did it start to be like this? After coming back from Mishima? No, no, it was going to be a little bit earlier, when? Mrs. Yan was a little confused, she desperately recalled and traced every bit of getting along with her husband, he was too busy, there were few times at home, he had too many official duties to deal with every day, too many entertainment to deal with, the second uncle was outside the Saiwai, the living conditions were already difficult, and he couldn't send it home; the third uncle taught in the academy, and his salary was not much, and it was enough to support himself; the fourth uncle was unemployed, and he spent money like running water all day long, and the old lady was responsive to his needs. The old lady, her, and the three brothers and sisters, although they are all from a businessman family, and they have brought a lot of dowries with them, but they can't use this dowry to support their mother-in-law's family, so that outsiders know that they shouldn't laugh at the men of the Yan family.

He is alone, providing food, clothing, and flowers for a large family, and supporting the dignity of the façade of a large family, but whenever the Yan family appears, which official family dares not to give three points? He is the first person of the Yan family to become an official, and the courtesy of these people is not to look at the face of the Yan family clan, what is the Yan family clan? Either farming or studying cannot succeed, where will those families who have been officials for generations and noble generations take a clan like your Yan family in their eyes! People look at him as a person, just as Yan Zike!

So he is too busy, he has to serve the court, to support his family, to socialize, to figure out the holy will to prevent villains, and to read a book for a while before falling asleep every day...... He didn't have much time to put his energy into the inner house, which was a woman's territory, and was the only place where a woman had power, he gave her enough respect, and rarely interfered in her management and arrangement of the inner house, so that she established enough prestige in the hearts of her subordinates, so that her predecessors and mother-in-law's family were beautiful......

But what about the little things he got along with her? Mrs. Yan thought hard for a long time, not not much, but ...... It's too light and natural, and there is no place that can be unforgettable for her.

Mrs. Yan retreated to the next best thing, and she didn't have an unforgettable heart, so she thought about getting along with each other.

When he was there, she always wanted to talk to him more, what to say? She liked to tell him in detail how she honored his father and mother today, how she took care of his inner house, how she taught his children, she needed his approval, she needed him to know that she was a good wife, a good daughter-in-law, a good mother, she needed him to care more about her, she needed to let him know that he couldn't do without her.

What about him? What will he say at this time?

Mrs. Yan tried to think that she remembered that he had also talked to her, but she thought that those were just words he had said casually, and she didn't take them to heart.

What did he say?

She said: "Brother Chao'er's classmates celebrated their birthdays, and everyone discussed who gave the best gift, so I gave him a gold ornament of tangled branches and flowers and fruits that I married, which was enough to be a foot high, and made Brother Chao so happy that he couldn't see his teeth. ”

He said: "Relying too much on gold and silver is easy to compare." The best is not necessarily the most expensive, and only those who use their hearts can see sincerity. ”

This is praising her, praising her for putting her heart into it, so that her son will not lose face in front of his classmates.

She said: "Sister Chun is becoming more and more capable, in recent days, let her help me take care of the feed, there is no mistake, the original act of a little lazy people, now can always be good to do things, the former Li He's family who bought fruits and vegetables underreported three pennies, let Sister Chun find out at a glance, fined a month's share, and the result was to deter those careless, these days have not reported the wrong account." ”

He said: "When the water is clear, there are no fish, and people are not without sages." The family business is large, the population is large, and the key to governance is not to be strict to the eyes of the sand, but to be good at using the strengths of everyone, avoiding the shortcomings of everyone, complementing each other, interlocking, staggered and orderly, and working together. Those in power should be more in harmony with the light and the times, and have the amount of forgiveness, slander, forbearance, loyalty, and forbearance. As a woman, Jingchun should be soft and not rigid, should be wide and not narrow, rigid must be broken, and narrow will be angry, which not only loses the atmosphere, but also loses the hearts of the people. ”

How reasonable it is, the next day she took her daughter to the temple to incense, invited the Bodhisattva to let her daughter in her room, chanting to the Buddha, can relieve anger, calm the mind, spread out can also win a good name.

She said: "Bo Geer always wants to go out to play with a few of his friends, but he really doesn't know the height of the sky, and there are many dangers outside. ”

He said: "The sky is high and the earth is thick, not nested in the golden house and jade building from the book, but measured with a pair of naked eyes and a pair of fleshy feet, the eagle taught the eaglet to fly, and it was not led and dragged and carried, but directly threw the eaglet from the nest down the cliff." Shocking Wave has reached the age of taking risks alone, and it is time to let him fly. ”

She listened to him, so she agreed that her son would go out to play, and he was accompanied by twenty strong men, two grooms, four personal servants, two cooks, and even two girls and two nurses.

After her son returned safely after playing outside for a day and a night, she felt that her son had really grown up, really, and could fly.