Chapter 3: Hallucinations
Shen Mingyan in the fire only felt that it was getting hotter and hotter, and couldn't help hugging her mother: "My mother is so hot!"
The mother's voice was full of concern: "Don't be afraid, your mother is protecting you! Open your eyes and look at your mother!"
"Mother" Shen Mingyan only felt that her eyelids weighed tens of millions of pounds, and she couldn't open them: "Mother's mother can't see it when she opens it when it's so dark." ”
Shen Mingyan felt a warm airflow in her ears, as well as her mother's gentle voice: "Child, the sky is bright, it's not dark at all, I don't believe you open your eyes and see!"
Could it be that the fire has been extinguished! She and her mother are still alive! Shen Mingyan's heart was overjoyed, and she suddenly came to her senses, struggled to open her eyes, and sure enough, her eyes were bright.
Not only is the sky bright, but also the mother's handsome and beautiful face, although the mother's radiant eyes are a little red and swollen, but because she woke up, she looks radiant.
"Mother!" Shen Mingyan was shocked in her heart and grabbed her mother's hand, Qianqian's jade fingers were delicate and fair: "Mother, am I dreaming?"
Shen Mingyan clearly remembered that the fire shortly after her thirteenth birthday banquet burned away her mother's beauty and left her mother with injuries. The mother in front of her was clearly the same as before her disfigurement, could it be that she and her mother were dead? Or she was scorched by the fire and was so painful that she hallucinated! Thinking of this, Shen Mingyan hurriedly raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, for fear that she had seen it wrong.
Qin Qingyu reached out and gently stroked her daughter's forehead: "My poor child, I'm afraid it's burned out." You've been asleep for two days and two nights, and you've woken up a few times and talked nonsense. ”
"It's burned out," Shen Mingyan looked back and forth at everything in front of her.
The mother in front of her, plain white soft silk skirt, smoke blue long skirt, black and beautiful long hair is only tied in a bun at will, and a few strands of broken hair hang down on the creamy cheeks, indescribably beautiful and delicate.
The sun-colored gauze tent beside the bed swayed slightly in the wind.
The crimson gruil window was wide open, and the bright light shone on the round table covered with smoky satin tablecloths.
On the basin shelf next to the round table, there is an agate basin in the shape of emerald green lotus leaves, which reflects the light more pleasing to the eye.
This is your own boudoir.
I did fall seriously ill half a year before the fire. Shen Mingyan remembered that she was sick for half a month, and she almost lost her life. In order to celebrate his recovery from illness and his thirteenth birthday, his father Shen Xianling specially held a banquet and invited guests.
"Woe up?" a warm baritone. When the sound reaches the ear, it makes people feel very ironed.
Shen Mingyan fixed her eyes and saw that a slender middle-aged man wearing a silver-gray robe, a gray silk belt, and black platform boots came closer. The man was extremely warm, the black beard on his moist lips was very neatly trimmed, and the broken jade-like teeth looked cleaner with a smile. This person is his father Shen Xianling.
In Shen Mingyan's memory, her father has always been a humble gentleman and gentle as jade. It's just that soon after celebrating his birthday, my father took the caravan north, and in the end he didn't even come back. Since then, he and his mother have been taken care of by his eldest brother and eldest mother. Three years later, under the arrangement of the eldest brother and the eldest mother, he married into the vice minister's mansion
"How do you feel?" Shen Xianling smiled: "This period of time can worry your mother and relatives." ”
Shen Mingyan couldn't figure out her mind for a while, could it be that everything in front of her was an illusion, or that she was really dead, otherwise how could she see her father?
"The fever has subsided!" Qin Qingyu helped her daughter tuck the quilt: "Don't worry, master, you will be cured if you sweat after taking a few more pills." ”
Shen Xianling smiled gently at Qin Qingyu: "That's good, you accompany the concubine more, and I'll come over in the evening." ”
Qin Qingyu smiled gently: "Master, go get busy, your concubine is fine." These days, as soon as you're done, my sister is afraid to worry about you."
The Shen family is one of the top tea merchants in Wuyue Kingdom, and the tea estates they handle are almost all over Wuyue Kingdom. Since Shen Xianling was in charge, he has monopolized the tea industry of the entire Wu Yue Kingdom. Shen Xianling has always used tea to meet friends, and made many guests, plus Shen Xianling loves to fight righteousness and squander wealth, and treats people very generously, and has a good reputation in the whole Wuyue country. Even many princes and nobles have fellowship with sincerity to him.
Qin Qingyu and Shen Xianling's original wife, Lu Xiuying, are dominant on both sides. Shen Xianling treats the ladies of the two rooms equally, and never favors one over the other.
Lu Xiuying is pregnant with two sons and three daughters.
The eldest son, Shen Pengtao, has won the true inheritance of his father, and is proficient in business and tea ceremony. At the end of the year, the coronation ceremony was just held, and Lu Siyao, the cousin of the uncle's family, had already been decided to get married in the coming year. Shen Xianling also has the heart to let his eldest son inherit the family business, and he has been involved in a lot of business since he was a child, and after he was crowned, he handed over a lot of business to him.
The second son, Shen Pengrun, had just turned eighteen, loved the art of war, and disdained business and the tea ceremony. Since the age of fifteen, he has been traveling from place to place to learn art, and he hardly touches his family.
The eldest daughter, Shen Mingyan, has just been married to Xu.
The second daughter Shen Mingyu and Shen Mingyu are the same age.
The youngest daughter, Shen Mingyan, is only six years old.
Lu Xiuying and her children live in a mansion in the tea garden in the east of the city. Shen Mingyan and her mother lived in a small courtyard in the city. Shen Xianling does business all over the world on weekdays, and spends most of the year running around. The days at home are divided equally between the two houses.
Lu Xiuying and Qin Qingyu will only meet at the New Year's Pass when they worship their ancestors or important banquets, and the two get along quite harmoniously.
This time, because Shen Mingyan was sick, Shen Xianling had been staying here for more than half a month, and Qin Qingyu was naturally uneasy.
Hearing Qin Qingyu's uneasiness, Shen Xianling's brows frowned slightly, and then he began. With a slight smile, he looked at Shen Ming on the bed and said, "Sister, you get well quickly, you must like the gift that Daddy brought you this time." ”
Looking at the joy on her father's face, Shen Mingyan immersed herself in her own memory.
My life seems to have changed since that birthday party. To be exact, it should have started with that serious illness.
After the birthday banquet, my father traveled far away, and then my mother and myself encountered a fire again
Seeing her daughter distracted, Qin Qingyu said softly: "I'm afraid I'm too weak, master, you go and get busy first." The concubine is also awake, you can go to my sister's side, you finally came back, don't let your sister worry too much. When my child is healed, I will send Uncle Fu to tell you. ”
"Okay!" Shen Xianling looked at Qin Qingyu and smiled slightly: "When you come back this time, you will stay longer, you can rest assured." Take care of the concubine!"
Looking at Shen Xianling's departing back, Shen Mingyan's heart welled up with sour tears.
Such a good father, will soon be separated by yin and yang?
Is it a dream or a fantasy now?
Why is everything so real?
"What's wrong with the concubine?" Qin Qingyu couldn't help but get nervous when she saw her daughter crying: "Why are you crying?"
"Mother, are we still alive?" Shen Mingyan grabbed her mother's hand hard, it was hot.
Because of the proximity, I could feel the warm breath of my mother.
Letting go of her mother's hand, Shen Mingyan pinched her cheek hard, it hurt!
Really alive!
Shen Mingyan laughed suddenly: "Mother, we are still alive!" turned over and remembered.