Chapter 5: Cousin
After a stick of incense, Shen Moyun and his party arrived at the Qin family's mansion, and Zhao Si and the others also hurried all the way to the Qin mansion.
Shen Moyun's maternal ancestor Qin family is a famous scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, her maternal grandfather Qin Qiong has been a staff member in the prince's mansion in Beijing when the first emperor was the prince, and after the first emperor ascended the throne, he jumped into the dragon gate and was awarded the intermediate palace scholar and entered the cabinet. A year later, Qin Qiong suddenly resigned from the first emperor for some reason, and it is said that the first emperor failed to keep Qin Qiong even after repeated attempts. Even so, the Jinling Qin family was still quite famous throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it was not until Qin Qiong's death seven years ago that the Qin family gradually declined.
Qin Qiong has two sons and a daughter, namely the eldest son Qin Lang, the second son Qin Ming and Shen's mother Qin Lan. The ancestors of the Qin family have a strict family style and pay attention to the lineage, unless there is nothing to come out of the forties, otherwise the men of the Qin family have always only married wives and not concubines, so the two sons and one daughter of the Qin family are all descendants.
Qin Lang was also an official in the capital in his early years, but after Qin Qiong's death, he returned to his hometown to guard filial piety and devoted himself to tutoring his two sons' schoolwork.
Qin Lang's eldest son, Qin Ziran, is eighteen years old, and he has just stood out in the autumn festival in October, won the Jiangning Mansion Xie Yuan, and is preparing for the spring festival in Kyoto in February at home.
Qin Lang's second son, Qin Zimo, was born in a scholarly mansion but had no intention of taking the imperial examination, and was the most dashing, advocating the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties. Qin Lang saw that Zimo had no intention of entering the office, so he handed over all the family's properties to him to take care of, but he never thought that Zimo was extremely talented in business, and in three or four years, the family's industrial profits had risen by two percent.
Qin Ming was released to Sichuan Zhizhou two years ago, and he will not mention it for the time being.
Today, Shen Moyun is going to meet her uncle Qin Lang, in the past few years, Shen Moyun's ability to live in peace in the farm also depends on her uncle, and the female gentleman Guanshan who taught her etiquette and chess books was also invited by Qin Lang. Qin Lang and Shen Moyun's mother Qin Lan grew up together, and later the two followed Qin Qiong into Beijing together, and the relationship was very good, after Qin Lan's death, Qin Lang was very sad, and since then he has redoubled his care for this niece, sending things to Zhuangzi every once in a while, and always inviting Shen Moyun to walk around the house during the New Year's holidays.
It's just a coincidence that today Qin Lang happened to take Qin Ziran to Yangzhou to visit an old scholar, and it would take a few days to return to Jinling, and he could only be met by his uncle Jiang and Zhao Si from afar. Jiang politely accepted the earthen ceremony, sealed a thick reward for a few people, and set up a banquet in the front yard for the servants.
After sending away the group of people, Jiang pulled Shen Moyun into the inner courtyard, and Shen Moyun told Jiang what he was thinking.
Jiang Shi knew Shen Moyun's difficult situation, and couldn't help wiping two handfuls of tears, so he asked the girl to bring three hundred taels of silver tickets.
"Good boy, this silver is Cheng Yi that your aunt gave you. In the spring, your eldest cousin is going to Beijing to take the entrance examination, and after the New Year, our Qin family will return to Beijing. Yun'er, after you go back, you can bear with everything first, and when we settle down in Beijing, we will make decisions for you!"
"Yes! Yun'er, thank you aunt for her years of cultivation and care!" Shen Moyun kowtowed to the Jiang family three times with tears in her eyes. "Yun'er is on this trip, I'm afraid that I won't have time to say goodbye to my uncle, and I will bother my aunt to convey her kindness for Yun'er!" said that, he kowtowed three more times......
After lunch, Shen Moyun noticed that her second cousin Qin Zimo's maid had been wincing at her in early summer. Originally, Shen Moyun also planned to ask Qin Zimo for a favor, and after taking a few sips of tea, she said hello to the Jiang family and followed the early summer to visit the garden. This qiē naturally did not escape Jiang's eyes, looking at Shen Moyun's elegant and quiet back, she could only sigh helplessly, she naturally knew what her son had been thinking for many years, but it was a pity......
Jiang could only shake his head and call people to buy dinner and prepare a gift in return.
As soon as Shen Moyun arrived in the garden, he was taken to the bamboo forest by the lake in early summer.
From a distance, she saw at a glance the young man in a wide Jin style ink robe. I saw him playing the snow-colored tooth carving fan as usual, and scratched it on his chest for a while. The stone chair beside him had already been set up with a thick brocade cushion, and the stone table had already prepared melons and fruit snacks, and tea was still being cooked. Qin Zimo, who was dressed in ink and white fan, stood in a piece of emerald green and golden sunlight, and looked particularly dazzling, and in the dense heat emitted by the tandoor, his face was unreal.
He also seemed to sense the arrival of the silent cloud, and reflexively turned his head to look this way.
In Qin Zimo's blazing gaze, Shen Moyun, who came to him, blushed unconsciously. She saluted and couldn't help but quip: "My cousin is so interested!
That Qin Zimo put away the handle of the fan and tapped it lightly on Shen Moyun's head, and said with a doting face: "You girl has come to tease me if I haven't seen her for a few days! My cousin is anxious to see Sister Yun, so he is naturally anxious! Okay, sit down!" Qin Zimo smiled like a spring breeze, took out a golden silk nanmu box from his side, and reached out to hand it over. "I heard that my cousin is going back to Beijing, this is a little bit of my cousin's heart. ”
Shen Moyun received Qin Zimo's affectionate eyes, and did not reach out to take it, but asked instead, "What is it?"
Looking at Shen Moyun's vigilant expression, Qin Zimo sighed in his heart, but he never withdrew the gentle smile on his face: "Don't worry! It's not something that I gave to you privately, it's just some hairpin rings, I brought it to my sister when I went to Hangzhou Mansion last month, and Sister Yao also has a copy! ”
Qin Ziyao is the daughter of Qin Ming, the same year as Shen Moyun, both are thirteen, and the two can talk very well, but in the past two years, they have followed their second uncle Qin Ming to Sichuan. Hearing that Qin Ziyao also had it, Shen Moyun could only accept the gift generously. It's not that she is hypocritical, it's just that although she has long known Qin Zimo's intentions, she has already set a family affair for herself before her grandfather died, since the two are doomed, she doesn't want her cousin to be disappointed, so she can't help but avoid Qin Zimo from time to time.
Shen Moyun took the wooden box, but he was really startled by the heavy feel, and opened it to take a look, but it was full of gold. As soon as she wanted to excuse herself, Qin Zimo opened her mouth, "Cousin, do you remember the first day you and your aunt went to Jinling Village four years ago......?
Of course she remembered! On that day, when she arrived at the farm, her uncle's family went to pick her up, and her mother dressed her in a newly made beautiful red cigarette skirt in the Jiangnan style, accompanied by a set of delicate butterfly hairpins. She liked it very much, and after changing into a new outfit, she was full of joy in the new and interesting orchard, by the fish pond, running, jumping. Later, Qin Zimo, who was holding a slingshot, didn't know how to shoot a bullet in her leg. She stumbled and slipped into the fishpond.
When she was dragged ashore by Qin Zimo, she found that the butterfly hairpin on her head had fallen into the fish pond, and the new clothes on her body were all destroyed. Feeling aggrieved, her tears fell, and Qin Zimo coaxed her beside her at a loss. In the end, Qin Zimo said that when he grows up in the future, he will buy her all the good things in the world, no matter how expensive jewelry or how good clothes, as long as she likes it, he will find it for her at the end of the world. Listening to Qin Zimo's half-truthful comfort, Shen Moyun finally broke into tears and laughed......
"A gentleman's word, the horse is hard to chase!Does my cousin want me to be a villain?" Qin Zimo put away his smile and said with a straight face: "At that time, I said it casually, but I didn't know the seriousness of it. My cousin has returned to Beijing this time, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for you and me to get along so casually in the future!" Seeing Qin Zimo's expression of disappointment, Shen Moyun no longer shirked, and handed the wooden box to Hui Xin.
"Cousin, are you free today?" Can you do my cousin a favor?"
"Sister Yun has an order, even if you speak, your cousin will do his best to follow the work of dogs and horses!" In just an instant, Qin Zimo smiled with his eyebrows back.
Shen Moyun sat down and made tea for the two of them, and slowly talked about his proposition, Qin Zimo came to the spirit as soon as he heard it, and helped Shen Moyun plan it......******************************************************** this article is more than 10,000 words, and it has been prepared to be signed, thank you!