readx;? _id="u1662291";_id="u1749449";_id="u1749455";

Xie Huai'an looked at his father, he couldn't close his mouth in surprise, he was able to say such a thing, he didn't expect it, Xie Daozhong glanced at him, and laughed deeply: "What?"

Xie Huaian hurriedly shook his head: "No...... It's okay, my son just wanted to ......"

Xie Daozhong silently picked the corners of his lips: "Think that my father, is actually an unfaithful and unrighteous person?"

Xie Huai'an calmed down and laughed: "That's it, my father is just loyal to the family." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Yes," Xie Daozhong sighed deeply, with a bit of helplessness in his tone: "Back then, the ancestors used their own strength to protect the whole city of Zhenjiang, but now it is not as good as the generation, and when it comes to the father's generation, it is difficult to protect the whole clan, let alone the whole city." ”

Xie Huai'an comforted him and said: "My father has been an official in Zhenjiang for half his life, he is honest and honest, and he is also protecting the city." ”

Xie Daozhong waved his hand, the cigar in his hand fell snow-white ashes, he glanced at it, picked up a piece of rice paper from the table and wiped it: "I have also experienced troubled times, if my fate is good, I should not survive the next troubled times." Huai'an, don't say that your father is stubborn, I just want to put this family in your hands, and then take this official position. ”

Xie Huai'an was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "If his son also has to face a troubled world, then what is the use of this official position?"

Xie Daozhong seemed to be asked, and did not speak for a long time.

"I have one more thing to tell you, father," Xie Huai'an said, "Huaichang is not an official student, and the imperial court has no money to send students abroad, so Uncle Zhiheng alone funded him to go abroad." ”

Xie Daozhong raised his face to look at him, and a confused look appeared on his face: "Why did Dao Yong do this?

Xie Huaian replied truthfully: "He is afraid that you will not agree, this is what Sister Lan told me in private." ”

"Privately?" Xie Daozhong repeated again, "Why didn't she just come and tell me?"

Xie Huaian also repeated: "She is afraid that you will not agree." ”

Xie Daozhong lowered his eyes and let out a long sigh.

Xie Huai'an was silent with him, and the outer study had been installed with electric lights, which illuminated the room as bright as day, and the lamp was installed behind Xie Huai'an, striking his shadow on the table for a long time, and his father hid behind this shadow, like a doll that had lost its support, languishing and haggard.

"Then," Xie Daozhong spoke again after a long time, "Today's events have also been calculated by you in private?"

Xie Huai'an hesitated for a moment, but still nodded: "When you and Mr. Xu went to Beigushan Villa together, your son installed the electric light in the ancestral hall. ”

Xie Daozhong smiled silently: "Your sister and brother are working together, so Ah Tian didn't follow and give advice?"

Xie Huai'an said: "Ah Tian has always been unconcerned about this. ”

"That's right," Xie Daozhong smiled again: "She is a living immortal in the family, and she has never worried about mundane things." He paused for a moment and asked, "I heard from your mother that Ah Lan is teaching Ah Xian to learn foreign languages?"

He seemed to have completely forgotten the original intention of calling Xie Huai'an to the outer study, and began to talk about these rambling gossips, but Xie Huai'an still answered honestly: "It is said that it is to teach an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon, but Sister Lan has been learning to manage the house with her mother recently, and she often can't find time, so she has been fishing for three days and teaching on the net for two days." ”

"If you want to learn something, you have to study it seriously, what is going on? I don't care about learning, and I don't teach seriously," Xie Daozhong took a puff of his cigar and wrote lightly: "Tomorrow, I will go to Zhenjiang Newspaper to invite the talented man from Zhenjiang who studied in the United States, and be a Mr. Xixi for Ah Xian, so that the living immortal can also listen to it, and get touched by that foreign atmosphere." ”

Xie Huai'an was taken aback again, because his father's words and deeds tonight were really abnormal, so he couldn't help but hesitate to think about whether to tell him about running a factory.

But Xie Daozhong didn't give him this opportunity, and when the cigar between his fingers was getting shorter and shorter, he raised Xie Huai'an and asked, "How to deal with it?"

Xie Huai'an hurriedly replied: "After it is extinguished, just throw it away." ”

Xie Daozhong handed him the cigarette butt: "Go and extinguish it, it's not too early, go back and rest." ”

Xie Huai'an went out with half a cigarette butt full of doubts, he thought that Xie Daozhong would have some movement in the coming days, but unexpectedly, but expectedly, he didn't have anything unusual. Chinese New Year's Eve He gave pressure to the juniors who came to pay New Year's greetings, and on the first day of the first lunar month, he held a hundred-table banquet as usual, the young master of the second mansion wanted to donate officials, and the girls of the fourth mansion wanted to marry to Guangzhou, and he arranged everything in an orderly manner, the same style as his previous one.

But in the end, it was different, he still remembered telling Xie Cheng specifically: "After the year, I will invite a gentleman to the girls, he may not be paid, but we can't treat others badly, or prepare the apprenticeship ceremony, you serve snacks, and prepare according to the previous practice." ”

He said it at dinner, and he specially sent someone to call Xie Cheng over, so Mrs. Qin asked more: "Why do you think of Mr. Please again now, Ah Lan and Ah Tian don't need to learn anymore, is it for Ah Xian?"

Xie Daozhong said "Hmm": "Isn't Ah Xian learning foreign languages, since you have this interest, you will invite a serious gentleman to teach it, don't follow Ah Lan to learn the fork, enlightenment is the most important, at this time go the wrong way, it will be very difficult to change it in the future." ”

Tao immediately stood up and bowed his knees to Xie Daozhong in fear: "The master is still thinking about Ah Xian, this is really good, it's just that Ah Xian is a girl, learn female red embroidery, and find a good family in the future, what's the use of learning these foreign languages? I never knew that the eldest lady was teaching her, and I didn't delay your time, right?"

She stood up, Wanlan couldn't sit still, and quickly got up, and smiled politely at her: "Aunt Tao is serious, I don't have anything serious, it's rare that Ah Xian has this interest, my father is right, if you really want to learn, you still have to find a serious gentleman, and when this gentleman comes, I will dip Ah Xian's light and go to listen to the class." ”

"Okay, let's all sit down and eat," Xie Daozhong spoke again: "Girls still have to have some knowledge, otherwise they will be a little family when they govern the house." Now that the people of insight have gone out to stay abroad, Ah Xian will learn some foreign languages, and she and her husband will have more tacit understanding in the future, Ah Tian will also learn, don't fiddle with your tea sets all day long. ”

Wan Tian smiled: "I went and went, why do you say that my tea set? Could it be that the foreign language is useful, and the tea set is useless?"

Xie Daozhong also laughed: "You are already very familiar with those tea sets, it's not interesting, it's better to learn something fresh, lest you want to ferment like a tea leaf." ”

The people in the room laughed lightly, and Xie Cheng asked, "I don't know if there is a gentleman in Zhenjiang who can teach foreign languages, who is it?"

"Don't look at the small land of Zhenjiang, but the mountains are high enough and the water is deep enough, and it is enough to crouch for the tiger, hidden dragon," he said Xu Shinian's name and identity, and praised him more: "He is indeed a talent, and staying in Zhenjiang is wronged by him." ”

"Oh, master, you also know him!" Xie Cheng seemed to be a little excited: "That's really a talent, he knows history and understands foreign things, looking at those twisted and crooked words, just like we look at square words, you say magic is not magical, how can someone learn so many words at the same time that there are no similarities at all?

"Brother Xie Cheng, our ready-made Miss Lan is sitting in front of you," Xie Huaian joked with a smile: "Since you are curious about this, why don't you take a good look at Miss Lan and see how her brain grows." ”

Xie Cheng hurriedly apologized to Wanlan again, after making such a fuss for a while, when dinner was over, Xie Daozhong and his wife left, and Wantian Wanxian sisters also went to their own work, Xie Huaian consciously stayed until the end: "I know what Sister Lan wants to ask me, but this matter is indeed mentioned by my father himself, and I didn't persuade him to say a word." ”

Wanlan has always been delicate, this change in Xie Dao, she naturally wants to find a reason for this, but Xie Huaian doesn't care about these reasons, he only needs the result, so he continued: "I thought, can I tell him about running a factory?"

Wanlan immediately objected, she did not find a reason to explain the change, and she would never dare to rashly use the change to fulfill her wish.

Xie Huai'an looked at her with a smile and said comfortingly: "How can anyone be the same? Are you yesterday and you today exactly the same? Do you yourself admit that this society is changing, and in the final analysis, you have become just a human being, and the changes of countless people constitute the changes of society, maybe your father is one of these countless people?"

Wanlan disagreed: "If it really changes, then how can I not feel it?"

Xie Huai'an shook his head: "Can you perceive people's minds? Regardless of such a complicated thing as people's hearts, just talk about the dead thing of the table, can you detect where it is today and where it is older than yesterday?

Just like the sun will still rise normally tomorrow, but it will be different from yesterday, just like the old house of the Xie family tomorrow seems to have remained unchanged for a hundred years, but it is constantly changing. This deep mansion compound built in the former Ming Dynasty silently watched the change of this family from generation to generation, and it was also undergoing extremely natural and reasonable changes from generation to generation, some decaying beams and pillars were constantly replaced, outdated furniture was also replaced, some people pulled tables and chairs with complicated carvings, some people bought brightly colored Qianlong porcelain, some people put self-striking bells, and some people installed Western electric lights. It has been gone for several hundred years, and may continue to go for another hundred years, they - Xie Daozhong, Mrs. Qin, Xie Wanlan, Xie Huai'an, Xie Huaichang, Xie Wantian, Xie Wanxian, etc., etc., they are the current owners of this house, but in the long run, they are also the passers-by of this house.

"Sister," he put his hand on Wanlan's shoulder and smiled, "Time is running out." ”

The fastest update of error-free novel reading, please visit mobile phone visit: