The attendants around Lin Chang sent a message to invite his wife to Dongxi Hall to discuss important matters. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Lin Yueyuan squeezed her eyes at her mother with a cheer like a prisoner hearing an amnesty: "Oh, mother, dad is looking for you." I can go play. Words, I'll write them in the evening. ”

Chen Ping wanted to save her strength to deal with her difficult husband, and she couldn't spare the energy to take care of her daughter, so she went crazy with her.

The road leading from the backyard to Dongxi Hall is paved with polished and smooth stone slabs. On both sides of the road are two rows of green trees, the tops of which have been trimmed and built with wooden trellises, on which wisteria flowers hang down, looking like a spectacular purple waterfall from afar. Each wisteria climbing on the green vine is like an inverted wine glass full of fine wine, and like a string of purple bells full of musical notes hanging from the eaves.

Out of the "Wisteria Road", I came to the gate of Dongxi Hall. The entire building of Dongxi Hall is located on a high pedestal, and everyone who wants to enter must walk through nearly seventy steps of equal height.

Chen Ping had to rest twice on the way every time she finished walking, and this time she almost rushed up in one go. After pushing the door in, I saw Lin Chang standing in front of Mr. Xilin's portrait with his back to her, there was no one else in the room, he took a few breaths, sat down with his uncultivated clothes, picked up the tea on the table and drank it, and wiped his mouth after drinking, and the cup and lid were placed crookedly. She was not polite, and asked straight to the point: "What do you have to say?" ”

"You've got a good pair of sons and daughters." Lin Chang, who was holding his hand behind Chen Ping, suddenly turned his head like a bolt of lightning, and his angry rebuke roared like thunder.

Even though he has lived in Shu for more than 100 years, Lin Chang, as a descendant of the Lin family, still inherits the white and delicate skin that his ancestors only had under the moistening of the apricot blossoms and spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the delicate facial features carved out of warm and smooth white jade. His personality is more of a combination of the common characteristics of Shu people and Jiangnan people, sometimes gentle and deferential, like a white-faced scholar; Sometimes thunder and rain like a fiery king. And the melancholy temperament of the down-and-out aristocracy that lingers on him gives people a sense of elusiveness and inaccessibility.

If you meet a romantic Qinglou prostitute, then Lin Chang's depressed and melancholy temperament will definitely make him fall in love, but his wife is a pragmatic housewife like Chen Ping, so the conflict is inevitably accompanied by their marriage getting worse and worse, and the two often quarrel to the point of incompatibility.

Chen Ping didn't take her husband's anger at all, she smiled leisurely: "What's the matter, it's worth your temper." Isn't it just that Sheng'er doesn't want to learn martial arts, the child doesn't understand the mind of his parents, you can teach him patiently. Although our son is a little stupid, he is a good and reasonable boy after all. ”

"Where is he stupid, he is clearly a stupid idiot. Martial arts are not good, and literati are not good. Lin Chang slammed a stack of papers full of words on the table, and his angry facial features were about to twist into a ball: "Look for yourself, this is the article he wrote sent by his husband today." He used some Chinese medicine to explain the manager throughout the article, and if such a nondescript article made others see it, wouldn't they laugh off their big teeth. ”

Chen Ping picked up the article written by her son, looked at the flowers, glanced at it a few times, and still didn't take her husband's words to heart, but felt that he was a little unreasonable, and excused her son: "In my opinion, it's very good, Sheng'er is just a six-year-old child, and a child of his age may not even know a few big words, he can already write articles, which is rare." ”

Lin Chang seemed to deliberately want to mess with her to the end, and actually ridiculed his son: "What's the same, he is a descendant of my Lin family, and he is responsible for revitalizing my Lin family." I still expect him to become famous in one fell swoop, but look at him. Alas, it's just a dou who can't be helped. ”

Chen Ping was a little unhappy, and said sarcastically: "My son wants to be Liu Adou, but unfortunately there is no father who is the emperor." As the saying goes, Lao Tzu is a hero, and he can't raise his godfather. If the son is not promising, it must be useless. ”

Chen Ping didn't open his mouth, and when he opened his mouth, he would poke Lin Chang's sore spot, and he jumped to his feet angrily and said, "Chen Ping, you ...... You, according to me, beat him to death as soon as possible, and he will be used to deceiving his teachers and destroying his ancestors, killing people and setting fire to him in the future. ”

Lin Chang started a fire and had a rather angry bullfighting posture, but Chen Ping let out a long laugh like a fearless warrior, and hatred for the enemy burst out in his eyes. She crossed her waist with one hand, pointed at him with the other, and said aggressively like a shrew scolding the street: "Lin Chang, what qualifications do you have to teach my son." Don't forget that if it weren't for me, your Lin family would have been defeated a long time ago. You don't slap a swollen face in front of me. Who begged my godfather to come to the door in the first place, your father who died early was arrogant and lascivious, cockfighting and lackeys, and the whole family was a loser, ruining your Lin family's property, leaving your orphans and widows helpless. It's me, it's the dowry I brought when I married into the Lin family that solved your family's urgent need, your sister entered the palace as a draft girl, and it was also my money to give her some favors, your uncles and uncles want to split up, or I will send them to the countryside to retire. But even if I broke my heart and kneaded it and fed it to you, it didn't get a good word. Over the years, I have given birth to children for you and been thrifty in your family, but you have never bought me even a needle. The most ridiculous thing is your mother, when she was alive, she regarded herself as a lady eunuch, disgusted that I was born in a businessman, unworthy of you, made things difficult for me in many ways, and wanted to get you to divorce me, but I didn't remember that the rice and noodles she ate every day were bought by me with money. Now everything I get in the Lin family is what you owe me. ”

She was a little embarrassed with excitement, and reluctantly continued to taunt him in a hoarse voice: "I worked hard and bleakly to reluctantly earn back the situation for the Lin family. And you, you rely on your sister outside, you rely on me inside, you rely on two women, do you still have the confidence to show off your might? ”

In fact, Chen Ping's remarks are all clichés. If Lin Chang's face was thick enough, it is estimated that his ears would have been calloused. But after all, he has the prestige of several generations of his family, and he is inevitably a little arrogant, and he is most afraid of people mentioning the unbearable past when he was down. Chen Ping always looks like a creditor, opening and closing his mouth is how he is sorry for himself, how it is useless to rely on women, and self-righteously when Lin Chang provokes her, he will use this trick to force him to the point of being poor. Even though Lin Chang felt grateful and sorry for her in his heart, he was exhausted by these hurtful words.

Sure enough, after a while, Lin Chang's face was covered with red, he gasped, raised his right hand, and glared with round eyes, "You ......"

Chen Ping laughed, and instead of retreating, she advanced: "You want to beat me, do you still want to divorce me, and you want to drive me away?" If you are not afraid of carrying the infamy of crossing a river and tearing down bridges and abandoning a wife who is a bad chaff, you can do it. ”

Lin Chang and his wife looked at each other for a while, his hand slowly drooping, and the last glimmer of light in his eyes suddenly disappeared like a burnt candlelight. He looked back at the philanthropic smile of his ancestor Mr. Xilin who was like a bodhisattva, and said with a bitter smile in despair: "Okay, you have made great contributions to the Lin family, and you have made great contributions to the Lin family." You are the hero of the Lin family, I don't dare to drive you, I'll go. You can be your Mrs. Lin here with peace of mind. ”

He threw off his sleeves and turned around and stepped out of the door, Chen Ping tilted his head sideways, didn't look at him, didn't say a word to stay, and let his lonely and desolate back slowly disappear.

After Lin Chang left, Chen Ping hung in her eyes and fell to the ground with tears trembling, she sneered and wiped away her tears, at this moment she despised both Lin Chang and herself. She stood up, stood silently in front of the portrait of Mr. Cillin's smiling face, and said to him firmly in a silent voice: "I am not wrong, this family is earned by me, and no one should try to drive me out of the door." ”

Ten days later, the Lin family held a small funeral. Chen Ping paid to invite a Taoist monk to do a ritual. After the ceremony, Aunt Lu went out of the funeral under the farewell of the Lin family.

Lin Yueyuan felt that the house was very lively, and she was not sensible when she saw that everyone was sad and sad, and she didn't feel sad but fun. She sneaked out of the house and squeezed into the crowd of farewells, and accidentally saw Aunt Lu for the last time.

It was one of the scariest memories she had as a young child. Aunt Lu, who was lying in the coffin, had a blue face, and her entire right eye was sunken in. Although the body has been cleaned up, the scars of the beatings on the withered yellow skin that emerge from the clothes are still faintly visible. She did not lie peacefully on her back as usual, but curled up with her hands and feet as if she were in great pain. Her body was like a squeezed orange, half of it crumpled.

Frightened, Lin Yueyuan turned her head to escape, she screamed and rushed out of the crowd, fell to the ground, and cried. It should be very normal for a girl to cry because she falls, but in the eyes of the Lin family, it is even more surprising than seeing a ghost in broad daylight. Because this is the second cry of the second miss of the Lin family since she was born, except for the cry when she was born. She is like an elf who is always full of energy and does not know what sadness is, always jumping up and down tirelessly frolic.

Growth is full of pain, just like a trapped bird about to break through the shackles of thorns and fly to the blue sky, it must be scarred, sad and joyful. At the age of four, she truly felt the vast sea of sorrow for the first time in the cry of everyone. This poor woman, who was humiliated to death by her husband, opened her enlightenment understanding of marriage and her husband, and since then husband and marriage have become synonymous with the beast of the flood in her heart. This distorted thought will be reflected more deeply in her heart in the not-too-distant future with the breakdown of her parents' unhappy marriage.

Lu San killed his wife and paid for his life. Chen Ping originally planned to send her to the government and send it to the government for investigation, but when Lu San's seventy-year-old mother knelt in front of her with a cane and dragged her seriously ill body to plead bitterly, she relented again. Against her will, she ordered Lu San to be beaten up, broke one of his legs, and sent him to the lowest subordinate room to work as a coolie. During this period, Lin Chang never showed up, he disappeared without a trace as if he had evaporated from the world.

Chen Ping was indifferent about her husband's disappearance, which caused people to whisper in private. In the suspicious eyes of everyone, she handled all kinds of matters at home with great calm, as if whether there was Lin Chang or not was an insignificant matter to her, and she didn't even send someone to inquire secretly. Therefore, after being named "shrewd and capable", she has a new name, such as "cold-blooded", such as "ruthless" and so on.

At night, Chen Ping sat in the account room guarding the abacus and accounting accounts, when there was a knock on the door, she stopped what she was doing and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Someone on the other side of the door replied in a warm voice, "Mother, it's me and my sister, please open the door." ”

Chen Ping got up and opened the door, and a boy who looked as soft and beautiful as a girl pulled a lively girl with a smile on her face into the house. They are the sons and daughters of Lin Chang and Chen Ping.

Lin Risheng saluted in a proper manner, asked An to get permission from his mother before sitting down, while his sister Lin Yueyuan casually said hello and sat down and nibbled on the peaches on the table.

Chen Ping took a red ripe peach from the plate and handed it to her son, and at the same time blamed her daughter: "You girl is becoming more and more rude, she only cares about eating for herself, and she doesn't think about getting one for her brother." ”

Lin Yueyuan watched Lin Risheng take the peach respectfully, couldn't stop thanking him, and said with a smile: "Brother is not without hands." ”

Lin Risheng held the peach in his hand, hung his head as if he was coming to admit his mistake, and gently rubbed the fine fluff on the surface of the peach with his hands with his nervous hands, and said, "Mother, I heard from my sister that you and your father quarreled so much because of your son that my father was so angry that he didn't return for a few days. The son dared to beg his father to come back. He raised his head suddenly, knelt on the ground and said resolutely: "My son can swear in front of the ancestral tablet, and he will never read those medical books and miscellaneous books again." We must devote ourselves to the study of the Four Books and the Five Classics. ”

Chen Ping is very proud of her son's ambition. She nodded slightly, pulled her son up who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "Wait, my quarrel with my father is not entirely because of you. Let me ask you, do you really like to learn the art of disambiguation, there is a world of difference between being a doctor and being a big official in the eyes of the world. ”

Lin Risheng thought for a moment and replied honestly: "Mr. said that I am stupid, and it takes two hours to memorize a copy of "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan". But after reading half a medical book, it only takes half an hour to remember some of the contents, and the words in the book seem to jump into his son's head. A few days ago, Uncle Zhang had dysentery, and it happened that his father and several gentlemen went to buy medicinal herbs. The son saw that he was in real pain, he couldn't bear it for a while, and he had some itching, so he wanted to try his skills, so he quietly prescribed him a few doses of medicine without telling the second elder, but he didn't expect it to be effective. Since then, my son has been addicted to it and has broken his schoolwork. ”

Chen Ping smiled and said: "Your ancestors are from a medical family, and your understanding of medical skills is really passed down by your ancestors, and it is not a strange thing." Since you are so fond of medicine, my mother will invite a few gentlemen from the family tomorrow, and we will learn them decently. Who said that studying medicine is not as good as studying economics. The miracle doctors Hua Tuo and Bian Que have not been famous for a hundred years, and they are still admired by future generations. There is a specialization in the art industry, if a person can study a skill clearly, even if he is born as a carpenter like Lu Ban, he can also leave a name in history. Your father's insight was short, and he read so many teachings of the sages. ”

This remark revealed her wise side as an elder in the family. Her unique insight into life comes from her unique girlhood, different from the famous ladies who do not go out of the door, because her father and Chen Zhen of Mingbi Villa are friends for eight worships, she was orphaned by her father to Chen Zhen when the whole family suffered from the plague. So from the age of four, she followed her father-in-law to run business everywhere, and at the age of fourteen, she took over nearly half of the Chen family's business dealings. These extraordinary experiences have created her unique ability to know people. She was touched by her son's filial piety, and she believed that no matter whether her son was successful or not in the future, his kindness alone was enough for his parents to be proud of.

Lin Risheng was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, mother." ”

Chen Ping sighed, touched her son's head, and said with emotion: "I don't ask you to soar, I just ask you to be safe and secure all your life, and to be able to guard your home and us." A good boy has ambitions in all directions, but I hope you can keep in mind the truth that your parents are not far away. ”

"Alright, Sunrise." Chen Ping closed the account book on the table and crossed her hands on her chest, "You go out first, I have something to tell your sister to go to bed early." ”

Lin Risheng glanced at Lin Yueyuan worriedly, but after she finished nibbling on peaches and plums, her mouth was full of sticky juice.

After Lin Risheng withdrew from the account room, Chen Ping stretched her waist, leaned on the back of the chair, and was immersed in deep thought while observing her daughter's behavior. After a while, she slowly opened her mouth and said to her daughter: "Ah Yuan, your brother is going to work hard, you are too lazy." After listening to her mother's words, Lin Yueyuan stared at her big round eyes, puzzled, and looked very cute.

Chen Ping took out a letter from the drawer and handed it to her, adding: "You see, this is a letter sent by your grandfather to your mother, which says that your uncle's daughter, who is as big as you, Siyu, is a good abacus and is now learning to calculate accounts." Women still have to have a skill. If you are greedy and chew more, so let's do it, there are four kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, you can choose one to learn, which one do you learn? ”

Lin Yueyuan stopped chewing in his mouth, muttered his bulging cheeks that had been chewed with plums, thought seriously for a while, and replied crisply: "Well, write." Writing is the easiest, you don't need to use your brain, just write, I learn to write. ”

Chen Ping clapped his hands and praised: "Okay, Yiduo is not pressing, you have to learn the same again, what do you want to learn?" ”

Lin Yueyuan's eyes lit up and shouted, "I want to learn martial arts." ”

"Huh? Martial arts? ”

Lin Yueyuan nodded desperately and said: "Yes, in this way, I can not only fight the bad guys but also protect the good guys, if I had a kung fu body, I would have knocked Lu San down a long time ago, and Aunt Lu might not have died." She pulled her mother's sleeve and said coquettishly: "I want to learn martial arts, I want to learn martial arts." ”

Chen Ping thought of the scene where Aunt Lu, who died tragically, was carried out of the Lin family, and secretly hated: "Well, that's good." Although it is a that a woman is not talented is virtuous, even if a woman learns all skills, once she marries a man, she is still looked down upon and bullied. Hmph, I think that only by knocking the man to the ground and stomping on his feet hard until he is convinced, can he live a peaceful life in this life. ”

Thinking about it like this, she hit it off with her daughter's request: "Okay, I agreed." But since you choose, you need to respond to me, if you want to learn, you can't shout hard and tired, you can't give up halfway, if you want to learn, you have to learn to be famous. ”

Lin Yueyuan's hands danced, hugging her mother and dancing and screaming.

On the second day, Lin Risheng officially worshipped several gentlemen sitting in the house as teachers, and he also established his ambition on this day: to inherit the mantle of the Lin family, carry forward the Lin family's medical Tao, and strive to become a benevolent and benevolent person in the apricot forest.

Lin Yueyuan, who had a hippie smile, also got the same thing she dreamed of: a red soft whip wrapped in gold wire. This whip is exactly the kind of thing she held in her arms and refused to let go when she was a year old.