He returned to the small building in the backyard, and sighed deeply as he walked, such a thing happened in winter, and it always made him sad and difficult, but the general trend has come, and he, the person who pushes the momentum, must face the difficulties.

After the fifteenth night, the Shangyuan Festival will be popular for five consecutive days, and hundreds of officials will strike in the hundred cities, and unmarried men and women everywhere can also see each other. If a woman is not engaged to marry, and a man wants to choose a wife, he must go to the Kaibao Temple in the city on the sixteenth day to go to the pillar of incense.

Aunt Su is a city patrol royal history, and the days of Shangyuan Festival are her busiest times. In addition, her family lives near Kaibao Temple, which is close to the water. Seeing this opportunity, the Su family specially called Zhenxiu from the Song Mansion, and then displayed a few of Zhenyuan's makeup branches to the Kaibao Temple.

Seeing Zhenshu staring at the carpenter in the backyard, Zhenxiu came in with a smile and pretended to be mysterious: "Today, the second sister's little lover is also in Kaibao Temple, how can the second sister not go?" ”

Zhenshu was lazy to pay attention to her, but after all, he pretended to be a ghost in his heart, so he asked, "What little lover?" ”

Zhenxiu said loudly: "It's Tong Qisheng, he came to the capital a year ago, why didn't he look for you?" ”

Since that night Tong Qisheng was holding a white veil in the night sky, Zhenshu not only disgusted him, but also the name, and forced a basket of wooden foam to retreat Zhenxiu said: "This room is full of wooden foam, be careful that it can't be washed off on your head oil." ”

Jung-su covered her head and turned around and ran.

Su took a few daughters to Kaibao Temple, and when he came home in the evening, he was already tired and tired, rubbing his thin feet and sighing: "My aunt and grandmother are really two iron legs, and I don't feel my legs hurt in and out of Kaibao Temple for a whole day, I can't stand it." ”

Zhen Yuan was also tired and threw herself on the bed and refused to move. Zhen Shu had to clean the wood and planer for the carpenter, and he had to make rice and wash the dishes, so he hired an old mother surnamed Wang to cook and wash the dishes and serve the Su family. Su Shi was lazy and crooked after eating, and the next day he had no intention of going to Kaibao Temple to choose a son-in-law, so he only asked Zhao He to hire a car to send them to Aunt Su's house, and then pick them up in the evening.

After the end of the fifth day of the Shangyuan Festival, the female dependents of the second room of the Song Mansion were all seriously ill, coughing and vomiting, and it was Langzhong and decoction, which made the two tired of serving Wang's mother and Zhenshu look like they were tired. That Aunt Su and Grandma are really like iron, and every day she has to walk from her home near Kaibao Temple in the north of the city to the East Market to see the Su family, and then tell some new things that have happened recently before leaving.

On this day, Zhenshu came in with a bowl of decoction and medicine to see the Su family, and listened to Aunt Su's grandmother speak: "I heard that the emperor collapsed in the palace last night, and before the collapse, he quarreled with Concubine Rong who went out of your mansion, so now Concubine Rong has asked the queen to order her to be locked up." ”

Although the Su family now gradually knows that Aunt Su's grandmother knows a lot of things about the imperial history of the city, but she can add nine points of sensational words to say it again, and she no longer believes it, and coping: "If the emperor is great, why doesn't the prince of the East Palace ascend the throne?" ”

Aunt Su waved her hand and said: "King Cheng is now leading the army and is on the way to kill, how dare the prince ascend the throne?" ”

Zhenshu listened to her more and more hanging, put down the decoction and went downstairs. After a while, she cooked some hot porridge and sent a few snacks to Su and Aunt Su's grandmother, and listened to Aunt Su's grandmother from afar: "The crown princess and King Ping have been on good terms since childhood, and now the two have more private messages to communicate." The little girl who sent a private message was the daughter of Huang Dalang's family in the neighborhood, and she was the only one who had an affair with the monk of Kaibao Temple in Huang Dalang's family...... The monk of Kaibao Temple has opened the light to many infertile people in Beijing, and he is very effective, and he can get pregnant as soon as he opens it......"

Aunt Su and Grandma have to go to the framing shop every day to talk about these chickens and dogs in the capital, and Su is a person who is good at inquiring about news during his illness, and after hearing these things, he refuses to struggle to get up and walk on the ground. Fortunately, they had been moved to the small building in the backyard at this time, and there was a mess in the front framing shop so as not to disturb them.

At the beginning of February, the palace really released news that the emperor had collapsed. In the palace, the crown prince can only ascend the throne on the fifth day of the boycott, and all civil weddings and funerals must be suspended, even festive clothes can not be worn, and husbands and wives of good character cannot have sex together, and they must keep filial piety to the emperor. Su Shi sat up in surprise when he heard it on the bed: "This is okay, I'm afraid that the last time my aunt and grandmother said that the palace detained our Concubine Rong was true, this matter is known to our house, in case the old ancestor turns over and turns his back on his back, Zhenyuan has to keep three years of filial piety before she can get married?" ”

She took the dog skin plaster on her forehead, got up and dressed up on tiptoe, and took Zhenyuan and Zhenyi to the Song Mansion with two swaying.

Zhong also learned the news that Concubine Rong was detained, and she cried to death on the fire kang in the main room. Zhenxiu also wore a hairpin and hugged Zhong as a comforter. Su Shi was afraid of hitting the muzzle of the gun, so he squeezed his eyebrows outside and called Zhenxiu out and asked, "Do you think she can survive a few days now?" ”

Zhenxiu shook her head and said, "She hasn't defecated for more than ten days, and she's afraid that she will burn to death." ”

Su Shi looked at Zhong Shi through the bead curtain, and his face was dead and gray, and he pointed to his cheeks and said, "Look at her cheeks, the dead air is slowly coming up." ”

Zhenxiu has been serving her grandmother Zhong closely in the past few months, and she is tired and exhausted, and even the meat on her body has become a lot looser. She snuggled up to Su's side and said, "Mother, I am with me on the kang tonight, sometimes she doesn't breathe for a long time, and her daughter's heart is going to jump out of fright." ”

Su Shi said angrily: "Where is your fourth uncle?" She alone had the great courtyard and the rest of the land, and she should have done these things. ”

Zhenxiu sighed and said, "Now my grandmother is afraid that she is ignorant and ignorant and gave the wrong money, and the fourth uncle and aunt are unwilling to ask for it." ”

Su said: "My good boy, although you value the money, you also have to weigh it, among these grandchildren, you are the only one who serves her to the end of her life, she has to give you a promise in person, otherwise wouldn't it be filial piety in vain?" ”

Zhenxiu pushed Su Shi and said, "Now she is pinching it in my hand, and the silver can't run out of my palm." ”

Su took Zhen Yuan and Zhen Yi to hurriedly bid farewell to Shen and returned to Dongshi, and quietly took a silver ticket of twenty taels from under Zhen's bed, and ran to Kaibao Temple in the north of the city to find Aunt Su's grandmother, wanting Aunt Su to find the good seedlings in her hand to Zhen Yuan, so that Zhen Yuan could avoid filial piety and marry directly.

Aunt Su got the silver ticket and took this thing as a real thing. When the spring was just coming and it was still cool, she personally carried a small basket to the framing shop to dress up Zhenyuan, and made an appointment with the man to meet at her home for a few days. After a few days, I don't know how many young men I have seen, Zhenyi and Zhenshu also have some expectations, and they always have to pester and ask some questions when they come back, but Zhenyuan doesn't say a word and only stays in her room.

After seven or eight days, suddenly the Su family did not lead Zhenyuan to go, and both of them sat in a daze on the small building. Because the tung oil on the furniture is still drying to dry, Zhenshu is also idle, so he entered the house and asked Zhenyuan: "What do you mean by meeting?" ”

Zhenyuan let out a long sigh, still buried her head in the embroidery and refused to speak. Zhenshu went to Su Shi again, and when he saw that she was still lying on the bed, he asked, "There is nothing to be desired?" ”

Su Shi sighed: "My aunt and grandmother were a little confused when they were young, and now they are getting more and more confused when they get older. ”

Zhenshu heard some complaints in this, so he heard Su Shi say again: "She said that the eighteenth son of the Shangshu family, I interrogated for a long time to find out that it was the son of the housekeeper of the Shangshu Mansion, and he was only sixteen years old. The girls in the inner courtyard are enough for him to pick up, and he is also indifferent to this matter, presumably by asking his aunt to force him. The other eldest son of the waiter's family was originally a little guy next to the eldest son, slippery and slippery, oily and oily. Another son of Zhou Mansion Yin is actually two miscellaneous servants of Ying Tianfu. What kind of talent is my Zhenyuan, do you want to find these people? ”

I see.

Su Shi's anxious mouth was full of scorched bubbles, shook Zhenshu and said: "You often entertain some distinguished guests who come to sell calligraphy and paintings in the shop, if you look at the young and handsome son, you can also ask a few more questions, and by the way, make an appointment to come here, your sister's appearance is good, and she will be able to succeed." ”

Zhenshu shook off Su Shi and said: "Mother is really crazy, if I am like this, I will simply be a matchmaker." ”

Su Shi spread his hands and said, "What do you say?" Now the one in the house can't see it well, and if Zhenyuan dies, she will have to keep her filial piety for three years. ”

Zhenshu persuaded: "She is a big girl, and she can be said to be filial piety for a year." For a year, it's always good for you to ask for her slowly. ”

Su Shi pushed Zhenshu and said, "I knew you were unreliable." ”

In the blink of an eye, it was March, and Zhong was still hanging on the kang, and the corners of Su's anxious mouth were on fire. The framing shop has now become a calligraphy and painting shop, which also collects and sells, although the business is not as good as a year ago, but it is still prosperous.

On this day, Song Anrong went out of the house to look for the calligraphy and painting of his old friend, and Zhao He framed the calligraphy and painting in the back. Zhenshu was staying at the counter when he saw a half-sized man walk in, slapped a piece of paper on the counter, and then walked out quickly.

Zhen flipped through the paper and looked at it, and saw that there were only four words written on it: the left hand when you go out.

The word is the cursive body of Xue Ji in the previous dynasty, and the cursive script of Xue Ji is the wind frightens the garden flower, and the snow dyes the mountain cypress. These few four words, written poetically and picturesquely, can be seen in the writing of the first end of the book. Zhenshu took the note and went out, and after walking a few steps to the left, he saw a carriage parked on the side, even the wheels of this carriage were distilled silver, and the tarpaulin was thick and airtight, and it was luxurious to see.

Zhenshu walked over slowly, and saw that the curtain of the car was lifted, revealing a face inside, but it was Yu Yichen. He frowned and said, "Little shopkeeper, why don't you always go to the appointment?" ”

Zhenshu listened to his question, and he didn't have a head or brain, and it took a while to come to his senses, presumably he asked about the reading he said on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, so he replied: "The affairs in the little girl's shop are messy, and there is no such spare time to read for my father-in-law, so it is better for my father-in-law to invite others." ”

Yu Yichen put down the curtain and said, "Start the car." ”

As soon as the coachman drew the reins, the carriage slowly departed.