Chapter 44: The Shen Family
The street was filled with shouts one after another, and Ning Jinyun wandered alone for a while, looking at some small stalls nearby. There are many vendors around the www.biquge.info Pavilion who are selling items related to the Dragon Boat Festival, such as portraits of Zhong Kui, leaf charms of the Lunar Palace, and many various sachets and seasonal fresh fruits.
There are a few small traders who are still selling their own multicolored longevity wisps, these long-lived wisps are very delicately braided, and the style of each one is also different, which is indeed very attractive to attention, but Ning Jinyun feels that compared to these long-lived wisps sold on the street, it is still Aunt Wen who makes her the most beautiful.
After she walked around, she found that there was really nothing to buy, and she was about to return empty-handed, but then she passed by a zongzi shop, and when she saw the big sign in front of the zongzi shop, she finally raised some interest.
There are a few big characters written on the signboard: bean paste dumplings, mushroom dumplings, egg yolk dumplings, meat dumplings...... Concise and clear, you can tell at a glance what kind of dumplings are being sold.
Mrs. Ning has always liked to be a vegetarian, and most of the zongzi made by Zhang Luo's family are ordinary white zongzi or small jujube zongzi, and although Aunt Wen is good at making sweets, she has only made bean paste zongzi, red date zongzi and lotus seed zongzi.
Ning Jinyun secretly sighed, although she and her fourth sister are both from big families and have never worried about food and clothing, but now, one is shouting to buy candied rice dumplings, the other wants to taste meat dumplings, and after shopping on the street for so long, in the end they are all hungry for so many inconspicuous zongzi, which is really interesting to think about.
After she bought some meat dumplings and egg yolk dumplings, she estimated that the time was almost up, and it was time to go ahead to find the second wife and Yao'er, otherwise if she stayed here too late, the second wife would be worried.
However, her worries are really redundant, and the second wife's mind is now on Li Yuanjing's body, where can she still take care of her......
Walking to the front, Ning Jinyun saw the figure of the fourth sister Ning Jinyao at a glance, Ning Jinyao was wearing a long aqua blue dress, the bright color was very recognizable in the crowd, she walked over and patted Ning Jinyao's shoulder, and whispered, "I'm back." ”
Before Ning Jinyao could answer her, her attention quickly shifted elsewhere and discovered what was happening ahead.
Five steps away from her, Li Yuanjing's face turned red, and he snorted coldly, looking at him, he seemed to be angry, and opposite him stood a young man in white, the man looked arrogant and looked very angry, and the two were facing each other tensely.
Ning Jinyun asked curiously, "Who is that man, is Li Gongzi arguing with him?" ”
"Just now, Li Gongzi and the son in front of him collided together, but neither of them refused to apologize, but they had to ask the other party to compensate themselves." Ning Jinyao shook her head helplessly, "No, my mother is persuading Gongzi Li." As for the son he didn't know, it was said to be Shen Yunxuan, the eldest son of the Shen family. ”
"The Shen family? Which Shen family? Ning Jinyun didn't react for a while, in her impression, there didn't seem to be any big family in Qingzhou with the surname Shen, but looking at the dress of the eldest son Shen, it should be very good, and it should be from an excellent background.
Ning Jinyao looked back at her and reminded, "It's the Shen family, who has built many temples and built a bridge for us in Qingzhou, and they are now back from the capital." ”
After the fourth sister said this, Ning Jinyun remembered.
There is indeed such a Shen family.
Thirty years ago, the eldest man of the Shen family also did a lot of benevolent things in Qingzhou, building temples, building bridges, opening porridge shops to help the poor, and was deeply loved by the people for a while, and the Shen family's character is very good.
Later, Master Shen's eldest son passed the imperial examination and got the ranking of Tanhua in the palace examination, plus their family had a certain way in the capital, so they soon moved to the capital, and the eldest son of the Shen family also became a big official in the court, which was even more beautiful than when he was in Qingzhou.
Just when everyone thought that the Shen family would be a good person and have a good reward, and it would always be so prosperous, the Shen family suddenly suffered bad news, and a big change occurred, Master Shen's eldest son died of illness! What's even more pitiful is that after that, another three years passed, and Master Shen also passed away, and since then, the situation of the Shen family has been a little worse than before.
The Shen family was not prosperous, and just the year before last, Master Shen's second son was hit by a carriage on the street, injured his head, and died before he could hold on.
After that, the Shen family was left with only Master Shen's eldest daughter-in-law and eldest grandson, and their mother and son depended on each other.
Ning Jinyun thought for a while, presumably the Shen Gongzi in front of him was the only seedling of the Shen family, the eldest grandson of Master Shen. However, shouldn't he stay in the capital with his mother, how could he go back to Qingzhou?
The question flashed in Ning Jinyun's mind, but the next moment, she came up with the answer by herself, Shen Gongzi's grandfather, father and second uncle all passed away one after another, and the Shen family was the only man left, and it was naturally difficult for their family to gain a foothold in the capital, so it was better to return to their hometown Qingzhou and live more comfortably.
Although the Shen family is not as prosperous as in the past, the family background is still very solid, and it is still one of the most rich and noble families in Qingzhou, and I heard that Shen Gongzi's mother, that is, the eldest wife of the Shen family, Zhang, her mother's family is very noble, and her father is still the Changguo Gong on the side of the earthquake, of course, he will also help the Shen family.
Therefore, even if the Shen family only has orphans and widows, it is still a famous family, and life is still prosperous.
"You stained my clothes, and you spoke so disrespectfully, this is your fault, and you dare to continue to shout here?" Li Yuanjing suddenly drank.
Hearing this, Ning Jinyun stopped pondering and hurriedly raised his head to see what the situation was.
Shen Yunxuan, the eldest son of Shen, was yelled, not only was he angry, but he also showed a slight smile, but if he looked closely, there was full disdain in this smile. He looked Li Yuanjing up and down, his eyes were sharp and sharp, and his mouth was so poisonous that he was merciless.
"You just have two grains of glutinous rice on your clothes, you can't see it if you don't look carefully, I didn't expect you to cry and mourn here because of this, just like a little girl with a broken flower skirt." Shen Yunxuan pursed the corners of his mouth, "Besides, the body you are wearing doesn't look like a good dress, even if it gets dirty, what's the big deal." ”
These words were like a sharp knife, poking straight at Li Yuanjing, which hit his self-esteem greatly.
His breathing became short, and his fists were clenched tightly, if it weren't for Ning Jinhua next to him who kept pulling his arm, I'm afraid he would have to make a move. He restrained for a moment, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence, "What about you, you have to hold me in order to break the zongzi, what kind of man are you?" ”
"Hold you and don't let go?" Shen Yunxuan almost laughed out loud, "You can see it, I didn't pull you, the person who has been dragging your arm is not me, but the woman next to you." ”
This woman refers to Ning Jinhua.
Only then did Li Yuanjing realize that his cousin had been dragging his arm since just now, and the whole person was leaning on him, clinging tightly, and he didn't know whether he wanted to pull the frame or what he wanted to do......
He frowned and pushed his cousin away, not very polite.
Shen Yunxuan pointed to the ground, and continued, "Also, these are not broken zongzi that you knocked off, these are good zongzi that Aunt Wang took out and sold after wrapping them herself, don't talk nonsense." You knocked out my zongzi, wasted so much food, and wasted Aunt Wang's hard work, but you didn't apologize at all, you are still decent, is this usually the case? His face gradually became serious, and he returned to his previous stubborn appearance.
Ning Jinyun couldn't help but feel surprised, looking at this Shen Gongzi's luxurious clothes, he really couldn't see that he could care so much about food and other people's efforts.
Born in a rich family but can have this heart, this is naturally very good, Ning Jinyun's heart has unconsciously had a good impression of Shen Yunxuan.
However, in front of so many people on the street, it is really not appropriate to argue over such a trivial matter, Ning Jinyun looked at the increasing number of onlookers, and Li Yuanjing's increasingly ugly face like pork liver, and a feeling of uneasiness rose in his heart.
The two of them weren't going to fight in front of so many people, would they......