"He must have gone out of that tunnel," I said, "and I slipped through the table last time, and I can't come back." ”

Zhou Sinian washed the apricots and said, "Come and eat." ”

I walked over, sat down on the stone bench, picked up the apricot, took a bite, and said, "It's delicious." ”

Zhou Sinian smiled and asked puzzledly: "Why do you love to eat apricots so much?" Unripe sour apricots can be eaten. ”

I said: "I have loved to eat since I was a child, my mother said that she likes to eat apricots the most, and when she was pregnant with me, she vomited very much, and it was my grandmother who asked her to pick a lot of apricots to eat, and she was much better." She was pregnant for ten months and has been eating all the time, so I also love to eat sour apricots after I was born. ”

"Si Nian bought you such an apricot forest, how much you like to eat in the future." Xing Lin Weng's loud voice sounded behind him.

Seeing Xing Lin Weng, he somehow felt a sense of closeness, hurriedly walked over, took his arm, and shouted, "Daddy." ”

Xing Lin Weng was a little surprised, but it was more of a surprise, and he said happily: "Si Nian, you are more sensible than you!" ”

Zhou Sinian smiled good-naturedly: "She has always been very well-behaved and sensible, much better than me." ”

I shook Xing Lin Weng's arm and said coquettishly: "Daddy, last time he bullied me, I wanted you to be the master for me, but I didn't find you, and I slipped off the table, and I can't go home." ”

Xing Lin Weng smiled and said: "If he bullies you again in the future, you come to sue me, and I will make the decision for you." ”

We sat down around the stone table together, and I said, "Daddy, why do you want to live in the apricot grove?" Let's go to the house together. ”

Xing Lin Weng said: "No, I like to live here, I like the sweet fragrance of this apricot." ”

Zhou Sinian said with a smile: "When my father-in-law was young, he loved a girl and followed her from the south to the capital. ”

For some reason, my heart moved, my mother's maiden name was "Xingrang". How is that possible, though? How could it be such a coincidence. I shook my head, there was such a disparity in status, and besides, my mother seemed to have entered the palace at the age of seventeen.

Xinglin Weng's expression suddenly dimmed, I saw this and hurriedly glanced at Zhou Sinian, Zhou Sinian should not have expected that after so many years, the father-in-law still remembered the girl, and hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Shenglan has always wondered, how did you come back from the tunnel, you tell her." ”

Xing Lin Weng was interested and said, "There is a switch on that stool, you press it, and it can bounce back." When I came back that day, I saw the stool under it, and I suspected that someone had fallen down, but I didn't expect it to be you. ”

"Every time I come down, I will send the stool up, so that if someone enters the cave by mistake, they will not enter the Zhou Mansion through the apricot forest. There is also a switch to put the stool down again. ”

I said, "If you go out of the tunnel, you will be a village or town, and if you go out of the house, you will be in the capital, which is fun." If you take the main road, you won't have to walk for days. ”

Xinglin Weng laughed and said, "My old man is not trying to have fun, this half-city villa does not have a door that opens to the outside, I can't buy a salt and pass through your garden." ”

Although Xing Lin Weng calls himself an "old man", except for his gray hair and beard, he does not show his old age at all, his facial features look handsome and graceful, and he must have been a handsome guy when he was young.

couldn't help but be curious, and after going back, he asked Zhou Sinian: "What is the girl that my father-in-law likes?" ”

Zhou Sinian said: "I don't know, at that time I was five or six years old, my father-in-law came to Middle Earth to sell medicinal materials, did not go back, I heard the people who went with me, I liked a girl, a person from the capital, followed into Beijing, and only went back after two years, saying that the girl was married, and my parents did not dare to ask." ”

When I heard this, my heart was sad, and I said, "My father-in-law is really a man of deep affection and righteousness, and I wonder if he can still see that girl now?" ”

Zhou Sinian sighed: "What can you do if you can't see it? Decades have passed, and the girl is now forty or fifty years old, but I am afraid that now that she has a full house of children and grandchildren, where can she still think of him? It's a pity that my father-in-law wasted his life. ”

I said disapprovingly: "Father-in-law is called single-mindedness, how can a person like you who marries so many women understand?" ”

Zhou Sinian smiled helplessly: "Why are you here again, aren't you a woman by my side now?" ”

"How good it would be if you didn't provoke Mu Yanfei, Ah Fu wouldn't die." I ignored his words, but the more I thought about it, the more sad I became, "It's obviously your oath, why is it Ah Fulai who bears the consequences in the end?" ”

Zhou Sinian "snapped" and slammed the book in his hand on the table, and the connection of the book was broken and scattered all over the ground. He stood up at once, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't mention this again!" ”

I was so frightened by his angry appearance that I didn't dare to say anything more, and I didn't feel that I was at fault, so I froze there.

After a long time, he calmed down and whispered: "I don't want this to happen either, but it's already like this, what's the point of mentioning it?" Do you want me to pay for Ah Fu's life? ”

Seeing his sad appearance, I felt distressed and guilty, hugged him, cried and said, "I'm sorry, I know it's not your fault, I won't mention this in the future." ”

He put his arms around me, didn't speak, didn't make a sound, but tears were dripping down my face. I looked up and saw that his eyes were red, and I knew that his pain was no less than mine, so I smiled and said, "Brother Nian, let's go to see my father-in-law every day in the future, I feel much better now, and I don't want to vomit." ”

His face finally softened a little, and said, "You like your father-in-law, that's no better, he seems to like you more than I do." ”

I teased him, "Because I'm better looking than you." ”

He finally smiled and said, "Yes, yes, my lady is the most beautiful." ”

Since then, Ah Fu has not been mentioned by everyone anymore, and her crying occasionally appears in my dreams. As my lower abdomen gradually bulged again, Ah Fu was deliberately forgotten by everyone, as if he had never been in this world.

Towards the end of the summer, another great news came, Zhou Jieyu gave birth to a prince. As Zhou Jieyu's maiden family, this happy event finally blew away the last bit of haze left by Ah Fu.

Li Chaozong was very happy and named the prince Shenghong and granted amnesty to the world.

Then, I was summoned to Zhou Sinian.

Li Chaozong asked: "Shenglan, I heard that you are worthy of Zhou Jieyu's sisters?" ”

I hurriedly said: "Meng Niangniang is wrong to love, and the concubine is afraid." ”

Li Chaozong smiled and said, "What's so scared? It's just that you're my niece, and you're in this generation."

I understand, he thinks that Zhou Jieyu and I are sisters, and the generation is wrong. It's just that it's not the first day that I've called Zhou Jieyu a sister, and he only mentioned it now, I'm afraid he wants to do something.