004 Early Spring Night
Four-bedroom family go?
Shen Rouning felt more and more strange.
Shen Siye is going to participate in the Spring Festival, is it appropriate to drag the family with him? Besides, the real estate house of the Shen family in the capital, that is, the place where Shen Sanye's family is living now, I heard that it is not rich, it is just a four-entry courtyard, and I am afraid it is not as big as the courtyard of their four-room ancestral house now.
But on the other hand, there are a lot of people in the third room.
Shen San's master Shen Chongmo is more than five or six years older than Shen Si's master, and he got married earlier, the original Jiang family left a son and a daughter, the eldest son Shen Fifth Young Master Shen Duanhuai has already married, and the eldest daughter Shen Roubing, the second girl, Shen Roubing, has also reached the age of sixteen and is looking at each other. The step-room Niu clan married into the door when the eldest girl Shen was less than two years old, and I heard that she had a good personality and was easy to raise, so she quickly raised a pair of twin daughters for Shen Sanye, and then gave birth to two sons in a row, both of which stood up, and the order was six and seven.
Moreover, Shen Rouning remembered that not long ago, Jingli sent a letter back, saying that the third wife, Niu, had added another daughter to the Shen family. When Mrs. Shen sent a congratulatory gift to Beijing, she also added a handmade ragdoll rabbit as a heart.
Such a large family is a family to be exquisite, the maids and women are crowded together, and a four-way courtyard is only afraid that it will be enough to live!
The four masters of the three rooms took one or twenty subordinates, how to settle them!
You can't stay in an inn!
If it was just Shen Siye, an adult man, it would be much easier to place.
No matter where you look at it, it is a bit strange to invite their four-room family to live in Beijing.
However, although this invitation is a little weird, it is not a secret matter, and it is not enough for Mama Fan to let her send everyone away to speak, right?
Shen Rouning adjusted her sitting posture slightly, took a sip of warm green tea soup, and prepared to listen to Mama Fan's details.
"The ...... of the capital" Mama Fan seemed to know where to start, and after a moment of silence, she said: "For the spring boudoir, the fourth master has some intentions, but he has not made up his mind. And half of them don't want to leave here...... But I can't say for sure......"
Mama Fan was originally a serious and square person, talking and doing things, and never dragging her feet.
But this time when she came to Shen Rouning, she behaved a little wrong-she signaled Shen Rouning to retreat, and said for a while, only saying that the third master had a somewhat incomprehensible invitation in the letter, and in the end, she didn't say exactly what the fourth master and the fourth wife meant.
To go, or not to go.
The fourth master went alone, or the whole family.
Mama Fan sat for a while, then said goodbye and left. When Mama Fan left, Shen Rouning could clearly see that this Mama Fan was definitely full of words, and she didn't know whether to talk to Shen Rouning or how to say it.
Shen Rouning didn't force Mama Fan to ask.
She sent people away, sat on the windowsill and slowly used up a cup of tea, and flipped through a thick copy of "Taizu Benji".
It was getting dark.
Shen Rouning used to cook as usual.
She stood up, rinsed her mouth, put on a silver-red cloak from Xiyan, strolled out of the house, walked out along the bluestone path, and walked out of Myeongjiaoyuan.
Bi Dong and another little girl, Bi Yun, led the way with lanterns in front of them.
"Go to the mother's yard." Shen Rou Ning commanded.
Every day, after dinner, she would walk slowly for a quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour. Sometimes I would go to the eldest lady's courtyard to sit for a while, sometimes I would go to greet the fourth master and the fourth wife, and sometimes I would go to her brother-in-law, the ninth young master Shen Duanrong, and more often, she would walk casually and without a purpose. 、
If the fourth master occasionally goes out to meet friends during the day, or reads and paints, as soon as it gets dark, he will definitely come back on time to accompany the fourth wife for dinner. Shen Rouning wants to find Shen Siye, and it will never be wrong to come to her mother at this time.
Really.
When Shen Rouning arrived, Shen Siye was teaching Shen Duanrong to learn characters in front of the window.
Shen has no shortage of silver.
It was not completely dark, and several candlesticks had been lit in the room, and the orange-white light filled the room with a relaxing warmth.
Shen Siye Shen Chongyan's appearance and height are only middle and upper, and his face is only upright, he is a typical literati talent, with a smile on the corners of his eyes and mouth, exuding an extraordinarily satisfied gentleness from the inside out.
It seems that the current life, guarding his wife and children, guarding poetry and books, and not worrying about his livelihood, is the day he wants the most, and there is no other thought.
What Mama Shen said was bad.
Shen Siye was afraid that there was no meaning of "intention" at all.
Shen Rouning stood outside the window and looked at Shen Siye like this, thinking to herself, Shen Siye is such a person, she doesn't care about how Chun Yu is, whether she can be promoted as an official or not. It is estimated that in his opinion, after becoming an official and receiving a public office, the time spent with his wife will definitely be much less, and he has all kinds of things to worry about, and he is tired and tired, and the gains outweigh the losses.
How can the present day be comfortable and satisfying.
Therefore, he was afraid that he would not bother to go at all.
Unless it's the fourth lady who speaks.
Shen Rouning's gaze fell on Mrs. Shen Si.
She sat upright in a chair with a calm face, as if she had no thoughts. A cup of tea in his hand was curling with mist. So much so that her face was a little blurred in the mist.
Shen Rouning's daughter is outstanding, and she can be treated so infatuated by Shen Siye, Shen Si's wife Chen will definitely not be bad in appearance. To be precise, Mrs. Shen Si was extremely beautiful, with a full forehead, a beautiful nose, a small but plump mouth and lips, coupled with flawless skin like fine white jade, and a cold and indifferent temperament...... No matter who you have to admit that the fourth wife, Chen, is an out-and-out beauty, and then sigh that Shen Siye's infatuation is not without reason.
It's just that it has to be mentioned that the fourth wife's right forehead has always been pinned obliquely with a thin black veil until her sideburns. The cold and clear pair of beautiful eyes against the black veil, when they look at it quietly, it is enough to make people thrilled, and what they want to say is difficult to say.
This layer of black yarn is ingenious, and the lining of the four wives is too beautiful...... But everyone in Shenjia Village knows that under the black veil, there is a narrow faint flesh-red scar, as long as a person's little finger, which is drawn from the right forehead, dangerously pasting the right eye, until the right sideburn.
In other words, the fourth wife, Chen, has a flawed appearance.
To put it cruelly, she is broken.
It turns out that no matter how beautiful a woman is, once she has scars and flaws on her appearance, no matter how good the makeup is, it is like a little gap in the exquisite antique porcelain, no matter how beautiful she is, it is just more suffocating.
Although, it seems that Mrs. Shen Si did not have a taboo about this scar, and Shen Siye never cared about this scar.
Shen Rou stopped her thoughts, walked into the house, and saluted Shen Siye and Mrs. Shen.
Mrs. Shen Si was still faint, and after glancing at her, she said "um", and continued to sit upright, without speaking. Shen Siye was in a good mood when he saw his daughter, smiled more gently, and casually asked her a few common words.
"Daddy." After Shen Duanrong finished writing a large character, Shen Rouning opened her mouth and asked, "I heard that the third uncle has sent a letter asking you to go to the capital to participate in the Spring Festival?" She smiled delicately and lovely, with an innocent look of admiration in her eyes, and said: "The eldest aunt often says that my father is a great talent, and it is a pity to nest in the village...... If Daddy goes to Chunqiu, he will definitely be able to title the gold list, right? ”
"If the champion comes back, it would be the best!"
"That's what your aunt said?"
Master Shen Si was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled: "However, the imperial examination focuses on strategy, and my father has long been abandoned in this regard, how can I win the top spot...... I'm afraid that Ning'er will be disappointed. He only said that he couldn't win the top prize, and then put forward the theory of suggestion, saying that it was "wasted", but it was casual and casual......
Looking at it like this, for him Shen Siye Shen Chongyan, it is too difficult to win the first place, but the title of the gold list is a piece of cake, and it is really not difficult.
Shen Rouning nodded silently.
She hadn't seen Shen Siye's strategy, but she had seen his other poetry articles. From her point of view, looking at the level of Shen Siye, the choice of words and sentences and the style of writing are definitely very good, and they will not be worse than those articles in the previous dynasty. Otherwise, he would not have been in the same subject as Shen Sanye when he was in his twenties.
It's not easy to get a lift.
"That's ......" Shen Rouning was a little disappointed on her face, and muttered: "If my father can pass the exam and become an official like the third master, my mother will have a fate......" She muttered for a while, and didn't say any more.
She seemed to be muttering, but the room was very quiet inside and outside, only the occasional slight burst of the candle flame, and her words were easily heard by several people in the room.
Mrs. Shen Si cast her beautiful eyes and glanced at Shen Rouning calmly.
Shen Siye was stunned for a moment, and when he subconsciously looked at the fourth wife, he happened to see her gaze, his mind moved, and he asked Shen Rouning with a smile: "Does Ning'er want her father to be a big official?" ”
Shen Rouning nodded and shook her head, and said with some embarrassment: "Daddy, in fact, Ning'er is just thinking that she can leave the village to see what the scenery in the outside world looks like." Shenjia Village is too small, and Ning'er has only been to the Thousand Crane Peak behind at the farthest, which is really boring! ”
"Moreover, when Ning'er was studying, she saw that the book said that the customs and people outside were strange, which was very interesting, and I longed for it."
It's been almost ten years.
Her patience was running out.
Shenjia Village is such a paradise that has no contention with the world, and it is of course the best place to retire for the elderly. But she's only 10 years old now. The future is still as long as that.
No, as soon as I was born, I began a lifetime of pension.
Always go out and see.