"You have to be on the outside first, and sometimes defending well is more useful than attacking blindly. Now that the prince wants to have no connections, he has no power, and he will not be able to leave the palace for more than half a year, so the prince might as well take advantage of this period to cultivate himself first, while preparing for the opening of the mansion, and establishing his own image in front of the emperor. ”

King Zheng frowned and nodded: "The disciple respectfully follows Mr.'s instructions." After a while, he said: "My brother Chu Wang took advantage of the shareholder wind of the Wuchengying, and I don't know how he will act in the next half a year?" ”

"If the King of Chu is such an impatient person, the matter of the Wucheng Camp will not be able to drag on for so long."

Shen Guanyu turned around under the curtain and said, "And even if the King of Chu is irritable, the people around him will persuade him not to be in a hurry." The rafters rot first, many people understand. As long as the prince allows the king of Chu to show some more limelight in the autumn hunt, let his edge show again, and the lower officials dare to guarantee that until the prince leaves the mansion, he will not make any more moves. ”

A person is too sharp, sometimes even if he is unintentional, he will always hurt the interests of others by mistake.

The King of Chu has been high enough recently, although he is the prince, but after experiencing the Pang Dingbei incident, so many meritorious ministers in the court, based on their own interests, will also consider the future monarch for their own interests. If the king of Chu is proud and publicized because of this, it will inevitably cause them a sense of crisis, and they will also be afraid that someone will make an example of killing chickens and monkeys with honors.

And if King Zheng adds a fire to this, someone will naturally stand up and pour cold water on him. And although it can't hurt the root of King Chu, it is also a kind of suppression for him in the end. Speaking of which, there is still a little bit of use in Pang Dingbei's matter.

King Zheng pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but think deeply, since then he was looking for someone who could use it, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the day of leaving the palace without mentioning it.

Here Shen Guanyu returned to the house, and heard that Shen Eun would also come back before the festival, so he stood under the porch and paused, and then entered the house again.

On the night of the twelfth day, there was an autumn rain, and on the thirteenth day it was still cloudy, Shen Yan was in the room in the morning for this month's account, and suddenly smelled a strong fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and looked up to see that the osmanthus flowers full of trees outside the window were all in full bloom, and there was a refreshing fragrance in the wind, and the mood became clear, and he put the pen out of the house and pinched a branch.

Huang Ying was going to iron her clothes and came back, and when she saw this, she smiled and said: "The girl wants to see the flowers, it is better to go to the back garden, a few old osmanthus trees have bloomed, and the young masters in the three and five mansions also came over in the morning. ”

The three mansions and the five mansions are actually the mansions of Shen Guanyu's cousins Shen Guantai and Shen Guanqiong, after the death of the old lady of the Shen family, they naturally split the family, and the old lady Shen Yong, who is the eldest son, inherited the family business, and the other three brothers moved out of the ancestral house. After that, it spread out, and when it came to the generation of Shen Guanyu's family, the older generation also passed away one after another.

The Shen family has always valued concubines over concubines, and there are very few concubines, and all the seven cousins in Shen Guanyu's generation, including him, are grandchildren, and he originally had a younger brother, but unfortunately he passed away when he was a teenager. Fortunately, there are two sisters, one married to Fujian, and the other married to the Xie family in Jiangnan, and now the two aunts have passed away.

Therefore, the Shen family Guanzi generation now looks very thin, and because of this, the various provinces have maintained close contacts, and Shen Guanyu, who is the second in line, is the oldest in the world, so the children of the various provinces often come to say hello. Especially after Mrs. Shen fell ill, the ladies often came to ask for help.

But Shen Yan had very little contact with them, firstly, she had not been back to Beijing for a long time, and secondly, even if the ladies came, there were also Hua's sisters who came forward to entertain, unless there were sisters of the same generation who came. But most of them live in the suburbs of Beijing, and the sisters will not leave the house if they are fine, but the children have met a few times, but because they are not familiar with each other, there is no topic to talk about.

But right now, Shen Yan is worried that the world has been too peaceful and boring recently, and I heard that there is a lot of fun, where can I not go?

Immediately, he put on his cloak and walked out of the courtyard gate.

Walking through the Hanging Flower Gate, I suddenly saw several carriages parked in the vestibule, and several domestic servants were unloading large and small cages.

Shen Yan stopped and called a mother-in-law and asked, "Whose luggage is this?" ”

The mother-in-law said: "If you go back to the girl, this is our third master's luggage, and the third master has just arrived at the house." ”

Shen Eun has arrived?

Shen Yan nodded suddenly, looked at the carriage and horse twice, and then went back to the second room.

Fahrenheit was asking people to make grapefruit tea, and she sat down at the table and said, "The third uncle is back." ”

Hua Shi obviously knew it for a long time, and while sprinkling cane sugar into the grapefruit meat, he said lightly: "You go back and ask Sister Yi to say goodbye, Brother Xin has sent a lot of Shanxi specialties." After speaking, she looked up at her again and said, "It turns out that he really went to Jinzhong." The address given by Brother Xin is indeed where he lived, but he was already gone when the person sent by your aunt arrived. ”

Shen Yan took a piece of grapefruit, peeled it and said, "How do you know?" ”

"Your eldest aunt has just left, and she has gone to trick your third uncle's words." Fahrenheit glanced at her, then beckoned her over and said, "Do you know why your third uncle came back at this time?" ”

Shen Yan was stunned: "Didn't you rush back for the Mid-Autumn Festival?" ”

"There are also things you can't think of!" Hua squinted at her and proudly picked up the tea, "I tell you that your third uncle came back this time, in addition to celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also for the sake of continuing the string." Do you remember your fourth aunt's cousin?

"This time, the Chen family acknowledged that our master had solved the crisis, and they probably felt that there was nothing to be done, and they still hinted that they wanted to promote this marriage. So, when your third uncle sent a letter last time, the master asked people to intercept it, and let people pounce on it with the address, and chased the person back. I didn't even know about it with your aunt, but he didn't know until he came back and said it himself. ”

Shen Yan sneered, "The Chen family really hasn't given up?" ”

"It's just that their family is dead-hearted, and the master doesn't necessarily have a dead heart, right?"

Hua Shi sipped his tea ceremony, "This Zeng family has a good family background, no matter what the current situation is, it will not be worse than the Liu family, the Chen family is also a person who wants to be faced, it is really that inappropriate woman, and he can't push it to my Shen family to be a young grandmother." The Chen family mentions it now, and of course the master will push the boat with the water. ”

Shen Yan's open mouth took a long time to close.

She still thought that this matter had come to an end, after all, there had been no news for so long, so to speak, don't say that this Zeng family is really a woman with both good looks? She doesn't have any special opinion on this matter, Shen Eun wants to continue the string after all, since it is fate, of course it can be matched.

But the key is that Chen slapped Shen Xin, can this family affair still be matched?

She shook her head and said, "I think it's difficult. ”

Fahrenheit was noncommittal, stuffed her with two pieces of grapefruit, and got up.

Shen Yan was ordered to go to the third room to ask for peace, so he had to change his route to find Shen Yi. Thinking about it, because Shen Eun came back, Shen Xin couldn't go to enjoy the flowers, and no one in Toad Guige would definitely go to support him at this time.

When passing by the fourth room, Chen's voice scolding Shen Ming came from the courtyard.

It turned out that Shen Ming was teasing Shen Kui with halva, but Shen Kui couldn't eat the sugar, so she was about to cry.

After the Midyear Festival, it is now quiet in the four rooms. Shen Xuan's attitude towards the Chen family is still the same, and the Chen family still does not go to his courtyard for half a step, and the world does not seem to have changed because Shen Xuan personally went to the fire to save them, after all, no one knows whether he rushed into the fire to save his nieces and daughters or to save his wife.

Chen still doesn't get along with Shen Xuan, but the resentment and injustice on her face don't fade a little, and when Ji has nothing to do with her, she basically stays in the room, doing needlework, or sorting out accounts—recently she occasionally takes the initiative to come to Fahrenheit and ask her for advice on how to do business.

The focus of her life seems to have shifted from endless resentment to how to take care of the industry.

Shen Yan wasn't sure that it was the words she said in the Purification Water Nunnery that touched her, but no matter what, it was a good sign to be able to calm down.

It's just that she doesn't know the news of Shen Eun's return, has she ever known?

When she arrived at the long room, Shen Yi was pretending to sleep next to the pillow, and when she heard that she was invited to the third room, she said: "At noon at this time, the third uncle will come back from the trek, and he must be sleepy, you come and lie down first, let's go later." ”

Shen Yan went to the kang and lay down face to face with her.

Shen Yi looked at the goose-yellow cardigan on her body, the style was simple but generous, and she couldn't help but think of the poor clothes she wore that day.

After being pulled away from the topic by Ji that day, she thought about it again, and couldn't help but think that the person who sent the letter to Shen Mi that night was the guard by Han Ji's side. She remembered that she was very startled at the time, the Wei State Mansion and the Shen family did not have any official contacts, but she only had the impression that this Han Ji came to the mansion to look for Shen Mi once, and then Shen Yan was scolded afterwards.

Later, Shen Mi was in the tribute courtyard and worked with him for a few more days.

What she was deeply puzzled about was why it was Han Ji's people who came to deliver a letter to Shen Yan when Shen Yan was in trouble? Being able to send someone around her to deliver a letter for her is, of course, very face-saving for her. Later, Shen Mi said that Shen Yan went directly to Washington after being rescued, but Han Ji made a meritorious contribution when arresting Liu Yan, although theoretically there was no flaw in their words, but the mystery in her heart was getting bigger and bigger.

Shen Yan lay down for a while, opened her eyes and saw her eyes flickering, and couldn't help but say, "What are you thinking?" ”

Shen Yi hurriedly sat up under the cover and plucked the incense from the incense burner under the kang.

turned around and looked at her, but still couldn't help but say, "I heard that Han Ji of the Wei Mansion is an extremely handsome and beautiful man?" ”

She didn't dare to ask too obviously, in the end, when she and Lu Zhenqian made her see through, she didn't let her get off the stage.

Shen Yan didn't expect her to suddenly ask this, her eyebrows paused slightly, and she sat up after a while, and said with a haha: "I don't think it's so great, whether a man is attractive or not depends on whether he has the ability, if you want to look at the appearance, then I might as well look at myself-" Saying that, she picked up the rhombic glass on the side, stroked her face in the mirror, and said: "Look, it's so beautiful, the eyes are so big, and the skin is so good!" ”R1152