"Feelings can be cultivated, and this kind of thing is difficult to analyze in a coherent way." Shi Jing said calmly: "Looking at Cen Chi's upbringing, in fact, he has not yet determined his lifelong beliefs, and even there are fragile defects in the spiritual world, which we can all take advantage of. ”

Seeing that Shi Xin's face was still hesitant, he said again: "It's better to give it a try than to do nothing." In the process, you will continue to treat him as you used to, and I will give you hints when necessary. ”

"That's all there is to it." Shi Xin sighed.

Shi Jing was silent for a moment, then stood up and prepared to go back to the bedroom to rest.

Shi Xin followed him, and when he walked to the door, he couldn't help but ask: "Doesn't my father have the slightest scruples about Xiaoqiang's girl?" ”

"Yes, but it's so small that it's almost negligible." Shi Jing said calmly: "With no power, no wealth, and no status in the world, if such a person leaves the Shi Mansion, I am afraid that it will be extremely miserable." It is enough to give her a timely reminder so that she can see who she is and what she should do. ”

Shi Xin only nodded when he heard this.

"It's not early, let's rest!" After Shi Jing finished speaking, he opened the door and went out, and an old servant who was waiting outside the Zhangyu field saw him coming out, and hurriedly picked up a lantern resting on the ground and hurriedly approached to show the way for Shi Jing.

Shi Xin closed the door of the study, and when he turned around again, Shi Jing had already walked farther. Looking at his father's back, although he had an old servant by his side, he felt the taste of loneliness in his father's back.

In tonight's conversation, my father spoke of affection, loyalty, and faith, something he rarely mentioned. Usually the conversation between their father and son always revolves around the strategy of doing things and the rules of officialdom, Shi Xin is already a little used to it, but today's conversation can be regarded as a real 'heart-to-heart talk', and he feels a little strange in his heart.

But after the weirdness, he couldn't help but sigh a little.

Could it be because too many people died the other day? Father suddenly touched? No, in the past five years, after the imperial situation stabilized and the national strength became richer, the respected emperor began to carry out a major purge of the officials of various ministries, and almost every few months, there would be a new person on the throne and the old person would be overshadowed. Moreover, it is believed that the punishment of Wandefu will be executed in the near future, and I don't know how many people will become prisoners of the lower ranks and become undead ghosts.

If the father was to be touched, why only after this incident?

Come to think of it. A thought popped into his mind.

Father, it's really old.

The degradation of the body lì affects the will of the person. And seeing too much parting will also make people feel more melancholy. No matter how strong a person is, he will have his own emotional comprehension.

"Emotion......" Shi Xin, who hung his hands and relaxed his shoulders, walked alone on the gravel road back to his bedroom, and sighed softly.

He told himself in his heart that his father was getting old. He has to work harder as a son. As for the emotions that his father talked about tonight, these two words represent things that are too expensive, and he knows very well that his father's so-called probation of Cen Chi is not really asking him to give up that kind of expensive things.

There is a limit to what can fit in a person's heart, again. The same goes for the amount of money that can be paid.

The most precious things are given to the most deserving people, and there is a door across this minimum criterion of worthiness. And at this moment, Cen Chi was hovering at the door. But it hasn't really come forward yet.

Shi Xin felt that what his father said was right, mutual trust in the relationship was actually a kind of mutual restraint, if Cen Chi refused to enter the door, he would not even have to pay for the fake emotion, but Cen Chi Ruo was willing to step in. Can you really do it all the time?

……

When Cen Chi woke up, he only felt a bright red color in front of him.

He blinked subconsciously. Then I really woke up. The bright red he saw just now was actually the image that the sunlight had brought to his pupils when the sun hit his eyelids that had not yet opened.

However, not long after he woke up, as soon as his five senses regained consciousness, he heard the sound of an argument coming from outside the house. He slowly realized that he was awakened by the sound of the quarrel.

"I knocked over my jujube soup and want to leave?"

"All the potions I was holding were also spilled, let's hurry up and go back and fill a new bowl of it!"

"To put it simply, do you know who I'm going to serve this jujube soup to? Just because of your attitude just now, I will definitely tell Steward Zhang about this matter, and let Steward Zhang teach you how to do things again. I know that the third young master allows you to serve Mr. Cen closely, but you have to know your identity, after all, you are a girl, can you still lose your temper because of this? ”

"I ......"

Cen Chi was lying on the bed in the room, and Xiao Qiang's voice could easily be identified from the quarrel. The two arguing outside the house didn't seem to be far away, so Cen Chi could also feel the fierce momentum in the tone of the woman who scolded Xiao Qiang, as well as the powerlessness and embarrassment of Xiao Qiang's reply.

A thought came to him, but when he was about to take action, he chose to give up after exhaling, and the action of getting up finally turned into a turn, and the position of lying on the bed changed from lying on his back to his side.

Maybe it's because he has been lying down for a long time, Cen Chi's mind was empty when he just woke up, but he has a deep memory of the scene he saw two days ago.

The old mansion, which was engulfed in smoke and fire, made his heart faintly tired at the moment. The quarrel outside the house seemed noisy and disgusting in his empty heart, and the girl's helpless situation would have aroused Cen Chi's pity in normal times, but at this moment, Cen Chi's heart was cold and indifferent for no reason because of her helplessness.

If Senior Brother goes away, who should I prove what I want to prove to whom?

If the mastermind of this conspiracy is Shi Gong, but he stays here and does so many things, wouldn't it be ridiculous!

How do I go back to see Master......

Helpless, helpless, who is more than him!

After lying on his side in a different shape, Cen Chi slowly curled up, he buried his head in the soft brocade quilt, fantasizing that he could be isolated from the world in this way, what happened outside, and what did it have to do with him.

However, at this time, another reprimand suddenly came from outside the house, making him let go of the brocade quilt squeezed in his arms.

"What's the noise?! Isn't it just a bowl of red date soup? With all this noisy leisure, I think you'll have enough to make two trips to the eldest lady. ”

Cen Chi was more familiar with this voice, because it was Shi Xin's voice.

And the eldest lady mentioned in Shi Xin's words is actually not his biological mother.

The prime minister's wife gave birth to a second son for him, but unfortunately, the prime minister's second son was born stupid. If a poor family leaves such a child, I am afraid that they will not be able to raise much of it, but the Shi family has no worries about food and clothing, and raised a stupid son, and no one will think that the family will have an extra mouth to eat. However, the disability brought out of the mother's womb has not been good, and as the second young man's physique grows into an adult, this IQ defect becomes more obvious.

The eldest lady is worried about this. As a wife, she can't do her duty as a wife, she gave birth to such a crippled son, and she can't change this situation after raising a child for more than ten years, under the pressure of all kinds of gossip from outside, as well as the condemnation from her own heart, etc., the eldest lady seems to have the first signs of madness four years ago.

Two years ago, the eldest lady took Shi Ershao for a walk by the lotus pond, but suddenly pushed her own son down the pond, and the servants who accompanied her were stunned. Since then, she has moved to a single courtyard in the corner of the quiet orchid garden under the arrangement of Prime Minister Shi Jing, and if she wants to see her son, she must get Shi Jing's permission.

But this thing is also strange, living such a life that is almost under house arrest, the eldest lady lives longer than the other two concubines who gave birth to the eldest son and the youngest son for Shi Jing.

Shi Jing's eldest son was born to his favorite concubine Gu, but Shi Dashao was good at martial arts, and when he became an adult, he took the lead in martial arts, and since then he has been guarding the territory for the imperial court. He fought with the enemy outside and forgot himself, but his biological mother Gu, who lived in Shifu, was worried every day, and was often frightened by the information revealed in the war report. Gu passed away at the age of thirty-five, probably because this frightened love had accumulated too much.

Shi Sanshao's biological mother was physically weak, and after giving birth, her physical condition tended to deteriorate, and she spent most of the year on bed rest. Therefore, after Shi Xin was born, Prime Minister Shi Jing paid great attention to his diet, hoping that he would not inherit his biological mother's physique. As a result, Shi Xin was in good health, but his mother did not survive the age of thirty-two after all, and the time of her death was only more than a year later than Shi Dashao's biological mother, Gu Shi.

Although the Shi family's son and youngest son have now lost their mothers, they were accompanied by their mothers in their childhood, and their feelings for the eldest lady are only kept in an area of respect for their elders.

After the death of their respective biological mothers, the eldest lady also seemed to be 'unlucky' crazy. After that, Shi Dashao continued to guard the frontier and became a horse general with limited power but much more chic than the Beijing officials. Although Shi Sanshao lived with his father in the Shi Mansion, there were very few intersections with the eldest lady.

And these details don't seem to be very important secrets in the Shi Mansion, at least among those idlers, such topics are still discussed a little frequently. Of course, as a foreigner, he can know so much about other people's family affairs, and that is also due to Shi Xin's willingness to speak.

At this moment, Cen Chi was also a little curious, especially after he noticed that the forgery of the official seal by the idlers of the Shi Mansion seemed to be related to the matter of his senior brother, and when he heard Shi Xin scolding the servant who had scolded Xiao Qiang just now outside his bedroom, a different kind of emotion suddenly appeared in his heart, and he only felt that today's Shi Xin's figure overlapped with the figure on the stage.

Today, he suddenly wanted to use another angle of gaze to re-observe Shi Xin's words and deeds.