"Master's apprentice?" Xiao Shiji was very puzzled, "Who is the master?" Who are the apprentices? What does it have to do with Feng Jian? ”

An Zichang stood up, walked to Xiao Shiji's desk, propped his arms on the desk, squinted his eyes, and looked at Xiao Shiji carefully.

It's a pity that Xiao Shiji has now regained his calm, and An Zichang can no longer see the clue on his face, and the previous anger is no longer visible.

"I heard that Feng Jian's bad idea was given to him by Mu Yelai. Of course, this news has not been confirmed, because it is the news from Feng Pei Dun's main wife. You can think carefully about whether you want to message her. After An Zichang finished speaking, he let go of his arm, stood up straight, and said, "Okay, I've said everything that needs to be said, you can do it yourself." I'm going home with Susu. ”

Xiao Shiji silently stood up and sent An Zichang to the second door to pick up Zhu Susu, he himself did not follow in, but turned back to the study, still sitting behind the desk.

From daytime to dusk, his posture did not move, but from the bright place, he disappeared into the darkness.

The inside of the study slowly became dark.

Du Hengshuang asked him if he wanted to go back for dinner, but he didn't say much, only said that he had something to do, and sat alone in the study and groaned.

……

In the inner courtyard, Zhishu and Ou Yangniang were a little uneasy.

"Madam, do you want to go to the outer courtyard to see Grandpa Guo?" Zhishu asked quietly.

Du Hengshuang shook his head, "I've already sent someone to ask." He's such an adult, and now he's fine, so if you don't want to come back for dinner, don't eat it. Du Hengshuang smiled. Greet the three children to dinner.

Brother Ping and Sister An happily prepared for the New Year, chattering with Brother Yang, who was already much older next to them, about the things to do during the New Year.

It wasn't until the meal was finished that they remembered that Daddy hadn't come back yet.

"Mother, where's Daddy?" Sister An asked while eating a snack.

Du Hengshuang said with a smile: "Daddy has business in the study, don't bother him." ”

"Oh, I know it, mother." The three children obediently got off the table, followed their adoptive mother and maid to bathe and change clothes, and then went to bed.

Du Hengshuang ordered the cook to make a few suppers. He sent people over. Then I went to bathe myself.

When she came out of the bath, she was so tired that she couldn't open her eyes, so she fell asleep and fell asleep, dreamless all night. I slept very soundly.

Xiao Shiji had no sleep all night.

On the desk in front of him was a food box sent by Du Hengshuang.

It contained a plate of long-lived porridge. A bowl of candied noodles with warm and snowy snow. A box of single-cage golden soufflé, as well as a small dish with concentric knots, and half a bowl of cloves drizzled. Zhilu said that he didn't like to drink soup, so he didn't prepare soup for him.

Everything is what he loves to eat.

The bits and pieces of the two of them getting along for so many years passed in front of him, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

He sat all night from night to dawn.

This night was longer than the day Du Hengshuang left him.

The next morning, when the first rays of morning light shone on the window lattice of the outer study, Xiao Shiji raised his head and glanced at the window.

He actually sat here all night?

Xiao Shiji shook his head with a smile and stood up with his desk.

After walking around the house a few times, he went out to punch and sweat profusely before he returned to the inner courtyard and went to the bathroom to wash up first.

Because he hadn't slept all night, he took a hot bath and squinted in the bath room for a while before getting up.

Du Hengshuang was worried about his body, so he ordered someone to prepare a few medicinal meals to make up for him.

Xiao Shiji came out of the bathroom with his open clothes, his head still wet.

"Done with everything?" Du Hengxue asked with a smile and beckoned to him, "Come and sit down, I'll dry your hair." ”

Xiao Shiji smiled and sat down in front of her.

Du Hengshuang took the cloth towel that wiped his hair, wrapped Xiao Shiji's head, and gently rubbed it.

Xiao Shiji has good hair, dark and smooth, and the light can be seen.

Du Hengshuang wiped him half-dry, put down the cloth towel, and took a comb to comb his hair.

"Did you eat breakfast?" Xiao Shiji asked softly with his eyes half-closed.

"Not yet, I'm waiting for you to eat together." Du Hengshuang laughed as he curled his hair.

Halfway through the comb, Du Hengshuang's hand suddenly paused.

"What's wrong? Is my hair too hard? Your hands hurt carefully. Xiao Shiji didn't dare to move, worried about making it more difficult for Du Hengshuang and making her strenuous work.

Du Hengshuang was suffocated. She looked down at Xiao Shiji's sideburns, and almost overnight, strands of silver-white hair appeared in his long dark hair.

Siu Shihe is only 27 years old...... They all have gray hair......

Du Hengshuang remembers it very clearly. At this time the day before yesterday, she also combed Xiao Shihe's hair, and there was no white hair at all, but now it is shocking.

One by one, it is hidden in the temples, and it can be seen clearly when you open it.

“…… Have you been having a hard time lately? Du Hengshuang was a little distressed, "If you are too tired, just resign from the Ministry of War." It's too tiring. ”

Xiao Shiji's heart is very warm. He turned around and glanced at Du Hengshuang, just in time to see the comb that she didn't have time to hide, and there were a few white hairs on the comb, which she accidentally brought down.

"It's just a few gray hairs, you don't have to worry about me." Xiao Shi and Wen Yan said, holding Du Hengshuang's hand holding the comb, and smiled, "If I'm old, you won't dislike me, right?" ”

Du Hengshuang was a little surprised, but he didn't take it to heart, just joked: "You can't say that yet, you are going to be old, I don't follow, I just love to look good-looking little brother." ”

"Then you go and see our two sons, one is better looking than the other, I'm not a little better-looking, it's okay, right?" Xiao Shiji took the comb off Du Hengshuang's hand, took a white jade hairpin himself, and tied his hair back at the back of his head.

In this way, he is still a handsome and handsome man.

Du Hengshuang tilted his head and looked at him for a long time, and said with a smile: "Actually, after watching you for so many years, I don't remember what you look like for a long time." Let's take a look at it today. My vision is really good. ”

Xiao Shiji took her to his lap and sat down, forehead to forehead, smiled lowly, kissed her on the cheek, wanted to say something, in the end or didn't say anything, just gently pressed her head to his chest, let her listen to her steady heartbeat.

"Mother!" There was a shout from outside.

Du Hengshuang jumped up from Xiao Shiji's knees in a panic, and before he could stand firmly, the curtain of the Moon Cave Gate was opened with a bang. A chubby boy rushed over like an arrow from a string. hugged Du Hengshuang's leg and shouted: "Mother, it's the New Year today, I want to eat a lot of crystal jade dew balls!" After speaking, he hurriedly said: "My mother said it." No repentance! You can eat as much as you want during the New Year! ”

The crystal rain is very sweet. Zhu Susu said that children should not eat more. Therefore, Du Hengshuang strictly limited the number of times a few children could eat crystal jade dew balls.

Brother Ping and Sister An are a little better, they don't like sweets, but Brother Yang is sugar-free and unhappy. Du Hengshuang was very worried, and he was the strictest in controlling him.

Brother Yang grinded hard and soaked hard, and finally let Du Hengshuang agree, let him eat enough during the New Year!

“…… Mother, it's already the thirtieth day of the lunar month! Brother Yang looked up at his little pink carved face and looked at Du Hengshuang with blank eyes.

Du Hengshuang softened, hugged him, and said with a smile: "Okay, my mother is a good talker, I'll let you eat enough today." ”

"Mother, father......" Brother Ping and Sister An also came in, and greeted Du Hengshuang and Xiao Shiji in turn.

Xiao Shiji nodded, didn't say much, watched Brother Ping and Sister An gather around Du Hengshuang, and together with Brother Yang, asked about today's New Year's preparations, the big and small faces were full of excitement, and the corners of Xiao Shiji's mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly.

The Zhuguo Mansion has changed into new clothes for the New Year, the house is cleaned, the door is replaced with peach charms, and the tung oil is newly painted, and the air is filled with an atmosphere called "Nian".

The Xiao family is small, and they have to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense on the morning of the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

Xiao Taiji and Long Shuzhi came early in the morning with their son Brother Shun.

"Big brother, this year's New Year, there is no Yanran, but it is more deserted." Xiao Tai and smiled and said authentically.

Xiao Shiji glanced at him, put his hands behind his back and said, "I don't think so." Yanran is now married, and the family is happy for her. The second year of junior high school is the first time she will return to her parents' house for the New Year, so remember to come over when the time comes. ”

"No problem." Xiao Taiji said happily.

Long Shuzhi took Brother Shun to see Du Hengshuang and her three children.

Brother Shun'er is about the same age as Brother Yang, a little older than him, more than two years old, but Brother Yang is very good at eating, and he is born with great strength, this year he ran crazy with his brother and sister, and he looks about the same age as a three-year-old child.

Brother Shun is much smaller, and he is very docile.

Although Du Hengshuang doesn't like Xiao Tai and Long Shuzhi, he still loves Brother Shun very much. When they met, they gave him a ten-tael gold bracelet, and Long Shuzhi smiled and couldn't stop thanking her.

"Children's stuff isn't worth anything." Du Hengshuang said, and asked Long Shuzhi to help her prepare the things for worshipping her ancestors, and she had to personally bring them to the offering table in the ancestral hall.

Long Shuzhi said: "Let's play with his brother, sister and brother, they are cousins, and they happen to be close to each other." ”

Du Hengshuang nodded, called a little maid over, and asked her to follow to take care of it.

Because among these children, Brother Ping and Sister An are already seven years old, much older than Brother Yang and Brother Shun, so Du Hengshuang is not worried, but asks the two older children not to only play by themselves, but to remember to take care of the two younger brothers.

Brother Ping and Sister An answered, and one of them took a younger brother's hand and went to the courtyard.

They played in the courtyard for a while, and Brother Yang was tired of playing in this place, so he didn't want to play here and wanted to go back.

Brother Shun proposed with a smile: "Why don't we go to the back garden to hide and seek?" ”

Brother Ping and Sister An were all excited, and after talking to their adoptive mother, they took a few children to the small garden behind.

The small garden was a place behind the main courtyard of the Zhuguo Mansion, and it was planted with several peonies of different species, several evergreen shrubs, and a well for the gardener to draw water.

When the four children came here, Brother Shun pulled Brother Yang to hide.

Brother Ping'er was a boy and the oldest, so he said, "You all hide, I'll come to you." I found it, and when I have the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, you will each of you toast me with a glass of wine and call me a 'good brother'!" ”

Sister An pursed her lips and said, "Mother doesn't allow you to drink!" ”

"Today's New Year, my mother said that you can do things that you can't usually do!" Brother Yang said anxiously, he was afraid that he would not be able to eat the crystal jade dew ball openly......

Brother Ping was busy reassuring Brother Yang, "It's okay, my mother said it's okay." Brother Yang, don't worry. ”

Sister An glanced at Brother Yang, and said, "Okay, it's my sister who said it wrong, Brother Yang, don't blame my sister." My sister apologizes to you. As he spoke, he also gave Brother Yang a small blessing.

Brother Yang smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, waved his hand and said: "It's good, it's good, Aunt Su Su said, if you make a mistake, you can change it to a good child." ”

Sister An glared at him choked on him, and muttered: "If you can't speak, no one will treat you as a mute!" ”

"Okay, you guys go and hide, I'm blindfolded and my back is facing you, you go quickly!" Brother Ping turned around with a smile and covered his eyes with one hand.

Sister An first got behind a very lush bush and stumbled to the ground, and she couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye.

Brother Yang was born chubby, looking for a place to hide, always feeling that it was inappropriate, burrowing around in the bushes, and only hearing the noise he made in the garden.

Brother Ping couldn't help but smile and asked, "Okay, okay?" Okay, I'm going to look for it......"

"Nope! No! Not yet! Brother Yang was in a hurry, "Don't turn around!" As he spoke, he was going to squeeze behind a peony tree again.

Brother Shun followed him for a long time, and when he saw that Brother Yang had not found a suitable place, he looked around, walked over quietly, and tugged at his clothes.

Brother Yang turned around and saw Brother Shun making a silent gesture to him, so he hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand and said softly: "...... Do what? ”

Brother Shun laughed, and pointed to a bush next to them, and there was a small gap underneath.

Brother Yang was overjoyed, bent over busily, pouted his ass and got in.

"You wait here, don't come out if you don't call you later." Brother Shun said with a smile, then turned around and hid to the other side.

Brother Yang clenched his little fists, nodded, and squatted behind him silently.

Brother Ping'er's voice came from afar, "I'm going to start looking for it!" ”

Then there was the shaking of the bushes, the slapping of children, and the shouts of "I've found you!" ”

Brother Yang squatted behind the bushes, very proud, thinking that the eldest brother would definitely not find me......

After a while, there was another sound outside.

Brother Yang didn't dare to look at it, he was still squatting behind the bushes, motionless, just wanting to be the one who had been hiding for the longest time.

I don't know how long it took, but the sky gradually darkened, and the small garden gradually lost its voice.

Brother Yang was a little scared, he squatted there with his arms crossed, feeling hungry and cold.

Sou!

A big black mouse ran past him, causing Brother Yang to scream in fright.

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One more than 4,000 words. Contains pink plus. It's a little late today, so I'll try to write two more. Don't worry. That,Pink votes and recommendation votes,Remind me of it.,If there's one, vote for me to stimulate it, okay?

…… (To be continued......)