The tea soup in the European-style flower teacup has bottomed out, and the scholar hurriedly picked up the teapot on the side to refill the cup for Shen Junyi, but Shen Junyi waved his hand and stood up after briefly explaining a few words to the waiter. Seeing Shen Junyi get up and leave from the card position, the scholar didn't dare to slack off, and followed step by step: "Young master, where are you going?" ”

Shen Junyi didn't answer, just walked in front of him and walked all the way into the garden.

"Young master, should we go back or not? If you give me a letter, I will reply to my master's words. The scholar walked forward as he spoke, but he didn't notice Shen Junyi stop and bumped his head into it, "I'm sorry!" ”

Shen Junyi didn't blame him, just turned to look at him and said, "Na, listen carefully for a while, her answer is my answer, understand?" ”

The "she" in Shen Junyi's mouth is naturally Tang Wanying sitting in the garden. The scholar pouted and followed Shen Junyi to the garden. On the easel in front of Lin Wanying, the white crowned parrot jumped on the paper, it was the one under the trellis not far away, and even the broken feathers on its tail were exactly the same.

"It's a good drawing." Shen Junyi praised, and after savoring it, he reached out and asked for her paintbrush, which was dipped in a little moon-white paint, and a few strokes in the parrot's eyes, "If you can add some light here......"

Seeing that the parrot in the painting had a smart gaze, as if it had life, Lin Wanying couldn't help but smile: "When I was a child, my sister always helped me change my ...... painting."

"Your sister can draw?" Shen Junyi was a little surprised, "I always thought that she had learned the harp since she was a child. ”

Lin Wanying shook her head: "She drew very well when she was a child, but for some reason, she changed her music study after going to the UK." But my sister is smart and learns things quickly, so I can't compare to her. ”

Hearing her tone was covered with a bit of desolation, Shen Junyi consciously mentioned something that should not be mentioned, so she had to pretend to focus on adding color, and the question she wanted to ask was put aside for the time being. Shen Junyi didn't know how to speak, but Lin Wanying said it for him:

"Stayed with me on this Qinyu for so long, won't your family urge you to go back?"

Before Shen Junyi could speak, the scholar had already rushed to answer for him: "Urge!" How not to destroy! Dozens of telegrams have been taken! I just received a letter saying that my wife is sick and I want the young master to go back! ”

"Mouthy!" Shen Junyi struck him hard with the pen.

"Your mother is sick?" Lin Wanying pondered for a moment, and then said: "You better go back, you can't commit the sin of being unfilial because of me." ”

"It's not that exaggerated." Shen Junyi laughed, "If I leave, what about you?" ”

"I ...... I'd like to stay here a little longer, and I feel like it's pretty good. ”

"Can it be bad!" The scholar pouted and said, "Don't worry about eating and drinking, live in my young master's ...... and spend my young master's ."

Lin Wanying could hear his voice, but she didn't refute it, just looked at Shen Junyi and said lightly: "If Shen Gongzi believes me, let me live on this island for a while for the time being, and he will definitely pay back the expenses one day." ”

"I didn't mean that, you misunderstood......"

Before Shen Junyi's words were finished, Lin Wanying had already gotten up and gone out of the garden, but the easel and paper and pen had not been cleaned up, and the scholar knew that he had talked too much, so he stood with his head down and did not dare to make a sound.

"Who made your kid do it for himself?!" Shen Junyi was really angry, and turned around and scolded the scholar.

"Young master, I'm also doing this for your good...... Again...... This girl is stubborn, willful, and difficult to serve, is it worth it for her to offend the master? ”

The scholar's words aroused Shen Junyi's interest: "Then tell me, what kind of girl is worth it?" ”

"If you want me to say, you have to be a gentle, virtuous, knowledgeable girl like Miss Lin, as the old saying goes, fair lady, gentleman ......"

"Get out! She is now the young marshal's wife! ”

"Okay, no matter how bad it is, it can't be like this girl, I think Sister Ling is better than her!"

The "Sister Ling" in the scholar's mouth is Lin Wanjing's personal maid A Ling.

"I know that your sister Ling, yes, your sister Ling is good at everything!" Shen Junyi ridiculed him, but as soon as his thoughts changed, he struck while the iron was hot and asked again, "Eh, in this way, if it's your sister Ling who doesn't want to go home right now, what should you do?" ”

"She doesn't want to go home, so I'll take her to my house! Anyway, my mother always urged me to marry my daughter-in-law......" The scholar's voice became smaller and smaller, because he saw Shen Junyi's radiant eyes after he realized it: "Young master...... What do you want to do? ”

"Go home tomorrow."

"Young Master, you can figure it out!" The scholar almost knelt down and thanked God, "Then I'm going to buy a ticket now?" ”

"Hmm." Shen Junyi nodded, "Buy three, it'll be lunch tomorrow." ”

"Why is it so late?"

"Let her sleep more."

"What?!"

"Didn't understand?" Shen Junyi looked at the scholar with a smile, and said clearly word by word, "I want to take her home with me." ”

"Young Master! That's what I said just now! ”

"So what? My mother also urged me to marry a daughter-in-law. Saying this, the smile between Shen Junyi's eyebrows deepened.

There is a joke in Luzhou City, which talks about the three most unlikely things to happen in Luzhou City: the foreign devil picked the Lin family's phoenix feather, the Sea Dragon King accepted the Li family's death-free brand, and Master Shen demolished the big stage of the Dancing Crane Garden. But whenever they hear anything unreliable, the people of Luzhou City will always use these three sentences as an analogy. The first two sentences are about the hard backstage of the Lin family and the Li family, while the third sentence is more intriguing:

The eldest wife of the Shen family has always liked to listen to operas, even when she was pregnant with Shen Junyi, she never fell into a big drama, and she wanted to run to the opera garden before she was confined, but Master Shen naturally refused to let her, but if she was not allowed to go, she would get sick, Master Shen had no choice but to invite someone to set up a stage in his own home, and invited the opera troupe to come to perform every three or five days, and the strange illness of the eldest lady was getting better day by day.

It was another sunny weekend, and the breeze was blowing, and the fragrance of flowers in the garden seemed to get people drunk inside. The stage of the Dancing Crane Garden has not stopped the sound of gongs and drums since just after noon, and the little maid got the news under the foyer, and trotted all the way through the hall until the stage, the eldest lady sat on the mahogany chair in front of the stage, listening to the play and listening to the excitement, and listening to the little maid shouting, the big lady just said "um" as a response.

"What are you doing in such a panic?" The eldest lady's personal maid, Sister Lan, said to the little maid, "Didn't you see the eldest lady listening to the play?" ”

"Madam, the eldest young master is back."

"What?" The eldest lady instantly came to her senses, her eyes were blazing and she didn't have the heart to listen to the play, "Is the news true?" ”

"Really. A letter just came from the port, saying that he saw the eldest young master get off the ship and picked up the car and went home. ”

When the eldest lady heard this, she hurriedly put the melon seed plate in her hand on the coffee table, and shook the cake dregs scattered on her body: "Hurry up, put away these melon seeds and refreshments!" Seeing that the maids were moving in a hurry, she looked around again and around, "Blanket, go and get my blanket!" ”

Sister Lan hurriedly responded, turned around and went to the side room, and after a while, she took out a white fox velvet blanket wrapped in silver satin and trimmed with gold wire, I heard that it was concocted by the old man in imitation of the style in the palace of the previous dynasty, and specially sent it to the monks of Putuo Temple to open the light, saying that it could bring blessings to the eldest lady to ensure that she would not be sick. Entering the courtyard from the hanging flower door of the wing, what was sung on the stage was still the part she sang before she entered the wing room to get the blanket, presumably the eldest lady missed the trick of dealing with the eldest young master, and then sent the actors to sing it again. When the blanket was sent to the eldest lady, the eldest lady had already changed into a Western-style chaise longue and was lying, and she did not forget to ask Sister Lan in the water: "Is it like?" ”

Sister Lan nodded solemnly: "It's good." It's even better to cover it with this blanket. She handed the blanket to the eldest lady and turned her eyes to the stage, "Madam, this play ...... Still listening? ”

"Listen! Why not listen! Paid for it! The eldest lady took the blanket, touched the texture, and hesitated, "Cover this...... Isn't it too hot? ”

"Don't worry, don't worry." Sister Lan couldn't help but say that she covered the blanket for the master, and picked up the feather fan on the side, "I'll fan it for you." ”

As soon as the fan was picked up, Shen Junyi had already led Tang Wanying to appear on the lakeside trestle, and the eldest lady didn't have time to say thank you, so she had to throw Sister Lan a grateful look.

While speaking, the two people on the bridge had already approached, Shen Junyi called Mom, and the eldest lady leaned on the handrail to open her eyes, looked at him and said, "Are you back?" Do you remember coming back? ”

"Mom, don't say that, I'm not back." Shen Junyi smiled like a child.

"Yes, if I'm not sick, you won't come back, you father and son are virtuous!"

"Mom, if you want me to say, your illness is all at home. It's so nice, you should go out for a walk. Shen Junyi asked for Sister Lan's permission and gently fanned the wind for her mother.

"I want to go out for a walk, but where? Who's with me? ”

"Didn't I get you someone back?" Shen Junyi pulled Lin Wanying to her side, "Mom, if you want to go out for a walk, let Wanying accompany you." ”

It seems that when he said this, Mrs. Shen realized that a guest was coming: "Yo, whose pretty girl are you kidnapping back?" ”

"Second Miss Lin Family, Wanying, you've seen it." Shen Junyi introduced, and when Lin Wanying respectfully called Mrs. Shen, she continued, "The Lin family has changed too much recently, and she feels too depressed, so I took her back to live for a while." ”

"It turned out to be Miss Wanying. Look at my memory, I saw it in the newspaper a few days ago, this real person is even more beautiful. The eldest lady nodded, "Yes, so much has happened in your family recently, and it is indeed too heavy for a young girl like you to bear it." Since you're here, you can stay as long as you want. ”

The "change" in the mouth of the eldest wife of the Shen family is not just the ups and downs of the Lin family's reputation in Longmen Village, but after the Lin family was under martial law, Yi Shan's maiden family seemed to be afraid of being infected with the plague, and an announcement wiped out the relationship with the Lin family.

Lin Wanying felt Shen Junyi's hand clasp her hand for a moment, she woke up, met the gaze of the eldest lady of the Shen family, and hurriedly thanked her.

"You're welcome." The eldest lady smiled and said to Shen Junyi, "The accounts of this period of time are piled up in your study, and before your father comes back, you'd better deal with the things that have fallen behind, so that maybe he won't be so angry when he comes back, understand?" ”

"Hmm." Shen Junyi nodded.

"Okay, you young people will never like these old three dramas. Take your pretty girl to a room to rest, don't interfere with me here. Mrs. Shen was joking, and Lin Wanying also understood, and thanked her again before leaving with Shen Junyi. After the two left, Sister Lan came to the master's side and whispered tentatively:

"Madam, ...... do you mean?"

"Wait and see." The eldest lady didn't look at Sister Lan, her eyes stared at the stage without focus, "Her eyes tell me that she is a girl with a story." And ......" She suddenly remembered the way Shen Junyi had always held Lin Wanying, and said slowly, "If the eldest young master likes it, then let him go." ”

Her thoughts drifted for a long time, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that she didn't know which one of the plays had passed.

"Stop, stop."

Hearing the owner of the chartered venue shouting to stop, the gong and drum master stopped the drumming, and the play also stood in place.

"Sorry masters, let's do this again." Sister Lan walked to the front of the stage, flipped the script forward, and pointed out to the play. The actor's brows were clustered for a moment, and this action was still clearly visible under the thick oil paint, but since this was the meaning of the master who invited the play, he couldn't say anything, so he threw off his shirt and went behind the curtain.

The gong turned again, and the drama sang again: "You don't need to mention dragons and phoenixes, it's still about marriage, you are beautiful, you are smart." When you see it, you fall in love with it again, if you want, I will take you into the capital......"

Listening to the play, the eldest lady slowly closed her eyes, and the corners of her mouth were slowly hooked with a smile: Who should not have such courage when they are young, they are afraid that they will not be able to recall when they are old, even if this relationship will eventually go to the grave, it is a kind of luck to have memories.