After the fourth lady listened to Shi Qi's narration, she said, "You have to thank your teacher Su when you have the opportunity in the future, but why does Master Daozhen do so much to you?" Don't let down their expectations of you, tell Daozhen that I am very grateful to him, but I can't repay him, and when you grow up, you must remember these benefactors who have reached out on your way to growth. Shi Qi nodded sensibly, had some breakfast and went up the mountain.

Shi Songshan originally thought that he would have a chance sooner or later for the fourth lady, but now he found out that the fourth lady had someone else, and he had doubts about the possibility that Changfeng was his son, and he himself had no children for many years after marriage, which made his suspicions even more serious. Early in the morning, he found that Shi Qi did not work, coupled with the annoyance and suspicion at night, which made him angry, and he confessed to the housekeeper that he would not give Shi Qi food today, as a punishment for not seeing others and being lazy.

Daozhen heard the words of the fourth lady thank him, and the unrest in his heart came up again, and after years of penance, he couldn't hold the light touch at the moment when the door was closed. Dao Zhen said: "Shi Qi, your skills have been on fire, what I can teach you have mastered, now it depends on how you practice, how to comprehend, as your physical strength grows, your ability will become stronger day by day, remember what I told you at the beginning, you must know how to hide, the tip of the edge!" More passivated. ”

Shi Qi's lunch was eaten in the temple, and after he arrived home in the evening, the housekeeper saw him at the door, and the housekeeper said: "Second young master, you haven't done anything, you don't work for a day, the eldest young master asks not to give you dinner, don't embarrass the little ones, if you have an idea, you go to the eldest young master." His second young master's name was longer than usual, Shi Qi felt harsh when he heard it, he didn't speak, and ran back to his yard.

Hearing that Shi Songshan had already stopped giving Shi Qi dinner, the fourth lady said: "Don't be afraid, we have food here, I'll go to the eldest young master to reason, and you will watch the little brother at home." The fourth lady came to Shi Songsheng's place with a maid, and she asked, "No matter how ruthless you are, Shi Qi is also your second brother, can you cut off his food?" If you have me to eat, you will have him, or will you starve me and Changfeng to death first? ”

Shi Songshan asked his subordinates to retreat and said: "I used to think that Changfeng must be mine, but when I found out that you had someone else, my heart was not steady, and you would not tell me the truth." I've been married for many years and still have no children, now think about it, why did you agree to accompany me that time? It turns out that you had a plan to give me the illusion that I am Changfeng's father, right? I'm really scared when I think of this, how can you hide so deeply, how can it be so coincidental? You were right when you said to me, if you don't want people to know, you have to do it yourself, but now I have found out, you can't explain it, right? None of you are in our courtyard, and if you want to disappear together, I won't stop you. ”

The fourth lady couldn't say it no matter how many mouths she had, she didn't expect that Daozhen's accidental appearance would make Shi Songshan have such a complex reasoning. Changfeng is Shi Songshan's, she can be sure of this, but now, his reasoning is that the fourth lady has a plan to set up a game for him, and the fourth lady really wants to sit on the ground. She straightened her messy hair and said, "I can't quarrel with you, I can't stop you if you want to say this, if you really drive us away, I'll clean up when I go back." ”

Shi Songshan knew that with the current situation of the fourth lady, she could find another place to stay, her slightly messy hair and soft eyes that couldn't let down tears make any powerful man want to have a desire to protect immediately. If she disappears, she will have no one to be angry with in the future, only to stay, and let her continue to live under her eyelids. Thinking of this, he said: "In the future, you don't let the subordinates call you the fourth lady, and the children don't call you the little master, if you shake your affairs out, it will not be good for our family, I will tell the housekeeper immediately, and the treatment in your courtyard will be the same as the subordinates in the future, but you will be temporarily allowed to live in an independent courtyard." ”

The fourth lady really wants to lift her feet and leave, but she is used to living here, and when she goes out, she doesn't know what else she will encounter, and now Shi Qi is also older, no matter what, Shi Songshan is Changfeng's father, and when the child is older, she asks her, and she is not easy to answer after she really leaves. Shi Qi's father is gone, she can't let Changfeng have no father, and now she doesn't want to talk to Shi Songshan Ming, not because she is worried that he will not believe it, but because she is worried that he will be entangled.

Shi Qi became a family member from the previous second young master, of course he was unwell, he asked the fourth lady to take him away, the fourth lady said: "You take the children's examination in the coming year, if you can compete for luck, your mother and your brother will have hope in the future, don't waste your studies, no matter what others do to you, you have to grasp it yourself." One day, when Shi Songshan came back from outside, he saw Shi Qizheng and the fourth lady sweeping the floor, Shi Songshan said: "Shi Qi, but it's time to sweep it clean, the wind is strong, and there are a lot of dirty things in the house." When the fourth lady saw his gaze, she no longer had the warmth she had before, only the sneer.

It is the most difficult to rest during the warm and cold period, and the people began to be unwarm and cold to their mother and son, and the life of the Shifu was not good, and the fourth lady still cleaned up neatly as before, and no matter how slow she was, she could do it just right. When the weather turned cold, there were new cotton clothes in other courtyards, and the fourth lady did not receive them, she found the housekeeper to ask for them, and the housekeeper said: "The cotton clothes are issued by the young master and the second lady, there is no list of yours, you want to find it, you want to find the young master." ”

At night, the wind was too cold, and no one on their kang was on fire, and when the fourth lady found it, Songshan asked: "Forget if the cotton clothes are not there, we will use last year's general, but the kang will not burn, your brother will freeze and get sick, do you really want our mother and son to live in this courtyard?" Shi Songshan said: "Want to be warm? Yes, you can move in with your next people, and you mother and son are separated? Burn a kang alone? I don't have that much firewood, aren't you related to Niu Lixin? Let him send a load of firewood every day. ”

The fourth lady knew that it was useless to say more, she held the long wind and squeezed together with the maids, she had also suffered in Niu Lixin's place before, and she could eat. Shi Qi is strong, he doesn't have to go anywhere else, he said he is frost-resistant. The subordinates made room for the fourth lady, and she took Changfeng to sleep, and in the middle of the night, Changfeng may not be able to stand the new environment, or because he was not used to the sound of snoring from many people, in short, suddenly he began to cry.

After the people were woken up, they began to gossip, they said: "We are not you, you can do as much as you want during the day, you can make up for sleep, you are noble, but don't disturb us to sleep, the third young master is expensive, if we are frightened, we can't bear it." If it's really the master's seed, maybe it will be our master again in the future, and then we will say that it is we who have affected your sleep, and we can't afford to be small. ”

The sentence "In case it is really the master's seed" let the fourth lady know that Matsuyama had already done a black hand to her, and the fourth lady had to endure it, she sat up alone, accompanied everyone, and coaxed the young son in her arms. Her tears fell, for so many years, Shi Lao's torture of her did not make her unhappy, she was all for Shi Qi's wish to help his ex-husband complete his fame one day. Now, this wish is only a matter of time, and it is close, but his situation has suddenly fallen into the abyss.

The next day, the fourth lady asked Shi Qi to go up the mountain and ask Niu Lixin to help them carry some firewood, and she wanted to make her own kang. After Niu Lixin heard about it, he was so anxious that he carried a lot of dry firewood to the courtyard with Shi Qi in the afternoon, and Shi Qi said with a smile after seeing it: "It won't be cold anymore." Niu Lixin wanted to get some smiles from the fourth lady, but her tortured face let him see the appearance of the fourth lady after the vicissitudes of life for the first time, Shi Qi was on the side again, and he could only withdraw from the small courtyard and go back.

That night, after the fourth lady's family and the subordinates had some meals, she was going to ask a skilled person to help her make a fire, at this time the housekeeper informed her that she could no longer live in the small courtyard, and the housekeeper said: "The young master said, since he has worked and eaten with the subordinates, there should be no more independent courtyards, and the subordinates live together. The fourth lady was stunned, she really wanted to leave with Shi Qi now, even if she went to Niu Lixin, it would be better than her current life, but Niu Lixin looked at her in the afternoon, as long as she appeared, there was no guarantee that she would not become a thorn in Shi Cai's flesh, she gritted her teeth, or forget it.

Winter will always pass, at the beginning of spring, Dao Zhen and Shi Qi said: "You are now an adult, I have also heard about your situation in Shifu, Abbot Yunchi thinks that you have been tempered during this period, and your heart is more mature, tell your mother, I will take you to take the exam." When the fourth lady heard that Shi Qi was going to take the children's exam, she happily agreed, and told Shi Qi that he must prepare for the exam well, and he didn't have to worry about family affairs.

Shi Qi asked: "Mother, I am not from the Shi family, I know, but why do my younger brothers also say that they are not from the Shi family?" They used to call me Second Young Master, why do they call me by my name now and take away our yard? The fourth lady said: "You are still young, there are some things that they misunderstood my mother, you go out immediately, I will tell you the truth." Do you remember that time when Master Dao Zhen came to see you at night? The next morning, I told you, in order to prevent others from misunderstanding, he chose to come at night, and his mother helped you send him, so that Matsuyama saw it, and Daozhen ran away in order not to cause trouble. I have a hard time arguing, it's the foul words they gave to my mother, and my mother can't let Daozhen explain, it will be more messy, it won't be good, and your master will not be at ease, so I endured it alone. ”

Shi Qi stomped his feet angrily after hearing this, and he said, "How can you acquiesce to this kind of thing? Let the master come and explain it to them, I still want to think about our yard, and I want to have more time to read. The fourth lady asked, "Let your master explain?" How to explain it? Looking for yours? Why at night? Why not go through the front door? Do you make it clear? In that way, not only will our lives not be changed, but the temple was built by the Shi family, and Daozhen may also leave because of this, would you like to see that result? Now, no one knows that it is the truth, and it just so happens that I swallow the bitter fruit alone. ”