If you persist in doing one thing for decades, it must become a habit.

For example, a pot of flowers, carefully maintained every day, watered, caught insects, fertilized, sunned, never slackened. Over time, even if the flowering days are only a few days, you won't want to be lazy the rest of the time.

After raising it for a longer time, I gradually forgot what it was for, because watering has become a part of life, and there is no need for a reason.

Ye Zhiqiu is like this.

Since the day when the old lord Menghan rescued him from the north and fled to the imperial capital, he has lived a life of forbearance day after day, and served as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites at a young age. But his thoughts about Mu Yun's revenge and Songyang's restoration were like a mantra that was recited repeatedly, echoing in his mind every day.

In Mrs. Ye's opinion, they have enough.

In Ye Zhiqiu's opinion, they have nothing.

Ye Zhiqiu even felt that as long as he stopped the concept of revenge and restoration, he would become nothing like a grain of sand dissolved into the river.

After more than 50 years of obscurity, I hate the feeling of being forgotten in the corner.

It was also his firm idea to change his surname from "Chang" to "Ye", and Mrs. Ye only said at first that he was worried about the people and refused to forget his roots, so he went to him, until every year in the month of Layue, he pretended to use the name of Bigu, and did not enter the water and rice for three consecutive days, and he realized that his obsession was extraordinary.

Every time he smiles and says the five words "know autumn in the lower leaves" to others, isn't it a kind of torment and whipping for this Shangshu lord?

Just like the four words "Old Lord Han" are the thorns in Han's heart, the surname "Ye" is also his own shame. The difference is that Han is scolded by the world, but he is secretly miserable.

Over time, he couldn't tell whether he was born for revenge or revenge for life. But he was sure of one thing, and that was that he would never be able to separate himself from hatred.

Even one year, he was starving and fainting in the back hall after two days of Bigu, and when he woke up, he still refused to drink a sip of water.

"Why can't you just take a sip?"

"I'm afraid I'll forget the pain."

"What if you forget?"

"Forget, you're really dead."

True death is not the termination of life, but the oblivion. If you even forget about yourself, the Chang clan will really die.

No one would have thought that Ye Zhiqiu, who looks like a lone pine on the surface, is so hard in his bones.

But Mrs. Ye knows.

She knew everything about her husband, except for some things she chose not to know.

However, can there be some things that can be passed by hiding one's ears and stealing the bell?

For example, the five words "Master Li Chongyan".

At this moment, Mrs. Ye wanted to see her husband immediately more than ever, and wanted to interrogate him face to face.

In the past few years, her husband's vicious thoughts have become more and more beyond her imagination, and she has no affection for Xiaochen or Yin'er.

However, Mrs. Ye sat in the front hall and waited for the whole day, not waiting for her husband to come back.

Seeing Mrs. Ye's anxious look, Uncle Kang also became nervous.

He knew that these days, whether it was the lord or the lady, were a little unusual.

But all he could do was peek out through the crack in the door, or keep his ears open to hear if there were any horses' hooves.

However, until nightfall, Yanbo Street was still as quiet as ever, and there was no movement.

After a long while, a small servant came from the adjacent street, knocked on the door and said: "The villain is from the Cao family next door, my lord wants the villain to come over and spread a message, saying that Lord Ye of your mansion is going to drink with my lord tonight, if it is delayed, it is unknown where to stay, and I hope Mrs. Don't worry." ”

Uncle Kang sullenly passed the message to Mrs. Ye.

Mrs. Ye had no choice but to get up and plan to go back to the room.

When the daughter came over, she saw her mother with a sad face and asked, "Is it because Daddy hasn't come back yet?" ”

Mrs. Ye nodded.

"Daddy didn't go to court today, why hasn't he come back yet? Where did he go? ”

"You little kid, don't care about that ......"

"Little children, little children, I'm seventeen! Where is it still small? What's more, Daddy is very strange today, why did people who usually didn't even bother to get out of the gate go out for a day and still haven't seen anything? ”

Uncle Kang couldn't help but say, "Miss, the master is ......"

As soon as the words came out, they were stopped by Mrs. Ye with her eyes, and she had to shut up.

Ye Yin saw that her mother didn't let her say, so she pretended to say: "It doesn't matter, I'm too lazy to know." He turned around and left.

Mrs. Ye couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?" ”

"Study! Practice calligraphy! Daddy's homework hasn't been done yet. ”

Uncle Kang immediately understood, and saluted Mrs. Ye and said, "The study is very cold, I'll go and warm up the charcoal basin for Miss." ”

The two of them left Mrs. Ye one after the other and went to the small study on the edge of the west wing, which was a quiet place that Ye Zhiqiu had set aside for his daughter, specially used for reading and writing.

Seeing that her mother didn't follow, Ye Yin turned to Uncle Kang and asked, "Okay, Uncle Kang, you can talk now, where did Daddy go?" ”

"The master went out with Lord Cao next door early in the morning, and I don't know where he went, so the people from the Cao Mansion came to deliver a message, saying that the master was drinking in the Cao Mansion tonight, and he might have stayed there if he drank late."

"What?" Ye Yin thought she had misheard, "My father? Staying elsewhere? ”

"yes."

How is this possible? It's rare for Daddy to even drink alcohol, let alone stay overnight.

"What is this, what is Lord Cao's character? Why is Daddy so close to him? ”

"This ......" Uncle Kang's face suddenly became uncomfortable. Since he heard Ye Zhiqiu and Cao Feihu mention the matter of their children's in-laws the night before, he felt as if he had a big secret hidden in his heart, and his heart was very empty.

Ye Yin saw that he looked strange, and said suspiciously: "Uncle Kang, you must know something." Why don't you tell me soon? ”

"I don't know anything." Uncle Kang wanted to hide it, but as soon as the words came out, he couldn't help but smirk on his face.

I always thought that the old man was going to give the young lady to the son, but the son has not come back since he went to Bihai, and the old lady is silent, and he doesn't dare to ask.

However, the young lady is getting older day by day, and most of the ladies of the same age have secretly said goodbye, but Ye Fu is quiet and silent, it is said that the ministers of the court and the central government know that the master is extremely lonely and difficult to deal with, and occasionally there are those who are willing to come to test it, and they are all rejected by the master as soon as they start talking. Unexpectedly, the old man fell in love with Cao Gongzi from the neighboring mansion......

The more Ye Yin looked at Uncle Kang's smiling face, the more suspicious she became, and she flicked her sleeves and said, "Don't say it."

Pull it down, I'll go to Caofu to find my father. ”

Uncle Kang hurriedly stopped her and said, "Miss, this can't be helped." If Madame had known about this, she would have known that I had told Mademoiselle. ”

"Uncle Kang, you also know that Daddy and Mom have been in trouble for so long, and now Daddy doesn't even go home, won't it get worse if it goes on like this? Uncle Kang, can you bear to look at my mother and sigh like that? Isn't it just drinking? What serious can there be...... I went to find my father and asked him to come back early, so that my mother would be so angry that she couldn't eat. ”

"Maybe there's something serious...... Uncle Kang muttered quietly.

"What?"

"Oh, nothing." Uncle Kang thought about it for a while, and said yes, if you want to say who to call the master back, is there anything more suitable than Miss?

"That young lady has to go quietly through the back door, don't be known by Madame, let's talk about it first, Uncle Kang, I don't know anything."

"Alright! Got it. Ye Yin said, taking out a few written words from the brocade box on the bookshelf on the side and putting them on the table, "Well, if my mother asks, take these words." ”

Those few words were written by Ye Yin and hidden in the box in her spare time, sometimes she wanted to go out to play secretly, so she would take out a few and give them to Uncle Kang, and then pretended to practice calligraphy in the study, but in fact, she slipped away through the back door.

Uncle Kang skillfully took it and put it in his pocket, and responded, "Okay, Miss don't worry." ”

The two of them were ready to stop and light the light in the study, and then quietly came to the back door.

As soon as Ye Yin arrived at the door, Fang Jue felt a chill outside, and he shivered.

Seeing this, Uncle Kang wanted to go back to pick up the leather jacket for her, but she stopped and said: "That's it, if you go back and get bumped into by your mother, it's not good, you go to the side of the room and find a thicker coat to borrow for me to wear." ”

"How? The people are dressed in sweat, but don't smoke the young lady. ”

"Oh, don't mother-in-law, I don't care, why do you care so much?" Ye Yin waved her hand, "Hurry up." ”

Uncle Kang had no choice but to turn around and go to get it nearby. After a while, he came over with a short leather jacket of a blue and white gray squirrel.

"Miss, I can't find a suitable one for a while, just this one looks clean and thick, but this is the ...... worn by the janitor."

"It doesn't matter. I'll go back as soon as I go, and I'm not so particular. Ye Yin put on her jacket and went straight out.

Ye Yin once heard people talk about it, saying that the Zou Ge hometown on the adjacent street had all moved away overnight, and it was Cao Commander who moved in.

Naturally, she didn't know any Commander Cao, but Zou Ge's hometown had been through countless times. So I turned the corner of the street and arrived in front of the house, and sure enough, I saw the word "Cao Fu" hanging on the gate.

When Ye Yin arrived at the door, she saw that the door was closed, so she stepped forward and knocked a few times, but no one came out to answer the door for a long time.

Odd...... Didn't you hear that?

Speaking of the gate of Cao's mansion, it is not closed at all on weekdays, as mentioned before, Lao Cao was afraid of delaying the prince's whim and suddenly came to drink, so he ordered someone to guard the courtyard.

But today it's different.

In the evening, the subordinates of Cao's Mansion found that Lao Cao had entered the door with Ye Zhiqiu in a panic, so they told everyone in the mansion to close the doors everywhere, neither going out nor entering, and then the two of them hid in the Xinuan Pavilion and whispered.

The people are so happy.

If you are still sitting in the courtyard watching the door on this snowy day, you can't freeze into an ice sculpture?