Half a month before the New Year, when the weather was cold, Ru Sanshui's uncle Liang Jing, the eldest son of Liang Lao and Liang Yi'an's father, returned to Beijing from the frontier to report on his work.

As the proudest son of Old Man Liang, he has not had time to go home to visit his relatives for many years. He deliberately proposed the itinerary early and made a detour to rest in his hometown for three days.

That being said, but the old man's favorite is his deceased daughter, the most important is Liang Yi'an, who wants to inherit the head of the family, the most eccentric is Ru Sanshui, and sometimes Liang Qian, who is most like his roundworm. This "proudest son" seems to have just changed the word, and the word "most" is added to make up the number. Totally a cunning little old man.

According to the old rules, Liang Jing first passed the ancestral hall to pray for blessings, the monks sang scriptures, and the water was baptized. After worshipping Old Man Liang again, he picked up the wind and washed the dust in his own house, and it was the turn of the younger generations to visit him.

This deserted courtyard usually only lives alone with Liang Yi'an, so suddenly there are many more people. I heard that there were also his cronies and the favorite concubine who was taking in the house outside, and this was the first time he brought the concubine back to his home.

The small courtyard of Rusanshui is not far from the big courtyard, and you can know that it is very lively when you listen to the sound. Although she was quiet, the elders in the family couldn't ignore it when they came back, so they packed up and prepared to go to say goodbye, and called their uncle, and they should have met.

She did just bow politely, and called out to her uncle and came out. The hall was talking, the people who placed the bags and boxes were coming in and out, everyone seemed to be busy, and no one cared how long she stayed.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw Liang Qian happily entering the courtyard, and hurriedly met Liang Yi'an, but no one paid attention to anyone. He walked over in three steps and two steps, and suddenly saw Ru Sanshui, a sudden stop that almost overturned, and after stabilizing his image: "Sister Sanshui! Uncle is inside, right?"

Ru Sanshui nodded, feeling that he couldn't tell him that your uncle was proudly showing off his concubine inside. Seeing his eyebrows fluttering: "What is so happy?"

"Of course, I was looking for the uncle to talk about the frontline, although the uncle was a martial doctor, and the eastern coast was stable all the year round in the past, and it was no different from Dr. Wen. In recent years, the uncle has been in charge of the defense of the northern border, and there have always been some exchanges with the Jin people, so if I don't take advantage of these two days to ask the uncle for advice, where else can I listen to them in the future?"

"Fight and kill, you like to hear this?"

Liang Gan looked like a dog-legged with admiration: "Of course, men should be ambitious in all directions, even if the country is peaceful and peaceful, they should not forget to smooth the Fanyi, promote the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty, and dominate the country." ”

Ru Sanshui frowned and hesitated: "Pingshun, what's the difference between it and invasion? Anbang is already thinking about who is stronger than whom,-for-tat, and it is the people who suffer." ”

Where there is an iron hoof, there is resistance, where there is resistance, there is repression, and where there is repression, there is massacre. From the moment the thought of what the authorities wanted to take for themselves, the butcher's knife was raised.

"You're a daughter's family, you don't understand this. Only the flesh is just a man, and I understand the ambition in my heart. ”

Liang Qian shook his head and smiled: "You go back first, I'll go in and find the uncle." ”

Ru Sanshui opened his mouth, wanting to refute something, and looked at Liang Qian Zaixing, but finally didn't say it. The heat from his mouth wafted into the cold air.

Let him be. She stepped out of the courtyard and went to her own small courtyard.

"Do you mind if I go to your place to hide?"

Ru Sanshui turned around when he heard the voice, and it was Liang Yi'an who spoke, looking at the worried. She nodded without thinking.

Her small courtyard is not known how many times smaller than Liang Yi'an's courtyard, and there are not many people coming and going. It's just that Liang Yi'an usually lives alone, and he doesn't need to hide from anything, today's personnel are redundant and noisy, so he hides here in Rusanshui, not far away, and it is also noisy. It's just the same, you don't have to see people.

The small courtyard is sluggish, and there is not even a little green in winter. There are two rooms, a hall and a boudoir. Liang Yi'an didn't go into the house, so he tied up the corners of his clothes and sat on the edge of the low flower bed with bricks.

Ru Sanshui entered the house and brought a small cup of hot soup out to him: "The kitchen sent it to me to drink, after breakfast, where to drink, it's still hot, you drink it, if you don't drink it, warm your hands." ”

Liang Yi'an took it, took a sip, put it in his hand to warm it, and didn't speak for a long time.

Ru Sanshui thought for a while and said, "Whether the eldest uncle is in the court or in the border, and whether he is stationed in the east or the north, it is all determined from above. Whether his career is stable or not, whether he can go home to visit often, or even whether he is guilty or not, whether he lives or dies, is not up to him. I know you're upset about this, but you can't blame him anyway, right?"

Liang Yi'an lowered his head and took a sip of the soup and paused: "I don't blame him." ”

"I can't make it into the family tree after all, but I think I'm a family, and everyone takes good care of me. And you are the upright son of the Liang family, and in the future, the head of the Liang family, compared to the word 'care', what will be pressed on you is more stringent. So sometimes it seems that the elders in the family seem to be closer to me, but in fact, they are polite. For you, it is the real love, but many times the way is not very right. You know that, too. ”

"I know. Liang Yi'an sighed: "It's because I know, so I can't blame anyone, I can only keep it in my heart." They gave me such an environment to get used to being pure and to being alone. But just now my father told me that he didn't recognize me, that I was dull and boring, like a dying man, and that I didn't have the youthful vitality I should have. He said that he remembered that I used to have some heart-to-heart words with him, but now I am completely separated from him. ”

He put down the soup cup gently, and there was no emotion in his tone, as if he was talking about business: "I don't talk much, did you originally complain about me? I was divided, originally, should I blame me? They want me to advance and retreat in a certain way, and they want me to give my heart to heart, they want me to be stable and restrained, and they want me to be strong-blooded." He shook his head and smiled.

"Do you know? In the past, he liked to eat sheep paste, and I learned how to make it from the kitchen, so I gave it to him, and he said that he was used to the rough food in northern Xinjiang, and he was tired of eating it. In the past, he liked to pinch the jade pendant left by his mother on her deathbed all the time, and today in his hand, only the aunt in the side room he brought back from the frontier, embroidered the mandarin duck belt for him, holding this kind of private thing, praising it in public. ”

He followed the example of his father holding the belt in his hand, looked at his empty hands, and said calmly, "He said he didn't know me anymore." Actually, I don't know him very well. ”

Ru Sanshui listened quietly without interjecting, he looked up at Ru Sanshui, and smiled bitterly: "You also think I'm serious and unkind, right? But I can't change it." ”

Ru Sanshui replied to him sincerely: "No one is the same as others, you are you, you have your own mind, and you don't need to deliberately change it." ”

Liang Yi'an lowered his head and thought for a long time: "Yes, I don't want to change it either." ”

There was a long silence again, and neither of them would say anything deeper. If you talk too much, you will say absolutely nothing, you will think about it carefully, and you will take care of it too much, but you will have more rights and wrongs and troubles.

He got up and handed her back the remaining half of the soup: "I talked a lot today, and since I already know that I can't change it, it's not bad to solve it." ”

Ru Sanshui took the soup cup and nodded: "Slow down on the way back, you can hide for a while." ”

Liang Yi'an left, and Ru Sanshui stood silently in the courtyard thinking about something. Liang Yi'an always has a straight face and is silent. He didn't have any peers who could talk, so he had some dealings with Ru Sanshui. She hadn't heard him say so much, and she had never seen him smile so tiredly.

Ru Sanshui sighed and sighed. Something white velvet flew in front of her, she looked up and was slightly surprised: "This year's snow is really early." ”