Chapter 57: The Mysterious Little Lori
In the evening, Lin Dai hugged a small pillow and told Shen Xi a story.
Shen Xi knew it in his heart, so he knocked on the side and made up a story, saying that there was a court member in ancient times, how prestigious he was in the court, how honest he was as an official, and he was deeply loved by the people, but he was arrested because of the traitorous ministers, and his wife and children were sent to slavery.
Shen Xi said euphemistically, telling the story with long twists and turns, ups and downs.
Lin Dai felt at first that she was just listening to other people's stories, but she slowly brought it into it later, and finally couldn't help but say "wow", hugged the pillow and cried.
"Don't cry, let my mother know that she thinks I'm bullying you, you don't like to hear this story, I'll just change it."
Lin Dai didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, she cried so much that Shen Xi actually felt a heartbreak when she heard it.
Maybe Lin Dai was crying too loudly, and even Zhou was shocked.
Soon there was a sound of pushing the door from the outhouse, and Zhou walked in, looked at Lin Dai, who was lying on the pillow crying sadly, and asked Shen Xi directly: "You stinky boy, how did you bully Dai'er in the middle of the night?" ”
"Mother, I didn't bully her."
Shen Xi hurriedly hid in the bed, lest the old lady come forward and beat him.
This time, Zhou didn't have the heart to settle accounts with him, so he sat straight to the edge of the bed, stroked Lin Dai's little head, and comforted him gently. Lin Dai cried sadly, and finally leaned on Zhou's arms, and her emotions gradually calmed down. Brother Bai Du Yi Hey Yan is free of charge and has no bullet window to watch the chapter
Zhou said: "Don't cry, good girl, if this kid really bullies you, see how I teach him...... Is it okay to sleep with your mother in the past? ”
"Hmm."
Lin Dai nodded slightly, then remembered something, and glanced back at Shen Xi, with a hint of reluctance in her eyes.
In the end, she begged Shen Xi to tell the story, because she had limited experience and didn't realize that Shen Xi was deliberately testing her, so she felt a little guilty in her heart that her crying might cause Shen Xi to be punished.
But the temptation to sleep with Zhou's was too great, Lin Dai still hugged the pillow and followed Zhou to the main house step by step.
With this incident, Shen Xi was even more convinced that Lin Dai's little Lori was related to the loss of the prisoner's family as mentioned by the two officials, but she was a little girl's family, and it was very difficult to escape under the watchful eye of Jinyiwei and avoid pursuit, and he didn't quite understand how all this was done.
Shen Xi could only hide this matter in his heart, thinking that he would investigate it first and then think about it in the long run.
In the next few days, there was still no news from Shen Mingjun, and Zhou's did not have much energy to do things on weekdays, and he often muttered: "If you have no conscience, you will lose your home." ”
Although Shen Xi didn't know where his father went, when he met with Wang Lingzhi two days ago, he learned from this cheap junior brother that Wang Lingzhi's father Wang Changnie was not at home, so he speculated that if he didn't leave the house for so long this time, it might be that his father went out with Wang Yuan.
The biggest possibility is that Wang Changnie went to Wuchang Mansion in Huguang to visit his imprisoned eldest son and let Shen Mingjun go with him, but Shen Mingjun didn't say hello to his family before leaving, so he couldn't say anything.
Shen Xi took advantage of the fact that the government did not make a big deal to search for the relatives of the criminals, so he tried to inquire.
During the Hongzhi period, Jin Yiwei commanded Mu Bin to be benevolent and upright, making Jin Yiwei, a spy organization, effective and fair. Maybe it's because those brocade guards are afraid that they will be questioned by the officials when things are publicized, so they are very low-key, and there are no rumors among the people at all, even on the Yamen side, not everyone knows about it, Shen Xi tried to inquire but there was no news.
Finally, it is the fifteenth day of the lunar month.
This day is the day when Mr. Meng Xueban takes the school examination, which is equivalent to the final exam of the previous year. After the school is over, these newly enlightened children can return to their hometowns for the New Year with their luggage, and the school will not reopen until after the first month, because the whole new year is considered the new year.
The senior and middle classes of the school have been examined one after another before yesterday. Shen Yongzhuo did not wait for Shen Yuan to go with him, and as in previous years, he hired a carriage with a few classmates on the same road to return to Shuangxi Town, and according to the custom, his family would pick him up at the entrance of the town.
Mr. Su examined the children in the first class one by one, mainly to test the content of the "Analects", but it is no longer simply memorization and dictation, but also asks about the meaning of some words and sentences.
Shen Xi is the best among all the children, and when Mr. Su was taking the school to take the school Shen Xi, he couldn't stop nodding, and it could be seen that he was very satisfied with Shen Xi.
When it came to Shen Yuan, Shen Yuan's answer was also very fluent. In the end, Mr. judged that it was still Shen Xi first and Shen Yuan second, which made the half-old children next to him very envious.
At noon, all classes are officially closed.
Due to the young age of the children in the Mongolian class, those who come from outside the city to study have to wait for their families to pick them up. According to Zhou's instructions, Shen Xi took Shen Yuan back to his house, because Shen Mingxin, the fourth uncle of the noon, would come to the city to pick up his son.
When Shen Xi and Shen Yuan arrived at the pharmacy, not only Shen Mingxin was there, but even Shen Mingxin's wife Feng also came, and the two were discussing things with the Zhou family in the back hall of the pharmacy, meaning that they wanted Shen Yuan to no longer live in the school house in the future, but to move over to live with Shen Mingjun and Zhou.
"This ...... I'm very busy on weekdays, so I probably don't have much time to take care of these little guys......"
The Zhou family didn't want to take Shen Yuan over, she couldn't even take care of Shen Xi and Lin Dai, if she added Shen Yuan, she would definitely have an even more headache.
Feng Shi was a little embarrassed: "His fifth aunt, it's not that you don't know the situation of our family, my mother has been talking about that the family has no money for a few small studies, wouldn't it be better to save a little now?" In the future, you will take care of Rokuro, so that we parents can rest assured. ”
"Look at Yongzhuo, I am wild when I am studying outside, the first few **** second uncles went to the town to pick up people, but I didn't receive them, the family was very anxious, but the kid appeared a day later, saying that he was drunk at the home of his classmates and missed the time...... What do you say is this? ”
Zhou was a little surprised: "Yongzhuo went home and made such a fuss?" ”
Feng said: "Yes, that's why I'm a mother who worries about the child, I'm afraid that he will be out for a long time and no one will take care of him and go astray." ”
Shen Yuan heard his mother say this about himself, he was a little aggrieved, and his mouth pursed.
Zhou sighed: "That's okay, I'll discuss with him when Xianggong comes back, I haven't seen anyone else for a few days." If you can, when you go back for the New Year, let him talk to his mother about it. ”
Feng is a clear-eyed person, and he can see at a glance that Zhou is a little reluctant.
Originally, when he was in the township, the Feng family only relied on Shen Mingjun to live on Shen Mingjun as the mother and son of the Zhou family in the city, and the days of sending people to the fence must have been miserable. When I got to the ground, I suddenly realized that in fact, Zhou's life was quite fulfilling when he worked in the pharmacy, and seeing that the shopkeeper was so close to her, the salary should be a lot, and he didn't have to rely on Shen Mingjun at all, and his heart couldn't help but be full of envy and jealousy.
"Then we'll take Rokuro home at night, I don't know when you and Uncle will go back?" Feng asked again.
Zhou could only shake his head helplessly: "I still have to wait for the Xianggong to come back and ask him before I can count." He wasn't at home for a month, and he didn't even know where he had gone. ”
Shen Mingxin interjected: "The fifth brother is too, take your mother and son to the city, but you don't care about your family, and when you turn around, you must let your mother ask him well to see what he does." ”
Zhou smiled bitterly.
Although she was not very enthusiastic about Shen Mingxin's room, it was a family in the end, so she kindly kept the three of them for one night before leaving.
Zhou apologized to Hui Niang and worked early, returned to his home in the back alley, and made a sumptuous lunch to entertain the guests. Subsequently, Zhou went to the street to buy things and asked Shen Mingxin's family to take them back by the way.
When Zhou went out, Shen Mingxin and Feng gossip in the courtyard.
Shen Xi and Shen Yuan were reading books at the window of the house, because Shen Xi had a lot of ancient books borrowed from Hui Niang, one of which was the easy-to-understand "Thousand Character Text", Shen Yuan read it with relish. And Shen Xi pricked up his ears and eavesdropped on the root of the wall to roughly understand the meaning of the fourth uncle and his family.
Feng repeatedly accused the Zhou family of not being like a family, and he didn't even agree to leave Shen Yuan, a nephew, at home to take care of him.
"You see how busy her brother and sister are? After all, it's a part-time job, and if we hadn't come, we might not even have time to rest...... Rokuro lives here, and there is no one to take care of him, so in fact, it is better to stay at the school, at least with a husband to take care of him, and his studies will not be delayed. ”
Shen Mingxin was unimpressed by Feng's words.
Although the husband and wife are relatively open-minded in a five-room family, they still have their own little Jiujiu in the end, and they will not think about others completely.
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