In the past few years that Lin Dai has been at the Shen family, she has been scolded a lot, but it is the first time she has been beaten.

When Xiao Nizi was just beaten, she was stunned there, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time, and after Zhou's scolding, she reacted, she wanted to grin and cry, but she was afraid of Zhou's obscenity, she didn't dare to cry, her face was almost crumbling, and tears were dripping down like pearls with broken threads.

Shen Xi hurriedly said: "Mother, I want to comb Dai'er's hair, I can't complain about her!" ”

Zhou said angrily: "You are not angry, her mother beat her, and she is also teaching you a lesson." Hurry up and pack up, and go to the cultural meeting after dinner! ”

Zhou left the room with a gloomy face, and now Lin Dai finally couldn't help it, squatted down and directly hugged her head and whimpered, the more she cried, the more sad she became.

When Lin Dai first entered the door, Zhou held her in the palm of her hand and spoiled her, and Zhou didn't have any thoughts at that time, just thinking that her son would have the ability to marry a daughter-in-law, and she would have no other extravagant hopes in her life.

But since the Zhou family did business with Hui Niang, and after the family had more and more money, she was a little cold to Lin Dai, after all, with silver, no matter how good the daughter-in-law was, she could marry back, why bother with a little girl who didn't even know her family background?

Later, Shen Xi passed the house test and gave birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus, she was even more critical of Lin Dai, and she would scold her for something. Seeing Shen Xi combing Lin Dai's hair today, she finally couldn't help beating this future daughter-in-law.

"Dai'er, don't cry, my mother is just angry, she didn't mean to hit you. You see, I used to get beaten a lot. Shen Xi squatted down, stroked Lin Dai's back, and comforted.

Lin Dai couldn't cry: "That's what you should fight, this time...... It's my mother who wronged me......"

Shen Xi smiled: "It's not right for you to say that, just now you said that I don't comb your hair, so I combed it for you, and now it's all up to me?" ”

Lin Dai was so embarrassed when she heard this, she raised her head directly, and the pear blossom threw her small fist into Shen Xi's arms with rain, but the force on Shen Xi's body was very light, and it didn't look like she was beating someone at all. Instead, he was tickling Shen Xi: "You are bad, you are bad, you are bad, you are bad......"

Speaking of which, there are only two words "you are bad", and the anger of the youngest daughter's family is overflowing.

Shen Xi helped her to sit down on the edge of the bed and rubbed her delicate little face with his hand. I can't help but feel a little distressed. Zhou's slap was thrown out in anger, and he showed no mercy at all, Lin Dai's little girl's house, where did she receive a slap from Zhou's hand that did heavy work?

After "hurting ......" for a long time, Lin Dai was in a better mood. But when Shen Xi touched her cheek, she still bared her teeth and called softly.

Shen Xi sighed: "Mother is really, didn't it make her husband feel distressed to beat you so hard?" But it's okay, when I have a fame, after we get married, we will no longer live at home, so you don't have to look at your mother's face. ”

Lin Dai hit Shen Xi with another fist: "You are so bad, if your mother hears this, she will definitely think that I provoked it." You're going to hit me again......"

Shen Xi smiled, Lin Dai was a few years older, and some of the truths were well understood. But in the end, she is still a little girl, plus she has long been self-aware, knowing that she will serve her future father-in-law and mother-in-law under the fence, and she doesn't dare to complain in her heart, and she is relieved to be coaxed by Shen Xi's soft words.

After calming down a little, she helped Shen Xi comb her hair and wrap it in a hair towel. Only then did he sit back on the edge of the bed, looking at Shen Xi a little sullenly and pitifully.

"Dai'er, I'm going to attend the conference today, and I may not be back until the afternoon. I'll play with you and Xi'er when I come back. Shen Xi said with a smile.

Lin Dai lowered her head gloomily: "I don't want to play." ”

Shen Xi said: "Then teach you to read and write, and wait for me to come back......"

Lin Dai nodded, stood up and went out with Shen Xi, and when she arrived at the pharmacy, Lu Xi'er, who was reading this comic book in the backyard, noticed that Lin Dai's face seemed to be a little different, and couldn't help but glance at it a few more times.

Although Lin Dai was beaten and aggrieved. But she still had to go in and apologize to Zhou.

Over there, Hui Niang was also persuading the Zhou family to dissipate her anger: "...... My sister is too, but it's just a child's play, and my sister takes it seriously. ”

Zhou also felt that he was too heavy, but in front of the child, he was still angry: "They are all big children, and they don't know the rules yet. ”

Hui Niang was a little dumbfounded for a while.

To say that Shen Xi combed Lin Dai's hair a little excessively, then wouldn't it be even more excessive for her to let Shen Xi carry Shen Mingjun and his wife to her room at night and do the "chicken and dog thief" thing? She had a guilty conscience, and she didn't know how to say the words of persuasion later.

After Lin Dai kowtowed and admitted her mistake, Zhou Shi said angrily: "It's also because my mother is negligent in discipline on weekdays, and my mother takes time out to teach you more." You are your daughter's family, you don't have to do anything else in the future, just teach your husband and children, this is your duty! Do you understand? ”

"Yes, the kid remembers." Lin Dai replied with a little fear.

Zhou Shi said again: "You can also read and write, go back to the room and copy the "Daughter's Sutra" ten times, and show it to me when you go back." ”

"The Book of Daughters" is a textbook for women's ideological and moral education in ancient China, which began to circulate among the people since the early Ming Dynasty, and its influence is expanding day by day. Up to now, even if women are illiterate, they will recite the "Daughter's Sutra" since childhood, which has strict requirements for women to be human, do things, and govern the family, it advocates respecting the old and loving the young, being diligent and thrifty, cherishing food, paying attention to hygiene, strict self-discipline, leniency, proper manners, paying attention to politeness, etc., but the most important thing is to abide by the three and four virtues, and be a "good woman" who is dependent on and obeys her husband in everything.

When Lin Dai lowered her head and went back to her yard, Zhou said to Hui Niang: "This girl, sooner or later, she will marry into the Shen family, if she doesn't discipline her well, she will be ambitious in the future, and it will be too late to discipline her." ”

Only then did Hui Niang know that Zhou's beating of Lin Dai was not a sudden impulse, it should have been "premeditated", which may be the first step for Zhou's to stand up in front of his future daughter-in-law.

Although Zhou did not agree with the old lady's method of disciplining her son, it was her turn, and she felt that it was very necessary. There is always a time when a daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law, and when she really looks at the problem from the same perspective, she knows what she needs.

Hui Niang smiled: "It turns out that my sister didn't deliberately get angry with the child, she just wanted to discipline her future daughter-in-law well, and my sister also had good intentions." ”

Zhou shook his head and sighed: "This girl has been very well-behaved and obedient since she entered the door, I treat her as if she was a daughter, before that, where was I willing to beat her?" ”

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According to the place agreed in the invitation, Shen Xi arrived at a teahouse in the south of the city, which happened to be the place where Shen Xi met Su Tong for the first time.

The teahouse is located on the bank of the Tingjiang River, and the scenery is good on weekdays. But now it is a cold winter wax moon, and everywhere is withered and yellow, full of withering, and there is no scenery to speak of.

Shen Xi came a little early. Su Tong was very surprised: "Brother Shen, I'm afraid that you won't come for my brother." ”

Su Tong personally accompanied Shen Xi upstairs, because the cold wind was gusting outside, and the windows were not opened, the two of them specially chose a seat to sit down. Su Tong was about to say something to Shen Xi, when someone came again, Su Tong hurriedly went over to entertain Shen Xi and let Shen Xi "take care of himself".

The teahouse is not very big, Shen Xi looked around, many seats were empty, but there were few people like him who were alone at a table, either to find friends to sit with, or to make up a temporary partner by the way.

But even if Shen Xi is the only one here, and everyone knows the famous Shen Xi, the head of this year's government examination. But no one came to pick up the stubble.

In the end, Wu Xingyu, who had not been seen for a long time, came upstairs and sat down at the table in Shen Xi.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and Wu Xingyu has become more and more dignified, more like a suave son, and his height is more similar to that of an adult.

And Shen Xi has been a low boy for half a year, and he hasn't grown much taller.

"Shen Gongzi, it's been a long time."

Wu Xingyu was very polite and saluted Shen Xi.

Shen Xi returned the salute, and he felt a little embarrassed to sit with Wu Xingyu. If you live in the same city. You can also discuss the content of the just-concluded monthly exam, but unlike Fucheng, which requires Fuxue to write questions, the children in the counties below Tingzhou Mansion are all taking the exam in the county school, and Wu Xingyu is in the Qingliu County Confucianism Bureau. There wasn't even a topic to discuss between the two.

However, Wu Xingyu spoke first: "Shen Gongzi wrote a poem during the government examination, and studied it carefully after going back, and I felt that it was exquisite. The edge of this sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, which is indeed the hardship of decades of hardships for my scholars. I don't know Shen Gongzi, can these two poems be completed? ”

Shen Xi shook his head and said, "Do it as you please." There is no intention to complete it. ”

Wu Xingyu sighed: "Such a good poem, but it is just a broken sentence, it's a pity, it's a pity." Even if others have the heart to make up for it, it is not from Shen Gongzi's words after all. ”

Shen Xi listened to Wu Xingyu's meaning, thinking that he would complete these two poems into a seven-character quatrain.

In fact, since the beginning of these two poems, many people have tried to complete them, but they have to complete a common saying into a poem, which will inevitably add to the dog's tail and mink painting.

Shen Xi didn't ask in detail, but asked, "Didn't Gongzi Wu prepare for the exam in Qingliu County, why did he come to Fucheng?" ”

Wu Xingyu said with a smile: "I went to Fucheng with my father to visit the new Anzhifu, and by the way I met the scholars of Fucheng, and I have always had correspondence with Su Gongzi, he once said that Shen Gongzi is not only outstanding in learning, but also has a dabbling in the art of Kanyu Xuankong, and he is leisurely fascinated, so he begged Su Gongzi to invite Shen Gongzi to talk about it. ”

Shen Xi smiled, he was thinking about how Wu Xingyu hooked up with Su Tong.

This Wu Xingyu looked polite, but Shen Xi had long felt that he was the kind of young man whose eyes were above the top, he looked down on others, and others looked down on him. Su Tong once said to Shen Xi that no matter how powerful he Wu Xingyu is, he is just a concubine. But in just half a year, Wu Xingyu was able to become a "pen pal" with Su Tong, and there must be something greasy about it.

As the initiator of the cultural meeting, Su Tong needs to be responsible for receiving guests. After everyone arrived, he had to introduce those present.

Wu Xingyu and Shen Xi, as the youngest two in the next year's college examination, were ceremoniously introduced to everyone by Su Tong, except for the two young and promising talents, the rest were all children who participated in the college examination in the coming year.

"Brother Shen, Wu Gongzi, don't mind, these people are like this, when you sit down and talk about the Tao for a while, you might as well show their foreign appearance."

Su Tong took the opportunity to provoke, mainly because he was afraid that Wu Xingyu, like Shen Xi, would not like to speak in public. The last time Shen Xi and Su Tong participated in the literary meeting, they didn't express any opinions from beginning to end.

Wu Xingyu likes to express himself, and when he heard this, he couldn't help arching his hands: "Certainly, definitely." (To be continued.) )