After a long time, Xi Fuwei and Shen Weilan looked at each other in the back hall.

“…… Why did you come here all of a sudden? Thinking of the fact that Fang had just ordered someone to drive him out, Xi Fuwei coughed a little embarrassedly and asked, "Now...... It shouldn't have been dispersed yet, right? ”

Shen Weilan smiled: "Yes, isn't this a business trip?" ”

"Business trip?" Xi Fuwei's mind turned around and asked, "What happened here, and I actually want you to go out in person?" ”

"What did you say?" Shen Steallan took a sip of tea and said slowly, "When Song Shangshu arrived in Shandong before, he was assassinated in Dongchang Mansion. At that time, His Majesty issued an edict to Jinyiwei to watch Song Shangshu and Shangshu's dependents, so as not to be manipulated by others and affect the errand for the imperial court. After all, His Majesty personally watched the canal dug up! No, I heard that someone came from Ying Tianfu secretly, and he didn't say hello to me, so he went straight to Song Shangshu's mansion with the pearl in his hand, can I not come and see it in person? ”

Xi Fuwei said with a smile: "I guess Ouyang Yuanshui's whereabouts can't be hidden from you, and I still wonder if you actually let him come to Dongchang Mansion, could it be that he has been busy recently?" The co-author came after him. ”

She felt very surprised, because Shen Steallan was not such a generous person.

It is said that if he really couldn't get out of his hands, he wouldn't have let Ouyang Yuanshui come to the door so smoothly?

"Who called him lucky?" Shen Weilan smiled and said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time, I think this is a good opportunity to come to the door, so I just let him come over for a walk, and I will come over to ask a few words openly...... When do you see when it is convenient for me to give my mouth to write? ”

Xi Fuwei covered her mouth and smiled: "Write it yourself!" I'm not going to work under you anymore, so I'm not going to worry about it. ”

He also explained, "He came to me to say goodbye, saying that he would never see me again." ”

After a deep groan, he still said, "He asked me for a hairpin before leaving, but I didn't give it to him." However, Jiao'er was young and ignorant, but he was deceived by a purse I made when he left. ”

"I said he wasn't a good guy a long time ago, and now you see it, right? There are so many hearts and eyes for children. When Shen Weilan heard this, he suddenly took out a purse from his sleeve as if he was juggling, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, I was already prepared, and I just went out, so I asked someone to take it down and search it, and I got it back for you." ”

Isn't that purse made by Xi Fuwei for Xi Jiao?

She couldn't laugh or cry a little: "Ouyang Yuanshui is afraid that you will be frightened." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the person behind him had served His Majesty for many years, wouldn't it be more than just scaring him?" Shen Weilan sneered in her heart, but her face was still impassive, and she smiled: "Jinyiwei handled the case, just take it down and ask it, isn't it enough to worry about it?" ”

He didn't mean to return the purse to Xi Fuwei, and stuffed it back into his sleeve.

When Xi Fuwei saw it, she said, "You can keep this purse and return it to Jiao'er, I worked hard for several days to make it." ”

"It took days of hard work to get it done." Shen Weilan repeated this and looked at her with a smile.

"What kind of vinegar do you eat?" Xi Fuwei smiled, "You also have a share, and there is a set of clothes, but I don't do much needlework, and small pieces like purses, when my father and brother were here before, I occasionally made some for them, and I was quite skilled." This dress takes a lot of work, I used to have to take care of the house, but now I have to educate and correct the children, and there is really no kung fu to practice, and the craftsmanship is very miserable. I changed it a few times and was not very satisfied, I am afraid that you will be disgusted after wearing it, and it was only two days before I stumbled to finish it, and I was thinking about bringing it to you when I went to Jining on the second day of the new year! ”

Shen Weilan was happy for a while, and then keenly noticed: "We? ”

"Jiao'er has it, you have it, can you still miss your father-in-law?" Xi Fuwei said, "It's just the three of you, and I don't even pay attention to the enemy." ”

"That kid just takes money to do things, why should he have a share?" Shen Weilan said sourly, although she knew that Yu Kedi liked a virtuous wife and mother who would take the initiative to help him take a concubine, Xi Fuwei was also insensitive to people like Kedi who were looking for a daughter-in-law with the intention of taking advantage, and there was at most some brother-sister affection between the two, and there could be no ambiguity.

However, thinking of this period of time, Yu Kedi was entrusted by Professor Xi Jiao, and he was able to come over every once in a while, but he was entangled in everything, and even Hongyan had to take time to pass on the book, so he was a little jealous, and said, "You are good to him, just like your own brother." ”

Xi Fuwei slapped him with a smile: "I treat my brother-in-law much better than him, but it depends on whether he is in front of you, and I want to give you face, so I have to treat him more preferentially, right?" ”

Shen Weilan listened to these words comfortably, and her eyebrows stretched: "How are Jiao'er's fists and feet practiced now?" I've been busy all year long, but now that things are on track, I'll be able to relax a little bit soon. Yu Kedi lost his father when he was young, and the family kung fu still relied on his uncle to carry him and barely fell behind, where can he teach Jiao'er how powerful? Wait for next year, or I'll come over to teach Jiao'er. ”

"It's good for you to come and give me some advice." Xi Fuwei groaned, "But Jiao'er is not a well-behaved and sensible good boy, and during the time when the enemy came to be a master, he beat him a lot." Even myself, it's also a family method that rolls up my sleeves every now and then! I'm afraid that after you come, you will be embarrassed to discipline him, and he will be more and more exposed to the roof of the house! ”

Shen Thief Lan immediately said that this was impossible, and there were no naughty younger brothers and sisters in his family: "How can there be serious children who are not beaten?" How can you become a talent if you don't beat your child! ”

Xi Fuwei saw that he didn't seem to be a fake, so she agreed to turn around and fire Yu Kedi and replace him with Xi Jiao's master.

After the decision was settled, the two talked about their parting feelings.

Xi Fuwei is very concerned about the matter of connecting the river, after all, if it weren't for this river, the Xi family might not be what it is now.

Xu is because the Wen family has been ambushed, and now Xi Fuwei thinks about the past, although it is not like a passing cloud, but it is also very calm.

This river ruined the Xi family, but it fulfilled her and Shen Steallan.

Xi Fuwei is not the kind of person who doesn't care what happens to her as long as her family is good...... Maybe there was a time, driven by anger and hatred, she would think so. But if she calms down, she's the kind of person who will plan for herself.

Otherwise, he would not have proposed to Xi Fuguang to break the marriage contract with the Wen family.

So she said from the bottom of her heart that if Xi Zongwang and Xi Fuguang were good, she would rather the emperor didn't open the river, and she would rather never know Shen Shulan...... Not necessarily the truth.

However, on the other hand, because of Shen Yanlan, if he felt that his father and brother's tragic death was worth it, it was impossible.

So now when she thinks of the opening of the river, the vastness of the smoke and waves in the future, and the coming and going of the boats, she has a lot of mixed tastes in her heart, and she can't tell what it feels like, but she only feels indescribable melancholy.

It's like a tree, growing there.

Suddenly, there was a flood, and it was scattered, and only a little bit of roots remained.

Resentment?

Definitely.

Rejoice?

There are also yes.

What about later?

What else can you do besides cleaning up your scars and living a good life?

All heartache will heal and be buried in time, won't it?

At this moment, listening to Shen Shulan's careful description of the project of opening the river, as well as the scene after the renovation of the planned Huitong River, Xi Fuwei's eyes changed, and she seemed to see her young self, lying on Xi Zongwang's knees, listening to her brother Xi Fulang reciting poems.

On that day, Xi Fuguang carried the late Tang Dynasty Pi Ximei's "Two Songs of Bianhe Nostalgia".

Xi Zongwang explained the meaning of the poem to his eldest son, and encouraged him to learn the lessons of Emperor Yang of Sui, not to waste his good youth in playing, but to study hard.

At that time, Xi Fuwei listened boringly, yawned and asked, "Where is the Bianhe?" ”

"The Bianhe River is in Henan." Xi Zongwang hugged his daughter and explained with a smile, "But ah, we also have a canal in Shandong, which will lead to the river, but it is outside our house, under the embankment where your brother took you to play two days ago." ”

This fragment passed quickly in Xi Fuwei's memory, she hadn't remembered it before, but now that she remembered it, she suddenly felt sour.

At that time, no one in the Xi family thought that the canal, which could be seen every day when they went out, would bring them such drastic changes one day.

She remembered the poems of her predecessors, "Declining Lan sends guests to Xianyang Road, if there is love in the sky, the sky will be old." ”

In the Song Dynasty, Shi Manqing was promised to be an enemy with "the moon is free of hatred, the longer it grows".

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu dug the first spade of the Grand Canal in order to dominate the Central Plains.

Later, the Qin and Han dynasties, the Wei and Jin dynasties, either out of irrigation, or out of strategy, or out of transportation, built many canals throughout the country.

By the time of the Sui Dynasty, "10,000 dragons and green silk were carried to Yangzhou and not returned", although Emperor Yang had the abuse of the people by the dragon boat of the Water Palace, after all, he left "more than 1,000 miles without mountains" of "Gongyu is not much meritorious".

Although the Tang and Song dynasties took great care of this canal, dredging, repairing and digging never stopped, due to the war and climate, by the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Tongji Canal had disappeared.

Later, the Yuan Dynasty dug the Jeju River, the Huitong River, and the Tonghui River due to the establishment of the capital in Beijing, and this canal then went straight to the north and south, connecting the national capital with the south of the Yangtze River.

However, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this canal inevitably followed the old road of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the early years of the dynasty, the people were struggling to make a living, and the world had not yet recovered, and they could not take care of it.

At this time, Xi Fuwei recalled the past, and suddenly felt that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was sentient?

That's why it will change again and again with the changes of the world.

It is not a distant heaven, a noble and distant looking down on the creatures of the earth.

In the river that runs for thousands of miles, it is full of fame and fortune and wind and snow and moon from south to north, and the smoke curls on both sides of the river, and countless fireworks in the world are bubbling with the water.

It is different from the fickleness and surging of the ocean, nor is it like the arbitrary ocean of natural rivers.

It comes from human hands, and it follows people's will from birth.

Therefore, the joys and sorrows of thousands of years, how can the emperor not embrace its soul?

Again and again, the world began to fight, and the smell of blood and water mixed with the smell of earth flowed into its body, and it became tired, so it merged itself into the earth.

There is a long body hidden in the withered grass and the grass and trees, and the eyes are silently closed in those years of iron horse and autumn wind.

Later, when a new dynasty was opened, people remembered it, and it was awakened again, so they opened their heavy eyes and looked at the world again, watching the two sides of the strait from desolate to prosperous, and seeing people's hearts from panic to joy.

Joy turns to greed, greed gives rise to soldiers, and then it is another reincarnation.

The long river creeping on the ground, meekly running through the north and south of the earth, it is gentle, but also humble, year after year, carrying those north and south, east and west, thousands of years of time, gathered into a pool of clear water.

In the rushing water, every wave is engraved with grievances, hatreds, joys, sorrows, and sorrows throughout the ages.

The Xi family is one of them, and it is also one of the thousands.

The wind came, the wind went away, the waves bloomed for a moment, and then went out again.

For example, the matter of the Xi family has been in an uproar for a few days, and now I don't hear much of those discussions.

This is a grudge in the countryside that is not qualified to be recorded in the history books, even if it is connected to such a grand event as Kaihe by mistake, those who know it forget it, and it will pass.

In a few years, the Xi family itself will not remember.

For the remaining aunts and nephews, what a thrilling past, sooner or later they will be plainly spoken, and they are not even interested in saying it.

Xi Fuwei thought quietly, thousands of years later, the Xi family didn't know where it would be, and this canal would probably still be there.

At that time, the new dynasty, like the emperor today, dusted off the fatigue of years of war, dredged the sediment that had accumulated for many years, opened a new port on both sides of the river, shouted the goods from the south to the north, and watched the white sails staggered by...... Those bustling rivers that have been awakened again, do you still remember the scene when Yongle was half asleep and half awake in the eighth year of Yongle?

The gentle sound of the canal seemed to be heard in the wind, rustling against the embankment, calm and soothing.

Xi Fuwei listened carefully, and after a long time, she noticed that Shen Weilan in front of her didn't know when she had stopped describing, and was slightly stunned: "Why don't you say it?" ”