Chapter 40: Goodbye to Ying'er
After that, Du Youwei handed Shen Tingyu a letter and said: "This is a letter from Master Yu to Brother Xian, now Master Yu has been promoted to the governor of Yun and Ping, and in a few days, I will also rush to the Yun and Ping regions to assist my teacher." ”
Shen Tingyu opened the envelope and glanced at it quickly, the content of the letter was basically some words of encouragement, and he hoped that he could go to Yun and Ping Prefectures to assist him as soon as possible.
"I know the news of Yuan, how can Lord Yu know how quickly?" Shen Tingyu asked.
"There's nothing strange about this, as soon as the virtuous brother is released from the Yuan, there will be news to Yu Enshi immediately, don't look at Yu Enshi's distance in Yun and Pingzhou, but he is always concerned about the affairs of the virtuous brother."
"Oh? That is so concerned about the things that Lord Yu is concerned about, can it be that even my title of Xie Yuan has the element of Lord Yu's help? ”
"Naturally, this is not, has the virtuous brother forgotten the nickname of his mentor 'Yu Sanzhang'?"
Shen Tingyu has always been convinced of the adult's character, so he is even more worried that he will find his flaws, and when he heard Du Youwei say this, he was immediately relieved.
After Du Youwei left, Shen Tingyu found Zhang Zhihong, informed him of Du Youwei's purpose for coming, and asked him for his opinion.
"In my opinion, the adult's personality is honest and fair, and he should not interfere in the affairs of scientific research. However, this Lord Du is quite a bit of a tendency to be inflammatory, how could Lord Yu take such a fancy to this person? Zhang Zhihong said.
"Although this Du Youwei is only thinking about climbing up, he is at least honest as an official, and Lord Yu must also take a fancy to him, so he will reuse him in an eclectic manner."
"However, does Brother Shen feel that this move by Lord Yu seems to be recruiting talents and wanting to form his own power?"
After listening to Zhang Zhihong's speculation, Shen Tingyu thought about it for a while and said: "It seems that there is indeed this possibility, but this matter is not something that you and I can manage now, we just need to be ourselves at present." Moreover, the struggle in the court is fierce, and maybe the adult's move is just to save his life. ”
"What Brother Shen said is very true, at present, we really only need to take care of ourselves."
Mrs. Shen, together with the neighbors and the women who came to help, cooked a lot of food, and bought a few jars of wine on the street, and celebrated with the neighbors, and everyone ate and drank together until midnight.
At night, a man returned home with some food, and could see the lights flickering in the house from a distance, the man smiled and pushed the door open.
Looking at the shadow under the light, the man said softly, "Ying'er, look at what I brought you?" ”
Ying'er was sitting under the lamp at this time, doing needlework seriously, when she heard the man's voice and reminded quietly: "Be quiet, grandma has just fallen asleep, don't wake her up." ”
After listening to Ying'er's words, the man gently put the wrapped food on the table, and said softly: "Today, Master Shen's house held a banquet, and I went to sit for a while, because I was afraid that Ying'er and Grandma would not be safe at home alone, so I came back first." Before leaving, Mrs. Shen gave me a lot of food to take home. ”
"You went to Shen Tingyu's son's house?"
"Yes, but now I'm going to call Master Shen, because Shen Gongzi has solved Yuan in high school."
Hearing the news, Li Yinger immediately said happily: "That's really good. ”
Ying'er happily shook the man's hand, but then asked worriedly, "Is Master Shen the only one who is in high school?" ”
"No, there is also Master Zhang, it is the benevolent father who stood under the tree that day, no wonder I have always felt very familiar, I heard someone mention it today and knew that Master Zhang is the son of the former county commander."
"It's good to be hit, it's good to be hit." Ying'er suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and a big stone hanging in her heart finally landed.
The man looked at Ying'er as if there were tears in the corners of his eyes, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and said in a hurry: "Ying'er, I heard that ......"
"What did you hear?"
"I heard that Zhang Engong had a crush on you before and wanted to marry you, is this true?"
"Who are you listening to when you say that? Zhang Engong is the son of the former county magistrate, and now he is a high school person, how can they fall in love with a rural girl like me? ”
"What happened to the country girl? In my heart, Ying'er will always be the best! The man said firmly.
Listening to the man's words, Ying'er smiled and said gently: "It's rare to have so much delicious food today, you eat more, and I will heat up the rest tomorrow and continue to eat for you." ”
"I brought it back for Ying'er to eat, I can't eat it myself."
"Don't shirk it, the heavy work at home has to rely on you, it's important that you are full, I do some light work, just drink some porridge."
Seeing that Ying'er didn't eat, the man immediately became anxious, and hurriedly said: "If Ying'er doesn't eat it, even if it stinks, I won't eat a bite!" ”
Seeing the man so considerate of her, Ying'er's heart was very moved, although he couldn't do anything big, but at least he knew how to hurt people, no matter what dirty work and tiring work would never let her do, whenever there was good food and drink, he would always remember her.
Early the next morning, when the man was about to go out to work, he suddenly found a person standing at the door of his house, and after a closer look, it was Zhang Zhihong, so he hurriedly put down the hoe in his hand and stepped forward to ask: "Master Zhang, why are you here early in the morning?" Is there something going on? ”
"It's nothing, I'm just coming to see you." Zhang Zhihong said lightly.
The man smiled vigilantly, a little at a loss, and then Zhang Zhihong said again: "I'm going to leave here again soon, Ying'er is an old friend I haven't seen for a long time, so I want to meet and nothing else." ”
"Well, that's good, Master Zhang, I'll go and call Ying'er out." Then he ran back into the house.
After a while, Ying'er came out of the house.
"Well, I'...... I'll not bother you for now, but I'll go to the fields first. The man stammered, he was afraid that Ying'er would think that he was not worried about the two of them, so he didn't dare to say to stay.
"If you're not in a hurry, please stay for a while." Zhang Zhihong said.
The man raised his head and glanced at Zhang Zhihong, Zhang Zhihong just smiled at him, and then he looked at Ying'er again.
"Stay, Engong is here, but you have to be busy with yourself, you can't say it." Ying'er said.
The man smiled and nodded, and then sat on the stone steps at the gate weaving a bamboo basket, while Zhang Zhihong and Ying'er sat on the stone table not far away.
"Is Granny Li in good health?" Zhang Zhihong asked.
"After the autumn of this year, I couldn't get out of bed."
"Can you ask Lang Zhong to take a look?"
"I've looked for it, but nothing worked."
At this time, the two fell into silence for a while, and Ying'er kept her head down and didn't say a word.