The autumn rain is continuous, and it is especially cold at night.

The sister-in-law of the Shen family has been ill for a long time and has not recovered, and the "little boy" who was picked up from the fireworks field also made a toss and was unwilling to take blood.

The old man of the Shen family looked at the child standing not far in front of him, skinny, his face was pale, and his eyes were black when he looked at people, which was full of fierceness and unruliness, which made people feel more and more disliked.

"Why don't you want to take blood, your eldest brother is still waiting for help."

"It's my business!" The kid grimaced.

"Presumptuous!"

The old man of the Shen family slapped the table violently, "Shen Congnian, you remember your own identity for me, if it weren't for your eldest brother, you wouldn't have been able to enter the gate of my Shen family at all......"

"You think I'm willing to go in?" The kid sneered, "What kind of bullshit place is your Shen family, and what do you think of me?" ”

"I'll tell you, I'm not called Shen Congnian, and I'm not that sick man."

"He's something, he wants to drink my blood to keep him alive, and he's not afraid of thunder and hell! I wish he was dead now, and he was going to die immediately......"

"Smack!"

Master Shen slapped him in the face, "You brute!" He's your big brother! ”

Shen Congnian's cheeks were red when he raised his head, and there were blood stains on his mouth: "Didn't you say that my mother is a slut in the Qinglou, I am a slut in a cheap life, he is my eldest brother, could it be that Mrs. Shen is also a flower girl in Yanliudi?" ”

"You!"

The little child bared his teeth and looked at the man he called his father, looking at him as if he was angered by his words, waving his hands with a hideous face and trying to hit him, while Mrs. Shen next to him shouted "It's the other way around".

He slammed his head into the man's waist, knocked him over, bit the hand of the man who wanted to grab him, and when he let go, he turned around and ran out the door.

The people in the courtyard were in a mess, and when he stood outside the door, he could still hear the voices of the servants inside calling "master" in panic.

Hearing the man's hoarse voice scolding him for being a brute, scolding him for being a slut in a cheap life, he shouted angrily that people were not allowed to stop him, let him get out, get out of the Xie family, and let him kneel and beg him to go back to the Shen family in the future, and then he would smoke his cheap bones.

Shen Congnian's eyes were red, he glanced at the plaque of the Shen family viciously, turned his head and ran towards the alley.

Even if he starved to death on the streets, he would never return to the Shen family again!

……

Shen Congnian walked and walked, I don't know how long I walked.

This year, it was particularly rainy in Beijing, and in late autumn, the climate was as cold as if it was winter.

Eight or nine-year-olds, thinly dressed, squatting in a corner to avoid the wind, shivering.

From night to day, and from day to night.

His body was shivering with cold, and the hearts of the people in the capital were even more indifferent, and countless people only glanced at him when they looked at him, and when he finally got half of the leftover baked cakes, he was snatched away by a mad dog.

Shen Congnian fell into the puddle, looking at his bloody arm, thinking about why his mother, who was bent on money, gave birth to him, and what to do while still alive.

But looking at the rising sun and listening to the noisy voices of people on the street, he was full of unwillingness.

Why.

Why did he die?

Why did he have such a hard time?

The people of the Shen family are not dead yet, why should he die?!

Shen Congnian got up from the ground, his face was blue from the cold, and when he looked up, he looked through the crowd, and saw a young woman getting off the carriage opposite, she was wearing a catkins light shirt, and the uppers under her feet were delicately embroidered with silver filigree.

The purse around her waist was bulging, the hairpin on her head was more beautiful than what he had seen on Mrs. Shen's head, and her skin was white and tender, and she looked like a rich flower pampered in the boudoir.

Shen Congnian stared at her motionless with dark eyes, watched her get out of the carriage, watched her instruct the girl to buy candy on the side of the road, and watched her walk towards this side, he grabbed the sharpened branch in his hand, and trembled a little nervously.

As the woman approached, he suddenly rushed out and hit her head-on.

"Yikes!"

The woman was hit and staggered to the ground, and the skirt on her body was instantly stained with mud, and he didn't even have time to see her reaction, he grabbed the hairpin on the top of her head and pulled it out and turned around to escape, but she suddenly grabbed her hand.

When the child turned around, the branch hidden in his sleeve was about to swing out, but he heard the woman's anxious voice: "You are bleeding." ”

"Let go!"

"You ......"

Boom –

As soon as Shen Congnian wanted to struggle hard, he heard a loud noise behind him, and the mud and stone wall where he was hiding before suddenly collapsed, and the masonry on it buried half of the alley inside.

……

Shen Congnian didn't know how he followed the woman back to her house.

He was obviously just very hungry, and wanted to snatch the things in her hand and escape, and wanted to rob the hairpin for silver money so that he could live, but when the Tao family came, the woman said that he was her savior.

If he hadn't happened to bump into her, she might have been killed by the falling stones.

She took him home, called a doctor for him, asked people to prepare clothes, and took him back to the mansion and left him in the Tao family's guest room.

She said that her name is Tao Yiling, Yi Yi Xi, Zhong Lingyuxiu's Yiling.

Shen Congnian initially just thought that this woman was a fool, obviously so much older than him, and even reached the age of kissing, but she was still so naïve, but he still took advantage of this life-saving benefactor with peace of mind.

The Tao family has food and drink, the Tao family is a family of lords, he can avoid displacement if he stays in the Tao family, and even get some benefits, and when he is well-nourished, he can leave the capital, far away from the disgusting Shen family.

But gradually, he felt as if something had changed.

Tao Yiling treated him very well, always calling him "Brother" with a smile, telling people that he was her brother and that he was her benefactor.

She loves to laugh, and when she laughs, her eyes are crooked, like a warm sun, and no matter how hard-hearted people can soften.

She taught him to read and write, and even sent him to the Tao family.

The Tao family has a gentle temperament and has never treated him lightly, and after the Tao brother knew that he was an "orphan", he also treated him as a younger brother when facing him, although he was strict but also cared for everywhere.

The girl of the Tao family will call him Xiaogongzi in a narrow manner, and the aunt in the kitchen will remember his taste and cook the meals he likes.

He liked horses, so the second brother of the Tao family gave him a pony.

The people of the Tao family never knew his surname, they didn't know his name, they only called him Adi......

Shen Congnian felt that the Tao family's days were like a dream, which made him immersed in it and never want to wake up.

Since he was born, the most he has heard is his mother's hoarseness.

She always screamed at him and scolded him, saying that he was obviously a son, but he couldn't please his father, but she never thought that she was just a prostitute, and her father had a spring breeze overnight, so she wanted to borrow her son to take the position, but how could a child born to a lowly woman be worthy of entering the Shen family.

Later, he was taken back to the mansion by the Shen family, just because the Shen family's sister-in-law was seriously ill, and the old lady of the Shen family asked a fortune teller to tell his fortune and said that if he could have a loved one to continue his life, he could get better by feeding him with sperm and blood.

The sister-in-law of the Shen family is called Shen Nian, and he is Shen Congnian.

Shen Nian needed to drink blood, and he became a livestock fed by the Shen family, taking blood every day to renew the life of their hearts and liver treasures.

Everything in the Tao family is the warmth that he never dared to ask for, which made him from the initial slackness, to the later cautiousness, reluctant to leave, and even once thought that he had really become the youngest son of the Tao family, the "elder brother" in Tao Yiling's mouth.

Until Shen Nian was seriously ill and dying, his father came to the door, pointed at him in front of everyone in the Tao family, and said, "He is the seed of my Shen family, and his life is also my Shen family", saying that he is just a sin born of a lowly prostitute in Qinglou, and it is already his blessing to be able to renew the life of his eldest son.

Shen Congnian looked at the look of surprise on the Tao family's face, and looked at Tao Yiling's eyes full of shock.

The first time he had murderous intent, he was only nine years old.

He just wanted to kill all the people of the Shen family, kill his father, and kill everyone who wanted to ruin his peace.

Shen Congnian thought, the people of the Tao family probably won't want him anymore, and Sister Ah won't treat him so affectionately anymore, his status is lowly, he is the son of a cheap prostitute, the Tao family is a high-ranking family, even if it is an orphan whose parents died, it is cleaner than him, who dares to be close to a sinister species?

But Tao Yiling stretched out his hand to protect him behind him, and scolded the Shen family for being ruthless.

Uncle Tao, who was gentle and elegant in the past, looked at the Shen family with a cold face and said, "Lord Shen, you have found the wrong person, this is the youngest son of my Tao family, because of his poor health, the child who has been raised in Zhuangzi since he was a child, is not a member of the Shen family."

Shen Congnian looked at his father, who had always been above the top, and showed a look of astonishment.

"Master Tao, are you crazy? He is my son, how can he be a member of your Tao family? ”

"Really? I don't know when he was born and where his biological mother is, but he has entered your Shen family and appeared in front of the Shen family? ”

Uncle Tao only looked at his pale-faced father quietly, and asked word by word,

"Everyone in the capital knows that you Shen Xiyuan only has one son, named Shen Nian, you and your wife are in love, except for Shen Gongzi, there is only one daughter who has just been full moon, when did you have another son? Or even born of a prostitute in your mouth? ”

Shen Xiyuan opened his mouth and just wanted to refute, but when he met Tao Yun's gaze, he swallowed all the words that came to his mouth, and even his face was stiff, obviously hating but not daring to speak.

Tao Yun blocked him behind him and said lightly: "Lord Shen, this is the son of my Tao family, please don't make a mistake in the future, it will not be good for people to misunderstand your reputation." ”

Shen Xiyuan left in embarrassment.

After he left, Shen Congnian listened to his eldest brother tell him that Shen Xiyuan had quietly "disposed of" his biological mother for the sake of fame, saying that he had never registered him in the Shen family, and that no one in the Shen family even knew about his existence except for a few people.

Shen Xiyuan's official position is not high, and it took many years to get to his current position, as long as he still takes care of his official reputation and the reputation of the Shen family, and does not want to be impeached by the imperial history, he will not dare to force him to return home.

It was only at that time that Shen Congnian knew that the people of the Tao family had already known his identity.

"You ......"

Shen Congnian's face was pale, and he clenched his fists and only felt extremely embarrassed, "You already knew? ”

Tao Yun didn't hide it from him, he just said: "When Yiling brought you back, the doctor said that there were many wounds on your arms cut by sharp weapons, and that you were deficient in qi and blood, like blood loss. ”

"You said you were an orphan, but although the clothes you were wearing at that time were not the best, they were not what ordinary beggars could wear, and besides, your eyes could not hide things, and you were always fierce when you looked at people."

"If we don't find out your details, how dare we keep you in the mansion?"

Shen Congnian's eyes were red, "Now that you have found out and know that I am so unbearable, why do you still keep me?" ”

Tao Yun looked at him: "Do you think you are unbearable?" ”

"Is it an unbearable background, or an unbearable temperament? Or did you want to rob Yiling's things at the beginning, but in the end you happened to live in the Tao family, and you were embarrassed by the Tao family's life-saving grace? ”

Shen Congnian's face was pale, his lips were biting extremely tightly when he grabbed his palm, and he stared at Tao Yun when his back was straight, his eyes were full of embarrassment.

Tao Yun looked at him quietly for a while before he said, "What, you want to hurt me?" ”

Shen Congnian looked at him for a moment, and suddenly he was deflated, he hung his shoulders and whispered with tears in his eyes: "I won't hurt you......"

Tao Yun looked at the little child's head hanging down and full of guilt, and chuckled: "Look, this is the reason why I keep you." ”

When he looked up, he said gently,

"Do you remember that not long after you came to Fuzhong, Yiling took you to the library, and she stepped on an empty foot and almost fell, when you pulled her and pushed her up, but you fell down."

"If it weren't for your eldest brother arriving in time and grabbing you, I'm afraid that even if that fall kills you, it will be enough for you to lose your arms and legs."

"Your eldest brother likes Wen Shu, so you secretly tidy up the book pavilion for him, I like to drink tea, so you secretly get up early to get the morning dew, and Mrs. has a headache to use scorpion tail as medicine, so you secretly go out of the house to look for it."

"After you entered the clan study, you are diligent and motivated, and your talent is outstanding, although your temperament is cold and alienated, even for the Yiling who sent you in, you are also trying to communicate with people, and the Tao family who does not want to be involved will talk about our strengths and weaknesses."

"You're actually a very good kid, but you just gave birth to the wrong place."

"If I can give you flowers, I think you will grow better than anyone else, right?"

Shen Congnian slowly put it down in his hand, his eyes turned red, and when he looked up at the middle-aged man in front of him, he was already in tears.

Tao Yun looked at him with a smile: "Whether you were a coincidence or have other plans, you saved Yiling's life after all, since she called you brother, then you are the child of our Tao family." ”

"If you are willing, call me a righteous father, and from now on you will be the son of the Tao family."

Shen Congnian looked up in disbelief, and saw Tao Yunwen smiling,

"I don't think it's good to read this name, from, subordinate, vassal, but with your talent, as long as you are willing to make progress, you will definitely get ahead in the future, and you will never be a vassal, this name is too wronged by you."

"Why don't you call Feng Nian in the future?"

"Fengqi Wutong, people and abundant years."

"May you be able to fly and lift high, break free from the mud and bloom, and attract the attention of the world."

……

Shen Congnian stayed in the Tao family, and since then changed his name to Tao Fengnian, he has become the youngest son of the Tao family, calling Tao Yun's father, he let go of all the past and grievances, and worked hard to grow in the direction that the Tao family wants.

He is excellent, upright, and talented.

His temperament became gentle, and he began to be calm, more and more like the elder brother of the Tao family.

He watched Sister A and the son of the Qi family get married, watched the second brother have someone he liked, and watched the eldest brother enter the court, step by step.

These two years have been the happiest time he has ever had.

Until Shen Nian was seriously ill and died, Shen Xiyuan died unexpectedly, and Mrs. Shen gave birth to a posthumous son, but only gave birth to a sick and weak daughter.

The old lady of the Shen family came to the door in person, pulled him with a handful of snot and tears, and cried, saying that he was the only bloodline of the Shen family now, and when he begged him to go back, all this was broken again.

Shen Xiyuan has a good face, but the old lady of the Shen family doesn't care about anything.

He has no son, no grandson, only a newborn granddaughter, and the only hope is Tao Fengnian, who has now changed his name and surname.

The old lady of the Shen family knew that Tao Fengnian was excellent, knew that he was not inferior to Shen Nian's talent at the beginning, and knew that only he could continue the bloodline for the Shen family, so as not to let the Shen family lose their children and grandchildren.

At the beginning, the Tao family refused, and the old lady of the Shen family came every day, staying for most of the day.

And Mrs. Shen, who was once graceful and luxurious and high, just held the child and cried in front of the Tao family, everyone who cried pointed fingers at the Tao family, and the people in the crying Yushitai accused the Tao family of making the Shen family go to the end, and the future of the crying eldest brother was blocked, and the reputation of the elder sister was hindered.

Tao Fengnian took the initiative to return to the Shen family.

……

"Do you really want to go back?" Tao Yun's face was slightly gloomy.

"Brother." Tao Yiling took his hand, "You don't have to pay attention to them, they went back by themselves after a few days, they never treated you well, what are you going to do when you go back?" ”

Tao Fengnian is no longer the grinning child he was at the beginning, and at the age of eleven, he already has the spirit of a teenager.

"I know that they may not be very good to me, and I also know that they asked me to go back for the Shen family's incense inheritance, but now that the Shen family has no Shen Xiyuan and Shen Nian, the Shen family will definitely find a way to let me go back."

"They continue to make trouble like this, and there are the descendants of the Shen family and the flower girl from Fang Si to testify, my identity can't be hidden."

"It's okay if I don't get out in my life, but if I want to enter the court, I can't pass the pass just because I was born, besides, my father and eldest brother are in the court, the second brother is also going to take the literary exam, and my sister is about to leave the cabinet, I don't want to hurt you for them."

Tao Feng Nian says:

"When I go back to the Shen family, no matter what they think in their hearts, I am the only son of the Shen family, even if they look down on me again, they can only grit their teeth and let me be the concubine of the Shen family for the sake of the lintel of the Shen family."

"I can continue to study, I can participate in the imperial examination, I can enter the court like my eldest brother, and become a person like my father."

"In my heart, you are my dearest people, whether I stay in the Tao family or go back to the Shen family, this will never change."

Tao Yun saw that he had made up his mind, so he only said in a deep voice: "Have you thought about it?" ”

Tao Fengnian nodded: "I've thought about it." ”

Tao Yun didn't continue to say more, only persuaded Tao Yiling and the eldest brother of the Tao family who still wanted to speak again, and then said to him: "Since you have thought about it, then do what you want, just don't forget, since you call me father, the Tao family will be your backing whenever you want." ”

"As long as you want to come back, the door of the Tao family is always open for you."

Tao Fengnian bent his eyebrows slightly, and smiled with a youthful spirit: "Okay." ”

……

Tao Fengnian personally met the old man of the Shen family, and only mentioned three conditions.

He can change his surname back to Shen, and his name is still Feng Nian, and then he wants to go to the family tree, and then pass under the name of Mrs. Shen and become the son of the Shen family.

Finally, after he returned to the Shen family, no one in the Shen family was allowed to use him as an excuse to climb the Tao family and step into the Tao family's gate, and the Shen family was not allowed to say anything about him living in the Tao family for two years.

He was going to go out of Beijing to study for three years, and when he came back three years later, he would appear again as the youngest son of the Shen family.

The old lady of the Shen family didn't agree at first, it was okay not to change the name, and he was willing to inherit Mrs. Shen's name, they originally wanted to find a man so that he could inherit the incense of the Shen family, but the Tao family was a high-ranking family.

Now that Shen Xiyuan is dead, after the Shen family has lost its pillars, if it can cling to the Tao family, at least it will not fall too badly.

But Shen Fengnian made it clear, if he didn't agree, then even if he went to sue the royal court, it just so happened to be known how Shen Xiyuan had an affair with Oiran overnight, took blood to feed his eldest son after giving birth, and how he killed his biological mother in order to hide his existence.

Old lady Shen was so angry that his face turned pale, but in the face of the Shen family's current lone seedling, he had no choice, and finally compromised.

Shen Fengnian stayed in the Tao family for two years, but rarely appeared outside, and after he left Beijing, the Tao family and the Shen family also invariably downplayed his existence, the Tao family was still prominent, but the Shen family was gradually declining.

Gradually, no one ever mentioned the lawsuit between the Tao family and the Shen family anymore, and even forgot that there was such a person as Shen Fengnian.

Shen Fengnian was admitted to Xiucai when he left Beijing, and he was promoted before returning to Beijing at the age of fourteen.

By the time Shen Fengnian rushed back to the capital, the three princes had even ascended the throne, and Tao Yiling had already been canonized as the queen and sat in the middle palace.

Shen Fengnian didn't know why Tao Yiling and the third prince came together, and the Tao family didn't tell him the details, but later he went to see Sister A once, and Sister A was still as bright and smiling as when she was in the boudoir.

He thought that maybe Sister Ah was happy, so he didn't delve into the matter of the Qi family's divorce, but only returned to the Shen family, and officially appeared in front of others as the youngest son of the Shen family.

Shen Fengnian is a young talent, the youngest person in Da Chen, and even the only one who may be six yuan or the first, everyone envies the Shen family's blessing, and the Shen family is afraid that he will have a relationship with the Tao family again, so they refute the glory of the Shen family, and restrict everyone from mentioning the past events, and fewer and fewer people know that he is the former son of the Tao family.

At the time of the palace examination, Shen Fengnian explored flowers in high school.

When he was wandering the streets, he only wanted to go to Tao's house, to meet his father, to meet his eldest brother, and to share his joy with them.

But who knew that when he went to Tao's house, he heard that Sister Ah poisoned the son of Concubine Bo and was sent to the cold palace.

All the changes came unexpectedly, and the new emperor who had asked to marry Tao Yiling in every possible way turned his face ruthlessly.

Tao Yiling was deposed as the queen, and the entire cold palace was besieged and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

When he finally tried his best to enter the cold palace through the connections of the Tao family, what he saw was Tao Yiling, who was skinny and almost out of shape, she was still beautiful, but her eyes were blank, and she was no longer bright, and even withered like a dead person.

If it weren't for her wide skirt, her belly couldn't be covered, and her slightly undulating chest, she looked like a dead person when she sat under the peach blossom tree.

Shen Fengnian couldn't save her.

He tried his best to dredge the people in the cold palace and arrange for someone to go in to take care of Tao Yiling, but she was still getting weaker day by day.

She didn't say anything, didn't cry or laugh, until the day of delivery, Tao Yiling lay in a pool of blood, held his hand and said, "Brother, if I do it all over again, I will never meet him again."

When Tao Yi's aura was exhausted, fifteen-year-old Shen Fengnian was trembling from crying.

He hugged her corpse and called for Sister, but she never answered him again.

Shen Fengnian hated the emperor very much, he secretly took the child away, cleaned up everything in the cold palace, and when he returned to Tao's house, Tao Yun was white-headed all night, and Mrs. Tao cried so much that she was almost blind.

The Tao family went too high, and even refuted the imperial power.

Shen Fengnian was afraid that the emperor would kill Tao Yiling, and he would continue to use the Tao family, so he spread the word that the emperor was forcing his wife to die, but the emperor still knew about the child, and when he came to ask the Tao family for a child, Tao Yun refused.

The emperor forced the Tao family to take their lives, Tao Yun only said that they had "sold" their daughter once for themselves, and now even if they take their lives, the child will never be handed over to the royal family.

The emperor was furious, and directly asked the Tao family to blame the family.

He originally just wanted to force the Tao family to succumb, but he forgot that the Tao family's prominence had long been taboo, and when he wanted to let the Tao family innocent, he found that the Tao family had been sent into a desperate situation by him.

The Tao family was exiled and died on the way, but the child who was originally left in the Shen family survived.

Shen Fengnian didn't do anything, he didn't think about anything, he just held the child and secretly collected the bones for the Tao family, looking at the tomb that had not even been erected, his eyes were cold little by little.

He thought, he had nothing left.

There is no sister, no eldest brother, no father, mother, no Tao family......

He has nothing left, how can others be at peace.

This world is ruined.

……

From the moment the Tao family was destroyed, all his integrity, gentleness, kindness, generosity, and all passed away with them, and he just wanted to avenge Sister and the Tao family, and pull the Yuwen family to sink with him.