Dusk and sunset, Shen Mansion.

Shen Zetang took off his official clothes, was served by the maid Yingge, changed into a black silk silk shirt, and did not let the guards follow, and went straight out of Qitong Courtyard and went straight to Mrs. Shen's Fushan Hall.

Passing through the hall, it is a closed black oil instrument door, he lightly knocked on the ancient green butterfly beast face door cymbals, two guards hurriedly "squeaked" to open the door, across the threshold is a large courtyard, into the eyes of a few camphor pine drill onion cage, cover the half-cut pool green, a plush white cat lying on the edge, staring at the koi jubilant red shadow napping.

The old lady was born in Wumen, likes green plants to be strong and hard, does not like soft flowers and soft willows charming, reciting scriptures to the Buddha when she is old, and newly planted Bodhi tree seedlings in front of the corridor, thin and thin to sway lightly in the wind.

Shen Zetang suddenly remembered that there were a few Bodhi trees planted in Chunshu Hutong, which had already borne their knots, and could be moved here to meet the scene.

There were a few maids in the room sitting on the vertical belt buttress, and when they saw him coming, they hurriedly greeted and led them to the ear room, and someone had already gone to reply first, and Shen Erye came.

I heard the girl's slightly delicate recitation from afar, stumbling, reciting the last sentence, and I couldn't remember the next sentence.

Then an old woman frightened in a rough voice: "Think about it again, Daddy knows that you have to be spanked when you carry it like this." ”

"Mother used me to scare her again." Shen Zetang entered the room, his expression was gentle and helpless.

Mrs. Shen was caught, but she was not annoyed, she smiled, she sat on the Huanghuali Luohan couch, and a young lady with pink carving in her arms sat in her arms, with a rectangular table in front of her, and a copy of "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment".

There is incense on the table by the window, not sandalwood, it has a very light taste, but it can soothe the muscles and soothe the nerves, Shen Zetang sat down on the nearby red short couch, and the maid brought hot tea and put the lotus leaf six-legged incense table in his hand.

I wasn't in a hurry to eat, I just rubbed my eyebrows, a little tired, and there was still a faint smile on my lips.

"Lili is going to give her father a salute." Mrs. Shen instructed her sister in her arms, but she refused, she was frightened by her grandmother's words before, afraid that she would not endorse it, and afraid that her father would scold her, so she drilled her head into her arms.

Shen Zetang took out a branch of the emerald lotus hairpin from his sleeve, beckoned to his daughter, and said with a kind smile: "Come here, this is for you." ”

Lili was eight or nine years old, and she had begun to love beauty, and when she saw the exquisite hairpin, she suddenly forgot her fear, and walked towards her father after sliding down.

Raising her hand to insert it into her sideburns, the little girl took a few steps back and asked timidly, "Is Daddy good-looking?" ”

The eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips have a faint look like him, but which one is more like her mother.

On weekdays, I am busy with business and rarely return home, but I see her even less, and the father and daughter are unfamiliar.

"Beautiful!" Shen Zetang bowed his head, and his tone became softer and softer: "Where in your book you are not familiar with, I will teach you, and you will be able to do it in one go." “

"Your father is a university scholar, and others can't ask for it, so Lili shouldn't hurry up." Seeing that the little girl was hesitant, Mrs. Shen was a little anxious, so she simply ordered the nurse standing next to her to hand the book to her son.

Shen Zetang turned to the first page, looked at it, looked up and asked her: "Let's pair the book, the cloud vs. the rain, what is the snow to?" “

This is the first sentence of the opening chapter of the book, and Lili will naturally be louder: "Wind." “

I asked again about the back and forth, dense and thin, Yang Hua to Guiye and other pairs, the front was quite fluent, and the back gradually struggled to answer, so I simply closed the book and stopped asking, and after thinking about it, I said: "The answer is very good, Mr. can have a word, let you imitate it?" “

Seeing that her daughter nodded yes, she said in passing: "I'll come up with a title called 'Fengqing', you try to look at it." ”

Lili was a little nervous, quietly clasped her hands behind her back, tilted her head for a long time, and then licked her lips and said, "....... Smoke! ”

Old Mrs. Shen, who had been listening with her ears up, saw that her son was silent, and she was so anxious that she slapped her leg and said, "Shen Er, is Lili right to answer?" ”

Shen Zetang glanced at her and didn't answer, but patiently said to his daughter: "I'm clear, you are right about Yanwei, although it's not right, but the part of speech, word position, and word structure are all right, which is very good." If you think about the rhyme and rhythm of the poems you memorize on weekdays, you can see that it may be right. ”

Lili was encouraged, and she didn't panic, in order to please her father's praise, she thought hard, and said later: "Daddy, is the word moonlight good?" ”

"yes, yes!" Shen Zetang's eyebrows and eyes smiled warmly, and then slowly reminded her how to memorize poetry and rhyme.

Lili is a child, looking at his father's kindness, he wants to be close to him, and after a while, he leaned on Shen Zetang's arms and listened obediently.

It was dark and dark, the maid came in to take charge of the lamp, and Mrs. Shen ordered the nurse to take her down to eat puff pastry.

When there was no one in the room, Shen Zetang got up and sat on the chair on the edge of the old lady's couch, took a sip of tea, and then frowned slightly and said: "Lili Huigen is average, and her spirituality is not enough, but she is a girl, you don't have to force her to study, just find something she is willing to do." “

"I'm not thinking that you are knowledgeable, her mother Mengsheng was also a talented woman in the capital in the past, how can she let Lili .......!" She looked at Shen Er's eyes suddenly gloomy, and she couldn't speak for a while, and only sighed after a while: "It's been eight years in the past, when will you be able to let go." “

"Mother thinks too much." Shen Zetang smiled quietly and lightly: "I'm not an amorous person, otherwise how could I let her go that year." “

Old Madam Shen looked at her son's clear figure and modest appearance, such a handsome and elegant man, how could anyone ruthlessly abandon him!

Mengsheng, I treat you more painfully than my own daughter. Three points of anger, four points of regret, five points of regret can not look back on the past, and finally endure it from the heart, there is no turning back in this world.

She was silent, and moved the Buddha beads one by one, before she spoke: "You haven't returned to the house for a month, and I don't have time to ask you, a few days ago, the Duchess of Liang Guo came to me to wipe the cards, and said that the whole capital is spreading, you love the daughter of Lord Xia, the right attendant of the military department, and listen to the famous Xia Yan, but is it true?" “

"Full of capital? It's a bit pompous. Shen Zetang shook his head, saw his mother's eyes wide, and pursed the corners of his mouth and said, "It's not true." ”

Old Madam Shen stroked her chest: "If that's the case, it's bad, that girl is on the roster of the crown princess, you can't come nonsense." ”

Thinking about it, I feel that I am confused, I don't know if my son is a mother, Shen Er is as careful as a net, how could he provoke such a mistake.

finally sighed: "Time does not leave people, it seems that I am really old!" “

Then he said slowly to Shen Zetang: "There is also that Mengqing Daoist aunt in Ciyun Nunnery, I went to the ancestral hall to chant the scriptures a while ago, omitted her to sit there, and chatted during the tea break, her sister Mengsheng is no longer there, and we still leave her in the family temple, and I always feel that there are many things wrong." Anyway, she is leading the practice, if she is willing, it is better to be vulgar, she is young, and her appearance is outstanding, so it is not impossible to find a good family to marry. If you don't want to, it's better to send her to Xinglong or Tongjiao Temple, Jiming Temple can also be, all are century-old ancient temples, the Buddha sound is vigorous, it is a good place to go to the Qing Dynasty to repair the precepts. What do you think? “

Shen Zetang didn't answer, only asked: "What did she say?" “

"She didn't refuse, she didn't will." Old Madam Shen said: "Just say that you can arrange it with Shen Er, she is willing." “