Aunt Lin walked lightly to the table, put the jade pieces into a cardboard box one by one, turned around and said to the teacher: "Qing'er's lily porridge is good these days, so let's eat a bowl of it." ”

Master Shi first waved his hand, looking at Aunt Lin's expression was gloomy, and he couldn't bear to let her worry about it anymore, and said, "Well, take a bowl." ”

Aunt Lin put the tea leaves and oranges back one by one, and went downstairs with the box containing the jade.

"How are you doing these days?" Master Shi said.

"It's almost all right, but I can't go out in the house every day, and I'm really stuffy."

"It's better to take care of it for a while, you can't leave the root of the disease, although the palace is good, but after all, it is not as good as at home, and you can take care of it everywhere and all the time." With that, he sighed deeply.

"Daddy also has to take care of himself, don't drink unscrupulously."

Master Shi's eyes were slightly closed, the corners of his mouth were raised, and he nodded, "My son has grown up." He picked up the word book on the low machine and said, "Qing'er likes Uncle Yan Tong's words." ”

"Well, I've been reading it a lot lately."

"Daddy hasn't listened to Qing'er's poetry for a long time, but there is a new work, let Daddy read it?"

"I've been bored lately, I haven't written anything, and the few poems I filled in randomly are just ridiculous and generous jokes."

"Among the brothers and sisters, you are the only one who is willing to pay attention to poetry and books, and my father is very pleased, and even Shao Song has not been willing to work this in recent years. Generations of scholars, there is no successor. Master Shi said sadly.

Wanying 'fluttered', smiled coquettishly, and said coquettishly: "Daddy, we are originally a martial arts family, how can we be a scholarly family?" ”

Master Shi stretched out his index finger, scratched it lightly on Wanying's nose, and laughed at himself: "Even Qing'er laughs at Daddy for being a big boss? Although my family is from the military service, but your grandfather is a jinshi in the former dynasty, your grandfather is a tanhua and the first, and your father is also a jinshi in the fifth year of the first emperor Qianfeng, so can't you call it a scholarly family? ”

In the troubled times, self-cultivation and self-cultivation have long been an obsession in the hearts of teachers. However, in his life, how can he use a few words to let the child in front of him understand, let's go, not all feelings must be understood, since he has taken this road, he has to bear the wind, frost, snow and rain along the way. Master Shi smiled helplessly, he was not sad that his beloved daughter didn't understand him, he was distressed that if he said the words of this life insincerely, would it really crush the years in her heart? It's better to let her be carefree! No matter how difficult and dangerous the road ahead, as long as I still have a breath, I am willing to hold up for them, even if they don't understand themselves.

Of course, Wanying didn't understand the heaviness and vicissitudes of her father at the moment, and said innocently: "Isn't that father an all-round person who is both civil and military?" ”

Master Shi smiled heartily, he had heard countless beautiful words in his life, but the word "civil and military" came out of the mouth of his daughter who was ignorant of the world, but it was a different taste. The kind of little daughter's coquettishness, unbelievable cross-examination, with admiration for her father, mixed with some true or false suspicions, the teacher said to himself: "What is all-round talent is not all-round, Daddy only asks my son for a safe life." "Thousands of troops and horses are galloping in my heart, and after all, I can't bear to worry about my daughter. The teacher wanted to speak and stopped, and the mood of being a father was much more difficult than fighting on the battlefield. Don't say that I'm afraid that my beloved daughter will suffer a loss when she enters the palace in the future, and I'm afraid that I will scare the child if I say it. To say it or not to say it, I struggled with the mouth of the teacher for a long time, and finally pressed it hard, picked up Wanying's self-copied poetry collection, and read it unintentionally, only said: "Speaking is the end of the month, there are not many days left before the ninth day of the next month, and Daddy has a few words to tell you." ”

Wanying bowed down and clenched her fists, pinched her throat and said in the singing voice of Xiaosheng in the play: "Master, please speak, Qing'er listen——"

If this scene were changed to weekdays, how warm and happy it would be, but now, the teacher has a lot of furrows in his heart, saying: "My son ......"

Wanying flicked her sleeves, looking like she was in the play, clasped her fists again and again, and sang: "My lord, please speak-"

"Presumably your mother also told you that your father did not advocate you to enter the palace this time, but the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, and there is no power to return to heaven after the matter has come to this point. If my father said some things, it would only increase my son's troubles for no reason, but if my father didn't say it, he was afraid that my son would suffer in the palace. ”

The turbulence in the hearts of the master Shi was not noticed by Wan Ying. My mother had already told me some things in private, and she pretended to be plain in order not to add more worries to my father. put away the tone of singing and said: "Daddy, please speak, Qing'er must remember in his heart." ”

"Hmm," Master Shi nodded. Then he said: "You entered the palace at the same time as Wanyun this time, Wanyun's position has been decided, so that's it." "Speaking of this, even though there are thousands of hills and valleys in his heart, his face is always unfazed." The daughter of a family like ours, such a thing as entering the palace as a concubine is always unavoidable, there must always be someone to enter the palace, and it is a good thing that God loves to share the favor, but ......" Master Shi looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and the words came to his mouth and swallowed it raw.

"Daddy......"

"It's nothing, it's better not to say it, some things are rotten in the stomach than to say them. If you don't know, you have nothing to do, and you understand that every day is like a thousand pounds of heavy burden, and people are overwhelmed. ”

"Daddy doesn't say it, it's for Qing'er's good, but Qing'er sees that Daddy is so worried, and it's really useless."

"You just remember, don't say a word in the palace, don't take an extra step, don't inquire about things you shouldn't know, and don't get involved in boring rights and wrongs."

"Qing'er understands."

"And don't get close to the emperor, don't offend the queen, the lord of Huizhen who entered the palace this time doesn't have to deal with it too much, and you can take care of the rest yourself."

"Daddy, can Qing'er ask why?"

"Child, it's good if you don't know, you just have to remember what your father said, it's all for your good."

"This year's father's birthday is a big order of the emperor, the emperor values his father so much, even Qing'er can understand it, why does his father always seem to be hiding from something?"

"The saint is magnificent, and my father is really ashamed in his heart, and I can't understand a sentence or two about the affairs of the court. There are some things that even the true dragon emperor can't return to the sky, let alone his father, an ordinary man who is at the end of his career. ”

"Daddy......" Master Shi said unclearly, and Wanying was confused.

"You keep what your father said in your heart today, don't even mention Wanyun, do you know?"

"Got it."

"So dad has nothing to say, these days you can recuperate with peace of mind, take care of your body, don't let your mother worry, your brother to his wife has hurt her heart, and now you leave her again, daddy can't bear it, take advantage of these few days at home, accompany your mother more."

Speaking of Aunt Lin, Wanying's heart welled up with a lot of things she wanted to say to her father: "Daddy, can you agree to Qing'er's request?" ”

"Hehehe...... After all, as long as Daddy can do it, he will definitely not break his promise. ”

"Daddy, Qing'er has nothing else to ask for, just ask Daddy to be kind to my mother." Wan Ying's tears rolled down like a beaded curtain with broken threads.

Master Shi wiped away the tears on Wanying's face with his hand and said, "Silly child, with your mother accompanying your father, your father will live in vain...... Rest assured. Master Shi's tone was firm and resolute, especially the last three words "rest assured" were earnest and heavy, which really pressed Wanying's uneasy heart.