Due to the illness of the teacher, the birthday of the family on the day after the birthday of the original birthday has been delayed. I thought that I would not do anything and save trouble, but the eldest brother and younger brother insisted again and again. I had to reapply for it at a later date.

There are four brothers in the division, and the second in the division sequence is the eldest brother with the hereditary title and the third brother who has entered the WTO. There is also a fourth brother from an aunt in the side room, who has never been an official in the court, and only lives in the land of Gyeonggi, making a living from a pawnshop restaurant. When Shi Daren was young, he followed the imperial court to fight in the south and the north, and was personally awarded the rank of chariot and cavalry general by the first emperor, ranking third.

The three brothers are officials in the same dynasty, one is prosperous, and the other is lost. The three mansions are connected to each other from east to west, stretching for more than ten miles, and the Wuwu occupies a whole street.

At dusk on this day, the eldest brother Shi Boyuan and the third brother Shi Shuyuan entered the teacher's house from the back door, the two did not carry the servants, passed through the back garden along a long bamboo path, bypassed a rockery, and the housekeeper Lian Jin copied his hands and stood behind the rockery, as if he had been waiting here for a long time. Lian Jin took the two masters of the family into a secret room, and the master was waiting inside with a cup of tea.

The three brothers met and exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the elder brother Shi Boyuan went straight to the topic: "Second brother, I just sent a message from an eyeliner in the palace, and it is a foregone conclusion that Wanying will be selected as a noble person this time." Queen Mother Longen, we should all work hard to serve. ”

The third brother and uncle picked up the teacup from afar, and then the eldest brother said: "Second brother, my younger brother is in Wenyuan Pavilion today, and I occasionally heard the words of Emperor Shi Yan University, and the saint also wants to win over the second brother, I just wanted to come forward to investigate, and Master Yan will not say any more." ”

Before Uncle Shi finished speaking, the eldest brother Shi Boyuan hurriedly grabbed the conversation, leaned over and said to Master Shi: "Now that the Queen Mother of Cining Palace and the emperor are at odds with each other, the Queen Mother intends to abolish the emperor several times, if it weren't for the eldest princess to turn the tide, the world would have been in chaos a long time ago." The second brother should be cautious, and the elder brother can only say so much. Shi Boyuan lowered his voice, and the sound waves only traveled between the three brothers.

The third brother judged the situation and said: "Second brother, you are the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, and you are also the commander of the Nine Gates, and you hold the Nine Men Infantry Army to patrol and capture nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in the five battalions, and these 20,000 soldiers and horses are the bowstrings of the two palaces to strangle each other." No matter who the second brother falls towards, he will definitely kill the other party at a critical moment. The emperor and the queen mother kept pulling the second brother together, just to pinch the bowstring that strangled each other in their hands at the last moment. Shi Shuyuan's words were neither selfish nor selfish, but he just hoped that his brother would be cautious and careful.

Master Shi took a sip of tea, holding the tea bowl in one hand, holding the lid of the tea bowl in the other hand, slowly putting down both hands, gently supporting on the thighs, the clear fragrance of tea in the tea bowl, with a little smoke that seems to be nothing, in the chest of the master escaped: the three brothers are the same mother, it should be, the brothers work together, and their profits are gold. However, for decades, the world is impermanent, and the three brothers are no longer in the mood of the teenagers who talked and laughed back then. Especially the eldest brother, the hereditary title, has no real power, and there are many whispers in his heart, a few years ago, I heard a deputy general under his command say that the eldest brother intends to befriend the Marquis of Wu'an and seek a military position. Today's meeting for a secret conversation is mostly to inquire about his own tone, and he was probably instructed by Wu Anhou. The third brother has always been close to him, and he does not have many hills and valleys in his heart, and he wholeheartedly follows the learned monks of the dynasty to compile the classics, but I don't know why he said such a sensitive and delicate thing today, whether he is worried about himself or instigated by others, it is unknown. ”

After a while, Master Shi picked up the teacup again, took a sip, casually put the teacup on the coffee table next to him, and said lightly: "In the past few days, Zhongyuan's stomach disease has recurred, and he always feels powerless, perhaps because of his age, he always remembered the situation when Chenghuan was under his mother's knees in the coma on the sickbed, and he thought about it for more than 40 years. I remember when I first arrived in Gyeonggi, my mother was not used to the cold wind in the north, and every winter, there was always enough charcoal fire in the warm pavilion. The three of us brothers were not tolerant of the cold in the middle of the night, and always secretly ran to our mother's warm pavilion and slept together in our mother's bed. When I met my father, my father blamed my mother for doting on us and punished us for standing in the yard and freezing in the cold. I wore too little, I had a cold, a high fever, my mother hugged me, my eldest brother decocted medicine for me, my third brother wiped it for me, I snuggled in my mother's arms, although I was sick and confused, I only felt warm in my heart, and the wind cold was cured in a few days. ”

The teacher said emotionally, inadvertently left two lines of turbid tears in the corners of his eyes, looked up at the third brother, he was already in tears, and then looked at the eldest brother in a blink of an eye, with an indifferent and cold eye that had nothing to do with himself. Master Shi walked to a scroll and looked at the landscape courtyard in the painting with his eyes. Said faintly: "This infection, Zhong Yuan feels a chill in his back from time to time, and the small symptoms have not improved for several days. These days are slightly better, but there is often a cold feeling in the chest, maybe there is not much to live, and there are about a few years of longevity. Zhong Yuan has been handsome all his life, sacrificing his life and death for the court, not seeking to be heard by the princes, but only seeking the rest of his life to be brothers, friends and brothers, father and son filial piety, and to talk about this remnant life in peace and stability. ”

The third brother and uncle listened to the second brother from afar, so sentimental, and he was also very moved in his heart, he was a civil official, if it wasn't for the protection of the second brother, he would have been squeezed by his colleagues a long time ago. Where are there such a stable days as today? Thinking of this, he wanted to comfort the second brother and said, "Second brother, in the prime of life, I occasionally felt a little sick, but I was cured in a few days." Don't say that sentimental. After speaking, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his cuffs, lest the second brother see him crying and add to the worries of the second brother in vain.

"Second brother, you are hot in the court now, don't talk about it. Our master has been counting on you to have a place among the nobles in the capital. The eldest brother inherited the title in vain, and he never added a trace of glory to the master's family, relying on the shadow of the ancestors, it was nothing more than a lingering breath. If you are so self-indulgent, let me, as an elder brother, have no face to live in the world. ”

Master Shi stopped talking, his eyes were fixed on the scroll in front of him, this was the scroll drawn by his mother herself, the courtyard in the picture was the former mansion, and the three teenagers in the painting were the three brothers. The eldest brother stood under the porch to feed the birds, the third brother leaned against the gallery to read the book, and the young master struggled to pull a curved bow. It's been half a hundred years. The three young men who were in their prime were already people with gray sideburns in the blink of an eye.

When he was young, the third brother said from his uncle: "Second brother, let's get together for a family banquet, first, it is the emperor's grace, if you live up to it, there will be a lot of criticism; Second, our brothers haven't had a good drink for a long time, so it's better to take advantage of the family banquet of the second brother's birthday, and Shuyuan and his brothers will get drunk and rest. ”

"Okay, I also have this intention, tomorrow I will invite the eldest brother and the third brother to come over, and then recruit the fourth brother, and our brothers will have a good drink."

The eldest brother Shi Boyuan was a little melancholy, he came here this time to find out about the second brother's movements, but he didn't know that he didn't find anything after talking for a long time. Seeing that his younger brothers made an appointment to drink tomorrow, he had to accept it.