After the rain, the sunny day was exceptionally cool, and the moonlight was like silver, pouring / all over the ground, and the reflected bluestone pavement seemed to be paved with a layer of ice and snow. There was a faint scent of flowers in the air.

The husband passed by the street and smelled this faint incense, but he saw that there was an unknown flower poking out of the wall of someone's house, a faint little flower, plain white color, blooming very luxuriantly in the night.

The town also seems to be very lively at night, and the occasional tinkling sound can be heard in your ears. The husband knows that this is the Shen family building the so-called martial arts shadow wall!

Speaking of this Shen family, it is famous in this town. When people talk about this sword family in the south of the Yangtze River, they don't know which one is surnamed Shen. Even their small town has become lively because of the existence of the Shen family. Even when I talk about where I have lived recently, my words are full of pride!

Although ordinary people like them have nothing to do with the rivers and lakes, this Shen family is different! Everyone in these ten miles and eight towns knows that the Shen family is not only famous for its great kindness, but also an endless stream of people who go to the Shen family to ask for swords every year. When there are many people, it seems that the bluestone road under your feet is also sunken!

After a while, it will be the sixtieth birthday of Shen He, the old lady of the Shen family, presumably the workers will add a little processing to make this martial arts shadow wall finish before that!

The husband passed by the tall lintel of the Shen family, and said, "The weather is dry, be careful of the candle!" The slogan continued to move forward.

And the sound of the Shen family's jingling still did not stop.

Welcoming the arrival of the early morning is a loud sound of firecrackers, today is the 60th birthday of the old lady Shen He, but it is a big day!

Look at the red silk hanging under the eaves, and the sashes of the servants and maids are tied with red ribbons, and everywhere is full of lights, and it is very lively. I'm afraid that this happy event is not as lively as coming here!

Under the sun, the two words Shen Fu flashed with dazzling golden light.

The servants at the door followed Shen He's eldest son, Shen Yang, the eldest lord of Shen, standing at the door to greet the arrival of the guests. Don't look at this Shen Yang, who is already in his forties this year, but he still hasn't mastered the lifeblood of the Shen family. Who gave him a father who was old and strong!

There are three men and two women under Shen He's knees, but only Shen Yang is still around, most of the others are in other places, and the two daughters have also married far away to the capital. But on such days, I am sure that I will come back to celebrate my father's birthday!

"Second brother!" Shen Yang said excitedly to a middle-aged man.

A blue-roofed carriage slowly drove at the door, and a man and a woman got out of the car, it was Shen Jiang and his wife Zhao. "Big brother, I haven't seen you for a few years, okay?"

Shen Yang smiled and said, "Okay, everything's fine." Come on in, Daddy has been waiting for you for a while. The third brother and the eldest sister and the younger sister have already arrived, so they are waiting for you. ”

"Big brother, then I'll go in first." Shen Jiang is elegant, wearing a blue robe with a graceful demeanor. Although he is forty years old, he is still maintained

Appropriate. It has a more mature temperament than young people, which makes many women passing by take a few more looks. Looking at his wife again, although her appearance is not beautiful, she is gentle, her eyebrows are full of softness, and a light smile makes people feel refreshed.

Shen Jiang walked through the corridor and saw that there were already many guests in the main hall. Retracting his gaze, he walked to the flower hall next to the main hall, where there were already many people seated, all of whom were members of the Shen clan.

"Second brother!" The eldest sister, Shen Mei, smiled at Shen Jiang, holding a female doll about five or six years old in her arms.

Shen Jiang nodded lightly at her, looking at Shen Gui, who was almost identical to Shen Mei next to her. Their sisters are twins, very similar in appearance, but very different in temperament. Shen Mei is generous and enthusiastic, while Shen Gui is much quieter.

"Little sister, it's been a long time."

Shen Gui raised his eyes and glanced at Shen Jiang, and said softly: "Second brother." Then he played with his fingers again. The man sitting next to her smiled apologetically at Shen Jiang. This person is Shen Gui's husband, surnamed Zhang Wencong.

Although Shen He is already a middle-aged man of forty years old, he still looks like a hanger. He was not followed by his wife, but several concubines who were like flowers. His name is very similar to Old Lady Shen's name, which is enough to see Old Lady Shen's love for him.

"Several uncles and aunts are here, Zongwen is here to say hello to you." The young man in a green shirt who came in was very handsome, and his eyebrows were very similar to Shen Yang, it was really his eldest son Shen Zongwen.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, Zong Wen is really getting more and more handsome!" Shen Mei smiled lightly and quipped.

Shen Zongwen was generous, and responded with a smile: "Getting my aunt's praise really flatters Zongwen!" He swept lightly into the room, his gaze lingering on Shen Gui for a moment, and then he moved away.

However, almost no one present noticed this, except for Shen Mei, who was talking to him. Shen Mei lost her husband at an early age, and has been staying at her husband's house all these years, serving her in-laws and taking care of her children with all her heart. In addition, she was wearing a peony-colored flower dress and exquisite makeup, which attracted a lot of attention.

But looking at Shen Gui in a blink of an eye, although she has the same appearance as Shen Mei, she is wearing a blue skirt with a little powder, and she looks a little younger than Shen Mei, and she looks like a girl. Not to mention, she is already a mother of three.

Shen Zongwen talked and laughed among the crowd, and it was not until almost noon that he took people out of the flower hall before the banquet began.

"Grandfather recently asked someone to renovate the Yanwu Shadow Wall, which is much more magnificent than in the past."

The shadow wall is not strange in ordinary people, but in this Shen Mansion, there is an additional name - the shadow wall of martial arts. Because behind this shadow wall, there is a martial arts training ground. Ordinary sword tests and martial arts competitions are all in this martial arts training field. Therefore, when the weather is good, people's shadows will be projected on the shadow wall, so it is called the martial arts shadow wall.

This played the martial arts shadow wall early years ago

Because one year the sword trial was cut off a corner, it has been like this for all these years, and it was not until the eve of Old Lady Shen's 60th birthday that it was finally decided to renovate.

After the repair, the shadow wall of Yanwu is more brilliant than in the past, and the huge word Yanwu glows with a dull light in the daylight, as if it is a color that will only have after years of experience.

The brothers and sisters of the Shen family really felt a lot of emotion when they saw this martial arts shadow wall, they played around here when they were young, and when they grew up, they also practiced martial arts and swords in this vicinity. I didn't expect to see it one day.

"I miss it so much!" Unexpectedly, it was Shen Gui, who had been silent, who had been silent, her eyes were slightly red, and she was crying, as if there was a scene from her childhood in front of her again.

"yes!" Shen Jiang smiled, "Brother remembers when I was a child, my little sister knocked out a front tooth here!" ”

Through Shen Jiang's words, the estrangement between brother and sister for many years seems to have disappeared at this moment, and it seems to have returned to the carefree years when they were children.

"What are you talking about, it's so lively." It was Shen Yang who was late, he had been receiving guests at the door, and he couldn't get free, so he had time to come and have a look.

"I didn't say anything, it was just some things when I was a kid." Shen Jiang explained with a smile.

"Really, what are you doing standing here, it's a waste of time!" saw Shen He raise his hand and yawn, and said with a boring face.

Shen Jiang was interrupted, his face was naturally not good, and even Shen Yang was slightly unhappy. Since he was a child, this Shen He has been favored by them a lot, no matter what he does wrong, his father will definitely not punish them. But compared to Shen He, if a few of them did something wrong, they would definitely be punished for kneeling on the ancestral tablet, or they would be beaten well.

When the three brothers were older, they moved out, and only Shen Yang waited by his father's side. But Shen He lived in Shen Mansion for ten months of the year, and Shen He sent someone to fetch him.

Shen Yang has thought countless times that his father has not handed over the Shen family to him now, is it because he wants to wait for Shen He to regain his heart! As long as he thought that the family business he had been in charge of recently would be handed over to Shen He, a prodigal man, in the future, his heart was very uneven.

"Okay, it's not too early, let's go and celebrate my father's birthday!"

The highlight is at night, where fireworks will be set off all night, and even the stage will be set up for a week!

A group of people were about to leave, but they saw an old man leading people in this direction. The old man was wearing a splendid slanted robe, with a turquoise jade hairpin in his hair, and a white jade dragon-shaped pendant with a smooth body on his belt. The old man had a long beard and gray hair, but he was in good spirits. This old man is none other than Shen He, who is bringing a group of people here to visit his renovated martial arts shadow wall at this moment!

At this moment, seeing that Shen Yang and others were also there, he couldn't help but smile and said, "It seems that everyone is in the same interest as the old man!" ”

The brothers and sisters of the Shen family lowered their heads and saluted: "Father." ”

Shen He laughed, "Get up." "Say it

, and introduced the others to this martial arts shadow wall.

The crowd circled around this martial arts shadow wall for a week, but when they saw that it was really majestic, it was indeed worthy of being a famous sword family in Jiangnan.

"Huh? Look, what's that! In the crowd, someone suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone followed the man's gaze, only to see that a red liquid slowly flowed out of the shadow wall, and the emerald green shadow wall was really weird.

I don't know if someone suddenly said, "It seems to be blood." ”

Suddenly, the crowd fell silent. On this day of great joy, anyone who hears such words will not be happy.

A trace of anger flashed on Shen He's face, and he shouted, "Go and see, who is making trouble!" ”

Hearing this, Shen Yang hurriedly walked up, took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the blood away. But as soon as it was wiped off, blood flowed out of the shadow wall again, and it looked as if the shadow wall was bleeding itself. "Father, look ......," Shen Yang said with some embarrassment.

I saw more and more bloodstains, and the smell was unbearable, as if it had spoiled pig blood. It flowed thickly down the shadow wall, seemingly endlessly.

Shen He is old, and he has never seen any strong winds and waves, so of course Lido will regard this as someone making trouble. "Humph! I want to see who is so bold as to dare to make such bad luck on the day of my sixtieth birthday! Someone, chisel this shadow wall for me! "It seems that he is really angry, and he wants to break this newly built shadow wall.

After a while, a subordinate came over with a hammer and a pickaxe, and with three strokes and two blows, the shadow wall chiseled a hole. But as the hole was revealed, a woman's scream erupted from the crowd.

"Dangchang!" I don't know whose hammer didn't hold it steady and fell to the floor with a loud sound.

The noon sun is the time of activity, and the dazzling sunlight shines on the shadow wall, allowing people to clearly see the hole, clearly revealing a bloody and blurred arm.

There are dead people in this martial arts shadow wall! This news quickly spread throughout the entire Shen Mansion, casting a shadow on the days of rejoicing because of Shen He's 60th birthday.

What he smelled in his nose was rich blood, Shen He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "You can send someone to invite the people from the six doors over!" ”

Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that if there is a conflict between the people in the rivers and lakes and the imperial court, it is generally mediated by the six doors. And the people of the rivers and lakes have their own recent way of doing things, and they have always paid attention to retribution. But if a murder occurs in his own home, and it doesn't have much to do with him, he can only ask Six Doors to help.

After all, they still prefer the way the Six Doors behave more than in the court. After all, there are also many people there.

The good 60th birthday had to be stopped because of such an event. The guests were all accommodated in their rooms and were not allowed to leave for the time being, except for the arrival of the people in the six doors. Although this shadow wall has been built for two days, but in the truth

Before the big white, it is better to be careful.

Shen He has a lot of prestige in the rivers and lakes, so the guests who came to celebrate his birthday were not dissatisfied, and they all said that they would fully cooperate.

The town where the Shen family lived was located in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, and it would take about three days to reach it from the capital. In other words, the crowd had to wait at least six days.

At noon, when the weather was at its hottest, a fast horse set off from Shen's house in the direction of the capital.

The shadow wall has been covered with a wide cloth, and no one is allowed to approach it. But even so, the summer heat still makes the fishy smell enter people's noses one by one. It's as if the corpse of someone you don't know who it is is right next to you. Everyone is not in a good mood, everyone is very irritable, and the slightest thing can make people angry.

"I've said it a few times, what I want to drink is warm tea, not hot, do you want to burn me!?" Shen Mei looked angry and glared at the kneeling little maid viciously.

"Smack!"

The teacup fell in front of the little maid, and the hot water drenched her thin clothes, and she shrank back, but she did not dare to dodge. Because she knew that if she had avoided it recently, what awaited her would not have been over with a simple scolding.

"Auntie, why are you so angry! My nephew specially ordered someone to prepare iced sour plum soup to lower your anger for your aunt. The person who came was Shen Congwen, who did not appear that day, wearing a white robe, and he was freehand. Shen Congwen is exactly twenty years old, he has no wife at home, and he is handsome, but he is a rare good man. Compared with his brother Shen Zongwen, he is more tactful, especially in pleasing girls.

"Hehe, with Congwen's words, my aunt won't be angry." Smiling lightly at Shen Congwen, Shen Mei said coldly to the little maid: "Okay, go down!" ”

Without the existence of the little maid, only Shen Mei and Shen Congwen were left in the room. And Shen Congwen gently closed the door when he entered the door.

"Auntie, I haven't seen you for many days, but I still have the same demeanor!" Walking over with a bowl of sour plum soup, Shen Congwen's demeanor can be described as very ambiguous.

"You're a little enemy!" Shen Mei glanced at him with disgust, and said coquettishly: "You haven't been looking for me for a few days, a little thing with no conscience!" ”

Shen Congwen was numb at this glance, and he came up with a smile and stole a kiss on Shen Mei's cheek. "Recently, my son has been strict, where do I have time to go out! But fortunately, aunt, you are here in person, otherwise my nephew would be sick with lovesickness! ”

"What a flamboyant!" Shen Mei smiled and nodded his slightly thicker lips, and said softly, "If you don't come, my heart is cold and uncomfortable!" ”

"Really?" Shen Congwen pretended to be surprised, but his big hand covered Shen Mei's towering chest, grabbed it lightly, and said, "Ah~ I didn't see that it was cold, I just felt very hot, ploppy, as if I just wanted people to take pity on it."

！ ”

"Be light, what if someone finds out!" Shen Mei glared at him, but her demeanor did not change.

"My nephew is provincial, so naturally he won't come here nonsense."

This house was Shen Mei's residence in her early years, and occasionally someone would pass by, and the two of them naturally didn't dare to indulge in this blue sky and white day.

Shen Congwen touched Shen Mei's chest without finishing his heart, and then said: "I haven't seen you these days, I don't know how much my aunt misses her nephew!" ”

Shen Mei's eyes were like silk, and she glanced at Shen Congwen timidly, and her tone was soft: "Heart, but I think about it very much!" People who think about it, my heart is pounding this night, and even my body is wet! ”

"Auntie, my nephew misses you too! Every time at night, just think about my aunt. Shen Congwen said these good words, but he didn't blush at all.

"Nasty!" Shen Meijiao snorted, and her bright red Dou Dan fingers lightly tapped his forehead, and she laughed very well. "So, then, tonight! Remember, come quietly, I'll leave you a window! ”

"Ah, this is my nephew's good aunt!"

In this broad daylight, the aunt and nephew were discussing such shameless matters, and it even seemed that they had been secretly crossing Chen Cang for a long time.

At the door, a figure flashed quietly, but it didn't notice anyone in the room.

(End of chapter)

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