Thinking of this, Shen Muqing couldn't help but have a faint smile on his face.

Soon, when the time came, the bell made a crisp "ding dong" sound, and Mr. Min stepped into the study on time.

Min Beishan was only a year old, born with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, bee waist and ape arms, very handsome.

He wore a velvet silk with a Buddha's head today, held a few thick books in his hands, his face as white as jade shone with a moist luster in the soft light, and the corners of his eyebrows were filled with a happy smile, as bright as the first rays of light in the morning.

Seeing Shen Muqing reviewing the homework of the previous few days, Mr. Min smiled and nodded, and said with a smile: "Mu Qing, not bad, not bad." ”

Shen Muqing smiled and saluted Mr. Min through the screen of the pile of yarn.

Mr. Min sat down, put the book in his hand on the table, hesitated for a while, and said very seriously: "Mu Qing, I have thought carefully about the sentence we discussed two days ago, 'the people can make it impossible to know', although there is some truth, but it is not feasible. As the saying goes, 'governing the country is like cooking a small fresh', if you follow what you said, wouldn't it be necessary to reset all the current official and private schools......

This sentence was originally quite controversial, and he involved the institutional issue of feudal dynasty rule, which is not clear at all in one sentence or two, nor is it acceptable to people for a while...... Shen Muqing was just moved that day, and had no intention of continuing to argue with Mr. Min, but Mr. Min seemed to be fascinated by Shen Muqing's words "If you want to be rich and strong in the country, you need to popularize basic education", and he didn't care about Shen Muqing's feelings at all, and pulled her to continue the topic. However, unlike two days ago, this time it was Mr. Min who said it, and Shen Muqing listened......

Luomei just stood beside Shen Muqing with her hands down, helping to polish the ink and lay the paper when she needed it, while Jinxiu was like a flower and butterfly, giving in and out from time to time, serving tea to Mr. Min for a while, and packing up the books in the west for a while.

An hour and a half passed quickly, and Mr. Min got up with a smile and said, "If you are a threesome, there must be my teacher." Master Cheng will not deceive me! ”

Shen Muqing said modestly: "It is Mr. who is broad-minded and allows Mu Qing to talk nonsense like this." ”

Mr. Min shook his head regretfully: "It's a pity...... Such a good qualification......" After speaking, he didn't give up, hesitated for a moment, and took a copy of Bai Juyi's poetry book to Shen Muqing: "Take the time to memorize it all." ”

Shen Muqing pursed his lips and smiled, and took it.

Mr. Min knows this student of his own. Say it or not in you, do it in her. Looking at it like this, although I took the book, I am afraid that I will not read it seriously.

He sighed and walked away.

Shen Muqing went to Chaoxi Hall, where his mother lived.

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Shen Zhen is very busy, and he doesn't have much leisure time, and sometimes he has to go to Aunt Chen's place, and there is not much left when he keeps the Li family. Although there are many servants in the family, and the comings and goings are very lively, every time Shen Muqing looks at Aunt Chen's face full of youthful color, he feels aggrieved for the Li family, and his heart aches faintly. But what about dissatisfaction, this society is like this, and it is not something that can be changed by one person...... She had to accompany Li as much as possible. Listen to Lee's talk and vent your loneliness; Or listen to Lee's talk about old things, and look for some sweet past memories in your memories; Or pretend to be crazy and stupid to make Li happy...... In this kind of sympathy for women, Shen Muqing gradually has a sense of dependence on the Li family, from the beginning of fulfilling the responsibility of children to the current pleasure of visiting friends.

While walking on the road, they met Wang's mother.

Mother Wang frowned, the expression on her face was a little grim, followed by several daughters-in-law and maids who usually served by Mother Wang's side, surrounded by two women with faces. The two women, one of whom was about fifteen or six years old, wore a white cardigan with a stand-up collar, a lake-colored clean face and narrow sleeved skirts, and a white silk yarn skirt, and no other ornaments on the top and bottom of the body except for three silver hairpins with a little oil inserted in the sideburns. The other was a woman, in her early thirties, with black hair combed into a braid, a mane of ethereal silk flowers, a white cardigan with a stand-up collar, a white crepe de chine skirt, and a beautiful blue brocade silk armor.

Shen Mansion also often has the ladies of various provinces or the mothers in charge of the house come and go, but no one is dressed like this - first, the weather has turned colder, and the clothes are too thin, and second, they come to meet guests, and the color is too plain.

Shen Muqing couldn't help but glance at it curiously.

Mother Wang had already seen Shen Muqing, she hurriedly curtsied, and said with a smile: "The girl is out of school!" ”

Shen Muqing smiled and nodded at Mother Wang, and the little girl in the lake-colored narrow sleeve gown was already bent on her knees: "This is Sister Ji!" I am Shen Yuerong, the fourth cousin of your second uncle's family in Taicang. ”

Shen Yuerong, the fourth cousin of Taicang's second uncle's family? Who is it?

Since she can remember, she has never heard of a second uncle in Taicang.

Shen Muqing looked blankly at Mother Wang.

Mother Wang shook her head gently at Shen Muqing, and said with a smile: "The fourth girl and we don't move around much, and our relatives are estranged.

Shen Yuerong's face turned red.

Shen Muqing heard something about it, and knew that this Shen Yuerong and himself were indeed relatives, so he politely bent down and said with a smile: "I'm young, I don't know much about family affairs, sister, don't bother me!" ”

Shen Yuerong hurriedly put up a smile and returned a salute to Shen Muqing, Luomei and Jinxiu behind Shen Muqing saluted Shen Yuerong, and the woman who followed Shen Yuerong saluted Shen Muqing again, you come and I go, it will take a while to stand up again.

Shen Muqing smiled: "When did my sister come?" Visible Mrs.? ”

Shen Yuerong said with a smile: "I just arrived, and I was about to see my wife." ”

"That's good!" Shen Muqing smiled, "I'm also going to my wife's place, just in time." ”

Everyone went to Chaoxi Hall together.

It seems that the Li family has already known that Shen Yuerong is coming, and sent orange incense to wait in the hall.

Orange Xiang was frightened when she saw Shen Muqing and Yueniang together, and while bending her knees to salute Shen Muqing, she called the little maid next to her to go to Tongyu, saying, "The girl is out of school, and she has come to say goodbye to her wife."

Entering the house, Li Shi wore lotus blue butterflies and carved silk narrow sleeves and sat alone on the black lacquer Arhat bed in the hall, and Aunt Chen was sitting on the black lacquer brocade pestle next to the Luohan bed to pinch Li's legs.

Seeing them come in, Aunt Chen hurriedly stood up and bowed to Shen Muqing, who was already wiping the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "Auntie...... I'm your niece Shen Yuerong! So saying, he fell to the ground.

The woman behind Shen Yuerong hurriedly knelt down: "The Huang family has asked Mrs. for peace." ”

Li Shi hurriedly said: "Hurry up, hurry up!" As he spoke, he also took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes, "I just heard about it today...... It's been more than a month, and there hasn't even been a single person who reported the news...... If you don't come, I'll be in the dark......"

When Shen Yuerong heard this, she burst into tears: "...... Auntie, please call the shots for your niece! ”

The people standing on the left and right also hid their faces, only Shen Muqing, who didn't know why.

Aunt Chen persuaded the Li family by saying things like "Mourning and changing" and "Don't cry to break your body", while Mother Wang and Mother Li stepped forward to pick up Shen Yuerong. Everyone slowly stopped crying, and Li pointed at Shen Muqing and said to Shen Yuerong: "This is your sister, four years younger than you, and her nickname is Sister Ji." ”

Shen Yuerong's eyes were red and she saluted Shen Muqing again.

Li choked up and said, "Xie Hong, you accompanied the girl to sit in the west room." I still have something to ask the fourth girl. ”

Aunt Chen responded and helped Shen Muqing into the west room.

Shen Muqing's favorite snacks had already been placed on the Nanmu bed near the window in the west room, Luomei served Shen Muqing to take off his shoes and go to the kang, and Aunt Chen took the tea brought by Orange Xiang and served it to Shen Muqing in person.

Shen Muqing glanced at the hall and said in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Aunt Chen whispered: "The master has a younger brother who is a concubine, and he has not had much contact with him in his hometown in Taicang for many years. As soon as the girl left this morning, the whole Liu family suddenly came, saying that the second wife of the second master's family was gone, and the fourth girl of the second master's family came to see his wife and was waiting in her house...... It scared the hell out of us. ”

This news also surprised Shen Muqing: "Taicang is far away from here...... Why did it come all of a sudden...... And the second wife, when was it not, why didn't there be any news beforehand......"

It's a relative, but I haven't seen it for many years, and I don't know if this person and thing is true!

Shen Muqing was stunned in his heart, thinking that the Li family was a shrewd person, and there were some things that even he could think of, how could the Li family not think of it. Since she sent Mother Wang to pick up people, it has been confirmed that what Shen Yuerong said is true. This statement is inappropriate after all, and I swallowed this sentence in the end.

Aunt Chen smiled: "I don't know the specifics-the person Mrs. asked Mother Wang to pick up." ”

Shen Muqing was stunned.

Aunt Chen can be liked by the Shen family, and she is undoubtedly a very smart person. She chose to be vague on this issue, which was enough to arouse Shen Muqing's attention to this matter.

Shen Muqing glanced at Aunt Chen quietly, listening to the movement of the hall through a curtain.

The voice of the speech was very low, mixed with a few sobs of Shen Yuerong from time to time, and only a few words were faintly heard, "This practice makes people point their noses and scold", "It can be regarded as a heirloom of poetry and etiquette, don't let this reputation go, do everything" and so on.

Li didn't squeak from beginning to end, and when Shen Yuerong's crying gradually stopped, she called Li's mother: "The four girls have been tired all the way, you lead the four girls to live in the Xiangpu Garden, and freshen up and freshen up." ”

Shen Yuerong choked up, and said with some urgency: "Auntie...... I, where can I sit down......"

Li sighed: "Yuerong, it's not that I shouldn't want you. Marriage is a big event, after all, my parents are the masters, and I am always an outsider...... Don't worry, listen to me...... Stay and recuperate. When your eldest uncle leaves the office, we will make up our minds. ”

Sisters, celebrate the opening of a new pit, send another chapter, and four more today!

Thank you all for giving me a good start (*^__^*) hehe......