The ladies and ladies of the Shen family's rooms were all sitting here, and they were already suspicious of Shen Sixteen, who had already been married, suddenly returning home, and this time, they suddenly felt that there was a good show.

Thinking that at that time, it was a snowy night, Shen Sixteen Niang returned to Fan Yang with a disgraced face, if it weren't for the long convoy behind her, the Shen family almost thought that she had been abandoned and went home.

When she came back, the situation in Chang'an City changed, the Taiyuan Wang clan was purged, and Shen Sixteen hid under her mother's wing like a quail, until Wang Liulang suppressed his uncle in the clan by thunder and drove his father out of the position of patriarch, and Shen Sixteen appeared in front of people again.

Everyone seemed to have turned into a big white goose in an instant, stretched their necks, and looked at the gate expectantly, calculating the time, Shen Baniang should also come here and say hello to her grandmother!

But they waited left and right, and there was not even a ghost shadow at the gate, except for the maid who shivered in the cold wind.

Old Lady Shen's old face suddenly turned iron-blue! Since she lost face in Chang'an City, she has become sensitive and strict about these rules.

If the juniors in the house have one less morning and dusk to settle down, she feels that this is laughing at her and not taking her seriously.

It's just that what they don't know is that Shen Bainiang has long since stopped standing on the same path as them.

She went straight to the door of Shen Laoshan's study, straightened her clothes, straightened her hair ornaments, and then said loudly: "Granddaughter Shen Eighteen Niang, please grandfather." ”

There was no one in the room.

But I saw a white-haired old man walk out, looked at Eighteen Niang and smiled kindly, "Eighteen Niang go in quickly, the mountain chief has been waiting for a long time." ”

Eighteen Niang smiled sweetly at him, took the two jars of wine handed by Nanzhi behind him and handed them to the old man, "Uncle Bao's body is okay?" The weather is cold, Eighteen Niang made some medicinal wine, which is soaked with old ginseng and tiger bones, and occasionally drinks a cup to warm up the body. ”

The old man known as Uncle Bao unceremoniously took the wine jar, "Eighteen Niang has a heart, knowing that Uncle Bao is not short of gold or silver, so it's good to take this bite." ”

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said, "Your grandfather is in a good mood. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from the room, "You old horseman, you sold me for two jars of wine." ”

This Shen Bao was the scholar who followed Old Man Shen back then, but after so many years, the little scholar has become an old scholar, and the entire Fan Yang Shen family has to give him three points of thin noodles, he is a person who is closer to the old man than Old Lady Shen.

Shen 18 entered the house, the room was burning warm, the brazier was burning red, and the old man's white beard became orange and orange.

He was sitting by the window, painting a picture, and when Eighteen Niang looked up, it was a picture of her sitting on horseback, holding a longbow, and firing five arrows in unison.

Old man Shen's paintings, famous all over the world, all say that he is the best at landscape painting, has been sealed for many years, now a look, this painting just look, you can hear the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse, as if he was standing there, watching Eighteen Niang take a bow and shoot arrows.

"Blind for the good words I gave you." Old Man Shen said, putting the last touch on this painting.

Eighteen mothers are quiet, and the words are calligraphy.

Listening to this, she couldn't help but laugh, "My handwriting is also good." ”

Old Man Shen glanced at her and said, "Why don't you go to Chang'an in the plum period, what are you doing looking for me, an old man?" ”

Grandfather asked knowingly. Eighteen Niang is the life of the phoenix, does my grandfather believe it or not? ”

"The old man has lived for so many years, and he has never seen any life, and a bunch of old bald donkeys are full of food and support, and they are just deceiving your daughters. Phoenix's life? The old man is now the opposite, he has set himself up as the king, and your grandmother is the queen, that is, he will only be a day, and she is also a phoenix! ”

Eighteen Niang had never realized that her grandfather was such an interesting person.

"The phoenix life I am talking about, naturally not what the bald monks say, grandfather, take a look, I, Shen Banniang, stand here with a magnificent body, Wen Ke governs the country and the country, Wu Ke goes on the horse to fight the world, if I am not a phoenix, who would dare to call the word phoenix a woman in the world?"

Old Man Shen glanced at her, and finally couldn't help laughing, "There is a brazen person like you in the world!" is worthy of Aze's daughter. ”

After he had laughed enough, he waved his big hand, "Bao, look at the tea." ”

Uncle Bao happily added a soft cushion to the wooden chair behind Eighteen Niang, brought her a cup of hot sugar water, and carried the kettle to add water to Old Man Shen.

"If I am your grandfather, I will help you after hearing your words, but I am still the patriarch of the Fanyang Shen clan and the mountain chief of Qingshan Academy, if I stand on the wrong team, the students of this Qingshan Academy will also stand on the wrong team, do you understand?"

Eighteen Niang straightened the color and nodded, "Grandfather's suffering, Eighteen Niang understands in her heart." It's just my grandfather, that day in the small building, my grandfather told Eighteen Niang that the murder of her mother was to let Eighteen Niang go to Chang'an City to give Zhao Yi some colors to see. Let him know that the end of testing the bottom line of the family is yes and no? ”

"If the eighteenth mother is defeated, you are just a granddaughter who died, which is not a big deal; If Eighteen Niang wins, Zhao Yi will lose Zhaohua and Duan Qi, he will lose his right-hand man, and he will definitely be more restrained by the family in the future. Grandfather didn't do it early, didn't do it late, but chose that time, not because of the sudden illness of Eighteen Niang, but because Zhao Yi had frequently stepped on the line. ”

The imperial power and the family are, to some extent, opposites. What does Zhao Yi want? It is the power in the hands, it is the centralization. But how could a family that had been in power for hundreds of years take something out of his pocket so easily?

The Great Chu Tonggong is such a big piece of cake, if you want to monopolize it alone, isn't that not giving others a way to live?

"It's Juntian again, it's the imperial examination again, there are more and more children of the Hanmen in the court, Zhao Yi would rather kill his own flesh and blood, and he must choose a prince with no family background as the crown prince, which shows his determination to seize power from the hands of the family. Emperor Yang of Sui has already been killed, doesn't my grandfather want to continue to kill Zhao Yi? ”

Old Man Shen's eyes flashed, and he touched his white beard, "Then how do I know that after Li Ziqi became the emperor, he wouldn't think about eradicating the family and making his own decisions?" Could it be that when the time comes, let my old bone reverse again? ”

"Zhao Yi is not good, I can kill him, change Shen Lang to the top position, speaking of which, Shen Lang has been my grandson for more than ten years? If you don't succeed in choosing Zhao San's fat man, he just needs to sit in that position, it won't work, he won't even do such a simple thing, right? ”