During the Qingming Festival, the four-year-old Wei Shanjun, who was taken by his parents, kowtowed to a tombstone in a daze, and whispered the words taught by his nursing mother: "Grandfather, granddaughter has come to see you." How are you doing down there? ”

After kowtowing, the nurse picked her up, and the young plain-clothed couple next to her accompanied the tombstone to talk, and the young father took his daughter from the nurse's arms, hugged her personally, and walked towards the carriage outside the cemetery.

The family left, and after Gu Bai in the distance, a middle-aged woman with a haggard description came out, but she was still dressed as if she had not left the cabinet.

She walked to the tombstone, looked at the newly repaired tomb, stretched out her trembling fingers, touched the three words "Wei Xinyong" on the inscription, first trembled, then trembled, and finally knelt down and whimpered.

"Childe, Qin Niang is sorry for you" Lai Qin Niang cried for a long time before taking out a box from her arms, there was a handwritten seal on the box, but it had been torn off, obviously the box was opened, "Qin Niang has been waiting for fifteen years, I really can't wait!" So after reading Qin Niang first, I guessed that you didn't want Qin Niang to follow you, and deliberately designed Qin Niang to open the box after thirty years - I want to use these thirty years to grind away Qin Niang's will to die! But Qin Niang really can't wait for thirty years."

"I didn't expect you to really—"

She sat down under the monument as if crying and laughing, her temples were loose, and her expression was both sad and dazed.

Ten fingers loosened, and the box fell weakly from his hand and broke open - inside, the secret that had been hidden for fifteen years, fifteen years ago, Wei Xinyong was tortured by illness on the night, and the "back hand" that was solemnly handed over to her was only a yellowed piece of paper - the handwriting on it was like flowing water, and it was Wei Xinyong's own handwriting: The twilight of the sun, I am poor and tormented!

The soul of the world is gone, and it is not good to die!

There is no hope of retribution in this life, and I promise to be the ninth generation of grass!

Where is the sky boundless, and where are the tigers and leopards fleeing?

Desperately gamble on your life, if you can mourn with tears in your eyes

The more she wrote, the more sloppy her handwriting became, and every time she saw this, Lai Qinniang couldn't help but think of the painful situation when she served Wei Xinyong's illness, but she knew that the illness was not the real reason why Wei Xinyong failed to complete this fateful poem.

Instead, he eventually changed his mind.

This half of the poem is separated by a small blank space, which is a few more scribbled lines, and the general content is that Wei Xinyong can't bear to bear the burden of Lai Qinniang, who is both young and civil, so when he was halfway through writing, he decided to lie to Lai Qinniang once and hand over his plan to others to complete.

"Qin Niang, don't lose your youth, don't lose the rest of your life, live well!"

This is the last sentence of this so-called "back hand" - from the sentence "don't lose your youth", it can be seen that Wei Xinyong actually expected that Lai Qinniang was likely to open it without waiting for thirty years. That's why there are two persuasions for "youth" and "the rest of your life".

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Lai Qinniang said sadly: "The son is not here, what is the meaning of Qinniang's youth and the rest of her life?" ”

She resolutely pulled out the short blade in her boot and fell to the crossthroat!

When the news of Lai Qinniang's death reached the imperial capital, the Yiguo Mansion was packing up and preparing to return to Xiliang.

Duanmu Xin, who had a bloated waist, turned the bracelet on his wrist while saying to Wei Changying, who was holding his eldest grandson Shen Sihong and eldest granddaughter Shen Sixin on the left and right: "Such a pair of twins like huā and jade, are you willing to leave them?" ”

Wei Changying smiled and said: "It's not that I can't see them in the future, I miss them in a few years, isn't it okay to let people send them to Xiliang?" If it is peaceful today, even if the road is long, it will not take too much time. ”

"The Great Yiguo Mansion is handed over to Jinzi to take care of—I remember she has it again, right?" Duanmu Xin stretched out his finger and tapped Shen Sixin's cheek, the nine-year-old girl was pink and tender, she was taught by her mother Gu Jinzi to be very quiet, and she was moved by Duanmu Xin, and she was not angry, she only pursed her lips and smiled helplessly.

"Bing'er can help, and there's Fei Yu." When it comes to Su Feiyu, everyone who is an adult is a little ridiculous, I remember that year Su Yuwu and his wife returned to the imperial capital with their children, and passed by Ruiyu Hall on the way, the first time the Su family sisters and brothers met with the Shen family brothers, they almost pinched up because of the naughty Shen Shuxie teasing Su Chiyu.

After that, Shen Shuguang and Su Feiyu, cousins who also protected their shortcomings, didn't pay much attention to each other - but they were long, and Shen Shuxie actually married Su Feiyu!

At the beginning of Shen Shuxie's period, when Ai Ai proposed to his parents that he wanted to marry Cousin Su, Wei Changying was still very worried, afraid that the second son would be too naughty, and he left a bad impression on Su Feiyu when he was a child, and he might not be able to succeed.

As a result, Song Zaishui asked her daughter in private, Su Feiyu shook her hand and stood up and left, and she didn't answer when she caught up and asked - the girl is willing to do this.

This family affair made the two adults confused, but seeing that Shen Shuxie and Su Feiyu got married, they were with Helele, although they still couldn't understand how these two children looked at each other, but they didn't bother to think about it - they just had a good life.

"Hong'er, Xin'er, go out to play first, my aunt and grandmother have something to say to your grandmother alone." Duanmu Xin thought for a while, raised his hand and touched Shen Sihong and Shen Sixin's heads, and said.

The two children immediately looked at Wei Changying, and when they saw her nodding, they stood up together and saluted and retired.

The elegant and leisurely demeanor made Duanmuxin sigh: "In the end, it is a child of Jinzi, that is, it is taught well." ”

"In front of other people's grandmothers, shouldn't I be praised for teaching well?!" The eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter are both nine years old, counting the year she married into the Shen family, the eldest granddaughter of the Shen family, Shen Shujing, is only ten years old, but Wei Changying looks younger than her mother-in-law, Mrs. Su, and the years seem to have failed to leave traces on her, and she still looks like a young woman.

When she pursed her lips and smiled, she was coquettish and infinite, and sneered, "Are you putting eye medicine on Jinzi?" ”

"It's just that the brocade characters are taught well!" Duanmuxin sneered, "I don't want to think about who was a headache in three days when Xie'er was so old?" Look at the brocade character, which of the children is not well-behaved and sensible! Besides, did these two children raise you under your knees? ”

Wei Changying said: "Can't it be that they have admired my grandmother's demeanor for a long time and learned from it?" ”

"The older you get, the more shameless you become." Duanmuxin was amazed, and then said, "I won't joke with you - I said, the dowry you and the third brother gave to the concubine is too heavy, right?" Don't mention anything else, I actually married the jade mine! Don't talk about other people, don't they have an opinion? The jade mine Wei family was originally two-thirds, and when the concubine got married, it would all belong to the Wei family in the future! ”

Wei Changying shook his head and said, "You don't know why-after the epidemic in the early years, the Shen family's pension almost emptied the warehouse!" At that time, my grandfather and grandmother were still there" Speaking of this, my eyes were red - Wei Huan and Mrs. Song didn't have it a few years ago, and before leaving, I saw more than one great-grandson, and the two old people said the words "no regrets when they died" over and over again.

But the younger generations, especially the younger generations who have been cared for by them for many years, are still grieving.

"They are worried that my husband's position will be unstable because of this, and they are afraid that my children and I will not be good. I discussed with my father, mother, and Changfeng to embezzle the family property privately and save the Shen family. My grandmother has been hiding this matter and refusing to let me know, or after my sister-in-law promised it to Xiu'er, when I sorted out the dowry for my sister-in-law, I found that my husband listed the Mengshan jade mine, I felt strange, and I went to ask him, and he told me. ”

Duanmu Xin suddenly said: "This is to be returned?" ”

"Exactly." Wei Changying sighed and said, "The West is cold and bitter, the Shen family was badly damaged at the beginning, you know that if the first emperor was there, at that time, my grandfather and grandmother didn't expect that the first emperor would be so quick to speculate according to common sense, I was afraid that the Shen family would be difficult to recover, so my grandmother instructed her henchmen to try to settle the accounts after moving the family property." I want to return it now."

If you have to tell the truth, then you have to expose what Wei Huan and his wife did back then!

"This can really only be in the name of the dowry - anyway, the concubine will be the Wei family after passing the door, and her dowry will be taken by the descendants of the Wei family in the future, and the horizontal and vertical will belong to the Wei family." Duanmuxin thought for a moment and said, "But the Shen family's side? ”

"Isn't it because I'm afraid that the clan will be anxious because of this, so we have to go back?" The corners of Wei Changying's mouth hooked slightly, and said, "And there are also some trivial matters to deal with over there - I won't hide it from you: the second brother fell in love with Sister Ji a few years ago, but Sister Ji's background Sister Ji is not a person who is willing to be a concubine, even if she is willing, Doctor Ji will not be willing, Doctor Ji is willing, we have been with the Ji family and your master and apprentice for many years, and we can't do this." But the second brother is not good to rashly get rid of the scholar - he made an appointment earlier, and this time he will go back and think of a way together.

"And Qiu Di has not been restless recently-Fujun feels that the Shen family has rested too much in the past two years, and it is time to relax, especially since the imperial court has also saved some money in the past ten years."

"Borrowing the weight of the imperial court, the name of the imperial court, and the army of the imperial court, to train the Shen family?" Duanmuxin laughed and laughed, knowing that this was the Shen family's plan to repeat the old tricks and start to raise the border army into their own private army - such a big matter really had to be presided over by Shen Zangfeng himself, and Shen Zangfeng's departure was also an opportunity for his nephew to really take charge of himself.

In addition, Duanmuxin also knew that Shen Zangfeng did not leave in vain, before the third brother resigned and returned to his hometown, he was really willing to give up his position as the secretary of the ministry after a battle with the nouveau riche and the scholars.

In short, it is a foregone conclusion that Shen Zangfeng and his wife will return to Xiliang.

Duanmuxin knew that it was futile for her to stay, and she felt very melancholy: "It's easy for me to excuse myself from not being used to the climate over there in Changlong, and I want to be able to settle down in the imperial capital until the full moon of production and then return to the fiefdom thinking that I can reunite with you for a few more days, who would have thought that it would only be a few months, and you would have to go back to Xiliang." ”

"Isn't there still Sister Su and Cousin Song to accompany you?" Wei Changying stretched out his finger and pointed at her forehead, like the two of them were only teenagers, and smiled playfully, "Besides, won't Liu Rong accompany you?" It is clear that Liu Rong is busy with political affairs in the fiefdom, and deliberately dragged him to stay in the imperial capital for a few days, and he still wants to rely on me?! ”

"Doesn't it seem like I value you?" Duanmu Xin took a sip, and heard a cough from the yard at the tip of his ear, and got up stupidly, "The third brother is here, I don't want to hate you, I'm leaving." ”

"Go, go, go! You're late, and Liu Rong has to show me a look when you turn around! "Wei Changying is not hospitable at all.

Not long after Duanmuxin left, sure enough, Shen Zangfeng entered the house with his hands behind his back, and said with a smile: "My sister was persuading you to stay just now?" ”

More than ten years have passed, and Shen Zangfeng's temperament has become more and more elegant, and his former sharpness has been sharpened into implicit but not revealed - but there are more people in the government and the opposition who are afraid of him.

But the eyebrows are as heroic as before, looking at Wei Changying's gaze, the meaning of the veins is deeper and deeper, and it is as warm as the spring sun.

The corners of Wei Changying's mouth hooked slightly: "She said it casually, you want the imperial capital to be here, and if others don't say it, can Mrs. Shouyang County accompany her?" And Liu Rong, she, can't be lonely! ”

Mrs. Shouyang County is the seal of Duanmu Weimiao.

"The west is cool and bitterly cold." Shen Zangfeng walked up to her, stretched out his hand and pulled her sideburns beads, and before he could say a word, he heard his wife laugh: "It's like I haven't been there - I think it's similar to the Central Plains." ”

Shen Zangfeng was surprised: "How can it be about the same?" There are only a few green days over there."

"Where you are, it's the same everywhere!" Wei Chang Yingran smiled, gently held his hand, his eyes flowed, and the affection was infinite, and he said seriously, "So why mention the bitter cold in the west again, and regret in my heart that I will follow you everywhere?" I don't care where I'm going with you - I just care if there's you there! ”

(End of book.) ）