[Chapter 4, Volume 4]

Section 458

Shen Yongkun also said: "It is said that Deng Zongqi dotes on his sister, and he refused to marry a wife earlier, because he was afraid that the bride would not be virtuous and wronged Miss Deng." At that time, he also said that he would definitely hire a virtuous woman, but he didn't want to, but he was cautious to the point of marrying his sister out first, and then he was willing to marry his own wife. Now he would rather go back to Beijing in advance to officiate at his wedding, and if Zhou Jianxian treats Miss Deng badly in the future, I am afraid that his brother-in-law will not make him better here. ”

Shen Zangji was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and said: "It's time to turn around, let's make an appointment with Zhou Jianxian to drink, find him ten or eight fans, hug him left and right, and see how Deng Zongqi will clean him up!" Ha ha! ”

"Fifth brother, your idea is not good, if Deng Zongqi knew that we were pulling Zhou Jianxian to do this, he might come to us to settle the score. In my opinion, if you want to tease Zhou Jianxian, it is better to find a more secure way to clean ourselves up, so that we can watch the play with peace of mind......" The two of them had a seizure of habits, and they didn't say a word of business and began to think about it again.

It was rare that Shen Zangfeng didn't stop them immediately, his eyes were slightly condensed, as if he was thinking, but before the two younger brothers noticed, he returned to his normal color, and said lightly: "Zangji reminded them very much, I will tell your sister-in-law when I go back." He added, "Brother Deng and I are also colleagues, and when he goes back to marry his sister, I can't help but give a gift." ”

Shen Zangji and Shen Yongkun said: "Since we met, the third brother will also back up for us." ”

"These are the little things." Shen Zangfeng nodded, and began to tell Shen Yongkun what to pay attention to after staying......

In the evening, Shen Zangfeng returned to the back hall and told Wei Changying about Deng Zongqi's hope to return to Beijing as soon as possible to marry his sister. Wei Changying smiled and said, "Who did she promise?" I thought that she would settle her family affairs not long after returning to the imperial capital, but it turned out that she was only out of the cabinet now? ”

"It's Zhou Jianxian, the fifteenth son of the Xilin Zhou family." Shen Zangfeng said the news that Shen Zangji inquired about, "I vaguely heard it twice when I was in the imperial capital, and I was an honest man." ”

Wei Changying nodded and said, "Deng Gongzi and Wanwan are not protected by their close elders, and they are excluded by the elders of the clan. Even if you rely on the concubine to get married, I'm afraid it won't be easy to live after getting married. It's better to find an honest person to be reliable. I can't help but sigh, "Wanwan is married, before Xin Miao said to go back to Beijing to get married, why don't you have a letter until now?" ”

"Maybe it's because my sister has a unique vision, so I didn't find the right person for a while. However, I heard that the stepmother of the righteous sister is very virtuous, and the Queen Mother Cai will also care for her, and she has worshiped our father and mother as her father-in-law, and her father and mother have to give her a palm. Compared with Miss Deng's family, the righteous sister has a lot of shelter. Shen Zangfeng smiled lightly and said, "Take 10,000 steps back and say, Hengzhi is a smart person with excellent medical skills and cleverness, and she can't suffer a loss after all-Zangji said, we want to give this Miss Deng family a gift out of the pavilion, it is better to let him bring it when Brother Deng returns to Beijing." ”

"That's just as well." Wei Changying said, "Deng Gongzi won't leave tomorrow morning, right?" Tomorrow morning, I will call my aunts over to discuss this ceremony. ”

Shen Zangfeng said with a smile: "I have a game with Brother Deng, and I naturally have to express his sister's exit from the cabinet." In this way, you wrap up the set of colorful mandarin duck cups we received when we got married and count them into the congratulatory gift. ”

Wei Changying was surprised: "You mean the one used in the outer case?" That's what we've used. ”

"Only those who have used it will be sent." Shen Zangfeng said casually, "Brother Deng said that Miss Deng has always been thinking about you, and he hopes that after Miss Deng leaves the cabinet, she can live with her husband like the two of us." There are not many loving and harmonious couples like us in the world, and that set of cups is actually the same as new after being washed. It's also to let them get a touch of the blessing of harmony and love between our husband and wife, isn't it? Especially now that you are pregnant again, Brother Deng also hopes that Miss Deng will give birth to a noble son as soon as possible after leaving the cabinet, so that she will be favored by her husband's family! ”

When Wei Changying heard him say this, she thought that Deng Zongqi had made such a request, she had a good impression of Deng Zongqi, and she responded happily.

The congratulatory gift was delivered to Deng Zongqi on the third day, looking at the nine-colored mandarin duck cup specially marked on the gift list, and the detailed explanation of the origin of this set of cups...... Deng Zongqi was stunned, smiled faintly, thanked the people who gave the gifts, and sent everyone away, but he didn't look at this set of cups, but looked at the dazzling congratulatory gifts in the hall in a daze, and sighed bitterly for a long time.

He had already decided not to pay attention to Wei Changying anymore, so as not to be detected and harm others and himself. However, when I returned to Xiliang this time, I heard that Wei Changying was pregnant again, and I was sad in my heart, but when I met Shen Zangji and Shen Yongkun in the teahouse, I couldn't help but ask more questions in the name of Deng Wanwan...... Shen Zangji and Shen Yongkun are both scheming people, and they don't think that he has any ulterior intentions to greet his sister-in-law for his sister, and the two brothers answered him very enthusiastically.

But Shen Zangfeng ...... I think I understood as soon as I heard Shen Zangji's general explanation-Deng Zongqi's envy after hearing that Wei Changying was pregnant again and that the husband and wife were in love was not envious of Wei Changying for his sister, but for himself to envy Shen Zangfeng.

This set of colorful mandarin duck cups is a blessing and a reminder, and the blessing is as written on the congratulatory gift list, hoping that Deng Wanwan can live with his husband like Shen Zangfeng and Wei Changying, and give birth to a noble son early.

But he is also reminding Deng Zongqi that the woman he silently admires was given to Shen Zangfeng as early as when he was in infancy, and now he has passed the protégé......

This is also Shen Zangfeng's tolerance and generosity, a different person, even if he doesn't do anything in the way of face on the surface, he may not know how to murder in private. Shen Zangfeng tapped it tacitly by sending a congratulatory gift. If Deng Zongqi stopped and didn't inquire about Wei Changying, the matter would end here, and no one knew except the two of them.

…… In fact, Deng Zongqi also had to stop.

He didn't want to harm Wei Changying, nor did he want to be an enemy of Shen Zangfeng. The former is the one he loves; The latter is certainly a rival in love, but Shen Zangfeng knew that he coveted his wife, and only gently and implicitly reminded him that as a much-valued concubine of the clan, or a young lord, Shen Zangfeng did this to give Deng Zongqi enough dignity.

What's more, the letter written by Shen Zangfeng to Shen Xuan asking Shen Xuan to mediate in the DPRK for Deng Zongqi's early return to Beijing was sent as early as yesterday and is being carried in his arms at the moment...... Do you think that the reason why Shen Zangfeng sent this letter yesterday was that he hoped that it would not be sent with or after the congratulatory gift, which seemed like a threat rather than a help?

The letter is before the ceremony, and the moment is a reminder.

If it's not interesting, it's really ......

Deng Zongqi smiled self-deprecatingly, walked into the inner room, and took out the painting that had been carefully stored......

This painting has actually been burned by Yao Tao many times.

But every time it burns down, Deng Zongqi can always draw another one by relying on his memory...... This one is still after going to Xiliang, and it is easy to get a pen and ink painting.

He stretched out his fingers and stroked the cheek of the person in the painting, and after a while, he took out the brazier, threw the portrait into it, and quietly watched the tongue of fire engulf the whole painting, only to feel that his heart was also empty, and the melancholy was unspeakable.

I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly found a few water stains on the placket in front of me, and I was stunned for a moment, and then I reached out to touch it, only to know when he actually cried.

But I don't know if these tears are all for the sake of being in this red dress, and I am destined to miss this life from the time I met him; Or do you remember that you can't pick up the pen again and copy it again, the first sight of the green bamboo and red clothes is a bright and glamorous city that even Wei Changying's husband Shen Zangfeng has never witnessed, and it can only exist in memory forever after all?

Deng Zongqi raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, raised the teapot on the desk, and poured it into the brazier that had almost burned the blank corner......

The matter of the Nine Colored Mandarin Duck Cup, except for Shen Zangfeng and Deng Zongqi, no one knows the inside story. After this gift was given, Wei Changying forgot about it and continued to settle down wholeheartedly.

In the blink of an eye, it is September, and at this time, the imperial capital is crisp and cloudless, and the climate is the most pleasant time of the year.

But in Xiliang, it is already full of snow.

On the day he returned to Beijing, Shen Zangfeng felt sorry that his wife was still pregnant, and he tried hard to persuade her not to send it away from the morning, just stay in the house where the earth dragon was burning.

However, Wei Changying still sent him to the second gate, and only under the persuasion of Shen Zangfeng and left and right, he turned back step by step......

She was reluctant, and Shen Zangfeng was also in her heart. Just out of Mingpei Hall, he was about to join Gu Xinian and Gu Yiran brothers, Shen Zangfeng settled down, covered his reluctant expression, and after going out, greeted Ergu.

Everyone had already packed their bags, and after a few words of greeting at this moment, they beat their horses and walked away.

In the heavy snow, the group rushed out of the city.

After walking for a few miles, looking back, because of the continuous days of snow, it has already been covered into a Qionglou Yuyu. Looking at the wordless standing of this ancient city that should be full of swords, guns, swords, halberds, and books full of ruthless traces of beacon fire, thinking of the experience of the past few years, everyone was a little melancholy and sighing, standing in the snow for a while, and being reminded by Shen Die, before retracting his gaze and whispering to each other: "Let's go!" ”

After Shen Zangfeng and his entourage returned to Beijing first, there was a lot of silence in Mingpei Hall.

Fortunately, there is also Shen Zangzhu as a companion, and Shen Shuyan, who originally planned to return to Beijing this time, also because there is no suitable female dependent to entrust among the people who returned to Beijing this time, they stayed together, and then set off with their aunt Wei Changying next year.

Every day, Shen Zangzhu took her two nieces to Wei Changying's courtyard to accompany her, and the two sisters-in-law talked about common things, watching the two nieces make a fuss underneath - two-year-old Shen Shuxi can talk and walk, which is a very novel thing for her cousin Shen Shuyan - Shen Shuyan has been the youngest granddaughter of the Shen family for several years, and she was brought up by the curious helpers of her sisters, but she herself has no experience in bringing younger brothers and sisters.

The two cousins under her, who were born before Shen Shuxi, did not let her often get close to teasing. Only Shen Shuxi, who watched from the side from the baby who was wrapped in swaddling clothes and crying little by little, grew into a little girl who could walk and talk, Shen Shuyan was enthusiastic about teaching this sister to speak a few days after returning to Xiliang from Diecuiguan.

And this enthusiasm has not diminished to this day.

Her enthusiasm saved Shen Zangzhu and Wei Changying a lot of effort, Shen Shuyan is smart and erudite, and has the talent of not forgetting it, when it comes to understanding some scriptures and history, the aunt and aunt who are not talented women may not be good at her combined. Being taught by her all day long, Shen Shuxi is now able to memorize a few sage articles coldly, and Shen Zangzhu and Wei Changying are really relieved to watch from the side.

In this way, it is inevitable to praise Shen Shuyan again and again, Shen Shuyan, who already likes to be competitive, got praised and became more and more motivated, vowing to teach his cousin to be a prodigy as versatile as himself......