Xue Nuo knew that she would meet Shen Zhongkang before she came to the Shen family, and she had already prepared in her heart, but when she really saw the person coming from the door, she was still stunned for a moment.

The person in front of him was wearing a crimson official robe, his big sleeves fell lightly in front of him when he clasped his hands, his temples were already pale, the corners of his eyes were extremely deep, and he looked a little harsh when he pursed his lips.

When Xue Nuo looked at him quietly, his expression was a little abrupt.

Compared to the last time she saw her seven years ago, Shen Zhongkang in front of her seemed to be more than ten years older, and she still remembered that this little old man loved to laugh the most.

Mother said that the old man of the Shen family is the most cunning, and when he greets you with a smile, he may hide a bad stomach.

"Grandfather?"

Shen quickly wanted to get up when he saw Shen Zhongkang.

Shen Zhongkang waved his hand at him: "I know that your injury is not healed, don't get up, sit down." ”

Shen sat down and went back.

Seeing that the child next to him was stunned, Shen said to her: "What's the daze, this is my grandfather, I told you before." After speaking, he said to Shen Zhongkang again, "Grandfather, this is Xue Nuo, I brought it back from Jiangnan." ”

"I've seen the old man."

Shen Zhongkang had already heard Jiang Cheng talk about this child, and at this time, he looked at the young man in front of him, and was stunned when he met his intently gaze, not because his appearance was too prosperous, but because those peach blossom eyes inexplicably made him feel familiar.

"Your name is Xerno?" Shen Zhongkang asked, "Which promise is it?" ”

Xue Nuo showed a harmless smile: "The promised promise was taken by my father." ”

"Good name."

Shen Zhongkang couldn't help but look at her twice, and when he saw her crooked eyes, the feeling of déjà vu faded again, as if it was just an illusion just now.

He looked at her for a moment and then looked away, seeing paper and ink spread on the table in front of the two, Shen was still holding a pen with ink in his hand, as if he was writing something on the paper, he couldn't help asking, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Teach Arnold how to write."

Shen put down the pen and said with a smile, "Arnold has just learned calligraphy, and he always can't hold the pen steadily, so I am teaching him, but he has a good talent, and he can write his name well in just a few days." ”

"I'll see."

Shen handed the paper on the table to Shen Zhongkang.

Looking at the crooked handwriting on the paper, Shen Zhongkang felt that his grandson's ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense had improved a lot, and he remembered that when several young grandchildren in the house first started to enter school, the words they wrote were not less reprimanded by Shen Qi.

Now the handwriting on this paper can also be worthy of his sentence "looks good", it seems that his grandson is indeed very tolerant of this child.

Shen Zhongkang praised with a clear conscience: "It's not bad, it's a bit natural." ”

“……”

Xue Nuo twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, if she hadn't written it herself, she would have believed it.

Shen didn't think there was anything wrong with his grandfather's words, but he agreed very much.

Arnold has just started to practice calligraphy, and it is good to be able to write like this.

He seemed to have been praised as if the cub he had started to raise, and he proudly put away the paper and said to Xue Nuo: "Have you remembered everything I just taught you?" ”

"When writing, the pen should be steady, the pen should be strong, the strokes should be grasped well, and the wrist should be suspended and quiet, so as to practice a good hand."

He glanced at the tooth marks on Xue Nuo's fingers and said to her,

"The injury on your hand is not yet complete, wait until you go back and practice for half an hour before resting, first memorize the book I gave you, if you can memorize it all within three days, you will be allowed to go out to play, and then let Jiang Cheng take you around Beijing."

He paused and threw the bait,

"You can buy something, I'll give you the silver."

Sure enough, the child who was originally drooping his face immediately smiled, hugged the thing in his hand and said, "What the son said, don't go back!" ”

"No repentance."

"Then I'll go and endorse it first."

When she smiled and bent her eyes, her face became vivid, and she saluted Shen Zhongkang like a sunflower, and then retreated happily with her things, and that smile simply made Shen Zhongkang feel dazzled.

Seeing that the people ran away, Shen Zhongkang said: "This kid is easy to be satisfied. ”

Shen had a smile in his eyes: "He is poor and afraid, and he thinks about my little silver all day long, but if he can be motivated, it will be worth breaking the money." ”

Shen Zhongkang could hear the joke in Shen Ke's words, he looked at Shen Ke with some surprise, his eldest grandson has never been a person who likes to joke, he lived like an old-fashioned person at a young age, and this trip to Jiangnan made him change a lot.

"Are you going to keep him around?"

"Doesn't Grandfather agree?"

Shen Zhongkang shook his head: "It's just a half-grown child, and his background is pitiful, you can raise it if you want to, but this child's temperament is probably not as well-behaved as it seems." ”

When he came in just now, Xue Nuo looked at him stunned, and that gaze penetrated for a moment.

Although the child returned to normal after a while, and was very respectful to him, Shen Zhongkang still noticed the unruliness in her bones.

And a half-grown boy who was suddenly in trouble, when he first came to a strange place, he could look at ease when facing him, and this courage alone did not seem to be raised by ordinary people.

"I heard Jiang Cheng say that you have checked his life experience, and you must be measured in your actions, since you want to keep people by your side to raise them, you should pay more attention."

"If that kid has a problem with his conduct, the Shen family must not keep him, understand?"

Shen hurriedly sat up straight: "I understand." ”

Shen Zhongkang only mentioned a sentence and didn't say more, there were some things he believed in Shen Qi's judgment, and he didn't want to ask about everything, but it made him lose his growth.

He walked to the side and sat down and asked, "Is the wound on your body more serious?" ”

Shen shook his head and said it didn't matter, and then his face was confused: "This time the matter of private salt was because I acted inconsiderately, so I was caught by Xu Lizhen in the wrong place, but I was beaten with these sticks, and my grandson felt that it was not enough to teach me a lesson." ”

Thinking back to the mistakes and omissions he had made since the beginning of the Hu family's affairs, he blushed when he remembered what he had done wrong.

Obviously, many things can be avoided, if he was more careful, he would have been able to find out that the Hu family was wrong earlier, and take down the matter of private salt before Xu Lizhen and the others went.

But he was too careless at the time, and he never thought that the Hu family's private mine was actually related to Cao Yun, and even later he was tricked by Tao Ji and almost planted in Xu Lizhen's hands.

"Fortunately, my grandfather and the prince were not implicated afterwards, otherwise the grandson would have been in a big disaster."

Shen Zhongkang's face was full of annoyance when he looked at him and lowered his head, but he didn't care: "Xu Lizhen went south to go for the matter of private salt, and the connection between the Hu family's account book and Cao Yun has long been traced. ”

"This matter has been pressed by the third prince and the fourth prince, and you didn't expect to bump into it when you went to Jiangnan, and it happened suddenly, it's already very good that you can do this."

It's not that Shen Zhongkang boasted, the situation at that time, if someone else bumped into the Hu family in Qi Town, the account book would have already fallen into Xu Lizhen's hands.

With Xu Lizhen's temperament, after he gets the account book, he will definitely use it as a handle, and he will find a way to rely on the Shen family for this matter, provoke disputes between the crown prince and the other two princes, and even threaten the position of the East Palace.