Chapter 1: A Dream from the Past (I)

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In the north in December, it is not yet the coldest time of the year, but this year is different from previous years, and there have been several heavy snowfalls in the capital one after another.

In the morning when the heavy snow stopped, the top of the head was still gray, and the snowflakes were still sparsely falling in the air, falling on people's faces and hands, and quickly melted into a small drop of snow water by body temperature, feeling cold, but at first glance there was a bit of comfort.

Outside the red high wall of the royal palace, in Hengshui Lane, which is only two miles north from Zhengde Gate, stands a very grand and spacious courtyard. The heavy vermilion wood gate is wide open inward, and the two big gilded characters on the door plaque look up at the very magnificent, and from the outside, you can clearly see the people who are busy clearing the snow inside.

Two granite lions at the entrance guard the two sides of the gate of the mansion majestically, and the twelve scrolls on their heads silently show the noble status of the owner of the mansion to passers-by. Jingbei Changjia, a century-old wealthy family, this is something that the boss surname of the whole capital knows.

In the depths of the house, somewhere in the backyard, a fourteen-year-old boy with his chin in one hand was listlessly watching the two sparrows on the branches in front of the window playing and playing, and he was bored and yawned a lot.

"Young master, young master! Why don't you hurry up and change your clothes when you're all up? The lord and the lady have already dressed up at this time, and the front hall will be ready to eat soon, you can hurry up and prepare, so that Mrs. Liang will come to see it immediately, and you will have to count down the young master! ”

The one who spoke was a middle-aged woman in her forties, with a sturdy body, surnamed Shen, who was the personal mother of the young master in her mouth, although she was not a nursing mother, but she had also been waiting for the young master since she was a child.

The person in front of the window responded with a "um" from his nose, but the person was still lazy and didn't move a single step.

Mama Shen was anxious and helpless, so she had to turn around and shout outside: "Chunhong, Xia Zhi, come in and freshen up and change the young master, what are you doing in a daze?" ”

The two girls of the same age, but no more than twelve or thirteen years old, immediately entered the room, one holding a basin and the other holding a handkerchief, bowing their heads respectfully and preparing to serve the young master.

The young man opened his mouth again and yawned, and asked without looking back, "Mama Shen, it's twenty-two today, right?" ”

Mama Shen calculated in her heart, nodded and replied, "Yes, young master, in five days, the academy will take the annual exam." ”

"Oops~ It's so good, it's going to be an annual vacation..."

But the brain circuit of the young master of her family is obviously different from her, and she is thinking about the holidays, just like a young man who does not seek to improve and her unconscious old mother.

Finally willing to move his noble body, the young man slowly turned around from the warm collapse, revealing a handsome and beautiful face with sharp edges and corners like an axe and chisel in front of the audience's cameras.

took off his shirt as if no one was around, but the fourteen-year-old boy has now grown to a figure of 1.7678, with a well-proportioned figure, solid muscles, and a lazy state but still upright.

It's a pity that the three members of the opposite sex in the house have long been accustomed to their young master's unscrupulous release of personal charm, and the two little ones didn't even raise their eyelids, with a calm expression that didn't covet the beauty in front of them at all.

After grooming and changing, the young man who was still lazy turned into a handsome boy with a fairy face and a moonlight appearance in the painting book. Mama Shen pinned a chic and delicately portrayed jade pendant to the young man's waist, took two steps back and carefully appreciated the "masterpiece" that she had taken care of since childhood.

"My young master is worthy of being a child born by the combination of the master and the young lady, look at this appearance, it is simply the fairy in the sky who has landed in the mortal dust!"

Mama Shen's heartfelt admiration belonged to her daily exercises, and the young man nodded expressionlessly and said, "That's natural, it's a pity that the little mother died early, otherwise others will no longer say that I am similar to my father." ”

"Hey, young master, don't say that!" Although he has long been accustomed to the upright character of this young master who opens up when he disagrees, and does not even let go of his own son, Mama Shen will still instinctively prevent him from saying such things. This child has a hard life, he has no mother when he is young, he has been raised by his wife since he was a child, and when he was six years old, he was loved by his grandmother, and he was taken to the old lady's warm spring pavilion to raise, and he didn't move out until he was twelve years old.

The child has no impression of his mother when he is a child, and when he was a child, he has been pestering Shen Mama to call her "mother", and Shen Mama, who is a slave, does not dare to respond to his call, but she will always agree in her heart, and when she sees his happy smiling face, Shen Mama will always think of her young lady's beautiful face like a summer flower. Seeing things and thinking about people, he just changed the object of his vision to the child that the young lady gave birth to at the cost of her life.

As he grew older, the child gradually began to understand his identity, and the relationship with Shen Mama gradually became less intimate than in the past, until the accident more than half a year ago, the young master woke up again after being in a coma for more than half a month, but as if he didn't remember everything in the past, he opened his eyes and asked her who she was, but Shen Mama was scared enough, and she constantly blamed herself in her heart for being unfavorable for her own care, which made the young master experience such a painful time.

Fortunately, with the recovery of his body, the young master's memory seems to be full of recovery. It's just that the more things he remembers, the more tense the relationship with the old man seems to become. As for how he treats himself as an old mother, Mama Shen doesn't care for a long time.

After a brief tidying up of the hem of his clothes, the young master took his personal entourage Sanfu to the Nuanchun Pavilion to ask the old lady for peace. For this grandmother who has sheltered herself since she was a child and thinks about herself everywhere, the young master's heart has always been respectful, and the daily greetings have never been slack, but later the young master went to the academy and had to get up early every day to go to the school. But it was just a period of time after the young master was more than nine years old, and he still went to the Nuanchun Pavilion every day in the future, and it could be regarded as the old lady who didn't love him in vain in the past.

After asking Grandmother Ann to go to the front hall again, at this time the whole family has already gathered at the table, just waiting for him to come to the table to eat.

The old man and the mother of the family are very filial, and they attach the most importance to ethics in their lives, and they are also one of the few people in the family who can go to greet each other every day. It's just that he didn't expect that San Lang, who he despised the most on weekdays, would be able to go to his grandmother to say hello for several years, which is one of the few things in him that is worthy of his praise.

"Have you seen your grandmother?" The old man sitting on the main seat has a goatee that is more than half a palm long, his face is thin, his demeanor is elegant but quite dignified, and he has also been a companion to today, and the nobility of the old man is cultivated when he is young.

"If I go back to my father's words, I have already been there. The grandmother told the children to be more attentive in the academy, and did not dare to make their fathers and mothers look gloomy. ”

The tone sounded a little stiff, but the family seemed to have gotten used to his unenthusiastic character, so the old man didn't say anything, and waved his hand to signal him to sit down.

The family sat down, and the people brought the delicious breakfast prepared to the table one after another. The breakfast regulation at home is that the old man went to school when he was young, and learned it from the palace, one per person, everyone eats their own, and it is said that this kind of behavior is the norm for everyone, but in fact, a small half of the people at this table actually can't eat enough breakfast every day, and they still have to secretly open a small stove when they return to their respective yards.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a little depressing, everyone was bored to eat, and no one dared to open their mouths to touch the old man's moldy head.

After breakfast, a few young ladies were ready to go to the school. The young master has two brothers and two sisters above, and a younger brother and two younger sisters below, and the family has a total of eight children.

The eldest son, Chang Jinsong, is the head of the house, Jiang, who will be 20 years old after the New Year, and has been in the first class three years ago, but he has not been able to enter the office because of a lawsuit involving his mother's family before. This autumn, the matter was finally over, and the saint specially summoned him to the palace, and when the court sealed him the position of serving the imperial history in the palace, he was relieved of the process of disbanding the museum for three years, which was regarded as selling their Chang family's favor and taking office after the year.

The second son, Chang Jin Yang, was born by Aunt Guo in the second room, just turned eighteen years old this year, strong and healthy, martial arts and righteousness, at the age of fifteen, he was taught by the general Yang Zhonghuai, and was set to serve the country in the army early, but he was still young and had not yet married a wife, so the Chang family has been dragging him to report in the army.

The younger brother Chang Jintong, born to Aunt Qin in the fifth room, is six years old, born is a pink carving, lively and lovely, perfectly inherited his father's handsomeness and mother's beauty, and is recognized by everyone as the most similar to the young master's appearance among several sons.

; The eldest sister Chang Yu'an, who is also from Aunt Guo in the second room, is half a year older than her younger brother Chang Jinyang, and she is famous, and she has been unwilling to marry her relatives before the age of marriage.

The second sister Chang Yuning and the younger sister Chang Yujin were both born to Aunt Chen in the fourth room, but the poor one is estimated to be childless, and the two in a row are girls, so they have become the most non-existent of the aunts in the room.

There is a full twelve years of difference between the sisters and sons, the second sister Chang Yuning is sixteen years old this year, her personality is jumpy, her temper is irritable, she has never let her family worry when she was young, she is a little witch who dares to climb the ladder to the sky, and now she has reached the age of marriage, but the name of the little overlord has been spread out early, and now those who dare to go to their family to propose marriage are either lowly and want to climb to the top position, or they are famous prodigals in Beijing, all rushing to her beautiful face, and there is no sincerity, So at present, I have been waiting to get married, but I am at ease.

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