Shen Song walked out of the house, looking at the fact that it was getting late and Xun Lao had not come back, he asked the guy at the counter, "Where did Xun Lao go?" ”

The guy lowered his head and said while recording the account book: "In the afternoon, someone from the government came and took Xun Lao into the inner city with a sedan chair, saying that his father in Mengzhou Mansion was sick, and asked Xun Lao to enter the city to take a look." Alas, before the two of you came back, Xun Lao was picked up, and before leaving, he specially asked me to take care of Shen Gongzi, but it was my fault. ”

The guy blamed himself for a while, and when he saw that there was no movement around him, he was surprised, and when he looked up, he couldn't help but be startled, only to see Shen Songzheng looking at him coldly, his eyes were very mad.

The guy thought that Shen Song was still angry with himself, and couldn't help but whisper: "Steward Shen? ”

Shen Song's expression returned to normal and smiled: "It's okay, are you sure you heard the father of Mengzhou Mansion?"

Seeing that Shen Song didn't blame himself, the guy breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

Shen Song said slowly: "I heard that Mengzhou Mansion's father was old and strong, why did he suddenly get sick, so I was more surprised. ”

The man was stunned, and then said: "Steward Shen, you don't know, this person is old, it's not surprising that he has any disease, when the old man Ning from the grain store next door is over seventy, he is in good health, there is nothing wrong with him, but he was infected with wind and cold one day, and he died in less than a month." ”

Shen Song smiled and said, "I see, I have been taught." ”

Shen Song returned to the room, but his face was extremely solemn, Meng Feng's father died more than twenty years ago, so who is the father in Meng Feng's mouth? Thinking of the so-called "family letter" that Meng Feng received at that time, Shen Song fell into deep thought.

Staying late at night, Xun Lao came back in a sedan chair, and Xun Lao walked into the medicine hall.

Under the candlelight, Shen Song was standing behind the counter fiddling with the abacus, and Xun Lao said tiredly: "If you don't go to sleep so late, you plan to help me check the account book?" ”

Shen Song didn't answer his words, but asked, "Old Xun went out for a medical visit, why did it take so long to come back?" ”

Xun Lao walked in, poured a cup of tea, moistened his throat and said, "It's not your old friend who asked me to treat his father." ”

Shen Song's eyelids drooped, as if he had no intention of asking, "Uncle Meng, I haven't seen him for several years, has it changed a lot now?" ”

Xun Lao sighed: "I don't know this, I haven't seen him before, and I haven't seen his face just now." ”

Shen Song raised his eyes: "You didn't see others?" So how do you treat him? ”

Xun Lao also felt that this matter was strange, and said mysteriously: "It's strange for you to say, Meng Feng's father actually doesn't live in the west mansion with his family, but lives in a courtyard behind the official mansion, and the edge of the bed he sleeps on is covered with thick curtains. ”

Shen Song was surprised: "Someone next to you won't let you see the doctor?" ”

Xun Lao thought of the young man named Qiao Zheng, and snorted coldly: "No, there is a young man guarding the bedside, the old man was just about to lift the curtain, he blocked me, his face was quite unkind, if it wasn't for Meng Feng's face, the old man would have left a long time ago." ”

Shen Song asked with "concern": "It doesn't matter what illness Uncle Meng has." ”

"Tuberculosis, there is still a tendency to have a stroke, but I prescribed medicine, and it will get better in a few months, you are so worried, or you should go and see it directly." Xun Lao looked at him.

As if thinking of something, Shen Song's face tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "Old Xun, you shouldn't have talked about me at Meng Feng's place." ”

Xun Laoqi said: "What are you doing, haven't you seen Meng Feng?" What, you're arguing? ”

Shen Song's heart moved, and said: "I won't tell you, I had a quarrel with him because of some things when I was separated, Xun Lao must not mention me in front of him, and don't say that I live with you, otherwise he will come to bother me again." By the way, Elder Xun, when will you go to the inner city for a visit in the future? ”

Xun Lao rubbed his waist: "Meng Feng is more worried about his father's illness, after I go to diagnose it again tomorrow, I will go to him every two days until his father's condition improves, what's the matter?" Xun Lao glanced at Shen Song, "You want to go and see?" ”

Shen Song nodded, his eyes were deep: "In the past, Elder Meng treated me like a nephew, but now that the old man is sick, I, as a junior, should go and visit." ”

"Then come with me into the inner city tomorrow?" Xun Lao asked.

Shen Song estimated the day when the Wenhui began, and shook his head: "No, I will visit you again in two days." ”

Shen Song said word by word: "Look at what my uncle has become now." ”

……

Time returned to the present, Bai Zihuan carried Shen Ye on his back and led Bai Youyou, all the way back, seeing that there were extremely few people on both sides of the road, he felt strange in his heart, and when he passed the bluestone, the old road was gone.

The two returned to the door of the residence provided by Luo Wan with doubts, and the servants at the door saw this and hurriedly ran over, one of them pointed to the unconscious Shen Ye behind Bai Zihuan and asked, "Childe, what's wrong?" ”

Bai Zihuan said angrily: "I'm still asking here, come and help lift it, but I'm tired to death." ”

Seeing this, the two subordinates hurriedly picked up Shen Ye behind Bai Zihuan, Bai Zihuan straightened his waist, breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered: "Go, carry people to the couch in my room." ”

When the two of them were done, Bai Zihuan drove them out of the gate and waited, and he and his sister sat on the edge of Shen Ye's bed and watched him.

Bai Youyou said: "Brother, why hasn't Brother Shen woken up yet?" ”

Bai Zihuan rolled his eyes and said, "How do I know, it's also unlucky, I can meet abnormal people when I eat, ah!" ”

Bai Youyou heard the scream, was startled, and rushed to Bai Zihuan's side and looked at him carefully: "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Bai Zihuan pushed her away angrily and said, "I'm fine, I just thought of the old way that calculated the hexagram for me, and it seems to be quite accurate." ”

Bai Youyou also thought about it: "That's right, that white-bearded Taoist said that brother, you want to meet the nemesis of fate, isn't that the villain later." ”

Bai Zihuan agreed: "Yes, I'll just have a meal, and then I was almost beaten by him, it's a bit evil, I have to stay away from him when I see him in the future." Bai Zihuan saw Shen Ye who was in a coma, and said gratefully: "Fortunately, Brother Shen blocked it for me, otherwise it is estimated that I am in a coma at this moment." ”

Bai Youyou reminded: "Brother, that wicked man seems to be running for Brother Shen." ”

Bai Zihuan thought about it, and when the man first came, he said the word "it's you" to Shen Ye, and woke up: "That's right." ”

When he looked at Shen Ye again, the gratitude on his face turned into sympathy, and he said: "Brother Shen, this matter is caused by you, and you should be injured a little, the fourth article of my hundred ancestral teachings, men must learn to take responsibility, and their own affairs must be solved by themselves and bear the consequences." ”

Bai Youyou said: "There is also the second half of the sentence, if you do something wrong, my brother will solve it, and my brother will bear the consequences." ”

Bai Zihuan heard this and said angrily: "What kind of mess, where did the second half of the sentence come from?" ”

Bai Youyou shouted: "Grandpa said, don't you believe grandpa to go?" ”

Bai Zihuan was stunned when he heard this, and then said depressedly: "Grandpa may really say this, but this is obviously unreasonable." ”

Immediately, Bai Zihuan's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands: "Since that old Taoist is so powerful, tomorrow I will let him calculate where grandpa is now, and it will be over!" ”

At that time, he was in the drunken secluded residence, and Bai Zihuan was interrupted before he finished speaking, in fact, what he was about to say was the main purpose of his coming to Youzhou, in order to find the old man who had been missing for many years.

On that day, Bai Zihuan happened to overhear the discussion of the family elders outside the study, and the head of the family said that the old man Bai, who had been missing for nine years, suddenly came with a letter.

When Bai Zihuan heard the news outside the door, he was very happy, when he was four or five years old, the old man Bai disappeared, and the whole family didn't know where he went, until the night of Yoyo's birth nine years ago, the old man Bai came back once, hugged the newborn Yoyo, and then talked with his father in the study all night, and then quietly left the next day, and he didn't even see each other at that time.

After so many years, although Bai Zihuan's grandfather is blurred in his mind, his thoughts about him are increasing day by day, and when he heard his grandfather's letter, Bai Zihuan listened more attentively. The old man said in his letter that he was currently in Youzhou, confirming some things, and warned the people of the hundred families not to participate in this Youzhou cultural meeting, and never to send people to Youzhou to find him, otherwise he would be expelled from the house. After reading the letter of the old man, the head of the family and several uncles decided that from tomorrow onwards, the clansmen outside the family would be called back, and no one was allowed to leave the hundred family compound without authorization. Bai Zihuan heard this outside the door, tiptoed away, and went to Youzhou to find his grandfather with his sister that night, the two did not sleep all night, and the next morning when the clansmen did not wake up, they moved the fake stone in the courtyard and left the Jingnan Mansion.

When Bai Zihuan was trying to recall what his grandfather looked like, Shen Ye, who was lying in bed next to him, groaned.

Shen Ye opened his eyes and saw Bai Zihuan and Bai Youyou's concerned eyes, Shen Ye's heart suddenly burst out, and he asked nervously, "How long have I been sleeping?" One day or a few days? ”

Bai Zihuan shook his head: "Brother Shen, don't worry, you have only been in a coma for a while, that guy thought he had beaten you to death, and he had been scared away by me." Then Bai Zihuan said apologetically: "Brother Shen, hearing your words, you seem to fall asleep as soon as you drink?" I didn't know that was going to happen, sorry. ”

Shen Ye was relieved to hear that he had only been asleep for a short while, and he didn't explain that he had a head disease: "Brother Bai doesn't have to blame himself, I'm just afraid that I will be in a coma for too long and miss the meeting." Then he said: "Brother Bai, I have something to ask for, at the literary meeting, can you let the younger brother be your disciple of the hundred families, I don't want the people of the Shen family to find me." ”

"Well said." Bai Zihuan was apologetic, and he didn't know how to make up for it, so he immediately took out a waist card from his pocket and handed it to him directly: "Take it, my brother and sister went out for the first time, for fear of losing the waist card, so I went out and brought an extra piece, just for you to take it, you just follow us during the meeting." By the way, in two days, we will first inform the Lord of Youzhou Prefecture, so as not to have no place for us when the banquet is held. ”

"Banquet?"

"Before the start of each cultural meeting, the local state officials have to hold a banquet to entertain the major families and discuss the cultural meeting." Bai Zihuan explained. Then he said: "When my brother and sister first came to the city, I heard that the prince queuing up outside the city said that according to the practice of previous years, the Wenhui should have started a few days ago, but because this year, the imperial court sent the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to preside over the meeting, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites has not arrived for a long time, so the meeting has not been held so far, and the banquet has been delayed for a long time, but because of this, my brother and sister can catch up." ”

"Then when will this Ministry of Rites waiter arrive?" Shen Ye asked.

"It's also strange, it stands to reason that the waiter of the Ministry of Rites should have arrived a long time ago, but I think this waiter of the Ministry of Rites may have lost his way on the road." Bai Zihuan guessed with bad intentions.

The convoy of the Ministry of Rites, who was suspected of being lost by Bai Zihuan, has just turned slowly to the border of Youzhou.

Yu Yao, the old waiter of the Ministry of Rites, poked his head out of the sedan chair and took a deep breath, thinking that every time he passed a town on the road, he would stop to meet with the local officials, which had already attracted the attention of many people, and had delayed enough time, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should arrive in Youzhou. Hehehe, thinking that when the time came, the old men of various families looked panicked when they saw the prince, and Yu Yao felt a burst of relief in his heart.

He commanded the attendant in front of him, "Full speed forward, march towards Youzhou!" ”

[Youzhou's bureau is about to start, ask for collection, ask for recommendation! ] 】