After letting the sons go back to their rooms, Shen Yu covered his heart and let out a long breath.

"Who swears to enlighten Huai'an?" Xu Tinglan snickered and learned her husband's tone: "Lion Tiger Bo Rabbit, you should also do your best." ”

Shen Yu glanced at her and instructed Tiandong: "Go ahead and tell me a word, and ask Li Huan to buy me a string of Buddhist beads on the street." ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, Tiandong came back and asked very seriously: "Steward Li asked what kind of wood do you want?" ”

Xu Tinglan was still laughing.

Shen Yu gritted his teeth a little: "Choose the hardest and most durable one." ”

The smart Tiandong thought all the way, and came to the front yard to tell Li Huan: "Choose the most expensive one!" ”

Chapter 8

After dinner, Shen Yu was writing at the desk, and Huai'an was also tied to him to practice horizontal and vertical strokes, and there was a disturbance outside, so he had to raise his head to see.

Shen Yu knocked on the table and motioned for him to calm down.

"Dad, what's going on at home? I heard that Aunt Meng was tied up in the main courtyard? "Something strange happened in the house lately, and no one wanted to share it with a five-year-old.

Shen Yu glanced at him: "Sit quietly and often think about your own mistakes, and don't talk about others." ”

Huai'an lowered his head helplessly.

At this time, someone from the main courtyard said that the door was open, and the wife asked how the grandmother was doing. If you're comfortable, go for a trip. Presumably she has already finished taking care of Aunt Meng's affairs, and she must explain it to them.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law obviously isolated Shen Yu.

Huai'an secretly caught a glimpse of his father's annoyed look on his face, and smiled secretly in his heart.

Xu Tinglan ignored her husband, put on a plain white coat to keep out the cold, and hurriedly went to the main courtyard.

Concubine Ji was also there, her mother-in-law Chen sat on the top, Xu Tinglan saluted her mother-in-law, and greeted each other with Ji.

I saw my wife looking at her with a smile: "You have a good relationship this time, which is not very different from the previous two times." ”

Xu Tinglan smiled: "Yes, Huai'an also said that it was a sister." ”

Chen nodded and said, "No matter how you make a tile, it's a good thing." The food at home is too vegetarian, which is not conducive to raising the fetus, so I should remember to use the supplements sent by others, and don't be too rigid about the old etiquette in private. ”

"Yes, mother doesn't have to worry, the supplements are all used, and they are very good now." Xu Tinglan said.

Chen shook his head and said: "Some words are also for your good, no matter how good a man is, he is not as reliable as his children and grandchildren, so he still has to pay more attention to his children." ”

Xu Tinglan and Ji nodded in response.

They know the bitterness in their mother-in-law's heart, the in-laws are not deep, the mother-in-law is the lady of the scholarly family, and the father-in-law is the hereditary military attache of the fourth grade. The huge difference in habits is destined to make it difficult for the two to get along, the father-in-law is tired of the mother-in-law being serious and dignified, and the mother-in-law dislikes the father-in-law for being rude and arrogant.

For example, when Shen Yu was very young, the family sat around the upper room to eat, and during the banquet, Master Shen asked about Shen Yu's homework, but Shen Yu did not answer, and the angry Master Shen smashed his chopsticks.

Chen said expressionlessly: "He has something in his mouth." ”

When you have something in your mouth, you are not allowed to speak, this is the way Chen educates her children, and it is also a contempt for her husband.

Master Shen saw that the Chen family was not happy, so he became more and more unscrupulous, and the concubines were lifted in room by room, and every time the new concubines were spoiled by the sky, they would do a lot of stupid things. As for Chen's dissatisfaction, Master Shen only dared to be angry with Shen Yu and Shen Lu.

Mother can't take care of them all the time, and Shen Yu has to protect his younger brother. Before the age of ten, it was common for him to be beaten and punished for kneeling, and he was injured almost every day.

If it weren't for the fact that the Chen family did not hesitate to tear his face with Master Shen, he would have pinched the death deed of the concubine's room and sent the shunzi soup every day, and this family would have been upset by his favored concubine and wife.

She has been taught morality, speech, appearance, and work since she was a child, and she has been instilled that women can't be jealous, and she doesn't know that taking Shunzi soup for a long time hurts her body, but she is a mother, married such a confused husband, for the sake of her children, how can she leave a concubine?

Since they are disheartened with their husbands and simply devote themselves to raising their sons, Shen Yu and Shen Lu can have today's success, all thanks to their mother's silent teaching.

This is also the reason why the two brothers have little affection for their father.

Xu Tinglan knew in his heart that because his husband had suffered enough from his concubine and aunt, he never thought of taking a concubine, and he didn't even have a room around him, he had some ambitions in his chest, and he only wanted a peaceful family and a harmonious husband and wife.

The mother-in-law is a very smart person, and after the sons marry, they rarely ask about the affairs of the son and daughter-in-law's room.

I also heard Chen's words: "These things of beating, killing, and destroying the Yin Festival should not be said to you at this time, but it is about Brother An, and I must always have an explanation with you." ”

Xu Tinglan hurriedly got up and said, "Mother is serious. ”

Chen motioned for her to sit before cutting to the chase: "After all, it is a family ugly, and it is not suitable to send it to the official." The people in Meng's courtyard were sent to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city without knowing it, and all those who knew about it were sold from afar. Meng Shi was willing to tell the truth after receiving sixty rods, she was afraid that she would have nothing to rely on in the future, and she desperately wanted to leave an heir, thinking about it and coming up with such a stupid trick, and was bumped into by An'er, I had sent her to Zhuangzi and grounded. Steward Liu set the fire and intended to kill Brother An, he is the person in the front yard, what should I do, you go back and let your man call the shots. ”

Xu Tinglan's heart is like a mirror, Aunt Meng still failed to get pregnant after stopping the drug, presumably it was the avoidance soup that hurt the root, and naively thought it was Master Shen's problem, so he thought of the idea of "borrowing seeds". At present, she has no children and no daughters, and she went to Zhuangzi, no one cares, and she is afraid that she will die for a lifetime.

The three of them talked for another quarter of an hour, fearing that Xu Tinglan would be tired, so Chen asked them to go back first.

Xu Tinglan returned to the East Courtyard, Huai'an had already fallen asleep, Shen Yu was reading next to him, and when he saw his wife coming back, he tiptoed to bed.

Xu Tinglan teased him as if taking advantage of him: "Husband doesn't have to be polite. ”

"It is worthy of being my daughter-in-law, and if you have a advantage, you will take advantage of it." Shen Yu sat at the round table with his shirt straightened.

Xu Tinglan couldn't help but smile, sat opposite him, and slowly explained the cause and effect.

"Mother is still soft-hearted in the end." Shen Yu listened to Xu Tinglan's relays and said.

Xu Tinglan also just smiled and didn't speak.

On the couch, Huai'an turned over with a hum and kicked the quilt.

Deeper and heavier, Shen Yu hurriedly covered him, and the horns were tightly sealed.

Xu Tinglan looked at her husband in a daze, she knew that Shen Yu lacked her father's care since she was a child, and she was somewhat compensatory for the good of her two sons, and she felt distressed every time she saw it in her eyes.

"Your son memorized the last paragraph of "Thousand Words" today, but he forgot everything in front of him, and he learned slowly and forgot quickly, how is this good?" Xu Tinglan said worriedly.

Shen Yu smiled helplessly, the good places are always "my son", and the bad places are "your son".

"If you can't memorize it once, then ten times and a hundred times, there will always be a day to remember." Shen Yu said: "Ming'er is precocious, he knows ten when he hears it, and teaches him that the eight strands of Shiwen are in accordance with nature, Huai'an's qualifications are ordinary, and his step-by-step reading is reasonable, and it is also in accordance with nature. ”

Xu Tinglan said: "Don't let your son hear this, he doesn't know how to be diligent and motivated, and he should be at ease when he hears this." ”

After saying off-topic, the two of them faced a pot of tea, and continued to "seek" Aunt Meng's old background happily.

Just as he was talking about the wonderful part of Aunt Meng and Aunt Huo's jealousy, Huai'an didn't know what he dreamed of, and suddenly cried, not loud, but curled up in a ball, and his face was extremely painful.

"Help me...... Save me! He whimpered: "Why did you throw me away, why did you give birth to me!" Save, save, save......"

"Huai'an, Brother An?" The couple patted him nervously and called him by name: "Huai'an? ”

Huai'an shuddered, opened his eyes, and gasped as if he had escaped death, panting and crying.

Seeing Shen Yu and Xu Tinglan's anxious faces, he suddenly burst into tears.

Shen Yu was distressed and picked him up and coaxed him.

In the dream, Huai'an saw the fire in his previous life and remembered everything.

The old house was short circuited by wires, the bedroom was full of fire and smoke, and Dad risked his life to turn back, rushed into his and his brother's room, woke him up, and rushed out with his brother on his back, Huai'an covered his mouth and nose and followed closely behind. The heavy wall cabinet at the door suddenly smashed down, knocking him to the ground, he was instantly smashed out of force, pressed under the can't get up, watching his father, hesitating two steps on the spot, carrying his younger brother's head without looking back, rushing out of the sea of smoke and fire.

The severe pain of burning one's body in the fire is less than one-ten-thousandth of the heartache.

He scratched the traces of his debut on the scorched floor, and with the last of his strength, he made a wish to the firelight, and if there was an afterlife, he wanted to have a warm and happy family, and parents who cared for him.

Then, the pain in his body vanished, and he fell into endless darkness. Until it fell to the ground, it came to this era.

The long-suppressed pain finally turned into a cry to vent out, and the parents who hugged him tightly in front of him would no longer think him ordinary and ordinary like his parents in his previous life.

Xu Tinglan cried distressedly, but his voice was very firm: "My father and mother are here, my father and mother will definitely protect Huai'an in the future, and I will not let anyone hurt Huai'an again." ”

Huai'an cried for a long time, and he cried enough at one time to save up the grievances he had accumulated for more than ten years. Tired of crying, he hung on Shen Yu's neck like an octopus and sobbed.

His mother's hand gently stroked his sideburns, and his father's body had a good sweet fragrance.

He reached out and touched it, it was a fine agarwood, and it was fragrant.

In my previous life, I always looked forward to growing up and supporting myself. But at this moment, I feel that I am really happy to be a little doll.

He wanted never to grow up again.

The next day, Li Huan asked Shen Yu how to deal with Shen Shou, Xu Tinglan looked at her husband with some hesitation, and the latter's face sank like water and he was silent for a long time.

She guessed that he was going to kill someone, but Shen Yu ordered him to be sold to a private kiln in Xishan on the outskirts of Beijing to dig coal and work as a coolie.

Coal kilnShe knows that there are countless official kilns and private kilns in the Xishan Coal Mine in Beijing, and the coolies in the mine live like "livestock" and live a life that is worse than death. The illegal buying and selling of laborers was repeatedly banned by the imperial court, but most of the refugees who were hungry and cold voluntarily sold themselves to exchange some food for their families.

"Why the suburbs of Beijing?" Xu Tinglan asked.

"I have to know he's alive all the time." Shen Yu's dark eyes revealed a cold feeling, but it was only for a moment, and it disappeared into invisibility in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 9

While the husband and wife were talking, Huai An came out with a wooden sword, trying to slip away from them.

"What are you going for?" Shen Yu stopped him.

Huai'an smiled and said, "Dad, mother, after I finish memorizing the book, I'll go out to play for a while." ”

The whole old house was immersed in a plain and lifeless, the maid didn't dare to laugh, the eldest brother and cousin were busy with their studies, the cousins were detained by their grandmother in the room to learn the girl, and they didn't come to play with him, and it was not a way to practice calligraphy in the room every day, Shen Huaian wanted to go to the garden to breathe.

Shen Yu doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but now the back house is full of white paper lanterns, and Huai'an was haunted by nightmares last night, so he really doesn't feel at ease.

Seeing that Huai'an was holding a small wooden sword, he ordered someone to go to the east house and take out an unedged sword: "Dad will accompany you and teach you swordsmanship." ”

There was an unexpected joy from the sky, Shen Huai'an's eyes lit up, and he followed behind upside down.

"It's going to rain!" Xu Tinglan reminded and prevented the two of them from going out to go crazy.

Shen Yu, who had already walked to the courtyard, waved his hand at his wife.

Huai'an waved his hand at his mother, and was slapped by his father on the neck. understood that Shen Yu could allow him to be naughty, but he would never be allowed to disrespect his mother. He hurriedly turned around and bowed to his mother.

Xu Tinglan was amused by the ridiculous couple in the court.

The ancestral house is very large, and by the pond in the back garden, the spring flowers have already emerged from the bones, and the flower branches are waiting for the spring to come.

The weather was cloudy and uncertain, and after a while, the dark clouds turned into a trace of cold rain and fell down, and Shen Yu didn't care. No matter how much he loves his son, it is impossible to confine the child to the greenhouse, he is an adopted son, not for porcelain, he can't withstand the slightest wind and rain, how to stand in the world in the future?

I saw him holding the sword wrist, skillfully pulling out a few sword flowers, the vigorous posture indulged in the sword light, several times light and airborne, and landed steadily, the plain white linen slash fell up and down in the sword wind, hunting sound, and added a bit of grandeur in the elegant.

Shen Huai'an was dumbfounded. In fact, recalling the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, there were not a few literati who cultivated both civil and military, and in ancient times, the boundary between civil and military became more and more distinct, and there were fewer and fewer people who could be literary and martial.

Daddy is such a person! He is handsome, well-educated, and martial arts......