Mrs. Zheng explained: "Before you came, you had a fever again, and it hurt like pins and needles all over your body, and the doctor said that it was a serious cold, and you should recuperate for a few days." ”

Zheng Qian opened his eyes slightly: "Minghan is here?" ”

"Teacher." Shen Yu said softly.

Zheng Qian smiled self-deprecatingly: "I'm old, I'm old, and my body can't keep up." ”

"The teacher has been working too hard for a long time." Shen Yu said: "It is true that you are the backbone of the cabinet, but you must also pay attention to maintenance, don't get along with yourself." ”

Zheng Qian lifted the wet handkerchief pressed on his forehead, and raised his eyelids with difficulty: "After Yao Bin left, there are only four people left in the cabinet, and when I get well this time, I will resign from the position of Shangshu on the grounds of lack of energy, you were originally in power in the Ministry of Rites, and it is logical to be promoted to the Ministry of Rites. ”

Before Shen Yu could speak, Zheng Qian said again: "Minghan, entering the cabinet at this time, I, Yuan Xie, and Zhang Zan are all over the age of six, even Zeng Fan, who is in front of you, is nearly fifty years old, and he is the youngest son in the family, and his parents have reached their old age, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which must not be missed." ”

On seniority is the old rule of the cabinet, if Shen Yu enters the cabinet now, he can only be ranked fifth, but Zheng Qian calculates very clearly, the first three bigwigs are old, and it will not take a few years to become a leader, Zeng Fan, who is barely counted as a peer with him, and his parents are also in their eighties.

"Student ......" Shen Yu originally wanted to say that he was not confused, and he was really a little young when he entered the cabinet, but Zheng Qian planned for him to do this, and if he resigned, it would be a bit hypocritical. So he said, "The students obey the teacher's arrangement." ”

……

Huai'an was going to follow his father to Zheng's mansion, but before leaving, his father suddenly changed his mind and let him stay at home. So he stole half a day of leisure, ate pastries, and lay on the couch with "The Appearance of the Military Officer" in his hand, holding his stomach and laughing while watching. Suddenly, his hand was empty, and the book was taken away by his father, and he laughed so hard that his little stomach turned tendons, and it took him a long time to get up.

Shen Yu flipped a few pages, pulled a stool and sat down: "Does this book have anything to do with you?" ”

Huai'an flatly denied: "No! ”

Shen Yu looked at him quietly.

Huai'an said seriously: "There really isn't, I don't have such detailed materials in my hands, besides, we are a children's bookstore, and we don't publish such books that are not suitable for children." ”

Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, it wasn't Huai'an and the crown prince who were playing ghosts behind their backs, then there were only eunuchs, I don't know if it was the emperor's instructions behind his back. He came to persuade the emperor to "discuss the province and revitalize the discipline", and to use the emperor's iron-fisted means to deter the courtiers, which seemed to have some effect, but for some reason, the way was a bit off......

But a generation of kings has the style of a generation of kings,

But seeing that Huai'an was still looking at him nervously, Shen Yu gave a smile: "Don't eat pastries anymore, it's time to eat." ”

Huai'an put on his shoes and got out of bed, and chased after him: "Dad, I said that I would believe it without you?" ”

Shen Yu sighed and said helplessly: "You, the skin is only sincere." ”

Huai'an nodded in agreement, what an honest person he is...... Thinking about it, I don't think it's right, what is only sincerity left, obviously very obedient and sensible, civilized and polite!

Shen Yu shook the book in his hand: "It's confiscated." ”

"Why?!" Huai'an expressed strong protest.

Shen Yu said in what he just said: "It is not suitable for children. ”

……

At the end of March, the Shen family was decorated with lights, and the guests were like clouds. Relatives, friends and colleagues were invited, and the once secluded alley became crowded and noisy, and here was the woman's banquet.

Across the street, the "Chen Mansion" in Tianshui Hutong hangs eight red lanterns, which is very festive, and several brothers and sisters-in-law of the Chen family are very busy in and out, and this is the man's feast.

The banquet on both sides is contracted by Huaiyang Building, but the small courtyard is not big, and it can't accommodate a few tables of banquets, but fortunately, the neighbor is a warm-hearted person, and he lends his yard and kitchen to them, Xu Tinglan is extremely grateful, and turns his head and orders his family to seal a red envelope and give it to him, although Chen Yong's side is handled by the Chen family, but Xu Tinglan Shen Yu and his wife watched Chen Yong grow up, and naturally they couldn't save this heart.

On the other hand, Huaiying's dowry alone has been placed for more than two months, and the two children have to be independent, with only an empty house. The stewards, servants, and maidservants who accompany the marriage must be carefully selected.

Huai'an can already be used as a half-male envoy, and when the sister goes out, she wants to follow her brothers to socialize, but because the prince is coming, Shen Yu sent him early not to be busy at the banquet and go to the door to greet him.

Rong He also regards Chen Yong as his good brother, and his wedding is not a lively gift. So it was still early, so he hurried in an ordinary brocade robe and only two plainclothes guards. Even the gift money handed over was the name of "Liu Doujin", and the family member who welcomed the guest was still the stupid son of a rich family, Huai'an walked side by side with him and came to the hall.

Shen Yu led a group of family members to salute the prince, and Rong He helped him: "Master doesn't have to be polite, just when I am an ordinary guest, go and get busy, don't miss the auspicious time." ”

Shen Yu instructed Huai'an to accompany the prince to the main table first.

Where can the two of them sit still, and when they heard that the greeting team was about to come to the door, they ran out to watch.

The Shen family and the Chen family are really relatives, and the children on both sides have grown up together since childhood, like a family, but when it comes to the matter of male marriage and female marriage, it must be clear, the Shen family brothers have to embarrass the groom to marry as usual, and the Chen brothers have to help Chen Yong "break the door".

The brothers of the Chen family have also studied literature since childhood, and they are outstanding in learning, but they can remember the "murderous name" of one enemy and thirty, and the brothers began to be timid before they could fight, and they fooled Huai'an to steal the question a few days ago. Huai'an talked around the eldest brother a few times, only to find out that the eldest brother really didn't prepare the topic and planned to play on the spot.

Fortunately, Huaiming didn't intend to embarrass Chen Yong too much, and Huaiyuan came up with a good word puzzle with a good meaning, so he set his eyes on Huai'an, and it was time for him to solve the problem.

Huai'an didn't prepare any questions, but he opened his mouth and came: "Cousin, please listen to the question, within seven steps, say my sister's five benefits!" ”

There was a gloating coaxing sound all around, and people were reserved, especially those who read, who paid attention to laughter without breaking their faces, and laughed without making a sound when they were angry, although they could boil over the sky on the wedding day, laughing and talking unbridledly, and no one had ever seen the benefits of counting their fiancées in public. For a while, they all sighed that they were too kind, and Huai'an was really "six relatives who didn't recognize".

After the commotion, there was silence, and everyone wanted to hear how Chen Yong praised his bride.

Chen Yong groaned slightly and made a poem: "The person in front of the mirror is like the moon, and the moth eyebrows are amazing; If the eyes are like hidden pearls, the glow is longing; Hui is like a quiet orchid, and his talent is more than immortal; I am often afraid that the autumn festival is coming, and the moon is closed in the clouds. ”

"Good!" Everyone applauded in unison, and even Huai'an slapped hard. Chen Yong still has some skills, composing poems within seven steps, writing the bride's white skin, beauty, aura, quality, and talent five advantages, and the end of the summary: talent can close the moon.

In the cheers of the guests, the welcoming team entered the door.

Chapter 149

When the sedan chair entered the door, Chen Yong first worshiped the old lady, then his mother-in-law, and finally his uncle and aunt.

The old lady had tears in her eyes, and she sighed with emotion to marry her granddaughter, and she remembered that her cousin's family died tragically under the knife of the Japanese Emperor, and the two children grew up to the age of marriage in the blink of an eye, which was a happy event, but it also made people have mixed feelings.

The old lady couldn't say a word, only handed over a red envelope, took his hand and patted it. On the scene, Shen Yu and his wife are not easy to dominate. Looking at the groom and the official in a big red suit, Ji felt familiar and unfamiliar, regretting that he rarely walked around on weekdays, and did not know more about this child, but fortunately, the new house was only one street away, almost under his nose.

After Chen Yong finished the tea, Ji said something "mutual respect and love, wet foam white head", her body is particularly bad when the season changes, and she is a little panting when she talks too much, or Xu Tinglan took over the conversation, and did not say those official clichés, only asked Chen Yong to take good care of Huaiying, and often come home, Chen Yong even made a guarantee.

Huai'an followed Brother Huaiyuan to Huaiying's boudoir, Huaiying had already put on her makeup, was mending her makeup and tidying up her clothes, and the big red silk acacia fan in her hand slapped Huai'an's head without hesitation.

Huai'an covered his head and shouted, "Why did you hit me?!" ”

Huai Yingxing's eyes widened slightly, and she said with a smile: "You just talked nonsense at the gate." ”

Before Huai'an could refute, she was squeezed to the periphery by a group of maids-in-law, and Huaiying stood up under the urging of a group of mothers-in-law, tidying up the auspicious clothes on her body and the hairpin tree on her head.

Huai'an didn't understand why he would be beaten up every time his brother and sister got married, he was clearly working hard to serve his own camp.

But looking at my cousin smiling in the mirror, relaxed and joyful, Xiang is about to go to a long-awaited feast, this is still the happiest bride Huai'an has ever seen in his two lives combined-Shen Shisanhuai is very relieved.

In the blink of an eye, the auspicious time came, and in the noisy sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums, Huaiyuan carried his sister out and sent her to the sedan chair.

In fact, there are no in-laws and elders in the family, and the two of them don't even have to do the work of serving tea, they have nothing to do, and they want to go back to the Shen family the next day. It's just that the old rule says that the three dynasties return to the door, in the end it is not in accordance with the rules, and I am afraid that the omen is not very good, so I will provoke the elders and make outsiders laugh.

So the two of them either threw pots and poems at home, or went out for a stroll, picked some handy household goods to fill their small house, and bought a lot of seeds and flower seedlings, and planted them in the yard while the weather was fine.

Because the two of them like to do everything by themselves, the maid and the woman can't intervene, so they have to stand aside with a kettle. Chen Yong's hands-on ability is also very strong, Huaiying said that she will build a shelf along the courtyard wall to plant roses, build a swing below, and wait until the summer is full of vines, just to enjoy the shade.

Chen Yong didn't say a word, he asked two male servants to buy a few timbers from outside, and it only took half a day to really build a swing frame that could take advantage of the shade.

Huaiying put down the little flower hoe to wipe her husband's sweat, Chen Yong looked at Huaiying's flowered face, raised his hand to rub it, but rubbed more dust, simply pretended not to see, and invited his wife to try her new swing.

Huaiying personally sorted out the ancient poetry books that she had collected for a long time on the bookshelf, and showed them to Chen Yong one by one, and Chen Yong also put out his drawings and models one by one and showed them to Huaiying.

Chen Yong said: "Brother Lobby will leave for Minhai next month, and I heard that there are the most powerful shipyards and artillery factories in Quanzhou, which can not only make Furang machine guns, but even bird guns are better than the Ordnance Bureau." ”

Chen Yong thought that he would definitely go to Quanzhou in his lifetime, but he only said a word casually, but saw Huaiying's eyes shining with envy.

"Minshan is reckless, and Yueshui soup soup is indeed a good place! There are many islands dotted with long and winding coasts. Bayberry and lychee are sold in baskets, unlike here, where the price is higher than gold. ”

Chen Yong pondered for a moment, and then made a decision: "When my sister-in-law and little niece leave for Minhai, we will also go together and go to Minhai to have a look." ”

Huai Ying looked at him in surprise: "Me, we? ”

"That's right."

"You can use the name of a study tour, but I'm a woman's family, what do you say?" Huaiying suppressed her heartbeat and said hesitantly: "I really want to go, but in case I ......"

Chen Yong understood that she was afraid that she would become pregnant.

Chen Yong held her hand: "It's okay, if you want to have a child now, let's stay in the capital and not go anywhere." If you want to go out for a walk, I'll ......."

"How are you?" Huaiying took a sip of tea, she really wanted to hear it.

Chen Yong said seriously: "I'll just go outside and try to avoid it." ”

Huaiying: "Poof-"

She choked and laughed, walked to the window, and pushed open a window. The small courtyard came into view, and in the flower bed under the window, a new vine climbed along the courtyard wall, and the gentle spring breeze blew through her sideburns.

"I want to eat fresh bayberry from Fujian, I want to listen to the camel bells of Xuanfu tea and horse market, I want to go to Liaodong to dig fatty red ginseng, I still want to ......"

There was silence behind her, Huai Ying felt that she was too whimsical, all women in this world were confined to the inner house of the boudoir, even the eldest aunt, who ran so many industries, could not go south and north like men.

Turning around, Chen Yong took out a map out of nowhere, and was placing chess pieces on it: "You go on." ”

Huai Ying sneered, stepped forward, grabbed a handful of chess pieces from the chess basket, and put them down one by one.

The two forgot to tear up the yellow calendar, and early on the third morning, the maid asked them to get up in a hurry. After three days, they can finally go home!

Huaiying has never left Ji's for so many days, and what she is most worried about is her mother's body.

There was a small homecoming wine at home, but Shen Yu was about to enter the cabinet, so he didn't make a big deal anymore, but only opened two tables of banquets with his family and got together to talk.

After not seeing each other for three days, the old lady pulled Huai Ying and asked, "These two children, why do they seem to be dark?" ”

Squeezing her hand again, two blisters formed on the always delicate palm.

Huaiying told the elders about tidying up the yard in the past few days, like the grass and trees in the yard described by several family treasures.

"Silly boy, you sent people to summon them, but you are better to return and provide them up." The old lady took the trouble to teach her how to use people and how to manage the house, but I don't know if Huaiying listened to a few words and remembered a few words.

Sister Peng suddenly remembered the nursery rhyme that her little brother taught her, and read it out in public: "Little flower cat, go to school, the teacher lectures and sleeps, listens with the left ear, and the right ear rises, you say it's ridiculous." ①”

The old lady, Xu Tinglan and Ji pulled down their faces at the same time, not ridiculous, but angry.

On the other table, Shen Yu was instilling in Chen Yong the importance of gaining fame and fame with a little bit of alcohol, reminding him not to neglect his studies just because he became a relative, and his responsibilities would be heavier after he became a family.

Chen Yong put down his chopsticks and listened seriously, not daring to refute a word.

Huai'an came up with a good idea: "Dad, if you are really not at ease, call your cousin to check your homework every once in a while." ”

Chen Yong's face was not different, but he kicked him under the table. Huai'an gasped, and almost didn't shout.

Shen Yu is most afraid of Chen Yong living separately and abandoning his homework, hearing Huai'an say this, he feels very reasonable: "It's okay, you will come back every three days in the future, and you will just accompany your mother-in-law to talk." ”

Chen Yong thinks it's okay, their long-distance travel plan will have to wait for a year and a half, and Huaiying should come back to accompany her mother more often, and it is quite relaxed to check her homework every three days.

Huai'an nodded and agreed: "Anyway, it's just a few steps away, and it's not a problem to come back every day, it's the same as before." ”