Qingsha Lake lies quietly here.

On its left is the Tianmu Mountain, which is hundreds of zhang high but seems to have been cut in half by the celestials, while on the right, there is a layer of fine sand that shines dazzlingly golden in the sun, and further up is the verdant shallow grass that seems to drip water.

A woman sat quietly on the green grass by the lake, hugging her knees.

The pale green wind, gently blowing waves, reflected in her eyes, which were clearer and bluer than the lake, as if there were several flowers blooming. There is a slight exotic style between the eyebrows, and the exquisite porcelain-like nose and red lips pull people from the desert thousands of miles away back to the small bridge and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River.

The woman frowned slightly, as if she had an unsolvable sorrow.

She is the smallest pearl of the Shen family in Swallowtail City - Shen Mengyan.

Not far behind Shen Mengyan, opposite the direction of Tianmu Mountain, is Yanwei City.

There are three big families in Yanwei City: the Shen family, the Qi family, and the Liang family.

In the past twenty or thirty years, the children of the Shen family have been men one after another (six men in a row), which makes some people happy and some sad.

It is happy that there is the blessing of the ancestors, which makes the Shen family prosperous and prosperous. The worry is that the old grandmother of the Shen family can't hold a granddaughter after waiting for many years.

However, the old grandmother also criticized all those who held the previous view: Who said that women can't build a family? After the death of my husband and brother, I didn't conscientiously manage such a big family?

No one dared to say that the woman was not.

Speaking of which, we have to mention another big family: the Qi family.

Contrary to the Shen family, the Qi family gained six daughters in a row.

Although Qi Xuefeng, the head of the Qi family, is not very concerned about raising children, it is a long-cherished wish of him to have both children and daughters.

When he finally had a baby boy, he was so overjoyed that he named it Birthday.

The two families ordered at the same time: Give me a pet!

The little princess of the Shen family, the little prince of the Qi family, is the two most pampered in this city.

Fortunately, although arrogant and unrelenting in education, the two did not "grow crooked" like a lonely tree in the wilderness - but compared to their brother and sister, they were much inferior. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Time goes back an hour, and people and scenes are stretched into streamers in time and space.

In the Shen family's compound.

Shen Mengyan read some illustrated miscellaneous books in the study as usual, and there were many strange lines winding on the yellowish pages, some of which formed characters, and some of which formed some strange beasts.

This kind of books are all classified in the Fang Ji category, if any child likes Fang Ji, I am afraid that they will be invited by their parents to eat a meal of "fried meat with bamboo shoots".

The Shen family is naturally no exception, but the little princess is very favored, and who dares to murder her?

Now that there was no one around, Shen Mengyan's rebellious thoughts rose again, and she immediately looked through the books hidden under the tables and chairs.

It's not that no one found it, but the subordinates pretended not to see it when they were cleaning, and they didn't dare to touch the "palm pearl" of the pearl.

The spring wind, with a tiny whisper, swept through the window into this sunny room.

The dust raised was extremely conspicuous in the sun, Shen Mengyan couldn't help but squint her eyes, and listened slightly:

"Yuan Zheng, what does the eldest brother say?"

The voice...... It's my father's! Yuan Zheng, eldest brother? Is my father talking to my cousin, why did he mention Uncle Shen Yan? Shen Mengyan tilted her head lightly, full of doubts, and was about to write "fascinated" on her face.

"Uncle, don't worry. You've asked me twice today, and my father hasn't replied yet, so he should be thinking about it. ”

"Okay, tell me as soon as you have news. ”

"Don't worry!"

The two men who were talking in semi-secrecy seemed to have done something wrong, and parted, judging by the sound of their footsteps: one of them was coming this way.

Shen Mengyan hurriedly closed the treasure in her hand, skillfully stuffed it under the table, and then spread out a copy of "Analects".

At a quick glance, her treasure is a copy of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that all children have read—the difference is that the dark green cover with gold threads and the spine of the vermilion tassel are precious and a little shabby.

Before long, a figure passed by the open window.

It was Shen Mengyan's father, Shen Hongguang—he stopped here for a moment.

Through the transparent "window", he glanced at the book his daughter was reading, and had a slight glimpse of what she was reading was "benevolence as one's own responsibility", and sighed.

"Is it my father?" Shen Mengyan looked out the window in front of her, a slightly familiar silhouette, and her heart was slightly uneasy.

Shen Hongguang replied, then put his hand on the window edge and asked, "What are you reading again?"

"Back to my father, it's the Analects. ”

"Don't lie. The uncle in ancient costume said in a serious tone.

Shen Mengyan was taken aback, and was immediately exposed, collapsed, and honestly took out the book hidden under the table.

"Your grandmother gave you a book when you were a child...... That's it," Shen Hongguang waved his hand, a little helpless, he didn't know if this girl was really reading this book, or if he took it out as a shield, "Don't use the "Analects" as a cover next time, and it's always this page, and the spine of the book has been pressed by your handprint over time. ”

Shen Mengyan looked down, and there were two dark marks in the blank space of the book full of words.

She touched her head embarrassedly, remembered the words she had just been brought by the wind, and asked, "Father, you just ...... with Brother Yuanzheng"

Shen Hongguang's raised foot fell again, stopping the thought of leaving.

His eyes flickered: "Did you hear it all?"

"I only heard a little. Shen Mengyan replied honestly.

Shen Hongguang was silent for a while, and then asked something that couldn't match her: "What do you think, how about celebrating her birthday?"

"Huh?" Shen Mengyan couldn't react, and there were many elves called doubts hanging on her long eyelashes.

Then Shen Hongguang walked away with a meaningful smile and disappeared into the shadow of the corridor.

Halfway through being spoken, Shen Mengyan's mood of reading the book almost dissipated, and her curiosity prompted her to explore the truth of the matter.

But her strict father can't be counted on, either...... Go find Brother Yuan Zheng! Shen Mengyan decided so.

Shen Mengyan asked her subordinates to help her change into a pair of well-fitting leather shoes - they were from the Hu people in the north, and they looked slim when they wore them, but what made many women frown was that this kind of thin high-toed shoes was always incompatible with light clothes, unless they were wearing Hu clothes.

Now Shen Mengyan is in this situation, in a dilemma.

After hesitating for a while, she still changed back to her original boots and ran to find Shen Yuanzheng in small steps.

The second generation of the Shen family has three sons, the eldest is called Shen Yan, and the youngest is called Shen Hongguang, that is, Shen Mengyan's father.

And Shen Yuanzheng, the child of the old family, is in his thirties and five this year, but he is just a showman. His father, Shen Yan, who was the middle of the imperial history, had already given up on it, and instead focused on cultivating the much more intelligent old Eryuanliang.

"Brother Yuan Zheng, what did you just talk to my father about?"

Shen Mengyan slipped to Yuan Zheng's side and went around him to inquire about what he had just said.

Shen Yuanzheng was so shaken by the bright and lively breath that he couldn't open his eyes, so he could only grin and reply to her: "Didn't Uncle tell you?"

"No......" Shen Mengyan blinked her smart eyes, her small mouth slightly upturned, as if she was dissatisfied with her father.

Shen Yuanzheng turned a page of the book and thought: "Be quiet and then be able to think...... No, how could I not tell you about such a big thing. ”

"Brother Yuan Zheng, you read the typo, is it quiet and then you can be safe!Also, what's the big deal?" Shen Mengyan muttered in her heart: No wonder they say that Brother Yuan Zheng is stupid, this article that children can memorize can still read a fork.

Shen Yuanzheng smiled and said: "Mengyan is so smart, alas, the eldest brother is not good, it is not the material for reading." Otherwise, he would not have lived up to his father's expectations. ”

"Oh yes, what did my father say about 'birthday'......"

"I'll just say, such a big thing as marriage will definitely talk to you!"

Shen Mengyan's face changed, and she lost her voice: "Marriage?"

"yes. Brother Lobby nodded stupidly, not realizing that something was wrong.

"And him, that kid from the Qi family, who is more feminine than me?"

Shen Mengyan felt that there was a Tianmu Mountain collapsing in her heart, and the flying smoke and dust rushed straight into the sky, making her throat ache.

I've always treated him as a younger brother, and yesterday I brought him a pastry to eat...... I said why my father kept asking me to go to Qi's house to play more, it turned out that he had this mind!

Shen Mengyan felt that something was wrong no matter how she thought about it, and asked her to marry Qi Qingsheng, unless the water of Qingsha Lake flew into the sky, and the top of Tianmu Mountain was inserted into the ground!

She ran back angrily, bringing a gust of incense with her, leaving only a shrinking shadow.

"Am I ...... Did you say the wrong thing?" Shen Yuanzheng was a little hindsight.

......

Dangdangdang.

There was a sharp knock on the door.

Not long after Shen Hongguang sat down, he happened to spread out a piece of stationery, planning to write to someone.

The sudden knock on the door surprised him, and he didn't know who was visiting at this point in time - and no one had yet announced it.

Shen Hongguang raised his eyes and said, "Please come in." ”

The "baby" daughter who entered the door had just been urged by him to read carefully.

"What are you going to do?"

"Father, do you want me to marry Qi Qingsheng?"

Shen Hongguang lowered his face, as if the sky outside had changed at this moment, and he asked, "Who told you?"

"I heard your chat with Brother Yuan Zheng!"

A flash of surprise flashed across Shen Hongguang's face, he stood up, took two steps around the table, and then asked, "And then?"