(xxxv)

After another meal, Mrs. Chen had also turned into the back hall, Chen Xiu was far from seeing Lu Man coming with her, and he was puzzled, but it was inconvenient to ask more. Mrs. Chen looked at him, knew what he meant, and smiled: "I have placed Miss Lu in the West Wing to rest, child, don't you worry?" Chen Xiuyuan's face turned red, and he said busily: "No, no, I think she is tired too, so she should let her rest earlier......"

Mrs. Chen smiled slightly, and pulled Chen Xiuyuan to say something warm for a while, until the end of the day, she took him to the east wing without leaving an inch, and personally took the basin from Xiaohuan's hand, twisted a hot towel, carefully wiped his face, and then lifted the quilt for him and let him go to bed to sleep. Until she saw him close his eyes, heard his slight and long breathing, gently stroked his hair, and gathered the futon for him, Mrs. Chen saw that although he was already asleep, she saw that Bian Wuzi was slightly red. Mrs. Chen stared at this beloved child, and as soon as she lowered her head, a tear fell on the futon...... After a long time, he got up and blew out the candle in the room, came to the outside of the room, gently closed the door, and went back to the room to rest.

But she didn't know that Chen Xiuyuan was not asleep, just because he couldn't bear to see the scene of parting with his mother in person tomorrow, so he finally hardened his heart and made up his mind to pretend to sleep first, and after Mrs. Chen went away, he got up again, lit the small candle on the table, wrote a letter, and prepared to put it outside his parents' door, and said goodbye tonight.

When Chen Xiuyuan came to his parents' door with a letter, although he saw that the candle in the room had been extinguished, he still heard his mother's low sobbing sound in the room, Chen Xiuyuan's heart was shocked, and he secretly thought in his heart: I thought that his father had told his mother about leaving home tomorrow, and his mother was sad after hearing it, so she was sad and cried at night. Chen Xiuyuan listened for a while, and couldn't help but feel deep self-blame in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red at this time.

After a while, I heard my father's voice say, "Madam...... What do you do without crying, since ancient times, there have been many defeated mothers, in my opinion, this child should eventually be far away, it is my family's thousands of miles away, and in the future, I will be a great Chen family, and those who will become the gateway of my Chen family in the future will also ......be here" and said: "I only have this only son in this half of my life, can I not love him in my heart? Let him sharpen and experience more at this moment, if he becomes a great weapon one day, wouldn't it be better than being a gentleman and a disciple in front of you and me?"

Chen Xiuyuan listened to his father's words outside the room, and only then did he truly understand his father's ardent expectations for him, as well as the depth of love and responsibility...... I remember that in the past, my father often had little praise for himself, but in fact, if he regretted his words, he was actually very happy......

At this time, although Mrs. Chen knew that what her husband said was not unreasonable, and she couldn't find anything to answer for a while, she still couldn't help crying sadly......

Chen Xiuyuan didn't want to eavesdrop on the conversation between his parents, thinking that it was not the truth of being a son of man, but at this time, when he heard his father mention Lu Man to his mother, he couldn't help but blush, his heart was curious, and his childlike heart suddenly rose, so he wanted to hear what his mother would say outside the room.

Mrs. Chen listened for a while, thinking that although her husband didn't know what to say, the implication of his words seemed to be that he suspected that his beloved and Miss Nalu had already made a private agreement for life...... Mrs. Chen looked back at this time and thought about the situation of the two of them, and she couldn't help but be shocked in her heart, secretly screaming that it was not good, and she was even more worried...... But after thinking about it, she felt that Miss Lu's rules would never be like this, so she said to her husband: "You must not be suspicious, knowing a son is better than a mother, our own children, can you and I not understand?"

Father Chen said: "Well, Madame's words are also true, Yuan'er is also a scholar after all, how can he not understand that 'there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater.'" Shun married without telling him, and he had no queen. The gentleman thought it was too much. 'The truth, I think he is also very filial to us in his heart, and it is not expected to be like this, but the Lu girl ......"

Mrs. Chen said: "I see that the child is dignified, polite, and clean, and not stained...... The person who will do such a thing, in my opinion, don't say that the two of them must be innocent, and they haven't done anything unseemly, even if it is ...... Let's also be the master and let the child marry her, as the saying goes, 'the beginning of chaos, the end of acceptance.'" "That child doesn't say that it's our distant son, even if I see it, I like it in my heart, if he really marries into my Chen family, it won't insult our child, but it is a great blessing, at that time, isn't it a great joy?"

Father Chen said "um", noncommittal for a while, silently pondered for a long time, Mrs. Chen saw that he didn't say anything anymore, and she stopped talking, and her heart fluctuated for a while, with mixed feelings......