Shen Yi's Darkness and Depression

Chapter 409 Green Plum Wine

As soon as you enter the courtyard, you can hear the sound of reading aloud. There are green pines and cypresses planted on the left and right sides of the mansion gate, together with several clumps of gold-encrusted jade bamboo and plum trees in front of the pavilion, it constitutes a vibrant scene even in severe winters. Three Friends of Winter.

The plum tree was planted by the crown prince, the third prince and the fourth prince. It was less than an inch thick when it was planted, but now it is as thick as a foot. I didn't expect that more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye.

"This plum tree blooms very vigorously in winter, and it also bears a lot of plums in spring." Mr. Zong walked over unsteadily, interrupting Shen Yishuo's meditation.

"Have you had a drink, Mr. Zong?" Shen Yishuo hasn't seen Mr. Zong for a long time, and he feels that he has lost a lot of weight and is very haggard.

"Drink something casually, is the prince interested in having some?" Mr. Zong handed the wine jar in his hand to Shen Yishuo.

"Wine is really good wine. If I have time some other day, I will bring some side dishes to drink with you, okay?" Shen Yishuo politely declined. He had just finished drinking with Shen Yihuan. If he drank any more, he might really get drunk. Actually, he knows how much he can drink.

"This wine is made from the plums it bears, and the more it is put, the more mellow it will be." Mr. Zong said while raising the wine jar and took another big gulp.

"Mr. Zong is using wine to relieve his worries?" Shen Yishuo likes to drink plum wine, which is spicy and sour, and the taste is quite varied.

"Raise a glass to the sky, it's hard to think about an old friend, and it's even more worrying to use wine to relieve your sorrow!" Mr. Zong shook his head helplessly, and it seemed that he was a person with a story.

"What sad things have you encountered, sir? If you tell them, maybe you can relieve the depression in your heart." Although Shen Yishuo can't drink with Mr. Zong, as a listener, he can listen to his worries.

"Thank you, my lord, for your concern. It's just a brother's memorial day. There is no other way but to drink and mourn, alas~" Mr. Zong sighed heavily.

"The old man is gone. It is best to remember the past and cherish the present." While Shen Yishuo comforted Mr. Zong, he was also comforting himself. No one can understand how much he misses his mother and concubine. No one to talk to.

"Everyone has melancholy, sad places, people and things that are missed in the heart, and the normality of life. I am not surprised by this, and it is not enough to make the prince sad." Mr. Zong sailed like a wooden boat full of melancholy. In the vast ocean, I can't tell the direction, and I don't know what the future is, I just rush forward desperately, I can't see the way and I can't return to the origin.

"If there is someone I can help, sir, you are welcome~" Shen Yishuo said politely, and he could only dispose of his own worries, he was the sorrow, and he was the sustenance.

"Oh~ The prince can help me teach this poem." Mr. Zong took out a book of poems from his sleeve and stuffed it to Shen Yishuo, then turned and left without giving him a chance to refuse.

Shen Yishuo briefly flipped through the collection of poems, which were full of poems about homesickness and old friends, no wonder Mr. Zong didn't even want to teach the children.

As soon as Shen Yishuo took half a step into the room, You Chen and Shen Yizhao hugged him and did not let go and asked him when he would come back?Where did they all go?How did it take so long?Why don't you go to Duanmu Mansion to see them when you go back to the imperial capital?
"Okay, okay, all my classmates are watching, but they all laughed at you two for being childish!" Shen Yishuo looked at the children in the room who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, feeling a little sad. People are envious.

"We miss the third brother so much, but the third brother is not moved?" Shen Yizheng pretended to be angry with a puffy face.

"I didn't see you at the dinner party last night, so you went out of the palace." Shen Yishuo specifically asked Concubine Jin why the fifth prince didn't come, Concubine Jin coldly pretended not to hear, and didn't even look straight at her. He glanced.

"Third brother, let's go back home with us at night. Sister Wan is waiting for you so much that I don't want to eat and drink." Shen Yixuan snickered, and Yunwan has been cooking delicious meals for the two younger brothers in different ways these two days. She herself was full after just two bites, and she fed Shen Yizheng fat.

"Little devil, don't tease me with your sister Wan." Shen Yishuo pinched his fifth younger brother's little round face, his chubby face was very cute.

"Third brother, it's settled like that, let's go home together in a while." You Chen danced happily.

"Okay, okay, we're all waiting, and today I'm going to explain the poems to you." Shen Yishuo said while taking out the collection of poems.

"Ah? Where's Mr. Zong? Is he sick again?" You Chen has always admired Mr. Zong, and has deliberately practiced Mr. Zong's brushwork, copying it well.

"Sir, I have something to do at the moment, so I'm here to teach you. If you don't want to learn poetry from me, how about we change to riding and archery?" Shen Yishuo just asked casually, but it made the room explode.

"Great!"

"No, it's too hot~"

"The third prince taught riding and archery too harshly."

"I don't want to be hand-banged~"

"I like General Lin."

"Why hasn't General Lin been here for a long time?"

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The [-] or [-] children in the room were chattering, as if raising hundreds of frogs, chirping, croaking~
"Hurry up and turn the book to page No.17, who will read it again?" As soon as Shen Yishuo finished speaking, the room immediately fell silent, "Why are you guys not active in your speeches? One chatter is better than the other~"

"Who can read it to everyone with a voice and emotion?" Shen Yishuo patiently guided, but still no child was willing to stand up.

"Shen Yishuo, come~" Shen Yishuo directly called his fifth younger brother's name.

"Ah? Third brother..." Shen Yizheng shyly refused to stand up.

"Call sir! Hurry up and read to everyone, we are all waiting for you~" Shen Yishuo urged impatiently.

"Oh, cough cough~ green plums... Green plums startle the spring dust and fragrance, and cooking wine dew hurts parting in autumn. How... crossing people's lives at the right time... no, no more than the peerless twins... twilight." Shen Yizheng read nervously He had to stutter, if his third brother wasn't around, he wouldn't be nervous at all.

"Shen Yishuo, tell me what does this poem mean?" Shen Yishuo looked at his fifth brother thoughtfully.

"Uh~ It means drinking away your sorrows." Shen Yizhen responded casually, his mind was blank and he couldn't think about the essence of this poem.
"Do you think so?" Shen Yishuo reconfirmed.

"Being parted and born at an untimely time, it must be!" Shen Yizhen nodded affirmatively, blinking his big eyes.

"Duanmu Youchen, do you agree with Shen Yizheng's point of view?" Shen Yishuo asked tentatively, "By the way, let me tell you about your understanding!"

"Okay, sir, this poem is called "Plum Wine Drunken Heart Sigh" and it is easy for others to think that it is drinking to relieve sorrow, but the allusion used is green plums cooking wine and talking about heroes, which gives this poem a deeper meaning. "You Chen just wanted to express his point of view, but didn't say clearly what he meant by opposing the Fifth Prince.

"What different meanings?" Shen Yishuo asked.

The green plums startled the spring and the dust was fragrant, and the dew of the boiled wine hurt the parting in the autumn.How to cross the heart is born at the right time, no later than the peerless couple.

(End of this chapter)