Zhong Niangzi Wanfu

Chapter 88 If it’s inappropriate, then it’s inappropriate. It’s not a big deal.

一
Wen Yi also met Zhong Lan once before leaving and told her the whole matter.

Zhong Lan was silent after hearing this.

"Sister Liao, Brother Feng was not like this before." Wen Yi frowned.

"This is why the ancient Ding You was not allowed to be an official. His father suddenly lost his father. This ridiculous move is not unreasonable." Zhong Lan sighed lightly, "Fortunately, I have you and Mr. Zhang. I will trouble you about this matter. I will do it another day." I will personally go to the Lin Mansion to apologize on his behalf."

"We are brothers, these are all trivial matters, not worth mentioning." Wen Yi waved his hand, "I still have to go to Huanshui County, so I won't stay any longer. Sister Laolai always tries to persuade him."

"I will." Zhong Lan nodded and sent Wen Yi out of the door.

After coming back and sitting down, Zhong Lan drank all the tea in the cup in one gulp.

Chang Huan stepped forward to add tea to her. Seeing that she was absent-minded, he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with the girl? Hasn't this matter been suppressed by Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wen?"

"I know it was suppressed." Zhong Lan came back to his senses and shook his head, "It's just that I'm still a little worried."

Seeing Zhong Lan's silence, Chang Huan said understandingly: "But my uncle has a knot in his heart that he has yet to untie. I just need to say a few words to my uncle to untie my knot."

"In the past few days, I have been asking Jiang Liu a lot and reporting my uncle's whereabouts to the girl. The girl can have a plan, how about it?"

Zhong Lan reluctantly curled his lips: "That's fine."

two

For several days in a row, Shen Feng not only went to greet Mr. Yang every day, went to the ancestral hall to kneel for Shen Lin, and went to the study to check Anian's homework, he spent most of his time in the room.

When Shen Feng was Dingyou, scholars from the same county or surrounding counties would come to him to ask questions. Shen Feng would sometimes use what he had learned to answer his questions. Then gradually, he would use his lack of academic skills as an excuse to thank the guests behind closed doors. .

Zhonglan and Yang also advised him to go out for a walk more often, but he only smiled and said nothing, and his figure became thinner day by day, like a pool of stagnant water.

Because of Shen Lin's death, Shen Zhan missed the imperial examination, so he simply started to teach in a government-run school in Taiming, so that he could study the scriptures in preparation for the future.

Zhong Lan saw that Shen Zhan was more responsible than before, so he asked him to help persuade Shen Feng.

One day, when Shen Feng had just returned to his room after reciting sutras for Shen Lin, Shen Zhan knocked on his door: "Big brother? My younger brother has something to ask big brother for."

After a long time, Shen Feng ordered Jiang Liu to open the door and let Shen Zhan in.

Shen Feng was sitting on the desk, sorting out his papers and books. After hearing Shen Zhan salute him, he asked softly: "What do you want to ask me?"

"It's a strategy that eldest brother wrote when he was studying." Shen Zhan smiled and raised the manuscript in his hand.

Shen Feng shook his head when he heard this and said, "I don't know how. If you have any doubts, go and ask the official from the same town. He is well versed in literature and art and knows poetry and books, so he can answer your questions."

"Why did the elder brother rush to reject the brother without even listening?" Shen Zhan frowned slightly and said dissatisfied, "The elder brother wrote the policy himself, how can the brother ask others?"

Shen Feng had no choice but to say, "Then tell me."

Shen Zhan was delighted. He took two steps forward and pointed out a part of the manuscript to Shen Feng: "Here, big brother said that officials should cultivate virtues for the people and treat everyone equally."

"Also here, the eldest brother quoted the words of a sage, saying that people are not sages and sages. No one can have faults and can correct them. There is no greater good. If you have made mistakes, you must seek the truth and correct your mistakes. This is the common ethics of human beings. , one should do something to seek in one’s life.”

"What do you want to say?" Shen Yan asked abruptly.

Shen Zhan stopped reading and said with a smile: "Eldest brother could understand the truth before he became an official. Why can't he understand it now?"

"The eldest brother is now the head of the Shen family. It's me, Ah Nian, and the role model of the Shen family. Such decadence really goes against the humility and kindness of the eldest brother in my heart."

Now Shen Zhan is not as obedient and respectful as he was when he was a child, but for the first time he talks to Shen Feng as a peer.

Shen Feng felt a little dazed for a moment.

"Eldest brother already knows that laziness is not a permanent thing. Is it to make my father in heaven worry about the future of the Shen family and disappoint him?"

"I avenged my father, and I am worthy of my father. How could my father be disappointed in me?" Shen Feng's voice instantly doubled in pitch when he heard Shen Lin.

Shen Feng has never been angry with Shen Zhan. This is the first time. In the past, Shen Zhan would have kept silent and retreated, but now he did not.

"Eldest brother, don't you understand that compared with the past grudges, what your father is more worried about is the future of the Shen family?" Shen Feng's pretending to be fierce eyes suddenly lost focus, and he sat blankly on the chair, gradually losing consciousness, as if I listened to Shen Zhan's words.

Seeing Shen Feng like this, Shen Zhan sighed softly: "Brother, my younger brother will leave first."

Zhong Lan knew about Shen Zhan's visit to Shen Feng's study.

After Shen Zhan came out, he ordered Jiangbei to inform Zhong Lan about what happened in the study.

Zhong Lan did not rush to find Shen Feng. He only asked Anian to ask Shen Feng about his homework as usual when it was dark, and to find out what he thought and then make plans.

After Anian came back, he threw himself into Zhonglan's arms and said, "Daddy asked Anian about his homework."

"Besides homework, did daddy tell you anything else?" Zhong Lan asked with a gentle smile.

An Nian shook his head, but then nodded: "Dad said that if A Nian has any questions in the future, you can ask your second uncle for advice."

Zhong Lan was stunned. The more he thought about it, the more afraid he became. He stuffed Anian into Chang Yu's arms. Seeing Chang Huan enter the door, he hurriedly asked: "Where are the officials now?"

Chang Huan had just received Zhong Lan's order and brought a plate of pastries for Ah Nian. Seeing Zhong Lan's hurried expression, he hurriedly replied honestly: "I just heard from the cook in the small kitchen that my uncle went to the backyard."

"I remember there was a medium-sized flower pond in the backyard?" Zhong Lan's heart twitched, and when Chang Huan nodded blankly, he rushed out the door.

Zhong Lan walked to the archway of the backyard and saw Jiang Liu guarding outside the courtyard. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed him and asked, "Is the official in there? What is he doing in there?"

Jiang Liu was also at a loss, shook his head and said: "The master only asked the young one to guard outside. He didn't say anything else and went in alone."

"Get out of the way." Zhong Lan pushed aside the river flow and rushed into the backyard.

It is early summer, the backyard is lush and green, and the flowers are blooming. The early-blooming green leaves and red lotus flowers in the flower pond are very beautiful.But Zhong Lan had no intention of watching, and was only looking for Shen Feng anxiously.

Finally, Zhong Lan's eyes settled on the edge of the flower pond: Shen Feng, wearing thin clothes, was sitting by the flower pond, slightly stunned.

She quickly stepped forward and grabbed Shen Feng's shoulders tightly: "Are you going to do something stupid? Don't you care about me, A-Nian, or this family?"

Looking at Zhong Yan, who had red eye circles, Shen Yan went in without knowing it, and asked with some doubts: "What did you say?"

"Didn't you tell An Nian that you wanted to commit suicide? Let me tell you, if you leave, I will take An Nian to find Wen Shu and find a father who loves him more. You don't care about the Shen family, I Why do you care?" Zhong Lan choked up.

Shen Feng understood what Zhong Lai meant, and smiled and held her in his arms: "That's not what I said to Anian. How could I have the thought of committing suicide? I still have you, how can I let it go?"

Zhong Lan raised his head and met Shen Feng's eyes: "Are your words true?"

Shen Feng raised a kind and humble smile and nodded.

"Then you came here after talking to An Nian." Zhong Lan stood up from Shen Feng's arms and sat down side by side with him.

"I just don't want to be an official anymore." Shen Feng's voice deepened and he looked up at the stars in the sky.

"With my current state of mind, I am really not suitable to be an official and start a new life with the people. So I asked Anian to ask Brother Zhan more about his homework."

Shen Feng pointed to the flower pond in front of him again: "When I was tired from studying, my father would take me here to enjoy the lotus and fish. Today, Brother Zhan's words really shocked me. I came here to ask my father, I How to do it.”

"So the result is that you don't want to be an official anymore?" Zhong Lan asked carefully.

Shen Feng lowered his head, nodded for a long time, and then quickly raised his head to meet Zhong Lan's eyes: "But even if I don't serve as an official anymore, I am still the head of the Shen family, and I will protect you."

"I can teach, learn to do some business, or accompany you to run the farm shop." Shen Feng said in a relaxed tone, "I can trouble you to teach me when the time comes."

Zhong Lan looked at the person in front of him and said nothing for a long time.

Shen Feng couldn't hear Zhong Lan's answer and said softly: "If you still want me to be an official, then I'm afraid I will disappoint you. I'm sorry."

After a long while, Zhong Lan breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you do well. As an official, if you don't deserve it, then you don't deserve it. It's not a big deal."

Seeing that Zhong Lan agreed readily, Shen Feng was a little surprised, but then he smiled and bowed to the flower pond: "The son is unfilial and has disappointed his father. However, the son promised his father that he is now the head of the Shen family and will protect him with his own body. Good luck to the Shen family. I hope my father is alive in heaven, bless his son, and bless the Shen family."

(End of this chapter)