This sleeve is broken secretly

Sure enough, Shen Bing stayed in the house, sitting at the table and writing an official document with a pen.Because he was at home, he was only casually wearing a spacious stone blue robe, his long hair was simply tied with thorn hairpins, and his eyebrows and eyes were slightly lowered to stare at the paper.Obviously the same attire as in the past, but because of his plain and cool eyebrows and bloodless lips, he showed a bit of paleness and emaciation.

When Xie Ling entered the room, Shen Yi raised his head, but lowered his eyes again and said indifferently: "Why are you here?"

"I'll bring you soup." Xie Ling pulled himself together and came over with a smile, carefully took out the still warm soup cup and put it in his hand, coaxing, "Try today's soup, does it suit your appetite?"

Shen Yi wrote the official document quickly, without stopping: "Leave it alone, I'll drink it later."

"It will be cold in a while, what effect will it have?" Xie Qin pushed the soup cup to his side and coaxed, "Drink it first, please. Today is stewed with pork bones, Codonopsis ginseng and red dates, and some rice wine is added, it should be Not greasy. You try it, the taste should not be bad."

Shen Yan's hand holding the pen paused, and he couldn't help sighing: "Do you think I'm in confinement?"

But after all, he couldn't stand Xie Jin's coaxing, Jie Gai picked up the porcelain spoon and drank in small sips.

The soup is indeed a good soup.As soon as the lid was lifted, a tempting aroma of pork bones wafted out, mixed with a touch of herbal medicine.Looking at the soup base, it is the best milky white. The pork bones that have been stewed for a whole day are completely soft, and a layer of elastic meat glue will melt in your mouth as soon as you bite.The white soup is also embellished with red wolfberry and red dates, which makes people's index fingers move.

However, Shen Bing just drank with downcast eyes expressionlessly, no different from drinking clear water.

Xie Ling carefully observed his expression, and asked tentatively for a long while: "Tang—is he okay?"

Shen Bing said "hmm": "Not bad."

This fell into silence again.

Xie Qin was scratched by the stiff atmosphere, and after a while he smiled and said: "Today, I think the Bai Muxiang outside is about to fail, why don't you go out and take care of it yourself?"

"When the flowering period comes, it will naturally be defeated." Shen Bin said, "No matter how I take care of it, it will be useless."

Soon his soup bottomed out.After drinking, Shen Yan put the bowl into the food box, picked up the pen again, lowered his eyes and said: "I have a lot of things to do today, and I don't have much time to accompany you, why don't you—"

Xie Ling was immediately annoyed: "What's the matter? You are always busy these days and have no time. You are the only servant in the Ministry of Rites? Is it the princess who wants to get married or you who want to get married? How can you be so busy! "

Shen Bing paused, looked up at him, and sighed helplessly for a long while: "Why are you angry again?"

Xie Jin felt both wronged and anxious, went to sit down next to him, held his hand without any explanation, and said, "It's nothing else, the main thing is that I see you staying in the house every day, what are you doing?" I'm not interested either, you weren't like this before? You said you were sick and you didn't admit it, and you didn't want to find a doctor to take a look, can I rest assured?"

He paused, hesitated for a while, and asked hesitantly after a while, "...or——are you still angry with me because of what happened a while ago?"

He is not a fool, so he naturally guessed that Shen Yi might still be angry with the Cold War some time ago.After all, the change in Shen Bing's attitude also started from the days when the two were arguing about the Cold War.

But this matter has passed for more than a month, and now the matter of the marriage has been settled, it is useless for him to have any opinions, and the two of them have never talked about this topic again. You should be more concerned about this matter.

And after that, the two of them shared the same bed when they should, and got close when they should get close, and it didn't appear that Shen Yan deliberately avoided him or anything, and it didn't seem like he was angry with him.

But it's just this attitude - plain and indifferent, as if he is not interested in anything and doesn't care about anything.

Xie Qin almost couldn't recognize the "Jingzhou Tinglan" who was famous for his romantic and calm back then.

Hearing Xie Ling's question, Shen Yan's eyes fell on his face for a moment, and then he calmly opened his eyes: "What silly words."

"But you are listless and unhappy every day, and why?" Xie Ling asked anxiously, "Can you stop holding it in your heart and talk to me?"

Shen Yan sighed: "Flowers are not as red as a hundred days. How can people be happy every day?"

"You—" Xie Ling was angry.

He wanted to shake his hands and stand up, and leave in anger, but he was unwilling.After standing still for a while, he finally thought of a topic. Although he didn't want to mention it, he didn't have anything else to say, "I'm entering the palace today, and my aunt asked me to ask you to see if I could be in Jiazhao. Put some effort into the matter of the princess getting married. The princess's biological mother is of the same status as the promise, and I'm afraid that no one will take care of the princess on the way, and she will be bullied."

Shen Yan pondered for a while: "Princess and relatives are all custom-made. And after I draw up the selection of relatives and accompanying marriage documents, I also need to submit them to the emperor for review. I really can't help..."

"I know." Xie Ling said hastily, "I just asked you a question in front of you, so don't bother about it. He promised to ask his aunt for help because he knew it was useless to ask the emperor. It’s a bit presumptuous.”

Shen Yan lowered his eyes, and sighed for a long time: "The mother family is weak, so I was chosen to be the concubine princess, and there is no one to help. Naturally, it will be more difficult...I will do my best and see what I can help."

"Don't, don't implicate yourself." Xie Ling hurriedly persuaded, "This person has his own fate, and he should have realized this when he agreed to enter the palace. If she is a daughter of a family, she will give birth His child is naturally precious, so he will not be sent to be married. The rules have been like this since ancient times. Does she not understand? There is nothing to argue about. If you help him rashly, and then you will be punished by the emperor, Why bother?"

Xie Ling's original intention was to persuade him to be more careful, not to waste energy because of irrelevant people.But for some reason, when he said the words, a faint haze flashed in Shen Bing's eyes, as if dark clouds drifted across the center of the lake that was about to rain, covering up the brilliance of the water.

"I have my own considerations." After a long while, he didn't say anything, but said calmly.

Xie Ling stared at him, saw that he was buried in the official document again, so he got up angrily and said: "Then you are busy, I am leaving."

Shen Bing lowered his head and said "hmm" softly.

When Xie Ling's slightly angry footsteps gradually faded away and finally completely disappeared outside the door, Shen Bing raised his head and threw the pen aside, closed his eyes and raised his head, pinching his brows wearily.

Human communication is a strange thing indeed.

When we first met each other, either because of a stunning glance, or because of our long-standing reputation, when we looked at each other, there was a shimmering brilliance.That brilliant light seems to be the rising sun at dawn, or perhaps the dense glow at dusk. People really look beautiful under this light.

Never get tired of watching.

However, the sky is always sunny, if it rains continuously or the sun is covered by dark clouds, then when you look at the person next to you, you will suddenly feel that this person is tall, short, fat and thin, and his face, eyebrows and eyes seem to be unknown.

It seems that they don't know each other.

At this time, there was another series of light footsteps.

Shen Bing opened his eyes.

But saw the old servant come in with a pot of tea, cautiously poked his head and said: "My lord... Thank you, my lord, he left."

Shen Ting concealed the tiredness on his face, straightened up and replied: "Yes, I know."

The old servant leaned over gently, picked up the teapot to refill him, and observed his expression sideways.Shen Bing didn't want the old servant to see his depression, so he picked up his pen as usual and opened the file again.

"My lord, this old servant can't take it anymore, I still want to ask you—"

Shen Bing stopped holding the pen.

The old servant squeezed the teapot tightly, and blurted out in a low voice: "Why didn't you tell Master Xie that your mother has been seriously ill recently..."

Shen Bing was completely stunned.His gaze was fixed on the paper, without moving for a while.

At the end, he finally sighed and said, "How do you know?"

"Damn this old slave. I accidentally dropped the letter when I was helping the adults clean up the study that day. This old slave doesn't know a single word, so I asked the child to help me read it. That's how I know..." The old servant mourned, "Old man I know that you are uncomfortable, but it is not a problem to keep it in your heart all the time. Mr. Xie is also half of your own family. You tell him this, not only to save him from worrying, but maybe you can also ask him to find some famous doctors for you. Look at the old lady, maybe there is a turning point in her condition."

Listening to his babbling, Shen Bing had a slight smile on his face: "You think I'm worried about my mother's serious illness?"

The old servant looked at him in fear.

"Not all. I left home since I was a child, and I was rarely around my mother. Although I respected her and felt sad when I received the letter, but in the end—"

Shen Bing paused.

A scene flashed before his eyes——

The back of the woman seen through the bed curtain is still sitting under the lamp, carefully sewing a small shirt.The light was very dim, and she had to look closely at it from time to time to see the stitches clearly.

That was the only vivid memory he had of his mother.She seemed to stay at that time and that age forever, sewing and mending in his memory forever, day and night.

Shen Bing closed his eyes.

"That's all..." He finally gave up, chuckled, and said in a low voice, "Sometimes I think of her, I just don't know... I don't know where I can go back after everything is over."

When parents are alive, there is still a place to come from in life; when parents go, there is only a way back in life.

The old servant was also alone, and if he felt something, he couldn't help his nose sore, and raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears: "My lord, don't be too sad, this is a destiny in life, there is no way... Although the old servant is incompetent, but I would also like to always be by your side, to have tea and meals, so that you will not be lonely."

"I know." Shen Yan smiled warmly, "It's just this matter, don't tell Mr. Xie."

The old servant stared at him blankly: "Why is that, Mr. Xie is really worried about you—"

Shen Bing was silent for a while.He looked out of the window. It was late spring at this time, and the flowers were in full bloom, as if the next moment would be full of shade.When everything is prosperous, it will turn to decline, and deep love often does not live long. This is a law that cannot be fully understood when young.

"I just, suddenly realized some differences between us." He sighed.

He comes from Huhai Village, so he cares about the fertile soil and vegetation; he comes from Gaomen, so he cares about bells and tripods.

There is no right or wrong between the two, they just take different paths.

The old servant was at a loss, but Shen Ji didn't want to say any more, and calmly ordered him to leave.