The moon comes to take pictures

Ning Yuquan was wearing a purple and white brocade robe with two plum blossom patterns pinched on the cuffs. The two servant girls were serving tea and setting it up.

"Brother!" Ning Ruichen ran until the floor of Fengju Pavilion thumped, lifted the hanging curtain recklessly, and threw himself on a velvet cushion next to elder brother: "I can't find you anywhere below. When I inquired, it turns out that you are there." This. How do you think of this place?"

"Ouch——" Ning Yuquan rolled up his sleeves and stabilized the tea: "Be careful, I'm so grown up, I don't know how to be prudent." After that, he showed him another sandalwood sign, "Your nephew, just now Given a scientific name,"

"Get up so early?" Ning Ruichen took it over and looked at it, it was an auspicious word: "I only got up after I entered school."

Ning Yuquan looked at him and smiled: "I'm not like our father. The day before I entered school, I hurriedly asked Mr. to look up words."

The two brothers laughed for a while, and when they talked about their childhood, they still had some regrets. When Ning Ruichen went to a private school, his eldest brother had already gone to study in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and was not often at home. Back to Nanjing.

"I still remember that when you were seven or eight years old, you grew slowly. When you left home at the beginning of the year, and when you came back at the end of the year, my younger brother was still a little meatball..." Ning Yuquan laughed out loud as he thought of something. Chen pinched his cheeks, and said with a smile: "I don't know why, you grow taller in a flash!"

Perhaps as a new father, there is always such emotion. Ning Ruichen pinched a piece of bracelet beads and waved it twice, pretending to be angry: "Your son will be like this in the future, why are you in such a hurry to make fun of my brother?"

All of a sudden, Ning Yuquan calmed down again: "Relax, I will definitely not let this kid know about his uncle's stupidity when he was a child..."

"I haven't seen my nephew yet, so I just talked about this incident." Ning Ruichen said with high spirits, "If my sister-in-law doesn't come home, I'm going to fly to Yangzhou!"

"She is weak after giving birth, and it's human nature to want to stay at her mother's house for a while," Ning Yuquan's smile paused, as if he was hesitant to speak, but finally said, "I see it's been difficult for my father these days. An Mian, if Rui'er has nothing to do these days, go to the temple to live for a few days to pray for incense. After this year, you should also pick off this lock, and then you need to ask the abbot of Lanquan Temple to preside over it for you."

Speaking of this, Ning Ruichen remembered what he had seen before when the Ministry of War dispatched troops, so he whispered into his elder brother's ear and asked, "I heard that the Ministry of War dispatched a lot of soldiers before. Has this happened?"

Ning Yuquan didn't want to say much, so he skipped some details, and roughly said: "The small troubles in Haiphong will be suppressed once they are suppressed. Nanjing is an important town, and it is also a military hub in the south of the Yangtze River. You can't just do nothing." .”

Ning Ruichen was really put off by these few words, and after thinking for a long time, he said again: "I went out today, and I saw someone scolding Chang Xi." He rolled his eyes, pinched a fruit from the eight-treasure plate, and ate it , added inarticulately: "It belongs to the Wenshe."

Wenshe also had contacts with his family, Ning Yuquan's ears were pricked up, but Ning Ruichen was silent.

The eldest brother said calmly: "For outside matters, you have nothing to do with eunuchs, so don't inquire about them. If there is anything, our family will be the first to know. Father and elder brother will protect the family."

This is wrong, but Ning Yuquan didn't allow him to ask carefully, and went down to the courtyard to give many orders, and he was about to leave before half a stick of incense.

Ning Ruichen sent him to the door, and Ning Yuquan was still talking: "If you don't come here often to take care of it, the people in this garden will become more and more lazy. You should also tighten the strings for these people. You are always so good-tempered. In the future Everyone rides on your head."

Ning Ruichen noticed something, and silently tightened the bridle for his elder brother.

The eldest brother turned the horse's head and was gently pulled by the back again: "Brother, you go back and talk to Dad, I want to live in the temple tomorrow, don't worry about me, it will be about a month or two. You go about your business."

Zhang Shenxiu took off her shoes, sat cross-legged on the corner of the couch, twirling a black satin fan with poetry inscriptions, and a golden incense burner in her hand, which contained Ersu incense powder that had just been sealed, and milky white smoke. There is an aroma that has been refined over the years.

The door opened with a creak, and a figure flashed in the bright sunlight. Brocade shoes embroidered with gold and silver stepped in, followed by a round-neck robe with woven flowers at the hem. : "Shu Zhou."

Zhang Shenxiu looked a bit distressed: "He sent him back?"

"I'm back. I'll send it to the carriage myself." Xie Yan sat on the couch with a smile. He didn't appear to be wealthy as usual in his outfit today, but he could be seen if he took a closer look, especially the plain silver hairpin on his head. Yes, embedded in the engraved tangled lotus is a full-colored and translucent white emerald egg face.

"I'll send them back, why are you so unhappy? Can't bear people to go back?"

Zhang Shenxiu snuggled up to the old Ersu situation next to her, and said softly, "Yesterday I was seen by Liu Jiao, but luckily I got rid of it, otherwise, I don't know what to do. Next time... next time tell me They change places."

Xie Yan snickered at him, the business was done, the money was collected, and he was still so pedantic and timid.

"Forget it, Liu Jiao has such a great ability to control you? After all, you can't tolerate me here."

"You don't know, when I was in Zhoushan, I almost revealed my secrets!" Zhang Shenxiu slapped his thigh, as if recalling that unpleasant memory, his brows were furrowed.

Xie Yan thought for a while, and seemed to understand. He grabbed his hand and comforted him: "My good brother, you can take it easy. After all, he doesn't know that you did this for him. Besides, I was able to chase you all the way. , he cares about you."

It may be because of the spring breeze. Once Xie Yan changed his attitude towards Liu Jiao, Zhang Shenxiu didn't care too much. He sighed and fell into deep thought: "Yeah..."

"By the way, I forgot to ask you, is everything okay in my hometown?"

Zhang Shenxiu recalled his thoughts: "I gave you the money, so it will be fine..." He turned over and lay down leaning on the couch, "The children of my aunts and cousins ​​at home are about to grow up. Hand over the shop to them, be a hands-off shopkeeper, and enjoy the blessings."

"Oh," Xie Yan looked at him curiously, "Where did your previous ambition go?"

"Running here and there is hard work after all, and I don't want to be so nowhere." Zhang Shenxiu looked at him: "In this whole life, I will always find a place to settle down."

Xie Yan slapped him twice, and shook his head lightly: "Are you really going to cling to such a small amount of money? There will be a day when the gold and silver mountains will be hollowed out. How difficult it is to go from extravagance to frugality. Without money, you can still keep money." People? We can only continue to operate, besides, we are not the same as before."

"Dali Temple, the garrison hall, we are unimpeded, and the Jiangnan commercial road is in our hands." Xie Yan looked at him slowly: "Shuzhou, when you come back this time, don't you feel that Nanjing's attitude towards us has changed from the past? Don’t you understand that money can turn ghosts around?” He closed his fan and tapped Zhang Shenxiu’s forehead, with a half-smile: “If God doesn’t take what he gives, he will take the blame instead.”