The Jade of the Republic of China

"Good boy! When I grow up, my elder brother almost didn't dare to recognize him!"

Shen Yutong has been floating on the sea for two months, now he is on land, sitting in his own car, looking out the window at the already unfamiliar scenery, he just feels very unreal.It was his elder brother's powerful palm, the painful feeling on his shoulder, which made him sure that he had returned to his hometown where he had been away for four years.

He smiled and looked at his elder brother, whom he hadn't seen for several years, and let the other party pat and pinch his shoulder excitedly.

He just smiled on his face, but couldn't help feeling a little sour in his heart.He remembered very clearly that when he left Shanghai, his elder brother still had black hair. In just a few years, his black temples had turned white, and there were wrinkles on his face that symbolized wind and frost.

After the other party calmed down a bit, he smiled and said, "Brother, how has everything been going at home these past few years? How is Dad?"

Shen Yuan nodded and said: "It's all good. My father personally made a menu and prepared the table early this morning, and I want to wash you off." His hands were still on Shen Yutong's shoulders, and his eyes, which were slightly red from excitement, He looked at him carefully with a slight smile.

When he left home, his younger brother was only 17 years old, and he was still a thin and thin boy, but now he is really a young man in a state of prosperity.

It was originally a good skin, but now it is even more dignified.

The Shen family had produced such a good talent in a hundred years, so he couldn't help being honored.

Four years apart, the two brothers naturally have endless things to say, and the one-hour drive seems to be just a blink of an eye.

The car stopped at the gate of a mansion in the public concession.

This mansion is the famous Shen Family Garden in Shanghai.

There are more than one big family with the surname Shen in Shiliyangchang, but if you want to say that the richest family is the one in the garden of the Shen family.

The Shen family was born in Shanxi merchants and made their fortune from salt. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was one of the four major salt merchants in China. After the opening of Shanghai, the current owner of the Shen family, Shen Xingzhi, continued to do salt business, and at the same time moved his family to Shanghai to buy a house. Set up a factory, caught up with the industrial boom, and transformed from a salt merchant in Jinzhong to a Shanghai upstart.

It is said that the rich are only three generations old, but the Shen family has already been rich for four or five generations.

Shen Yutong is the second son of the Shen family.

He, the second son, has a somewhat special status in the huge Shen family.Because Shen Xingzhi and his wife were both over [-] years old when they gave birth to this youngest son, it can be said that old clams make pearls.

Shen Yutong has one brother and three sisters, the youngest sister is more than ten years older than him, and the elder brother Shen Yuan is two rounds older than him.

It is a happy event to have a son when you are old. The elders of the Shen family have such a young son, which is more precious than Dragon Ball.In addition, when Shen Yutong was two years old, Mrs. Shen fell ill and died, and lost her mother at a young age, and the whole family regarded him as precious.

Jingui's second son, Shen Er, is also very competitive. He was smart and smart since he was a child.

The most important thing is to give birth to a rare beautiful face.

The Shen family has been rich for several generations, and there is no shortage of smart people. Take the brothers and sisters of the Yuzi generation as an example.

But the Shen family has never produced beauties. Even if Shen Xingzhi married a beautiful wife, the son and three daughters in front of him can only be said to look good and decent, but because of their education, they are still a bit behind the beauties. Big cut.

Only Shen Yutong is like a white swan growing out of a flock of ducks. She is carved in pink and jade at birth, and the more she grows up, the more she looks like a beautiful person walking out of a painting. I took a big breath.

Such a second son, how could the Shen family not spoil him.

However, the second son has not been spoiled and has no bad habits. He seems to be born with a good temper. He doesn't need anyone to teach him. love him.

However, being too likable is not a good thing, at least not in the eyes of his father Shen Xingzhi.

It turned out that on the day Shen Yutong turned one year old, Shen Xingzhi asked a fortune teller to tell his youngest son's fortune.

The calculated fate is indeed a first-class good fate-crape myrtle descended from the sky, and both blessings and fortunes.

It's just that there is a misfortune in fate, it is peach blossom disaster.

Master Shen loves his son as much as his life, so he naturally wanted to resolve this trouble for his youngest son, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha to donate his merits, since he was a child, he never let the girl by his side, only the old lady and the servants.The more people like my son, the more frightened I am, I am afraid that a peach blossom disaster will come at any time.

By the time he was fifteen or sixteen, Shen Yutong had grown into a handsome man.Although the Peach Blossom Tribulation did not appear, the peach blossoms bloomed one after another. Even though he was not frivolous, he gradually spread the name of being a romantic.

For example, when he was 16 years old, a comprador businessman who had business dealings with the Shen family brought his daughter to visit him, and the rich lady fell in love with Shen Yutong at first sight.

The comprador's family promotes Western studies, and the young lady is deeply influenced by European and American new ideas. She is a bold and open modern girl. She declares in front of the Shen family that she will actively pursue Shen Yutong and fall in love with him freely.From then on, he let the chauffeur drive his own car to block people in the Shen family's garden every day, completely in an attitude of being crazy about love.

Seeing this situation, Shen Xingzhi, the father, and Shen Yuan, the eldest brother, complained endlessly, fearing that something serious would happen.On the contrary, Shen Yutong didn't take it seriously, and even made a serious date with this comprador lady.

Fortunately, when the Shen family was worried, the comprador moved his family to Tianjin due to business relationship, and this flamboyant love affair was considered to be over.

The peach blossom catastrophe that Second Young Master Shen hit was obviously not related to this.

Of course, this romantic affair is just one of the many affairs of the Second Young Master Shen.

By the time he was in middle school, Shen Yutong had learned a lot because of Maung Sai Pan An, and was famous inside and outside the school. Often, bold female students from the girls' school next door would climb up the wall to peek at him.

Originally, Shen Xingzhi was fortunate that boys and girls were not in the same school at this time, and the middle school was full of male students of the same color, so there shouldn't be any major disasters.

However, rumors soon spread to Shen's family that there were male students in the school who were jealous of Shen Yutong.

It can be seen that this peach blossom catastrophe may not distinguish between men and women.

Mr. Shen complained endlessly.

After graduating from middle school at the age of 17, Shen Yutong was successfully admitted to Aurora Public School.

On the day of the graduation ceremony, a student wanted to present flowers for him, but went to the church next door to steal roses and broke his left leg.For a while, rumors spread everywhere, and there was a lot of trouble in the upper circles of the foreign market.

The reason why it became a joke.

It was because the student who broke his leg stealing roses for Shen Yutong was a man.

It is said that on the way to the hospital, this man was still crying because he missed the opportunity to present flowers.

Shen Xingzhi knew that the youngest son was not romantic by nature, he intentionally caused love debts, and was always chased and liked by others, and it wasn't just because of his good looks, it was because he was born in a heap of gold and jade, he was loved since he was a child, and he didn't know the sufferings of the world and the complexities of people's hearts , and loves to read, always too naive and kind to people and things.

For example, the boy who broke his leg was often bullied and excluded at school because of his cowardly personality and bad homework. Only Shen Yutong became close friends with him and took the trouble to help him with his homework and be his backer to prevent him from being bullied Bully.

The other party was naturally very moved, wishing to be crazy for him and smash into the wall for him—even if this man was out of pure friendship.

At this time, the second son-in-law of the Shen family who served in the new government was sent as an envoy to England.Shen Xingzhi and his elder son Shen Yuan made a plan, and hurriedly packed the second son, who was covered in peach blossoms, to his son-in-law and daughter, and asked them to take them to England to study abroad.

One is to cut off the many peach blossoms that the second young master provoked in Shanghai, and the other is to let him experience some suffering in the world and understand the sinister heart.

After four years, the second son of Shen came back from his studies. It is hard to say whether he has tasted the sufferings of the world.But it was obvious that he was more handsome and personable than four years ago.

The gate of Shen's garden opened slowly, and the driver slowly drove the car into the spacious courtyard.

Someone yelled—"Second Young Master is back!"

The originally quiet bungalow suddenly became noisy and noisy, and a huge group of people came out from the gate. They were the old and young members of the Shen family.

Shen Yutong's father, Shen Xingzhi, was wearing a brand-new dark gray robe and mandarin jacket, and walked in the front with a cane. Beside him were Aunt Zhou, sister-in-law Biyun, three sisters and brother-in-law, and eight or nine nephews and nephews.

"Father, I'm back!" Shen Yutong opened the door and got out of the car, stepped forward a few steps, and came to his father, who was about to kneel down and kowtow excitedly.

Shen Xingzhi grabbed his arms in time to stop, trembling: "Just come back! Just come back!"

Shen Yutong looked at the gray-haired man in front of him, because he was born late, although he was only in his early twenties, his father was approaching seventy years old, and he was a real old man.

The father and son looked at each other with tears in their eyes, they were too excited to speak for a while.

It was still Biyun, the eldest and youngest grandmother, who wiped her eyes and brought the two of them back to their senses: "Father, the second brother is tired from traveling and traveling, so go back to the house and have a cup of tea first, then talk slowly."

"Yes, yes, yes," Shen Yuan came up, echoing his wife's words, "Go back to the house first!"

The whole family surrounded Shen Yutong, turned around and walked into the mansion.

The Shen Family Garden has a history of 20 years. At the beginning, Shen Xingzhi established a firm foothold in Shanghai Bund, won dozens of acres of land, and built this western-style garden house.

Although it is a Western-style building, the interior decoration is full of traditional Chinese luxury and elegance.

After a roomful of people came in, they sat down one by one on the maroon velvet sofa, talking excitedly around Shen Yutong.

Shen's family has a clean and upright family, and Shen Xingzhi has only married one wife in his life. The husband and wife are loving and affectionate. It was not until two years after his wife passed away that he took in an Aunt Zhou to take care of her. The children were harmonious with each other. Naturally, there was no ordinary big family. The intrigue of the family.

The return of the second young master from abroad is a very serious day for the Shen family.Even the eldest sister, who was married to Nanjing, returned to her natal home ahead of schedule with her husband and three children.The whole family, except for the eldest nephew who couldn't make it back from studying in Beijing, all gathered in Shen's garden to welcome Shen Yutong.

It can be seen that the second son of the Shen family is indeed of great status.

After four years of separation, seeing that everything in the house is the same as when we left, the long-lost sense of familiarity swept away Shen Yutong's exhausting journey, and he relaxed.

No matter how nice the outside world is, it is also warmer than the home.

What's more, for Second Young Master Shen, there is no better place in this world than Shen's garden.

The author has something to say:

Let me tell you, this article is emotional, so it is not a cool style of writing, but it should be Su Wen.