Zhou Yan

Zhou Mingchao took the carrier pigeon out of the cage and held it in his hands. He carefully searched around under it and inside the cage. Still nothing.

The carrier pigeon was put back, and Zhou Mingchao closed the cage expressionlessly.

Maybe it was the heavy rain the day before yesterday, and the pigeon delivering the letter had an accident on the way. Just in case, Zhou Mingchao went to the house and wrote another letter. At the age when his parents acted like a spoiled child, he was alone in Linzhou City these years. Although he had a lot of care from the city lord's family, he was not his own family after all, and the Shen family was not his own home. Now that he had Shen Xian, he was much happier.

The frequency of communication between Zhou Mingchao and Yongnan Wang and his wife is once a month. On the [-]th of every month, they will send letters back from the capital. Bring it back into town.

The most recent one was written last month, and this month's carrier pigeon actually brought an empty bamboo tube. Zhou Mingchao spread out the rice paper, and when writing a letter with pen and ink in front of the case, he naturally wanted to write about him and Shen Xian. Those who went in, both the city lord and his wife agreed with them. As for the Yongnan Wang couple who were far away in the capital, Zhou Mingchao hadn’t seen anyone for a long time in his memory, and his impression of his parents was a bit vague. Zhou Mingchao wrote that Shen Xian and his wife When he was writing, his heart was as calm as water, and his attitude was so casual that it was not like introducing his daughter-in-law to his parents who went around and got it, but more like saying that he stepped on a stone when he went out.

After rolling up the written paper and stuffing it into the bamboo cage under the pigeon's feet, Zhou Mingchao checked it again and tied it up again with a rope.

Watching the pigeon disappear into the sky, Zhou Mingchao turned his eyes away, turned and walked out, talking about what he was going to do today, as if he was going to the mountains to find the little mushrooms he didn't take away last time.

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"Xu Chen is just a bastard, he leaves as soon as he says," Liu Dongzang was wearing a light yellow spring suit in the yard, crying, wiping his tears with a handkerchief and blowing his nose from time to time: "When you leave, it's like you're dead. Look, how long has it been since the end of the year, and there is no news at all, and I have never met anyone like him!"

Shen Xian propped his chin: "Yeah, he is cold, he is ruthless, and he makes trouble for no reason."

"He's just a heartbreaker, I don't want to talk to him anymore."

Shen Xian: "Yeah, let's ignore it, wait for Xu Chen to come back and beat him up."

Liu Dongzang: "Men are not good things!"

Shen Xian: "Hey!"

Liu Dongzang wiped away tears: "Except for you, you are not a man."

Shen Xian was surprised and shocked: "Huh?"

"I mean, your husband-in-law is also a man, you are the same as me," Liu Dongzang said, his eyes turned red with grievance.

The news about Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao was rumored in the city. The first thing the two sisters of the Liu family went out in those few days was to ask how the young master and the eldest son were doing.

"What's the same?" Shen Xian smiled, and tapped Liu Dongzang's forehead with his hand, trying to make the child smarter: "Brother Zhou is my wife, remember."

"Ah!" Liu Dongzang followed Shen Xian and left, "But that's not what the book says."

"what book?"

what book?Liu Dongzang was stunned for a moment, and found that he couldn't remember, but remembered that Chen Shimei in the capital, and cried again with a wow: "I forgot what book, Xu Chen is too much! He bullied me!"

The little girl's bitter voice was sharp, piercing Shen Xian's head hurt, he rubbed the center of his brows, and handed her two pieces of snacks: "Don't cry, you are ashamed to cry all the time when you are such an adult, tell me , How did he bully you?"

Liu Dongzang opened his eyes with tears in his eyes: "He ignored me."

Shen Xian was very patient, "Why is he ignoring you? When was the last time he sent you a letter from the capital?"

Liu Dongzang looked sad and indignant: "Yesterday."

"Yesterday, yesterday..." Shen Xian's voice suddenly increased: "Yesterday!"

Liu Dongzang pinched his fingers, startled by Shen Xian's reaction, and nodded timidly: "Yes."

"I didn't say it, sister!" Shen Xian sighed, very upset: "You, I just wrote you a letter yesterday, why do you still say that they ignore you? If you are like this, I can't help it ah."

Liu Dongzang ate his snacks with tears in his eyes, one bite at a time: "However, his writing is so short, just two lines."

"What did you write?" Shen Xian quietly moved the snack plate half an inch to his side, the little girl was crying and cursing, but she was quite good at eating.

"He said," Liu Dongzang recalled with half a snack in his mouth, and realized that he was so angry at that time that he crumpled the letter paper and threw it away. The little girl frowned and thought for a long time before she remembered something: "The above said, let I'll come and play with you more often."

At that time, after just a cursory glance, Liu Dongzang, full of anger, ran out. Liu Suisui was looking at flowers in the pavilion. Liu Dongzang saw her sister half leaning on the railing, her profile was unparalleled in the morning light, and she was everywhere. Shines a soft, empathetic light.

The next moment, Xiaoming Zhong, the great injustice, appeared behind Liu Suisui, and the two of them whispered something next to each other, and when they turned around, Liu Dongzang ran out of the gate crying.

Shen Xian and she ate dim sum, and the two of them ate until their cheeks bulged: "Why is there no beginning and no end."

"It's still you," Liu Dongzang looked at Shen Xian, who was sitting on a chair, with red lips and white teeth, and a handsome smile, much tenderer than the last time he saw Bai: "Young master Zhou is in the city, you two can meet if you want to meet." , if there is any misunderstanding, just let it go, it's not like me."

Speaking of this, Liu Dongzang was worried again: "Mr. Zhou will not leave Linzhou City to go to the capital, will he?"

Shen Xian was taken aback for a moment: "Probably not! Brother Zhou has never been out of Linzhou City all these years."

"Certainly not. Isn't Mr. Zhou's home right here? Where else can he go?"

The two were eating snacks and chatting in the yard. Zhou Mingchao walked in from the gate of the yard with a figure of Zhilan Yushu.

Shen Xian jumped off the chair: "Brother Zhou!"

"It's like I haven't seen each other for a few years." Liu Dongzang rolled his eyes, disgusted with Shen Xian's appearance of not seeing the world: "Who are you doing it for?"

Liu Dongzang was quick, seeing Zhou Mingchao coming, he cleared up the things on the table, picked up half of the melon seed snacks, and ate them as he walked.

Shen Xian saw that she was about to walk out of the courtyard: "Where are you going?"

Liu Dongzang kowtowed the melon seeds without looking back: "I'm nothing, I'll go on my own, I won't stay here to cause trouble for you, look at it and make trouble."

Shen Xian was in a daze, Liu Dongzang raised his head when he could not see anyone, "Looking at Nao Xin, why do I feel that she is talking about us?"

Zhou Mingchao rubbed his hair: "Would you like to go to the mountains to see mushrooms?"

Shen Xian: "Yes!"

The two of them were walking on the street, because they were going to find Shen Xian's dream mushroom, he was very happy along the way.

"Brother Zhou," Shen Xian asked, "Will there still be there? It rained heavily the day before yesterday, what if the mushrooms were washed away?"

Zhou Mingchao thought for a while: "It's raining, maybe mushrooms have grown up and have spores."

"Hmm." Shen Xian bit his finger and looked at the sky for a while, then he listened to Zhou Mingchao's words very happily.

"Cousin, I haven't seen you for a long time. What did you do at home to pass the time when it rained a few days ago?"

When you are happy, you will always meet one or two uninvited guests. For example, now, Zhou Cijiu came out from the corner of the street, with blue waves in his peach blossom eyes, and the bright purple all over his body could not be suppressed.

Zhou Mingchao frowned imperceptibly, took Shen Xian's hand and brought him behind him: "What's the matter?"

"Can't I talk to you if I have nothing to do?" Zhou Cijiu smiled, but the two blood-related people looked very different. They blinked their peachy eyes and looked at Shen Xian who was behind Zhou Mingchao: "Little Master, we meet again."

Zhou Mingchao pressed his folding fan against Zhou Cijiu's chest, which was about to bend over, his eyebrows and eyes sank: "Zhou Cijiu."

Shen Xian looked at the fan, it turned out that Zhou Mingchao had always carried it with him, but he never took it out.

"Cousin! What are you so nervous about?" Zhou Cijiu stood up straight and looked at him lazily: "You have always been so cautious, you are protecting him from me now, can you always be close to him?" Are you staying close to me?"

Zhou Mingchao didn't want to speak quickly with someone he didn't like, so he took the fan back into his hand, and he dragged Shen Xian away.

Zhou Cijiu didn't bother him too much, but when Shen Xian passed by him, he rolled his peachy eyes at him: "See you tomorrow, pretty young master."

Shen Xian had a chill, and looked at him with disgust: "Who wants to see you."

Because of this uninvited guest, the two of them were in a bad mood, even thinking about going to the mountains to look for mushrooms, Shen Xian was not as happy as before.

"Brother Zhou," Shen Xian looked at Zhou Mingchao's elegant eyebrows and eyes: "What's the matter between you and Zhou Cijiu? Except for that person's unpleasant appearance."

Zhou Mingchao pursed his lips and said in a deep voice, "There is no festival."

He simply couldn't understand Zhou Cijiu's behavior. When Zhou Mingchao was a few years old, he also lived in the capital with Yongnan Wang and his wife for a while. At that time, when they entered the palace, the emperor let them cousins ​​playing together.

I don't know why Zhou Mingchao has been growing up in Linzhou City. The world he has seen is very simple. When he first saw the princes in the palace hiding needles and acting strangely, Zhou Mingchao missed Xiao Baiyu in Linzhou City very much. dumpling.

He saw Zhou Cijiu, who was still a prince, obviously a child younger than him, but after a palace servant accidentally bumped into him, he asked his entourage with a peachy smile to drag the palace servant down and stick him to death.

Zhou Mingchao stood on the periphery of those people. His parents were afraid that he would be bored and asked him to play with these cousins. He was still a little hesitant. Seeing this scene, he didn't want to play with these people even more.

"Poor child," Shen Xian stood on tiptoe and touched Zhou Mingchao's head with one hand, "It's a good thing you didn't grow up in that place, otherwise my righteous Brother Zhou would be gone."

No one has ever treated him like this before. Shen Xian's hand was very light, and it was soft when he touched his head softly. Zhou Mingchao was taken aback for a moment, and then he hooked the corner of his mouth and scratched Shen Xian's palm.

The author has something to say:

In front of outsiders, Shen Xian is able to comfort the little girl with ease, and looks completely reliable.

Shen Xian in front of Zhou Mingchao: "Brother Zhou, are there any mushrooms in the mountains? What if they are washed away by the rain?"