From the end to the other world

Hearing that Shang Minghe was coming, Shang Qingyue stood up with a "huh", stopped after taking two steps towards the door, turned around and told Su Xue and Ting Yu, "Go to the kitchen to see the dishes for tonight. , Let them add sweet and sour fish, stewed chicken with mushrooms, and see how many other additions you can add.”

Unexpectedly, Shang Minghe would come back in the evening, the kitchen didn't make special preparations, and Shang Qingyue was in a hurry to see her brother, so Suxue and Ting Yu could watch over her, so Shang Qingyue felt relieved.

Qin Luochuan also stood up holding Xiaotuanzi and said, "Let's go, don't make brother wait."

From their courtyard to the main hall, they had to pass through two hand-painted corridors. When walking, Qin Luochuan clearly felt the eagerness of Shang Qingyue's footsteps, so he also quickened his pace.

When the two arrived at the entrance of the main hall, Shang Minghe had just sat down, and the maid hadn't had time to serve tea.

From the gate, he has been looking at the house calmly, and when he saw the layout of the main hall, the doubt in his eyes reached its peak.

However, his attention was quickly drawn back by the sound of hurried footsteps at the door.

When Shang Qingyue stepped through the door, Shang Minghe just turned his head. The moment his eyes met, Shang Qingyue's eyes turned red instantly, and he choked up and said, "...Brother."

Shang Minghe's expression was much more restrained, but he couldn't restrain his excitement, he smiled and shouted: "Qingyue."

Then he looked Shang Qingyue up and down and said: "It's a little thinner than before."

"Not thin." Shang Qingyue hastily corrected, for fear that her brother might have misunderstood something.

When Shang Minghe left the capital, he was only in his teens, and his face hadn't fully grown yet, so he naturally felt fleshier. Now that he is a little older, the outline of his face has become much more obvious than before, but he is still not thin.

"Okay, if you say you're not skinny, you're not skinny." Shang Minghe said with a smile.

After the two brothers greeted each other, Shang Minghe shifted his gaze to Qin Luochuan beside him, and said, "Linfeng, right?"

Except for Qin Luochuan's unilateral meeting in the Golden Temple in the morning, this was the first official meeting between the two of them. Fortunately, because they had exchanged letters several times before, they were not unfamiliar, so Qin Luochuan nodded and shouted: "Brother. "

Then he held up Xiaotuanzi's right hand, waved at Shang Minghe and said, "Xiaotuanzi, call me uncle."

Xiaotuanzi will be one year old in less than a month, and now he can not only call Daddy, but also a few simple words, and knows that he is Xiaotuanzi.

This is the time when he has a strong learning ability. After Qin Luochuan finished speaking, he wanted to follow along, but because of the difficulty in pronouncing the word uncle, his tongue was about to tie up, and he couldn't pronounce the syllable. He was almost in no hurry. Gotta cry.

Xiaotuanzi's expression immediately amused Shang Minghe. He took out a purse from his pocket, waved it in front of Xiaotuanzi's eyes and said, "Come on, this is a gift from uncle."

The purse was embroidered with gorgeous peonies, just the colors babies like, and shaking in front of them, Xiaotuanzi immediately attracted attention, waving both hands to grab the purse into his arms.

Qin Luochuan said: "You haven't said thank you yet."

The husband and wife have taught the word thank you many times. Xiaotuanzi knew how to say it a few days ago. Qin Luochuan repeated it to Xiaotuanzi slowly, so Xiaotuanzi quickly remembered it, and thanked Xiaotuanzi in a childlike voice. "Thanks."

The little one is too cute.

Shang Qingyue saw her brother looking at Xiaotuanzi with a smile on her lips, and asked, "Do you want to hug him?"

After a pause, afraid that Shang Minghe would be embarrassed, he added: "Xiaotuanzi likes uncle very much."

Shang Minghe's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he replied, "Okay."

Qin Luochuan couldn't help but feel a little complacent. His family's little dumpling is just attractive. Don't look at the aloof appearance of the eldest uncle, reunited with the younger brother he hadn't seen for many years. He was obviously very excited, but he still had to restrain himself. The result was not good. Was conquered by Xiaotuanzi.

Shang Minghe had never held a child before, imitating Qin Luochuan just now, his posture was also stiff, and it even looked a little funny, but from his careful movements, it could be seen that he really liked Xiaotuanzi.

After the three of them sat down again, Shang Minghe asked, "Is Xiaotuanzi almost one year old?"

Shang Qingyue said: "This month will be 23 years old."

"It just so happened that I was still in the capital at that time." Shang Ming said condescendingly.

Qin Luochuan was a little puzzled. There is a set time for officials to return to Beijing to report on their duties. Usually, they have to leave Beijing after half a month. Just yesterday, he and Shang Qingyue regretted that when Xiaotuanzi was one year old, Shang Minghe should have just left. Beijing.

Before he could express his doubts, Shang Minghe explained: "General Sun was delayed by something three years ago and failed to come back to report on his duties. This time he came back twice, and we are all from the capital. The emperor is extra merciful and let everyone stay for half a month longer."

Shang Qingyue blurted out: "That's really great."

"Yeah." Shang Minghe also nodded, maybe half the time is fine, not only can he get together with his brother more, but he can also handle some things better.

After reuniting after a long absence and greeting each other, they naturally began to tell their respective experiences.

When the merchant had an accident, Shang Minghe was not in the capital. Although he knew the general reason and process from the information about his being demoted and Shang Qingyue's letter later, he didn't know as much as Shang Qingyue after all.

Looking back on those events a few years ago, to Shang Qingyue, it was like a dream long ago, and the resentment and hardship in the dream became very far away.

There is almost no sense of injustice when it comes to telling.

Hearing him speak slowly, Shang Minghe was completely relieved, knowing that his younger brother had really lived a good life in the past few years.

When it came to leaving the capital, Shang Qingyue secretly paid attention to Shang Minghe's expression, and then continued: "During the exile, brother Xun should have taken care of the escort, so no one made things difficult for me on the way, and even took care of me a little bit. Some."

It is not suitable to talk about such things as managing government servants in letters, so Shang Qingyue has never mentioned it before, and Shang Minghe was also a little surprised when he heard it.

After a pause, Shang Qingyue said again: "And before leaving, brother Xun came to visit me once, and secretly gave me a purse, which contained two silver notes of 100 taels each."

Shang Qingyue told about this not long after Qin Luochuan married him, and it was only then that Qin Luochuan found out that when the old lady Shang asked for 100 taels of betrothal money, Shang Qingyue ran over to ask him if he had enough money. 100 taels of silver bills.

But it was the first time for Shang Minghe to hear about this, and while he was surprised, he felt that this was indeed something that person would do.

The 200 taels of silver were useless when Shang Qingyue was in the business before, and she had no chance to use them after marrying Qin Luochuan, so she put them away.

Knowing that his brother had entered Beijing, he found it yesterday, and now he happened to be carrying it with him, so he took it out and handed it to Shang Ming and said, "This is it."

"Take it..." Before Shang Minghe finished speaking, he changed his mind after seeing something, and reached out to take the purse handed over by Shang Qingyue.

Qin Luochuan saw that when he was holding the purse, the other hand was still holding Xiaotuanzi stiffly, so he got up and carried Xiaotuanzi back to facilitate Shang Minghe's movements.

As a result, Shang Minghe's next actions almost didn't make Qin Luochuan's eyeballs fall out of shock. After he took the purse, he didn't put it away immediately, but took off the tie, took out the silver ticket inside and handed it back to Shang Qing month, and then put the empty purse into his arms.

The other party was his brother-in-law, so Qin Luochuan couldn't be overly surprised, but Shang Qingyue just let out a shy laugh.

Shang Minghe was a little embarrassed when he heard it, and explained: "You can keep the money, I have other uses for it."

"But..." Shang Qingyue asked in soul, "Brother, do you have any money?"

Shang Minghe was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and said with a broken smile: "I still have two properties in the capital, and I bought them secretly without telling my uncle's family. You didn't tell you when you were young. In the name of taking care of it, I should have accumulated some money in the past few years."

Shang Qingyue recalled the previous letter from her elder brother, saying that if he did not have enough money after arriving in the capital, he could go to his former friend Mr. Wu. At that time, he only thought that he was asking him to borrow money. Watch over.

It can only be said that because Shang Minghe was in the military camp, no matter whether the letter was received or sent, the officials above had to review it first, so every time they sent a letter, they said something about money in a vague way or did not say it at all. caused these misunderstandings.

However, there are some things that should not be known to outsiders. The merchant's home was ransacked before. If it is known that Shang Minghe still has property in the capital, it may be a trivial matter that the property cannot be kept, and it will affect other people.

Now that Zhou Xun had been mentioned, Shang Minghe said, "Tomorrow, find someone you can trust and help me spread the word to Zhou's house, saying that I want to see him."

Shang Qingyue guessed that her brother would definitely go to see Brother Xun when he came back, but he was a little surprised that he was in such a hurry, but they had a lot of contacts with Zhou Xun in the past year, and the family servants were familiar with the way to pass on messages, and they were not afraid of outsiders Say more, then said: "Okay."

After pondering for a while, he said again: "Brother Xun has a teahouse on the South Street. Every ten days on the eighth day, he will go there to deal with some matters. Tomorrow is exactly the eighth day. He should meet you there."

He didn't say the name of the teahouse, but he looked forward to his brother's expression when he heard it.

At this time, Su Xue came over and said that the food had been set in the side hall, and seeing that it was getting late, the three of them stopped talking and went to the side hall for dinner.

Shang Minghe was taken aback when he saw the dishes on the table.

Shang Qingyue said: "I don't have too many things in the house, so I just made some. Tomorrow, I will cook myself and prepare some favorite food for my brother."

"That's enough." As for the vinegar fish and stewed chicken, Shang Minghe was sure that Shang Qingyue ordered the kitchen to prepare them after he knew he was coming.

After eating, Qin Luochuan used the excuse of taking Xiao Tuanzi for a walk in the garden, and gave the two brothers a place to talk alone. After all, after Shang Minghe asked about what happened in Beijing, he arrived in Yuxi Town.

Shang Qingyue met him shortly after arriving in Yuxi Town, and the things he experienced later were closely related to him. He was sitting here, and he was afraid that Shang Minghe might not be able to ask about some things, and Shang Qingyue would not be able to say them either.

Qin Luochuan took Xiaotuanzi around the back garden for a while, and put Xiaotuanzi to sleep again. He reckoned that they should have finished talking, and then went back to the side hall.

The three of them chatted until Haishi before leaving, and Shang Minghe was naturally staying at their house.

But Shang Qingyue was lying on the bed, but she was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep.

Recalling from this afternoon till now, Qin Luochuan was also happy for the reunion of their brothers, but thinking of Shang Qingyue's performance when he knew that Shang Minghe was coming back that day, Qin Luochuan said: "I thought that seeing my brother today, you will be like that day Cry out the same way."

Shang Qingyue rolled around on the bed in a rare and naive manner, leaned on Qin Luochuan and said, "I won't cry, what if my brother misunderstands that you are not good to me after seeing it?"