The Beautiful Land

Xi Fuwei, who was carried on the sedan chair by Song's parents, listened to her nephew's cries, but remembered her father and brother. If Xi Zongwang and Xi Fucui were still there, it would be hard to restrain herself if she saw her coming out of the cabinet, right?

However, listening to the uproarious gongs and drums outside, quickly suppressed the sorrow that had not had time to vacate.

The scene of her coming out of the pavilion was very grand. First, Chen Pilan's status in the Shen family was not low, and the Shen family would not be harsh on the wedding for the sake of their son’s face; second, the Shen and Song family wanted to repair Song Jianiang’s affairs. The rift, an extravagant etiquette, is enough to show that the Shen family values ​​the Song family, and eliminate the grievances of the Shen family who proposed to dissolve the marriage contract.

Therefore, the Phoenix Crown and Xia are all exquisite and heavy. After some tossing after entering the chapel to perform the ceremony, Xi Fuwei had always been in good health, and was dying too tired.

At this time, people from outside came over, saying that at the banquet, please Shen Pilan to toast. Only the aunts-in-law and concubines were left to accompany Xi Fuwei. There was a moment of coldness in the new house. In the end, it was the elder wife Lin who spoke to Xi Fuwei and asked Xi Fuwei to be hungry Are you hungry, do you want to take some snacks to make a pad?

Xi Fuwei thanked her shyly and timidly. When Lin asked someone to pick up the cakes from the kitchen, he also brought some to other people in the room.

However, their sister-in-law, Ms. Shen San, refused, saying that there were too many banquets in the past few months, and the people who ate were all fatter: "The skirt I made before has been pressed under the bottom of the box. I took it out for two days. I have to put it in a bit more and eat it again, I'm afraid I will get fat into a ball."

"Sister, what you said, look at your light appearance. If you get two laps more fat, it has nothing to do with the ball." Lin advised her, "If you don't believe me, ask your second wife, is your figure good or bad?"

Xi Fuwei looked at the sister-in-law. The Shen family was ranked separately for men and women. Miss Shen San was a daughter of the Zhang family. She was nearly ten years younger than Shen Pilan, and she was only fifteen at the moment. The most attractive age for a pro.

Her eyebrows are very similar to Chen Qianlan, but the outline is much softer, and the appearance is of course not bad. The delicate skin and tender meat that can only be found in the carefree and carefree, she said that she is fat, in fact, as Lin said. , The overall is still on the thin side, only the face is not fully stretched, and the cheeks have some baby fat, which looks very charming and cute.

"I think my sister is too much for one point increase, and one point is too small." Xi Fuwei smiled, "Where did I get fat?"

In fact, at this time, the country said that my relatives prefer white and fat girls, because this means a good family background, but also means that they are healthy and strong, not only doing activities, but also beneficial to health.

However, such a big family like the Shen family does not need to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt at all, and the aesthetics are naturally different.

In the Tang Dynasty, the pursuit of fatness as beauty and the pursuit of beauty and beauty has turned into a thin, timid, plain and elegant in Song Dynasty.

The ruling dynasty was less than a hundred years old, and major events that were enough to shake the society occurred frequently. So far, the style of the dynasty has not formed much, and it is probably still affected by the previous dynasty.

Therefore, at this time, the upper echelon pays attention to fine-looking women, and doesn't like the fat and white ones.

If you can't do it right, you are always a little weaker and more respected, wearing a short skirt and standing there, as soon as the wind blows and the sleeves are flying, people seem to go with the wind, which is the most pitiful.

Therefore, Ms. Shen San hopes that she will be thinner. Both sister-in-laws can understand. She just persuades a few words and does not force her. Anyway, this little sister-in-law just doesn't eat snacks.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of talking about my sister-in-law, the two wives and sisters started to talk naturally.

This was the first time they met, and they couldn't help being a little cautious when speaking, lest they offend each other. It is not difficult for the two of them to get along with each other, and they become acquainted after some conversation.

Lin began to introduce Xi Fuwei to the people in the new house. Since Shen Qianlan ranked second in the Shen family, none of the younger brothers had married yet. Except for Lin’s sister-in-law, it was the unmarried ladies who were in charge, Get these.

In the presence of Lin, the parent and daughter-in-law, Yigan was also polite to Xi Fuwei.

All in all, the time from when Chen Lan went to the banquet to toast to when he was sent home was a peaceful, peaceful atmosphere.

"Sister-in-law gave you food?" The guests dispersed late at night, and Shen Pilan finally returned. In the teasing and jokes of Lin and others, he sent away a bunch of people, closed the door with his backhand, and there were only two newlyweds in the big room. Besides, there was some unspeakable tension.

After a while, he took the initiative to break the silence, "Is it exhausted today?"

"Sister-in-law has already brought me pastries." Xi Fuwei nodded, "I'm okay. I've been sitting here for a while. You've been perfunctory on the table for a long time. Would you like some tea?"

Then go and pour tea for him.

However, her hand only touched the teapot on the table, which had been held by Chen Lan. She looked up incomprehensibly, and saw the man looking over with a smile. The usual sharpness and sharpness of the eyebrows were all converging. The place was full of warmth and warmth, and Man Sheng said, "Marrying you is for the love of love, so why are you willing to ask you to pour tea and water?"

The wife under the lights looked at her muscles like white snow, and her eyebrows looked like painted eyes. Shen Qianlan had actually drank the hangover soup before coming. She was really thirsty at the moment, but she didn’t want to drink water. She followed the hazy wrist slightly under her hand. Struggling to bring people into his arms... Between the gauze sharks floating, the quietly burning red candle suddenly burst out a lantern.

The Shen family is busy all day long, late at night, it is inevitable to discuss a few words about the new wife of the second young man.

Lin's view is similar to that of Shi Zi: "So far, it seems to be successful, and let's see how we get along in the future. As long as it's not the kind of picky person, it's for the sake of the second brother, you don't have to worry about any disagreements."

Anyway, although there is no separation now, the closed doors of the big mansion are also separate.

If Xi Fuwei goes too far, and it affects other rooms, her parents-in-law will not be a decoration.

Shen Zhang was worried about his son’s heirs: "His sweetheart has been married back, and he is still worried about it for three or two years, which shows that Lan'er really used love. So, if Xi's family will also add a new son in the coming year That's all, otherwise, looking at her good looks, I am afraid that Lan'er may not be willing to accept a concubine."

The Shen Zhang clan would never tolerate his daughter-in-law's spoiling, affecting his son's offspring.

She was afraid that when the time came, Shen Pi Lan had a heart still tied to her daughter-in-law, and ignored her kindness.

He even blamed himself for being troublesome.

It was her husband who wanted to start and persuaded her: "They will get married. The young couple are still young! After three to five years, it is not anxious to talk about concubine. If you don't say it, people outside will also have to discuss it. What's more, Lan'er is not a person who can't listen. How can he not know which one is right?"

"I said so, but look at the Xi family, after they settled in the Dongchang Mansion, they have always been in a single line." Shen Zhang frowned, "The Xi family is only one brother. Although it was their biological mother who left, the family did not have one. Marry again, but Xi and her brother are several years apart."

So no matter how you look at the Xi family, no one has the inheritance of Ding Xingwang.

Raising a child is a hundred years old, often worrying ninety-nine. How can Shen Zhang not worry?

However, Shen Zhang's worries did not last long, because in the early spring of the twelfth year of Yongle, Xi Fuwei gave birth to a pair of twin baby boys for Shen Pilan.

This made the Shen family ecstatic.

Even the Shen Zhang clan was extremely enthusiastic when meeting the Song family's female relatives, saying that the marriage was paired.

It's the Sinking Blue couple, who can't cope with the newborn.

In the past two years, Chen Pilan has been promoted several times because of his meritorious service, but the scope of work is still on the Huitong River side, mainly in the entire canal dredging project. This section is the top priority, Song Li Has been sitting in person.

Taking into account the relationship between him and the thief-in-law Weng-in-law and his consistent cooperation, the court kept them as partners for the sake of efficiency.

When Xi Fuwei kept her filial piety before marriage, she brought her nephew to Song Li when she was out of Daxiang. After getting married, of course, the person who got this benefit was Chen Qianlan.

From pregnancy and delivery to confinement, Xi Fuwei has been working hard before and after her childbirth. During this time, Xi Fuwei has been concentrating on relieving her fetus and nursing care. After her confinement, although there are nursing mothers who are watching, the twins also make the novice parents very busy. .

Not only Xi Fuwei can't help her husband anymore, but Shen Pilan feels exhausted.

In the end, Song Li couldn't see it, and a letter from the revised book was mentioned to the Shen family, and Shen Zhang asked them to send their grandson to respond to the raising of Tianfu.

Anyway, Shen Mansion is now the head of Lin's family, and Shen Zhang's is usually not busy.

Before Lin’s children, she also helped to live a few days, because the son was a few years older than Chen Lan, and Chen Lan got married extraordinarily late. Now the children of the son are older, and the concubine underneath Shen Zhang can be impatient to lift up his children.

This will bring children to the second son, and the elder son and wife have nothing to talk about.

She was worried that Xi Fuwei could not bear the children and refused.

However, after hearing the news, Xi Fuwei was very grateful to pack her son and hand it to someone who brought it back to her mother-in-law to raise.

Reluctant to do something, does not exist.

After all, her nephew Xi Jiao, the only relative in her natal family, is still in the Song family at the moment.

Without the burden of the children, the couple regained their strengths, restored the old swordsmanship, and kept the errands in order, and they could also travel around the neighborhood when they were free.

The spring breeze that has passed so many years is proud.

It's just that Shen Zhang's originally expected them to add another baby, but there has been no movement.

Of course it’s a pity for the elders, but for their young couple, they are in the right place... After all, as a second room, there is not much pressure to inherit the family, and after having a pair of sons, it is even less urgent.

What the two of them are most concerned about at the moment is how they live comfortably. It can be said that they are happy without the third child to bother.

When Xi Fuwei was in her natal family, she didn't have much time to read because she had to take care of her family business.

And at that time, I didn't feel that learning this was of any use other than to please Wen Jia. It was a careless attitude.

But when I think back to the collapse of the Xi family, if he hadn’t just learned outstandingly, he would not have been favored by Chen Pilan, let alone get the opportunity to enter the Zou Mansion. Later, Chen Pilan and Song Li treated her differently, both of them Only learning related.

The experience of giving these two masters also made Xi Fuwei a keen interest in reading.

She reads more books and gains more knowledge, and the more weight and insight she speaks before Shen Dilan.

So that when Chen Pilan encountered things later, he would simply bring it back to the back hall to discuss with her. Sometimes, when Chen Pilan went out on business, when the people underneath encountered something that needed urgent decision, Xi Fuwei made his decision.

After he was promoted, because he was young and promising, people also knew that his wife's background was not so good. Some people who wanted to take shortcuts inevitably moved the idea of ​​going to the backyard.

However, after doing this, I realized that it was a joke at all.

Xi Fuwei was in front of Shen Qilan and didn't need to rely on her family's power at all.

In front of her husband, she handed over the beauty she had sent to Yu Kedi and other old men. Sinking Lan was not angry, but applauded, saying that she was agile and not burdened by trivial matters.

After a few times of this kind of thing, he became interested and completely died of this mind.

This made Yu Kedi and the others regretful for some time, because for them, it was really good to get a beautiful girl for free.

Although the relationship is deep, the couple sometimes disagree, quarreling occasionally, and even to the point of slamming the door.

Xi Fuwei was very angry and disappointed when she did this for the first time, and she was even ready to reconcile.

Who knows that within an hour, this person came back again, and brought a bag of her favorite pastries, and if nothing had happened, he said that he planned to paint and asked her to go to the study to help with ink research.

Xi Fuwei said angrily that she was not a maid, so why did she study ink for him?

Shen Pilan said, "Then I want to see you paint, and I will study ink for you."

"I won't draw." She still sullen her face, but her eyes missed a smile, "I don't want to study ink, I will finish this pastry first!"

This kind of flat and smooth life with occasional twists and turns is very fast, and the fifteenth year of Yongle is in the blink of an eye.

In May, Emperor Yongle took pleasure in Beijing and received his court congratulations at the newly completed West Palace New Palace.

After Chaohe, as usual, some courtiers were summoned, and Chen Qianlan was among them.

The emperor talked a lot with him. From the eighth year of Yongle up to now, the waves have been forgotten by the world, and even the King of Han was abandoned two years ago because of his unruly plot. Had it not been for the prince to do his best to help out, the emperor had intended to abolish him as a common man.

...Of course, these are all public matters. Whether Emperor Yongle was willing to do so, only the emperor himself knew.

However, the prince's performance was ultimately impeccable.

Shen Qianlan was promoted again after this meeting, from Qianhu to Zhenfusi, and moved to Beijing as a errand.

Two months later, Emperor Yongle registered the Hu family as the emperor concubine.

Both Chen Thielan and Xi Fuwei felt that the emperor was touched by this incident and specifically summoned Shen Thielan.

After all, although the emperor's grandson has been seen as early as a few years ago, it is not until today that the emperor of the grandson officially has the grandson. As the grandfather, Emperor Yongle is pleased that the grandson will grow up and think of other descendants more or less.

For example, the King of Han who once made him proud.

However, Shen Pilan is not very optimistic about the future of the Hu family: "When my grandmother visited the princess, she recommended Sun to the grandson. She said that she was handsome and beautiful, rare in the world. It was a few years ago. Sun Qingmei has a deep affection. Earlier there was a rumor that she would be appointed as the princess grandson. Later, for various reasons, I felt that the Sun family was not high enough, and the Hu family was established... Of course, it is your Majesty’s value to Jin Yiwei. Choosing someone from Jin Yiwei’s family, but Taisun likes the Sun family more. I don’t know if there will be any changes in the palace in the future."

After all, the Sun family was recommended by his grandmother to pierce the needle, and he was naturally close to the Zhang family.

If the Hu family defeats the Sun family in the future, I don't know if it will affect it?

The Shen family has always been close to the Zhang family.

Xi Fuwei advised him not to think too much: "Your majesty's eyesight, the one who chooses it? What's more, since Sun's birth is not high, and he has been in the Eastern Palace for many years, how can he not know how to respect his wife?"

Even if the Sun family is very much loved by the Sun, don’t forget that Emperor Yongle is still alive!

Since this master respects the Empress, is it possible that a little Sun will let his beloved grandson carry the reputation of petting his concubine and destroying his wife?

She dared to do this, Yongle Emperor could take the skins of her whole family to fill the grass!

Shen Pilan thought about it, so he stopped talking about it.

... After moving to Beijing, the couple finally reunited with their two sons after a long absence.

This is because the days of moving the capital are already obvious. The Shen family is afraid that there will be a lot of people and hands, which will affect their young grandchildren. They also feel that the young couple have been particularly comfortable in the past few years, and they don’t miss the appearance of their sons at all. Don't be unfamiliar with feelings, so send them here in advance.

The newly reunited family inevitably has some turmoil, but it is the flesh and blood of the body, and it settles down after a few days of running in.

It's just that the residence of the two more boys is extraordinarily lively. Not to mention the headaches of the couple being quarreled, the neighbors have come to complain.

On this day they started to make noise again, Xi Fuwei said that he simply took them to the street.

Although everyone knows that Beijing will become the imperial capital in the future, it has been abandoned for a long time, and it has been a military powerhouse in the early years. It is not too prosperous.

There were already more people, Xi Fuwei took her sons in the carriage, and went out surrounded by guards and maids. I thought it would be enough to put the children to sleep by just going around the city twice, but I really underestimated their energy.

Finally the coachman asked if he wanted to make another round?

Xi Fuwei thought for a while, and said, "Go and see the river."

She asked the coachman to drive the carriage to the Tonghui River.

Tonghui River is the name given to the monarch of foreign races in the previous dynasty, and the national dynasty is generally called Yuhe.

At this time, the whole project of Kaihe has been seven or eighty-eight, otherwise it would not be ready to move the capital.

Although the city of Beijing is not as lively as Yingtian Mansion, the pier along the river already has the prosperity that the best place in the world should have. The shimmering waves can only be seen from afar, and the river is like a jade belt, winding into the distance.

The wind blows from the river, with the smell of goods going north and south, there is also the smell of the sweat of the boatmen in the crowd, the powder of women, and the smell of the scorching sun and river water, full of the smell of the world.

Although the two children grew up in the prosperous Yingtian Mansion, they have been kept in the courtyard of a mansion. They have never seen such a bustling scene. They were curious and a little timid, and asked softly, "Mother, what is this place? ?"

"This is the Tonghui River in the previous dynasty, and the country is called Yuhe." Xi Fuwei looked at the scene outside the curtain and recalled how old she was with her sons, and listened to her father encouraging her brother to study well. In the peaceful and prosperous years, he slowly said, "In a few days, your grandfather and grandmother will come over from this river."

The elder son lay on her knees and said, "Are the grandfather and grandmother on the other side of the river?"

"On the other side of the river, there is also your grandfather and grandmother who you haven't seen before, and your uncles." Xi Fuwei touched his hair. "Your grandfather, grandmother, and uncles and aunts will soon follow him. Here."

"Isn't it annoying?" The younger son asked innocently. "My parents have always asked us not to make noises so as not to disturb our neighbors. But with so many people, it is troublesome if the river is not angry. ?"

The maids covered their mouths and laughed, thinking that Tong Yan was very cute, and He was not a human being. How could it be annoying?

Xi Fuwei also laughed, remembering the nine years of Yongle's snowy days and the wandering when talking with Chen Thielan in Xi's Mansion.

She gently squeezed the cheeks of her two sons: "If you are always noisy, it will be annoying for your mother, your father, and your neighbors. But if you are obediently studying, although the movement is not small, But the sound of the book, Weimang and your daddy, neighbors, will only praise you for being diligent and studious!"

"I know I know!" The eldest son tugged at the hem of her skirt. "Mother means that there are many people coming and going, but if everyone is doing things well, he will not be bothered; if everyone does bad things. , It will be annoying?"

Xi Fuwei smiled and nodded, and then listened to the younger son asking: "Mother, what is a good thing, what is a bad thing?"

"This river was almost dug out by people." Xi Fuwei's eyes were like running water, and some emotions that had been brewing for many years seemed to flow from her eyes into the river water not far away, and smiled and said, "And it's a person from all ages. It was dug up back and forth. So if the people of the world think it is good, it should also feel good; of course it will not like what people think is bad."

The two sons asked in unison: "What do people think that day?"

Xi Fuwei pursed her mouth and stared at the river for a long time, just about to solve her confusion, but the young child had already turned her attention away, and started talking about other things.

She shook her head with a laugh, and said in her heart: People all over the world feel good, and this canal that runs through thousands of miles is also willing to see it, self-confidence, prosperity and peace, and Fu Zuo long.

In the distance, wisps of cooking smoke drifted away with the soft wind, turning the shimmering river into a light ink painting.

She was watching the similar scene today, and countless people once watched it, and there will be more people watching it in the future.

Generations have passed, the canal has fallen asleep and risen again, heavy and brisk, I have seen sweat and tears, I have seen blood and knives, I have seen parting and reunion, such as this world is prosperous and full of holes After a **** rebirth.

Those groans, those roars, those silent, those brewing, those grudges, those grudges, those unwilling to those regrets, time will wash the unforgettable into indifference, and then write pages after pages.

After thousands of years, what year was the willow branches on both sides of the strait struggling to send out new buds, the peach blossoms were soaked in dew to light up the spring, and one hand lifted up the collapsed stone steles from the barren, tracing the blue strands of the past. ?

At that moment, the clouds were light and the sky was high, it should be like this scene, towering rivers and mountains, listening to the prosperous age together.

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