The Twelve Years: Song of the Unsung Friends

"He is locked up?" she blurted out.

Hearing this "guan", Fu Dongshan hummed softly from his nose, as if disdain to talk about the Fu family.

But he was different from Fu Tongwen after all. Although he couldn't figure out the source of the ridiculous ridicule, he also heard people say so vividly that it was probably a girl that Fu Dongwen bought and raised in the smokehouse since he was a child. I wanted to be a concubine, but somehow something happened in the end, and she simply gave her the status of a young grandmother, and she took great pains to send her abroad. This is the past.

But I didn't expect that the dust was still in the dust, and there was a trailing edge.

Traveling all the way to the United States to bring people back, this girl and the third brother are in their hearts.

He sighed deeply: "I have a bungalow in Tianjin. You should live there for a while. Wait and see."

He was just such an outside house, not Fu Dongwen, so he really couldn't bear it.

"I came to Beijing, not to find a place to hide. I want to see him." She would not go to Tianjin.

Fu Tongshan shook his head.

Shen Xi knew that this was embarrassing others, but he still begged in a low voice: "If he is not seriously ill, I can still wait, but you know what kind of situation he is and what kind of body he is as well as me. If I listen to your plan to go to Tianjin, what should I do if...not even see him for the last time?"

Fu Tongshan put one hand on his knee and put the other on the table, silent.

He also wanted to find a way for his third brother. But at home, he did not have the position to speak.

But Fu Dongwen's care for him in the past is imprinted in his heart. Although his second brother is unable to help him, he always has to try. After thinking for a while, Fu Erye finally said, "All I can do is take you back and convince my father. My third brother is ill now, and maybe my father can be soft-hearted and allow you to accompany him. But you have to think clearly, at this time you Going in with one heart is tantamount to accompany him into the cage. Thinking it out again, it's harder than climbing to the sky."

"Okay, I'll go." She didn't hesitate.

Shen Xi's decision gave Fu Dongshan more courage. The other person left the chair and walked to the mirror, with their short hair folded back, and looked at her from the mirror: "If you don't change your mind, let's go."

As soon as he hit the curtain, Xiao Su San, who was waiting outside the door, immediately greeted him, saying that there was snow outside.

Fu Tongshan asked them to go to the entrance of the hutong and asked a car to come in and pick them up. Xiao Su San agreed and ordered people to do it, and he handed a hat to Fu Dongshan's hand, and softly asked the guy to lift Shen Xi's leather suitcase and send them out.

When it came, there was heavy rain on the Yangtze River, and snow fell on the capital.

From rain to snow, from south to north, she seemed to have been on the road for months.

Shen Xi knew that as soon as he entered the door of the Fu family, he was the fourth youngest grandmother.

What he would face and what he would say, the second master never told him on the road, or even the second son of the Fu family could not predict what the situation would be when taking her home.

The second master took her in, and the snow grew stronger. Several maids came out of the servant room, and the second master asked, "Master is back."

"I'm back, in the foreign study." One of them replied.

Seeing Shen Xi's face, several maids thought for a while, and seemed to remember her face.

Even their servants couldn't help but glance at her more. In particular, Shen Xi wore clothes that were brought back from New York. It was not common to them. It could even be said that seeing you first time was stranger than Miss Six who was studying outside. The black woolen coat, stockings, low-heeled leather shoes and wide-brimmed hat, but did not perm his hair like a foreign devil, but still left the appearance of a Chinese.

"You should accept whatever I say, don't refute it, lest my father become suspicious." Fu Dongshan whispered.

Shen Xi responded cautiously and followed him into the outer study room.

Entering the hall, I saw Uncle Fu smiling and complimenting: "Father, your official uniform does not fit well."

The two men in the room heard the movement and looked over.

Shen Xiren stuck there and recognized Uncle Fu first. And the old man who tried Shangshu's court dress should be Fu Dongwen's father. When she married, Master Fu and his wife left the capital under the pretext of returning home to raise malaria. So from beginning to end, she had only met a few aunts and the younger generation of the Fu family, so she had never met each other, nor had she ever called her father with tea.

"This is... the fourth younger brother and sister?" Uncle Fu recognized her and said with a smile to Old Master Fu, "I mentioned it to my father, the girl my third brother raised since childhood."

It's another unconventional thing.

Master Fu frowned, waved his hand, let the servant go down with the official uniform, and he sat down.

The maid beside her was waiting with a small tea tray.

"You go down too." Master Fu said.

The maid salutes and leaves.

For a while, only Master Fu, two brothers and her were left in the house.

"Tongshan, come on." Master Fu didn't ask Shen Xi, but went to see Fu Dongshan.

When Fu Dongwen did this ridiculous thing, he didn't ask his father's permission. Later, he hurriedly sent people to study abroad. After returning to Beijing to listen to a few sentences, Master Fu didn't care too much.

One is that the third son is accustomed to being absurd, and the other is that the people have been sent away and have nothing to do with them. Give up.

Fu Tongshan exaggerated the future of the dragon and told him about it.

The story between Fu Tongwen and Shen Xi has the foundation of being raised in the Huayan Museum. In fact, it does not need to be exaggerated, it is enough for her to become ambiguous. "The third brother is ignorant and doesn't consider his father. He should be detained for a few years," Fu Tongshan said respectfully. "It's just that he is in the yard all day, unaccompanied and pitiful."

Uncle Fu just eats tea on the sidelines and doesn't mix things up.

Fu Erye also said: "The third brother was originally a heart disease. I heard that he was uncomfortable after being detained for a few months. He is now seriously ill and can hardly even collapse. Send someone in, trying to relieve him."

Shen Xi stood with low eyebrows pleasing to the eye, letting them look.

Sure enough... Erye had an idea in his heart, and he deliberately settled down the old rumors. Second master's expedient measure is to describe her as a relieving medicinal primer. They were talking between a father and a son. They couldn't hear the daggers, nor could they see the shadows of the swords, but they seemed to be discussing a concubine for Fu Dongwen.

Only when he was quiet, Shen Xi could realize that Er Ye didn't really please his father.

From the moment she walked in, Master Fu was looking at her. This costume is rare in the capital, but the wife of a foreign ambassador has it. I thought it was the second son's love debt, but unexpectedly, it was Fu Dongwen's.

"How do you think?" Master Fu looked at the uncle Fu who was aside.

"The third brother is used to getting rid of the grass. Now he can't sleep in the flowers and willows, and there is no place to listen to the prostitutes. When he is close, there may be a woman." Uncle Fu put the tea cup down and walked away. In front of Shen Xi.

The moment Shen Xi and him looked at each other, his heart fell for no apparent reason.

Uncle Fu's face is the toughest of the brothers, but his eyebrows are full of yin, and under his heavy eyebrows, those eyes are looking straight at her: "It's just that there are so many women, but this one is not suitable," He asked in a low voice, "Girl, let me ask you, if you have stayed in school, you should also broaden your horizons. Why come to Fu's house? You should know that it is impossible for Dong Wen to marry you as his wife. He is not afraid of being laughed at. Home is also afraid."

The second master smiled and said: "Brother's room only accepted three of the maids. I still can't see anything about men and women? If the girl came back with me, then she was determined. She never mentioned her name."

Elder Fu glanced at the second master: "Dong Wen is fooling around, and you are also confused with the second child? Can she be compared with the maid? The fourth youngest grandma entered the third master's yard and said to go out. Look at which decent lady will marry? He whispered to her again, "When he marries a decent wife, even if you want to stay, you can't stay. The girl can earn her own future even if she stays in school, why bother to suffer the losses of the past few years?"

Shen Xi held the hand of the wide-brimmed hat and tried hard.

What to say? To deal with this person?

He stood in front of his father today, and if he was obstructed again, he would have cut all roads. The opportunity is fleeting, and there is no room for hesitation: "I have had a child..." Her heart jumped, "Have it with him. I want to stay with him."

She didn't know the consequences of saying this.

Since Erye Fu used her relationship with Fu Dongwen as an excuse, then do it to the end. She was a girl who followed him, had children, and she was so desperate that she would no longer doubt her.

Inside the house, there was no sound.

"Where is the child?" Master Fu finally said the first words to her.

Shen Xi felt relieved and he was right.

"...No more," she whispered, "not in... New York."

Uncle Fu sneered. There are few romantic affair about which prince, even the man behind Shen Xi, the most upright second master of the Fu family, once provokes such a thing. What's more, Fu Dongwen, who likes female sex?

Have children? so what?

But since his father had asked, he couldn't talk anymore, so he could only watch the play coldly.

As if there was a scorching sun, she was sweating directly on Shen Xi's forehead.

After all, Master Fu is Fu Dongwen's own father, and he thinks differently from his eldest son.

He has always loved his sons, but it was Fu Dongwen who was the most uncontrollable and daring to cause trouble. Although tiger poison does not feed on its children, the young tiger cub has grown up and is a tiger that is good at preying, so he has to guard against it.

One son and the Fu family have more than two hundred people. Which one is more important and less important. There is no need to weigh, but the former must be sacrificed.

But in the past half month, Master Fu heard that the situation in the yard was not good, and sometimes felt distressed, and thought of all the benefits of Fu Dongwen in the past. It was a pity that he hadn't seen Shen Xi again.

Shen Xi's words touched Master Fu's feelings towards the third son.

Fu Dongwen is weak, he loves to play nonsense, does not like to be controlled, and has not left any blood. Since the girl in front of me has the ability to let him stay, that's a good thing. There are one or two, and there is a hope. After all, it is his biological son. You can't watch him being locked in an iron cage and just disappearing... It's okay to have a girl go.

"Send it over." Master Fu made a decision.

Shen Xiru was pardoned, and the fingers holding the brim of the hat were sore and swollen. She was too fascinated just now. When she wanted to wait for this sentence, the joints were so white that she didn't know it. Uncle Fu saw that his father allowed him, but he didn't stop him. A girl, can't find out any days.

"Come with me." Uncle Fu said to Shen Xi.

Fu Erye stayed in the study and accompanied his father. Uncle Fu went out with his hands behind his back, summoned his confidant, and ordered Shen Xi to be sent to Sanye. In front of the servant, he also said that San Ye had never lived with a woman, so he asked Shen Xi to buy something.

Fu Dongwen was watched by the master, and the boss couldn't get in either.

The servant took the leather suitcase in his hand, and Shen Xi slightly nodded his farewell under the gaze of Uncle Fu.

"I'm not sure, I will call you younger siblings in the future," Uncle Fu chuckles, "Xue Da, go slowly."

Shen Xi nodded again: "Thank you, uncle."

She followed the person carrying the box, and felt that Uncle Fu was still observing herself from behind. The snow is heavy, and for a short while, a shallow layer of snow has accumulated on the ground. Stepping on it, the snow is scattered, which is loess.

After passing the main courtyard, walking down the courtyard of the servant's house is a strange road.

The yard where Shen Xi lived in the past was extremely small, facing the back garden. He had never been to the yard where Fu Dongwen lived. I only heard the maid telling him that his yard was opposite her, far away. "I want to come, to avoid suspicion, so I arranged you here, young lady." This is how the maid guessed.

Shen Xi saw seven or eight servants, armed with guns, guarding a hanging gate.

It should be here... She has a heart in her throat, unable to go up or down, and stop following the person who sent her over. Listening to their whispering conversation, it is about that the master sent a girl, who belongs to the third master.

When the lock was opened, the servant asked politely whether he wanted to send the luggage in for her.

Shen Xi shook his head, took his leather suitcase and walked up to the third level stone steps.

She stepped on the snow, and when she saw her walking through the hall, there was already a lock lock behind her.

He has been like this in the past few months, locked here? Are you locked up?

A maid sat in front of the large plaque in the hall, fanning a fan, cooking medicine. You shouldn't cook medicine here on weekdays, but in the place under house arrest, the third master is not a caregiver, so he just made do with it unruly.

The maid had never seen Shen Xi, and thought it was the man who had asked the master to send the supplement.

"Leave it there." The maid looked up and was taken aback.

"I'll send it up, you look at the medicine," the young man ran out, also stunned there, "Shen..." He opened his mouth for a while before running forward in shock, "How did Miss Shen come in."

"Where is San Ye?" Shen Xi put down the leather suitcase and asked anxiously, "Where is San Ye?"

"Inside," the boy flushed his eyes, "hasn't come out for a few days."

Shen Xi passed the young man.

"Miss Shen," the boy said again, "we are trapped here—"

"I know, I know..." She is neither blind nor deaf. She can see what is going on in the study and outside the door.

Shen Xi left the boy and the maid, and kept walking through the hall under his feet, taking a quick step, stopping in front of the main room door. The door was hidden, and she put her hand on her head, she didn't have the strength to push the door.

I faintly heard that someone was talking and could not hear clearly.

She slowly pushed the door open, and the main room was dark. It is snowing outside, the sky is gray and there is no light, no lights in the room, no light source, and the furniture in this room is red rosewood, the color is heavy, and it is more dull.

The Luohan bed facing him is empty, and there is a yellow fragrant plum on the small and exquisite bonsai stand.

The voice came from the curtain on the left: "What time is it?"

These words suddenly exploded in his ears, and Shen Xi's eyes were hot, the back of his hand was blocking his mouth, and the curtain was slowly lifted.

Tan Qingxiang was about to leave the house, but he was stopped by Fu Dongwen. Before he returned to Fu Dongwen, he saw Shen Xi first. Tan Qingxiang was surprised for a moment, but soon showed a relieved smile. He winked at Shen Xi and left her in the room, but he picked up the curtain and left. Even if there are thousands of questions, they stay behind.

There is snow on the soles of Shen Xi's shoes, take a step and leave a watery mark.

The hardships on the road, as well as all the things I just faced, are gone. In front of her, there were only people lying on the bed.

Fu Dongwen was wearing pajamas, with his head resting on his arms, and his eyes closed, as if he no longer cares about what tonight.

Shen Xi slept with him for so long, and he could feel that he was very uncomfortable right now. When he was uncomfortable, he liked to put his head on his arm. That hand is still habitually clenched into a fist, which is a restrained and forbearing posture.

Shen Xi wanted to step forward and shook his wrist to get his pulse.

But the body seemed to freeze, unable to move at all.

The mist in front of me was blurry, and I didn't dare to blink, for fear that the eyelids would move and others would disappear. She seemed to be back in the carriage where hundreds of people were crowded together, unable to move.

Fu Dongwen couldn't breathe, as if he had noticed something. He moved his face slightly away from his arms, and used his strength to prop up his body. I just turned around and lifted the quilt, and I saw her.

The sky is dim, there is snow outside the window, and in front of the fluttering snow, the girl standing in the dim light...

Four eyes face each other. Quiet, there was no sound.

He lowered his head and smiled.

After another laborious change of breath, he whispered and said with a wry smile: "You cry like this, the third brother's heart can't stand it."

This is joking with her, because I can't see the tears on that face.