Chapter 157: River as you wish

After a while, Xi Fuwei and Shen Qilan looked at each other in the back room.
"...Why did you come here suddenly?" Xi Fuwei coughed a little awkwardly when he thought of the fact that someone had just ordered him to be beaten out, and asked, "At this moment...Isn't it possible to leave the office?"
Shen Tanlan smiled rather than smiled: "No, isn't this on business?"
"Business?" Xi Fuwei turned her mind and asked, "What happened here that you actually want you to go out in person?"
"What are you talking about?" Shen Pi Lan took a sip of tea, and said slowly, "When Song Shangshu was only in Shandong before, he was assassinated at Dongchang Mansion. At that time, His Majesty gave a verbal order and asked Jin Yiwei to watch. Click on Song Shangshu and Shangshu's family members, so as not to be slapped by someone and affect the handling of the imperial court. After all, your Majesty personally stared at the canal dug! No, it is said that someone came from Yingtian Palace secretly, and did not say hello to me. In a moment, I went straight to the mansion of the Pearl in Song Shangshu's palm. Can I not come and take a look in person?"
Xi Fuwei laughed and said nonsense: "I guess Ouyang Yuanshui's whereabouts can't be concealed from you. I still wonder if you let him come to Dongchang Mansion. Could it be that you have been so busy recently? The co-author came after him. "
She felt very surprised because Chen Pilan was not such a generous person.
Ordinarily, if he really couldn't get rid of it, wouldn't he let Ouyang Yuanshui's entrance so smoothly?
"Who told him to have good luck?" Shen Xiaolan smiled and said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time. I think this is a good opportunity to come here, so I just asked him to come over and ask honestly. A few words...When will it be convenient for you to give me your mouth to write?"
Xi Fuwei covered her mouth and smiled: "Write it yourself! I am not doing anything under your hands now, so I don't want to worry about it for you."
He explained, "He came over to say goodbye to me, saying that he won't see you again in the future."
After groaning, he said, "Before he left, I asked for a hairpin. I didn't give it to him. But Jiao'er was young and ignorant, but he was deceived by a purse made by me when he left."
"I said long ago that he is not a good person, now you see it? He is so caring for children." Shen Tielan heard this, and suddenly fetched a purse from his sleeve like a trick, said with a smile. , "Fortunately, I was prepared for a while. Only when I went out, I asked someone to do a body search and get the things back for you."
Isn't the purse made by Xi Fuwei for Xi Jiao?
She was a little bit dumbfounded: "Ouyang Yuanshui is afraid to scare you."
"If it wasn't for the fact that the man behind him had served your Majesty for so many years, would it be more than frightening him?" Shen Xiaolan sneered in his heart, but still calmly on his face, smiled and said: "Jin Yiwei handled the case, just took it down and asked. Asked, isn't it enough?"
He didn't mean to return the purse to Xi Fuwei, and put it back into his sleeve.
Xi Fuwei saw this and said, "You stay with this purse and give it back to Jiaoer. I worked hard for several days to make it."
"It took a few days of hard work to do it." Shen Xiaolan repeated this sentence, smiling at her.
"Why are you jealous?" Xi Fuwei smiled, "You also have a share, and there is a set of clothes, but I don't have much needle and thread, and small things like purses. When my father and brother were there, I occasionally made some for them. It’s fairly skillful. It takes time and effort. It used to be a housekeeper, but now it’s necessary to educate the children. There is really no time to practice, and the craftsmanship is very miserable. I am not satisfied after changing it a few times. I am afraid that you will dislike it after wearing it. The genius has finished stumbling, thinking about bringing it to you when he goes to Jining on the second day of the new year!"
After Shen Pilan was happy, he keenly noticed: "We?"
"Jiao'er has it, you have it, can you still miss your adoptive father?" Xi Fuwei said, "You only have the three of you, and I will ignore it."
"That kid just takes money to do things, so why should he be worthy?" Shen Pi Lan said in a sour manner, although he knew that Yu Kedi liked the virtuous wife and mother, Xi Fuwei, who would take the initiative to help him. For those who are trying to take advantage of the enemy and find a daughter-in-law, they are also insensitive. There can be no ambiguity between the two at most.
However, thinking about this period of time, Yu Kedi was entrusted by Professor Xi Jiao, and he was able to come here every three to five. He was entangled in everything. Even Hongyan's biography had to take time out. In the end, he was a little jealous, said, " You are kind to him, just like your brother."
Xi Fuwei smiled and slapped him: "I treat my elder brother a lot better than him, but it depends on whether he is in front of you. I want to give you face, so I should treat him more preferentially?"
He listened quietly and comfortably, and his eyebrows stretched out: "How are Jiao'er's fists and feet now? I have been very busy this year, but now everything is gradually on the right track. I can relax. Yu Kedi lost his father when he was a child, and his family history barely fell through the help of his uncle. Where can I teach you how good you are? Next year, I will come and teach you."
"It's okay for you to come over and give instructions." Xi Fuwei groaned, "but Jiao'er is not a good boy who is clever and sensible. During this period of time when he came to be a master, he was beaten. It's me. It’s time to roll your sleeves and move your family! I’m afraid that you will be embarrassed to start discipline when you come, so that he will be more and more exposed!"
Shen Pilan immediately said that this is impossible, and his family is not without naughty brothers and sisters: "How can a serious child not be beaten? How can you become a talent without beating a child!"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be a fake, Xi Fuwei agreed to turn around and fired Yu Kedi, and replaced him as Xi Jiao's master.
After it was settled, the two men began to confess their love.
Xi Fuwei is very concerned about the connection of the river, after all, if it were not for this river, Xi's family might not be what it is now.
Xu was because Wen's family had already fallen to the ground. Today's Xi Fuwei recalled the past, although it would not be said to have been like a cloud of smoke, but it was still very calm.
This river caused the Xi family's family to be destroyed, but it made her and Shen Thilan a success.
Xi Fuwei is not the kind of person who doesn't care about her as long as her family is good... Maybe for a while, driven by anger and hatred, she would think so. But if you calm down, she is the kind of person who will plan for herself.
Otherwise, Xi Fucui would not propose to dissolve the marriage contract with Wen Jia.
So I told her from the bottom of my heart that if Xi Zongwang and Xi Fucui were doing well, she would rather the emperor not open the river, and would rather never know Shen Pilan...and it may not be the truth.
But on the other hand, if he feels that his father and brother's tragic death is also worthwhile because of theft of Lan, this is impossible.
So now thinking of opening the river, thinking of the vast waves of smoke and boats going back and forth in the future, she was full of mixed feelings, and she didn't know what it was like, but she felt indescribable melancholy.
It's like a tree, just growing there.
Suddenly there was a flood, and it was rushing away, leaving only a little bit of roots to linger.
Resentment?
definitely.
Lucky?
There are also.
What's next?
Apart from cleaning up the scars and living a good life, what else?
All the pain in the heart will be healed and buried in time, right?
At this moment, listening to Shen Pilan carefully describing the project of Kaihe River and the scene after the renovation of the planned Huitonghe River, Xi Fuwei's scene changes, and she seems to see herself, still young, lying on Xi Zongwang’s knees, listening to her brother Xi Fu Brilliantly recite the poems.
That day Xi Fucui recites "Two Poems of Nostalgia in Bianhe" by Pi Ximei in the late Tang Dynasty.
Xi Zongwang explained the meaning of the poems to the eldest son, and encouraged him to learn the lessons of Emperor Sui Yang, not to waste his great youth in play, he should go to school with heart, and in the future, he will be named on the gold list. A good story.
At that time, Xi Fuwei was boring to listen, and yawned and asked, "Where is Bianhe?"
"The Bianhe River is in Henan." Xi Zongwang hugged his daughter and explained with a smile, "But, we also have canals in Shandong, which lead to rivers, but it's just outside our house. It was under the dam where your brother took you to play two days ago."
This fragment passed quickly in Xi Fuwei's memory. She had never remembered it before, but when she remembered it now, she suddenly felt sour.
At that time, no one in the Xi family thought that the canal that can be seen at the sunrise gate would one day bring such drastic changes to them.
She remembered the poems of her predecessors, "Shao Lan sends guests off to Xianyang Road, if the sky is sentimental and the sky is old."
In Song Shi, Shi Manqing said that "the moon will grow rounder if there is no hatred", and he was allowed to be an enemy.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wang Fuchai dug the first shovel of the Grand Canal to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains.
In the subsequent Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin Dynasties, many canals were built throughout the country either for irrigation, strategy, or water transportation.
In the Sui Dynasty, "Ten thousand dragon boats and green silks, carried to Yangzhou and never returned." Although Emperor Yang had the abuse of the water palace dragon boat, he finally left "the co-Yu has not done much". "There is no mountain for more than a thousand miles."
Although the Tang and Song dynasties took great care of this canal, the dredging, repairing and excavation have never been broken. Due to the war and the climate, the Tongji Canal had disappeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Later, as the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was determined to be Beijing, the Jeju River, Huitong River, and Tonghui River were excavated. This canal then went straight from the north to the south, connecting the capital and the south of the Yangtze River.
However, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this canal inevitably followed the old path of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the early years of the Kingdom, the people didn't have a living, and the world hadn't regained its vitality, and it didn't take care of it.
At this moment, Xi Fuwei recalls the past, and suddenly feels that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is sentimental when it comes to thinking about it?
That's why it changes again and again with the changes in the world.
It is not a lofty and insignificant God, noble and distant looking down on the creatures on the earth.
The river that runs for thousands of miles is filled with fame, fortune, fame and fortune from the north to the south. Smoke is curling up on both sides of the river, and countless human fireworks gurgle with the water.
It is different from the fickleness and surging of the ocean, nor is it like the willful ocean of natural rivers.
It comes from human hands, and it follows people's wishes from its birth.
So these thousands of years of joys and sorrows, the emperor's hegemony, how can it not embrace its soul?
The world fought again and again, blood and water mixed with the smell of soil flowed into its body, it was tired, so it merged into the earth.
There is a long body hidden in the decayed grass and vines, and silently closes his eyes in the years of the iron horse autumn wind.
After the opening of the new dynasty, people thought of it, and it was awakened again, so they opened their heavy eyes and looked at the world again, watching the two sides of the strait from loneliness to prosperity, and watching people's hearts from fear to joy.
Joy turns to greed, greed gives birth to war, so it is another reincarnation.
The long creeping river, gentle running through the north and south of the land, it is gentle, but also humble, year after year carrying those north and south things, gathering thousands of years of time into a clear water.
In the rushing water, every wave is engraved with grievances, grievances and hatreds, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy from the ages.
Xi's family is one of them, and it is also one of them.
The wind is coming, the wind is gone, the waves bloom for a moment, and then die.
It was like the Xi family's affairs that had been in an uproar for a few days, and now I don't hear those discussions much.
This is a country's grievances that are not eligible to be recorded in the history books. Even if you accidentally hit a big event like Kaihe by mistake, people who knew it forgot it, and it passed.
After a few years, the Xi family will not remember it.
For the remaining aunts and nephews, those thrilling pasts will sooner or later be said plainly, even without interest.
Xi Fuwei thought quietly. After thousands of years, Xi's family didn't know where it would be, and this canal would probably still be there.
In the new dynasty at that time, people, like the emperor today, wiped it away from the exhaustion of years of war, dredged the silt for years, opened new ports on both sides of the strait, screamed for the colony from north to south, and looked at Baifan Little by little staggered past... those rivers that were awakened again in the hustle and bustle, do you still remember the scene of Yongle eight years, when it was half-dreaming and half-awake, it would pass the river?
There seemed to be a soft tidal sound from the canal in the wind, rustling towards the embankment, calm and soothing.
Xi Fuwei listened carefully. For a long time, she noticed that Shen Qianlan in front of her didn't know when she had already described it, and she was slightly startled, "Why didn't you say it?"