Hypocrites

In the courtyard, Mu Jihe: "It really hurts to treat him like a brother."

Shen Yu: "That's right, I've never been so patient."

Mu Jihe: "That's right, he's always stubborn with me, that's because he knows I won't ignore him, when do you think he did this to you?"

Shen Yu: "Isn't it because you are too annoying?"

Song Jun passed by the courtyard and saw the two of them, basking in the sun with a sad face: "What's the matter?"

The two said in unison: "Talk about brothers for a lifetime."

In fact, Shen Yu couldn't tell, he was kind to Liang Heng, and Liang Heng was very dependent on him, but Mu Jihe was kind to Yan Ran, and Yan Ran just wanted to hide.There are all kinds of people, and human feelings are also different.

For example, Zhou Yu, although the future mother-in-law will not like him in every possible way, as long as the two young people love each other, it seems that they can live on.Zhou Yu was exposed to the wind and cold and studied harder, Shen Yu picked a rest day to go to the academy to move his books, and happened to see the two loving each other in the empty study.

The anti-cold decoction was placed on the side, and the heat was almost dissipated.

Shen Yu: "..."

Zhou Yu immediately stood up, at a loss: "Why are you here?"

Yingying was generous and smiled at Shen Yu.Compared with Zhou Yu, this girl is much more majestic.

Shen Yu said politely: "I'll take something and leave right away. You guys continue."

Zhou Yu wished he could find a crack in the ground and get in.

He took out a stack of slips and saw two people sitting behind the banyan tree in the courtyard.One's lips were pressed against the other's face.

Shen Yu: "..."

What auspicious day is today?

Mu Jihe's reaction was extremely quick, and when he heard the movement, he turned around and saw Shen Yu.The two remained relatively still.Yan Ran stood up and ran out.

"I thought there was no one today..." Muzihe said.

Shen Yu really had nothing to say.

Shen Yu looked indifferent, and Mu Jihe's heart was trembling when he saw it, and he wanted to hug the two brothers' shoulders, but Shen Yu avoided him.

"Have you got the consent of others, just kiss?"

Mu Jihe yelled at his innocence: "Do I dare if he disagrees? Although I am brave, I really pissed him off. Where can I find a wife?"

Shen Yu had a headache.He hasn't figured it out until now, he has known Yanran Mu Jihe for many years, and the relationship that became like this overnight made him feel strange.

Mu Jihe had another problem. He stared at Shen Yu and smiled maliciously: "I haven't mentioned you yet. Last time you mentioned it, you knew it was the case..."

Shen Yu's heart skipped a beat.

"How did you know?"

It was night when Shen Yu lay on the bed with his hands on his pillow, the charcoal fire exuded warmth.It was dark and silent all around, and during the day Mujihe's understanding eyes kept appearing in front of his eyes.

how do you know

How do you know?

roll.Shen Yu silently mouthed, trying to dispel Lian Pian's thoughts, turned over and fell asleep.In the dream, I picked up a civet cat from nowhere, and it was so clingy, it rubbed against his shoes, grabbed his sleeves, rolled over its white belly for him to scratch, narrowed its eyes, and twitched its whiskers.

With a meow, it was dawn.

Early in the morning, Shen Yu squatted in the courtyard to wash clothes. It was freezing cold, and for a moment he didn't know whether his hands soaked in well water were redder or his face was redder.

After rubbing it clean, I didn't dare to hang it in the yard. After much deliberation, I took it back to the house and roasted it on a charcoal fire.The white hakama wrung out the water, like a group of sneaky pickles.

God, Shen Yu thought in frustration.

Went to the county guard's mansion with Shen Jin, and met Yan Ran and Song Jun chatting at the gate of the mansion.Seeing Shen Yu and Shen Jin walking together, Yan Ran's face immediately turned pale, as if he had seen a ghost.Until Shen Jin's expression remained normal, he greeted the two of them and entered the mansion.

"I'm off to work too, see you later." Song Jun said goodbye to them.

Yan Ran glanced at Shen Yu guilty.The two of them went to the ear room of the mansion, where Shen Yu's official case was placed.Shen Yu didn't know what to say, so he continued to do his own thing. After a while, Yan Ran cautiously said, "Brother, you didn't tell the teacher..."

Yan Ran has always been called Brother Yu, but now he is called Brother, but it can be said that he is condescending, as if he has done something wrong and has no confidence.

"I thought the teacher would drive me out of the teacher's door today."

Shen Yu frowned: "You hide from Muji River because you are afraid of this?"

Yan Ran was about to cry, with a downcast face.

Shen Yudao: "If you're so afraid, why would you let him kiss you?"

Yan Ran stopped talking again.

Shen Yu then spread out the official document that Shen Jin had reviewed, copied a detailed opinion letter based on his father's notes, hovered the tip of the pen on the bamboo for a moment, and said, "Whenever you want to say it, you can say it yourself, I will I won’t do it for you.”

After receiving these words, Yan Ran stepped forward on his knees and thanked Shen Yu for studying ink.

Yan Ran is the only child, passed on in two generations of the family, and now he is the only one left to support the incense.He was afraid that Shen Jin would drive him out of the teacher's school, and what was even more afraid of disappointing his mother.This mood is like a guillotine hanging over his head all the time, how could Mujihe understand?He only thought that Yan Ran was avoiding him because he was playing petty temper, and it was a kind of secret intimacy, so he chased him harder and harder, making it impossible for anyone to refuse.

Shen Yu always felt uneasy in his heart.

Paper can't hold fire, and Zhou Yu has been found out after sneaking around for so long, so it's hard to guarantee that the two of them will be stabbed out accidentally.

Among the classmates, Chen Hui was the most nosy one. Shen Yu sounded him out, thinking that he probably didn't know yet.

After the spring rain that day, the only dead leaves left on the branches fell to the ground, soaked in water, and pitifully turned into mud.The weather is getting warmer day by day, but the cloud still hangs over the city all day long.

In the hall, sweet potatoes were roasted over the charcoal fire, and the three members of the Shen family were sitting around, doing their own things.The students in front of the door came to visit one after another, and Shen Jin rarely took the time to review articles for them.

A few familiar ones came over, Shen Yu raised his head and chatted for a while, another one came, not very familiar, Shen Yu couldn't even remember the name, and was chatting with Shen Jin, talking about the recent performance of the scholars in the academy.

"Senior Brother Lian Fan is the most diligent, and the disciples really admire him. Anyone can be diligent for a while, and there is no beginning, and there is an end to the hard work. Diligent day after day, but he is the only one."

Shen Jin smiled and said, "Yan Ran and Zhou Yu are also good."

"Zhou Yu, you've been working especially hard lately. Forget about Yan Ran, he's always slacking off when you're not around."

Shen Jin was naturally surprised: "Yan Ran won't."

"Come on, he and Mu Jihe are just getting along. They're so tired, they don't have the time to study."

"Oh, the water has been spilled!" Mother Shen reminded her son.Shen Yu tilted the cup, and half a cup of boiling water wet the skirt of his robe, but he didn't care about it anymore, he stared straight at the student, almost poking a bleeding hole in his face.

Shen Jin looked at his son.

The man then understood: "Oh, you don't know yet. That's really my mouth."

That's how it was revealed.

Yan Ran and Mu Jihe were called in front of Shen Jin.The charcoal fire in the hall is still crackling, the room is warm and rainy, Shen Jin puts a pot of tea on the stove to boil, the heat is still brewing, only the sound of rain, filled with the atmosphere that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is filling the building.

Mujihe said: "Sir, are you looking for us?"

Shen Jin motioned for a seat by the stove, and asked the two to sit down.

Shen Yu handed their rain-soaked coats to the servants to dry, and the two sat next to each other, warming their hands by the stove.

"When the spring rains come, I don't want to go out." Yan Ran laughed.

Mu Jihe asked, "What are your orders, sir?"

Shen Jin also warmed up the fire, turned his hands over and over again, and said after a long time: "I heard that you don't study hard recently?"

Yan Ran was stunned, and Mu Jihe said: "Where is it, sir, Yan'er can work hard. I just said him, and he has to do government affairs and study, and he can't stand it for twelve hours a day." He used it. As a result, he said that the master explained these matters to pave the way for him, and he must do it well no matter what."

Shen Jin nodded after listening, noncommittal.

The husband has always been gentle and amiable, and he rarely looks so preoccupied. Both of them felt strange, but Shen Yu was given a password by his father, so he dared not say more.

Only Shen Jin said solemnly: "Zhu Ziyu, teaching a person is like helping an intoxicated person, who makes him fall back and forth..."

"Since I became the sheriff, I have been less in charge of the affairs of the academy, and many negligences are unavoidable. It is my fault as a gentleman to make you two do something, but dare not tell me."

The faces of the two changed immediately.

"Businessman pays more attention to profit, while scholar pays more attention to name. Yan Ran will be an official in the future, Ji He, if you provoke him, you will actually hurt his future."

At this point, it is self-evident what Shen Jin knows.Yan Ran immediately became terrified, the guilt of letting down his teacher and the shame of doing something wrong both pressed him down and lowered his head.

On the contrary, Mu Jihe was very calm: "It is our fault that we delayed our studies, sir, and we will reflect on ourselves."

Shen Jin said: "Is this what I asked?"

Mu Jihe smiled and said, "Is Yan'er and I on good terms?"

Yan Ran shivered.

"Just these few days, teacher, I didn't dare to embarrass you."

A book was smashed headfirst, and it fell with a loud sound at the foot of the Muzi River.Shen Jin's expression was serious: "Are you going to play tricks on me again?"

Shen Jin said: "When the government collects and collects documents, there are few people who investigate real talents and learning. Most of them are based on the reputation of the people, which is nothing more than the word filial piety. Both of you have living parents, and you are brothers and sisters. How can you do something that violates human ethics? matter?"

Mu Jihe refused to evade: "Sir, I don't understand. Is it serious enough? There are also many scholars who are addicted to alcohol and prostitutes. Yan Er and I are nothing more than an ordinary carnival in comparison."

"Yin and yang are out of order, and they are not the right way. In ancient times, the ancestors avoided wars and indulged in masculinity, and there were Emperor Ai who was in Zen, and Emperor Cheng who was favored. The mistakes of the past and the lessons of the past, why do you still follow the same mistakes now?"

Mu Jihe said: "Sir, please learn from me. King Zhou's wine pool and meat forest, and King You's bonfires playing with the princes, can it be said that it is the fault of Baosi and Daji? It can be seen that there has never been a beauty or a blue beauty, but blame and blame. "

Yan Ran didn't dare to say a word.

Shen Jin was silent for a while, then nodded: "Okay, that's what you think. What about Yan Ran? Do you think the same way? If that's the case, you two don't come to the academy anytime soon, go home and face the wall, think it through before you talk." .”

There was a dead silence in the hall.After a while, Mu Jihe bowed deeply to Shen Jin, and retreated, but Yan Ran remained where he was. He retreated outside the door and looked back at Yan Ran.

With a plop, Yan Ran actually knelt down.

"My teacher's lesson is," he said in a nasal voice, "the students know their mistakes, and they dare not do it again in the future. Please don't drive the students away!"

He shrunk his narrow shoulders and was weak, like he was eleven or twelve years old when he came to the Shen residence alone in the winter rainy day.A child born in poverty, the only hope of the whole family is to be successful in his studies, even if he freezes to death on a rainy night, he still has to go to a private school.He may be stupid for a while, but he will never forget this biting original intention.

Mu Jihe stood outside the door and watched him quietly.

After a while, Shen Yu's heart beat wildly, and Shen Jin let out a deep sigh.