Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

When Meng Hong came to Wang Xinyu's room, Wang Xinyu was lying on his side on the couch and sobbing softly.

"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Meng Hong came over and asked.

Wang Xinyu slowly got up from the couch, the pregnant woman was a bit bulky in the late stage, Meng Hong hurriedly gave a hand to help, Wang Xinyu sat down firmly, wiped the corners of her eyes, Fang said: "It's nothing, I just made a bed while I was sleeping." Not a good dream."

In the past few days, for some reason, she has always been restless in sleep. She often woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall asleep. It was the same last night. After waking up in the second half of the night, she listened to the whistling wind outside until dawn.

After eating in the morning, she felt sleepy again, so she leaned on the couch and took a nap, but she fell into a deep sleep.In the dream, a big flower snake broke in, wrapping her body so tightly that she couldn't breathe, she was terrified, she screamed desperately, but she couldn't make a sound, her body was as heavy as a big rock.

In the end, two servant girls came in and shook her out of her nightmare. She felt a little uncomfortable for a while, and for some reason, she burst into tears for no reason.

The servant girl couldn't persuade her with good words, so she hurried to find Menghong.Now that Meng Hong came over, Wang Xinyu's mood had calmed down a lot.

"What kind of dream did you have?" Meng Hong pulled a round stool and sat in front of her, "Since it is a dream, it must not be real, so why worry about it, sister-in-law."

Wang Xinyu glanced at him, remembering that when Mengqing left, she entrusted herself to Menghong's care. At first, she was not used to it. Although Menghong called her sister-in-law, he grew up with her for a few months, and they were always uncomfortable when they got along.

After a long time of contact, this feeling gradually faded away.Wang Xinyu would tell Meng Hong what she had to say. When she was about to tell Meng Hong what she had dreamed of, Mrs. Wang came in with a soup.

"Young Mistress, drink this to suppress your shock." Mrs. Wang thought that Wang Xinyu's nightmare was frightened, so she made him a bowl of waking dream soup.

Wang Xinyu took a few sips and put it down because she found it bitter, and then told Meng Hong that she dreamed about snakes entangled in her body.After finishing talking here, before Meng Hong could reply, Mrs. Wang opened her eyes and asked, "What kind of snake did Eldest Mistress dream about? Is it flowery or black?"

Wang Xinyu didn't know why she asked this, so she just answered truthfully: "It's a flower." He also tried to draw, "The mouth of the bowl is so thick, it's wrapped around my neck and I can't breathe. I'm scared to death, just give it to me." I cried."

One summer night when she was a child, she was playing in the yard with bare feet, and suddenly a snake fell from the eaves and landed on her body.

Unexpectedly, I dreamed of a snake this morning, such a thick one was wrapped around her neck, and thinking about it now, I was terrified to death.

"Is there any particularity about the color of the flowers?" Seeing Mrs. Wang's serious expression, Meng Hong couldn't help asking.

Mrs. Wang then said: "Young Mistress, this dream is a fetal dream, and every fetal dream is sure. I dreamed that the flower snake was a girl, so Mistress Wang's pregnancy must be a girl."

Meng Hong was amazed: "There is such a thing? Don't be fooling people, a dream can determine the sex of the fetus." Then what will be done with the instrument for identifying the sex of the fetus in future generations? Just have a dream.

"Hey, second young master, don't believe it!" Mrs. Wang said again, "These are all the experiences accumulated by our ancestors. We come here to check them out. For example, my eldest son, when I was pregnant with him, I dreamed that A big boa constrictor, when it is born, hey... It really is a boy. Even the second young master, your mother, the second wife, dreamed that the sun and the moon merged when she was pregnant with you, and gave birth to the second young master, wouldn't she be a boy? ...It's just that you brothers are really pitiful, you all lost your mother on the day you were born..."

Mrs. Wang became sad when she said that, but Meng Hong felt that Mrs. Wang's words were a bit unbelievable. He lived two lifetimes, but it was the first time he heard of using dreams to determine the gender of a baby.

This is not scientifically based.Meng Hong shook his head, expressing his disbelief.

"It's normal for the second young master not to believe it!" Mrs. Wang said with a smile, "When the second young master has a child of his own, we can do a test at that time. In other words, after the eldest young mistress gives birth to this child, the second young master will know what the old woman said. Not right anymore. But..."

Mrs. Wang paused at this point, "I am really not qualified to say some things, Mrs. Wang, but I still want to say a few words today. The second young master is not too young. After this year, he should be nineteen. Now that I'm married, the master is also obsessed with studying, but if the master puts a little effort into the second young master, the second young master will not be delayed until now..."

"Say..." This is a good talk, why does it involve him again, and it has nothing to do with his father, Meng Hong coughed deliberately, saying that he wanted to talk to his sister-in-law alone, and let Mrs. Wang take care of her own affairs.

After Mrs. Wang left, Meng Hong took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Wang Xinyu.Every time Meng Qing sent a letter, he would write a separate letter to Wang Xinyu.

While Wang Xinyu was opening the letter, Meng Hong said, "Sister-in-law, elder brother said that he might not come back years ago, let me take care of you."

Wang Xinyu opened the letter with a pause: "Aren't you coming back? Did something happen?" She remembered that Meng Qing had told her that last year Meng Qing was robbed and killed by a group of bandits on his way back from Jiangnan, and almost died when he returned to Jiangshui. Not coming.

Then this time, Wang Xinyu's hand shook for no reason, will something happen to Meng Qing...

"It's okay, sister-in-law." Meng Hong probably guessed what she was worried about, and hurriedly comforted him, "Brother is just delayed by business and can't come back temporarily. He will come back when he is busy." Last year was just an accident, How can they be robbed every year? In this peaceful and prosperous age, people are not allowed to go out to do business.

After listening to his words, Wang Xinyu's thoughts did not ease much, she opened the letter from Meng Qing and read it carefully several times, then folded it and stuffed it under the pillow.

What was written in Meng Qing's letter, as always, reported that she was safe, and had some private conversations with her.

Wang Xinyu straightened the broken hair in front of her forehead, and said to Meng Hong: "Second brother, go back, I have nothing to do here."

Seeing that her mood had calmed down, Meng Hong didn't stay long, if she wanted to send someone to call him, he was at home, and after saying a few words, he also left.

When he came to his father's house, Meng Zhen and Meng Che were still reading and writing articles next to each other.

Seeing this scene, Meng Hong felt very warm, and leaned forward and said: "If I am a lover of reading, I will definitely study with my father and fourth brother."

Meng Zhen raised his eyelids to look at him, and said, "Did you tell your sister-in-law about your brother?"

Meng Hong nodded, "Yes", suddenly remembered what Wang Pozi said just now, and asked for no reason: "Father, when my mother was pregnant with me, did you really dream that the sun and the moon merged?"

"What?" Meng Zhen was teaching Meng Che to write an article, and he felt a little baffled when he heard Meng Hong's sudden words.

Meng Hong recounted Wang Xinyu's dream of the flower snake just now and what Mrs. Wang said about the fetal dream, and Meng Zhen was noncommittal.

Meng Hong then asked: "Father, do you also believe in using dreams to tell the gender of a fetus?"

Meng Zhen said: "Since it is the experience passed down by the ancestors, it doesn't hurt to listen to it."

Meng Hong: "So, Dad thinks sister-in-law is pregnant with a girl?"

Unexpectedly, he got hit on the head as soon as he finished speaking, and Mengzhen knocked on his head with a book in his hand, "Can you understand what you are obedient? Which ear of yours heard it? I think it? And the boy Is there any difference between a girl and a girl?" Not all of them are human beings, but human beings have to endure birth, old age, sickness and death, and they all have to grow old and die.

Meng Che covered his mouth and laughed non-stop: "Second Brother, what Dad means is that it doesn't matter if you listen to it. Second Brother is probably too serious to understand what Dad means."

Meng Hong glared at Meng Che, thinking that this kid would take pleasure in other people's misfortunes.How could he fail to understand what his father meant, but this didn't prevent him from asking his father again.

Meng Hong rubbed his head, pretending to be hurt by the volume in Meng Zhen's hand: "Of course there is no difference between a boy and a girl. Our family is full of men. I still hope that my sister-in-law will give birth to a girl."

Meng Zhen ignored him, lowered his head and continued explaining the article to Meng Che.Meng Che's mind was no longer on his studies, he tilted his head and asked, "Father, the second brother said that his mother dreamed about the merger of the sun and the moon and gave birth to the second brother. What about my mother, what dreamed about giving birth to me?" ?”

Naturally, Meng Zhen couldn't answer such a question, and said angrily, "How would I know that, you didn't come out of my stomach."

Meng Hong, who was at the side, couldn't help laughing, wondering when did his father become so humorous.

Meng Zhen saw that Meng Che was no longer focused on studying, so he stopped restraining him here, and said, "You have been studying all morning, so you must be impatient, ask your second brother to take you out to play for a while." .”

"Okay!" Meng Che was already exhausted after being held by his father for a whole morning. Now that he had received his father's words, it was as if he had received a pardon, so he hurriedly stood up and came to his second brother. Pulling Meng Hong, he walked out, "Second brother, it's just snowing outside, let's go build a snowman to play."

Meng Hong remained motionless: "I don't want to go, it's too cold outside, but it's warm inside, it's still interesting to chat with Dad."

Meng Che thought to himself, what's the point of chatting with Dad, he was almost bored sitting here all morning, so he didn't care whether his brother liked it or not, pushed Meng Hong to ask for good words and pushed him out of the door.

After the two of them went out, Meng Zhen also stretched and stood up. It was really time to go out to get some air after being bored all morning.

He came out of the house and saw Meng Hong, Meng Che and Ah Qing making a snowman in his yard, he couldn't help but think of last year's Chinese New Year, just like today, Meng Hong and his brothers built a snowman in his yard.

I felt a little emotional for a moment, this day passed so quickly, but in the blink of an eye, a year is gone.

Over there, Meng Hong waved to him: "Father, come quickly and see how the snowman is stacked."

Standing under the eaves, Meng Zhen saw clearly, only said "very good", and did not walk over.

The author says:

感谢在2022-04-2400:19:36~2022-04-2423:54:41期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of jelly beans; 8 bottles of black eggs;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!