It seemed natural to say hello to the old lady and then go out to the Rose Garden for activities.
It was still light after dinner, so Sang Nianyue invited her younger brother to go out for a walk together. Qing'er holds the book in her hand and can't decide between accompanying her sister out or continuing to study.
Seeing this, Sang Nianyue smiled and said, "Let's go for a walk with my sister. We have been here for so long, but we don't even know the scenery around Qiangweiyuan. When we leave the Hou Mansion later, we will talk about this with others. These experiences are all very good. Furthermore, there are still some flowers and plants to enjoy now. When winter comes, everything will be bare. If you want to enjoy the scenery then, you can only enjoy it through paintings."
Qing'er couldn't bear to live up to her sister's kindness, so she put down her book and stood up, "I'll go for a walk with my sister."
The two siblings took Su Xin out. Su Jin was very worried about this and kept telling them from behind, "Don't go too far. Just walk around at the door and come back. Girl, it's autumn today and your health is not good." Complete……"
Sang Nuanyue held Qingyue's little hand, "Let's go, let's go, Sujin started nagging again, my ears are about to get calluses."
Qing'er chuckled, and now she showed a bit of a cunning young man. Seeing this, Su Xin and Sang Nuanyue looked at each other, feeling sad and laughing at the same time.
There is not much scenery around Rose Garden. It is remote and there is only a lake not far from the door. It's a pity that after the season, the lotus seeds are gone, and there is only a pool of broken branches and lotuses. Under the bright golden light of the setting sun, it feels strangely lonely and desolate.
Walking along the lake, you will see many hibiscus flowers in full bloom, and then you will reach the main road. The road is wide and smooth, with a few sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted on both sides. The sweet-scented osmanthus trees are some years old, and the trees are dense and green. Now is the season when sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom, and the air is filled with the rich fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.
Su Xin and Sang Nianyue discussed, "Why don't you come over tomorrow to pick some sweet-scented osmanthus? Dried sweet-scented osmanthus can be used to make soup, make tea, and make wine. It can also be used as medicine to relieve coughs and reduce phlegm. The girl's cough is not getting better, and today Chun Yu also said that she would Try using dried sweet-scented osmanthus to make medicinal food, maybe if the girl drinks it a few more times, she will stop coughing at night."
Sang Nuanyue has always taken good care of her body. Moreover, she coughed at night, which made several maids and Qing'er sleep poorly. After hearing this, she nodded, "Okay. Let's go out to pick osmanthus together tomorrow, just to exercise."
Su Xin was very happy, "We also have it in our old house..."
As soon as the words came out, Suxin quickly shut up, but it was already too late. Both Sang Nuanyue and Qingyue stopped walking at this time, and the expressions on their faces became gloomy for no reason.
She was so worried that she didn't want to upset the girl and the young master, but her mouth was faster than her brain, and it was too late to take it back now.
Su Xin was in a state of confusion, "Girl..."
Sang Nuanyue came back to her senses and smiled at Su Xin, "It's okay. If you didn't mention it, I almost forgot. We also have several osmanthus trees in our house, in the yard where my father and mother live."
Sang Nianyue looked at her younger brother, "My mother has always been elegant. She is not good at housekeeping and management, but she likes to play with flowers and plants. Whenever my father goes out, he will always bring some expensive flowers and plants to my mother. She can't feed her every time. , seeing those flowers and plants withered in an instant, my mother was so distressed that she wiped her tears and said that she would not let her father find these things for her next time. But my mother only had this hobby, so how could my father not indulge it? Therefore, every day The first time I heard there were expensive flowers and plants somewhere, I would still buy them for my mother. However, in order to prevent my mother from raising the flowers and plants to death again, my father simply took care of them himself. My father was skillful, careful, and patient in his work. After all the flowers and plants were raised, he kept them at home. That flower house. Even in the dead of winter, the flowers inside are blooming beautifully, and it has become a scene in the city. It's a pity..."
Unfortunately, her parents passed away, and she had to take her younger brother away from home in order to make a living. Although the large greenhouse was taken care of by servants, they were not proficient in flower cultivation.
Sang Nianyue and her younger brother finished their mourning ceremony and took their younger brother home to pay homage to their parents. However, they saw that the flowers inside were almost dead, and even the greenhouse was ruined and no longer what it used to be.
Sang Nuanyue couldn't help but get red eyes when she thought of her deceased parents. Qing'er's eyes also filled with tears. He tugged at the corner of his sister's clothes, holding back his sobs and asked, "Sister, didn't Uncle Wang write to me before saying that he saw someone who looked like his elder brother in Minzhou? How is it now? Has Uncle Wang found someone?"
"Sister doesn't know either. But I haven't received a letter from Uncle Wang so far. I'm afraid I haven't found it yet."
The Sang family is very thin, and only three generations have passed down to Sang's father. As a result, although Sang's mother is not an expert in housekeeping, she has given birth to three children for the Sang family.
The eldest son Sang Fuyue is Sang Nuanyue's eldest brother.
There is a seven-year age difference between their siblings. Neither father nor mother ever thought that they would have another daughter after so many years. It is also because of this that they love Sang Nuanyue like a treasure and love her like a pearl in the palm of their hand. Sang Nianyue lived a carefree life before she was twelve years old, enjoying all the wealth and glory. But everything ended with that flash flood...
At that time, the eldest brother turned eighteen and was about to get engaged. The Sang family's father and mother had a tacit understanding with their former friends and planned to marry their beloved daughter as their daughter-in-law. The original schedule was not fulfilled because ten years after giving birth to Nian Yue, Sang's mother became pregnant again, this time giving birth to her second son Qing Yue.
After Sang's mother finished confinement, she and Sang's father hurriedly went to find a job. A flash flood suddenly broke out, and the carriage that father and mother were riding in was swept away by the flood. The eldest brother had a chance to escape while riding a horse, but in order to save his parents who fell into the water, he resolutely jumped in...
The Sang family sent out many people to search for the person, and five days later they found the tattered bodies of Sang's father and Sang's mother. The eldest brother Sang Fuyue was alive and dead, but his body was nowhere to be found.
Nuanyue still doesn't believe that her eldest brother is dead, no matter what outsiders say, she doesn't believe it. There is no memorial tablet for the eldest brother in the home, and there is no tomb for the eldest brother in the ancestral grave. She stubbornly believed that her eldest brother was still alive, and sooner or later the three siblings would be reunited again.
Relatives and friends all thought that Sang Nianyue was obsessed, but Sang Nianyue was not making trouble unreasonably. Just because the eldest brother has practiced martial arts all year round and is good at swimming, he can sneak a hundred steps upstream and nine miles downstream. Besides, with his parents gone, how could he, as the eldest brother, cruelly abandon his younger siblings and leave them alone?
He must have been injured and couldn't find his way home.
He is designated to be alive and He will not die.
In order to protect Nuo Da's family fortune, Sang Nianyue had no choice but to take her younger brother to live with her uncle's family. But she didn't take away the loyal servants of the Sang family. She dispersed almost all of them and asked them to go to the state capitals along the river to look for her eldest brother.
They searched like this for ten years, until she lost her husband and kept her filial piety, and was tortured by the Wang Xu family in every possible way. Uncle Wang finally sent good news, saying that he had met someone who looked like the eldest son in Minzhou. Unfortunately, the other party's appearance was in a hurry. By the time he reacted, the other party had already disappeared into the sea of people.
Regardless of whether that person was the eldest brother or not, the news cheered up Sang Nianyue, who was lifeless at the time. She was no longer depressed, but instead planned her future carefully, spending a lot of money to buy Du Juan to send messages to the brocade...
Fortunately, everything she did was not in vain, and now they escaped from the Wang family.
Sang Nuanyue took her younger brother's hand and walked forward slowly, "Qing'er, do you know? Our family only runs the largest library in Jincheng, and my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are even Jinshi or Juren. With his great reputation, he is a model for inheriting poetry and calligraphy."
But secretly, half of the bookstores and shops in Jincheng belong to the Sang family. The inheritance has been passed down from generations of ancestors to this day. As the eldest son and direct grandson, the eldest brother should be the successor that his father has high hopes for. But the eldest brother likes martial arts and hates writing, and can't sit on a stool for more than a quarter of an hour. My father thought that my eldest brother was naughty, so he taught me cruelly. However, despite all my efforts, my eldest brother could barely pass the exam to become a scholar in the Year of the Dancing Elephant. As for the examination, not only the teacher but also the father knew that the eldest brother's success in the examination in his early years was the blessing of his ancestors.
The reality was so bleak that it took San's father a long time to accept the embarrassment of having no successor. Father Sang even made an agreement with his eldest son. He would wait until the eldest son gets married and has children, and he would patiently train his grandson. As for the eldest son... he can do whatever he likes.
The eldest brother also agreed to this condition, and at this time, things took a turn for the worse and Sang's mother became pregnant again.
