Forty-five years ago, there was chaos in Chang'an. The Shen family was involved, and the elders of the family died one after another in the accident. The Shen family had no choice but to flee Chang'an and go to the south of the Yangtze River.
The family's financial situation is in decline and is on the verge of collapse, and it is difficult to move forward in the old house in the south of the Yangtze River. After the guilty minister, no one dared to come to help, even his distant relatives would avoid him.
There was no money to maintain, and daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt were scarce. Many of the Shen family's servants fled. Only some older loyal servants had nowhere to go. They desperately stayed in the Shen family and fended for themselves with the Shen family.
A dilapidated mansion protects a group of lonely people.
Without any elders, Shen Wanjing grew up with his eldest sister, who was like a mother. In his impression, her eldest sister was like a fairy in the sky, capable of doing anything.
When spring comes, the eldest sister will help him tie up his kite, run around with him in the courtyard for an hour, and play happily, and then rest for a long time and teach him how to read and digit in the study. The peach blossoms in the courtyard will always fall in the eldest sister's book. On the note. When the spring rain comes, the eldest sister will take him to build farmland in the courtyard and plant fruits and vegetables. Although life is hard, there are fruits and vegetables to eat in every season.
In rainy summers, the eldest sister would sew clothes under the eaves, raise silkworms herself, spin cocoons, reel and spin silk threads, and then weave and dye the cloth, and tailor clothes. When the seasons change, Shen Wanjing would receive several new clothes made by the eldest sister. Shen Wanjing was afraid of thunder at that time. During thunderstorms, he would always act coquettishly in his eldest sister's arms, and her eldest sister would stay with him by the bedside all night.
Shen Wanjing likes the autumn harvest the most, when everyone in the yard is busy, fruits and vegetables are moved from the front yard vegetable patch to the backyard kitchen, filling the vegetable cellar. The eldest sister's daily supervision of homework will also be relaxed in these days. When the weather is nice, Shen Wanjing will accompany the eldest sister in the courtyard to pickle pickles. Although the winter in Jiangnan is not cold, most of the time throughout the winter, the Shen family still relies on Live on pickles.
In winter, his eldest sister would take him up the mountain to search for delicacies and catch wild game. A child from an aristocratic family must be good at everything besides playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, as well as bowing, horse riding, riding and shooting. The old servants of the Shen family will also be sent by the eldest sister to the mountains to chop wood, burn charcoal, and buy things to keep out the cold.
Snow never falls in the south of the Yangtze River, so the eldest sister would always calculate the time when it would snow in Chang'an, climb up the eaves alone, look at Chang'an, and sit in silence all day.
Two years passed until the man came to Yangzhou from Chang'an and stayed with the Shen family.
When he was guarding Chang'an on the eaves, the eldest sister would watch him under the eaves, and then pick the green plums from the trees to make wine. From then on, the eldest sister always had a smile on her lips.
In this gradually recovering mansion, where men farm and women weave, it feels like a family sitting around the table.
Later, before the eldest sister left the cabinet, she made a private life-long marriage with him. The eldest sister married someone else, so the position of head of the Shen family was naturally handed over to Shen Wanjing. In a blink of an eye, Shen Wanjing also reached the age of dancing elephants. His eldest sister asked many people to help him, but she could not find a good marriage for him. The marriage was postponed again and again, and the eldest sister was pregnant and had difficulty moving. She was raising her fetus in the backyard of Shen's family, and the matter of finding a matchmaker for him was put on hold for the time being.
After the eldest sister became pregnant, she always had random thoughts and begged Shen Wanjing many times that if anything happened to her, she would protect her flesh and blood. Shen Wanjing agreed with all his heart. His eldest sister's child was the one closest to him, and he had to protect it even at the risk of his own life.
When the eldest sister was two months pregnant, she dreamed of her dead parents and decided to go to Qingyun Temple to fulfill her wish. After burning incense and going down the mountain, I picked up a Jianghu woman at the foot of the mountain. The woman was seriously injured and dying. The eldest sister was distressed and carried her back to Shen's house for treatment.
The woman injured her head. After recovering from the injury, she forgot who she was and had nowhere to go. The eldest sister was worried that her life or death would be unpredictable when she went out, so she simply left her in the Shen family until she remembered who she was before deciding whether to leave.
The woman forgot who she was and completely lost her charlatanism, so she volunteered to take care of Shen Wanjing's daily life.
In the huge Shen family, only Shen Wanjing was similar in age to the woman. He was alone and had only a daughter, so he was the most difficult to control and had secret feelings.
By the time the eldest sister found out, the two of them had already become pregnant.
The woman was already pregnant, so it was no longer appropriate to make a big show of showing off that she was getting married. In order to preserve the reputation of the Shen family and the woman, she could only claim to the outside world that she was the nanny bought for the eldest sister's child, and the woman didn't care. From then on, the two pregnant mothers basked in the warm sunshine in the backyard every day, sewing clothes and shoes for the baby with their own hands, and enjoyed themselves happily.
Until the woman's enemy came to visit.
That night, Shen Wanjing saw Jianghu for the first time. The man in black climbed in from outside the wall, and the cold light flickered. The boundary between life and death is just ten steps away. Shen Wanjing couldn't move an inch in the courtyard, his mind went blank. He saw the man in black approaching and his eldest sister called him in the room, and he came to his senses.
The eldest sister exposed herself. When the man in black saw the eldest sister who had difficulty moving, he abandoned Shen Wanjing and raised his knife to chop at the eldest sister. The man whom the eldest sister married landed beside the eldest sister with a long sword. His figure was elegant, and the courtyard was filled with sword light. The man in black fell to the ground. Shen Wanjing never liked the man who took away his eldest sister. When he sacrificed his life to protect her, he finally recognized in his heart that he was her husband and his brother-in-law.
After my brother-in-law got rid of the men in black, I wanted to check if any fish had slipped through the net. The eldest sister in the room was frightened by the sight of blood. She had fetal motility and was about to give birth. Everyone was in a panic and did not see a man in black fleeing outside the wall.
That night, the eldest sister cried heartbreakingly for several hours and gave birth to a daughter. In the courtyard, my brother-in-law cried with joy.
When everyone was watching the joy of rebirth, the woman from the Jianghu area was stunned when she saw the corpse in the courtyard. She stepped forward and opened the veil of the man in black, and saw the face under the veil. The woman's pupils dilated, then she had a splitting headache and fell to her knees. On the ground, thinking about the past, I couldn't calm down. As a result, the Qi and blood in the whole body collapsed, the fetus moved prematurely, and a daughter was born. The woman did not say a word when she gave birth.
On the occasion of double happiness, a corpse appeared particularly unlucky in the Shen family courtyard. Shen Wanjing had someone sweep up the corpse with a tornado that night and threw it into a mass grave. The incident was also forgotten.
One month later, the two children were full of wine. Shen Wanjing specially set up a few banquets for his two children. When someone he met passed by the Shen family, the Shen family also greeted them and invited them in for a glass of full moon wine. After noon, there was no one else around. The Shen family closed the courtyard door and watched their children in the front yard. The eldest sister's child was crying on the ground. No matter how much everyone tried to coax her, it was of no avail.
"Chang'an City is here to send you congratulatory gifts!" Someone broke down the door and threw two bloody heads into the front yard. One was the corpse thrown into the mass grave, and the other was one that Shen Wanjing had never seen before.
The man was dressed in purple, kicked the whole wooden door to pieces, and fell in the courtyard, looking down at everyone with amusement and disdain.
Ever since the man in black came that night, my brother-in-law had never left his body with his sword. When the man stepped into the courtyard, his sword pierced through the air, and the sword flower was fierce.
The brother-in-law's sword was very fast, but he was always one step slower than the man and was dodged by him many times. After three moves, the brother-in-law's hand holding the sword was broken by the man. The hand holding the sword was broken. The brother-in-law changed his hand again and still made three moves. The other hand was also broken.
The man said nonchalantly and sarcastically: "A gentleman's sword is nothing more than mediocre."
The man kicked his brother-in-law to the ground and stepped on him towards the child in the eldest sister's arms.
The Shen family went to stop him, but the man took action and was killed in one move.
Corpses fell into a river, and slaves who had followed the Shen family for many years were piled all over the trail. Shen Wanjing was heartbroken, but he couldn't step forward. Behind him were his eldest sister and her child, as well as the Jianghu woman and his flesh and blood. He couldn't take a step back. This was his responsibility as the head and husband of the Shen family. Both of them A child cried heartbrokenly.
Shen Wanjing only stopped the man for a moment before being kicked unconscious. When he woke up, the eldest sister and the Jianghu woman were nowhere to be seen, and only two children were sleeping soundly in their infant clothes. Shen Wanjing was at a loss as he looked at the corpses of countless old servants in the courtyard.
At night, the brother-in-law woke up in the courtyard, took his hands back, and was extremely calm. He picked up the long sword on the ground, took a look at the two children sleeping peacefully, and disappeared into the night.
It was two years later when I saw my brother-in-law again. He had a broken leg and walked crookedly into Shen's house. His once high-spirited demeanor was already in ruins. Without saying a word, he silently walked into the courtyard, knelt on the ground and cried hoarsely. For seven days and seven nights, he got up and practiced his sword over and over again. His hand holding the sword kept shaking, and the sword fell to the ground several times, making a smashing sound. He would look at the sword in trance, laughing and crying.
A gentleman has a sword in his heart. If his heart is dead, why should he hold the sword again?
Later, he went crazy and dug up the field where his eldest sister was built in the courtyard, dug a pit as deep as one person, and buried himself in the pit without sleeping. Shen Wanjing took his eldest sister's child to see him, and there was light in his eyes. He crawled out of the pit and said guiltily to Shen Wanjing, "Your eldest sister will never come back."
An accident occurred two years ago. All the old servants of the Shen family have died. The only people who know the lives of the two children are Shen Wanjing and his brother-in-law. Except for his brother-in-law's surname, Shen Wanjing doesn't know his full name. Everyone has secrets, so who knows? Shen Wanjing didn't even know her last name. I asked my brother-in-law many times, but he didn't know if she was still alive.
Shen Wanjing and his brother-in-law took care of their children during the day, and dug a secret passage in the study at night for hiding in the future. They also opened a cave underground to draw in the earth's running water. Even if they hid in the cave for several years, they would not worry about food.
After the ground opened up, my brother-in-law lived underground, built a thatched cottage, and rested and practiced swordsmanship.
Three years later, my brother-in-law left seclusion, abandoned his sword, and even his original surname. He changed his name to Bai Xiaosheng, got into a wheelchair, bid farewell to the Shen family, and entered a world he had never set foot in before.
Shen Wanjing had been to the underground. The whole rock was covered with sword marks. The edges of the excavated gravel were smoothed by his brother-in-law with his sword and then thrown into the middle of the spring. In the spring, a green plum seedling was taking root and growing.
That green plum tree was also planted in Shen Wanjing's heart, reviving the entire Shen family and protecting the eldest sister's children.
Shen Wanjing found the body of a girl in a mass grave and carried out the funeral with great fanfare. The child he claimed to be his eldest sister fell into the water and died young. He laid a rest for seven days and buried the unknown girl in his ancestral grave, offering incense every year.
From then on, the eldest sister's child became her own, named Shen Qinglan. The girl he gave birth to from a Jianghu woman was named Shen Meng, and he told the servants the Shen family later bought that she was a maid who was bought to play with the young lady.
After ten years of suffering, under the control of Shen Wanjing, the Shen family rose from the precarious days when they first entered the south of the Yangtze River to become the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. He also recruited knights from all over the world to guard the Shen family.
The Shen family will be a city, a place that even Chang'an cannot shake.
Shen Wanjing also asked people to look for the woman from the Jianghu. He cast a net all over the world, but could not find her. She seemed to disappear out of thin air, remaining only in his mind.
Her memorial tablet has no name or words, it is placed in the thatched cottage, and he still owes her an unfinished marriage.
