The Twelve Years: Song Of The Unsung Friends - Chapter 25
The two of them had been in bed for so long, and they were talking roundly, unclear, but the sound was real.
In other yards, there are maids waiting in front of the young masters, and they do not hide from them when they have sex. It is common for masters to let the maids go to bed with Yunyu and Wushan together. Here, San Ye was also arranged by the elders for the maid to pass the room, but he was dismissed by him. The young man was always taking turns sleeping in the room and waiting for him.
In the yard, no woman has ever been here. Not to mention sharing the same bed.
At the moment this Miss Shen is the first one.
How could Xiao Si not understand?
As soon as the others withdrew, the words went on.
At this moment, in the west, she couldn’t find the bronze mirror. She brushed her hair with her fingers in front of the glass window.
Fu Tongwen lived in the east secret room of Shangfang, and there was also a room in the west, where Shen Xi changed clothes.
Back to the east, the two maids were waiting for Fu Dongwen to wash. Seeing Shen Xi coming, Fu Dongwen rolled up his sleeves, took out the white towel from the other copper basin, and twisted it slightly: “Come.”
Shen Xi moved step by step and came to him.
He looked down, as if to kiss her.
When her face was covered with a hot towel, she knew that he was going to wipe his face.
Four years.
Leaving across the ocean, thousands of rivers and mountains return.
The days in the Fu’s family began again this winter.
Fu Dongwen’s yard is not small.
Chuihuamen enters through the hall, and at the back is the hall, and then the upper courtyard.
The upper room was divided into three rooms with one light and two dark rooms. The bright room in the middle was the main room, and the dark rooms on both sides were separated by partitions. The east side is Fu Dongwen’s bedroom. In winter, he was afraid of the cold invading. The maids put heavy cotton curtains on him.
The penthouse above the landlord is a study room. Along the west, hit a wall of bookshelves, full of books.
There are four maids, six small servants, Tan Qingxiang and the boy in the yard. The boy’s name is Wanan. This name was created to suppress the illness on Fu Dongwen.
“What was your previous name?” Shen Xi asked him one day.
The young man was approaching a major enemy, as if speaking out would cause Fu Dongwen to recover from a serious illness. He cautiously replied, “My only name is Wanan.”
When he said this, he was exchanging red plums for the study.
The red plum was sent by the master.
Shen Xi rushed into the Fu’s house, breaking the stagnant water and a deadlock, and the master’s indifference to the yard was relieved. Previously, the twenty-four gatekeepers outside the Chuihua Gate, armed with guns, were all confidants of the master. In addition to transporting ingredients, supplements, and medicines, they completely left the three young masters who were once in the capital in the corner of the house in the cold and ignored them.
What really broke the ice was on Wednesday, December 8, 1915.
Yimao year, the second day of the winter month. Heavy snowfall.
On this day, the maidservants burned hot water and poured pots of ice in the yard. The little servants swept away the melted ice ballast and water with brooms, and used cotton cloth to **** up the water on the ground.
Shen Xi was in the study, curled up in the master chair, with fox fur on his knees, waiting for Fu Dongwen.
She looked at the maid Xiaosi outside the window, and the man in Yu Guangli turned his back to her. The sleeves of the shirt were restrained with thin black cuffs, raising the cuffs by a few inches. In this way of dressing, his wrists are exposed outside his sleeves, which is convenient for him to flip and write.
“Are you going? Go back to the room to clean up?” She put her chin on her knee and asked in a low voice.
Today’s heavy snowfall is also Master Fu’s birthday. Master Fu sent a message and told him to listen to the play.
This is a pardon.
But Fu Dongwen didn’t think that only Shen Xi and that lie could be so peaceful.
Outside Chuihua Gate, what is waiting for him? When is the game? How to deal with it, after rejecting the old father’s faith in servants, Fu Tongwen had made various guesses in his heart.
Seeing that it was about time to go to the theater, he had not made up his mind: Do you want to take Shen Xi?
“Go, go together.” He closed the book.
“I’m going?” Shen Xi shook his head hurriedly, “This is not right…”
He smiled, tucked the book back to the third floor of the bookshelf, went to lift the fox fur on her lap, and lifted Shen Xi from the chair of the imperial teacher: “Go, you can still play a cover.”
“Covering?” Shen Xi didn’t understand.
He laughed and put his suit jacket on her shoulder.
“What do you want me to do, first say it. I don’t know the people in your family. I don’t remember anyone I saw four years ago. How many brothers and sisters do you have? How many aunts and wives does your father have? You want me How do you play the screen?”
Fu Dongwen took off the black-rimmed glasses from his face and folded his temples, thinking about how to explain. Her identity is very sensitive in the Fu family: “You go, so that I can dodge when I don’t want to talk.”
In this way, she felt confident.
Back to the room, the maid was packing the mattress. As usual, she took her clothes and went to the west secret room to change.
People walked by him, Fu Tongwen buckled her wrist and whispered with a smile: “Today is the festival, I will change it here.”
Heavy snow is also a holiday? “It’s going to be late.” She aimed hard at the two maids and hurried back with her hands.
Fu Dongwen was also joking, and did not insist on letting her escape.
He rubbed the pads of his thumb and index finger lightly, as if reminiscing the slippery skin of her wrist.
When he was in despair, he couldn’t hold his own life and death, he could never drag her into the water anymore, and he didn’t want to be married to her right now.
These three words, Miss Shen, are for her to retreat, not touching her body, but also for her to protect herself. From that morning, he did look at her clean in the bednet, but he only looked at her.
However, Fu Dongwen is a man from Fengyuechang after all, and his “look” is also different from others. He likes to take a nap in the afternoon, and when he wakes up early in the morning, he puts the sleepy Shen Xi in his arms, strips off her pajamas, and takes a closer look at her body. From top to bottom, what should be seen is the same.
“Three brothers have a sense of measure,” he said every time, and would tease her with a smile, “just like this, it’s fine.”
Looks grandiosely, sometimes you have to touch it for a while, but you can say it as if you are a gentleman.
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Four relatives and eight relatives came to the mansion more than in previous years.
First, it was for Master Fu’s 70th birthday. It was said that it was a rare age in ancient times, and it was a round number. Naturally, it was necessary to join in the fun. Second, the Fu family was the president and former celebrity. Now the new emperor is going to be enthroned and has no status. It’s okay to hold the court in Chaotang, or the court in Fu’s family.
Master Fu Zhun Fu Dongwen out of the yard, but did not let him have lunch with the elders, and intentionally shaved his face.
When Fu Tongwen led Shen Xi into the back garden, the downstairs was full of people.
Opposite the stage is a two-story building for watching the show.
Most of the men sitting around the stage were wearing interlayer cotton gowns and mandarins, and wearing a satin-finished hat. Women are also dressed in old styles, and most of them have children standing or sitting beside them, with noisy voices and full of people.
They are all relatives of the Fu family.
Fu Tongwen led Shen Xi through the first floor, and the little boy led the way upstairs. The older men in the back saw him and got up to greet him, calling him “Uncle San”. After they walked up the stairs, Shen Xi asked quietly, “Those who look older than you, right?”
Fu Dongwen smiled, touched the back of her head, and smiled: “That’s right.”
“I’ll go up and stop talking later. If you want to find me useful, give me a wink.”
“Relax.” On the contrary, he was relaxed, holding the neckline of his woolen suit with both hands, and straightening it, “Today you followed the third brother to watch the show.”
Fu Dongwen smiled and went upstairs leisurely.
The sound of the leather shoes under his feet on the stairwell fell in her ears, especially clear. Shen Xi saw that his right hand was copied into the pocket of his trousers, one hand twisted the shirt collar, a look of contempt and disdain came from his eyebrows.
This subtle movement is like putting on drama makeup on him.
In and outside the courtyard, he is like two people.
Hu Qin pulled up at this moment and started the game.
Shen Xi settled down and followed him upstairs.
Unlike in the study that day, this time everyone upstairs was all gone.
Master Fu and his wife sat in the center, and the aunts and wives took their own young sons and daughters to sit down with the wife. On the other side are the older children, the uncle, the second master, the little fifth master, and the sixth miss are all there. There are also three older daughters who have met with their son-in-laws. Fu Tongwen took her to an appearance, and the second floor was unheard of.
Everyone couldn’t figure out the temper of the master, and they didn’t say hello.
The little fifth master in military uniform was different from everyone else. He got up and smiled and waved to the servant who was waiting behind him: “Bring me a chair,” and said, “Brother, sit with me.”
“You sit down, what are you polite with the third brother.” He smiled back.
Fu Dongwen withdrew his right hand from his trousers pocket, and respectfully succumbed to the people sitting here: “Father, the unfilial son celebrates your birthday. I wish you longevity in Changchun and Pengzu,” he said again. “I hope there are fewer people like me in our grandchildren, so that you can save your dad’s worry.” The first sentence is decent, but the latter sentence is funny.
The aunts laughed first, deliberately making a round for Fu Dongwen.
Master Fu sighed deeply: “You.”
Immediately there was another sigh.
From being escorted back to the mansion, the father and son have never met. Saying that you don’t want to is fake.
“Sit down, your father will be angry with you, and he won’t be angry for a lifetime.” Mrs. Fu also said.
She smiled and called for people and moved two chairs for Fu Dongwen. Fu Tongwen used to be the best to his servants at home. The servants and servants who were waiting saw that the master didn’t care about it, so they served refreshments without ordering them.
When the play reached its climax, the girls upstairs all ran to the fence, smiling, and the men downstairs applauded. On such a day, even the green tea leaves in the teacup that are inflated seem to be happy. No one is laughing.
Shen Xi sat beside Fu Tong tattoo and watched the play silently.
After a while, the fifth master Fu Tonglin moved over and chatted with Fu Tongwen in a low voice. Xiao Wuye’s biological mother is of Korean ethnicity. She was born tenderly, which caused her son to be male and female, with feminine eyebrows. But in the Fu family’s generation, he is the only one in military uniform. Shen Xi heard from their words that Xiao Wu Ye was studying at Baoding Military Academy, and because of fighting with classmates when he was about to graduate, he was disqualified from entering the Beiyang army.
The Baoding Military Academy finally assigned him to the unbranded troops in the south. Master Fu refused and was still mediating for him.
“It’s good to go to the south. I will find a way to disturb Huang’s father’s arrangement,” Xiao Wuye chuckled softly. “The third brother has regained his freedom this time, and I will have someone to talk. Go to your place tonight?”
Fu Dongwen smiled, tilted his legs, and tapped his feet to the rhythm of the play: “Be honest, you can’t get paid for the unbranded troops in the south. It’s best to stay in the Beiyang military line.”
Little Wu Ye laughed: “The third brother is pedantic.”
“My third brother has just been able to walk around, and my father hasn’t completely calmed down yet,” Fu Tongwen said again, “With me, you can go as little as you can. You won’t be scolded.”
Xiaowuye’s army boots were separated, and he said, “What I’m afraid of is my family.”
Here, Xiao Wuye generally finished the oath and smiled timidly.
The sixth lady, Fu Qinghe, who was nestling next to the fence, was holding a coin and was about to throw it on the stage for a reward. The money was not thrown out, and people suddenly laughed. She turned around and called to Fu Dongwen: “Brother, look at it quickly, you can see why your father asked you to come out today.”
where? Shen Xi followed Miss Six’s direction and looked over.
On the stairs, a woman wearing a black woolen coat with a white foxtail around her neck, with her hands diagonally in her coat pockets, walked up slowly. She has extremely bright facial features, and the short hair left under her ears is neatly combed. People are smiling, but the eyes locked on Fu Dongwen’s body are shaking slightly.
After Fu Tongwen and her looked at each other, his eyes slid over and looked onto the stage.
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I slept and caught a few bugs