Chapter 119
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Shen's mother didn't know the inside story and thought that the senior officials had investigated Cheng Yeran's background and knew that he was in poor health, so they didn't marry their daughter to him.
"There are many good doctors in the capital. If you can't have a child, you can go to the capital to look for a doctor. You may find a miracle doctor who can cure his illness." Seeing that Shen Yuntang still had confidence in having a child and didn't want to adopt a child, Shen's mother let them do it.
Shen Yuntang felt helpless when he saw that his mother still thought Cheng Yeran was not good in that aspect. However, he could not provide evidence to prove that Cheng Yeran was actually very capable. He could only give up explaining for the time being. Anyway, once they had a child, the misunderstanding would be resolved.
He hoped that the child would look a lot like Cheng Yeran, otherwise people would start to suspect that Cheng Yeran had him conceived with someone else in order to cover up her own inability.
This kind of thing has happened in the village. I heard that some families who can't have children let their wives go out and borrow sperm from others.
This kind of thing would never happen in their family. Cheng Yeran was even jealous of him and his brother, let alone asking him to go out and borrow seeds.
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Running back and forth is too tiring, Cheng Yeran is worried that Shen Yuntang is tired
Nanshan
It was bad, so they decided to stay at home for a few days before leaving. They did not move back to their own house, but lived in the house where Shen Yuntang lived before she got married.
Two people used to live in that room, so it wasn't too small and wasn't crowded.
Shen Yuntang has lived here for more than ten years, and has preserved many traces of his life. Cheng Yeran likes to dig out some traces of Shen Yuntang's childhood here, and then ask Shen Yuntang what this is and that is, and listen to him talk about his childhood.
Shen Yuntang had forgotten many of his childhood memories, and most of what he could remember were the years when he suffered in the Xia family in his previous life.
Now Cheng Yeran was accompanying him to recall the happy memories of his childhood. These happy memories and the happy memories of this life were gradually covering up the painful and terrible memories of his previous life.
Seeing that they were about to leave, the third brother came to discuss with them, "Can you take me with you when you go to the capital? If you still need me to continue making lipstick packaging for you, this kind of packaging can be made by any carpenter outside. There are more craftsmen in the capital, but family members are more reassuring."
"Of course it would be great if you could go with us, but don't you want to stay at home with our parents?" Shen Yuntang felt that his third brother was different from his fourth brother. His third brother had the potential to be a carpenter and had been trained by his father since he was a child. He should not have the same worries as his fourth brother who was not valued by his parents.
"I don't want to stay at home all the time and be controlled by my parents. I'm old enough to be independent and don't want to be a child anymore." The third brother asked them, "If you can take me away, I will pack my bags. Even if my parents don't agree, I will leave."
Shen Yuntang couldn't help but sigh, it was really a case of drought or flood. Fourth brother wanted the attention of his parents but never got it, but third brother disliked his parents for being too controlling and wanted to leave.
At first, my parents were reluctant to let my third brother leave, but he was very determined and believed that development would be better in the capital. There were four sons in their family, and none of them was good at studying. If it weren't for Cheng Yeran, a promising son-in-law, the third and fourth sons would not have had the opportunity to develop in the capital.
They would never keep their two children in the village for their own sake, affecting their development opportunities.
Two sons went to Beijing to develop, two sons stayed at home to accompany them and take care of them in their old age, and they also had a brother-in-law to bring them face. They felt that their life was complete.
Before the third brother left, his mother helped him pack his luggage and told him to remember to ask Shen Yuntang if he encountered any problems. Although Shen Yuntang was younger than him, he had been doing business outside for so many years and knew more than him.
His father took him aside and told him a lot of things about carpentry, telling him not to make mistakes in the future.
The third brother felt very annoyed and yearned for an independent life. He was so excited that he could control his own life in the future.
There was so much luggage in the county town that two donkey carts were not enough to hold it all. The young general's bodyguards happened to be here delivering the goods, and they helped them transport a few carts of things.
The two of them bought two more carriages. As there were so many of them, two carriages were barely enough for everyone.
It was two months later that we arrived in the capital.
The house had been bought before. One yard was for Shen Yuntang and Cheng Yeran to live in, and the other large yard could accommodate Yuanbao and others, and also be used to store some goods on weekdays.
As a result, just as they arrived in Beijing and hadn't put their luggage away, someone came from the palace.
It was the eunuch from the palace who came to deliver the emperor's decree. Cheng Yeran recognized him. He was the eunuch Li beside the emperor. When he first met the emperor, the emperor asked him to raise his head. Not only did he see the emperor, he also remembered the eunuch beside the emperor. Did the emperor want to summon him into the palace?
Are you so impatient to take advantage of him? What should he do?
Before he could come up with a countermeasure, he heard the eunuch who delivered the imperial decree say that the emperor had rewarded him with a house. That house was the one that Shen Yuntang had seen before. It was a large house that cost more than 200,000 taels. He had seen it once at the time but was reluctant to buy it, so he bought this smaller house. He did not expect that the emperor would actually reward them with that house. Not only was Cheng Yeran surprised, but Shen Yuntang was even more surprised.
In addition to the joy of getting a new house, Shen Yuntang was also a little scared, as if their every move was under the control of the emperor. What exactly did the emperor mean?
After Cheng Yeran received the imperial edict, he stuffed a big red envelope into Eunuch Li's pocket and asked him secretly, "Do you know why His Majesty wants to give me this house?"
"How can we guess what the emperor means? We dare not guess." Eunuch Li weighed the red envelope, changed his expression, and whispered to Cheng Yeran: "His Majesty appreciates you very much. There are many top scholars, but I have never seen a top scholar rewarded with such a big house by His Majesty."
Cheng Yeran looked around and secretly asked Eunuch Li, "Is His Majesty a homosexual?"
Eunuch Li was shocked. "Don't say such nonsense. Don't say such things again. Otherwise, watch out for your head. Besides, even if His Majesty really wants to do something to you, he won't beat around the bush like this. He will directly recruit you into the palace. You must have a correct attitude in the future."
Cheng Yeran thanked him and escorted him out the door.
"This house? Are we moving in?" Shen Yuntang was afraid that this was a hot potato and was a little scared.
"It's a gift from the Emperor, so we have to move it." Cheng Yeran looked at the boxes and said, "Fortunately, they are not sorted. It's much more convenient now."
They were just about to eat something, rest and move to another place when they heard a knock on the door.
This time, it was Zhao Yanlin who sent someone to invite Cheng Yeran to the dinner, and he specifically said that there would be no one else but him and Yang Shiming.
Zhao Yanlin had not invited him before he came to take the exam, but now that he had passed the exam and become the top scorer, he came to invite him. Cheng Yeran always felt that something was wrong.
But he still went, and he was shocked when he saw Zhao Yanlin. Zhao Yanlin had become very different from before. Zhao Yanlin used to be full of vigor and vitality, but now he looked very depressed and had lost a lot of weight, as if he had suffered a lot of torture.
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