Chapter 201: How dare you hit me, you fool?
The second brother pondered with his head slightly lowered, holding the hilt of the sword in his hand, and his fingers embedded the sword tassel into the groove bit by bit, until the tassel was filled into the groove, and the emotions that surged in his heart were also suppressed.
He turned his head to look at Chen Du beside him, only to see that Chen Du's deep eyes were dark and opaque, as if a turbulent undercurrent was lurking beneath the calm surface of a lake.
Chen Zhuo knew that his elder brother was a calm and reserved person who rarely showed his emotions.
He patted Shen Du's shoulder and said, "Brother, if you want to cry, just cry. Why hold it in? I won't laugh at you."
Chen Du tilted his head, looking at Chen Zhuo with deep eyes, without any emotion, but it made Chen Zhuo shudder.
Chen Du lowered his eyes and looked at his hand on his shoulder.
Shen Zhuo felt uneasy and was about to withdraw his hand.
The next moment, Chen Du lifted his hand and saw the wrinkled fabric. He smoothed it out with his palm, but there were still creases.
Chen Du's face darkened. He pressed the crease again, but there was still a faint mark.
He wrinkled the material on his left shoulder, symmetrically to the right.
Chen Zhuo: "..."
He curled his lips, somewhat unable to stand Chen Du's fussiness, and turned to look at Shen Qingtan at the door. She leaned softly in the arms of Princess Zhenbei.
The Zhenbei Palace is full of rough men. For several generations, no one has had a daughter.
When Shen Qingtan was born, her status was unmatched, and everyone in the mansion revolved around her.
He looked at the baby with two eyes, a nose and a mouth, and didn't think it was so strange. Was it really that rare?
She is so delicate and will cry when she gets hurt. It's so annoying.
He won't get spoiled.
But she always liked to pester him and asked him to hold her up high. He looked at her watery eyes and was afraid that she would cry and make his ears noisy, so he held her up high.
But he was the one who finished his homework the fastest, so his mother always forced her to do it on him.
Even when she went to Nanlingzhou, she still asked him to make a cat lamp.
But this time, she was gone for fourteen years.
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At the door of the front hall, the old lady and the eldest lady hurried over. When they saw the mother and daughter recognizing each other at the door, they slowly stopped.
At such moments, they seemed to empathize with each other and felt a bitterness in their hearts.
The pain of Princess Zhenbei further exposed the sins of Marquis Cheng'en's family.
The old lady thought of her daughter who had passed away early, whom she had not even seen for the last time.
Her eyes were filled with warmth: "Tan'er's family is reunited, it's inconvenient for us to disturb them."
"Yes." The eldest lady pressed her handkerchief against the corners of her eyes, hiding the emotion in them: "Tan'er's family is reunited...it's great."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came quietly and left quietly.
Princess Zhenbei calmed down and let go of Shen Qingtan.
Shen Qingtan looked at the white jade porcelain jar in the arms of Princess Zhenbei. The jar was painted with a lion cat lying on its back on the grass with its belly open. A little girl with pigtails was lying next to it, poking the kitten's belly with her fingers.
My uncle said she once had a lion cat.
Princess Zhenbei saw Shen Qingtan staring at the white jade porcelain jar, opened the lid, pinched out a piece of lactose, and fed it to her mouth like she did when she was a child.
Shen Qingtan held lactose in his mouth and stared at Princess Zhenbei in a daze, the sweet taste spreading in his mouth.
She didn't bite the lactose into pieces, but waited for it to dissolve bit by bit.
Shen Qingtan looked at Princess Zhenbei's red eyes and said softly, "Mother, I still want to eat."
She let out a mischievous "ah".
Princess Zhenbei was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered her head and pinched another piece of lactose into Shen Qingtan's mouth. She watched her eyebrows curved with satisfaction, as if what she was eating was not a piece of lactose, but a delicacy.
Next, Princess Zhenbei fed her the third and fourth.
The mother and daughter seemed to have returned to fourteen years ago. The little girl lay in her arms and acted coquettishly, pestering her mother to feed her candy.
Princess Zhenbei looked at Shen Qingtan tenderly, with a slight smile on her lips.
She closed the lid and subconsciously wiped Shen Qingtan's mouth with a handkerchief: "Brothers miss you very much, please recognize your brother."
Shen Qingtan ate several candies in a row, and his heart seemed to be soaked in the candy jar.
She nodded softly: "Okay."
Princess Zhenbei brought Shen Qingtan to Chen Du and Shen Zhuo.
"This is my eldest brother, Chen Du. He has a steady temperament. If you have any problems in the future, besides looking for your parents, you should look for your eldest brother first."
Following the introduction of Princess Zhenbei, Shen Qingtan looked up and saw Chen Du wearing a round-necked black robe. He had an upright figure, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and looked as oppressive as a small mountain.
His face was tense and his jaw unconsciously retracted.
Shen Qingtan looked into Chen Du's dark eyes, which faintly revealed a trace of emotion that she couldn't catch in time.
She called out softly, "Brother."
Shen Du clenched his hands into fists at his sides and uttered a low, hoarse "hmm".
Princess Zhenbei continued to introduce, "This is my second brother, Chen Zhuo. He seems unreliable in his words and deeds, but he does things that he cares about very well. Before you went to Nanling Prefecture, you wanted cat lanterns. The following year, during the Lantern Festival, he made a whole yard of cat lanterns."
Chen Zhuo frowned: "That's what the lion cat likes."
Seeing that he was saying one thing and thinking another, Shen Qingtan nodded and said, "A cat can easily scratch a paper cat lantern with one claw. Second brother, make some more so the cat can play with it for a while."
Chen Zhuo tightly shut his mouth, turned his head away, and said nothing more.
Seeing this, Princess Zhenbei pursed her lips and smiled.
The second brother's bad habit of being stubborn has to be cured by Manman.
Chen Du glanced at Shen Zhuo, who had a frown on his face and looked a little unhappy.
His expression relaxed, and the fatigue from days of traveling dissipated.
Princess Zhenbei was about to introduce the third son, Shen Lue, when she discovered that the third son was not in the front hall.
She frowned slightly: "Where is the third brother?"
Chen Du and Shen Zhuo looked at each other. Ever since they entered the Duke's Mansion, who had the time to take care of the third brother?
At the same time, Chen Lue, whom they were thinking about, sat on the wall with his legs spread out, looking at a path paved with bluestone slabs.
Suddenly, he saw a figure coming and jumped down with nimbleness.
Shen Lue's sturdy shoulder bumped into the man, his thick eyebrows furrowed, and he grabbed the man's collar with his backhand: "You blind thing, how dare you bump into me."
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