Taizhou.

The Shen family has been passed down to the twenty-sixth generation in the south of the Yangtze River. It has stood for hundreds of years and has attracted much attention. This is the first time Shen Gong has returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors in more than 20 years. Naturally, many media followed him. Afterwards, it made the matter extremely lively.

The sky is bright, and the ancestor worship has begun.

Everyone went from the ancestral hall to the inner hall to offer incense, and finally set foot on the tomb of the ancestors, walked to the tomb, and began to bow and offer incense according to seniority.

Rows of white chrysanthemums, and when everyone stepped forward, they would bend over to add another.

Shen Zhaozhao and elder sister, as juniors, were waiting at the end.

The two reporters behind her couldn't squeeze to the innermost side, so they simply put down the camera and started gossip in a low voice.

"Now it's Shen Qingqiu who presents the chrysanthemum. He is running for finance minister in Mexico this year. I didn't expect him to be so low."

"This kind of big family is like this. You look at the boy in front of him. If you look at the standing position, he is older than him, and he is only fifteen or sixteen years old."

After hearing this, she tried her best to look in the front row, but didn't see the boy. There are just too many people.

When it was close to lunch, the ancestor worship finally came to an end. The Shen family arranged for all the media people at home and abroad to dine, and the place was in the old house.

Several people who live in Taizhou all year round are responsible for entertaining foreign guests.

The mother gave the two sisters to Shen Jiaming and Shen Jiaheng, two grandsons of Shen Gong. Shen Jiaming saw the little twins last night and introduced them to Shen Jiaheng, "They are both distant cousins. Qin Zhaozhao, Shen Zhaozhao, a pair of twins. Qin is Sister, Shen is the younger sister."

Their mother was the Shen family, so they were cousins.

"Wait, you confused me," Shen Jiaheng was at a loss, "Why do twins have two surnames?"

Shen Zhaozhao and her sister looked at each other and both laughed.

Since last night, they have heard this question eight times, if not ten times.

"Sister and father's surname, younger sister and mother's surname."

"How do you usually distinguish between Da Zhao and Xiao Zhao?"

"What about Big Qiao and Xiao Qiao?" Shen Jiaming explained softly to his younger brother in a whisper, "Their parents separated early, and the sisters each take one, so there is no such problem."

Shen Jiaheng was puzzled, and still stared at them, as if he still had doubts.

"Do you have to ask why we don't look alike?" Sister smiled sweetly, looking at the distant cousin.

To be honest, the twins are very different.

The elder sister has a pointed chin, a high nose, deep eye sockets, peach blossom eyes, and thick eyebrows, but because of her young age, she has not deliberately trimmed them, so they are a bit messy and not very neat; while Shen Zhaozhao has an oval face, fleshy cheeks, partial almond eyes, and curved eyebrows. Just neat.

The lips are the least different. My sister has thin lips, and her lips are rounded.

"One of us is like father and the other is like mother." Shen Zhaozhao also smiled at his two brothers.

are fraternal siblings.

Their parents have told them that since they were children.

The two older brothers wanted to entertain guests and asked someone to drive them to see the Shenjia Yufang.

Both sisters expressed no interest, asked someone for an umbrella, and went out to hang out together.

The Shen family has three houses here, one was donated to the local government, and the other opened a jade exhibition hall, leaving only this remote ancestral home.

Because the location is extremely remote, there is no trace of commercialization at all, and they are all ordinary households.

There are bridges, but they have not been repaired, and there are narrow alleys.

They circled around in a big circle, but they didn't see any good scenery. Instead, they saw two deserted empty courtyards, full of gray walls and dead trees, which were quite desolate in the rain.

The two discussed whether it was better to go back.

From a distance, there is an open pastry shop with no signboard, but it seems to be selling food.

There was a lot of water in the alley, and my sister had white shoes on her feet, so she refused to go forward for fear of getting dirty.

She was not afraid, she left the umbrella to her sister, covered her head with her hands, bypassed several ditches, covered her head with her hands, and ran to the shop. There is a piece of paper on the wall with the prices of various flower cakes written on it.

There was no light in the house, and the stove in the northwest corner was on fire, illuminating half of the interior.

The few rattan baskets in front of her were empty, and the drawers inside were also empty. She looked inside and finally saw a row of freshly made flower cakes on the table on the right. A hand opened the dark blue curtain.

Finally someone.

"Hello, I want to buy flower cakes." She greeted the shopkeeper in a clear voice.

Following her questioning, a young man came out from behind the curtain.

He looked fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in a well-fitting casual outfit, with nothing but a rose gold watch on his wrist.

A face with short hair suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, reflecting the fire in the stove, and she couldn't tell whether it was white or black. It was only when he stepped into the natural light that his clear facial features were revealed. The face is thin, the nose is narrow and tall, and the eyes are hooked inward and outward, like a knife. Bright eyes.

There was a new bloodstain on the bridge of the nose, as if it had just been smashed.

Shen Zhaozhao didn't look at him carefully, dragged the silver chain bag diagonally across his back to his front, and opened the buckle.

There were two explosions in the stove, and the firewood burst.

She looked up in horror.

This time it was just right, and the eyes met.

She suddenly couldn't see his eyes and face clearly, as if she couldn't breathe and was extremely uncomfortable. This oppression and sadness was only for a short moment, and soon dissipated.

It must be raining and low air pressure.

Shen Zhaozhao silently took a breath, found the change, and said to him with a smile in his eyes, "The one with a little red on it, if you want that smell, you want three dollars."

Across the low counter, handed over the money, but the other party didn't answer.

"The red one," she repeated.

He hesitated for a moment, and followed the little girl's eyes to look at the newly-baked flower cakes.

"Again." He finally said the first sentence.

"Red."

He didn't move, and continued to ask "Which number from the right?"

Shen Zhaozhao was stunned by his words and didn't understand where he was wrong, but he still answered in his way, "The third, fourth and fifth on the right."

Shen Ce didn't go to get the cake, but took out a black wallet from his trousers pocket, and said to behind the curtain, "I just wrapped it all up, and want three more flower cakes."

An old woman came out with a smile and kept apologizing, saying it was too late, and wrapped the flower cake she wanted.

Until he settled, she finally understood that this person is not a cake seller.

This was her first acquaintance with Shen Ce.

Half an hour later, she and her sister were taken by their mother to see their cousin, and they entered the main hall. They saw him sitting on the chair on the right side of Shen Gong, and his cousin Shen Jiaheng was opposite him.

"The twins are here." Shen Gong said with a smile.

Shen Zhaozhao's eyes widened, looking at him incredulously.

He watched her hold back and did not speak, and glanced at his demeanor, but he was not surprised, as if he knew that there would definitely be this second meeting. Seeing her clothes and the jade pendant hanging around her neck in the back alley, he knew that the girl was from the Shen family. The children who came to worship their ancestors this time were each given a similar gadget by Duke Shen.

Shen Ce, a descendant of the Shen family from Macau.

As for the Macau branch, she heard her mother talk about it twice. The ancestors of the Shen family suffered a great disaster and were almost wiped out, so they branched off, one stayed in Taizhou, the other went south, and settled in Macau after several times. However, the branch that went south also suffered heavy losses before the fall of the Qing Dynasty. There were very few people, but both men and women were dragons and phoenixes. So she has always had an excellent impression of the Shen family in Macau, and she finally saw it today.

At first, she thought that this brother was very special. When she heard that she and her sister were twins, she didn't show a surprised expression, and she didn't ask why they didn't look alike.

When he heard the two "Zhao Zhao", he suddenly raised his eyes and watched the two sisters seriously for a while.

Shen Zhaozhao couldn't help laughing.

The sister sighed deliberately.

Everyone looked over.

"Why, I have a good relationship with this brother?" Grandpa asked her kindly.

She smiled "um".

He will surely ask why there are two Zhaozhao.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ce stared at the two sisters for a long time, and just praised "Good name."

"After all, your seniority is not low," Shen Gong said. "What should these twins call you? It's really a problem."

"My name is brother." Shen Ce said.

When he came here, his father had instructed that the two branches were separated more than a dozen generations ago, and there was no blood connection.

Under the arrangement of their elders, the two sisters formally greeted their elder brother, who was far away, and were specially sent to another yard.

The yard was cleaned early after the rain stopped.

Courtyard lights, as well as decorative wooden lanterns, are lit. There are also lights on the rockery and on the lake, all of which are lit, in order to let these children have fun.

Today's ancestor worship is over, and everyone will leave one after another tomorrow, and don't know if we can see each other again, so the children of the Shen family were arranged by the adults to gather here for the last time. The children of a few years old were taken to watch the revolving lanterns, and the older ones played Pai Gow together. Because of the different growing environments, the yard has various accents and various languages ​​interlaced. Most of them are English, French and Western, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and Sichuan dialect. Come.

Coupled with the soft and gentle Wu Nong's whispers, the whole collection is in one place, and it is extremely lively.

My sister played Pai Gow with others, and she listened to everyone chatting.

After night fell, some people began to sprinkle mosquito repellent water on the flowers, and moved a few pots of Yelaixiang to the pond to repel mosquitoes. It was the first time she saw Ye Laixiang, she squatted in front of the flower pot and looked at the lemon-yellow flower, and smelled it carefully, it was very strong.

Pulling her up with one hand, "It smells too much, it's not good for people."

It was Shen Jiaheng who reminded himself, and it was Shen Ce who came behind him.

This is the third time the two have met today.

There was a four or five-year-old child playing with a marquee next to him. The light was spinning quickly, and shadows passed over his face. He didn't look like he was in the main hall, pretending that he had never seen her, and obviously smiled when he saw her here.

Shen Zhaozhao turned his hands behind his back, deliberately didn't say hello to him, and asked Ye Laixiang carefully with his cousin Shen Jiaheng.

Shen Jiaheng originally liked this very beautiful distant sister and spoke carefully. Shen Ce listened to the two of them chatting with great interest, without interjecting, both of them just pretended that they didn't know each other by accident in the afternoon.

"I can't see clearly at night," my sister suddenly shoved the dominoes in her hand to a girl beside her, "Come on."

This is an excuse. My sister has won too many times all night, and I'm embarrassed to win again.

The person who took the elder sister's card quickly won.

Amidst everyone's laughter, someone suddenly asked my sister, "Why can't you see clearly at night?" Shen Ce, who had listened to Ye Lai Xiang and Mosquito repellent for half an hour, did not join the topic, and finally got the interest to chat.

"It's night blindness." My sister didn't expect this person to ask.

My sister didn't go to the cake shop in the afternoon, and she didn't meet Shen Ce. The only time she met was when she called "Brother" in the front hall. Shen Ce was a pure stranger to her.

So the conversation between the two came out abruptly.

Shen Jiaheng cared about his cousin and asked, "What did the doctor say without seeing the doctor?"

"I've seen it, it's much better," my sister said vaguely. "Sometimes it doesn't work, but it doesn't work in dim light."

Shen Zhaozhao wanted to laugh when he heard it.

It was Shen Zhaozhao who had been night blind since childhood, not her sister. When she was in China when she was a few years old, she was often laughed at by her friends because of this, and because of this, her sister knew that she didn't want to admit it, and she often helped her sister and took this matter to herself. Later, when she got older, her night blindness improved, but her sister liked to use this "excuse" to prevaricate various problems.

Even the parents were deceived by the elder sister very well, and they would also feel that this is a family inheritance. The younger daughter is fine, but the eldest daughter has this problem.

Later that night,

Shen Zhaozhao noticed that Shen Ce looked at his side twice, and was embarrassed to look back at first, but finally found that he was looking at his sister beside him.