In the third year of junior high, Shen Ce took her to see the Spring Festival Horse.

She wanted to watch the fun, crowded in the crowd, and watched the invited young female Feng Shui masters do the Spring Festival activities. She was spending the Spring Festival with Shen Ce this time, and she was most interested in these feng shui numerology, all kinds of pleasing ideas, which were usually not heard at home. She noticed that many people were holding similar windmills, with small triangular flags made of red paper on thin golden sticks, and small colored or golden windmills dotted on both sides, as if they were bought from the same place.

"The third day of the first year is not suitable for New Year's greetings. Everyone likes to go to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, and then buy horses." He said.

The windmill is from the Chegong Temple, bought for good luck, and transported in the New Year.

"I knew we were going too." I want to buy it for him to transport.

Shen Ce smiled and whispered: "There will be opportunities every year in the future."

It is true.

She was willing to be a drop in the sea, and while she was surrounded by strangers, she embraced him: "Brother."

"Well." He was counting the time and wanted to take her up to watch the first show of the New Year at twelve o'clock.

"It's been more than a year since the last proposal, and I agreed. I will only take me to eat and drink, watch horses and flowers, and don't show anything practical." She suddenly joked with him, "There are many people here, do you say it again? Will you marry me?"

"..." Shen Ce couldn't help her, "Marry."

A total of eleven games today.

They don't have time to watch the whole thing, and they have to go back to Macau, so they can only watch the opening at twelve o'clock. She went to the VIP box, eager to read the newspaper, and wanted to read the horse scriptures. Shen Ce asked someone to give it to her.

"You really are, Shenlong sees the beginning but not the end." The brothers Liang Jinhua came with the newspaper, followed by a few friends who were familiar with Shen Ce, as well as their girlfriends. There was news from the Liang family that he was ill. It is not clear to outsiders. It is extremely rare for several young masters to see Shen Ce, and they asked him what he was busy with, but he did not show up for several years.

Shen Ce was rarely in a good mood, and responded to them, "A lifelong event."

He is someone who doesn't like to talk about men's and women's affairs. This sentence naturally attracts more inquiries, but he can't dig out more words.

Before the crowd came, she hugged Shen Ce's waist from behind. When the crowd came, the two had to separate. She picked up a newspaper by the sofa, flipped through it, and chatted with the boys around her.

"Your brother hides, you hide too. Do you remember me?" Liang Jinrong saw her last time outside the Hong Kong airport.

Zhao Zhao is much higher than graduating from high school. Shen Celi is the most prominent among the younger brothers. She is half a head shorter than Shen Ce, and the two brothers and sisters don't stand out from her. When she faces Liang Jinrong alone, it is almost the same.

She nodded and smiled at Liang Jinrong: "Remember, you were the one who picked me up in the car. Your brother has been to Montreal and met twice. If you go—"

"Zhaozhao," Shen Ce suddenly called her, "Come and see."

As soon as she heard his call, she abandoned the people around her and returned to him.

The two met their eyes.

Next to Shen Ce is Liang Jinhua.

Liang Jinhua is of Portuguese mixed blood, with a big skeleton, thick eyebrows and deep eyes, a slightly hawk-like nose, and a rough temperament. Shen Ce was beside this old friend, and his facial features were softened a lot. For several years, he was recuperating from illness and avoiding the sun. He was as white as a girl. sick beauty.

"Every horse likes your brother," Liang Jinhua said. "When my horse saw him, he was very close as if he knew him."

Liang Jinhua is not like his younger brother, he only thinks and does not act. I went to Montreal to make an appointment with Zhaozhao twice, so I got to know her better and could chat a little: "Maybe he raised horses in his last life."

Shen Ce smiled without saying a word.

She was not convinced. However, since Liang Jinhua had chased after him, in order to avoid suspicion, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

As it happened, a group of tall horses rushed out, and the men around them all gathered in front of the glass, applauding and cheering, but Shen Ce was quiet as usual. She tilted her head to look at him, as if she could see the sky, clouds, and thousands of troops on the green grass in his eyes.

There seemed to be thousands of horses stepping on the weeds, mudflats, the loud noise of sand and gravel, and the battlefield cries that approached barbarism...

The left shoulder was lightly pressed, and she woke up.

"Uncomfortable?" Shen Ce asked, hearing that her breathing was not smooth, and she was very depressed.

She shook her head: "I think the horse looks good when it runs." Seeing that no one was paying attention, she said in his ear, "You look better."

Shen Ce's hand slid down and patted her on the back: "Let's go, go back to Macau."

...

"Let's go now?" Liang Jinrong was surprised.

Shen Ce didn't bother to say that if you two brothers had not come in and stared at Zhaozhao, it wouldn't have been so fast.

"Jin Shan said, your parents have all gone back, what's going on at home?" Liang Jinhua finally asked.

Shen Ce nodded and took Zhaozhao away.

This time, unlike the last time to pick up the guests, there were only two brothers and sisters on Shen Ce's small cruise ship.

He changed into a suit that he wanted to meet with his elders in the cabin, looked at his face in the mirror, found a pair of black half-rimmed glasses, wiped the lenses, and put them on. Zhaozhao thought of the old auntie's words, and wrapped his arms around his waist: "wearing glasses is not like a good person."

"Really?" he laughed.

The next moment, the coldness of the lens on her face pressed against her skin.

The coolness of the lens made the kiss restrained and quiet. Shen Ce wanted to take off her glasses, but she didn't allow her. After kissing the glasses, he took them off and put them beside the sink. "You were jealous at the racecourse, when Liang Jinrong was talking to me?" She put her arms around his neck.

"You said yes, yes."

"He's not as tall as me, so there's nothing to be jealous of."

Shen Ce nodded: "That makes sense."

"Brother." She didn't call him enough.

"Yeah." As usual, he agreed, never getting bored.

"You said, is it normal to fall in love like we do?" Always want to hug, but not enough kisses.

"Normal or not, not all the same," he replied, "no one has any control over you."

"Will you get tired?" If you eat one thing every day, no matter how delicious it is, you will get tired.

"Won't."

"Maybe it's not fresh after a long time."

"You can try," he smiled. "Try to be with me twenty-four hours a day and do nothing but one thing for ten years. Let's see if I lied to you."

She was moved, staring at him, like a faint star staring at a beauty. In her heart, she went through all the allusions to the beauty of ancient times that brought disaster to the country and the people, and imagined that if Shen Ce liked to hear the sound of cracking silk, she would also be happy to collect precious silks from all over the world and tore them for him every day. Build a palace and cast a platform for him, make him smile, and send lychees from all over the world...

"How do you think about raising me?" Shen Ce suddenly asked.

She pursed her lips and smiled.

His hair was touched by him, and he wiped the glasses again and put them on.

Zhao Zhao in the mirror leaned back against the sliding door and looked at him. He looked at her in the mirror.

Everything was the same as yesterday. He was injured in a car accident before returning home, the scars on her face, and many subtle details made him unable to ignore... In the past, he died at the age of twenty-six, and now, it is this year. He guessed that this year would not be a good year. If she didn't escape this catastrophe, the most fearful thing was that she wouldn't be able to accept it. Otherwise, it doesn't matter.

At five o'clock, they arrived in Macau.

Uncle Shen had asked someone to wait in the hall on the first floor, and asked the brothers and sisters to arrive. Instead of going upstairs, go to the study room on the first floor.

"No wonder you have to change your clothes," she whispered.

"Speak less for a while, just listen." Shen Ce advised.

Is it a New Year's rule that the juniors will be lectured in the study of the grandparents? Zhao Zhao was disturbed by his instructions, and together with Shen Ce, entered the living room of the study coat room. No one, the voices are all next door.

Shen Ce took her into the conference room next door, which was used by her great-grandfather in the past.

When she came to the wedding banquet, she only saw the study room and the living room of the suite, but had no chance to see this one.

The interior is full of old furniture with red rosewood, which suppresses the light and shadow in the room. Several bonsai stands are decorated with yellow plums. It was full of people, both men and women, chatting and laughing in a low voice. When the two of them arrived, they were all smiling and quiet. Zhaozhao followed Shen Ce, greeted one by one, and finally returned to the uncle.

"Today is a big event for the long house, so your uncle and aunts are here," the old uncle said, "you come."

Shen Ce walked to the uncle.

The uncle grabbed his uninjured arm, slid it down, and held his hand with both palms. He sighed softly, and said with a bit of pity, "I hope a different father can keep you for the Shen family."

A moment of silence.

Shen Ce nodded slightly: "Thank you uncle."

Zhaozhao was like falling into a cloud, and everyone smiled and congratulated the uncle.

She kept Shen Ce's words in mind, didn't ask much, sat down with Shen Ce, and received the hot tea handed over. He seemed to be unfamiliar with her as soon as he entered the house. Apart from drinking tea, he was responding to the concerns of the elders, and he didn't often look at her.

The elders chatted for about ten minutes, and Zhaozhao got an unexpected new news from their conversation.

Uncle Shen actually wanted to adopt Shen Ce to his uncle. One is to spread branches and leaves for the uncle's vein, and the other is to change his parents and change Shen Ce's fate. The uncle has no grandchildren, so naturally he does not object. The only concern is that Shen Ce is Uncle Shen's only son, which is too unfair to Uncle Shen.

Uncle Shen's answer was that Shen Baoying's daughter was his own daughter, so he didn't care about it.

Therefore, these elders who are not seen on weekdays have all returned, and they will hold a formal adoption banquet on the fifth day of the first year. From the fifth day of the first year, Shen Ce will become the second son of the uncle Shen Hansong on the genealogy, while Shen Hanzhong has only one daughter, Shen Zhaozhao.

This is not just a ceremony, or a change in the genealogy, but also the future inheritance rights of Shen Ce and Zhao Zhao.

The long room has always been in charge of the family business and funds, that is, the accumulation and distribution of the Shen family's wealth.

The uncle Shen Hansong is in charge of the family fund, because the eldest son has been practicing cultivation for more than ten years, and when the uncle passes away, he will be ordained as a monk, and he is already half empty. So the uncle has no successor here. Shen Ce is now the second son, so of course he will take over this part. The uncle is very old, and as soon as Shen Ce takes over, he will retire and focus on managing the family foundation, becoming the "scatter money man" behind the Shen family. It mainly manages the distribution of property within the family, as well as non-profit charitable investments.

Before today, Zhaozhao thought that the Shen family had no family fund. When she first arrived in Hong Kong, Liang Jinrong and the boys mentioned that the Shen family is not listed, has no family fund, and their property is unknown... Now, the Shen family does not want to be judged by the public, and they always make money and charity independently. Only outside denied the existence of the family fund.

Shen Hanzhong manages the business of the Shen family, which will be handed over to the only daughter, Shen Zhaozhao. Of course Zhaozhao is still young, Shen Hanzhong is still at his peak, and he can do it for at least another 20 years. With his wife Shen Baoying, the two of them are enough to cultivate Zhaozhao.

"In the future, you will gather wealth, and I will disperse it." He simply added.

...

Shen Ce called someone to take a plate of pine nuts.

He originally wanted pine nuts, but after thinking about it, the nuts are fragrant when they are peeled, and he specifically asked for pine nuts with shells.

He stripped leisurely, and she scorched him with her eyes in the subtle, regular sound.Although there is no evidence, she has an intuition that the source of this matter is herself.

The Shen family started out in business, and Uncle Shen was the core of the family, which originally belonged to Shen Ce.

For his own sake, he retired to the back, although the two did not need to separate each other.But from the beginning, he was giving in, giving, and never asking. This was his attitude towards Shen Zhaozhao.She couldn't explain how she felt at the moment, if in ancient times, today's Shen Ce would have one sentence that could fit in: surrender to the river and mountains.