Ordinary clear day

Chapter 136
Shu Ning's eyes widened, looking from top to bottom, and from bottom to top, a person's name was ready to come out in her heart: "You are... Brother Tongying?!" Seeing the other party smiling and nodding, she opened her mouth slightly: " How come... We all thought you were missing! Where did you go? Why hasn’t there been any news for half a year? My brother is dying of anxiety. Also, why did you jump into my yard?”

Tong Ying blinked: "Isn't this your brother's yard?" "Why? My brother lives in the yard next to him."

Tong Ying rubbed her head in embarrassment: "Your brother clearly said in the letter that he lived in the fourth courtyard from south to north. I jumped in after counting the fourth courtyard. I didn't expect it to be sister Shu's courtyard."

Shu Ning thought for a while, and then she understood: "I see, the courtyard where the servants live in front, because of the large space, an additional row of houses was built, Brother Tong Ying looked from the outside, probably mistook it as two courtyards .Actually, I am the third here. But why don't you come in through the gate?"

Tong Ying said "uh..." as if she didn't know how to answer.Shuning seemed to think of something funny, so she said with a smile: "Fortunately, you misidentified the yard. If you really came to brother's yard, and he's not here now, the maids might treat you as a thief."

"Your brother isn't here? How could that be? I remember he went to the Imperial College every ten days, but even if he wasn't here, didn't those two girls of his have seen me? Even if I'm in a mess now, I won't be able to recognize him."

"Brother is going to the Imperial Academy to participate in the archery performance every five days. Have you forgotten? It's already autumn." Shuning smiled and said, "As for the maids, those two are already married, and the two are now married. I have only been here for less than a year. If you met Mrs. Ma Sansao, it would be fine. If someone else, you will definitely think you are a gangster from somewhere. Let’s not mention this, Brother Tongying, let’s talk about why you climbed the wall to get in? Just now it seems Someone is chasing you, could it be that you have been spotted by a young lady who wants to chase you back and become her son-in-law?"

Tong Ying scolded with a smile: "Little girl, you know how to arrange me!" Then she straightened her face and said, "Sister Shu, I have something to do. I originally wanted to ask your brother for help, but now I have to entrust you. Stay for a few days, but don’t let others know. This matter is very important, please help my sister.”

Seeing his solemn expression, Shu Ning restrained her smile.She knew that although Tongying looked carefree, she never lied. Since he was so serious, she had his own reasons, so she thought about it and was about to speak when she heard a bang behind her. Looking back, it turned out to be Jasmine.When she saw a man suddenly come to the girl's backyard, she was shocked and knocked over the basin in her hand.

Shuning and Tongying raised their index fingers at the same time and let out a "hush", Suxin covered her mouth with a strange look on her face.Holly's voice came from the front yard: "Suxin, what's wrong with you?" Shuning hurriedly shouted: "It's okay, she saw a bug and was just startled." After pacifying Holly outside, Shuning turned her head When I came to visit Suxin, I found that the expression on her face became even weirder.

She tapped on Suxin's head and said, "What are you thinking about? This is my brother's good friend, please help us if you have something to do. Don't make a fuss, go to the front and ask Dongqing to go to the side of the second courtyard where I left me in the east wing Bring back the bamboo inkstone, and ask Kouer to pick two handfuls of coriander while the garden is still closed, and tell me that I will use it for cooking tonight. By the way, let me hint that there is no rush, so they don't have to come back so early. Hurry up go."

Suxin glanced quietly at Tongying, blinked, and left.Shu Ning then turned her head and said to Tong Ying: "Brother Tong Ying's matter must be very important, and my younger sister dare not make decisions, so I'm afraid I will sue my father." Too many people know." Shu Ning nodded: "I'm awake. By the way, didn't you bring someone with you? Why didn't you see him?" Tong Ying just said indifferently: "He has something to do."

After a while, Su Xin came back and said that she had already dismissed the people, so Shu Ning ordered again: "Go to brother's yard and see if there are any idlers, if there are any, then send them away, leaving only the tea incense and inkstone incense. It would be even better if there is Mrs. Ma San." Suxin blinked and went away aggrieved.

Shuning invited Tongying to the academy ahead, and fetched water for him.Tong Ying took the scarf and said with a smile: "It's still a girl who thinks thoughtfully. Are you afraid that I will scare people with my appearance like a gangster?" Shu Ning found a box of Jinchuang medicine and said angrily: "Hurry up!" Wash the wound and apply some medicine, even if the wound is not deep, you can’t let the blood flow like this? Go back to your brother’s yard and wash and change clothes.” Tong Ying looked at her arm, and sure enough, the two cuts were oozing Blood, touched his head, took the medicine box and wiped it.

After about a quarter of an hour, Suxin came back again, Shuning walked to the outside aisle, looked around to see if there was no one there, then led Tongying to Duanning's yard.It was obvious that she wanted to avoid people's eyes and ears, but Tong Ying still looked calm and composed, as if she was walking in the countryside, Su Xin, who followed nervously, couldn't help but roll her eyes.

As soon as Shuning stepped into Duanning's courtyard, she first greeted Ma Sansao Xiaomei, pointed to Tongying and said, "Miss Xiaomei, do you still remember Brother Tongying? He is in a bit of a mess right now, please help me, sisters, just don't let him If others know, I'll go back to Ama right away." Xiaomei looked at Tongying, smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and I almost don't recognize her anymore, please come in quickly. Chaxiang goes to heat water, and Yanxiang goes to find a suit. Bring brother’s clothes, I think Xiao Beizi can wear them.” Tong Ying smiled embarrassedly: “Sister Xiaomei, I’m no longer Beizi.” Xiaomei smiled softly: “I’ve heard about this, but I’ve already heard about it. Get used to it, just listen."

Seeing that everyone was busy, Shu Ning left the courtyard and walked towards the main courtyard.On the way, Suxin opened her mouth to speak a few times, but held back, she asked: "What's wrong with you? Tell me if you have something to say." Suxin said with a bitter face: "Miss, are you really going back to the master?" "Of course If you don't go back to Ama, how can you keep him?" Shu Ning quickly understood, and she was naturally annoyed: "I told you to stop thinking about it a long time ago, what are you pretending to be in your head? Forget it, Feel free to think what you want, but remember, never tell anyone, you know?" Su Xin stuck out her tongue and agreed.

Zhang Bao pondered for a moment after hearing his daughter's words, and said, "Hearing that he speaks so seriously, I'm afraid there's something wrong, I'll go see him." Shuning hurriedly stopped her and said, "Ama's foot injury hasn't healed yet. Just let him come, we can be regarded as acquaintances anyway." Zhang Bao smiled: "Nonsense, no matter what, with his status, how can we trust him?" He leaned on his crutches and walked out, Shu Ning hurriedly supported him .

Arriving at Duanning's courtyard, Tong Ying had finished grooming and changed into clean clothes, and even the wound on her arm was bandaged up again. The handsome prince in the past recovered by [-] to [-]%, but he was a little thinner .He and Zhang Bao talked secretly for half an hour in Duanning's small study, and Zhang Bao came out to call the maids and daughters-in-law of the two courtyards, and said, "None of you has any idea about this young master coming to our house today. Don't tell, if anyone asks, just tell me it's my wife's natal nephew who came to our house for recuperation when he was sick, and he is afraid that he will get sick, so no one is allowed to disturb him." Everyone responded in unison.

Tong Ying said softly: "Please also ask my uncle to arrange a quiet and less disturbed place for me, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones." Zhang Bao nodded: "This is natural. The Zhenxia Pavilion in the garden can be moved in at any time. People are not allowed to go there on weekdays, Xiao Beizi just lives there. I will arrange for people to bring food, water and clothes there.” Tong Ying thanked with a smile, and said: “Actually, I am not Beizi now, uncle, why don’t you go directly Call me by my name." Zhang Bao smiled slightly: "You can call me by my name in front of people, but it's not wrong to call me Beizi in private. I think you will be able to regain your title in a short time, right?" Tong Ying rubbed her head, Smile without saying a word.

Zhang Bao called Chang Gui, and after giving such instructions, he asked him to lead Tong Ying Jing to the garden.Shu Ning frowned slightly, and quietly asked her father: "Ama, you arranged for brother Tongying to live in Zhenxia Pavilion, what if that one comes?" She stretched out four fingers to signal the fourth elder brother.

Zhang Baodao: "Don't worry, the fourth elder brother sent a letter to someone earlier, saying that he will go to Shandong to accompany the Confucian Temple soon, and he will not come for the time being." Shu Ning finally felt relieved.

Tongying settled down in Zhenxia Pavilion.In order to reduce the number of insiders, Zhang Bao finally decided that his daughter Shuning would deliver the meals every day, and Ma San'er and his wife would be responsible for delivering the toiletries, and Chang Gui would prepare all the utensils.

Shuning delivered meals three times a day, and Tongying used them in the outside room. She could only faintly see several sheets of paper spread on the floor in the inside room, with words and pictures on them, but she really couldn't make out what it was .On the other hand, she has to send a lot of pens, ink and paper every day. It seems that Tong Ying consumes a lot of money in this area, but I don't see him asking someone to clean up the waste paper. He obviously saw several balls of paper on the ground before.

She didn't know where the waste paper went until she came early to deliver food and saw Tong Ying setting up a brazier to burn paper in front of the pavilion.But is it necessary to be so mysterious?What the hell is he doing?Shu Ning tried to ask her father, but Zhang Bao just shook his head, telling her not to worry about it.

Well, if you don't care too much, don't care too much.Shuning just delivered meals every day, watching Tong Ying finish eating, and took away the bowls and chopsticks.Only a few days later, she noticed that Tongying had become thinner, with big dark circles on her face, and when she remembered that when she came to deliver breakfast in the morning, the candle seemed to have just been extinguished, so she knew that he must have stayed up all night.She said: "Brother Tongying, don't think I'm long-winded. No matter how urgent this matter is, you can't damage your body. Since you don't want others to wait on you, you should take good care of yourself. Why don't you even sleep well?" sleep?"

Tong Ying blinked and smiled: "I heard from Duanning that although you are his sister, he thinks you are more like his sister sometimes. Today I understand the meaning of this sentence, actually What he said is not entirely correct, you are more like a mother than a sister."

brat!Is this criticizing my mother-in-law?How could I be that old? !Shuning gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes.

Perhaps because she realized that she had said the wrong thing, Tong Ying paused, glanced at her cautiously, and said: "Brother is just joking, sister Shu won't be angry?" Shu Ning pulled out a sweet smile: "Why? Yes? Brother Tongying is worrying too much, let's eat quickly." Tongying couldn't help shivering, but she felt that she was worrying too much. How could a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl have any complicated thoughts?
But when he saw the dinner sent by Shuning, he knew he was wrong.

"This, this, what is this? How do you know?" Tong Ying pointed at the bowl of pork liver soup with trembling fingers, "Old Duan must have told you, right?"

With a sweet smile on Shuning's face, she said, "What is Brother Tongying talking about? I don't understand." She stuffed the spoon into his hand, and said, "Drink it quickly, this is the most nourishing blood, Tongying My brother has lost a lot of blood, so I need to mend it." She brought the whole bowl in front of him, and stared at him with the most enthusiastic and innocent eyes.

Tong Ying drank the pork liver soup with tears in her eyes, and swallowed the pork liver inside, suppressing her nausea.He shouldn't underestimate this girl, who is Duanning?If others don't know, doesn't he know?How could Duanning's sister be a simple little girl? !

There was tofu for dinner the next day, Tong Ying ate a few mouthfuls, thought about it, and began to talk about tofu dishes with great interest, Shuning didn't know what he wanted to do, so she followed suit with a few words.While talking, Tong Ying changed the topic to the dish like tofu, and then talked about a "a certain dish thought up by a certain prince in a certain ancient country" - monkey brain.He told the allusions of this dish vividly, and when he talked about the bloody plot, he would pay attention to Shuning's face from time to time, in case the little girl would stop when she couldn't bear it.

But Shu Ning did not listen to it from the beginning to the end, and at the end Tong Ying looked at her strangely, and she asked: "Are you finished?" Seeing Tong Ying nodding, she said: "This prince really doesn't know food, What is there to eat with monkey brains? I have eaten pig brains cooked by others, and I thought it smelled bad. This person only uses hot oil to scald it, and it doesn’t smell fishy, ​​does it?"

Small sample, my aunt has never eaten pork, and she has seen pigs run.She had heard about this allusion to the monkey brain a long time ago, so how could she be frightened?Seeing Tongying stunned for a while, she couldn't help being proud.

However, even if she had heard about it a long time ago, when she was eating her own dinner, looking at the dish of southern milk tofu, she couldn't help thinking of monkey brains, and she felt nauseous. few.When she went to bed at night, her stomach was growling with hunger, and she was grinding her teeth: just wait and see tomorrow.

As a result, at noon the next day, she specially ate and delivered food to Tong Ying.When Tong Ying, who was hungry, saw the stewed fish balls and fish paste soup she specially prepared, she immediately changed color: "I don't like fish, why send this here?"

Shuning said seriously: "Brother Tongying, you can't be picky eaters. Eating more fish is good for your health. This is the fish raised in the small lake in our garden. It's the most plump and delicious, and you can't eat it outside. If you want to eat Go back and redo it, I’m afraid I’ll have to wait another hour. I cooked this myself, try it soon?” Then he stuffed the chopsticks into Tongying’s hands without any explanation.

Tongying ate a fish ball with grief and resentment, her face was a little weird, she ate another one, and smiled: "What's in it? Peanuts? It's not fishy at all, it's delicious. You don't know, my family's The cook doesn't know how to cook fish, it tastes fishy, ​​and I don't like to eat it outside, whether it's fried or grilled. You made this? It's very good."

Seeing that he was eating happily, Shuning's face softened a little: "I added fried chopped peanuts and mixed some coriander. You don't think it's fishy, ​​maybe it's because I warmed it with hot water all the way, and it's hot. It won't be fishy after eating."

Tong Ying tasted the fish soup again, and said with a smile: "This one is also good. The shredded mushrooms and coriander are added in it, right? The little girl did a good job. With this skill, you can get married."

Shuning spat at him, seeing that he was eating happily, her heart softened.She is already very old in her two lifetimes, and she still has trouble with a little boy who is less than 20 years old. Does she really think of herself as a little girl?This child didn't know what happened to escape, she lost weight and was injured, and now she doesn't know what to do, why should she be as knowledgeable as him?

I don't know if it was because of the change in her eyes, Tong Ying suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird, and couldn't help but fight another cold war.

Shu Ning found out and saw that he was only wearing thin summer clothes, so she found an excuse to leave temporarily, and when she came back, she brought a bundle, and said to Tong Ying: "This is the autumn clothes made for brother, you can wear them first, It's windy outside now, so be careful not to catch a cold." Tong Ying wiped her hands, took the clothes for comparison, and said with a smile: "It's just right, thank you sister Shu."

Shuning smiled and went to clean up the dishes.

She took the food box and left Zhenxia Pavilion. Seeing that the wind was a bit strong on the lake, she walked back through the woods.When he walked near Linyuan Pavilion, he suddenly heard a male voice asking: "Don't you really know who lives in that water pavilion?"

(Due to the appearance of Tongying GG, many diving pros have come forward, so that I feel dizzy when I reply to the posts. There are some similar posts with minor differences, so I will not reply again. Please forgive me~~~)
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