Ordinary clear day

Chapter 149 Purple Language
Zhang Bao listened to Master Lu's tears and tears for a long time before he knew the whole story of the farce at the door.

It turned out that Miss Lu's family went out for a spring outing a few days ago, and was accidentally spotted by the magistrate. She was so shocked that she brought someone to propose marriage the next day.Seeing his frivolous speech, the Lu family only reasoned that there was no matchmaker so they couldn't get married. They sent him away for the time being, and sent another person to inquire, only to find out that the magistrate had already married a wife and had many concubines. She came here privately and did not report to her family. Even if she married back, she would only be a concubine.The Lu family naturally refused, and refused when the matchmaker came to the door.The magistrate was annoyed, so he brought people to rob him himself.

Master Lu cried out that his daughter was spoiled since she was a child, talented and beautiful, and he must find a satisfactory son-in-law.When that Zhang Feihu was still living here in previous years, he had planned to betroth his daughter to this young military officer, but his daughter despised him as an incomprehensible and gentle warrior, and refused to give in.This son of the magistrate is white and has many bad habits, and he still wants to be a concubine. His daughter will never marry even if she dies.

Zhang Baohao comforted Mr. Lu and sent him away. After careful consideration, he thought that he had intervened today. If that person knew what was going on, he should stop pestering him. Besides, he was trying to hide from the limelight. Let's wait and see.

Unexpectedly, the magistrate is not a good man, he brought people to pester him the next day, and even went to the inner courtyard to rob him.Unexpectedly, Miss Lu was standing on the embroidered building, holding a pair of scissors against her own neck, threatening the group of people to back off, saying that she would not marry such dudes.Mrs. Lu was so frightened that she almost fainted. Master Lu couldn't persuade her, so she hugged her son and cried loudly.

The butler of the Lu family was clever, and quietly asked someone to invite Zhang Bao.When Zhang Bao hurried over from the field, the magistrate had already ordered his servants to snatch away the scissors. Miss Lu got angry and slammed herself into the corner of the table. Fortunately, the maids pulled quickly and only hit her on the forehead. A small cut was bleeding continuously, and Miss Lu had already passed out.

Zhang Bao ordered someone to help pull the magistrate away. The man was annoyed, so he said: "Why are you so meddlesome? But you are a magistrate like my father, and you are not in charge. Don't you know that Ning Kai Doesn’t a temple destroy the truth of a marriage?”

Zhang Bao laughed back angrily: "I don't know the reason? I'm an official, and you are a white man. When you saw me being rude, you didn't say anything, but contradicted me. So you actually understand the reason? Forget it, you robbed the women of the people and almost made a fool of yourself." If you die, I will send you to the official first to see how the people of Shuntian Prefecture treat you, the son of the prefect of Daming Prefecture."

When the magistrate heard this, he was afraid.His father was the magistrate of Daming Prefecture, and Fangshan was far away from his territory. If something happened, the family would not be able to save him, so he could only hold back and hum a few words to Lu's family, and left in despair.Zhang Bao didn't stop him, first he asked a doctor to treat Miss Lu.

When Zhang Bao left, before the onlookers dispersed, a young scholar was filled with righteous indignation, and said harshly, "It's really a bad day! In broad daylight, a son of a small magistrate dares to indulge in slavery and commit murder, and forcibly robs the daughter of this big family to be his concubine." , Is there any law of the king here? What are the people in the government doing?!" He was so angry that he wanted to scold, but he was dragged away by a young man beside him who covered his mouth.

When Wang Er saw that Zhang Bao was looking at the scholar, he reported back: "That is the nephew of the Li family after Lin Zi. He is also a candidate for the current imperial examination. After failing the exam, he lives with his uncle. I heard that he will go back to Shanxi in a few days."

Zhang Bao didn't speak, and started writing letters to the daimyo magistrate as soon as he got home.The magistrate was in the same year as Chen Liangben, and his official reputation was decent, but he couldn't help his son who was loved by the elderly at home.Zhang Bao wrote a letter to explain this matter, and said that Fangshan Mountain is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and now it is facing ups and downs, and advised him to take good care of his son, so as not to be stabbed into Beijing, which would delay his family's future, and so on.

The Daming Mansion was only a day's journey away. The prefect received the letter and hurriedly ordered his family to bring his son back.Although his son was not convinced, but when he heard that Miss Lu had a scar on her forehead, which disfigured her appearance, he lost interest and obediently went home.

The Lu family breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Zhang Baomen again.In addition to her talent and appearance, his daughter also gained a reputation as Zhenlie in the countryside.Shu Ning also admired it when she heard it, and reflected on herself a little. In the past, it was too unkind to laugh at Ms. Lu behind her back. In fact, she is just an overconfident person, but this kind of self-confidence is also the source of self-esteem and self-love.

Wanning was bored, and when she heard about Miss Lu's affairs, she was very interested, and urged Shuning to invite Miss Lu to come over as a guest, or to visit the opposite door Lu's.Shu Ning felt displeased, and said: "Miss Lu is recuperating, why should I be alarmed? If sister has free time, why don't you read more and practice needlework."

She was very reluctant to let Miss Lu see Wanning.Lu Ziyu's self-confidence stems from her talent and appearance. If she meets Wanning and gets hit instead, it will be bad, so even Yuehe doesn't want Lu Ziyu to see her.Wanning wanted to send Yuehe to send things to Lu's family for condolences, but she excused that there was a daughter-in-law who went out full-time to deliver things in another courtyard, and she didn't need the big girl in the inner house to deliver them, so she sent Wang Er's family to deliver them in person.

Wanning lived in another courtyard for two or three days, feeling very stuffy.She wanted to go out for a stroll, but the gatekeeper refused to let her go, insisting on paying back to Zhang Bao and Shu Ning.Shu Ning will definitely stop it. Zhang Bao sometimes allows her to go around the fields and hillsides with him, but there are always a lot of people following. She can't even talk to a village girl or a little shepherd boy. The earl's mansion was even more restrained.

The maids brought along were not allowed to go out at will, and even Brother Fang Qing who lived in the front yard could not see him whenever he wanted.And those in charge reasoned that it was not easy for customers to do things, so they refused Brother Fang Qing's help to go shopping.If it wasn't for Brother Fang Qing's cleverness in coaxing the old people in the concierge to be happy, it would be difficult for them to find out any news from outside.The maidservants in this other courtyard are also annoying, no matter how they bribe them, they just laugh and don't say a word, forcing them to accept the benefits, they also accept, asking them to help with things, but they just refuse.As soon as he turned around, someone in charge came to talk and returned those benefits, making Wanning's master and servant lose face.

Wanning talked about being bored every day, so Shuning simply dragged her to class with Mr. Cai.Mr. Cai is still very happy.It's just that Wanning's complexion began to look ugly as soon as the class started.

For example, Wanning hasn't given up on the piano these years, but loves to play the songs of later generations. Although she can't remember clearly, she let her arrange it by herself.Because she was only shot in her own room, no one said anything.However, Mr. Cai's class taught serious ancient songs, which Wanning found unpleasant and lacked interest.

For example, no one in the mansion played chess with her, so she only loved to play backgammon with the maids. Her level of Go was even worse than when she was ten years old.

Calligraphy was nothing but, she practiced it from time to time, and her writing was okay, but it was not as good as Shu Ning who worked hard every day.

As for painting, Shuning had already learned fine brushwork, so Mr. Cai taught her the landscape of flowers and bamboos in order to make things better for Wanning.But apart from Wanning's pretty good drawing of flowers, everything else is not up to standard, and even the flowers look more like embroidery.

Seeing the disappointed look on Mr. Cai's face, she felt that she had lost face in front of her cousin, so she avoided the important ones and wrote some poems on the paintings.She came up with this all by herself, and she is worthy of the title of "talented woman", which is quite praised by Mr. Cai.But this kind of thing is too brain-intensive, who has the patience to think about it every day?So within two days, she said she was ill and refused to go to the talent class.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Cai was worried about her and sent a little girl to ask her, but it just happened to find out the fact that she was pretending to be sick.Mr. Cai sighed dejectedly, and went back to his residence silently. The next day, news spread that he was ill.

After Shuning found out, she hurriedly sent for a doctor, and persuaded Mr. Cai: "Second sister has been concentrating on learning the rules of needlework these past few years. It's not surprising that she is a little relaxed in her homework. Don't be too sad, sir."

But Mr. Cai sighed: "I am not sad because of this, but because my sister has a good talent, but she refuses to work hard, and she is like Zhongyong again. Zhongyong was misunderstood by his family, but my sister is I gave up on my own. I just sighed, and it will be fine in two days."

Shu Ning didn't talk too much anymore, she just entrusted Mr. Yang to enlighten Mr. Cai more.Since Mr. Su moved away, Mr. Yang has moved into this courtyard to live with Mr. Cai. The old and the young get along well, so he readily agreed.

Wanning never came to visit Mr. Cai once, and was relieved to see that Mr. Cai did not urge herself to go to class after he recovered from his illness.Recently, Brother Fang Qing coaxed a lonely old woman in the front yard to be happy, recognized her godmother, and was able to go out occasionally, so she took the time to ask Brother Fang Qing to inquire about Yunju Temple.

While waiting for the news, she was very bored. She remembered that Shu Ning took her with her when she visited the garden a few days ago. She only walked halfway through. Seeing that the weather was just right, she took two big maids with her, and Shi Shiran went to the garden.

Shu Ning was doing housework in the main room of the second courtyard, but she heard a report from the little girl, saying that the second girl had sex with Niu Xiaosi in the garden, and asked her to go and see.Shu Ning hurried over to have a look, and sure enough, she saw Qiao Yun arguing with Niu Xiaosi from a distance, she went to pull him away, and after asking clearly, she realized that Wan Ning wanted to take someone to play through the woods through Zhenxia Pavilion , but was stopped by Niu Xiaosi, Qiaoyun thought he had offended her own girl, so she quarreled.

Shuning secretly gave Niu Xiaosi an appreciative look, then put on a smiley face and said to Wanning: "This kid didn't speak clearly, and he didn't mean to offend my sister on purpose. Please don't take offense. This forest, water pavilion There is also the opposite hillside, usually people are not allowed to go there..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Yue He interjected unequivocally: "Third Miss said so, are our girls also idlers?" Shu Ning frowned and said, "I'm talking to your girl, you What are you talking about?"

In Yuehe's room, Wanning spoke for her first: "Why did the third sister say that? I always thought that Yuehe and Qiaoyun were sisters, and they just spoke for me."

Shu Ning smiled, ignored it, and continued: "The reason why people are not allowed to go is because people were stung by bee peaks in the forest last year and this year, and the injuries were serious; there are snakes, insects, rats and ants on the mountain, and they are afraid they will bite you." people; and the water in the small lake is also very deep, several people have been submerged, although no one died, it is very dangerous after all, so my mother-in-law will order that no one is allowed to go to these places at will. This brother of Niu Xiaosi , was stung by a bee and ruined his head and face, so he is particularly dedicated to his duty."

Niu Xiaosan's injury has long since healed, but Niu Xiaosi is very clever, nodding along the tone of his own girl.

Wanning's face changed from cloudy to sunny and she smiled: "So that's the way it is. Just say it straight. What are you doing to stop me? In fact, I saw that the water pavilion is very beautiful, so I just wanted to take a look."

Shu Ning narrowed her eyes, and felt that there was no one in Zhenxia Pavilion, so it was better to let her go to see it, so as not to arouse her suspicion, so she said with a smile: "Then I will take my sister to see, let's go to the bamboo bridge That's all right over there."

When she reached the Zhenxia Pavilion, Wanning looked inside and out, and felt that the place was really beautiful, and seeing that there were beds, she asked, "Can people live here? Then can I come and live?"

Shu Ning still smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's not very convenient. This place is specially cleaned up to receive my brother's friends. The second sister probably has heard of it, it is the Duke Tong Yingfu of Prince Jane's residence, he will come over sometimes Staying for two or three days, as long as the weather is warm, I will stay in the pavilion, saying that the scenery here is good, the place is spacious, and the eyes are clear when facing the water."

She took Tong Ying out as a shield, thinking that he was familiar with her family, so she probably wouldn't mind.Although since he dug out Si Si's belt in the pavilion, Mrs. Tong has paid great attention to the sanitation and cleaning here, and must ensure that there will be no traces of Si Si's visit.But there are always contingencies, if there are any flaws, it is reasonable to push it to Tongying.

Wanning is not very interested in Tongying: "Oh, I've seen him before, he is a painting idiot, I didn't think so at first, but later I found out that he would mention ink, paper, and pigments when he talked. , Who else is good at drawing figures, who is the best at painting flowers and birds, it's really boring."

Shu Ning silently: Did she mean Tong Ying?Did you admit the wrong person?

After leaving the garden, Shu Ning wanted to break up with Wan Ning, so she lowered her voice and said to her: "Earlier, the second sister said that Qiao Yun and Yue He are like sisters, so it's better not to say it in the future. I became your sister, but who are I, my elder sister, my fourth younger sister, and my cousin Xuxu? Fortunately, I heard it today. Sister, it’s a bit too much, but Yuehe is fine, she didn’t sign a death contract after all, and after two years she will be released, she will still be a good citizen, it’s not too out of character to recognize a sister.”

After she said this "hard-heartedly", without giving Wanning a chance to defend herself, she went back to the Second Court, sneering in her heart: I will remind you again today, if you continue to be fooled by Yuehe like this, I will not care up.

I don't know what Wanning thought after hearing these words, but it seems that there is no change for the time being.

She recently went to Ciyun Nunnery with Xiao Liu to have a vegetarian meal. Although the vegetarian food is delicious, the topic between Xiao Liu and her aunts is very boring.Thinking of strolling around the nunnery, another group of people followed.Tell them not to follow, but those people say that they are ordered by the master to take good care of the second girl.Wanning couldn't help feeling a little suffocated.

But she finally arrived at a place far away from the other courtyard, and quickly persuaded Mrs. Liu to take her to Yunju Temple to offer incense.

(I was very depressed today. I had a fight with someone. I was in a bad mood for a long time, and my shoulders still hurt. Alas, no matter what, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. There should be more people tomorrow. In other words, why am I here After saying that it will be less and more once a week, it will be more than before? Depressed...)
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