Xu Xuzhi

Chapter 13
Ning Zheng received a call from Feng Jiu without any surprises. Feng Jiu was polite and indifferent on the phone, saying that he hoped he could find a reason to come to the mansion to discuss matters, and Ning Zheng agreed gently.Putting down the phone, he smiled after thinking about it, but Zhi Changsheng watched from the side, feeling that the smile was not warm.

Soon, Ning Zheng called back, saying that he could go tomorrow, so Feng Jiu made an appointment with him.

After Ning Zheng was sloppy at Mr. Tang's place, Wen Yan declined the proposal of the butler Tang to take him there in person, and walked along the wooden fence with nine twists and eighteen bends in the inner lake of Wuling Garden by himself. I saw Feng Jiu sitting in the Xinqi Pavilion, with a straight body, looking at the lake, his eyes froze.

She still wears big braids of oil pine, maybe it's because of her low mood, but her braids, which are always full of energy, look a little listless and listless.

Ning Zheng walked up the stairs leisurely, Feng Jiu stood up immediately when he heard footsteps, and turned to face him.

Fengjiu is wearing a royal blue coat with a slanted front and a pair of white wide-leg trousers underneath.Under the pavilion, there is a half-circle of blooming pink orchid and light purple begonias. Her graceful figure is more beautiful than the flowers beside her.

Feng Jiu has a face that looks younger than her actual age, with clear and round lip lines, blushing lips, revealing natural health, slightly drooping corners of her mouth, with a kind of stubbornness and childishness like a little girl, making people feel that even she As she gets older in the future, she can still hold a girlish face with a delicate voice without too much sense of disobedience; she even feels that it is natural for her to do some childish things.

Ning Zheng suddenly realized that he was thinking of Feng Jiu when he was at least 50 years old, which is really funny.

Coupled with her short upper body and long legs, she always thought she was not tall when she was sitting, but when she stood up, she realized that she was quite a tall woman.

"Brother Ning, are you here?"

Her address changed again, it used to be "Mr. Ning", then "Third Young Master", now?

"You have something to do with me?" Ning Zheng looked at her with a smile.The two of them tacitly didn't mention the fact that Ning Zheng gave his own name as his name.

"Hmm...Brother Ning, thank you for notifying our two families of their engagement a few days ago."

coming.Ning Zheng smiled even wider.

"Why, what do you want to say?"

"Brother Ning, I think, even though we didn't have time that day, I'm afraid you, like me, don't want to get married, right?"

Ning Zheng's smile deepened, and he looked very happy, Feng Jiu's heart sank.

"No." He said softly.

Feng Jiu was really surprised, "Brother Ning, I thought that people who came back from overseas didn't like the words of their parents and matchmakers, and they all wanted to fall in love freely."

"It also depends on who is going to get married." Ning Zheng had already reached a place less than three feet away from Fengjiu, picked a place at random and sat down, staring at her intently, this piece of clear water lotus noodles, he is now 100 % sure, I can look at it for a long time without getting tired of it.

... This road is blocked, change to another.

"...Brother Ning, I don't think you and I are suitable." Feng Jiu said with difficulty, walking towards him, she felt that what Ning Zheng said just now was not serious, but just treated herself like a child tease.

Ning Zheng raised his head and looked at Feng Jiu who hurriedly walked up to him: her eyes are really big, and now the whole heart of rejecting him is contained in them, it is so bright that it cannot be mistaken.

Ning Zheng came directly from the Ning Army headquarters after the meeting. The docile white gloves he had been wearing habitually hadn’t been taken off yet. He lowered his head and began to slide his fingers down one by one in a slow manner. , while whispering: "I would like to hear the details."

Fengjiu licked her lips nervously. She has been rejecting suitors since she was 12 years old when she entered a new-style school. She has a lot of experience, but the ones in front of her are not those male students who are about her age, or slightly older, but Still a bookish male college student, this person, as long as he wants to, can give people a full sense of oppression.

She thought about it and said, "You are five years older than me—when I first entered middle school, you had already graduated from college." Feng Jiu once again brought up the excuse of rejecting Bao Buyi, which seemed to be quite successful last time.

"Oh? So what's the matter?" Ning Zheng took off his gloves, stuffed them into his trouser pockets, and leaned back, lazily leaning against the pillar of the pavilion.

Feng Jiu frowned, a little bit disliked by his clear look, he seemed to be at a disadvantage.

"I've always wanted to find someone who is about my age. The difference is five years old. We care about different things...Besides, I have always regarded you as an older brother, you..."

"Farewell brothers and sisters, you know that I never regarded you as my younger sister," Ning Zheng suddenly interrupted Feng Jiu's words, and his cold words sounded, "Didn't we get along well the first two times? There is one direct brother, three cousins, and six cousins, isn’t that enough? Do you want me to make up for it?”

Know all this?A cool breeze suddenly blew in Feng Jiu's heart, but this is not the point: Ning Zheng's mood today is a bit wrong. Although he has not met a few times in the past, his performance just now has obviously lost his previous clear and calm, especially now, his eyes It was as cold as ice, and he was just blindly aggressive.

"I'm not short of younger sisters either. There's one of my siblings, not to mention my father's other daughters, and a bunch of cousins, so you're still exempt."

This road is blocked again, so change another one.Feng Jiu could only turn around and fight again: "Then...you were engaged to my sister for so many years, and now, my sister ran away...ah, let's go, you are engaged to my sister again, it's so ugly to spread the word."

Ning Zheng looked at her all the time, and when he heard her words, he suddenly smiled... Snowflakes began to float in Feng Jiu's heart.

"I think it's unwise for you to bring up the matter of being engaged to your sister without me mentioning it."

It's really unwise, Feng Jiu bowed his head silently, after all, it was his elder sister who was wronged, but isn't this, a dead horse is a living horse doctor?
"I know that you also went to the 'National Products Maintenance Association' charity sale a while ago. To help the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, you called everyone 'Misto', and you sold the most items. "

Feng Jiu couldn't help but looked up at Ning Zheng, one was secretly startled that Ning Zheng knew her movements like the palm of his hand, and the other was wondering what the relationship between his mentioning this matter and their resignation?
"When I was your age, I organized many similar activities, just to help the flood victims in Hebei, Anhui and other places." Feng Jiu said nothing, "It's true that I'm a few years older than you, but, In many things, our ideas are not different; even if I no longer do such charity sales in person, I organize the army, recruit people to reclaim wasteland, develop industries, and set up schools, all for the sake of making the Northeast people live a better life. In a peaceful and happy life, Northeast people are also Chinese, just like Sichuanese, Hebei people, and Anhui people.”

Feng Jiu thought that this is all about it, these are the righteousness of the country, and they are different from the small things in life.

She regretted facing Ning Zheng with bare hands in order to show her courage for a while. She never thought that he was so stubborn. No matter what, she should collect some unfavorable information about him and then confront him face to face.

"Bong Jiu", Ning Zheng looked at her disapproving expression, suddenly smiled, stood up and took a step forward, holding her shoulders with both hands.

What are you doing?Feng Jiu was too shocked to react, but subconsciously turned her head to look at his slender and powerful hands, her shoulders looked pitifully thin in his hands.

Her heart tightened, and she looked around in a panic—in order to have a good conversation with Ning Zheng without being disturbed, she asked Qiu Sheng to keep it outside, and now the surroundings are quiet, except for the two of them.

"Why do you have the guts to come and talk to me about retiring the engagement?" He whispered, with a gloomy look in his eyes, he raised his hand to caress her lower lip, took a look, and it was as he had always guessed Similarly, her crimson lips are not polluted with any artificial lip balm, and the touch is delicate, like the finest silk, making people nostalgic...

Ning Zheng's face suddenly enlarged in front of him, and Feng Jiu's eyes widened: he kissed.

When Feng Jiu realized what had happened, Ning Zheng had already enfolded her lips and kissed her, and at the same time wrapped her tightly in his arms.

Feng Jiu only felt a "boom" in his head, as if all the blood in his body rushed to his head in an instant.

She began to struggle violently.

Ning Zheng just held her tighter, the slender waist curve under his palm made him pinch her uncontrollably, Bong Jiu opened his mouth to cry out in pain, Ning Zheng took the opportunity to enter the room, and kissed fiercely.

Feng Jiu felt that her tongue was going to be pulled out by the roots and she couldn't keep it. She grunted a few times in pain, and raised her restless feet to stomp on Deng Tuzi's feet.

Ning Zheng let her step on him, but plundered her warmth more sensibly.

Such a kiss is too much for any 16-year-old girl who has never kissed anyone before.

Ning Zheng quickly felt the wetness on his face.

He stopped kissing, but the hearts of the two were still beating extremely fast, intertwined in a "thumping" way, making it hard to tell who was who.

"Why are you crying? You have to get used to it." Ning Zheng looked at Feng Jiu's lips that were so red that they were sucked and kissed, then bowed his head and kissed her, and then rolled to her wet eyelids.

Feng Jiu didn't cry and make a fuss, that's meaningless, the matter has come to this point, I still have to fight for it, this girl who is always too rational in critical moments said with difficulty, "Ning Zheng, I, I can't adapt to you, When I think about the kind of life you will live as your wife... ", endless fear, endless banquets, intrigues every step of the way, tedious and boring human relationships, "I don't want to live that kind of life, please give up this door Get married, I, I still want to study abroad, besides, there are so many women in the world..."

It seemed that Ning Zheng was listening very carefully, but when he heard this, he suddenly held Feng Jiu's face, "You also know that I will live like this in the future? I can't get up and down in this position, I always have to Find some compensation for myself..." His voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, he stopped talking, just pecked Feng Jiu's lips again, and kissed his eyes, which he had always loved the most, moist Yes, with mischievous light, there is always a kind of happiness; even now because of tears, the eyes are foggy, like the fog on the lake of Sili Lake, and like the pure and innocent plum blossom deer in Wanquan Park.

"I'm that...?" Feng Jiu was incredulous, "You just met me a few times and fell in love with me?" Feng Jiu was a little shy when he said the word "love".

Feng Jiu never believed in love at first sight, what the hell kind of love, the so-called love based on appearance, is just heat, she thought so, and couldn't help showing contempt in her eyes.

Ning Zheng smiled softly: "I don't love you, but I like you by my side, that's fine, I won't pick."

"...You don't choose, but I choose," Feng Jiu felt that this matter can't be dragged on like this, it's better to say it thoroughly at once: "I sympathize with your situation, but in the final analysis it has nothing to do with me. Besides, you just said It’s not that I’m in love with me, it’s just that I like it; there are a lot of ordinary women like me in China, you still study abroad, besides Chinese, you can also find Western, Eastern and Nanyang women, right? I think many people studying abroad are I found Mrs. Yang, why did you have to drag me into the water? We all know that 'twisted melons are not sweet', why don't you look for them again? If no one else tells you, I know several people who fall in love with you, look..."

Fengjiu's mind quickly calculated that there are at least as many girls as Wen Xianxiuyan's female students who can't count on two hands, among his sisters and sisters at home, his female classmates in Tongze, who never forget Ning Zheng. If they heard the news of Ning Zheng's engagement, the female students would be heartbroken.

Ning Zheng suddenly let go of her, turned and went down the steps with a blank expression, "You can discuss the matter of continuing your studies. If you think this is dragging you down, then so be it. I'm dragging you. As for whether you want to If you want, it has nothing to do with me."

With his way, he also gave his body.

Ning Zheng left abruptly, leaving Feng Jiu in the Xinqi Pavilion.

Fengjiu watched Ning Zheng's upright figure leave in despair and annoyance, just recalling their conversation just now, to see if there was any loophole that could be exploited, even the incident where Ning Zheng forced her to kiss her and caused him to lose his first kiss I don't care about it anymore.

Feng Jiu stayed in the pavilion listlessly, while Qiu Sheng kept circling outside, standing guard for Feng Jiu, and when he saw Ning Zheng leaving calmly without looking sideways, he respectfully greeted Ning Zheng, and then Quickly ran in.

Seeing the girl's expression, she immediately leaned forward knowingly, "Didn't we agree?"

Feng Jiu raked his hair irritably, "This person won't take hard things."

Qiu Sheng is dumb, in fact, in her opinion, Ning Zheng is quite good, but if the young lady doesn't like it, then it's not good.

"What should I do?"

"I have to plan carefully." Qiu Sheng looked at Feng Jiu's obviously ruddy lips and flushed face, and suddenly felt uneasy.

After a while, Feng Jiu went out of the corner gate and turned to the third uncle's mansion separated by a wall.

The third uncle's family is doing fairly well, and of course the support of the second brother is unavoidable, so every time Feng Jiu goes to find Hutou, he will not mention being polite to Miss Six.

She asked Ann along the way, said hello, and arrived at the third aunt's yard familiarly.

After handing over a bag of oranges specially brought to the third aunt, she naturally asked about Hutou.

The third aunt smiled: "It's in her own room, go quickly."

Although both of them are 16 years old this year, the ancients said that "seven-year-olds have different seats", and boys and girls are older, so they should be taboo, but because they grew up together, everyone has no concept of male and female defense against them.

Feng Jiu knocked lightly on the door and entered Hutou's room.

This room is much smaller than that of my brother's, and the furniture is also very old. It is not even comparable to the room where although he is young, he has already started to sleep on his own.

Only the calligraphy and paintings on the plain white walls are new, including his own writing, paintings, and Fengjiu's, all of which were thickly mounted with boxwood and then painted with varnish, and they were all made by Hutou himself.

The furnishings in the house were gifts from Fengjiu since he was a child. She knew that Hutou liked woodworking, so she gave him a lot of exquisite tools, building blocks and the like.

Hutou is doing carpentry, a rectangular piece of wood is lying between his slender and nimble fingers, and a carving knife is placed on the simple desk. See you long."

Hutou carved a bicycle out of a piece of ordinary waste wood, and if he looked carefully, it was the famous British "Hamburger" bicycle of Brother Feng Jiu. It was hard for him to remember the details after reading it several times For example, the searchlights on the front of the car, the taillights on the rear frame and the small bell on the handlebars are all done vividly. The English mark of "HUMBER SPORTS" is engraved on the beam; "George VI Designated Product" in English...

Hutou handed over the woodcarving, Feng Jiu took it, fondled it lovingly, Hutou looked at it and smiled: "I like it? I'll give it to you when I finish polishing and coloring."

Feng Jiu put it down embarrassingly, "I'm embarrassed to take things from you again, all the good things you made have gone to my place."

"What's the matter? Take whatever you want, mine is yours." The appearance of the tiger head is completely different from the majestic nickname, but the occasional arrogance in the words can tell who he is a friend with.

Feng Jiu didn't answer, it's not like her, Hutou immediately noticed the abnormality: "What's the matter, you don't look very happy?"

Feng Jiu lowered his head slightly, Hutou took a closer look at her complexion again: "Is it angry? The color of the mouth is so red?"

He just stood up and wanted to take a closer look, but Feng Jiu covered her mouth in a panic and dodged slightly. She turned her back, as if she was looking at the couplets written by herself during the Spring Festival on the wall, her tiger head did not move , just staring at her back worriedly, after a while, she said softly: "Hutou, you see you are so talented, you should go on to college."

Hutou had been staring at her for a long time without saying anything, and had already taken a piece of sandpaper, and was gently polishing the little bicycle. Hearing this, he raised his head and stared deeply at her.

There was a slight resentment in this gaze, Feng Jiu grew up with him, how could he not know?But today, she must speak out: "Hutou, don't worry, I have the cost of going to college, so let me borrow it from you...Ah!"

Feng Jiu suddenly exclaimed, Hutou rushed over and pushed her into a dilapidated armchair beside her, his black eyes were blotched with red marks, staring at her for a moment, curling up like butterfly wings. His curled eyelashes were flaring, making his eyes, which were originally full of the beauty of the world, a bit eerie.

He wrapped one arm around her waist, the other under her slender neck, and one long leg half-kneeled on the cushion she was sitting on.

"You want to lend me money to go to college?" Hutou asked softly.Feng Jiu was frightened, but still nodded with difficulty.

"Tang Fengjiu, why don't you have a brain when you speak?" A few words revealed a slight chill.After speaking, he put down his legs, let go of Feng Jiu, turned around and walked to the desk, picked up the sandpaper and wanted to continue working.

"Wei Yuanhua, who doesn't have a brain?" Feng Jiu regained his freedom in an instant, and was furious, "I don't know how much you want to continue studying? I'm the daughter of the 'Fengtian God of Wealth', so I'm short of money? Besides Yes, all my money is left to me by my mother. Although I am not yet an adult, if I want to use the 1000 yuan of ocean money, I don’t need anyone’s consent at all, let alone my father! Anyone in the country Jincheng Bank can cash it! This matter, if you agree, can be done without anyone noticing, I don't understand why you are so awkward!"

After finishing the sentence without babbling, Feng Jiu bent his waist and panted heavily.

Hutou had already regained his composure, and looked back calmly: "I don't want to go to college, I just want to learn how to do business, make money, and be self-reliant."

Seeing that he didn't like salt and sauce, Feng Jiu was also discouraged when he thought about the fights he had had to discuss about his further studies in the past two years, so he said dumbly: "Hutou, I, I want to take care of you in the future." , it's difficult, I'm engaged..."

Suddenly hearing a slight "click" sound, Feng Jiu was immersed in her own thoughts and didn't pay much attention. She stood up and said weakly: "Actually, you really don't have any worries... If you change your mind , inform me at any time, my door will always be open to you, Hutou."

Wei Yuanhua lowered his head and stood there motionless—the third uncle and the third aunt have such a strict mouth...

Feng Jiu felt that it was boring, so he could only walk out. Suddenly, footsteps came from behind, and a hand grabbed her arm firmly. Fool!"

The hand that was holding her arm was originally fair and slender, but now it was stained with blood red, and instantly wet her sleeve.

Feng Jiu grabbed his hand and took a closer look, he couldn't stop feeling dizzy for a while, his tiger's mouth was stabbed with blood, and some burrs from who didn't know where were deeply stuck into the flesh, Feng Jiu hurriedly dragged him out Turning a corner, she entered his bedroom. There was a large cupronickel teapot on the floor beside the washbasin stand. She picked up the teapot, rinsed the wound with running water, and took out the handkerchief in her pocket and tied it tightly horizontally. lived where he was wounded.

"Tiger head..." Feng Jiu called him in a low voice, his voice was full of helplessness and comfort.

Hutou's beautiful eyes closed all of a sudden, and opened after a while: "With whom?"

Remember this crop?Feng Jiu actually felt that this matter could not be compared with the importance of Hutou going to college: "Ning Zheng."

"Who?" Hutou thought he had a hearing problem, "That's not..."

"Well, my ex-brother-in-law-to-be."

"This is ridiculous!" Hutou was angry, the corners of his mouth were clenched, his forehead was bulging with blue veins, and his temples were throbbing.

"Yeah, but I think that he...may have some difficulties, for example, he can't take over the power of the Ning family without getting married. I plan to communicate with him again, maybe he can be like the eldest sister, and put The marriage was annulled."

Hu Tou was sullen and didn't speak, his eyes showed complete disbelief.

Feng Jiu's temper also came up: "What do you mean? Do you think I care about being Mrs. Ning?"

Hutou looked at the extremely beautiful young girl in front of him, thinking that she has always been naive until she has a real temper, she is indifferent to money, modest and warm, and she is indeed not the kind of woman who loves power.His face looked better, and he suddenly remembered something: "Your former brother-in-law-to-be is very handsome."

"... There are too many handsome men, and he is not the only one, and his identity, who would want to trap himself? Besides, why should my eldest sister not want it, let me follow it? I am a trash collector Is it?"

Hutou couldn't hold back and let out a "puchi" laugh. The powerful and powerful Marshal Ning, when he came to Tang Fenglin and Tang Fengjiu, he became the "bad guy" that their sisters detested and despised.

He felt lighter, washed away the blood, and they went back to the study, Hutou looked at the scrapped model that took several days of work, still a little regretful.

Suddenly Feng Jiu's soft voice sounded: "Now that we've finished talking, Hutou, do you still remember what we said when we were young?"

"What?" he wondered.

"We'll get married when we grow up." Feng Jiu glared at him dissatisfied.

Hu Tou heard this, and immediately looked at her blankly like a saw-mouthed gourd, but his heart was filled with mixed feelings.

what? !Feng Jiu was dissatisfied with his look, as if he disliked himself, so he couldn't help stabbing him a few more times.

"Forget it, forget it, I won't embarrass you, I don't want to get married so early, I still have to go to the United States to study at university." Fengjiu saw that the time was almost up, and carefully unwrapped the handkerchief—the wound was no longer bleeding , but left a deep mark, and found a pair of small tweezers in the pen holder, lit a match to sterilize, and picked out all the small wooden thorns on the tiger's mouth, "噫噫" while picking Sighing, when the selection was over, looking at the bloody wound, he spread his hands together: "Oh, it hurts just looking at it, my butt is numb."

Tiger head: "..."

"I'll send Qiu Sheng to deliver Xiuyan red medicine to you later. During this period, you can't get wet anymore."

Hutou nodded in agreement.

Feng Jiu glanced casually, only to find that the beautiful wooden sculpture of a Hamburg bicycle had been broken into two pieces, and the fracture was stained with dark brown blood. His hands were hurt.

She secretly thought back to what the two of them were talking about when she heard the "click" sound just now, and when she remembered, it was "engagement"...

It seems that Hutou is also reluctant to let this little boy get engaged. Fengjiu feels a little warm for no reason, and a little flustered...

"Feng Jiu, last time you rejected that Bao, didn't you use me as a shield, this time, say the same, okay?"

Feng Jiu's heart was suffocated, and he smiled reluctantly, "Don't you know about my eldest sister? If there is another daughter in the family who is privately appointed for life, my father will really be able to pass."

Hutou, how dare I take the risk of using you as an excuse to confront the Ning family?This time it's a warlord who kills without blinking an eye.

She stood up, came back to her senses, and told Hutou the precautions again, while secretly scolding herself for being too wordy, but she couldn't help but added: "Your hands will be used for drawing blueprints, building houses, Those who build bridges are the most capable, and there should be no mistakes, you know?"

Hutou didn't speak, just looked at her blindly, Feng Jiu looked upset, sighed, waved his hands, and left.

Leaving the tiger's head behind looking at the scrapped wood carvings on the table, he felt sore and unbearable. How much he wished that he could have both parents and a wealthy family, and someone would think for him, so that he could straighten his waist and be able to live in the rich Tang Mansion. Looking straight at him, his favorite Feng Jiu, those bright and clear eyes...

(End of this chapter)