Second-hand lady

Chapter 67

Although Tan Jixi's little squirrel was shaved, it was a big deal for Xiao Zhengtai, but it was just a trivial matter for the entire Tan family, and even less so for Ru Cui and Wen Liang.

Wen Yanping did a good job at this. He found out that the little squirrel in Tan Jixi likes to eat hazelnuts, and then spent a few days patiently abducting the squirrel. Except for the painting grate that was dragged into the water, no one really knew about the little squirrel. She shaved her hair.

After Wen Liang found out, he didn't say good or bad, and didn't reprimand her for disrespecting her elders, but just found some signboards for Rucui to teach her how to read.

Wen Yanping is the daughter of Orion in the mountains. Her parents don't know a single character. Although there is only one daughter in the family, her parents still love her. Unfortunately, this girl is very lively. She is courageous at a young age and often follows her father. Then he slipped into the mountains to go hunting with his father.Her father loves her, and his daughter is happy to follow her, but he doesn't want to raise her into a boy.After her parents were killed by robbers, she escaped her life because she was young, and spent two years begging for life in the robber's den. The robbers are all rough people and never thought of teaching her to read and write, so so far she is still a child. illiterate illiterate.

Wen Yanping was very pleasantly surprised at the fact that she was able to read and practice calligraphy, and she heard from the servants of the Tan Mansion that Wen Liang was a world-renowned military adviser, the prince's master, and might become the emperor's teacher in the future, such a talented and famous person would be her cheap father , how can a cheap daughter be illiterate?In order not to let people underestimate Wen Liang and Ru Cui, Wen Yanping has a correct attitude and is serious about his studies. Perhaps it is because of his older age that he can recognize words quickly.Because I have something to do, even though I have been trapped in the room because of my injury, I don't feel bored, it's not like I couldn't stay for a moment before.

And Ru Cui, apart from going to accompany the old lady, occasionally playing cards, listening to operas with a few cousins ​​to bond with each other, or having a banquet at the invitation of the wives in Pingjin City, spends her time teaching her daughters superior.This is their first adoptive daughter. Miss Rucui has high expectations for her, and she teaches her carefully.However, what she has learned is limited, and she can still teach her daughter some calligraphy at this stage. When she wants to learn more about rites, music, poetry and books, she can only leave it to Wen Liang.

After a few days of leisure, Wen Liang was busy with work every day, often went out with a few uncles and cousins, and then came back after dark, and sometimes smelled of alcohol, but fortunately he was not drunk, otherwise Miss Rucui would have He was able to take down a certain Wen who climbed to the roof to Fengya with a bamboo pole - Wen Liang likes to climb the roof to sing poems and songs when he is drunk.

A few days after Xiaohua was sheared, Tan Jixi went to Piaoxiangyuan to play, and when he didn't see Wen Liang's figure, his entire pretty face withered.The last time Wen Liang took him to the city to play for a day, although he was exhausted the next day, it made him excited for a few days. He felt that playing with cousin Wen was much better than playing with those crying cousins.It is generally difficult for older brothers to meet at home when they have to do things. In addition, he is the eyeball of the old lady and his body is weak. They dare not take him out to play, so as not to cause any accidents. Nor will it be allowed.Looking around like this, only Wen Liang will take him to play unconditionally, and he knows a lot, making him feel that playing with Wen Liang is the most interesting.

So Xiaozheng, who was addicted, came to find Wenliang.

When Tan Jixi came over, Ru Cui was taking out the cards to test how many words Wen Yanping had recognised. Seeing the little guy coming, she quickly asked the maid to bring him hot tea, snacks and fruits, and carried him to a chair to sit on.

Ru Cui said in a good-tempered manner: "Your cousin Wen has something to do, and he's usually not around during the day."

"What's Cousin Wen going to do?" Tan Jixi asked bluntly. Ever since Xiao Hua's tail was shaved, he had restrained his temper as a little bully, afraid that he would be shaved again if he played tricks on others.

Well-behaved children are attractive, especially such a beautiful young lady, who is even more adorable.For the sake of this face similar to Wen Liang, Ru Cui's patience is very good, "I don't know, but I heard that there are few things today, and he will come back in the afternoon."

The kid was happy when he heard it, and sat on the chair, shaking his short legs, and said happily, "I'll wait for Cousin Wen to come back."

At this time, someone snorted unhappily. Tan Jixi was holding a piece of plum blossom cake brought by a maid and was about to put it into his mouth. , yellow and thin and ugly, but he had the guts to hum him, so he couldn't help but stare at him angrily.

"Cousin, who is this younger sister?" Tan Jixi smiled sweetly. Although he is only six years old, the old lady loves him, and he is not someone who can stop for a while. Got it.

"Little cousin, her name is Yanping. She is already eight years old, but she is two years older than you. She is your cousin Wen's daughter." Rucui said, spreading out the cards in her hand for Wen Yanping to see by herself .

When Tan Jixi heard that she was older than him, and she was Wenliang's daughter, his eyebrows were frowned immediately, and he began to look at this ugly girl from all angles and vertically, thinking that Cousin Wen, who looked so similar to him, could not What about such an ugly daughter?It's too low-grade, and others will laugh when they see it.

"I'm older than you, so you should call me elder sister." Wen Yanping held the signboard in his hand, smiled sweetly, and raised his chin towards Mrs. Xiaozheng, but decided in his heart to hate this little kid, not only to bully her now It's so disgusting that cheap mother looks so much like Mr. Wen.

"No, you are Cousin Wen's daughter, so you should call me Uncle Cousin!" Tan Xijiu couldn't be fooled.

"But I'm older than you."

"My seniority is higher than yours!"

"Call me sister!"

"I'm my cousin!"

"Crying little brat!"

"Yellow and skinny ugly girl!"

"Cry nose!"

"Ugly girl!"

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

The two children were arguing red-faced, and finally each snorted and turned their heads away to ignore each other.

It was the first time Rucui saw children quarreling, and she thought it was much more interesting than adults sarcasm, but now that she is an adult, and an elder, and she is at her husband's relative's house, she can't go too far, so she said: "Little cousin, you are a cultured person, how can you judge people by their appearance? Your cousin Wen said that judging people by their appearance is the most superficial. Yanping, you are a junior, you should respect your little cousin, who is an elder, but for you Give the red envelope."

The eyes of the two children lit up, and then they turned their heads back.

"Cousin, Gong Xi Fa Cai, here's the red envelope." Wen Yanping stretched out his hand with a smile.

Tan Jixi didn't have any, but there were a lot of red envelopes. He never took it to heart. He took out the red envelope that his father's friend had stuffed into him just now from his clothes and threw it to her. He said coldly and noblely, "For your sense Come on, you are not that ugly, at least you know how to respect your elders."

After Wen Yanping found out the weight of the red envelope, he felt elated and didn't mind what he said at all.It can be said that money is her favorite thing now, and she can do many things with money.So he no longer blamed himself for being young, smiled very sweetly at the child, and flattered him a few times.

So when it was discovered that Wen Yanping was still an illiterate who had just learned to read, Tan Jixi was rare to stop being sarcastic, and the two children got along peacefully.

The Tsing Yi, Lan Yi, and painted grates who had been on the sidelines for a long time indicated that the wife was a great talent, and they were not so inconspicuous.

When Wen Liang came back, he was quite relieved to see the two children getting along peacefully. Seeing his little cousin staring at him eagerly and expressing that he wanted him to take him out to play, after thinking about it, Wen Liang shook his head and refused, because Xiaozheng was too disappointed. When he was about to cry, he said again: "The day after tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. Then I will ask my ancestors for instructions, and then I will take you out to watch the lanterns, okay?"

The child immediately smiled through tears, put his arms around Wen Liang's neck, and called his good cousin repeatedly.

Rucui stared at the two of them, really like a father and son, then looked at Wen Yanping, the little girl puffed her cheeks, she seemed unhappy.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Tan Mansion was bustling again.

Wen Yanping and Tan Jixi were looking forward to this day very much, and when it finally came, the two children were very excited.Wen Liang not only agreed to take Tan Jixi out, but Wen Yanping, who was seriously injured, also decided to take him out for a walk.

Since Tan Jixi gave Wen Yanping red envelopes as an elder, Wen Yanping apparently did not target the children anymore, but when Tan Jixi came to play with Wen Liang, he would show off to the children that Wen Liang was her father from time to time, and if he wanted to come and play, he had to give red envelopes. The child was so angry that he stomped his feet several times, as if he was about to pounce on her and bite her.

Rucui didn't feel anything when he saw the two children fighting, but Wen Liang always had a strange feeling after watching it a few times, and this strange feeling soon made him understand what it was.

On the evening of the Lantern Festival, Pingjin City is very lively. There are red lanterns hanging on the streets. There used to be a row of small stalls on the street.

On this day, the adults of Tan Mansion will take their children to the street to watch lanterns and guess lantern riddles.Tan Jixi used to be weak and would never go out in these cold weathers. This year, because of Wen Liang's pleading, the old lady and the third uncle and his wife reluctantly agreed to Wen Liang's taking him out to watch the lanterns under the crying of the children. Worriedly urging and urging again, Tan Jixi was impatient to be nagged by the adults, so he ran away a step earlier, and went directly to Piaoxiangyuan to find Wen Liang and the others.

When Tan Jixi was carried by the mother, he saw a child wearing boy's clothes, with a boy's bun on his head, wrapped in a turban, and dressed in a blue-and-white-patterned robe, although his face was sallow, But with a heroic face, a pair of brows that are full of vigor, and eyes that are bright and energetic, they unknowingly weakened that ordinary appearance, making people think that this is a clever boy.

"Wen Yanping, so you're a man?" Tan Jixi asked his nanny to put him down, then ran over and circled Wen Yanping.

Wen Yanping was still holding a small folding fan for children, imitating Wen Liang, shaking the fan, raised his chin and said, "You only know now! You used to have really bad eyesight, and you actually regarded me as a girl." !Humph!"

Tan Jixi was a little tangled for a while, and felt a little bit wronged in her heart. It was obvious that she was wearing girls' clothes before, so how could he be blamed.And now in the eyes of the children, Wen Yanping is different from the older sisters at home, he doesn't have that kind of soft girlishness.

Ru Cui and Wen Liang came in from the outside. They originally wanted to see if their daughter had finished tidying up, but they didn't expect to see a boy with a heroic spirit. Both of them were stunned for a while. Got the baby's gender wrong?Look at this appearance, it is clearly a boy.In particular, the child in women's clothing looks yellow and thin, so ordinary that it is a bit ugly, but when he wears men's clothing, it makes people think that this is a heroic boy, which is even more suitable than women's clothing.

It was still Ru Cui who reacted quickly, after all, she took care of her personally, how could she not know if she was a man or a woman, and asked, "Yan Ping, why are you dressed like this?"

Hua Ruo replied helplessly, "Miss requested it."

Wen Liang walked over, looked at the child's calm face, then squatted down to be at her eye level, and asked, "Yan Ping, don't you like wearing women's clothing?" He noticed that every time the girl would unconsciously pull The skirt on her body, but it's not easy to make it too much, and there is a little tangle between her brows.

Wen Yanping frowned, then whispered: "Father, I'm not a girl, okay?"

"Why?" Wen Liang asked in a soft voice, feeling suddenly in his heart, he couldn't blame him for always thinking that this child was strange, he didn't think of himself as a girl at all, and he was somewhat repulsive to men, even if he is now her father by name, there is still something wrong with him. A bit repulsive, but treat Rucui very affectionately.

The little girl pursed her lips, approached Wen Liang, and said with a suppressed voice: "Mother said, being a woman is too hard. My mother... was ruined by those people."

Wen Liang looked at her red eye sockets and suppressed grief-stricken pupils, sighed in his heart, rubbed her head, and said softly: "It's all over."

(End of this chapter)