The weather is getting hotter, the plantain green pomegranate is red, sending spring to summer, and the days are peaceful day by day. Cheng Chazhong finally arranged a staff officer position for Cheng Ruikai in the reorganization corps, and Cheng Ruikai began to get busy, and he was absent from work every day. And Gong Mengshu didn't move around as frequently as in the past in Cheng's house, except for going out to class and waiting for graduation, she usually stayed in her own room. Even Cheng Molin repeatedly invited her to go out to reunite with her classmates, but Gong Mengshu only declined politely.

The only thing that made her unhappy was that Huang Qilun, who she met that night, really went to wait for her at the school gate every day. She didn't know how to say no to him, she shouldn't have given him hope in the first place, and now he had fallen back into wishful thinking, it was all her fault, and she felt guilty about him.

She is also trying to integrate herself into the Cheng family's established life, and since everyone has persuaded her to submit to the arrangement of fate, she also tries to make herself look less maverick. Mother is right, if she likes Cheng Ruikai, she should think about him from his point of view, and she can't be easily willful. But when my mother said this, she forgot that she couldn't do it herself, otherwise she wouldn't have forgiven her father for half her life.

But stuffy in the room, Gong Mengshu sat at the desk but couldn't calm down, he had no intention of learning, so he had to stand up, and when he saw that there was no one in the garden outside, he wanted to go out for a walk. As soon as I walked out of the house to the pomegranate tree in the garden, I heard someone in the garden singing: "Half a world clothes, a dream of a play, I don't know where to go...... Only the passing of Lixiang sideburns, a legend of beauty, who will be responsible in the end, who will be ?......"

Gong Mengshu was a little familiar with the song, and after stopping to listen to it, she remembered that this was not the play that the opera troupe sang in the garden that day? Why was someone singing in the garden? She walked around the pomegranate tree and saw a man with long water sleeves dragging in the middle of the flowers not far away, and continued to sing.

Gong Mengshu was about to interrogate, but saw that the servant turned around, and it was the fourth aunt Tai Peng Wanyue, who she didn't often see on weekdays.

Peng Wanyue turned around and saw that someone was listening to her singing, her face turned red, but she rolled up her water sleeves and posed, and said, "How am I singing?"

Gong Mengshu only listened to a few words, although there was still a sense of jerky in the tune, but the sound quality was sweet, so he praised: "It's very good, the fourth wife sings well......"

Peng Wanru smiled and said, "I learned this from the master of the troupe......" Speaking of the master of the troupe, Gong Mengshu subconsciously remembered the man who was born more beautiful than a woman with a face like a hibiscus that day.

"Master teaches seriously, and I will naturally learn well......" The fourth aunt said, her pretty face showed a shy expression, and there was a strange beauty, which made Gong Mengshu a little stunned.

"Oh, yes, congratulations to the fourth wife......" Gong Mengshu said. Peng Wanyue covered her face with her water sleeves, turned around with a wonderful man, took the praise as ordered, and then began to babble and sing again.

Gong Mengshu saw that she was enjoying herself, and was about to retreat, but saw a person hurriedly walking over from the other side of the garden, grabbed the fourth aunt who was in high spirits, and said viciously: "What kind of singing, do you want to die?!" The person who spoke was the third aunt Tai Peng Wanru. After Peng Wanru finished scolding Peng Wanyue, she found that there was someone on the side, and a touch of panic appeared on her face. Seeing that it was Gong Mengshu, he calmed down a little, then cleared his throat and said, "It's Miss Gong, are you interested in going out for a walk today?"

Before Gong Mengshu could answer, he said to himself: "That's right, if you are jealous in the house all day long, a man will dislike you after all......"

The fourth aunt Peng Wanyue came over and asked, "Who is jealous?" The third aunt pushed her too impatiently, and said, "You hurry up and let me go back to the house and stay, don't come out to offer treasures!"

Gong Mengshu looked at their departing backs, always felt a little strange, stood in place and thought about it, but couldn't think of a reason, so he walked in the garden for a while, and heard the maid call the second wife Manzhen to let her go to the embroidery workshop to help her embroider a piece of satin, and then stopped.

The second wife, Man Zhen, got a good piece of silk given by the old man Cheng Chazhong, and felt that it was a pity to use it to make clothes, so she thought that she would make this piece of silk into a pair of pillowcases, and then embroider it with a pattern, which must be better, so she asked Gong Mengshu, who was a good embroiderer, to help.

After Gong Mengshu listened to the idea of the second wife Man Zhen, he smiled and said: "Second wife, usually people like to embroider mandarin ducks, but you want to embroider water and Dilian, it is really different......

"It's not that the master doesn't like those birds/beasts, I just want him to feel the flowers and trees, and let him follow me romantically and romantically......" The second wife Manzhen seemed to be in a good mood, and even whispered to Gong Mengshu, "Make the bedding more detailed, men will also like it more, and the rest of the satin, I want to ask the tailor to help me make a short sleeveless pajamas, which I can wear to the lord on summer nights, which are cool and sultry, do you say okay?"

Seeing Gong Mengshu's face flushed, the second wife Man Zhen smiled and said, "Don't be shy, learn a little, it will be effective for Ruikai in the future-" Gong Mengshu's face turned even redder, but his eyes were a little gloomy.

Man Zhen saw that Gong Mengshu's expression was wrong, and thought that she must be worried about Miss Lu's entry into the door, and was about to comfort her a few words, but from the window that was not closed tightly, the ethereal singing voice of the fourth aunt suddenly floated in, as if there was also the voice of the third aunt who was too harmonious. Man Zhen listened to a few words, pouted, and said, "Isn't it very leisurely, I don't know who I'm singing to......

Gong Mengshu stopped what he was doing, and said unintentionally: "It should also be interested, sing it to the master......"

"Master is the ...... who hates drama the most anyway" Man Zhen sneered and said: "The fourth aunt is too energetic to learn......, isn't the third aunt also learning?"

The second wife paused, and the words burst out from between her teeth: "If the two of them want to compete for the top position, they must be able to do enough! If you don't measure yourself, you are a poor worm!" Gong Mengshu raised his head and looked at the second wife Manzhen when he heard this, and saw a strange smile on the corner of her mouth, his heart couldn't help but froze, and he hurriedly lowered his head, pretending to be busy with the embroidery work in his hands, and didn't dare to continue to think deeply.

The climate is even hotter, and the dry/hot night cicadas are constantly chirping, which makes people irritable. On this night, the twilight was as dark as ink, Cheng Chazhong took Cheng Ruikai and his family to the hotel to have dinner with the Lu family, and when he came back, he was full of spring breeze, thinking that he was talking with the Lu family very happily.

It happened that the weather was hot and cold in the past few days, Mrs. Cheng was infected with the wind cold, Gong Mengshu has been close to serve, Mrs. Cheng often sits in the hall, greedy and lively, even if she is sick, so Gong Mengshu just heard the news that Cheng Ruikai is going to get engaged to Lu Qingqing. But this time she didn't lose her temper again, she just took a deep breath to allow herself to be calm and accept the fact.

Cheng Ruikai looked at her, there was a little guilt in his eyes, Gong Mengshu suddenly felt a little ironic, since he had decided, why did he have such a look, did he want to comfort her or do he want to make her feel more uncomfortable? She lowered her eyes, held the snuffbox for the old lady, and although her hands trembled, she no longer looked at Cheng Ruikai.

Cheng Chazhong's eyebrows fluttered and he said what he had seen and heard at the dinner table, and while he was elated, he suddenly remembered something, and asked the second wife Man Zhen and the third aunt Tai Peng Wanru: "Hey, why don't you see Wanyue? Didn't Fang Cai still say a few words at the dinner table? Where are you now? Ask her to come and have a cup of tea together, and our family will be lively." ”

The third aunt Tai Peng Wanru's face changed first, and her expression that she had always been afraid of heaven and earth showed a hint of panic, she quickly stood up and forced a smile: "Just now she said that her stomach is uncomfortable, she should go to the toilet in the thatched house, right?"

The second wife, Man Zhen, slowly picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and then said slowly: "My maid just came out of the thatched house, why don't you see the fourth aunt......?

Cheng Chazhong frowned suspiciously when he heard this, while the third aunt was as earthy as her face.