Chapter 18: Contradictions

"It's hard to say, Brother Ziran, you have to be careful. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Yan Ruojiu is very serious.

"Hehe, with you by my side, what am I afraid of?" Fei Ziran didn't take it seriously, and still laughed and joked.

"Brother Ziran!" Yan Ruojiu was a little anxious.

"Okay, okay, I'll be careful, didn't I say I had to go back to dinner, then why don't you get up quickly and help me fix the book, otherwise I really won't be able to go back at night." Fei Ziran changed the topic with a smile.

"Hmm...... Revision ...... I? Yan Ruojiu was a little afraid to do so.

"Hehe, what are you afraid of, isn't there still me if it is repaired, just like my grandfather taught me in the Northland, these tools are much better than those in the Northland, come and teach you to take your time." Fei Ziran handed her a scroll and said, "Help me transcribe this volume first." ”

"Well, I'll try it then." Yan Ruojiu turned the scroll out cautiously.

Fei Ziran taught Yan Ruojiu to continue to study, but the room was warm and quiet, and time slowly climbed past the window......

Yan Ruojiu accompanied Fei Ziran to repair the book until almost evening, and then the two left the library together and returned to Yan's mansion.

Yan Shuqing and Mo Shi were really surprised to see Fei Ziran, so they hurriedly welcomed Fei Ziran into the house, and this intimacy made Yan Ruojiu, who came back together, muttered a little sourly: "Dad, mother, your own daughter is still here." ”

"You little girl, aren't you thinking about Ziran the most every day, why are you jealous?" Mo couldn't help but joke about his daughter.

"Mother......" Yan Ruojiu just wanted to be coquettish.

"Hehe, I know that your little girl is cheating, let's go in quickly, we finally had a reunion dinner." Mo Shi led Yan Ruojiu into the house.

Because Yan Ruojiu had returned to the house in the carriage before, Yan Shuqing and Mo Shi had received the news early, so this dinner was prepared in advance but rich.

As soon as Fei Ziran saw the rich dishes on the table, he was a little moved and said, "Uncle, aunt, you are too rich." ”

Mo said with a smile: "You are out alone, and I don't know if you can eat well, this is finally able to go home and have a dinner, it is all home-cooked, the dishes you like to eat, quickly clean your hands and sit down to eat." ”

Yan Ruojiu looked at the table full of dishes and pouted, "Brother Ziran, you should come often in the future, so that we can often eat such rich meals." ”

"Uh-huh! My sister is right, Brother Ziran is going to come often, and my father bought sauce elbows today, uh...... Call...... It's fragrant. Yan Wenxiu swallowed a small saliva while staring intently at the table full of dishes in anticipation.

"Wen Xiu, look at your little gluttonous cat, come and clean your hands." Yan Ruojiu looked at his younger brother swallowing saliva, and he couldn't laugh or cry.

Yan Wenxiu reluctantly looked at the sauce elbow on the table and muttered, "Sister, I didn't go out again." ”

"Then you have to clean your hands, come quickly." Yan Ruojiu didn't wait for Yan Wenxiu to speak again, so she directly pulled him aside, helped him wash his hands and wipe his face, and wiped the faint saliva from the corner of his mouth by the way.

After a while, Yan Ruojiu sat down with her father, mother, and younger brother with Fei Ziran, and she didn't say a word, but the food at this table was extremely sweet, and she ate until the end, Mo Shi first took her little son who gnawed his elbows and gnawed his face full of oil, and Yan Ruojiu followed his father Yan Shuqing and Fei Ziran to the side hall to drink tea.

Not long ago, not long after Yan Ruojiu returned to Yan Mansion with Fei Ziran, the second lady Dong, as the housekeeper, naturally knew the news of Fei Ziran's entry into the mansion.

She flipped through the account book while her daughter Yan Ruolan, who was with her, and said, "This nine girls are perverse. ”

"Ninth sister? What's wrong? Yan Ruolan put down the handkerchief in her hand that had not yet been sewn and said.

"Today, the nine girls went out of the house, and they didn't come back until almost evening, and when they came back, they brought an extra young man." Dong shook his head and said disdainfully: "In the end, he is a person who is used to being in the Northland, there are really no rules at all." ”

"Mother, the ninth sister is a little girl, it is the age of fun, and it is normal to be unable to stay in the house, but it is ...... to bring back a man Something is wrong, I don't know who that man is? "Yan Ruolan is not a few years older than Yan Ruojiu, but she can understand her lively temperament.

"Like the young man who returned to Beijing with your third uncle's family that day, his name is ...... What's it called...... Or is it a special surname...... It seems to be called Fei or something...... "The second lady Dong didn't have much impression of Fei Ziran.

"That young man's surname is Fei, is Fei Zhong's Fei?" Yan Ruolan was a little curious, this surname Fei was already rare in the capital, and I don't know when there was almost no family from the Fei family in the capital.

"Yes, it's Fei Zhong's fee, I also think it's very special, this surname is really not often heard, but I heard that he is the son of your third uncle's friend, so I went back to Beijing together." Dong also nodded.

"Mother, since he is the son of the third uncle's best friend, the ninth sister must also be very familiar with him, maybe he was still very close when he was in the northland, so it is normal for the ninth sister to take him back to the house." Yan Ruolan can understand.

"Hey...... Maybe yes, but I'm afraid that these nine girls are really as your third uncle and aunt said, they are used to being arbitrary in the Northland, and I'm afraid that this rule is not much better, it's only been less than ten days, and it's so unruly, I'm afraid that I will be guilty in the future. Dong still didn't like it.

"Mother, the ninth sister is still a child after all, this regular thing can be done slowly, besides, there is no third uncle and mother, what are you worried about." Yan Ruolan disagreed.

"How can I not worry, I am now managing the entire Yan Mansion, these nine girls are also girls in the Yan Mansion, and they will marry into the right family in the future, if the rules are not good, then going out will not only lose the face of your third uncle's family, but also the face of our Yan Guo Mansion, how can this be." Dong is very conscious of being a big man.

"Mother, you better not worry about so many things, otherwise you will be like your aunt again." Yan Ruolan put down the handkerchief in her hand and said worriedly.

"Humph! That's your aunt doesn't know how to be grateful, where is your cousin bad, why can't he be worthy of Ruoxue, hum, he was so opposed at the beginning, and now your cousin and Ruoxue are not also loving and happy, if I hadn't been in the middle, their family Ruoxue would have such a good life, hum! Dong was very disdainful.

"Mother!" Yan Ruolan was a little helpless, as the daughter of the Dong family, she still understood her mother's thoughts very well, and what the Dong family said had always been a fuse for the intensification of the contradictions between the big house and the second room.

To say that the eldest girl of the Yan family, that is, Yan Ruoxue, the eldest daughter of Dafang Yan Shupin and the Liu family, the marriage between her and Dong Yanfeng, the nephew of the Dong family, was originally a happy marriage with a talented woman and a good family.

This is indeed the case in the first year of marriage, but who knew that in the second year, the Dong family helped Dong Yanfeng accept concubines on the grounds that Yan Ruoxue had not given birth to an heir for a year, and in a fit of anger, he accepted two, one was a small family daughter, and the other was a domestic daughter.

As a talented woman who reads poetry and books, Yan Ruolan is actually tired of taking concubines and is extremely inattentive to her feelings, so she has always been very sympathetic and distressed to Yan Ruoxue, the eldest sister, especially Yan Ruoxue is still a submissive temperament, which is a great grievance and shame in Yan Ruolan's opinion, but Yan Ruoxue has nothing else except for going back to her parents' house for a period of time, and then she followed the Dong family back to live, but anyone can imagine that once there is a crack in the relationship between this husband and wife, will never be able to return to the appearance of love in the past, and it is conceivable how tormented Yan Ruoxue's days were.

"Mother, the daughter doesn't think that the cousin and the eldest sister are not a good match, it's just that the eldest uncle and the eldest aunt are a little too much, and the eldest sister has only been married to the uncle's family for a year, how can they bear to take a concubine to hurt the eldest sister, and the cousin is too, if he really likes his cousin, he should refuse." Yan Ruolan can say this, but she is a woman.

"What nonsense! You are still young, where do you know how to get along with husband and wife, that is Ruoxue's body and bones follow your aunt, and there has been no out, then wouldn't it be to your uncle's house cut off the incense, and what else can you do if you don't accept concubines, besides, it's just a few concubines, they are all playthings, Ruoxue, as a wife, should have the measure and courage of a wife, and should manage those concubines well, instead of being bullied and running back to her mother's house to cry and cry, it's really embarrassing and sad! Dong's eyes were full of disdain.

"Mother!" Yan Ruolan was a little helpless.

"Okay, it's all in the past, don't mention it, it's weird, it's you, don't be as cowardly as Ruoxue, you were crushed to death by a few concubines who couldn't get on the table, hey...... What a blockage! Dong closed the booklet and was very annoyed.

"Mother, what do you say?" Yan Ruolan didn't know if she disagreed, but she was still a little shy.

"What's the matter, you have to understand this matter sooner or later, you are also seventeen years old, and you have reached the age of talking about marriage, you should pay attention to these things." Dong turned the topic to Yan Ruolan.

"Mother...... "This time, Yan Ruolan is really a little shy.

"Ahem...... This is the private talk of our mother and daughter, what are you shy about, by the way, the fifth prince ......"

"Mother!" Yan Ruolan was a little overwhelmed.

"Hey...... The fifth prince is a good choice, compared to the prince's gentleness, the weakness of the second prince, the fifth prince is particularly likable, if you can ......"

"Mother......" Yan Ruolan frowned and said helplessly: "Mother, who did you listen to what did you say?" Net said something without a shadow, the daughter and the five princes have nothing. ”

"No, you little girl can't hide it from me, if not, why would he ask your father about you?"

"Mother......" Yan Ruolan lowered her head a little helplessly, and only after a long time was she a little entangled but said with a hint of sweetness: "The fifth prince is just ......"

The Dong family asked a lot of things about the five princes in the palace around the circle, and at this end, Yan Ruojiu accompanied his father and Fei Ziran to chat for a while.

Yan Shuqing asked while drinking tea: "Ziran, there is a imperial examination in winter, this one is a good opportunity for the Son of Heaven to come in person, what do you think?" ”

"Imperial examinations?" Fei Ziran said with a smile: "Uncle, although Ziran doesn't like officialdom, but now this is a way, if you can enter the Hanlin Academy to continue to study documents, it is also good, if you can stand on a firm foundation, maybe my grandfather can also return to Beijing to reunite with me." ”

"Uh...... It's good that you have this idea, but when you were in the Northland, you and Ah Wei read more messy and complicated books, and I don't know if you have dabbled in those books that are specifically designed to deal with the imperial examination? Yan Shuqing said with concern.

"Please rest assured uncle, taking the exam is a skill, and it is not difficult, Ziran has also dabbled in this kind of book before, but he has some confidence in his heart." Ziran said modestly but seriously.

"Yes, yes, Brother Ziran has read a lot, and he also understands ancient characters, today I found Brother Ziran in a very special study, there are all kinds of strange books and strange aspirations, most of Brother Ziran have read, Daddy, you shouldn't worry about this point for a long time, Master Xiao's knowledge, just a little effort can benefit us a lot, not to mention Brother Ziran, even if I go to take the exam, maybe I can be on the list, don't you say, Brother Ziran." Yan Ruojiu had a pleasing look on her face.

"You! You little ghost girl just know a few words, and you dare to be so cheeky after reading a few books? Yan Shuqing laughed.

"Daddy...... I don't just know some words, even Master Xiao says that I can be made, how can you say that, hum! Brother Ziran, what do you say? Yan Ruojiu was teased by her father, so she simply went to Fei Ziran's side to beg for comfort.