Chapter 36: The Past
"Haha, you little girl!" Zheng Lao laughed loudly, and his voice was enough to shake the sky, which showed his joy.
However, when facing Xie Mingsi, he was not so approachable, and only looked at him and said, "What about your bet?" Take it too. β
Elder Zheng, you are a famous person, are you really not afraid of being talked about differently?
If he was really afraid of being said, Zheng Lao would not live so freely. Living to his age, he has lost all fame and fortune, and he still cares what others say?
The old fellow who was half buried in the dirt just wanted to be happy.
As early as the moment the gambling contract was made, Xie Mingsi sent another servant, Fuping, back to get a title deed from Baohua Garden. At this moment, he immediately gave his hands to Zheng Lao.
He originally wanted to stay here for a while to admire Old Zheng's demeanor, but he was driven away by his old man's big hand, "Okay, the bet contract has been decided, and the result will be known before the afternoon." Come back then. β
Xie Mingsi hesitated, and Old Zheng's eyes widened, "Why, you don't believe me, this old man?" β
"No, no, how could I not believe you, old man! Just ......"
Jiang Rong smiled "hehe" and said, "Grandpa Zheng, where does he not believe you?" He doesn't believe me and Jufangzhai, he's afraid that we will do something! For example, I quietly dropped this bluegrass, isn't that so, uncle? β
Xie Mingsi was said to be in his mind, and smiled, but he did not deny it. Compared with Zheng Lao's face, his own Baohua Garden is more important, okay!
"And what do you say?" Elder Zheng asked him.
Xie Ming thought about it, took out a small silk bag from his sleeve, took out a thumb-sized seal from it, and said: "This is my personal seal, no one can fake it, I will poke the leaves of this orchid grass and stamp the seal, if this seal is still there in the afternoon, then it means that it is still the original one." β
"Well, it's a good solution, you can build it." Jiang Rong nodded in agreement.
There is nothing to refuse to agree to, if you refuse, you will be denied by this person when the time comes, saying that they are cheating.
It's just, "Are you really sure that your seal is unique and no one can counterfeit it?" Jiang Rong confirmed again.
Speaking of this, Xie Mingsi's face showed a somewhat triumphant expression, "That's natural, it can be said that my seal is the only one in the sky and the earth, and no one wants to counterfeit it." Even if you imitate it, you can't imitate it. β
"That's good, don't believe it when the results come out."
Xie Mingsi snorted lightly, "I am willing to lose the bet, I, Xie Mingsi, am not the person who has no gambling." β
Seeing that Li Changyuan, Zheng Lao, Jiang Rong and others had all entered Jufangzhai, everyone had nothing to look at, so they all dispersed. But his mouth is still talking about what happened at the door of Jufangzhai one after another.
As soon as he entered the door, Jiang Rong hurriedly said to Li Changyuan, "Uncle Li, can you find me a separate room?" β
"What do you call me?" Li Changyuan stared at her with a very unkind expression, "Didn't you call me 'brother' yesterday?" Why has this changed? He's such a fickle little guy, that's not good. β
Jiang Rong was speechless, is it time to dwell on the issue of salutation? Can you care about the main point of the matter? Although she did it on purpose, just to get rid of him, otherwise she would feel uncomfortable.
obviously didn't want to help him, but in the end she still helped, which made her feel a little awkward and unwilling. I can't help myself if I don't do something.
Fortunately, there is another person who understands here, and Zheng Lao said as soon as he heard it: "Does the little girl already have a way to make it bloom?" β
Jiang Rong nodded and put on a big smile, "It's still Grandpa Zheng who is smart, unlike some people who only stare at some trivial things." β
As he spoke, he also glanced at someone who "only stared at some trivial things", which meant not too obvious.
Li Changyuan couldn't help grinding his teeth, okay, you little girl, you dare to arrange me! Sooner or later, I'm going to have to clean you up!
But now is not the time.
Seeing Li Changyuan's deflated but helpless appearance, Zheng Lao was first surprised for a while, and then laughed out loud without an image, pointing at him and shaking his head constantly, "Haha, I didn't expect you to have today!" I really should have asked the old man to come and see, the eldest grandson who gave him a headache actually had a deflated day, haha......"
Li Changyuan simply ignored him, pretending not to see it, and directly ordered Li Dequan, "Take her to Fufeng Courtyard." β
Li Dequan couldn't help but be stunned, Fufeng Courtyard was the courtyard where Gongzi occasionally passed by here, and usually except for Gongzi himself and Mochuan, the guard who followed him all the year round, everyone else was not allowed to enter. Why did you allow this little girl to go in this time?
But no matter how much he doubted in his heart, since Childe had ordered, then he would do it.
The next moment, however, a voice rang out, "I'll go too." But it was Xiao Jue who had been following Jiang Rong's side.
Jiang Rong glanced at him and did not object.
Li Dequan looked at Gongzi in embarrassment.
Li Changyuan was holding a cup of tea, and said in a rambling voice: "My yard is not something that any cat or dog can enter. β
Xiao Jue's eyes narrowed for a moment, Li Changyuan, the eldest grandson of the Li family, he had this person's existence in his memory, but there was no intersection between the two. After all, in the previous life, he was not a person of the same generation as himself, and he was not in the same circle, so he naturally had no connection.
I didn't expect to meet early in this life.
Xiao Jue stretched out his hand to put his hand on Jiang Rong's shoulder, declaring his ownership, looking at it with a provocative look in his eyes, and said slowly: "I don't worry about Ah Rong's safety, as her fiancΓ©, I naturally want to follow her step by step to take care of and protect her." β
"Puff-cough-cough," Li Changyuan had just drunk the tea that squirted out, he had never done such a damaging thing, but now he didn't care about this at all.
"What do you say? Don't talk nonsense, boy, Ah Rong is still so young, where is there any fiancΓ©? β
Li Changyuan stared at him very uncertainly.
Zheng Lao's eyes were also full of surprise, but his eyes swept back and forth between the three young people, "hehe" laughed twice, and continued to sit upright and watch the show.
Xiao Jue ignored him, only looked down at Jiang Rong, and said half-threatening and half-pleading: "Ah Rong, you sue him." β
Jiang Rong couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, Xiao Jue, Xiao Jue, do you want to go anywhere and say a place? It's like we're really fiancΓ©s.
However, she couldn't really refute it. I could only be silent.
Li Changyuan naturally took her as a default, and turned his head to look at Li Xin, "This ...... It's Ah Rong's mother, right? β
Li Xin nodded.
Li Changyuan said: "Then I'll call you Sister, see how old you should be older than me, you shouldn't mind, right?" β
Li Xin shook his head, feeling that the young man in front of him looked quite kind, so he let him go.
Zheng Lao only noticed Li Xin on the side at this time, because she had not made a sound, and she was still holding a baby in her arms, Zheng Lao didn't have a lot of staring at her, he only glanced at it before and knew that there was such a person, but he didn't see what she looked like.
Seeing her face at this moment, there were also waves in Zheng Lao's eyes, which had always been unfazed, how could this young woman be so similar to her brother and daughter-in-law?
The younger brother and daughter-in-law in his mouth is the wife of the old man Zhai he mentioned before, the old man's full name is Li Rongzhai, and the full name of Zheng Lao's name is Zheng Jingrui. It is Li Rongzhai's wife Zhang who is also his brother-in-law.
And Li Rongzhai is Li Changyuan's grandfather, speaking of which, Zheng Lao also watched him grow up.
Zheng Lao often walks around the Li family, so naturally he has seen the Zhang family many times. When I saw Li Xin at first glance, I thought I had seen the Zhang family when I was young! It can be seen that the appearance of the two is like ten out of ten.
He also knows the situation of his old friend's family, when Zhang's family was nearly forty years old, he accidentally conceived another child and gave birth to a daughter, and he was loved by the old man Zhai and the old couple of Zhang's family like something, it was really in his hand for fear of falling and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting.
It's just that Zhang's is an elderly mother, and she really suffered a meal when she gave birth, and the little girl she gave birth to was as weak as a kitten, and her cry was as thin as a mosquito humming.
At that time, they all said that they couldn't support themselves, but where were they willing to give up their own relatives and husbands and wives?
Later, Master Guanyun pointed out a maze, saying that the girl was raised in a sparsely populated place, so that she would have less contact with the red world and less contamination with cause and effect, so that her mind would be pure and clean. If you have less thoughts, it will be easier to feed.
After that, he never saw the girl again, and he didn't know where he was sent by the Li family. It's just that later he said that he couldn't find it back, and Zhang's fell seriously ill because of this, and he washed his face with tears every day, regretting his mistakes.
Those who have not yet reached the age of antiquity now spend most of their days in bed.
After coming back to his senses from the past, Zheng Lao heard Li Changyuan ask Li Xin, "Ah Rong really got engaged to this person?" β
Li Xin also didn't speak, and his face flashed with reluctance, embarrassment, doubt, and other expressions.
It seemed that this was true, Li Changyuan was silent, and it was quite unkind to look at Xiao Jue's eyes again.
If his guess is true, Ah Rong's mother is really his little aunt who has been missing for a long time, then Ah Rong Ke is his little cousin.
The little cousin who finally got it has already promised someone? Or is it such a stinky boy? How unreasonable!
"I don't agree." Li Changyuan blurted out.
Except for Zheng Lao, who knew what he had guessed in the past, everyone else looked at him with wide eyes, and they really didn't know in what capacity he said this.
The little girl's own mother is still sitting here, why is it his turn to say "disagree"? It's too much of a subordinate, isn't it?