CHAPTER IX

The old furniture with the pulp, the twisted gold furnishings that have faded but are placed on the Duobao Pavilion with a low-key warm color, and the spices that smell so faint that you can barely find the source in your nose, but you subconsciously feel this extraordinary fragrance.

Even if it is the East and the West, Acacia has deeply felt the difference between the two, even if the place she is in now is just an inconspicuous wing room in the backyard.

Meng Huoran rubbed his hands awkwardly at the pair of bright eyes that seemed to have been washed with water, just now he only felt that the crying cousin was a soft mess, but when he really brought people to the side room, leaving only the brother and sister alone, he still felt that something was wrong, not to mention that he and her should be regarded as the first time they met.

"Big brother, my mother...... Are you alright? ”

Meng Huoran thought that the little cousin would be nervous and scared, and was thinking about whether to comfort a few words, but he didn't expect Acacia to speak first.

Meng Huoran tried his best to make his voice softer and said: "Don't worry, my second brother will go to rest first, you can rest for a while, and then I will let Mama take you over when the banquet starts." ”

Acacia is worried about the crying woman, she is even more afraid that this woman will come up with some shocking words to alarm the uncle's family, and she can't even walk around after the trouble.

The second room is no longer saved, but fortunately, the people in the big room are all understanding people, so it can be seen that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and a mouse will make a hole. Even if her father was born to her grandfather, there are more sons and mothers, so that the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, which is far worse than the uncle whose biological mother is the daughter of Taifu. Of course, her mother was definitely an accident.

She doesn't want to have any future in the second room, but the big room is different, she is the granddaughter of the Meng family, and the uncle will attack the lord sooner or later, with her father's inflammatory, as long as the uncle favors her a little more, her father will kneel and lick and do it, and it will not be easy for grandmother to handle her family affairs for the sake of his father's future.

Besides, Uncle He's is a kind-hearted person, and most of the people around her are decent, if Acacia really wants to find a happy place for the rest of his life, then there will be nothing wrong with being close to Dafang people.

"Is the big brother still busy? Then you can go, don't worry about me, just ask someone to call Mama Zhang. Acacia smiled shyly: "I'm alone...... Afraid. ”

Meng Huoran saw this porcelain doll-like sister, and his heart itched to touch the hair bun of Acacia, although there were two girls in his family, but the eldest sister was older than him and was usually light and cold, since he was a child, he didn't dare to get close, and then finally looked forward to a younger sister, that Mu Ne's non-talkative nature really made him worry for a long time, and he was afraid that he would become like the eldest sister.

Later, when the dust grew, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but he also had some regrets, the dust was not as cold as the eldest sister's bones, but the kind of character that always loves someone to do his own things and is not too close to his brother is too different from the soft little bun in his fantasy.

But now it's different, he felt that this clean little girl was so cute from the first time he saw Acacia, just standing makes people can't take their eyes off, and when he cries, he can't help but care, anyway, his cousin is also a sister, and he doesn't have any psychological burden to take care of.

"Okay, so what else would you like to eat?" Meng Huoran obviously didn't want to leave, but it was a pity that he was the eldest grandson of the Earl's Mansion, and it was already the limit to be able to leave for a while.

"No need, thank you, big brother, just give me some water to moisten my throat." I cried so much that people were about to do it.

Meng Huoran regretfully agreed, his original idea was to bring some colorful dim sum, if his sister could eat those delicate dim sum, it would definitely look extraordinarily good.

Acacia saw the frustration that Meng Huoran revealed, but even if she lived for a lifetime, she couldn't see through the sister-controlled heart in Ruyu Gongzi.

The time was really not early, Meng Huoran found a girl and sent someone to call Mama Zhang, but in the end, he couldn't hold it anymore and left regretfully.

Walking to the door, Meng Huoran turned around and saw Acacia leaning under the hollow carved lotus window, smiling warmly and purely. Meng Huoran's face flushed, turned around and followed his subordinates quickly.

Waiting for everyone to leave, there was a little girl left at the door to guard, Acacia then relaxed and leaned on the soft couch, her overtures to Meng Huoran were not casual, in the memory of her previous life, this big brother is not only the future Ding'anbo, but also may be one step closer because of the emperor's appreciation after the attack.

After several generations, most of the wealthy families of Chen Guo are content with hereditary titles and do not want to make progress, except for some people who have a good name and are actually useless idle positions for the sake of face, the rest are only willing to sleep in the glory of their ancestors.

So gradually, the small families are lonely, and some of them are not as good as the rich even if they have hereditary titles, and they take on debts and commit crimes...... The emperor above has been waiting for you for a long time, once you grasp the handle, and send down the will of the family, the century-old foundation will be wiped out in an instant, and it is a question of whether the descendants have the life to pass on the ancestry.

The emperors of the Chen State were not as jealous of the heroes as the previous dynasties, so the large and small family lords may not be able to remember the royal family clearly, in order not to let the old ministers chill, and in order not to spend so much money every year to raise idlers, after strict management of the heroes, it can be regarded as the idea that the current saint has more thoughts than the previous emperors.

After all, money corrupts people's hearts, who doesn't have a few gentlemen? Besides, the saint is not just copying the house, it is all evidence-based and can be announced to the world, and the common people will not only not criticize, but will also applaud because of the saint's justice and strictness. Only a family that truly cultivates itself can survive safely from generation to generation and become the best tool for the Holy Lord to manage the country.

Meng Huoran is obviously very in line with such a candidate in the heart of the saint, he is not like the family of military generals, the military merits of the descendants can be earned little by little, even if there is a little problem, the saint is reluctant to punish, these people are protecting his country, so they have to win over and beware, the best way is to find a civil official who is also a family to contain each other in the court, so that no one can be unconvinced, everyone is a family with a title. The only pity is that there are too few talents like Meng Huoran among the powerful, and there are good food, drink, and fun, which family is willing to let their children and grandchildren suffer from the imperial examination?

Just by virtue of this, Acacia felt that the uncle was a very far-sighted person.

She is a woman, no matter how envious Meng Huoran's future is, it can't fall on her head, but a woman has her own place to be, if she wants to live comfortably and comfortably in her in-law's house, she must have a strong mother's family, and if the second room is not successful, Meng Huoran is the best backing.

She's not in a hurry, she still has time......

"Oops, Mom! Who are you? ”

There are two carved window lattices on the wall where Acacia leans, Acacia was originally in a daze with something in his heart, but he saw that the window lattice behind him was opened from the outside, and a young man wearing a beige silver brocade robe crawled in with grinning teeth.

The young man thought that there was no one in the house, and his movements were naturally not very elegant, but when he was stuck in the middle of the road, and the whole person struggled like a small fish washed ashore, he looked up and looked at the surprised lovesickness.

"You...... Who are you? Acacia considered whether to call out to the girl outside.

"Don't! Don't shout! The young man seemed to see Acacia's intentions, and the whole person pushed open the window lattice and rolled in, regardless of the delicate robe being rolled into dirty clothes, he crawled to the Acacia couch with a rolling belt, trying to cover her mouth, but felt that the palms of his hands were too dirty, and finally he could only dance and not know what to do.

"Are you a guest at Uncle's house?" Seeing this guy's side face, Acacia only felt a little familiar.

The young man's expression just now ruined his appearance, but when he looked closely, this boy was really good-looking, with a pair of peach blossom eyes with thick eyelashes, a straight and heroic nose, and with the shallow dimples and pink thin lips, he was born with a thin look that would make a woman sad.

Thinking about it, she probably already knows who this person is.

"I said, I don't look at you like a girl in Ding'anbo's mansion, I haven't seen you before." The young man wiped his face with his sleeve, sat down beside Acacia, looked up and down, and praised: "But you are much better looking than Huo Ran's sisters, are you a relative of their family?" ”

"My family is from Yanzhou, and my eldest brother and I are cousins." Acacia only felt that the young man's eyes were discharging, if it was an ordinary girl's family, even if she didn't have it, she would be shy and blush, but she had seen too much in her previous life, especially after hearing about the glorious deeds of this young master, the heart that was no longer young had long been immune.

"Oh!!" The young man suddenly realized that Meng Huoran's uncle came from Yanzhou to mourn a while ago, and he had heard that the family had used this family as a cooking ingredient after cooking, but he didn't expect that Meng Tongzhi would have such a small jade figure in his family, and it was not as unreliable as the family said.

"Your grandfather's family is the Marquis of Yongchang?"

There are differences between men and women, and some things are not easy to say directly.

Acacia didn't twist, nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

"It turned out to be the second girl, speaking of which, we can be regarded as relatives!" The boy likes beautiful girls the most on weekdays.,There is no one in the family from the girl to the grandmother who looks average.,Since childhood, I love to stick to the good-looking nurse.,Now in order to hide in the side room, I didn't expect to meet such a good-looking girl.。

The big family, who doesn't have a marriage, the lovesickness is just a perfunctory smile, and it is not taken to heart.

"What's the matter with this brother? In a little while, my grandmother will be coming. "Even though she was not very old, it was hard to say that a strange boy was hiding in her house, and besides, she had no interest in the famous playboy who would come to be.

The boy stood up in shock, and cautiously ran to the door to look out, where two little girls were standing. If he wants to run out of the main entrance, I'm afraid it's unlikely, but as the beautiful girl said, his dignified prince can't be blocked in the little girl's room.

"Acquaintance is fate." The young man smiled very merryly, he took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms and stuffed it in Acacia's hand and said: "Little cousin, you have to remember my brother, I am Zhuang Jinyuan, the son of the Hou of Suning, you can take this jade pendant in the future, you can come to the Hou Mansion of Suning to find me, remember!" You must come and play with me! ”

After speaking, Zhuang Jinyuan didn't wait for Acacia to speak, and found the window he had just climbed in again and turned back, this time it was much more beautiful than just now.

"Second cousin, don't forget me!"

I thought that everyone else had run away and the window had been lowered, but who knew that this person had pulled a gap in the window again, and his head was half-pulled from the outside, and he was still smiling with a spring breeze.

Waiting for him to really leave, Acacia lowered his head and looked at the jade pendant in the palm of his hand, and there was no trace of turmoil in his heart, she heard people say in her previous life that this Suning Hou Shizi likes to give jade pendants to beautiful girls, and the jade pendants are all bought by Chengda, and there is no trace of sincerity at all, and only a little girl who is not deep in the world will be deceived by him to take away the truth, but I didn't expect to live a lifetime I actually received this kind of jade pendant, and I don't know whether I should be proud of myself to get into the eyes of this person, or should I smile bitterly at the age of being played by a child.

However, Suning Hou and Yongchang Hou are really relatives, should she follow this merry little prince to connect with her grandfather's family who has no longer interacted?