Chapter 16: Compromise
A rain lasted for several days, but the sky still showed no signs of clearing, and the beginning of June, which should have been hot, became cooler.
The water on the ground almost overflowed the ground, trapping people under the eaves and not going anywhere.
Mrs. Mu also deliberately exempted the morning and dusk provinces, and even Jixian Hall also suspended classes. It's not because Master Zhang, who teaches classes, is good at advocating, but because the people who can study in Jixian Hall are all the sons and daughters of powerful people in Kyoto. There are too many pampered people, and those who cry and don't want to go because of a rain account for the majority.
Master Zhang had no choice but to dismiss the remaining students.
And these are all Zheng Li's sue sΓΉ Mu Zhiling. Since Mu Yu 'fell and injured' his leg, Zheng Li would step on stagnant water every day and go to Yingguo Mansion to inquire about Mu Yu's situation. Before leaving, he would secretly stuff Mu Yu with some notebooks, most of which were about folk history, and there were also some interesting anecdotes.
Mu Zhiling thought about returning the jade pendant to Zheng Li, but Zheng Li said: "The fifth sister is cold, you can keep it, I am a man, and my body is strong." β
Mu Zhiling resisted the urge to laugh out loud. If she is really only six years old, I am afraid that Zheng Li's behavior will make his image taller in an instant. It's a pity that if you really count it, she happens to be seventeen this year. Coupled with all the experiences she had in her previous life, she had long lost the innocence of a girl.
Rao is like this, after hearing Zheng Li say such words, she still can't help but feel warm in her heart. I couldn't help but search for memories of Zheng Li in my mind, but found that it was blurry.
Song Yingzhao also came to Yingguo Mansion twice, each time with Zheng Li. Both of them will take the lead in respectfully saluting the Mu family one by one, and then come to see Mu Yu.
At first, although Mu Zhiling pretended to be calm on the surface, every time she saw Song Yingzhao, her heart couldn't help but be cold. After a long time, I got used to it.
These days, I don't know if it's because of the rain, the whole person is idle, and Mu Zhiling, who is wearing a child's body, only feels more and more bored. And Mu Yu looked at the book that Zheng Li brought him from the outside with relish, and Mu Zhiling also read a few of them.
Xiao Yuning handed over to Mu Zhiling to read and write, and said that this would be beneficial to 'developing the brain'. So it's not surprising that Mu Zhiling can read the book.
Xiao Yuning would go to Begonia Garden several times a day, and occasionally make some delicious snacks and bring them over. Yuemei and Jin Qiao were guarding outside the door, and every time they heard the sound of the two saluting Xiao Yuning, Mu Yu climbed onto the bed in a panic, covered his head with a quilt cover and pretended to sleep.
Mu Zhiling sat on the agarwood carved chair, put down the book in her hand, and sat quietly on the camphor carved high stool. Seeing Xiao Yuning enter the house, he walked up to Xiao Yuning and called obediently: "Mother......
Xiao Yuning took Mu Zhiling's hand, saw the extra pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the dark red camphor wood, and then looked at Mu Yu lying on the couch and pretending to be asleep, sighed lightly, walked to Mu Yu's side and said: "Yu'er, if you really don't practice martial arts, your mother and father will respect your choice and will not force you." You don't have to hide like that, and you don't have to fake your illness, you know? β
Sure enough, I can't hide anything from my mother.
Mu Yu opened his eyes and muttered, "Mother's ......"
Xiao Yuning reached out and pulled the thin quilt covering Mu Yu down to his shoulders, and his fingers gently swept across Mu Yu's face. Fingers poked down, snatched the crumpled rice paper from Mu Yu's hand, spread it out carefully, and after looking at it carefully, he was relieved: "I didn't expect my brother Yu to be so talented, and he can draw so well." β
Mu Yu saw Xiao Yuning's happy face, and his nervousness was relieved a lot, and he got up slowly, "Mother, I'm sorry." β
"What do you have to be sorry for, it's a good thing. Brother Yu, you must know that three hundred and sixty lines are the champions. As long as Brother Yu'er does something worthy of the sky, the earth, and herself, your mother will support you. β
Mu Yu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Xiao Yuning's eyes, but asked in a low voice, "What about Daddy?" β
Xiao Yuning held Mu Yu's shoulders with both hands and said, "Your father will also support you." β
The tense body relaxed, Mu Yu raised his head, his eyes flashed with surprise, and his voice was a little higher: "Really? Mother won't lie to children, right? β
Mu Zhiling didn't expect her brother to be afraid of her father to such a point, so she couldn't help but say: "Seriously, my mother will never lie to us." β
At dinner time, the three-room family had dinner in Jingxuan Pavilion, and Mu Yu was also present. Since Mu Yu fell and injured himself, Xiao Yuning instructed the cook to cook the dishes he liked to eat alone and send them to his room, because this was the first time Mu Yu had eaten with his family in several days.
Mu Zongze raised his eyebrows invisibly, glanced at his son, and ate by himself. After eating, Xiao Yuning pulled Mu Zongze's sleeve, but Mu Zongze didn't respond, and reached out to scoop the soup.
Seeing this, Mu Zhiling couldn't help but say: "Daddy, this is already the fourth bowl of soup, and my mother said that drinking too much soup is not good for the stomach." β
Mu Zongze glanced at his daughter, and finally put down the soup spoon in his hand, but he still didn't speak.
He felt uncomfortable in his heart, and the son he had high hopes for was far from the character he expected, and he was still a little chilling. Although he has gradually come to accept this fact, he can't do what he wants to say at this moment.
Seeing Mu Zongze's angry appearance without saying a word, Xiao Yuning had no choice but to say it himself. She looked at Mu Yu and said, "Father and mother have decided to find a few gentlemen in Kyoto and teach Brother Yu alone." Moreover, millet is not small, and when I was looking for Mr. Yu'er, I also found a few grandmothers by the way. Several gentlemen and grandmothers are all people of good character and insightful learning. The reason why I chose a few is because I want you to choose them yourself, so that you don't like them. β
After listening to what Xiao Yuning said, Mu Zhiling raised her little face and said glutinously: "Does grandmother know about this?" β
Xiao Yuning shook his head when he heard this, and said, "Not yet, I'm just looking for a gentleman, and I'll tell the old lady when it's confirmed." β
Mu Zhiling bit her lips, wrong, outrageously wrong!
If it's just looking for a gentleman, then it's just that, but I also found an adoptive mother. Yingguo Mansion, my brother only has three brothers, and although Uncle Mu Yao, the eldest son of the long house, went to Zhenzhou, the third son of the fourth room, Mu Su, is only three years old this year, and he can't even say the whole sentence.
The Mu family originally had six daughters, the second lady had two daughters in one child, and the fourth sister was stillborn, and only the third sister Mu Zhixuan survived. The eldest sister has been in Zhenzhou, and the second sister Mu Zhishu went to Jingguang Temple a few days ago. Although there are only three left in the house now, there is not much difference in age, and the youngest Mu Zhishuang is almost five years old.
If the mother is only looking for an adoptive mother for her, then the most dissatisfied is the old lady.
only considering herself, in the eyes of Mrs. Mu, she is narrow-minded and lacks education.
Hiding from the old lady to find her adoptive mother, she will be labeled as an unfilial person who has no respect for her elders out of thin air.
In her previous life, Mu Zhiling didn't understand this, so naturally she couldn't avoid all kinds of suspicions between Mrs. Mu and Xiao Yuning, and when she was a human being in her second life, she had more thoughts when she encountered such a thing, so how could she allow her mother to be wrong again?
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