For An Ruolan, what happened in the Empress Dowager's palace was like a dream - a scene that she couldn't imagine on a daily basis, as soon as she pulled out of that situation, she put aside what happened at that time, and did not become complacent or proud because of it, and showed it everywhere.

It's not that she's not happy and proud, it's just that she is more happy to see her father-in-law soon than she is in contact with the Empress Dowager.

After leaving the palace and returning to the Hou Mansion, Mrs. An and An Ruolan did not mention what happened in the palace.

Half a month has passed since then, and the life of the Hou Mansion is still uneventful.

Compared with the Hou Mansion, the Weiguo Mansion can be described as a miasma.

After many investigations by the Duchess of Weiguo, the culprit behind the scenes was finally investigated, and the result can be said to be expected by the Wei family, and it was unexpected.

After learning that Qin Yiqing was the real culprit who spread the rumors, the Duchess of Weiguo's first thought was to drag Qin Yiqing out and beat him.

Qin Yiqing can be said to have grown up eating the rice of Weiguo Mansion and drinking the water of Weiguo Mansion.

Zhuang Mei was young and widowed, Qin Yiqing was still in infancy at that time, Zhuang Mei begged her directly, even if the two had the same father and different mother, she also thought of blood kinship and took in their mother and daughter.

She already knew that she might be luring a wolf into the house, and as expected, not long after entering the house, Zhuang Mei began to scratch her head in front of her husband, and then tried to climb the bed in every possible way, which she has been used to for so many years, after all, it has not affected the relationship between their husband and wife.

What I never expected was that Qin Yiqing would have a virtue with her mother when she grew up, and she learned to smoke and look at flattery at a young age, and the little thought in her heart can be described as Sima Zhao's heart. In the first two years, I saw that it had changed a lot, but I didn't want to look different in the shell, and it was still the same inside.

Duchess Wei Guo was both angry and annoyed, she knew that this was the case, she should have taken Qin Yiqing to her side to raise her, otherwise Qin Yiqing would not be as indecent as she is now.

For this niece, Duchess Wei Guo was completely chilled.

Wei Shao was not surprised that the rumors were spread by Qin Yiqing, after all, there was a debtor who was wronged, she beat Qin Yiqing, and it was normal for Qin Yiqing to design her. But that doesn't mean she won't be angry.

However, anger is anger, and the Duchess of Wei Guo and Wei Shao can't do anything to Qin Yiqing at the moment.

Now that Weiguofu is in the limelight, regardless of whether his rumors are true or not, as long as they move Qin Yiqing, the victim, Weiguofu will fall into an even more difficult situation, because at the moment, not only can they not touch Qin Yiqing's hair, but they also have to eat and drink for her.

Wei Shao didn't want to be aggrieved in her heart, because she couldn't go out, she wrote letters to An Ruolan in the room every day, and then asked people to send them to Qianxunju. She always remembered what An Ruolan's sisters said that the old marquis of Wenxin Hou's Mansion didn't like them to defend the country's mansion, because she didn't dare to send the letter to the Hou Mansion, for fear of causing trouble to An Ruolan.

At the beginning of September, Zhong Siye returned to Shengjing.

Early in the morning, An Ruolan dressed up carefully and went to the city gate to greet Zhong Siye, and waited until the sun rose overhead, and only then did a carriage with a congratulatory sign slowly drive on the official road into the city.

Zhong Yueshan didn't know where to learn the news that Zhong Siye had returned to Beijing today, and she deliberately dressed up carefully according to Zhong Siye's preferences and waited in front of the city gate early.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Zhong Yueshan rushed to the carriage first, and called with tears in her eyes: "Fourth uncle! ”

An Ruolan took a step behind, and when she heard this affectionate call, she shuddered.

A slightly puzzled monosyllable came from behind the curtain, followed by Zhong Siye's lazy voice: "Didn't you say that Baomei would come to pick me up?" Could it be that the surname Yi is making fun of me? ”

Hearing this, Zhong Yueshan's face became unsightly, and the fourth uncle didn't respond to her!

An Ruolan covered her lips and snickered, coughed and said, "Father-in-law, I'm outside!" ”

There was a burst of laughter from behind the curtain and said, "That's pretty much it." ”

The curtain was lifted, and Zhong Siye's handsome face appeared in front of him, but the elegant face in the past has now become clearer, a little more tough and crisp.

Looking at the face that had been reduced a lot compared to the last time they met, An Ruolan didn't feel distressed.

Zhong Yueshan said reluctantly: "Fourth uncle, you have lost weight. ”

She said what An Ruolan wanted to say, An Ruolan squirmed her lips a few times, and closed her mouth.

Zhong Siye didn't miss the loneliness in An Ruolan's eyes, and after bowing his head slightly to Zhong Yueshan, he beckoned to An Ruolan and said, "The hour is not early, Bao Mei will go back to Qianxun with her father-in-law for dinner first." ”

In contrast, the attitude of being extremely indifferent to herself made Zhong Yueshan's jealousy increase exponentially.

"Fourth uncle!" She grabbed Zhong Siye's sleeve and complained, "Don't you care about what kind of hard life your niece has had during this time?" You only asked me to ask Mr. Xun Yi for silver, but you didn't give me any care! ”

She thought that since the fourth uncle was still willing to take care of her, it meant that the fourth uncle still had feelings for her, she didn't believe that she said such a thing, and the fourth uncle could still throw her aside!

can only say that she still doesn't know Zhong Siye.

Hearing this, Fourth Master Zhong frowned impatiently, pulled out the sleeve of his shirt that was pulled by her, and said, "If you lack love, go to your father and mother, and the fourth uncle can only give you silver." ”

"Poof-" An Ruolan was still a little depressed, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Zhong Yueshan was ashamed and annoyed, she secretly glared at An Ruolan, after thinking about it, she had to change her strategy, and said pitifully: "Fourth uncle, my niece is here to thank you, in order to pick you up, my niece came early in the morning, and she stood for a morning, so you can't bear to say a few more words to your niece?" "I looked like I was about to cry.

The implication of her words was to ask Zhong Siye to take her back to Qianxunju.

After a tiring journey and lack of sleep, Zhong Siye was already very irritable, and was so obsessed with Zhong Yueshan that he couldn't bear his temper immediately, his handsome eyebrows were almost twisted, and he said angrily: "You have a lot of business, is it only you who stands for a morning?" Why didn't my sister ask for credit and reward? Besides, did I let you pick it up? Do you still rely on me for backache after standing for a morning? Don't play the family card with me, I know all the good things you do, now I'm not in the mood to repair you, I want to accept the transformation, let's make an appointment later, hurry up and stay where it's cool! ”

The words of the cannonball directly scolded Zhong Yueshan, and the tears she finally squeezed out were scared back before they could fall.

An Ruolan suddenly felt that she was a little pitiful, only a little.

After scolding people, he was in a much more comfortable mood, Zhong Siye raised his eyebrows in a chic manner, and said: "Sister Bao got in the car, my father has heard the roast chicken sauce beef beckoning me." With that, he lowered the curtain and retracted it.

"I'm in a carriage." An Ruolan only had time to say this sentence before the curtain closed.

"Then make your car and go, hurry." Zhong Siye shouted eagerly in the carriage.

An Ruolan glanced at Zhong Yueshan sympathetically, and strolled into her carriage in small steps.

"Huh-" The coachman flicked the horsewhip and drove the carriage into the city gate, and the dust raised by the horse's hooves and wheels sprinkled Zhong Yueshan, who was standing in place, on her face.

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The table was full of all kinds of meat dishes, chicken, duck, goose, fish, pigs, cattle, sheep, donkeys, everything, An Ruolan glanced at the greasy roast fat goose and sauce plate duck, and silently put the only two light fried bean sprouts and steamed sea bass in front of him.

At Zhong Siye's dinner table, there was no rule of eating and sleeping silently, because he felt troublesome, he directly gave up the chopsticks, and shouted happily while tearing the flower chicken with his bare hands: "This is the taste of meat!" I was about to vomit when I ate seafood in Haicheng, and if it was a man, he should eat meat and drink a lot! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the two dishes in front of An Ruolan with disgust.

An Ruolan pouted, "I'm not a man." "Pick up bean sprouts and deliver rice.

After eating until he was full, Zhong Siye slowed down his eating, took the hot handkerchief handed by the maid and wiped his hands, picked up the chopsticks and began to pretend to be Sven, and did not forget to pick up vegetables for An Ruolan.

"Only with balanced nutrition can you grow tall and grow meat, come, eat more meat, don't be thin and fall when the wind blows."

An Ruolan looked at the large pieces of braised pork and big chicken legs in the bowl, silently put down the chopsticks, and said with a smile: "I'm full, father-in-law, let's talk about serious things." ”

Zhong Siye squinted at her and pointed to the meat in her bowl, "My serious thing is to make you fat." Touching his chin, he added, "Sister Bao, do you know that plump women are said to be easy to give birth to, and all men want their wives to give birth to a keju team for themselves. ”

"......" An Ruolan decisively picked up the chopsticks and ate all the meat in the bowl.

"Good." Zhong Siye smiled and narrowed his eyes, "But there is one more sentence, that is, if you want to be rich, you must have fewer children and more trees." "As a man, the ghost wants his daughter to be used as a fertility tool! Of course, this does not hinder his determination to raise a fat baby girl.

An Ruolan said silently in her heart: "I have the money, so it's better to have more children and plant fewer trees." ”

If Fourth Master Zhong knew An Ruolan's thoughts at the moment, he didn't know whether he would cry or laugh.

After the full meal, the father and daughter drank tea and chatted, Zhong Siye told An Ruolan the news of Hengji Island, and An Ruolan told him about the size of Shengjing.

The fighting on Hengji Island is still tense, but fortunately, none of the people they care about are in danger.

Regarding Zhong Yueshan and Qin Yiqing's rumors to slander Wei Shao, Zhong Siye said that he would not help Zhong Yueshan, but he also didn't want An Ruolan not to interfere. An Ruolan could understand it, and agreed with one bite, because the Weiguo Mansion had already found out the murderer, and she couldn't interfere in the rest of the matter at all.

What Zhong Siye cared about the most was that the Queen Mother summoned An Ruolan into the palace, and he felt that the whole thing was all strange and coincidence, which had to make him suspect that the Queen Mother and Emperor Wanhua already knew An Ruolan's life experience.

For this, he is not worried, but Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng, Baomei's current identity is enough to attract people's eyes, if she is favored by the emperor and the queen mother again, she will definitely be even more unpeaceful in the future. But still, it wasn't something he could stop.

As the saying goes, what are you afraid of, Zhong Siye is still speculating here, and the emperor over there has already issued an order to seal An Ruolan as the lord of Chenshuang County, and the grade is the fourth grade. R1152