Chapter 47: Competing for Favor
Do you turn away, or do you go in as if nothing happened?
It may be considered redundant.
After all, she was a step late.
He pursed the corners of his lips, feeling a little unwilling.
Could it be that she could only retreat because of this and let her mind be buried under the ice and snow?
If it was in her previous life, she would definitely leave in a bad mood, pour out the ginseng soup, order the people around her not to talk much, and then use arrogance and indifference to cover up her sadness.
However, now, she looked at the ginseng soup in her hand that had been stewed for more than an hour, and smiled slightly.
"No problem." She bowed slightly to Liu, who was full of distress and worry, handed the food box to Liu, raised her hand and knocked on the door.
Soon, the door of the study opened a crack from the inside, and a handsome young man poked his head out, and was very surprised to see the two people outside the door, and opened the door with a smile, and greeted while letting people in: "Why did Miss Six and Mother Liu come over at night?" It's freezing. β
This young man's name is Qizhu, he is the boy next to An Shiyan, and because he is quite trusted, he is a person with some face in the fifth room.
An Ruolan didn't reply directly, raised her feet and stepped into the door, and only smiled: "I heard laughter outside the door, it's familiar, but my mother is here?" β
Liu followed closely behind her, bowing his head in silence.
Hearing this, a touch of unnaturalness flashed on Qizhu's face, and then he smiled: "I just came, and I'm sitting with the fifth master in the warm pavilion." He added: "The little one will go and pass it on to Miss Six." β
I turned around and walked towards the warm pavilion door.
An Ruolan hurriedly called him and said politely: "Don't bother Brother Qizhu, I'll go in by myself." β
After that, he took the Liu family to the warm pavilion, Qizhu looked at it and sighed silently.
There is only a curtain between the study and the warm pavilion, and when you reach the door, the laughter inside becomes more and more obvious.
Even if she hasn't seen it with her own eyes, An Ruolan can imagine how lively and warm the scene is inside.
Slowly exhaling the turbidity in her chest, she lifted the curtain with a smile on her face.
Almost at the moment when An Ruolan stepped into the warm pavilion, the sound of talking in the room suddenly stopped, and the moment the excitement faded, the three people inside, either surprised, panicked, or gloating, all looked over.
An Ruolan calmly faced everyone's gaze, as if she was not aware of the strange atmosphere inside, and generously looked at An Shiyan and Meng Shifu who were sitting on the warm kang, and said respectfully: "Daughter to father, mother to say goodbye." β
Meng Shi was the first to react, stood up suddenly, and asked urgently, "Why did Lan'er come here?" β
She still remembered the words she told her daughter not to come and disturb her, but she came and was seen by her daughter on the spot.
An Ruolan smiled lightly, bowed her head slightly, and still replied unhurriedly: "Grandmother heard that my father was busy with official business every night and was worried about my father's health, so I asked my daughter to come over to visit one or two. β
Meng Shi was about to answer, but An Shiyan was surprised and excited: "Your grandmother asked you to come?" I'm really worried about her, and I'll go and ask for guilt tomorrow. β
An Ruolan's smile remained unchanged and said, "As long as my father takes good care of his body, it will be regarded as a plea to my grandmother." β
These words won An Shiyan's heart, and he repeatedly said yes.
Meng Shi couldn't interject on the side, seeing An Ruolan's gentle and polite manners, and her conversation was in a certain way, she suddenly had an illusion as if she was in a different world, when did her arrogant and cold Lan'er become like this?
After several times of wanting to speak, she finally failed to ask the doubts in her heart, and instead laughed softly: "Even if it is your grandmother's commission, you shouldn't come here this big night, your body is just right, what if you get sick again?" β
As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows as graceful as willow leaves, and his eyes showed worry.
An Ruolan shook her head with a smile, a little playful, and said, "My daughter is fine, it's fine." β
At this time, An Ruoxian, who had been silent, stepped forward with a smile, stared at the food box that Liu was carrying, blinked her eyes and asked suspiciously, "What is Sister Lan holding in her hand?" β
Compared with An Ruolan's generous and polite demeanor, An Ruoxian's behavior of asking questions as soon as she came up seemed a little rude, and An Shiyan frowned dissatisfied.
An Ruoxian was so bent on humiliating An Ruolan that she didn't pay attention to An Shiyan's reaction at all, and pretended to be naΓ―ve: "Sister Lan also ordered someone to make soup for her father, did she send it over?" What a coincidence, my mother also came to bring ginseng soup to my father! β
The slightly raised tail note was full of pride and mockery, and An Ruoxian's words were all about reminding everyone that An Ruolan was just acting and had no sincerity at all.
An Shiyan and Meng Shi couldn't help but change their faces.
Liu gritted his teeth angrily, and just wanted to step forward to argue, but An Ruolan secretly pulled his cuffs.
Hooking the corners of her lips without being salty, An Ruolan looked back at An Ruoxian calmly, and said lightly: "It's really a coincidence, but this just shows that I have a good relationship with my mother, and I think of everything." β
Hearing this, Meng's face looked much better, and he asked with a smile: "What did Lan'er send?" β
"It's ginseng soup." An Ruolan replied crisply.
"Coincidentally, my mother sent me ginseng soup!" An Ruoxian pretended to be surprised and shouted.
An Ruolan glanced at her, did not answer, turned her head and nodded to Liu.
Liu Shi understood, stepped forward to put the food box on the kang table, opened the lid and took out the white porcelain flower soup cup inside, and said with a smile while placing it: "This ginseng soup is stewed by Miss herself, the fifth master should try it." β
An Shiyan's eyes lit up and asked, "Is this Lan'er stewed?" β
"No, I've been by the fire for more than an hour." Liu replied with a smile, and retreated behind An Ruolan as he spoke.
An Ruolan only smiled arrogantly.
Seeing this, Meng Shi grabbed Jinpa, and said with relief and sourness: "That fifth master is really a blessing." β
An Shiyan smiled from ear to ear, immediately opened the lid, held it like a treasure and tasted it, and praised it repeatedly.
As for An Ruoxian, he still hasn't had time to move.
An Ruolan's heart moved slightly, maybe she had been wrong all along, and her father cared about her very much.
Compared with her movedness, An Ruoxian only felt that she had been slapped firmly.
This ginseng soup was stewed by An Ruolan herself?
She didn't believe it, it must be An Ruolan lying!
I thought An Ruolan was just a white-eyed wolf, but I didn't expect that in order to compete for favor, she could be so despicable and shameless!
With disbelief in her eyes, An Ruoxian's resentful gaze couldn't be turned into substance, and An Ruolan was strangled to death.
On the other hand, An Ruolan was still unfazed, and directly ignored An Ruoxian's cannibalistic gaze.
Seeing that it had been here for a while, she bowed her head and said, "The hour is not early, so I won't bother my father, and my daughter will leave." He also said to Meng Shifu: "Mother should also go back to the room to rest earlier, and the daughter will say goodbye." β
Hearing this, An Shiyan hurriedly stood up, looked at her lovingly, and said softly, "Father will send you." β
The smile on An Ruolan's face deepened a little, and just as he was about to respond, Meng Shi spoke: "The fifth master still has to deal with the right thing, and the concubine will take Xian'er and Lan'er to go together." β
An Shiyan had no objection, and smiled his head: "That's good, be careful on the road." β
An Ruolan also nodded, and quickly turned around in her mind.
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