Chapter 5 Cheng Yi
Shi Xiang sent Song Qing away, and when he saw that Zhou Shaojin's face was a little wrong, he suddenly felt a little apprehensive.
The second lady usually speaks kindly and generously, but if she twists her jaw, even the eldest lady has to endure it.
In case the second miss said that she wanted to draw a line with the young master, she regretted it again...... That's a petty temperament, flirting and scolding is out of place!
She couldn't help but shout softly, "Second Miss", "What are you thinking?" ”
Zhou Shaojin came back to her senses and saw her cautious look, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why are you still standing here?" I'm still waiting for you to buy plums, and apricots will come back for me to taste new! ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Shi Xiang smiled when she heard this, and said continuously, "I'll go, I'll go!" ”
Zhou Shaojin shook his head and watched her go out, but he felt a little emotion in his heart.
It's no wonder that Shi Xiang doesn't believe her.
In fact, she has always been quite confused, she listens to her sister about everything at home, and her father and uncle are outside, and she only cares about enjoying the shade under the big tree. How much grain is collected in the grange, what happened to the mothers' families, and why the maids quarreled, it was none of her business, and she never asked. How can the maids around her expect her to help them get ahead? How could the housekeepers expect her to help them come up with an idea? So that although everyone respects her, it is only because she is the second miss of the Zhou family, or even because she is Zhou Chujin's sister, unlike her sister, in addition to respect, she also has a full trust and sincerity.
Thinking of this, Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but smile awkwardly, got up and went to the study in the West Wing, ready to find a book to pass the time.
The study is still the way she remembers, the open hall of the three rooms is divided into three by two six agarwood openwork flower screens, the east is her sister's study, the west is her study, there is a piano table near the window, the wall is the Duobao Pavilion bookshelf, the bookcase is in the middle of the east and west, the large vat of pastel flowers, the sister's study is inserted with a painting scroll, but her study has a tank of goldfish in winter, and a tank of water lilies in summer.
It's early summer, and only a few palm-sized lotus leaves float on the water's surface, and a few black and gold goldfish sway at the bottom of the leaves.
She familiarly found a package of fish food in the drawer next to the bookcase, and lowered her head to feed the fish.
Fish rushed over and made waves of water.
Zhou Shaojin.
Suddenly, a stone fell into the tank, splashing everywhere, wetting Zhou Shaojin's clothes.
When she turned around, she saw a white young man wearing a green cloth and a green bamboo hairpin lying on the windowsill of the study and grinning at her.
"Cousin!" Zhou Shaojin lost his voice and said, "Why are you here?" ”
Uncle Wei has only two sons, the eldest son Cheng He and the second son Cheng Yi. This young man lying on her windowsill is the second master of the Cheng family's fourth room, fifteen-year-old Cheng Yi.
He turned over and jumped into Zhou Shaojin's study with a smile, and said, "Are you really sick?" How do I look at you well. You don't want to study with Aunt Shen, so you pretend to be sick, right? ”
Zhou Shaojin remembered the bitter appearance of him hiding in Daxing's grange in Daxing that year because of the unfavorable imperial examination.
That was her last impression of him.
It was also at that time that she knew that the fourth room and the long room had turned their faces, there was no one to guide them in the four-room imperial examination, there was no one to promote them in their careers, and the second uncle of Yuan did not move in the position of the seventh grade, and the road of cousin Hu was also very difficult, and he was not named on the gold list until he was twenty-seven years old; Cheng Xu was drunk, his pen was unstable, and he saw that there was no time to make a comeback; Cheng Zhi in the second room wants to take over the family tree; Changfang wanted to launch Cheng Wei's son Cheng Rang, but Cheng Xu's mother Yuan did not agree; The three-room Cheng certificate is two-sided and three-knifed, left and right, disturbing the family unpeaceful; The fifth room did not have the constraints of the long house, and began to quietly sell the ancestral property, the fourth room knew that it could not speak, and the third room knew but did not say it, only concealed the long room and the second room...... Sooner or later, this family will be scattered!
But when my cousin came to visit her when she was admitted to the Shu Ji Shi, he didn't mention anything......
Zhou Shaojin looked at the youthful and radiant face, and her heart was so soft that it seemed to be dripping water.
She chuckled, "Why don't you go through the door and jump in through the window?" Are you skipping class again? Be careful I sue my grandmother. ”
Cheng Yi smiled, and the big horse golden knife sat on the Taishi chair in her room, and said, "Mrs. Jiang, who guards the second door, has bright eyes, and it's not easy for me to come in." He added, "Do you still go to Mrs. Shen's class?" ”
Zhou Shaojin hadn't decided on this matter yet, but Cheng Yi was obviously not a person who could discuss, and she wasn't ready to discuss this matter with Cheng Yi, so she simply avoided answering and said, "You slipped in from the small garden on the other side of the fifth room again?" ”
A rat feces spoiled a pot of soup, and she felt that it was the fifth room of the Cheng family.
The Cheng family is a typical Jiangnan farming family, with the ancestral motto that "a man can only take a concubine if he has no children at forty". Cheng Wen, the eldest man of the fifth room, has a son Cheng Nuo, he doesn't take concubines, he raises flowers and willows in the outer room, Mrs. Wen was jealous at first, and then she was heartbroken and silver, and she stared at Cheng Wen's movements every day, how could she be in the mood to take care of family affairs? The middle feed of the family was handed over to her trusted housekeeper, who lay in bed all day and pretended to be sick, the house was smoky, the master was not a servant or a servant, and there was no rule.
Cheng Yi took advantage of this loophole, and often borrowed the small garden in the inner courtyard of the five rooms and quietly brought his friends in to fight poetry and painting, drink and have fun. The elders of the Cheng family didn't know about this matter, but after her accident, the Yuan family searched Jiuru Lane, and only then did they find that the second door of the fifth room was useless. Fortunately, there is only one only son in the second room, Cheng Nuo, no daughter, and nothing happened. But there are endless unclear things between the maids and the little stewards, and the Yuan family is so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and he almost turned his back on his anger, and scolded Grandma Wen in front of everyone in the Cheng family and the maid who served him.
At this time, Zhou Shaojin should not know.
Cheng Yi was frightened into a cold sweat, sat up straight suddenly, looked at her with a vigilant face, and said nervously: "How do you know?" After speaking, he showed an expression of sudden realization and shouted, "I know, it must be Cheng Cheng to tell you!" He scolded Cheng Ran angrily: "This traitor! I said I wanted to keep it a secret! Why is his mouth so broken, and he will never ask him out to play in the future. ”
Cheng Zhen was also with them?
Zhou Shaojin was surprised.
In my memory, the Yuan family found out Cheng Yu in the second room, Cheng Yi in the fourth room, Cheng Nuo in the fifth room, Cheng Ju in the side branch of the Cheng family, and Cheng Xu who was finally pulled into the water by them...... But there is no way.
Now that I think about it, it must be that they talked about their friend's righteousness and concealed Cheng Lu.
However, Cheng Yu in the second room and Cheng Zhi, the uncle in the second room, are brothers of the same mother, Cheng Yi, the eldest man in the second room, does not take care of the family's affairs, and Mrs. Yi is a person who recites Amitabha Buddha, Cheng Yu and Cheng Zhi are ten years apart, whether it is academic homework or food and clothing, Cheng Zhi is in charge, Cheng Yu and Cheng Yi are playing like this, Cheng Zhi should not know it!
The more Zhou Shaojin thought about it, the more confused she felt, the only thing she could be sure of was that although there was one thing in her memory that matched, there was a slight deviation from what she knew.
She stared at Cheng Yi and asked, "So, do you really take your friends to drink and have fun in the small garden of the fifth room?" Is Cheng Zhen really with you? Then why did you hide this matter for Cheng Lu? ”
Cheng Yi jumped three feet high when he heard this, and said: "What do you want us to hide for Cheng Yan, we said it at the beginning, no matter who commits the crime, it will be a matter of facts, and no one else is allowed." He muttered, "I didn't expect Cheng Ran's words to count." After speaking, he felt that he was a little cowardly in front of Zhou Shaojin, and couldn't help but defend himself with his head held high, "We are not ** for fun, it is wild and uninhibited, frank and free, is the style of celebrities and gentlemen good?" ”
At this time, Cheng Yi, like Zhou Shaojin in the past, didn't know how powerful this matter was, he said it rightly, but Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but retort: "If you are unruly, you have to drink, and if you are straightforward, you have to be untidy?" I think that's arbitrary, and it's a prodigal wreck! Why don't you see my cousin in the second room like this? Why don't you see the cousin of the third room like this? You're the only one ......."
"Oops, oops!" Cheng Yi interrupted Zhou Shaojin's words a little uncomfortably, and said, "What do you know as a girl?" You can follow Aunt Shen to learn your "Female Commandment" and "The Legend of the Martyr". Then he threatened her, "You are not allowed to sue anyone else about this!" Otherwise, I'll hand it over. Then he asked, "Are you still going to Mrs. Shen's class?" ”
Zhou Shaojin was angry.
I didn't expect that in everyone's eyes, she was so nervous.
She couldn't help but say, "Don't worry about my business, don't go to the small garden in the fifth room to drink and have fun in the future." Otherwise, I would have to sue my grandmother! ”
Cheng Yi's eyes widened and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will pull Cheng out of it?" ”
"Cheng Ran is Cheng Ran, I am me, what does he have to do with me!" Zhou Shaojin hurriedly clarified, "Don't always talk about the two of us together, I don't know what I think he and he have!" Is there a brother you do like this? ”
Cheng Yi's eyes widened, and he said, "Then Cheng Yi also asked me to ask you if you want to go to class with Aunt Shen." ”
Zhou Shaojin immediately understood.
Jiuru Lane is full of people from the Cheng family, and the Cheng clan is at the end of Jiuru Lane, which is expanded from a remote courtyard of the Cheng family, and is separated from Wufang by an alley. The men of the Cheng family all went to school in the Cheng clan school, and the girls set up a study room called "Jing'an Zhai" next to the bamboo forest in the back garden, where they followed the female gentleman to read and learn characters. The small garden of the five-bedroom inner house and the garden of the Cheng family's inner house face each other across the water, and there is a stone slab nine-curved railing bridge in the middle. If she goes to "Jing'an Zhai" to take class, Cheng Lu can faintly see the movement of Jing'an Zhai by the water pavilion in the fifth room. Although you can't speak, you can ask the maid in the fifth room to say hello.
He wanted to meet himself privately!
Zhou Shaojin sneered.
She had never met him in private before, let alone now.
Zhou Shaojin looked at Cheng Yi's heartless appearance, angry and funny, and said, "Did I have a grudge against you in my previous life, and you want to harm me like this?" You don't believe anything I say, but you don't doubt what Cheng Lu says. What benefits did he give you? You're going to run errands for him like this? If you do this again, I'm really going to go to my grandmother to complain! ”
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