Chapter 4: Thick or Light Shadows (11)

His gaze was almost precise in the direction in which she was standing, and Jing Yi thought Tao Xiang had spotted them. Shu Xu

Even Wan Wei was a little nervous, and was busy trying to dodge to the side, but he seemed to just glance at it in a hurry, and then turned his face awayβ€”Mrs. Tao, who was walking in front of him, turned back to him and said something, and he noddedβ€”Wan Wei whispered, "Hey, I forgot that we can't be seen over there." She glanced at Jingyi.

Jing Yi's pair of dark eyes looked over there, and her two eyebrows were almost locked.

"I don't know which one is the seventh son of Tao?" Wan Wei said.

Jingyi shook her head.

She couldn't tell her mother that she knew which one was.

At the moment when Tao Xiang turned her head, her hands and feet were cold.

"Yi'er? What happened to you? Faced so red? Wan Wei saw Jing Yi's face flushed.

"The big lady is out." Cui Xi said.

Wan Wei watched Du Shi come out, but did not see the third wife and the fourth wife. She felt that Du was considerate, and she was extremely considerate.

Wan Wei said, "Let's go back later." She instructed Cui Xi to go in quietly, "Let people tell Mrs. that we have arrived, and it is not good to rush at this time, and wait for her to tell you later." ”

Jingyi helped Wan Wei to sit under the porch, turned her back, and could still hear the laughter in the courtyard across the wall.

Du's mother spoke well, and it sounded like Mrs. Tao was not far behind...... Gradually, the laughter faded away, and I thought it was in the upper room.

Jingyi wanted to squat down, but Wan Wei stopped her.

"Get up, don't put pleats on your skirt, it doesn't look good." That's what Wan Wei was worried about.

Jingyi bent over, and a pair of beautiful eyes were right in front of her mother's. She looked at her mother intently for a moment, then whispered, "I know." Don't let people say, the daughter of the Cheng family, she didn't stand or sit, did you? ”

"When is it, you still have to scare me." Wan Wei said angrily.

"Don't worry, today, I must be a standard girl." Jingyi stretched out her arms, "Father pulls this line, I will move my arms, you hold that line, I will move my legs...... My mother pulled the thread behind me, and I moved my head. If you don't let me move, I won't move; You let me move, and I won't move. ”

Wan Wei held back her anger and said, "It's good that you know." After staring at Jing Yi for a while, thinking that Jing Yi might not be so honest, this kid always had some unexpected actions that caught people off guard, "If you dare to mess around, I will never spare you." ”

"Mother, if I am like this in my life, I will be like this in the Cheng family, and I will still ......be like this when I go to the Tao family" Jingyi said, turning her head to look at Cuixi who came back, and asked lightly: "Do you think I will be fine?" ”

Wan Wei was asked by Jingyi, and she was speechless.

"Madam, the eldest lady said let us go over here." Cui Xi was really happy. She wanted to hold back, but she still couldn't help but say, "I just saw the two young masters of the Tao family...... It's so good-looking. Madame, don't scold me for being unruly, I'm also in a hurry. I'm afraid that the young master of the Tao family is too ugly and not worthy of the young lady. It's okay, it's really okay. Tall, ...... It's so high! She weighed it and stuck out the tip of her tongue.

Wan Wei was in a mess of Jingyi's heart, and seeing that Cui Xi, who usually knew the rules and didn't talk much, suddenly got up like this, and it didn't add a little mess. wanted to teach them a lesson, but there was no time for a while, so I had to take Jingyi up first.

Jingyi walked steadily behind Wanwei with steady steps.

Because it is already autumn, there are no cicadas on the branches, the air is slightly dry, and even the shade under the eaves is extraordinarily refreshing.

Jingyi heard the maid go in to announce their arrival, and the conversation that was going on in the room came to an abrupt end, and then, Du's mother said in her characteristic mellow and loud voice, "It's coming...... This is our second wife, and this is our little ten. ”

In the place where the morning and dusk are fixed every day, Jingyi feels that today is extraordinarily deep and wide. It was as if he had walked several times farther than usual before he came to the center of the room and was looked at by everyone in the room.

Wan Wei sat down at Du's hand after seeing the ceremony.

Du Shi smiled and asked Jingyi to greet Tao Shengchuan and his wife, and Jingyi meekly complied. Tao Shengchuan's wife introduced Jingyi to her son and daughter-in-law. Tao Si and his wife stood up together, and Jing Yi smiled slightly at Tao Si's wife. When he arrived in front of Tao Xiang, Jing Yi only froze slightly and did not look up.

Mrs. Tao smiled and asked Jingyi to sit beside her, and said to her, "The former son was in the Kong family, and Miss Ten was there." It's just that something happened at home suddenly, and I left in a hurry, and today is the first time we have met. ”

Seeing Jingyi obediently sitting next to Mrs. Tao, Wan Wei couldn't help but glance at Du Shi.

Du Shi smiled and whispered, "Sensei is worried...... But Mrs. Tao is stronger than me, and Yi'er looks like a child. ”

That's exactly what Wan Wei thought. Listening to Du Shi's words, she couldn't help but laugh.

"Uncle Cheng, I have long heard that Qingyuan Garden has a lot of talent, but it is a first-class private house in Beiping, and I have never had the opportunity to see it. Since you are here today, can you please take us to visit the garden of your house? Tao Si asked at this time. His wife smiled and added, "Uncle Cheng is interesting." My father often said that Uncle Cheng had found a new way to raise the garden. The previous Yiyuan was unique, and Qingyuan was conditioned by his uncle in the process, and the charm was naturally very different. ”

Cheng Shiyun smiled and said, "Yamei is naughty." Your father has always refused to accept my tricks, and he has always felt that his methods are very good. ”

Xu Yamei smiled and said, "You two elders are different sects. If you want me to say, I prefer Uncle Cheng's school. ”

"Oh, what sect am I?"

"If you are Wudang, your father is Shaolin." Yamei smiled.

"It's okay, it's okay, they're all decent." Cheng Shiyun looked at Tao Shengchuan and his wife with a smile, "This is so elegant, no wonder Lao Xu often said that this daughter is the most proud of in his life." ”

"Isn't it, on the day Yamei joined our Tao family three years ago, Xu's family sent her daughter, and she cried and sang at home. I only waited for Yamei to return to the door in three days, and saw that the girl was all bearded and tailed, so I was relieved - if we really came from the northwest, the son of the family must be a wolf. Mrs. Tao smiled, glanced at her son and daughter-in-law, and asked, "Sitting here for a long time, are you impatient to accompany our old man?" ”

Du Shi smiled, looked at Cheng Shiyun, and said, "Let their young people go out for a walk in the garden together, and Zhishen and Yi'er will lead the way." ”

Cheng Shiyun nodded, and Zhishen and Jingyi stood up and agreed.

Tao Si and Yamei also got up. Yamei took Jingyi's hand and walked in front, and Tao Si pulled Tao Xiang.

The Tao Xiang did not move.

Cheng Zhishen smiled and said, "Please." ”

"Please, Brother Cheng, please." Tao Si also smiled, and while people were not paying attention, he turned sideways and said to the lazy Tao Xiang: "Thanks to you, I can have a good tour of Qingyuan today." Don't let us be in the garden, you are a dream. ”

Tao Xiang glanced at his second brother.

Walking out of the upper room, Tao Si first breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's still comfortable outside." ”

When Yamei heard it, she turned around and laughed at him: "It's a little while, you're like this." Father is really right, you are not in front of your father and mother all the year round, and you can't stand the restraint. She said and gestured to Tao Xiang.

Tao Xiang was silent, walking at the end without hurrying.

Ya Mei smiled.

Jingyi is very dedicated, as if she is wholeheartedly being a competent guide.

It's just that she doesn't know a lot about many places in this new home, so she might as well be cautious in this area. Besides, Jingyi is not a person who talks a lot to the living. As he walked, he handed over the task of introduction to Zhishen. Zhishen was indeed a little excited, although the Tao brothers were not annoying people, they were guests at the door, Tao Si was very polite, and slowly Zhishen also got up.

Tao Xiang watched the second brother chatting with him very speculatively, and couldn't help but sigh that his second brother was really pretending to be something...... There is also a second sister-in-law, who blindly talks to Cheng Jingyi. It can be seen that Cheng Jingyi is not a very verbal person, it was Yamei who asked her something, and she answered. So the topic was very casual, from the beauty of architecture to the beauty of gardens, occasionally a sentence or two, but the question was where she studied and what she liked on weekdays. Cheng Jingyi said a few words briefly. The sound was not loud, intermittent, and it all came into Tao Xiang's ears...... There is nothing particularly surprising about it, Tao Xiang doesn't care very much; In comparison, the charm of the Qingwang Mansion in the past made him more interested.

They strolled into the East Garden, where the flowers and trees were sparse, and it was even more secluded.

Tao Si shouted for beauty and was teased by Yamei.

Zhishen smiled and said: "Actually, this place is a little ordinary, and there are other strange things in the west garden and the back garden. ”

"It's a pity that in the inner house, we haven't had a chance to see each other for the time being. But it's better to keep a little thought like this. Tao Si smiled.

Zhishen only smiled slightly when he heard him say this.

Tao Xiang always walked behind. He knew that Cheng Zhishen always looked at him as if he didn't care about his words, and he didn't feel inappropriate. Originally, he came to the door today, and he was looked at. Since getting out of the car, the Cheng family has left an eye for him.

Cheng Jingyi talked to his second sister-in-law gently...... She still wore a single braid today, hanging down behind her back and over her waist. The single braid was the thickness of a baby's forearm, black and oily, full of luster, and a finger-sized lilac luster pearl flowed into each section of hair, and it flickered when it went...... He looked at her wrist and turned his face away.

There was a pair of bracelets of mutton fat jade on her wrist, and her skin was whiter than the mutton fat jade, revealing flesh color, and it was very warm.