Chapter 18: Gossip
Shen Kuoren was a little timid but not small, a pair of ink-like eyes stared at him fiercely, his eyes were red from anger, like a little leopard with angry hair, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Cheng Zonglun's cloak, "That's what you said, I'll fight you when you change your clothes!" ”
He had water on his hands, and as soon as he let go, a pair of red handprints appeared on Cheng Zonglun's two cloaks.
Rong Jin said in his heart that this little brother's temper was a little irritable, and then he looked at Shen Kuo, but when he saw him smiling, he didn't seem to care.
Then Rong Jin followed Zhimin into a palatial room, and changed into her long dress with water shadow red densely woven gold thread acacia flowers, because of the splash of water on her face, Zhimin's girl Xing'er came to put on her makeup again, and then painted her eyebrows, and suddenly there was a sound of fighting outside.
Rong Jin got up and pulled Zhimin to run out......
As soon as he went out, he saw that on the green grass in front of him, Cheng Zonglun, who was dressed in scarlet, had one hand behind his back, and stretched out his fist with the other. And Shen Kuo had changed into a short coat and trousers, and his body was only up to his chest, and he smashed Cheng Zonglun's hand with a pair of fists, and he couldn't see the moves clearly like a windmill fan, but all of them were resolved by Cheng Zonglun with one hand.
"Hey-ha!" Gradually, the speed of the punch slowed down, and Shen Kuo's fist and face were red.
"Humph! When I grow to your height, I will beat you! Shen Kuo finally stopped, his hands on his knees, and looked at him breathlessly.
"Not bad," Cheng Zonglun smiled, reaching out to stroke Shen Kuo's head, but he threw it off.
Zhimin clasped his hands to his chest, raised his eyebrows and said, "Just like that kid, he can't win my brother even if he looks tall!" ”
Rong Jin was amused by her sentence "towering into the clouds", and was about to make a joke, when she suddenly saw Shen Kuo, who was following Cheng Zonglun, bending down and digging a hand of mud, and threw it at the back of Cheng Zonglun's head.
"Be careful!" Rong Jin shouted.
But Cheng Zonglun had already noticed that his body flashed, and the mud smashed straight towards Rong Jin......
Bang –
Rong Jin lowered his head in a daze, only to see that the acacia flower on his chest was covered with mud, it didn't hurt, but the smashed part was ......
In an instant, Rong Jin's face was so red that it was dripping blood, and Zhimin beside him was also stunned, but it was Shen Kuo, who ran forward in a few arrow steps, rolled up his sleeves and wiped it on Rong Jin's chest.
Eleven-year-old Shen Kuo was still vague about the defense of men and women, and apologized repeatedly while wiping it, not feeling that there was anything wrong at all.
"Ahh Rong Jin was so frightened that his facial features were misplaced, pushed the person, and ran into Zhimin's house in shame......
The golden-waisted swallows chattering on the branches were so shocked that they scattered, and Shen Kuo stood on the spot, holding a sweat towel, neither advancing nor retreating.
Cheng Zonglun laughed and grabbed Shen Kuo's round collar and carried him over, "The little brother is not tall, his mind is lively, just sneak attack me, even the girl's family is teasing, he must be a scoundrel when he grows up!" ”
Shen Kuo struggled his body, and the more he struggled, the more he was lifted up by Cheng Zonglun, and in the end, almost only his toes touched the ground, but his neck was stuck red, but his face was stubborn, shouting: "You only said that I would win you, but you didn't say how to win, what about the sneak attack?" My dad said, just win, it doesn't matter how you win. ”
"Who is your father?"
"My father is Shen Shikun of the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Association, and I am his sister-in-law Shen Kuo!" Shen Kuo shouted loudly.
Behind the screen, Rong Jin was tying a luan belt, and when he heard a sound, his face couldn't help but turn red again, and he gritted his teeth and chewed his name-Shen Kuo.
Shen Kuo, this little bastard, shouldn't have been saved, she just got herself wet, and she was greatly embarrassed, especially in front of Cheng Zonglun, she really hated to get into it!
Zhimin on the couch held her stomach and laughed, and through the screen, Rong Jin could see a girl rolling on the couch.
When she changed her clothes and came out with a cold face, Zhimin stopped, sat up with one hand on the rusty red Danfeng Chaoyang pillow, and said intermittently: "You...... Don't worry, our brothers and sisters won't say it, and I will inform them too, hahaha......"
Rong Jin still stared at Zhimin coldly, but it didn't have half an effect, and Zhimin endured it for a while and laughed even harder.
Rong Jin had no choice but to wait for Zhimin to laugh enough before walking out with her.
A little hairy child, no one really cares, and a few people go out to the garden without incident.
Rong Jin deliberately avoided Shen Kuo, but Shen Kuo followed her and shouted her sister, she couldn't stop it, Rong Jin walked quickly, and Shen Kuo followed quickly, until she said with a clear conscience: "It's okay, you are young and ignorant, I don't blame you," Shen Kuo's dog skin plaster fell off by itself.
Zhimin, however, leaned back and laughed behind the two.
"Which girl is this? It's so funny," Cheng Zonglun smiled at his sister who fell on him.
Zhimin winked at him playfully and said, "The Lin family." ”
For a moment, Cheng Zonglun remembered the Miss Lin Jiayan mentioned to him by his mother, he looked at Rong Jin, she was petite, and she was not as restrained and dignified as an ordinary lady when she walked, but she was not rude and perverse, but like a casual little yellow bird, he suddenly smiled.
Rong Jin and Shen Kuo had already gone to the Moon Gate first, but as far as the eye could see, there were nine-song corridors and pavilions dotted in front of her, and she didn't know how to go, so she had to stop and wait for the Cheng family brothers and sisters to come over.
And Shen Kuo knew that Rong Jin didn't want to see him, so he stayed away from her with interest, for fear that he would bump into her again.
When Cheng Zonglun stepped forward again, his eyes were a little ambiguous when he looked at Rong Jin.
He approached Rong Jin and said softly, "Go straight," and then stood on the outside of the verandah, blocking the flower branches that extended into it with his body, leaving a space for Rong Jin beside him, "I heard that you like poetry, in fact, I am a rough person, I don't like to read poetry, but I read a lot of the Four Books and Five Classics and the Art of War." ”
Rong Jin suddenly couldn't walk, and even which leg to take had to turn around in his head a thousand times. She didn't dare to look at him, her eyes glanced down at his soap boots, and her heart rose and fell with the boots.
She was still wilting in the spring of this year, but she came back to life in the fall.
"I only know a little about poetry, and I don't like it very much," Rong Jin heard his voice tremble, and his throat began to heat again.
At this time, her sensitivity was out of her mind, and she didn't feel strange that Cheng Zonglun suddenly asked poetry, and naturally she didn't know that he was talking to another person through her.
Rong Jin suddenly talked to him about the Tao Te Ching, she didn't like it, but she thought he liked it.
And Zhimin and Shen Kuo behind them also chatted warmly.
"You just attacked my brother, but instead hurt the sister of the Lin family, a few words of apology are over? Is that what your parents taught you? ”
"If I lose to your brother, I will admit that I will lose the bet, and I will never smash the field at your banquet, find trouble with Shen Du, and apologize for accidentally hurting that Sister Lin, what else should I do?"
"Hmph, it seems that if you come to smash the field, our family can't clean you up, you are the overlord of Yangzhou , but this is the capital, just you? What else can be set off? Zhimin's eyes went straight to the sky.
Shen Kuo clasped his hands on his chest, his neck was stalked, and he didn't bother to say much to her.
In fact, Zhimin is right, Yangzhou salt merchant is the head snake of the land, and at this feast, anyone can move his fingers to do it. If it weren't for the fact that the old lady of the Shen family saved the life of the old lady of the Cheng family on the battlefield, they would not be worthy of sweeping the door in front of the Cheng family on the lintel of their Shen family, let alone entering this door.
Yes, Cheng Zonglun did not allow Shen Kuo to act willfully for his own good.
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When Cheng Zonglun led everyone back to the Chrysanthemum Garden, the stage had not yet dispersed, but it was also time to finish, and the female relatives who watched the play were in great interest, so they all gossiped.
Originally, Cheng Zonglun should not have entered the wing where the female dependents were, but the people sitting here were all regular guests, and he was the host's family, and he had important matters to discuss with his mother, so he simply brought Shen Kuo in.
When Cheng Zonglun and Rong Jin walked in front of everyone, the crowd was in a commotion.
Almost all the ladies knew Cheng Zonglun, but few people knew Rong Jin standing next to him, so they all asked in low voices: "Who is that girl?" Doesn't Mrs. Cheng value the second miss of the Lin family the most? I don't think this girl looks like it! ”
The ladies present recognized Cheng Zonglun, but there were many young ladies who didn't, and when they saw Cheng Zonglun like a peach blossom in April, they immediately opened the flowers/buds, blooming brightly, and they all asked: "Who is this son, born so mighty?" ”
Naturally, both sides got the answer, and all sorts of gossip floated from the crowd:
"That's Cheng Gongzi! Hey, it's a pity, Mrs. Cheng likes the second miss of the Lin family, and others don't look at it at it. ”
"That's not necessarily, what's the use of shaving your head and picking a hot head? Mrs. Lin nodded! ”
……
"Yo, I recognize it, this is the fourth lady of the Lin family, but it's strange, isn't Mrs. Cheng the daughter of the Lin family? What's going on now, oops, this mess! ”
"There's nothing wrong with my sister changing to my sister, hehehe......"
The hundreds of women are like a field of flowers, delicate flowers swaying, swaying, strange postures, and laughter.
Rong Jin saw hundreds of pairs of eyes looking him up and down, and his hand pinching the handkerchief couldn't help but tighten. She secretly blamed herself for being fascinated by talking to Cheng Zonglun just now, and forgot to avoid suspicion in front of others, so she immediately took a few steps back and pretended to talk to Zhimin.
But the closer she got to the noise, the louder it became, as if it was going to get into her bones and tear her apart from the inside out, she was frightened, and she looked up to look for her sisters, but she couldn't see clearly, there were too many people.
In the end, the Cheng brothers and sisters led Shen Kuo to Mrs. Cheng in the first row, and Rong Jin finally found the fifth row.
She covered her ears and walked in from the head of the row, and when she walked to the center, she saw the disdainful cold faces of her wife and sisters, especially her wife, who smiled very evilly, and was no longer like her who was dignified and quiet on weekdays.
Rong Jin paused, because it was the first time she was looked at like this, her face couldn't hold it, but Rong Zheng pulled her and pulled her over to sit.
Rong Zheng stared at Rong Jin and smiled meaningfully, "Sure enough, it's good to bring you here, didn't you go to change your clothes, how did you catch Cheng Gongzi?" ”
Catch? These words sounded like she was some kind of prodigal woman, Rong Jin didn't look over her head and ignored her.