Chapter 21: Intimacy and Distance

At sunset, Huo Wencan and the others withdrew from the palace.

Out of Donghua Gate, Li Qingning pulled Huo Wencan, Huo Wencan understood, said goodbye to Wang Hang and Cao Ming, did not get on the horse, and walked forward side by side with Li Qingning.

"Just now I was thinking about my wife's proposal to marry her, and this matter probably got up from you." Li Qingning said in a low voice.

"What?" Huo Wencan couldn't believe his ears, and pointed his finger at the tip of his nose, "From me? What's the matter with me? How can this match me? Also, didn't you just say that you didn't know about the marriage? How can you ...... with the prince?"

"No, I really don't know that my wife really went to find her in-laws."

Li Qingning bit the two real words heavily.

"Listen to me, it's the day before yesterday, the day after she came to your house as a guest.

I went back early that day, and when I ate at my wife's, my wife asked the kitchen to add a few of my favorite dishes, and it was slow.

When I had a good meal, I listened to the gossip between my grandmother and my mother, and I happened to hear your name, so I stopped and eavesdropped a few words, saying yes. ”

Li Qingning looked embarrassed, coughed dryly several times, and lowered his voice.

"It's just a vixen or something.

My wife, you know, speaks straight and ugly.

Then I talked about you, and me, saying that we are all stupid or something, you must understand this, and your aunt often says that it is right, anyway, we are all stupid children. ”

Huo Wencan leaned at Li Qingning, wanting to dismiss his sentence that his aunt often said that his aunt had never said such a thing.

But he held back, this is a trivial matter, there is no need to dismiss it, especially at this moment.

Huo Wencan hummed plausibly, and motioned for Li Qingning to continue.

"I won't say the original words, anyway, that means, I'm afraid that you're obsessed with ghosts, and you'll be fascinated by a fox spirit or something, this fox spirit, that is, she, just said it, right?

Then he said that he had to find her a family or something.

When I heard this, I really didn't take it to heart.

My mother-in-law and my mother-in-law, you know, when you talk together, you don't have to talk for three words, and you have to talk about finding Arou's mother-in-law's family, or finding my daughter-in-law.

Earlier, it was my eldest brother and second brother, eldest sister and second sister, and it was me and Arou in the past two years.

Anyway, the two of them are together, and they are either looking for their mother-in-law or picking a daughter-in-law, and there is nothing else, so I don't care.

I really didn't expect that the wife didn't just talk about it, but she really found it, and what kind of businessman she was looking for. ”

Li Qingning sighed.

"At that time, I really didn't take it to heart whether to find my mother-in-law's house, but my wife said that what kind of fox spirit is not a fox spirit, what kind of mystery is not mindful, the matter is about you, I was relieved, I came out to find Arou, and asked her if she had heard such a thing from her mother-in-law.

How did this come about, I have to ask clearly, do you say yes, it's about you.

Arou said that she had also heard her wife scold her for being a vixen.

Arou said that she went back from your house yesterday, and was interrogated by the wife and A-Niang for half an hour, and asked you to send it over and over again...... That, who went back, asked Arou to know, Arou said she didn't know, so she asked Arou how she didn't know.

Arou said and asked her again, don't you see that person talking to you?

Arou said no, and the wife said that she didn't have a heart, but she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to see it.

He also said that the wife scolded her for being a vixen while asking.

Listen to this, do you suspect you of something?

You shouldn't have sent her back that day, just send it, just send a mother-in-law to send it, why do you have to let Zhan Jin go this way?

Not to mention my mother-in-law, and my aunt, when I heard about it, I was also stunned.

You even asked Zhan Jin to send her back...... It's not just her, even if it's a little lady from another family, it's not suitable.

It's something you don't think about. ”

Li Qingning kept sighing.

"If it weren't for today's incident, I didn't plan to tell you so straightforwardly, how boring it is to say this, don't you say?

I was thinking, find a chance, just click a little bit, you're a smart person.

But you gave birth to this matter in the morning, you said that you, staring at others for a long time, you this and this...... Alas!

I can only tell you directly.

Think about it yourself, this morning, you followed her for a long time, you have such a temper, you have always thought about everything by temperament, and you just look at the excitement with straight eyes, right?

But think about it yourself, think about it, you follow behind people, look straight in the eyes, and you have to be silly while watching, right?

Think about it yourself, what would people think if you were to be seen like that? What kind of gossip will be born, that ......

You still don't think about it!

Alas, you are! ”

Li Qingning spread his hands and kept sighing and shaking his head.

"How about me, what's the matter with your wife and your aunt?

If I don't talk to your fourth sister, what does it matter to your third sister? Why didn't she see it, but she didn't have a heart?

Your mother-in-law and your aunt have a strong enough idea, and you can see what it means, you have already put me in the hands of your third sister, right? ”

Huo Wencan ignored Li Qingning's second half of his words, only stared at the first half of his words, and pointed his finger at Li Qingning, looking like that, he almost wanted to spit directly on Li Qingning's face.

Li Qingning leaned back and sighed continuously. "Look at you, I'm not ......"

"Listen, I'm not suitable for your third sister, from head to toe, it's not suitable!

Your mother-in-law and your aunt, your house, no matter how good the idea is, it's useless!

Save your mind! Huo Wencan looks really angry.

"Look at you, what's the use of you being anxious with me? I'm not suitable for your sister, I told my mother-in-law and my aunt that I don't know how many times, you see my mouth is thin.

My mother-in-law and my aunt don't know a single big word, and they are both stubborn, don't you know? My sister doesn't deserve you......"

"It's not a matter of being worthy of it, it's that I can't go with your third sister, from childhood to now, when I talk to her, it's a chicken and a duck, don't you know? Chickens and ducks say this, or do you say it? ”

Huo Wencan slammed two whips into the air, looking annoyed.

"You don't let go, your aunt doesn't spit out, my mother-in-law, my aunt, just think about it.

They have a lot of things to think about, and it's not you.

Anyway, you don't live in my house, and you're not me, what's there to worry about? I'm really annoying! Li Qingning put his hands behind his back, looking worried.

"That's what it is." Huo Wencan leaned at Li Qingning, who was about to bend up with his troubled back, and laughed a few times.

"You! Don't keep staring at that ...... The one watched the excitement.

Look at it now, you asked Zhan Jin to give her a trip, and you wanted to find her a businessman to marry.

Although it is a blind toss, this thing is ...... Alas, you can save some trouble in the future, even if you don't care, think about her, don't make trouble for her, she ......"

Li Qingning paused, and his voice fell, "It's pitiful enough, it's not easy enough." ”

"You know she's pitiful? It's not easy to know her? You're her brother, and the prince has mentioned you a few times, right? You, the elder brother, have you ever reached out and helped her? Why are you embarrassed to say me? Huo Wencan knocked Li Qingning on the shoulder with a horsewhip.

"Well, you don't understand that."

Li Qingning was even more annoyed.

"Why don't I understand? Come, tell me, tell me, what else do you have here that I don't understand?

The two of us, from childhood to adulthood, have never been you who understand, I don't even understand.

Tell me well, what is it, you understand, I don't understand? ”

Huo Wencan stretched out his head and leaned over to look at Li Qingning's face.

He grew up with Li Qingning and had an excellent friendship, no matter what Li Qingning studied or did, he was never better than him.

"From the victory of Rong'an City to the present, my father and my mother ......"

Li Qingning sighed several times and spread his hands.

"You don't need to say it, you know it, don't you? Got it? Tell me about this, what's wrong with my aunt?

Now, there is suddenly such a person, who lives in our house, the serious girl of the Li family of the Hou Mansion of Chang'an, and she has such a temperament, and in the mansion, she counts her chin as the highest, and no one is in her eyes.

I know she's a noble person.

But my aunt is so angry, watching and listening to it every day, does it sting her heart? How piercing?

If I treat her like you said, like I did to my third sister, even if I don't like my third sister, like an older brother, think about it, what will my aunt think? What's the mood?

From the day before she entered the house, until now, I haven't seen my aunt smile, and so is my wife, two people, with two gloomy faces every day.

The third sister told me that she didn't want to go to her mother's place to eat, saying that she was panicked when she looked at the faces of her wife and Auntie.

I'll ...... again Alas. ”

Li Qingning sighed again. "If I take care of her as a sister, it will be against my mother's meaning, my mother-in-law will not mention it, you say, how sad is my mother-in-law?

I have to think about my aunt first, otherwise my aunt will be too pitiful. ”

After a pause, Li Qingning's voice fell.

"I know she's pitiful too, but there's always a relative who is estranged from her, you say.

I don't bully her, I don't hurt her, but otherwise, I can't hurt my aunt's heart first. ”

Huo Wencan leaned at Li Qingning, for a while, sighed, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, sighed again, and pushed him forward.

He didn't know what to say, and he didn't know how to do both.

It's all right, it's all pitiful.

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Li Ran's body is still a little weak, and after shopping all morning, she is tired and doesn't want to go shopping anymore.

Eat slowly and rest, and when she came out of the old Shi family's shop, Li Ran followed the road and walked back slowly.

Entered the Chang'an Hou Mansion, from the gate of the mansion to Cuiweiju, it was as quiet as usual as last time.

It was as if it was very common for her to go out for a stroll, or it was something that had never happened to her.