Chapter 168: The Hammer
In the Anhe Bridge incident, there really is no mastermind behind the scenes, everything is just a coincidence.
After the spring hunt, Mrs. Wen and Wen Huan paid more attention to Ah Yu, although it was not so obvious to ask Ah Yu, but the overall feeling was very different. The White Horse Academy is about to open, and their excessive attention has not brought any negative impact to Ah Yu, but only makes Ah Shen and Wen Fu sisters more estranged.
Ah Yu also didn't understand what kind of soup Xi Rou poured into Wen Fu and Wen Rong, so that the two of them could change their attitudes towards her so quickly, and they were so stiff.
This day is a rare good weather, the little maids in the yard were commanded by Mama Chang to come to a big cleaning, Ah Yu will live in the Wen family's courtyard in two or three days, the courtyard in the house will be empty, only a few maids will be left to watch the yard, so before leaving, it is necessary to tidy up.
At least it can't be like last year, when you find out that you forgot to bring something, and you command people to go back to the city to get it.
Mama Chang looked at the busy maids and the fine dust in the air, so she persuaded Ah Yu to go elsewhere, "There is too much dust here, the girl should sit in another place!" β
Ah Yu can't hang out anywhere in the house.
Usually when her yard is not good like this, she will either go to talk to Mrs. Wen, or she will talk to a few other sisters, but it is a pity that she annoyed Mrs. Wen not long ago, and she and Wen Fu and Wen Rong are almost to the point of breaking off friendship, and Wen Yun's yard is not very easy to go to now, and it is really nowhere to go for a while.
Aoba saw that Ah Yu's face was pale, so he said to her, "Today's weather is exceptionally good, and the peach trees in the garden have recently had a few more small buds, do you want to go and take a look?" β
"It's not even March, and there are already peach blossoms?" Ah Yu looked at Qingye suspiciously, she just had the intention of watching some flowers and plants, but she didn't want to know more, probably knew that the peach blossoms would bloom in spring, and heard the song 'The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom'.
However, it is indeed a little boring to stay in his own small courtyard all the time, even if he has to go out in a few days, but the short days of waiting have become extremely difficult.
Maybe it's the craftsmanship of the gardeners in Fuchu, or the varieties of peach trees are very different, and what Ah Yu saw in the garden was a tree full of peach blossoms, far from a few small buds in the mouth of the green leaves.
The pink petals flutter on the ground in the wind, and the fluttering appearance is very pleasant.
Ah Yu stood under the tree for a long time, she vaguely remembered that the flowers and trees planted in her garden were extremely precious varieties in the eyes of outsiders, but the peach tree standing in front of her now was very ordinary, and it didn't seem to be much different from the peach tree she saw in the suburbs.
The same cannot be said, there may still be differences.
It was a ten-mile peach forest, but when she came to her, there was only a lonely peach tree.
Ah Zhen really doesn't remember the origin of this tree.
She asked Aoba behind her, "I remember that most of these flowers and trees in the garden were sent by my grandfather to find them, but what about this peach tree?" I don't have any image of it, I only vaguely remember it and it's always been here...... "Her memory is not good, not to mention that her mind is now full of warm memories, and the memories of herself are pressed into the depths of her mind, and she can't easily remember them."
Aoba has been waiting for Ah Yu for a long time, and she happens to have a good image of the peach tree.
It was not long after she arrived at Ah Yu, who was only six years old at the time, and when she went out to play with Wen Huan, she saw a ten-mile peach forest in the suburbs, and she was immediately shocked and wanted to move the peach forest back to her home. After Wen Huan told her that there were not so many places in her home where she could plant peach trees, she had to give up her previous idea.
ββ¦β¦ Later, after the girl's idea was known to the young master of the Duan family, the second girl, and the third girl, they worked together to buy back the peach tree from outside. The peach tree they bought back was still a small sapling, and after many years of careful care by the gardeners in Fuchu, the tree grew so big......
Aoba thinks that the peach tree can be raised so well, and most of the credit should be attributed to the gardeners of Fuchu, without their careful care, the tree in front of him would have withered because of too much care.
After being reminded, Ah Yu naturally remembered what she hadn't been able to remember before.
Although she was raised by her family to be a little squeamish, she was not a person who liked sad spring and autumn on the inside, and the reason why she took a fancy to the ten-mile peach forest was just the fruit that came out of the flowers. Every year when it comes to the peach season, she can eat tender and juicy peaches, but who would have too many delicious things!
What's more, in the eyes of Ah Yu back then, whether it was her father or brother, she was not allowed to eat peaches once.
In private, she thought that the reason why her father and brother could restrict her was because they bought peaches with their money, and if she could grow peaches by herself, then her father and mother naturally had no reason to restrict her.
Some too naΓ―ve thoughts, fortunately never shown in front of outsiders, except for Wen Huan, who is well versed in her thoughts, everyone else thinks that she has taken a fancy to the beautiful scenery of the ten-mile peach forest, and where would they think of the fruit that will bear after the peach blossoms!
Aoba smiled and said, "Girl, look at how beautiful the peach blossoms are blooming this year!" "Take a look at the beautiful peach blossoms, and let those unhappy things stay away from the girl.
Before Ah Yu could speak, a weak female voice came from behind her.
"It's been a long time since I've seen Ah Yu, is Ah Yu also here to enjoy the flowers?"
Xi Rou stood not far away, looking at the little girl under the tree with crooked eyebrows, but said in her heart, although she didn't like the Wen family's Siniang very much, but Wen Siniang's appearance was really speechless, especially the appearance of standing under the peach blossom tree at this moment, at first glance, it made people have the illusion that the peach blossom fairy had come to the world, no wonder Duan Yuzhi was so infatuated.
When a good mood meets a bad person, it will also become bad.
The moment Ah Yu saw Xi Rou, she thought of Wen Fu and Wen Rong, who had already broken off with her. Although in Wen Ru's memory, they were finally able to see Xi Rou's true face and were ready to reconcile with her, but the breakup before that was also true.
Because of the warm memory, Ah Yu didn't want to pay attention to Xi Rou, and she didn't plan to go toe-to-toe with her, she felt from the bottom of her heart that there was no need to do that.
At this time, he nodded coldly, and took Aoba and the others to prepare to bypass Xi Rou and go elsewhere.
Who knew that when passing by Xi Rou's side, he saw Xi Rou suddenly raise her hand to arrange her hair, and her elbow was just in the way of Ah Rou's way forward.
Perhaps she should talk to the housekeeper and ask him to widen the bluestone path in the house a little more, so that there would be unnecessary touching by people passing by at the same time.
Ah Yu's pace suddenly stagnated, she exhaled softly, secretly endured it, and walked to the side again, striving not to really touch the other party when she passed by Xi Rou.
Xi Rou shook her wrist, revealing the red coral bracelet on her wrist, obviously Ah Yu was walking forward without squinting, but she wanted to say that Ah Yu looked at the bracelet on her wrist.
"Do you think this bracelet looks good, too?" Xi Rou looked at the red coral bracelet on her wrist with a smile in her eyes, and said apologetically to Ah Yu, "It's a pity that this bracelet is a gift from Yu's cousin, and I also like this bracelet very much, Ah Yu should know that a gentleman does not take the favor of others, so it is not very good, but I am really sorry, I can't cede it to you!" β
After listening to her words, Ah Yu was very dazed, and for a moment, he didn't even know where he was.
She never expected that she would walk well on the road, and someone would frame her under the blue sky and white sun, but the maids behind the two of them all lowered their heads before Xi Rou spoke, and no one raised their eyebrows.
People always like to have preconceived notions.
With Xi Rou's words that spoke first, no matter how Ah Yu explained, there were not many people who would really believe her.
In other words, the current dumb loss, Ah Yu is determined.
Ah Yu looked at Xi Rou coldly, and didn't say a word for a long time.
Xi Rou reluctantly looked at the hand on her wrist, then looked at Ah Yu, and said hesitantly, "What if...... If you really like it...... I...... I can also pass it on to you, who made me a ...... now!
She deliberately kept her voice low for the last few words, and even if no one around could hear her, they could all understand what she meant.
Ah Yu's face became even worse.
She said coldly, "What I want, naturally my father and brother give it to me, and I won't covet your things!" β
After dropping a sentence, Ah Yu didn't have the heart to continue wandering, so he took people back to his yard.
The people who cleaned the courtyard continued to be busy, but Mama Chang guessed that Ah Yu would not stay outside for too long, so she cleaned the study first, so when Ah Yu came back, she saw the busy scene in the courtyard and went directly to the study.
Mama Chang saw Ah Yu walking back from the outside angrily, and after entering the study, she closed the door directly, and didn't let anyone else go in with her, so she knew that the little girl must be angry outside, and she didn't want to be angry with others, so she closed the door and sulked alone.
She looked at the dazed green leaves written on her face in front of the door, and beckoned someone to her side, "Didn't you go to the garden to see the peach blossoms just now?" Why did the girl look angry when she came back, did she meet someone on the way? β
So Aoba told him about meeting Xi Rou on the road.
In the end, she also looked at Mama Chang suspiciously, "The girl doesn't like to wear things on her wrist the most, earlier, Mrs. wanted to give the ancestral bracelet to the girl, but the girl directly refused." The girl doesn't even want an ancestral bracelet, so how can she look at the bracelet of the cousin! β
Red Coral's handpiece may be very precious in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the girl's private vault, it is a gadget that is not worth mentioning, where will the girl need to give up her face to force it?
Mama Chang's face sank, since the last time Wen Fu and Wen Rong had a quarrel with Ah Yu because of Xi Rou, she was very displeased with the cousin girl in the second room. That is, the lady and the girl are soft-hearted, and they don't plan to deal with the cousin girl who is three thousand miles away, but they didn't expect that they wouldn't go to her trouble, but she couldn't see the situation clearly and came to the door.
The people outside the door were talking about something, Ah Yu didn't pay too much attention, and her mind was now full of memories that popped up out of thin air.
The red coral bracelet that Xi Rou is wearing now has also appeared in Wen Ru's memory.
However, in Wen Ru's memory, there are two red coral bracelets, one is of the highest grade, and the other is the defective product.
At that time, the top-grade one was given to Xi Rou, and the defective one was Wen Ruru's, and when Xi Rou showed off her handpiece in front of Wen Ruru, Duan Yuzhi's explanation made Ah Yu can't help but want to sneer, but Wen Rugu at that time accepted it happily.
Duan Yuzhi said that Xi Rou was a guest who lived in the Wen Mansion, if he gave Xi Rou the defective product, after spreading it, it would only be Wen Rugu who would lose his reputation, and he would make that choice for the sake of Wen Ruru.
Wen Ru was considerate of him.
But Ah Yu just wanted someone to beat him up.
In the eyes of most people, the relationship between the two of them is closer than the relationship between Duan Yuzhi and the Wen Fu sisters, so Duan Yuzhi gave her a bracelet, but did not send a bracelet to Wen Fu and Wen Rong, which can still be said to be in the past.
But what kind of thing is Xi Rou between the two of them!
Isn't a relative who has been around for three thousand miles as good as his cousins who have gotten along since childhood?
Either one will not be delivered, or all of them will be delivered, but he wants to treat them differently, and he also said that it is for the sake of gentleness, Ah Yu is really getting more and more angry the more he thinks about it at this time, even Xi Rou, who slandered her in broad daylight before, has not made her as angry as she is now.
Standing in front of the desk, Ah Yu took out a blank piece of paper, scribbled a human figure on it, and pasted it on the wall to the side, and then rummaged through the cabinets to find the darts. Although the portrait painting is messy, no one can tell who the prototype is, but as long as she knows it, she still plays a few darts to let her dissipate her anger.
To be honest, Ah Yu was no longer angry with Xi Rou at this time, because her anger was running towards Duan Yuzhi in her dream.
Just when she thought that the day had passed in such a hurry, there was a sudden quarrel outside the door, mixed with several familiar voices calling her name, and the voice was full of anger, as if she had done something unusual.
Ah Yu looked at the dart he had just found in his hand, and thought about the noise outside the house, compared the two, sighed, put the dart and the white paper with the portrait on the table, got up and walked towards the door.
She still solved the outside matter as soon as possible, so that she could vent the anger in her heart wholeheartedly.
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