"I thought it would take a long time for A-Ning to speak again after that incident, but guess how long it took her to open her mouth?" After Zhang Tingyu finished talking about the events of the year, he turned his eyes to look at Zhan Suiyu. I saw that his knuckles were white in the knuckles of his hands on the table, and his face was even more ugly and terrifying.

"How long?"

"Three days. When my father was buried, three days after she woke up, she spoke normally, got out of bed and lived as before. Zhang Tingyu still felt furious when he thought of those days, "No, it's not the same." ”

He paused, "In the past, my sister was quiet and withdrawn at home, didn't care about anything, only indulged in her own world, and others treated her as indifferent and eccentric. Since then, she seems to have learned how to advance and retreat overnight, the water will block, the soldiers will cover, and she will not leave the other party a way out, everything is clearly controlled in her own hands, and others treat her as obedient and murderous. Scold. ”

Zhang Tingyu sneered, many years of time passed in the blink of an eye in the sun, moon and moon, the white horse passed by, A-Ning would talk, laugh and do things, they didn't need to teach anything, they couldn't get into it at all, he felt that she was getting farther and farther away from them.

It seemed that the years she had been silent were the best time for them to be close to her, but they missed it forever. Later, A-Ning was like an iron wall, unable to penetrate a trace of light, in the past, there were flowers, birds, fish and insects in her world, but after that, there was only endless darkness.

"Zhan Suiyu, if you think my sister is innocent and cute, but just a little unusual, I advise you not to marry her."

"If you don't marry and leave, let her continue to stay in the Zhang family and be ignored? You don't like me calling you uncle, do you? Zhan Suiyu nodded and got up, and then said, "Uncle Zhang." He deliberately accentuated his salutation, got up and said, "If I had known that Qi Ning had become like this, I wouldn't even mention my relatives and take people away!" ”

Zhan Suiyu's breath was blocked in his chest and almost didn't come up, he turned around and crossed his waist and raised his hand to his forehead.

"Zhangfu, doing business, good. But the name of Yashang is outside, how could Qi Ning, as the third lady, come to this point? "It's something he's been figuring out.

Zhang Tingyu: "At first... It's because of my mother, my father was sad when he saw Qi Ning, and I felt a little guilty. As for my sister, you may not believe it, but I think she has special feelings for Qi Ning. I clearly remember that when Qi Ning was born, she was happier than my mother, and she was by her side without leaving half a step, and it was because of this that my father was relieved to put all his thoughts into my mother. But somehow, she suddenly stopped approaching Qi Ning. Later..."

"Later, when Qi Ning became ill, he almost strangled her, so Zhang Shihua completely ignored her?"

Zhang Tingyu was stunned, "She even dares to tell you this, it seems that she really likes you." ”

Zhan Suiyu rolled her eyes in her heart. No wonder Qi Ning doesn't understand what the so-called normal feelings are, the people she has met since she was a child have no normal feelings.

"There are many obsessions in people's hearts, and they don't know when, where, or where they started, and once they are knotted, they are not easy to untie. Such a pimple buried in the heart is frightening even for a moment, let alone a lifetime. Who knows what kind of monster that seed will turn into and what kind of crazy thing it will do. Zhang Tingyu sighed, "We are so, A-Ning... The same is true. If you really want to marry her, call me uncle in the future, and I just need you to do a little. ”

"You say."

Zhang Tingyu: "I want you to remember that it was not you who walked into her heart, but A-Ning who opened the door to you." Don't leave her alone again, this door is only once in a lifetime. ”

*

Zhao Qianqian looked up. With cold eyebrows and lofty eyes, Zhang Shihua looked down at her.

"You want to avenge An Yuanxi, who are you?"

Zhao Qianqian lowered her head and did not speak.

Zhang Shihua: "When he was there, you were only twelve or thirteen years old, right?" It's a child, too—" As if thinking of something, she scoffed. This sound fell on Zhao Qianqian's ears and was extremely harsh, her face was suddenly hot, as if she had been stabbed in the heart, she suddenly jumped up, and reacted very loudly: "What do you mean?!" Shut up... You are not allowed to slander him! ”

"Slander? Scold. Zhang Shihua sneered. He had that kind of mind for A-Ning back then, and he still used her to slander?

"What slander him? Slander him for misbehaving and sitting upright? I had him thrown into the woods, but instead of finding his body there, he was buried properly. I'm guessing that person is you. It's not easy for a little girl to drag the body of an adult man, right? ”

Zhao Qianqian was stunned, and didn't understand what Zhang Shihua wanted to say for a while.

"The secret whistle report that came back that year said that he had saved his breath, and he died because he didn't want to live and had nothing to do with the Zhang family."

"Nonsense, if you hadn't forced him here, he wouldn't have been cornered, and how could he not want to live. Is there anyone in this world who doesn't want to live? ”

Zhang Shihua: "This is going to ask An Yuanxi himself." Why don't you want him to live anymore? You're the last person to see him, so why don't you tell me whose name is the last thing he says? Does he really have a clear conscience? Are you doing all this for him, or for yourself? ”

Zhang Shihua's tone cooled down, he got up and glanced at Zhao Qianqian, and said, "I will let go of anyone who hurts A-Ning." poison the main family, and you will repent in prison for the rest of your life. As for this mouth, since it is an ornament, let it become a decoration completely. ”

"You... What are you doing? Zhang Shihua, you dare to use private deeds! The female envoy on the side stepped forward to hold her down, and a person held the medicine bowl, pinched her chin and poured the black medicine into her. Hmm, hmm, ah——! ”

"Call it, make trouble, it's all in vain. Remember the last voice of your life. ”

Zhang Shihua didn't look at it, and turned around and walked out of the firewood room directly. instructed: "Send it to the official for investigation, I want her to never see the light of day again in her life." ”

"Yes."

The personal envoy followed behind Zhang Shihua, looked at Zhao Qianqian, and sighed silently in her heart. It's not good to provoke anyone, but to provoke the third miss, how could the eldest lady let her go so easily?

"Sister." Zhang Tingyu appeared halfway and shouted to stop Zhang Shihua.

"What's wrong?"

"I heard that something happened to A-Ning?"

"It's settled." Zhang Shihua saw that he was still following, and couldn't help but stop and ask. "What, what's the matter?"

Zhang Tingyu stood with his hands in his hands and raised his eyes to look at her. "Zhan Sui Yu just came to ask An Yuanxi about it, and I told him. Sister, let's talk about it too. ”

The cold color in Zhang Shihua's eyes faded, and he looked at Zhang Tingyu with a little more patience and softness. She answered, "Come here." ”

Zhang Shihua's room.

She sat down, raised her hand elegantly against the corner of her forehead, and said slowly, "What are you talking about?" Let's talk about it. ”

Zhan Suiyu took a deep breath and sat down across from her. "I remember when A-Ning was born, sister, you were happier than everyone else, but as A-Ning grew up, her sister became farther and farther away from her. But it's not that she's alienated, on the contrary, her sister cares more about Aning's every move than anyone else. I couldn't figure out why, so I didn't mention it. ”

"So now you've figured it out?" Zhang Shihua hooked his lips and picked up the teapot and poured a cup for him and himself.

Zhang Tingyu paused and said, "Sister, I know..." Zhang Shihua's smile suddenly froze on his face, he forgot to let go of the teapot, a brief surprise flashed in his eyes, and he raised his eyes and looked at him in a daze.

"How could you...? Impossible, undesirable..."

Zhang Shihua muttered. The result is obvious, Zhang Tingyu doesn't seem to need to ask anymore.

"I see, I didn't expect it to be true..." He didn't know what the expression on his face was, he just sighed, he understood everything that Zhang Shihua had said to Zhang Qining for so many years.

*

Later, Zhang Qining got up and saw that half of the room was left in the room, and no one was there except her. She sat up and woke up, Qinglan knocked on the door and whispered to come in. When it was almost time for dinner, the third lady slept a little long, so she came over to take a look. If Miss San has no appetite, she considers whether to prepare some light food.

"Miss is awake? Can you use something light for dinner? ”

"It's fine." Zhang Qining asked, "What about Lin Zhao?" ”

Qinglan: "Zhan Gongzi went to find the young master before, but now I don't know where he is." ”

Zhang Qining got up, took the coat on the side and put it on. "Well, I'll go find him."

Qinglan came over to help her tidy up, and was stunned and said, "Miss, don't you use something first?" I didn't use it much for lunch. There is ginseng pigeon soup stewed on the stove, or... The slave maid went to the kitchen to bring the bowl first, and the young lady used some first. ”

"Okay, there you go."

After using the soup, Qinglan wanted to follow Zhang Qining, but Zhang Qining said no. "It's just a casual walk around your own house, and you don't need anyone to follow you. Go down. ”

"Yes."

Mu Li raised her head, walked up to Qinglan and asked, "Sister Qinglan, why don't you follow Miss when she goes out?" ”

"Miss won't let me follow."

"Don't let me? Can't you just follow it secretly? Miss was not feeling well a few days ago, what if something happens? ”

Qinglan was more steady, she could see that the third lady didn't like to be close, she said that if she wanted, if she didn't want it, she didn't want it, and there was no extraneous meaning. As long as these subordinates listen to her orders, they are afraid that they will touch the third lady's moldy head, and now the closest to her is the Zhan Sui Yu Zhan Gongzi.

Muli is different from her, the child is more serious, but she is also more honest with others, and she is single-minded towards Zhang Qining, so she will only identify Zhang Qining in everything. For example, now, if it were her, she would follow Zhang Qining quietly and far away.

These two people have different personalities, and the errands of the Qi Ning faction are different, but the only thing they have is that they both listen to her.

Listening to Muli's words, Qinglan couldn't help but wonder if the third lady chose the two of them as personal envoys, whether it was not accidental, but a plan that had been made for a long time. The third lady should know that she came out of the eldest lady's house, and she has no second heart for her. Muli is newly selected, has no foundation, doesn't understand anything, and is very clean, so she can be slowly trained in the future.

As for why he suddenly wanted to choose a personal envoy, it must be because of that Zhan Gongzi. The two of them agreed that they would follow her into the house in the future, and the third lady was prepared early than letting others make decisions.

Zhang Qining asked people with a lantern, but they all said that they hadn't seen Zhan Suiyu. This guy, where did he go so night?

She searched for a while but didn't find it, but she heard the little maid say that the young master and the eldest lady had talked in the afternoon, and the eldest lady drank until now.

"Eh, why did the young lady and the young master drink after they finished talking?"

"Don't be verbose, what can the young master and young lady say? Maybe it's a business annoyance, what's wrong with eating two glasses of wine? Hurry up and get the decanting soup ready, maybe the envoy's sister will come and let us deliver it at some point. ”

After the two maids finished speaking, they left, and Zhang Qining was strange when he heard it. The second brother has always been a good brother of the eldest sister, the two of them chatted and talked, how did the eldest sister get drunk? Listening to them, it seems that they have drunk a lot.

She thought about it for a while, turned around and went to Zhang Shihua's yard.

When she arrived in the courtyard, she did not alarm the female envoy in the courtyard, but the servants in the courtyard were a little surprised when they saw her. She told them not to make a noise or report, and asked lightly: "I heard that the eldest sister drank a lot of wine, so I came over to take a look." ”

"Third Miss, don't worry, the eldest lady is fine. Just drank a little more, a little drunk. ”

Seeing that they were all outside, I thought that Zhang Shihua asked them to come out.

Zhang Qining handed the lantern to the maid on the side and said, "I'll go in and have a look." ”

"Yes."

Zhang Shihua was drunk, and it was rare to lie on the table without a shelf, I don't know whether he was asleep or purely lying on his stomach.

Zhang Qining walked over to her and called softly, "Eldest sister? ”

Zhang Shihua opened his eyes, his eyes were covered with a layer of water, his cheeks and nose were crimson, and he was indeed drunk. Seeing that it was she who raised her hand and touched it, sat down and said, "Why are you here?" ”

I don't know if she's drunk or crying. In her memory, Zhang Qining has never seen her cry, she has always been like a big tree supporting the Zhang family, like a general with a sword in front of her, so most of the time what she sees is her majestic back.

"I heard that the account books on the second brother's desk are being sent day after day, and there are a lot of piles, why did my sister drink wine instead?"

Zhang Qining sat down on the side, the candlelight was flickering, the light and shadow were hazy, and Zhang Shihua was a little drunk for a while. Gradually, he saw the outline of another person in her, and he couldn't help but get up and smile, and walked towards her. Zhang Qining was stunned, so he sat there and was hugged by her and patted on the back.

Zhang Shihua: "Sister..."

What sister? I'm afraid I'm not really drunk. Zhang Qining didn't say anything yet, and the whole person was stunned in her arms when she heard her address below, and she was hugged like this.

"Sister Ning..."

Sister Ning? Pinning... County Lord, huh? As far as she knows, there is only one person in the world who will call her that - Cui Jingyu.

“… Jingyu. She tried to scream, but Zhang Shihua answered.

It turns out that Cui Jingyu has become her sister in this life, no wonder...

She is not the county lord of Pingning, and she can't be the county lord of Pingning, she... is destined to disappoint Zhang Shihua.

She came out of the house, and Zhang Shihua's personal envoy stepped forward and said, "Third Miss, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Qining took the lantern in her hand and said, "She was drunk and slept." Let the kitchen cook a sobering soup to feed my sister a little bit, so that she can rest early. ”

"Yes."

When she went back, Zhang Qining thought to herself: "Sisters for many years... They are indeed sisters for many years. It's just that Cui Jingyu and Zhang Shihua never saw her Zhang Qining. No... Not really. ”

Not far away, Zhan Sui Yu walked towards her with his hand. From a distance, he saw that his little girl was a little depressed with a lantern, and immediately walked quickly.

Getting closer, Zhang Qining looked up and happened to see him, and smiled at him.

Like this, he asked with concern, "How did it come out?" She wiped him and hurried back, with a thin sweat on her forehead, and said to him gently, with joy in her eyes, "See that you haven't come back yet, come out and look for it." ”

No, it's not, if you have an obsession, you will be trapped in the past. With Lin Zhao here, she didn't want to. Fireworks in the world, mountains and forests, valleys, the south and the north, she wants to go with him, live a clear and chic life.