"Thanks to a few warm-hearted princesses and ladies, otherwise these things would have been really uncomfortable in my heart. Or, if he did come and ask in person, I didn't know how to speak. ”

Shang Shanke picked up the small bamboo clip on the coffee table, sandwiched a tea cake and put it in the grinding plate. The sky was still bright outside, and the sunlight no longer shone on the water outside the door, and as the breeze blew, the wrinkled water reflected countless mirrors.

Most of the mirror light hit Shang Shanke's body, reflecting her side face like a dream, as if an immortal had fallen into the mortal dust, and she didn't know when she would leave.

Jiang Liuyu somehow felt an inexplicable melancholy in her heart. It's really tiring to talk to someone who is so quiet and has no quarrel with the world, and there is a story behind him, as if the next moment the story is finished, that person will disappear with it.

Like the first time she saw Bao Jingshu before, she just cried and fainted in front of the grave, scaring Jiang Liuyu half to death. Later, she was in a state of confusion and half-dead all day long, which made her, an unrelated outsider, feel uncomfortable when she saw it.

Now Bao Jingshu has finally had some fireworks, and there is a young fiancée of Kong Yu, who is young but always has a sad face, which is really a bit dull.

"Just tell the truth about what you know, no matter what kind of identity relationship, he still wants to hear your true thoughts."

Shang Shanke turned his hand on the grinding plate for a moment, as if he was very surprised that Jiang Liuyu would say such a thing. Bao Jingshu pursed her lips, she already felt very normal.

And Xiang Fanhua couldn't sit still, and she didn't like things like tea art much, and she was almost drowsy with her head in one hand, so she didn't hear a word of Jiang Liuyu's words.

"Thank you for the princess's advice, it's just that it's in vain." Shang Shanke smiled lightly and continued, "He won't come." ”

"He has the same temper as my father." Shang Shanke's smile at this time unconsciously became a little more sincere, and Bao Jingshu couldn't take his eyes off it.

"It used to be, my father was the head of the family, and he rejected a poor scholar who took the imperial examination, but now it is different from the past, the situation is completely reversed, my father is no longer coveting his fame, and it is impossible to look at the past, only one way to the end."

"As for Kong Yoo, it's the same. A family member who had given him great humiliation, his actions were still disturbing, and he almost missed the leader, how could he be willing to come back, not to mention, when he came to my house, my father had never been so enthusiastic. ”

"No wonder it's called 'endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky', what's the point of competing with each other like this." Jiang Liuyu sighed.

"Then you say that, is there something strange that Lord Kong didn't come back to you?" Xiang Fanhua yawned while holding his chin, always feeling that Shang Shanke's words mentioned about the two of them made Shang Shijing and Kong Yu look like good people.

"Madam, don't get me wrong, I just said that I can understand why Kong Yu is like this, but I don't mean to complain."

At this time, the tea in the grinding plate has been almost ground, and for the sake of Shang Shanke's distraction, this time the tea powder is a little too fine.

Shang Shanke picked a little with a small teaspoon and poured it into the tea bowl, then took another tea and stirred it constantly. "Both of them are such competitive people, who is willing to give in to whom."

"But having said so much, it's all about Master Kong and Master Shang, Miss Shang, do you have any ideas about your own ideas?"

"Me?" Shang Shanke lowered his head and asked, "As a woman, I follow my father at home and my husband when I marry, when will it be my turn to ask what I mean?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the three people sitting couldn't help frowning.

Needless to say, Xiang Fanhua and Jiang Liuyu must believe that my fate is up to me, not to the Lord of God, and Bao Jingshu knows that her mother was competitive in her early years, but later she was afraid of the world and obeyed the destiny of heaven, but she still got such an ending.

After Bao Jingshu understood the cause and effect, he was sad and indignant in his heart, one was to his own enemy, and the other was to face this rule of providence that he couldn't see and couldn't touch.

"'People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless', since they are born as human beings, they should have a different state of mind from plants and trees. Although filial piety to your parents is important, it does not mean that you will not be able to have your own plans from now on. ”

"You have your own favorite flowers and plants in your life, and your favorite interests, such as cooking tea, are they all forced by your father to do them?" Jiang Liuyu and Xiang Fanhua were shocked, never thinking that the biggest reaction would be Bao Jingshu.

Bao Jingshu said happily at first, but he didn't seem to be able to take care of it later. It wasn't until she said it that she realized that it was inappropriate, it really didn't have any special meaning and persuasiveness, and for the intelligent and well-spoken merchant Shanke, these words couldn't be more easily refuted.

Fortunately, Shang Shanke just raised his eyes and glanced at her quietly a few times, and did not rush to refute, so that Bao Jingshu's hanging heart fell back to the same place.

"I just joked with a few people, but I didn't expect the princess and the lady to react so much, it's really mine."

As he spoke, the tea in Shang Shanke's hand had stopped, and he looked over from Jiang Liuyu's position, and the tea bowl was a cup of good tea that didn't even have a little tea foam.

Shang Shanke poured the tea in the bowl into several small cups on average, and said casually. "Actually, if you ask me what I really think, I really don't have any special thoughts."

"Is it for marriage, or for Kong Yun." Everyone was shocked, and Shang Shanke came over with a tray with teacups, and Ying Ying leaned down and personally served them one by one.

"What do you mean?" Speaking of love between lovers, it is a very common thing, but the words of the merchant made Jiang Liuyu scratch his head at all.

"It means that Kong Yoo is to me, but I am actually far less than I am to Kong Yoo." Shang Shanke served tea and still sat in her original seat.

There was another maid outside the water pavilion, standing on tiptoe, not daring to come in. Jiang Liuyu ignored her, and just waited quietly for Shang Shanke's next step.

"Kong Yoo and I are childhood sweethearts, but he is fourteen years older than me, although I get along well with him, but there is always a bit of estrangement between the two, let alone becoming a husband and wife."

Jiang Liuyu can understand this explanation, the ancients didn't know, but she knew it clearly, the left is just the word "generation gap", the age difference is too big, and the two have different concepts, which is really a sin.

"Kong Yu attaches great importance to the covenant of the gentleman and is very attentive to the marriage contract, which is why he treats me very well. But for me, it's not a matter of concern, it's just that compared to the more unbearable Ma family, he is a better choice. ”

"But when we listened, we still felt that Master Kong had a deep affection for you." Jiang Liuyu said very unconfidently, and Xiang Fanhua accidentally and tacitly collided with each other, and the two laughed at the same time.

"But I do think that Master Kong has some old cows eating tender grass."

Bao Jingshu, who had been watching from the sidelines, watched all this quietly, and didn't quite understand why the situation had developed like this, looking at Jiang Liuyu and Xiang Fanhua, who were laughing happily without heart and lungs, she couldn't help but put on a displeased expression, which scared Jiang Liuyu awake.

"Oh yes, even so, I can't find any good people for a while now, don't you think about fighting for Master Kong again, but he has never married for you."

Jiang Liuyu was reminded by Bao Jingshu, and almost forgot what she had asked about going to Ma's house before, and if she didn't talk about it now, when would she wait.

"And the Ma family, they are not so simple at all. As long as a few more outstanding women appear, then Ma Zengtong can immediately leave you behind and say bad things about you behind your back. ”

"Not only that, I remember that he said at the time that he just spent money to buy someone in, and he didn't take you to heart at all, and people are very hypocritical." Xiang Fanhua also helped Jiang Liuyu speak, wanting to stir up a ripple in Shang Shanke's heart.

And this girl's eyes only flickered a little, and after a moment, she quickly returned to calm.

"I know everything in my heart what they said. Actually, I did buy it with the Ma family's money. ”

When it comes to this, even Jiang Liuyu and the others are indignant, and the Shangshanke still looks like they don't fight, don't grab, and don't care, which makes people look at it, and the anger in their hearts is even worse.

"The Ma family has given a few percent more than the bride price agreed upon two years ago, and all this money has been used by my father to pay off the debt. Now if the Ma family wants to repent of the marriage, our merchant will owe them a lot of money, and they will be carried over in a sedan chair in the future, which is just to get a good name. ”

If you are so realistic, calm down a few people who are filled with righteous indignation? Jiang Liuyu and Xiang Fanhua looked at Shang Shanke in a daze, such a young and powerless weak female stream, it was indeed too difficult to forcibly ask her this.

"In addition, even if a few people want to see me fight, now I am not qualified." Shang Shanke said that it was only now that a very large expression finally appeared on his face.

She said as she took out a jade pendant from her bosom. The man gave the jade pendant and the woman gave the hairpin, which was the token of the marriage. Bao Jingshu saw it in his eyes, and suddenly felt a trace of loneliness and despair.

Just when she was sad, as far as the eye could see, the maid who came over for the first time was still looking at it from a distance, looking very anxious.

"When my maid came over just now, I guess a few of them have already discovered some clues." When the words landed, Jiang Liuyu and Xiang Fanhua were at a loss, and Shang Shanke pursed his lips.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know, this lady will explain it carefully to the two of you for me."

What Shang Shanke was referring to was Bao Jingshu, Jiang Liuyu and Xiang Fanhua looked at the two curiously. Bao Jingshu glanced at Shang Shanke meaningfully, and in eye contact, as if he had agreed with her, he nodded seriously and affirmatively.