Chapter 9: Smoke
A wave of powerlessness welled up in his heart, Sheng Qian looked at her, "Yun Niang." ”
"Get out!" She was dressed in her own clothes, and for the first time she didn't look at him. At this moment, he had a splitting headache, put on his clothes, lowered his head to look at her, and could only silently go out of the room.
——
Sheng Mingzhu didn't know what happened until the second half of the night, comforted Yun Niang to fall asleep, and went to the study early the next morning to find his father. Sheng Qian is still annoyed now, if others had been coaxed out, she would be a baby daughter in the end.
"Nannan, your children's family, don't worry about the affairs of adults."
"Whose family is it about?" Sheng Mingzhu looked at her father, "You are my father, but she is also my mother." Now if you two turn against each other, what are you going to do with me? ”
"No...... No, it won't. Sheng Qian hung his head, and his words were a little indistinct.
Sheng Mingzhu said, "How could it not?" Don't you know what kind of character my mother is? Now that the story of her fornication with subordinates has spread throughout the Sheng Mansion, how will she behave in the future? Breathed a sigh of relief, "Or do you not even believe my mother?" ”
Sheng Qian stopped talking.
"What about that person? Daddy is an official, and there must always be evidence to determine people's innocence, right? ”
Sheng Qian frowned, he looked at the eldest daughter, his brows were tightly locked, there were some things in it, she still couldn't understand it, "Mingzhu, some things don't have to be revealed, the truth is revealed." Daddy believes in your mother, isn't it okay? ”
Sheng Mingzhu wanted to say something, but Sheng Qian rarely lost patience with her, "You go out first, and I have to go to the yamen for my father and official business in a while." didn't give her a chance to talk more, Ma Wu on the side had already made a gesture of rushing away, Mingzhu looked at her father for a while, and couldn't figure out what happened for a long time.
I was a little worried about Yun Niang, so I returned to the small courtyard by the lake.
It's good, when I went back, Yun Niang was helping Lingzhu read her homework. Mother Huang next to her had already set up breakfast, and said kindly, "Eat quickly, the clan school will start in a while, and the old mother will send the second lady." ”
Sheng Mingzhu walked to the side, took a white jade dumpling with chopsticks, and took a bite before swallowing slowly, "No need, Mother Huang is with my mother, I want to go to the clan study for a while." Just let Chen Cen follow and send it away. "Chen Cen is a groom in the house, he is not very old, but he was born with red lips and white face.
Sheng Mingzhu felt very face-saving every time he took him to the clan school, and he drove the car every time he went.
"Yo...... Is this sun hitting the west and coming out? Huang's mother looked at Sheng Mingzhu playfully, "Why is the eldest lady suddenly interested in going to the clan school?" ”
"The family has a thousand gold, and you can do whatever you want." Sheng Mingzhu leaned up on the little white neck and chewed the words.
Huang's mother didn't understand and was confused. Yun Niang, who was feeding Lingzhu to eat, also looked at it, and when she wanted to understand the meaning of her words, she couldn't help but knock her on the head, "Even if there is ten thousand gold, it is not enough for future generations Huo Huo, my mother asked you to go to the clan study, not to let you be willful, to behave freely, but to let you learn skills." ”
Sheng Mingzhu stuck out her tongue.
Yun Niang couldn't help but laugh. She was relieved that reality was the same as dreams, but at the moment she wasn't very worried. Dad doesn't know what's wrong, what he said before is good, even her brain can see that her mother should have been framed.
Otherwise, any stupid thing will elope with someone in the house, and run outside if it wants to. I wanted to ask what the condition of the man yesterday was, but I was afraid that my mother would have a pimple in my heart when I heard it, so I endured it and didn't ask.
——
Got into the carriage, it was still early.
Lingzhu is still young, and she wakes up early in the morning and feels sleepy every time she is in the carriage. Sheng Mingzhu leaned her head on the cushion, afraid that she would be a fool, while she leaned against the wall of the carriage, remembering the events of yesterday and the continuous, strange dreams.
Regardless of the side, I am about to return to my hometown in the capital, and my mother can't carry such a reputation.
The more I thought about it, the more headache I felt, and the carriage soon arrived at the foot of Mao Mountain. Because adhering to the concept of doing everything in a family, students from here need to go step by step to the family study, Chen Cen hugged the spirit bead, and used it as a footstool, let Sheng Mingzhu step down from the carriage, the two sisters went up the mountain hand in hand, and he carried a large bag behind him.
Maoshan is a well-known school forest in Bingzhou, and now it will support several old students who have retired from the Hanlin Academy. I don't know when it became a tradition, and people with a little family background would raise a gentleman here, and over time it became a famous place of ethnology.
Sheng Qian is the local grandfather of Futai, so naturally he also pulled up a flag and started the Sheng family study. The children of their own clan are exempt from everything, and if they want to come to school, they need to pay a certain amount of restraint. It's just that there are too many ethnic studies here in Maoshan, unless there are some outsiders, or the children of merchants, they need to be a big person, and the range of choices is very large.
"Sister, I remember that you used to like to come to the clan to study." Lingzhu is milky.
When we got to the mountains, the mist dawned, and there was a little sun. Sheng Mingzhu covered her eyebrows with the back of her hand and looked into the distance, she originally liked clan studies. But in this ethnology, there are also many things she doesn't like, and just as she was thinking, there was a small red dot that slowly turned into a humanoid silhouette and walked in front of her.
Sheng Yan hadn't seen Sheng Mingzhu for a long time, and when she got closer, she still had a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, but Sheng Mingzhu could clearly see a touch of color from the bottom of her eyes.
"Cousin Mingzhu, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing these days?"
Sheng Mingzhu turned her back, but she didn't expect to meet her as soon as she went out today, "Thanks to my cousin, I only feel a lot refreshed when I stay at home these days." ”
Sheng Yan lowered his head, but there was a genuine apology in his eyes, "Cousin, are you still angry about what happened before?" I really didn't know, if I really knew......"
"What if you really knew?" Sheng Mingzhu's brows furrowed slightly, looking at Sheng Yan in the sunlight. Sheng Yan is also a branch of the Sheng family, and she used to have a good relationship, and she also liked this cousin. The change came from half a month ago, and it also came from her intermittent dream - how Sheng Yan laughed at her after many years.
Sheng Mingzhu is not a cautious person, but he is also a person who takes everything from his heart, and if he doesn't like it, he doesn't like it.
Sheng Yan's expression was embarrassed and embarrassed, Sheng Mingzhu was still waiting for her to answer, but someone behind her shouted loudly, "Sheng Mingzhu!" You can't help but deceive people too much, Sister Yan's family is discussing Zheng Rui, as a cousin, you shouldn't be entangled at this time, and now you are still beating up? ”
Sheng Mingzhu glanced back, but he didn't bother to deal with this kind of person.
"It's cousin Sheng Luo, I forgot to ask if my cousin is okay?" Sheng Luo's father is a famous rotten gambler around, and he lost his belongings a few days ago and went directly to the clan school to become Sheng Luo. She hasn't wiped her own buttocks, and she's still looking for trouble.
"Sheng Mingzhu!" Sheng Luo shouted, and tears quickly gathered in her eyes.
"What's wrong with me?" She replied nonchalantly, "Isn't your father a gambler?" ”
Sheng Luo was born in poverty, especially with a heavy face, and at this moment, he looked at the people around him, and he just wanted to get into the crack in the ground and disappear. Immediately hid his face, turned his head and ran.
Sheng Yan stayed in place, a little in a dilemma, looked at Sheng Mingzhu again, and suddenly spoke softly, "Mingzhu, in the end, you are from a rich and noble background, but there are always some poor people in this world who can't help themselves." You shouldn't poke people in the wound. ”
Sheng Mingzhu smiled and lowered his head, "Taught." After saying this, he didn't pay attention to Sheng Yan, pulled Sheng Lingzhu and walked forward. Just walked forward, I don't know what I remembered again, and suddenly turned around, "Cousin Yan, do you remember this person?" ”
Chen Cen hugged the two sisters and saluted, and was confused for a while.
Sheng Yan looked up. Chen Cen already looks good, and his face is a little more childish in the mist and morning light, if you don't look at the dress, he really looks like a pampered son of a rich family.
"I'm still young, and I really don't have as much cardamom as my cousin. And in terms of appearance alone, Zheng Rui is afraid that he is not even as good as my family. ”
Sheng Yan's face became extremely ugly, but Sheng Mingzhu had already taken his sister and subordinates away. The back is a sense of majesty that triumphantly leaves.
Someone next to him comforted Sheng Yan softly, "This daughter of the house is not more moral, the little girl's family is judging men indiscriminately." ”
"That's it...... Tilting her head all day long, for fear that others would not be able to see the pearl on her head, for fear that others would not know that her father was Futai. ”
Sheng Yan only listened to it for a while, then felt a miasma of black smoke and found a reason to leave.
"Sheng Mingzhu is too much, relying on herself to be the daughter of the government, and she never shows mercy when she speaks!" Sheng Luo wiped his tears and cried. Sheng Yan gently patted her back to show comfort, "She speaks like this, and you don't know." In the past, I still had three points of thin face in front of her, but now because of my marriage to Zheng Rui, I can't get used to me. ”
Sheng Luo angrily stepped on the grass on the soles of her feet, "What is she, she is talentless and virtuous, she has no face, what's the big deal." Zheng Rui just said a few more words to her, how did she become her person? ”
"Don't say it," Sheng Yan shook his head. She was afraid of Sheng Mingzhu's mouth, she had been to Sheng Mansion once before, and Chen Cen was good-looking, at that time she thought it was the son-in-law of which family, and she specially asked her mother to inquire. Now that the marriage with Zheng Rui has been decided, it would not be beautiful if Sheng Mingzhu was stabbed out.
——
"Miss......" Chen Cen was just stared at by so many people, and now he is scratching his head, quite embarrassed.
"There's no need for you here, you can go back." Sheng Mingzhu sat in her place, Lingzhu was three years younger than her, and was in another class.
"The little one will come back to pick up the eldest lady after school."
Sheng Mingzhu frowned, "I said that you will go back." Don't use it......" Suddenly as if he thought of something, he grabbed the broken silver from his bag and handed it to him, "The new books from Hanxuan Bookstore, you go and buy a few for me." ”
Chen Cen stared at Sheng Mingzhu and was a little speechless for a moment. The eldest lady of his family never liked to read, and every time she bought these books, she finally threw them to him, "little ......"
"Don't talk nonsense, if you really get a top prize, my face will shine." Sheng Mingzhu's eyes drooped, flipping through his brand new book.