Xie Mingyun, the ninth son, seemed to want to live in the old mansion in Pingjiang for a long time, in addition to going to the clan school every day to attend classes, he also began to call craftsmen to come in and rearrange the flowers and plants in the old mansion here and there, as well as in the back garden.

After the third old lady was happy, he wondered, it would be best for the ninth prince to live in the old mansion in Pingjiang for a while, but if he stayed for a long time...... How can it be done, the ninth prince still has to take the spring exam, to discuss relatives, to enter the career, I heard that the ninth prince is often called by the prince to accompany the talk, these are the real big things, the ninth prince can live in the old house in Pingjiang, but he can't live for a long time.

The third old lady took advantage of the opportunity of the ninth prince Xie Mingyun to ask for peace, and tried it a few times, Xie Mingyun just didn't hear it, and said it once, and was blocked back by Xie Mingyun's words, this is the old mansion of the Xie family, he has lived at home for a while, a few years, or even a long time, does the old lady still dislike him?

The old lady can't take this, how can he dislike him, isn't that a joke, he is thinking about him, but he can't say it anymore.

The third old lady thought about it and thought about it, wrote a letter with his own handwriting, sealed the lacquer seal, and instructed his henchmen and servants to send it to the capital in the starry night, and reported to the eldest lady Xie Shangshu in person about the nine princes' every move in the old mansion, as well as the three old ladies worried about the nine princes, the nine sons are in the old mansion every day, such a picture of no ambition, this is not good!

Two days after the letter of the third old lady was sent away, it was the Double Ninth Festival, and respecting the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival was a big event, and the Xie family had always had to take a day off.

Xie Mingyun goes to school every day, and the students in the inner school can see him every day, talk to him, and be instructed by him, people are like this, the legendary, even if it is a fairy, he has come and gone around for a long time, and it will be dull, Xie Mingyun is also like this, the initial light gradually faded, from Mr. to the student, he began to look at him with the eyes of ordinary people, although it is still surprisingly good-looking, but he is the ninth son Xie Mingyun, not the fairy Xie Mingyun.

Like Su Nan and her cousins Xie Zhiwan and Xie Zhirou, although they still saw a sigh that Jiugongzi was really good-looking, but looking at Jiugongzi, it has retreated from the biggest thing in their lives to something like kicking shuttlecock and skipping rope.

In their lives, there are more important and important things than watching the ninth son, for example, at their age, the family has already begun to see the in-laws' family, especially Xie Zhiwan and Xie Zhirou, one sixteen, one fifteen, in and out of the year, they should settle the family affairs, and then prepare the dowry after the ceremony, and two or three years will pass in a blink of an eye.

After twenty years of marriage, in their Pingjiang Mansion, if there is no reason to do it, it will be pointed out behind the back.

What makes people worry is that Xie Zhiwan has a little childhood sweetheart Zhou Qing who met in the Xie family's foreign school, and he was admitted to the inner school last year, although Mr. didn't let him go this year, and he was still a little bit hard to learn, but Mr. also said that he would be able to try next year, and if he failed the exam next year, he would definitely be able to pass the exam the year after tomorrow.

Xie Zhiwan likes Zhou Qing, Xie Zhiwan's parents like Zhou Qing and the Zhou family even more.

But the Zhou family is not an orphan like Su Nan's father Su Xiucai, the Zhou family has two or three hundred acres of land, and there are two or three shops, and the family background is better than Xie Zhiwan's family I don't know how many times, although Zhou Qing also likes Xie Zhiwan, but the Zhou family definitely did not put Xie Zhiwan into the consideration of his daughter-in-law.

The Zhou family's small rich family, there has been a show talent in the last two generations of the family, to Zhou Qing, from Zhou Qing's father to his grandparents, and even relatives, all expect Yin Yin, looking forward to the family not only showing talent, it is best to produce a person, or even a jinshi, then their Zhou family, this one heel, but it will be very overturned.

Zhou Qing's parents and grandparents are all shrewd and understanding people, and they have already let go, Zhou Qing is still young, and he has to concentrate on studying and discussing the affairs of his family.

But when Zhou Qing is admitted to Xiucai, it will be two years later at the earliest, two years later, Xie Zhiwan will be eighteen, and after Zhou Qing is admitted to Xiucai, Xie Zhiwan is not closer, but farther.

Because of this, Xie Zhiwan's father had already broken off this thought, but Xie Zhiwan hadn't been able to give it up, and was admitted to the inner school, which was also aimed at Zhou Qing, and he was ruthlessly admitted, Xie Zhirou relied on Su Nan's help and was admitted with a little cheating, but the three of them were bent on entering the inner school, the earliest, all because of Xie Zhiwan's tactful mind.

The day before the Double Ninth Festival, half an hour earlier than usual after school in the clan school, Su Nan, Xie Zhiwan, and Xie Zhirou came out arm in arm, walked around in a circle, and walked around the courtyard street that sold rouge pollen silk flower fans.

Although I can't afford it, it's good to take a look, a teenage girl, these things are my favorite things.

Xie Zhiwan was preoccupied.

"Yesterday, Mrs. Zhang went to her uncle's house." Xie Zhirou and Su Nan said in a low voice.

Before Su Nan A-Niang got married, Xie Zhiwan, Xie Zhirou and Su Nan A-Niang's three families, three courtyards next to each other, and then Su Nan A-Niang got married, although she didn't say that it was an upside-down door, but it was her son-in-law who lived in, Qiao Pozi felt that the house left by the ancestors of the Xie family, and it was not good to change the surname Su later, Xie Zhiwan and Xie Zhirou's parents discussed, and the two families paid money to buy Qiao Pozi's yard at the market price, and Qiao Po's yard was just in the middle, so it was divided into two, half of a family.

Mrs. Qiao took the silver, separated a street, and rebuilt the house, which can be regarded as Su Nan's marriage.

That's it, Xie Zhiwan and Xie Zhirou live next door, Su Nan is just across the street, what's the matter, Xie Zhiwan knows, Xie Zhirou also knows, but Su Nan, she has to wait for the two to tell her.

"Who's that?" Su Nan immediately asked with concern.

"Which one is the same as the other, and what's the difference? None of them are good. Xie Zhiwan's tone was full of grievances.

"When I arrived at the school in the afternoon, it was Tuesday, and he was standing under the crooked neck tree, and when he saw me, he seemed to want to say something, and I didn't go forward, but I stood and looked at him, and he hesitated for a long time, and walked away with his head down." Su Nan looked at Xie Zhiwan and said.

"What does he want to do?" Xie Zhirou was a little angry, she always felt that since she wanted to marry her Sister Wan on Tuesday, she should make a vigorous fuss to either marry or die, so wet and sticky neither gritted her teeth nor stomped her feet, it was too dirty and too inferior.

"What the hell does Tuesday mean?" Su Nan ignored Xie Zhirou and pulled Xie Zhiwan to ask.

"If he put something like that in his house, my aunt said, let's die, people are bent on picking a mother's family to help, how can our family have any help, if it is ......"

Xie Zhiwan paused violently, and sighed again, "Forget it, there's nothing that can't be said, my aunt said, if it weren't for such a tragic thing in your family, if your father was admitted to the lifting of people, then our family would be the one whose family would have helped, now," Xie Zhiwan looked at Su Nan, and then looked at Xie Zhirou, "The three of us, your family is forgotten," Xie Zhiwan patted Su Nan, "Your family is the only one, Sister Rou and I are at the top of school, but I and Sister Rou are the most talented, what can I do?" ”

"Alas, grandma said the same thing, grandma is very sad, what a good couple." Su Nan sighed repeatedly.

Because she has been sensible since she was a child...... But she thinks that she has been sensible since she was a child, and she is being nagged to her by her grandmother every day, and she is sensible, and her grandmother says that she is having a hard time, and she must say that if she is bored, if she is like her father, then what can her sister do......

"Forget it, don't think about it." Su Nan's voice was low.

Xie Zhiwan's eyes were slightly red, "I didn't think about it, it's all your nonsense." I already knew......" Xie Zhiwan choked in her throat, "Don't say it, in the first place, Daddy and Auntie shouldn't have sent us to study." ”

"That's the rule of the clan, the girls of the Xie family are all literate, who made you smart, if you can only be literate, you can't enter the Bible reading class...... Forget it, forget it, I'm talking nonsense again, don't talk about this, tomorrow Chongyang will ascend, let the second mother-in-law take us to climb the West Mountain? How about I steal some wine and come out? ”

Xie Zhirou changed the subject.

"Then I'll have to let my dad take us there, grandma won't let us drink." Su Nan laughed.

"Why don't you let it, your face was red when you drank during the Dragon Boat Festival, didn't you drink with your grandmother?" After all, Xie Zhiwan is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, and that sadness has changed as the topic changes.

"It was my grandmother who was sad, and she asked me to have two drinks with her. My aunt, isn't it the Dragon Boat Festival, every year the Dragon Boat Festival...... You know, grandma is very sad, it is in the past two years that grandma can be considered to have a good Dragon Boat Festival, a few years ago, I didn't come to your house to beg for zongzi to eat. Su Nan smiled.

"Ah Nan, you can eat four big zongzi in one go, that time scared my aunt You know, said that if you are stretched out, she won't have to live, and later, Ah Niang has never wrapped such a big zongzi." Xie Zhirou gestured at the size of the zongzi and smiled.

"I don't feel like it's holding it at all, the zongzi wrapped in the third aunt is delicious." Su Nan also laughed non-stop.

"You Nizi, you don't have enough zongzi to eat, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, as soon as I saw you coming, my aunt was scared, and said that the pot of zongzi, just leave two outside, and hide the pot quickly." Xie Zhiwan was in a much better mood, and said with a smile.

"My aunt is really, a person as big as me, I don't know if I can hold it or not, really! This zongzi has not been able to eat well every year! ”

Su Nan snorted and grumbled.

"What do you say? I heard Ah Nan say that she couldn't eat well. Xie Mingyun greeted the three of them from an alley in front of him.

"Sir." The three of them hurriedly let go of each other and saluted.

"Ah Nan said that she couldn't eat zongzi every year." Xie Zhirou didn't stand up straight, so she replied with a smile.

"Why? What kind of rice dumplings do you like to eat? Xie Mingyun looked surprised, turned around and motioned for the three of them to continue walking, and looked at Su Nan and asked.

"Because the eldest aunt, the third aunt, and my grandmother are all afraid of me holding on." Su Nan replied briskly.

"Mr. doesn't know, Ah Nan eats zongzi, it's scary, such a big zongzi, she can eat four in one go, so much! We were all terrified and she said she could still eat two. Xie Zhirou giggled while gesturing, "This is still two years ago, Ah Nan is not as tall as it is now, just a little bit, my aunt is very strange, saying that such a little villain, so zongzi, where did you eat?" ”

"I could really eat two more." Su Nan looked up at Xie Mingyun, who raised an eyebrow and listened, "This is the one I have eaten the most, and by the next day, the zongzi wrapped by the third uncle and mother will be eaten, until last year, to this year, they all looked at me, one day, I was only allowed to eat two zongzi, two!" It's still so small. Alas! ”

Su Nan let out a long sigh.

Xie Mingyun only felt that he couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't know what to say, the way she ate, he couldn't remember it clearly, tasted it lightly, quietly, and gracefully restrained.

At this moment, his heart was filled with an inexplicable messy feeling.

But her calmness and coolness are very similar to her.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, the capital loves to wrap such a big mouthful of zongzi, there are reed leaves, there are also lotus leaves, fresh and clear, very delicious, next year I will let the kitchen wrap some, bring it to the school for you to taste." Xie Mingyun coughed lightly before speaking.

"A mouthful of zongzi, is it that big?" Su Nan raised her eyebrows and asked.

Xie Mingyun nodded.

Xie Zhirou laughed, "If you take one bite at a time, how many will Ah Nan have to eat?" There must be too many to count, piles and piles. ”

"I think so." Su Nan couldn't stop laughing.

Xie Mingyun's two eyebrows raised together, and he coughed again, this topic can't go on anymore, let's get down to business. "Tomorrow Chongyang, where are you going to ascend?"

"We want to go to Xishan, but we don't know if we can go yet." Xie Zhirou's agility is all about talking.

"My aunt has a lot of things to do this year." Su Nan looked at Xie Mingyun and explained that her eldest aunt seemed to be planning to look at the several families mentioned by the matchmaker by looking at each other, and this look was secretly looking at each other, and she couldn't say it, she could only be busy.

"My aunt is busy, and my grandmother has to follow suit." The eldest aunt and the third aunt both said that the grandmother had a good eye for people and families.

"The third aunt never went to Chongyang to ascend, she was afraid of snakes and the dark." Su Nan sighed, "If no one takes us there, we can't go." ”

"I'll go with you, just right, I also want to go to Xishan, you show me the way, I'll accompany you." Xie Mingyun looked at Su Nan, and his heart was slightly raised.

"Okay!" Xie Zhirou immediately happily agreed.

Su Nan and Xie Zhiwan glanced at each other, Su Nan looked at Xie Mingyun and said strangely: "Every year in Chongyang, the gentlemen in the school have to chant poems and paint chrysanthemums together, and they are in Xishan, didn't the mountain chief tell Mr." ”

"Ugh." Xie Mingyun really didn't know about this, when he came out in the afternoon, he saw Xie Shanchang coming to him, about to talk about it, but he avoided it, "That's right, if no one takes you to Chongyang to ascend, you will be with the gentlemen." ”

"That's it." Xie Zhirou and Su Nan looked bitter and said in unison.

Ascending with the gentlemen, isn't that looking for sin?

"Then I'll ask someone to ask you tomorrow, if someone accompanies you, I won't care about you, if there is no one to accompany you, I'll accompany you to the climb, anyway, I won't chant poetry." Xie Mingyun thought for a moment, looked at the three of them and smiled.

This time, Xie Zhirou didn't dare to agree immediately, and the matter of the gentlemen in the school chanting poems and painting together seemed to be an extremely important matter.

Su Nan looked at Xie Zhiwan, hesitated, and nodded, "Okay." ”

"See you tomorrow." In a few words, having reached the end of the street, Xie Mingyun paused and motioned to the three of them, "Hurry up and go home." ”

The three of them held their arms again, waved at Xie Mingyun, walked quickly onto the bridge, and went home.