Qi Muyuan stood outside the courtyard gate and didn't go in for a long time.

But soon a classmate in the courtyard came out, and I happened to see Qi Muyuan standing outside.

"Senior Brother Qi, are you back? They just asked you. The classmate thought that Qi Muyuan had just walked here, and hurriedly greeted.

Qi Muyuan nodded at him and returned the salute.

When Fang Shaohua heard this, he immediately smiled and said to Du Jinning: "Look, I'm right, right?" As soon as you come back, Qi Muyuan will be sure to come back. ”

Qi Muyuan knew that he couldn't stay outside anymore, so he had to step into the courtyard.

Du Jinning was arguing with Fang Shaohua on the one hand, and turned to look at the door, looking at Qi Muyuan with four eyes.

"Qi Muyuan, I didn't come, and you didn't even dare to come to the academy." Du Jinning said with a smile.

Qi Muyuan saw Du Jinning's flower-like smile, and his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a little.

He suppressed his emotions, walked over as usual, and said lightly: "There is a guest at home, and my grandfather called me back." ”

Although Qi Bokun is a scholar, he is not lonely at all, and people often come to visit. So when Du Jinning heard this, he didn't think deeply, nodded, and invited everyone instead: "Come into the house and sit down, it just so happens that I brought snacks and good tea." ”

"Yes, yes." Fang Shaohua didn't know what politeness was at all, "Is it this year's new tea?" Then I'll have to try it. ”

Qi Muyuan saw a group of people surrounding Du Jinning into the room, he didn't stop at his feet, he didn't follow in, but went directly to his own room.

Xu Chengyuan, as Du Jinning's brother-in-law, naturally did not move forward when everyone expressed greetings and closeness to Du Jinning. But at this time, when he saw Qi Muyuan's actions, he couldn't help but walk up to Du Jinning and asked her, "What's wrong with Qi Muyuan?" ”

Although Qi Muyuan looks cold, he is usually good to people, at least the etiquette is quite thoughtful, it will not give people a feeling of looking down on people, it will only make people feel that he is like this by nature, which is also what Xu Chengyuan admires him more about.

Because of his closeness to Du Jinning, even if Qi Muyuan doesn't like to be lively and social, he will come to this room to say a few words, and then go back to his room, and he won't leave with such a cold face.

Du Jinning is a sensitive person, and Xu Chengyuan can feel the abnormality, she naturally feels it. It's just that there are a lot of people at this time, even if she has doubts in her heart, she won't ask at this time, she just smiled at Xu Chengyuan and helped Qi Muyuan explain: "Maybe I'm tired." Either his guests are annoying him again. ”

Xu Chengyuan remembered that there was an endless stream of guests who came to the door with their children, and they had the idea of marrying the Qi family or letting their sons and grandsons make friends with Qi Muyuan, so he knew it in his heart, and nodded sympathetically: "That's also true." ”

The classmates of Nanlu Academy are not as rich or expensive as Fuxue, or the pride of the sky. The students here either have money but no status, or their families are not well-off, and their rankings in the college examination are not high. People will be jealous of people who are similar to their status but a little stronger than themselves, but for people who are a lot higher than themselves and out of reach, they only have the idea of "hugging their thighs".

This is the case with my classmates in the academy. They only admire and admire Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning, and they will not be like Fuxue, some students are obviously inferior to Du Jinning in terms of knowledge, but they still despise her status and feel that they can step on her to show their nobility; Even Qi Muyuan was not convinced.

Everyone was afraid that Du Jinning would annoy them and make noise, so each of them ate a piece of dim sum and stayed for a while before leaving. Xu Chengyuan also left, but only Fang Shaohua stayed.

Du Jinning looked at him and stopped talking, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is there something wrong?" ”

Fang Shaohua snorted for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence: "That, that...... Do you know the situation in our family? ”

"What's going on in your family?" Du Jinning looked at him in surprise, and immediately shook his head, "I don't understand." ”

She doesn't like to inquire about other people's privacy, but she heard Fang Shaohua say that his father was transferred to your province as a governor, so he stayed here to study, and he didn't know anything else.

"My family's ancestral home is in Shou County, and there is only one cousin in my hometown. My parents died young, and I was raised by my uncle. My father was selected for the temple examination that year, and my grandfather took a fancy to me and married my mother to my father. ”

Speaking of this, he raised his eyes to look at Du Jinning and added: "My maternal ancestor is Wei Zhengming, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University. ”

Du Jinning's heart jumped suddenly.

The Song Dynasty continued to use the Tang Dynasty bureaucracy, but it has developed to the present day, and there have been certain changes in the centralization of power. For example, this scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion is no longer an official in charge of literary works, but has the status of a scholar in the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, and has become an advisor to the emperor, and the official residence is of three grades. Although the grade is not high, because he is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, he can influence the emperor's decision, so he holds real power and has a very high status.

She really didn't expect that Fang Shaohua looked like he was smug and didn't have any scheming, but he was a real person who didn't show his face, and his status was not worse than Qi Muyuan's.

But when she thought about it, she wanted to pat herself on the head.

In fact, Fang Shaohua's background is still traceable.

She knows all about the powerful families in Gui Province and their relationship in Beijing, but there is no Fang family among them. It can be seen that Fang Shaohua's father was not from a prominent family. She knew that Fang Shaohua was second, so she deduced that Fang Shaohua's father was not very old, and he was now in his early forties. A person from an ordinary background, at the age of his early forties, can achieve the position of a governor and a third-grade master, and say that there is no one behind him to help, is it possible? There is no one here in the Fang family, only Fang Shaohua's maternal grandfather's house.

Seeing that Du Jinning only showed surprise on his face, and did not show an angry or detached attitude, Fang Shaohua breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "My father and my mother only have three children, my eldest brother, me and my sister, a family of five, and nothing else. My brother has been promoted to the rank of sergeant and married, and is an official in a foreign country; My sister is only 12 years old this year, and she hasn't had anyone yet. ”

"In addition, after my father became an official and married, he took my uncle's family to live with us. But within two years, my uncle died, leaving only my aunt and two cousins. The two cousins are now married and married in Jiangnan. My aunt used to live with us, but this time my father and they went to your province to take up a post, and my aunt was reluctant to go with her cousin, so she didn't go with her, but stayed in our house in Suzhou Province. ”

As he spoke, he stopped and looked at Du Jinning.

Du Jinning became more and more puzzled, seeing that he stopped and didn't speak for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you telling me about this?" She didn't check his household registration.

"I'm ......" Fang Shaohua blushed and said in a hurry, "I, I want to ask your fourth sister for a kiss." ”

"What?" Du Jinning's eyes widened.