It's too careless!! Shuning secretly regretted it, how could she carelessly forget that there was a dangerous person next to her because she saw a good book?

She quickly calmed down and replied a little shyly: "I can roughly understand it, but if I don't understand something, just ask my brother, and he will explain it to me." This collection of stories ......" she pointed to the "Yuanyuan Collection" in Wanning's hand, "I bought it for my mother, she likes to read these." ”

Wan Ning felt a little bored, and Yuan Ning began to sneer again: "Second sister, is it possible that you can read the "Zizhi Tongjian", and others can't even read a miscellaneous book?" ”

Wan Ning returned the book to Shu Ning, who hurriedly walked to the counter to check out, and hinted that the boss wrapped the book with gray papyrus, so as not to let Wan Ning find out that there was a collection of essays that was not a children's book underneath.

The sixty-year-old bookstore owner wrapped up the book, handed it to Shuning with a smile, and greeted Wanning and the others, and then said, "This little lady, can you read "Zizhi Tongjian"? That's remarkable. ”

Wan Ning smiled a little embarrassedly, and then said to Shu Ning: "I was going to take you to the store next to me, who would have thought that my sister would run into this bookstore, let's go quickly." Then without saying a word, he pulled Fang Ning and went out.

Shu Ning was confused, said goodbye to the boss, pulled Yuan Ning out, and found that there was a tea room next door. Really, if you ask someone if you want to enter the tea room, why are you standing in front of the bookstore and saying?

Shu Ning hadn't forgotten Wan Ning's strange appearance just now, so she asked her: "The owner of the bookstore asked the second sister, why didn't the second sister tell him?" You have indeed read the "General Guide to Governance". ”

Wan Ning pouted: "Who is impatient to look at the kind of tome that has to be packed in dozens of boxes?" It's just that I read a few volumes when I was a child, and the words are small and dense, and I read too much, what should I do if I see my eyes badly? She turned her head to look inside the tea room, "There don't seem to be many guests, shall we go in and sit inside?" ”

Yuan Ning categorically vetoed: "Don't!" I just drank a belly of tea, what kind of tea room did you go to? Go back early, or we'll be scolded again. Seeing Wanning's look of wanting to refute, he said, "The old lady won't scold you, but we won't be able to escape." ”

Wan Ning had no choice but to dispel her mind. Several people walked back to the street outside, found their own coachman resting in the small tea shed, got back into the car, and walked on the way home.

Fang Ning sat in the car with a sullen face, as if she was disappointed. Shuning looked at her for a while, did she want to go to that tearoom so much? The expression on her face was so obvious that even Yuan Ning looked at her several times.

When she returned home, it was still early, and Shuning said goodbye to her sisters and returned to her yard. As soon as I walked outside the door of the upper room, I heard Tong's surprised voice inside: "Really? Already determined? ”

Then Zhang Bao's answer: "Not yet, but Yuheng people have already said that it should be a matter of the past two months, and Lord Chen has already greeted the officials." ”

Shuning shouted "Amma, Eniang", and then went in to see her parents and brother sitting in the house, with joy on their faces. She saluted, leaned next to her mother, and asked, "What do you seem to be happy about?" ”

Tong replied: "You Ama got the news today, Master Chen Liangben has greeted the officials, and it won't be long before you Ama can get a new appointment." ”

"Really?" Shuning was also pleasantly surprised, "Can we go?" Ouch! She suffered a brain crash from her father: "You child, even if you really don't want to live in this house, don't say it." ”

Shu Ning smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I went out with my sisters today, and I met someone in Deyue Pavilion, I heard that it was Lord Chen Liangben. Didn't he go out into the field? When did you come back? ”

Zhang Bao touched the little beard on his chin, and said with a smile: "It's been a few days since I came back, and I heard that the emperor summoned him back, but I'm afraid it has something to do with the party struggle in the court." ”

Duan Ning said: "I heard the two cousins of the Tong family talk in private, because the two factions fought too hard, and the emperor summoned him back to contain him. But they also said that Lord Chen might find out something terrible, and came back to report to the emperor, and then pretended to be very idle, aiming to confuse the opponent. ”

"Oh? Could it be ......" Zhang Bao thought about it, only to find that the six eyes were looking at him, so he laughed and said: "These things have nothing to do with our family, as long as we know, even if Lord Chen leaves again in two days, no one will deliberately embarrass me." ”

He looked at Tong: "So that Madame doesn't have to worry about me anymore, right?" "Husband." Tong looked back. The two looked at each other affectionately.

Shuning and Duan Ning glanced at each other, held back a smile and quietly left the house. Duan Ning pulled his sister up and ran along the corridor for dozens of feet, and couldn't help laughing.

After laughing, Duan Ning straightened up and sighed: "Great, I can finally leave." Shuning looked at him: "Does my brother dislike the capital very much?" ”

"Do you like it?" Duan Ning asked rhetorically. Shuning shook her head: "It's different here from Fengtian, it's really hard. ”

Duan Ning nodded and said, "Yes, it's really hard. In particular, interacting with people is completely different from when you were in Mukden. ”

He saw his sister looking at him with a puzzled gaze, and said with a wry smile: "I studied in the Tong family, and it was not only the cousins of the Tong family who came and went, but also some of the children of the powerful who came to study, or those princes and grandsons who occasionally came to be guests. I always feel ...... It's completely different from when I was in Mukden. Those little princes and little Baylors in Fengtian, although not all of them are as good as Tongying, and some of the children of the prince's mansion will also be a little arrogant, but at most they just ignore you and don't associate with you, most of them are straightforward and polite. But these boys in the capital, their backgrounds are not as good as Tongying, they pay attention to their status at a young age, and they bully classmates with poor family backgrounds in every way, and what is even more uncomfortable is that they will insult you with very ugly words. ”

He lowered his head: "I really don't want to stay in this kind of place any longer. ”

Shuning's nose was sour, and she asked, "Brother, did they bully you?" Duan Ning raised his head suddenly, looked at his sister's concerned eyes, and said with a smile: "How can it?" There is the Tong clan study, I am a relative of the Tong family, and they always have to look at the face of the master's family. ”

Shuning didn't believe it: "Last month, when you came back one day, your chin was bruised, and you told Eniang that it hit the bookshelf." A few days ago, you broke your knee and bled out, and said that you accidentally fell when you dismounted. Actually, it's all someone else's fight, isn't it? ”

Duan Ning was silent for a while before he said softly: "Don't tell Ama and Eniang, I don't want them to worry about me." ”

Shuning took her brother's hand, held back the tears in her eyes, and said, "I won't say it, but my brother should also be careful, stay away from those people, and don't let them bully you again." If you get hurt again, be sure to let me know. ”

Duan Ning touched her head lovingly and said, "Okay." ”

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The next day, Shuning received a letter from Zhou Yinlan, inviting her to her aunt's house to play. Shuning reported to her mother, took Chunxing, took the new books and a basket of snacks she had just bought yesterday, and asked the housekeeper in the house to send a small carriage to send them out.

Zhou Yinlan's aunt's husband's surname is Li, and she lives in a small house in the outer city. After Shuning entered the door, she felt that the whole family of the Li Mansion seemed to be not very enthusiastic about the guests of her relatives, but she didn't pay attention to these things, followed Ying'er into a small courtyard, and saw Zhou Yinlan, who was waiting for her in the courtyard.

Zhou Yinlan said that her father went out as a guest, and her mother went to the temple to make incense and make vows, leaving her little girl and a few subordinates at home.

Shu Ning looked at this small courtyard, and it really couldn't be compared with the Zhou family's mansion in Fengtian, according to her, the Zhou family lived here, I was afraid it would be a little crowded.

Sure enough, Zhou Yinlan's room was very small, and could only fit a bed, a table, a chair, a box and a basin shelf, and a thin quilt was placed on the surface of the box, which seemed to be Ying'er's bed.

There were several embroideries on the bed, one of which was still stretched on the embroidery shed, and only half of it was done. Zhou Yinlan saw that Shuning was looking at these things, so she hurriedly put them away, and smiled embarrassedly: "Messily, let my sister see and laugh." ”

Shuning smiled and shook her head, sat down on the edge of the bed, took an embroidery job, and said, "Sister's craftsmanship is getting better and better, but on this hot day, how can you do such a thick job?" Could it be ......" she raised the red veil of mandarin ducks playing in the water, "Sister is making her own dowry?" ”

Zhou Yinlan pulled back the veil with a red face, and scolded with a smile: "Hugh is talking nonsense!" This is something to do for my cousin, who is getting married this winter. ”

Shu Ning was a little surprised: "Why do you still want you to do your cousin's dowry?" ”

Zhou Yinlan said with a wry smile: "Now I don't sleep until the second watch every night, I can't do it, I send people under the fence, the master's family has a request, and it's not good to postpone it." ”

Shuning was angry: "Do they treat their relatives as long-term workers?" How could Uncle Zhou be willing?! ”

Zhou Yinlan hurriedly comforted her and said: "Don't be angry, my father said it, just to show his heart, just to thank the Li family for lending us a house for free this year." Besides......" She got up and looked out the window, sure that no one would come back, and whispered in Shuning's ear: "My father has already inquired, and the officials have a new appointment, and in two days, they will be able to come down." ”

Shuning burst of joy: "Really? "Really, in Anhui, my father said, it may be a platform." Zhou Yinlan said with a smile.

No wonder she doesn't look as melancholy now as she was when she returned to the Earl's Court as a guest, Shu Ning is also happy for her good friend, thinking that she also got good news yesterday, she can't help but think: "Uncle Chen Liangben, thank you very much." ”

In order to help Zhou Yinlan, when Shuning left, she volunteered to take two simple embroidery jobs home to help with them. Zhou Yinlan couldn't twist her, so she had to respond.

On the return trip, Shuning sat in the pony carriage and was in a brisk mood. Chunxing lifted the corner of the curtain with great interest, looked at the lively street scene outside, and was attracted by the hawker's shouting from time to time, constantly shouting "Oh, girl, there are buns sold there!" "Look, girl, it's a rock sugar gourd!" "What a beautiful hairpin" or "There is a showman in front". Shuning listened to her voice with a smile, occasionally popping her head out to look at her.

It is estimated that halfway through the street, Shuning heard Chunxing shout again: "Oh, girl, isn't that the second girl?" She went shopping with a few rich boys. Shu Ning was stunned and said in a low voice: "Quickly retract your head, don't let her find you!" ”

Chun Xing looked back at Shu Ning: "She has already seen it, and the uncle who drove the car greeted her." ”

I forgot that there was another person!

At this time, Wan Ning's voice came from outside the carriage: "Third sister, come down quickly, I will introduce a few friends to you." ”