Shuning asked her curiously, "What happened?" Wan Ning took two deep breaths before replying, "It's not Uncle Kui's bastard!" ”

Uncle Kui? Which is this? Which cousin is it?

Yuan Ning's cold snort came again: "You actually directly called your cousin who is more than ten years older than you by name, and called him a bastard?" I really don't understand, why would anyone say that you are knowledgeable? ”

It turned out to be a personal name.

Wan Ning pouted: "My cousin is a junior, why can't I call him by his name?" What's more, a bastard like him wants me to call him cousin, it's disgusting to think about it! ”

Shuning asked, "Why did he offend you?" ”

Wan Ning pulled her and said, "That person is in his twenties, he can't study, his martial arts are not good, he has nothing to do at home, he is obviously a layman face, and he thinks he is the reincarnation of Pan An, and he holds a fan all day long to pretend to be a talent, I hate it when I see it." He has already married a wife, and has two concubines, and he still has the idea of hitting my Xiaofen with his face, and he opened his mouth to ask my mother to be a concubine, do you think he is a bastard? ”

Sounds like a jerk. However, as far as Shuning knows, as long as the maid ring in this house is good-looking, no more and no less will have a little bit of thinking about climbing high branches, this kind of thing should be very common, right?

Yuan Ning continued to sneer on the side: "Doesn't the second sister like to be a matchmaker very much? I used to be a matchmaker for several Yahuan, I thought you were a matchmaker in your previous life, but now you are going to marry a bad person? ”

Wan Ning glanced at her and continued to say to Shu Ning: "The maids in my house are all literate, and Xiaofen is the same, even if you can't marry a good family, at least you should be monogamous, right?" I have long known that Xiao Fen and Brother Shun Ning's scholar Xiao Li are childhood sweethearts, although he is just a small guy, but he is very smart and clever, and he is gentle and considerate to Xiao Fen, I plan to let them marry in another two years. Who knew that Uncle Kui suddenly came out and said to my Eniang that he wanted to ask Xiaofen, but my Eniang didn't refuse, she was really angry with me! ”

Shuning hurriedly handed her a cup of tea: "Don't be angry, drink saliva first." In my opinion, since she is the second sister's girl, the eldest aunt must have asked her sister before deciding, right? My sister just begged the eldest aunt directly, would the eldest aunt not agree? ”

Wan Ning hesitated for a moment before saying, "Although Xiaofen is my girl, she is usually just responsible for sweeping the floor. Uncle Kui is my E-Niang's own nephew, he wants Xiaofen, and E-Niang will most likely agree......"

That's not the point, is it? Shuning said suspiciously: "Can't even the second sister beg?" As far as I know, the eldest aunt is actually a reasonable person, if Xiaofen is really unwilling, as long as her sister goes to say it, she will definitely agree. ”

Wan Ning's face was cloudy and uncertain, and she didn't speak again. Shu Ning was confused, Yuan Ning just sneered and didn't speak, and soon, Mr. Cai came in, and the three of them hurriedly sat down in class.

This incident did not make Shuning take it to heart. After class that afternoon, she returned to her yard and learned a message from her father, Zhang Bao, and almost didn't jump.

The Zhou family is still in the capital!

The predecessor of Fengtianfu, Zhou Wenshan, after leaving Fengtian, returned to the capital to report on his work and determine the next position, but he was also delayed by the officials. More unfortunate than Zhang Bao, his family did not have a prominent background in Beijing, and he left office early, unlike Zhang Bao and others who participated in the later poverty relief actions, so the evaluation that year was not good. When Chen Liangben was still in the capital, the people in the Ministry had already promised that they would assign him a good vacancy, but somehow, he couldn't send it down.

At present, the Zhou family lives in Zhou Wenshan's brother-in-law's house, and continues to wait for the announcement of the position that will be determined for an unknown time.

Zhang Bao met Zhou Wenshan when he went to visit Yu Heng today, before the two didn't know that the other party lived in the same city, when they met again, they chatted for several hours, and it just so happened that Yu Heng had no time to entertain them, and he could be regarded as passing the time by himself.

As soon as Zhang Bao announced the news after returning home, both the Tong family and Shuning almost immediately asked him to invite the Zhou family of three to be guests. Tong Shi also said excitedly: "Since we were separated in Mukden last year, I thought it would be a few years before I saw them. It's rare that both of them are in the capital, so you must invite them to have a good chat. ”

Shuning also hopes to see Zhou Yinlan again, in this earl's mansion, she doesn't even have a friend who can really talk, it's too uncomfortable, and she misses each other very much.

Zhang Bao readily agreed, he already had this plan. So, the next day, he sent a carriage to take Zhou Wenshan's family to Huaiyuan.

The two ladies reunited after parting, and they had endless topics to talk about, so they went to the room to chat. Naturally, the men went to the study to talk. Shuning excitedly pulled Zhou Yinlan back to her room, and asked Chun Xing to pour tea and get snacks, and Ying'er followed with a smile.

Zhou Yinlan saw Shuning looking around, hurriedly pulled her to sit down, and said, "Don't be busy, you can talk to me well." I'll see, huh...... I haven't seen you for a year, my sister has grown taller, you used to only reach my shoulder, but now it's almost to my ears. ”

Shuning smiled: "You say this, as if you are how old you are, haven't you also grown taller?" It's just that I don't grow up as fast, what? Haven't you eaten enough? ”

Zhou Yinlan scolded with a smile: "You little hoof! Who hasn't had enough? It's just that in the capital, unlike when I was in Mukden before, I always have milk to drink, so I grew slower than you, who told you to live almost a year longer than me! ”

Shuning said strangely: "Huh? We often have cow's milk here, otherwise goat's milk is also OK, I heard that many families can buy it, why don't you have to drink it? ”

Zhou Yinlan smiled a little unnaturally: "We live in my aunt's house, we can't bother them too much, right?" It's all trifles. ”

Shu Ning noticed her look, so she took her hand and asked seriously, "What's wrong?" Is your aunt's house bad for you? ”

Zhou Yinlan was silent for a while before she said to Shuning: "We have always been good, and I won't hide it from you, but don't tell anyone to go." Ever since our family arrived in the capital, they have been staying with my uncle. He is a small head of the Ministry of Works, and the house at home is not spacious, we were just going to live temporarily, but we never expected that a year would live, and the elders of their family would inevitably have some gossip, and even my aunt was complained. Although my father and mother were angry, they didn't have much savings in the past, and they always thought that they would be lacking in the future, so they had to continue to live in their house. ”

Shuning was a little angry, but she couldn't speak ill of other people's relatives, so she had to comfort Zhou Yinlan, but she felt sorry for them in her heart, but Zhou Yinlan persuaded her: "I know that you are unhappy for my whole family, but in fact, it's not that bad, no matter how bad my father is, he is still a fourth-grade official, and my uncle's family doesn't dare to treat us too badly." Let's not talk about that, I heard that last winter, your father and a few other adults did a great thing in Mukden, right? Tell me about it. ”

Seeing that she intended to change the topic, Shuning also told her everything about it.

Zhou Yinlan exclaimed: "Your father is amazing, after my father heard about this, he admired it directly, and always said, it's a pity that he left early and couldn't participate in it, and said that if he can meet your father again, he will definitely give him a cup." ”

Shuning smiled and thanked her father. Zhou Yinlan said again: "Our two families can be regarded as sympathetic to each other. Although I don't know when the rain will pass, but now that you are in Beijing, my father and mother will have a place to visit in the future. It's not like before, it's always stuck at home with nothing to do. ”

Shuning smiled: "In this case, let's have more contacts, I will come to your house next time, and you will come often." Zhou Yinlan hesitated: "Is this good?" This is not Mukden at all. Shuning said indifferently: "What are you afraid of?" My cousin goes out a lot, and she doesn't go out alone. You don't know, I haven't been out of the gate since I arrived in the capital, I'm really bored. Tell me where your aunt's house is, and I'll play with you." ”

The two chatted happily for a long time, until Tong called them to dinner, and then stopped.

Lunch was served in the Huai Courtyard. Because Tong was pregnant, Zhang Baote begged his mother for grace and turned a small cottage in the backyard into a small kitchen, often making some soup and snacks for Tong's tonic. Sometimes Zhang Bao came back late from outside, and when he missed the meal, the people also cooked here.

After chatting a few words after the meal, Zhou Wenshan offered to leave. Zhang Bao and Shuning sent them out of the second gate directly, and watched their family get into the carriage and leave.

Just as they were about to walk back, two carriages passed by the carriage carrying the Zhou family and drove towards the courtyard inside. A few daughters-in-law stepped forward to greet them, and two servant women walked down from the small car behind, and then went to the big car in front of them to help out a girl about the same age as Wanning, wearing a half-new snow-blue flag suit, with a precious pearl flower poured on her head, and a small maid ring behind her.

A group of women hugged the girl and walked inside. Shuning looked puzzled in the back, not knowing who it was. Zhang Bao glanced at it a few times, and then said to his daughter: "Ama still has to go to the study in front, you can go back first." And then he left.

Shuning walked back by herself, and on the way she heard a few girls talking about the delicate guest.

"Oh, that young lady hasn't been here for half a year, and I thought she had a quarrel with the second girl."

"Where can I be? I heard that she went back to her grandmother's house, and she just returned to Beijing, and she came to our house. ”

"I heard that this young lady is not an ordinary family, but the daughter of Lord Feiyangu, the Minister of the Interior."

"Speaking of which, there was a county lord in the mansion last time."

……

Listening to those words, Shuning felt that the words "Minister of the Interior Feiyangu" were a little familiar, and it took a while to wake up: Isn't the daughter of the Minister of the Interior Feiyangu the eldest wife of Sisi, Wulanara? Unexpectedly, she was actually good friends with Wanning. It seems that this cousin is indeed a wide range of friends, what a brother, a son, a Fujin, a Gege, she recognizes.

As soon as she returned to Huaiyuan, she saw Chunxing standing at the door, and as soon as she saw her, she greeted her and said, "Girl, the second girl sent someone to invite, saying that a good friend came and wanted to invite her to try new dishes together, so I specially came to invite the girl to go with me." ”

Shuning went back to the house and asked her mother, tidied up a little, and then passed.

Wanning lives in a separate small courtyard in the "bamboo courtyard" where the big house is located. The courtyard is planted with green bamboos, which are particularly cool in the summer.

When Shuning entered the door, Wan Ning had already pulled the future Sifujin to sit at the big round table, and there was still the lobby sister Fang Ning sitting next to her, but there was no trace of Yuan Ning.

Wan Ning saw her come in, and hurriedly introduced her and the guests to each other, it turned out that the young lady's name was Yumin, although she looked a little serious, she was actually quite kind.

Wan Ning asked someone to bring the new dishes up, then sat down next to Shuning, and said with a smile: "It's said to be a dish, but it's actually a few snacks to eat in summer, which are cool, especially suitable for hot weather." ”

Yahuan put a few crystal clear glass bowls up, and when Shuning saw it, it was a variety of fruit grains, mixed with a white sauce, and asked, "What kind of sauce is this?" Wan Ning replied, "It's sour milk." Yumin asked, "Is it sour?" Isn't that a little special, hard to do? Wan Ning said: "I don't know, but it should be quite easy, many people will, it's just that our chef is very stupid, and I tried it for a long time, so I can't eat it until now." ”

To put it bluntly, it's a fruit salad with yogurt, which tastes okay, but unfortunately there is no salad dressing. Shuning remembered the fruit salad she had eaten in her previous life, and thought to herself, "It would be nice if there was Kewpie Thousand Island Sauce at this time." Then he laughed at his whimsy.

At this time, Wan Ning whispered to herself: "The taste is really much worse with only yogurt, I still prefer Kewpie Thousand Island Sauce, otherwise Knorr's lemon-flavored salad dressing is also good." ”

Shuning froze.