Forty-four, Wanning
As soon as the old lady heard the voice of her favorite granddaughter, how could she still have the majestic appearance before? I was already laughing so much that I couldn't see it: "Monkey, I knew that you were the best at looking for food, and you came when you smelled the smell of rice." ”
Na Wanning pounced, grabbed her grandmother's neck, and said coquettishly: "Grandma's words make me look like a glutton, it's too much, it's all because grandma's food here is so good, otherwise how could I not help it as soon as I smell it?" The old lady was so excited that there was no one else in her eyes.
Shuning was about to look straight, but a thin voice came from her ears: "Granddaughter greets grandmother." Say hello to your aunt, hello to your mother. Say hello to my aunt. When I turned my head, I saw that it was a little girl about the same age as herself, wearing an egg-white flag suit, and also combing the same hairstyle as Wanning, with beautiful eyebrows, but she was not as beautiful as Wanning. It seems that this is the fourth girl, Yuan Ning.
The old lady just raised her hand casually, and then hugged Wanning and asked long and short questions, and Na Yuanning pursed her lips and turned to Suo Xue Luo's side.
Nala didn't wait for her daughter to finish her coquettishness, so she said, "Why are you so unruly, only pestering your grandmother?" Come and meet your third aunt and sister. ”
Only then did Wan Ning realize that Tong and Shuning, who were sitting next to her, came over with a smile and saluted, saying, "It's me who neglected Auntie, Auntie, don't be surprised." Without waiting for Tong to say that it didn't matter, he grabbed Shuning's hands and stared up and down with wide eyes. Shuning was stunned, thinking that this situation was really familiar, but it was better not to follow the sentence "I have seen this sister".
Who knew that Wanning suddenly seemed to think of something funny, and held back again, and said, "I've seen this sister." (Shuning: I'm embarrassed!) )
However, she quickly added: "It's not that I've really seen it, it's that I look at Mian Shan, and I feel as if I've known each other before." Yuan Ning tugged at the corners of her mouth on the other side: "Didn't you see it in your previous life?" Wan Ning smiled: "Who knows? Maybe so. Then he pulled Shuning and spoke affectionately. Shuning noticed that she had two small dimples, and her smile was extremely sweet. I have to say that this beautiful little girl is indeed very likable.
The old lady still laughed at Mimi: "It's okay like this, and the sisters will get along more harmoniously in the future." ”
The people at the bottom reported that the meal was ready, and as soon as the old lady beckoned, everyone moved to the next room to eat.
When Shuning was in Fengtian, the Tong family disciplined her very strictly in etiquette, especially at the dining table, so she not only choked on chopsticks with very elegant movements, but also strictly abided by the rules of not saying a word about food, sometimes she herself would be amazed by this, feeling that "it turns out that I will have such a beautiful day." I had heard that the rules of the big family were strict, so Shuning was very serious about planning to do what her mother taught.
Who knew that as soon as they came to the dinner table this time, the jaws of the mother and daughter were about to drop. That Wanning kept coaxing the old lady, and often gave her delicious food, and the Li family, who was standing next to her and waiting for the cloth, was about to be laid off. The grandparents and grandchildren talk and laugh, how can there be any rules of a big family?
Nala was surprised to see Tong's mother and daughter, so he said: "Don't laugh at the third brother and sister, my daughter is the most unruly, and the old lady likes her like this." Tong Shi hurriedly smiled and said: "I am happy to be happy with Lele like this, Miss Wan is really likable." ”
The old lady looked at her granddaughter with a loving face: "I love to hear this, among my many granddaughters, the second girl is the most intimate." As soon as she said this, Yuan Ning was unhappy, and Tong looked at her daughter, and she was also a little embarrassed. Fang Ning lowered her head to eat, seemingly unconcerned at all.
Wan Ning smiled and said to Shu Ning: "The third sister is really Sven when she eats, in fact, the family doesn't need these false courtesies, isn't it happier to talk and laugh?" Shuning smiled, swallowed the food in her mouth, and then answered: "What my sister said is true." ”
Yuan Ning next to her glanced at her and continued to eat.
The procedure of rinsing her mouth after dinner is very similar to that in "Dream of Red Mansions", Shu Ning is really glad that she didn't forget the plot she watched many years ago, otherwise when the cup of cough tea comes up, she will definitely be deceived by the fresh jasmine fragrance and drink it directly, which will be a big joke.
It's true, it's just the Earl's Palace, why do you want to learn from the style of the people's mansion?
A group of women returned to Fang Cai's room to talk, Wan Ning continued to please her grandmother, Yuan Ning continued to pout, Tong and Shuning continued to act as a silent clan with Li and Fang Ning, and only occasionally answered a few sentences. After a while, someone outside the door came to report: "The third master and the fourth young master have come to greet the old lady." ”
After a while, the curtain was lifted, and Zhang Bao came in with Duanning, and kowtowed again. The old lady said a few words to her son, and then hurried him to meet his brothers, leaving only her grandson with her.
Duan Ning is twelve years old this year, and he is thirteen years old, and he already has good facial features and clear eyebrows. He has practiced riding and archery since he was a child, has a healthy body, looks taller than teenagers of the same age, and has been reading for many years, which adds to the bookish atmosphere. Shuning often joked that as soon as he stood up, as long as he smiled slightly, those ladies, ladies and aunts would wish that he was their own son. Although as soon as these words came out, Shuning suffered a brain collapse from her brother, but it still makes sense.
The old lady looked at her grandson, whom she had not seen for many years, nodded with satisfaction, and pulled him to the other side of her seat to sit down and talk.
Wan Ning looked at Duan Ning for a while, then took her grandmother's hand and said coquettishly: "This brother is so good, why is he not my own brother?" Duan Ning smiled: "Sister, what are these words?" Could it be that I'm not your brother? Wan Ning looked up at him, blinked cutely, and asked, "Really?" Duan Ning smiled and nodded, and she smiled happily: "Then you will treat me as your own sister from now on." The old lady touched her head lovingly.
Yuan Ning sneered below and glanced at Shu Ning. Tong frowned, but didn't say anything. Shuning was a little sour in her heart, but she quickly calmed down. Because when she saw her brother laughing with her grandmother and cousin, the smile on her face never changed, it was the kind of gentle smile. She has seen this kind of expression a lot, as long as her brother meets the wife of another family and pulls him to talk and can't get rid of it, he keeps laughing like this, he looks very well-behaved on the surface, but in fact he has long been impatient. That's right, how could his good brother be abducted so easily? Shuning was in a good mood and looked at the ancestor and grandson in front of her, and when Leng Ning saw Duan Ning looking over, he winked at her right eye.
She's in a better mood.
The conversation lasted for almost an hour, and the old lady was a little tired, so she left only Wanning alone, and the others were sent away. Shuning followed her brother to greet her uncles, and when she returned to the courtyard where she lived, it was already nearly a watch.
The courtyard where their family lived was the courtyard where Zhang Bao lived back then, called Huaiyuan, which was a little far away from the main house, and Qingyun Lane was outside the wall on one side, and then it was the wall of the Earl's Palace. There are three large locust trees planted in the courtyard, and under the trees are several stone tables and chairs, and there are several pots of flowers and plants next to them. There are houses on three sides of the courtyard, the main house is three and two ears, the three main rooms are the places and residences where Zhang Bao and the Tong couple meet, and the ear rooms are the residences of the treasury and the big girl ring respectively; There are two large rooms in the east chamber, one is the study, the other is the room of Duanning, and the two rooms in the west chamber, in addition to Shuning's residence, there is also an empty room, and there is an ear room for other daughters-in-law to live in. There was a passage at the back of the main house, leading to the small backyard, where several huts were built, which also served as the residence of the subordinates.
Changfu and the second sister-in-law have their own residences, just in a few courtyards behind the house, Ma San'er and his wife also went to his second uncle's house, the old Wu Tou was arranged early to the courtyard where the coachman lived near the horse shed, Changgui lived with other servants in the house, and lived in a courtyard with the masters, only Qiu Ju and Chun Xing.
The Nala clan sent a few mothers-in-law, only to say that the others would come over early tomorrow morning. After driving for so long that day, after entering the house, I asked people everywhere to see An, and everyone was so tired that they died, so they washed and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, the whole family got up. Because he was still preparing to visit his mother's house in the afternoon, Tong commanded several subordinates to pack gifts. There are not enough people, and everyone is busy.
At this time, someone came to the door, it was the person waiting in the old lady's house, it was the handsome girl in green who I saw yesterday, named Cuiying, who came to ask their family of four how well they slept last night, and whether there was anything short to use, and asked carefully. She is pretty, but she speaks and acts very gently, loves to laugh, and is easy to give people a good impression, and the Tong family is very polite to her.
She respectfully asked them to speak if there was anything uncomfortable with them. Zhang Bao said lightly: "This is in my own home, if there is anything to order, we will naturally say, you don't have to bother." Then he went out.
Cui Ying was embarrassed for a while, and it happened that a steward outside brought a group of male and female servants, who were assigned by the Nala clan to the third room, so she took the opportunity to retire.
There were six women and two men in the newcomers, and the results of the distribution were: an older and more honest Yahuan Suyun and a daughter-in-law in her thirties, Wang Ruibao's family, who were responsible for waiting for the Tong family's daily life; A pretty girl named Qiaoyun waited for Shuning; The two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls named Shuxiang and Moxiang, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a few words, were assigned to Duanning; There is also a fan official, who was originally born in a small drama that he bought a few years ago, and now he is a rough girl. In terms of male servants, Wang Ruibao followed Zhang Bao, and his son Wang Gui followed Duanning, and worked as a small servant with Huzi.
That Wang Ruibao's family happened to be the daughter-in-law who was going to help Shuning yesterday, and she had waited for the second wife Suo Yuluo and the concubine of the big house to give birth, and she was also experienced. Her husband Wang Ruibao is the son of Mama Wang, who is under the old lady, and the family is decent, but it has never been a good errand. Only Changfu and the second sister-in-law can be counted as the number in the third room, and they came over with them, which also means that they want to get ahead.
That beautiful Qiaoyun seems to know Qiu Ju, but the relationship is not very good, the two of them looked at each other, and even Shuning could see the electric thunderclap.
Tong's lecture to the new servants is nothing more than the rule that there are three rooms in three rooms, and don't be lazy in the future. Shu Ning noticed that Shuxiang and Moxiang were always distracted when they were listening to the training, and their eyes kept glancing to the side, and when she saw it, it turned out to be Duanning standing there. It seems that these two maids are designated as the little wives of the fourth young master in the future, otherwise how could they be so bold to put autumn spinach? However, she was a little speechless, I don't know who arranged it? Although her brother is thirteen years old, he is still a boy!! It's the age of junior high school, so it's too early to arrange this, right?
Duan Ning had already noticed it, and it seemed that he knew it in his heart, he turned his head and saw his sister looking at him strangely, shaking his head and smiling bitterly.
When the lecture was finished, the people dispersed and went to their own business. Chun Xing picked the curtain and entered the house, and reported: "The second girl and the fourth girl are here." ”