When Shuning got home, she was about to go to the room to see her mother, but she saw that her brother Duanning had already returned, and was pulling a red horse in the yard, and she didn't know where she got it, and she was happily brushing and bathing it.

She asked curiously, "Why did my brother come back so early?" Where did this come from? ”

Duan Ning's eyebrows and eyes were all smiling: "Mr. Today, there is something at home, and school is out early." Sister, look at this Marco, okay? This is a good horse just shipped from Eastern Mongolia, Tongying easily got a few, this is a gift from him, I can beg him for a few days. ”

Tongying is the little Wang Sun who revealed the inside information to Duan Ning several times, and he is the best with Duan Ning on weekdays, and Shuning has already heard of his name, but I don't know which family it is.

Looking at Duan Ning's happy and forgetful appearance now, Shuning is a little funny. Just as modern boys love cars, ancient boys loved horses, let alone a horse that you know is a good horse when you look at it?

Duan Ning brushed for a while, and suddenly remembered something, so he said to his sister: "Tomorrow we have made an appointment to go to the racecourse in the west of the city to try horses, didn't my sister say a few days ago that she also wants to learn to ride horses?" Why don't you go together? ”

Shu Ning became interested, nodded hurriedly, and pulled her brother to find Tong.

Tong couldn't twist the two children and begged hard, and reluctantly agreed, but repeatedly advised: "Shuning is only allowed to watch, not to ride, if you fall, it's not for fun!" The brother and sister answered, but looked at each other privately and snickered at each other.

The next day the weather was excellent, the sun was not very good, and there was a slight wind. Duan Ning and Shuning followed the taciturn Master Cheng and took Ma San'er and Chun Xing to the racecourse in the west of the city.

As soon as they saw that "Tongying", Shuning and Chun Xing were startled, wasn't it the little master of the Jianjun Mansion yesterday? Tong Ying also smiled when she saw Shu Ning: "It turns out that you are Duan Ning's sister, this is the flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, my brother will accompany you." With that, he pretended to make a move.

Duan Ning looked confused on the side and asked, "Has Tongying seen my sister?" Why haven't I heard you mention it? Shuning bowed, and said with a smile: "But I don't know that Brother Tongying is from the palace of Jianjun County, yesterday he was rude, but it has nothing to do with his brother, and the sister can still tell the good from the bad." Since the other party took the initiative to get close, she naturally knew how to fight snakes with sticks, and having such a prominent "brother" was also beneficial and harmless.

Tong Ying also smiled, and the two of them invariably revealed the incident and said no more, just letting Duan Ning continue to be confused.

Tongying rode a black horse, with a shiny coat, taller than Duanning's, but it was very intimate with the jujube red horse, you grind me, I will be next to you, and I can't pull it away. Duan Ning smiled: "It seems that your black cloud is very close to my horse, so why don't you just give it to me together." As soon as the words fell, he hurriedly jumped backwards and dodged Tongying's oncoming punch. Tong Ying scolded with a smile: "You greedy ghost, don't think about the idea of beating my black cloud, what is Xiaohong, I will keep it for Black Cloud to find a better mare." ”

Duan Ning said: "Why do you call my horse Xiaohong? It's too unimposing. Tongying replied: "Then kneel down and call the black cloud of my house the red cloud, save trouble!" Duan Ning thought it was too easy, but when she saw Shu Ning secretly laughing on the side, she asked, "What is my sister laughing at?" You think that's a terrible name, don't you? ”

Shuning said with a smile: "Actually, Xiaohong and Hongyun are both good, but if they are called 'red dates', wouldn't it be more appropriate?"

Tongying laughed and applauded. Duan Ning glanced at him hatefully, thought about it carefully but smiled: "Okay, let's call it red jujube, you will know that this name is it as soon as you hear it!" He patted the red horse's head, but saw that the horse's eyes seemed to be very aggrieved, and he lowered his head and was unwilling to get close to him, and the three of them laughed.

The process of testing the horse went smoothly, Heiyun ran extremely fast, but the red jujube did not lose much to it, and seemed to run more steadily. Two and a half boys rode their respective horses, chasing me in the vast horse farm, so happy.

Master Cheng was waiting on the sidelines, leisurely smoking a bag of cigarettes. He was very confident in the riding skills of the two boys, so he didn't care about it.

Shuning leaned on the trunk of a big tree on the sidelines, looking at the two people galloping on horseback in the racecourse, feeling the oncoming early summer breeze and smelling the fragrance of wildflowers, and her mood became happy. It's been so depressing lately, not only is the atmosphere in the city weird, but even the home seems to have a dark cloud covering the top. Looking at the green grass and blue sky now, it seems that the recent depression is all a dream. In fact, where do children get so bad moods?

As soon as her mood improved, she seemed to be less restrained, looked at the green grass under her feet, became childlike, spread a handkerchief on it, sat on it, stretched out her hands and feet. Chun Xing was startled when she saw it, and hurriedly said, "Girl, be careful that this place is dirty." Shuning waved her hand: "It's okay, where is the handkerchief padd, it's very comfortable, can you sit down and try it too?" ”

Chunxing is not a little girl who grew up in the mansion, but also a child who has been used to playing in the wild, seeing that the young lady said this, she put her mind at ease, sat directly on the grass, stretched her hands and feet like Shuning, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Da Da Da-" There was a sound of horses' hooves not far away, and Shu Ning looked up, but it was his brother Duanning. He stopped the horse in front of his sister and asked with a smile, "Do you want to try riding a horse?" Brother will run away with you, don't be afraid. His smiling face stood out in the early summer sun.

Ma San'er, who was waiting next to him, hurriedly came up to stop him: "Brother Duan'er, don't mess around, grandma said that the girl is not allowed to ride." Duan Ning didn't care: "What are you afraid of?" With me, it's not like she's riding alone. ”

Shuning was eager to try, and now that she heard this, she had no worries, so she jumped up at the moment, ignoring Chunxing's persuasion, and stretched out her hand to Duanning. As soon as Duan Ning pulled her onto the horse, he ran slowly.

At first, Shuning was still a little scared, but slowly, she put her mind at ease and quietly felt the ups and downs of the horse's body under her, as well as the faint pulsation in the flesh and blood. Duan Ning is not very old, but his strength is not small, he wrapped his sister's small body, and did not hold it tightly, but he held it very steadily, which made Shuning feel very safe.

The speed of the red dates has increased, but it has remained safe. Shuning felt the oncoming wind and looked at the grass that was completely different from when she looked at the flat ground, and felt as if she was about to fly. Behind her is her brother, who has always been reliable, and she is not afraid at all, but recalls the situation when she was a child.

She opened her mouth and said, "Brother, do you remember that when you were a child, you often carried me around and took me to play on the street?" ”

Duan Ning retracted his gaze into the distance, nodded and said, "Remember, you were really small at that time, and I could hold it, but you are also very light now." ”

"I heard that when I was a child, the aunt in the East Chamber pushed us into the water, and it was my brother who lifted me high, so I was fine, but my brother was seriously ill."

Duan Ning chuckled behind his back: "Yes, that woman is really hateful." But why did you bring this up all of a sudden? ”

Shuning shook her head and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just think it's good to have a brother." ”

Duan Ning smiled, hugged his sister, and continued to steer the horse under him steadily, running two or three laps before slowing down and stopping at the side of the racecourse again.

Tongying was already waiting there, and said with a smile: "It is obvious that you are brothers and sisters, what are you whispering together?" ”

Duan Ning put down her sister, handed her over to Chun Xing and Ma San'er who ran over, turned back to Tong Ying and scolded with a smile: "What? Unconvinced that you just lost to me? Then let's compare again, and see if I beat you up again. ”

Tongying was also unconvinced, and shouted loudly: "Come again, I was negligent for a while, and now you don't want to win me again!" ”

The two of them raised their whips and went back to the game.

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When he returned home in the evening, Tong had already heard from his subordinates that Duanning had pulled Shuning on the horse, and scolded his son a few words, but in the end, he loved him, and his daughter was fine, so he didn't pursue it again, and just when the second sister-in-law talked back, she sent the two children back to the house. The two siblings came out of the upper room, looking at each other and snickering.

The second sister-in-law came to see Tong at this time, but she came to report the news she had heard. She looked left and right at no one, so she lowered her voice and said to the Tong family: "I have inquired, there was a person from the capital last month, I heard that he seemed to be the son of Wu Xinda's family in the Earl's Palace, I have seen him, and there is a black mole the size of a fingernail on the left side of his face. He stayed in the inn for two days, and he was seen meeting a few times with a middle-aged woman and exchanging something. Everyone I met said that the woman was Aunt Yang. ”

Tong frowned: "Aunt Yang came to the house to deliver new clothes that day, and the next day she excused herself that she had missed something, and she came again, she sent a message to Qiu Ju's girl?" ”

The second sister-in-law nodded: "It seems to be." In order to avoid people's eyes, the Wu family kid didn't go to our house to find someone, but quietly bought Aunt Yang and asked her to help deliver the letter. Grandma doesn't remember that before Aunt Yang came, Qiu Ju's girl still looked so lifeless, but after that, she got up in spirit, and she smiled when she saw people talking. It must have been Brother Jingli Qing who wrote a letter, I don't know what to say, to make her so happy. ”

Tong thought about it, and then ordered: "You don't care about this, I shouldn't have seen it." The sneaky things that the juniors do, I don't care about him as an aunt, just look at the girl's future creation. It's just that Aunt Yang, you can't use it in the future, you go and pay attention to which tailor in the city has good craftsmanship, and next time you can change someone. ”

The second sister-in-law took the order and went down. The Tong family thought about it for a long time in the upper room, so he took out the four treasures of the study room and prepared to write a letter to the Nala family.

She didn't explicitly say that Qingning secretly sent someone to contact Qiu Ju, but secretly pointed out that Qiu Ju has been a lot more peaceful recently, and her mood has improved, which is very different from the appearance when she first came. In addition, she also mentioned to the Nala clan the recent undercurrent in Fengtian City, and asked if Zhang Bao's family could help him find a job after his term of office expired next year. Other things about the health of the family and many things about the children, Tong also pulled a bunch of miscellaneous things, just like the usual letters in the past, wrote several pieces of paper, sealed the envelope, and asked someone to open the box and take out a few special summer purses containing heatstroke medicine, take the handkerchief bag, and prepare to send it back to the capital early tomorrow morning.