Chapter 231: Alluring the country and the city
He Angelica looked up at the two uninvited guests, and couldn't help but secretly sigh that the Meng family was all good-looking, from Baoding Bo Mengshan in his fifties, to his sons Meng Ying and Meng Xuan, all of them were dragons among people. However, why didn't the two big dragons in front of her fly in the sky, but ran to her yard to wander around?
Seeing that the two were approaching, He Angelica instructed Cicada Yi to serve tea, and he also stood up, took off the silk handkerchief from the placket, turned it into a flower, saluted the two lightly, and said with a smile: "I heard that the two sons lived in Luofu with a light appreciation, but I didn't expect that today it was more expensive, and the two of them were blown to Taoyao Courtyard." Did the two sons come to Taoyao Courtyard to enjoy the peach blossoms? Do you need me to vacate the two of you? β
The two walked to the stone table where He Angelica was sitting one after another, Meng Ying lifted his robe and sat down, while Meng Xuan stood aside with his hands in his hands. The two wore moon-white round-necked robes with similar styles, but they wore completely different temperaments, Meng Xuan's robe collar and cuffs were embroidered with green lotus, and he probably lived in a well-organized army all year round, and the rhythm was almost the same when he was idle and busy, so that in the eyes of others, he was too strict when he was idle, and the whole person stood like a pine and sat like a clock; And when he's busy, it's too relaxed, as if the confidence of holding everything in his hands is presented in the eyes of others.
Baoding Bo Mengshan has eleven sons, four sons-in-law, seven sons-in-law, the two eldest sons are sons, the third son Meng Ying is the eldest son, and the seventh son Meng Xuan is the second son. Although He Angelica has never seen other children of the Meng family, he can also guess that Meng Xuan must be the most outstanding son of Baoding Bo, no better than others, just compared with this Meng Ying in front of him, he can immediately distinguish between the inferior and the inferior.
Cicada Yi said before that many maids secretly commented that Meng Ying was more handsome than Meng Xuan, which is true, the young man in front of him wearing a gold-threaded chrysanthemum embroidered robe is simply the best-looking man He Angelica has ever seen in his two lives, and he is heroic and heroic, without a little rouge.
But compared with his younger brother Meng Xuan, he is already a step behind in terms of bearing, no matter what he is, Meng Xuan's eyes are restrained, and he knows that he is a master at a glance, but how high he is is is a mystery. Although Meng Ying's pupils are bright, they only give He Angelica a little casual and uninhibited impression, which shows that his martial arts are limited. Of course, this is also the result of comparing it with Meng Xuan, if it is taken out separately and compared with the noble sons of other families, it can still be set off as the sun.
He Angelica couldn't help but slander, the men of the Meng family are really outstanding, no wonder the women are not afraid of the Meng family's harsh family motto, and go forward to be his daughter-in-law. I heard Qing'er say that there are so many matchmakers in the Meng family that they can step on the threshold of his family, and the standards for the Meng family to choose a daughter-in-law are also increasing day by day, testing the various moral skills of the young ladies who are recruited.
While He Angelica was appreciating Meng Xuan and Meng Ying in his heart, the two of them also sat and stood and looked at her face. Meng Ying, who was sitting opposite, looked at her silently for a while, and suddenly grinned: "The third lady is not only good-looking, but also very kind-faced, a woman with the appearance of her sister, I have seen seven or eight in the mansion of a certain prince." β
He Angelica's heart suddenly burst when he heard this, and he didn't understand what he meant by this, could it be that Meng Ying knew something, so he said such things to ridicule her? When he said "the mansion of a certain prince", didn't he mean Ning Wangfu? She was in doubt, but she saw Meng Ying's handsome face open wide, and she yawned in her direction, and the extremely deformed face made the image of this beautiful man in her heart plummet.
Meng Ying yawned, contained two crystalline tears, touched the whole body and couldn't touch a handkerchief, suddenly stretched out her long arms, leaned into He Angelica's chest on the other side of the stone table, unceremoniously took away the other handkerchief on her buttons, wiped her tears twice and returned them to her, thanked and praised: "Your handkerchief is so fragrant, it tastes similar to the taste on my brother's handkerchief." The sound of the urn is angry, a little bit of Xiaoyou's silly taste. Is this his true nature, or is he clumsy and deceiving people?
He Angelica took the handkerchief and put it in his sleeve, and at the same time raised his eyes to look at Meng Xuan, but he couldn't read any useful information from his expressionless face. Looking at Meng Ying, the third son of Meng who had been demoted from "fairy brother" to "stupid big brother", she smiled and said: "I asked the maid to make a pot of incense for the two of you, and then bring some refreshments, please enjoy the flowers slowly." After saying that, he got up and wanted to leave. Now that everything is complicated, she has no spare time to accompany the two young masters here to play dumb riddles.
And Meng Ying immediately bounced up from her seat, pressed her shoulder with one hand without hesitation, and pressed her back to the seat. He smiled and said: "I see that the third lady is still in good spirits, not like she is sick, so she is so idle and panicked today, it is better for us to play twenty or thirty games of chess and fight it out." β
He Angelica was a little unhappy with this Meng Ying's transgressive behavior, was he so unruly to strange women? Hearing what he said about "being idle and panicked", she was even more displeased to hit him on the head with a mallet in her heart, he was idle, so he wanted to pull her to accompany him, and his words and deeds were excessive, how did he say this? He Angelica raised his eyes to look at Meng Xuan, hoping that he would be able to be normal and take his troubled children to play elsewhere, Meng Xuan's expression showed that he felt her gaze, but his eyes stared directly at a relief pattern on the stone table, and he couldn't take his eyes off it, obviously not planning to make any eye contact with her.
He Angelica's heart was on fire, and he ignored her?
What kind of temper is he making? She was not annoyed and embarrassed by the "Bamboo Forest Incident" that day, so she hid in the courtyard every day to avoid seeing Meng Xuan herself, not wanting to review the ridiculous things she did after thinking about it for a while. But Meng Xuan took a brother to Luofu spontaneously, and lived next door to her, and now he ran to her face uninvited, if he didn't deliberately appear in front of her, she wouldn't believe it. Since he has taken the initiative to this point, it is obvious that he wants to rebuild his old friendship with her and become a master and apprentice again, why is he holding Qiao again now, pretending to be the king of the iceberg! If she wants to pretend to be the king and pretend to be somewhere else, she is already full of troubles, and he also blocks her! And that time in the bamboo forest, although it was wrong for her to accept his kiss, the party who took the initiative was obviously him!
He Angelica pouted and told Meng Ying: "The little woman had a fever a few days ago, and her head was not very bright, and she couldn't even remember how to play Go. And if I'm not mistaken, Brother Ling is a real chess master, you don't look for him to compete with him, but you find a low player like me, you are really willing to go far. β
Meng Ying supported her chin with both hands, looked at her expression and said with a smile: "What a clever girl, just with your posture, I look like a chess master, not to mention that Brother Xuan is full of praise for your chess skills, saying that you are the only chess genius he has seen in his life, and he was born with a talent for playing chess." β
"Oh?" He Angelica took a cold look, looked up at Meng Xuan who was standing behind Meng Ying, and said with a puzzled face, "I remember someone once said that there is no genius in this world, and the so-called geniuses and ghosts are all brightly piled up with sweat and hard work dozens of times more than others, why did Xuan Gongzi suddenly slap himself in the mouth and admit that I am a genius chess player?" I'm really flattered. He didn't look her in the eyes, he took her for air, and now that he threw the question directly at him, he couldn't avoid answering it any longer. What a twisted person, if he wants to avoid her, what is he going to pestle to her and let her look at her eyes?
Unexpectedly, Meng Xuan was still speechless, but Meng Ying replied to him: "Third Miss, you are too modest, what we mean is that even if other talents can be called talents, they must be shown through high-intensity training and hard work, otherwise it is empty talk." But playing chess is different, playing chess is about turning around, the more thoughtful and scheming people are, the more handy they are when they play chess. β
She has a talent for going around and around? Is her scheming deep? He Angelica laughed again, these two people didn't come to play chess with her at all, but made a special trip to quarrel with her?
This is really strange, although she offended Meng Xuan a little, but Meng Ying, the third son who spoke in front of her, was ignorant, why did he always carry a gun and a stick when he spoke to him? It's hard to imagine that Meng Xuan, a young and old guy, would go home and coquettish his brother, tell her about the matter between her and him, and ask his brother to help him find the field. Meng Xuan's actual age of more than thirty years should have already left this naΓ―ve stage.
Meng Ying raised her left eyebrow, her black jewel-like eyes stared directly at He Angelica's face, and said aggressively: "Does the third lady think my words are funny?" I don't know what you think? Ying listened attentively. β
"The two of you are really ridiculous," He Angelica turned the white jade bracelet on his wrist and said unhurriedly, "When it comes to playing chess, the little woman doesn't dare to think that she is proficient, but she barely has some experience, I think, there are two kinds of people in this world who can play chess well, the first is a person who is well-informed and knowledgeable, and can memorize tens of millions of chess games and chess games. Another kind of person is the kind of person behind Ying Gongzi, who is a natural chess master, because he can accept it if he wants to, put it when he wants, and he doesn't write anything on his face, so that the opponent can't figure out his thoughts. Therefore, he himself is the kind of person he calls 'a chess genius, born with a talent for chess', and as for me, I probably prefer the first type. β
Meng Ying squinted and smiled: "I'm sorry, I remembered wrong just now, the person who said that the third miss is 'a chess genius, born with a talent for playing chess', not my younger brother Meng Xuan, but Ning Wang Zhu Quan, he not only praised the third miss for her superb chess skills, but also said that the third miss is the most perfect goddess in his mind, just like Chang'e in the Moon Palace." Listening to his words, I originally only believed in one percent, but today I met the third lady in person, and I believed in two percent, regardless of the side, King Ning really regarded you as his goddess, and he looked for women according to your standards, and gave them names similar to yours. β
He Angelica listened to it with a piercing heart, and even more so that his heart burned like fire, and he sneered and said: "Son, you are really joking, I live in Yangzhou, raised in the deep boudoir, which life has seen a big man like the prince, just like the prince of the Bofu like you, Gongzi, in our Luo family are all guests who can be met but not sought." And although I am not familiar with King Ning, I also know that his fief is in Daning, an important military town in the north, 108,000 miles away, and I have never heard of Yangzhou Mansion setting up a guard of honor in the past few years to welcome which vassal king is coming, so it can be seen that King Ning has never been to Yangzhou - since he has never been to Yangzhou and has never seen me, how can I get the praise of King Ning? Moreover, it is the first time that you and I have met today, and you are talking to me about a strange thing that has no head or brain, is it a bit shallow and profound? β
"Talking about it deeply? How can you talk deeply? Meng Ying tilted her head to look at her, "You want to enter the door of my Meng family, and the family will be close in the future, so it is natural to spread out all the things that should be said today - whether I am talking strange words, whether I am talking nonsense, whether you are pretending to be confused, whether you are loved by everyone, and playing with others in the palm of your hand, you and I both know it." β