The moment he opened his eyes, Jiang Shibai saw the beam on the roof, although the whole person was still a little confused, he still tried his best to turn his neck and look around, the tables, chairs, stools and plaques hanging on the side were all things he had never seen before, not to mention the smooth green bricks paved in the interior. Therefore, after barely sitting up straight with the handrails, he gradually remembered the previous situation, and his heart jumped suddenly.

"Awake?"

The sudden sound caused him to turn around immediately. When he saw a person sitting in the corner that he had ignored at first, and two attendants beside him, he took a deep breath, but the words came out of his mouth unconsciously.

"This ...... Where is this? ”

"You've been making a fuss in front of us for so long, and now you're still asking what kind of place this is?"

As soon as he recognized the familiar voice, Jiang Shibai suddenly threw an angry look at Aunt Yun who was talking on the left hand, and then his right hand trembled and touched his waist. However, at the first glance, his face, which was not very good-looking, suddenly froze, and then he raised his eyes to look at the person sitting there, and at a glance he saw the person sitting upright.

The young nv, who was more than twice his age, took a few steps forward so gently and dexterously, looking at him with a bit of banter like a cat watching a mouse. Under this kind of look, thinking of the first clan meeting of the Jiang family before, it was her arrival that made the situation suddenly reversed, it was she who made the third old lady who had held power for decades reluctantly retreat, it was her hint that not only did he lose his four houses, but it was even difficult to find a way to live.

"Are you looking for this?"

Chen Lan raised the dagger in her hand, and saw that Jiang Eighteen's neck seemed to be frozen, and the whole person was motionless, so she casually threw the thing to Aunt Yun on the side, and then said with a smile: "This thing was found from the eighteenth master's body." I originally thought that if you didn't really bear the guilt, at least you wanted to take advantage of this to show outsiders, who knew that you actually carried a murder weapon and wanted to plot against you. I originally wanted to persuade my mother, even if the past is in the past, I can give you a clear path, but since you are so stubborn, I can't do it. Aunt Yun. What is the crime of stabbing officials and their dependents according to the law? ”

Aunt Yun took a step forward, hung her head and didn't look at Jiang Shiba, who opened her mouth wide and wanted to defend herself, and said to herself: "Mrs. Huiyu, whoever is ordered to go out of the town, and the officials and subordinates assassinate the prefect of the department, the prefect of the prefecture and the commander of the hundred households and thousands of households, or assassinate the chief of the headquarters of the fifth grade or above, and those who are not injured will have a hundred rods and two thousand miles. Wounded, hanged. To the deceased, Aunt Qiyun replied neatly, but Jiang Shibai almost fainted again when he heard it. Aunt Liu, who was on the side, saw that Chen Lan was silent, and secretly thought that Chen Lan had asked them to hurry up and turn over the "Da Chu Law" before, and it was indeed better to have ironclad laws than empty words. So, she said in a solemn voice, "Madam, what else do you have to say to such people?" tied it directly, and sent it to the Jinling Mansion together with the dagger murder weapon, so that people could be tortured and tried immediately! ”

"No, no, no, it's not a murder weapon, I didn't think about assassination!" Jiang Shibai finally came to his senses all of a sudden, and he didn't care about the person in front of him who was still his junior, he shook his hand vigorously and shouted hoarsely, "This dagger is for me to defend myself, I know that I am guilty, and I only think that if no one sees me, I can only show my heart...... Madam Mingjian, I really don't mean to assassinate, and I don't dare to ......."

"You say you don't dare?" Chen Lan looked at this man with a pale face, a little similar to his mother-in-law Jiang in his eyebrows and eyes, but he was completely different, suddenly laughed, stretched out his hand to the side, and when the dagger was in her hand again, she said unhurriedly, "The eighteenth master was indeed not known for his courage in the past. It's just that at that time, he was able to suddenly instigate Xu Ergongzi to make trouble, and almost ruined the party in the garrison mansion, and this courage is no longer good. In that case, the assassination ......"

"The note for Xu Ergongzi was also given to me by someone else, I copied it, I didn't know what was written on it in advance!" Although he had been prepared to self-harm before, but now that the dagger capital had fallen into the hands of others, Jiang Shibai had completely lost the courage to fight, and only thought about saving his life first, so he knelt down for a while, and begged bitterly, "If you want to say that I was a little sideline to Mrs. Tai's affairs, but I was only a few years old at that time, and it was my mother and the third old lady who made the decisions." Mrs. has a large number of them, and now they can still bypass the three old ladies, and I hope that for the sake of me and Mrs. Tai having the same surname, I will spare my reckless experience! ”

"Reckless? This dagger is quenched with poison, and it is clear that it is bloody to seal the throat and kill people, which is also reckless? ”

Quenched poison, see blood to seal the throat and kill people? It's impossible, he just wants to pretend, he doesn't want to die!

Hearing these words, Jiang Shibai's face turned blue all of a sudden. Seeing that incredulous expression, Chen Lan became more and more sure that his previous judgment was not wrong, and immediately threw the dagger in front of Jiang Shiba: "Didn't you say that you wanted to end your mind and show your heart?" Since you have the courage to seek death, why use a poison dagger, isn't a bottle of poison yào enough? ”

Jiang Shibai instinctively reached out to grab the dagger, but before his hand stretched out, he found that Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu were all slightly half-squatting, and the posture seemed to kill him on the spot if he acted rashly, and then thought that the quenching dagger was first in his hand, he couldn't clear the word stab, he gradually retracted his hand, took a deep breath, and then stabbed the palm of his left hand with the nail of his right thumb.

"Madam, someone must have planted it, someone must have done something to my dagger! I'll tell you the truth, even when I came to the General Military Mansion to kneel down and plead for mercy this time, someone came to teach me. It was none other than He Mingqin He, the dean of Jinling Academy, and all those messy things were all done by him. He looks like a Jiangnan celebrity, but in fact, it's not a good thing at all, what he's best at is the male thief NV prostitution...... Jiang Shibaiyi, who had made up his mind, opened the chatterbox, and it was naturally endless. How did He Mingqin come to his house, how did he teach him all kinds of words and coping methods, how did he teach him to use the dagger from various angles...... Even if he was afraid of pain and wanted to use pig blood or something to fool the past, but he was reproached by the other party, he said it directly, and he didn't even have time to pay attention to Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu who were full of disdain on the side. And Chen Lan listened and listened, and when Jiang Shibai said a dagger she had found in an outer room, she couldn't help but let out a sigh in her heart.

How can this kind of man who only looks for flowers and asks Liujinya to hide Jiaojiao get the sincerity of NV people? It's just that I don't know if the outer room is a dagger that is quenched and poisoned, but still gives it to the man who used to share the bed with him, or if he just doesn't know that he was being used.

However, no matter what the situation was, Chen Lan didn't bother to ask any more, and at this time, she lost her eyes at Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu, so she turned around and went straight through the mén curtain to the outhouse, and came out again. Standing in the courtyard and taking a deep breath, the almost suffocating feeling of suffocation in the room just now has finally faded a lot, but the disgust in my heart is still not gone for a long time. It wasn't until she entered her mother-in-law Jiang's yard and saw Jiang sitting on a wicker chair under the shade of the tree, smiling at Jun'er skipping rope, that her spirit slowed down.

And standing next to the horse who jumped rope, the girl who smiled and counted was Yun'er. I just listened to her voice counting one, two, three, and although the xiǎo guy was under the shade of the tree, he was still sweating profusely, but the skipping rope in his hand was waving non-stop. Seeing this situation, Chen Lan unconsciously remembered her xiǎo time, and stood and watched for a while before she stepped forward under the call of the Jiang family.

"Mother, although it is morning, but on such a hot day, you are not in the house to enjoy the coolness, xiǎo heart is hot."

"Where is it so delicate." Jiang sat up straight with a smile, and seeing that Jun'er's feet were gradually not as powerful as they were at the beginning, she sighed, "This kid Mr. Bi is well-raised, smart and sensible, but there is still less activity." Mr. Bi was still taking him around Yangzhou City, but now in the situation in Nanjing, I didn't dare to let him out, so Suo Xìng asked him to be more active. It's still morning, it's good to be sweating profusely from jumping rope, I think back then, my brother had practiced squatting under the scorching sun. ”

As he spoke, Jun'er finally stopped. He put away the rope and gave it to Yun'er on the side, then staggered forward, and saluted Chen Lan by beating the god jīng, and then he took the tea cup from the hand of Zhuang's mother on the side and drank a breath of tea, and then picked up a soft towel and wiped it on his face a few times. It was easy to take a breath, and he exhaled as if he were an adult, "I also watched others skip before, and I always thought it was very easy, but I didn't expect to be so tired to jump six hundred on a hot day!" Jiang nǎinǎi, you said before that Uncle Yang squatted under the scorching sun, what is a horse step, how to squat, and teach me well? ”

"Your Uncle Yang is squatting on the horse is very hard, and that is also because he is preparing to go to the battlefield to fight in the future. Since you have read a lot of books, you naturally want to take the right path of the imperial examination, if you spend time and even this now, your grandfather is back, don't blame me for many things? ”

"Grandpa doesn't care what I learned, I learned to chop firewood with Uncle Cang, I learned to wrap wontons with my sixth sister-in-law, and I also learned embroidery with xiǎonǎinǎi!" Jun'er saw that Jiang and Chen Lan's eyes were getting wider and wider, he couldn't help but smile and reveal two cute xiǎo dimples, and then stuck out his tongue again, "But I almost didn't pick myself up when I chopped firewood, and the wontons were also big and xiǎo, and the embroidery was even more finger-piercing, in fact, except for playing the piano, there was nothing decent to learn, but I always wanted to give it a try." Grandpa said that he would know if it was good until he tried it. ”

Although the Xiǎo guy is still a little upside down, everyone understands the meaning. Chen Lan was both surprised and agreed with Mr. Bi's sheep-herding education method, and his face smiled unconsciously, and the bad mood he had just done because of Jiang Shiba's incident gradually slowed down. And Jiang Shi hugged him and laughed, and asked him with a smile what else he would do, seeing that the xiǎo guy counted the skills he had learned before, she even more strained his head.

"Since your grandfather doesn't even care about the high and low, he doesn't care about civil and military affairs. It's okay to just be fit, start tomorrow, I'll let Ah Hu teach you some basic footwork, and I'll teach you a few sets of movements when my brother comes back! That's what his father used to be a baby, and it's just right for you to practice at this age! ”

"Thank you Jiang nǎinǎi!" Jun'er was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately grabbed Jiang's hand and shouted happily, and when he saw Chen Lan on one side, he immediately blinked his eyes again and said, "Thank you, Auntie!" ”

"Thank me for what, xiǎo ghost jīng spirit, it's not me who promised you!" Chen Lan stepped forward happily, flicked his fingers on Jun'er's head unexpectedly, stretched out his hand on his back and probed his head and neck so gently, and immediately said with a straight face, "Look at you, this neck is slimy, and the body is soaked, don't talk in wet clothes, hurry up and wash and change into a clean one." ”

Seeing the two girls smiling and pulling Jun'er away, Jiang Shi still stared at the back of the xiǎoxiǎo for a while, and then sighed: "I don't know if the whole brother has no younger brothers and sisters, or if this child is sensible and painful, being with him can always make people happy, and they will always forget those bad things...... Have you seen the old eighteen come back? The last sentence turned abruptly, and for a while, Zhuang's mother took the lead, and several girls quietly retreated. Chen Lan leaned on the back of the rattan chair, bent down slightly and whispered, "Yes." Mother, I know you don't like him, but some things are still negligent at this time, so people have to stay ahead. ”

"Just stay. The past has passed, in all fairness, the most hateful thing about the year was the third old lady, who made him who loved power the most lose his authority, and that was enough, let alone others? The fifteenth brother was wronged, and now he has sought justice, and the rest is the Jiang family's business, they want to use the limelight to please me to kill them all, but the notoriety is still my back, I don't want to be that kind of wrongdoer. Jiang smiled self-deprecatingly, and then shook his head bitterly, "It is said that people can't choose their origins, sometimes I really hate it when I think about it." Because of these relatives, I was cornered by bī at the beginning, and now that my brother is here, we are still calculated because of this, really...... Alas! ”

Seeing that the Jiang family was in a bad mood, Chen Lan remembered that his maiden family, the Yangning Hou Mansion, was also not peaceful, and although his maternal uncle's side did not have much contact, those relatives were also potential troubles, so he couldn't help but sigh softly at the moment: "Strange Taoists say that in this world, they are not afraid of god-like opponents, but they are afraid of pig-like teammates." ”

As soon as the words came out, she remembered that she had missed her mouth, and it could be seen that Jiang Shi looked at her thoughtfully, and then showed an angry and funny expression, and she coughed lightly as if she was hiding it: "Mother, don't blame me for speaking harshly, I really have a headache when I think about it." Other people's families are all peaceful and peaceful, why do we put these hateful relatives on the table. ”

"The emperor's family has three poor relatives, let alone us? Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and most of the orphans whose parents have died have uncles and uncles, not to mention countless people who have become officials and posted them. Hey, that's what I said, I'm twice as old as you, and it's still a shame to think about these things, let alone you! Jiang waved his hand angrily, as if he wanted to drive those things away, and then said lightly, "Tell me when the matter is settled, I also want to meet him, after all, he is a father." I remember when I got married, my fifteenth brother was still xiǎo, and he was only a little older...... I don't have that opportunity like you, I can't lay the groundwork for my brother so that he can be a talent. ”

"Mother......

"I mean really, every time I see Brother Yan'er, I think of the fifteenth brother back then. If he had been a few years older, if I had had your abilities, maybe he wouldn't be what we saw before, and maybe our siblings wouldn't be so estranged. So Lan Lan, when I return to Beijing in the future, I remember to often let Brother Yan come to the house to walk around, I also like his xìngzi, besides, don't dilute the affection of your sister and brother who have depended on each other for so many years. When the mother-in-law said this, the expression of confusion but expectation made Chen Lan's heart heavy. Although the Jiang family accepted the younger brother who went to the capital to defect, the estrangement of the relatives of the bone ròu can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, and with such a past, this admonition is of course from the bottom of his heart. So, she couldn't help it for a while, but she wrapped her hands around Jiang's neck from her shoulders and put her whole person on it.

"Mother, don't worry, when we go back, you just don't say xiǎo four will come every day! He is a xìng son cultivated from xiǎo, some people ignore it, and some people are naturally pro. You like him, why doesn't he like you, otherwise when we are in the capital, how can he come to eat all day long? He and I have no father or mother, and although my grandmother said that we were close later, we were separated by a generation after all, so there are elders like you, which he and I never dared to think of in the past. ”

"Why don't you dare to think, you are lucky to spread my mother-in-law, who is easy to say, but my mother-in-law is not lucky to spread you, a capable daughter-in-law?" Although the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said that there are often intimacy such as holding hands and snuggling, but at this time, Chen Lan's almost coquettish behavior is rare, and the Jiang family, who has been looking forward to having an NV child in the past, only felt ironed in his heart, and immediately took Chen Lan's hand, "After returning to Beijing, set up rules, and then there are seven aunts and eight aunts, let Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu block it, don't cats and dogs deal with it by themselves, bothering and thankless!" Let's just live our xiǎo days with peace of mind! ”

When Xiao Lang came back in the afternoon to ask for a meeting, as soon as he entered the house, he saw Chen Lan helping Jiang out of the West House. Although he is used to seeing the harmony of this pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on weekdays, but at this time, in his eyes, he always feels that there is a harmony that he has never found on weekdays. He instinctively sketched the appearance of his mother in his mind, but he couldn't think of what the NV who supported his mother in the future should look like and what kind of feelings, and in the end, his expression revealed a bit of subtlety.

"Auntie, sister-in-law."

"Look at you, where did you go on a hot day?" Jiang smiled and motioned for Xiao Lang to sit down, and then said, "You are not like King Jing and Luo Shizi, as well as my brother, you have no errands in Jiangnan this time, you don't have to work hard all day long like them, don't learn from them, they are all emperor's orders, and you have to worry about it." When you go back to Nuergancheng in the future, some of you are tired, so you can relax and relax now. ”