CHAPTER XXXVII

When Shanniang chased him to the master's yard, the master had already entered the study.

Seeing that the eldest girl didn't know the taboo, Ah Fu wanted to break into the study, so she hurriedly came over to stop her, not wanting to be pulled by Uncle Gui halfway.

Ah Fu only thought that Uncle Gui was going to say something, so he stood still and turned his head to look at Uncle Gui. Uncle Gui let go with a smile, making Ah Fu confused.

And when Uncle Gui walked away leisurely, and Ah Fu remembered his errand again, Shan Niang had already broken into the master's study.

When she entered the study, Shanniang looked up and saw her father standing in front of a screen with his back to her. On that screen, there was a painting, and her father was staring at it with his hands behind his back.

It is a standing statue of the willow Guanyin sketched only in ink. The Guanyin Bodhisattva in the painting is dressed in fluttering clothes, and the low-hanging Guanyin pocket almost covers the entire face, allowing people to see only a little outline of the chin. The painter is very stingy with pen and ink, only on the snow-white rice paper, with a few very concise ink lines, outlining the general clothing pattern of the Guanyin master, the facial features are not even a little pen and ink is refused, but also for the hand that is half-hidden under the sleeves, holding the willow branches, very fine painting ability.

And although the whole painting uses only different shades of dry ink, if you want to distinguish it carefully, you can still see that the hand pinched into the shape of an orchid finger is covered with a very light layer of pink.

So, it's no wonder that the first time Shan Niang looked at the painting, she looked at the hand first.

She was looking at the painting here, and the lord had already noticed her storage, and suddenly turned around, and saw that it was him, the lord was startled, and almost hurriedly went over to collect the painting, and then turned his head to stare at Shanniang, and roared: "Don't you know the rules of the house?!" Not everyone can come into my study. ”

Shanniang was stunned, and suddenly smiled bitterly. If the woman's embroidery room is the place where the woman hides from the man, then the man's study is the place where the man hides from the woman. In the previous life, Yuan Changqing's study was not even allowed to enter the maid.

So Shanniang pursed her lips slightly, bent her knees to the fifth master, and then raised her head and smiled very innocently, "Forgive me, my daughter really doesn't know this rule." ”

The fifth master has long been accustomed to his anger, and everyone else is cowering to avoid him, but now Shan Niang has such a hippie smile, but the fifth master doesn't know how to deal with it.

Shanniang didn't see the stiff expression on the fifth master's face, stood up, and said seriously: "I'm here to tell the master about a very important thing." The old man just talked to his wife in the front hall, and I am afraid that he will frighten her. The old man often walks around outside, but his wife only stays in the back house all day long, and he is not good at dealing with people, so he is inevitably a little timid. Just now my wife was uncomfortable, I knew that the master was anxious for his wife, and the words were a little anxious, but when the wife saw that the master was in a hurry, it was inevitable that she thought that she was causing trouble to the master, so she became so anxious......"

The fifth master frowned for a while. He was depressed, he didn't know why his words out of concern scared the fifth wife again, until he listened to Shanniang's explanation, he realized that the fifth wife had misunderstood what he meant......

I only heard Shanniang say again: "Mrs. is a woman, and it is inevitable that she will be meticulous. Although the lord is kind, but in the face of the timid wife, please be more patient and speak as softly as possible. Also, you told your wife to rest, it should have meant that you didn't want your wife to work, but you only said that from beginning to end, and you didn't give your wife an explanation, but I was afraid that my wife would think that the master was disadvantageous to her housekeeper. My wife doesn't know how to be sad at this time......"

Seeing that although he is already fourteen years old, he still looks like a child's daughter, and the fifth master behind the bookcase can't help but feel a burst of enlightenment.

In fact, for so many years, he was also very distressed, and he didn't understand why Mrs. Fifth was so afraid of him. It can be said that the fifth master took a fancy to the fifth wife at first sight, but the fifth wife seemed to be only afraid of him, and even since the first day of marriage, she has never dared to look at him with a straight eye. When he was newly married, the fifth master also enthusiastically wanted to shorten the distance between their husband and wife, but what made him sad was that it seemed that everything he did was wrong, the more he wanted to get close to Mrs. Five, the farther away Mrs. Five was from him, and even in the bed, he had a dark history of scaring her......

The fifth old man was arrogant by nature, and after thinking about it and not understanding the reason, he felt that it must be impossible for the fifth wife to like him. So, just like when he gave up communicating with his mother, the fifth master also gave up the fifth wife. What he didn't expect was that he no longer asked Mrs. Five, and the couple were able to sit peacefully under the same roof for a moment once in a while. As a result, the five rooms have a pattern of the old lady doing their own thing.

There is a saying in later generations, "men are from Mars, women are from Venus", not only did the fifth master not understand why the fifth wife was afraid of him, but even the fifth master's think tank, Uncle Gui, who has always prided himself on being a good man, did not understand. And now that he was awakened by Shan Niang, who was young but from the same planet, the fifth master suddenly realized that he had been using the wrong method...... The fifth wife of the family is the delicate flower of the south of the Yangtze River, not the strong grass on the grassland, how can she withstand the stormy and brainless enthusiasm of the fifth master, what people need is the care of "moisturizing things silently......

So, the fifth master looked at Shanniang and said, "Okay, I know." ”

Shanniang was stunned. What does the fifth master know?! She just made an opening remark there, and then led the topic to the fact that the master can't just give up the wife's housekeeper's power, and before she can talk about the reason why she can't take this errand, the fifth master understands?!

Shanniang blinked, and suddenly felt that her father was really smart, and he could see through a little. So she had no worries and slapped a sycophant with a smile: "It's still the old man who is wise." Then I'll go and tell my wife that the housekeeper has to work hard for my wife. With that, she turned and walked away.

Behind her, the fifth master understood the true intention of what she said. The old man opened his mouth, but he didn't call her back - it would be good for Shanniang to solve the misunderstanding of this sentence.

Shanniang, who walked to the door, suddenly turned around and said with a smile: "By the way, Mrs. is timid and not used to seeing outsiders, and the two sons who saved my younger brother are afraid that they will have to bother the old man to entertain one or two." ”

Shanniang felt that with her father's unsociable temperament, she would definitely only send Yuan Changqing away according to etiquette, and she should not see that person at home again in the future.

And if she knew that her father had already had a relationship with Yuan Changqing before, and still coveted Yuan Changqing's eagle, she would definitely not let her lazy father come forward!

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Besides, Shan Niang came to the courtyard of the wife, and sure enough, the lady hid in the embroidery room as she expected.

Now Shanniang also frequents in the yard of his wife—isn't she a regular visitor compared to her two brothers?! In short, although there was a maid to block it, Shanniang was thick-skinned, and she was still forced into it like this.

The lady was sitting behind the embroidery frame and embroidering intently. Seeing Shanniang break in, she raised her head, pinched her orchid-like fingers and held an embroidery needle, and looked at Shanniang with a surprised face.

I don't know if it's because the posture of the wife pinching the orchid finger is very similar to the posture of the old man's Guanyin monk holding the willow branch, Shanniang suddenly felt that the two hands were exactly the same.

She couldn't help but blink. Until his wife smiled and asked her, "What's wrong?" Only then did she come to her senses.

So Shan Niang smiled and said, "The master asked me to come and see my wife." ”

The fifth lady was obviously taken aback, and couldn't even speak, "Look, look, look at me?!" ”

Shanniang didn't see it, and said with a smile: "Yes." When the old man saw that his wife was uncomfortable, he remembered it and asked me to come and see his wife. Is my wife's stomach better? ”

The fifth wife was embarrassed for a while, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's an old problem." ”

Na Minglan happened to bring tea in, so she explained to his wife: "Mrs. can't be nervous, if she is nervous, her stomach will hurt." ”

"Really?" Shanniang was surprised for a while, when her relationship with Yuan Changqing was stiff, she was the same. So she smiled and said, "I used to have this problem, but when it hurts, it's better to drink a cup of goat's milk." ”

Mrs. Fifth was even more surprised than her, "How could you fall into this problem at such a young age?" ”

Shanniang blinked, only then did she realize that she had slipped away, and she was busy chattering, and turned around and asked Minglan "Has the doctor been here?" ”

Before Minglan could answer, Yao Shi had already smiled and said, "It's nothing to look at, and it's not a big problem." I also drank goat's milk, and now it doesn't hurt. But you, what are you doing here? Have you been to see your brothers and sisters? Are they alright? ”

Shanniang smiled: "You want me to see what they do?" The wife is the housekeeper, and the wife should go. ”

The wife frowned. She didn't understand the meaning of Shanniang's words, and couldn't help but look at her with a little vigilance: "That's not what the old man just said......

Shanniang shook her head and smiled, "Mrs. doesn't really think that the master wants to leave the housekeeper's affairs to me, right?" I'm only so old! Besides," she leaned over suddenly, and raised her eyebrows at her wife flirtatiously, "that is what the master said, and the wife really didn't hear it?" I looked, the lord was distressed about his wife, seeing that his wife had a stomachache, and he was afraid that his wife would be tired, so he said what told me to take on an errand. In fact, the lord also knew that I couldn't bear this matter, and the wife had just left, and the lord regretted it, and before he could speak clearly, the wife actually left. Then the lord scolded me, saying that I must have been lazy and refused to help my wife, so that my wife was tired and sick. But I took the initiative to ask my wife for help, didn't I? Mrs., you say, I am not wronged! ”

These half-truths and half-truths came out of Shanniang's mouth like spring water, but she didn't even look like she was weak-hearted.

The wife didn't argue whether it was true or not, but she was made red-faced by her words, and said angrily at her: "What nonsense! ”

"Really, I'm not talking nonsense!" Shanniang, who is skillful, told a serious lie, "The master loves face, and he is embarrassed to come to make amends to his wife in person, no, he scolded me." Although he scolded me, I understood what the old man meant, and the old man asked me to apologize to his wife on his behalf. For the sake of my wife being scolded for no reason, please forgive me! ”

sighed angrily again, and teased his wife with a long-lived appearance: "Mrs. doesn't have to be angry that the old man can't speak, the old man, it's all like that, no matter how old he is, he is just a child who hasn't grown up, and he always makes people worry about it." We can only pretend to be generous and let them go, alas. ”

When the wife heard this, she laughed, stretched out her hand and twisted Shanniang and said, "What nonsense?!" How old a villain you are, you dare to laugh at your father, see if your father knows whether to scold you. ”

Shanniang smiled: "It's not that I was scolded, I was not convinced to say so." ”

After such a period of nonsense, she finally untied the knot in his wife's heart, so the housekeeper's matter could not be resolved. Then Shanniang dragged his wife out of the embroidery room on the grounds that his wife was the head of the house, and insisted on pulling her to see the little Hou Jue who had fallen into the water - because Hou Rui had a foreign man there, and he was also old, they only sent the maid to ask about the situation.

It's just that when they arrived at Hou Jue, they found that not only was the master there, but Hou Rui was there, and even the two "foreign men" who saved Hou Jue were all on the ground......