CHAPTER XLIV

If you want to say that this old lady is angry, she likes to call herself a "grandmother" or something, but the opportunity to be called "grandmother" by the younger generation is rare. Now listening to Shanniang's "grandmother" one by one, the old lady was speechless for a while.

Anyway, she still remembered what was going on, so she had to endure her temper first, turned her head to look at a kind woman and smiled: "This is the thirteenth mother of the old fifth family, she is a lively and naughty one." ”

"Where," said the old woman with the golden hairpin, laughed, "I look like a man who knows how to be filial to his parents and love his brothers." He beckoned to Shanniang and said, "Good boy, come and ask my aunt and grandmother to take a look." ”

Shanniang couldn't help blinking. In the last life, at this time, she was so busy that her feet did not touch the ground, and she met with Yuan Mengshi, or on the eve of the banquet later. At that time, Yuan Changqing had already set up a banquet outside, so she didn't meet Yuan Changqing in the West Corner Courtyard until after the banquet was over.

Thinking of Yuan Changqing, she cautiously looked behind the two old ladies from the corner of her eye. But he was very surprised not to see Yuan Changqing, but to see another person - Yuan Changqing's cousin, Yuan Er Yuan Changxing.

Shanniang was stunned. This is a different change from the previous life.

In his previous life, although his cousin Yuan Changxing, whose name was very similar to Yuan Changqing, also came to Meishan Town with Yuan Meng's family, he was afraid that the Hou family would misunderstand the object of the marriage, so he did not attend the spring banquet. The explanation given by Yuan Mengshi was that he went to Meishan Academy to meet Lin Shanchang......

Of course, the reason why Yuan Changxing appeared here was because the Lin family also received the post of the Spring Appreciation Banquet in this life. (Naturally, Shanniang could not have known that there was a term for the "butterfly effect" in later generations.) ）

So, what about Yuan Changqing? (Fanned by butterfly wings?!) ）

While she was looking around, she quickly turned her mind, and she didn't forget the rules in her hands, and went over with her brother and brother to greet Yuan Meng.

What Shanniang didn't expect was that Yuan Mengshi actually got down from the seat in person, helped her and her brother up with his own hands, and looked her hand up and down for a while, turned back to Hou Mengshi and smiled: "Sure enough, my sister is so blessed, your grandchildren are all born exactly like my sister when she was young, and they will all be creative in the future." ”

Shanniang couldn't help but look at the old lady. At such a glance, she found out for the first time that the old lady also had a pair of slender willow eyes. It's just that Xu is because of his age, and his eyelids are inevitably loose. The loose eyelids cover the tails of the eyes, so that people only notice her two black and shiny eyes that seem to contain the essence of the sun and the moon, and ignore the original delicate eye shape.

At this time, the two black and bright eyes that had absorbed enough of the essence of the sun and the moon were looking at her with a kind of scrutiny and measurement.

Although this Shanniang has been raised in the West Garden for seven or eight years, the old lady has not looked at Shanniang so carefully for a long time. Now that she looks at the past like this, the old lady doesn't think that Shanniang is more like herself. The old lady herself was born with a doughy face, and after years of pampering and pampering, she raised a round double chin, so she actually didn't like thin children. But this Shan Niang was lean and lean when she was a child, she didn't get fat no matter how she ate, and she also gave birth to a pointed and slightly upturned chin - after raising this child for seven or eight years, the old lady found out for the first time that this child looked like a little fox!

Thinking like this, the old lady was even more unhappy, so she smiled faintly and said to Yuan Mengshi: "My sister said that I laughed, how much can they cultivate, how much can they do, how much can they do, how can they be like your family's brother Xing'er, they look like a talent, this is the future of great creation." ”

Yuan Meng's only such a grandson, he was pampered abnormally, listening to Hou Meng's words, how could he not smile, after a few polite words, he personally took the meeting gift from the maid's hand and gave it to Shanniang's brothers and sisters one by one.

She had just handed the last meeting gift to Hou Jue when she heard a young man's voice raised: "Why hasn't grandmother introduced me yet?" ”

As he spoke, a figure rushed out from behind the chair, but he ignored Hou Rui and Hou Jue, and rushed directly to Shanniang to make a long gesture, and said, "Hello sister." ”

The man looked up at Shanniang as he flickered, and flirtatiously pinched at her.

It was that Yuan Changxing!

Shanniang was startled by Yuan Changxing who suddenly appeared, and before she could react for a while, her brother and brother were already angry, and they both rushed forward to protect her behind her.

Looking at the two backs in front of her, one big and one small, Shanniang's heart suddenly felt a burst of warmth - this is family! In the previous life, why did she only care about the hustle and bustle of the West Garden, and failed to treat her family well?!

The two brothers in the fifth room of the Hou family glared at Yuan Changxing with extreme dissatisfaction. I didn't want Yuan Mengshi to think that Yuan Changxing's move was rude, so he smiled and said, "Look, I see my sister's eyes are straight again." There's an older brother and a younger brother over there, so why don't you go and see the ceremony. ”

Yuan Changxing met Hou Rui and Hou Jue at this time, and Hou Rui and Hou Jue reluctantly returned the salute, and the old lady of the Yuan family took Shanniang's hand again and smiled at Shanniang: "Don't blame your brother for being rude." He is the only one in our family, and he has always wanted a sister or something, and he is all lonely. It's also pitiful. As he spoke, he pulled Shanniang and dragged her to the seat, and forced Shanniang to sit in a chair with her, asking her about her age, what books she reads, or whatever.

Shanniang forced a smile to deal with it, but her heart was full of contempt - "just him"?! So what is Yuan Changqing? Jumping out of the rock?!

Of course, she is not holding grievances for Yuan Changqing, but she doesn't have a good impression of Yuan Changxing.

This Yuan Changxing can be regarded as spoiled by the old lady of the Yuan family, and he has the temperament to want whatever he wants. He doesn't like to steal chickens and dogs, but he prefers to steal incense and jade, so that at the age of thirty, because he was found to be adulterous by his husband, he really broke his leg, and of course, it also interrupted his way to the lord, and gradually fell silent in the future. Before Shanniang died, she hadn't heard from him for a long time.

In fact, before that, Shanniang didn't have many opportunities to deal with this "cousin". And she could see that although Yuan Changqing covered it up well, he didn't like this cousin, and he didn't like those people in the mansion. At the beginning of her marriage, she felt that the power of the mansion should be able to help Yuan Changqing's career, so she repeatedly went to pat Yuan Meng's sycophants. At that time, she had also encountered Yuan Changxing's intentional or unintentional entanglement, but after she politely refused twice, he was no longer entangled. didn't want her to take this matter to heart, but Yuan Changqing seemed to keep it in mind, and since then he has directly banned her feet and forbade her to go to the mansion again. Even after that year, even Yuan Changqing went to worship his ancestors alone......

At that time, she thought that Yuan Changqing would not be indiscriminate and decided that she did not abide by women's morals, and felt both wronged and wronged in her heart, until a long time later, when she was about to die, she inadvertently learned that Yuan Changxing was only temporarily covering up her evil thoughts at that time, and because of Yuan Meng's indulgence of Yuan Changxing, if she went to the mansion a few more times, something might happen......

Shanniang didn't know if Yuan Changxing's fate was Yuan Changqing's handiwork, but now seeing this person after a lifetime, it made Shanniang feel nauseous at the same time, and a layer of goosebumps also appeared on her arms.

At this time in her previous life, she really thought that Yuan Changxing was really like what Yuan Mengshi said, she just wanted to have a sister and sister, so she liked to hang out with girls, but now that she has more experience in her life, she can easily see the kind of unclean evil thoughts in his seemingly innocent eyes.

Therefore, even the eyes he looked at to express affection couldn't help but give her goosebumps all over her body - speaking of which, every time Shanniang looked in the mirror, she felt that she had not yet begun to develop, and she looked like a little chick that had just broken away from the chick and was about to grow a little bit of hard feathers. I don't know why Yuan Changxing looked at her with such interest......

However, she soon discovered that Yuan Changxing didn't look at her like that, but he looked at whoever - as long as it was a woman - all looked like that.

Just when she was thinking uncomfortably about how to get out, the little maid outside came to report that the family of the old mountain chief of Meishan Academy had arrived.

Only then did Shanniang take the opportunity to escape from Yuan Meng's men.

Mr. Lin Zhilin and his eldest son Lin Boyuan were impatient with this kind of social occasion, so they didn't come, but were led by Mrs. Lin, with Lin Zhonghai's father and daughter, as well as Lin Ruting and Lin Ruxuan, two cousins.

There is also a person that Shanniang didn't expect - Yuan Changqing.

Shanniang didn't expect that Yuan Changqing didn't follow the Yuan family, but helped Mrs. Lin in.

Along with Mrs. Lin, there were several professors and ladies in the academy. After everyone coaxed and saluted, Lin Ruzhi immediately wrapped around Shanniang's arm like a vine, and Lin Ruxuan couldn't help but joke with her: "Are you tired?" ”

Lin Ruzhi didn't know what to do, "I'm not tired, I've just arrived." ”

Lin Ruxuan said with a smile: "You are indeed not tired, but Thirteen Niang is tired!" Look at you, you look taller than her, and you actually wrap around her arm in turn, looking like an ancient vine wrapped around a seedling, tsk, strange and pitiful. ”

said that Lin Ruzhi blushed, and was about to screw her cousin in the past, but was stopped by her own brother, "Look at it." Lin Ruting smiled gently, and said to Shanniang: "Didn't Shibo come?" My father heard that Shibo was coming, so he agreed to come. ”

Shanniang hurriedly smiled: "Here, here is the scenery by the lake." ”

When Lin Ruzhi heard this, the arm that he had just put down was wrapped around again, tilted his head and smiled at Shanniang: "Then let's go over too." ”

As they were talking, they suddenly heard a voice behind them laughing, "Where are you going?" Would you like to take me along? ”

As soon as Shanniang turned around, she saw the pretending naïve Yuan Changxing again. She hadn't frowned yet, Lin Ruzhi was already unhappy, and rolled her eyes at him and said, "Yuan Er, have you forgotten the lesson again?!" Boss Yuan is here! ”

Yuan Changxing was stunned, quickly glanced at Yuan Changqing's direction, and sure enough, he pinched his nose and retreated.

It was only then that Shanniang mustered up the courage to look at Yuan Changqing for the first time.

At this time, Yuan Changqing was being pulled by his stepgrandmother and showed it to everyone in the hall. Surrounded by the stars and the moon, he could only see the back of his head that bent down from time to time to salute.

Shanniang's eyes only hurriedly hit his head and dusted it off, and then she looked away with an inexplicable weakness.

And this time she turned her gaze, but she suddenly saw a few people who should not be here. Her seventh sister, as well as the eleventh sister and the fourteenth sister, the three girls who were supposed to be outside supervising the progress of various places, actually crowded into the flower hall at some point.

It was only at this time that Shanniang suddenly remembered that in the previous life, almost from this time, the subordinates began to frequently find Qi Niang and Fourteen Niang, so that she had to take on the responsibility that they should have shouldered, so she was extremely busy that day.

It's just that in the previous life, it seems that Sister Eleven didn't leave her post...... And her seventh sister and fourteenth sister became interested in Yuan Changqing after listening to her words in this life, or were they interested in her previous life, so they quietly slipped away?!

Hou Shanniang suddenly wanted to know.