Chapter 48

This labyrinth in the sea of bamboo is actually nothing more than a low wall made of knee-high bamboo fences, and people can find a way out along the path separated by the bamboo fences. If you really can't get around, it's just a little bit of etiquette, raise the hem of your clothes, and you can step out directly from the top of the bamboo fence.

So, this is a place that Hou Jue and the boys like very much, but the girls are worried that it is too undignified to carry the skirt across the bamboo fence, and few people are willing to participate in this game - of course, this does not include Lin Ruzhi.

Lin Ruzhi liked it very much when she saw it, and she was about to rush into the maze with Shanniang. Shanniang shook her hand for a while, and said with a smile: "I am already familiar with this maze, even if I can get out of it with my eyes closed, if you want to play, just play with Hou Jue, don't drag me along, I'm tired." ”

Shanniang didn't want to go in, but it was not good to leave her outside, Hou Jue looked at the maze with bright eyes, obviously not wanting to stay, so Yuan Changqing volunteered to stay.

Fortunately, the bamboo fence is only knee-high, even if you are in the labyrinth, you can see each other, but it is not a lonely man and a widow alone.

Shanniang glanced at Yuan Changqing and did not object, because she had something to say.

Lin Ruzhi saw that she didn't object, so she immediately pulled the little fat dun and rushed into the maze without a huff.

Looking at Lin Ruzhi and Little Fat Dun, who were looking for a path back and forth between the bamboo fences, Shanniang smiled and asked Yuan Changqing without looking back: "Just over there on the willow embankment, who are you hiding?" ”

Yuan Changqing looked down at her, and when he saw that she didn't look at him when she spoke, his eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly.

Shanniang waited there for a while, but before he could answer, she looked back at him. However, with only a slight touch of her eyes, she turned her head again.

In fact, Shanniang had already guessed that he would not answer. Although Yuan Changqing looks cold, he is a very gentlemanly person in his bones, even those "chance encounters" make him unhappy, and he will never make irresponsible remarks to damage a girl's reputation.

So Shanniang tiptoed slightly, looked at the maze, and said with a smile: "It seems that you have 'encountered' many of my sisters and sisters today." But I have to say in advance that you stopped us, and I can't be considered a 'chance encounter' with you. "-Well, she really still has too much shadow in her heart about her previous life, so she has to make a stand to Yuan Changqing so solemnly.

Yuan Changqing kept looking down at her silently, his eyes dark and deep.

"Did I offend you somewhere?" He said suddenly.

"Huh?" Shanniang was stunned and turned her head.

"Because I feel," he paused, "you don't seem to like much of me." ”

Looking into his eyes, Shanniang couldn't help but blink. In fact, Yuan Changqing was born with a pair of sharp eagle eyes, and his eyes were modified by a circle of thick and slender eyelashes, which made people only notice his deeper eyes than ordinary people at first glance, and unconsciously ignored the essence of the eyes hidden at the bottom of his eyes.

In her previous life, Shanniang always liked to pretend to be her best in front of him, but she distorted herself like that, in this life, she didn't want to please him anyway, so why pretend. So she turned her head again with a smile, looked at Lin Ruzhi who was trapped by the bamboo fence and smiled: "Ah, yes, you don't say that I haven't found out yet, I don't seem to treat you very much." ”

In an instant, Yuan Changqing was silent.

Shanniang smirked. I didn't want Yuan Changqing's voice to sound behind me again.

"Why?"

His questioning surprised Shanniang for a while. In her impression, no matter whether she ridiculed or sarcastic, Yuan Changqing's most common strategy was to turn around and walk away with a calm face, telling her that she wanted to use some sharp weapon to tear apart his indifference...... will ask rhetorically, if it were her in her previous life, she probably wouldn't know how to be overjoyed.

She smiled self-deprecatingly, looked back at him, and then followed his example, put her hands behind her back, tilted her head playfully, and said, "Are you Shengyuan Tongbao?" Want to be seen by everyone? - The currency of the Great Zhou, commonly known as "Shengyuan Tongbao".

Seeing her learning his posture, Yuan Changqing's eyes flashed, and he also pursed the corners of his lips with her expression, and said with a light smile: "It's not Shengyuan Tongbao, and people always hope to win the favor of others." ”

The smile on his lips made Shanniang stunned. After blinking for a while, she nodded and said, "It seems to make sense." ”

But after saying these words, she turned around again, turned her back to him again and stopped talking.

She obviously didn't have the will to speak here, and Yuan Changqing, who didn't want to take the initiative to speak, asked instead.

"So, where have I offended you?"

"Probably not." Shan Niang didn't look back to the tunnel.

"So, why ......"

"Who knows," Shan Niang suddenly turned her head and said with a smile in her eyes, "Maybe we had a grudge in our previous lives?" ”

She looked back again. After a pause, he suddenly turned his head again, tilted his head and smiled: "Whether I wait to see you or not, it really doesn't matter." Your target is the daughter of the Hou family, and there are many sisters and sisters to be married in my Hou family, but without me, you still have a lot to choose from. That's what she really wanted to say to him.

Looking at the sudden bulge between Yuan Changqing's eyebrows, Shanniang smiled and said, "You won't be stupid enough to think that the girls in our family don't know what you're here for, right?" She sighed deliberately, "Then, my sisters and sisters, I have 'met' with you in vain." As he spoke, he tilted his head and bent two crescent eyes.

That look, in Yuan Changqing's eyes, looked more like a little fox who only liked to watch people's jokes.

Yuan Changqing looked at her silently for a long time, suddenly wiped the tip of his nose with the back of his fingers, and said depressedly: "Okay, although this incident makes me depressed, it's a good thing to make you feel happy......

He was stunned. Shanniang was also stunned. He almost blurted out this sentence. He never thought he would say that—and, crucially, he did!

Looking at the fox eyes that were round with surprise, Yuan Changqing only felt a tightness in his chest - he didn't understand himself anymore. He has never been a person who likes to take the initiative to speak, and he never confides his feelings to others, but he doesn't know how that sentence came out so smoothly......

Shanniang blinked, and didn't know how to answer him for a while, so she had to pretend not to hear, and turned her back to him again.

Fortunately, at this time, Lin Ruzhi and Hou Jue were having fun in the maze, but they didn't speak, and they could always watch the innocent duo.

It's just that, seeing that the naïve duo was repeatedly blocked in the labyrinth, Shanniang's good teacher nature came up again, put her hands to her lips, and shouted at the two: "Choose the middle one, both sides are dead ends." ”

Lin Ruzhi immediately stomped his feet and shouted, "Sister, don't say it, we have to play by ourselves!" ”

So Shanniang put a finger to her lips and smiled and stopped talking.

On the side, Yuan Changqing kept watching her silently.

At this time, Yuan Changqing felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Although he never felt that appearance was important to a man, and he never responded to all kinds of topics about the name of "Kaolin Flower", in fact, he always knew that he was quite popular among girls in the capital. Therefore, he didn't care about this, and he actually felt secretly in his heart that he was probably quite an attractive young man......

But I never thought that he would be disgusted by such a skinny little girl who still needs to grow up......

Thinking about it, she probably resented him for treating their Hou family's daughter as a cat and a dog.

Thinking so, Yuan Changqing sighed, and rarely took the initiative to speak: "I also know that this is very presumptuous and abrupt, but it's just ......" He sighed again, "This matter is not something we can say." ”

Hearing him sigh, Shanniang couldn't help but sigh too. She naturally knew that what he said was the truth, and it was not his fault, nor was it the fault of her sisters, it was the two old ladies Meng who started it.

"Don't blame my sisters and sisters," Shan Niang said without looking back, "The so-called 'My Fair Lady and Gentleman' is good, and vice versa, if you are not good enough, my sisters and sisters will not look down on you, and they will not be so presumptuous to 'encounter' you frequently." You just think it's a compliment. ”

Looking sideways at the smiling fox eyes, Yuan Changqing suddenly wanted to say, but unfortunately he couldn't get your "praise...... Of course, he didn't dare to say. Just looking at the "Thirteen Girls Face Changing Skill" he had seen, he could know that if he really dared to say it, she would definitely dare to come up and twist his ears......

And, he was thinking about what was happening in the alley next to the woodcraft shop, and the other three little male protagonists in the story came over so coincidentally.

The three little boys didn't see Shanniang at the entrance of the maze, only Hou Jue and Lin Ruzhi who were still lost in the maze, so they laughed and mocked, and then rushed to the entrance and exit, but they didn't want to bump into Shanniang without wanting to head up.

Obviously, Shanniang was still there, so frightened that the three little ones stumbled under their feet, almost crashing into a pile, and then came over one by one very obediently, and saluted Shanniang and Yuan Changqing one by one.

Shanniang smiled and squinted her eyes and waved her hand, several children wanted to run away like an amnesty, but they were afraid that these thirteen girls would be the same as the alley, and they would not let them go unreasonably, so they had to bite the bullet and still enter the maze. However, after a while, the child was a child, and after a while, he forgot his fear, and after walking several dead paths, he began to become impatient, and shouted there, thinking of climbing over the bamboo fence, which was short for adults, and for them, it was almost as tall as a thigh, and they could not climb it.

Shan Niang watched the music for a while, then unceremoniously instructed them to go around and around, and after a while, they found the exit before Lin Ruzhi and them.

The children are all remembering to eat and not remembering, and they are playing so lively at this time, and several children suddenly forget that the thirteenth sister can transform, and they feel that the thirteenth sister is really the original kind and kind thirteenth sister.

At this time, Lin Ruzhi was also overwhelmed in the bamboo fence, so he had to beg Shanniang for guidance. Before Shanniang squeaked, Yuan Changqing had already commanded them to come out according to the path Shanniang pointed out before.

A few little guys suddenly regarded Yuan Changqing as a celestial, and surrounded him for a long time, and the elder brother and elder brother screamed wildly.

Although Yuan Changqing was old, he was only sixteen years old at this time, and he couldn't help but glance at Shanniang with a hint of pride, but he saw that she looked strange, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost - he didn't know that Shanniang had already seen him in his previous life, and he couldn't show that he was good at this time.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Shanniang took the seven or eight-nine-year-old boys who were also disgusted by dogs, and went to the "self-reserved land" surrounded by the fifth master. They were only halfway through when they heard a servant coming with a brass bell. But it turned out that it was time for dinner.

By the time they arrived at the Fifth Master's place, most of the curtains had already been cleaned up. I don't know how many calligraphy and paintings the fifth master and Lin Zhonghai wrote here before, at this time Lin Ruxuan's arms were full of paper rolls, but the fifth master was still rummaging in the waste paper pile on the ground, no matter how the second master Lin asked, the fifth master couldn't say what he was looking for.

On the side, Mrs. Fifth seemed to be a little unbearable by the spring sun, her face was red, and when she saw Shanniang coming, she uncomfortably pinched her sleeves.

Shanniang ran to the fifth wife, looked left and right for a while, and was about to ask her brother, when she suddenly saw Hou Rui and Lin Ruting coming together. After asking her carefully, she realized that her eldest brother, who couldn't sit still, actually dragged Lin Ruting to play chess.

She couldn't help but be surprised, and smiled at Lin Ruting: "Second Brother Lin is so good, he can actually ask my monkey brother to sit down and play chess with you." ”

Over there, Yuan Changqing suddenly turned his head to look at Shanniang.

Before, Shanniang always politely called Lin Ruting "Senior Lin", but I don't know when, she has been promoted to "Second Brother Lin". And he is still turning around on the title of "Yuan Gongzi......

It seems that she really doesn't like him very much.

Yuan Changqing, who has always consciously not cared about other people's evaluations, suddenly felt a little numb in his heart.