Chapter 66

At breakfast, Shanniang remembered who she had chased all night in her dream. Thinking of Lin Ruting's retreat, she couldn't help but smile and shook her head.

Now their family is all gathered together for dinner. The fifth master sitting at the top didn't see Shanniang's smile, just saw her shake her head, but when she was still unhappy about the monthly exam, he gave her a chopstick pickled melon seed, comforted her and said: "The monthly exam is just to check how well you have learned in the past month, it doesn't matter if you do well or not, as long as you learn what you should learn." ”

On the side, Hou Rui suddenly raised his eyes.

At this glance, the fifth master was also called to see it.

The fifth master immediately turned his chopsticks, knocked Hou Rui's head with the chopsticks and said, "What are you looking at?!" Not convinced?! Your sister just didn't do well in the exam, at least she tried. What about you? You dare to pat your chest and say, you did your best?! If you have half the effort of your sister, I will admit it when you come back from the last test! ”

Shanniang choked and glanced at Hou Rui sympathetically, but she didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at the fifth master-she knew that she really didn't work hard in the monthly exam this time......

The fifth master asked Hou Rui again: "Didn't you say that this year's study tour in your school is to go to the countryside to visit those poor households?" Changqing went to the back mountain, why didn't you go with him? ”

Shanniang looked at Hou Rui, who was treated by the fifth master, and hurriedly replied for him: "The gentlemen in the school are divided into pieces to take the students, and the elder brother has not been assigned to the back mountain, just follow the gentleman to visit the poor households in our town." ”

The fifth old man frowned and said, "It's not that you pick fat and thin, you deliberately pick easy ones, right?!" ”

When Shanniang heard this, she frowned secretly. This tone is simply her in the previous life. She raised her head and smiled at the fifth master and said, "The master has wronged my brother by saying this, this was originally the decision of the gentlemen of the academy." Besides, the gentlemen also knew that the elder brother was more familiar with the situation in the town, so they left the elder brother in the town. ”

The fifth master didn't say anything.

The fifth lady suddenly asked Shanniang, "Do you still continue to go to the orphanage today?" ”

"Yes," said Shanniang, "it seems that there is something wrong with the purchase, and only some of the things arrived yesterday, and we have to go again today." ”

The fifth lady pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it better to go in the afternoon?" ”

"Yes."

"Can I go with you that afternoon?" Mrs. Fifth asked.

Shanniang was surprised for a while, looked up at Mrs. Five, but looked at Mrs. Fifth blushing for a while, and said, "I want to go and see if there is anything I can help with......

But it turned out that when Shanniang came back last night, the fifth master asked her what she did when she went to the orphanage. Shanniang was deeply touched by the matter of the orphanage, so she described the situation there to her family, and sighed: "I thought that the orphanage could give those people a place to live, but now it seems that it is just a place to live, to ensure that you will not die of cold and hunger." But whoever has the ability to support himself, I am afraid that no one wants to stay there. Then he said to the fifth wife: "Mrs. still remember the last time Mrs. Zhu wanted to ask Mrs. to teach embroidery?" The old lady was talking about the girls in the orphanage. When the boys grow up, they can be apprentices, they can be farmers, but the girls don't have so much to do, so the old lady wants to teach them a little bit of livelihood skills. ”

Shanniang never thought that her words would have such a big touch on Mrs. Five, and she actually called Mrs. Five, who hated to lock herself on the embroidery frame, and offered to go to the orphanage to have a look.

She was surprised, and the fifth master said on the side: "It's still a good wife." I'm fine in the afternoon, so I'll send you over. ”

The fifth lady raised her eyes to look at the fifth master, glanced at him slightly, and then pursed her lips and lowered her head.

The fifth old man smiled, and graciously grabbed a goose fat roll and handed it over.

*・*・*

After going home at noon and having lunch, the fifth master personally sent the fifth wife and Shanniang to the orphanage.

When Shanniang and the others arrived at the orphanage, Mrs. Lin happened to be there, and when she saw the fifth lady coming, the old lady was very happy, so she personally led the fifth old lady and his wife around, and Shanniang went back to her classmates to continue to be busy.

Yesterday, they only had time to distribute two truckloads of goods, and there were still many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the orphanage and poor homes, and they had no way to come out of the house to receive relief, so they had to be sent to the bedside one by one, so today's progress was even slower.

After a busy circle, when the children in the orphanage brought tea to Shanniang, Shanniang remembered her parents. She inquired about the children and followed them to the backyard. As soon as she looked up, she saw Mrs. Fifth sitting under a big tree, demonstrating how to stitch to the girls. The fifth master was talking to Mrs. Lin and Lin Ruting in a low voice on the side.

When Shanniang followed the five masters and five wives over, Lin Ruting had not yet arrived. Later, she was busy all the time, so this was the first time she met Lin Ruting today.

Seeing Lin Ruting, Shanniang couldn't help but think of the dream last night, and the cranky thoughts she had when she was taking a bath.

If she is still the Shanniang who will never forget the beautiful young man under the begonia flowers, if she is really fourteen years old at this time, maybe she will really be moved by Lin Ruting, but in the end, she is just an old cucumber with a layer of green paint, even if she has a little bit of heartbeat, she still has the upper hand of reason. And after her rational analysis, she couldn't draw the conclusion that he was interested in her from Lin Ruting-that is, she had a young heart in her previous life, and she had never shown favor to Yuan Changqing like Fourteen before marriage, and now that she has changed her life, it is even more impossible for her to show favor to Lin Ruting because of that little sprout. It can even be said that because of the losses she suffered in her previous life, she now looks at Lin Ruting with more scrutiny than before.

Therefore, when she saw Lin Ruting calmly saluting her and asking her about the progress ahead, she also calmly returned the salute. It's just that she has been silently observing him while answering his question.

Lin Ruting stood there and chatted with Mrs. Lin and the fifth master for a while, and then said goodbye.

Shanniang thought about it, and a little later than him, she also came out.

When she arrived at the front yard, she saw Lin Ruting standing in the courtyard talking to several students from the women's school. Then, she suddenly found that Lin Ruting, as she dreamed in her dream, had always kept a certain distance from those girls. Whoever approached him, intentionally or unintentionally, would immediately take a polite step back and resolutely maintain that polite distance.

So, Shanniang suddenly understood, it turned out that she really thought too much yesterday. Lin Ruting was uncomfortable, not because he had any thoughts about her, but because he was used to maintaining his gentlemanly demeanor, and she couldn't help but be able to control her for a while, so he directly collided with him...... She wasn't embarrassed, but that didn't mean he wouldn't be embarrassed...... So, in fact, people are just embarrassed......

- Well, Shanniang realized that she seemed to be self-inflicted.

In fact, she is not to blame, until now, the gossip between her and Lin Ruting has not stopped. And after Lin Ruzhi heard these gossip, she almost told Shanniang that she hoped that such gossip could come true, and she had a little good impression of Lin Ruting, and then ......

That's it.

Looking at Lin Ruting, who was surrounded by girls and seemed calm, but had been retreating without a trace, Shanniang couldn't help but smile.

Yuan Changqing's distance to people is engraved on one face, and others only need to look at his cold face to know that they have stepped on the line. Bilin Ruting has always been gentle and elegant, and the boundaries are buried deep in his heart, and if he doesn't get close, no one knows that he has stepped on his line - well, thinking about it this way, it is Yuan Changqing's method that saves trouble.

When Shanniang looked at Lin Ruting's embarrassment and smiled, Liu Mei, the senior of the women's school over there, couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly blew away all the girls who surrounded Lin Ruting. It's just that after blasting people away, she didn't leave, but took the place of those girls, pulling Lin Ruting and laughing again.

If it weren't for Shan Niang who had been silently observing Lin Ruting, she wouldn't have been able to see it, but in fact, he was already a little impatient at this time.

Just when Shanniang was watching how Lin Ruting was going to find an excuse to get rid of Liu Mei, another female senior of the women's school, Chen Lijuan, came over from a courtyard next to her with a stack of account books.

Lin Ruting immediately waved his hand at Liu Mei and greeted Chen Lijuan, reaching out to take the account book in her hand while saying something.

Chen Lijuan looked up and smiled at him, and handed the account book to Lin Ruting.

Among the two female seniors of the women's school, Chen Lijuan is not as beautiful as Liu Mei, and she is not as good as she can speak, and it can even be said that she is somewhat not good at words. But compared to the more popular Liu Mei, Shanniang feels that she is more reliable. It's not because Senior Chen has been helping her when Liu Mei and other female students have been helping her, but because Senior Chen is obviously more responsible and dedicated than Liu Mei when he does things.

Liu Mei saw Lin Ruting walking towards Chen Lijuan, and seemed to be very unwilling, so she chased after her and patted Chen Lijuan on the shoulder, not knowing what to say to her. Chen Lijuan looked back at Liu Mei and unconsciously took a small step back. So, Shanniang was surprised to find that when Chen Lijuan accidentally retreated in front of Lin Ruting, Lin Ruting actually stood in place and did not move.

Lin Ruting not only did not retreat, but even took a step forward and said something to Liu Mei, and then walked around Liu Mei with Chen Lijuan and walked side by side in the direction of the account room.

When the two men walked together to the bookkeeper, they didn't actually talk to each other. Although their words and deeds can be described as "following the rules", Shanniang always feels that there is something different between them and others.

She was observing, and suddenly heard someone over there say, "The seal was written by Senior Lin." Then, all of a sudden, she remembered what had happened that day when she had written the slip in the lecture hall. At that time, Lin Ruting once said to her: "It turns out that the thirteen girls also practice Yan Ti. The word "also" made Shanniang think that Lin Ruting was also practicing, but when she saw the signature he wrote, she found that he had learned Wang Xizhi. However, Chen Lijuan is the same as her, and she writes beautifully......

Shanniang suddenly squinted, feeling that she seemed to have spied through the heavens.

At this time, Lin Ruzhi came over with her, and when he saw her standing alone under the porch, he tiptoed over, threw himself on her shoulder, hugged her shoulder and smiled: "What is Sister Thirteen looking at?" ”

Shanniang was defenseless, and she stumbled forward a little. She looked back at Lin Ruzhi, suddenly smiled slightly, and quietly pointed at Lin Ruting and Chen Lijuan and said, "Look at your brother and Senior Chen, do you see anything?" ”

Lin Ruzhi seemed to be selectively deaf, but he only heard the words "your brother", pressed Shanniang's shoulder, and said with a strange smile: "It turns out that my sister is looking at my brother." ”

Shanniang's eyebrows suddenly rose, and she slapped her back, and said angrily: "What nonsense! Let me look at your brother and Senior Chen. ”

Lin Ruzhi looked up at the two of them, but she didn't see anything famous after all, so she asked Shanniang, "What's wrong?" What do you want me to see? ”

"Don't you see?" Shanniang whispered, "Your brother is very different from Senior Chen. ”

"Really?" Lin Ruzhi stretched his neck and looked at it for a while, then tilted his head suspiciously, "I didn't see it." ”

Shanniang smiled sullenly and said, "Take a closer look!" Is the distance between your brother and Senior Chen closer than he is to other girls? ”

"Is there one?" Lin Ruzhi stretched his neck and looked at it for a while, shook his head and said, "I didn't see it." But he suddenly poked Shanniang with his elbow, leaned into her ear and whispered: "You won't be jealous, right?" ”

Shanniang immediately glanced at her, and said to Lin Ruzhi: "How many times have I told you, it's not like that, but you still say that." I'm just going to be thick-skinned, and you'll say it when you say it, but when your brother hears it, he should be annoyed. ”

"No," Lin Ruzhi leaned on her shoulder and smiled, "I think my brother ...... you."

"Your brother is nothing to me!" Shanniang cut off her words, glanced at her again, and said, "Don't talk nonsense in the future!" When they say that, they are burying me, and you are also coaxing! ”

"I'm not coaxing," Lin Ruzhi said with a smile, "I really think you are a good match for my brother." ”

Shanniang was annoyed, and immediately pushed her away from her shoulder, and said: "How do you think it's your business, but who your brother likes, or who I like, this is our own business, you can't force your thoughts on us because of what you think." ”

Seeing that she was really annoyed, Lin Ruzhi hurriedly restrained her smile and said, "Sister, don't be angry, I won't say anything more." I just thought, I really think you're good...... That day, my brother praised you for coming......"

Shanniang looked at her and couldn't help but sigh weakly. This Lin family brother and sister are all the same temperament......

Because of Lin Ruxuan, she suddenly thought of Yuan Changqing, so she fought back against Lin Ruzhi and said, "What about you?" What do you think of your Senior Brother Yuan? I think he likes you a lot, too. ”

Lin Ruzhi was suddenly stunned by her, "What? ”

"You and Yuan Changqing," Shanniang said, "I think he seems to like you quite a lot." ”

Lin Ruzhi blinked, and suddenly laughed. She leaned on Shanniang's shoulder and smiled: "Sister, why did you think of me and him? I'll bet you, Senior Brother Yuan will only treat me as a sister. ”

"What about you?" Shanniang asked her.

"Me? Naturally, I think of him as an older brother. Lin Ruzhi laughed, "Where did you come to such a conclusion?" What is not is simply something that is not there! ”

"Really?" Shanniang's eyes narrowed, and she smiled: "Do you want to ask your third brother?" Your third brother told me in person that you and my eldest cousin Yuan are a couple. ”

Lin Ruzhi was stunned, "My third brother?!" She thought about it, and suddenly said, "Oh, you also believe this!" He used to say this when he was in the capital. For this, he was beaten by me a lot. He pushed Shanniang again and said, "Don't say it again, let Senior Brother Yuan hear it, how will I see him in the future!" ”

In fact, Shanniang had already seen that Lin Ruzhi didn't mean that to Yuan Changqing. At this time, he squinted at her and said, "So you know it too!" You talk about me like that, how can I see Senior Lin in the future! She learned her tone.

Lin Ruzhi was stunned again, leaned in front of her and said, "Could it be that you really don't like my brother?" ”

Shan Niang shook her head. She did have some longing for Lin Ruting in her heart, but it was just a longing, and it was far from liking.

What's more, what if she really likes him? This kind of thing always has to be happy with each other......

Shanniang blinked.

Lin Ruzhi leaned on her shoulder and sighed: "My poor brother, I think my brother really likes you......"

"I'll bet you," Shanniang smiled, "Your brother definitely doesn't like me, it's ......" She turned her head to look at Lin Ruting and Chen Lijuan, only to find that the two were long gone in the courtyard. Thinking that it was Lin Ruting's secret, she hurriedly changed her words, "In short, it's definitely not me." ”

Besides, even if a person really likes another person, no one stipulates that that person must also like this person.

There has never been such a rule in this world.