Chapter Eighty-Four: The Cat Who Was Provoked

After a night of recuperation, Xu is pain and numbness, Shanniang's leg injury is finally no longer like yesterday, the pain is so painful that she can't concentrate on thinking.

And after thinking about it so calmly, she felt that Yuan Changqing's words seemed a bit alarmist, things should be far from being as strict as he said, and even if it was really that strict, as long as she didn't care, what others said! It's a big deal that she won't marry for the rest of her life. Maybe with the temper of the fifth master, he can even tolerate her little willfulness...... No matter how bad it is, she can always avoid the Buddha Gate......

While she was pondering, Yuan Changqing came back.

He was wearing a blue shirt that didn't fit well, and Shan Niang knew that it should be his people who had come to him. Only, he didn't seem to let his people get close to this hut. Even he himself just stood in the doorway and asked her, "How do you feel?" ”

She looked up and looked at him with a frown, "I always felt that things didn't get to that point. ”

Yuan Changqing was silent. He guessed that when she woke up, he might regret last night's wavering, but he didn't expect that her doubts would make him feel so disappointed, "I never gamble with anyone. He folded his hands on his chest defensively, leaning his shoulders against the door.

"I'd rather take a gamble!" Shanniang said, "Besides, the clear is turbid, a few gossips can't defeat me, and I'm not untold by others." ”

"What about your family?" Yuan Changqing said.

"My father didn't care about other people's opinions, and I think he would have agreed with me."

"I don't mean your father. Your grandmother, and your Hou family, what do you think they will do? He paused, and then said, "Yesterday, when I went up the mountain to look for you, I sent someone to deliver a letter to your Zhuangzi. At that time, I had instructed them to be cautious in their words and deeds, but now my people come back and forth to me, saying that an aunt in your Zhuangzi actually shouted first, and sent someone to report your matter directly to the clan. ”

Shanniang choked. She never thought that Aunt Ma would hate her so much. After a pause, she still stubbornly said, "I don't believe what they can do to me!" ”

Yuan Changqing was silent at the door, and finally walked in, knelt on one knee not far from her, stared at her eyes and said, "There is one more thing I didn't tell you." ”

He told Yuan Changxing about the collusion with the kidnappers, which made Shanniang stunned for a while.

"He, he did it...... Why the hell?! - For the sake of "heroes save beauty"?! In order to beg her to "repay herself"?! This is ridiculous!

"I'm afraid it's because of me." Yuan Changqing's eyes looked at her without blinking.

"You?!" Shanniang was blinked by him.

"Yes." Yuan Changqing nodded, "He has been like this since he was a child, as long as I look at something twice, he will always make it bad." You...... Actually, I should be dragged down by me. ”

Shanniang blinked again and tilted her head suspiciously, "When did he see you look at me twice?" How did I not know? And we don't seem to have spoken much in front of people! ”

Yuan Changqing sighed slightly, he didn't plan to let her know the little bit he missed her. There are some things that you can just understand.

"I treat you like my sister in my heart." He said.

And the same thing he said last night. Shanniang didn't take it seriously. She waved her hand, then gritted her teeth and glared at Yuan Changqing and said, "The ugly words are ahead, I don't care if he is your brother or not, I must avenge this revenge!" ”

Yuan Changqing looked at her, and suddenly reached out and touched her head, "Even if you are magnanimous, I will also take revenge." ”

He was moving so fast that Shan Niang couldn't even react. By the time she turned her head away, he had already withdrawn his hand. "Why do you keep doing it! I'm not really your sister! She grunted in annoyance.

The tails of Yuan Changqing's eyes hooked slightly, but before the smile reached his eyes, he restrained himself.

"Actually, the situation at Yamashita is far more complicated than you think." He added, "Not to mention that your old lady is such a face-loving person, but he only does things for Yuan Changxing, in order to calm this matter, I am afraid that I will be forced to marry you." ”

Shanniang was furious, "They thought they could ......"

Before she finished her words, Yuan Changqing blocked her words and nodded: "They always thought they could." "If I don't agree, I can guess what kind of wind they will unleash." They may say that I have a thief heart for you, so I forced Yuan Changxing to help me kidnap you, but Yuan Changxing just obeyed his brother's orders. Or to put it simply, you and I had a personal affair and planned a private meeting on this mountain, but it was because we were not secretive and were caught by the thieves that we colluded with the thieves to beat us up. In short, as long as Yuan Changxing can be removed from this matter, they will do anything. ”

Shanniang was stunned, and suddenly stiffened her neck and said, "I don't believe it!" There's no royal law yet?! ”

"Wang Fa?" Yuan Changqing sneered, "The prefect of Jiangyin is a dog under the door in the palace, and my family is ......."

He paused, made Shanniang think of his lost inheritance, and said, "Speaking of which, I still dragged you down in this matter. Now I'm helping the court to do something, and it's inconvenient for me to sue you about something, you just need to know that I'm being watched right now. Those people wish I could make a mistake here, so even if we don't have anything in the first place, I'm afraid that something will happen to someone. I thought about it, and I only thought of such a safer way. The so-called 'stay in the green mountains', I have always believed that when you can't resist, you should first find a way to save yourself, and then slowly try to come back. ”

Shanniang looked at him in a daze. She never thought that there would be such a complicated reason behind this incident.

And it's all because of him!

Thinking of the nightmare of her previous life, Shanniang only felt as if a boulder had fallen on her chest, making her breathless for a while, "I, I don't want to ......" She looked at Yuan Changqing with trepidation and shook her head again and again.

Although he knew that Shanniang had inexplicable resistance to him, and now that she was repeatedly rejected, Yuan Changqing couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest.

He lowered his eyes and took a deep breath silently until he suppressed the depression in his chest, then he raised his head and said, "I know that I have wronged you like this, but this is the best way I can think of - not only for me, but also for you." I know you don't want to marry me, so let's get engaged first, hide it from those people's eyes and ears first, and then we can always find a chance to quit this family. By that time, I should have the ability to protect you, and I won't let you be talked about again. ”

He looked at her.

She was silent with her head on her knees.

Yuan Changqing was also silent for a moment, and then said, "What if...... I mean, if things don't go our way and you have to marry me, I assure you that the mess in my house will never bother you, and I will take care of you. How you lived before you married me, and what will happen after you, I will not ask you to do anything for me again, and any of your troubles, you can leave it to me, and I will deal with it. ”

It was only at this time that Shanniang suddenly realized that the affairs of the Yuan family in her previous life had never been in front of her...... And what Yuan Changqing depicted is not her previous life?!

Yuan Changqing's assurance, originally hoped to alleviate Shanniang's anxiety, but he didn't want his voice to fall, Shanniang jumped directly from anxiety to anxiety. She slammed the ground angrily and yelled at him, "I won't marry you if I die!" Seeing his eyes suddenly widen, she hated and added, "It's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a hundred!" ”

Two consecutive words of "death" made Yuan Changqing stand up suddenly. He lowered his head, and his dark eyes looked at her with a fixed gaze as if there was no trace of emotion-color.

"Marrying me, is it really so hard for you to accept?"

Although he tried to hide it, the clenched fist still leaked his feelings.

She looked up at him stubbornly.

He suddenly turned around, walked to the door, and looked silently at the distant mountains outside the door with his hands behind his back.

Generally speaking, Shanniang is actually a person who is very soft-hearted, but looking at his back, she suddenly has a sense of revenge.

That's what he says?! She sneered, hugged her knees and buried her face in the crook of her arm - and said what was best for her! Obviously, for him, this method is the most convenient! And without him, she wouldn't have gotten into any of these troubles at all! But now, in order to appease his conscience, he even wants to trick her into marrying him......

"If you think that my idea is to appease my own conscience, then let it be so."

Suddenly, Yuan Changqing said.

Shanniang looked up and saw him still standing at the door with his back to her. The rain that had been going on for several days stopped at this moment, and the sunlight that suddenly bloomed outside the door lined his figure, cutting him into a tall, lonely black silhouette.

Shanniang rolled her eyes.

"Also," Yuan Changqing turned around, looked at her and said, "You don't have to doubt it, I made up what I told you today." The reason why I didn't tell you so much last night was because you were injured and frightened; Second, there are some things that I only received this morning. After a pause, he added: "Maybe it's like what you think in your heart now, it's just that I think too much, but I've always liked to plan ahead, and it's better to think about a solution before something happens than to be helpless when something happens." Moreover, I'm not trying to force you to marry me, I'm just engaged. You are not even afraid of death, and if you want to quit your relatives in the future, that little gossip should not affect you. Or ......"

He paused, walked up to her, and looked down at her, "Or, what better idea do you have?" ”

Shanniang looked up and glared at him. In her previous life, she always had this feeling of being crushed by him......

"I said, I hate you being ...... like this"

"Guess what you're thinking?" Yuan Changqing said.

Shanniang pursed her lips.

Yuan Changqing suddenly smiled slightly, and bent his knees in front of her again, "What you hate the most is that I guess correctly every time." ”

After a pause, he looked into her eyes and said, "You should think it's for me." Even out of moral righteousness, I should propose marriage to your family. What's more, I am also your savior. ”

Shanniang looked up in annoyance, "Are you trying to blackmail Entubao?!" ”

"Why not?" He smiled, and a large hand landed on her head again.

"I said don't do anything!" Shan Niang waved his hand away in annoyance.

Yuan Changqing obediently withdrew his hand, rested his elbow on his knee again, looked at Shanniang and smiled: "I used to have a cat. ”

Shanniang was stunned, and didn't understand why he suddenly changed the subject.

"When it loses its temper, it's exactly like you, and then I'm just coaxing it."

As he spoke, his hand rubbed Shan Niang's head cheaply, and Shan Niang immediately learned from the cat that was provoked, and stretched out her paws to scratch him.

"You're the cat!"

Yuan Changqing is a practitioner, so he avoided her hand effortlessly, rubbed it on her head again, and said: "It's me who is stupid, this kind of thing shouldn't have been discussed with you personally, I will directly propose to the fifth master, if your father agrees, you can't blame me, I just follow the courtesy." ”

If it was really a cat, Shan Niang would definitely not hesitate to pounce on him and scratch his face.

*·*·*

When the fifth master came with Hou Rui, the sun that he hadn't seen for a long time had already risen halfway up the mountain.

The fifth master entered the house first, and Yuan Changqing waited outside the door politely without following up. As soon as the old man looked up, he saw that Shanniang was wrapped in a man's dress, and his face suddenly changed.

Shanniang was afraid that he had misunderstood something, so she hurriedly told her what happened last night, and asked the fifth master in a low voice, "What did he tell you, Yuan Changqing?" ”

She thought that Yuan Changqing was not nearby, and she didn't want her voice to fall, and she saw the shadow of that guy printed on the ground at the entrance.

The fifth master glanced back at Yuan Changqing, patted Shanniang's shoulder comfortingly, and said, "Don't worry, you're fine, go back and talk slowly if you have something to say." ”

The glance he glanced at Yuan Changqing was not friendly. Yuan Changqing's eyebrows were itching, and he immediately guessed that the fifth master must have heard something.

At this time, Hou Rui walked over. Seeing that Shanniang was wearing Yuan Changqing's clothes, he also frowned, ripped the men's clothes from her, wrapped Shanniang tightly with the cloak he brought, and went over to return the clothes to Yuan Changqing.

The fifth master squatted beside Shanniang and observed her broken leg for a while, and then bent down, intending to pick her up from the ground.

Hou Rui and Yuan Changqing saw each other and stepped forward almost at the same time. Hou Rui frowned and glanced at Yuan Changqing, Yuan Changqing was suffocated, so he had to restrain his feet. Hou Rui then went over and said to the fifth master: "I'll come." ”

He raised one of Shanniang's arms roughly, so that Shanniang couldn't help but snort, and Yuan Changqing subconsciously shouted: "Be careful of her legs." ”

The fifth master immediately turned his head to look at him, and saw that Yuan Changqing lowered his eyes unnaturally.

It's also thanks to the fifth master who took the sliding pole on the mountain.

And he knew that the fifth master had an opinion on him in his heart, but in view of the fact that Shanniang was a very squeamish little girl, Yuan Changqing had no choice but to bite the bullet, and with the cold eyes of the fifth master, he instructed someone to modify the slide bar brought by the fifth master, so that he could take care of Shanniang's broken leg.

And even so, the way down the mountain still made Shanniang suffer a lot. Every bump can make her break out in a cold sweat. When she got down the mountain and was loaded into the carriage, Shanniang's whole body was already fished out of water, and even the long hair that had been dried last night was wet and stuck to her head again. Yuan Changqing only glanced at her worriedly, and the door of the carriage was closed by the fifth master.

Yuan Changqing was about to retreat, and the car window was suddenly opened again, and the fifth master came out, glanced at him, and said, "Keep up." I have something to ask you. ”

Someone had already brought Yuan Changqing's big black horse over, and he quickly turned over on the horse and followed.

*·*·*

When the group stopped at the village where the fifth master placed Aunt Ma, Shanniang only felt a chill on her body, and when she opened her eyes, she was top-heavy. Obviously, she slept on the ground in wet clothes last night, and she didn't get sick from the cold, and she didn't want to come down from the mountain.

It was also Hou Rui who hugged Shanniang out of the car. At this time, Uncle Gui and Wufu and others were already waiting at the door of Zhuangzi, and when they saw Hou Rui coming down with Shanniang in his arms, Wufu hurriedly greeted him, and called "girl" with a crying voice, and ran with Hou Rui step by step, while asking Shanniang: "What's wrong with the girl?" The girl's legs ......"

At this moment, Shanniang's temples were jumping suddenly, so she closed her eyes and yelled at her, "Shut up." ”

Wufu immediately shut up. She is also a well-trained person, running neatly with her hands and feet to open the way for Hou Rui.

Hou Rui carried Shanniang into the house, and there were already people waiting in the house. Shanniang thought it was her nurse, but when she opened her eyes, she saw that it was Hou Jue's nurse and grandmother.

Mother Sun commanded the maids and mothers-in-law on the Zhuangzi to be busy for a while. After placing Shanniang, after Hou Rui withdrew, Wufu and Sun's mother hurriedly stepped forward to help Shanniang wash and change clothes.

Shanniang's clothes were already so dirty that they couldn't see their original colors, and they had been scratched several times by the leaves and shrubs. It was her long hair, although Yuan Changqing braided it, but she could still see some mud marks that had not been completely wiped off.

The feeling of a warm towel on your skin is much more comfortable than when you were in the rain last night. Shanniang looked up at them while letting Wufu and Grandma Sun serve her. I saw that Wufu's chin was blue, and Sun's mother's eyes were swollen, so she asked, "Are you all okay?" ”

"It's all good." Wufu told them all about what happened to them, and looked at Shanniang's tightly wrapped legs with a worried face and said, "It's the girl who has suffered a big crime." ”

Shanniang waved her hand and asked again, "What about Hou Jue?" ”

Mother Sun hurriedly said: "The second master just twisted his foot. Fortunately, I didn't hurt my bones, but because of the rain, I suffered a little bit of wind and cold, and I was sweating in the house at this time. ”

Shanniang said, "Then why are you still with me?" Go back and look at him. He looked left and right again, and asked Wufu, "Where is the nurse?" ”

Mother Sun smiled, avoiding the last question and said, "Someone is watching." ”

Shanniang suddenly knew that something was wrong, looked at her and asked again, "Where is my nurse?" ”

Mother Sun and Wufu looked at each other. Wufu replied in a low voice: "The master is locked up." ”

Mother Sun hurriedly added: "Girl, don't worry, the master is only doing this out of prudence. Just wait for everything to be cleared up, and Li's mother will be able to come out. ”

Shanniang sighed silently. How could she not know that her nurse was being dragged down by her husband. After a pause, he said to Wufu: "Go and tell the master, thanks to the nurse, the second master and I can escape." ”

"The lord already knows." Mother Sun said, "The girl just rests, and the doctor will be here in a while." ”

Wufu turned around and brought ginseng and chicken soup porridge from the little maid's hand, and waited for Shanniang to eat. With such a warm bowl of porridge in her stomach, Shanniang felt that she was finally alive again. She rested on the pillow for a while, and suddenly commanded Wufu: "Mirror." ”

The little maid hurriedly flattered and flattered the scope.

Shanniang took a picture of the mirror, and sure enough, she saw a slender scratch on her cheek. The wound near the sideburns was slightly deeper, and when it reached the chin, it was already just like what Yuan Changqing said, just a layer of oily skin was cut.

Wufu also took a closer look and comforted her: "It's okay, it's not very deep, it shouldn't leave a scar." ”

Shanniang put down the mirror, sighed, and said, "I want to take a bath." ”

Wufu looked at her leg in embarrassment, "The girl is hurt." He added, "When the doctor has shown the girl, I'll wash the girl's hair." ”

As he was talking, the fifth master came with the doctor.

Shanniang didn't actually believe that Yuan Changqing would take bones, but the white-bearded old man seemed to be quite satisfied with his craftsmanship, and after examining Shanniang's injuries, he even nodded.

After the old doctor dealt with Shanniang's injury, he went out with the fifth master.

Shanniang hurriedly called the fifth master and said, "Master......"

The old man looked back at him and ordered the old doctor to be taken down to write a prescription, while he turned around and sat on the edge of Shanniang's bed, stroked her hair and said, "For now, you can only take care of your injuries, and I will always do other things." ”

This was the first time in Shanniang's memory that she was touched by the fifth master like this, her eyes were red, and she pulled the sleeve of the fifth master and said, "I don't want to marry him." ”

The fifth master paused, touched her head again, and said, "Okay, don't marry." I can afford your father. ”

The promise of the fifth master finally told Shanniang to let go of the biggest stone in her heart, so the symptoms of lightness suddenly worsened, and before the medicine was boiled, she fell asleep groggily.