Chapter 139

It is also thanks to Mrs. Fang that she left some manpower for Yuan Changqing and Shanniang before leaving, otherwise, just with Uncle Hua Mao Da, a few veterans with some disabilities on their bodies, and the women in the inner house such as Mother Li, the new house of Fushoufang is not large, and it is still a little difficult to clean it up in one day.

In the evening, Yuan Changqing returned to the upper room with a body of dust, and as soon as he entered the door, he was stunned for a moment. For a moment, he thought he was in the wrong place......

Although he was worried about Shanniang, he would go back to the inner courtyard from time to time to see her during this day, but he never entered the main house. Now that he came in, he found that Shanniang had already cleaned up inside and had become a different look. Not to mention the curtain cage, delicate play and other things, only the large central hall hanging on the front wall, the splashed ink painting style, at a glance, you can know that it is the handwriting of the fifth master.

He was squinting at the middle hall, and Shanniang, who heard his footsteps, came out of the bedroom, and when she saw the gray of his body, she smiled and said, "How did you get such a wolf bèi?" Did you go drill a rat hole? As he spoke, he stepped forward to untie his belt, and without looking back, he told Li's mother to prepare bath water.

Yuan Changqing stretched out his arms like an uncle, and while letting Shan Niang serve him to take off the dirty clothes on his body, he lowered his head and smiled at her: "I have something for you." ”

"What's good?" Shanniang looked up and asked with a smile.

Yuan Changqing's eyes glanced left and right, and when he saw that there was no one in the room at this moment, he bent down and pecked her on the lips, and before Shanniang could react, he raised his voice and shouted "Yan Feng".

Yan Feng said yes outside the door, and came in with a thick stack of account books. He bowed to Shanniang and Yuan Changqing, put the account book in his arms on the coffee table on the side, turned around and retreated.

Shanniang couldn't help but raise her eyebrows in confusion. Didn't the family account book be handed over to her earlier?

Yuan Changqing said: "This is my private account, you can keep it." He also explained: "These are all things that my grandfather fought for me when the fourth uncle inherited the title." Many of them are things handed down by the ancestors of the Yuan family, so they have been calculating to take them back. Before, because I was young and lived in Nafu, my grandfather was afraid that they would use tricks to get things back, so he took them for me. Now that we've moved out, Grandma has asked people to bring things over. Those boxes hadn't been touched for more than ten years, so they were covered in dust. And he said, "There is also a part of it that is my mother's dowry." ”

Shanniang was stunned, "Why do you let me keep your mother's dowry?" ”

Yuan Changqing suddenly turned around, bent down to the tip of her nose and smiled: "Didn't you say that now we can't tell the difference between you and me?" ”

Now Shanniang also knows that Yuan Changqing behind the person can be as shameless as he wants. So she only glanced at him, and without even blushing, she turned back to the bedroom and went to get him a change of clothes.

Yuan Changqing's eyes chased after her, and he didn't smile and withdraw his gaze until her back disappeared behind the curtain hanging in front of the bedroom door. After a pause, his gaze moved to the curtain again.

Although he and Shanniang were already fully married in the full moon, when they moved over, Uncle Hua still ordered someone to decorate their house like a new house, red inside and out, and even the curtain hanging on the door of this bedroom was originally red, but now Shanniang has also replaced this curtain with a curtain embroidered with pink peach blossoms on a light gray shading. The peach blossom bloomed warmly at the lintel, and then fell from the branch in a dashing manner, and the petals fluttered all the way to the bottom of the curtain...... Not to mention the composition like an ink painting, only the smart embroidery made Yuan Changqing suspect that this curtain should be from the hand of the fifth wife.

Thinking that the hard-to-find "jade embroidery" actually made the door curtain of his bedroom, Yuan Changqing didn't know what to think for a while.

When Shanniang came out with her clothes in her arms, she saw Yuan Changqing standing in front of the middle hall with her hands behind her back admiring the painting of the fifth master, so she pouted and complained: "I really don't understand, all your clothes are the same type, and they are still in these colors." Can't you even get tired of wearing it? ”

Yuan Changqing's eyes flashed, and he leaned into her ear and said, "This shows that I am a long-term person." ”

Shanniang: "......"

-- I've seen shamelessness, but I've never seen such shamelessness!

"This is my father-in-law's Mobao, right?" Yuan Changqing suddenly pointed to the middle hall and asked.

"yes." Shanniang replied, but suddenly caught a strange flash in his eyes, so she raised her eyebrows and asked, "What bad idea do you want to fight?" ”

Her words suddenly surprised Yuan Changqing. Generally speaking, if he doesn't take the initiative to tell people what he thinks, few people can guess what he wants.

"Why do you think that?" He asked rhetorically.

"Because you look like you're playing with some bad idea." Shanniang said.

"Then you've wronged me." Yuan Changqing was serious - he wasn't lying, at least he hadn't started to make bad ideas at this time, he just had a fleeting thought......

Listening to Mother Li's report outside that the bath water had been prepared, Yuan Changqing's big hand stretched out, grabbed Shanniang's shoulder and said, "Come, wipe my back for me." Without waiting for Shanniang to protest and refuse, he continued: "I'm going to invite my grandmother and aunt and sister to come over for a light meal tomorrow, and by the way, it can be regarded as warming the house for us." Do you want to give your seventh sister the next post too? ”

"Yes." Shanniang was immediately distracted, thinking about the warm house, she forgot about the back rubbing, and chased after Yuan Changqing and said: "But there is nothing to prepare at home, I'm afraid it will be too late tomorrow." ”

"It's okay," Yuan Changqing said, stretched out his hand to support the door of the ear room, and after letting Shanniang in, he casually tied the door again, turned around and smiled at Shanniang, who couldn't figure out the situation for a while: "Ming'er, I'll ask Uncle Hua to go to Fumanlou to order a few tables of wine and food and send them over." He added, "Wait a minute, you have to pay attention when you write a post to your seventh sister, don't say that we moved out, to say that we just moved out temporarily to live for a while." ”

He grabbed Shanniang's waist and pulled her into his arms.

Now Shan Niang has long been accustomed to his movements on people's backs, and her attention is also attracted by his strange words, but she didn't notice the small movements under his hands, only tilted her head and asked him, "What's wrong?" Is there any difference? ”

"It's a big difference." Yuan Changqing's hand quietly untied her belt unruly, but the voice sounded very serious, "You should also know that they have actually been taboo against me, if it weren't for my grandfather forcing them to put many things of the Yuan family under my name when I was two years old, I am afraid that I would have been forced to divide them by them a long time ago." Now it is because they can't give up the possessions in my name, and they won't let me share them after all these years of death. Now that we have moved out, we can guess with our heels how the old lady will tell people about it, I am afraid that I will say that I am not filial, and I am secretly clamoring to separate from my family. ”

"So, we have to let people know that we were forced to move out, we wanted to move back, and they didn't let us move back." Regardless of the loose belt, Shanniang reached out to wrap her arms around his neck and smiled, "Can you be worse?" ”

"Yes." Yuan Changqing picked her up, suddenly pressed her against the wall, lowered his head and kissed her.

*・*・*

The next day, the seven girls who received the post didn't say a word, so they came to the banquet on time.

And if Shanniang had invited them a few days earlier, the elders of Qi Niang's family might not have been willing to let her out.

But it turned out that after the beginning of the year, the court was in turmoil caused by the "suicide" of the former prefect of Jiangyin, and now because the prefect's wife suddenly took out a set of account books for bribery, she once again suppressed the four princes who were about to turn over. Even, Lord Jisuke, who has always been known for his prudence, picked up a leak and replaced the first person in the cabinet who was impeached and removed from office again.

As soon as she entered the door, the seventh girl grabbed Shanniang's arm, looked her up and down for a while, and said, "Didn't you say that you were sick?" It's okay to look good. ”

Shanniang smiled: "It's just that I felt the wind cold, took medicine, and sweated." After a pause, he asked curiously, "How do you know I'm sick?" ”

The seventh girl pursed her lips, and said while following Shanniang to the inner courtyard: "Now the capital doesn't know that you are sick, I'm afraid there are really few people." ”

Shanniang was stunned, "What do you mean?" ”

But she didn't know that this matter of the Yuan family had already called the eldest princess a big event, and it was known to the whole capital.

"I was about to ask you!" The seventh girl looked like she hated iron but not steel, and poked Shanniang's head with her hand and said: "It turns out that what a powerful person was at home, how did he become a paper paste after marrying?!" I was bullied and sick! She is not your serious mother-in-law, you copied the scriptures on the order of the Queen Mother, she rubbed you like that, that is, you are not good to go to the Queen Mother to say something, so you can tell me! We are all sisters in the family, can I still watch you being bullied?! ”

But it turns out that the eldest princess is also a wonderful person, and she knows the essence of gossip the most. When she narrated the gossip of the Yuan family to others, she only said a few points in a concise manner, but she never added a single star or a biased comment. Biasing these points makes people think about them......

First: Yuan's daughter-in-law borrowed the old lady's Buddhist hall to copy the scriptures for the queen mother.

Second: Yuan's daughter-in-law was frostbitten.

Third: Yuan Er was beaten.

Fourth: The old lady of the Yuan family interrogated everyone at home, who beat Yuan Er.

Fifth: When Yuan Er was beaten, Yuan Da and his wife didn't even have a waiter in front of them, so no one could prove the innocence of their couple.

Sixth: Yuan Da moved out of Yuan's house with his new daughter-in-law with a high fever......

Although the eldest princess's statement is extremely neutral, she can't stand the infinite brains of the audience, and what kind of story they deduce in their hearts is not something that the eldest princess can control......

*・*・*

Just as Yuan Changqing guessed, Mrs. Yuan and Yuan Li both claimed that Yuan Changqing wanted to split up and found an excuse to vomit with the elders before moving out of the Yuan mansion. Yuan Changqing moved here, and he didn't have many guests, but only invited the two families of his relatives to recognize the door, which was not the kind of person who wanted to split up and start a new stove. The inheritance of the title of the Yuan family had caused a storm in the capital, and the people's hearts were sinister, and they were more willing to think about people in a black place than well-intentioned speculation, so there were not many people in the capital who believed in the Yuan family's statement, and there were many people who secretly added imagination and thought that Yuan Changqing and his wife had been greatly wronged.

As for these gossips, Shanniang and Yuan Changqing only listened to it for a while and then stopped paying attention. Now Yuan Changqing is only quietly preparing for the exam, and Shanniang is silently taking care of her new home.

In the past few days, first she calculated Yuan Er, and then she had such a quarrel with the Yuan family, and then she moved and settled down, Shan Niang was so busy that she didn't notice for a while that there was one less person in the family.

It was the middle of February, and spring in the north came later than in the south, and the branches could already be seen covered with a layer of fluffy new green. After tidying up and setting up the interior of the house, Shanniang looked at the bare courtyard and became dissatisfied for a while. She is a southerner, and she is always used to being accompanied by flowers and plants, so she wants to send someone to buy some flowers and trees, but now she has just moved over, and the family can be described as "everything is waiting to be happy", Uncle Hua and Mother Hua are so busy that they are about to be separated - they have no skills, Yuan Changqing has to prepare for the exam again, and she is discussing papers with some students all day long, and she is unwilling to disturb him. So suddenly, Shanniang remembered a person who she hadn't seen for a few days - Uncle Gui.

On the day she calculated Yuan Changxing, Yuan Changqing had made an appointment with Uncle Gui about where to see Zhuangzi, but later he heard the chatter of a few small people, and suddenly guessed Shanniang's movements, so he turned back halfway, but Uncle Gui did not come back, it seemed that he still went to that place. Now that she counts, she hasn't seen Uncle Gui for seven or eight days.

Seeing her ask Uncle Gui, Mother Li's face suddenly felt uncomfortable, and she said, "I forgot to tell Miss Sù." The day after we moved here, a letter came from Gui Ye, saying that he had taken a good look at Zhuangzi and wanted to stay there for a while, and he was afraid that he would not come back until the spring ploughing was over. ”

In fact, whether a person has a special affection for another person can be seen by outsiders with a little attention. What's more, Shanniang treats Mother Li like her own mother in her heart, when Uncle Gui brought Mother Li back, she was afraid that Mother Li would not be able to think about it, so she paid great attention to her every move. At that time, she noticed that it seemed that Uncle Gui had a different kind of affection for Li's mother. Uncle Gui always found a reason to come to Li's mother, but Li's mother always avoided him. There have been several times when Shanniang wanted to ask Mother Li what she thought of Uncle Gui, but she also knew that Mother Li's old-fashioned nature was not reckless.

At the same time, in fact, she also noticed that Mother Li knew Uncle Gui's thoughts about her.

Therefore, now that she sees that Li's mother looks a little strange when she mentions Uncle Gui, Shanniang doesn't think about it anywhere else, only because she feels awkward because of Uncle Gui's good impression of her.

Therefore, when a few days later, Shanniang, who was holding a flower hoe and directing Sanhe Wufu to plant flowers, saw Uncle Gui leading the way with a smile in front, followed by the high-spirited five masters and five wives, the whole person was stupid.