Chapter 142

Today is the day of the exam, and there must be a lot of people on the way to the Gongyuan, so the fifth master didn't plan to let Shanniang and the fifth wife send the exam, but only planned to send Yuan Changqing by him and Hou Rui. Now that there is a car of the fifth prince to escort Yuan Changqing, Yuan Changqing persuaded the fifth master not to go, and the master thought about it and responded, and only asked Hou Rui to go with him to see him off.

The family sent Yuan Changqing out of the door, and when the old man turned around, he suddenly found a few guards with knives sitting in the gatehouse, and he couldn't help but be curious.

Shanniang hurriedly said to the fifth master with a sloppy look: "It should be the person who followed the five princes." He added, "Didn't you just say that when His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness came back, he would send us to Ruyifang?" I'm afraid that he thinks there are too many people and it is inconvenient, so he left people behind. ”

The old man didn't think much about it, so he nodded, and was fooled into the second door by Shanniang, and said: "Let's not rush to the exam, and we're afraid of being hit by someone...... It was only then that he remembered that he still had an old account that had not been settled with the Fifth Prince!

So he shut up, and silently planned in his heart to wait for the fifth prince to come back, how to teach this little king and eight calves who almost tired Shanniang!

Shanniang didn't know what he was thinking, she only kept Yuan Changqing's instructions in mind, and pulled the old lady to see the flowers and plants in her newly planted yard.

In the words of later generations, the five old couples are a literary couple. And art is all connected, in Meishan Town, is the family only such a small garden, has not been able to stop the lord of a love for gardening and scenery, now looking at Shanniang's almost random pile of flowers and plants, the old man immediately itched, pointing to those flowers and plants, for a while said that this is too dense, a while said that there is too sparse, a while said that here can be made by the terrain to create a small scene, a while said that there is a cluster of mountain stone iris more charm.

The old man originally said that the wind is the nature of the rain, and when it came to the beginning of the interest, he simply crossed Shanniang and commanded the maids and women to pry the pebble parquet that Shanniang had not been willing to destroy.

Shanniang had something hidden in her heart, it could be said that she was just listening to the fifth master absentmindedly, and it was only then that she reacted and hurriedly stopped the fifth master.

While the father and daughter were talking, Uncle Hua suddenly came in from the outer courtyard and said to Shan Niang, "The Yuan family has sent someone." ”

When talking about the word "person", Uncle Hua paused slightly. When Shanniang went out and saw that there were more than a dozen strong women, she understood why Uncle Hua paused so subtly.

Shan Niang has also lived in that house for a while, so she also knows that the person who is the leader is a very useful mother-in-law surnamed Zheng in front of the old lady.

Seeing her come out, Zheng's mother stepped forward to greet her, and said to Shanniang with a hint of arrogance: "The previous incident was actually a misunderstanding, the old lady was distressed by the second master, so she was impatient for a while and misunderstood the uncle." The uncle was so angry that he moved out of the house so carelessly, which made the old lady even more angry. But in the end, the old lady was kind, and she only regretted it after a few days of hatred against the uncle, and she thought that she would immediately ask the uncle and grandmother to move back, but she remembered that the uncle was going to end this year, and she was afraid that the uncle would not be able to study quietly when she moved, so the old lady endured it, thinking that she would wait for the uncle to finish the exam. However, the old lady always remembered the uncle in her heart, knowing that today was the day of the uncle's end, the old lady sent us over early to send the uncle to the exam, but no one expected that the road would be jammed like that, but it delayed the time, so that we could not meet the uncle. When she came, the old lady also said that she was afraid that the eldest grandmother would be at home alone for the past three days, and she was worried that the eldest grandmother would be afraid, so she told us to invite the eldest grandmother back. ”

squeezed and said with a smile, "There are all parents in the world, the old lady has already made her attitude clear here, and the eldest grandmother and uncle are not always stubborn with the elders." And I'm afraid that the uncle will regret it at this time, how can I say that at this time, there are rumors of discord with the elders in the family, and it is not good for the uncle's reputation. It's better for grandma to take advantage of the situation to move back with me today, and when the uncle comes out after the exam, he sees that grandma has already moved back, which can be regarded as a step for the uncle, isn't it? Saying that, he came up to help Shanniang diligently, and said with a smile: "Grandma, let's go with me." ”

Shanniang suddenly narrowed her eyes and glanced at Wufu quickly.

Wufu immediately took a step sideways, slapped Zheng's mother's hand that was about to touch Shanniang's sleeve, and raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Presumptuous!" Grandma is something you can touch?! ”

Zheng's mother was stunned. To say that when Yuan Changqing was making a fuss about moving before, it was always Yuan Changqing himself who took the lead in the front, and Shanniang has been hiding behind people, but few people know her means of calculating Yuan Er. And after Yuan Er woke up, he was not embarrassed to tell people that he was beaten by Shanniang, so the Yuan family more or less underestimated Shanniang, only thinking that she was a new daughter-in-law who was delicate and weak and easy to push down, and her face was still thin-skinned. That's what Zheng's mother thought.

So she sneered silently, rubbed the back of her hand and looked at Shanniang and said, "Grandma, is this unwilling to move back?" The eldest grandmother is not afraid of making trouble with the uncle against the elders in the family at this time, what is wrong with the uncle's reputation? ”

Shanniang didn't bother to tell her, so she turned her head to look at Sanhe again.

Sanhe took a step forward and smiled at Zheng's mother: "Look at what this mother said, everyone in the world has their eyes open, why don't my mother go to the street to inquire and see what everyone says?" ”

Zheng's mother was stunned. This is where the old lady was so angry that she died. The old lady lived to be more than seventy years old, and it was the first time that she suffered such a big loss in public opinion. The old lady who has lived a fine life has always known better than anyone else, and people's hearts are more willing to believe in falsehood, evil and ugliness than truth, goodness and beauty. She has used the dark psychology of people to make waves before, but this time it was her turn to do such a thing. Many of the things mentioned in the rumors, she obviously haven't done it, no matter how hoarse she tries her best to argue for herself, she can't stand people's hearts and is more willing to think in the shadows, and even the good reputation she has accumulated before is said to be "selling fame and reputation", which made the old lady so angry that she almost vomited blood.

Thinking of the old lady's explanation before coming, thinking of her attitude of patting her chest in front of the old lady, Mother Zheng couldn't help but sneer, looked at Shanniang and said, "The old lady asked the grandmother to move back, it was also for the sake of the grandmother." The eldest grandmother is the new daughter-in-law, the uncle is not in the family, and it is inevitable that people will talk about it if she lives outside, and the reputation of the eldest grandmother is not good, I advise the eldest grandmother to ......"

Before her words fell, she saw a black shadow flash in front of her, and then a crisp sound of "pop" sounded in her ears, and she was slapped in front of her. Before Zheng's mother could react, she was kicked in the stomach again, and suddenly she fell backwards and sat on the ground.

She looked up in amazement, only to see a middle-aged scribe coming up from behind. The scribe was dressed very politely, with a slenderness between his slender eyebrows and eyes.

Seeing her looking up at herself, the fifth master was angry again. He originally disdained to beat a woman, just now that slap with a kick, it was listening to this woman's foul language that secretly pointed out something, he was angry for a while before moving his hand, and now that he has woken up, it is not good to do it to a woman again. As soon as he turned around, he happened to see Wufu's sleeves halfway up, and it was obvious that he also wanted to come over and beat the mother-in-law, but he just asked him to take the lead, so he waved at Wufu, "Fight!" ”

Wufu agreed, and kicked the woman several times with the hem of his skirt, scolding: "The dog fights the human power!" Our grandma doesn't speak, but she doesn't bother to talk to you bastards, and she even kicks her nose in the face one by one, and dares to point at her grandma to talk! Kill you thing with no condescension! ”

The reason why the old lady asked Mother Zheng to bring a lot of healthy servants and strong women was because Yuan Changqing had no manpower here, and it would be better if she could get Shanniang to move back, if not, it would be impossible to come hard. Now those people saw that Zheng's mother was knocked to the ground, and they immediately shouted and stepped forward.

The fifth master raised his eyebrows and was just about to exert his might, when suddenly a figure flashed in front of him, and the four small servants who were left at home by Yuan Changqing were like a row of screens, protecting the fifth master, Shanniang and others behind him. In front of them, Uncle Hua, who was originally standing under the porch, was like a trick in his hand, and out of nowhere he conjured a two-foot-long short sword.

"Who dares to step forward?!" Uncle Hua shouted loudly. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he and the four winds went one after the other, and they actually formed an encirclement trend, surrounding Zheng's mother and all the people she brought.

Although Uncle Hua was discharged from the army due to injuries before Moluohe, and did not go through the battle of the corpse mountain and sea of blood, but he was a scout in the end, and he had really seen blood on the battlefield, and when he raised the short sword, the irrepressible bloody aura suddenly calmed Zheng Mama and the others did not dare to make any rash moves.

At this time, Mao Da, who was guarding the door, heard Uncle Hua's shout behind the shadow wall, and knew that something was wrong, so he took the bowl of thick door bars behind the door and rushed in. Behind him, his son, who was eight years old this year, looked like a twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy, and hurriedly followed with a whistle stick.

And then there were the guards with knives who were drinking tea in the gatehouse. When the prince ordered them to stay, he had already said that it was to prevent someone from making trouble. And these people have also followed Yuan Changqing out on errands, and they all know Yuan Changqing's ability, so all the people who imagined that they would come to make trouble should be some people who were bought thugs and killers, but they never imagined that it would be the people from Yuan's mansion who came to send the exam to shout and kill inside...... Several people hurriedly rushed over with knives.

To say that the people sent by the Yuan Mansion, although they look very strong and strong, they are actually no longer the kind of soldiers who were pulled to the battlefield when Lao Linggong was alive. And now the master of the Yuan Mansion, Yuan Li and Yuan Si, because the old Linggong is used to his youngest son, he has no academic requirements for him since he was a child, so that he has been raised as a waste material who can't lift a pen or move a knife. The world is impermanent, and in the end, this waste material was inherited. And generally people who don't have the ability to sit in a high position, if they are a little narrow-minded, it is usually Wu Dalang who opens a store - he can't look taller than himself. Yuan Li himself has never been on the battlefield, and he doesn't like the old people in his family who have been on the battlefield, and always feels that their toughness is crushing him from time to time, so after more than ten years of cleaning and combing by him and the old lady, there is no old family member in the Yuan Mansion who has really seen the bloody battlefield. And without those old people, the stories of those murders are still circulating in the house. Now in the face of real warriors—not to mention a few of them who were actually wearing the uniforms of the Guards—these family members had already weakened their legs with fright.

There was a stalemate when another person came in through the door.

"Yo, what's going on?" The fifth prince, Zhou Chong, came in from outside the door with his hands behind his back, he naturally didn't know these subordinates of the Yuan family, but he had known Uncle Hua for a long time, so he asked Uncle Hua, "What's wrong?" ”

Uncle Hua snorted coldly and said, "These subordinates are really bold, seeing that our grandfather is not at home, they want to come and kidnap our grandmother!" ”

- Uh, okay, let's delete and minus, it's almost like Mother Zheng They want to kidnap Shanniang and go back to Yuan's mansion......

Zheng's mother often goes out with the old lady, so she can not know the fifth master, but she will not not know the fifth prince. In addition, the world has an uncontrollable fear of the royal family, and now when she saw Uncle Hua suing the black, Zheng's mother immediately knelt down in front of Zhou Chong and shouted for a while, saying, "We were sent by the old lady to invite the eldest grandmother back to the house." ”

The fifth old man was so angry that he almost wanted to go up and kick people again, and said angrily: "It's almost time to tie people up, this is called 'please'?!" He added, "I still haven't settled accounts with your master and old lady, how did the dowry I gave my daughter become something that your master gave away?!" ”

But it turned out that although Yuan Changqing was busy taking the imperial examination, he still arranged the things that should be arranged (anyway, he didn't have to do it himself). After a month, his layout has now slowly begun to ferment, and the fifth master only learned from an old friend a few days ago that the official department Shangshu got a new picture of a snow scene he had painted in recent years, and wanted to ask him to do an appraisal. Because the old man remembered that Yuan Changqing was going to end up, he temporarily put the matter aside, but he didn't expect that when he met the Yuan family again today, he was angry and said it.

Yuan Changqing didn't hide it from Shanniang, Shanniang also knew the calculations of her father and Yuan Changqing, and also knew how far things had progressed. But there is something suspicious about today's events. She turned to the fifth prince and said, "Although these people keep saying that they were sent by the old lady, I suspect that they are using the name of the old lady to come to my house to rob the fire." It's also a shame that His Royal Highness left a few soldiers in my house at the invitation of the uncle, otherwise I don't know what kind of disaster our family will encounter! He shouted Uncle Hua to find a patrol.

Zheng's mother and others suddenly shouted grievances. The fifth prince secretly looked at Shanniang, then turned around, frowned at Mother Zheng and the others, and said, "If you are not wronged, go to the hall and tell the adults, what are you arguing about here?!" As he spoke, he asked Uncle Hua to take his name card to report to the official, and ordered the guards to take them all down.

Only then did Shanniang turn around and smile at the fifth prince and said, "Thanks to you today." He asked Yuan Changqing about his entry into the arena again.

The five princes know everything and say everything. In the end, he paused, looked at the fifth old man who was still silently lucky, picked his cheek with his fingers, and said embarrassedly: "That, thirteen...... No, I don't even know what to call you...... Well, anyway, I'm sorry, I don't know how to spread such a rumor......"

He didn't mention this stubble, the fifth master didn't expect it for a while, but now as soon as he mentioned it here, the nameless fire that the old man had been holding back suddenly found an exit, just like Hou Rui, he came up and slapped the back of the fifth prince's head, scolding: "You little king......"

He wanted to scold him for being a "little king and eight calves", but when Zhou Chong turned around, he suddenly saw his outfit - in order to reduce the trouble on the road, Zhou Chong deliberately moved out the prince's clothes and car in accordance with the regulations.

Whereas...... If the fifth prince is the little king and the eight calves, then what should be the one sitting on it today?!

What's more, the fifth master was angry just now, and he didn't even slap the head of the royal family lightly......

The master's hand trembled, and suddenly he lost his confidence, and quietly hid behind Shanniang.

How could Shan Niang not know that the old man was very inward, so she only smiled secretly, and then used Uncle Hua to say something, and broke the five old masters, then turned around and looked at Zhou Chongdao with a straight face: "I remember that I warned you before that this situation might occur, but you didn't take it seriously." You may think that you are chic, uninhibited, and arrogant, but you should know in your heart, and you can do that because of your identity. As you are, you can do whatever you want, but you never think about how your behavior will affect others. I've often heard people say that you are attentive, that you see one and love another, but every time you provoke others to move their hearts, you avoid it yourself......"

"No," Zhou Chong hurriedly shook his hand and said, "I didn't tease them, it's just ...... That is, it's ...... They're not what I want......"

"Then you can bear with it until you think about what you want!" Shanniang said sternly, "It's someone else who provokes you, and you don't accept it, don't you still have to drink water and force your head to?!" Obviously, you don't take others in your eyes at all, in your eyes, everything is based on your preferences, whether you like it, or you don't like it, is the only thing you think about, and you never think about what kind of consequences your behavior will bring to others. The world loves to push the wrong place to the side that is easy to blame, no one dares to provoke your Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, only those girls who have teased you, or who have been teased by you, are unlucky. It's a shame that Yuan Changqing knows me, if I change to someone else, what kind of fate do you think I will be?! ”

Zhou Chong looked at her and gradually lowered his head. From childhood to adulthood, the Queen Mother, the eldest princess, including His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, they all pity him for losing his mother since childhood, as long as he is not too excessive, they are all indulged in him, but few people will preach to him, and even fewer people will mention to him the feelings of others......

"You ......" He sneaked a glance at Shanniang from under his eyelashes, and uncomfortably avoided his eyes, and said, "You and Yuan Da, are you okay?" ”

"Very good. How? ”

"That ......" Zhou Chong was uncomfortable again, "That, I told you those words at the beginning because Yuan Da told you that your marriage contract was just an expedient measure...... That's why I ......."

Shanniang frowned, "Expedient or not, that's a matter between me and Yuan Da, and it has nothing to do with you." The so-called friend's wife can't be played, no matter what we think of our marriage contract, this is our business, for you, I was Yuan Changqing's fiancée at the time, if you really respect Yuan Changqing in your heart, you won't do such a thing! Know why I was so angry with you at the time? I'm just mad at this! Yuan Changqing treats you as a friend, but you take him as a joke in your heart! ”

"Not really!" Zhou Chong hurriedly shook his head, "I have it before, people who like him, if he doesn't like it, I'll go ......"

He paused, and suddenly felt that he was simply scummy, and couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself, and hung his head wiltedly, and said again: "I'm sorry......"

The way he looked, Shanniang suddenly had a delusion, thinking that it was Hou Jue who had made a mistake standing in front of her. At that moment, she couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted. can think of his bad reputation in his previous life, thinking that he was surrounded by people who were used to him, her nosy problem flipped up again, and said to Zhou Chong: "I didn't want to talk to you, but I still know how to apologize when I see you, which shows that your nature is not bad." In that case, then I would as well say a few more words. I did have some problems with Yuan Da before, but now I am willing to marry him. He may not be the kind of person who is empathetic compared to you, but he is definitely a responsible person. He never makes decisions lightly, but once he makes a decision, he will not change his decision, and he will never say that he likes it today, and he will throw it away at will if he doesn't like it tomorrow. Compared to him, you're actually a kid who hasn't grown up. ”

Shanniang knew that she was talking a little harshly. But the drum is hammered, with Yuan Changqing's temperament, since he is willing to take care of Zhou Chong, then Zhou Chong must have a different status in his heart - she even thinks that maybe Zhou Chong is the only playmate Yuan Changqing has ever had in his lonely childhood - in short, since Yuan Changqing is willing to take care of him, Shanniang is also willing to take care of him, even if it stimulates him a little bit, as long as he can correct this crooked child......

Of course, Shan Niang didn't expect her words to make Zhou Chong change his temperament, but later she found that at least in his attitude towards girls, Zhou Chong had a very different change - well, it seems that her words really played a role.