"The fourth girl hasn't eaten or drunk for two days..."

"Alas, also a poor man..."

"Who's to say it isn't? The fourth girl lost her parents early, and she was such a temperament on weekdays, and she finally survived until she reached the end of the day, and her fiancé's family came to discuss marriage, but Pei Gongzi misidentified someone in court, and later knew the truth, but he still wanted to marry the third girl..."

"If you want to say that, forget it, originally because Pei Gongzi wanted to marry our three girls after a criminal minister, the Hou Ye and the housewife would never agree, and it is true, as soon as the Pei family left, the housewife was busy and asked people to open the treasury to count the dowry, and wanted to marry the four girls as soon as possible..."

"But unexpectedly, only a few hours later, the news came out that the Holy Majesty decreed the rehabilitation of the Yasukuni Mansion, and it turned out that the so-called exile of the Pei family was just to recover the Tongcheng power for the imperial court..."

In a remote courtyard near the northwest corner of the garden in the Yongchang Marquis Mansion, a few mothers-in-law who sprinkled fallen leaves glanced at the quiet courtyard opposite from time to time, looking at each other and whispering.

However, when the words came to this, they all closed their mouths with interest, but their eyes clearly expressed the same meaning:

Seeing that the former guilty minister's house was once reduced to a new upstart in the court, several masters in the house couldn't sit still.

One of them straightened up and walked back, and when he looked up, his eyes suddenly stopped, and he exclaimed:

"Four... Four girls..."

I saw a woman leaning on the rockery in the small courtyard who couldn't tell her age, and the reason why I said this was because the woman's dress was really indescribable.

She wore an oily green cardigan and an indigo skirt, such a dark dress, which neither pinched her waist nor tucked her body, and wrapped around her body like a big cloth bag. Her thick black hair was simply tied in a short bun, and her forehead was covered with thick bangs, which covered most of her eyebrows.

is dressed in this old-fashioned dress, if it weren't for her fair skin and slender figure, at first glance, I would think it was a grandmother in a courtyard, not the four girls in the house who were in the flower season.

Behind the scenes, it is said that people have bumped into the main owner. Several people were a little Shanshan, and hurriedly left after blessing Fu.

saw that the woman was leaning against the rockery with her hands around her chest and squinting, and she only tilted her head lazily when she heard the sound.

Seeing this, several people couldn't help muttering: No one in the house knows, since the four girls followed the female master to learn calligraphy, her temperament has become old-fashioned and wooden, and she has almost carved the dogmas that bind women into her bones, and everyone in the mansion has respected her. But looking at the appearance of the four girls just now, how do they seem to have changed people?

Shen Mingjiao straightened up and glanced at the letter paper in his hand.

Tut! The handwriting is good, but people are stupid.

The letter paper was crumpled into a ball, raised his hand and threw it gently, and the paper ball fell steadily into the plane tree opposite, startling the birds on the tree for a while.

She clapped her hands in satisfaction and whistled at the flock of birds she had frightened.

A set of movements is clean and neat,

Shen Mingjiao walked all the way through the garden verandah to a pavilion leading to the outer courtyard.

Through the thick bangs, I vaguely saw a long and straight figure standing in the pavilion,

Shen Mingjiao was uncomfortable and pulled the large handful of bangs in front of her forehead, took out a wooden hairpin from her coat pocket casually, and inserted it into the back of her head according to the bangs, and the whole person instantly became ten degrees beautiful.

Hearing the footsteps, the man in the court turned his head, this person was wearing a white Confucian shirt, his posture was handsome, and the tip of his fingers was the Zhilan Yushu, which was beautiful and beautiful.

Shen Mingjiao glanced at him lightly, then sat down casually, and pointed to the recliner opposite: "Sit." ”

Pei Ji looked at her in surprise, and then was stunned, and it was difficult to hide the surprise in her eyes.

Although the woman in front of her was slightly pale, her face was indescribably gorgeous and charming.

Not to mention the laziness and carelessness that naturally flowed from the gestures, which reminded people of the glass cat raised by the clan when they were young.

Pei Ji was only stunned for a moment, and quickly retracted his gaze, suspicious in his heart, and after a quick glance that day, he had the impression that Miss Shen had been lowering her head, vaguely a dignified and wooden girl. But when I see it today, it seems to be different.

Retracting his thoughts, he looked at Shen Mingjiao deeply:

"Miss Shen, I know that I am wrong this time, and I shouldn't rashly propose to withdraw my family..."

He told Shen Mingyan from beginning to end,

Probably that three years ago, when he was studying in the academy, he met Shen Mingyan, who was dressed as a man, and Shen Mingyan taught him a lesson and isolated his classmates, and the two became friends.

Later, Shen Mingyan was sent out of the academy after discovering the identity of a woman, and he learned from Shen Mingyan's maid that the other party was a girl from the Yongchang Marquis Mansion, so he took it for granted that Shen Mingyan was his fiancée whom he had never met. So in the past three years, the two have corresponded often and introduced each other as confidants.

It wasn't until that day that he came to the door with his mother to propose that he had always recognized the wrong person.

Shen Mingjiao listened quietly, relived a lifetime, and when she heard these words again, she would no longer be as unwilling to despair as in her previous life, but felt a little funny,

She glanced at Pei Ji's handsome face and said:

"Don't you know that it was the third sister Shen Mingyan who was married to you at the beginning, but later your family suffered, and my uncle's family was replaced by me for fear of being implicated."

She smiled and asked, "Did you say that the third sister knew about this at that time?" So why is she like this now? ”

Pei Ji was dumbfounded for a moment, obviously deliberately ignoring this matter, thinking of something, Fu shook his head firmly: "No, Miss Shen San was still young at that time, she may not know about it..."

Shen Mingjiao shook her head secretly, lowered her eyes and said no more.

"Now things have gone wrong to this point, people are not grass and trees, the three-year relationship is not to say that it will be taken back, and now I have Shen San girl in my heart, if I am with Shen Si girl again, it will not be fair to you, girl..."

"Don't worry, my mother has promised to recognize the girl as her goddaughter, and in the future, she will help the girl find a wishful husband, and the Pei family will add a rich dowry to the girl to send the girl to get married."

His tone was sincere, his eyes were full of seriousness, Shen Mingjiao knew that this was indeed Pei Ji's sincere words at the moment, not polite words for the purpose of withdrawing from the marriage. Just because she knew, she felt extremely embarrassed and helpless in her previous life.

If he is really a mercenary villain who hates the poor and loves the rich, she will admit it.

She was just about to speak, when a crisp female voice came from afar:

"Pei Gongzi..."

Shen Mingjiao looked for prestige, only to see a woman in a goose yellow shirt walking hurriedly from the verandah in front of the pavilion, with a round face, half-curved apricot eyes, and her own vitality.

Shen Mingjiao picked her lips, such a young and energetic Shen Mingyan, she was really a little unaccustomed to it for a while.

Shen Mingyan walked closer, looked at Pei Ji, and took a deep breath:

"Pei Gongzi, I'm sorry! If I had known that you were the fiancé of my fourth sister, I should not have exchanged letters with my son regardless of the dignity of men and women because of my appreciation of Childe's talents. So much so that Childe regarded me as the fourth sister. ”

She paused: "Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, the previous matter will be written off, and the son must not bear the fourth sister because of this matter." ”

After speaking, he looked at Pei Ji, and his apricot eyes were full of honesty.

Pei Ji looked stunned and blurted out, "What about you?" ”

Shen Mingyan lowered her eyelashes, covered the loss under her eyes, raised her head, and tried to pull out a bright smile:

"You just treat me as your classmates, in a few days, my mother will tell me goodbye, it's a pity, I may not be able to go out casually in the future!"

Pei Ji looked at her, the once energetic girl seemed to have grown up overnight, but there was no longer the gleam in her eyes. Is it because of him?

Seeing that Shen Mingyan turned around and was about to leave, Pei Ji grabbed the other party's sleeve in a hurry,

"Miss Shen, but now I only admire you..."

Shen Mingyan shook off his hand and interrupted him in a deep voice:

"Pei Gongzi don't say such things again in the future, the fourth sister is not having a good time, no matter what you think in your heart, you should treat her well."

"No, now that I have someone else in my heart, how can I still marry Miss Shen Si? This is also unfair to Miss Shen Si. ”

Shen Mingjiao said coldly: "I think it's fair!" ”

“？”

The two who were in a sadomasochistic relationship looked at each other.

Shen Mingjiao: "You are now the prince of the Guogong Mansion, after I marry you, I will be the wife of the prince, and when you inherit the title in the future, I will be the duchess of the super grade, and I will enjoy endless glory and wealth, such a good marriage, why is it unfair?" ”

The two on the other side were stunned at the same time, Shen Mingyan's eyes darkened, Pei Ji stared at her incredulously, and blurted out: "But I don't like you!" ”

Shen Mingjiao shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "Is this important?" What love do you need in front of glory and wealth! ”

Pei Ji couldn't help but show disgust in his eyes when he heard this, he would never marry such a superficial and vain woman no matter what.

Shen Mingjiao glanced at him and stretched out boredly,

"Tsk! Look at the two of you, it's really funny! ”

With that, she pulled out a yellowed piece of rice paper from her bosom.

Fortunately, she had to leave the marriage certificate of the two just in case, otherwise the eldest aunt would be able to withdraw from the marriage directly in the name of the elders.

She handed the marriage book to Pei Ji.

Pei Ji's expression eased, and he raised his hand to pick it up.

Shen Mingjiao retracted her hand again, and said with a smile: "Pei Gongzi, if you want a marriage letter, you should show some sincerity!" ”

Pei Ji frowned, becoming more and more displeased with Shen Mingjiao, and said lightly: "Say, what do you want?" ”

Shen Mingjiao stood up suddenly, smiled, and said:

"It's very simple, it's been eight years since I got the marriage certificate, because I know that your family is poor, I take out five taels of silver money from copying books and imitations for others every month and send it to your mother, and now since you want to withdraw from the marriage, should you return these silver taels?"

"Five taels a month, eight years is four hundred and eighty taels, based on the mental damage you brought to me by your rash withdrawal from marriage, then please ask Pei Gongzi to calculate a whole number and give five hundred taels!"

Her voice was very calm, and she didn't deliberately sell miserably as she imagined, but Pei Ji was directly stunned, remembering what she had just done, the son who had always been breezy and moonlit turned red for the first time.