Chapter 9: The Daughter of the Head of the House
When I returned to the courtyard, I saw Huan'er sitting in the house. Seeing Lin Xin come in, he hurriedly greeted him: "Young Master Lin Xin, you're back!"
"Hmm. Sister Huan'er, haven't you gone to rest yet?" Shangguan Lan had already left Lin Xin in the study for a long time. It's not early at the moment, and I don't want Huan'er to wait for me here.
"The young master didn't come back, how dare Huan'er go to rest, I'll go fetch water. Huan'er said and went out the door.
Lin Xin thought of Shangguan Lan asking him to go, but he didn't want to really treat himself as his own family. Lin Xin has read a lot and understands many truths, Shangguan Lan is so affectionate and righteous to herself, she must not disappoint them in the future. I don't know if they know what happened in the Houshan Waterfall place today. In the past, it was good to go to the pond, but this time I fell for no reason, and I don't know if they believe it or not.
Thinking about the edge of the pool, I suddenly thought. I forgot to tell him about the hole I saw underwater, should I go back and tell him?
If you think about it, you don't know what kind of hole this hole is. Don't tell them, I'll see later.
After a while, Huan'er fetched water for him to wash up, and told him to rest early before leaving by himself.
Lin Xin is indeed a little tired today, and he used to fall asleep slowly while thinking about the events of the day, but today he fell asleep quickly. In his sleep, he faintly felt that he was in a dark place, so dark that he could not see everything around him clearly, and he cried out a few times in some fear, but no one answered him. He poked his feet and slowly groped around, as if something around him was cold, as if he could grasp it, and as if it slipped away in an instant. After a while, it got colder and colder, and his whole body felt like he was in an ice cellar. His forehead was also covered with cold sweat. He struggled to curl up in a ball, but he couldn't stop the coldness.
Gradually, his whole body trembled a little, and Lin Xin gritted his teeth and persisted. Suddenly, a glow began to shine on his chest, soft and faint. gave people a warm feeling, and after a while, the coldness on Lin Xin's body gradually disappeared, and he was wrapped in warmth instead, and gradually he relaxed his body. When he gradually improved, the light in his chest gradually faded, and finally dimmed as usual.
In the end, everything returned to normal as if nothing had happened.
As usual, Lin Xin went to the study building first. He was looking for some miscellaneous books to read today, especially some books that recorded strange and strange objects.
"Ambergris, what the hell is it? Why isn't it written in the book? "I've been looking for a long time but I haven't gotten it. Lin Xin was a little discouraged.
After searching for nearly two hours, he found it, but seeing that it was noon, Lin Xin had to give up.
It's strange that Shangguan Minghao didn't come to look for him today, and Lin Xin was also puzzled. As he walked to his house, he had to pass through the garden outside the main hall, which was ten acres in size, and there were only a few gardeners in the courtyard who were tending to the flower beds. Lin Xin looked at the main hall, and there was no one in the hall.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves outside, Lin Xin heard the sound and looked, only to see a middle-aged man riding a horse outside the gate hurriedly riding towards this side. The horse did not stop, but the people moved, and the horse stopped, and he shouted to the guard on the side: "Lead the horse!" and then hurriedly walked inside. He rushed in, only to see that there was no one in the lobby, then looked left and right, saw Lin Xin was about to leave, and said repeatedly: "Lin Xin, do you know where the head of the family is now?"
"I don't know what happened to you, Uncle Shi, I just came out of the study building, I don't know where Uncle Shibo is!" Lin Xin answered his question. Looking at his sweaty journey, there should be something urgent to report to the head of the family.
"Then I'll find it myself. As he spoke, he hurriedly went to Shangguan Lan.
This person is also a member of the Shangguan family, named Wuji, and is the same generation as the head of the family, Shangguan Lan. is a relative, and he is also Shangguan Lan's right-hand man on weekdays. Lin Xin naturally recognized him, and seeing him hurriedly looking for Shangguan Lan at this time, something important must have happened.
Although Lin Xin was curious about what was going on, he wouldn't know anything about it now, so he had to continue to go back to himself.
finally found Shangguan Minghao, but saw that he was not going anywhere, doing strange things in his yard. Lin Xin looked strange, stood for a while and didn't see the name, so he asked, "Minghao, what are you doing with your head on the ground?"
"I'm practicing!" Hearing someone behind him speak, Shangguan Minghao immediately turned around. I saw that he was sweating profusely, and the two halves of his face turned white and red, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
"Is this a practice? What kind of kung fu do you practice? Why is it so strange?" Lin Xin only felt that this exercise was different from what he had seen before.
Shangguan Minghao picked up a book on the ground and said to Lin Xin: "It's the kung fu on this book, which I found in the library." ”
Hearing him say this, Lin Xin laughed: "Since this is the case, then why do you suddenly remember to practice?" In Lin Xin's opinion, there will be no real cultivation exercises in the things in the study. He didn't look at the book in Shangguan Minghao's hand first, but asked.
"Yesterday Uncle said that we should behave well at the coming-of-age ceremony. That's what I'm preparing for, and even though it's too late, I'm going to do it. Shangguan Minghao said confidently.
It seems that Ming Hao didn't know that he was going to test our cultivation talent, and he thought it was something else. It seems that the two heads of the family didn't even tell Ming Hao.
"Why don't you come with me, you look at me, I feel like I have strength all over my body now. He raised his fist as he spoke, looking like I had muscles.
Lin Xin looked funny and said to him: "Don't do it, I'll just see you practice." ”
"How can that work, I can't just focus on improving myself, I have to let you come with me. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pull Lin Xin.
How could Lin Xin think that he was practicing, at most he was exercising. hurriedly retreated, waved his hand at Shangguan Minghao and said, "Don't do it, don't do it, just practice it yourself, I'll show you on the side." ”
"Come on, I'm bored to practice alone. Shangguan Minghao chased after him.
"What are you guys playing? I'm going to play with you too. A yellow warbler cried softly, and I don't know when there was already a woman standing at the door of the courtyard, dressed in a white shirt, with green silk eyebrows, and a little cherry red lips, she stood there gracefully, with a little smile on her face, two cute little dimples on her snow-white cheeks, and two big black eyes staring at the two of them motionlessly.
Seeing that the two stopped moving, they did not speak. She said coquettishly: "Brother Minghao, Lin Xin, what are you playing? I want to play together." ”
"Xue'er, you're back!" Shangguan Minghao gave up chasing Lin Xin and walked this way.
"yes, I just arrived. Lin Xin, what are you doing?" Seeing that he didn't answer, Xue'er asked Lin Xin beside Shangguan Minghao.
The Xue'er in Shangguan Minghao's mouth is Shangguan Xue'er, she is the only daughter of the head of the family, Shangguan Lan.
The two Shangguan Lan brothers are the two sons of the previous head of the family, and the two grew up together. When it came to the age of talking about marriage, Shangguan Lan failed to find the object he liked in time, but Shangguan Zheng fell in love with the daughter of the Zhou family and married before his brother, a few years later, his father saw that Shangguan Lan was getting older, and hurriedly gave him many family affairs, but he refused, and finally had to give him an ultimatum, but Shangguan Lan told the truth at this time. It turned out that the two Shangguan Lan brothers had been running outside for many years, and the younger brother was honestly working for the affairs of the clan. And the elder brother Shangguan Lan met a woman by chance, this girl is beautiful and fragrant, but she was born in an ordinary family. She was born frail and often sick, so she often bought medicine to cure her illness.
The Shangguan family is a cultivator who runs many pharmacies. At this time, Shangguan Lan happened to stay in the shop where the woman was buying medicine. He was young and manly. Looking at such a weak beauty, I can't help but feel pity. In this way, he communicated with her, so often, that the two fell in love and fell in love.
At that time, Shangguan Lan had important responsibilities, so he had to leave, but he still kept in touch. When the family said that he was married, he knew that this family affair was not the right household, and the family would not agree to this family affair, and he shirked other family affairs in various ways, so it was many years to push.
When the father found out, he was originally angry, and he didn't want Lan's mother to be considerate of her son's soft grinding against him. And at that time, it was not enough to use marriage to increase the power of the family, but it was agreed.
Xue'er's mother is called Chu Nishang, she was born weak, and after marrying into the Shangguan family, she gradually recovered after recuperation. Two or three years after arriving at Shangguan's house, she became pregnant with Xue'er. This was a great joy, but I didn't want to be blushing and thin, and when I gave birth to a dystocia, the jade soul went west, leaving only Xue'er to Shangguan Lan.
Shangguan Lan cherishes his late wife in his heart, and he has not renewed the strings over the years. I love this daughter very much.
Lin Xin and Shangguan Xue'er are already familiar with each other, he saw her when he first arrived at Shangguan's house, and now it has been five or six years. Seeing her ask herself, Lin Xin smiled and said, "Play, this is fun." I was happy to play with Minghao just now, but now I'm already happy. After a pause, he looked at Shangguan Minghao again and said, "But Minghao is in the middle of the fun, come to Minghao, let Xue'er see how we play." ”
This is said so bluntly, Shangguan Minghao is already smart. Just now he asked Lin Xin to practice with him but he didn't want to, but now he said in front of Xue'er that he was playing with him just now. He's making fun of himself.
"Okay, you Lin Xin, you dare to make a joke about your eldest brother. Shangguan Minghao picked up the book and called Lin Xin.
How could Lin Xin be beaten in vain? He hurriedly ran away, Shangguan Minghao chased after him, and the two of them giggled and laughed, one chasing and the other running, which was very good-looking.
Shangguan Xue'er saw that they were playing happily, and clapped her hands and shouted, "I want to play too, I want to play too." Then he hurried after him.