"Okay, that's all for today."
Zheng Zhai closed the pages of the book, said goodbye to the students and went out.
Seeing a woman in a yellow shirt sitting under a tree in the atrium of the academy, with a scorpion head and moth eyebrows, and a jade quality, with a calm and peaceful attitude, she subconsciously smiled:
"Wanwan, why are you here? Didn't you say you were going out for a while?"
"Aye."
Zheng Wan stood up, and Zheng Zhai had already approached, only to find a dusty swaddling baby on the half of the round table blocked by her daughter.
The chubby baby in the swaddling womb was not born yet, and his four arms and legs were kicking vigorously. When he saw him, he grinned—
Zheng Zhai exploded.
A thunderbolt on a sunny day wiped out all his gentleness, rationality and wisdom.
He rolled up his sleeves:
"Wanwan, is this your child?"
"Which bastard?!"
"Is it that Cui Wang?! Aye already knew that this guy is a bad guy. A while ago, it was reported in the Canglan newspaper that this guy was looking for a girl in Xuanyi Pavilion, and now he is taking advantage of my girl..."
There are too many strange ways for the monks to conceive in October. His family, Wan Wan, is such an innocent and good daughter, and she has only had a relationship with Cui Wang, maybe in the mortal world...
"Aye, Aye," Zheng Wan hurriedly held Aye who was about to run away, "Pay attention to your image, pay attention to your image, everyone is watching you over there."
Zheng Zhai didn't turn his head back:
"You bastards, give me your heads back! Otherwise, I will copy "Thousand Characters" a thousand times tomorrow!"
Just now I leaned out the window to see dozens of fairies shrank their heads back in unison.
"Aye, this child doesn't belong to me," Zheng Wan blushed angrily, "It belongs to someone else's family."
"… oh."
Zheng Zhai's anger faded completely in an instant, and looking at it from this side, this baby who eats hands and kicks feels that everything is pleasing to the eye.
He bent down and picked up the child:
"Come on, let's find your mother."
Zheng Zhai led Zheng Wan all the way back along the Chaoshou corridor, turned left at the end, opened a small door and entered.
This is a small courtyard once you enter, and once you close the door, it becomes a world of its own. It is not extravagant, but it is full of elegance.
Sitting in the small yard, Mrs. Wang took a cloth frame and quietly embroidered.
She looks up:
"Why are you back now?"
"Lang Lang, come quickly and hug the baby."
Wang was so surprised that she even dropped the cloth bandage. When she saw Zheng Wan, she said sharply, "Whose? Wan Wan's?! That thief Cui Wang—"
When she thought of the things in the mortal world, she became very angry.
How much wronged her daughter has suffered, and her reputation and integrity were all ruined by that person, although she only found out when she got to Xuan Cang, those things are nothing at all...
But what if it doesn't come up
People's hearts are biased, Wang naturally felt that her daughter was wronged, and she wished not to hear Cui Wang's name for a day.
Zheng Wan: "..."
"Mother, this child is not mine."
"Oh, it's not convenient."
Mrs. Wang patted her sleeves, regained her gentleness, took the child over and took a look, "Yo, you peed your pants."
She asked Zheng Wan to perform a dedusting formula, and then took the child into the side room:
"I'm afraid I'm hungry, I'll ask the cook to get some rice milk."
Zheng Wan chatted with Zheng Zhai in the courtyard, and Zheng Zhai told him that he had been an externally hired teacher in Changlu Academy, and the academy was equipped with a yard, and he would live here forever.
"I didn't see Aye Auntie when I got home, Wan Wan was frightened?"
He touched Zheng Wan's head.
Zheng Wan recalled the moment of panic just now, and her eyes were red: "Aye, Auntie, where you are going next time, you must tell your daughter in advance."
"All right, all right, how old are you, and you're still crying."
Zheng Zhai wiped away tears for her, and Zheng Wan smiled through tears: "Wan Wan is Aye's daughter since she was born, why can't she cry?"
"Okay, okay... By the way, what's going on with this kid?"
The reason why Zheng Zhai immediately thought he was his daughter's son was also because his daughter was not the kind of person who would show kindness casually.
Zheng Wan talked about some unimportant things before saying:
"Daughter thinks that she is often absent, and Aye is lonely, so why not adopt him as an heir, so that she can take care of her and fulfill her filial piety for her daughter."
"Wan Wan, it's hard for you to miss Aye when you're outside."
Zheng Zhai touched his daughter's head, "But forget about the heir, Aye and Auntie are getting old and don't want to work anymore. Let the child stay in the academy to raise him, and when he grows up, he will be Aye's disciple. "
"Okay, you can go talk to your mother again, then go back, go out with the teacher, be diligent, don't play your temper to make people hate you, ask for leave halfway, you won't be impressed if you delay for too long."
Zheng Zhai urged her to leave, but Zheng Wan had no choice but to keep the child and some pearls, and told Aye and Auntie not to worry, before going out.
The courtyard door was closed.
Zheng Wan leaned against the white wall and suddenly didn't want to go out.
She thought of Aye and Auntie's constant hostility towards Cui Wang, and also of Cui Wang's resistance outside just now, and she felt irritable for no reason.
It was as if someone played an out-of-key tune in her ears sparsely, and the tune scratched her ears very much.
"... We, Wanwan, have grown up too, so we will think about Aye and Auntie."
The ascetic's hearing is outstanding, and she listened to Aye in the wall saying cheerfully, "I am afraid that our old couple will be lonely, so I specially sent a child."
"Then you still refuse?"
"Isn't this because we are afraid that our child will be sad? A family of three, it is not good to have to get involved with an outsider? What if Wanwan comes home in the future, and she sees, ah, she, Aye, Auntie, has gone to hurt other children. Sad to die? You know how lonely she is."
"Yeah, three years old is big, five years old is old. When Wanwan was two years old, she knew that Aye was not allowed to hug other children, and she would punch and kick her whenever she hugged her. Do you still remember that dog named 'Zhu Er'?" ?”
"Why don't you remember? Wan Wan liked it so much at that time. She was in front of and behind her. She fed it herself when eating, and even hugged it when she slept. She never treated me so well."
When Zheng Wan heard Aye talking about Zhu'er, she couldn't help being stunned.
It's been a long time.
When she was four or five years old, Aye brought a dog from outside, the whole body was snow-white, only four paws were black, like four small plum blossoms, a pair of black eyes were always shining, like the most beautiful black bullets Pearl, so she took the name "Pearl" herself, but then one day...
She somehow doesn't like it anymore.
"... Zhu'er just ate a mouthful of what was fed by someone else, and your daughter gave it away after changing hands."
Zheng Zhai sighed, and got a reproachful look from his wife:
"Isn't it your pet? At that time, I said that it was too lonely to cure her bad temper. But you said, why do you want to be half-hearted? Whoever she wants to like, who is it?" You have to put your heart and soul into it, otherwise, changing another one will make..."
... So it turned out to be like this
Zheng Wan stopped listening and walked out along the corridor. Aye and Auntie's voice gradually faded away. When she passed the corner, she suddenly let out a "huh":
The boy with the scholar's bun just now, how does he look like Shuyuan's younger brother
But in retrospect, I only remember those two tubes of bright snot.
Looking again, the child had disappeared, so Zheng Wan had no choice but to withdraw her soul consciousness and leave the gate of the academy.
The gatekeeper came over courteously, nodded and bowed:
"Fairy walk slowly."
Zheng Wan gave him a Yuanzhu:
"If the gentleman surnamed Zheng in the academy is in need, please run a few more trips for him, don't wrong him. If anyone is looking for trouble, please send a letter to Zixiu Peak of Yuqingmen, to a person named Qing Frost, there must be a big thank you afterwards."
"It should be, it should be."
The gatekeeper held the Yuanzhu with a flattered expression on his face.
The immortals he had seen usually had eyes on the top of their heads, how could they be so approachable, so he speculated in his heart about Mr. Zheng's relationship with this immortal, and he became more respectful to Zheng Zhai from then on.
"Cui Wang?"
Zheng Wan walked to the street, only to see the person waiting under the tree.
In a short period of time, Cui Wang actually changed into an indigo robe with a light-colored cloud pattern around the robe. When walking, the cloud pattern seemed to move with the wind. Sassy and clear.
Compared with his usual white robe, it has the taste of Mr. Pianpianyu, which is more charming and less cold.
Cui Wang was resting against the tree with his eyes closed. Hearing her voice, he opened his eyes. The sunlight passed through the leaves, leaving clear and faint shadows in his eyes:
"alright?"
Awan squatted by the tree, watching the ants moving on the ground carefully.
"Okay, let's go."
Zheng Wan walked up to him with a smile, and there was no trace of the unhappiness on her face.
Cui Wang glanced at the blue robe on his body thoughtfully, and heard her say:
"I'm going to Fangshi, Cui Wang, you go to the mansion on Jingqi Street, I'll come to you when I buy something, and we'll go back to the camp, okay?"
Cui Wang pursed his lips, he refused:
"not good."
"Together."
"Never."
Zheng Wanshun replied, she pouted, "Cui Wang, tomorrow is your birthday, and I haven't made any preparations yet. If you follow along, wouldn't it be fun at all?"
Cui Wang's face softened:
"real?"
"Really." Zheng Wan patted the storage bag triumphantly, smiling so that her eyes became crescent moons, "I just earned a lot of diamonds today."
"Well, I'll wait for you at Jingqi Street."
Cui Wang took a deep look at her, and ordered, "Ah Wan, follow Zhenren Zheng, don't tell her to run around."
Awan nodded, and said "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh":
"Ah Wan knows, Ah Wan will look at Zhenren Zheng and not tell Zhenren to run around."
Zheng Wan called the insect car, and Ah Wan jumped into the insect car with "da da da", and the two waved to Cui Wang behind them:
"Let's go."
"Ah Wan is leaving, see you Zhenjun."
Awan swung vigorously.
The insect car slowly drove the people away, Cui Wang withdrew his soul consciousness, and went straight to No. 1 Jingqi Street, where a black figure was waiting in advance, and when he saw him, he bowed respectfully:
"My subordinates pay their respects to the Minister of State."
Cui Wang casually let out a "huh":
"Have you found out the identity of that Shuyuan?"
"According to my subordinates' investigations, there is nothing wrong with the identity of that Shuyuan. He is indeed the son of the previous city lord of Fengwu City, but..."
"Just what?"
"My subordinates have heard that Shuyuan and his mother have always been at odds. The two have not spoken for nearly ten years. They really don't seem to have that kind of filial piety. In addition, there is another interesting story. I heard that the previous city lord, In fact, it was Shuyuan's mother and concubine who killed him."
Cui Wang said "Oh":
"Is there evidence?"
"Nothing."
"check."
The black-clothed monk knew that this was the meaning of Da Siqing's dissatisfaction, so he answered "yes" bravely, turned to leave, but was stopped.
He stopped in doubt, bowed his head and waited for instructions.
But I heard a voice from the steps:
"Look, how about my body today?"
The black-clothed friar raised his head in astonishment, but saw a man in a blue robe on the steps, his brows and eyes were clear, but there was a trace of... an indescribable weirdness, probably, embarrassment
He must be wrong.
Black clothes bowed his head:
"Extremely handsome."