Old Mrs. Ao and Ao Luanxiao looked at her with complicated eyes for a long time. Old Mrs. Fang asked calmly: "So, those things you just said about thinking about your brother were all just a cover for going to Chang'an?"
Hearing the sullenness in his grandfather's tone, Ao Luanjing hurriedly said: "No! Although I want to go to Chang'an, I also hope that my brother will go there together - after all, Prince Xu and Cousin Sheng are both very talented and learned. The so-called people who are close to Zhu. Chi, my brother is traveling with them, how can it be of no help to his studies?"
As she spoke, she looked at Ao Luanxiao with pleading eyes.
Although Ao Luanxiao also suspected that her sister was plotting against her, after all, she was a brother and sister. When she saw it, her heart softened and she helped persuade Old Master Ao: "My sister is right. Both brothers are extremely talented people. If they can If you walk with them, even a foolish person like your grandson will surely gain something."
Old Mrs. Ao looked at Ao Luan Jing intently, but did not pursue the matter further, but sighed: "You said you were unwilling to give in and wanted to imitate the girls from the Sheng family, but this is my grandfather, your father and your brother. I'm sorry for you - the girl from the Sheng family may not be much better than you, but her grandfather is a serious official from the fourth rank of General Mingwei, her father is a Hanlin, and her brother is also a quasi-jinshi!"
"Not to mention how wealthy the Sheng family is, everyone in the surrounding counties knows about it!"
"A girl with such a background, even if she goes to Chang'an to choose a son-in-law among the new scholars, she is naturally qualified to be picky!"
"But what about our family?"
"When my grandfather was disarming with Brother Sheng and the others, he was just a small seventh-grade Zhiguo Colonel!"
"General Zhou just went there at that time. The new commander-in-chief specially mentioned it to appease us, General Zhou's old subordinates. Otherwise, based on my performance in the army, I may only be a pawn for the rest of my life!"
"Your father studied to be a civil servant in school, and it was still very reluctant; your brother has not passed the child examination yet - our family is just an ordinary country squire, and the family wealth is not comparable to that of the Sheng family - they are Jinshi, even if they are from a poor family, they are on the gold list After that, a bright future is expected. Let me put it bluntly: How many noble ladies from Chang'an will choose their husbands from among them? It's like you look down on the children of other families in the county. Why do those new scholars have such high standards? I don’t want a noble girl, but you, a girl from a small squire’s family in Nanfeng County?!”
Ao Luanjing's face turned pale when the old man asked this question, but after a moment of confusion, his eyes quickly turned firm: "How come the two empresses Shu who are so favored by today are from noble families? However, due to good fortune, Who can say for sure? In short, although I was unwilling before, I had no courage to ask my family to send me to Chang'an; now that I have this opportunity, I can go with sister Wei Qiao. If I don't give it a try If I try, I... I probably won’t be able to let it go for the rest of my life!”
"Sister!" Ao Luanxiao frowned and reminded her, "Cousin Qiao is only fifteen, but you are already seventeen - after the New Year, you will be eighteen!"
If Ao Luanjing can find a suitable husband during the trip to Chang'an, Ao Luanxiao will naturally be willing to fulfill his sister's wish.
But according to Old Man Ao's analysis, this hope was not great at all. Instead, he might lose Ao Luanjing's one-year-old youth in vain - Ao Luanxiao felt that the gain was not worth the loss!
There was another sentence that he was too embarrassed to say for fear of hurting the relationship between the siblings: Although none of the Ao family had ever seen the two empresses Shu who had been favored for many years, they had also heard in rumors that the Shu sisters both had Chen Yuluoyan and Chen Yuluoyan. Otherwise, how could the peerless beauty of the moon and the shy flowers be able to charm the emperor with three thousand harems
Moreover, it has been twenty years since you were favored, and you are still favoring and seizing a special room
Although Ao Luanjing can be called a beauty, she is still far from being a peerless beauty - she is just an ordinary beauty.
But Ao Luanjing didn't even look at him, only looked at Old Man Ao closely.
The old man was silent for a long time, and then said calmly: "But even if you haven't seen the attitude of Mr. Xu and his wife in person, you should have heard about it! You said that they already like the girls of the Sheng family so much, even if my grandfather cares about the blood relationship. Come on, I will help you win love with a knife without any regard for shame... Can you win it?"
"..." Now it was Ao Luanjing's turn to be stunned for a long time before replying, "Xu family? Grandpa, you misunderstood. I have no admiration for Crown Prince Xu!"
However, not only did Mrs. Ao sigh after hearing this, with a look of distrust on his face, but Ao Luanxiao also said: "Sister, the reason why you are thinking about going to Chang'an is precisely because you saw what cousin Wei Qiao did, and you envied her and imitated her. . Otherwise, at Xiezhuxuan two days ago, you wouldn’t have obviously disliked beasts, and you had never seen the leopard named ‘Chu Wu’, so you would have had to let cousin Wei Qiao give it to you—you just said it yourself You have said that you are not angry with Cousin Qiao for not accepting what Xu Shixiong said. It shows that you think Xu Shixiong is good - do you want to lie to us again? There are no outsiders here. We are all your blood relatives, no matter what you do. Right or wrong, we will never betray you after all, so why do you have to cover up?"
Ao Luanjing never expected that her brother would think of her asking for the fifth grade of junior high school from Sheng Weiqiao, and come to the conclusion that she was indeed in love with Xu Baomo. For a moment, she only felt that her chest was tight, and she gritted her teeth after gathering herself. Said: "I really don't have any admiration for Prince Xu!"
Seeing that Mrs. Ao and Ao Luanxiao's expressions of disbelief became more and more obvious, their eyebrows were a little unhappy, and they obviously felt that she wanted to lie to them. Whether Ao Luanjing wanted to go to Chang'an or marry Sheng Suihe, I need the help of these two elders. At this moment, I have no choice but to tell the truth: "Actually, what I am happy about... is Cousin Sheng!"
In order to dispel their doubts as soon as possible, he simply said, "The reason why I made a fuss about coming to Sheng Mansion with my grandfather this time is just to see him!"
"Him?" The question is that when the old man and Ao Luanxiao heard this, the suspicion on their faces did not diminish at all. Instead, they said, "He has been in Sheng Mansion for the past two years, and he has never seen you making trouble to come before. Why did he listen this time? Saying that the Xu family brought Prince Xu to the Sheng Mansion, you were about to come crying and making trouble?"
After all, do you think she likes Xu Baomo? !
In fact, Ao Luanjing didn't particularly hate Xu Baomo. Firstly, the story of Xu Baomo's rebellion and abandonment of Sheng Weiqiao did not spread. Secondly, although Xu Baomo and Ao Luanjing were not close, they had no grudges.
The problem is that Sheng Weiqiao showed resistance to the prince, so Ao Luanjing was very disgusted with others, even if her family members said that she liked Xu Baomo - Sheng Weiqiao didn't want someone, so why should I treat him as such? baby? !
At this moment, I couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry, and said: "Isn't it okay for me to mention this before my grandfather didn't say he was coming? This time, I heard that my grandfather was coming, so I asked to go with him!"
Seeing that the doubts on her grandfather's and brother's faces had not dispelled at all, she became angry and simply raised her hands and swore, "If I fall in love with Xu Baomo, I will die..."
Old Mrs. Ao and Ao Luanxiao quickly stopped her and repeatedly expressed that they believed her - but the old Mrs. Ao still had to go into details about asking her to go to Chang'an. After all, Ao Luanjing wanted to go with the Sheng and Xu families. Only when both families agree.
Having dismissed Ao Luan Jing in this way, Old Master Ao left Ao Luan Xiao in front of him to talk. Before he spoke, he sighed and said, "It's a bad idea to keep a female student here!"
Ao Luanxiao was worried that her grandfather would be sad, so she carefully spoke for her sister: "My sister is very beautiful, and she went to school with her grandson when she was young. In her early years, she did better in her studies than her grandson. It is also in the past two years that the family has missed her because the girl's talent is too great. She was so afraid that her husband's family would be jealous of her, so she asked her to learn needlework, which delayed her. With such a talent and appearance, the families she had found for her before were honest and kind, but in terms of talent and appearance alone, they were indeed He is not worthy of my sister. After coming to Sheng Mansion and seeing the example of cousin Wei Qiao, it is no wonder that my sister is not willing to give in!"
Old man Ao sighed again and said, "Don't I know this truth? It's just that the Xu family likes Wei Qiao, so how can they be willing to accept Luan Jing? In terms of ancestral ties, Brother Xu is the most admired person in this life. Brother Sheng, you just call me 'brother' to be polite to me - when he was in the army in the early years, Old Xu also took care of the fact that Brother Sheng and I were fellow villagers in the same county, and Brother Sheng also took care of me. That's why you treat me differently - you said that even if Wei Qiao has been nice to Xu Bao Mo so far, how can Luan Jing be able to compete with her?"
Ao Luanxiao said in surprise: "But didn't my sister say she likes Cousin Sheng? She almost swore poison just now..."
"It's just the angry words the girl said out of embarrassment!" Mr. Ao didn't believe it at all. "If she likes the child Shuihe, then she treats the girl Wei Qiao as her sister-in-law. In this way, she is trying to please that girl. It’s too late, let alone being jealous of that girl?”
"I think she most likely regarded that girl as a love rival, and that's why she became so resentful - in order to avoid causing trouble, I shouldn't have agreed to let her go through this!"
"But looking at the decisiveness with which she had just sworn the oath, and she was afraid that she would not be allowed to go, she kept thinking about it and couldn't let it go. Even if she reluctantly married someone later, she would be depressed for the rest of her life, and she might even cause trouble at her husband's house. Something happened!"
"So I'll go ahead and tell the two families about this later."
"If there are no accidents, the two families will agree - but letting Luan Jing go to Chang'an alone is unreasonable on the one hand, and I don't feel at ease on the other!"
"And your father, mother, uncle, and aunt each have their own errands, and they can't get away from it!"
"So I can only work hard for you and follow her - let alone whether she can find a suitable husband in Chang'an during this trip, in any case, we can't let her poach the girl Wei Qiao!"
"It's not that I don't help my family, but if it weren't for Brother Sheng, I would have died on the battlefield with no bones left!"
"Brother Sheng takes care of me simply because he and I are from the same hometown, and we have nothing to ask for!"
"Over the years, I have been thinking about repaying him, but I have never been able to do anything for him. I even humiliated him because of your aunt; and the year before last, I killed the Bai family for De'er... these things He didn't care about me, not only helped cover up the truth, but he still treated me like a brother."
"Although he is generous, if I want to push my limits further and allow my granddaughter to snatch his granddaughter's possessions... then am I still a human being?"
The old man narrowed his eyes and patted his grandson's hand gently. His voice was low but firm, "So, you must keep an eye on Luan Jing and you must not let her do such a bastard thing!"
"I think even if she is arrogant, she has been to Chang'an and witnessed the majesty and nobility of Ningweihou Mansion with her own eyes. After knowing the gap between our family and the Xu family, she will no longer have the trouble and will naturally feel at ease. , came back to get married safely!"
Ao Luanxiao accepted the order solemnly: "My grandson will definitely do it!"