Aunt Tan came to the Guogong Mansion today. In addition to caring about the current situation of her nephews and nieces, she also had another business matter. The Tan family was preparing to invite relatives and friends for a banquet on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month.
It has been ten years since Mrs. Yuan passed away. After that, the Tan family held a New Year's banquet. Guo Boyan personally went there three times. After that, only a pair of children came forward. But every year, Aunt Tan would send posts to Linyuntang, and this year was no exception.
Coincidentally, not long after the Tan family left, the Lin family also sent a steward to send the invitation to the mansion. Lin took the post and saw the "27th of the twelfth lunar month" above, which reminded the Tan family's post, and Daimei couldn't help frowning. Guo Boyan treats her with respect, the dignified grandfather accompanies her back to the door in person, and sets foot in the merchant's house. Based on Guo Boyan's recent attitude towards her, he should also be willing to go to the Lin's house for dinner, but...
Before the manager who sent the post had left, Mr. Lin thought about it and asked, "Have all the posts of other relatives and friends been sent?"
The steward shook his head, bent over and said, "Madam said, let's first ask if your life here is cheap. If you bump into other nobles, our mansion will change it."
Lin shi secretly admired her sister-in-law. Since her sister-in-law has a clear mind, she truthfully said: "One day in advance, Grandpa Guo is free on the twenty-sixth day."
"Yes." The steward got the letter and left happily.
Lin Shi ordered Qiuyue to cut the invitations from her parents' family. Looking back, she saw her daughter sitting at the low mahogany table with her head lowered, her little hands peeling the tangerines earnestly, and then looking at the three beautiful and complete tangerines on the plate on the table. The orange peel, Lin Shi said helplessly: "Eating too many oranges gets angry, you can't eat this after you've eaten it."
Song Jianing raised her head and smiled at her mother, "I know." Then she put down the peel of the orange that she just peeled, and broke half of the orange and handed it to her mother.
Mrs. Lin sat next to her daughter and accompany her daughter to finish eating the oranges. She asked softly, "Just now, my mother asked your aunt to have a dinner party one day earlier, does An An understand why?"
Song Jianing nodded: "Stagger with the Tan family." The two in-laws bumped into each other. Guo Boyan went to the Tan family, and his mother's face was dull. Guo Boyan went to the Lin family. Idea, rather than this, it is better to stagger, everyone is satisfied.
The daughter analyzed the grounds well, and she didn't know how to eat as stupid as she seemed. Lin was very relieved, and hugged her daughter and kissed it. After getting the reward, Song Jianing tentatively went to the plate to get the oranges, but the little fat hand stretched out halfway, and was held down by Lin Shi, and gave his daughter an angry look.
Song Jianing licked her lips, blinked her eyes, and said goodbye to her mother. After leaving the Huanyue Residence, she led Shuang'er to Mrs. Tai's Changxinyuan, and deliberately made her wait outside, and then used this Fazi, ate three more egg-sized tangerines in the madam's house, and then went to Yuchunju in Tingfang to eat three more.
After rubbing it around for a while, Song Jianing acted coquettishly with her mother and ate another one. Finally satisfied, she obediently went back to her room to sleep.
Lin kept the lamp and sat on the warm couch outside with clothes, waiting for Guo Boyan.
The cold wind whistled outside the window, and at one watch the night was as black as ink, and Guo Boyan came back full of alcohol. Lin's sober tea was prepared in advance, but Guo Boyan didn't even give her a chance to pour the tea.
She was so tired that Mrs. Lin slept for the first time in her first sleep in the Guogong's mansion. When she opened her eyes the next day, it was already bright outside the window, and she had long missed the time to greet Mrs. Tai. Lin Shi was in a hurry, gently lifted the quilt to get up, and then propped up her body. Suddenly there was a big hand around her waist, and she pulled it back with a hard pull.
"Mother's side..." Lin Shi couldn't move, and reminded the man behind him in a hoarse voice.
"Mother guessed it, I won't blame you." Guo Boyan put his arms around the delicate beauty, closed his eyes and kissed Lin's ears, face, neck, and no desire. He just wanted to hold her like this and talk casually, "I came back yesterday. What's going on at home?"
Lin Shi couldn't guess whether this person knew anything, and said truthfully: "The aunt and aunt came to sit down for a while, and posted a message to invite the grandfather to dinner on the twenty-seventh day."
Guo Boyan said lazily, "Tell Pingzhang Tingfang to go."
Lin Shi shrank in his arms, secretly guessing Guo Boyan and Mrs. Tai's attitude towards the Tan family.
"When will your eldest brother have a banquet?" Now that he was talking about this, Guo Boyan naturally thought of his newlywed wife's family.
Lin said softly, "Twenty-six."
Guo Boyan hummed, but didn't say whether to go or not.
The couple just hugged and chatted, and suddenly there was the sound of footsteps made by the maid outside. Lin guessed that something was wrong, and just broke Guo Boyan's iron arm and escaped. "
Qiuyue's voice that could not laugh or cry came in: "Madam, the fourth girl has eaten too many oranges, and there are three blisters on the corners of her mouth."
Lin's headache, this girl must have eaten it again.
"Please sir." Guo Boyan got up when he heard the sound, and accompanied Lin to see his daughter.
Song Jianing was looking in the mirror. The corners of his mouth were good last night, but after one night's work, three bubbles appeared, one big and one small, not to mention how ugly. Song Jianing regretted it a lot. She knew that there would be such a big fire. She would endure what she said, and eat up to three tangerines a day.
Hearing that her mother and stepfather were coming, Song Jianing immediately asked Jiu'er to take the mirror away, bowed her head shyly, and took the initiative to admit her mistake.
Lin raised her daughter's chin, and after reading the injury, she scolded mercilessly.
Guo Boyan just laughed.
Because Song Jianing didn't go to Mrs. Tai's place today, the news of her illness quickly spread to other hospitals. Guo Xiao still remembered that Song Jianing's face was reddened by his aunt yesterday, and asked A Shun lightly, "Are you really getting angry?"
Ah Shun said, "That's what they said. I don't know the specifics."
Guo Xiao lowered his head, turned a few pages of the book, put it down, and went out.
Song Jianing's side is not too lively, except Guo Xiao, several young masters of the Guogong's mansion are here. Tingfang is a gentle and good sister, the second girl Lanfang is also good to Song Jianing, and she really cares, the third girl Yunfang usually doesn't like Song Jianing, but now Song Jianing is so ugly, she is very gloating, sitting on the bedside and making fun of Song Jianing, But it's not the malicious mockery of Princess Duanhui.
The naughty spirit of Guo Fu and Guo Shu was also exposed. How good they were to Song Jianing in the beginning, like a real brother, now they treat the four younger sisters equally. Knowing that Song Jianing was greedy for oranges, the twins deliberately peeled the oranges in front of Song Jianing and ate them, and handed them to Song Jianing's mouth to tempt her.
"Sister, take care of them!" Song Jianing was so angry, she pouted at Tingfang and acted like a spoiled child.
Tingfang wanted to help her sister, but she couldn't control the second brother and the third brother, so she could only watch these two guys greedy for her sister.
Tangerines are originally sweet and sour, Song Jianing's saliva is drooling, but he can't eat it, and he will be laughed at by the twins when his throat moves.
"Master Shizi is here."
Jiu'er's voice came in, and the six brothers and sisters in the room looked at each other. Guo Fu and Guo Shu reacted the fastest. In the blink of an eye, they hid from Song Jianing's warm couch to the desk, sitting upright, with no oranges in their hands. trace. Tingfang and Lanfang snickered. Yunfang didn't think it was a big deal to watch the fun, and complained loudly to Guo Xiao: "Big brother, the second brother and the third brother bullied the fourth sister, and the fourth sister almost cried!"
The complaint did not forget to make fun of Song Jianing along the way.
Song Jianing was embarrassed to let Guo Xiao see her bubble, so shameful evidence, if she could, she didn't want anyone to see it, so she secretly hid behind Tingfang.
Guo Xiao was dressed in a dark brocade robe, and his air was as cool as the cold winter wind. Two cousins who squinted and pretended to be honest. Guo Xiao slowly walked to the couch, stared at the fat girl who was hiding half of her face behind Tingfang, and asked: " Are the corners of your mouth blistered?"
Song Jianing lowered his head and nodded.
Yun Fang smiled unkindly.
Guo Xiao was expressionless and asked Song Jianing to come out: "I'll take a look."
Song Jianing was afraid of him from the bottom of his heart, and even though he was unwilling, he obediently exposed his entire head and lowered his eyes. Guo Xiao glanced at it, first made sure that Song Jianing did not leave any fingerprints on her face, and then looked at the corners of her stepsister's mouth. There were two blisters, one big and one small, three blisters. They would definitely be ugly on other people's mouths. She's more stupid, more... irritating.
"Yes." Guo Xiao said without sympathy.
Song Jianing pouted, and when he got angry, he hid behind Tingfang.
Guo Xiao didn't ridicule her any more, turned to his two cousins and said, "Father will test our martial arts after the year, let's go, I'll accompany you to practice."
"Big brother, I was wrong! I don't dare to bully An An anymore!" After being stunned, Guo Fu rushed to his cousin with a few strides, begging for the authentic way. Guo Shu was even more cunning. Running out of sight. Guo Fu reacted, just about to imitate his younger brother to escape, but Guo Xiao grabbed the collar by the back of his neck and took it away without shame.
"Second sister is gone, let's go to see the elder brother beat the second brother." Yun Fang pulled Lan Fang and said excitedly.
The two little girls ran away holding hands. Song Jianing was bullied by the twins for a long time. Now it was their turn to be unlucky, and she also wanted to see.
"An'an, don't go, you have blisters on the corners of your mouth. Langzhong has instructed you, it's best not to blow your hair." Tingfang dutifully discouraged.
Song Jianing's face immediately collapsed.
Tingfang smiled and asked Shuang'er, Liu'er, and Jiu'er to take good care of her, and she went after her two younger sisters.
Song Jianing: …
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When the fire blisters burst, they would scab over, and it would take time to clear the scabs, so because of these three gluttonous blisters, Song Jianing had been raising them in the house a few years ago, and he couldn't go anywhere. He only recovered completely on the 30th day of the new year. She became ruddy again, her face was chubby and white, and she changed into a new bright red dress, as delicate as the jade girl under the Guanyin seat.
Firecrackers were set off on New Year's Eve. Song Jianing wore a warm cloak and watched the fireworks with the three sisters of the Guo family. Guo Fu and Guo Shu held up the hollowed-out firecrackers to scare the sisters. The four little girls screamed and ran away. Song Jianing was daring and small, and ran the fastest.
Her forehead hurt, she raised her head, accidentally fell into a pair of bright eyes, fireworks bloomed in the air, and it was also reflected in the boy's eyes.
Song Jianing stared at it for a moment.
Guo Xiao frowned: "How long do you want to step on?"
Only then did Song Jianing realize that she had stepped on Guo Xiao's boots, her heart trembled, as if she had stepped on a tiger's tail, and ran away in a panic.