Ruan Xi's heart skipped a beat, and her strong desire to survive made her shake her head quickly.
"No, no, Brother Tingzhou, you are not cowardly at all. Really, I just laughed at Mr. Li who has been with you for so long and doesn't know you at all."
At the flower banquet that day, she deliberately joked with Wen Jingru that Wen Tingzhou was too timid to even hold hands, and then she was caught off guard by Wen Tingzhou's hug... and that hug made her copy the Huayan Sutra to meditate in her free time recently.
In fact, Li Jingcheng didn't know that Ruan Xi was the real coward, so she quickly slipped Li Jingcheng out as a shield.
Wen Tingzhou took a deep look at Ruan Xi: "So that's the case, it seems I misunderstood Ruan Ruan."
There was a hint of regret in his tone.
It seems to be regretting that there is no further opportunity.
Ruan Xi felt guilty for a while.
Li Jingcheng felt a toothache watching, these two are really a match made in heaven.
Wanting to see their good show is more difficult than going to heaven.
At this time, Suyu Suzhu came in in a hurry, followed by Yang's mother who got the news.
They were all startled by Li Jingcheng's actions, they couldn't react in time, who would have expected that the dignified grandson would break into the room.
"Miss, Mr. Wen, are you... all right?"
In fact, Suyu Suzhu wanted to know if Mr. Li had spoiled Mr. Wen and Miss Wen's good deeds, but seeing how Mr. Wen and Mrs. Wen were sitting face to face and drinking tea, there should be nothing.
The two couldn't tell whether they were disappointed or happy.
Ruan Xi shook his head and smiled, and said in a tactful tone: "We are fine, but Mr. Li is a little impatient."
Wen Tingzhou agreed with a smile.
"Jing Cheng is indeed not calm enough, and he is also very curious, so he needs to hone his temperament."
Li Jingcheng: "..."
What an injustice, he is very curious, and it is not because Zi Run is so old that he has someone he likes, it is simply a miracle among the children of their aristocratic family.
Now that the two of them haven't gotten married yet, they're going to deal with him with the same caliber.
Li Jingcheng rubbed his back teeth.
Zirun, a guy who forgets his friends when he sees sex.
Because of Li Jingcheng's sudden intrusion, Wen Tingzhou and Ruan Xi didn't continue their conversation, and everyone came out of the room.
The exquisite little attic is still placed on the table, but the golden pig and white rabbit who were embracing each other in the attic have returned to their original appearance.
Don't think about it, Li Jingcheng must have done it.
Ruan Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Ruan Si, I was bored just now, I couldn't help playing with the mechanism of the small attic, and forgot to pull back the third small wooden bar."
"How about I help you get back to the way you were just now?"
Li Jingcheng said pretending to be embarrassed, but he couldn't hide the smirk in his eyes.
Ruan Xi frowned, pursed her lips and smiled: "It's okay, I think it's good to get back to the original."
Wen Tingzhou glanced at the smug Li Jingcheng, stroked his fingers, and thought about how much effort he should use when sparring.
"Ruan Ruan, I'm going back first."
Wen Tingzhou walked up to Ruan Xi, reached out and brushed the strands of hair that fell down her cheeks behind her ears, and accidentally touched her ears, with a hint of reluctance in her tone.
"Well, be careful on the road."
Ruan Xi paused for breath, pursed his lips, and watched Wen Tingzhou and Li Jingcheng leave.
Mother Lin came over at this time.
She smiled and ordered the rough envoy to carry the small attic to the desk in the back room of Ruanxi and put it on the table before going back to the wing room for lunch.
Ruan Xi: "..."
She looked at the half-copied Huayan Sutra on the table, and then at the cute golden pig and white rabbit in the small attic.
As soon as she saw the golden pig, she couldn't help but see Wen Tingzhou's handsome face in her mind.
This sense of presence... plus Mama Lin's powerful assist.
Ruan Xi twitched the corner of her mouth silently, Wen Tingzhou is a scheming man.
Facing the golden pig in the small attic, can she still copy the Huayan Sutra
"Miss, it's time for dinner." Suyu came in and said.
Ruan Xi hurriedly calmed down and went to eat in the living room. After lunch, Suyu and Suzhu were clearing the table, while Yang's mother stood beside Ruan Xi and talked.
"Miss, starting tomorrow, I will teach you how to cook."
Mama Yang thought about it. Mama Lin is an excellent and powerful nurturing mother. She is more than enough to teach the young lady. She doesn't need to intervene, but she can teach the fourth young lady cooking skills.
"Culinary art?" Ruan Xi was surprised, she didn't expect that what Mama Yang taught her was the same as what she taught the heroine in the original book.
It's all cooking.
The heroine Mu Qingci loves food and is a foodie. Mama Yang taught her how to cook, which is exactly what she wants.
Ruan Xi wondered whether some of Yang's actions were influenced by the plot of the original book besides her own thoughts.
Mother Yang misunderstood Ruan Xi's surprised expression, thinking that she couldn't let go of the figure of a noble girl to learn to cook, so she hurriedly mentioned the benefits of learning how to cook.
"Miss, as far as I know, Uncle and Madam didn't teach you how to cook. In fact, it's not that you can't get on the table. The noble daughters of aristocratic families have been taught one or two skills. For example, cooking soup is the most important skill. heavy."
As soon as Mama Yang talked about making soup, Ruan Xi thought of the other aunts in uncle's backyard.
Especially Aunt Lin.
For more than ten years, Aunt Lin has sent maids to give her uncle soup and water from time to time.
Mother Yang continued: "Miss, giving soup is also a science, and it is also a means of competing for favor, but this method of competing for favor is relatively common, but for elders and men, they really enjoy this feeling of being cared for. "
"If you learn how to cook soup, you can give some of your own soup to the old ladies and uncles in the mansion to show your filial piety. I think they will be very happy, and you will also know the effect you can achieve by doing it yourself and letting the servants do it yourself. are different."
"When you get married, you can also cook some soup for your husband from time to time or cook a few delicious side dishes to enhance the relationship between husband and wife. Don't think that being a virtuous wife is to take care of the backyard for your husband and open up branches and leaves for him to take concubines. Jealousy, otherwise it's jealousy, and you can't dress up like a concubine, and you have to put on airs as a regular wife. This is a fallacy. Doing so will only stiffen the relationship between a good couple and turn them into respectful ones in the end. Or the situation is like water and fire, and only you know the pain in your heart."
Ruan Xi quite agrees with Yang's mother's words.
"If Mama Lin teaches you to be virtuous and magnanimous, not to be jealous, to regard your husband as your god, and to find a few beautiful maids early on and train them to be used as solid pets, then don't listen to them. Mama Lin is from the Wen family. , she will only teach you these things from the standpoint of the Wen family. You must know something about Mr. Wen by now. In fact, as long as you capture Mr. Wen's heart, everything else will be fine. She will be labeled as jealous by her husband's family."
Mama Yang talked more and more, the content became more biased, and she quietly put eye drops on Mama Lin. From Mama Yang's point of view, this was very likely to happen, but she didn't know that what she said was unexpected. Ruan Xi's appetite.
She remembered the first time she met Mrs. Wen. Ruan Xi was deeply impressed by Wen Tingzhou's actions and was quite heartwarming.
Mother Lin did not hide her selfishness and did her best when teaching other aspects. Ruan Xi learned a lot, but Mother Lin would instill in her some obligations about being a regular wife without any trace, which was a bit like boiling frogs in warm water to brainwash her.
These Ruanxi will be automatically filtered.
"Mother Yang's words won my heart, so drink some tea to moisten your throat first."
Mother Yang's mouth was dry, and Ruan Xi's cup of tea was like timely rain.
After drinking tea, Mama Yang continued to talk, sometimes giving examples of concubines.
Ruan Xi listened with gusto.
At some point, Suyu and Suzhu also surrounded her.
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On the other side, after Wen Tingzhou and Li Jingcheng left Chengyi Bo's mansion, they rode for a while. When the guards behind were a little far away, Li Jingcheng looked at Wen Tingzhou, put away his hippie smile, and said with a serious face: "Zi Run, don't worry, I will not reveal the hidden mechanism in the small attic that you made."
Wen Tingzhou nodded with a smile as he rode his horse forward: "I know you won't, otherwise I wouldn't expose it in front of you."
If he didn't trust Li Jingcheng, he could write a letter to tell Ruan Ruan the secret of the attic, but in this way, his purpose of coming here today would not be achieved.
Li Jingcheng was happy in his heart, but he thought of another matter and couldn't help asking tentatively: "Zi Run, I heard people say how many times have you drank in a restaurant with Mr. Qi Er from Huaiyang Marquis Mansion?"
"Hmm." Due to another identity, Wen Tingzhou did not contact Qi Yuean in private, but made an appointment in an open and aboveboard manner.
Qi Yue'an is Miss Ruan San's fiancé, and a well-known playboy, ignorant, only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, and his contact with him will not arouse suspicion.
After several times of probing, Qi Yue'an was indeed not easy. He introduced him to the fourth prince in private yesterday.
Li Jingcheng was speechless, and curled his lips and said, "Zi Run, you care too much about Miss Ruan Si's family, first Ruan Yuwen, and now the second son of Qi, are you going to give them a hand?"
Wen Tingzhou smiled, but did not deny it.
Li Jingcheng thought to himself, Fourth Miss Ruan is really a beauty, she made Zirun dizzy.
"Zi Run, do you really like Miss Ruan Si?"
Wen Tingzhou glanced at him lightly: "What do you think?"
At the beginning, he was fulfilling his promise to get married, so he didn't really like Ruan Ruan, but after in-depth understanding and communication, he really fell in love with Ruan Ruan.
If he didn't like it, how could he spend his time and energy carving a mechanism attic by himself.
Li Jingcheng was silent.
Wen Tingzhou smiled lightly, and separated from Li Jingcheng at the third corner.
As soon as he returned to Wen Mansion, Wen Tingzhou called Manu to lead the horse, butler Wen Ming appeared in front of him and said respectfully: "Young Master, you are back, Madam is waiting for you in the main courtyard."
Wen Tingzhou paused in his footsteps: "Well, I'm going over now, is there anything happening in the mansion today?"
Wen Ming shook his head: "Returning to Eldest Young Master, no, but the news that Young Master you sent Miss Ruan Si to the small attic has reached Madam's ears."
In the end, Wen Ming couldn't help reminding the young master.
Wen Tingzhou raised his eyebrows, and nodded with a smile to show that he knew, if he was summoned by his mother because of this matter, he would have been prepared.
When Wen Tingzhou stepped into the main hall of the main courtyard, he saw Mrs. Wen sitting in the first place drinking tea, and several maids and mothers stood aside respectfully.
When Mrs. Wen saw him coming in, she didn't put down the teacup in her hand, she just snorted softly, looked away and continued to drink tea.
Seeing this, Wen Tingzhou felt like a mirror in his heart. He walked forward slowly to salute, cleared his throat and asked concernedly: "Mother, who made you angry?"
Mrs. Wen couldn't help but glared at her knowingly asking son, who else was there besides him, and her mother-in-law was thrown aside before the daughter-in-law got married.
Mrs. Wen felt quite uncomfortable.
"Tingzhou, I heard that you carved an exquisite small attic for Miss Ruan Si, is there such a thing?"
Wen Tingzhou nodded and admitted: "It is true."
"For so many years, I, a mother, didn't know that you could carpentry. I was so remiss." Mrs. Wen's voice was flat, and she looked at her son with a half-smile.