The red building is so arrogant

Outside the small courtyard where they temporarily rented.

Chunxian was drawing pictures on her toes in boredom, when she suddenly saw Jiao Shun riding a bicycle into the alley, her face beamed with joy, and she opened her mouth to shout, "Uncle Jiao and Miss are back", when Xueyan covered her mouth and pushed and shoved her into the yard.

Because Jiao Shun's burly body blocked her view, Lin Daiyu didn't see this little episode. When the car stopped in front of the door and tilted slightly inward, she nimbly jumped out of the car and silently turned her head to look at Jiao Shun.

Jiao Shun didn't intend to get out of the car, he stepped on the pedal with one foot, and propped his foot on the ground with the other, and raised his chin towards the yard: "I won't go in for now, this sweaty one has to go home quickly Take a shower."

After finishing speaking, he shook his head 180 degrees on the spot centered on the supporting foot, and then rode on the bike at a fast speed.

As the saying goes, haste makes waste, if you are in a hurry to move Lin Daiyu's body at this time, the preparation for today's day will completely change.

What's more, he still wants to use the "failure to fully repay the favor" to restrain Sister Lin. If he is not [-] to [-]% sure, he will definitely not easily pierce this layer of window paper—in order to put his posture high enough, he even reluctantly gave up. The idea of ​​kissing goodbye in the sunset.

After seeing Jiao Shun go away on the bike, Lin Daiyu's tense body relaxed.

According to the previous thinking, after the two of them got acquainted, they should be able to effectively relieve the tension, but in fact, just now, she was even more nervous than yesterday.

This is by no means because Lin Daiyu felt a sense of fear because yesterday's pain was still fresh in her memory, but because she had some inexplicable emotions in her heart, so that it was difficult to regard that matter as a purely for the sake of A transaction of gratitude.

"The girl is back?!"

At this time, Xueyan pretended to come out to greet her, seeing that Lin Daiyu was alone outside the door, she couldn't help stretching her neck to look at the entrance of the alley.

Lin Daiyu walked in silently, until she reached the door of the main room, she realized that she was still wearing the veiled bamboo hat, she subconsciously reached out to take it off and looked back.

Immediately he smiled relievedly, thinking that since he has left his own things, what's wrong with keeping this bamboo hat by himself?
After entering the main room, all the maids gathered around, one wiped sweat with a towel, the other handed mouthwash and chewing tablets, and after Lin Daiyu finished rinsing her mouth, a cup of moderately warm tea was delivered to her. .

While Lin Daiyu was sipping tea, Zijuan asked cautiously, "Where did you go shopping with Uncle Jiao today?"

"I went to many places, Bell Tower, Baita Temple, Temple of Heaven, Qianmenwai Street..."

Lin Daiyu reported the name of the place absent-mindedly, and gradually became quiet again.

Seeing her distraught appearance, Zijuan and Xueyan exchanged glances, decided not to ask further questions for the time being, and asked instead: "Do you want to take a bath first, or eat first?"

"Let's take a shower first, I've sweated a lot this day."

Hearing the word bathing, Lin Daiyu came back to her senses for a while, and then thought of the scene of Jiao Shun carrying her through the streets and alleys with sweat on her face, and unconsciously lost her mind.

The hot water had been boiled long ago, and the maids and Nanny Wang worked together and quickly prepared the bathtub—this was also the first piece of furniture Lin Daiyu bought after she moved here.

Zijuan Xueyan was about to serve Lin Daiyu to take a bath as usual, but suddenly someone outside shouted loudly: "Is Miss Xuejuan here? Miss Xuejuan, Miss Xuejuan!"

What the hell is Xuejuan?

Zijuan and Xueyan looked at each other, Xueyan took the initiative to invite Ying and said: "I'll go out and have a look, sister will take Chunxian in to serve."

When we got outside the gate of the courtyard, we saw a middle-aged man who looked familiar, looking inside.

"you are?"

Although she knew that she would be Zhaobi as soon as she entered the door, Xueyan still subconsciously turned sideways to block the man's sight.

Seeing this, the man hurriedly nodded and bowed with a smile: "Girl, we should have seen each other, I just rented this yard to your master's family."

Speaking of this, he suddenly raised his hand and smacked his face lightly, and then said with a smile: "I was wrong, I was wrong, it was the former master's house—come on, this is the house of this courtyard." The title deed, please take it, girl."

Xueyan glanced at the title deed suspiciously, and instead of reaching out her hand in a hurry, she asked instead: "What do you mean?"

"A master bought this yard and asked me to give the title directly to a girl named Xuejuan."

Speaking of this, the man asked cautiously: "Dare to ask the girl's name?"

"That should be me!"

Xueyan rolled her eyes, and immediately took over the land deed honestly, and then said in a tone of refusal: "I'm sorry, but is there anything else?"

"No, no more!"

The man waved his hand quickly.

Xueyan politely said goodbye to him, turned around and hurried back to the courtyard.

Wang Momo was talking to Ou Guan in the corridor, seeing her coming back from outside, she asked curiously: "Who is it just now, why is it called Xuejuan?"

"Look, mom."

Xueyan showed the land deed to Mother Wang, and said joyfully, "This must be Uncle Jiao's handwriting. As for the name...it must be for the sake of the girl, so I deliberately confused my name with Zijuan in front of outsiders. .”

In fact, what she is really happy about is not that she has won the title deed, but that her character 'Snow' ranks ahead of Zicuckoo.

When Wang Momo saw the land deed, she even said that Uncle Jiao had a heart, and then urged Xueyan to present the land deed to Daiyu for review.

Xueyan agreed and went into the main room again.

At that time, Lin Daiyu had already undressed and went into the bathtub. Hearing Xueyan's report, she was silent for a while, and then ordered: "Take it to Mama Wang."

Before going south to Suzhou, she didn't want to stay in the capital any longer, but firstly, her mind has been shaken, and secondly, she has received many gifts, big and small, in the past few years. up.

After the snow geese left with the title deed, Lin Daiyu sighed quietly, submerged most of the fragrant-muscled jade body in the water, leaving only half of the head out, and couldn't help recalling what she saw and heard today in her mind.

It can be said that she was touched by each of the incidents, but the one that shocked her the most was the scene of Jiao Shun's conflict with those prison students on the way back because of herself.

To be honest, since she was raised in a deep boudoir since she was a child, this was the first time Lin Daiyu witnessed real violence on the spot.

In the past, she could only imagine with the descriptions in books. Although there are illustrations that can serve as the cornerstone of imagination, when this scene happened in front of her eyes, the impact it brought to her was far from what the picture in fantasy could match. .

In Lin Daiyu's original cognition, fighting is a kind of rude and negative behavior.

However, at that time, she only felt her heart throbbing and her blood rushing up.

After all, the reason why Jiao Shun did it was to protect her reputation - and before that, he would choose to stay away, obviously because he was worried that he would be hurt.

This feeling of being protected by violence is undoubtedly a new experience that Lin Daiyu has never had before.

At the beginning, Jia Baoyu would defend her, but he only stayed in words. When the critical moment came...

Comparing the two, Lin Daiyu finally began to understand what Shi Xiangyun's emphasis on "responsibility" in defending Jiao Shun really meant.

However, if she were to describe it, she would prefer to describe it as a 'sense of security', and this is why she took the initiative to hug Jiao Shun afterwards - what could be better than a sense of security for a lonely woman? more important?
…………

The words are divided into two parts.

However, after Jiao Shun bid farewell to Lin Daiyu, he actually did not return home directly, but turned his head to Rongguo Mansion.

Although the real reason for Lin Daiyu's "farewell without saying goodbye" was out of disappointment with Rongguo Mansion—especially Jia Mu, but she was lost in Jiao's house after all, and it is necessary for Jiao Shun to come to the door to explain. .

In the past two days, he was busy communicating with Daiyu in spirit and body, and now it was temporarily over, but it was better to hit the sun, so he simply stopped by Rongguo Mansion for a walk.

Although it has only been a few months since I moved out of Rongguo Mansion, every time I come to this mansion after a period of time, I always have a different impression-this is mainly because the status and strength of the two parties are changing and changing, and it is also because Rong Rong The attitude of the government towards him has also changed again and again.

When Jiao Shun was escorted to the old lady's courtyard by the stewards, Jia Zheng and Wang Xifeng who lived in the front courtyard had already heard the news and rushed over.

As soon as Jiao Shun entered the door, he bowed deeply to the old lady: "Sister Lin's matter is due to my lack of thoughtfulness, and I ask the old lady to punish her."

"Get up, get up!"

Mother Jia hurriedly got up to help her up, and said with guilt all over her face, "I can't blame you for this, it's clearly my incompetence as a grandmother that made..."

"My nephew!"

Although he knew that Jiao Shun probably knew the whole story long ago, Jia Zheng, who has always had the best face, still didn't want his mother to reveal the matter in public, so he interrupted quickly: "Besides that letter, there are other things. What clue?"

"This……"

Jiao Shun shook his head helplessly: "It's true that there is none. I sent people to chase after the flood and drought, but there was no news for several days, so I had to forward the letter."

As he spoke, he lowered his head in shame.

"Good boy, this has nothing to do with you, it's all about me..."

Jia Zheng obviously stopped her, but Mother Jia was still full of self-pity. In fact, since she fainted yesterday, her mood was a little bit wrong, and she always seemed to be out of control.

Jia Zheng couldn't help it for a while, he was not a person who can adapt to changes, he blocked him once, but he didn't know what excuse he should use to stop him the second time.

Besides, that would be too obvious.

"Is Brother Jiao here?!"

Fortunately, someone else jumped out to interrupt this time.

As soon as the voice was still outside the door, Jia Baoyu's figure had already slammed into the door. Seeing Jiao, by the way, he asked repeatedly: "Aside from that letter, sister Lin left other clues?!"

The father and son are on the same frequency.

Before Jiao Shun could speak, Jia Zheng scolded, "Look how decent you are, why don't you hurry up and greet the old lady!"

Jia Baoyu shrunk his neck, greeted the old lady and Jia Zheng sullenly, and then turned his head to look at Jiao Shun expectantly.

After Jiao Shun repeated the previous set of words, he became lethargic visibly.

Seeing this, the old lady hurriedly called her precious grandson to the front and said, "Don't worry, haven't we already sent someone to Suzhou? We will definitely find your sister Lin by then!"

Jia Baoyu leaned in her arms with tears in his eyes, intending to say the words of being a monk and a Taoist priest again, but from the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of the sullen Jia Zheng, and finally took back these outrageous words.

Jiao Shun watched coldly, while secretly sneering in his heart.

Don't say that Lin Daiyu is still in the capital, if she really came to her hometown in Suzhou, how can she return to Rongguo Mansion again?

This news can effectively weaken Lin Daiyu's obsession with returning to her hometown.

He figured out a good idea, seeing that the grandparent and grandson were still getting tired of it, he thought of taking advantage of the situation and leaving.

I don't want to just get up, Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "It's so easy to come here, why rush away? Your Lian's second brother has already prepared good wine and food in Dongkuayuan, just waiting for you to go over and toast." drink it!"

This is talking nonsense with your eyes open.

It took Jiao Shun only a quarter of an hour from entering the door to seeing Jia's mother. How could Jia Lian, who had already moved to Dongkuayuan, know the news and even prepare a banquet in advance?

Jia's mother, Jia Zheng, and Jia Baoyu all thought of her as an excuse to keep customers, and secretly praised her for being able to win people over when she came - but when Jiao Shun's words fell into Jiao Shun's ears, it was clearly that her husband was present. 'The invitation signal!
He actually wanted to refuse, but because of Prime Minister Cao's status as a die-hard fan, he really couldn't open his mouth.

In the end, he pretended to decline a few sentences, and then agreed with a surge of emotion.

Just at this moment, Mrs. Wang and Li Wan also arrived, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law locked their eyes firmly on Jiao Shun as soon as they entered the door, looking directly at Jiao Shun's bladder tightened, and secretly screamed that something was wrong.

Wait for a few gossips.

Jia Zheng greeted at the right time: "Nephew, come with me to the Rongxi Hall. I still have some things to ask my nephew for advice."

Jiao Shun has nothing to do.

It's just that the two of them left the living room one after the other, and Mrs. Wang followed closely behind.

Jia Zheng glanced at her, hesitated for a moment and finally said nothing.

So the group of three went to the Rongxi Hall, and after the guests and hosts were seated, Jia Zheng asked straight to the point: "Nephew, but I don't know what's going on with the Lin family recently?"

"This one……"

Jiao Shun pretended to be questioned, and thought for a while before saying: "I really don't know, but among the Jiangsu and Zhejiang salt officials who have been criticized recently, Mr. Lin's name is not seen, maybe the empress has already managed to resolve it." .”

He can't afford this credit.

The Rongguo Mansion is running around, if there are any rumors, won't it be a disaster for yourself?

Anyway, more than half of the biggest reward has already been taken, so it is better to leave these vain fame and small profits to Concubine Xiande.

"That's good, that's good!"

Jia Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Jiao Shun for sending the letter to the palace, then looked sideways at Mrs. Wang, and motioned for her to speak quickly if she had something to say.

Mrs. Wang nodded slightly and said: "Since the empress has resolved this matter, it is naturally the best."

Then there is no text.

But Jiao Shun didn't think that she followed here just to hear about it.

no matter~
When you go to Dongkuayuan to 'finish the wine', hurry up and get out of the way!