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Chapter 31 You will know when you grow up
Under the grape arbor in Xie Mansion Garden, Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen were lying on a bench together, exchanging views and admiring each other's paintings.

Shen Liuzhen sat kneeling beside the stool, while Xie Yuan bent over and leaned on the stool with his elbows.

In front of them, there was a stack of nondescript ink paintings.

Shen Liuzhen pointed to one of his paintings and asked, "Can you tell who this is?"

"I know, Uncle Liu from the small vegetable garden in the west." Xie Yuan lowered his red phoenix eyes, pointed at the man's beard on the paper and said, "Uncle Liu's beard is sparse, didn't you draw three with thin lines?"

"Yes! We have a good understanding. We are indeed my good brothers." Shen Liuzhen said proudly, and slapped Xie Yuan's shoulder with his hand.

As a result, the pride on his face hadn't faded away, and Xie Yuan slapped him on the face.

"Snapped!"

Shen Liuzhen was dumbfounded, covered his face and asked angrily, "Why did you hit me?!"

Xie Yuan quietly stretched out his delicate and slender palm to show him, and said, "There are mosquitoes."

Sure enough, in the palm of her hand was a mosquito corpse that had been slapped into a paste, lying in a pool of his blood.

Shen Liuzhen scratched his itchy and numb cheeks in embarrassment, his round eyes were red, and he said aggrievedly: "If you hit the mosquitoes, you can hit the mosquitoes. You can't be gentle, and you hit me so hard that my face is hot." It hurts."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'll be lighter next time." Xie Yuan said without guilt.

Shen Liuzhen gave her a supercilious look, and then said with a ghostly smile: "Hey... How about we use Huahua to make a secret language in the future, no one else can understand it, only the two of us can understand it."

Xie Yuan was not in that mood, and gave a noncommittal "hmm", looking at the painting on the white paper, not knowing what he was thinking.

Shen Liuzhen looked at her expression and said: "...Isn't the matter settled now? We will go shopping often in the future, and they will never dare not take us two children seriously. This is also a gift to the teacher. Share your worries with Mistress, haven't you?"

"Hmm..." Xie Yuan hummed again, staring at the messy painting in front of him boredly, obviously not in a high mood and preoccupied.

The pimple on Shen Liuzhen's face bitten by mosquitoes swelled up and itched more and more. He hooked his fingers and scratched it, and asked cautiously:

"A Yuan, have you heard from them that the teacher wants to take a concubine?"

Xie Yuan seemed to be thinking about this in his heart, and immediately opened his mouth and said:
"This is impossible... The Xie family has never had the rule of taking concubines. I have heard people say it since I was a child. The Xie family is a family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. Family status and blood are the most important. The family is also a prominent clan girl, just like my mother is a side branch of the Wang family.

Firstly, I am afraid that accepting a concubine will treat the main wife poorly, and I am sorry for the friendship of old friends. Second, the status of the concubine's room is low, and the children born are not of good blood, which is humiliating to the family. "

Shen Liuzhen was noncommittal, and said: "...but it's the teacher who has been urging the teacher to take a concubine, saying that the Xie family must not be broken. I think the teacher will agree."

As soon as Xie Yuan heard this, he immediately stood up straight and said angrily, "Aren't I the queen? Isn't my surname Xie? I'm not their child?!"

Shen Liuzhen looked up at the condescending Xie Yuan in confusion.

He thinks that Xie Yuan is good everywhere, he likes Xie Yuan's skill, appearance, and disposition very much, in short, he can't see how Xie Yuan is inferior to others.

But everyone said that she was a girl, and a girl could not be counted as a descendant, nor could she be considered as an heir to the family, she had to be a son.

If you ask Xie Yuan exactly what is worse than him, no one will be able to tell, but always keep it secret: You will know when you grow up...

"You will know when you grow up", this sentence is really a universal excuse for adults who are too lazy to explain.

"A Yuan... But they all said, you are a girl..." Shen Liuzhen finally said with a bitter face.

"Who said that? I haven't grown up yet, who knows what I will look like when I grow up, I don't have breasts!" Xie Yuan said angrily.

Shen Liuzhen had nothing to say.At this moment, Father Xie sent someone to call Shen Liuzhen.Shen Liuzhen got up from the ground and quickly followed, leaving only Xie Yuan standing under the grape trellis, tall and straight, stubborn, but desolate.

Since the taboo in the ancestral hall, my father obviously liked Shen Liuzhen more, and he would call him there every now and then, and often discussed books and history together, but left her aside instead.

If she insisted on getting closer, her father would throw her out to copy homework and send her away, or ask her back, you don't like to hear, what are you doing here.

She doesn't like to hear it, but she can't bear her father's preference for Shen Liuzhen and his contempt for her...

Huh... girl? ...

Xie Yuan drew out the small sword that he was carrying with him, and with a swift sword flower in one hand, with the sound of "whoosh", he cut off a grape vine as thick as his wrist.

She could even hear the gardener's cry of terror and anger when he saw the break.But she doesn't care... At least getting a beating from his father is better than forgetting about her.

……

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I don't know when the master changed.

In the past, as long as Xie Yuan behaved well, he would be very happy, and even kept praising her and touching her head.If there is any wrong movement, he will teach her demandingly.

But then it won't be...

Xie Yuan danced a set of swordsmanship vigorously, and when he stood still, what he saw was the sad and slack face of his master.

"Hmm... not bad." He said perfunctorily.

Xie Yuan was a little at a loss, clasping his fists with both hands and holding the sword, with the tip of the sword pointing down, he asked respectfully: "Master... Is there something wrong with me?"

Father Shen sighed and said, "Okay, everything is fine."

"Then why are you upset?... You haven't taught me how to deploy troops and how to fight recently." Xie Yuan raised his eyes, showing a rare pitiful expression.

Father Shen looked distressed, rubbed the top of her hair, and sighed again: "No, it's because it's so good, so Master feels bad... I won't learn those anymore, and it's useless to learn them. "

Father Shen's eyes were extremely lonely and very sentimental.

Unwillingness surged in Xie Yuan's heart, and he asked angrily: "Why? Why are you like my father? You have such low requirements on me? Why is it useless for me to learn?"

Father Shen avoided her eyes and said helplessly: "Yuan...you are a girl, no matter how well you study in the future, you will not be able to become a general and cannot go to the battlefield. Then what is the use of you studying so much? Your father said, you can It’s enough to protect yourself. With your talent, it’s enough to practice casually.”

"Why master?...Then what will I do in the future?" Xie Yuan frowned and asked, his face full of confusion.

(End of this chapter)