Step on a branch

Chapter 16
Yongning Hou Mansion.

Qin Zhi stepped out the door.

The sun was shining right now, and he subconsciously squinted his eyes.

After arranging the cuffs and hem, Qin Zhi took the reins from his hand.

"Guixiang Tower has prepared a private room, and the masters are almost here, waiting for you."

Qin Zhi responded lightly.

Just as he was about to get on his horse, he heard "Second Uncle".

Qin Zhi hurriedly turned around, looked left and right, and saw Qin Luan's figure under the stone lion.

"A Luan went out in the morning?" Qin Zhi laughed, "Why only Qian Er and Ah Qing followed you, where is Ah Feng?"

Qin Luan said: "Brother, go back first."

When Qin Zhi heard this, he frowned: "How can this work? You just returned to Beijing, and you don't know the place where you live. How can Ah Feng let you just go out like a girl? It's shameful..."

Halfway through the chanting, Qin Zhi suddenly stopped talking, and smiled awkwardly at Qin Luan: "A Luan, uncle has no other meaning, the capital is your hometown, and you are not familiar with this, this, ah, uncle is stupid."

Qin Luan shook her head with a smile: "You are right in saying that."

Compared with Tianyiguan, Qin Luan is indeed not familiar with many people in the capital, and even less familiar with the land.

Qin Luan agreed, and Qin Zhi didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a while, he choked out a sentence: "It's okay, it's okay. If you want to eat or buy anything, just tell your uncle, and you can go wherever you want to play." Open your mouth, uncle will make arrangements for you."

Qin Luan complied naturally.

After watching his niece and daughter enter the gate of the Hou Mansion, Qin Zhi looked away.

Beside him, the horse who had been waiting for a long time was panting, Qin Zhi patted the horse's neck comfortingly, but did not get on the horse.

Thinking of Qin Luan, he felt uncomfortable.

"I'm not going today," Qin Zhi handed the reins to his followers again, "Let them hang up my bill, and I'll give you an apology."

After finishing speaking, Qin Zhi strode home with his hands behind his back.

After entering the mansion gate, bypassing the screen wall, passing through the front yard, and passing through the second gate, Qin Zhi's footsteps stopped.

It is definitely not appropriate to go directly to the East Garden.

Qin Zhi could only go back to the courtyard of the second room.

Ji Shi and Nanny Wang were looking through the account book, and when they saw Qin Zhi coming back, they couldn't help wondering: "Didn't the master go out to meet friends?"

Qin Zhi sat down at the table, poured himself a cup of tea, gulped down his stomach, and said: "I met A Luan at the door."

"I heard that the eldest girl went out early in the morning." Ji didn't take it to heart, and replied casually.

"We are two uncles and nephews, we really speak differently," Qin Zhi sighed, "Two years ago, distant relatives from my mother's natal family came to the capital to say hello, and I didn't think it was awkward."

When Ji heard this, he couldn't help being taken aback.

Qin Zhi said again: "Madam, tell me, has the mansion treated A Luan too badly these years?

Although it was ordered by an expert, and Xiangu also said so, but after all, it is our own child, how can we be so alienated?
Aluan has been in the Taoist temple for several years, even the two mothers and daughters from the Zhongyibo Mansion next door have visited Aluan, but our own family did not go..."

When Ji heard this, she put down the account book in her hand, and pouted at Mammy Wang.

Look, sir, he is here again!

This is not the first time I have said this, I mentioned it a few years ago, the master still packed his bags with great interest, and went to the mountains to see his niece and daughter.

Thanks to her finding out in time and even stopping her with her burden, Qin Zhi was not called to go, and the old Hou Ye and the old lady were not informed.

"I told you about it with the master before," Ji said patiently, and explained the truth again, "The master loves the eldest girl and is reluctant to let her suffer on the mountain, but it is destined.

You think about how the eldest sister-in-law left, and then think about the sickly appearance of the eldest girl when she was a child!

You are going to visit. If you are fine, everything will be fine, but if something happens, who will the master reason with?
Harm the rest of the family, it's useless for the old Mrs. Hou Ye to beat you and scold you, but harm the eldest girl, you do bad things with good intentions!

At that time, if you scold God for giving the eldest girl such a fate, God will ignore you! "

Qin Zhi had a bitter face and didn't speak.

"There is no shortage of people who love the eldest girl in this mansion," Ji said again, "Is it because the uncle doesn't miss his daughter, or the eldest son doesn't miss his sister? Isn't it because he stays in the capital honestly and dares not go to Taoist temples, nor does he miss his sister?" Dare to write letters twice in three days."

"I know what Madam said makes sense," Qin Zhi frowned, "I just think it's too much, A Luan is too alienated from the family now."

Ji Shi sighed.

Can we not be divided?
Ever since she became seriously ill and became a teacher, the eldest girl lived alone in the farthest part of the mansion, the East Garden, and had little contact with the rest of the family.

When I went to the mountain, except for the letters during the New Year and holidays, it seemed that the news was cut off.

The relationship between people is all out of place.

The Ji family wanted to comfort Qin Zhi, no matter what, the eldest girl has already returned to Beijing, this month's birthday, next month will be better than this month, and the coming year will be better than this year...

Before it could exit, Qin Yuan was asked to catch up first.

Qin Yuan stood behind the desk and practiced calligraphy. She just finished writing a sheet and put down the pen: "I think my father is right. Obviously, my sisters should be the most familiar, but my eldest sister and I are not familiar at all. Obviously there are sisters. , as if it didn't exist."

Ji's breath got stuck in his throat.

She even forgot that this little ancestor was also in the house.

Back then, talking about these things with an adult like Qin Zhi definitely made sense, but talking about fate with a child younger than Qin Luan was simply impossible to communicate.

Open your mouth to look for your sister, shut your mouth to look for your sister, fortunately, you can't run far with your little arms and legs, as long as the nuns are watching, you won't go to Dongyuan.

Now that he's grown up, he knows the reason, and he doesn't mention that stupid talk on weekdays, but today the father rushed to the front, and the daughter hurried to the battle.

"Don't meddle in it!" Ji stared at Qin Yuan, "When the eldest girl turns sixteen, she won't be so taboo about relatives and not relatives, then you can play with her however you want. , now, little ancestor, please do me a favor!"

Qin Yuan pouted in dissatisfaction.

Ji stopped her daughter and wanted to persuade her husband again.

After all, it's not too far away from Qin Luan's 16-year-old. He has been here for so many years, so there is no rush.

Qin Yuan muttered: "When she turns 16, the eldest sister will get married, and it's not like she has no marriage."

Seeing that Qin Zhi was about to sigh again, Ji Shi helplessly nodded at Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan didn't continue to practice calligraphy, she tidied up and was about to go out.

Ji hurriedly asked: "What are you going to do? Have you finished your homework?"

Qin Yuan said: "Go to Eldest Sister and ask for a talisman."

When Ji heard this, she hurriedly touched her purse, which contained the talisman paper drawn by Qin Luan, so she asked again: "What talisman do you want? It's for safety?"

Qin Yuan grinned, making a grimace: "Guarantee me to draw the bow tomorrow, and shoot through Yang with a hundred steps, one hit five!"

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