Lie down and eat melon in the protagonist group

Chapter 42 Secret Word 1
The old lady smiled happily when she heard the sound.

The eldest lady breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a puzzled face: "Mother-in-law?"

The old lady rubbed Ling Dang's head and said with a smile: "I like this silly girl, she is more lovable than Li Ya. Li Ya's temperament is too boring, but she didn't expect to give birth to such a little thing. This girl's temperament completely followed her father's. Be honest and speak straight.”

When she mentioned her son-in-law, the eldest lady smiled reluctantly. She was not satisfied with that marriage from beginning to end, and now her daughter and son-in-law have ended up in such a miserable state.

The old lady glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law out of the corner of her eye and sighed: "Let the past go and look forward. Girl Li is gone, didn't I leave you a thought? What's the name of the little girl?" Is your son coming?"

Ling Dang ignored her and focused on picking up vegetables and cooking rice, fully implementing his character as a fool.

Ling Huai replied for her: "The surname is Ling, the given name is Dang, and the name of the bell is Dang."

"The name is well chosen." The old lady looked at Ling Dang and smiled, then asked the maid to put her favorite dishes in front of her, "The last name must be changed."

Ling Dang turned to her and said, "Hello Ling Dang."

The old lady coaxed her kindly: "It would be better if my surname is Si Yun."

"Hello Lingdang, I like bells." Lingdang raised his hand and pointed at the eaves bell. God was kind, and a gust of wind happened to blow in the hot summer, and the bells rang all of a sudden, "It sounds good."

The eldest lady advised softly: "Ah Dang, listen to my wife."

But the old lady gave up and sighed: "Let her leave it to her for the time being. When the bell rings, it is really nice to hear. Once people leave, the past is forgotten. No one has the leisure to care about those old things. It's just a surname, keep it for her. Well. When we raise this girl to maturity, we will change her name to Si Yun Lingdang."

With that said, the old lady turned to Ling Huai and asked about his daily diet, as well as his lessons in palace studies.

Ling Huai was neither arrogant nor impetuous, and responded fluently. The old lady nodded her head.

After lunch, I got to know everyone one by one, and generally they all looked familiar, but I had difficulty arranging a place to live.

The old lady wants to keep Ling Dang by her side and raise Ling Huai by the master's side. Ling Dang refuses to leave Ling Huai. The men and women are on guard. Even if they are siblings, the Si family is not willing to let them live in the same room.

At the end of the stalemate, the old lady ordered her maid to clean up the rooms on both sides of the main living room in her courtyard, so that they could live in one room each on the left and right.

During the day, all I saw were women. Only at night did I see men. The eldest father, Si Yunye, was a prince, his stepson, Si Yunkun, was serving in the court, and the two grandsons of the same generation.

After turning on the lights at night, Ling Dang went to Ling Huai's house to talk to him. Once he entered the house, he turned around and closed the door, blocking the two maids following him from the door.

"This..." The maid looked at each other in embarrassment. One person stayed outside the door, and the other quickly went to report to the old lady.

Ling Huai raised the curtain as expected and came out. When he saw Ling Dang leaning against the door and listening to what was going on outside, he suddenly felt funny and stepped forward to lock the door.

"Go and talk inside."

Ling Dang followed him to the inner room and said, "How did my grandfather arrange for you? Are you still allowed to go to the palace to study?"

Ling Huai said: "Except for greeting him in the courtyard every morning and evening, the rest remains as usual."

Lingdang slumped in his chair and lamented: "The house is really too big. I was so disoriented after just walking around for a long time that I couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north and south. There were even more people, this aunt, that aunt, this sister, that sister, what brother? None of my brother's are ugly, but my eyes are so dazzled that I can't remember which one is which. I can't help it anymore, I'm tired of aesthetics."

"But do you still remember who I am?" Ling Huai poured a cup of tea, handed it to her, joked, and then said, "You only need to remember the people in the big room. The rest will find an opportunity to come forward. I'm here to curry favor with you. If you like me, I'll keep it in mind. If you don't get along, I'll just send you away."

"If I can't even remember you, then I'm really screwed." Ling Dang held the tea and was about to cry, "That's what I say, but I can't even remember the looks of the four children in my uncle's family. And my aunt and her daughter saw so many people in one day that I developed prosopagnosia."

Ling Huai said: "They don't need you to remember. Now, in this house, except for the old lady and your grandmother and grandfather, I have to be polite to anyone who sees you."

Lingdang was puzzled, "Huh?"

Ling Huai said with a smile: "Your grandfather has not allowed his successor to inherit the title, and your grandmother even made a big fanfare to recognize you, just to inform everyone in the Si family that there is a successor to the big family. Why do you want to take me with you? Because your grandfather has had it since the beginning. This plan. Not only me, eldest sister and the others are also involved, it’s just a delaying tactic. Otherwise, why would your grandmother be so polite as to come to your door and take you away during the day? "

"Is that being polite?" Ling Dang disagreed, "It's just a knife to the neck."

Ling Huai shook his head and chuckled, "The queen has already come forward in person, why are you so polite? Just the refusal of the eldest sister when she replied to the queen in the flower hall today is already a serious crime of disobedience and bullying. And the queen only verbally established her authority and did not It is extremely merciful to convict him."

After receiving the enlightenment, Lingdang felt at this moment that there was a strict hierarchy of superiority and inferiority. The royal family was equivalent to the sky glaring above the head. It was insurmountable. Rewards, crimes and punishments were all gifts.

"Sister, they won't come." Ling Dang put down the cup and rubbed the body of the cup, "There are eyes everywhere here. What kind of heart is hidden under the shiny skin? Even if you invite Sun Xingzhe to use his piercing eyes, you won't be able to see it. wear."

"Sun Xingzhe?" Ling Huai understood for a moment and asked with a smile, "When did you know about the anecdotes that the eldest sister told storytellers to entertain guests?"

"Ah Cen told me." Ling Dang immediately pulled out Ling Cen's top cylinder. But she was scared to death in her heart. Fortunately, Ling Qiong had told the public about "Journey to the West", otherwise Ling Huai would have caught her, and she wouldn't have known how many lies she would have to tell to frustrate him.

Ling Dang turned away from the conversation and ran to the desk, grabbed a pen, and picked up a piece of paper, saying: "Just in time, you are going to the palace school tomorrow, and by the way, help me send a letter to Acen, and ask him to give it to the eldest sister and the others. Say it’s safe so they don’t have to worry at home.”

Ling Huai consciously studied ink for her.

Lingdang lowered his head and looked up. When he was about to write another line, he paused again.

"What's wrong?" Ling Huai stood beside her, leaning slightly to watch. He thought she had forgotten a word while picking up her pen, so he asked her, "Which word did she forget?"

Ling Dang said: "To prevent peeping, a secret message must be set up."

"Well, that's true." Ling Huai praised her smoothly, "A Dang is still thoughtful."

Lingdang turned to look at him, "Your mind works very fast, come up with something."

He stood close to her, his chin almost resting on her shoulder. She suddenly turned her face and almost bumped into his face.

Her mouth moved faster than her brain, and she didn't react until she finished speaking. They were face to face almost a stone's throw away, their breaths were intertwined, and a piece of warm mist fell on her cheeks, as if it was about to turn into water.

Lingdang is stuck and crashes.

That moment was caught off guard, long and short at the same time.

Ling Huai's eyelashes were slightly furrowed, and his dark eyes became gloomy. He retreated a little reservedly, adhering to the rules of a gentleman and not being polite.

Ling Dang came to his senses and restarted his brain.

She turned back quickly, blushing, clutching her pen tightly, and began to scribble unconsciously.

Ling Huai asked: "What is this? A new secret language?"

Ling Dang grabbed a handful of paper and rolled it into a paper ball. He searched the room for paper baskets.

"Looking for this?" Ling Huai held the paper basket in his hand.

"You're so good at hiding, it took me a long time to find him." Ling Dang smiled naively.

"At your feet."

"...Haha, haha, I've seen too many beauties today, and it's hard to use my eyesight." The sky and the earth are really ashamed of themselves. Hurry up and dig into a hole in the ground! It’s such an embarrassment to be thrown into grandma’s house! Ling Huai was completely unaffected, he was calm and magnanimous, and he made suggestions without any distractions, saying: "Isn't it too obvious to use pictures to hide words?"

Ling Dang pursed his lips and raised his head to rewrite. After thinking for a long time, he finally picked up the pen and wrote the content.

At first, Ling Huai didn't notice anything. It wasn't until she finished writing a sentence that his eyes became serious.

Ling Jing specially copied a copy of the secret message from the "Peach and Plum Shuangshu" in her previous life, sent it to him all the way, and asked him to decipher it.

Lin Yilong even privately hired talented people from all over the world to decipher the secrets contained in the letter. Unfortunately, he could not decipher even a few words until his death.

When he was young, he had only a vague memory of Si Yunli of the Li family. After returning to the Northern Territory, he was usually busy with political affairs and could hardly spare the time to decrypt it. Selfishly, he felt that the secrets contained in the letter had little to do with his Northern Territory, and he was too lazy to bother guessing the secret words in the letter, so he left it on the shelf to collect dust.

He had to wait until Ah Dang disappeared and searched to no avail. In his grief, he accidentally dug out the letter and then remembered this old incident. He watched it day and night, trying to decipher it, which made him so exhausted that he had no time to care about other things, and it further weakened the dull pain that made a hole in his heart.

Before he had time to figure it out, he learned the whereabouts of A Dang.

After that, she lied to him but escaped privately and traveled around the world. She has never been traced again. Less than two years later, a poisonous poison broke out in his body, and they were destined to be married to each other. He and she each had a poisonous poison in their bodies.

As the name suggests, it requires those who are of the same mind to be of the same mind. Those who love each other can live together, but if one party changes his mind, neither party will survive. They will die together, and they will not live alone if they do not share the same mind.

People's hearts change, and she is no exception.

Ling Huai suppressed the killing intent surging in his eyes. He sensed her change of heart and empathy. When the poisonous insects devoured his life, he collapsed. After he collapsed and went crazy, he turned into overwhelming hatred.

He wants to kill her.

Before killing her, you must meet her, have a frank talk, ask her questions clearly, make a settlement, give her a happy death, and die with her understanding.

Unexpectedly, after death, he would come back to life again. When he saw her again, his murderous intention fluctuated, and he couldn't help but miss her deeply. God was kind to him and gave him a chance to start over again, and he was willing to give her a chance to start over again.

As long as your heart is like mine and you live up to your expectations, all the past life can be forgotten.

Ling Huai's eyes moved slightly, swiping at her red cheeks, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly. She is not indifferent, she can be moved, she can be shy, she can say goodbye, she can refuse, she can refuse, she can't avoid him, she has him in her heart.

He asked, "What is this? Where did it come from?"

Ling Dang cautiously turned his face towards him, looking surprised, "Can you understand?"

Ling Huai said: "You can understand it by looking at the words, but the way of writing each word is different. It seems that there are missing strokes. What is hidden?"

Ling Dang smiled and said, "My mother taught me this. I have a poor memory and it took me a long time to learn."

Ling Huai asked: "Why did mother teach you this?"

Ling Dang dipped his hand in ink and said: "When I was a child, I saw my mother writing letters, and I helped her sharpen the ink. My mother taught me how to read, and I could read it quickly, but when I started writing, I always lacked arms and legs. My mother corrected me a few times and then gave up. , simply left it to me, and also specially taught me this set of characters for secret transmission. These characters have a few fewer strokes, and if the handwriting is slightly changed, the pronunciation will be different. It must also be read smoothly on the surface, so as not to be noticed by outsiders. Just It's like creating a dictionary based on the word itself. I memorized it by rote for five years."

Ling Huai pointed to one of the characters that was rarely written in a regular manner and asked her: "Is this normal?"

"No." Lingdang said, "Every word written on the paper has its own specific pronunciation and meaning. How can I put it, this secret language has a complete system that cannot be accessed, no matter how smart you are, it will last your whole life. I can’t even figure it out. It’s just like the homonymous words we use in daily life, but this one has the same sound turned into different words, with different pronunciations and even different meanings. Isn’t it complicated?”

Ling Huai nodded: "Yes."

Ling Dang smiled and said, "I'll teach you. You can teach it to A-cen later, and A-cen will go back to teach the third sister and the eldest sister. Then we can keep in touch. Remember not to spread the word."

"it is good."

Ling Huai has a good memory and can master it after just one lesson.

Ling Dang was extremely jealous, the Creator was really partial.

There was a knock on the door outside the house, and the maid shouted loudly: "Miss Dang, Master Huai, it's late at night, it's time to rest. The old lady and the eldest lady have sent people to ask about it several times."

Ling Dang quickly closed the envelope and said, "We will continue tomorrow."

"Well, go to bed early."

Ling Huai sent her back to the house. He went back to his desk in the inner room, took out the envelope, and stared at it for a long time. The candlelight hit his face and it was hard to tell whether it was going off or not.

He still remembered the contents of several letters written by "Peach and Plum Shuangshu" that had been preserved in the world. He just selected a few of the sentences and asked them in detail, word for word, and got a list of names.

The candle lights in the inner room were extinguished, leaving only the dark flames in the charcoal basin in the room eroding the unburned pages of paper, completely reducing them to ashes and hiding the ink marks on the paper.

Si Yun's house has very strict rules. Every day, morning and evening are set. Not only do you have to talk about getting up early, but you also have to sit and laugh with her. You can call her all kinds of aunts, aunts, and cousins, from the grandmother of the eldest daughter to the great-uncle of the third eldest son.

Ling Dang could pretend to be fresh on the first day, but started to stay in bed the next day. Because the old lady didn't restrain her, she stayed in bed longer and longer day by day.

At three o'clock in the morning, the eldest lady quietly asked the maid in the old lady's courtyard, "Isn't A Dang up yet?"

The maid replied: "The old lady was so happy last night that she let Miss Dang eat two more glasses of wine and got drunk."

The eldest lady glanced at the old lady who was sitting in the high hall and smiled kindly. She sighed helplessly and said that the little girl lived in her courtyard. How could the old lady be unhappy?
"Madam, why hasn't sister A Dang come yet?" Si Yunyue, the adopted daughter of the eldest family, is thirteen years old, with a slightly coquettish look on her face.

She is jealous.

In the past, when Ling Dang didn't come, she was the most popular with the old lady in the family, so she was favored everywhere. But when Lingdang came, she realized the huge difference. The young lady of Si Yun's family should be as willful as Ling Dang. She doesn't have to worry about offending anyone, and she can even break the rules in the family. Even though she was a fool with no brains, everyone in the house was willing to surround her and support her at every turn.

The old lady smiled and said: "Dang girl is greedy and has to compete with me in drinking. She overestimated her ability and got drunk and fell asleep. You must not imitate her. She came from the countryside and is used to living a hard life. Just now If she’s still not used to it when she comes back, wait until she gets used to it and then slowly teach her the rules.”

All the good and bad things have been said, no matter if the people in the hall have any complaints, they can only laugh and cater to her.

When Ling Dang got up, the female family members of the Si family were all gathered around the table for lunch.

Si Yunyue didn't like her. Ling Dang wasn't really a fool, so how could he not sense it.

I don't usually talk to Si Yunyue.

But she couldn't stand it and Si Yunyao always liked to step on her to promote herself.

"Sister Ah Dang, my wife said this morning that you are from the countryside. What is the countryside like? Tell me about it. I have never been there."

Ling Dang told the truth: "I don't have enough to eat or wear, and there is mud everywhere. I live in an earth-tile house. I raise chickens and ducks, but the annual growth is not good. The chickens and ducks don't lay eggs. They go to people's fields all day long to steal melons." vegetable."

Si Yunyue covered his mouth and exclaimed: "Are you still stealing things?"

Lingdang raised his hand, "I also hit people. Do you want to try it?"

Si Yunyue laughed dryly: "...Sister, you are really good at joking." She rolled her eyes and added, "Speaking of this, I heard that you beat Zhu Luoying back in the rare museum, but this is true. ?”

(End of this chapter)