Rebirth of the scholarly lady

Chapter 50

After finishing her breakfast, Nan Surou resigned and left, responding to Mrs. Wei Guo neither hard nor softly. Mrs. Wei Guo wanted to keep her, so naturally she would not force her to leave just like that.

Mrs. Wei Guo had been sitting in a daze at the cold round table with only leftovers left. Nurse Fen came in from the outside and said in a low voice: "It's amazing that there are children like Cousin in this world who are so scheming at such a young age." It's amazing..."

It turns out that Nanny Fen is Mrs. Wei's confidant, and she has been hiding in the dark to observe Nan Surou according to Mrs. Wei's wishes.

"It doesn't matter what kind of person she is, she helped us after all, but I didn't give enough benefits to make that child unwilling to get close to me." Mrs. Wei Guo said lightly, there is such a vicious Xin family in this world. A woman is amazing.

"Ma'am, the candidate for the princess... you don't plan to replace her, do you?" Nurse Fen speculated in a low voice.

Mrs. Wei Guo glanced at Nurse Fen, and said: "A Fen, don't you know that other people don't know? My cousin is not related to us by blood. The future queen must be from her own family. "

Nurse Fen's complexion tightened, and she lowered her eyebrows and said pleasantly: "Yes, I understand." Why did she forget that for Mrs. Wei, except for her own siblings, everyone else is just a stepping stone. Mrs. Wei Nan Surou's mother was adopted by the Nan family. Nan Surou is the daughter of Mrs. Wei's uncle, and she is still too far away from Mrs. Wei's blood relationship.

After eating and drinking, Nan Surou walked out of Kangcheng Garden, and was planning to take a walk in the small garden between Kangcheng Garden and Huichunyuan, as a way to digest food, but unfortunately, she ran into someone who was in a hurry Nan Qiansong heading towards Kangcheng Garden.

Nan Qiansong walked through the outer courtyard, walked through the arch, entered the inner courtyard, and headed towards Nan Surou.

Nan Qiansong is wearing a dark green outfit today, covered with a silk shirt embroidered with dark patterns of bamboo, which still looks luxurious, and those bloodshot eyes from lack of sleep make people tremble a little. His complexion was not good, with dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept all night.

Nan Surou turned sideways slightly, and pulled Du Juan to salute Nan Qiansong beside the stone path. When Nan Qiansong saw her, he forced a polite smile stiffly, and just passed by.

When Nan Qiansong walked nearly two feet away, Nan Surou breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to return to Huichun Courtyard, but she never thought that Nan Qiansong, who should have gone far, turned around, and suddenly used a hoarse voice Called out: "Auntie, please stay!"

Nan Surou's already relaxed mood immediately brought up again. In the morning, Mrs. Wei Guo was hesitant to talk about what happened last night, but Nan Surou made it clear that she didn't want to hear it, so Mrs. Wei Guo didn't mention it , only talked about the pig feed, but later, Mrs. Wei Guo couldn't help but said that she hoped that Nan Surou could mention Nan Qiansong and Nan Xiyuan, this is what gave Nan Surou a headache.

Although Nan Surou has already rejected Mrs. Wei's "sincere invitation", Nan Surou does not dare to relax at all. Now that she sees Nan Qiansong and Nan Xiyuan, she wants to hide away, but Who knew that he would come here for whatever he was afraid of, no, Nan Qiansong came to his door.

Nan Surou turned around to look at Nan Qiansong hesitantly, and found that he strode forward very quickly.

Nan Qiansong respectfully bowed to Nan Surou, and then said sincerely, "Auntie, may I ask, did you just come back from my mother's side?"

There is nothing to hide about this matter, Nan Surou could only nod her head.

Seeing her answer, Nan Qiansong said again, "Auntie, what did my mother tell you?"

Nan Surou frowned, and replied instantly: "Cousin just chatted with me about the daily life, and let me go back after breakfast. She is still in Kangcheng Garden. You should be able to see her when you go there now."

Nan Surou just wants to get rid of Nan Qiansong quickly, who knows what he is thinking now.

Nan Qiansong saw Nan Surou's tepidity, recalled her mother's instructions from the night before, and said immediately: "Auntie, can I take a step to speak?"

Nan Surou's heart is full of alarm bells, what's going on?Could it be that Nan Qiansong wants to personally ask Nan Surou to help with some suggestions?No, she definitely doesn't want to take the initiative to get involved in any matter of Wei Guogong's mansion.

Nan Surou had a faint smile on her face, she looked at Nan Qiansong hesitantly, and said: "This...isn't so good, men and women have different seats at seven years old, Wei Guogong's mansion is so big, there are so many people , it will tarnish your reputation."

Nan Surou softly refused with unsolvable reasons such as propriety, justice and shame, hoping that Nan Qiansong would not be so difficult to deal with.

But who knows, Nan Qiansong said: "Auntie, I have..." We need to discuss important matters.

Nan Qiansong didn't say the last few words. He was eager to say something, but seeing Nan Surou's expression of refusal, he suddenly thought that Nan Surou came out from Mrs. Wei's room, it must be Wei Mrs. Guo didn't keep Nan Surou. The night before, Mrs. Wei told Nan Qiansong to come to Kangcheng Garden after breakfast. She only said that this aunt who just came to the Duke's mansion is very powerful. It happens that there are problems that cannot be solved.

But just now when she reached the courtyard, she met Nan Surou who was afraid to avoid him. Nan Qiansong was not stupid, and naturally she had already seen the fact that Nan Surou was unwilling to help from various signs.

Therefore, what Nan Qiansong was about to blurt out was blocked in an instant. He changed his mind and said, "Auntie, it's like this. The first batch of river crabs of this year was just sent from Zhuangzi, and I specially sent them for my mother to taste. , since you meet my aunt here, let's go together."

Said, Nan Qiansong signaled his personal servant Chang Xi to go down and arrange the river crab.

But Nan Surou had just eaten breakfast with Mrs. Wei Guo, so she politely refused: "My nephew has a heart, I just had breakfast with Mrs. Wei Guo, and I am still very full now. No more."

Nan Qiansong's bloodshot eyes shone with interest, "Auntie, my mother usually arranges a small amount of breakfast for the various courtyards of the Duke's Mansion. We pay attention to eating less and more meals. After a while, you will definitely I’m hungry, so I’ll send someone to inform my mother. Let’s go to the gazebo in the mother’s yard first to have a chat, and ask the kitchen to send someone to make crabs on the spot. The crabs are still alive and kicking. Let’s play a game of chess. Tasting, you and I are just in the mother's courtyard, tasting river crabs and discussing chess skills, who can say anything?"

It is rare for a confused person to be smart, and it is rare for a smart person to be confused. There must be some confusion in being smart, and this is the way to live wisely and protect yourself.

At this moment, Nan Surou also saw Nan Qiansong's purpose, that is, she had something to say, but she wanted to keep her in an oblique way. If she refused blindly, I'm afraid it would be a bad mess.

As the saying goes, you know it's not a blessing if you lose your horse, you can't force anything, you have to go with the flow, if the other party really wants to dig a hole for her to jump, you can refuse it once, but you can't refuse the second time, on the contrary, it will make the other party vigilant and set up a plan. The situation is becoming more and more difficult to dismantle, since Nan Qiansong has talked about this, and there are people from Mrs. Wei Guo's entire courtyard to testify, then go, so many people are watching, but nothing can be done. Come, let's see what Nan Qiansong is going to say.

Nan Surou followed Nan Qiansong hesitantly, stepped on the winding stone path, returned to the courtyard just passed by, walked along the neatly trimmed bushes, and came to the courtyard of Mrs. Wei's Kangcheng Garden in the pavilion.

This is an ordinary pavilion. There is a stone table and four stone benches inside. There are only beams and columns on all sides, but the space is very large. There is no plaque on the pavilion. It looks ordinary, and the surrounding flowers and trees are relatively far away. , only surrounded by a flat green lawn.

Nan Surou carefully inspected the pavilion for a while, then followed Nan Qiansong to the center of the pavilion.

Nan Qiansong made a gesture of invitation, signaling Nan Surou to sit down on the stone bench. At this time, Chang Xi had already brought a group of rough envoys over, some of whom were carrying a rather large copper pan, Some were carrying stoves, some were carrying vegetable baskets, and some were holding large vats of river crabs.

As soon as Nan Surou sat down, Nan Qiansong explained with a smile: "Auntie, this river crab should be taken out and cleaned first, and then put into the cellar where ice cubes are kept in winter, and frozen for a quarter of an hour. It cannot be frozen to death. Halo them, this way of cooking crabs is also very elegant, first take a pan, put garlic, ginger and clear spring from the back mountain, put the pan on the stove, simmer for half an hour, then add salt and brew with three kinds of flowers Baijiu, and then put frozen crabs into the frying pan, after the water vapor comes up, cover the lid, and continue to simmer for a quarter of an hour, after the lid is lifted, the fragrance will overflow..."

Nan Surou didn't speak, and kept staring at the group of servants, seeming to be watching with great interest the behavior and actions of the maids cooking crabs.

At this time, Nan Qiansong signaled Du Juan to go down to help. Du Juan naturally did not dare to refute the real master of the Duke's Mansion, so he complied with Nan Qiansong's request, walked out of the pavilion, and stood with Chang Xi who was ordering outside. together.

Naturally, Nan Surou also saw these details, but pretended not to see them. Nan Qiansong finally couldn't bear it any longer. He cleared his cough and said with some hesitation: "Auntie, something happened in Kangcheng Garden last night. , you don’t know yet, do you?”

Nan Surou pretended to be dazed, looked at Nan Qiansong inexplicably, but cursed secretly in her heart, she really wanted to talk about business.

(End of this chapter)