The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 24

The mule cart stopped at the door of Min's house, and the handlebars were put on the footstool. She stepped out of the cart carefully, and then said in a moderate voice, "Shen Shi just come and pick me up."

"Yes, young mistress." The driver nodded in agreement, and drove the mule cart back the same way.

Standing on the steps of her mother's house, Min Qinglan tidied up her dress dignifiedly, then looked around quickly by stroking her bun, feeling a little disappointed: Why is there no one there?I just made this brocade dress, it's the first day I wear it...

Bending down to pick up the bamboo basket at her feet, she turned her head wearily, but before she knocked on the door, she was startled by the two brand new blessings: "What's going on with Lan Sheng? "

Hearing the knock on the door, Min Lansheng quickly walked out of the house, opened the courtyard door to see her sister, first stood at the door and bowed respectfully, and paid New Year's greetings to Min Qinglan, and then reached out to take the bag in her hand. Bamboo basket, saw that the snow on the ground was getting thicker and thicker, so he helped her into the house.

Seeing that her younger brother was still so respectful and considerate, Min Qinglan gradually suppressed the trace of surprise and unhappiness in her heart.

After entering the house, she looked carefully at the inside and outside, and praised with a smile on her face: "This is what Chinese New Year looks like! My sister was at Zhou's house, and she cried a lot on New Year's Eve, just because she felt distressed." You are miserable alone..."

As she said that, she walked slowly to the desk in front of the window and sat down, flipping through the papers with writing on it and said: "Sister, I see that your house is neatly cleaned up, and even the gate of the courtyard is pasted with the word "Fu"." , so I know that you have the spirit to live, my sister looks happy!"

Min Lansheng twitched the corners of her lips, as if she had smiled.

Lifting the teapot on the table and pouring a cup of tea, and holding it in the corner of the desk with both hands, Min Lansheng asked, "Why didn't brother-in-law come with sister?"

A look of disgust flashed across Min Qinglan's face as she looked down at the article, and when she put down the thin pages of paper and faced Min Lansheng, she already had a distressed expression: "You know Cunxiao's body, a little change Son, he got sick, and my sister just didn't worry, she was thinking about you at Zhou's house, and then she entered our house, thinking about him again, and I don't know if the medicine I cooked for him in the morning has been used."

The Min family now has only two siblings, and Min Qinglan married Zhou Cunxiao, the eldest son of Zhou Lizheng's family in Xinghua Village, before his father passed away.

Zhou Cunxiao is also considered a scholar. He has participated in the county and government examinations as a child and has no fame.The two of them now have only one daughter under their knees, who is already two years old, and they have just left their arms and stopped breastfeeding. Now they are being urged by the Zhou family to regenerate.

And Zhou Cunxiao didn't follow him back home, it wasn't because he was weak or sick, but because his family had a reunion dinner last night, he drank too much wine, stayed up all night, and didn't go to sleep until dawn after eating a big plate of dumplings. Hurrying to go back to the door, but unable to wake up the man who was sleeping like a dead pig, he had no choice but to get on the mule cart by himself.

A man who doesn't make a face for himself!
Min Qinglan cursed in her heart, seeing that her younger brother didn't answer, he probably didn't believe it, after all, the two of them had been classmates for a year, and Min Lansheng knew what kind of temperament her brother-in-law had.

"Don't talk about him, just drink medicine in the first lunar month, bad luck!" Min Qinglan waved her hand, got up and carefully looked at the furnishings in the room, obviously they were all old things, no matter how she looked at them, they seemed strange.

"That's right." Finally she nodded and said, "After you clean up this room like this, it's much brighter. Lan Sheng has grown up..."

Min Lansheng lowered his head and lowered his eyes, still smiling lightly.

He has such a temperament, even if he doesn't talk much in front of his sister, Min Qinglan has long been used to it.So she was still talking to herself: "I thought about going home to clean up for you, but now it saves my sister's energy. Well, my sister will cook for you. I guess you will be busy again this month." Deal with hunger and hunger."

"Sister." Min Lansheng sat on the side of the table with her hands on the desk, and stretched out her arms to grab Min Qinglan who was about to get up and work: "Don't be busy, I heated the steamed buns in the pot, and there are vegetables at home, enough for us at noon Meals."

Min Qinglan looked at her younger brother suspiciously, then slowly sat down and said with infinite emotion: "I haven't come back for more than a month, Lan Sheng has really grown up!"

"It's too old." Min Lansheng nodded: "I will be twenty after the new year, and I should have grown up long ago. Let my sister also worry about it in the future."

Min Qinglan smiled lightly, this smile came from the heart, knowing that her younger brother had been dependent on her since she was a child, his words were more true than others' words!

"When you went to my in-law's house to help out years ago, women from several families came to ask, and they all wanted to be your matchmaker. I didn't say yes or refuse." Min Qinglan picked up the hot tea on the desk and took a sip. I was stunned again: Where can he get the money to buy such a good tea?
Thinking about it in her heart, she didn't show her face, and continued to say: "You have to prepare carefully for this year's autumn test. If it goes well, the autumn test will be released, and my sister will find a decent matchmaker to An's house. Going to propose a marriage, Miss An's heart is too high, if you can't pass the exam, I'm afraid..."

Sighing, Min Qinglan shut her mouth.

The young lady of Anju's family is naturally high-spirited, she is not a star, her eyes are always on the draft in the palace, but now the emperor only favors the empress, there are no concubines in the six palaces!Every year, she would refute the papers recommending draft girls from all over the world, and she only delayed it year after year. Otherwise, with her appearance, why would she still be in the boudoir when she is almost 20 years old?
"Sister." Min Lansheng, who had been listening to her with her head down, drooped her head even lower at this moment, and said in a low voice: "Don't mention Miss An's family anymore, I am destined to have no destiny with her in this life, and I will not marry her."

"Don't be discouraged." Min Qinglan thought that he had waited for Miss An for several years and lost his courage, so she encouraged him and said: "An's family is well-educated, so the selection of a son-in-law is naturally based on fame. No matter how high Miss An's vision is, it's just waiting for a price." Ergu, if you can pass the exam, my sister thinks this marriage is a sure thing. She is not ruthless to you..."

Before her sister could finish speaking, Min Lansheng shook her head directly: "I won't marry her, I want to marry Su Xiazhi."

"..." Min Qinglan was stunned. She knew what her brother was thinking. She had secretly liked Miss An's family for several years. Why did she suddenly stop thinking about it now?Moreover, who did he say he was going to marry?Why does that name sound so familiar?
(End of this chapter)