"Dad, don't spend money. Everything is ready at home." Su Ningjie didn't want to waste time and wanted to go back to the big house at Lanxin Waterside as soon as possible.
Su Xingyi looked at the other three little ones and asked, "What do you think?"
Xiao Xier hugged Xiao Lingyu's neck tightly and said, "Let's not go down. There are too many people on the street. Maybe human traffickers will come and catch us."
Xiao Lingyu chuckled, "Then we won't go down. Just let go, Xiao Xi'er. Mother is almost out of breath..."
"Ah!" Xiao Xi'er was so scared that she quickly let go of her hand. "Don't cry, don't cry. Let me rub your neck for you."
"ha……"
The laughter of children rang out in the carriage. Su Ningwen leaned close to Su Xingyi's ear and whispered, "Dad, I want that."
The carriage was passing a mask stall. "You want a mask?"
Su Ningwen nodded, "I want that little monkey face mask."
"Okay, Su Yun will go buy it."
"Dad, we want both."
"Okay, okay, I have both."
"My young master wants this little monkey face." A woman dressed as a nanny reached out and snatched the mask from Su Yun's hand, which was still not warm. "Here is five taels of silver. Consider it as buying your mask."
Su Yun reached out and took it back, "Sorry, Auntie, I won't sell it to you."
Luo Minghao quickly came forward with a group of servants and said, "You are lucky that my elder brother likes your monkey mask. If I give you five taels of silver, you can buy several masks."
Su Yun smiled at the half-grown child in front of him and said, "Young Master, you are forcing me to buy and sell. I'm sorry, I won't accompany you. Goodbye."
"You are not allowed to leave. Leave the mask behind and take the silver before you can leave."
Seeing passersby gathered around, Meng Yunqian frowned and whispered, "Minghao, I don't want the little monkey face mask anymore. Let's go to other stalls to see if there are any other novelty items."
Luo Minghao saw that everyone on the street had turned to look at him, and pursed his lips. "Brother, you are the young master of the Meng family. If he doesn't give you face, isn't that a slap in your face and the face of the Meng family?"
Meng Yunqian looked impatient when he heard this. "First come, first served. Since he has already bought it, how can I force him to sell it to me?"
"Brother, you are confused. He is clearly not giving you or the Meng family face."
"I……"
"Oh! I was wondering who it was, but it's you, the Luo family kid, causing trouble again." Su Ningjie poked his head out and glanced at Luo Minghao. "Why? You didn't mess up the Meng family's Patriarch's birthday party last time, but today you openly lead people to rob others of their property and throw dirty water on the Meng family?"
"You're talking nonsense! What do you mean by blatantly robbing other people's property? I clearly want to buy it!"
Luo Minghao finally coaxed Meng Yunqian out today, but he actually met Su Ningjie. What bad luck!
"I'm talking nonsense?" Su Ningjie was holding back his anger. "Didn't you hear your eldest brother say he didn't want it? He can't force someone to sell it to him. Your eldest brother is so reasonable, but you're still insisting on saying that my guards don't give the Meng family face. Isn't this just throwing mud at the Meng family?"
"You...you misunderstood me." Luo Minghao then turned his head and said to Meng Yunqian with an apologetic look, "Brother, we are brothers. How could I throw dirty water on the Meng family? You said you wanted this monkey face mask, so of course I had to find a way to get it for you. It's just that my method was wrong, and they misunderstood me."
Su Ningjie didn't expect that this kid was so good at making excuses. If Meng Yunqian hangs out with him, something big will happen to the Meng family sooner or later.
But it’s none of his business!
"Meng Yunqian, since it's a misunderstanding, ask him to apologize to my guard immediately."
“Brother…”
Meng Yunqian was in a dilemma for a moment. Luo Minghao was his brother after all, but today's incident was still caused by him.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Si Chuyu still sitting in the front row of the carriage, and his expression tightened.
If today's matter is not handled properly, not only will I be punished by my great-grandmother to kneel in the ancestral hall, but I may also have to live a hard life with her, eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist scriptures.
Meng Yunqian thought for a moment and said to Su Ningjie: "Everything that happened today was caused by me, so I should be the one to apologize."
Su Ningjie said, "Then apologize quickly, it's getting late."
"Brother." Luo Minghao reached out to stop him, "No."
Meng Yunqian pulled his hand away and walked straight towards Su Yun, "Uncle, it was the junior who bumped into you, please forgive me."
"Nothing, nothing."
The onlookers began to whisper when they saw this, originally thinking that the Meng family had raised a dandy young master.
It seems that they were wrong. The Meng family is still a century-old family with good practices.
Luo Minghao listened to the discussions of the people around him and felt indignant. Why did Meng Yunqian suddenly become so smart?
With Suningjie around, things always deviate from the results he wants.
People who can survive even if they throw corpses or stand guard randomly should not be underestimated.
"Since you've already apologized, I won't pursue the matter. Uncle Su Yun took the mask and left."
"good."
Xiao Lingyu leaned forward slightly to glance at Meng Yunqian and Luo Minghao.
"Brother Jie, is that tall one the young master of the Meng family?"
Su Ningjie shook his head. "He's the Luo family's kid. The one with the shorter head is Meng Yunqian, the young master of the Meng family's eldest branch. Last time I went to the Meng Mansion for a banquet, it was this kid from the Luo family who started the trouble and tried to embarrass me..."
Xiao Lingyu frowned slightly, "The young master of the Meng family looks about four or five years old, and the Luo family's child looks older than An Ge'er. How could he call the young master of the Meng family "big brother"?"
Su Ningjie said, "I think he's trying to curry favor with the Meng family. I sent guards to investigate. The Luo family and the children at the birthday party that day are all older than Meng Yunqian, and their family backgrounds are not as good as the Meng family's. Meng Yunqian even wanted to take me in as his younger brother that day."
"What?" Su Ning'an asked in surprise, "You agreed?"
"How is it possible? I'm so smart, how could I suffer this loss? According to seniority, I'm still Meng Yunqian's uncle. If he wants to take me in as his younger brother, it's unacceptable according to secular ethics."
Listening to the conversation between the two brothers, Xiao Lingyu felt that there was something wrong with the Meng family's family tradition. Meng Yunqian did not know how to judge people. If he was not disciplined properly, the Meng family's reputation might be ruined because of this child.
Su Ningwen put on a monkey mask and said, "Second brother, the Analects you brought back last time had a copy annotated by Meng Zihe. Is Meng Zihe and Meng Yunqian from the same Meng family?"
"Yes, we are from the same family." Su Ningjie reached out and touched the mask on his face. "If you put on this monkey mask and don't speak, I won't recognize you."
He is safe only if you cannot recognize him.
“Second brother, don’t interrupt me. I want to ask if Meng Zihe is his father?”
"I don't know. I gave the Meng family's Patriarch a gift and a congratulatory speech before heading to the Lotus Pond. I didn't see anyone else from the Meng family. But what does this have to do with him being his father?"
Su Ningwen said, "It seems that he is not Meng Zihe's son. His father is so smart, it is impossible for him to have a child who can't judge people. I think that Luo family kid is deliberately leading him astray."
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