Chapter 605 A Dream of Youth 137
The child's neck was initially red, but the color slowly spread to his entire face, and it looked like he was about to burst into flames. It was truly...
Xie Ning tried hard to suppress her laughter, then poked Xie Qi on the back of the neck, successfully making him shudder.
After all, although her hands were at normal body temperature, Xie Qi's hands were already red and warm, which created a temperature difference. Therefore, Xie Ning's hands felt almost like ice to Xie Qi.
"Bao'er!"
Xie Qi's face turned bright red; he had forgotten that Xie Ning was still there.
It's not really appropriate to talk about this in front of my younger sister, and suddenly I felt my face getting even hotter.
"Whose daughter does my brother like?" Xie Ning was really curious. For some reason, the scene of Xie Qi climbing the wall suddenly popped into her mind.
Could she be a girl from that family?
With limited manpower, she could only find out that the family was the Xu family, a family of military generals, but now it was in ruins.
The Xu family was full of loyal and righteous men. When the late emperor was still alive, they were found guilty of treason. Because of their past merits, the late emperor only stripped them of their titles and executed the main culprit, without implicating anyone else. After the current emperor ascended the throne, he found out that the Xu family's treason was a miscarriage of justice and overturned the verdict.
Their titles were restored, and the Xu family mansion that had been confiscated was returned to them. They also received continuous rewards and favors.
But back then, almost all the men in the Xu family had died, and now only orphans and widows are left to support the family. Although they can make ends meet, they are no longer as glorious as they once were.
After all, the current Marquis of the Xu family is a sickly man who has hardly ever left the house.
The Xu family is clearly doomed, and the world is full of people who fawn over the powerful and trample on the weak, so no one will befriend the Xu family.
Xie Qi's heart tightened when he heard Xie Ning's question. He looked up at Chen Wanniang with some trepidation, "Mother, can I...can I not tell you?"
He doesn't even know the other person's feelings yet, how can he speak recklessly and ruin their reputation?
"you......"
Chen Wanniang frowned slightly. "Qi'er, if you tell your mother, I can still make plans for you. After all, you're all grown up now, and if this marriage isn't settled soon, it will be too late."
We can get engaged first, and then get married a few years later.
"It's not too late."
Xie Qi hesitated for a moment, then chased Xie Ning and the wolf away before walking to Chen Wanniang's side. He knelt down and nestled beside her, his tone filled with disappointment, mixed with a hint of envy and anticipation.
“Mother, Father and you have known each other and supported each other through thick and thin. If my future wife and I can have the same fate and affection as you and Father, I will be satisfied.”
Father said that the first time he saw Mother, it felt like a stone had fallen into his heart. So, I want to do what Father did when he pursued Mother, and I want to ask that girl for her hand in marriage. If she is also interested in me, then I am lucky. If she is not interested, then I will have tried my best and have no regrets…”
A few soft words were enough to make Chen Wanniang blush slightly, and then she scolded, "Why does your father tell you and Bao'er everything? Fine, do as you please, but don't be rude."
She will send a message to the Zhao family tomorrow, saying that they are destined to be together but not to be, which is truly a pity.
Xie Ning, who had climbed in through the back window to eavesdrop, was hiding in the small tea room on the side, clutching Xueqiu's big head. Her eyes were wide open. When did Xie Qi become so affectionate?
She's always so arrogant, no wonder we had to send her away.
Xie Ning snorted inwardly, and after finishing the melon, he climbed out the window and went back to his room, completely satisfied.
Snowball followed closely behind. When it saw Xie Ning getting ready for bed, it whimpered and put its paws on the table. It glanced at Xie Ning and then at the pear on the table.
"Eat."
Xie Ning yawned, pulled the covers over her head, and drifted off to sleep. She wasn't usually that sleepy, but she had practiced a set of Tai Chi with the old Taoist priest at the Taoist temple earlier that day, and she felt very tired when she got back.
Snowball twitched its ears and began to crunch away. Qingli and the other maids were no longer afraid of Snowball, even though the white wolf was large and extremely fierce when hunting.
But with such clear eyes, he's obviously a well-behaved wolf.
Snowball wagged its tail and made way for Qingli to turn off the light. After Qingli left, it lay down to sleep by Xie Ning's bed, where a bamboo mat was laid out, which was very cool to sleep on.
"Sister Qingli, these are the words I wrote. Take a look."
"Sister Qingli, there's a sentence here that I don't quite understand. Could you explain it to me?"
Qingli pointed to Qingxu's words, then looked at the poems Qingle handed over. She had also forgotten some of them, so she took out her own notes to compare.
The two girls also stepped forward, "Sister Qingli, your handwriting is so beautiful, did you write it, young lady?"
Qingli smiled slightly, "This notebook was taught to me by the young lady, and many of the annotations are by the young lady."
From now on, you should write like me, so you can learn faster. The girl also said that even geniuses with photographic memories don't always have such good memories.
Therefore, we should write down what we have learned on paper and review it from time to time so that we can remember it more firmly.
Even if I forget, I can quickly remember it by taking it out and looking at it again.
Then he began to explain the meaning and artistic conception of the poems to the two of them in detail.
She wasn't particularly intelligent, and she wasn't as good at lecturing as Xie Ning, but the most important thing was that she could remember the lessons taught by the articles and poems.
Seeing how diligently Qingxu and Qingle were studying, Qingli took out a book and turned to a new page to begin learning.
The candlelight cast a warm glow on the pages of the book. Qingli's slender, white fingers traced the words on the page, and the scene of her mother talking to her yesterday gradually appeared in her eyes.
Her mother said she was of marriageable age and it was time to find someone to marry her.
But she didn't want to.
Qingli raised her hand and brushed the tattooed characters on the side of her wrist, and the sound of weapons clashing involuntarily rang in her ears.
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