Chapter 90 Brothers and Sisters
"I shouldn't have come with you."
What old Qian, living on this damn mountain, just take a look at it once!
Xu Shuyao was regretting her decision to death, but what else could she do except to obey the person in front of her?
After the horse crossed another ditch, she couldn't help but whine, "Where do you live?"
When she was about to collapse from the shaking, she finally saw a small wooden house appear on the mountain road ahead.
Xiao Mo dismounted first and then helped her up.
Xu Shuyao's legs were weak at this moment.
Xiao Mo had already gone in, but she stood there for a while before moving.
After a moment, the old man came out of the house, "Girl! How did you find this place?"
He turned around and looked at Xiao Mo again: "Do you know each other?"
"More than just knowing each other?" Xu Shuyao thought about what happened just now and didn't want to mention it at all.
But now she was happy to see the old man, so she curled her lips and grinned again.
After not seeing him for a few years, Xu Shuyao lowered her head and her eyes became moist when she saw the old man standing right in front of her.
She had agreed with the old man to celebrate his birthday in the shop a few days later. She also painted a picture of the old man sitting under a bamboo fence, admiring chrysanthemums and drinking. It was the most attentive painting she had ever made since she started learning to paint.
But later, A-di fell ill and it took him a long time to recover. When she went to look for him again, the old man had disappeared.
Later, Xu Shuyao always wondered, where could he, an old widower living alone, go?
Probably because he was angry with her.
Just because he ate a bun, he forced himself to teach her his lifelong painting skills.
The old man’s surname is Qian, but he is extremely poor.
Old Qian had already walked over and said, "Girl, are you crying? This is not your style."
The old man patted her back with his dry big hands. "Don't cry! Don't cry! I'm just gone, not dead."
After saying that, he yelled at Xiao Mo who was leaning against the door watching them: "Did you bully her?"
Seeing the smile on his face, he lowered his head, picked up something and threw it over.
Xiao Mo lowered his head and reached out to catch it.
Seeing this, Xu Shuyao felt embarrassed.
She was a little surprised at how familiar they were with each other. "You two are very familiar with each other?"
Both of them shook their heads.
After entering the cabin, Xu Shuyao casually found a place to sit down, and heard Old Qian muttering: "Disciple! If I hadn't seen those books, I wouldn't have known that you were so short of money..."
After saying that, he took out two silver bills from his arms and gave them to her.
When it came to the booklet, Xu Shuyao was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do.
Her face flushed, "What booklet? Old Qian, don't talk nonsense!"
After scolding him, he secretly glanced at Xiao Mo again. Seeing that he had a smile on his face and seemed not to pay attention to this side, Xu Shuyao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The old man insisted on stuffing the banknote into her hand. Xu Shuyao could only say, "Old Qian, please take a good look at my clothes. I'm fine. How can I be short of money?"
The man on the other side finally stopped giving her banknotes. Xu Shuyao breathed a sigh of relief, then heard him say, "That's right, you already know him. If you need money, just ask your senior brother!"
He said it with a righteous look on his face.
Xu Shuyao said in a low voice: "Big Brother?"
"That's definitely him!" He said while pouting at Xiao Mo who was not far away.
Then he added, "Girl! You didn't know it before, but now you know it. You should make good use of this connection."
Xu Shuyao looked at Xiao Mo and saw that he was also looking at her. She raised her eyebrows slightly, with a smile in her eyes.
Xu Shuyao: “…”
What a damn fate this is!
Although it sounds a bit outrageous at first, it is a bit strange for a martial artist like him to learn painting.
However, the heirs of aristocratic families have to undergo strict training since childhood. In addition to martial arts, they also have to learn the six arts of etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics, and they also dabble in painting.
Xu Shuyao found it incredible that Lao Qian was actually Xiao Mo's teacher, so they... were really senior and junior brothers and sisters!
She was very happy to see the old man. This old man was one of the few people who made her feel warm in her more than ten years of life.
But thinking about the difficulties I had gone through on the way here, I now have to hurry back!
So I didn't stay in the cabin for long.
The return journey was much easier and relatively smoother because it was down the mountain. Of course, this might be because her senior brother had good control over the pace.
With the experience from the previous time, although Xu Shuyao would still hold his clothes tightly, she could also foresee the violent turbulence a little bit before it happened, so she did not rush into his arms again.
The horses stopped not far from Lingxi River, and the group of people who were traveling at this time showed signs of leaving.
Xu Shuyao went directly to the carriage of Duke Chengguo's Mansion. Not long after, she saw her third cousin walking towards her with a smile on her face.
Wang Jingcheng stood beside her, and the two chatted for a while before reluctantly saying goodbye to each other.
After Xiao Jinshan got on the carriage, she saw her surprised face and said, "Cousin, you haven't been sitting in the carriage for half the day, have you?"
Xu Shuyao smiled and said, "Not really, I just came up."
This third cousin must have been nourished by love, her face was flushed and there was a smile in her eyes.
She moved closer to Xu Shuyao and said, "I saw the eldest son of the Qingyuan Marquisate calling you. Tell me the truth! What did you talk about along the way?"
Seeing her gossipy look, Xu Shuyao said calmly, "We were just talking about that kid and asking if he was okay after returning home."
Xiao Jinshan naturally didn't believe it, but Xu Shuyao had plenty of ways to make her change the subject.
So he asked, "You disappeared as soon as you arrived today. Where did you and Prince Wang go?"
For a moment, the third daughter of the Xiao family really forgot to ask questions and started talking about what she and Wang Jingcheng had done in the past half day.
Xu Shuyao leaned against the carriage and listened until she was drowsy. She didn't get up until the carriage approached the second gate of Duke Cheng's Mansion.
Qiao Wei and Hui Xiang stayed at the foot of the mountain with Xiao Mo's guards. They didn't know what their master had done to make him so tired.
As soon as Xu Shuyao returned to Jiyunzhai, she asked someone to bring water for a bath. She had sweated all over after going up the mountain, and now her whole body was sticky and uncomfortable!
She sat in the bathtub, slowly stirring the water. The thought of Lao Qian trying to force the banknotes into her mouth made her laugh softly.
Back to the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion, Wang Wendong originally wanted to talk to the young lady before his mother sent the matchmaker.
He hadn't been to Lingxi for a long time since he got married.
I did go there today, but had to come back early because Yan'er's wet nurse said that the child was not feeling well.
The mansion invited a doctor, and the son didn't have any serious problems, except that he had a rash on his body. The doctor prescribed medicine, and after taking it, he gradually recovered by the evening.
Wang Wendong felt relieved. After washing up and lying on the bed, he couldn't help but think of the young lady he had just met today.
She had a face like a lotus, but she was not even as pretty as peach or plum.
When those autumn water eyes looked at me with a smile, they seemed to be sparkling with light, which made people's hearts tremble.
He couldn't fall asleep for a while and tossed and turned twice.
He thought to himself that he had gone too far. It turned out that he was not a man who was tempted by beauty, but today he was tempted by that young lady.
A figure flashed at the bedroom door, and someone asked outside: "Is the eldest master asleep?"
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