Chapter 015: Daddy Yan Chases After Me (Part 2)

The guests of the Xie family arrived one after another, and even people from the Quan family came. The Quan and Xie families are old relatives, otherwise old lady Quan would have known Xie and chosen her as her daughter-in-law.

Yao Niang heard someone outside say, "Second Master Quan and the Seventh Young Master of the Quan Family came here together."

Today was a busy day, and Xie went to receive guests for the second aunt. The old relatives were receiving guests at the eldest aunt's place. Because Yao Niang had rested at the eldest aunt's place yesterday, she happened to be here to accompany her to receive guests.

From time to time, a young man and a boy came in. Aunt Xie suddenly said, "Second cousin, you haven't changed in all these years."

The leading young man walked up with a smile: "Cousin, you are still as elegant as ever."

"You're still as sweet as ever." Aunt Xie is over 40 years old, but she is still very happy to hear others praise her.

After the two exchanged greetings, Mr. Quan introduced the young man next to him: "This is my nephew Qilang."

Quan Qilang was about ten years old, with red lips and white teeth. Aunt Jie was delighted and sent him a pair of purses filled with silver ingots. She said to Master Quan Er, "You haven't gotten married in so many years? You are already thirty years old. Look, this is your sister Lanyou's daughter, she is eight years old, and her eldest son has already passed the imperial examination and became a scholar."

After that, Aunt Xie asked Yao Niang to come over and pay her respects. Yao Niang bowed quickly and shouted, "Greetings to my cousin uncle."

How could she know that Master Xiaoquan looked at her for a long time before he smiled and said, "I have been practicing zither in Fujian and Zhejiang for many years. A day in the mountains is like a thousand years. My niece, I came in a hurry. I will give you this jade pendant as a gift for meeting you."

Yao Niang said quickly: "Uncle, these are too expensive. I dare not accept them."

As the saying goes, one cannot receive blessings without merit. Her grandmother did not allow her mother to go to the Quan family, and she did not know what the Quan family was like. Looking at this jade pendant, it was of extremely fine quality and was definitely not an ordinary item. She could not accept it.

Master Quan had not expected that this little girl had such good upbringing. He was a little surprised and said, "This is nothing. Just accept it. It is a gift from an elder and cannot be refused."

Yao Niang glanced at her aunt and only accepted it when she saw her aunt nodded, and then she bowed and thanked her.

Only then did Mr. Quan take his nephew out.

Many guests came one after another. Aunt Jie asked Yao Niang to accompany her third cousin who was about to get married, so she went again. The third cousin usually had a hot temper, but today she was shy.

"Yao Niang, come here and give you some wedding candy." The third cousin quickly handed her a bag of candy.

The wedding candy tasted sweet, Yao Niang took a bite. Many people came and went at the third cousin's place, and their boxes and baskets were almost all packed up, as if they were ready to leave at any time. Several of the third cousin's close friends were also talking to her in secret. Seeing this, Yao Niang felt that it was too hot here, so she prepared to go find Xie.

Who knew that when she passed the garden behind, she would see Mrs. Jie and Mr. Quan, who had given her the jade before. She said to the people behind her: "Let's go and play with my sixth cousin. Mother must be holding me back again."

In fact, there was nothing for Xie and Master Quan to talk about. Although she had played with Quan when she was a child, she had to avoid suspicion when she grew up. When she saw him now, she just exchanged a few pleasantries.

"I'm still busy over there, so I'll leave first." Xie said.

Quan Fang could not help but nod: "Okay, please go ahead, cousin. I have already returned to Jinling this time. If you have any problems in the future, just greet me as before, cousin."

Xie always felt that there was something wrong with this statement, but she couldn't refute it for the moment, so she just smiled and left with her people.

After finishing her morning work, Aunt Xie whispered to Mrs. Xie: "The second son of the Quan family is still unmarried. All these talented people are like this."

"That's not the case. I've heard in recent years that his guqin skills are second to none in the Songshan School." Xie was preparing to visit the Quan family at the time and got to know a little bit about them.

"It would be great if you could play a song." Aunt Jie said, this is much better than others playing some musical instruments.

Xie smiled and said, "But a guqin expert like him probably won't agree, right?"

Second Aunt Jie went to her husband to test the waters, but unexpectedly Quan Fang agreed, and everyone was very happy. This was also the first time Yao Niang saw someone playing the piano to the point where a hundred birds were circling.

This scene was so shocking that Xie's eyes lit up. She wished Quan Fang would teach her daughter. She lowered her head and said to Yao Niang standing beside her, "Nannan, do you want to learn the piano?"

Yao Niang was shocked and nodded: "Of course I have thought about it. It would be great if I could practice like this one day."

This was the scene Yan Yingqi saw when he hurried over. He saw Xie's eyes sparkling as she watched the cousin from the Quan family playing the piano, and thought to himself that it was not like he couldn't play the piano, so why was his mind so quickly attracted away by another man.

When the song ended, everyone was listening to it with rapt attention, and some even clapped their hands to express their happiness.

Yao Niang was also like this. She didn't expect a figure to appear in front of her. She thought she was dazzled and quickly pulled Xie and said, "Mom, Dad is here."

Xie was also surprised, "Why are you here?"

Yan Yingqi held up his hands and said, "What are you talking about? If I hadn't been busy with official business, I would have come here with you two days ago."

With him around, he naturally had to sit in the seat of honor. However, Yan Yingqi behaved completely differently from usual. He was very close to his eldest uncle and second uncle of the Xie family, and did not put on the airs of a high-ranking official like the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Even Yao Niang and Jie Shi Cricket said: "Dad must have taken the wrong medicine today. He has been laughing the whole time. He hardly smiles on normal days. Last time I asked him why he always had a stern face, and he said that there are only funny people in the world and he is annoyed when he sees them."

Xie hit her daughter and said, "Keep your voice down and stop talking nonsense."

Yan Yingqi was toasting at the table. Although he was not a very nice person, he was good at socializing. Second Uncle Xie had some opinions about Yan Yingqi, but when he saw him coming in person with a sincere attitude and giving face to the Xie family, he said in front of the Xie family's relatives: "Originally, I had some official business, but I came here because I thought about my niece's marriage. I was an official in Beijing, and it was rare for me to meet you all. Please don't be so reserved in the future."

Although the old man of the Xie family was the prefect, a governor of a prefecture, and a fourth-rank official, the Xie family lived a good life locally, but the marriage into the Yan family was even more unusual.

After the excitement, there was silence. Xie was very sorry to hear that the uncle and nephew of the Quan family went back overnight.

Yan Yingqi was angry and said, "Why do you look like that? This guy just left, do you think I don't know that he covets you?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm already this old, and you're destroying my reputation by saying this?" Xie couldn't help but hit him.

Yan Yingqi felt unfair, but seeing that Xie was angry, he couldn't bear to see her angry, so he quickly coaxed her, "I just heard a little bit, but today I know that your heart is definitely with me."

Heard it, where did you hear it from? Xie couldn't help but think of Zhen subconsciously.

Fortunately, Yan Yingqi came over. If he hadn't, I would have felt bad. She changed the subject again and said, "I saw that he is an outstanding musician and I thought that our Yao Niang and Qian Niang Shen Niang's talents couldn't be compared, so I wanted to see if he could teach me. Don't be jealous. You know that you will always be in the deepest part of my heart."

Yan Yingqi, who was like a hedgehog, immediately softened. He hugged Xie and said, "Actually, there are so many people learning the guqin nowadays. We don't have to learn the guqin. It's better to learn the konghou. You don't need to wear nails to play the konghou. The guzheng has overtones, and the konghou is very gorgeous. It just so happens that I have a phoenix-head konghou. I will give it to Yao Niang when I go back, and I will hire a teacher for her."

So, the next day, Yao Niang heard her mother say that she wanted to learn the konghou instead.

"Change from playing the guqin to learning the konghou?" Yao Niang was puzzled. She felt that playing the guqin gave her a feeling of floating in the air.

Xie glanced at Yan Yingqi and said, "Your father said so."

Yan Yingqi said, "Look, there are many people who learn to play the guqin, guzheng and flute. These people are already common. But you are different. You play the konghou, which can be said to be unique. You know the "The Peacock Flies Southeast" in Yuefu, where Liu Lanzhi learned the konghou. There is also "Li Ping's Konghou Introduction" written by Li He, which is even more unique. So, how unique is it that you are learning this, and you are using the phoenix-head konghou that your father gave you. Cao Pi of the Jin Dynasty described the phoenix-head konghou in his "Konghou Fu" as "a dragon body and a phoenix shape, with graceful and elegant curves, and emerald green algae." Just imagine that you are holding the gorgeous phoenix-head konghou and playing the unique instrument, and you will definitely be envied by everyone. "

"Really?" Yao Niang looked happy.

Yan Yingqi smiled and said, "Of course, I don't like people who are too mediocre."

Yao Niang decided: "Okay, then I will learn the konghou."

Xie now felt that there was a reason why Yan Yingqi was so young and held such a high position.

There was laughter and joy along the way, but when they were about to reach the shore, Yan Yingqi said to them: "Zhou Jijiu offended the emperor and has resigned and returned home. The emperor sympathized with his old age and sent his eldest son to exile in Yunnan to take the blame. In Lingguang, we are still the same as before, understand?"

Yao Niang nodded heavily. She thought that the circumstances of life were so different in a matter of seconds. Just like she was a weird little girl who was rejected by her grandmother a few months ago, but now she is the apple of her parents' eyes, and even her brother is starting to treat her better. Zhou Lingguang, on the other hand, has gone from being an official to a criminal.