Chapter 244
Chapter 244
Oh! Song Guanzhou!
Qin Qingdong stopped pretending to be dead and rolled over, almost hitting his broken elbow. He cried out in pain, but immediately smiled happily, "Guan Zhou, you finally came to see me."
Old Madam Qin snorted, "Guan Zhou is younger than you, so you should be her brother. Why do you act like a child? You are so unstable. This is not good!"
"Yes, yes, mother."
Qin Qingdong stood up, not caring about his loose posture, and walked forward with one foot high and one foot low.
Song Guanzhou looked bright and beautiful today, with her hair combed into a single spiral bun and a hairpin with just the right amount of pearls, jade, gold and silver flowers. She looked much more lively than the other young women.
"I heard from my aunt that you were naughty and drank too much, so you fell down the mountain and broke your bones. Silang has to be busy with official duties these days, so I can only come to visit you alone."
Qin Qingdong was filled with emotion when he heard this, "I told you that you are not such a heartless person. Knowing that I was injured, you would definitely come to visit me." He laughed and told Chun Ge to go to the kitchen and order some sweet snacks that Song Guanzhou liked.
Old Madam Qin and the wife of the eldest young master of the Qin family were staring with their eyes wide open.
She was afraid that this strong man like her would scare Song Guanzhou, so she held her hand and said softly, "It's all my fault. I thought that he was such a rebellious son because I was old and didn't bring him up well. Please don't scare you."
Song Guanzhou was quite easy-going. He took the old lady of the Qin family's arm and said with a smile, "What are you saying, aunt? Qin Er and I are of the same kind. No one can make fun of anyone. But aunt and the eldest young lady should not laugh at me for my lack of virtue, speech and appearance. It's really the result of my parents who passed away early spoiling me." He almost uttered the words "It is difficult to change one's nature", but fortunately he swallowed it back when it was on the tip of his tongue.
Saying that the country can be changed easily in front of the Crown Princess's family is probably courting death.
When Old Lady Qin heard her say this, she became more amiable and doting. "You are so magnanimous. Otherwise, I, as his mother, know Erlang's mouth very well. I'm afraid he has had many disputes with you in the past. If you are bullied by him, tell your aunt and I will take care of it for you."
My queen and my daughter are in harmony.
Qin Qingdong looked at this scene and felt exhausted. He couldn't help but think, "Mother, you and sister-in-law go back and rest for a while. I'll talk to Guanzhou for a while—"
"What a lie!"
The eldest lady of the Qin family couldn't bear it any longer and hit her unruly brother-in-law hard!
"Guanzhou came to visit you, how can you treat him badly? Mother likes him, and Guanzhou and I are like sisters, so what's wrong with us talking together? You are so ignorant of etiquette that you want to send mother and me away."
Old Mrs. Qin shook her head and looked at the beautiful Song Guanzhou. She smiled as she watched her own Erlang being beaten, but her heart sank.
If there is suspicion, he will not be able to do what his youngest son wants.
However, Song Guanzhou was carefree. He drank two sips of tea, talked to the old lady and the eldest young lady, and then wanted to leave. The eldest young lady got a look from her mother-in-law and came forward to persuade him to stay. Song Guanzhou did not hesitate, "To be honest with you, aunt and young lady, I came out to buy some things at the Hard Study Studio. My cousin from my mother's side came to participate in the imperial examination. He has prepared everything else. I can't help much. It's better to buy a pine soot ink for good luck."
The name of the store is as good as it sounds.
He once saved a beggar, the scholar was 32 years old, skinny, but he had good handwriting. In order to repay the owner of the study, he begged for some paper, ink, brush and inkstone, and wrote "Ku Shu Shu Zhai". The owner didn't think much of it, thinking that he was just an ordinary scholar, who had problems with food and clothing, and yet he dreamed of winning the imperial examination.
Little did he know that when the results were announced more than a month later, this scholar who usually lived in a pile of firewood actually received an angel to announce the good news.
The owner of Ku Shu Du Shu Zhai quickly found the top scholar's writings, had someone make rubbings of them, and hung up a sign. From then on, all the literati and scholars who came to Beijing to take the imperial examinations came to buy some of the four treasures of the study to share in the good fortune.
Although it was a matter of the previous dynasty, the custom has been retained. Yesterday, Xiao Bei's wife talked about it with Song Guanzhou. Song Guanzhou thought that now Xu Lingqiao has disappeared, and Xu Lingbai has to suppress his sadness and study hard every day. It would be better for his cousin to worry about these things.
Old Madam Qin asked about Xu Lingbai again, and Song Guanzhou was also polite, "Speaking of which, my cousin has a gentle personality and is thin-skinned. It is not easy for him to come to your house after entering the capital. Now he is studying hard and has no time to take care of these trivial matters. I have done some extra work for him, just to get on the list."
I won’t say much else, just these few words are enough.
Qin Qingdong jumped up when he heard it, "I thought you came to visit me on your own initiative."
Song Guanzhou shook his head and nodded again, "Before Silang left the house this morning, he told me that you fell off the rockery. I thought since we have come to the Hard Study Room, I might as well go a few steps further and come over to bother my aunt and the eldest young master's wife."
The eldest lady of the Qin family pretended to be angry and said, "Guan Zhou, you are so polite. Just call me sister-in-law like Erlang."
Song Guanzhou readily agreed and said, "Then I'd better obey your command, sister-in-law." He knelt down and bowed. The eldest lady of the Qin family returned a half-bow. The two of them exchanged a few polite words before bidding farewell to the old lady of the Qin family and letting the eldest lady of the Qin family see him out.
After Song Guanzhou left with Lianhua and Qingfang, Old Madam Qin could no longer bear it and pinched her youngest son's ears and twisted them hard.
"You look so eager, put it away quickly."
Qin Qingdong wailed, "Mother, mother, let go... What's wrong with you? You were so cruel. I'm in pain all over!" He had been showing off in the mansion in recent days because he saved the eldest grandson of the emperor, Liu Kang. Today, his kind old mother was offline. "That's Silang's wife. Why are you staring at her? What evil thoughts do you have?"
what?
Qin Qingdong was stunned by his mother's words, "Mother, what are you talking about? Silang, Guanzhou and I are innocent... How could we have any evil intentions?"
No? !
The old lady of the Qin family was not easy to fool. "If she wanted to come to visit you, she shouldn't have come alone. Silang brought her here without causing any gossip. How come you just ignored her?" Thinking of her daughter's difficult situation in the East Palace, she felt that the playboy in front of her was even more irritating.
I couldn't help but hit him a few times.
Qin Qingdong was beaten so hard that he almost vomited blood. He begged for mercy quickly, "Mother, if others say a few more words, I will just pretend I didn't hear them. How come you, such a smart old lady, would also be suspicious?"
"You bastard, if you hadn't been running to her door every other day, now Song has brought her maid and is so reckless as to not care about anything, not sending a note and being rude, and coming to her house rashly. How can a lady in the boudoir do this?" Old Lady Qin couldn't help but get angry as she looked at her son who still didn't repent.
"It's a good thing your father passed away early, otherwise he would have broken your legs."
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