Chapter 162: Crazy Xiangling is shocked to hear the news from her mother
In the front yard of Rongguo Mansion, in the warm room where Lin Daiyu lives.
“Hehe…”
Shi Xiangyun put her hands on her waist and laughed until she was out of breath, but she kept asking, "What happened to Sun Hanlin later? I heard that he usually boasts of being noble and upright, but I didn't expect that he would act like this at home!"
Ruan Rong held her swollen belly and shook her head, "I never heard our master mention what happened to him later."
Tanchun, who was standing by, saw the opportunity and asked hurriedly, "Sister Rong, has Brother Sun ever seen the white elephant in the Censorate? Brother Xue said that the white elephant was more than three feet tall, and its two teeth were as big as an adult!"
Seeing her eyes wide open and her hands gesturing exaggeratedly, Ruan Rong couldn't help but laugh: "If it's really that big, wouldn't it have become a spirit? I heard from our master that the white elephant hasn't fully grown yet, and its body is even smaller than the other elephants."
"Big Brother Xue is really just bragging again!"
Just as Jia Tanchun got the answer, Shi Xiangyun asked anxiously, "Sister Rong, in the 'blood letter' case a while ago, that Ding..."
"Okay, okay."
Li Wan stepped forward to separate the sisters, half-seriously complaining: "Your sister Rong is a double, how can she withstand this barrage of interrogation? Let her rest for a while - if there is anything you want to know, you can ask Xiangling."
Upon hearing this, Sanchun and Shi Xiangyun surrounded Xiangling again and asked her about the new things that Sun Shaozong had experienced.
Even Lin Daiyu, at Ruan Rong's suggestion, joined in the quarrel with the other sisters.
The only two people left with Ruan Rong were Li Wan and Xue Baochai.
There is no need to mention Li Wan, but Xue Baochai deliberately avoided suspicion in front of others because of Xiangling's original identity.
Ruan Rong was also a little confused, so she asked curiously, "Why didn't Miss Xue go to Zijin Street?"
Xue Baochai smiled sweetly: "My brother and mother are busy preparing for the wedding, but I am useless and need the elders to take care of me, so I have no choice but to trouble my aunt here."
If someone else had said this, Ruan Rong would probably have believed it, but Xue Baochai had always been a smart person. It was said that she was in charge of many things at home, so how could she be useless?
Just as she was about to ask again, Li Wan held her arm and said enviously, "Sister, you are so lucky. There are probably not many people in the whole capital who treat the people in the house like Lord Sun does. Unlike me, when I just got pregnant with Lan Ge'er, that cruel thief fell ill and could not get up..."
At first she was trying to help Xue Baochai out of the predicament, but as she spoke, she began to express her true feelings.
She secretly thought that she only had the title of the eldest lady in vain, but compared with this concubine Ruan, she was really full of bitterness and no one cared about her.
As he spoke, his eyes began to turn red.
This caught Ruan Rong off guard. She had always felt that Li Wan treated her differently from others, and she knew the least about Li Wan, so she didn't know how to persuade her for a moment.
I could only make up an excuse: "Sister, what are you talking about? Our grandfather often talks about Lang'er. He is said to be the smartest and cleverest. By the way, how did sister take care of herself after giving birth to Lang'er? Her figure and skin color are something that even the other girls may not be able to match."
Xue Baochai also chimed in, "Yes, it was fine before, but recently my sister-in-law has become more and more youthful. I wonder how you keep her skin moisturized and well-maintained?"
Unexpectedly, the word "moisturizing" made Li Wan's heart beat wildly, for she was afraid that this woman, who was as shrewd as Wang Xifeng, would see through her.
So, while secretly observing Baochai, she forced a smile and said, "How can I maintain my appearance? I am just forced by Brother Lang to do a few exercises every day."
Ruan Rong and Xue Baochai both noticed that she was not really speaking from the heart, but they did not dare to ask her why, so the atmosphere became a little awkward for a moment.
It was quite lively on Xiangling's side. Shi Xiangyun heard that Xiangling had hired a female teacher at home and forced her to write a poem on the spot, which frightened Xiangling so much that she kept begging for mercy.
At this moment, Shi Liu, the maidservant beside Ruan Rong, suddenly rushed in, twisting her handkerchief and saying anxiously, "Madam, Aunt Zhen, someone from the mansion asked us to go back quickly. The master and the carriage are already waiting outside. Please leave quickly, Aunts."
There was a sudden silence in the warm room.
After a while, Lin Daiyu reluctantly asked, "What happened in your house? I finally came out for a while, and you're urging me to go back before noon!"
"I heard that Aunt Zhen's mother has arrived!"
Dang~
Before he finished his words, there was a crisp sound. Xiangling suddenly jumped up and knocked over several teacups!
“I…I…”
She said "I" twice, and suddenly her vision went dark, and she fell back on her back.
"Xiang Ling?!"
"Aunt Zhen!"
There was a sudden chaos in the warm room. Fortunately, Xiangling was just too surprised and nothing serious happened, so she woke up soon.
But after waking up, she no longer cared about etiquette and pushed everyone away like a madman and ran out.
It would have been fine for others, but Yingchun had always been slow to react, and she couldn't dodge in time, so she was almost knocked over by her .
"I'm sorry, Second Miss."
Ruan Rong could only apologize on her behalf, "You also know that she was kidnapped when she was four or five years old. Now that she heard that her biological mother had arrived, she was naturally overjoyed, but she didn't mean to be rude."
Yingchun and Xiangling were used to it and didn't care about anything. At Li Wan's command, the girls hurriedly escorted Ruan Rong out.
When they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, there was a group of rich ladies and a pretty widow. It was not convenient for them to see any outsiders, so they handed the matter over to the maids to take over and send Ruan Rong outside.
As soon as Ruan Rong stepped over the threshold, the tall figure of Sun Shaozong immediately appeared beside her. He carefully picked her up by the waist and escorted her to the carriage with his eyes fixed on her.
It would have been fine for other people to see this scene, they would just envy Ruan Rong for choosing the right man.
Li Wan, however, had mixed feelings as she watched. Sometimes she felt envious and sad, and sometimes she put herself in the situation.
I imagined being held tightly in the arms of those two steel-like arms. My body felt hot and soft, just like a steamed bun just out of the pot, exuding an aura that made me want to take a big bite...
However, Sun Shaozong carefully put Ruan Rong on the carriage, and got into the carriage swiftly. He was about to instruct Zhang Cheng to drive the carriage out of Rongguo Mansion, but when he turned around, he saw a look of loneliness between Ruan Rong's brows.
After a moment's hesitation, he immediately guessed that she was thinking of Xiangling's mother, and associated her with her relatives far away in Qianxiang Country.
So he quickly reached out his hand to hold her in his arms, and promised without hesitation: "Don't worry, when the child is a little older, I will take you to live in Qianxiang Country for a few months, so that your father-in-law can recognize his grandson."