Chapter 78: The Dumb King Wants to Become a Wife-killer, Sun Shaozong Spends the Summer in Rongguo Mansion
However, while Sun Shaozong was feeling emotional, he couldn't help but feel some doubts. Normally, for such a matter, even if Xue Pan wanted to ask for external help, he should have asked Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang for help. Why did he find him?
So he frowned and said, "If you don't want to marry that Wang girl, why don't you discuss it with your family? What's the point of looking for me?"
Xue Pan's anger eased a little, and he stammered, "But my mother has already fallen in love with her. Even my sister is trying to persuade me to marry the girl from the Wang family..."
Xue Baochai also advised him to marry Wang’s daughter?
This is a bit strange.
Although he had never met Xue Baochai in person, it was not difficult to infer from the occasional words and phrases that Ruan Rong revealed that she was a very far-sighted woman who was quite protective of her relatives. How could she persuade Xue Pan to marry such a notorious sister-in-law?
In addition, Xue Pan's hesitant attitude made it seem like there might be some hidden secret behind this.
Sun Shaozong was just thinking about it when he suddenly saw Xue Pan put his big head in front of him and said in a flattering manner: "Brother, you are the only one who can save me now. You can't just watch me jump into the fire pit!"
"Wait a minute!"
Pushing the guy back to his original position, Sun Shaozong said speechlessly: "What do you mean 'only I can save you'? I don't remember having such ability."
"How not?!"
Xue Pan heard that his words seemed to be relenting, and hurriedly said, "As long as you, second brother, can you say that I have the appearance of being unlucky in marriage in recent years, then Minister Wang will dare to marry his precious daughter to me?"
Sun Shaozong: “…”
It turns out that this was Xue Pan’s idea!
Because of the many strange cases he solved in the past six months or so, more and more folk legends have linked Sun Shaozong to ghosts and gods, saying that he was born with a pair of wise eyes that could distinguish between yin and yang, know life and death, and determine people's good and bad fortune.
If Sun Shaozong announced to the public that Xue Pan had shown signs of being unlucky in marriage in recent years, even if Minister Wang was unwilling to believe it, he would probably not risk marrying his daughter off.
only……
Sun Shaozong is currently unable to dispel the rumors, so how could he possibly come forward to provide concrete evidence?
He immediately pointed at the door politely and said, "Get out!"
"Don't, second brother!"
Xue Pan hurriedly said: "As long as you help me this time, I will definitely ..."
"If you say one more word, do you believe I will make you walk out sideways?!"
Sun Shaozong raised his two vinegar-jar-sized fists and clenched them so hard that they made a rattling sound. Xue Pan saw that the situation was not good and fled in panic.
After watching the Dai Ba Wang disappear outside the door, Sun Shaozong speechlessly put away his posture - it was already mid-June, and the weather outside was as hot as a steamer. He felt a wet feeling on his back just after saying a few words to Xue Pan in the yard.
So he hurried back to the main room, collapsed on the armchair next to the ice basin, and immediately felt refreshed from head to toe - although the Sun family also stored some ice cubes, it was okay to have a basin of ice occasionally to cool down or make some cold drinks, but it was impossible to imagine using it as freely as the Jia family did.
For this reason, since last month, Sun Shaozong has become much more diligent about coming to the Jia Mansion to teach martial arts, and he comes to the Rongguo Mansion to cool off almost every other day.
He lay comfortably on the armchair, poked his chin on the cushion in the middle, and asked lazily, "Whose turn is it? I'm back now, why haven't you started yet?"
Although he was in a state of laziness, the other boys below did not dare to neglect him and quickly sent two of them to stand on the cushion. They were Jia Zheng's illegitimate son Jia Huan and his cousin Jia Yin.
Because Sun Shaozong had become more and more famous in recent days and he had a bright future, this martial arts school, which was originally not optimistic about the future, had added a lot of students - as a result, it caused the clan school director Jia Dairu to complain a lot.
Stop talking nonsense.
But Jia Huan and Jia Yin stood still on the cushion, bowed to each other, and then began to practice the military boxing they had just learned, practicing fighting routines.
At first, the uncle and nephew were quite well behaved, but how could they not bump into each other when practicing boxing and kicking?
But Jia Huan and Jia Yin, one relying on being Jia Zheng's illegitimate son, and the other thinking of himself as a legitimate son, are both the kind of people who are unwilling to suffer any loss. Therefore, after a few interactions, they both got really angry and started fighting with each other, without caring about any routines or hierarchy.
Although Jia Huan is Jia Yin's uncle, he is two years younger than her. So after three or five encounters, he could not resist and was ridden on by Jia Yin and beaten up.
"stop!"
Only then did Sun Shaozong shout to stop.
Jia Yin quickly let go of her uncle and stood aside obediently.
Jia Huan also climbed up and stood shoulder to shoulder with him - but he couldn't help staring at Jia Yin with his murderous eyes.
Anyway, the adults at home would take care of them afterwards, so Sun Shaozong was too lazy to explain anything to them. He just said, "Since we are practicing martial arts, it is not wrong to be brave and aggressive. But today I want you to practice the routine, not to show off your fists! Since you broke the rules, I will punish you..."
He smacked his lips and continued, "I'll punish you to fetch five watermelons from the well at the west wall, cut them up and bring them over to everyone - the servants just need to watch and are not allowed to help!"
After Jia Huan and Jia Yin took the order and left, Sun Shaozong signaled a pair of boys to come on stage. This time, both of them were from the side branches of the Jia family. They had a very good relationship with each other, so they naturally had to be more cautious in their actions.
However, to others, these fancy moves were far less enjoyable than the turtle punch just now.
Sun Shaozong was also yawning from watching this, and was about to drink a cup of cold tea to refresh himself, when he saw Jia Lan approaching from the side, digging out a small ceramic bowl with a lid from the ice basin, and respectfully handed it to Sun Shaozong:
"This is the eight-treasure sour plum soup that my mother just sent over. Please accept it, Master."
The naughty boys in the Jia family are all delicate and fragile. They are unwilling to study literature seriously, let alone learn martial arts.
The only one who can endure hardship and hard work is Jia Lan.
In addition, Jia Lan is only seven years old, which makes his character even more valuable. Therefore, Sun Shaozong usually looks at him differently.
I took the 'Eight Treasures Sour Plum Soup' from Jia Lan, opened the lid and took a sniff. I immediately felt the refreshing aroma and my appetite was immediately whetted.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong picked up the soup spoon and drank half of it in one go. Then he remembered his business and hurriedly reminded him while eating: "Since you have been practicing military boxing these days, you should stop doing aerobics. You can only do it once a day at most, so as not to overload yourself and hurt your body."
Jia Lan responded obediently, but his face showed a hint of reluctance.
Seeing this, Sun Shaozong asked curiously, "Why? Don't you like practicing boxing, but prefer doing aerobics ?"
Many of the movements in aerobics seemed strange to people at that time, so the boys learned military boxing and then forgot about them.
“Not really…”
Jia Lan said a little embarrassedly: "I usually do aerobics with my mother , but she refused to learn military boxing with me."
"What?"
Sun Shaozong swallowed the fruit pulp in his mouth and blurted out, "Your mother did aerobics with you?"
"yes."
Jia Lan nodded his head and complained, "It's just that every time when it comes to the seventh jumping exercise, my mother always wants to be lazy and won't really jump unless I supervise her."
Li Wan?
Jumping exercise ?
Sun Shaozong immediately imagined a scene of "ups and downs" and "raging waves" in his mind, and hurriedly crossed his legs to cover up the "expansion" that was about to burst out.
