Chapter 90: Know when to advance and when to retreat, and avoid the situation of missing someone for a while
Since he had something hidden in his mind, the test became more and more relaxed.
However, Sun Shaozong didn't take it too seriously , and there were only half-grown children in the room, so no one noticed any flaws.
After finally waiting for the end of the song, he called Jia Lan to his side as if nothing had happened and said with a double meaning: "Brother Lan, go back and tell your mother that I appreciate your kindness, but don't send her snacks in the future to save her trouble."
Knowing that a pretty widow of noble status had a crush on him certainly made Sun Shaozong complacent, but he was not a reincarnated pervert. How could he be so infatuated with beauty that he could not distinguish the important things from the other?
If she was a pretty widow from a humble family, it would be fine. If he really liked her, he could just take her in as a concubine. It just so happened that his eldest brother had been urging him to take a concubine recently, and even Ruan Rong had brought it up twice.
But what is Li Wan’s identity?
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion!
If you want to take her home, she must be your legal wife!
If I were to have an affair with her in secret, once the truth came out, I would have an irreconcilable feud with the Jia family!
Sun Shaozong never thought of marrying a widow as his wife, nor did he think of fighting to the death with the Jia family for a woman with whom he had never even spoken a few words!
So he chose to decline without hesitation.
Jia Lan looked at the remaining Ruyi cakes in the box and thought he understood what Sun Shaozong meant, so he said crisply, "So the teacher doesn't like to eat this. I'll go back and tell my mother not to send this kind of snacks next time."
"That's not what I meant."
He wanted to explain it in more detail, but Sun Shaozong couldn't tell a seventeen-year-old child, "Your mother wanted to seduce me, but I don't want to," right?
I could only give him an ambiguous admonition: "In short, just learn what I just said from your mother."
Jia Lan agreed obediently, then carried the food box and left the martial arts hall.
When he got outside, three servants were already waiting there, wearing straw raincoats and holding umbrellas.
A servant named Zhou Ren took the food box attentively, and secretly opened the lid to take a look. Seeing that the bottom of the plate was empty, he asked with a smile on his face: "Brother, I saw that Lord Sun called you over alone just now. Did you behave badly today and get scolded?"
"nonsense!"
Jia Lan tilted his head and glared at him, saying angrily, "The instructor just said that he couldn't get used to this snack and told me not to send it again in the future - he never complained about my poor performance."
Not used to it? Don't send it to me again?
Zhou Ren rolled his eyes a few times, and suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Ouch!" He stamped his feet and said, "No wonder Lord Sun can't get used to it. This snack is probably not sent by our grandmother! At that time, I heard the old woman calling "Lang'er, Lang'er" all the time, so I went forward to take her food box. Now that I think about it, the old woman seems to be from the family of "Lan'er" in the back corridor!"
As he said this, he had a sad face, bowed and knelt, and begged Jia Lan and the other two servants to keep the matter a secret for him, so that he would not be punished when he returned .
When Jia Lan heard that the snacks were not sent by his family, and seeing that he spoke pitifully, he nodded in agreement. And the two servants naturally would not refuse for the sake of his uncle Zhou Rui.
Zhou Ren thanked him countless times, then said he wanted to deliver the food box to Jia Lan's home, and ran away like the wind.
However, he took many detours and did not go to the back corridor, but quietly entered Wang Xifeng's yard.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw Ping'er fiddling with a bird cage in the corridor. She hurried over and bowed, saying, "Sister Ping'er, I have already done the task that the Second Madam asked me to do. Look..."
As he spoke, he opened the food box, revealing half a plate of Ruyi cake inside.
Seeing that the handwritten note at the bottom of the plate had disappeared, Ping'er paused for a moment, then asked as if nothing had happened, "Did Lord Sun say anything?"
"I didn't say anything else, just that the snacks were not to my liking and I asked you not to send them to me again."
Upon hearing this, Ping'er was relieved. Although she had to get involved in this matter under the pressure of Wang Xifeng's power, she didn't want any trouble to arise in her heart.
"Wait, I'll go back to the house and report."
After telling Zhou Ren to wait in the corridor, Ping'er opened her oil-paper umbrella, hurried into the main room, and repeated to Wang Xifeng what Zhou Ren had said.
Finally, he couldn't help but add: "It seems that this Mr. Sun is a gentleman who upholds integrity."
Wang Xifeng had been leaning on the couch, pounding her lower back. Upon hearing this, she sat up straight, her pretty eyes fixed on Ping'er's face, and she sneered, "Why? I wrote him a few sour words, and you gave him your heart as well?!"
If it were any other servant, he would have been frightened out of his wits.
But Ping'er had been with Wang Xifeng for so many years that she could tell at a glance that she was teasing her. So she pouted her lips, twisted her waist, turned her back to Wang Xifeng and stamped her feet, saying, "Madam, you are teasing me again! If you really don't like Ping'er, just send me to Shuiyue Temple to be a nun!"
"I do want to, but I'm afraid our Second Master Lian won't be willing to let it go."
Wang Xifeng said something sarcastic again, and then got back to the point, saying with disdain: "What do you mean by a gentleman? Pah! There is no cat in this world that doesn't steal fish. He just refused this unexpected good fortune because he was afraid of getting into trouble. If it was a pretty widow from a small family, she would have rolled into bed with him long ago!"
"Besides, I didn't expect to hook him in one go - there's still a lot of time to go, so I'm not afraid he won't take the bait!"
Then he said, "Give 20 taels of silver to Zhou Ren and tell him that if he dares to spread any gossip about me, I will skin him alive!"
--Dividing line--
Not to mention how Zhou Ren took the silver and swore an oath to heaven in front of Ping'er.
But when Sun Shaozong and the other boys dispersed, they wrapped the stone with the paper and threw it into the well at the west wall to destroy the body and then left the "Martial Arts Hall" leisurely.
He originally wanted to go to Jia Lian's house to talk to him, but after asking Bao Eryi, who was in charge of entertaining guests, he learned that Jia Lian was invited by Xue Pan to Yiran Pavilion to listen to music.
I found my way to Yiranxuan and heard the sound of a pipa in the yard, mixed with the sound of raindrops. It did not seem chaotic at all, but instead added a touch of lingering meaning.
This level...
Sun Shaozong leaned his head to look inside and saw that the person playing the pipa in the pavilion was indeed Yun'er from Jinxiang Courtyard. Besides her, Jia Lian and Xue Pan, there were also Feng Ziying and another handsome young man whom he did not recognize.
Not wanting to interrupt the music, Sun Shaozong waited outside the courtyard gate for a while. When the song ended, he walked into the courtyard with a big laugh: "You guys are really in a good mood. It's raining so hard..."
Before he could finish, the strange young man's face suddenly changed color, and he slammed the wine glass in his hand on the table, and said in a stern voice: "So you invited him! If I had known this, I would never come here to cause trouble - goodbye!"
Having said that, he stood up and walked out, glaring at Sun Shaozong with gritted teeth as he walked.
