Volume 2: Residence in the Capital Chapter 152: Singing to the Sky with a Bent Neck
Zhang Shou really didn't expect Zhu Ying to come so early. Seeing her wearing a man's hat and clothes and coming out so openly, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. When Lu Sanlang quickly moved a chair to his side and she sat down beside him without any courtesy, he said angrily and amusedly: "Didn't I ask Ah Liu to send you a letter?"
"I'm worried!" Zhu Ying glared at Weinan Earl Zhang Kang. "How do you know how powerful these places are? Why did I have to drag my second brother back from that place? Aren't there some women who are so desperate to marry into a wealthy family that they drug people and then cry and shout that they are pregnant with a man's child? Although Tingyu Cottage has a better reputation, who knows if anyone will be so foolish!"
She paused, and glanced at Zhu Er with a bad look on her face: "Most importantly, who asked you to take my second brother with you! What if he does something that implicates you?"
Well, knowing that Zhu Er is so unreliable in the eyes of the Zhu family, I won’t take him with me!
Zhang Shou sighed, and then said earnestly: "Yingying, you can't always look at people with old eyes. Your second brother is no longer the same as before. He is no longer the kind of frivolous dandy. He told me before that I should plan well for the future."
Zhu Ying didn't expect Zhang Shou to speak up for her second brother. Seeing Zhu Er nodding repeatedly and looking at her ingratiatingly, she snorted and said, "Then I will just assume that you know your mistakes and can correct them. Let's see what happens next."
Weinan Earl Zhang Kang looked at the scene in front of him and finally confirmed that the famous willful and unruly young lady in the capital was now completely subdued by the country boy. But after Zhu Ying blocked the door before, he had to bring people to Tingyu Cottage, but not to confirm the relationship between the two. Immediately, he clapped his hands lightly.
"Alright, alright, now that you're out, Yingying, we're all here. Lao Wan, invite Twelve Rain to come in and show the Twelve Heavenly Demons that they've been rehearsing for a long time to our distinguished guests!"
While Wanwanbao was down, Zhang Kang chatted with Zhang Shou with a smile on his face, but he never mentioned the matter of the skilled craftsman. Instead, he asked Zhang Shou some questions about the arithmetic with great interest. As expected, Zhu Er and Zhu Ying were both extremely impatient, and only Lu Sanlang would occasionally interject with a smile. And when the twelfth rain was late, Zhu Ying simply stomped on Zhu Er.
Zhu Er, who was about to cry out, saw Zhu Ying winking at him, so he had no choice but to stand up with her and admire the tiger painting on the screen, which he had no feeling for at all. It was only at this time that Zhang Kang, who saw an opportunity, asked in a low voice: "What does Dr. Zhang want to make by looking for a skilled craftsman?"
No matter how you look at him, this Earl of Weinan doesn't look like a so-called barbarian!
Zhang Shou turned the wine glass and saw that Lu Sanlang had already taken the initiative to help him keep watch - in fact, to prevent Zhu Ying and Zhu Er from suddenly coming back to attack - so he smiled and said, "It's just an immature idea. Could it be that in addition to those complicated big things in the Military Equipment Bureau, Master is also interested in all kinds of strange and ingenious gadgets?"
"Just out of curiosity." Zhang Kang smiled very naturally.
"Dr. Zhang seemed to have popped out of a crack in a rock. No one knew anything about him before, but he was described as a rare mathematical genius by Grand Master Ge. Naturally, I can't help but be curious. I was born this way. One time in my early years, I was curious and followed a few spooky guys when I was out alone. I ended up being stabbed. It was Lu San who passed by and saved me."
Seeing Zhang Shou looking at Lu Sanlang in disbelief, Lu Sanlang nodded awkwardly and whispered, "I really just happened to pass by. That time, Uncle saved his life, but the people he caught later were not the bullies who were preparing to gather people for a fight as he thought, but human traffickers who stole children and sold them. Of course, Uncle didn't take credit for it, and no one else knew about it."
This person is so curious that he is not even afraid of death!
Zhang Shou really didn't know what to say. However, he was never one to open up to strangers just to satisfy their curiosity, so he said casually, "I have been living in the countryside, and I just recently learned about my life. My mother used to run an embroidery workshop and do weaving and dyeing, so I want to find some skilled craftsmen who know these things and make some useful things for her."
Zhang Kang obviously didn't believe this statement: "Oh? With Dr. Zhang's salary, do you think you can't support your mother?"
"That was my mother's career. Even though I don't need her to support the family, it doesn't mean she can only stay at home and enjoy her old age playing with cats. It's just like some people like reading, some like throwing pots, some like playing the piano, and some like playing the harp."
Seeing Zhang Shou's frank answer, Zhang Kang glanced at Zhu Ying, and thought that she had also helped Zhang Shou's mother find an apprentice, and that what Zhang Shou said might be true, so he laughed it off and changed the subject.
Lu Sanlang, who was standing by, took a look at Zhang Shou, who was calm and composed, but he felt that what Zhang Shou wanted was not so simple. But even though he had received a generous dividend from Zhang Kang, he had no intention of helping the Weinan Earl. When he was looking for skilled craftsmen, he was caught by Zhang Kang, and he had to tell him what Zhang Shou had asked him to do. He also had to bite the bullet and help invite people to this place . He was already very kind!
At this time, there was a burst of voices outside, and then the door was pushed open, and then more than a dozen musicians entered in two rows. Seeing this, Zhu Ying, who had just left her seat to make room for Zhang Shou and the other two to discuss "Mathematical Scriptures", quickly pulled Zhu Er back to sit down. When she saw these musicians sitting down one by one, her eyes immediately turned to the door.
It is said that the Twelve Yus of Tingyu Cottage are all enchanting beauties. She is curious about how beautiful they are.
Zhang Shoulian had witnessed the grand scene of beauty pageants in the VIP area, and he had never been interested in singing and dancing. Seeing that Zhang Kang no longer asked questions and the beautiful maidservants came in from the outside to serve wine and food, he focused his attention on the wine and food in front of him.
Although all the dishes looked exquisite, he was used to seeing some creative dishes that looked good but tasted bad, so after looking at them, he finally chose to pick up a piece of fish with chopsticks. But just as he was concentrating on tasting it and secretly praising the taste for finally living up to the beautiful presentation, he suddenly heard a drum sound.
Following the sound, he instinctively looked up and saw four doors opening almost at the same time, and then twelve figures suddenly jumped into the house. When everyone landed on the ground, he saw wide sleeves fluttering, like fog and clouds dispersing, revealing faces without makeup. If Zhu Ying was born beautiful and radiant, they were white lotus in the rain, fresh and pleasing.
Moreover, there are not just one such beautiful lady, but twelve!
Even though he was not very interested at first, he couldn't help but put down his chopsticks and watched it with interest.
However, after the initial astonishment, despite the graceful dancing, he gradually lost interest in this so-called Twelve Heavenly Demon Dance.
His taste has long been spoiled by too many choreographers who have tried their best to learn from others. The dance that has left the deepest impression on him is the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. So even if there are beautiful women dancing nearby, and sometimes they reveal their beauty, he has seen so many bikini beauties, how can he be moved?
Zhang Shou turned his gaze back to the dishes on the table, thinking to himself, the fish was quite delicious, he didn't know how the braised lamb in the middle was, and the crystal clear pig's trotter jelly looked delicious, but he didn't know if it was just for show... So, he occasionally glanced at the table, but his chopsticks slowly moved among the dishes.
From the perspective of Twelve Yu who had displayed their unique skills, they did attract everyone's attention when they first appeared, but after only a moment, Dr. Zhang, who was described by others as elegant and handsome like a person in a painting, would occasionally lower his head to taste the food and wine on the table, as if those delicacies that could only satisfy the appetite were more attractive than them.
Even though they knew that he was the fiancé of Zhu Ying, a famous rich girl in the capital, and that Zhu Ying was also here at the moment, everyone couldn't help but feel competitive when facing this scene.
As a result, Hua Yu, who was flirting, almost had sore eyes; Fei Yu, who was shaking her sleeves from time to time to reveal her skin as white as jade, found that she was not as good as a dish of cold crispy lotus root; Chun Yu, who was showing the jade-like nails on her slender feet, only saw Zhang Shou tasting pig trotter jelly; only Jing Yu, who deliberately showed off her slender and graceful neck, got a smile from Zhang Shou as she wished.
However, the description she heard next almost made her make the wrong move.
"This should be Qu Xiang Xiang Tian Ge, right?"
The one singing with its neck bent to the sky is a goose, not a human! How can there be such an unromantic man in the world!
Lu Sanlang, who also heard Zhang Shou's muttering, almost died of laughter, but he had to hold it in. Zhu Ying was a little slower. She was stunned at first, then she leaned on the table, her shoulders shaking with laughter. Only Zhu Er hadn't reacted yet, and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, it's like singing with a curved neck to the sky, the dance is beautiful and the lyrics are even more beautiful!"
Zhu Er, if you are listed as an unwelcome person in all the romantic places in the capital in the future, it will not be my fault!
Zhang Shou himself also realized that he had used the wrong words when he was speaking out of his feelings, and he would definitely be scolded as a poisonous tongue behind his back. But words once spoken could not be taken back, and seeing that the dance finally stopped, he laughed and said, "The dancers are even more beautiful, worthy of being the Twelve Heavenly Demons that the Lord praised endlessly. Thanks to the Lord, I was able to see this dance today, and it was worth the trip!"
Zhang Kang felt that Zhang Shou's praise was just a lie, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He even wondered if Zhang Shou was born without the ability to appreciate beauty, otherwise how could he be distracted by the food he picked up and tasted while others were dancing in ecstasy, and even lost his mind from time to time? The most bizarre thing was the line "Singing to the sky with curved necks"... Did you think these were twelve white geese?
Zhu Ying straightened up at this moment. She looked thoughtfully at the twelve equally beautiful women in front of her, and suddenly turned her head to ask Zhang Shou: "A Shou, who do you think is the most beautiful?"
Seeing Zhu Ying's expression of wanting to cause chaos in the world, Zhang Shou simply asked back with a smile: "What do you think?"
Zhu Er breathed a sigh of relief. He thought his future brother-in-law would say to his sister Zhu Ying that she was the prettiest. Now it seemed that Zhang Shou was not so shameless. But the next moment, he waited for Zhu Ying's answer.
"Need I say? Of course you are the prettiest!"
