Chapter 15: Hindsight
Chapter 15: Later Recognition (")
When the carriage entered the side door of Su Mansion, he happened to meet his second uncle and his group who had been drunk until they were 70% drunk. He asked Su Tan'er what he saw and heard tonight, whether he had a good time in the poetry meeting, etc., and Su Tan'er also responded with a few words as usual.
At this time, many poems were still spreading in the city. Water Tiao Ge Tou is a masterpiece, but it is still impossible to cause a sensation or be the best tonight's reputation. The reprimands of Kang Xian at the Shishui Poetry Club have not yet been published. In the eyes of ordinary people, the top poems are almost the same. In the eyes of ordinary people, this poem is good, but compared with Cao Guanli Pin and others, it may be just similar, or because of the previous fame of these talented men, they may even look at this Water Tiao Ge Tou a little worse. Only those who are truly knowledgeable can clearly detect the timelessness and return to nature of this poem and feel the distance.
Su Zhongkan was just talking about business with people tonight, visiting prostitutes and drinking wine, and he was not very concerned about poetry, so things about Ning Liheng had not yet come to his ears. After a few greetings from his uncle and nephew, they separated on the road. Su Tan'er and his servant returned to the small courtyard where they lived. Except for the big lanterns outside the courtyard, the yard was quiet, and only the moonlight like water in the sky was shining.
Su Tan'er looked at the darkness in the second floor room over there, and Xiaochan asked, "Miss, I'm going to call my son-in-law..."
"No, he is already asleep, don't wake him up. Chan'er brings some warm water, Xing'er Juan'er, you go to bed earlier... Chan'er, if you are still energetic, can you tell the story that my son-in-law told you to listen to?"
Chan'er smiled and nodded, and Juan'er and Xing'er on the side also raised their hands quickly.
"Miss, we are not sleepy."
“We want to hear it, too.”
She looked at the two girls in anger, then smiled and said, "Let's come together too. Speaking of which, I haven't heard a story or something in a long time."
"I remember when I was a child, the lady took a book to tell us stories..."
"Yes, yes, I still remember..."
Several girls were chattering, and then Su Tan'er went upstairs, Juan'er and Xing'er helped Chan'er to boil warm water, brought a wooden basin, and went up with towels.
The lights of the city in the distance gradually became quieter. In the quiet courtyard, warm yellow lights floated in the windows on the second floor, reflecting the silhouettes of the master and servant in the room talking and chuckling.
It was unknown how long it took, but the night became much deeper again. Three maids came out of the room and then closed the door and went downstairs. After returning to their room, Chan'er closed the door and leaned gently on the door, holding her chest in both hands, raising her head and breathing deeply. The innocent little face raised had a complicated look, happy, doubted, afraid, longing, and all kinds of things.
Su Tan'er has taught her a lot of things, so naturally she will not be pure and simple in her heart. She also has little thoughts, but this little thought is always for the people and things she likes around her, such as the lady, such as the Su family, or now she has to add Ning Liheng.
In the past, she could refute Mr. Qin at the chess stall for the Su family. After getting along with Ning Yi during this period, Ning Yi has a calm personality, but she also has a humorous side on weekdays. When doing things - although she didn't do anything serious - she looked like she was as if she was careless and was not careless. When she was kind, she naturally liked it.
On the other hand, I not only like the lady, but also feel grateful and kindness. In short, I like it very much. She understands the lady’s past distress, and probably knows what the lady likes. Now that I find that my son-in-law is not like the nerd I heard of before, I will naturally consider the marriage between him and the lady. If they like each other, they will naturally come together, of course it is best. She doesn’t have much to do, let the lady see and know about the son-in-law, and let the son-in-law know about the lady’s goodness - this is also her job as a personal maid.
She knew that the lady liked poetry, but the son-in-law wrote nothing that could be done with the ones she wrote before. Sometimes she even thought that the son-in-law was deliberately joking to write those things. Tonight she saw the son-in-law making the song "Shuitu" song. Although she was not profound, she could always notice the goodness of the words and sentences, as if she had discovered the treasure. She took the words and sentences to the Puyuan Poetry Conference, intending to find time for the lady to see. Then when she saw Xue Jin coming over, she understood what she would find in it, she naturally took out the words and sentences. In any case, this poem should always be very good, and it would be fine without losing points.
She just didn't expect that in the eyes of those people, this poem would be so good.
If she had an accurate concept before, she would never have taken out this poem rashly. Now it seems that if she wanted the lady to see the talent of her son-in-law, it had a reverse effect - it seemed that even the lady was scared, and she looked a little unprepared on the boat, so she felt guilty. She originally wanted to prepare a small surprise, but who knew that the surprise was too big and scared herself...
Alas, how could this look...
The lights were swaying like beans. Xiaochan, who was sleepy, sat at the table, holding her chin with both hands and thinking distressedly. The manuscript of the water tune song written by Ning Yi to her was the original manuscript of Ning Yi's writing to her, so she read it several times.
Sister-in-law, as long as you are talented, you don’t have to be so high... How will Xiaochan tell you about these things tomorrow...
It was indeed the son-in-law's fault.
She pouted, stretched out her fingers to poke the rice paper gently twice. When she saw the last sentence, her face gradually turned red again. Then she carefully folded the paper again and took it back to the bottom of the drawer.
When I blew out the oil lamp, my face became hotter and hotter. The little girl was touching the darkness and slowly went to bed...
"It's a joy of the moon together thousands of miles...heh..."
In the early morning, white mist filled Jiangning City again, and the bright ones were still rising from above the fog, emitting a magnificent morning light.
As soon as he woke up, Ning Yi felt refreshed and his spirit had almost recovered. He had to rest for one day and then go to class tomorrow. At today's time, he could get some wooden sandbags from the guardhouse. This body has been weak for many years and cannot be fully exercised.
The manager in the management and guards seemed to be surnamed Zhang. According to the atmosphere he felt in the Su family now, Old Lady Su was quite caring, but she had to consider whether it would be too much of a big impact on Su Tan'er and the others if she brought things like wooden men and sandbags into the yard. It was nothing to do with him, a weak scholar, and suddenly he said he wanted to practice martial arts, and they probably would regard themselves as fools.
They have to accept that they are a little different, but they have to take it slowly. This may be a little quick, and he weighed these things boredly in his heart. Then, while sitting together to drink meat porridge at breakfast, he felt that Su Tan'er seemed to be looking at him, with a strange look.
After a few casual glances, Ning Yi put down the bowls and chopsticks, looked at his wife in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"No." Su Tan'er smiled slightly and shook her head, "I just think my husband is in good spirits in the morning."
"Oh, the condition should be nothing. Cough... my throat seems to be a little dry, but it will definitely be fine after today. You can go to the academy."
"If you have no health, you will be fine. If you have any more days, my husband might be very busy."
"busy?"
"Yeah." Su Tan'er nodded, without explaining much, and began to drink porridge in a very ladylike manner. In confusion, Ning Yi felt that the smile on the corner of her mouth was somewhat similar to that of Mona Lisa...
What does it mean? Does the academy want to work for me? Ning Yi speculated in his mind about the possible meaning of the other person's words. It was not until after drinking the porridge and returning to the room, Xiaochan came over timidly and explained what happened last night that he finally accurately grasped the emotions contained in the other person's eyes.
"Yes, sorry, son-in-law, Xiaochan originally just wanted to... just wanted to show the lady, but that Xue Jin was so hateful..."
Ning Yi listened to her in a daze, and then his expression calmed down. After thinking about it for a while, he laughed out loud intriguingly.
"Oh, it's okay, it's not a big problem."
Seeing that he was not angry, Chan'er nodded happily and said, "That's right, my son-in-law's talent..." With a bang, Ning Yi's finger popped on her forehead.
"Who said I am talented? I am not allowed to talk to people like this in the future."
"...Oh." The little girl hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"In this way, I won't go out today." Ning Yi thought for a while and laughed, "It seems that it will take several more days to get sick..."
The sun shone in through the window. Ning Yi walked back to the bed with a novel in the story, preparing to pretend to be sick and stay in bed. After a while, he waved to Xiaochan again. Only then did Xiaochan put down his uneasiness, moved the Go box and the small table for playing Go from a corner of the house, and trotted happily...
Chapter completed!