Chapter 41: 流言
[Rumours]
Tang Shiman turned her head stiffly, only to see Li Xiao looking at her with a shocked expression of disbelief. She opened her mouth, but she didn’t know what to say in her defence. Her mind was blank and she had no idea why Li Xiao was here.
Li Xiao looked at the woman in front of him, after seeing her face pale, he sighed in his heart, and then quickly recovered the original feeling of warmth, showing a smile, “My female cousin is naughty, I don’t know how to run here. It’s just that I’ve just arrived here, I wonder if I can ask Mr Ji to take us back?”
Originally has been glaring at Tang Shiman’s Li Qin heard his cousin’s words, lifted his head incredulously looked at him, and then said in a puff of anger: “Not, we …嗚嗚 huhu…” Not waiting for her words to finish, Li Xiao covered her mouth.
Li Xiao looked at Ji Ling very calmly, only intentionally or unintentionally avoiding Tang Shiman’s gaze.
Seeing the two people coming forward, Ji Ling looked at the person who was holding his female cousin and covering her mouth calmly, nodded his head, and said in a very indifferent tone, “Please come with me ba.” After saying that, he passed Tang Shiman and led the two of them to walk out first.
Tang Shiman was the only one left in the already empty room, as if she had thought of something, her face turned pale. When she returned to her seat, she startled Wan Jingqian.
“Shiman, what happened to you?” Seeing her own daughter as if she had lost her soul, Wan Jingqian was startled and looked at her very anxiously. Next to her, Mrs Li also asked with concern, seemingly very concerned about Tang Shiman.
Looking at the two people in front of her, Tang Shiman opened her mouth, but in the end she still did not say anything.
Ji Ling lifted his eyes and looked at the two parties on the left and right, Tang Shiman, who was in a daze, and Li Xiao, who was drinking wine, a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
“Ji Ling, you eat this, I made the pastries a few days ago, according to the flavour you like to eat, try it to see if it suits your taste.” Tang Xiaobao took the homemade knife that Ji Ling brought back, and carefully divided the cake in front of him into several pieces, and then very naturally picked it up and sent it to Ji Ling’s mouth.
“Good.” Without even extending his hand, he directly bit into the pastry handed over by Tang Xiaobao.
Seeing Ji Ling eat several pieces in a row, Tang Xiaobao was very happy, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter. Originally, he thought that his birthday was just a birthday, there was no need to make it so extravagant, and moreover this was not his real birthday, but he heard Ji Ling say that this was their first birthday together, so there was no harm in making it a little more grand, so Tang Xiaobao readily agreed to it.
Feeding Ji Ling a couple of mouthfuls, and then eating a couple of mouthfuls himself, looking at the theatre across the street, Tang Xiaobao felt very happy. Although many things are inconvenient here, he did not think that the original himself thought it would be a very boring theatre yet it would be so interesting.
Ji Ling looked at the play in front of him, which he had seen a thousand times before, and turned his head to look at Tang Xiaobao beside him, with a deep tenderness hidden in his eyes.
Seemingly sensing Ji Ling’s line of sight, Tang Xiaobao, who had been watching the play very interestingly, turned his head to look at Ji Ling, very puzzled in his eyes, seemingly asking, “What’s the matter?
Looking at Tang Xiaobao’s confused eyes, the corner of Ji Ling’s mouth hooked up, reaching out and touching his head with a very gentle gesture. He was willing to protect this piece of clarity in his eyes forever, until he could no longer do so.
Feeling the strength on his head, although Tang Xiaobao felt that Ji Ling seemed to touch himself with the meaning of being a pampered pet, he just looked at the person in front of him, in a very good mood, so he didn’t say anything more. It was not easy to see Ji Ling happy for a while, so let him touch him enough.
Surrounding the public watching the interaction between the two, can not help but some whispering, just do not know how much jealousy mixed in the sight.
On the way back to the house, looking at her own daughter is still a soulful look, looks quite sad, Wan Jingqian still can not help but ask once again, “Shiman, what’s wrong?”
Looking at her mother’s concerned face, Tang Shiman shook her head. Thinking back to what Li Xiao did just now, he must not have heard her words. She comforted herself with this thought, and sat there with her heart beating like a drum.
Seeing how she asked, Tang Shiman refused to say, Wan Jingqian also no longer continued to open her mouth. Just some worried look at her, intuition tells her that something is going to happen.
Quiet for a few days, until this day, the Li family sent a letter, looking at the contents of the letter. The first thing that came to mind was her daughter’s appearance that day, and then she went to her daughter’s chamber with her things.
Looking at her daughter, who was sitting on the dressing table, Wan Jingqian handed the things over directly. After receiving the things from her mother, Tang Shiman took a look at them and then froze.
Seeing her own daughter’s reaction, Wan Jingqian knew that this matter was in her own daughter, just look at the pale face, even if her heart is a little troubled, but still kindly asked: “Shiman, you in the end, what did you do? So Li Gongzi wrote a letter to say that the marriage between the two families is cancelled.”
Tang Shiman looked at her mother, opened her mouth, but still told what happened that day.
The moment she heard her daughter’s words, Wan Jingqian slapped her, looking at her daughter who was covering her face, she was very angry, “Since you promised, why did you still do this kind of stupid thing? Do you know that if other people know about it, your reputation that you have been operating for so long will be ruined?”
Feeling the stinging pain on her cheeks, Tang Shiman knew that her mother was telling the truth. She thought that Li Xiao did not see what happened that day, but who knew that after so long a letter had been sent to her, so she understood that Li Xiao had heard what happened that day. Thinking of this, Tang Shiman also does not understand why she was so obsessed that day that she said those words. Just thinking of the cold look Ji Ling gave herself that day, and Li Xiao’s flash of incredulity, tears gradually flowed from her eyes.
Seeing her own daughter crying in pain, Wan Jingqian finally softened her heart, reached out and gently touched her face, but her voice was a bit stern, “Shiman, mother do this is for your own good, that Li Gongzi is a good man even if he’s a thousand times more selective. Since he sent this letter in his own name, he should not have let his parents know. Now you should write to him and ask for forgiveness, saying that you were just confused at the time, and apologising softly, so that he forgives you, and perhaps there is still a chance for a change.”
Hearing her mother’s analysis, Tang Shiman first froze a bit, then nodded her head.
“Gongzi, there is a letter for you.” The boy looked at the son, who was a bit off these days and was drinking all day long, and served him with great care.
Li Xiao put down the wine in his hand, looked at the waiter who came, and then looked at the envelope cover in his hand, which he was very familiar with, froze for two seconds, but still reached out and took it. After reading it for a while, he opened it.
By the time he finished reading the letter, the corners of his eyes were already slightly red, and then he heard his mother’s maid come to him, looking at him with some difficulty and saying, “Young master, madam asks you to come to her place.”
“Good.” After freezing for two seconds, he still nodded his head, looking at the way he looked around, he still decided to change his clothes before going over.
When he arrived at his mother’s courtyard, looking at his mother sitting there waiting for him, Li Xiao swept a glance at his ‘nothing strange attitude’, slowly walked over. In a low voice, he called out, “Mother.”
Looking at his son, Mrs Li’s eyes red, appearing to be a little angry, vaguely understanding his son’s recent abnormality or unusual, looked at him very firmly and said: “You and that woman’s marriage, do not ever think about it. In a few days, Mother will go over to make it clear to them. Obviously, we don’t dislike her family background anymore, but actually still do this kind of bad thing to malign us.”
“Mother.” Hearing his mother’s words, Li Xiao didn’t know how to refute them, but thinking of the words he heard that day and the remorsefulness in the letter, he couldn’t say anything.
Looking at his excellent son, Mrs. Li was very angry, the colour of her face was very bad, she would not give in to her son’s affairs, and looked at him and said firmly: “No matter what you say, this marriage will not work out.”
Li Xiao looked at his mother, finally nodded.
Wan Jingqian was sitting in her seat, her undulating chest showed that she was very emotional, but she looked at her own thin and haggard daughter and couldn’t say anything.
Tang Shiman also panicked, looking at her own mother, her expression was very flustered, “Mother, what should we do now?”
After the birthday banquet, Tang Xiaobao still did whatever he needed to do, but Ji Ling seemed to be busier than before. He doesn’t know if it was because the birthday banquet was so big that they all thought Ji Ling was rich, and many people came to the door under the banner of co-operation. Tang Xiaobao didn’t know anything about this, but he could only cook well every day, so Ji Ling didn’t have any worries.
In addition to cooking, Tang Xiaobao no longer has anything to do, so today’s Tang Xiaobao will bring Green Lotus to continue to do their old profession, but now sells Wan’er Cake or Bowl Cake.
Looking at the queue of people still chatting, Tang Xiaobao was also forced to listen.
A very neatly dressed middle-aged mother looked at the people behind her and said in a very disdainful tone: “I told you that Mrs Tang is a fox, not only is she a fox, but even her daughter is also a fox. See, this is it.”
The one behind her was a little thinner, with a glint in his eye and a mean look, “That’s it. Luckily that Mr Li didn’t marry her, or else she would have been put in a green hat (cuckold) as soon as she entered the house, and she wouldn’t even know whose child she had.”
“That shameless one actually wanted to seduce her own son-in-law. Bah, that Duke Ji is so good to his own husband, he still has eyes for her.” The woman said, looking as if she was right there.
The thin woman looked at her old sister in front of her and giggled, “Who says it’s not true, it’s just that this vixen just can’t change her habit of seducing people. In the past, everyone said that Miss Tang was a virtuous woman, who knew that she was just pretending, and behind her back, she had done a lot of shameless things.”
The two chatted along the way, and soon it was their turn. Passing their things over, Tang Xiaobao looked at the direction they left with some doubts, but was soon shouted back to her senses by the next customer.
Green Lotus beside her apologised, and then handed over the things to the customer with nimble hands and feet. From time to time, she glanced at Tang Xiaobao with a worried look in her eyes.
When she got home, Tang Xiaobao was still a bit bored, and Ji Ling saw Tang Xiaobao staring at him, looking both confused and puzzled. Looking at this kind of Tang Xiaobao, Ji Ling hesitated for a while, but still directly walked over, looked at him, touched his head, and asked: “What’s wrong?”
Tang Xiaobao lifted his head to look at Ji Ling, thinking about those rumours he heard today, not sure whether to ask, then yakked his mouth, appearing a bit unhappy. He knew that Tang Shiman was shameless, but he didn’t know that she was actually shameless to such an extent that she didn’t even pretend to be a little bit, and she really liked Ji Ling.
Thinking of this, Tang Xiaobao also thought of Li Xiao, the infatuation young master, still felt somehow this was not worth it for him, he did not know if he heard these, what would be his reaction are, probably very unhappy ba.
Seeing Tang Xiaobao sitting there also ignoring him, Ji Ling was not angry, sat down to his side, and then faintly asked: “What’s wrong?”
Tang Xiaobao turned his head and looked at him, gritted his teeth, still did not say anything. He felt that it was a bit strange for him to ask Ji Ling about this kind of gossip, as if he was jealous.
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