"Huh?" Song Tangning was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyes in confusion: "What is it like?"
"Why did Mrs. Fu come to the mansion today? I don't believe you didn't hear it." Xiao Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her, "The Fu family is a good family..."
"The Fu family is pretty good."
When Song Tangning curled her legs and leaned on the table beside him, she pulled her wide sleeves and leaned to the side. Her posture was extremely casual. Just one word from her mouth made Xiao Yan, who was still trying to test a few words, suddenly lose his breath. Suffocated.
His heart seemed to be pinched by something, and he listened to the little girl's soft words.
"Mrs. Fu is generous and kind, and the Fu family is also from a clean family. I have met Mr. Fu of the Fu family before. He is an upright and promising man. Moreover, he is protected by Mr. Cao and the deceased Mr. Fu who moved to the Ancestral Temple. As long as the Fu family does not If something big goes wrong and Mr. Fu is upbeat, there will definitely be no problem in establishing a stable and prosperous court for three generations in the future."
Xiao Yan curled his fingertips slightly. Originally it was what he wanted to ask, but now that it came out of Tang Ning's mouth, it made him feel inexplicably depressed.
He glanced away from Tang Ning, not looking at her: "So, you are also interested in the Fu family?"
Song Tangning shook his head slightly: "No."
She lay on her wide sleeves, pointing her fingertips at the copper beast incense burner on the table, and spoke in a very low voice as her eyelashes lowered.
"No matter how good the Fu family is, that's not what I want."
She once loved a man wholeheartedly and gave up all her wealth and life. She only thought that as long as she treated him well enough, she could get the same feelings. She thought that she and him were two-way, but later she realized that she was just wishful thinking and gave everything she had. The result in the end was to be abandoned, hated, and treated like a waste, and to spend his life and death in that abandoned old courtyard.
She doesn't think there's anything wrong with herself now.
Tang Ning turned her head and looked at the person next to her, with a sweet pear dimple at the corner of her mouth.
"A woman doesn't have to get married. Look at Sister Qin. She doesn't have to be dependent on a man. She can still live a free and easy life. She can live a life that makes people admire her as much as men when they mention her. I don't want to trap myself in a backyard. I don’t want to wait for my husband to return home every day, let alone spend my whole life guarding the backyard."
"Brother, you know, I actually have ambitions. I want to run the academy well and do what I can do like Sister Qin. If one day others mention me no longer as the girl of the Song family, but as the academy Shanzhang, I think my grandfather would be extremely happy if I know what I am doing."
The Fu family is very nice, and Mrs. Fu is also very kind. They probably won't treat her as harshly as the Lu family did, but they still won't allow a woman to show up in public and make contributions like a man in the eyes of everyone. .
Perhaps because he had been stupid once, Tang Ning had no expectations for men and women, and was unwilling to put his future on an uncertain marriage.
She lay on her arms and looked at Xiao Yan, and said softly: "Brother, I don't want to get married. Can you let me stay in Jiuyun Lane to accompany you?"
Xiao Yan was disabled and unable to marry and have children.
She is not in the mood for love and doesn't want to get married, so it's great to be able to stay with her brother all the time.
Xiao Yan's heart tightened when he heard her saying that the Fu family was very good, and he relaxed when he heard that she didn't want to marry into the Fu family. He looked at the little girl who was sloppy in front of him, even though he later heard that she wanted to stay in Jiuyun Lane with him. Looking at him, he was not half happy, because he knew very well that the girl in front of him only regarded him as a disabled "brother".
In her eyes, he was a eunuch, an inhumane pitiful man. She had no desire to stay with him, and that was why she was so wanton in front of him.
Even if he was barefoot and wet, with his wrists exposed, he was not shy at all. It was just because she had never regarded him as a normal man.
Xiao Yan suddenly felt a little ridiculous. His thoughts were wandering around in confusion, but the little girl in front of him didn't understand anything at all. He suddenly felt a little depressed.
"Tang Ning, I am a man too."
Song Tangning was stunned for a moment when she saw Xiao Yan, who was sitting beside her just now, suddenly leaned down. The tip of his nose was almost touching hers when he came closer to such a stern and cold person, and his sword eyes were filled with a compelling look of concentration. .
"You want to stay with me, do you know what it means to outsiders?"
Every word he breathed fell on her lips, making Tang Ning's scalp tingle.
"Eunuchs can also take wives."
Song Tangning's pupils tightened.
The two have known each other for a long time. No matter how fierce and cold-tempered Xiao Yan was to outsiders, he was always gentle towards her. He always followed the rules of a gentleman, and he rarely got so close to her. The two of them were four. Their eyes met, their breaths intertwined, and her whole body was enveloped by the cold fragrance of pine and cypress mixed with the smell of blood on his body.
She suddenly realized that Xiao Yan was much taller than her. When he was no longer gentle, his aura like that of a ferocious beast made people tremble with fear, as if he would be devoured in the next moment.
He could easily hold her in his arms, and the shadow covered her entire body.
Facing the suddenly aggressive Xiao Yan, Tang Ning's eyes widened and she leaned back to avoid him, but was suddenly grabbed by the waist and pinned down on the couch.
Tang Ning's face suddenly turned pale, with a look of horror on his face: "Brother..."
She put her hands in front of him, trembling slightly.
When Xiao Yan held the person in his arms, the beast in his heart broke free from its cage. For a moment, he even wanted to ignore it, but when he heard the faint cry, his expression froze, and when his rationality came back, he suddenly stopped. hand.
Song Tangning lost his shackles and quickly turned over and pushed him hard. When he got up, he was flustered and wanted to walk out without stopping at all.
"Tang Ning..."
Seeing that the little girl was really angry, Xiao Yan suddenly regretted speaking.
Song Tangning stopped, but just stood by the door without looking back.
Xiao Yanwei stood beside the couch and looked at her back with an unpredictable expression. After a moment, he stretched out his hand to brush her waist and pressed it hard. His face suddenly turned pale and his voice was very low:
"Tang Ning, it hurts."
Song Tangning's heart clenched: "Go find Sister Qin if you want."
Xiao Yan said in a low voice: "Xiao Haitang..."
He breathed a little heavier, and seemed particularly out of breath when he called her in a low voice.
Tang Ning wanted to ignore her, but she seemed unable to cross the threshold that was so close. She looked down at her toes for a moment, hesitated and finally turned her head to take a look. She saw the man who looked majestic just now covering his waist. Paled face.
The man who never showed weakness to others was slumped on the side of the couch. The wound on his waist seemed to have opened again, and the gaps between his fingers covering his waist were oozing red.
Song Tangning was annoyed and angry at the same time. She wanted to ignore him but couldn't move her feet. She puffed up her cheeks and glared at him angrily. After a while, she deflated herself. She bit the corner of her mouth and moved back, but she stood far away from him. A few steps away.
Xiao Yan softened his eyebrows: "Don't be afraid, I'm just teasing you."
Tang Ning took a closer look at him and saw that he was as casual as ever, with a mocking look in his eyes. She immediately became angry and said, "Brother, how can this kind of thing be a joke?!"
At that moment, she really thought that her brother had such thoughts.
Xiao Yan knew that he had scared her, so he sighed and took the initiative to surrender: "I'm joking with you, I don't want to scare you."
Song Tangning was furious when he heard this: "How can you make fun of such a thing!"
She was angry and anxious, remembering that her voice was trembling just now, and that the moment he came closer, she was actually thinking about the eunuch marrying a wife, and she couldn't help but be angry.
"Next time you do this again, I'll be angry!"
Xiao Yan held his waist and groaned.
"Let you act nonsense and the wound will open again."
Seeing that the little girl's cheeks were bulging with anger, she still stepped forward to see his injury. The guard in her eyes was completely gone, just like a child who was annoyed by his teasing and muttered and complained.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but feel soft-hearted. This little girl had obviously gone through so much, but she was still as easy to deceive as before.
He said it and she believed it.
