20demayo Chapter 734: Inside and Outside the Melon
Chapter 734: Inside and Outside the Melon
The whistle in the dark disappeared as the boy left.
Xiao Yining seemed to sense something, and lifted the car curtain to glance at the street corner where the boy had stood, but he lowered the curtain in frustration because he found nothing.
She and Zhang Nishang sat next to each other in the carriage, watching the two old men chatting with Zhang Liangchuan with boredom, her body swaying gently with the rhythm of the carriage.
Soon, she became sleepy and her head drooped down gradually, and was about to rest on the shoulder of her older sister.
Just at this moment, the well-informed Zhang Liangchuan suddenly talked about the new news that had emerged in the past three days.
"Oh, Brother Wang, Brother Lin, when I was passing by the teahouse yesterday on my way back from my friend's place, I heard that the students of this great scholar Qiu deliberately used a trick to prevent the students of scholar Jiang from attending the Qing Tan Hui in order to suppress them."
After Zhang Liangchuan finished speaking, he looked at Wang and Lin in confusion and asked, "When did you two become Old Man Jiang's disciples? Why didn't I know?"
Wang and Lin: ..., they are certainly not the disciples of that old man!
The young man was puzzled by more things. He turned to look at the very sober little Yining and said, "My friend also mentioned this to me. He said that Senior Brother Leng mistook Princess Le'an for a boy, causing her to cry and make a scene at Scholar Qiu's Qingshan Seclusion Residence. Brother Lin was also taken to another place and remained in the dark for the entire afternoon."
Lin Yuzan: (＃°Д°), Oops, I forgot to inform my unfilial daughter!
Xiao Yining: Σ(⊙▽⊙&34;a
A big pot suddenly fell on the kid's head, and she violently threw it away. She immediately put her hands on her hips and angrily said, "Master Zhang, what are you talking about? This princess will never cry or make a fuss."
Zhang Liangchuan:......, isn’t it right now?
Zhang Nishang also looked at her uncle disapprovingly and retorted, "Uncle, the princess's sister is well-behaved and won't do anything shameful like Tiger Brother!"
"That's right!" It was rare for little Yining to find a little sister so pleasing to the eye.
Lin Yuzan coughed lightly, and hurriedly hugged his daughter who was about to show her teeth and claws to comfort her. He explained to his friend: "Brother Liangchuan, you misunderstood Senior Brother Leng. The person he saw that day was my wife's nephew Gungun, and he took me to see Academician Qiu, so he did not show up."
Wang Cheng also laughed and helped Leng Shuyu clear his name: "Yes, Senior Brother Leng and I also met by chance the day before yesterday. What Brother Liangchuan heard was all nonsense."
However, Zhang Liangchuan still had doubts about these two things. He lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought, his fingers unconsciously rubbing his chin back and forth, muttering: "It's really strange, how come all the brothers who got into trouble have more or less had some contact with Senior Brother Leng?"
Hearing this, Wang and Lin's eyes met in the air, and they reached a consensus in an instant - Zhang Liangchuan must not be dragged into this dangerous vortex.
Wang Cheng interrupted, "Brother Liangchuan, you are absolutely right. We are classmates with Senior Brother Leng. We have seen each other every day. Naturally, we have had some interactions with Senior Brother Leng."
"That's right!" Zhang Liangchuan scratched his head and replied with a smile, but his mind was filled with doubts and he wanted to think deeply for a moment.
At this moment, Xiao Yining's emotions, which were caused by the lack of timely and effective comfort, reached the critical point of explosion. She stared at the old man accusingly and said aggrievedly: "Dad, you actually let Wang Gungun pretend to be Qing Jie'er, and helped him hide it from Qing Jie'er. Qing Jie'er doesn't like you anymore, wow..."
Lin Yuzan: ...
"It was Dad's fault for forgetting." The old man apologized quickly.
But the effect was minimal, the baby's dissatisfied cry was still earth-shaking. The topic in the carriage ended and everyone joined in coaxing the baby.
Zhang Liangchuan: (￣_￣|||), the one who accompanied Brother Lin that day must be his daughter!
The young man added another sentence in his mind: Brother Wang and Brother Lin are too generous. They always think of others and they may be bullied without even realizing it!
The carriage continued to move forward amid the crying, until it came to an abrupt stop at the gate of the girls' school.
Zhang Nishang slowly got out of the car holding the twitching baby.
Little Yining glared at the two old men in the car fiercely, snorted heavily, and strode towards the mountain gate without looking back.
The old man who had been smiling with a guilty conscience also changed his expression at this moment.
Wang Cheng lowered his eyes, glanced at the tears staining his school uniform, and glared at his old rival angrily, complaining: "It was just a matter of one sentence, but Shunan had to make such a mess of it!"
Lin Yuzan immediately responded without showing any weakness: "If Shu Zhi hadn't left Gun Gun behind at home, why would I have brought him with me?"
Wang and Lin stared at each other without giving in, with sparks and lightning, and only three words in their eyes: "It's your fault!"
Seeing this, even if Zhang Liangchuan was dumb, he realized that the two were arguing with each other, so he quickly changed roles and turned into a peacemaker to persuade them.
The carriage slowly turned around, raising a cloud of dust again, and drove towards Yunfei Academy.
Zhang Nishang stood on the stairs, watching the carriage going further and further away, and said with emotion: "Sister Princess, there is no need to be angry about such a small matter. Even if your parents don't care about you, you still need to work hard to live a good life and don't let others laugh at you."
Xiao Yining glanced at her sideways. What she said was totally inappropriate. She didn't know what sensitive nerve she had touched by the scene in the carriage just now.
However, what she didn't expect was that the precocity of the little sisters would allow them to see through life early on.
Yan Ke arrived at some point and followed them up the mountain. When she heard Zhang Nishang's words, she sneered in disapproval, "Sister Zhang is so naive that she actually thinks that she can live a good life even if her parents don't care about her. Little did she know that blood ties are the most painful. You have a father and a mother, but they turn a blind eye to you. Don't you ask yourself why they gave birth to you when you wake up in the middle of the night? It's better to have no father and no mother. When you envy others, when you wake up in the middle of the night, you feel sad, which makes it easier to get rid of it."
"Sister Zhang, this self-deceiving idea is stupid, but sometimes it works. However, in the end, the wound cannot heal on its own and is still bleeding. And only you are hurt, and no one cares about you."
Zhang Nishang felt an indescribable sadness when she heard this. She lowered her head and remained silent for a moment, then humbly asked, "Sister Yan, what do you think about how children can cope if their parents don't raise them?"
Yan Ke took a big step and walked side by side with the two classmates, and replied casually: "Giving birth but not raising? Sister Zhang, there is no parent in this world who thinks they gave birth but did not raise you, unless you were given to someone else at birth. Otherwise, even if you are just living in front of them, even if you only eat their food, they still consider you as having raised you, and filial piety is a burden to you."
"What you think of as giving birth but not raising a child does not exist in their eyes. Instead of dwelling on these four words, you might as well live your life as you said and learn to strengthen yourself. When they come to repay you with a favor, you will have a way to get rid of their shackles and avoid being forced to do things you don't like."
Zhang Nishang remained silent, savoring Yan Ke's words in her heart, and nodded thoughtfully.
Little Yining at the side couldn't help but clap his chubby hands and praised, "Sister Yan Ke, you talk so eloquently like a great scholar!"
Yan Ke couldn't help laughing, and bent down to scratch the little kid's nose: "Princess sister, please don't make fun of me. I just read a lot of books. Besides, my great aunt once said that women are trapped in the back house and can't live freely. That's the injustice of the world. Since the world is wrong, what's wrong with her disguising herself as a man to meet the world?"
Xiao Yining: (⊙o⊙), Nalan Shuyi? She hadn’t seen this person for a long time. She didn’t expect that this person’s thinking was so advanced!
"Although my great aunt is a person who doesn't know much, I have been thinking about her words carefully recently, and I think there is some truth in them! Since I have done nothing wrong, why should I be punished?"
Yan Keyang sighed at the little kid with a sweet smile, then glanced with disdain at Zhang Nishang who was still in deep thought.
She said to the little kid, "Sister Princess, you came early today, let's go up quickly, otherwise Aunt Lian will see us being so slow and give us a slap on the hand again."
After saying this, she picked up the kid without saying anything, left her classmates behind, and walked quickly towards the mountain gate.
Zhang Nishang lost the tenderness in her hands, suddenly came to her senses, and hurriedly chased after her: "Sister Yan Ke, Princess Sister, wait for me!"