Fu Song

Chapter 8 The Third Lady of the Xiao Family

Laughter dispelled the original haze in the study.

In any case, life still has to be lived, and some planning and arrangements for the future need to be made, but if you are afraid of doing anything about it, and worry about the price all day, it is obviously not something a normal person should do.

Or will things happen the way Xiao Yu hoped?

The official family who has been appointed by the destiny suddenly wants to be famous in history, establishes the second king as the East Palace, and then gathers the power of the whole country, in order to mobilize the military in the shortest possible time, thus launching the Northern Expedition?

If this is the case, then the Xiao family will not only sit back and relax, but can even go a step further and seal the title.

The door creaked softly, and the two people in the room turned sideways at the same time, and saw a delicate face emerge from the half-opened door.

"Second brother!" The little girl opened the door with a smile and walked in.

Fang Yan, who is twelve years old this year, has inherited her mother's beautiful face. At a young age, she can already see that she will definitely be a beauty in the future.

Xu Wuyan quickly stood up, bowed slightly and said, "Is the little lady here?"

Fang Yan snorted: "Mother, let me come over to see if the second brother is back. If he does, go to the back for dinner."

After Xu Wuyan heard it, he turned around and bowed his hands to Xiao Cheng: "Erlang, the old slave will go down first."

Xiao Cheng stood up and nodded: "For those things, Grandpa Xu, please hurry up."

"Erlang, don't worry, I will arrange it after I go down."

Nodding to the two of them in the room, Xu Wuyan turned and left the study.

As soon as the door was closed, Xiao Yan's brows, who had just been serious, suddenly became active, staring at Xiao Cheng, and stretched out a hand: "Second brother, where is the book you found for me?"

Looking at this little sister, Xiao Cheng shook his head, walked to the bookshelf on the side, and from the bottom corner, after fiddling for a while, he took out a somewhat worn book and handed it to Xiao Yan.

"Well, this time, only a fragment was found. It's hard to find a complete book like this."

What Xiao Cheng handed to Xiao Yan turned out to be a "Bamboo Book of Chronicles" that was hard to find outside.Such a history book, because many things recorded in it, are very different from the world's cognition, or even diametrically opposed. From the ruler's point of view, such records can even threaten the legitimacy of their rule. , so it has always been on the list of banned books.

Over the years, it has been extremely difficult to find this book.

Seeing that Xiao Yan got the book and opened the page impatiently, Xiao Cheng couldn't help sighing, grabbed the book and put it on the bookcase, under Xiao Yan's dissatisfied eyes, He spread his hands and asked, "Little sister, you are from a girl's family, and you were born in a noble family. Why do you like reading books like this?"

Xiao Yan snorted, sat on the big chair behind the desk, took up both feet and tucked them under her, stared at Xiao Cheng with big eyes: "Second brother, is it possible that you also think that I Are you only worthy to look at the female commandments, female appearances, and female virtues? Or do you think that we women can only cut clothes and embroider in the room all day long?"

Xiao Cheng coughed dryly, looked at the little sister who was pouting, and said with a wry smile: "If the second brother really thinks so, will he still try to find these books for you? It's just that the second brother thinks you are spending money on it. too much time."

Xiao Cheng's younger sister, in his opinion, is also an unusual woman. I don't know when she started to fall in love with history books. She finished reading the books in her family's collection in a short period of time, and then she began to fall in love with history books. pestering Xiao Cheng to find her the same kind of books.

The key is that this little sister is not just looking at it, but she can actually draw inferences from one case, sum up one reason after another from these very boring history books to discuss with Xiao Cheng, sometimes the viewpoints are novel and radical, even Xiao Cheng also Feeling dumbfounded.

If Xiao Yan was a man, it would be considered an extraordinary talent, but she was born as a daughter, which made Xiao Cheng feel that it would not be a good thing for Xiao Yan to go on like this for a long time.

Taking the father as the key link and the husband as the key link, women are still revolving around the family after all. A daughter's family has too broad horizons and too much knowledge. For her future, it may not be a good thing, or it will make her a good thing. She was distressed, confused, and unwilling.When a person has the world in mind and can only be trapped in the space and can't do anything, it is an extremely painful thing for itself.

Xiao Cheng loves and likes this little sister very much. If he has a choice, he prefers that his little sister can always be ignorant and live a simple and happy life forever.

With an older brother like himself, no one can bully the younger sister.

"Little girl, reading books is back to reading books, you should spend some time on female workers." Sitting opposite Xiao Yan, Xiao Cheng said sternly: "The Xiao family has a girl who has grown up at the beginning of her career, knows books and etiquette, plays piano and chess. Calligraphy and painting are omnipotent and omnipotent. In this capital, I don’t know how many families are staring at our little lady Xiao San? As far as I know, since this year, there have been no less than ten families testing with their father. Are you planning to marry our family? You are already twelve years old this year, no matter how late it is, it will only take two years of effort."

A look of sadness flashed across Xiao Yan's face. No matter what she wanted to do, in the end, she wanted to marry someone else's wife. But at that time, can she still be as free and happy as she is now?
"It's all fate and cannot be forced." Xiao Yan said: "I hope the luck of the little sister will be very good, and the future husband can be as knowledgeable and interesting as the second brother. The most important thing is not to be pedantic!"

Xiao Cheng laughed and cupped his hands: "Thank you little sister for your compliment."

Xiao Yan rolled her eyes at the other party, shook her head, and seemed to throw this unpleasant topic out of her mind, she reached out and picked up the scraps on the table, and said, "Second brother, you came back last time. I have always had some doubts in my heart after reading those few chapters of the book." "What doubts? Tell me, let's see if the second brother can clear up your doubts?"

Xiao Yan said: "Kufu's death."

"Huh?" Xiao Cheng was a little confused.

"Kuafu is thirsty every day, and he drinks the water of Huanghuai because of thirst. When the water is not enough, he wants to run to the big pond, but he died on the way." Xiao Yan said: "It is written like this in the Shanhaijing, but it is written in the Zhushui Chronicle. Kuafu's death has something to do with Yinglong!"

"How did you connect this?" Xiao Cheng asked in surprise.

"How can you not get in touch?" Xiao Yan tilted her head and said, "Emperor Yan and Huang, the first ancestor of China. Kuafu is the subordinate of Emperor Yan, Yinglong is the subordinate of Emperor Huang, Yan Huang united, defeated Chi You, and then the two emperors were tied. Later, the emperors in history were not all of the Yellow Emperor’s line? Kuafu was a general under Emperor Yan. It would not be impossible for Yinglong to kill Kuafu in secret to help the Yellow Emperor. Second brother, don’t forget, In the battle of the gods, Yinglong is the best at sowing the wind and making the rain, and the water of Huanghuai is not enough for Kuafu to drink, I guess it must be manipulated by Yinglong."

Xiao Cheng was dumbfounded.

Although everything is just the little sister's guess, I have to say that this rhetoric can really justify it.

But this kind of thinking is very dangerous!
"Little girl, you really have read a lot of these books, and you feel that there are conspiracies in everything you read! This is not good!" Xiao Cheng rubbed Xiao Yan's head, "Those things, just think about it. , don't tell outsiders."

Xiao Yan said gloomily: "Who can I talk to? It's just you, the second brother. My sister-in-law and sister-in-law don't know anything, I have to tell my father, I am afraid that I will be punished for copying the female commander and the female morale and I will be grounded. Well, I've suffered this kind of thing once, but I don't want to suffer it again. A woman's incompetence is virtue, hum, who wrote such a sentence that makes no sense at all."

"Little girl, you have misunderstood this. The so-called lack of talent is not a virtue for a woman. This wordless word does not mean nothing. The correct meaning of this sentence is that women should have talent, but they don't show off in front of others. , is the meaning of being sufficiently virtuous.”

"As expected, the second brother is right." Xiao Yan said in surprise.

"My little sister is very talented, but it is rare in the world, but you have to keep this sentence in mind and don't let others know about it." Xiao Cheng smiled: "If you let your husband know that your talent is higher than yours in the future. He is even taller, which is not conducive to the relationship between husband and wife, don't you think?"

"I hope that in the future I will marry a man who stands above the ground. It's natural that he is stronger than me, and even if he is weaker than me, he can still allow me to shine." Xiao Yan said with a longing.

Xiao Cheng shook his head, the little sister's idea, I'm afraid there is no possibility of realizing it.Maybe in this world, there is only one person who can tolerate the talent of a little sister, right?Even the father and the eldest brother will regard the younger sister's many insights as heresy.

"Oh, bad!" Xiao Yan suddenly exclaimed: "As soon as I talked to the second brother, I forgot about the business, and she asked me to call you to eat."

Hearing what the younger sister said, Xiao Cheng also reacted.

"Come on, go, don't let the eldest sister wait for a long time."

The two brothers and sisters went out of the study door in a panic, and Xiao Yan did not forget to hide the fragment carefully on his body.

In the dining room of the main room in the backyard, Xiao Han, the hostess of the Xiao family, was talking to Xiao Cheng's sister-in-law Gao Qi, but the three-year-old nephew was running around the room, a girl was half-squatting, Followed closely behind the little guy, for fear that the little ancestor would fall.

Xiao Han was born in the Han family in Xinyang. Although she was not the direct daughter of the main house, for the Xiao family who had just started at the time, it was considered a marriage.Now that she is over forty, because she is pampered, she still looks like thirty.The eldest sister-in-law, Gao, is from a famous family. Although she already has a three-year-old son, she has just turned [-] this year.

Seeing Xiao Cheng and Xiao Yan come in, Mr. Gao quickly stood up.

"Mother-in-law." Xiao Cheng bowed to Xiao Han's salutation, then turned and bowed to Gao's: "Sister-in-law."

"Second Uncle!" Mr. Gao bowed and returned the salute.

(End of this chapter)