Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 18 Sixi Dumplings
After returning to the mansion, Mrs. Yin heard about the incident in the other courtyard. She blamed Tingyan for not persuading Su Xi and fined her half a month's money.He was very ruthless again, and punished Su Xi together, and told her not to go anywhere except ethnology for half a month, and to copy the "Tao Te Ching" ten times.

The Yin family said: "If the prince of Jin hadn't saved you, maybe you are still trapped in the forest at this moment. You girl... you are too used to it on weekdays, and you don't know the heights of the sky and the earth. Fortunately, this time there is no danger. Another day I will take you to Prince Jin's mansion, and thank you Prince Jin."

Su Xi lay on Yin's lap and looked at her sideways.Thinking of the kite that Wei Feng helped her fix, she nodded obediently, she should thank Wei Feng well, if it wasn't for him, she and Ting Yan wouldn't be able to get out of the bamboo forest.

It's just a bit of a coincidence that on the day when the Yin family was going to take her to the Prince Jin's mansion, Mr. Chu in the ethnology department had to take a small test.Mr. Chu's teaching is quite strict, and students are not allowed to ask for leave at will, let alone when the small test is so important.

Naturally, Su Xi couldn't go to the Prince Jin's Mansion, so she ran to talk to Yin Shi, who only told her to concentrate on the small test, and it would be fine if the children didn't go.Besides, Su Xi is about to grow up to be a big girl, so it's not good to show her face in public, this time she and Su Zhi will be fine.

After the Yin family and Su Zhi set off, Su Xi, Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun took a carriage to the school of the governor's mansion together.

The content of Mr. Chu's small test is "The Analects of Confucius" that he learned a while ago. Mr. Chu asked questions in class, and some students were selected to answer. Whoever answered correctly will draw a line behind their name, and finally arrange according to who gets the most "positive" characters ranking.This was a piece of cake for Su Xi, she had two best subjects in her previous life, one was Mr. Ji's piano class, and the other was Mr. Chu's class.

As expected after class, there were four "positive" after Su Xi's name, two more than No.2 Su Lingrong, Su Lingyin had one horizontal line less than Su Lingrong, Su Lingyun and Su Lingran both had only one "positive".

Mr. Chu praised Su Xi and said, "Miss Jiu is talented, quick-witted and eager to learn. Miss Seven and Miss Eight should learn from Miss Jiu."

After Mr. Chu left, Seventh Miss Su Lingyun curled her lips disapprovingly. She didn't think Su Xi was so good, it was probably just luck.

Su Lingrong's face was sullen and she didn't speak.

Su Lingyin and Su Lingran walked towards Su Xi, and Su Lingran asked with admiration: "Youyou, how did you remember those sentences? I recited them all night yesterday, and I forgot them all when I woke up this morning. Sir The meaning of the test sentence, you are one year younger than me, how do you remember? Let me see what is in your little head."

Su Xi hid back, not letting her look, Su Lingran changed direction and scratched Su Xi's stomach.

Su Xi was ticklish, she staggered from side to side with a smile, and softly begged for mercy: "There are so many Analects of Confucius, how can I read them all in one night... Eighth sister, please let me go, don't bully me, I will teach you to learn together in the future, okay?"

Only then did Su Lingran let go in satisfaction. Seeing that Su Xi's cheeks were flushed with a smile, tears were streaming from the corners of her eyes, and her eyes were big and bright, she couldn't help but also gave a "puchi" smile, and said intentionally: "Look at you, look at me!" It makes me want to bully even more."

Su Lingyin was older than the two of them, so she didn't want to make trouble with them. Seeing that it was almost time, she led them to the side room for lunch, "Master Qiu will have a painting class in the afternoon, Ran Ran, don't bully you, come here quickly."

Since the three of Su Xi lived in the General's Mansion, they had no time to go back for lunch at noon, so Su Lingyin and Su Lingran had lunch together in a side room of the school in order to accommodate the three of them.The side room is equipped with a warm bed and an Arhat bed. If you are tired, you can rest here for a while. The room is very neat and clean.

Right now, five little girls are sitting in a circle on the round table with embossed chow chow pattern, and Nanny Hua next to Mrs. Yu is serving the dishes herself. .” Then he stepped aside.

Although they were eating together, the boundaries between the five were still very clear. Su Xi, Su Lingyin, and Su Lingran sat on one side, and Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun sat on the other. Unless necessary, the two sides hardly talked.

Su Xi thought of something, put down her chopsticks and ran towards Tinghe, raised her head and asked, "Sister Tinghe, where are the things I brought?"

"Young maidservant, go and get it now." Ting He suddenly remembered, turned around and went to the back, and soon brought back a sunflower petal-style holding box with gold melon butterfly pattern, and handed it to Su Xi: "Girl."

Su Xi took it, turned around and walked back to the round table while chattering endlessly: "Fourth sister, eighth sister, these are the crabapple crisps and Sixi dumplings that I specially asked Tinghe to make. Try them, they are better than those made by Yuhelou outside. Woolen cloth……"

As soon as she came to Su Lingrong's side, Su Lingrong stopped her chopsticks, stood up suddenly, took a step back and said, "I'm done eating."

This retreat happened to hit Su Xi, Su Xi was caught off guard, and hurriedly took a step back.She could still stand still, but Su Lingrong leaned on her again and pressed down on her. The holding box in her hand fell to the ground without holding it firmly, and the crabapple crisps and Sixi dumplings spilled all over the floor.

Seeing this, Su Lingrong let out an "oops" and said guiltily, "Ninth Sister, I didn't know you were behind me, didn't I hurt you?"

Su Xi pursed her lips, she was talking behind Su Lingrong, how could Su Lingrong not know that she was behind her?
Su Lingran also saw it, stood up and said indignantly: "How can Fifth Sister do this? Youyou is younger than you, how can you bully her like this?"

Su Lingyin also had a face of disapproval, frowning, unable to understand Su Lingrong's behavior.

Su Lingrong looked back unwillingly, and said confidently: "I said I didn't do it on purpose, what is bullying her? She doesn't look at her when she walks, but she still blames me. What's the point?" Step out.

Su Lingrong left, so Su Lingyun naturally stopped eating, and looked at the delicate dim sum on the ground regretfully, "Fifth Sister, wait for me."

I've never seen someone so unreasonable. Su Lingran was so angry that her nose was crooked. She stepped forward and held Su Xi's hand, and said, "Young, don't be sad. Tomorrow, I will go to the General's Mansion with my fourth sister and tell Grandma , Let Grandma punish her."

Su Lingyin also came up to comfort Su Xi, saying: "It doesn't matter if the pastry is knocked over, just let Tinghe do it next time."

Su Xi looked up.Su Lingran and Su Lingyin thought she was crying, or she was angry and wronged, but they didn't expect that she looked very calm, showing no signs of crying, but they were stunned for a moment.

Su Xi squeezed her palms, and said in a childish voice, "I'm fine, Fourth Sister, Eighth Sister, let's go back to class."

Since Su Xi's paintings were praised by Mr. Qiu last time, Su Xi's paintings were good the next few times, either she was second or third, and the second place was either hers or Su Lingrong's.

Su Lingrong was so annoyed at Su Xi, she just felt that Su Xi would fight with her for everything, it didn't matter if Mr. Chu did well in his class, Master Qiu, who was born to teach painting, also looked at her with admiration.In the past, Su Lingrong could only find a sense of superiority in Huahua, but now she doesn't even have the advantage of Huahua, and Su Xi is three years younger than her, so even if the two are tied, she doesn't think there is anything wrong can be happy.

In this class, Mr. Qiu asked several people to paint with the theme of "Spring", and the time limit was one hour.

Su Xi sat behind the desk, and Su Lingrong sat behind it.She first sketched out a scene in her mind, then picked up a pen and dipped in ink, and started to paint.This time Su Xi painted very quickly. About half an hour later, while the others were still immersed in the painting, Su Xi had already handed over her painting to the master.

Back at the seat, Su Xi glanced at Su Lingrong's painting by the way.Su Lingrong has almost finished the painting, and only needs to finish the last few strokes.

Su Xi's brush fell to the ground, she bent down to pick it up, and then sat upright in her seat.

Not long after Su Lingrong finished her painting, she sat down with satisfaction and stood up to hand it over to her master.As soon as she stood up, she felt as if her legs were being pulled by some force, which made her stagger violently and leaned over. Before she could react, she fell down with the table.

There was a lot of movement, the desk was flipped aside, the pens, inks, papers and inkstones on the bank were spilled all over the floor, even the paintings that Su Lingrong had just made were stained with ink in lumps, looking messy.

Su Lingrong fell hard, she was a little dazed, her first reaction after recovering was to look at her painting.With trembling hands, she picked up the painting whose original content could not be seen clearly, and tremblingly said: "This, this... my painting..."

Su Lingyun went over to help her: "Fifth Sister, are you okay? Why can't you stand still when you walk?"

In the eyes of others, Su Lingrong fell because she lost her footing, but Su Lingrong knew in her heart that she was tripped by something.She supported Su Lingyun's arm to stand up and looked under the desk, but there was nothing there.

Su Lingrong suddenly remembered something, glared at Su Xi angrily, and asked, "Did you do something good?"

Su Xi fluttered her thick and long eyelashes, with a look of incomprehension, "What did cousin Wu say?"

Su Lingrong believed that it was Su Xi's work. She held up the ink-soaked painting in one hand, raised her hand in the other, and said angrily, "Don't pretend to be stupid, who else could it be but you? You pay for my painting—"

It's just that before the palm fell, Su Lingyin firmly grabbed it.

Su Lingyin's face was sullen, and she said in a cold voice: "Fifth sister, there is no proof, why do you say that it was the ninth sister who did it? We can all see clearly that you fell down because you couldn't stand upright, and you ruined the painting , what's the matter with Ninth Sister?"

On the other side, Su Lingran protected Su Xi behind her, and looked at Su Lingrong warily.

In the end, it was Qiu Fuzi who mediated, and several people returned to their respective positions.

Su Lingrong held back her anger and couldn't let it out, and because she failed to hand in the painting, she had put a lot of thought into that painting, and she thought that she would beat Su Lingyin to take the first place this time.Now that the painting was gone, her eyes were reddened, angry and annoyed, she swept Su Lingyun's re-arranged pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the ground, and rushed out of the study regardless.

Su Xi looked at her back, her dark almond eyes rolled around, her appearance was the same as usual.

In fact, Su Xi didn't do anything, but when she bent down to pick up the pen, she tied Su Lingrong's skirt to the table.

It can be said that Su Lingrong didn't do it on purpose when she knocked over her crabapple crisps and Sixi dumplings, so she didn't do it on purpose when she tied Su Lingrong's skirt to the table leg.

Su Xi originally didn't want to argue so much with Su Lingrong, she has lived two lifetimes, Su Lingrong is just a little girl in her eyes.What's more, Su Xi knew that Su Lingrong would be engaged in a short time. The other party was Sun Rui, the son of Marquis Hui'an. , the complexion is not very good.It was only later that Su Xi found out that Sun Rui, who looked glamorous on the surface, was actually a good friend. He only liked men, and he was not clean with many servants in his house. Many actors.

This marriage was chosen by Su Lingrong herself, and she begged the old lady for a long time with the cheek, and the old lady helped her to talk about it.At that time, I didn't know that Sun Rui was such a person. Afterwards, Su Lingrong regretted it and didn't have the face to mention it to the old lady.

The reason why Su Xi knew about this was because Mrs. Guo was so angry when she learned the truth, she made a fuss and went to Hui'an Hou Mansion to ask for an explanation.

Later, although Su Lingrong reconciled with Sun Rui, her reputation was almost ruined by her brainless mother. After living in the general's mansion for a year, she married a concubine of the Marquis.

After returning home, Su Lingrong didn't bother to change out of her ink-stained clothes, so she threw herself on the beauty's couch and cried loudly.

Because Mrs. Guo followed the old lady to Xiangshan Nunnery, there is no one to make decisions for her at the moment.

(End of this chapter)