Chapter 7

Ah Meng hugged the stove and nestled on the warm kang. Through the half-opened window, she could see a few peach trees in the yard outside the window. Before the season of peach blossoms bloomed, the flowers on the branches were scattered, and only a few sporadic flowers were in bloom. Trembling in the wind.

She hated this kind of cold weather. When it was cold, her hands and feet would become cold due to lack of blood, which made her feel lazy.

Zhichun came in and said, "Miss, master is here."

After hearing this, Ah Meng's eyes flickered, she hurriedly got off the kang, put on her shoes, and greeted her out.

As soon as Luo Hongchang arrived at his daughter's yard, he saw his pale daughter coming out to welcome him, and he said nervously, "You don't feel well, so don't come out. Seeing how haggard you look, let's call a doctor to come and take a look."

Ah Meng smiled and went forward to hold his hand and entered the side hall, took the teapot presented by the maid and poured him a cup of hot tea in person, and said with a smile: "Father, I'm fine, but I'm going to give Yao a cup of tea today." When the old lady was celebrating her birthday, she accidentally got hurt, it's nothing serious."

"Are you injured? Where is the injury? Is there a wound?" Luo Hongchang became more nervous when he heard it.

Seeing that he was getting more nervous, Ah Meng couldn't help grinning, showing a small canine tooth, cute and playful: "Father, I'm fine, it's just a flesh wound, the wound is not deep, and it won't leave a scar. Zhichun has already done it for me. I have been prescribed medicine." At this time, Ah Meng had no choice but to tell a white lie to her father.

Her father really cared about her, and she also respected and loved this man, and she didn't want to make him worry too much.

Luo Hongchang's heart was softened by her playful smile, and he couldn't help touching his daughter's head lovingly.Among his three children, the one who loves the most is Ah Meng, the eldest daughter left by his ex-wife.The ex-wife is a gentle and elegant woman with excellent talent and character. To marry her, it is still as the ex-wife of a woman surnamed Yao who commits herself to him regardless of the difference in status. How can he not love her.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. After the ex-wife gave birth to Ah Meng, her body began to weaken. When Ah Meng was three years old, she finally passed away, leaving behind her young daughter.

In Luo Hongchang's heart, his ex-wife is a perfect woman, an unforgettable woman in his heart.So he dotes on Ah Meng in every possible way. One is that Ah Meng is a treasure left to him by his ex-wife, and the other is that Ah Meng is also a lovely child. His temperament and appearance are similar to those of his ex-wife, and he was the one who brought him up with the most affection. child.

At this moment, seeing Ah Meng smiling playfully and cutely, with a complete daughter's coquettish attitude, he felt a kind of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

"Father, why are you here? Have you eaten yet?" Ah Meng asked.

Luo Hongchang sighed, "I heard that you are not feeling well, how can you be in the mood to eat?"

After Ah Meng heard this, she was moved, and knew that her father's behavior probably annoyed Xing Shi and her two half-siblings again.However, she didn't feel any distress. Even if she wanted to make friends with the Xing family, if he didn't appreciate it, no matter how you showed him, he would wish you to die. Holy Mother, it is impossible to repay evil with virtue.

"Father, this is not good. The doctor said that if you don't eat on time, you will get stomach problems." Ameng said guiltily: "Father, my daughter is much better now, let's go to the hall to eat with mother and younger siblings. "

Luo Hongchang stopped her movement, and said flatly: "No need, you are not feeling well, you can eat in your own yard, don't make this trip to torment yourself."

"But mother and brother..."

Luo Hongchang patted her head and ordered the maids of Lingxiyuan to prepare meals.

After seeing it, Ah Meng narrowed her eyes with a smile, "Alright then, the daughter hasn't eaten either, so Daddy will stay and eat with her daughter." Ah Meng shook Father Luo's arm coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, don't shake it anymore, as a father, I can't stand your shaking anymore." Luo Hongchang laughed, and this move naturally got his daughter's coquettish anger.

The news that Luo Hongchang had dinner at Lingxiyuan reached the Xing family, which made the Xing family, Luo Yi and others who were waiting for Luo Hongchang to have a meal together extremely annoyed.

When Mrs. Xing heard the maid's return, she turned dark on the spot, pursed her lips, and looked terrified.And Luo Yi sat at the dining table expressionlessly, looking coldly at a table of food that was about to cool down, Luo Yusha bit her lip, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and threw the dishes in front of her to the ground.

The sound of the crisp porcelain breaking was extremely ear-piercing, making the servants in the hall silent and bury their heads.

Mrs. Xing took a look, asked the maid to clean up the things, and then said lightly: "Since the master won't come to eat, then let's have dinner."

"Mom!" Luo Yusha called out angrily.How can I still eat at this time, I am full of gas.

"Dinner!" Mrs. Xing glared at her.

Luo Yusha had no choice but to pinch the chopsticks handed over by the maid angrily, resentment flashed in her eyes, but she also restrained herself from dropping the chopsticks and leaving the table.She wasn't stupid enough to have a fit and then she told her father that she was disrespectful to her elder sister and so on.

"Sister, do you need to be so angry?" Luo Yi said lightly, "Eldest sister is not feeling well right now, and father should be worried about her. You should also know that elder sister has been in poor health since she was a child, and she was sick and injured every few days. , if there is something good or bad in the future..." Luo Yi wiped his mouth with a handkerchief while speaking.

After hearing this, Luo Yusha thought of that young lady, she was not sick every day or so, her body was crooked, looking at the situation, she would die someday, it was really not worth it to get angry with her.

After comforting herself in this way, Luo Yusha calmed down.

After the meal, Luo Hongchang did not leave, but took a stomach moistening tea and looked at Ah Meng in a daze.

"Father." Ah Meng couldn't help calling out.

Ah Meng's face was tinged with blood from the heat of the tea, and it didn't look so pale anymore.

Father Luo looked at his beautiful daughter, and suddenly said, "Ameng, you are eighteen this year, and you are a big girl. Well, that..."

Ah Meng's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, but she didn't speak, waiting for Father Luo's next words.

"A Meng, if a girl as old as you is not out of the court, she usually has an engagement. My father knows that he has not engaged you, and you have been wasted until now, making people outside look down on you and say that you are a father. Dereliction of duty, I want to keep you as an old girl." Luo Hongchang looked a little gloomy, probably thinking of the rumors about his eldest daughter outside, but fortunately his daughter is not a child of a wealthy family in Beijing, so the rumors are not widespread. "However, there is a reason for this. Before your mother died, she had already arranged a marriage for you. When you are old enough, it will be convenient for her to come and marry you. It was only because of some accidents that the man did not return to Beijing, so your marriage was delayed. down."

Hearing Luo's father's words, the corners of Ah Meng's eyes twitched, his heart was in suspense, and he couldn't help but want to hear more clearly.This is related to the person she will marry in the future. Divorce was not popular in ancient times. If there is no accident, that person will be the person she will spend the rest of her life with, so she naturally attaches importance to it.

It's just that she didn't seem to have heard from her mother that she had arranged a marriage for her. Even though she was only three years old before her mother passed away, she was not a real child and had already remembered things.

Seeing Ah Meng's puzzled look, Luo Hongchang smiled and explained: "At that time, it was a private agreement between my father and your mother and each other, and I didn't tell you about it. Later, when your mother passed away, I felt sad for my father. Then I let this matter go. Until you got old, I wanted to find a marriage for you, but I remembered the token that the other party put here for my father at that time, no matter whether the other party would think about it after he became prosperous, but As a father, he didn't want to be that kind of perfidious person, so he decided to wait for him for another three years. After three years, if the other party is unwilling to admit this marriage..."

Thinking of this possibility, Luo Hongchang looked a little gloomy.After all, the man who is now betrothed to his daughter is no longer the powerless child whose father died young and was bullied. He has a bright future. I don’t know how many aristocrats want to marry their daughter to him, and I don’t know if he will accept this marriage. .

Of course, these speculations Luo Hongchang will naturally not raise her anxiety with his daughter, he just said: "The person who is engaged to you will return to Beijing in the near future, and we will make arrangements for the father meeting at that time."

Ah Meng didn't know what was going on in his father's heart, after listening to Luo's father's words, a faint blush appeared on his face, and he responded obediently, and his mood was not so depressed.

She was quite frightened when she met that man today, and she even felt a little dark in her heart, thinking that she would not have a good life if she was targeted by a wicked man.Now that she heard her father say that she had already engaged in a marriage, she was actually relieved.

Anyone is fine, as long as it is not that man, life will not be too bad.

Thinking about it this way, Ah Meng even hoped that the other party would come to propose marriage soon, so that she could marry herself as soon as possible, lest that vicious man would do anything else.

(End of this chapter)

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