Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, Fu Yunyan's wedding was over. I stayed in the house empty for seven or eight days before I realized what was happening. I looked up and saw that the old house had returned to its former bustling and peaceful state. The retired stewards in the outer courtyard saw that the weather was good, so they pushed their carts to several squares to sell things. Both the owners and the stewards came to buy things.

Most of the permanent residents on this mountain are old people and children. The way down the mountain is long, and many people don’t want to go out. The new toys outside are purchased by these old managers for people to play with. The transportation and venue are paid from the public account of the old house, which can be regarded as an extra "pension" for them, otherwise their life would be really boring.

I was in a deep sleep. My brother hadn't come to see me since the quarrel that night. He still sent me things, and even more. I didn't look at them much. Chengcheng was quite curious, so I tilted my head and watched him appreciate all kinds of calligraphy and paintings and antiques. Then his starry eyes "reminded" me. I raised my hand slightly, without asking for food or water, but he had already consciously stuffed the things into the box and took them back to his room by Shen Qilin behind him.

Well... forget it. I don't like it anyway. Keeping it is just a decoration at most. Besides, all the daily expenses of living in the old house are his money, so we're even!

He does know about these details. When did he learn such advanced things behind my back? We should have had similar beginnings! I was poor when I was with Xie Ge, and he was also poor when he was with Lu Yinyin. Why does he know what I don't? Why is Lu Yinyin willing to invest in him? If I remember correctly, this kind of high-class entertainment drama costs a lot of money per class. Did Lao Fu secretly give him money?

No, how could he have free time before the college entrance examination? How difficult is it to take 700 points? He also has to learn Sanda, so is it true that he can only learn it after he becomes an adult? After becoming an adult, he is also busy, working and so on are exhausting, but it is indeed better than going to school, oh - it seems so, but it is not easy! If it is true, how can his brain carry so many things? ? ?

"Sister, what are you thinking about?" Seeing that I didn't respond for a long time, Chengcheng waved her hand in front of my eyes.

I came back to my senses and sighed deeply: "I was wondering where my external brain is..."

Cheng Cheng put on a look of contempt, and soon came to drag me out of bed: "You are just idle! Come on, don't you feel bored staying at home all day? Go out and take a look!"

I struggled frantically and tried my best to resist: "I won't go, I won't go - I see my child's back hurts after working all morning! Please let me rest for a while!"

Chengzi tried even harder: "I don't care, I don't care - I only stay in Jinhai for a few days a year and you don't accompany me! How can Fu Shucong, who is also your younger brother, follow you every day? Your heart is set on your grandma's house! Besides, are you cosplaying as a sleepyhead lying at home every day? How long has the child been away and you're still tired? I don't believe it!"

I was immediately so angry that I laughed: "It's easy to talk without any pain in the waist! Why don't you give birth to a child and try it?"

However, for Chengzi, how could it be reasonable? He was the reason himself! He didn't even listen to me. He picked me up by my armpits. I kicked my legs and was put on the dressing table. I looked at myself in the mirror and looked like I was half dead. I rolled my eyes at him and compromised. The servant brought me water to wash my face. I was too lazy to put on makeup. After all, I was at home. Putting on lipstick was the greatest respect for me. I combed my hair and picked up a plain silver hairpin from the table and was about to go out. Lu Chengcheng pressed my shoulders and sat me back down.

"Are you sure that's it?!"

"Why? Are you getting older or have you been in office for too long and are you beginning to dislike your sister?"

We stared at each other, Chengzi swallowed his breath and forced out a very embarrassed smile: "How dare I? I just thought it would be a shame if my sister didn't show off her beauty!"

He said this, and the next second he wanted to take everything off me. He didn't like my bracelets, hairpins, earrings, necklaces, and even the color of my lipstick! Do I have such a bad taste?

It seems to be true. Chengcheng kept chattering while rummaging through my cloakroom: "I'm not saying anything bad about you, sister. You're so young, why are you always wearing black or white clothes? Did the silver and wooden hairpins save your life? Well, pretend to be modest, but there's no need to make your bracelets and necklaces all silver, right? There aren't even any gems at all, it's so plain! Is our family going to go bankrupt? If you were a little better, you could wear an emerald, but it's really out of place and looks old at your age!"

I sighed, seeing that everyone inside and outside the room had left, and casually combed my hair twice, feeling quite helpless: "It's fine if others don't know, but you can't count? Your sister is already 37 years old, why does she want to be so young?"

"That being said, I haven't seen you grow up. Don't you still have the personality of a girl in her twenties? You have to think more open-mindedly. Since you are reborn, you have to enjoy the benefits of rebirth. You are twenty-four after rebirth, and you can't change it even if the sky is struck by lightning." Cheng Cheng shrugged, picked out a turquoise cheongsam and threw it to me, quietly saying something to me with great gloating: "Besides, if you have to go into so much detail, then I am older than you. Just call me brother and let me hear it."

"Be careful or I'll call someone in to break your legs--" I stretched out my tone, and reluctantly pulled the bed curtain to change clothes. When I came out, Chengcheng was already holding a box of jewelry ready. As soon as I sat down, he tried the collar on my chest and picked out a white jade one with a braided rope in the same color. The necklace was also simple, with a pearl that was not too conspicuous to make it more graceful. There were only a few styles of mutton-fat jade bracelets, so I just grabbed one. What he was most concerned about was the hairpin.

He has been displeased with my sandalwood hairpin for a long time, and I didn't know what had offended him. Later, I thought about it and figured out something. The one I wear most often was given to me by my second uncle, and it has a big nine-tailed fox engraved on it.

Fox, Cheng Cheng not only hates this fox hairpin, but also hates cocoa beans. It all comes down to it because of Jiang Yinan. For this person, he naturally "hates the whole house and the dog" towards those people.

But I didn't want to say anything more. I couldn't avenge Jiang Yinan. I was the one who hurt him the most. If I continued to argue with Chengcheng about these things, Chengcheng would quarrel with me again.

I looked at our reflections in the mirror and suddenly felt embarrassed, so I raised my hand and gently rubbed Chengcheng's face with the back of my hand. I felt a little relieved when I felt the warmth of her. I suddenly smiled and no longer felt sad.

"By the way, have you not sent me Linjiang's accounts yet? It seems like there were none last month." I suddenly remembered and asked.

Cheng Cheng paused, her face fell, and she quickly continued to search: "Sister, I'm already this old, and the housekeeper has been taking care of me for several years. Are you still not at ease? Your eyes must hurt looking at those numbers. You can take a rest, I can take care of it myself."

I turned around and took a glance, still a little surprised, but when I thought about it, it made sense. He used to urge me just to find topics to talk about. Now that I no longer avoided him, he naturally began to want freedom. Well, he is the head of the family, and if I keep holding him back, he will be looked down upon. Chengcheng is the most face-conscious person, so why bother?

I paused and thought, "What about Sun Changping? I haven't heard from him recently. He has joined William. Will he cause trouble for you?"

Cheng Cheng didn't take it seriously, and blurted out the truth with a somewhat contemptuous smile: "You said I could 'try my best' to teach him a lesson, and it would be best if he no longer had the ability to resist. Then he's in my hands, how can I let him leave Linjiang safely?" He regretted it after he finished speaking, and looked at me a little nervously after he stopped smiling. Before I could get angry, he pounced on me and rubbed my face hard: "Sister! I was wrong! I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again..."

Actually, I am not angry, I just feel something is weird. Although such a person would be sentenced to death a hundred times in the hands of the government, I don't want my own family to be the executioners. I can't control the previous generation anymore. I hope that this generation and the next generation can be more innocent and happier, so that they won't regret it when they look back when they are old. Unfortunately, it's too late. In the previous life, Old Master abdicated early, and Cheng Cheng had been the head of the family for countless years.

Forget it. Being naive is not a good thing in this family anyway. Why wait until old age to regret? I may not live to old age. As long as I know that Chengcheng will never become a very evil person and he will not be frightened and sad because of such things, that would be the best.

I patted the back of his hand and said, "Is he dead? I hope his family didn't notice it. Don't leave any notes, otherwise it will be troublesome for you in the future."

Cheng Cheng's lips quietly touched my hair, and she turned her head away to pick out accessories with a smile: "I'm missing - if you want to investigate me, you need a body and evidence."

I analyzed Cheng Cheng's words a bit. He said that as long as Sun Changping falls into his hands, he will not leave Linjiang properly. In other words, if he is transported out incomplete, it will be safe. William will not care about Sun Changping's life or death. Liang Sen is even more disgusted by him. There are only the elderly Sun mother and several concubines and wild children in the Sun family. There is no hostess who can take charge of the overall situation. Without Sun Changping, the Sun family will be completely destroyed. As long as the evidence travels far away with the Fu family's merchant ships and the world is torn into pieces, there is no need for us to do anything afterwards.

After thinking about all this, Cheng Cheng finally picked out a hairpin that he liked. I looked at it and it was very dazzling. It was the "Treading Snow to Find Plum Blossoms" hairpin that Xiang Yang gave me on a festival a few years ago. It was said to be for a happy occasion. It was plain and elegant silver, but it was decorated with a few large pieces of pigeon blood red. How could I wear it? I quickly took it away before he put it on me.

Cheng Cheng was very confused: "What's the matter?"

"My little ancestor, I just finished mourning for your brother-in-law in September this year, and now you want me to wear red?" I looked up helplessly, and Chengcheng's mood collapsed again in an instant, and she hugged me pitifully.

"I just finished taking care of my dad, and now my brother-in-law comes again. It's been six years in a row. Now that I think about it, it's almost been..." Cheng Cheng said disappointedly.

"Blame me?" I smiled bitterly, and Chengcheng immediately got angry. I pinched his face quickly: "Okay, okay, your red one doesn't match my blue clothes, right? How about this one? This one?" I picked up the one with dark blue gemstone, which Chengcheng didn't think was so annoying, so I put it on smoothly. Unexpectedly, he took it away quickly and replaced it with a cobalt blue one.

"Let's go, then? I've hardly been to the market back home. Think about it, I haven't had any snacks in a long time. I'm a bit tired of eating in the small kitchen for a long time." Cheng Cheng urged me with her hands on her hips.

I saw that he was getting younger and younger, so Xiaoxiao had no choice but to admit it. She planned to look in the mirror for the last time to fix her hair and then leave. But that one glance made me see something I shouldn't have seen. I felt that I had never seen that cobalt blue hairpin before, and this time I caught a glimpse of a small wave-shaped texture next to the tassel pendant. I quickly took it off to see more clearly. Chengcheng was also puzzled. He came over to take a look, and immediately widened his eyes and bit his tongue, looking at me guiltily out of the corner of his eye.

"Can I say it again that I was wrong..." Cheng Cheng pursed her lips, looking terribly aggrieved.

I was so angry that I laughed. I hit him on the head with the hairpin and said, "Gao Xinci went to see you? Why didn't you tell me?"

The wave pattern is the symbol of the Gao family. All the jewelry bought home will be sent to the old house for filing and engraved with this mark before being distributed to each family. The purpose is to prevent theft by the housekeeper. The Gao family has long informed the nearest jeweler that if they receive any jewelry with this pattern being sold by someone, they should report it to the Gao family immediately. If the Gao family finds out that the jewelry is not sold by the owner of the house, they will give the jeweler ten times the price of the jewelry as a gift to help clean up the family.

Gao Xinci has been trying to contact me these days, calling and sending me gifts, but unfortunately I rejected them all. The day I begged my second uncle to come back, I realized that it was useless to drag him along, and I didn't dare to get married. If I continue to be ambiguous like this, I will really annoy my second uncle, and he might secretly cause trouble for Gao Xinci, and I won't benefit from it. As for that night, I just regarded it as a reward from me or another time I cheated him. I was also sick for a few days, so it was retribution.

But I didn't expect that he couldn't see me and went to see Chengcheng. Chengcheng really accepted it, but refused to tell me that it was given to him by Gao Xinci. He fabricated a scene of "I just don't want to pay attention to him and Chengzai can't help me".

I thought, Gao Xinci hasn't sent any letters since the day before yesterday. Normally, he wouldn't be completely annoyed after just five or six days.

Cheng Cheng also pointed at the texture and gnashed her teeth: "This Gao Xinci! I sent it to him with good intentions, but who would have thought that he would bring some private goods! Sister, are you really upset when you see him? I'll throw it all away for you right away!"

I dodged my hand and stared at him as he put on the hairpin again. My clear eyes rolled around, and after a while I crossed my arms in disobedience.

"It was obviously you who ignored him first. I just followed your idea. If I don't do this, how long will it take for him to give up? You don't know how much he has gone too far! I went to the ship company to sign a contract with him before, and I saw that his office was full of your photos! Those who know him think he is affectionate, but those who don't think he is a pervert! Although it is placed in the private room and cannot be seen by outsiders... it is also very scary, isn't it? What if a big-mouthed servant goes in to clean and sees it? It will be spread all over the street, and you will be embarrassed if you respond, and you will be called heartless if you don't respond! This is moral kidnapping!"

Cheng Cheng's voice was high and low, like the ups and downs of a story. I didn't blame him at first, and I laughed unconsciously. I patted him lightly, but I didn't say a joke. My heart was in a panic, as if I realized something, but after thinking carefully about the words that popped up in my head, I felt that they were not that important. I frowned and pondered for a long time, and after a long breath, I asked as a small talk: "How did you and Gao Xinci cooperate? Our business has nothing to do with him."

But after I asked such a simple question, Chengcheng was stunned as if I had exposed his selfish thoughts.