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After the voice transmission was cut off, Jiang Dong seriously put away the letter in his hand, hiding it in his close-fitting clothes like a treasure handed down from generation to generation.After that, he hurried out the door.

Turning around the corridor and crossing one or two small bridges, Jiang Dongshen stopped in front of the courtyard door covered with flowers and vines, and knocked lightly on the door.

The one who opened the door was a young servant who blinked at Jiang Dongchen who was dressed like a moon in white, and said salutingly, "Fourth Young Master."

Jiang Dongshen nodded and asked, "Is my mother here?"

The little servant looked back, and said to Jiang Dong in a deep voice: "Second Madam seems to be embroidering flowers by the Chunhe Pond behind the courtyard, do you need me to call?"

Jiang Dongchen only shook his head: "No need, I'll go by myself." After taking two steps, he turned around and reminded, "It's not summer yet, and the night wind is cooler. When you're on duty at night, wear an extra windbreaker."

Stepping on the thin moonlight, Jiang Dongshen came to the Chunhe Pond with round lotus leaves in the back of the courtyard.Mu Lian was sitting in front of the lantern and embroidering, with her slender hands lightly picking up the needle and thread, leaving behind a slender figure, at first glance, she looked like a young girl who hadn't left the court.

Jiang Dong raised his hand lightly, and tapped on the corridor door opening towards the Chunhe Pond.

Mu Lian turned around and saw the person coming, raised his hand and said with a smile, "Ah Chen, come and sit down."

Jiang Dong Shen sat beside her, leaning to one side so as not to block the light and shadow falling from the oil lamp.Mu Lian suddenly smiled and said, "Mother likes embroidery since she was a child. When you were not born, I often told your aunt that if I had a daughter, I would sew many dresses for her with my own hands. Who knew that after you were born, we There are already three boys in the family. I see that you are only a little in the swaddle, and I thought it would not be a mistake to embroider a few flowers on your quilt coat and hat. Who would have thought that Dong Wei, who could not speak clearly at that time, would actually I joked that you were a younger sister. I was very helpless, so I stopped embroidering for you, and I held on to Dongwei all day long, wanting to add flowers to his cuffs."

Jiang Dongshen remembered seeing a few delicate little clothes, but thought they belonged to Jiang Ding.Zi Ye smiled helplessly, and Mu Lian continued: "I used to always want a daughter, but after thinking about it, it's better for you. Daughters always need mother to worry about, let alone put a lot of thought into her daughter. In the future, she will still have Married to another son. You don’t have to worry about getting married, and you still have to worry about your mother. Unlike you, you have been calm and sensible since you were a child... Except for those two years, I never bothered me. Ah Chen, my mother always feels that , At that time, I want to think about my daughter, I am really sorry for you."

Jiang Dong said in a deep and gentle voice, "How could that be?"

Mu Lian mentioned the important point in the next sentence, turned his head and joked: "Yes, such a good child, with a dignified appearance, and a handsome appearance. He was only [-] years old, and he was remembered by other girls."

Jiang Dongshen was very helpless: "Mother."

Mu Lian smiled brighter, put down the needle and thread in his hand, and asked with one hand on his chin: "Ah Chen, when you come back and meet Yuan Ci in the main hall, do you have any thoughts?"

Jiang Dongchen hesitated for a moment, but still found it troublesome to lie, and asked, "Mother wants me to tell the truth?"

Mu Lian thought to himself that he always had to choose between liking and not liking, so he might be more tactful, responding to his gentle temper, and replied: "Yeah."

"...Yuanci is what kind of monster is he doing again?"

Unexpectedly, Mu Lian was stunned at first, and then burst out laughing: "Ah Chen, have you been possessed by Que?"

Jiang Dong Shen responded, and tilted his head in embarrassment, Mu Lian then smiled and said, "Look at you, why are you so straightforward, that girl is so sad to hear that." He poked Jiang Dongchen's shoulder again , "I can see that girl likes you very much, she hasn't looked down on you all day long. But you, what's so good about the back of your hand? After looking at it again and again, the back of your hand really makes you worry about it?"

Jiang Dongshen just asked: "Does mother like Yuan Ci very much?"

Mu Lian suppressed her smile, tilted her head, and said pertinently: "Young and promising, with outstanding appearance, extraordinary temperament, and decent conversation, she is a good girl, what's wrong?"

Jiang Dong said in a deep voice, "But I have no affection for her."

"So, Ah Chen, you don't want to agree to this matter, do you?"

Jiang Dong Shen nodded: "Yes."

Mu Lian smiled and said, "I can more or less guess it. But you came back in a hurry today, and I didn't have time to ask you what you mean, so I didn't make it clear at the banquet. Then I will make it clear tomorrow. I respect your choice."

Jiang Dong thanked him deeply, and then asked, "What did father say?"

"After Yuan Ci left, your father told me that Yuan Ci is a very good person and has good conduct. But although the Yuan family is a small family, it does not mean that it will not rise in the future. She is also the suzerain. If you marry her, you must be If you want to be a door-to-door son-in-law, your father is not willing. But it mainly depends on your wishes."

Saying that, Mu Lian smiled again: "I remember she came to our house to look for you, and you didn't seem so indifferent to her. I thought you had some affection for her, but it seems that you treat her more indifferently than others. "

Jiang Dongshen said: "Many years have passed. In the past, she was more or less treated as a younger sister. Now that time has passed, she is the original suzerain. She is higher than me, and I don't want to surpass." Then, Jiang Dongshen added, "She My temperament is too quiet, I know that I am introverted by nature, so I am more inclined to cheerful and extroverted people, complementing each other will last for a long time."

Mu Lian rubbed the top of Jiang Dongchen's hair like a child, with a smile in his eyes: "You know a lot, but it's reasonable. If your father married not me and your aunt, but Jing He You are a gentle lady, wouldn't our family be suffocated to death?"

Jiang Dongshen also smiled, and Mu Lian looked at the scattered moonlight in the pool, and smiled softly: "Besides, this girl Yuan Ci has her own opinions, if you are with her, it will seem that you are not as good as her." But that's not the case, Ah Chen, you're just not very good at expressing, the people of our Jiang family can't be compared to a young woman."

Mu Lian picked up the embroidery she had just put on the table, raised her hand, and compared it to the half moon in the sky.The pattern is an inverted bright moon, with one or two cirrus clouds on the side of the moon, and a tree blooming under it.Exquisite and delicate.She said: "Besides, whoever you marry, I will treat her like my own daughter. I'm afraid that someone like Yuan Ci won't wear the dress I sewed. The suzerain can wear anything other than the family robe."

Jiang Dong said in a deep voice: "Mother really hopes that my future people will wear the dress you made?"

Mu Lian said: "Yes, you are a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy. I want my daughter's small thoughts, but my daughter-in-law can't get what I want?"

Jiang Dong lowered his eyes, and said softly apologetically, "Then...Mom, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you."

Mu Lian tilted his head: "Huh?"

Jiang Dongshen suddenly remembered what Nian Quesheng said, and blurted out: "I'm in love with someone."

Mu Lian put down the embroidery in his hand again, turned around and said, "Who is it?"

Jiang Dongshen was a little apprehensive, but his tone was very firm, and he met Shang Mu Lian's eyes and said: "It's a year but I'm promoted."

Mu Lian's smile froze, and he thought, what are these things.

Mu Lian shook his head first, recalling in his heart all the things Jiang Dongshen had done since he was a child and all the people he had come into contact with, and confirmed that he had never had any signs of breaking his sleeves before.It took a long time before I realized it, and asked, "Really? Chen, you can't mess around with this matter."

Jiang Dongshen calmed down instead, and said quietly: "Mother, you know that I have never lied to cheating since I was a child."

Mu Lian seemed a little dazed, he didn't scold or blame, and after a while, he murmured, "But Quesheng and you are both men, you clearly know... this... when did this happen?"

Jiang Dongshen heard her talk about Nian but Sheng still kindly and without a surname, he felt a little relieved, so he didn't dodge or avoid it, and said very calmly: "About... the seventeenth day of the first month."

"No wonder you didn't come with him today..." Mu Lian said to himself, glanced at the quiet Chunhe Pond from the corner of his eye, and asked, "Ah Chen, do you know who Quesheng is for you?"

Jiang Dongshen was startled by the question at first, then he reacted and asked tentatively: "Is mother talking about that? If so, then I already know."

Mu Lian breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know whether to relax or sigh: "That year when he rescued you in the carp pond, I made an agreement with your father and the Nian's family not to tell you two about it. On the one hand, I was afraid that you would be too responsible. A person who thinks about seeking grace will feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, I have admired the child Quesheng from the beginning, and I intend to let you know each other in the future, but I am afraid that you will know each other. I have a grudge in my heart, which will affect your friendship. I don't want to..." Mu Lian shook his head lightly, and said, "Then you like him, and he likes you, it has nothing to do with this matter, right?"

Jiang Dongchen vaguely grasped some meaning from this passage, and suddenly his heart beat wildly, and he hurriedly said: "No, we didn't know at that time."

Mu Lian said: "That's it. If it's because of this matter that you have such thoughts towards each other, misinterpret it to repay and be repaid, then such feelings will always change."

Jiang Dong Shen asked: "So?"

"So, what do you want me to do." Mu Lian said in a gentle voice very helplessly, "You've reached this point... I can have another cheap son, and I'm very happy."

Jiang Dong said in surprise, "Mother!"

Mu Lian sighed in his heart for the dress he couldn't give away, and then thought with relief, there is Jiang Yu.

So she said: "Stop laughing, others say you are a calm young man, not a child anymore. You are really... You have never been so happy when I tried to tease you when I was young."

Jiang Dongchen got up suddenly, and made a deep and sincere salute, his voice was trembling with excitement, and he said sincerely: "Dongchen... thank you mother."

Mu Lian hurriedly asked him to sit down, and pretended to be reproachful: "You don't want to thank me, you go and ask me to thank me, I think I'm a smart person, I didn't want to but I didn't see that you two still have this kind of relationship.  … Looking back now, I feel suspicious at all levels, I am really, too dull."

After finishing speaking, Mu Lian said again: "When did you have such an idea about him? Knowing that this is different from ordinary people, are you unwilling to give up?"

Jiang Dong, Shen and Nian Sheng have stayed together for a long time, and they have become more frank and frank, and when they talk about love, they don't blush and their heart beats: "Yes, since I traveled with him in Dream Mountain last year, Nian was promoted to this person. Holding it in my arms, I never want to let go."

Mu Lian was still sighing: "A person like you, since I was a child, I have never seen you show the slightest liking for anything. You are indifferent to everything, neither too caring nor too indifferent.  … Where does it look like?"

Jiang Dongshen was about to speak, but found helplessly that Mu Lian didn't want him to answer at all, and just said to himself: "No wonder you become talkative and laugh every time you are with him. You care about him so much, he likes it." I remember exactly what to eat and what to pick and choose. Ah Chen, based on your many years of experience, do you know what your mother likes? If you don't know, then I will be too sad."

Jiang Dong pondered why he was still jealous of inferiors, and couldn't help laughing: "Mother likes and dislikes, there are a lot. There are dozens of choices in terms of diet alone, let me tell you all. I'm afraid it's going to be dawn. Why don't I go back and make a list and deliver it to my mother in person tomorrow morning?"

Mu Lian also smiled, and stretched out his hand to pat his forehead lightly: "You, the more slick you are, it doesn't sound like what you said, did you come here pretending to coax me?"

Mu Lian thought to himself, this is probably the so-called, if you love someone too much, you will become more and more like him.

Forget it, although there are many criticisms on this road, I am obviously looking forward to his happiness the most.

Mu Lian blinked, took off a carefully carved Tianyu bracelet from his wrist, handed it to Jiang Dong seriously and said: "Give him to Quesheng later, but it's not suitable for a boy to wear him, but this Yuhuan, I made up my mind to give you the person in the future."

Jiang Dongshen was overwhelmed with emotion, but he didn't answer, and only said softly: "How can I do it... Mother, you can only give this jade ring to me after my father agrees."

Mu Lian snorted, why did he forget about Jiang Wendao?

But she still smiled, put the jade ring back on her wrist again, and said softly: "Then wait a little longer. To be honest, since that incident happened, I almost thought that I would never be able to give this jade ring back in my life." .”

That incident seemed to be a piercing sand in everyone's heart, everyone was suffering for him, and they were carefully avoiding it.But the sand has always been there, and it was intentionally clear at first, but then everyone gradually got used to its existence, unknowingly diluting the harsh feeling, and after a certain person appeared, the sand gradually softened into a pearl.

That person brought a lot of laughter and comfort, driving away the dark haze in the air.

Jiang Dong pondered for a long time, and then said very apologetically: "The me in the past made my mother worry too much."

Mu Lian smiled meaninglessly: "What's the matter? Children are debts. I'm just your son. If I don't worry about you, who should I worry about? I'm willing to think more about you."

Jiang Dong said in a deep voice, "Then... on the father's side, what does mother plan to say?"

Mu Lian thought for a while and replied with a smile: "Leave it to me. If he refuses, I'll hang out with your aunt for a few days. I'll see if he dares to agree."

The emotion in Jiang Dongshen's heart was so moved that it all came out majesticly at this moment, turning into a tender and tender softness, as if the breeze caressed Liang Yan's murmur, so he couldn't help but leaned over and hugged Mu Lian gently, and said in a warm voice : "Mother... Dong Shen, thank you... for your fulfillment."

Being hugged like this, Mu Lian's eyes suddenly became hot, and he almost burst into tears.She knew best how much her Jiang Dongshen didn't like to get along with people after that, and this stubborn edge was somewhat softened by Nian Quesheng.So, she patted him on the back lightly, and said softly, "Okay... Ah Chen, it's okay."

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