As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Regarding Huamanlou's visit, the Wen family pretended to be the same thing, and even the servants didn't even say a son-in-law or something. The family with strict family style is different.

But soon this seemingly strict family style was punctured by a little girl from the backyard: "Uncle, my lady invites you to talk to the backyard."

Hua Manlou smiled slightly, followed the little girl around the front hall and headed for the back yard.

Old Wen was busy working in the cabinet. Judging from the common process of visiting high-ranking officials without an appointment these days, unimportant guests usually wait in the concierge and side halls. Most of the people who enter the front hall are distinguished guests, so there is the saying .

Nowadays, it seems that Huamanlou seems to be more expensive, and it goes directly to the flower hall in the backyard of others...

Mrs. Wen has always liked to take care of flowers and plants. It is said that it is for self-cultivation, which is why the family has a large-scale flower hall.I don’t know how to grow flowers and cultivate myself or not, but the fragrance of flowers blowing my face after entering the flower hall is quite comfortable, and May, which has already entered summer, has become a lot cooler because of the rather lush flowers and plants.

What's even cooler is that Wen Liang, who was pruning branches and leaves among the flowers, looked up and gave Huamanlou a supercilious look.

Touching her nose, Hua Manlou was just about to pretend to say something like 'long time no see', pretending that she hadn't seen Miss Wen yesterday to avoid her embarrassment, but Wen Liang said indifferently to the maids serving on the side: go down."

Hua Manlou raised his eyebrows: Oh, the scene is cleared now, doesn't it look like he's angry?

"What are you doing here?" After the maids left, Wen Liang rolled her eyes again as she looked at Hua Manlou, who was smiling but not smiling.

Hua Manlou said solemnly: "After leaving the capital for so long, I have to visit Mr. Wen Ge when I come back, right?"

Wen Liang stopped working, and snorted softly, "Just visiting my father?"

Hua Manlou blinked and smiled: "I thought Brother Ye should be here at the house, but I haven't seen you in a few days, I miss you..."

Wen Liang lowered her head and continued to trim the flower branches: "Then you just sit there and wait for your Brother Ye."

Hua Manlou: "..."

Is this really angry or not angry?

Thinking back, I didn’t seem to have said anything wrong just now. After all, the fact of postponing the wedding date is, no matter from which point of view, I have to visit my prospective father-in-law today to apologize, and by the way, talk about things like throwing the pot out after opening the sea. Things, and then talk about marriage or something.

And because Qi Wanrong went out with her, Hua Manlou didn't go to Ying Guogong's mansion first. In theory, it seems that there is no lack of etiquette... right?

Looking outside the flower hall, the maids guessed that they were far away, so Hua Manlou planned to walk up to Wen Liang and talk to her, but just two steps away, Miss Wen suddenly stood up and stared at him: "You... ...what are you going to do?"

Hua Manlou blinked again: "I...have a look at the flowers?"

"Why does Kanhua stare at me?"

"...Maybe it's because you are prettier than Hua?"

"You...you stay away from me!"

Miss Wen was ashamed and annoyed.

Seeing her like this, Hua Manlou suddenly thought of a sentence like this written in the book I didn't know in my previous life: The composition of girls is extremely complicated, which causes any other composition they come into contact with will cause weird emotions. chemical reaction.

That is to say, it was also on first base, Miss Qi was awkward for a few days and directly pushed Hua Manlou with a backhand, and Miss Wen seemed to have some psychological shadows from this situation... Doesn't seem right?

Hua Manlou took two steps back, and said innocently, "I'm not... Then what, are you guarding against wolves?"

"Bah, Deng Tuzi!" Wen Liang blushed, and glared at Hua Manlou again: "Stand there and don't move, if you want to talk, say it!"

This……

Is it shyness or is it psychologically difficult to pass?

Hua Manlou was speechless for a while, and then said: "Then... let's talk, find a topic?"

He said this, as if he himself came to Ge Lao Mansion specifically to do something, and there is nothing more cold than "find a topic" and "let's talk about something", because such words themselves represent It's 'nothing to say'.

So Wen Liang frowned, but soon put on a smile of refusal from thousands of miles away: "Brother Hua's contribution to defeating the Japanese this time is in the country, and the benefits will be in the future. The truth makes my little sister admire..."

This is proper polite talk.

"I'm overwhelmed and overwhelmed, but the Japanese pirates are too useless." Hua Manlou replied casually, feeling very baffled.

Wen Liang continued to be polite, and the sense of distance seemed to have returned to the stage when the two had just met, and it was the time when Hua Manlou hadn't found Wen Liang's daughter.

Hua Manlou frowned: Oh, you want to play like this?

So he straightened his expression and said, "Not to mention, what does Miss Wen think of the rumors that suddenly popped up in Beijing?"

Wen Liang looked at Huamanlou, and asked instead of answering, "Brother Hua, do you think these rumors will do you any harm?"

"Yes." Hua Manlou sat calmly on a chair in the flower hall, crossing his legs, "Although I am not a moral standard or a gentleman, it is a bit disgusting to be splashed with blood for no reason."

"How does brother Hua plan to deal with it?"

"Miss Wen, what do you think I should do?"

"If Brother Hua wants to ask who the mastermind is, I can still think of a way, but if Brother Hua just wants to solve the rumors, forgive me, my mouth grows on other people, so I can't stop it, and if Brother Hua tries to stop these rumors , No need to make people think that everything is true..." Wen Liang dropped the scissors in his hand: "Brother Hua is talented, you don't understand these truths, do you?"

Well, I was talking well, but in the end I just sneered. After all, I was still angry!

Hua Manlou kept his composure and continued to grind his teeth: "In Miss Wen's opinion, if I insist on going my own way, I have to shut up the mouths of these people?"

Wen Liang was taken aback for a moment, then said with frowned eyebrows: "Brother Hua, the so-called defense against the people is better than Fangchuan. If the river is blocked and collapsed, it will hurt more people. Why should Brother Hua be so angry?"

Wen Liang felt that Huamanlou was drifting away. After all, many people became extremely arrogant immediately after they suddenly reached a high position, and the more successful people were, the more drifting they became.

Judging from Huamanlou's performance, Wen Liang guessed that he might go to find Xu Dacheng soon, and then the Dongchang fan would make many unjust, false and wrong cases after asking for the capital, and then...

In short, killing people is never the solution to rumors. If Hua Manlou opens this hole, he will definitely walk on the path of a powerful official—this will be regarded as causing substantial harm.

But Hua Manlou saw that she was suddenly a little excited and thought it was a little funny: Heh, woman!After tossing for a long time, aren't you still worried about your husband?

"The so-called forbearance makes progress in a short period of time, and takes a step back to intensify. It is unbearable, and there is no need to bear it anymore..." Hua Manlou said while standing up: "Okay, let's do it like this, excuse me."

"You...you stop!"

Miss Wen is in a hurry.

451. I want to go!

Compared with Huamanlou who used to flirt with the white-haired lady at every turn, Huamanlou's performance now is quite remarkable, although it is at least a few floors behind guys like Neptune and Lover, so He can generally feel that Miss Wen is vaguely angry, although he can't figure out where she is angry.

But if you are angry, you can't keep playing like 'Brother Hua' and 'Miss Wen', can you?

As far as Miss Wen is concerned, first she endured her shyness and stayed in the Huai'an uncle's mansion because she missed Huamanlou, and then she hid behind a screen in order to see Huamanlou earlier, but in the end she was beaten by someone. Wolf gnawing—this is a very vivid metaphor, because Huamanlou really doesn't have much skill at all.

It is true that the feeling of being held in her arms is not as annoying as she imagined, but Huamanlou's fiery expression also made her worry about gains and losses all night: gaining a real feeling of her position in Huamanlou's heart, losing The reservedness of Yu's daughter's family was directly torn to pieces by Hua Manlou, and she suffered from insomnia for half the night.

Under such circumstances, Hua Manlou ran to Wen Ge's old mansion shamelessly and with great fanfare, which made Miss Wen a little angry, but her anger stemmed from her own disappointment—she didn't want to be flowered. Manlou looked down on him, but he couldn't help but invite him to meet him in the backyard. This kind of weakness is really not like the warmth and coolness who once commented on a group of famous talents.

The girl herself did not reason logically, so she naturally came to a conclusion: Huamanlou was all to blame.

But no matter how angry she is, she will not watch Huamanlou go to die, because the process of giving up power for a while to cover the sky with one hand is a typical process of her own way to the Yi tribe. No matter how she looks at it, she can't let Huamanlou Lou played like this.

But Hua Manlou said to Miss Wen, please stop and turn around, and when he was about to walk out of the flower hall, Wen Liang rushed to him and pulled him back again, and said eagerly: "Brother Hua, Qing It's self-evident, as long as His Majesty doesn't see any doubt, you won't be in any danger, and... ummmm..."

In an instant, Miss Wen realized that she had been cheated again.

When Hua Manlou's claws began to move down her waist unconsciously, Wen Liang suddenly woke up from the intoxication, and then struggled desperately.

Hua Manlou wrapped her arms around Wenliang's waist without any trace, then raised her head and explained with a little embarrassment: "Uh...your clothes...the material is a bit slippery."

Wen Liang glared at Hua Manlou fiercely, but there was no sign of anger after all: "You...don't move around, listen to me."

Hua Manlou laughed and said, "You really think I'm stupid? Isn't it just a rumor, it's not like I haven't been scolded before..."

Wen Liang was taken aback for a moment, then struggled frantically: "Let me go!"

"Don't let it go!"

"You... you let go, I'm calling someone!"

"Call me, but are you sure that after your servants saw this scene, it was me who was ashamed?"

"You...you are weak!"

Hua Manlou blinked, as if...

Seems like she's always been scolded for being weak lately?Miss Qi said so, and Miss Baimao said so yesterday, when she was still in tears...

After struggling for a while, Wen Liang didn't know whether she had lost strength or gave up completely. After giving Hua Manlou another white look, she leaned her head against his chest and said softly, "I have suffered a lot during the past half a year since I went out, right?" ?”

Hua Manlou smiled and said: "It's okay. I thought the Japanese pirates were vicious and arrogant, but when I met them, I realized they were a bunch of idiots; I thought the sea was dangerous with high winds and rough seas, but in fact, I realized that there are calm seas as well." At that time; I thought there would be poor villages and barren lands everywhere after leaving Dazhao, but the cherry blossoms blooming from south to north from Ryukyu to Wa Kingdom are still very interesting, and..."

With his warm forehead on his face, Hua Manlou said something he couldn't say even after being beaten to death with a natural expression: "I thought that a good man should aim for the world, make meritorious deeds and seal his wife's shadow, but before I arrived in Tianjin, I started thinking about it." You, after the inconspicuous battle of Fenghua, you regretted that you delayed your wedding because of some rogues, if you had known earlier, you would have sent Huang Zichao away..."

Wen Liang was teased abruptly, then burst out laughing accidentally, and then punched Hua Manlou in the chest: "Just miss me? Miss your little sister?"

Hua Manlou blinked: "You're talking to death, do you know that? If I said I don't want to, it would be a bit hypocritical, but if I said I would, you would feel unhappy. This nice atmosphere... Oh, she He also said that the two of you slept together when you had nothing to do. Let me tell you, if she wasn’t my wife, I would have to find an excuse to put her in prison to make her feel the danger of human nature. I didn’t even do it. Where's your bed!"

Wen Liang was dumbfounded, and then began to thump the flowers all over the building desperately, laughing while beating: "Who wants you to go up... Bah, Deng Tuzi, let go!"

After laughing for a while, Wen Liang calmed down and asked Hua Manlou softly: "What are you going to do this time?"

"What should I do?" Hua Manlou hugged her and sat on a chair in the flower hall: "For the wedding, do you think it will happen in July? I don't know if this year's Qixi Festival is suitable for marriage..."

Wen Liang said angrily: "I didn't say that! Rumors are spreading in Beijing. Although it doesn't do you much harm, but everyone's mouth is worth a lot of money. It will really make people think that you have done many angry things in the southeast for many days. It's okay to leave it alone. inappropriate."

Hua Manlou laughed and said, "Didn't you stop me from dealing with it just now?"

Wen Liang was so angry that he pinched Hua Manlou: "It's business!"

Hua Manlou shrugged his shoulders: "There is a grievance and a debtor. Let's investigate first, and whoever is the one who counts is who. If you kill him, what else can you do? You can't point at me and cry and beg others to stop spreading rumors, or make a fool of yourself." Is the statement sternly accusing the other party of spreading rumors?"

Wen Liang chuckled, then thumped Huamanlou again and said, "If you have nothing to do, just rest for a few more days, and I'll take care of other things."

Hua Manlou looked at her and said, "Why, do you have a solution?"

Wen Liang smiled and said: "Yes, no one will believe these rumors within three days. The rumormongers probably won't be able to move for the time being, and they are waiting for a while to catch a braid and make a fuss, okay?"

Hua Manlou blinked: "Just ask me if I'm okay? What's your solution first?"

Wen Liang jumped out of Huamanlou's arms with a smile: "I won't tell you, I want to go!"

Hua Manlou clicked his tongue and said, "Actually... I think it's better to find Xu Dacheng, anyway, that's what he does in Dongchang, or it's necessary to go to Beizhen Fusi..."

Wen Liang smiled even more freely: "Bah, you still want to lie to me?"

"No, I really intend to do this. After all, you can see how vicious they made up, and I'm about to die of anger..."

"That's not to say, I want to go!"

452. Qiao Qiao

In the next few days, apart from visiting Duke Ying's mansion and meeting some old subordinates, Hua Manlou really lived a life that can be called a salted fish.

It feels very good to have a daughter-in-law who is capable and hard-core in dealing with things. Huamanlou had a deep understanding of this when he was in Xishan, and this time he experienced it even more deeply—the rumors in Beijing suddenly became violent .

The rumors at first were quite normal, or within the normal range, but then they became more and more excessive, until Qiaoqiao, who was so gentle and indisputable, became angry.

As far as Qiaoqiao is concerned, although she is not like Qin'er's "Young Master is my God", her vision for Huamanlou is not bad, so she can't listen to others slandering Huamanlou.

"Master, someone scolded you."

"Well, people scold me every day, don't worry about it."

It's just that her temperament is too weak, so that all the bizarre rumors in the market are classified into one category by her: swearing.

Because she couldn't accept Huamanlou being treated like this, Qiaoqiao continued, looking at her young master who was like a breeze to the bad comments, "But...but the young master obviously didn't do those things..."

Hua Manlou raised his head slightly, looked at her suspiciously, and then said with a smile: "Okay, then tell me, why do people scold me?"

"...They said that the young master killed more than [-] people in the southeast with his own hands."

"Oh, what else?"

"Also... also said that the young master robbed boys and girls of [-] each, and brought them back to the capital to be raised in the mansion."

"Go on, is there anything else?"

"Also... also said that the young master has taken over the property of countless squires, eating tens of thousands of taels of silver for a meal, and... and..."

In fact, Qiaoqiao picked up the mildest rumors, because the rumors she heard were more extreme and outrageous than this, and basically had everything except rebellion.

only……

Generally speaking, if Huamanlou wants to accomplish these things, it will take about ten to eight years—not to mention, for example, the rumor that Huamanlou violated 4 people and wives in eight months after leaving Beijing. One hundred and sixteen a day, donkeys can't do this, let alone this is a rumor, not counting the [-] virgins...

Hua Manlou looked at Qiaoqiao gently, and smiled, "Then do you believe these rumors?"

Qiaoqiao was taken aback for a moment, but immediately shook her head: "I don't believe it! And because... because these things are so outrageous, many people just listened to them as a joke."