Daguanyuan Food Research Bureau

Jia Zhu’s yard is small in size, but the layout is very peculiar, it is not axisymmetric structure, the main house is facing the wall, if there is any noise from the aisle next to it, it can be clearly heard in the yard, the main house is facing the main entrance, and there is only a large screen in the middle cut off.

So hearing the footsteps outside, Jia Ying's expression suddenly changed.

She caught sight of the big wooden box not far from the main house, and pushed Mu Shi to hide in it.

Mu Shi looked bewildered. Just as he was about to say that maybe he was just passing by, Jia Ying had already closed the lid.

This kind of déjà vu that they are actually having an affair.

The inside of the box was dark, and nothing could be seen, so her sense of hearing was amplified infinitely. Hearing the sound of the door being slowly pushed open, Mu Shi finally realized that the person who came was probably an acquaintance of Jia Ying, so she heard the footsteps. knew.

A female voice said with a smile: "I knew you were here."

Jia Ying said: "Ahaha——Ah, you haven't gone back yet."

Daiyu gave her a strange look: "What's wrong with you?"

Jia Ying sniffed: "I'm fine, why don't you come to see Big Brother?"

Mu Shi curled up in the box, his long hands and feet were uncomfortable, and he only hoped that the girl could leave quickly.It's just that this name is a bit familiar, he has vaguely heard it from Chen Wendao.

"I haven't seen you for a while and you're still crying?" The woman slowly approached, only heard the sound of fabric rubbing, and there was a hint of teasing in her smile, "Didn't you feel better just now?"

Jia Ying acted coquettishly in a tone he had never heard before: "Don't, my hair is going to be messed up."

Mu Shi felt that the board of his box was about to lose its hold.

Now he completely remembered that in Dream of Red Mansions, the person who had something to do with frowning was Lin Daiyu, Jia Ying's cousin who continued her relationship in this life.

Oh, they are still a former alliance of wood and stone.

Mu Shi looked indifferent, and even wanted to change his name.

Jia Ying didn't know that she was "on fire in the backyard" now, and she was thinking that someone should not be suffocated in the box, and she was a little distracted.

Daiyu scrutinized her expression, and became more and more sure that she was different from the master who would really remember, and sighed: "I heard from my mother that you are going to make an appointment with the Wang family?"

Jia Ying was upset again.

It's not that she doesn't believe in Mu Shi, but she really can't think of what he can do.

When the time comes, the two parties will sign a document, which will have legal effect. Does she still have to escape marriage?

Daiyu said again: "So what about that person who treats you like his own daughter?"

Jia Ying: "Huh?"

Mu Shi: What is a real daughter? ? ?

Jia Ying glanced at the big box unobtrusively, and said awkwardly, "What does it have to do with him?"

Daiyu sighed: "Baoyu, between the two of us, what more needs to be said? I can see through you, and you understand me."

Jia Ying was silent and did not speak.

Daiyu said again: "I didn't want to say these words to you today, but after confirming this morning, I remembered that you suddenly fell ill a few days ago, and I thought that I couldn't delay after all."

Jia Ying became depressed, thinking of Xiren's strict defense in the past few days, the other maids also didn't quite agree.

Then I heard Daiyu say: "Just now I thought about it, you used to say that if you want to be forced to marry someone you don't like, it's better to become a monk and go back to heaven. Maybe it's a joke, but I can't let it go. This is where I came to find you."

"If you really don't want to, come to me when you get to that point. I'm the only child in the house. At that time, I can protect you from being bullied by other aunts."

"I only care about your body. If it is really uncomfortable, I will always be there."

These days, Jia Ying was worried about Yingchun Xiangyun and the others. This was the first time that among the girls she wanted to protect all the time, Daiyu said that she would protect her.

Daiyu is like this, many people don't understand, Jia Baoyu doesn't want to read sage books, only she understands him, Jia Ying hates these rules more than anything else, she also understands.

"Ahhh..."

"Why are you so nice?"

Daiyu hadn't been praised so bluntly by her for a long time, and it was only at this time that she came too late to be awkward. She turned her face away: "I was here at the beginning, and you took care of me. Taking care of you in the future is not a big deal."

It's also been a long time since I saw her like this, Jia Ying subconsciously said familiarly, "I like you the most!"

Mu Shi: "..." Where am I, why did the black in front of my eyes turn into green?

Of course he chose to forgive her.

After sending Daiyu away, Jia Yingcai ran back in a panic, opened the lid, and felt a thump in her heart.

Seeing Mu Shi lying there with his eyes closed, she hastily loosened his neckline a little, and sniffed his nose again. He was still breathing, could it be... fainted?

The next moment, she slapped him on the head with a slap.

"I can feel you snickering."

Mu Shi: "Aying is so cold to me!"

Jia Ying sneered: "It deserves it, I remembered it when I saw Ah Yan just now, you even tricked me into going to Jinling once, and I hid in a box at that time, it's called heaven and reincarnation."

Mu Shi smiled wryly, apologized and said, "I didn't mean anything to you at that time, but if this day comes, I absolutely wouldn't dare."

Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something suddenly, his eyes lit up, and said: "Speaking of which, you went to Jinling, and you met people from my hometown?"

Jia Ying nodded: "Our family is all there, it's normal to have friendship."

Mu Shi touched his chin: "The time and the situation are right, so it seems that the old lady is praising you."

"Old lady?"

Mu Shi seemed to be out of touch with the box, and sat in it enjoying himself, then dragged her to sit on the edge of the box, looked at her, and fell in love with her more and more: "Well, it's our patriarch, his mother, who once mentioned Chased after the ancestral hall with a walking stick and beat me up."

Jia Ying: "...So you still have such a glorious past?" The old lady looked at her kindly, wondering what he had done to make him so angry.

Mu Shi said: "When I was very young, I went back to Jinling to live for a while, and changed all the names on my family tree, and threw most of the family law into the stove."

Jia Ying: You are more bearish than me!

Mu Shi smiled and said, "She really likes you. I asked her to help us keep the matchmaker. She should be happy."

Jia Ying calmly complained: "I think this is cruel." Probably the head teacher's heartache when he saw the beautiful and sensible class leader and the coal boss' son school bully together at the class reunion ten years later.

There were too many gaps in this sentence, and she didn't even correct him. Now that they are getting married, there is not even a single ink dot.

Mu Shi said again: "Before we change our name post, I have to change my name."

"Wait, wait." Jia Ying restrained him and continued, "First, my current problem has not been solved yet, so don't think too far ahead."

"Second, even if it's resolved, I think it's too early. I'm still young."

Mu Shi sighed: "I know that women in your life were only able to get married when they were twenty, but I was almost thirty at that time."

Jia Ying felt that this was indeed a bit inhuman: "Eighteen?"

Mu Shi raised his eyebrows: "You first think about whether this age can convince your parents?"

Jia Ying hesitated.

Mu Shi patiently said: "Look, your parents are already thinking of ordering you, so it's better to let them do what they want now, I'll be with you, let's live together for a few years, wait for you to be eighteen, we Another wedding that you and I approve."

It seems that he put so much effort into it that he even learned the word cohabitation.

Jia Ying finally resisted: "Then wait until I get married next year..."

Mu Shi nodded briskly: "It's all up to you."

Jia Ying: "..." Why did she feel that something was wrong.

After solving the problem he was most concerned about, Mu Shi said with satisfaction: "As for the marriage contracted by your family, you can rest assured. I won't talk about it now, and after a while, no one will mention it again."

His credit value with her has already exploded, Jia Ying didn't even want to explore his method at all, just waiting to see how he did it for himself.

Jia Ying asked again: "Then why are you thinking of changing your name again?"

Mu Yi said sourly, "I'm afraid that when you look at me in the future, you will think of your cousin."

Jia Ying was stunned for a while before she understood what he was talking about. She couldn't help laughing and nodded repeatedly: "Not bad, you should change your name, Uncle Mu."

When she mentioned this title again, she immediately poked at the age difference that he cared most about in his heart, and was drawn to some secret thoughts in his heart by her words. At the same time, she loved and hated her hand, and then gently bit her hand.

This time it was too intimate, both of them fell silent, the atmosphere froze for a moment, they just looked at each other.

A sound of footsteps broke the ambiguity. Both Jia Ying and Mu Shi's complexions changed. One quickly got up to arrange the clothes, and the other closed the lid of the box skillfully for the second time.

There is only one person they are familiar with.

"Baoyu." The voice was clear but warm.

Jia Ying didn't even feel nervous anymore, she rushed over full of joy, "Big brother!"

Jia Zhu supported her, smoothed her somewhat messy forehead hair, and said gently: "I don't even have a sweeper in my yard now, why are you here?"

Jia Ying said: "I miss you, usually on birthdays, I receive your present early in the morning..."

Her words were indeed sincere, and as soon as Yongchang said it, she understood why Mu Shi was here.

Jia Zhu smiled: "My assessment is finalized. It was only a few days ago. Thinking of your birthday, I came back first."

Jia Ying tugged at his sleeve, her eyes brightened: "Big brother won't leave from now on?"

"Well, let's not go." Jia Zhu said, "After a while, we will be able to have our own home."

This idea has been in his mind since he was a child. After moving out of Rongguo Mansion, both he and his father will serve as officials, so the family can live a good life.

Looking at Yuan Chun at that time, he made up his mind to finish it before his younger sister got married, but he almost died of illness in the middle, but fortunately, there is still a younger sister.

He looked at Jia Ying, and his smile became more gentle: "Baoyu is grown up now, I met your second cousin in Jinling a few days ago, and chatted with him for a while."

Jia Ying said dryly, "Brother, what do you think he is doing?"

Jia Zhu smiled: "Why are you shy, I just said some homely things."

Mu Shi pouted in the box.

That's not what my brother-in-law said in his letter a few days ago. His tone seemed to be eating the second young master of the Wang family.

Sure enough, Jia Zhu's smile was still gentle, and her tone became gloomy.

"Our family will always keep your room. If he dares to bully you in the future, you can tell me."

Jia Ying heard that he thought that if you were unhappy, I would make you a widow at any time, and she felt a little nervous.

It seemed to scare her even more. The next moment, Jia Ying heard him say, "Huh? When did I have an extra box in my yard?"

Jia Ying laughed: "It's nothing, it may be that there is no one in the courtyard, so let's let it go."

Jia Zhu still didn't understand how she lied, and suddenly remembered what his mother mentioned in the letter, that he gave his sister all the books, and he had never had this one. He had doubts in his heart at that time, but he still helped her. Covering it up, I remembered that my sister was ill again a few days ago, understood something in a blink of an eye, my face turned cold, and I walked towards it quickly.

While it was still possible to recover, he wanted to personally catch the beast and show up.

Having never seen his expression before, Jia Ying lost her voice for a moment, and only had time to point Erkang's hand at Jia Zhu's back, and Jia Zhu had already opened the box.

Jia Zhu's face was dull, and she saw her friend with slightly disheveled hair and neckline, sitting in the box like an old man.

Mu Shi blinked, stretched out a hand and waved.

"Well... good evening?"