[Red Mansions] Why does Xiaoye want to whitewash

"Is Qingbai good at martial arts? We can learn from each other in the future."

Luo Min laughed out loud, then went to Sister Qiao's side and poured her a glass of water, but couldn't help but say in her heart that she had no eyesight...

As soon as Sister Qiao heard Luo Min's words, she turned her head and asked curiously, "Does Brother Luo also practice martial arts?"

"Yes." Seeing that her eyes finally fell on him, Luo Min replied with a very gentle smile: "Although I will not take the martial arts championship in the future, in addition to the six arts of gentlemen, martial arts are also indispensable for daily learning. "

Sister Qiao nodded, but instead of continuing to talk to Luo Min as Luo Min thought, she looked at Lin Ke and Jia Lan and asked, "Then you will learn it in the future?"

Lin Ke glanced at Luo Min and Zeng Qingbai, nodded and said, "My cousin said that we will also exercise in the future, but we are definitely not as proficient as them."

Lin Ke's seniority is actually rather embarrassing when dating people of the same age, but fortunately, he is used to Sister Qiao's consistent calling by name, so he speaks casually to new people as if they were of the same generation.

"Can I learn?" Sister Qiao blinked her eyes, and asked Zeng Qingbai with some expectation: "Can the girls from Brother Zeng's family learn martial arts?"

"This..." The girl from the general's family may not be able to learn martial arts, Zeng Qingbai didn't know how to answer for a while, and Luo Min has always been an excellent child from other people's family, so he subconsciously looked at it.

Luo Min felt that Zeng Qingbai was a bit mean, if he couldn't answer and made sister Qiao cry, wouldn't it be troublesome?But they were all looking at themselves, so they could only say perfunctorily: "Every family has different rules, if my younger sister wants to learn martial arts, she has to ask your father."

As soon as Sister Qiao heard it made sense, she stopped pestering her.

This kind of banquet is nothing more than eating and drinking for children. Sister Qiao has a good appetite, and she will not refuse anyone who feeds what she likes. When Jia Lian came to find her, she was already full.

Standing up and walking to her father, Sister Qiao pulled her father's sleeve to cover her face, and hiccupped silently.Jia Lian patted her on the head lightly, and said with a smile, "Let's go, say goodbye to the elders and we'll go back."

After speaking, he brought the children back to the adults, and then Luo Zhengyuan and his son also left with them.

At the door, Luo Min looked at the box that Qiao'er had been holding in her arms all the time, it was given to her by Zeng Qingbai, then took off a jade pendant from his waist, put it in his hand and gave it to her.

Sister Qiao was puzzled and didn't reach out to pick it up, so Luo Min put it directly on the box in her arms, and said with a smile: "It's the first time I see my sister today, this is a gift for my sister."

It was always the elders who gave the meeting gift. In Sister Qiao's concept, she definitely could not take things from Brother Luo, so she didn't ask her father's opinion, so she held the box with one hand and picked up the jade pendant with the other to return it to her. he.

Luo Min kept his hands behind his back and didn't take them back. Seeing that Sister Qiao insisted on returning it to him, the smile on his face was still a little unbearable.

Luo Zhengyuan didn't expect that his son would give something to the little girl. Although he was surprised, it was rare for his son to be stubborn to the child he met for the first time, so he said to Jia Lian: "Min'er is more thoughtful than my father. When I saw your daughter, I didn't prepare a meeting gift, so let my niece accept it."

Jia Lian saw that although the jade pendant was good, it was not something the Jia family could not afford, so she nodded and asked Qiao to accept it first.Even if he thought about collecting a lot of things today, he should pay more attention when returning gifts in the future.

However, Luo Zhengyuan couldn't have neglected Lin Ke and Jia Lan like Luo Min did, so he gave another little thing.

After delaying for a while, everyone separated and got into their carriages to go back.

When they were in their own carriage, Jia Lian saw that Sister Qiao randomly opened a box of the jade pendant that Luo Min had given her and put it in, and then opened the box that Zeng Jinghuai had given her, and asked, "Like you, Brother Qing Bai?"

Sister Qiao nodded and replied with a smile: "Brother Zeng is so tall and powerful!"

Jia Lian knew that Zeng Qingbai was a few months older than Jia Lan, but today he saw that he was about the same size as Luo Min. Looking at Zeng Jinghuai's height, he must not be short when he grows up...

"Daddy, can Miss Qiao learn martial arts?"

Jia Lian recovered from his thoughts, saw his daughter's expectant eyes, and asked strangely, "Why do you suddenly want to learn martial arts?"

"I want to be tall and strong!" Sister Qiao's eyes lit up, she gestured upwards with her hands and asked, "Is that okay?"

"Do you think it looks good?" Jia Lian asked with some difficulty. Although he knew that his daughter never thought there was anything wrong with her appearance, it didn't mean that he wanted his little daughter to look crooked?

However, Sister Qiao nodded sharply regardless of her father's gaze, and said directly: "It looks good."

Jia Lian had a headache for a moment, could it be that sister Qiao was influenced by him?It's okay if you simply like others being tall, but wanting to make yourself tall... Jia Lian felt that he couldn't accept it.

Seeking common ground while reserving differences is not tolerated in this age, but he is also reluctant to let his daughter down.He could only grit his teeth and said, "It's fine to learn martial arts, but you can't miss the study on the mother's side, and you can't make mistakes in the rules and etiquette."

"Really?" Sister Qiao thought that her whims would not be approved!Now Dad actually agreed, of course it was a surprise, he immediately nodded and agreed: "I have always studied very well, and I will definitely get better in the future!"

Jia Lian twitched the corners of her mouth, her smile was not very natural, she only thought about the current development trend of sister Qiao, and the future marriage had to be carefully considered, otherwise what if life is not happy?

His eyes stopped at Zeng Jinghuai's meeting ceremony. Their family Zeng Qingbai is quite a simple and honest child, and he fits Qiao's aesthetics. If he was raised from an early age...

Sister Qiao didn't know that her father had already begun to worry about her future, and was happily imagining how powerful he would be when he grew up, but Jia Lian began to think about how to mention this matter to Wang Xifeng.

Tangled all the way, and before he brought it up after returning home, Wang Xifeng was surprised to see a lot of things he brought back, "Why did you bring so many things back when you went out?"

When she asked this question, Jia Lian temporarily put aside what she had been thinking before, and said a little speechlessly: "The people in Beijing are all saying that our sister Qiao is fat, and she came here to see her today. It’s also called a meeting gift!”

Wang Xifeng hadn't been a guest at anyone's house during the time she came back, so she didn't hear any rumors. When she heard Jia Lian's words at this time, she couldn't help but said angrily: "Why are these people talking gossip! Where is our sister Qiao?" fat?"

But after she finished speaking, she herself felt a little insincere, but she was unwilling to admit that her daughter was not good-looking.

At this moment, a thought flashed through Jia Lian's mind, and he cautiously suggested: "It's better for sister Qiao to learn some martial arts. On the one hand, it is to exercise the body. On the other hand, since she is young, eating less will definitely hurt her body. Exercise more. It should be thinner."

Wang Xifeng also thinks it makes sense. In her opinion, what girls can learn is that she can accept it slowly. Anyway, it will take many years before marriage is discussed. When the time comes, all the wives need to go out to see her is It's good to be thin!

So he nodded and agreed, "That's it."

Jia Lian didn't expect to help Sister Qiao achieve what she wanted so smoothly, and she didn't want to be too complacent, so she could only try her best to control the corners of her mouth not to turn up.

It's just that he didn't expect that it was agreed to learn martial arts and exercise to lose weight, but because of the amount of exercise, sister Qiao had a better appetite, so she ate more instead.

Wang Xifeng was worried that she would gain weight, so she specially prepared vegetarian food for her. Fortunately, the cooks of Jia's family are good at cooking, and the vegetarian food is delicious, and sister Qiao is not very picky.

The old doctor also took Qiao's pulse several times, and after making sure that it didn't affect her body, Jia Lian didn't care how Wang Xifeng tossed her daughter's food, and he watched coldly, although Qiao's not fat, she didn't lose weight either. It's like doing useless work.

Another one, Jia Lian felt that Wang Xifeng might be cheating on his daughter, because he always felt that sister Qiao's skills were all tricks and embroidered legs, but he himself was not good at martial arts, and after he brought it up, she was disgusted by her, so he went to Wang Xifeng for verification.

Because Jia Rong's marriage arrangements were almost done, Wang Xifeng had some free time recently. When she saw Jia Lian asking about it, she immediately rolled her eyes: "It's ugly for a girl to have a big shoulder and round waist! Miss Qiao will not find her husband's family in the future. ?”

"Why is my daughter ugly?" Looking at Zhang Xiuqi, she knew that Sister Qiao would definitely not be ugly in the future. Besides, "Even if we can't get married, we can still get married."

Wang Xifeng was furious when she heard this, and she couldn't get angry at all, "Why would a good girl hire a wife, my daughter must be married in a serious manner, and only those who have no sons will marry!"

"I just said it casually..."

Jia Lian didn't really want to recruit a son-in-law for her daughter, after all, the risk was not lower than getting married, but she didn't expect Wang Xifeng to be so excited.

After a few words of reassurance, Wang Xifeng was coaxed, and he didn't say anything about sister Qiao learning how to embroider her legs.

Then came the day when Jia Rong got married, and he was not too young now. When Jia Lian was his age, the eldest sister was already born, so the excitement on his face was understandable.

Jia Lian didn't stay there any longer, and took the children back home when the time was almost up, accompanied by Shi Xiangyun who was strongly urged by Jia's mother to stay at Jia's house as a guest.

Shi Xiangyun has visited quite a few times in recent years, but Jia Lian has been on the outside all the time. I didn't expect that after the goodbye, the little girl would still be very close to him when talking to him, but she was not so friendly to Baoyu.

On the second day, when the bride recognized her relatives, most of the Jia family members went to Ningguo Mansion, and naturally all members of Rongguo Mansion were present.Jia Lian still left after completing the process, but Wang Xifeng stayed for a while longer, but didn't want to go back and met a lustful person when passing by the garden.