Ch. 55 - The Lesson about Yin and Yang, Wang Xifeng Tests her Feelings Skillfully
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On the Northeast side of Rongguo Mansion, there was a plain Flower Parlor with Western glass windows.
"Three two three four, five six seven eight, four two three four, five six..."
Seeing Li Wan shouting a beat in her mouth, she bent and lunged forward, raising her arms back and high at the same time as her head. Then she withdrew her lunge and folded her slender waist down at the same time.
This simple whole-body exercise, coupled with her mature charm, was no less effective than a feast!
Unfortunately, the audience that was present was only Jia Lan, who didn’t know how to appreciate it. There was a suspicion of recklessly wasting God's good gifts.
Uh~
To be exact, there was not even an audience because Jia Lan was also stretching his face and concentrating on broadcast gymnastics.
After completing the whole body exercise of four periods and eight beats, Li Wan and his son took a breath and then continued with the countings, "The seventh jumping set of exercise, ready - start! One, two, three, four, five, six..."
Jia Lan made meticulous movements, and his boots stamped on the green bricks, making a rhythmic sound. Seeing that it was the third quarter, he suddenly found that his mother was just gesturing with her hands, but her feet were motionless. He immediately pursed his lips and shouted, "Mom, how can you be lazy again? Hurry and start moving your legs too, or I won't continue anymore!"
Hearing this, Li Wan had to move frequently to the beat. Although the range of action was not large, the front and back of her body were already moving up and down.
In fact, in the beginning, Li Wan was very resistant to this strange way of exercising, but Jia Lan insisted on taking her to exercise together.
Considering that her son was asking out of filial piety, and after practicing this broadcast gymnastics for half a month, Jia Lan's physical condition did improve, at least he has been eating proper meals and sleeping well at night.
So to prevent Jia Lan's enthusiasm from going down, she had to endure feeling ashamed and exercise with her son three times a day in the morning, noon, and evening.
After several days of practice, Li Wan has gotten used to it. It was only that this set of exercises was really…
"Ah!"
A sudden exclamation interrupted Li Wan's thoughts.
She hurriedly crossed her arms in front of her and then looked over at the origin of the sound with shame. However, she only saw the servant girl, Suyun, covering her mouth, looking like she wanted to laugh but dared not.
Seeing this, Li Wan knew that her blushing movements had been seen by the servant girl.
So the blush on her face became more prosperous, and she said angrily, half true and half false, "You unruly little abusive girl! I told you that no one is allowed to come and disturb Lan'er when he is training his body!"
Hearing her scolding, Suyun remembered her intention and hurriedly said, "Madam, just now the Master had just returned to the house. He sent someone to call for Young Master Jia Lan. I heard from Sister Caixia that the Master's face is frighteningly strict. I'm afraid it's not a good thing!"
Not a good thing?
Li Wan heard the words with a thump in her heart. Without much thought, she hurriedly pulled Jia Lan to her side and asked, "Lan'er, have you been naughty in school recently?"
Jia Lan was young, and Li Wan was extremely strict. Every day, he was basically in school and the backyard. That was why Li Wan thought that he was naughty in school and annoyed his grandfather, Jia Zheng.
Jia Lan quickly shook his head, and Li Wan asked a few more questions, but she still couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Seeing Caixia waiting outside impatiently and having begun to look inward, Li Wan had to suppress her anxiety and let Jia Lan go to the Rongxi Hall.
After Jia Lan left, Li Wan was even more uneasy.
One month after Jia Zhu died, Li Wan gave birth to Jia Lan. Although Mrs. Wang didn't say anything, she turned a blind eye to Jia Lan in recent years. It was obvious that she linked the death of her eldest son to the birth of her first grandchild.
The attitude of being the main hostess made the following people less attentive, too. Although they didn’t really dare embarrass Li Wan and her son, compared with Jia Baoyu's treatment, it was worse than a chip.
If something were to happen now and they got on the bad side of Jia Zheng...
Thinking of this, Li Wan couldn't help but mourn for herself and complained about Jia Zhu being a short-lived man thousands of times.
"Madam, Madam!"
At this time, hearing the footsteps outside, Li Wan hurried to the door only to see Suyun out of breath and shouted, "Madam, don't worry, it's not our Young Master Lan who caused trouble. The Second Master Bao and Third Master Huan were also called over. I heard that they were talking about the way of Yin and Yang!"
Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly recited Amitabha several times.
But why would Jia Zheng think of calling his children and grandchildren over and talking about the “The Principle of Yin and Yang?”
Being curious, she asked Suyun a few words, but Suyun just listened from outside. How will she know the inside story?
Therefore, Li Wan hesitated and led Suyun to Wang Xifeng's yard. If one were to say who has the best ears and eyes in this backyard, it would be, naturally, Shrew Feng.
—Dividing line—
When she arrived at Wang Xifeng's yard, she saw that she was lying on her side on the couch outside, listening to Zhou Rui's nagging. She was covered with a cloak made of snow fox skin, which seemed lazy, but her eyes were still pretty and evil, and when looked at from a distance, she was like a female leopard lying in the snow.
Seeing Li Wan come in from the outside, Wang Xifeng got up, but she was not in a hurry to come down from her couch. Instead, she joked with a smile, "I was just going to have you invited, but I didn’t think that you would come here before I called. Come over and listen to what other strange cases the Second Master of the Sun Family has solved!"
The two sisters-in-law often keep in touch thus, Li Wan was not polite to her. She went to the low couch and pulled half of her fur over her leg.
When reaching out, she happened to touch a cold jade-like tenderfoot, and Li Wan couldn't help but advise, "You really should take the time to learn “Aerobics.” If you exercise every day, you won't be so cold."
"Don't torment me!"
Wang Xifeng gave her a stern look and remarked, "It is fine for Sister Lin and the other young people, but at my age, if I go to learn that strange thing, will not I be laughed to death by the servant girls and daughters-in-law?"
Li Wan still wanted to persuade her, but Wang Xifeng simply stretched out her long leg and said, "Alright, alright, don't you love the story of Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Sun’s verdict? Listen properly!"
When it came to the six words, "Love that Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Sun the most,” several of Li Wan's jade-like toes scratched her legs, making Li Wan flustered. Only then did she knew that the clues to her absurd thoughts had been seen by Wang Xifeng!
For a time, let alone persuading her again, she couldn't even muster the courage to move her jade foot away.
But she didn’t realize that her cowardly retreat actually confirmed the speculation in Wang Xifeng's heart!
Just like that, the two of them lay on the couch with their thoughts, listening to the picturesque scene of Zhou Rui and telling the case of the Heavenly Hound eating heart. He exaggerated the story at the interesting part, making Sun Shaozong more and more different from ordinary people.
When the story went into the part about the box of tools, it exposed the shocking feelings of sin.
He saw a woman running in a panic outside, shouting on top of her voice, "Big Madam, Second Madam, something big has happened! The Old Second Master pressed Young Master Bao to the ground and slapped him in the face, even his wife can’t stop him!"
Wang Xifeng and Li Wan were stunned and hurriedly asked why Baoyu was beaten.
"It seems that it's because the Young Master of the Qin family has just died!"
For Qin Zhong?
Thinking of the case of the Heavenly Hound eating heart earlier, Li Wan immediately understood what kind of “Principle of Yin and Yang” Jia Zheng was talking about today.