"You praise Dongfang Xiangchen to the sky, do you like men?" Ouyang Xi said with a smile.
"I'm not interested in men. You know, I'm more interested in long-legged beauties. Your legs are long enough to meet my aesthetic standards."
"I know this. Xuanxuan told me that you also flirted with Uncle Shen's secretary Liang Xiaoshuang, right?"
"That's a joke, you believe it! With a long-legged beauty like you who is as beautiful as a fairy, can I still like other women?"
"You have a playful and cynical face. I've already told you that I'm just using you as a shield, but you still feel so good about yourself. You're hopeless."
"Okay, I understand. Don't hurt my self-confidence. You haven't said why you rejected Dongfang Xiangchen!"
"Two words, feeling. I know he is very good, and I even know that he is likely to be the future head of the Dongfang Family. However, precisely because of his status, I will not choose him."
"Why? I can't understand."
"Have you ever seen the palace drama? Emperors are from the Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard. Being the emperor's wife, what else can you get besides superficial beauty? I don't like intrigues and clinging to men's backs. Dongfang Xiangchen can What should you give me? Superficial vanity? Countless wealth? A lofty status? Do I, Ouyang Xi, lack these? Also, Dongfang Xiangchen is a person you can’t see through at all. I don’t like that kind of thing in him. With unfathomable temperament, if you can't even see through your man, can you still be considered a couple? The hottest future star of the Oriental Family, but he drives a car that doesn't suit his status. How can he be low-key! How can he pretend to be profound! Hypocrisy !”
Fan Qianqiang nodded frequently: "Indeed, if two people are together, you don't even know what the other person is thinking. What's the difference between being in the same bed and having different dreams? What you said makes sense... Haha, I am the more real person. I like it. If you have long legs, I like long legs. If I say I like black stockings, I like black stockings and don’t pretend.”
"Look at your smug look, shameless!"
"Don't you just like me being shameless?"
…
Ouyang Xun, Ouyang Xi's fourth uncle, Fan Jianqiang thought he was just waiting at the gate of Tongding Temple, but he didn't expect that Ouyang Xun actually led the practice in Tongding Temple! He was wearing a blue-gray monk's robe! It was similar to the ancient times. Human-like!
Tongding Temple is located in the suburbs of Mohai. The temple is very large. Behind the temple is an orchard belonging to the temple. There are not many pilgrims in ordinary times. Only on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, there will be more pilgrims. At other times, Tongding Temple Just open a small door for entry and exit.
Ouyang Xun is probably in his early forties, and he gives off an air of elegance, as if he doesn't care about anything. This temperament is somewhat similar to Ouyang Xi's.
Fan Jianqiang looked at Ouyang Xun, and Ouyang Xun also looked at Fan Jianqiang.
"Come with me for a walk in the orchard behind."
After saying this, without waiting for Fan Jianqiang to agree or not, he just walked away.
Ouyang Xi and Fan Jianqiang followed. Fan Jianqiang asked curiously: "How come you, the fourth uncle, came to the temple and didn't become a monk? Have you seen through the world of mortals?"
Ouyang Xi whispered: "The abbot and abbot of Tongding Temple refused to accept him, so he was not tonsured, but he eats with the monks in the temple, chants sutras together, and lives together. There is no difference."
"If you faint, isn't that a fake monk?"
Ouyang Xi glared at him and pinched his arm.
"Don't talk nonsense. This is a pure place. You have to restrain yourself and don't be disrespectful to the Bodhisattva."
After walking a long way to the orchard in the backyard, we walked further and further away, and finally stopped at a pavilion next to a rockery in the garden.
Ouyang Xundao: "Donor, please sit down."
He glanced at Ouyang Xi and said, "Xiao Xi, please sit down too."
Fan Jianqiang smiled and said: "Should I call you Fourth Uncle or Master?"
Ouyang Xundao: "Call whatever you want, I don't care about that."
"Then let's go to Fourth Uncle. Fourth Uncle is here to ask me. Do you want to tell me something about Dongfang Xiangchen and Miss Ouyang?"
Ouyang Xun was surprised when he saw that he looked calm and showed no fear at all, and said, "Do you know who Dongfang Xiangchen is?"
"I probably know something about the Dongfang family, the four major families, Qin Cheng from Eastern Europe, and the Dongfang family ranks first."
"You actually know that. It seems that you are no ordinary person."
Fan Jianqiang hurriedly waved his hands and said: "My fourth uncle guessed wrong. I am just an ordinary person. My hometown is in the countryside of Jiangbei. I come from a poor family and do not have any background."
Ouyang Xun looked at his niece, and Ouyang Xun nodded: "Fourth uncle, he really has no background."
Ouyang Xundao: "Xiao Xi, are you really sure you don't want to consider Dongfang Xiangchen?"
"Yes, I don't consider him."
"Is it for him?" Ouyang Xun glanced at Fan Jianqiang.
"No, he is my friend. I used him as a shield, that's all."
Fan Jianqiang turned his head and glared at Ouyang Xi, expressing his dissatisfaction.
Ouyang Xun sighed softly: "Your father called me and asked me to advise you. Most people in the family are in favor of this matter. The marriage between Dongfang and Ouyang is of great significance. Cooperation between both parties will have great benefits, but
, I also know that no one has considered your wishes. As a descendant of a big family, there is nothing you can do about it. Xiao Xi, you are still young. My opinion is that you can get engaged to Dongfang Xiangchen first, and in a few years
Wait until you reach the legal age for marriage. Engagement is no better than marriage. You can regret it..."
Fan Jianqiang's brows knotted when he heard this. What does it mean to get engaged first? What does it mean to talk about it later? Ouyang Xi is young, but you can't fool people! What kind of family is the Dongfang Family? Will Ouyang Xi regret the marriage when the time comes?
Fan Jianqiang raised the corners of his mouth in a disdainful sneer.
Sure enough, Ouyang Xi Bingxue was smart and asked: "Fourth uncle, why can't I refuse? Even you won't help me? For ordinary people, engagement does not mean marriage. You can regret it, but even refusing to marry can be done.
With so much entanglement, is there any chance that I will go back on my word? Fourth uncle, do you think I am a child? Or, did I trust the wrong person?"
Ouyang Xun smiled bitterly and said: "Xiao Xi, don't blame me. Every child of aristocratic family must be loyal to the family first, and then consider themselves. You understand this."
Ouyang Xi said: "Of course I know, of course I am loyal to my family, but what does the major events in my life have to do with my family? Besides, I am not the only girl of marriageable age in our Ouyang family. You have to talk to Dongfang
For family marriage, you can just find another one, why do you have to find me? It’s not sweet to force yourself!”
Ouyang Xundao: "There was a girl in the Ouyang family many years ago, but your father is Ouyang Longhua. There is no one else in the direct line except you. If you arrange a girl from the collateral line, the Dongfang family can
do you accept?"
"Then I don't care. At worst, we won't form an alliance with the Dongfang family. The Dongfang family is the largest family, but our Ouyang family is not bad, so why do we have to accommodate others?"
"Your brother Junxiong will also marry a direct woman from the Dongfang family next year. This is a condition of the alliance. Xiao Xi, you must understand."
Ouyang Xi said coldly: "Okay, if you want me to compromise, it's not impossible. At most, I will separate from Dongfang Xiangchen after I get married. I will go to study abroad and study for the rest of my life. I will never be in China again! Anyway, it's just a formality.
, the family shouldn’t be able to control it like this!”
Ouyang Xun said with a smile: "Why bother? Dongfang Xiangchen is the most likely person to be the next head of the family. He is a man of literary and military skills, an elite among the elites. You can't even look down on such a strange man?"
"Look down!"
"Xiao Xi, don't be willful. If you do this, you will harm your friend. People in the Dongfang family are arrogant. Can they allow a friend like you to interfere?"
Fan Jianqiang sat aside and remained silent. Until then, he smiled and said: "After hearing you say so much, I feel like I am watching the grudges of wealthy families. Miss Ouyang, no one is on your side.
And I support you, no matter what age you are, there are still people who are forced into marriage, if word spreads about it, you won’t be afraid of making people laugh."
In an instant, Ouyang Xun's aura suddenly bloomed, as sharp as a blade, and shouted loudly: "The Ouyang family's family affairs do not allow you to meddle in other people's business! If you are interested, just roll aside obediently. Do you think I asked you to sit down because of you?
What kind of person is he? That’s because it’s for Xiao Xi’s sake! You’d better tell me more about it!”
Fan Jianqiang had never been scolded so mercilessly before. Whether it was Shen Tianqi from the Shen family, Cheng Leijiang from the Cheng family, or even the unfathomable Li Qingting and that He Zudao, they were all polite. Suddenly,
Being yelled at by an old man in monk's robes like a son, Fan Jianqiang was also furious.
"Fake monk, please show some respect to me! I came to the temple respectfully because of Miss Ouyang's face. I treat you as an elder. Just because you are afraid of the Dongfang family does not mean that others are afraid too! I'm offended.
If you kill me, even if you are the emperor, I will dare to pull you down!"