Entering the house, Ruan Xiao had already asked his servants to serve hot tea. After they entered the house, they drank a few sips and sat down to chat.
"By the way, big brother, Sister Lin, have you ever thought about returning to the academy?" Ruan Mianmian brought up this topic.
Lin Bingying looked yearning: "I used to feel restricted there, but now I really want to go back."
"I also think it's good to go back." Ruan Jin looked sad, "At least my second brother and I can take care of each other."
"Brother, don't you want to be with me?" Ruan Xiaoxiao asked.
Ruan Jin said matter-of-factly: "You usually go to the palace in the morning and sometimes don't come back in the afternoon. If you are in the academy, you have a second brother and a third brother."
"In that case, let me go back to the academy after the new year." Ruan Mianmian turned to Lin Bingying with a half-smile, "Sister Lin will also go with you?"
"Okay, I'll talk to my father about it." Lin Bingying looked at Ruan Jin and avoided it shyly.
Ji Ji shook her head repeatedly: "A guy who values sex over friends."
"Maybe I will go too," Ruan Mianmian said.
Li Wang was the first to react: "Master is also going to that Tiandao Academy?"
"Then I'll go too." Ruan Xiao said without hesitation, "I'll go with you."
"Have you forgotten that you are the reading companion of His Highness the Crown Prince?" Ruan Jin reminded.
Ruan Xiao suddenly looked sad: "If all my brothers and sisters go, I will be the only one left. How can I feel that I have been abandoned by you?"
"It's because she was abandoned." Ji Ji accepted the words with empathy, and deliberately glanced at Lin Bingying after speaking.
Lin Bingying said anxiously: "How about we all go together."
Ruan Mianmian smiled and didn't answer. In fact, she also had this intention, but whether she would go or not would depend on their individual wishes, so she had no choice but to do so.
"I don't want to." Li Wang objected immediately, "It would make people laugh to death that I would go to school at such an old age. I won't go. Besides, I don't have to take the scientific examination."
"It's not surprising that you are older than me. You are two years older than me, and there are still thirty-year-old students in the academy." Ruan Jin said with a smile.
"You don't have to take the scientific examination, but the more you read, the more you can understand." Ji Ji glanced at Li Wang.
"Prince Jing's Mansion is supported by you. Do you want to live like this all your life?" Ruan Mianmian added, "Now the prosperity of Prince Jing's Mansion is supported by your grandfather. Why should your father have to do this when he can obviously get by?
I have to serve the emperor outside, not just for you."
Li Wang was silent after hearing this. The words of the three of them touched him somewhat, especially Ruan Mianmian's words which made him think deeply.
Ji Ji frowned: "I really want to go with you."
"You, you don't have to." Ruan Xiao rolled his eyes at Ji Ji, "Who doesn't know that your family is very knowledgeable. With Taifu Ji as your grandfather, you still don't need to go to college to study?"
"That's different." Ji Ji longed for it, "I wonder if my grandfather would let me go?"
Ruan Mianmian waved her little hand: "I'm just saying casually. Anyway, everything will have to wait until the end of the year. Let's talk about it then."
Ruan Jin and Ruan Xiao looked at each other. They did not believe that Ruan Mianmian was just talking casually. If anyone in the Hou family knew the thoughts of the old Marquis best, it was Xiaonai Dumpling.
"Mianmian, how are you doing lately?" Ji Ji took Ruan Mianmian's hand and asked with concern.
"Really, really." Ruan Mianmian was confused, "Why do you ask that?"
Li Wang spoke bluntly: "We are just afraid that your father will treat you badly."
"He is him, and I am me, and each side of the road faces the sky." Ruan Mianmian said lightly.
After hearing this, everyone present was stunned and shook their heads and sighed. Ruan Jin and Ruan Xiao stepped forward and took Ruan Mianmian's hands.
"What are you doing?" Ruan Mianmian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm really good. If I don't have it, I won't lose it. It's nothing."
What Xiao Naituanzi said made sense, but the brothers and sisters felt sad after hearing this.
"Mianmian." Lin Bingying hugged Ruan Mianmian.
"Hey——, Sister Lin, don't cry." Ruan Mianmian warned in advance, "Otherwise, people will think that I, a soft, cute, kind and upright little baby, will bully you.
Phew, Lin Bingying couldn't help but laugh, with tears still hanging from the corners of her eyes.
"Stop being pretentious." Li Wang was the sensible one, "She is not a mistress who can be bullied. Besides, she doesn't have that maid Jiu'er by her side."
"Now you can see clearly." Ji Ji praised Li Wang for the first time.
Ruan Mianmian thought of something: "By the way, has Gu Ling'an been to Moluzhai?"
Before Ruan Jin could answer, Ruan Xiao said first, "I came here, but I drove him away. According to the rules of the Ding'an Marquis Mansion, the female family members of the Molu Zhai and outsiders are not allowed to enter. After I finished speaking, I directly ordered the servant to close the door."
"So I asked you to be turned away. No wonder I didn't know about it." Ruan Jin said.
Lin Bingying's eyes widened: "So what if you know?"
"I knew it, and I turned her away just like my fourth brother."
Ruan Jin's full desire to survive made everyone burst into laughter. Now not only Lin Bingying, but also him blushed.
Just as they were laughing and joking, the door was pushed open.
"Second brother, third brother." The little breast dumpling was quite pleasantly surprised.
"It's so lively."
Ruan Zhao walked in, and Ruan Chen followed slowly behind him.
Ruan Chen walked over and held Ruan Mianmian in his arms: "How are you lately?"
Ruan Mianmian rolled her eyes: "Please, don't all think that I am pitiful. In fact, I am very good. Really, there are many people who love me."
"Okay, you are very good." Ruan Chen rubbed Ruan Mianmian's head, "You are so smart, no one can bully you."
"That's true."
The small-breasted dumpling crossed her arms in front of her chest in triumph, which made everyone laugh again.
"Second brother, third brother, why are you back?" Ruan Xiao asked curiously.
"This time I can take a break until after the new year." Ruan Zhao replied.
Ruan Jin was very surprised: "I took a vacation so early this year."
"Actually, it's only three or five days early. Now there are only twenty days left before the Chinese New Year." Lin Bingying continued.
Ruan Chen nodded: "Miss Lin is right, it is a few days earlier than in previous years. I heard it is because of changes in the college's personnel."
"What change?" Ruan Mianmian vaguely felt that it had something to do with Li Yu going to Tiandao Academy.
"Don't Miss Ji know?" Ruan Chen turned to Ji Ji.
Ji Ji looked confused when she heard this, but Ruan Mianmian reacted quickly: "Third brother, is Master Ji going to the academy?"
"Well, I heard that the emperor has decreed that Tai Fu Ji should go to the academy to serve as the dean concurrently."
"Really?" Ji Ji muttered, "Grandpa didn't tell me about this."
Finally, everyone is here, and the only thing missing is my little brother. After the Chinese New Year, I believe there will be more opportunities to meet each other. Ruan Mianmian is quite happy thinking about it.