Chapter 2: The Liu Clan

Naturally, the visitor is the second wife of the Sinan Bo’s residence, this wife’s name is Liu Ruyu, more than ten years ago by the Sinan Earl’s income in the residence. This wife’s family background is quite deep, within three generations there was also a Duke of State. So when she married with the Sinan uncle as a small, in Kyoto also caused a lot of discussion – everyone is very curious about the Liu family is how the idea, even will be their own daughter promised to Fan Jian, although Fan Jian at that time has taken over the title of the Sinan uncle, but after all, is only Fan’s big family in the distant house. -Until this decade, Sinanbo’s holy favor is growing, the official position is getting higher, everyone is convinced that the Liu family and the woman’s venomous gaze.

But strangely enough, Sinanbo had not been able to correct her, which was something that made absolutely no sense, both in terms of reasoning and in terms of the status of the Liu Clan’s mother’s family.

Fan Xian’s face was full of lovely smiles as he bowed deeply to this Second Mistress, “Idle Child has met Auntie.”

Liu’s face was also full of smiles, but her pupils flashed with a trace of inexplicable splendor, hearing that this kid in front of her had tightly clasped the word aunt, but did not address herself as the second wife like ordinary people did.

The difference between Mrs. and Aunt, is like the clouds and the soil.

Liu smiled and said: ”Come in, a long way away, always sitting under the rainy eaves of the daze is a matter of what? If outsiders see you, they will say that our Fan Mansion is a place that doesn’t tolerate people.”

Can’t tolerate people? Fan Xian sighed softly in his heart, knowing that his aunt was reminding him of his illegitimate status, and admiring the other party’s beautiful speech. Originally, he was not prepared to stimulate the other party verbally, knowing that the other party had been operating in this mansion in Kyoto for a long time, and that there was no point in taking advantage of him verbally, but then it occurred to him that since the interests of both parties were irreconcilably conflicting, why should he tolerate too much?

He thought in his heart, it seems that this aunt is different from what he thought in the past, it should not be his own imagination among the poisonous stupid – so at this time, some do not understand, four years ago in front of the woman why this woman will use poison to kill this kind of faint trick to.

As the second wife walked towards the hall, not too far away from her, the unique fragrance of the noblewoman’s body reached Fan Xian’s nose, and he sniffed twice, thinking that the perfume smelled quite good.

At a time like this, when he could still think about these things, Fan Xian was somewhat satisfied with his current state of mind and smiled as he chatted with Aunt Liu.

The noblewoman and the young man really played out a few moments of motherly kindness and filial piety.

Tea came up, it was authentic Wufeng Caihua, good tea. Dim sum also came up, is the authentic Jiangnan small shortcake, delicious food. Just after finishing what they had seen along the way, after greeting the old madam who was far away in Tanyu State, and saying something about the scenery of Tanyu State’s seashore, and what was different about Kyoto, everyone realized that there was nothing more to say.

So Liu and Fan Xian simultaneously and tacitly closed their mouths and fell into silence. Both sides realized that each other were not oil lamps, and that there was no point in playing this kind of verbal temptation, so in that case, it would be better to simply remain silent.

So the atmosphere in the living room was a bit awkward, the serving maids were silent, and even their footsteps were much lighter when they changed tea.

Only Fan Xian and the Second Mistress were not embarrassed, occasionally holding their teacups and looking at each other with gentle, tender glances.

Liu’s heart is slightly heavy, she found in front of this teenager is really not ordinary, actually in this situation to cope with freely, not half a bit of nervousness constraints, calm and steady place, even seems to be more than the old man to hold some weight.

It seems that they really should not listen to that person’s instigation four years ago, for no reason, let this teenager preemptively view themselves as the enemy, now instead of not very good, many means can not be put into play.

Silence like this, Liu’s suddenly feel that this is weak their own momentum, after all, they are always in the name of the elders, so lightly coughed twice, said: “Your father is now serving as the Minister of the Ministry of households, this time back to the capital, are you preparing for the next year’s examination, or directly into the Ministry of households to do things?”

Fan Xian smiled and answered, “All at my father’s command.” After a pause, he added, “I just don’t know when father will be back.”

To be honest, there were a few people he wanted to see in Kyoto, and the noblewoman in front of him was naturally one of them, as well as Teacher Fei Jie and Sister Ruo Ruo, but the one he was most curious about was naturally his own father.

He was curious about how the Si Nan Bo back then was able to make his own mother, the richest Ye family matriarch in the world, look at him in the eyes. In the depths of his mind, only recognizing the dead woman as his mother but not wanting to recognize Sinanbo as his father was probably some kind of marvelous idea in a man’s mind.

“Your father will be back in a while.”

As he was talking, the inner courtyard’s gate was slightly noisy, the maids were in a hurry to greet someone, but the sound came so fast that the maids didn’t stop it, and a young girl walked in.

This young girl was not born how beautiful, but the eyebrows look exceptionally clean, a natural weakness also carries a trace of slight indifference. This kind of indifference is not the iceberg beauty that people generally say, the contempt for the turbid things around, but a kind of indifference based on some kind of confidence that is not yet known, a kind of resistance to the surrounding feeling.

Fan Xian’s heart was slightly moved, and he thought that this coldness appeared on the face of a young girl from a big family, which was really out of place.

The young girl looked straight at Fan Xian’s face, the indifference between her eyebrows gradually faded, and eventually disappeared without a trace, on the contrary, her cheeks appeared to have a few excited blushes, she opened her lips to say something, but stopped, retreated half a step, and organized her train with very slight movements, scopolamine obeisance, and her clear and soft voice appeared to be very courteous and self-possessed: “I have met you, brother.”

Fan Xian smiled faintly and reached out to support her: “Ruo Ruo sister, no need to be polite.”

Their gazes collided into one place, both of them were so clear, without a trace of impurity, there was only a faint smile. After several years of correspondence, I thought that this pair of siblings were the ones who knew each other best in this world.

Only a rather unintelligent little child’s voice rang out, instantly breaking the beautiful feeling of the brother and sister reuniting ten years apart.

“Hey, are you Fan Xian?”

Fan Xian turned his face and looked at the teenager who had stepped in from beyond the high threshold, the teenager was a bit chubby, with a few offensive black moles on the left side of his face, and a resentful face that was looking at him with a slight aversion.