The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 141

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

The servant was a little flustered and quickly squatted down to clean up.

Mango also squatted down, she said with a smile, "Let me help you."

"No, madam, you're a guest. Just leave it to me."

The servant was a little flurried.

Terrance and Madam Hans both felt quite embarrassed.

Madam Hans said, "I'm really sorry, Miss Shen. This is the housekeeper of our family. She is a little old and she happened to be busy tidying up the study, so she didn't see you. Don't worry about it. Just let her clean it up."

"It's okay. I need to be blamed, too. I didn't walk away."

Mango let go of Madam Hans's hand with a smile, and then she squatted down to help the housekeeper to pick up the books. However, she intentionally put the yellowed photo into her sleeve while no one was paying attention, and then she stood up as if nothing had happened.

When Madam Hans saw how approachable Mango was, she couldn't help but have an even better impression of her.

The children from a military family hated nothing more than arrogant and spoiled women. At first, Madam Hans thought that Mango would be just like Macy, but she didn't expect her to be this easygoing and she didn't put on any air. Her good impression of Mango suddenly increased.

"Come over here, have some tea."

Madam Hans happily brought Mango into the living room again.

Terrance felt much better when he saw how much Madam Hans liked Mango. Although he didn't know why, he still felt inexplicably happy.

"I'll ask them to prepare some food. I don't know if Miss Shen has eaten yet?"

"Don't bother. I'm here to see Newell, because I heard that he is here. I need to verify something with him."

Mango said her purpose of coming in time.

Terrance and Madam Hans were too enthusiastic, to the point that she couldn't stand it.

When hearing this, Madam Hans paused for a moment and said, "Do you want to ask me about the extortion?"

"No, let bygones be bygones. Madam Hans, I've heard about it. You just wanted to find the descendants of the Hans family. Although I don't agree with the way you did it, I can still understand. Mr. Hans and Nathaniel have already solved this, so I won't mention it again. I need to ask Newell about something else. Can you do me a favor Madam Hans?"

Mango's words were very tactful, making Madam Hans like her even more. "Okay, I'll tell Terrance to take you there."

"Thank you, Madam Hans."

Mango slightly bent her body and walked to the backyard with Terrance.

The backyard of the Hans family was different from the courtyard of Ye family. There was no rockery, no plantation. Instead, it was a very delicate small courtyard, which seemed to be a study before.

Mango couldn't help but look at the courtyard. She felt it very elegant and quiet, the inscription of the plaque in the courtyard in particular. The writing style was like that of a master. It was elegant, with a hint of hardness and toughness, which made her look at it for more time.

Seeing that she was interested in this small courtyard, Terrance said with a smile, "My big brother wrote this inscription by himself for this small courtyard. It used to be his drawing room."

"The drawing room? Isn't General Hans a martial general?"

Mango had heard of the Hans family. Every one of them was a hero and a martyr of the country. All the people in Ocean City knew about their contributions, especially the young master of the Hans family, Dennis, he was an outstanding martial general. It never occurred to her that such a famous martial general would be able to draw paintings.

Terrance said with a smile, "My big brother learned this in the art school before he joined the army. He was naturally very interested in painting. However, here in Hans family we have a family rule. When a man reaches a certain age, he must go to the army to train himself. That's why my big brother joined the army at that time. But I didn't expect that he got promoted all the way in the military and finally sacrificed himself to the country. My mother missed his old days, so she asked people to clean up my big brother's painting room every day. It never changed for all these years."

Mango was also a painter, but she learned to paint only for the sake of design. Now that she heard that Dennis could actually draw, she couldn't help feeling curious to see it.

Seeing Mango's intention, Terrance took the initiative to say, "Newell has been in the dungeon all the time. If Miss Shen is interested, I'll take you to my big brother's drawing room to have a look."

"Really? Won't it be a bit too impolite?"

Mango was a little surprised.

"It's okay. I heard that Miss Shen is a designer, so you must have done a lot of research on painting. My big brother's things are really worthless in the eyes of an illiterate person like me. I think my big brother would be happy if he met someone knows painting so well like Miss Shen."

Hearing Terrance's words, Mango couldn't help but be a bit tempted.

"Let's go."

Terrance almost forced Mango into the yard.

The fresh and elegant decoration of the courtyard surprised Mango more or less.

There was actually a bamboo forest here.

The house in the small courtyard was built in accordance with the ancient building style, which was completely incompatible with the building outside. It was independent and isolated, yet also had a unique style.

Mango felt that this was simply her ideal courtyard and even her ideal life. She never thought she would see this in the Hans family.

Seeing that Mango liked this place very much, Terrance seemed to have suddenly thought of something. He said with a smile, "If you like this place, you can come often. My mother and I don't know anything about my big brother's stuff. If you can understand it and like it, you are welcome to come here often."