Xie Huai'an really knelt in the ancestral hall for a long time, and he felt the difference until Xie Daozhong. He walked around the study and sent a small servant to keep an eye on Xie Huai'an, and every time he reported the news: "Uncle and grandmother are both kneeling and haven't spoken." ”

He didn't believe it, he went to the door of the ancestral hall to see, Xie Huai'an really knelt side by side with Wu Xinyi, neither of them knelt on the futon, they knelt on the green bricks, and no one spoke.

Xie Funing persuaded him: "Master, forget it, the uncle didn't have time to rest when he came back, and he would break his knees if he knelt like this." ”

Xie Daozhong waved his hand: "Let him kneel, I'll see how long he kneels." ”

In the evening, Xie Huai'an and his wife had been kneeling for most of the day, and they had not eaten a drop of water. Xie Huai'an has a good physique, and Wu Xinyi grew up pampered, so he can hold on. So much so that the three old ladies who stayed in the old mansion for dinner couldn't bear it, Mrs. Qin was originally annoyed that the two of them were messing around, but when she heard the news, she couldn't help but soften her heart and went to the ancestral hall to see them in person.

Xie Huai'an's face had begun to turn pale, but his expression was still calm: "Mother." ”

"Get up," Mrs. Qin went to help him, supporting him with one hand and Wu Xinyi with the other: "Get up quickly and go to eat." ”

Xie Huaian smiled and shook his head: "Mother take Zhen Zhen to dinner, I have to kneel for a while." ”

Wu Xinyi immediately said: "I'm not going, I'll accompany him." ”

Her complexion was even worse than Xie Huai'an's, and even her lips began to fade bloody, Mrs. Qin asked someone to serve the soup cup while persuading Xie Huai'an to go back to eat, but the latter was resolute and didn't listen to what she said.

Mrs. Qin was displeased: "What kind of anger are you vomiting?"

"I'm not angry," Xie Huai'an said helplessly, "I just have some things that need to be thought about." ”

"What does it take you to kneel here without eating or drinking? If you have to kneel, then eat first, and then come and kneel again. Mrs. Qin said, and went to help him again, "Hurry up, don't you feel sorry for yourself, don't you feel sorry for Zhen Zhen? Look at how haggard she is!"

"Mother...... Mom!" Xie Huai'an held her hand that had been trying to help herself up, and patted it comfortingly, "Mom, you don't care about us." ”

Mrs. Qin looked into his eyes, and Xie Huai'an calmly looked at her, the two were stalemate for a while, and Mrs. Qin let go angrily: "I don't care about you, and I can't care about you." ”

She seemed to start getting angry again, and ignored Xie Huai'an, only moved a futon to Wu Xinyi, and said to her: "Zhen Zhen, you use a mat, it's cold underground, don't hurt your legs." ”

Wu Xinyi looked at Xie Huai'an hesitantly, and when Mrs. Qin saw it, she sent the futon to her knees: "Don't look at him, he bends you." ”

Xie Huaian smiled at her: "Don't hurt your knee." ”

Wu Xinyi stood up and wanted to kneel down again on the futon, but her calves were completely numb, and she fell to the ground as soon as she stood up. Mrs. Qin thought she had fainted, and screamed to help her: "Zhen Zhen!

Wu Xinyi endured the discomfort and propped herself up: "Mother, I'm fine, I'm fine, it's just that my legs are numb." ”

Mrs. Qin frowned and picked her up, let her go to the side of the chair, asked the girl to massage her calves, and said, "Why do you follow him to abuse yourself and go back to the room." ”

Wu Xinyi said: "You can't blame Ning Yin for Ah Tian's matter, mother, it's my fault." ”

Mrs. Qin held the table in her hand, sighed deeply, straightened up, and took a few steps back: "You all have your own ideas." ”

Wu Xinyi didn't care about the discomfort of her legs and feet, so she quickly stood up and knelt down in front of her: "Mother, please stop being angry." ”

Mrs. Qin was silent for a long time, and didn't let her get up, but sat down on the chair by herself: "The foreigner that Ah Tian followed...... Are people good?"

It was Xie Huai'an who asked this, and Wu Xinyi could hear it, so he took the initiative to shut up.

Xie Huai'an looked up at Mrs. Qin's expression, under the dim candlelight, her whole person showed a sense of old and tired, the huge shadow in the ancestral hall seemed to be able to devour people's vitality, to nourish the souls of those who had passed away, and this ancient mansion that had been more than a hundred years old.

Mrs. Qin asked again: "He is in their country, he is not married, right?" ”

"No, mother," Xie Huai'an replied in a low voice, "He is very good, and you also know that the foreign language teacher who used to be Sister Lan has been in China for a long time, and she is very knowledgeable and has a rich family background. ”

Mrs. Qin seemed to be a little comforted, and asked again: "He married Ah Tian, does he plan to settle in the UK, or come back to us?"

After a pause, he waved his hand without waiting for Xie Huai'an to speak: "Forget it, forget it, how can a good son of someone else's family be willing to let him go overseas by himself, and he wants to go home." ”

Xie Huaian said: "He plans to come back, and this time he took Ah Tian away, just to bring his wife back and declare his attitude to his family." ”

"Family is not an enemy," Mrs. Qin leaned sideways on the armrest of the Taishi chair and supported her forehead with her hand, "Don't let him get into trouble with his father and mother because of Ah Tian." ”

Xie Huaian nodded: "Sister Lan said the same thing." ”

Mrs. Qin stopped talking, Xie Huai'an didn't speak, there was silence in the ancestral hall for a while, Mrs. Qin sat up straight, saw Wu Xinyi kneeling, and was shocked again: "Zhen Zhen! Get up quickly, don't kneel." ”

She instructed the girl to help Wu Xinyi, Xie Huai'an also went over to help, and the little eldest sister who had been sent away before brought a hot soup cup, and Xie Huai'an was beside Wu Xinyi, feeding her spoonfuls to drink.

Wu Xinyi felt uneasy because of this, and the act of showing affection under Mrs. Qin's nose made her feel like a man, for fear of giving her mother-in-law the impression that her daughter-in-law was robbing her son with him. She took two sips and then pushed Xie Huai'an's hand: "Has my mother drunk the soup?"

"I've had dinner. Mrs. Qin said, "You drink yours, he dragged you down like this, and he should serve you." ”

Wu Xinyi raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, took two more sips, and then reached out to grab the soup cup and spoon from his palm: "I'll just come by myself, and you can drink it too." ”

Xie Huaian didn't earn with her, he handed her the bowl and spoon in a kind way, sat down opposite her, and also picked up a bowl of soup.

Mrs. Qin asked again, "What year was he born, and how old is he this year?"

These questions should have been asked when the marriage was discussed, but Mrs. Qin and Xie Daozhong were both resolute, guarding against George like a thief, but they never expected that the family thief would be difficult to prevent.

Xie Huai'an replied honestly: "In the Western calendar, 1882...... Well, if it is counted as our calendar, it should be born in the eighth year of Guangxu. ”

Mrs. Qin pinched her fingers and counted: "The horse belongs to the horse, and he has also passed this year, hasn't he married a wife before?"

Xie Huaian shook his head: "I was once engaged, but the other party died of illness before they got married, and then his mother also passed away. ”

Mrs. Qin nodded: "He...... Why is their family reluctant to have a Tian?"

"His stepmother arranged a young lady for him, but he didn't agree. Xie Huai'an explained, "The relationship between the George brothers and their stepmother is very bad, they suspect that there is a shadow of the stepmother in the death of the biological mother, their family believes in Catholicism, Catholicism is not allowed to divorce, and the relationship between his father and his stepmother has been unclear for a long time." ”

Mrs. Qin couldn't be clearer about these scenes in the courtyard of the deep house, but when she heard the rules of Catholicism about marriage, she couldn't help but be taken aback, and immediately became frightened: "That...... That Ah Tian married George, if one day he didn't like her and wanted to change his wife, wouldn't it be ...... Kill her......"

Xie Huai'an hurriedly reassured her: "You are too worried, no, if every man was so different, then this rule would have been abolished a long time ago." ”

Mrs. Qin pinched the clothes in her heart with her right hand, still relieved: "But what if he doesn't like her and doesn't want her to be his wife?"

Xie Huai'an didn't know what George would do, so he had to comfort Mrs. Qin vaguely: "He won't dislike her." ”

The lingering love stories in the sketches, the legend of the young lady's love for the merry son, Mrs. Qin is not untouched, she also came from the age of the young lady, but now she has become a wife, and those useless dreams have to be boxed.

She smiled, with some amazement and indifference in her smile: "I have never seen a rich and noble family that does not accept concubines, your father is already clean and decent, and he still has two concubines, not to mention the foreign lord." ”

It is true that the aristocracy of Western countries pursues monogamy, and there are not a few nobles who can keep mistresses or prostitutes, but Xie Huai'an has just lost his words, and now he is talking about this matter, I am afraid that it will make George misbehave, and it also seems that Western nobles describe it as prodigal.

So he said: "So today's Western countries are very cautious about marriage, and the wife or husband is carefully chosen. ”

Mrs. Qin was silent for a long time: "So you mean, Ah Tian was carefully selected by George?"

Xie Huaian put down the soup bowl in his hand and nodded: "Yes." ”

"But why should my daughter be picked and chosen by others!" Mrs. Qin suddenly patted on the table at hand, and her emotions became excited, "Pick and choose, if you haven't seen those options, what else do you say?" Your sister has been raised in the boudoir since she was a child, and she hasn't even been out of the mansion a few times, so she was picked and picked by a foreigner, and we still have to be flattered?"

Xie Huai'an was taken aback by her sudden anger, and subconsciously looked at Wu Xinyi, who looked at Mrs. Qin's face and said softly: "No...... Mother, George is also the person who was chosen by Ah Tian, didn't she choose the young master of the Zheng family that you chose for her? ”

Mrs. Qin sneered: "Yes, what a rare thing, even I can't help but be moved...... I'm not moved, what else can I do? Make a fuss about this and let everyone know that my daughter has eloped?"

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