Chapter Forty-Eight: Finding Faults
Mrs. Mo said: "In the past, I heard people talk about her, saying that she writes very well, she has written a copybook, her knowledge is also good, and she can teach people to know and reason." www.biquge.info Although the girls don't have to take the top exam, it's always good to understand more of the truth. I heard your mother-in-law say that in the past, the girls in our family were all raised as men, and they generally had to read and write, which was also ignored in the house over the years. ”
Wu said with a smile: "Speaking of literacy and hyphenation, Qi'er has put a lot of thought into it. She studied with her father and brother when she was five years old, and now she writes poems and essays. She wrote two poems that day, and the lord was full of praise after reading it. ”
What she meant by saying this was naturally to let the old lady boast about Mo Shaoqi in front of everyone.
At this moment, Mo Shaoli walked in from outside the door with a flower, and after handing the flowers to the maid standing next to him, he stepped forward with a smile and saw Mrs. Mo: "My granddaughter got up early and saw that the silver powder and gold scales and Er Qiao were blooming well, and remembered that my grandmother had always loved peonies, so I specially cut a few branches and sent them." I hope my grandmother won't dislike it! ”
Mrs. Mo gave birth to ** peony, but because of the limitations of the economy and living environment, she has not seen many famous species in her life. She knew that Mo Shaoli planted many precious peonies there, but because she hated the place in Fengyi Garden, she didn't set foot more than half a step. Two days ago, when she was watching the peonies she planted in the back garden, she thought of the flowers in Fengyi Garden, and she was still thorny in her heart, and she didn't want Mo Shaoli to send her Erqiao and silver powder today.
Although it was just a flower branch, it also made her feel a lot more comfortable, and secretly thought to herself: "I just don't go, don't you have to send it to me?" ”
Old Mrs. Mo didn't feel so annoying when she saw Mo Shaoli for a while, so she beckoned Hongxiu to come closer with a flower in her hand, took a closer look, and said to Mo Shaoli with a smile: "The seven girls have a heart!" This flower is good, the arrangement is good, and the flower tube is also very well matched. ”
When Wu took the opportunity to show Mo Shaoqi just now, Huang listened very unpleasantly next to him, but because his daughter's reading was really bad, he couldn't interject and refute, and when he felt holding his breath, Mo Shaoli happened to come in, and used a few flowers to draw the old lady's attention and dismantle Wu's platform.
Huang's heart suddenly brightened, and he saw that Mo Shaoli was much more pleasing to the eye than usual, and said: "But no, our seven girls are not only clever, but also very filial, and they want to get grandmother when they prune flowers!" ”
Mo Shaoli knew in her heart that she was just using herself to squeeze the Wu family, but she pretended not to hear it, smiled slightly, and walked to Mo Shaoqi and sat down.
When Mo Shaoqi talked about her writing poems, her chin was already raised high, and she glanced at Mo Shaoshan with a smug expression.
Although they are both concubines, how can you compare with me? In terms of your mother's background, your father's official position, and your brother's talent, how can you compare?
Now when it comes to poetry, you are not my opponent!
I didn't know that she held her head high for a long time, but she didn't wait for the old lady's praise of half a word, but was robbed of the limelight by Mo Shaoli's few flowers.
Hearing that Old Lady Mo and the Huang family only cared about praising Mo Shaoli and leaving her aside, Mo Shaoqi was already annoyed and angry, and what was even more odious was that Mo Shaoshan raised her eyebrows provocatively, pointed her chin at Mo Shaoli, and turned her face away with a sneer.
Mo Shaoqi couldn't help but be annoyed and angry.
It's her again, Mo Xiaoqi! Back to such an unknown face! Disgrace me!
Her eyes fell on the peony embroidered in red on the case, and she just wanted to pick up the flower tube and smash it on Mo Shaoli's face, but when she turned her eyes, she ran into Mo Shaoli's smiling face, and there was no trace of a smile in those cold eyes, but there was a hidden warning.
Mo Shaoqi couldn't help but jump in his heart, so frightened that he retracted his violent thoughts, and glared back viciously.
Mo Shaoli didn't have time to play this kind of cockfighting childlike trick with her, so she turned her eyes away indifferently, and returned to what the Wu family and the old lady heard when she entered the door just now, which meant that she was talking about inviting female teachers to the girls in the family.
In her previous life, Mofu also invited a female teacher to sit in the museum, but at that time she had already lived in Lixiangyuan, although she was very yearning for the women's hall at home, but she did not have the opportunity to go for a day.
Now she has no interest in the women's hall.
Where there are many women, there are many rights and wrongs, and everyone in the back house has already made a lot of noise when they live behind closed doors, not to mention that a group of half-grown girls with different personalities are gathered in one house all day long, I don't know how many things will happen!
She didn't have the time to join in the fun!
Mo Shaoli was thinking about it, when he heard Wu pick up the conversation again and said to Mrs. Mo: "Mr. Lu said that the eighth day of the first month of next month is the most suitable to open. ”
Mrs. Mo asked, "Have you decided on a courtyard?" ”
Wu said: "The Tinghe Courtyard on the west side of the lake in the garden has a quiet environment, and the place is also spacious. ”
"Listen to the Lotus." Old Madam Mo thought for a moment, "That place is also suitable." What do you say about the shackles of the gentleman? ”
Wu Shi paused and said, "Because Mr. Lu has an excellent reputation, he has more female teachers than ordinary people, and he costs two hundred silver a year. ”
"Two hundred taels?" Next to him, Huang exclaimed, "The last time I went to Aunt Shan'er's house for a banquet, I heard Mrs. Yuan talk about the female teacher invited by her family during the banquet, saying that the bundle is only thirty taels of silver a year, how can it cost two hundred taels a year to our house?" ”
Wu glanced at her and said, "The female teacher invited by the Yuan family is just an older girl who can't marry in a broken family, and if she has no way out, she just mixes some silver in other people's homes, how can she compare with Mr. Lu Ying?" ”
Huang was born in a family of small officials, her family has never opened a museum, and she herself has not read many books, so she naturally has no confidence when she talks about these, but she pouted her lips unconvinced, and secretly thought to herself: "Two hundred taels a year!" Grab money? With so much silver, you don't know how much you're going to lose! ”
Mo Shaoli had no interest in inviting a female teacher to open a women's pavilion, and he had no interest in watching the contest between Wu and Huang, so he got up and left, taking Snow Kite and Green Bead away.
I didn't know that not far from Jiashan Hall, Mo Shaoqi's voice came from behind me: "Mo Qi! Hold it! ”
What is she going to do?
Mo Shaoli frowned, stopped and turned around, and saw Mo Shaoqi walking over with Mo Shaozhen with an unkind face.
"Fifth sister, sixth sister." Mo Shaoli greeted without being salty.
"Mo Qi, let's go to the back garden to see the fish, will you go?" Mo Shaoqi walked up to Mo Shaoli and raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Don't go!" Mo Shaoli simply refused, is there such a friendship between me and you? Want to go fish with you?
"The seventh sister refuses to go with us, is it because she wants to go back to study hard?" Mo Shaozhen didn't know why Mo Shaoqi suddenly asked Mo Shaoli to go to see the fish together, but she followed her words and said to Mo Shaoli with a smile, "Master Lu will come to our house to sit in the hall on the eighth day of next month, and the seventh sister is afraid that the master will not be able to answer the school homework when the time comes, so she works so hard?" ”
Mo Shaoli was already inexplicable by the words that the two of them suddenly caught up with her to see the fish, and after listening to this string of words, she felt that they didn't know what to do, but she didn't bother to continue to entangle, and said perfunctorily: "Yes!" My sister knows, I don't like to read and write, and I have a headache with homework, so I don't have to go back and make up for it quickly, so as not to be embarrassed in front of the master when I get it! ”
After she finished speaking, she didn't care about Mo Shaoqi's reaction, turned around and left.
I had to hurry back and think of a way to convince my father not to let me go to the girl's class. Aside from the fact that she didn't want to get together with Mo Shaoqi and them, she was worried now that she was writing too well, not badly. As for reading, the previous life went from kindergarten to doctorate, and it was enough to read. In this life, you don't have to do it all over again, right?
"Stop!" Mo Shaoqi walked a few steps in front of Mo Shaoli, with a contemptuous expression, "Could it be that you are afraid?" ”
"What am I afraid of?" Mo Shaoli felt that Mo Shaoqi was quite unreasonable, she was still staring at herself fiercely in Jiashantang just now, eager to pounce on her, and at this time she had to go with her to see what fish, who knew what her intentions were.
Originally, there were a lot of things going on these days, and she didn't want to waste her energy with Mo Shaoqi, so she just wanted to dodge. But being stopped by her in such a domineering face, Mo Shaoli's temper also came up a little, and she raised her chin and gave her a disdainful look: "Sixth sister, tell me, what am I afraid of?" ”