Volume 1, Chapter 57: Mr. Affair
Yueyao stayed in Mafu for one night, and this time it was smooth to pour Mafu. Cheng was locked up here, Ma Linlin was also locked up, and no one came out to trouble her.
The next day, Yue Yao went back to the house after breakfast, and the first person to see was the old lady, Yue Yao briefly talked about the things in the Ma Mansion, and did not talk about the genealogy.
The old lady opened her mouth and asked about Ting Zheng's study: "You have been teaching him for two months, have you finished learning the surnames of the hundred families?" ”
Yueyao's heart sank, and she talked about it well: "After learning, I am now handing him over to learn a thousand-word essay." "After learning the surnames of hundreds of families in a month and a half, Brother Zheng is also wonderful.
The old lady was very satisfied when she saw Yueyao's expression, and it was a good thing that she could calm down: "You have to learn the rules every day, and you have to learn embroidery with the embroiderer, and you have to practice when you go back at night, always teach Tingzheng like this, I'm afraid you're tired." So I want to send Tingzheng to the clan study, what do you think? ”
Yue Yao was relieved to hear her grandmother ask for her opinion, and she didn't make a decision, "Grandmother, Brother Zheng'er's qualifications are worse than ordinary people. Let him learn from other brothers in the family study, and he will definitely not be able to keep up. Grandmother, I would like to ask a gentleman to teach my brother alone, what does my grandmother think? ”
Even the old lady was a little surprised, she didn't expect this girl to be already thinking: "But where to find such a gentleman?" "With Tingzheng's qualifications, it is really difficult to find such a gentleman alone. Thinking of this, there was a complication in the old lady's eyes: "Three girls, you are already looking for it." One. Root. Read. Novel xstxt? "If that's the case, then this girl would rather believe in the people of the Ma family than in her own family. It's really unacceptable, you have to bang and knock well.
Yue Yao shook her head: "No, it's just that my uncle asked me about Ting Zheng last night, and my uncle said that it's not a matter to always let me teach, so it's better to ask Ting Zheng for a gentleman." I think my husband must be better educated than me, and he has more knowledge than me. Now I'm worried that Mr. is not easy to find. "It's to find a gentleman who is willing to be upright, it's really hard to find.
Even the old lady nodded slightly: "I'll talk to your uncle in the evening, let him see if there is a suitable gentleman, and he doesn't need to be very knowledgeable, and he has enough talent and fame." "For such qualifications, Xiucai may not be willing to teach.
Yue Yao nodded hurriedly: "I'm going to trouble the eldest uncle." ”
The old lady pretended to be angry and said: "Now that your father is not here, your uncle is like his own father, if you let your uncle know that you said such a foreign thing, you will definitely be angry." Three girls, I'm going to be upset too. "This kid, why is he so unfamiliar with the boss.
Yueyao was a little shy: "It's my fault, Yueyao won't do it again in the future." "Uncle is unreliable. If she was reliable, she wouldn't have been so miserable in her previous life.
The old lady asked about the days when Ma Peng got married.
Yueyao said with a smile: "Grandmother, my cousin is going to have spring next year, so the date of marriage is set after spring." "This day is set well, if it is won, it is double happiness, if it is not, such a big happy event can add joy to Mafu.
From beginning to end, Yueyao didn't mention the matter of genealogy. It's too early to mention it, and it's not too late to mention it before the Chinese New Year.
The old lady was very pleased that Yueyao was becoming more and more energetic. This child finally walked out of the shadow of the death of the second child and the second daughter-in-law. Looking at this child now, she can rest assured.
When Yueyao returned to Lanxi Courtyard, she saw Brother Zheng looking at her with blank eyes. Yue Yao walked over and touched Brother Zheng'er's head and said, "Was Tingzheng well-behaved yesterday, was he lazy?" "Yesterday, Yueyao deliberately didn't take Tingzheng out. If you don't separate now, there will always be a day of separation in the future, so she has to let Tingzheng slowly adapt.
Ting Zheng didn't sleep well last night, and his eyes became panda eyes. Listening to Lian Yueyao's words at the moment, she hurriedly said: "Sister, I practice calligraphy and endorsement as before." ”
Duqiu and Dongqing heard Ting Zheng say that the corners of their mouths twitched, and Young Master Ting Zheng memorized hundreds of family names over and over again every day, even if they listened to it for so long, they could recite it, and it was also thanks to the girl's patience.
Yue Yao said with a smile: "I knew that Tingzheng was the most well-behaved. Come, let's go back to the house. "In the afternoon and evening, Yueyao was still reading and writing in the Holy See.
The next day, Yueyao returned to her previous life. After getting up in the morning and practicing calligraphy, I went to the meditation garden and followed Mama Wang to learn rules and etiquette. Mama Wang did not slow down the process because Yueyao left for two days, and Mama Wang made up for Yueyao again at noon.
Mama Wang is very satisfied with Yueyao's modesty and positive learning attitude. Mama Wang felt a pity in her heart, if the third girl was the daughter of the big house, the future of the third girl would be limitless. It's a pity that both parents died, and the three girls became orphans, and no matter how smart Bingxue was, her future was limited.
In the afternoon, it was the hemp embroidery girl who taught embroidery. Ma Xiuniang actually likes Yueyao very much, but Yueyao's mind is not on embroidery, and her skills are progressing slowly.
Yueyao didn't want to learn embroidery at first, Yueyao, as everyone thought, felt that it was enough to learn to embroider a purse or a close-fitting belly pocket. But during this time, I studied with Ma Xiuniang for a while, and the more I learned, the more interested I became. In Yueyao's eyes, embroidery is no longer a simple embroidery, but a work of art.
Based on this idea, Yue Yao no longer thought that she was embroidering, but looked at the needle and thread in her hand as a paintbrush, and as soon as she started her hand, she thought in her mind how to embroider a beautiful pattern. Because of this, Yueyao didn't study for a long time, but Ma Xiuniang saw that Yueyao was the most talented in this area.
It is also for this reason that looking at Yueyao is obviously very well conceived, the color matching is very good, and the skills are also good, but the progress is the slowest, how can this not make Ma Xiuniang anxious.
The embroidery lady left Yueyao that day: "Third girl, you asked me about Gu Xiu's embroidery method last time, during this time I can see that the girl does have this talent, but you don't seem to be here, if so, I won't teach Gu Xiu to you." "It's really rare to find a student who is so smart and smart. She has the heart to teach, but if Yueyao doesn't cherish it and just plays with it, no matter how rare it is, she won't teach.
Yueyao was stunned, she felt that she didn't perform very well. But it's a good thing for the embroidery lady to have this idea. Yueyao also told the truth about her situation at the moment: "I have to teach my younger brother to read and write at night. So, I didn't have time to practice in the evenings, but when my brother found my husband, I could concentrate on learning embroidery. ”
Xiuniang was a little surprised, she got the news that the third girl was proud of herself, she began to think that the third girl was not looking down, but she didn't expect to teach her younger brother every day, this kind of character is really rare: "Good." Then when you're done with the matter at hand, I'll teach you. Ma Xiuniang thinks that Yueyao's basic skills are good, and after three or five months of honing and honing, she can teach it.
Yueyao promised at the moment: "Okay." Although Gu Xiu is not necessarily the best skill of Ma Xiu Niang pressing the bottom of the box, it also makes Yueyao grateful to be valued like this.
Mother Deng was very distressed when she watched her girl work so hard every time. But no matter how sorry she is, there is no solution. She can't let the girl not go to school, or ask the girl not to teach the young master of the Holy See, it is impossible.
Hua Bud comforted Mother Deng and said, "Mom, it's okay for a girl to be like this, it's better for a girl to be busy than idle." I was worried that once the girl was free, she would have to copy the scriptures every day. "Although the girl is busy every day, she eats two bowls of rice for each of her three meals, and the tonic has never been lost. These days are very busy, but my complexion is getting more and more ruddy, and I am much fatter than before. Therefore, Hua Bud would rather the girl be busy than copy the scriptures like a girl.
Mother Deng only sighed when she heard this comfort. Then the only thing she could do was to make something delicious for the girl every day. But this also has drawbacks, and after a long time, the people below have also begun to mumble.
Hua Bud raised the tongue of the kitchen man to Yueyao. Yue Yao smiled lightly: "They said theirs, mother doesn't have to stop what she wants to do." "With my grandmother here, these people only dare to mumble in private.
After Yueyao taught Tingzheng at night, she lay on the bed and thought about things after washing. Before going to bed, I still thought that I didn't know when my uncle would be able to find a good husband for Tingzheng. Unexpectedly, there was news on the second day, and it was good news.
Speaking of which, this is actually a coincidence. Ma Chengteng was looking for Mr. Weiting, and Li Guoxun inadvertently knew about it.
Li Guoxin synchronized with Ma Chengteng after going down to the court, and talked about it with a smile: "I remember that your youngest son is fourteen years old this year and has gone to study in the academy. Whose child are you looking for? Li Guoxin was just a little curious.
Ma Chengteng said with a smile: "I found it for Tingzheng." ”
Li Guoxin was stunned: "Tingzheng? How can you find a gentleman with the children of the family? He knew that the next generation of the Lian family was the Tingzi generation, but Li Guoxun really didn't know who the Tingzheng was.
Li Guoxun was stunned when he heard that it was Lian Dongbo's son: "Ziming's son? "He didn't remember that Ziming had a son? Is it adoptive?
It's no wonder that Li Guoxun didn't know about Tingzheng's existence. Lian Dongbo never said that he had a son, but it was his son's background that made him difficult to speak; In addition, it is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two sides are separated by thousands of miles.
Lian Dongbo passed away, and Lian Dongfang took Yueyao and Tingzheng back to the capital. Yueyao was decent, but Tingzheng was thrown into the backyard as soon as she came back, and she never appeared in front of everyone. Even the people in the mansion didn't make Tingzheng a serious master at all, and they didn't know if someone did it on purpose, and the news about Tingzheng really hadn't been spread.
Ma Chengteng only smiled bitterly, the birth of this child is indeed cough. But it's always my brother-in-law's only heir.
Li Guoxun didn't care about Tingzheng's biological mother's identity background, he determined that Tingzheng was Lian Dongbo's biological son, and he fell in love with it, although Li Guoxun and Lian Dongbo were three years apart in age, but the two hit it off at first sight and later became close friends.
Now that he heard that his friend had left a child to find his husband, he must have asked for help. But he was a little strange: "Why did you find a gentleman for this child?" "It stands to reason that Lian Dongfang should come forward to find Mr. as an uncle, he should have to settle his brother's orphan properly, but why did Ma Cheng come forward to find Mr. now.
Ma Chengteng knew that Li Guoxun and Lian Dongbo were friends, and he didn't hide it at the moment. told Li Guoxun about Yueyao's entrustment to him.
Li Guoxun frowned slightly when he heard this, Yue Yao is still a child herself, but she has to work hard for her younger brother, what is Lian Dongfang doing, but it is just about the internal affairs of the Lian family, and he is convenient to say. After thinking for a while, he said, "It just so happened that I hired a gentleman for Xiao'er a few days ago. If you can, you can let Tingzheng study with Xiao'er. ”
Ma Chengteng was overjoyed, although he didn't know about the gentleman invited by Li Guoxun, but Li Guoxun invited him to teach his son, this gentleman must not be bad.
Ma Chengteng was full of joy, but he still told Li Guoxun about Tingzheng's specific situation: "Yueyao said that the gentleman who invited him must be patient, otherwise he is afraid that Tingzheng will not be taught well." ”
Li Guoxun didn't have too much thought when he heard that Tingzheng's qualifications were not good. Not all children are gifted and intelligent, Li Guoxun believes that as long as children work hard and are not lazy and slack, everything else will go with the flow. However, Li Guoxun was a little surprised and surprised as to why Yueyao would put forward these conditions.
Ma Chengteng smiled bitterly: "It was Yue Yao who enlightened him, and Yue Yao has been studying and reading in the Holy See for the past few months. Originally, the people of the Lian family wanted this child to go to clan school, but she was unwilling to live or die. said that there were too many students in the clan study, and Mr. couldn't manage so many children, and Ting Zheng couldn't learn anything when he went to the clan study. It was okay before, but now even the house has invited Mama and Mr., Yueyao has to learn from Mama and Mr. every day, and she really can't bear it before she asks me for help. Speaking of which, it was also my negligence. ”
Anger flashed in Li Guoxun's eyes. Lian Dongfang, as an uncle, should take good care of his nephews and nieces, but he didn't expect to be so slow. Li Guoxun felt pity and sighed, pity that Yueyao was still a child and needed to be taken care of by others; sighs that at a young age, he not only has to take care of himself, but also plan for his younger brother.
cough, Li Guoxun sighed, if Brother Ziming watched his children in the sky so hard, he didn't know how sad it would be. Li Guoxun said immediately: "Brother Ziteng, you tell your niece that she can rest assured. The gentleman I invited is superior in both talent and morality, and he will definitely teach Tingzheng well. "It's really distressing to be such a sensible child.
Ma Chengteng was naturally happy when he got Li Guoxun's words. This is also good luck, just happened, if you lose this opportunity, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find. When Ma Chengteng returned to the mansion, he wrote to Yueyao, telling Yueyao about this matter and letting Yueyao decide for herself.
After reading the letter, Yue Yao was stunned.
Mother Deng hurriedly asked, "Girl, is there anything bad?" "It's not like a good thing to look at the girl's expression.
After Yue Yao turned around, her face was very complicated: "No, it's a good thing." The uncle said that he had already found Mr. for Tingzheng. However, it is not to give the class to Brother Zheng alone, but to let Brother Zheng go to class. ”
Ma Chengteng was also worried that Yueyao would refuse, such a good thing was hard to come by, so he said in the letter that Li Guoxun and Lian Dongbo were good friends, and also emphasized that he had told Li Guoxun the details of Tingzheng. Li Guoxun has promised that he will definitely let Mr. teach the Church well, such an opportunity is hard to come by, Ma Chengteng hopes that Yueyao will not miss it. It's definitely not easy to find a gentleman alone, but it's much better to study.
Yue Yao looked at the three words Li Guoxin in the letter, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Mother Deng couldn't understand Yueyao's attitude, and said cautiously on the side: "Girl, the master and Master Li are friends, and the gifts sent to the Li family every year are three points heavier than others. Master Li can take the initiative to let Young Master Tingzheng study with the young master of the Li family, and it is also to see the face of the master, the girl can't miss this opportunity. "Even Mother Deng knew that it would be even more difficult to invite a learned gentleman alone with the qualifications of their young master.
Yue Yao naturally won't refuse, she wasn't hesitating but feeling guilty just now, Yue Yao only knew in her last life after returning to the capital, because she was ignorant back then, which made Uncle Li bear the stigma, and Uncle Li's career was affected. Until she died, she was only from the official position of the second rank, and you must know that now Uncle Li is a member of the third grade. Twenty years have only gone further, and she has been burdened by her, and she is guilty until she dies. But Yueyao really never dreamed that the first person in her life to take the initiative to lend a helping hand was the person she felt the most guilty about.
Mother Deng saw that the girl was in a daze again, and hurriedly shouted: "Girl, girl, what's wrong with you?" The girl ...... "I couldn't scream when I saw it, so I hurriedly pushed Yueyao."
Yue Yao came back to her senses and let out a sigh of relief. Yue Yao's hand clenched into a fist, and she would never let Mo use her to slander Uncle Li again in this life: "Mom, don't worry, I won't be so ignorant, Uncle Li took the initiative to speak, if I refuse, I will live up to Uncle Li's kindness." I'll talk to my grandmother later. "The Li family's family style has always been very good, and Ting Zheng went to the Li family to study, which also made her let go of a big thing, but Yueyao was a little worried that her grandmother would disagree.
Yueyao lowered her eyes, even if her grandmother didn't agree, she would send her brother Zheng to study at the Li family. With Uncle Li's care, I believe that Brother Zheng will not be taken crooked. In addition, Uncle Li's youngest son is of the right age with Tingzheng, and getting along with people of the same age is also good for Tingzheng's growth. From any point of view, Ting Zheng went to Li's house to study.
The old lady was stunned when she heard Yueyao's words, she really didn't expect Ma Chengteng's hands and feet to be so fast. Of course, the speed so fast proves that he really took this matter to heart. Although the old lady doesn't like Tingzheng, she won't stop her if she has a good gentleman: "When I ask people to inquire about this gentleman's character and talent, if it's really good, my grandmother will naturally not stop it." "The old lady knows very well what the situation is in ethnography. Therefore, the old lady did not dare to send her two eldest grandchildren to the clan school. Where is Tingzheng's qualifications, it is impossible to go to the school, it is difficult to find a husband, it is a big problem, and it is a good thing to be able to go to Li's house to study now.
Yue Yao was stunned for a moment, but immediately came to her senses. She is really careful, although the eldest uncle and Uncle Li are not very good now, but they have not yet made enemies, so grandmother will not object. It's just that Yue Yao is also very weird at the same time, the Li family and the Lian family have always had a good relationship, why in the end the Mo family wants to tarnish Uncle Li's reputation, this is a mystery.