The sky is beautiful, and the day of the Shangsi Festival is a loud and sunny day.

When the people of Hufu came over, the sun had already risen high, and the bright spring light illuminated every corner of the dock on the shore of Jianhu Lake.

In the most conspicuous position in the center of the pier, a nine-foot high platform is made of sturdy wood, and only two spacious circle chairs are placed in the high platform. Can surround the circle of the chair of the week, the wood carving railing on the hollow carved out of the atmospheric pattern, the pattern below the railing around a circle, inlaid with twenty-four six-foot-high wooden board carvings, the above with pictures with words, are the hanging beam thorn strands, chisel the wall to borrow light and other allusions to the ancient and modern painstaking learning.

The entire apprenticeship site was designed by the Song family, who had previously taken care of everything due to her weak health, but what she had learned since she was a child has been engraved in her bones. Because she felt that she owed Ah Yao a lot, she was even more attentive, racking her brains to prepare for the apprenticeship banquet and taking out all her housekeeping skills.

This hard work was not in vain, and the high platform was magnificent, which was enough to express the solemnity of the Hu family. Originally, Mo Daru, who didn't care much and only planned to cooperate with the Hu family to vent his anger to his apprentice, couldn't help but nod when he saw such a grand decoration at first glance.

It didn't take long for the auspicious time to arrive, Hu Gui, the chief housekeeper of Hu Mansion, personally sounded the gong, and the people who came to eat the flowing water banquet returned to everyone, and the slightly noisy dock was quiet in an instant.

The six of them came to the stage together, Hu Jiuling gave up his hand, waved the audience slightly, and then spoke first. He first thanked the villagers below for coming for their time today, and then focused on introducing Master Kukai and Mo Daru, praising the two as a pair of flowers, and then briefly mentioning Ah Yao. On this occasion, most parents will be humble, so that their children can guard against arrogance and rashness and study with peace of mind, but when it comes to Hu Jiuling, he can't find a bad daughter for his twenty-four filial father. The Hu family has always been based on integrity, and he can't lie...... To show his modesty, he could only go around and not say anything.

"On this auspicious day, in front of so many villagers and elders in Qingcheng, the little girl officially worshiped Master Kukai and Mo Daru as teachers."

While he was speaking, the Hu family had already invited Master Kukai and Mo Daru to sit down, and at the same time, Qingshuang also handed the hot tea to Ah Yao.

Heaven and Earth Jun is a teacher, and the status of the teacher is second only to his parents, and he is also half an elder, so it is particularly important to use the apprenticeship ceremony. In order to show solemnity, Ah Yao deliberately dressed up today, and her small head was full of pearls. On weekdays, for convenience, she wears more skirts with tied sleeves, and she walks and does things neatly. Today she changed into a wide-sleeved dress, with a long skirt at the back, although it was grand, but she had to be careless when she walked.

Holding the tea cup and slowly bending his knees in front of Kukai Daishi, he was just halfway through his knees when a voice suddenly sounded at the entrance of the wooden ladder on the left side of the platform.

"Miss Hu, it's all the slave's fault, please let my girl go."

What's going on?

The people on the stage were stunned, and the maid who had already walked to the entrance ran over, and when she approached her, she suddenly fell, and happened to fall on the long skirt behind Ah Yao. Ah Yao, who was bent forward, was suddenly dragged, and the whole person lost her balance and fell to one side.

"Hold on to the girl."

Hu Jiuling, who was far away, hurriedly ordered Qingshuang, but Qingshuang was not close.

The body is more and more tilted, and the tea cup in his hand is a little unbearable. A little tea flowed out, the hot tea dripped into the palm of her hand, and the delicate skin was painful, and A-Yao finally couldn't help but throw it out.

The teacup sliced a parabola in the air, and it was about to pour onto Kukai's head, and A-Yao's bulky head full of hairpin rings fell straight down. At the last moment, the young man in Xuanyi, who had been standing behind Master Kukai, stepped forward, stretched out his left hand to catch the tea cup that fell from mid-air, arched his legs and fished out with his right hand, and held Ah Yao, who had fallen halfway, by his waist.

"Brother Jing."

Everyone in the audience booed, and the people who were holding chopsticks to feast unconsciously stopped and stared at the scene on the stage.

was in the focus of everyone's attention, but only the young man in front of her was left in Ah Yao's eyes.

Lu Jingyuan exerted a slight force and took her into his arms. The overly light weight of the hand made him frown, it seemed that a piece of walnut cake was not enough, and he had to think of something to let him eat more. As soon as the thought crossed his mind, he couldn't help but think of the tender lotus calves at the bottom of the pool this morning. Incredibly slender, as if he could crush it with a little force.

And the arm that is now clutched in his hand is even more ......

The fiery temperature rose from his cheeks, and when he saw the eyes of the audience, he was busy with cold eyes.

"Stand firm."

Straightening her with a little force, he stepped back. This girl is like a stove, and when she gets close, she always makes him ...... Fever all over the body.

Looking away from her, he looked at the maid not far away. He knew this maid, when he was cooking the Shen family in his previous life, the most useful person around Shen Moci was Qingyu, and she was the most loyal. Qingyu purely wanted to avenge her sister Qingshuang who died in Hufu in vain, so she was so active in making suggestions, and the maid in front of her was really dead set on Shen Moci.

In his previous life, he told Qingyu that the cause of Qingshuang's death was all because of the nails planted by Shen Moci in Hufu, so he easily rebelled against Qingyu. However, this maid has been towards Shen Moci from beginning to end, and it can be said that she will not hesitate to go to the soup.

After learning from Qingyu's mouth that Shen Moci was going to send this person to confess, Lu Jingyuan knew that things were a little tricky. After thinking about it, since it is impossible for someone to come back to the water, then she will do what she wants to do. He deliberately ordered the secret guard to put medicine that could make people insane in the maid's food, and hidden slippery medicine powder in the embroidered shoes she was going to wear.

Now as he expected, Shen Moci should also appear, right?

It's just that she doesn't know how she reacts when she sees that one of her most useful chess pieces has not only not played a small role, but has helped the other.

Thinking like this, Lu Jingyuan looked at the entrance where the maid came up just now.

While he was thinking, Hu Jiuling and Song were also puzzled. Today's apprenticeship ceremony is such an important thing, in order to prevent anyone from interfering, they have arranged enough manpower at each entrance of the high platform. But if someone breaks in, there will be movement below. But now that it's quiet below, how could the Shen family's maid suddenly appear here?

A bad premonition faintly rose in Song's heart, could it be......

Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, she and Hu Jiuling walked towards the entrance together. As soon as he walked to the side, he saw Song Qinwen and Shen Moci walking up on the temporary wooden ladder.

"Qinwen, you are ......"

His eyes looked over the shoulders of the two of them, and he looked at the people below who were guarding the entrance. When she saw the embarrassed nurse in the center of the guards, she understood everything in an instant. This nurse is the person she brought from the Song family when she got married, and she is also the person she trusts the most over the years. Thinking that she was old, she had rarely told her anything in the past two years, only left her in the room and talked to her every day.

Unexpectedly, twenty or thirty years later, the nurse from the Song family back then would still be towards the Song family. Obviously, her attitude was so clear, she still let people come up to make trouble.

It seems that not only A-Yao's nurse, but even her nurse is also not credible.

"I have already instructed that today's apprenticeship ceremony is a matter of great importance, and no one should be put up. Come on, first put this back-the-Lord nurse down, and then each of you will be fined three months' money. ”

Song's face showed a fierce expression, and Song Qinwen's face changed when he saw this. He didn't want to come today, but seeing Ah Ci so miserable, he really couldn't bear it, and the man followed him.

But now the aunt in front of him makes him a little strange. It can't be said that he is a stranger, and the aunt he met when he first remembered was as capable as she is now, and he was a little afraid of him at that time. But this fear, with the birth of A-Yao's cousin and the recuperation of her aunt in bed, her temperament became soft and gradually faded.

Now that she reappeared like this, the fear in her memory struck again, and Song Qinwen had already lost three points before she could speak.

"Auntie."

"You still know that I am your aunt."

What happens to a soft-hearted person when he becomes firm? Most of them have had all kinds of concessions and compromises before, and they have also borne the consequences of these weaknesses. Once they wake up from a blow, all the concessions and compromises they have made in the past will become the best weapon now, protecting them from such trivial matters.

This is the case with the Song family today. How did she treat her mother's family in the past ten years? That's really money and effort, as long as you want it, as long as I have it. But what does it get in exchange for dedication and unlimited indulgence? Thinking of the Song family's actions, Song's eyes were as bright as ice and his heart was as hard as iron.

"Auntie, I also know that I was biased in what I did before, but Ah Ci is innocent. The framing of her cousin was all done by the maids around her, and she had nothing to do with her, and she came today to sincerely apologize. ”

Lowering his head and not daring to look at Song's gaze, Song Qinwen said what he wanted to say in one breath.

Song took a step back and let the two of them ascend to the high platform, completely exposed to the audience. With her movements, Lu Jingyuan gave Master Kukai a look, the latter got up and stood beside him, and then pulled over the dressed A-Yao, the three of them stood not far away, just blocking the dull-looking maid behind.

Since she stepped onto the high platform, Shen Moci has been looking for her personal maid. Seeing the figure lying on the ground behind her through the human wall, although she couldn't see her expression, she still secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This maid was picked up from the beggars, and she has been by her side since she was a child, and she could not be more faithful to her. A few days ago, her mother-in-law wantonly pulled out her capable manpower, and the rest of the people were bearable for her, but the personal maid was driven out of the house, but it was tantamount to sucking away her heart's blood.

Although no one is more suitable than her for scapegoating, she still feels that she has lost.

But the wood is already in the boat, and she can only accept it.

Enduring the faint pain in his heart, Shen Moci was half aggrieved and half apologetic, and bowed his knees to Hu Jiuling and Song.

"I didn't notice it for a while, and I let the people around me do such slanderous things. After learning about this, I have punished her, and A-Niang has also cleaned up the people in the backyard and sold them all. Even so, I still feel uneasy, and I came here today to personally apologize to Senior Sister A-Yao. ”

Shen Moci said very sincerely, and after speaking, she leaned forward and bowed deeply, and her demeanor was also full of apology.

The talented woman who is famous in Qingcheng disregards her own face and personally pleads guilty for the wrong things that the maid has done, and it is full of sincerity to do so. Coupled with the confusing rumors in the past few days, many people should have believed in her innocence.

Shen Moci thought so and arranged it this way. She has calculated, this will be the personal big girl has apologized, and all the sins will be taken on her head, and her apology just seems to be sincere, and if she intercedes for the maid again, it will show that she is merciful.

But she did a lot of calculations, but she didn't calculate that the big girl who was loyal to her was on a business trip at the most important moment. The apprenticeship ceremony was such a grand event, but she directly jumped up and grabbed the skirt of the Hu girl. If it weren't for Xuanyi's timely rescue, how ugly would the Hu family girl be? Not to mention that he fell, the hot tea had to be spilled on the master, and today's apprenticeship ceremony must not be completely reduced to a joke.

Is this here to apologize, or is it here to find fault?

With the actions of the maid in front of him, this would make Shen Moci's apology not only have no effect in the slightest, but in the eyes of the audience, it has become hypocritical and cunning.

The girl of the Hu family has been in the boudoir for thirteen years, and she has always been low-key, why did she repeatedly have accidents after meeting the girl of the Shen family? Previously, they may have thought that there was something wrong with the Hu family girl. But now that the two world-famous old men are sitting on the stage, especially Master Kukai, who stood directly beside his beloved disciple after the accident, how could he be so nervous if he was not satisfied? The apprentice who can make the two of them so satisfied must be blameless in character.

In this way, who provoked so many things?

"Isn't it all obvious? The girl of the Hu family can compare with her? Lose it or not! That is, she found fault several times, and this time she sent someone over to make a mess, and she even pretended to come over to see the joke. ”

Although there are a few sane people who think that Shen Moci will not be like this, since he has already sent someone to make trouble, then he should hide and steal fun, and it is too stupid to stand up and let others point fingers. But in such a warm atmosphere, only a few people can maintain their sanity after all, and most people only care about the facts they see in front of them.

"It's too much."

"It's really a femme fatale."

"I think she was also coy in the past few years."

"It's not a coy gesture, the Hu family also sets up a porridge shed every year, no less than the Shen family, and I have never seen the Hu family girl earn a reputation for kindness in the past."

"After reading so many books, doing such dirty things every day, and having a good apprenticeship ceremony, she sent people to make trouble. In front of Master Kukai and Mo Daru, it was really a shame for our Qingcheng. ”

"I don't think she has read much, that is, she is very famous, and if she really meets someone like Master Kukai and Mo Daru, who is really talented and learned, won't she be exposed? On the contrary, it was a girl from the Hu family, who was not well known, but was accepted as an apprentice by the two. I was in front of the Hu family that day, and in order to take the Hu family girl as an apprentice, the two of them had a verbal fight, and in the end they almost rolled up their sleeves and fought. Today, they are all here, and it seems that no one is reluctant, so they simply feel that they will accept the Hu family girl as an apprentice together. ”

The people who ate the flowing water banquet below were gossiping, some talked about the farce in front of Hufu a few days ago, and some said how the two old men were fighting, but more people expressed their disdain for Shen Moci on the stage.

There were many people, and soon everyone told all the things that Shen Moci had done over the years. There is a girl in the family who studied in Qinglin Academy, and she even talked about the refreshments that morning.

"The girl of the Hu family is really kind, in fact, my girl also wanted to bring refreshments by herself. Although we are not as rich as the Shen family, we are not short of that little thing, and we can't always eat big households, right? ”

"Then why didn't you bring it?" A curious person asked.

"It's not because the girl of the Shen family is the head of the female school, the authority is there, and there are a few people around who are desperate for her, for example, the girl of the Song family is one, and several people hold her every day. In this way, who dares to open this mouth, can only let her buy people's hearts with this worthless thing. After eating too much, I have to admit this favor again. ”

It seems that this is really the case, and the people listening next to them suddenly realized and nodded one after another.

The person who broke the news was Su Xiaoqiao's father, thinking that his girl could endure those exclusions, he added another sentence.

"It's still the girl of the Hu family who is generous, so I only brought it once. Guess what? ”

"What?"

"The pastries of Baiwei Zhai, the box of dim sum is good, and the wood smells fragrant. Such a small wooden box, with a few flowers carved out of it, so delicate carvers must be official craftsmen. Not to mention that Baiwei Zhai is ridiculously expensive dim sum, a single box is not the sum of the things she has brought over the years. The girl of the Hu family does not invite credit, and after giving away the snacks, she mentions yì, they are all classmates, there is no need for anyone to take advantage of whom, and everyone will take turns to take it after the good or the bad. I think the girl of the Shen family married her for this matter. Later, Master Kukai gave a lecture, and there was a belly pocket incident, and she was still framing the Hu family girl, and everyone knew about it. ”

Father Su didn't continue, but everyone knew about the belly pocket.

Originally, everyone was wondering why the two girls who had just entered school had such a big dispute, and the girl of the Hu family didn't seem to be a person who would do such a thing as Meng Lang. Now that the pastry thing came out, everyone understood that it was like this.

"Little girl, she loves to be vindictive. I don't think it's the girl of the Shen family who is angry, and then colluded with the son of the Song family to frame the girl of the Hu family with the belly pocket. ”

As soon as this statement came out, it was immediately approved by everyone.

The high platform was only nine feet above the ground, and the sound of discussion below was transmitted softly to the top. Shen Moci, who was still bowing down and pleading for sin, finally noticed that something was wrong, and without waiting for the Hu couple to call up, she got up by herself, bypassed the two and walked to the "human wall" behind.

Crossing the human wall, she saw the close-fitting big girl who fell on A-Yao's skirt with a sluggish expression. On the ground beside her was Ah Yao's apprentice's teacup, and half of the tea had flowed out, overflowing the tray underneath.

Just looking at this situation, she also understood what happened above when she was mediating with the nursing home below. Her personal maid almost disrupted the whole apprenticeship, and she said something like that. Think about it from her perspective, what would she think if she were a common person standing below?

"How can you do that?"

For now, I can only give up her. After all, she is the eldest girl who has been with her for the longest time, and when she makes this kind of decision, her heart is as cold and hard as Shen Moci, and she is a little unbearable for a while. But things have become like this, and if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan.

"I told you a long time ago that the girl from the Hu family and I were classmates in the academy, and a little quarrel is nothing. But why are you still doing this, you wronged her last time......"

Shen Moci's voice was very high, instantly attracting the attention of everyone below. Full of hatred of iron and steel, after some emotion, just as she was about to push everything on the maid's head, she heard her voice, and the maid lying on the ground finally reacted.

"Girl."

The maid got up to protect Shen Moci's thigh, looking a little crazy: "Girl, I'm sorry, the slave failed to complete your request." The slave maid wanted to take everything on herself, but when she came up, she was too nervous and bumped into the Hu girl. The slave knows that you have hated the Hu family girl since you were a child, but you are just stumbling on the villain in private, and the slave and maid should not do such a thing in public. ”

Her pupils dilated, and the maid repeated again and again, "Slaves shouldn't be!" ”

Truth!

A small number of people who believe in Shen Moci without principle can't say anything to refute it under such ironclad facts.