On the way back to the house, looking at the mother who was full of praise for the son of Xuanyi, A-Yao glanced out the window helplessly.

It was noon, and the shops on both sides of the 123 Strait that had been closed when they came had all opened their doors to welcome customers, several black canopy boats rowed across the river, and middle-aged women squatting in groups on the bank of the river washing rice and vegetables.

The wind blew, and the woman's voice was heard in her ears: "The girl of the Shen family ......"

The carriage continued to move forward, and the sound behind it was not very real. Ah Yao frowned, since Master Kukai's lecture, the rumors about Shen Moci in the city have not been broken. Especially when Song Qinwen was kicked out of the Hu family and arrested for violating the curfew, the rumors were even more confirmed.

When ordinary people mention the two, they always bring fragrant words such as "belly pocket" and "private meeting", and the tone is ambiguous or disdainful, but in any case, they will not be as admired and envious as the talented woman.

There are quirks!

Tensing her lips, A-Yao knocked on the car door, "Qingshuang." ”

"What does the girl command?"

"You get out of the car and ask Shen Moci what happened."

Qingshuang retreated in response, and the chattering Song family also stopped, looking at her daughter with a little embarrassment and nervousness, "A-Yao, but what's the matter?" ”

Although he is tolerant of the Song family's brothers and sisters, but he can't beat Shen Moci, the Song family has nothing to measure. After the milk lady's affair broke out, she took the opportunity to comb through the people in the backyard, and really found a lot of nails buried outside. After being severely tortured, some people couldn't bear to confess, so they followed the clues they said, and it was the Shen family behind them.

Due to her poor health, she has neglected to manage the backyard for many years, and she has expected that it may not be too clean. But she didn't expect it to be so unclean, the entire back house was smoky, especially around Ah Yao, except for the people sent by the master, the rest were mostly □□ by the hands of the nurse.

"It should be the Shen family, as for what is going on, we have to wait for Qingshuang to come back to know."

The talking kung fu carriage had stopped at the door of Hu's house, and as soon as he entered the gate, he saw Hu Jiuling, who was wearing a loose silk shirt, scratching his ears and cheeks, and turning in circles behind the wall.

"Why didn't Daddy go to the shop?" At this time in the past, Daddy should have been patrolling the shop, a habit he had developed over the years.

Hu Gui, an official standing next to him, spoke, "The girl doesn't know, you and your wife went out with the front foot, and the old man drove out with the back foot." But in the silk shop, he heard people say......"

"Hu Gui!"

Stopped Hu Gui loudly, and when he faced Ah Yao again, Hu Jiuling put on a fatherly face, "It's nothing big, I'll come back first." Ah Yao went to the incense early in the morning, she should be hungry, and she will eat again after resting in the house. ”

As Daddy entered the hall, the next man came up with water. I washed my face in the basin, and by the way, I grabbed Daddy's hand and put it in to wash. When she picked up a cloth towel to wipe her hands after washing, A-Yao saw Qingshuang with an anxious look outside the door.

"Daddy, isn't it ...... from the Shen family?"

Hu Jiuling was stunned for a moment, he knew that there were some things that he couldn't hide from his daughter sooner or later, but that fatherly heart, he always thought that he could delay it for a while, and it was best to delay it until it was calm down and tell her a joke.

"It's not a big deal, A-Yao doesn't have to take it to heart. By the way, the Song family also returned some jewelry......"

"My daughter is not short of jewelry," Ah Yao pouted, "Daddy still wants to hide it from me, there were people everywhere talking about this on the way back just now, and I have heard all about it." ”

"What!" Hu Jiuling was anxious, shook the water droplets on his hand and comforted him repeatedly, "Ah Yao Mo wants to listen to those people's nonsense, what Mo Daru intends to accept the girl of the Shen family as an apprentice, it is simply fake." The Shen family also sent people out to stop the rumors, pretending, it was obviously the rumors they released themselves, and Shen Jinshan did not do much about this kind of thief shouting to catch the thief. ”

"I see." I was already on guard, so Ah Yao wasn't much surprised.

Hu Jiuling hurriedly stopped, but it was too late, everything that should have been said had already been said. He could only hide his face with his hands and pretend to weep.

"How can Ah Yao cheat Daddy?"

The daughter only listened to the woman washing vegetables by the river, and the carriage was too fast to hear what was behind, so she told Qingshuang to get off the car and go to investigate. Now that she's outside the door, why don't you call her in and talk about it? ”

What Qingshuang heard was similar to what Hu Jiuling knew, but the latter asked in his own silk village, and the guys in the store always had to make trade-offs when reporting, and the people in the market who asked the former had no scruples.

"Now everyone is spreading it, even Mo Daru admires the talent of the Shen family girl, and accepts her as an apprentice, and the Shen family's girl character is definitely blameless. The things in the academy must be ......" Speaking of this, she looked at Ah Yao with some hesitation, and there was some pity in her expression.

"It was I who was jealous, so I deliberately framed me."

"How does the girl know?" Qingshuang couldn't hide her surprise.

"How can this be reasonable," Hu Jiuling's chest swelled with anger, "I will send someone to ...... for my father."

"Isn't Daddy like this, just like Shen Jiayi?" Ah Yao handed him a cup of tea, "Let them say first, my daughter has her own way." ”

After saying that, she stood on tiptoe, and Hu Jiuling also tilted her body cooperatively, touched her wrench and listened to her whisper in her ear, and her eyes lit up after listening.

"Is this really the case?"

"Of course, my daughter was shocked when I first heard this, I am the only one in our Hu family, but I can't twist my hair and be a sister-in-law." Ah Yao rubbed her hands helplessly, "Later, I thought that there are still lay disciples in the Buddhist family. Thanks to Master Kuanren, he didn't care about me in general, and allowed me to go home and discuss with Daddy. ”

Hu Jiuling rarely did not praise his daughter, but sighed: "The master has a noble character, which is really not comparable to ordinary people." For his father, he prepared a bundle of fragrant fruits and visited the mountain temple. ”

"Daddy, I'd better wait a few days."

"Ah Yao mean?"

"Just like Daddy thought, when they got carried away and relaxed, they gave a punch unexpectedly."

After the father and daughter discussed it in a few words, it happened that Song came out from the back after washing. A slippery maid brought exquisite dishes to the table, and the three of them were happy around the dining table.

When the family of three was eating happily, Shen Moci was running around non-stop. She first ordered her henchmen to send a secret report to the village where King Ping lived, which recorded in detail the various actions of Dingbei Hou in the past half a month to secretly inspect the major silk villages in Qingcheng.

While sorting out the secret report on the way back, she accidentally saw a new handout in the carriage with ink not dry, which Song Qinwen mentioned that day, and he lent the old one to his cousin because of the situation. A long-sealed memory came to her mind, and she remembered that when she first learned about the equation, she excitedly shared it with Song Qinwen. And his views on equations and calculations that day were exactly the same as what Ah Yao said in front of the pagoda in the back mountain of Huashou Temple this morning.

Truth.

Unexpectedly, the plan she had been planning for a long time fell short because of the most important part. This taste was even more uncomfortable than when she was refuted by Ah Yao, and in an instant, Shen Moci was burned inside.

But the hatred didn't last long, and she knew it wouldn't solve anything. Since the Song brothers and sisters have done her a good thing, then they have to be responsible for filling this hole.

After the positive news came from Beizhuang, she ordered the subordinates who spread the news on the streets and alleys to change their tone, from trying to cover it up to not wanting to use this matter to show off. Then she asked Song Qinrong to meet at the jewelry store, trying to persuade her to return all the jewelry given by Hu Yao. Song Qinrong is not a difficult person to deal with, she is shallow and greedy, and she was persuaded by her in a few words. After she sent a hairpin ring, she looked even more grateful to repay her with death.

After arranging the matter, she went back to the house and prepared her clothes and jewelry with peace of mind.

The flowers bloom two and one on each branch, Song Qinrong has always admired Ah Ci, and after a few years, it has almost reached the point of blind obedience. After returning from the jewelry shop, she went into the backyard and told Yang Ci's words almost unchanged.

"Let's not talk about the Hu family's attitude of charity, mother, in half a month, my brother will have to take the township test, do you want him to end up with such a reputation? Even if his brother doesn't care, if the Hu family takes advantage of this to make a living again, how will the officials who presided over the township test think of him at that time? “

The son is the lifeblood of the Yang family. Her son is a Wenqu star, and he is destined to become a big official in the future, but he can't ruin his future for this little thing.

"I have to pay it back, Ah Rong, let's not be greedy for that, when your brother becomes a big official in the future, he can't do without your little thing."

A-Niang's most important thing is really her brother, and she agreed as soon as she said it. Song Qinrong's heart was quite uncomfortable, but what made her even more uncomfortable was Ah Yao. The elder brother is a man, and it is natural that he is more valued than her at home, A-Yao is a girl like him, why is there so much difference between the two, since she was a child, she has to pick up what she doesn't use.

Ah Ci was benevolent, and she quietly returned it, but she couldn't swallow that breath.

"Mother, it's the Hu family who is sorry for us first. The officers and soldiers in the city have always turned a blind eye to the curfew, and they have also arrested beggars and drunks. How could it be so coincidental that as soon as we were kicked out of the Hu family with our front foot, we were arrested and put in prison with our back foot. ”

Thinking of the night spent in prison, resentment also rose in Yang's heart.

"Ah Rong wants to?"

"The Hu family doesn't save face for us, so why should we care about our relatives. Mother, let's return the jewelry, but we must return it openly, so as not to make the Hu family talk about it in the future. ”

"But your father won't agree, he always wants us to think of my aunt's good." Yang is still a little scared.

"Spring silkworms are cocooning, and Daddy has been in the countryside these days. When he knows that the wood has been completed, will he not use his brother's future to make amends to the Hu family? ”

The candlelight was lit, and in the slightly humid night in Jiangnan, Yang nodded slowly.

In the same night, the news that Mo Daru wanted to take the Shen family girl as an apprentice spread to the streets and alleys of Qingcheng as the night spread.

From early wisdom to excellent schoolwork and not losing to boys, to helping Master Shen take care of business, and giving porridge in the 123 coastal shed every year, Shen Moci has been a girl who has attracted the attention of the people of Qingcheng for more than ten years. She was intelligent, capable, kind, and gentle, and had a great reputation in the city.

Until the rumor of Donglin Academy's belly pocket came out ten years ago, this matter was nothing on the body of an ordinary girl, but when it was put on Shen Moci's body, it was like a flawless white bi suddenly infected with impurities. The more difficult it was to accept, the more fierce the reaction of the people of Qingcheng became.

On the one hand, they are a little gloating, how can there be such a perfect person, and they are really pretending. But more often than not, they are suspicious, that is Shen Moci!

When Mo Daru's acceptance of apprentices broke out, many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and they knew that the gentle and kind girl of the Shen family would not be such a person. At first, they were still suspicious, and the ambiguous attitude of the Shen family's subordinates escalated their doubts again. It wasn't until they asked again and again that at dusk, someone who couldn't bear it finally relented, saying that their girl didn't want to use the name of Mo Daru to hype.

What a humble person, this is the girl of the Shen family they are familiar with.

In the early morning, after the post station where Mo Daru lived was confirmed by the post station, the schadenfreude in the front battle was completely transformed into guilt. No one noticed that Mo Daru didn't say a word or write a word during the whole process, and he didn't even use his own subordinates, and even the news of the apprenticeship was passed down by the post guard, they only knew that Mo Daru's apprentice must be of high character, and they misunderstood Miss Shen.

"It's all the Hu family."

"The delicate stove keeper of the Hu family must be jealous of Miss Shen and intends to frame her."

Such voices were heard in the streets and alleys, and the people who were remorseful in their hearts finally found an excuse. They didn't mean to, but were misled by the vicious Hu family girl.

Nothing to say under the anger, not long after the rumors about the Hu family girl spread, some people said that she was like a yaksha, some people said that she was extravagant, and even the matter of the nurse was taken out and adapted again, and she became a hard-working old servant who was harshly reprimanded by the moody daughter, and died after being beaten in the firewood room.

After only one night, Ah Yao's reputation became insignificant.

And what brought the whole incident to the peak was the Hu family's in-laws, the Song family's patriarch Yang, with her own daughter, holding a box full of gold and silver hairpin rings to swagger through the market.

The mother and daughter walked all the way along the 123 side, it was noon, people were coming and going on the street, and when they reached the door of Hu's house, a group of people were already trailing behind them.