Chapter 28 - Hindering Again
Shi Manman recounted what she had seen in a few words, and although Xiao Yuan was angry, he did not slap the table and smash the cup like Xiao Lei provoked him.
"Mei'er, you haven't visited Mrs. Mu for some days recently, looking for Lei'er Zhizhou helped us a lot, and now that Lei'er is back, we have to go and thank them." Xiao Yuan said to Liu Yemei in a deep voice.
Hearing Xiao Yuan's words, Liu Yemei with anxious eyebrows stretched out, and immediately got up to say goodbye, but when he passed by Shi Manman, Liu Yemei glanced at each other deeply, with some complexity in his eyes. Shi Manman also looked at Liu Yemei, seeing that there seemed to be a lot of content in the other party's eyes, and he wanted to look at it seriously but didn't see anything.
"You tell me carefully, what did Lei'er say to you." Xiao Yuan was the only time he spoke to Shi Manman calmly without any rejection or disgust, but Xiao Yuan could still see in his eyes that his attitude towards Shi Manman had not changed.
What Shi Manman sometimes does seems to be a little lacking in heart, but it doesn't mean that she really doesn't have a heart. When Liu Yemei was there, she didn't say what Xiao Lei told her to tell Xiao Yuan. When the people in the house followed Liu Yemei away, Xiao Yuan asked Shi Manman the question she was about to say very tacitly.
"He asked you to check on the old doctor, the medicine boy, and the Xiao family." Shi Manman calmly recounted what Xiao Lei had told her. Xiao Yuan's face seemed calm, but as soon as the word "Xiao family" came out, it almost made him get up and shout "ridiculous". He saw the stone vines looking at him with an inquiring face, but he still held back. The two were silent for a moment, and there was another commotion outside the hospital.
"What's going on!" The annoyance of being interrupted and the worry about Xiao Lei made Xiao Yuan turn into a little gunpowder. As he walked towards the courtyard, he saw Steward Zhang running towards him and staggering, followed by a young man.
"Sir! Master...... Young master, something happened to him! Steward Zhang gasped and spat out a few words inarticulately.
Xiao Yuan realized that something seemed to be wrong, he looked at Shi Manman and then at Steward Zhang. immediately became dissatisfied with Steward Zhang, and Xiao Lei's accident turned out to be an outsider who told him for the first time. "I already know. You go and prepare the car immediately, and I'll go to the yamen now. As he spoke, he glared at Steward Zhang. Steward Zhang was still panting, as if he didn't understand how the master knew about the news he reported back almost immediately.
"I'll go too." Shi Manman, who had been standing behind Xiao Yuan, walked out. Steward Zhang and the young man behind him looked up at Shi Manman at the same time. Steward Zhang looked puzzled, could it be that the news that the master knew was said by Miss Shi? However, the place where Xiao Lei had an accident was not close to the Xiao family, and he could hardly rush back in such a short time without a means of transportation for a while.
And the young man was stunned when he saw Shi Manman's appearance, his eyes flashed weakly, and when he wanted to lower his head, he suddenly thought of something, and the tension that had just risen relaxed again, and he looked at Shi Manman fearlessly. That young man was the one who hit the stone vine and blackmailed her with a jade hairpin.
Shi Manman didn't look at the two, but stared at Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan wanted to open his mouth to refuse, but saw that Shi Manman's firm gaze actually gave him the momentum to want to flee from the wilderness. Avoiding Shi Manman's gaze, he said to Steward Zhang: "Prepare two cars." After speaking, he stopped looking at the stone vines, raised his feet and left first.
"Yes." The old housekeeper agreed, casually stuffed a few copper coins for the young man behind him, and asked the people in the courtyard to send him away, and hurriedly prepared the carriage to go. The young man had come to report the news, just to earn a few errand money. didn't want Xiao Yuan to already know the news, so he just ran away in vain. But Steward Zhang still gave him a few copper plates for his hard work. Shi Manman also followed the old housekeeper, and suddenly there was another person in front of her blocking her way.
"Get out of the way!" Shi Manman looked at the young man in front of him coldly, if he hadn't been stopped by him at first, Xiao Lei might not have fallen into the current situation. At this moment, he actually blocked his way again, and this time she didn't mind "restoring the original state" of the hand bone that the other party had connected.
"It turns out that you have a relationship with the Xiao family." The young man looked the stone vines up and down, his eyes full of calculation and a hint of cunning.
"Then, a jade hairpin is not enough." The young man grinned, as if he hadn't seen the patience in Shi Manman's eyes dissipate little by little.
"Five taels...... No, ten taels of silver. Give me ten taels, and I'll ......" Before the words fell, he felt his collar tighten, his heart hung in the air, and his greedy expression froze on his face.
Shi Manman carried the young man, and also rose and fell between the walls and courtyards of the Xiao family. It wasn't until she saw two carriages tied to tall horses that she let the boy go and landed smoothly.
Her appearance stunned everyone present, Xiao Yuan still carried one foot on the side of the carriage, still maintaining the posture of getting on the carriage, witnessing the appearance of stone vines in the sky, rubbing the edge of his feet, fortunately the other hand grabbed the handrail and did not fall. She actually knows kung fu! A thought flashed through everyone present at the same time.
"Can I go?" Shi Manmanfeng gently stroked the corner of his skirt and asked.
"Let's go." Xiao Yuan stepped on the carriage steadily and entered the carriage. The face that pretended to be calm became iron blue the moment the car door closed, and the mountain woman coupled with the kung fu of the rivers and lakes made Xiao Yuan very dissatisfied. He started business so that his family could live comfortably and clothed, but he knew better than anyone that joining the office was the real way to make the Xiao family rise.
He once spent a lot of money to collect all kinds of family names for Xiao Lei, and the family business did not let him come into contact, just so that he could concentrate on the scientific examination, but he didn't expect to miss the township examination once every three years by mistake. Xiao Lei's age is not young, and his wife also plays a very key role in the career.
If he didn't pursue the Xiao family to go further, then it wouldn't hurt to marry Shi Manman. But when all material things can be satisfied by money, what he lacks is power. Whether it's for the Xiao family, or for his own selfishness. He will not let Xiao Lei be "destroyed" in the hands of Shi Manman.
Shi Manman didn't know that her behavior made Xiao Yuan push her away from the Xiao family gate again, but she also knew that she was too flamboyant today. Watching Xiao Yuan get into the car, she also learned from Xiao Yuan to climb into the carriage behind. It's just that before entering the car, he turned around and glanced at the young man lying on the ground and was weak. The young man's face was still pale, and his eyes looking at Shi Manman were fearful, weak, and there was even a hint of worship.
After the two of them got into their respective carriages, Steward Zhang beckoned the coachman to leave. The sound of horses' hooves kicking and trampling headed in the direction of the yamen.
There are two hideous big stone lions outside the yamen, once Xiao Lei was still young, he pestered his father because of curiosity and asked him to bring himself to handle the general document, but he was frightened by the two lively big stone lions outside the door, and from then on, when he heard the word yamen, he could make him feel worried. It wasn't until years later that the gloom of the youth became blurred.
He stood at the yamen and looked at the two familiar stone lions, and was pushed into the yamen in a trance.