Chapter 30: Surprise
When Xie Rouqing arrived home, it was just dark, and the servant woman of the Shaw Brothers came to pick her up at the door in person.
"Third Miss is tired, right?" They said intimately.
Xie Rouqing shook her head with a smile.
"Not tired." She said.
The lantern under the door illuminated her spirits, and she really didn't look tired.
This young lady in her own family is cheerful, never squeamish, especially when she goes to Yushan, she is happy for herself, if people are happy, they don't feel tired.
The servant woman smiled and nodded.
"The third lady is not tired, but the lady is tired because she is worried about the young lady." They laughed and said, "Miss, go in and see Madame." ”
Xie Rouqing nodded and walked towards the courtyard of the Shaw Brothers.
"Third Miss." The servant woman who followed closely behind her couldn't help but shout.
Xie Rouqing stopped and looked at them.
The two servant women and the two girls turned pale and stopped talking.
"When you're tired, go down and rest." Xie Rouqing said, and continued to walk away.
The Shaw servant looked at the four of them.
"Mother Huang, why is your face so ugly?" She smiled, grabbed Huang's mother's arm, and sighed, "Are you still shaking?" ”
She was a little surprised and confused.
"What's wrong with you? You won't be sick with the wind blowing in the mountains, right? ”
It's good if you get sick with a cold, but it's just a disease, and you can get better after a few days.
Huang's mother smiled bitterly in her heart.
But now that the third lady is doing such a thing, she must be angry with the eldest lady, and you can imagine what will happen to the Xie family if she angers the eldest lady, even if the second master and the second lady love the third lady, they can't protect it.
Think about why Miss Roujia was expelled, it was because she challenged the status of the eldest lady, this is the daughter of the eldest lady raised in the palm of her hand, and if she said that she was expelled, she was expelled, and the junior niece who was separated by a room was nothing.
If the third miss is punished, they will be miserable for the subordinates who follow the third miss.
This is fate, once the fate is set, it is not a matter of raising it for a few days.
Mother Huang's lips trembled, and she couldn't speak.
"Mother Huang." The servant woman of the Shaw Brothers looked solemn, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Did something happen in Yushan? ”
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"What can happen to me, mother, you are really worried." Indoor Xie Rouqing said, putting down the tea in her hand, "I'm so old, and I'm not a child." ”
Shaw was amused.
"Yes, our Rouqing will be thirteen years old." She laughed, "What an adult." ”
Regarding her mother's ridicule, Xie Rouqing did not speak.
"Did you see your cousin and tell him about him?" Shaw asked again.
The day before yesterday, Xie Rouqing suddenly stopped going to school and ran back to say that she was going to Yushan, but she didn't agree, thinking that Shao Mingqing was really a troublemaker, and she should never have anything to do with him again.
But Xie Rouqing insisted on going, saying that she couldn't admit her cousin's mistake just because of what others said, and the Shao family had no choice but to let her go, but instead of visiting Shao Mingqing, she reprimanded.
"You sue him, don't rely on his father to spoil him and do something that he doesn't know, let him not forget his surname is Shao, not Xie." She admonished.
Hearing Shao Shi ask this, Xie Rouqing shook his head.
"Nope." She said.
No? Shaw was stunned.
"Didn't you see him?" She asked.
"I see it." Xie Rouqing said, "But my cousin said he didn't do it. ”
Shaw frowned and sneered.
"Your cousin's slippery head, how can you believe what he says?" She said.
Xie Rouqing shook her head.
"Yes, I can't just listen to what he says, so I went to ask the old lady again." She said, "The old lady also said no. ”
Shaw scoffed again.
"The old lady said no, the old lady said ......no," she said, her face suddenly stiffened before the laughter fell, and the rest of the words seemed to be stuck in her throat, and her voice became dry and stumbling.
"....Old, old lady....old lady said... Say what? ”
"The old lady said it wasn't my cousin who told her to go to the mine." Xie Rouqing replied seriously, "The old lady is going by herself." ”
Shaw looked at his daughter blankly.
"The old lady said she was going," she repeated.
No, no, that's not the point!
She jerked to her feet.
"Why is the old lady telling you this?" She said in a trembling voice.
"Because I told the old lady about this." Xie Rouqing said.
Shaw looked at her and felt a little dazed.
"What did you say to the old lady?" She asked, dumbfounded.
"I said that the eldest lady knew that the old lady went to the mine, and thought that my cousin had led the old lady there, so I was very unhappy...... Xie Rouqing said.
Before he finished speaking, Shaw felt his brain explode.
I said to the old lady....the eldest lady learned....the eldest lady was very angry......
Shaw only felt his body tremble and sway.
"Come on, come on, call the second master quickly! Call the second master! She screamed, reaching for the table.
A lot of people poured in the Shaw family's house, and a lot of people poured out.
"Stand down, stand down." Several servant women waved their hands with heavy faces and whispered.
The maid and servant woman standing in the courtyard suddenly receded like a tide.
The room was brightly lit, but because of the many people standing and kneeling at this time, casting long and short shadows, the vision became a little dim.
"Is that what she said?"
The second old man, who was sitting on the Luohan bed, looked at the servant woman kneeling on the ground and asked in a deep voice, although he still had the smell of alcohol on his body, the slightest drunkenness in his voice was gone.
"Father, I just said..."Xie Rouqing, who was standing aside, was about to speak.
"Shut up!" The second old man shouted.
"Don't listen to you now, I don't want to listen to you anymore." Leaning on the bed, the pale Shaw also shouted screaming.
Xie Rouqing stopped talking, and the servant girls on the ground kowtowed.
"Yes, the second master, the third lady said that, she didn't come to greet the old lady." The servant woman choked up.
Shaw became excited again.
"Listen to what she said!" She said, "Even if she really didn't ask Ann to go, she couldn't say that." ”
The second master shook his head.
"No, that's right." He said, "The eldest aunt actually prefers to be so straightforward, and if you say hello, she won't believe it." ”
Shore gas knot.
It's really a weird woman from the Xie family, so the girls in the family are also weird.
"What else?" The second master continued to ask.
"Then the third lady told the old lady that the eldest lady was very angry when she learned that the old lady was bewitched, but she felt that her cousin would not do such a thing, because she thought that the old lady would not be bewitched by others, but that she really liked it, and she didn't want her cousin to be angry and misunderstood." The servant woman choked up.
"So she let the old lady and the eldest lady get angry with each other and misunderstand?" Shaw shouted sharply.
The second master raised his hand to stop her.
"It's not a big deal." He said, looking at the servant, "What did the old lady say?" ”
Yes, those are not big deals, and what the old lady says next is a big deal.
The servant woman trembled and fell to the ground.
"The old lady said that she didn't expect that a little child could understand her, but the daughter she gave birth to took her for a fool."
Being a fool by a begotten daughter......
There was silence in the room, and even Shaw, who was gasping for breath, was silent, and she stared blankly at the servant, and then as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell backwards.
"Madame!"
Suddenly there was chaos in the house again.
The night was dark, and there were people hurrying along the road with lanterns, and after finishing their day's errands, several women who were laughing and walking back to their house stopped when they saw it.
"Isn't this the mother next to the second lady?" The woman at the head looked at the visitor and smiled, "What are you doing so late?" ”
It was a very ordinary greeting, but it made the woman's body shake and her head drooped.
"No, nothing, I'll go home." She said, her voice a little flustered, and before these women could speak, she thought of something, "Oh sisters, I remembered again, there is something that the second lady told me that I forgot, I have to go back and tell them." ”
She said so, gave a hasty salute, turned and walked along the way she came.
The women were stunned.
"What is she doing here?" One said, "Why did we run away when we saw us?" Are we ghosts? ”
This made everyone laugh again.
"My sister is on an errand in front of the eldest lady, and it's not scary to say anything." Someone quipped.
There's no shame in being scared, and it's not something anyone can do if they want to be scared.
The woman smiled with some reserve.
"Then don't do bad things, there's nothing to be afraid of seeing ghosts." She stretched out her hand and stroked her sideburns and said, looked at the second lady's mansion, and frowned, "Is there something wrong with the second lady?" ”
Everyone laughed and pushed her away.
"What can happen, with the eldest lady here, nothing is a matter, don't pay attention to it, if you really have something, you will know tomorrow." They said, "Hurry up, go quickly, say that you want to win back tonight, don't slip." ”
Also, what could be a big deal, but it was just some trivial things in the inner house, so the woman threw away her thoughts and walked away with a smile.
The sound of laughter and footsteps could no longer be heard in the alley, and only around the corner did the woman emerge, and the lantern did not dare to light it and trotted past in the dark.
When the doctor in the family was invited, several servant women in the Shaw courtyard were already waiting impatiently.
"Why is it so slow!" They reprimanded in a low voice, now is not the time to investigate, hurriedly raise the curtain to let the doctor in.
It was already midnight after the doctor had taken the medicine, and the lights were still on in the courtyard of the Shaw Family.
"Turn off the lights so that people can see them, and they must guess that something is wrong!" Shaw lay on the bed, looked at the light in the courtyard outside the window, and said again, anxiously to get up.
Two girls hurriedly stopped her, and one hurriedly ran out.
"Lights out, lights out."
The lights in the courtyard were extinguished one by one, and the night was thick, and the Shao Brothers who were lying in the shadows felt that they could take a breath a little, but when they saw Xie Rouqing standing on the side, they immediately coughed again.
"You, you..." She stretched out her hand and pointed at Xie Rouqing and said a few times to you, as if she didn't know what to say, her eyebrows were raised, she looked at the second master, and her voice was hateful, "Master, this is all this thing that Shao Mingqing lured us Qing'er to do!" Our Qing'er was also deceived. ”
Look, sure enough.
Xie Rouqing sighed in her heart, and couldn't help but smile again.
"Mother, if you want to defend me, there is no need to frame others." She said.
"Shut up!" Shaw shouted, "You still have the face to say!" Why are you so deluded to listen to that little! ”
Little!
Xie Rouqing's face changed suddenly.
Shao Mingqing's biological mother is a fireworksman, so he will inevitably be ridiculed behind his back, but because of Master Shao's love and maintenance of Shao Mingqing, after killing two subordinates who laughed at Shao Mingqing in private, no one said this kind of thing again.
Just because no one says it doesn't mean everyone doesn't think so.
Look, even my mother thinks so in her heart.
"Mother, my cousin is my uncle's biological son, are you scolding my uncle for being a slut?" She said.
Shaw was furious.
"You dare to talk back!" She shouted.
The second master slapped the table, and the room fell silent.
"Things are already like this, I don't think about how to be thoughtful, I just want to shirk responsibility, what's the use." The second old man frowned and said, "Do you think that if you put the fault on Shao Mingqing in front of the eldest lady, Rouqing will be fine?" ”
The kind of person who is the eldest lady...... Of course not.
Shaw's heart is cold.
"What then?" She said in tears, while getting out of bed in a hurry, "I'd better go and confess my mistake to the eldest lady now, for the sake of the child's bewitched and ignorant face, forgive this time." ”
The second old man shook his head.
"Let's wait." He said.
"Wait?" Shao Shi hurriedly said, "When the eldest lady knows from others, it will be over!" ”
The second master walked back and forth a few steps.
"Only Qing'er and the old lady know about this matter." He said, "If the old lady doesn't say it, who will know? ”
Shaw looked at him with some puzzlement.
"Won't the old lady speak?" She asked.
The second old man pondered for a moment and looked at Xie Rouqing.
Xie Rouqing has been standing quietly, no noise or crying, only interrupted a few times, but she stopped talking when she was interrupted.
This daughter of mine is quite bold.
The second master felt a little proud in his heart, but he realized that this was not the time to be proud, so he hurriedly straightened his expression.
"I don't think the old lady will say it right away." He said, "After all, Qing'er just told her, and she came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, wouldn't this embarrass Qing'er, Qing'er is a child in the end, and the old lady is an elder." ”
"Elders? She didn't do much like her elders before. Shaw said.
"Even if she is not an elder, she is an adult after all, is it because others said a few words, she came to quarrel with her daughter?" The second master said, "If you want to make trouble, you have to inquire, and you have to delay it for two days." ”
Is that so? Shaw was still uneasy.
"I'll meet the old lady to-morrow." The second master said, "I'll talk to her about it." ”
Shaw breathed a sigh of relief.
"You must talk to the old lady." She said, getting up again, "I'd better go with you." ”
"Don't go." The second old man shook his head, "You can't cry and cry when you go, but it makes the old lady impatient, and the old lady is most annoyed by others crying in front of her, saying that she is blackmailing her." ”
He looked at the sky.
"Okay, that's it for now, hurry up and rest, I'll leave tomorrow morning."
Where are you still sleeping, Shao sighed and saw Xie Rouqing on the side.
"You stay in the house for me, don't come out without my permission!" She shouted.
Sleepless nights.
According to Shaw's intentions, the second master was going to take the car to Yushan before dawn, but the second master felt that such a panic made people suspicious, so after breakfast, he saw a few stewards and talked about business, and then took a small servant to the car and went out unhurriedly.
Shao Shi felt a little relieved, turned around and walked towards Mrs. Xie's courtyard, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw many girls standing in the courtyard, and when he saw the second lady coming, they quietly greeted and saluted.
Is this a guest?
Shaw was a little surprised, so early?
"Who's coming?" She asked casually as she stepped up the steps.
"The old lady is back." The girl said.
As soon as the words fell, I saw that Shaw Brothers stumbled and almost fell, so the girl hurriedly held on.
"Second lady," she said in surprise.
Shaw had already grabbed her with his backhand.
"Who did you say came back?" She asked, shocked.
Before the girl could answer, there was a sound of talking in the room.
"I'm done." Old Madam Xie's voice came.
"Mother, why do you walk in the middle of the night?" Mrs. Xie frowned and said, "This is too dangerous. ”
Old Madam Xie hummed and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.
"Ask a doctor to show me." She said.
Doctor?
Mrs. Xie was taken aback.
Old Madam Xie came back suddenly early in the morning, or quietly entered the door without anyone being alarmed, could it be that she was sick? Can't the doctors who accompanied the ancestral hall cure the disease?
"Mother, are you sick?" She said urgently.
"I don't know yet." Old Madam Xie said, "So let you call the doctor to come and see if I'm old and confused?" ”
Dotard?
Mrs. Xie was stunned.
Old Madam Xie put down her handkerchief and looked at Mrs. Xie.
"If the doctor says I'm fine, then let him show you and see if you're confused." She said.
Finished!
Shaw Brothers, who were standing under the porch, fell to his knees with a pop.
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