Chapter 92: Two years
Shu Yao and Shu Wen sisters and brothers have been very depressed recently, their good friends Zhong Jiayi and Nian'er have returned to Beijing one after another, and now the master uncle who has been with each other for half a year has left to travel again, and I don't know when Lu Dao will come back.
Shujie was especially distressed in his eyes, his young siblings experienced so many lives and deaths too early! He can only spend more time with his younger siblings to write and practice.
Because Mr. Luo Niangzi and Mr. Zheng Niangzi value Shu Yao very much, Shu Yao also likes them and doesn't want to change Mr. Jin Xida asked Liu's mother to discuss with Mrs. Xu and the two gentlemen, and went to the Xia Mansion to teach Shu Yao the next day, which happened to coincide with the time when the two of them went to Xu's Mansion.
The two gentlemen naturally have no opinion, Shu Yao is an excellent and diligent student, and as a gentleman, he teaches easily and has a sense of achievement. Moreover, Shu Yao's level is already much higher than the two girls in the second room of Xu Mansion, and it is indeed good for Shu Yao to teach separately.
Although Mrs. Xu selfishly hoped that Shu Yao could stay in Xu Mansion to study, so as to continue to stimulate and drive her two granddaughters, she even hoped that Bing'er could take over Nian'er and follow Mother Liu to learn rules and embroidery. But from Liu's mother's words, I heard that Jin Xida had made up her mind, and she didn't like Shu Yao to have too much contact with her second room, and heard that the two gentlemen were also in favor of Shu Yao studying alone, so she stopped talking. I know the situation in my own house, the second room is indeed a little unclear, I am okay in the house, I am not there, I really can't guarantee that they will not make something outrageous, and when the time comes, it will ruin the relationship between Jin Xida and her eldest son.
Shu Yao's withdrawal made the second wife of the Xu family and Bing'er very dissatisfied, and they always felt that they were slapped in the face. Second Mrs. Xu was still bragging to her sister-in-law a few days ago, saying that the Xia family can skip classes where they are willing to go, and the good gentlemen (such as Luo Niangzi and Zheng Niangzi in their house now) are very expensive, right? When Mrs. Xu returned to Beijing, she asked her two nieces to study in Xu's mansion together, and when the time came, they all followed Mother Liu to learn etiquette and embroidery. Shu Yao rubbed the two gentlemen of their Xu Mansion, and now the Xu Mansion is her head again, hum. That girl has to nod if she doesn't want to nod, otherwise she will repay virtue with resentment, and she will not know her kindness.
Unexpectedly, it was not her turn to blackmail Shu Yao at all, and Jin Xida had already made a request to Mrs. Xu with a tough attitude. Second Mrs. Xu was angry, and privately found two gentlemen, suggesting that they refused to go to the Xia Mansion to teach Shu Yao, who expected that Luo Niangzi and Zheng Niangzi were both "scholars" with a stinky temper, and directly said that they would rather give up the contract with the Xu Mansion than give up a good student like Shu Yao, so angry that the second Mrs. Xu almost fainted directly, but she didn't dare to mention it again. The face of the Xu Mansion is the face of the big house. They really didn't have that much in the second room, saying that they could still find other good gentlemen for Bing'er if they gave up the two gentlemen.
Even Xiu'er has grievances, she is a concubine, and the capital to talk about marriage in the future is naturally not as good as that of a concubine. If Shu Yao can let her learn the rules and etiquette with Mother Liu in the interest of studying together for nearly a year, it will be equivalent to adding a lot of money to her future dowry, but it's a pity...... This orphan girl doesn't understand human feelings and can't be a human being.
What Xu Bing'er and Xu Xiu'er didn't think about was that in the past half a year, they had all kinds of envy, jealousy, hatred and disdain for Shu Yao. Shu Yao's relationship with them has always been faintly distant. Why do they ask Shu Yao to be affectionate to them?
Of course, Shu Yao didn't have time to take care of the various grievances between Second Mrs. Xu, Bing'er and Nian'er, and after leaving Xu's Mansion, all she could think of was her reluctance to Nian'er and her gratitude to Mrs. Xu. Someone else? How could she have so much free time to think about people and things that had nothing to do with her? She was busy, there were so many things to learn and practice, and she had to make purses, sew belts, and embroider clothes for her eldest brother, younger brother, and Uncle Kim...... I wish there were twenty-four hours in a day.
Busy people don't always have enough time. Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the third anniversary of Xia Linxuan and Donnie Yen has arrived, which means that the three of Shujie have officially taken off.
According to the customs of the Great Zhou. The three-year observance of filial piety is actually 27 months, but Xia Linxuan and Donnie Yen passed away one after another within more than a month, and the three Shujie decided to wait until Donnie Yen's third anniversary to get rid of it.
According to the customary practice, the summer house should hold another vegetarian banquet to thank the neighbors, relatives and friends for their help and care.
Aunt Mei took Aunt Qiang and her two mothers-in-law to buy. Prepare for tomorrow's vegetarian feast. Mother Liu instructed the red brocade and orange brocade to decorate the house, and the white curtains naturally had to be removed. Now the decoration in this house is too plain, and some warm and unostentatious colors should be added appropriately. The three little masters are all as vigorous as flowers, and now that they are out of the filial piety period, there is still more vitality in the house.
Shujie took the book to receive the patriarch and several clansmen in the hall and talked about the small courtyard on Xitang Street. Shujie's three brothers and sisters are all tall, and the 9-year-old Shuwen is almost to Shujie's shoulders, and his appearance, speech, and behavior are becoming more and more similar to Shujie, but he is two points sharper than Shujie and three points less scruples.
On the three-story pavilion in the garden, Shu Yao sat on a side chair embroidered with a purse in a powder blue muslin dress, and hummed the Jiangnan minor taught by Liu's mother in a good mood.
"Girl, girl, the dim sum is here, and there is a letter from Miss Xu San." Lan Jin carried a food box to the first floor of the pavilion, there was a tray on the wooden table in the pavilion, Lan Jin took out a small plate of lotus seed cake in the food box and put it on the tray, took out an empty cup and a teapot, poured the goat's milk in the teapot into the cup, poured a full cup, and then took out a letter from his arms and put it next to the milk cup.
She didn't prepare to go up with the tray, so she walked directly outside the pavilion and tilted her head and called: "Girl, goat's milk is not delicious when it is cold." ”
It's not that Lan Jin is lazy, such a full cup of goat's milk, she served it to the third layer, and it is estimated that there is only half a cup left. Ask her why she is so full? Well, that's what the girl asked.
"Nian'er's sister's letter? Give it to me! Shu Yao fell silently beside Lan Jin.
But Lan Jin is used to it: "Well, in the tray, the girl will serve it together, drink milk and eat snacks and then read the letter." Girl, don't sprinkle goat's milk on the letter. Lan Jin was joking, but he was very sure that this was impossible. Their girl flew up and down ten times with this tray without spilling a drop of goat's milk, and without making a sound.
At the beginning, Shu Yao wanted Lan Jin to learn light martial arts with her, just like Shangjin also accompanied Shuwen to practice martial arts. It's a pity that Lan Jin can't learn light skills, but he and Shangjin learned a set of boxing techniques and a set of palm techniques with Wu Zhenzi, and it is quite interesting after practicing for more than two years.
Shu Yao pursed her lips and smiled after listening to Lan Jin's words: "If you sprinkle, you will punish me ten more times." Before the words fell, the man was gone.
"Hehe" Lan Jin was not surprised to see too much, and jumped up to the second floor. Take another breath and fly up to the third floor, she doesn't have the skills of a girl, she can only jump up layer by layer, but it's better than climbing the stairs, isn't it?
Shu Yao smiled: "Let's check, have you sla?" She knew that Lan Jin was here to stare at her, first drank goat's milk, and then read the letter. Mother Liu attaches great importance to the way of health preservation, and according to the rules of the house, the goat milk and snacks brought to them for the three brothers and sisters must be warm and just in the mouth, too hot and too cold will hurt the stomach. Even in the hot summer, Liu's mother rarely let the three of them, especially her, eat something that has been chilled. Even if you eat. You can also only eat a small portion.
Dether! Lan Jin pursed his lips and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Shu Yao's voice "Don't move". A white light flashed from the side of Lan Jin, almost brushing against Lan Jin's bun.
Lan Jin looked back, and there was indeed an embroidery needle inserted on the pillar behind him, and a small spider was nailed to the needle, almost in the center.
Shu Yao winked at her: "Just on the side of your bun." You're most afraid of spiders, so I didn't warn you. After speaking, he began to drink goat's milk, and happily guessed, Sister Nian'er's family affairs have been decided, right? Will this letter tell her which one it is?
Lan Jin was pat his heart and recited Amitabha, and he was afraid for a while, of course. She was afraid of the spider and not the needle, and the girl had never missed the mark. Not to mention this distance, as long as it is within three zhang, it is no problem. Three feet away. It's not that I'm worried that the girl's head is not accurate enough, but the girl's current strength is not enough, and beyond the three zhang, the stamina of the embroidery needle is insufficient, so she can't nail the spider.
She was glad that the girl hadn't let her get the spider herself. God knows that Lan Jin is not afraid of big tigers. I'm most afraid of spiders. Hehe, I'm not afraid of big tigers, because they have the most majestic big tiger in their house!
"Patriarch, aren't they gone yet?" Shu Yao swallowed a mouthful of snacks and asked.
Lan Jin shook his head: "No, didn't our tofu workshop just move?" Several clan elders wanted the eldest young master to sell our small yard on Xitang Street to an orphan and widow in the clan. But the two masters of the Xia Mansion refused, and kept saying that they had told our eldest young master two years ago that they would buy the yard. What do you say about intimacy and time, you should sell it to them. ”
"Intimacy?" Shu Yao sneered, "Are they really us, or are we still in the second room of his Xia Mansion?" ”
"Isn't it?" Lan Jin's face was also lightly ridiculed, "The second master of Xia Mansion also warned our eldest young master not to be deceived, saying that the orphans and widows just wanted to take the yard for nothing, and several clan elders were entangled and afraid by them, and they couldn't find a house for them to live in, so they wanted to give this burden to our house, and they couldn't get the silver back at all." ”
"Hehe, dog eats dog," Shu Yao said with a smile, in fact, the three of them already knew about this matter. The night before, the fifth grandfather deliberately asked his little grandson to secretly hand over a letter to Shuwen in the school, telling Shujie that he could not promise to sell the yard to the orphans and widows, and that the four sons and mothers, sons, and daughters of the family were all lazy and lazy, the oldest was 18 years old, and the youngest was 12 years old. Because the widow was very good at playing tricks, she took her daughter to the clan twice in three days to make trouble, saying that the clan didn't care about the life or death of their orphans and widows, and the clan elders turned around and hid when they saw her.
In the previous month, it rained heavily for ten consecutive days, and most of the dilapidated houses of orphans and widows were occupied, and the trouble became even more fierce, and they even ran to the patriarch and several clansmen's homes to stay and not leave, which caused people a headache. A few clan elders saw that Shujie's tofu workshop was just moving, so they thought about kicking this ball to the Xia Mansion, thinking that the three of Shujie didn't know the details of the orphan and widow's house, and the children wouldn't think so much, plus now the Xia Mansion is not short of this money, it's a big deal that they will help "collect debts" in the future, as long as it is not them who are owed money, they are still happy to do the matter of "presiding over justice" with their mouths.
Shu Yao drank the last sip of goat's milk and asked, "What did my eldest brother say?" ”
The eldest young master said that the few people who are working in the tofu factory are still living in the small courtyard, and they will not be able to sell the small courtyard until the end of the year when they move to a new residence. The orphan and widow's house is already in the house, and she can't wait that long, so it's better to let the clan help her find a house elsewhere. As for the Xia Mansion to buy, first, it will take half a year before it can be cleared out of the yard and transferred after the year, and second, it will be necessary to register the deed at the county office. The second young master also added, saying that he would hand over the silver with one hand and the land deed with the other, so as not to 'get the silver back at all' as the second master of the Xia Mansion warned. ”
"Hehe", Shu Yao was happy, "In the past two years, what our so-called third uncle is most afraid of should be Wen'er, right?" Every time, I give him back what he said, and use it just right. ”
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