Although her heart was very uncalm at this time, Shu Manyao still listened to Cao Qi with great energy, and occasionally asked a few questions, and played a boudoir daughter who didn't go out much without any flaws.

After sitting in the pavilion for half an hour, Jin Ling came over and gave their sisters a few salutes with a smile: "Big girl, second girl, third girl, Miss Cao, the old lady asked people to prepare snacks, if you are tired of shopping, go back to Ronghua Garden to use some, the snacks are just steamed, just in the entrance." ”

Shu Manyao looked sideways at Cao Qi and smiled, "Why don't you go back?" Although the dim sum served by the maids just now is not bad, it is not as good as what is made in the grandmother's small kitchen, Meng Niangzi's craftsmanship is the best, and you are guaranteed to eat it once and you will not forget it. ”

Cao Qi nodded again and again: "Okay, then let's go back and taste the dim sum, I like sweet the most, but my mother doesn't allow me to eat more, if Meng Niangzi's dim sum is really delicious, I must eat more." ”

A few people happily returned to the main courtyard, and exchanged a few more words, and the old lady saw that Cao Qi really liked the dim sum, so she simply asked her to pack a box and take it back. Mrs. Cao excused herself, but she didn't resist the old lady, so Zuihou had to take Cao Qi with a food box to say goodbye.

Shu Manyao leaned on the old lady's side and asked, "Grandmother, Second Mrs. Cao is here to ask me for the matter of Mr.?" ”

The old lady nodded, with a smile in her eyes: "However, she didn't recommend herself, but someone else." She has a maiden sister-in-law, who is also middle-aged and widowed, but, unlike her, her sister-in-law doesn't even have a daughter, and her mother-in-law is lenient, and she is allowed to bring a dowry to stand on her own, just so that she can go to Beijing with us. ”

"Second Lady Cao's sister?" Shu Manyao blinked, paused and asked, "How is this person's ability?" How is it to be a person? ”

"I'll have to ask your dad to send someone to inquire about this." The old lady smiled rarely: "However, I thought that since I was born with the same mother as Mrs. Cao, I have a deep sisterhood with Mrs. Cao since I was a child, and it should not be bad." ”

The most important thing is that the affairs of the Cao family can involve Second Mrs. Cao, but not Second Mrs. Cao's married sister.

The grandparents talked for a while, and then had lunch in one place, and the old lady was a little tired, so Shu Manyao said goodbye and went back to her yard. Let the maids all go out, and she dared to show a little look on her face.

Cao Wei, is that the brute she wants to inquire about? Is it really from the Cao family? Then at the beginning, why did Dad let Cao Wei live in his own house? Or is this Cao Wei not Cao Wei?

But this idea passed in a flash, and with the similar appearance of Cao Jian and Cao Wei, if this Cao Wei was not that Cao Wei, he would simply see a ghost.

Or, is it because something happened to the Cao family, but Cao Wei escaped for some reason, and the Shu family had to take Cao Wei in due to the situation? The more she thought about it, the more Shu Manyao felt that this reason was very tenable.

In the past, she always felt that Cao Wei was appreciated by her father because of her knowledge, and then she brought Cao Wei back. But if Cao Wei is really knowledgeable, what if he doesn't participate in the imperial examination?

Dad has also sponsored many scholars before, which one didn't go to the imperial examination after a year or two, or found another way? Daddy is a good person, but he is not a good person, and he will never feed anyone for no reason.

So, what does Cao Wei rely on to live in his own house?

Second Mrs. Cao is hopeless, could it be that she is the sister of Second Mrs. Cao? However, in his previous life, he didn't have any more gentlemen, so he shouldn't have anything to do with Mrs. Cao's sister, right?

If he didn't want this second lady Cao's sister to live in the Shu family with Cao Wei, would there be any connection?

Shu Manyao's head hurts when she thinks about it, she hates Cao Wei's itchy teeth, every time she thinks of this person, she can't wait to pick her skin and cramp, thinking for a while that it is necessary to zaijian him, and then repay the suffering she suffered ten times and a hundred times in her previous life, and for a while she thinks that she doesn't want to see him, she wants to have a more haode life in this life, and she doesn't have to let such a rotten person mess up his future life.

"Girl?" Xia Xi shouted outside, Shu Manyao quickly got up, stuffed the ravaged handkerchief into his sleeve, and tidied up his hair again, then called Xia Xi in: "But what's the matter?" ”

"Girl, today the second girl went to the third girl and found the book we replaced." Xia Xi was nervous, and there was still a little panic on her face: "I'm losing my temper with the third girl now, what should we do?" ”

"Did you find it by accident or how?" Shu Manyao was stunned, then frowned and asked, Xia Xi didn't dare to hide it, stood aside and whispered: "Xiao Chun'er said that after the third girl took a nap, she originally planned to read a book for a while, but then the second girl brought a needle and thread, saying that she was going to do needlework with the third girl, and flipped through the book that the third girl read, and then her face changed, and asked the big girls around the third girl to go out, and then reprimanded the third girl. ”

"Do you know what the second girl said?" Shu Manyao asked, Xia Xi shook his head: "Because the people around the third girl and the second girl are guarding the door, they ......"

"It doesn't matter, you just have to clean up the whole thing and don't let people know who put the book in." Shu Manyao smiled, doesn't she know the temperament of the three girls? Curiosity is the strongest, and the more serious the second girl is, the more curious the third girl must be.

This ruined a book, and there was the next one, and sooner or later, the three girls would know what was written in that book.

Xia Xi saw that Shu Manyao had no other look on his face, and his heart was a little more settled, so he brought tea to Shu Manyao and stood quietly aside. Shu Manyao closed his eyes, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, weishenme didn't retaliate against Cao Wei?

Even Shu Manjin and Shu Manyu don't want to let go, weishenme wants to let Cao Wei go?

Her previous idea was that people don't offend me, I don't offend people, but, look at what Xu did? See what Shu Manjin and Shu Manyu did? Anyway, it's already overwhelming, so why pretend not to want to dirty your hands?

Shu Manyao looked at his hands, white and pure, soft and boneless, not at all different from the rough and thin hands in his previous life.

She didn't want to provoke those people, but what if those people sent them to the door themselves? Does she still have to learn the patience of her previous life? Why?

"Mother Yang, have you been there?" Shu Manyao lay back for a while, and asked casually, Xia Xi shook her head: "Not yet, what does the girl command?" ”

"Don't go for the time being, wait for two or three days before going." Shu Manyao said with a smile: "The second girl has always been delicate, she must be able to check the source of that book, you have arranged everything?" ”

Xia Xi nodded: "The slave maid has already been arranged, according to what the girl said before, the book was bought by the third girl herself." ”

Because Shu Chengye loves calligraphy and painting, the girls of the Shu family are all smart people, and they all wish that they were all writers, and they want to be vassals and elegant, how could there be no such thing as buying books?

Of course, these smart girls of the Shu family do not include Shu Manyao.

Shu Manyao in the previous life was a fool, just because he heard that his grandmother was his only support, because his grandmother didn't like girls to read more, and because she was squeezed by Shu Manjin and Shu Manyu when she was studying, she just locked herself up as a soft egg.

It's not good to think about it, if my grandmother really doesn't want girls to go to school, how can she promise my father to invite a husband for the girls? I don't want to think about it, my father is my own father, even if I want to favor my only son, how can I not pity my own blood at all? Daddy is not the kind of patriarchal, otherwise, why would he hire a gentleman for himself?

If I hadn't let my father and grandmother down, if I hadn't locked myself up, would I have ended up like that?

Shu Manyao smiled, in this life, she will never live up to her father and grandmother's kindness to her.

"How about the new little maids?" Shu Manyao casually took a book on the table and opened it, Xia Xi smiled: "The new little maids are quite diligent, especially the one called Xiao Tao, who is very eye-catching." ”

"Got the way out?" Shu Manyao asked again, Xia Xi lowered her voice: "I have already inquired, Xiao Tao is the youngest daughter of Mother Xu, who is the leader of the patrol in the inner courtyard, and her father is Xu Da, the coachman in the front yard." Xing'er is the sister-in-law of the sister-in-law of the needlework room, both parents died, and her brother is the nurse on the Zhuangzi outside. Liu Er bought it, saying that her family suffered a disaster, and then she was sold by her father and mother, and she knew a few words. Qing'er is the daughter of Yao's mother, Yao's mother is the first lady's wife, and only leads the errand of guarding the treasury in the inner courtyard. ”

Shu Manyao frowned slightly, the matter of guarding the treasury is very important and important, basically it is not a confidant who cannot guard the warehouse. However, it doesn't matter at all, because it's not the one who guards the treasury and holds the booklet. The things in the treasury are all registered, and what to use in the house on weekdays, there is a mother who takes the right cards, and then invites the mother who is in charge of the book, so that he can go into the warehouse to get things.

Guarding the storeroom is just taking a key.

This errand is very in line with Xu's consistent practice, not only to the old lady and her father, to show that she did not suppress the people left by the first lady, but also to give the errand without the slightest oil and water, the things in the warehouse are damaged or lost, and Yao's mother, who takes the key, is definitely the first to bear the brunt.

"Which one is Yao's mother marrying?" After a while, Shu Manyao asked, and Xia Xi hurriedly replied, "It's Yao Pingfu, the steward of the study in the front yard." ”

Shu Manyao suddenly realized, no wonder Yao's mother has not had any trouble in the warehouse over the years, and the woman of the Xu family has to take care of Yao Pingfu to do it.