Mama Ruan didn't want to think about why the second lady said this, and how the Xie family thought. Anyway, when I saw Xu Xi for a while, she would persuade Xu Xi. As for Wei's words, as long as she stopped Xie from telling Xu Xi, there would be no problem, just as if she hadn't said it.

Seeing that the owner of this courtyard was taken away by Mama Ruan, Wei Shi stopped moving forward, turned around and walked towards the carriage: "I'll get in the carriage and wait." ”

Seeing this, Zhao Ruyu glanced at the dark room, glanced at Fu Shu, and then turned around and got into the carriage.

"Second master, do you want to go into the house and sit, or go back to the carriage?" Steward Liu asked Zhao Yuanliang.

Zhao Yuanliang looked at the open door of the house, and could vaguely see that the table and stools of the Eight Immortals placed inside were very simple, and it was estimated that the room was not clean, he frowned and was about to go back to the carriage, when he saw a group of people walking in from outside the courtyard gate, led by an old man in his fifties.

"But the lord of the Suiping Marquis Mansion?" The old man asked, his hand was raised, and he gave Zhao Yuanliang a look, "Old Xu Chengguan is the head of the Xu family." I didn't know that Master Zhao was coming, and I missed the welcome, so I asked Master Zhao to forgive me. ”

He also saw Steward Liu standing behind Zhao Yuanliang, Zhao Yuanliang should be the master of Steward Liu no matter how he dressed or how he looked, so he saluted and called "Master Zhao" regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one.

Seeing this, Steward Liu introduced: "This is the second master of the Hou Mansion. ”

Xu Chengguan understood that the person in front of him should be Xu Xi's biological father.

He hurriedly greeted Zhao Yuanliang again, and introduced the people who came with him.

The carriage of the Zhao family entered the village, and someone gave Xu Chengguan a gift, so he came in a hurry. As for the lieutenant who came yesterday, he hasn't been able to come over because he is in the next village. However, Xu Chengguan was worried that he would not entertain Zhao Yuanliang well, so he had already asked someone to send a message to the chief Zhang Chenglin.

"What about Xu Yongyi and Xie? How did you let Master Zhao stand in the yard? Xu Chengguan said, without waiting for others to explain, he took it upon himself to invite Zhao Yuanliang into the house to sit.

Zhao Yuanliang also wanted to know some news about Xu Xi from Xu Chengguan's mouth, so he didn't shirk and followed him into the house.

Steward Liu knew that Zhao Yuanliang would not drink these unclean things from the farmhouse, so he called the little servant to bring the tea set and tea in the carriage, followed him into the house, first wiped the table and bench with a handkerchief, asked Zhao Yuanliang to sit down, and told Xu Chengguan Xie's rhetoric.

"Alas, not to mention children, we are adults, if we encounter this kind of thing, we have no master, I don't know what to do." Xu Chengguan said with a smile.

Xu Xi is now the daughter of the Hou Mansion, but it is not something they can evaluate. is the three words "Sister Xi", and he doesn't dare to say it.

……

Not to mention how Zhao Yuanliang inquired about Xu Xi, only that Ruan Mama and Xie took a carriage to the county, and Xie pointed to the road for the coachman to drive into the alley and stopped in front of a courtyard.

Mama Ruan prevented Xie from talking nonsense, and took the lead in getting out of the carriage, and was about to go first to persuade Xu Xi, when she saw General Tie on the courtyard gate: "Hey, why is the door locked?" ”

Xie naturally knew that Xu Xi and the others were not here, so he brought people over without hesitation. At this time, seeing that the courtyard door was really locked, her heart, which was still a little hanging, was suddenly put down.

She pretended to be surprised, stepped forward and touched the door lock, and made a worried expression: "Didn't they say they came to the county?" Why aren't you at home? ”

She comforted Mama Ruan again: "Mama, don't worry, I'll ask the neighbors." ”

As she spoke, she knocked on the courtyard door next door.

The courtyard door opened, and an old lady in her sixties poked her head out: "Who?" ”

"Grandma of the Lin family, I'm the second aunt Xu next door. I want to ask, did our head sister Hexi come back this morning? Do you know where they went? ”

Mrs. Lin has lived here for most of her life, and she naturally knows Xu Yongzeng and his wife. When the couple died one after another, Xu Xi became an orphan girl, and she sighed for a while. She also knew Xie and had a very good impression of this woman who treated her niece well and was not greedy for money.

"Oh, it turned out to be Aunt Xu. Look at me dazzled and confused. She laughed.

After laughing, she wondered again: "What did you say?" Second Uncle Xu and Sister Xi have come back? I didn't see it. Isn't it that they are light-handed, I didn't hear? With that, she went out of her courtyard door and glanced at the door next door.

Seeing that the courtyard door was locked, she shook her head at Xie Shi and shouted at her house: "Three babies, come out." ”

After a while, an eight- or nine-year-old boy ran out of the yard, and when he saw Xie and Ruan's grandmother, he was stunned for a moment, and then looked at his grandmother.

"Did you hear a voice next door in the morning? Have you ever come back from Uncle Xu and Sister Xi? Mrs. Lin asked.

The little boy shook his head and scratched his head: "I didn't hear that." As he spoke, he raised his head again and looked curiously at Xie and Mama Ruan, as well as at the carriage parked at the door.

Mrs. Lin smiled and said: "My grandson has the most intelligent ears, and he can hear any movement outside the house." Since he said that he didn't hear it, it is estimated that Second Uncle Xu did not come here, and maybe he went somewhere else. ”

Mama Ruan frowned, turned her head to look at Xie Shi, and saw that she looked surprised, as if she really didn't know that Xu Yongyi and Xu Xi didn't come here, but she also dispelled the conjecture in her heart.

Also, they are here today, and the Xie family can't calculate it in advance, why did they ask that master to go out early in the morning?

"Will they go somewhere else? Mrs. Xu, think about it. Mama Ruan said.

She was worried that Xie Shizhen would hide Xu Xi and not let her go back, and said threateningly: "No matter what, Miss Xi, we must take her back to the house." Even if we can't pick her up today, we won't give up and continue to come tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. But if you can receive it today, it will save you a lot of things, Mrs. Xu, don't you say? ”

Hearing this, remembering Xu Xi's words that he was unwilling to return to the Hou Mansion, Xie was very embarrassed.

Seeing Wei and Zhao Ruyu today, she naturally hoped that Xu Xi could stay in the Xu family for a long time.

But she also knew that this was not realistic. Not to mention that the Hou Mansion's attitude is so tough, they can't keep Xu Xi; is retained, Xu Xi also wants to marry. If that's the case, it's better to go back to the Hou Mansion. At least the Hou Mansion can arrange a good family affair for Xu Xi, which is better than following them.

I thought so, but no matter what, it was impossible for the Xie family to take the initiative to persuade Xu Xi to return to the Hou Mansion, or take the initiative to help the people in the Hou Mansion force her to go back.

"We really don't have any other relatives in this county. We are a small merchant, and we usually don't come to the county except to buy goods, but to sell them in the village. Where they went, I really don't know. Xie Shi said with a look of embarrassment.