Xie Xianzhi and Xie Yinghui wanted to understand this, and Qi Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and the pressure on his heart was greatly reduced.

  Xie Xianzhi thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the teahouse to see Master Jiao, if Cousin Wentai really finds it, I will calmly deal with it." I hadn't made any big mistakes, so I didn't need to be too afraid of him, I just had to be rude. When my grandmother was funeral, I wanted to kowtow to her old man to see her off, and I also had to deal with the Chengenhou Mansion. If you encounter the Pingnan Bofu lineage, stay away and don't get along with them alone. ”

  Xie Yinghui also came back to her senses a little, thinking about her previous appearance of a frightened bird, she still felt a little embarrassed, and said curtly: "If the Chengenhou Mansion has to do superficial work, it must be more faceless than the Pingnan Bo Mansion, otherwise there is no need to ask the palace to send a doctor to treat my grandmother." If I meet someone from his family, I will also privately sue Nanbo Mansion and let them control their own family, so that I can hide quietly. ”

  Xie Mulin laughed when he heard this, and asked her, "Then do we want to rent another house?" ”

  Xie Yinghui glared at her: "What kind of house to rent?" Where is there a house for us to rent now?! I couldn't help but mutter, "Those dignitaries are too flattering, aren't they just the Queen Mother who wants to pray for blessings?" Can you come to rent a house to join in the fun? Hands and feet are so fast...... Why don't you see them being so neat when they do things for the imperial court?! ”

  Xie Mulin and Xie Xianzhi just didn't hear it.

  The next day, Xie Xianzhi went to the teahouse for an appointment and successfully met Jiao Wenying. After reading his articles, Jiao Wenying praised one of them for breaking the topic well, and then said the shortcomings of the others, and also instructed him which books to read and whose articles would be more beneficial. Xie Xianzhi felt that this was an extremely rare point, and hurriedly memorized it.

  After that, the two began to chat, and Jiao Wenying asked about the recent situation of Zhushan Academy, especially the bodies of several familiar friends, such as Niu Daru and others, and Xie Xianzhi answered them one by one respectfully. He estimated that Jiao Wenying and Song Xijiu were old friends, and he should also be more concerned about the recent situation of the second uncle's grandmother, the Song family, so he also mentioned a few words in passing. Jiao Wenying really listened carefully, quite concerned, and even asked about the academic situation of Song's son-in-law and grandson.

  Xie Xianzhi is not a gossip person, but at the beginning of the new year, Xie Meijun was going to make trouble with Yang Yiquan and leave, which the Xie family knows. Once this matter is done accurately, the treatment of Yang Yiquan and Yang Chun's father and son in the Xie family in the future will be completely different. Xie Xianzhi saw that Jiao Wenying seemed to be concerned about the meaning of the father and son, and after a little hesitation, he still said the matter, but he was currently discussing the separation of the property, and did not say that he wanted to reconcile.

  Jiao Wenying's expression was solemn and she didn't ask much, but she obviously listened to the words. If he wants to investigate this matter clearly, he doesn't have to ask Xie Xianzhi too much, he has his own way to investigate the truth.

  The two talked for a while, and Jiao Wenying was about to leave. Xie Xianzhi sent him out of the teahouse, and agreed with him that he would send the articles he wrote to Beijing every quarter in the future, and asked him for advice.

  At the door of the teahouse, Xie Xianzhi unexpectedly met Cao Wentai, who was coming to him. The latter seemed to happen to pass by here, and met a familiar cousin, so he came to say hello, and after saying hello, he was "surprised" to find that the cousin was standing next to the important ministers of the court, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute politely.

  Jiao Wenying was not enthusiastic about Cao Wentai, and after nodding his head, he said goodbye to Xie Xianzhi directly. Cao Wentai watched him leave with some disappointment, but quickly calmed down. Jiao Wenying is sitting in such a position, and he is a confidant of Jinshang, even if the Chengenhou Mansion has the intention to woo him, he must do it carefully. This is not something that can be done in a day or two, nor is it a meeting and conversation that can bring each other closer, so he doesn't need to be in a hurry.

  Cao Wentai turned his head to look at his cousin Xie Xianzhi, and put on a cordial smile that had disappeared for a long time, and greeted his cousin kindly when he entered Beijing? But came to give the funeral to the Duchess of Chengen? Why don't you come to your home to mourn? Where do you live now? How is my cousin's condition...... And so on and so forth.

  Xie Xianzhi answered one by one vigilantly, refusing the invitation to go to the Chengenhou Mansion to borrow a residence, but admitted that he would attend his grandmother's funeral ceremony.

  Cao Wentai didn't care, he glanced at the carriage that Jiao Wenying had just boarded not far away, knowing that his conversation with his cousin would definitely fall in the eyes of that person, so he continued to put up a kind smile, said something about Xie Xianzhi's health and studies, and asked their brother and sister to come to the house for dinner, and agreed on the time and place of the meeting on the day of the funeral, before parting with the cousin affectionately.

  From beginning to end, he behaved affectionately and kindly, as if he was really a pair of very good cousins with Xie Xianzhi, forgetting how cold he was to Ping Nanbo's nephew in the past, and how he stood by and watched and shared the benefits when Pingnanbo's mansion calculated the Xie family last year. The Chengenhou Mansion still holds a large number of properties of the Xie family, and he doesn't mention it, and it won't prevent him from playing a good cousin in front of people.

  Xie Xianzhi watched Cao Wentai and his party go away, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Things turned out to be as he expected, Cao Wentai would not be particularly embarrassed by him, and in front of Lord Jiao, he had to pretend to be a good relative. But he can't blindly trust the other party because of this, Cao Wentai invited their brother and sister to dinner, it's better not to take it seriously.

  It was only at this time that Jiao Wenying's carriage slowly started and slowly drove away.

  Xie Xianzhi returned to the small house where he was temporarily staying and told his two sisters what had just happened. Xie Mulin was very happy: "Very good! As long as the Chengenhou Mansion doesn't do anything, the eldest brother will be much safer. In the future, the eldest brother will decide whether to go out according to his own ideas, and he doesn't have to hide in the house. ”

  Xie Yinghui sat down in her chair with relief, and it took a while before she came back to her senses: "Why did my brother forget to complain to Cao Wentai and tell him about the pestering of Pingnanbo Mansion?" ”

  Xie Xianzhi smiled bitterly: "He just treated me so kindly, but he just wanted to show Master Jiao, and he didn't necessarily take me seriously in his heart." I can't write two Cao characters in one stroke, no matter how down-and-out Pingnan Bofu is, it is also the blood of the Cao family, why should I say more? If Pingnanbo's Mansion is really entangled, I won't have a chance to see Cousin Wentai again in the future, and it's not too late to talk about it then. ”

  Xie Yinghui was quite unimpressed, and pulled her brother to try to persuade him to change his mind, Xie Mulin smiled and let their brother and sister argue, and went back to the room by himself.

  As time approached the day of the consecration puja day by day, there began to be officials and relatives near Bao'en Temple, most of them were women's dependents and children of various families, and they did not mention that their own family was coming to the nobles in the palace, but they wanted to pray for their families, which led to Bao'en Temple becoming more and more lively day by day, and the nearby roads were also full of traffic, and they were not much more deserted than the streets and alleys in the city.

  Fortunately, the brothers and sisters of the Xie family booked a good house early, and called slaves and maids to be quite pompous, and the Mao steward also showed the Chinese people the name of Xie Pu's Sanpin official in advance, so everyone nearby knew that this house was rented by a high-ranking official, and for the time being, there were no long-sighted powerful children who came to play prestige and forced them to vacate the house. However, there were a few foreign pilgrims who rented houses in the neighborhood, and they had already moved out in embarrassment, and the next day there were rich tenants who moved in with great pomp and circumstance.

  Xie Xianzhi was quite blind, but he was powerless to do anything about it, and he was so noisy that he couldn't even read the book, so he could only take his sister to Bao'en Temple every day to recite scriptures and worship the Buddha, and pray for his grandmother.

  Xie Mulin and Duchess Cheng'en are not related, of course, they will not get involved, so they stay in the house.

  The shopkeeper Mao handed over the letter, saying that he had something to ask the master's family, and he inquired about some news from the Cao family. Xie Mulin saw that Xie Xianzhi and Xie Yinghui were not there, which was just convenient, so he asked people to invite him over.