Peony took the tea bowl from the little maid's hand, handed it to Ruoxue, and said with a smile: "No, she sent someone back to say that she had been serving by her aunt's side for two days, and she was afraid of contracting the illness and bringing the illness into the house, so she stayed at home for a few days, and then she came back to serve the eldest lady when she had nothing to do." ”

"She's been too careful." Ruoxue took a sip of tea, then looked at Chunliu and said, "You go and bring Zhengli in." ”

Chunliu bowed slightly and responded: "Yes." He took two steps back and turned to go out.

"Big sister, I want to see my aunt, can you let her come here?" Ruofei reached out and grabbed Ruoxue's sleeve and shook it.

Ruoxue smiled and patted her hand and said, "I didn't tie your feet, you just want to see her go, your illness is cured, don't stay in the house all the time, go out and take a walk." ”

Standing in the patio, Chunliu exhaled a long breath, just now she shouldn't have waited for the eldest lady to ask, so she hurriedly said everything,

The moment when she was just snubbed by the eldest lady, her heart beat violently. I was worried that I would be sent out of Guanfangyuan for unruly behavior in the next moment, but fortunately, the eldest lady didn't send her down.

In the future, you must keep your duty, and don't dare to talk too much!

She walked out of Guanfang Courtyard in small steps, her steps getting faster and faster, and finally she simply ran.

"Don't look around, don't look uninformed, don't see everything that is new; Don't stare at one place, that's stupid! The eldest lady's yard is full of beautiful girls, don't look at it, you can't pull it out when you see it! When the time comes, it will take root in your heart, and you can't get it, you should be cranky, and you may even behave nonsense......" After half a cup of tea, Chunliu took Mei Zhengli back to Guanfang Courtyard, and she counted him down because of a bad mood all the way.

Mei Zhengli followed behind with her head down, listening to her bits and pieces along the way, she didn't know if she walked behind like this, just look at her twice!

He just thought about it, but he didn't dare to really look at it, it was not good to be seen looking around, someone passed by them at three steps or five hours, or someone asked him who he was, that Chunliu said that it was a distant relative of the eldest lady, and he would be looked up and down, and he would stand there and let them look, but he was quite uncomfortable being looked at.

Chunliu asked Mei Zhengli to stand in the patio, and when she saw Peony standing outside the door of the embroidery room, she walked over and asked in a low voice, "Is the eldest lady inside?" ”

"Inside, you go inside." Peony said.

Chunliu hesitated for a moment before opening the curtain and entering, "Miss, someone brought it and waited outside." She said.

"Invite him in." Ruoxue buried her head in the embroidery frame, and said without raising her head.

"Yes."

Chunliu turned around and walked out of the corridor, came to Mei Zhengli, and said, "Miss, please come in." ”

Mei Zhengli bowed slightly, lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes and said, "Please lead the way in front of my sister." ”

Chunliu raised her eyes to look at him, turned around and went up to the corridor, opened the curtain and invited him to go in first.

Mei Zhengli walked into the house, saw the woman sitting behind the embroidery frame, hurriedly lowered her head and lifted the hem of her clothes, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Hello aunt! Nephew Mei Zhengli kowtowed to you. ”

"Get up."

Ruoxue pricked the needle on the wire board, raised her head and looked at the man standing two feet away, this distant nephew she had seen twice, but she had never spoken, she must have asked her for something when she came to her today, I don't know what he was asking for.

Mei Zhengli's grandfather is Mei Jiye's cousin who did not come out of Wufu, that is, Ruoxue's cousin, and now lives in the old Meizhuang outside Jinling City, and is the longest lifespan in the family, with a high life expectancy of sixty this year.

"If you have something to ask me for, tell me." She said.

Mei Zhengli didn't think that she would ask him directly like this, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Mr. Xu on Zhuangzi stopped teaching and went back to his hometown in Hebei." My father wants me to see the orchard in the east of Zhuangzi, but I still want to study for a few more years, and I also want to try it in the examination room......"

Ruoxue didn't interrupt him, took the winding board and wrapped a few circles of green silk thread, threaded it with a needle, and lowered his head to embroider the flowers.

He then said: "I want to ask my aunt to help me dredge up, let me go to the school in the city to study for a few years, and beg my aunt to be perfect!" ”

As she spoke, Mei Zhengli knelt down and kowtowed to Ruoxue again.

"You come to me, do you know your daddy?" Ruoxue raised her head and glanced at him, then lowered her head to embroider the green calyx.

"No...... I don't know. ”

Mei Zhengli quickly raised her head and looked at Ruoxue, and lowered her head weakly, "My father doesn't want me to learn, he wants me to come out to do things, and then tell me a daughter-in-law in the first half of the year, even if I start a family." He spoke slowly, as if he were chatting with someone.

Ruoxue put down the embroidery needle, raised her hand and stroked the bangs in front of her forehead, and said, "Isn't this good?" Your dad has thought of it for you, what else are you not satisfied with? ”

When Mei Zhengli heard this, she sat down on her feet, looked up at Ruoxue, her eyes were filled with mist, and she seemed to be about to cry, "I want to study, I don't want to go to the soil to dig food, I don't want to be busy in the field like my father's brothers, and in the end I can't even afford a few rooms." I want to study for a few more years and take the next exam twice, otherwise I won't be reconciled! My aunt will help my nephew this time, and I will definitely study hard and you will never be disappointed. ”

Ruoxue saw that he was pitiful, and she also felt pity in her heart, and said, "Since you want to learn like this, I'll help you once." ”

Mei Zhengli heard Ruoxue say this, and felt that the road ahead was bright again, so she quickly kowtowed to Ruoxue again, for fear that she would be a step too late, so she changed her mind again, "Thank you, Aunt Seventeen, for fulfilling your nephew, my nephew will definitely take the best to honor you if he has a future!" ”

Ruoxue didn't care if he kowtowed, nor did she listen to what he said, and she didn't know how many people she was in the family, she looked at Chunliu who was standing there at the door, and said: "You go and tell Peony that she will send someone to Mr. Wu in the school fifty taels of silver, and say that a child in the family is going to study in the school, and ask Mr. Wu to take care of one or two." ”

Chunliu answered, turned around and went out to pass the word.

When Mei Zhengli heard Ruoxue say fifty taels of silver, he almost didn't fall to the ground, his heart and liver trembled, mother, fifty taels of silver! It's enough for their family to eat mixed noodles and steamed buns for several years, and if his father knows about it, it would be strange if he didn't break half of his leg.

Ruoxue saw that he was kneeling there and didn't get up, frowned, and said, "You get up, go home and clean up, and go to the school early tomorrow morning to find Mr. Wu, and live there." ”

Mei Zhengli answered "yes" and thanked Ruoxue again before standing up and turning to go out.

When I went out of the room, I saw Chunliu leaning against the pillars of the porch, lowering her head and fiddling with the strings on a purse.

Mei Zhengli walked over and asked, "What is my sister doing?" ”

Chunliu saw that he came out, and said casually: "I don't know how to get it, this network is broken." Did the eldest lady say anything again? ”

"My aunt said let me go back and clean up and go to Mr. Wu's tomorrow morning." Mei Zhengli said with a smiling face: "Please also ask my sister to send me out, I don't know the way, I'm afraid that it will be bad if I bump into any elder." ”

"Okay, I'll send the Buddha to the west!" Chunliu stood up straight, patted the clothes on his body, turned around the pillars and walked down the three steps, towards the door of Guanfangyuan.

Mei Zhengli took a few steps down the corridor, walked beside Chunliu, walked out of Guanfang Courtyard, stepped on the stone road and walked outside, "I haven't thanked you for speaking for me in front of the eldest lady!" What thank you want for you, I'll get it for you when I say it. He said.

Chunliu clasped his hands in front of him, turned to look at him, and said, "I don't want any thank you gifts, and I don't lack that little bit of my son's things in this garden." ”

Mei Zhengli is in a good mood at this time, and he is also in the mood to speak, he thinks that he will often come to the house to walk around in the future, it is always beneficial, so the maid next to the eldest lady must stammer, and there is someone who can talk to the eldest lady.

"Where does my sister's family live? If you have something good in the future, you can also have someone give it to you. He laughs.

"What good things can you have?" Chunliu let go of the hands he was holding together, waved them casually, turned around and walked backwards, looked at him and said, "Do you have checkers?" Do you have building blocks? ”

Mei Zhengli looked dazed, not knowing what she was talking about, "What kind of chess is checkers?" What are building blocks? He said.

Chunliu choked up when he asked, the eldest lady didn't let the eldest lady say these two things, but she said it, if the eldest lady knew, then their family would not have a good life.

Thinking of the gossip not long ago, the eldest lady has sent a lot of people! "Don't talk about that." Chunliu shook his shoulders and said, "Do you know where the school is that the eldest lady said?" ”

Mei Zhengli was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know this, so he took two steps to catch up with Chunliu and said, "I really don't know yet, please tell me, and I will thank you in the future." ”

Chunliu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait to see what good things you bring to thank me!" She looked sideways at this man, seventeen or eighteen years old, a melon seed face had already taken off his childishness, he was quite tall, and he looked taller than the eldest young master.

"Do you know Rongyang Lane?" She said.

Mei Zhengli shook his head and said that he didn't know, and led Chunliu to speak, he really didn't know the way in the city, even if he came to Meifu, he also took two wrong steps to find it.

Chunliu actually didn't know where that Rongyang Lane was, she hadn't been out of the house for a year and a half, and she couldn't tell what the name of the street outside was and where it was.

Chunliu was a little dumbfounded when she saw that he didn't know, she had only heard the young masters say it twice, and it wasn't necessarily that she remembered it, maybe she remembered it wrong! That would be a shame to point people in the wrong direction.

Chunliu thought about it carefully, "It's just east of Pingyang Street, you can just ask people there." She said.

Mei Zhengli arched her hand and said, "Thank you for your advice." ”

Chunliu waved her hand absently, opened her mouth and was about to say something, when she saw a group of people coming towards her, she hurriedly retreated to the side of the road and stood still.

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