Hexiang didn't quite understand, Shen Yu saw that it was not too early, and she didn't explain much, so she only called Cai Wei and went to Ruyi Xuan to greet the eldest lady together.

"Oh, I can't afford to serve you if you copy all these tricks in a scripture!"

The eldest lady really had something to say, but Shen Yu just hung her head and obeyed the order, and did not refute it.

"I'm upset to see you look so depressed! Get out on your knees on the patio! ”

Shen Yu curtsied, and then obediently went to the patio to kneel.

On the morning of late autumn, the bluestone slab was still stained with dew, and the bones of the people who were drilled by the cool air when they knelt down were painful. I only hope that the old lady can save her, otherwise, with her current body and bones, I am afraid that it will be finished directly.

About half an hour later, a sound of kicking and tapping footsteps entered the main courtyard of Ruyi Xuan. Shen Yu's straight body, which was still kneeling, immediately shook, and she seemed to fall on the railing of Shijing as if she couldn't support it.

"Big grandma!"

Hexiang screamed, and immediately rushed over to support her, "Grandma, are you okay?" ”

"Hexiang? How did you get here? Shen Yu quietly wiped the lipstick just now, and now her lower lips and face are pale, and she looks weak.

"I ......"

"Back to the eldest grandmother, it was the old lady who instructed Miss Hexiang to bring the slave maid to find the eldest grandmother." Mother Tao saluted and hugged Shen Yu with Hexiang.

Shen Yu said gratefully: "Grandmother ordered, mother sent the little girl to say it, why bother to run in person?" ”

Mother Tao smiled silently, just entered Ruyi Xuan and said a word to the eldest lady, and then left with Shen Yu.

On the way, Mother Tao quietly looked at the new young lady.

Let's say that she is a fierce and untamed character, and I heard that she endured it when she copied the scriptures last night; I also took the initiative to go to Ruyi Xuan early this morning to ask for peace.

But if she is well-behaved and deferential, she knows how to ask the old lady for help with her measure.

This grandmother is such a wonderful person.

She felt a moment in her heart, and said as if unintentionally: "The old lady who sent the warm hat this morning is very fond of it, and she exaggerates that grandma has a heart." ”

Shen Yu smiled flatteredly and said, "This is also what I remembered when I saw my grandmother the night before." Now the wind is cold, and if you don't wear a warm hat in the morning and evening, I'm afraid you will get typhoid fever. Uncle has been busy in the house for a long time, and my grandmother was afraid that she hadn't had time to use the needlework, so I took it upon myself to send it to my grandmother. Just don't blame grandmother. ”

Sheng Yanming died, and the house was to be filial piety according to the rules.

Although the old lady is an elder and does not need to be filial for a year like her, she may not be willing to dress brightly and dazzlingly as a grandmother, and her grandson has just gone.

She ordered Hexiang to change the brim of her turmeric hat to a crow green one in the morning, also for this reason.

The old lady came out the night before yesterday and did not wear a warm hat, and she probably hadn't had time to change her clothes and hats before she started needlework, which gave her a head start.

Mother Tao glanced at her approvingly and said softly, "Grandma is very good like this." The old lady has always liked children who know how to count. ”

Shen Yu lowered her head and smiled, with a little bit of the shyness of a junior.

Not long after the three of them walked out, they met the steward who came to deliver tea, and they hurriedly avoided saluting.

"Steward Gui, where are you going?" Mother Tao saw that it was an acquaintance, so she asked more.

The steward Gui Quan smiled flatteringly at Tao's mother: "Zhuangzi sent this year's new tea 'Xianglin', and I will give it to the old lady to see." ”

"That's right, we're also going to Tsurujudo. This is the new grandmother, I'm afraid you haven't seen it yet. ”

Gui Quan saluted Shen Yu again, but Shen Yu didn't care about these false courtesies, but stared directly at the tea leaves in his hand.

"This is this year's new tea?"

"Yes, grandma."

Shen Yu looked at the fresh tea leaves on the dustpan, and a thought turned in her heart: her turning point has arrived!

When she arrived at Heshoutang, she first went to greet the old lady, who brought the warm hat she sent this morning, and when she saw her come in, she said, "Good boy, it's hard for you to have a heart." ”

"To be praised by the ancestors is a blessing for the granddaughter-in-law."

The two said a few words, and Mother Tao brought Gui Quan in. When the old lady saw that it was this year's new tea, she asked someone to put it in a tea caddy and send it to all parts of the house.

Shen Yu naturally got a can.

She held the tea and sniffed it carefully, with a look on her face that wanted to say something and stopped.

"What? You don't really like this tea? ”

The old lady looked at it in her eyes and said, "If you have any tea you like to drink, just ask someone to go to the shop to get it, there is not much else in our house, and the tea is enough." ”

This made the maids and daughters of Heshoutang laugh.

The Sheng family started as a tea company, and at its peak, they also offered imperial tea to the royal family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are "the first tea merchants".

Shen Yu also laughed, put down the teapot and said softly: "Old lady Mingjian, this Xianglin tea is always based on new tea, the color is dark and blue, the smell is sweet, and the tea soup is tender green and yellow after soaking in spring water, and the tea leaves are straight up like a dense forest, which is the most beautiful." The daughter-in-law naturally likes it. ”

The old lady listened to what she said, and said quietly: "Listening to you say this, you are still an expert." Then you can make me a cup of tea. ”

Shen Yu also has this intention.

She took two cups, smelled the fragrance and distinguished the tea, took out the tea in the tea pot and divided it into two pinches, washed and brewed them respectively, put them in a crystal cup, and presented them to the old lady.

The old lady looked at the two cups of tea, and her face slowly sank.

With a sweep of her eyes, Mother Tao took the maid of Heshoutang and retreated with interest, leaving only the old lady and Shen Yu in the room.

"How do you get two cups of tea, so different?!"

As Shen Yu said, a cup is full of aroma and looks like a dense forest; The other cup is dull in color, and the tea leaves are crooked, which is not the same.

Shen Yu smiled slowly and said, "Things are different, natural tea is different." ”

As soon as the words fell, the old lady was already furious.

"Call everybody!"

Men are not allowed to enter the inner room, and the old lady meets people in the main hall of Heshoutang, in addition to the steward, there are several masters of the Sheng family.

When the old lady saw the steward, she said angrily: "What's going on with this year's Xianglin tea, you still haven't recruited it from the truth!" ”

As he spoke, he threw the tea canister to the ground, and the tender green tea leaves were scattered all over the ground.

The steward's face turned pale for a moment, but he still forced himself to say: "The little one doesn't understand what the old lady asked, this year's Xianglin tea was just made and sent to the old lady......"

"Shen, you say."

Shen Yu asked people to take out the two cups of tea that had been brewed just now, pointed to the tea and said, "These two cups of tea are made with the tea leaves just sent by Steward Gui." ”

The steward broke out in a cold sweat and trembled: "Grandma can't slander us like this!" Every year the first tea in Zhuangzi is sent to the Sheng family, and this is the best fragrant forest tea harvested this year! ”

Sheng Yanqing also looked at her, her eyes heavy.

Shen Yu said slowly: "What Steward Gui said is also good. ”

When the steward heard this, he was about to take a sigh of relief, so he heard Shen Yu continue, "These two cups of tea are indeed high-quality tea, but they are just a cup of new tea and a cup of old tea. ”

Xie Changli also understood when he heard this, and pleaded guilty in a deep voice: "It was Changli who was negligent and let Zhuangzi mix old and new tea!" ”

"This has nothing to do with you, it's that some people have a big heart in Zhuangzi, and even the Sheng family dares to deceive! Then they will send him to the yamen for the crime of fraud! The old lady glanced at the shopkeeper who was slumped on the ground in disgust, and said decisively.

The steward was already a fiasco, and said, "Old lady, old lady is angry! Well, this is not a small idea...... The small ones were also made according to the uncle's orders! ”