Chapter 16 The Relationship between the Xia and Wang Families
Now that the matter has progressed, Wang Xi promised her mother's family to find her husband, and Xia Yanqing's initial goal has been achieved. Even because of Wang Xi and Xu Qinghui's rejection and dislike of Xia Yanqing, they gave her a great boost.
At the end of this trip, even if she has completed the life event of Xia Xiaoniang's marriage, the rest is her own and somewhat tragic life.
When the husband is invited, it doesn't matter what he teaches, as long as he can give her a reason to know words, it can explain her future transformation.
As for who will pay for Mr. Please's money, that is a trivial matter, and for a family like Wang and Xia, this little bit of silver does not matter.
Therefore, after Wang Xi nodded, Xia Yanqing didn't say much, only nodded slightly, and said, "I'm causing trouble to my husband, my husband is busy by himself, and the concubine will go back first." ”
Xia Yanqing gave a regular salute, so he didn't drag the mud and water and took Mama Li and the maid away. I went to Mrs. Liu's room first, and went back to my yard.
She thought about the books in the bookcase, pretended not to understand the rules, let the girl get dinner from the kitchen early, and after using it alone, she took out the books in the bookcase and looked through them one by one.
Xia Zixi has a large collection of books, he listened to Xia Yanqing's request, did not turn over the books in the book pavilion, only extracted them in the study, and packed twelve books with varying thicknesses.
In addition, there are two small scrolls, which are two paintings with elegant and concise brushes, but far-reaching artistic conception. The paper and colors of a painting are very old, and it looks a little old; The other one is much brighter and fresher, and it should be a contemporary work.
Although Xia Yanqing only worked in the company's marketing department in his previous life, the company operated art glass, and they still have some aesthetic connotations.
At a glance, she could see that these two paintings were not the same as Xu Qinghui's small paintings. made Xia Yanqing's eyes brighten up, and he had the urge to find someone to appreciate and evaluate the price immediately.
looked at the books again, but Xia Yanqing was disappointed. It is true that Xia Yanqing plans to systematically learn traditional Chinese characters and ancient Chinese, but when she looks for books on geography and scenery, she wants to see if there are any records of glass making in this world.
What disappointed her was that only one of Xia Zixi's travelogue books mentioned glaze, but it only briefly mentioned the transaction of a glazed product she had ever seen.
She flipped through the dozen books at a glance and ten lines, and put the last one aside, full of melancholy.
If there is no artificially fired glass technology and workshop in this world, if she wants to use the production and development of glass products to be the foundation of her life, wouldn't she need to start from the crucible of firing glass?
However, in the modern era where the production process is becoming more and more detailed, she is a marketer and is not good at the actual production process of glass!
She pinched her eyebrows, and when she looked up, she saw Mama Li and the two maids standing aside, with surprised and tangled eyes on their faces.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? Xia Yanqing asked.
She had thought about the reaction of Mama Li and others before reading the book, but she didn't care much about it. She just looked for the word glass in the book, and she didn't study it seriously, no matter who came to see it, she was just flipping through it.
Just like Xia Yanqing expected, Mama Li was also surprised at the beginning, didn't the second grandmother know how to read? Is this a decent way to take out the book, intending to study?
Immediately, they were relieved. The second grandmother is really illiterate, how can someone who is literate and hyphenated read like this? If you read books so quickly, there will be more learned people in this world.
"It's nothing," Mama Li replied when she saw the opportunity, "It's just that it's getting late, the lights are dim, and you can't read for too long, it will hurt your eyes." If the second grandmother wants to see it, it's better to wait for tomorrow when the sky is bright. ”
"Oh, then pack up and get ready to go to bed." Xia Yanqing looked at the dozen books and the bookbox in his hand, and ironed a lot in his heart.
It's good to have someone behind her, and it seems that she will say goodbye to the messy single life completely.
Mama Li hesitated for a moment and said, "Second grandma, wait for the second master...... Otherwise, let Xinshu go to the second master and ask if she wants to come back to sleep. ”
"No," Xia Yanqing said very quickly, "The second master is busy." You all remember that no matter what happens in the future, you are not allowed to disturb the second master without my instructions. If the champion of the second master is messed up by you, I will ask you for it! ”
What are you kidding, Wang Xi must be with Xu Qinghui and me now, preparing a round house, why bother others?
Besides, Wang Xi rested with her yesterday, and today it should have been Xu Qinghui's turn, even if she found Mrs. Liu, Mama Li couldn't please her.
Thinking of this, Xia Yanqing shivered again. This kind of thing has to come in turns, how to think about it and feel weird.
On the second day, Xia Yanqing began the normal life of her ancient daughter-in-law. Get up early every day to wash, then go to Mrs. Liu's room to say goodbye, and then serve Mrs. Liu and the Wang brothers breakfast with Grandma Yuan.
Unlike other families, the Wang family also has a good concubine.
Xu Qinghui did not be like Wang Tao's concubine Aunt Lu, who could not enter the room, but appeared in Mrs. Liu's room in a grand manner, and joined the ranks of greeting Mrs. Liu and serving breakfast together with Yuan and Xia Yanqing.
Although Wang Xi and Xu Qinghui came in to greet Mrs. Liu one after the other, Mama Li was still surprised when she saw Xu Qinghui, and then looked at her second grandmother's indifferent look, and her heart sank even more.
If the second grandmother who is the main room doesn't care and doesn't stop it, then Xu Qinghui's identity will be even more difficult to say, and it will be even more difficult to control it in the future.
Xia Yanqing didn't care from the bottom of her heart, she put her position very right, only when she was unemployed, temporarily applied for a position as a hotel waiter or lobby manager, and encountered a difficult customer to deal with, she needed to come forward to serve in person.
Yuan and Xia Yanqing served their husbands for breakfast respectively, while Xu Qinghui stood behind Mrs. Liu, replacing the eldest girl Fangling and serving Mrs. Liu's meals.
For a short time before breakfast, Mrs. Liu and Wang Tao were waiting to see Xia Yanqing's attitude.
Yesterday, Wang Xi swore to them that Xia Yanqing would not interfere with anything between him and Xu Qinghui, and asked Mrs. Liu to fulfill her promise to the Xu family and treat Xu Qinghui as another second daughter-in-law.
From Xu Qinghui's appearance to the end of a breakfast, Xia Yanqing really behaved normally, without a little dissatisfaction.
This situation especially satisfied Wang Tao: it seems that his second brother just didn't work this before. Look, it only took two days to successfully pacify the Xia family. The affairs of the back house and the woman's mind are especially difficult to grasp, and the second brother can do it so safely, and the scheming is extremely deep, and it will not be difficult to gain a foothold in the officialdom in the future.
Xia Yanqing persisted for three days before he began to get impatient. I don't know who is so perverted to come up with such an inhuman rule as morning and dusk to torture young women?! It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no humanity.
It is a person who knows that as people get older, they get less and less sleep. The elderly, in particular, have little sleep, and as long as the day is dawn, or even before dawn, the older people will not be able to sleep and have to get up.
But young people are different, and it's time for lack of sleep. Especially in ancient times, women usually married at the age of fifteen to be other people's daughters-in-law, and then, it was the morning and dusk province without holidays for decades...... Oh, my God! Xia Yanqing felt that her life was bleak, although this kind of life was destined to not last long for her.
Fortunately, Xia Zixi's movements were very fast, and on the third day after she returned to the door, Xia Zixi's post was handed over to the Wang's Mansion. The next day, the Xia Zixi brothers came to visit Wang's house.
Xia Yanqing was not heard from more than ten years ago, and after that, Wang Tao's father also passed away. Although the friendship between Wang Xia and the two families is fairly good, it is not the same as before after all.
The Wang Tao brothers and the Xia Zixi brothers can only be regarded as acquaintances.
Among them, there is a reason why Wang Tao runs his own business and is unwilling to cling to the Xia family. There is also Xia Zixi who has no intention of career, and is not interested in Wang Tao's eight-sided exquisiteness in officialdom, feeling that they are not the same kind of people, and it is difficult to be with them.
Not to mention Xia Ke's second son Xia Zitang, to put it mildly, he is deviant. Xia Zitang did not uphold the way of poetry and books of the Xia family, but went from martial arts to enter the ranks of military generals. Now in the Division of Soldiers and Horses, he is appointed as a captain of the sixth grade.
Originally, Xia Ke was considered to be a good match among the three brothers in the Xia family's old house, but his two sons who did not follow the usual path made people's jaws drop.
The eldest son, who has already been admitted to the Jinshi and is knowledgeable and miscellaneous, is unwilling to enter the officialdom, which is already very different. But he was willing to teach, and he did not lose the dignity of a family of scholars.
But Xia Ke's choice of second son is very disdainful of readers. No matter whose children are in the house, if they are not really unable to read and fail to pass the exam, they will never be sent to work in places such as the forbidden army and the Terracotta Division.
Therefore, with the loss of Xia Yanqing and the death of Wang Tao's father, gradually, the two families had no other correspondence except for sending some gifts during the New Year to show that they were not unacquainted.
In recent years, this is the first time that the two families have sent a letter of worship and visited the door.