Chapter 17: The Scourge of Plagiarism
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Wan'er said in a low voice: "Miss, this is Second Lady Ou, Fourth Lady Ou's mother." Oops, she hasn't been to these banquets for a long time, I wonder why she's here today? My uncle's face is really big, but according to the slave maid, most of it is for the marriage of the young lady to please our wife. β
When Xia Ruixi heard this, she couldn't help but shrink a little, why did Mrs. Ou come, she could vaguely guess a little. Presumably she came to inspect her, what should she do? If she continues to perform according to Mrs. Xia's wishes, she will certainly be impressed by most people, but it will also attract the attention of the Ou family even more, and if she does the work of the already wavering Mr. and Mrs. Xia, her situation will be worrying.
But if she destroys this feast carefully arranged by Mrs. Xia, if she wants to marry in the future and marry a good family, I am afraid it will be even more difficult. Which is more important? Before she could figure it out, the second lady had already begun to explain why she had come. It turned out that Ou Sishao was Uncle Xuan's protΓ©gΓ©, in order to respect the teacher, in addition to sending congratulatory gifts, Ou Er also brought her and Ou Sishao to the door to congratulate him on his birthday.
When many of the ladies here heard that Ou Sishao was coming, they couldn't help but be secretly excited, and they only thought about how to have a chance encounter in the garden. Xia Ruixi secretly thought that Ou Sishao was Uncle Xuan's protΓ©gΓ©, but he was afraid that the theory of marrying a concubine was also fully learned, such a man really couldn't marry, couldn't marry.
"I wonder which lady made that birthday poem just now?" After the greetings here, Mrs. Ou asked with a smile. She looked like her hair was gray, her eyes were a little cloudy, she was very kind, she didn't have a little arrogance, and she didn't show half of her shrewdness and strength. It's hard to imagine that such a petite and gentle old lady actually managed a huge Ou family compound without leakage.
Without waiting for Xia Ruixi to answer, Aunt Xuan smiled and said, "It's my niece, the second girl of the Xia family, named Ruixi." β
Seeing that he couldn't hide, Xia Ruixi had no choice but to step forward and say hello. Mrs. Ou smiled, looked at her quietly, and praised: "I also read a few books when I was young, and I also accompanied a few children to do homework for a few days, and I know that some lyricists express the difficulties of birthday poems: 'It is difficult to say longevity words, if you are rich and noble, it is vulgar; If you are famous, you will be famous; As far as the gods are concerned, they are broad and illusory. This poem of yours is ambitious, not bad, and very good. β
Mrs. Ou said yes, and everyone else naturally echoed and said yes, and the praise was endless for a while. Mrs. Xia said with a smile: "Everyone has to praise her again, and if you praise the little girl again, she will not know the height of the sky." β
Second Mrs. Ou waved her hand, "Let's tell the truth, but there is one thing that is inappropriate." Do you want to hear it? β
Xia Ruixi didn't want to talk to this lady more, and he could slip as far as he could. But the people obviously didn't intend to let her go, so they had to laugh forcibly: "Please give me advice." β
Mrs. Ou said: "Your uncle is fifty years old, why does the last sentence of your poem use the word "ancient and rare"? β
When Xia Ruixi heard this, her brain broke out in a cold sweat, plagiarism is plagiarism, she ******** thinking about how to pass the test at that time, where would she think about it so carefully? is just thinking about it, where did she find such a suitable two words to replace? Obediently admit his mistake at the moment: "Mrs. is right to criticize, but Ruixi is not thoughtful." I only thought that these two words should be used neatly here, but I didn't think that they were unrealistic. In fact, I can't even read all the words, I can't write very well, and I don't know how to compose poetry. β
After Xia Ruixi finished speaking, he patiently waited for everyone's contemptuous gazes. Second Mrs. Ou doesn't look down on her as the best, she exposes her shortcomings, just to let Second Mrs. Ou know that she is really not worthy of the talented and elite son of the Ou family. She must have known that Second Mrs. Ou was standing at the door at that time, and she would rather go home and be cleaned up by Mrs. Xia than be this bird anyway, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world to buy it.
When everyone listened to her words, their reactions were mixed, and it was indeed contemptuous. Who knew that Mrs. Ou laughed: "The little girl is quite modest." She turned back to Mrs. Xia and said, "Your daughter is very good at teaching, not being strong, not pretentious, and modest. Life is seventy rare, so she said that it is rare, she obviously used this meaning to wish her uncle, heard me say this, and happily admitted her mistakes, character is really rare. Today, I see her, she has a degree of retreat, dignified manners, and she is obviously a lady of everyone, so it can be seen that the previous rumors are untrue. Girls' families, it's nothing to have a lively personality, who hasn't been young? The key is character, which is fundamental. β
Second Mrs. Ou's words are undoubtedly the direction of all the ladies here, and after her affirmation, Xia Ruixi has really been reborn as a famous lady.
Plagiarism is really not a good death, Xia Ruixi's intestines are repentant, her actions seem to have backfired, is Mrs. Ou justifying her name and paving the way for her to marry into the Ou family in the future? What did the Ou family like about her? Could it be that you really fell in love with her dowry?
A jeweled lady walked up next to her, glanced at Xia Ruixi, and said to Mrs. Ou with a smile: "Big cousin, I haven't seen you for a long time, have you always been good?" β
Second Mrs. Ou smiled: "Su Fen, it's you." All right, all good, sit down. β
The lady exchanged a few words of greeting with Mrs. Ou Er, and handed over a piece of flower paper, "These are a few poems written by your niece and daughter, just have this opportunity, you are very knowledgeable, help her read it?" In the distance, a young lady with a gorgeous face stood up and blessed the second lady Ou generously.
Wan'er said in a low voice: "This is Miss Yang Wu, who is known as one of the four famous ladies in Xijing, and is known as not marrying a talented person. is about the same age as you, and the person who came to propose marriage broke through the threshold, and she just couldn't look down on it. I haven't decided to come to the house until now, looking at it like this, I'm afraid I also want to marry Ou Sishao. β
Xia Ruixi thought depressedly: "Why don't people have a marriage at this age, but others flock to it, regarded as arrogant and arrogant, and I am ignored and ridiculed?" God is really eccentric. β
Mrs. Ou looked at it: "The handwriting is very good. As for poetry, I don't know much, Mrs. Xia was a famous talented woman in Xijing City when she was young, and her talent was far better than ours. Why don't you ask her to take a look? β
A hint of gloom flashed in the lady's eyes, and she couldn't turn it around, so she had to hand it to Mrs. Xia in a daze, Xia Ruixi took the opportunity to peek at it, and the content was not too clear, only to see a good hairpin flower Xiaokai, compared with her own hand, the earthworm character crawling on her own hand is really a sky, an underground, and there is no comparison at all.
After Mrs. Xia looked at it carefully, she smiled: "I am ashamed of my hobby and talent." He didn't comment on it, so he returned the flower note to Mrs. Yang.
Mrs. Yang said with a smile: "The good poems made by the second young lady, it is better to write them down, so that we can pass them on and read them." "Her daughter's words are not her boasting, few people in Xijing City can reach it, this Xia Er, it is very powerful to hold a horse whip, hold a brush, I'm afraid it won't work. Maybe the poem was all at home, and Mrs. Xia helped her do it and asked her to memorize it.
Mrs. Ou interjected and said, "Someone has already done it for you." Just now the dog sent me to the door, and I happened to hear it, and even called it a good poem, saying that he was going to write it down first and give it to his teacher for a sneak peek. Without the poet's consent, he went first, and where the disrespectful place, the lady and the second lady would not be surprised, right? β
Mrs. Xia smiled faintly: "The left and right are just to celebrate my brother's birthday, sooner or later, this poem will have to be written and framed for her uncle. "Mrs. Xia is also a powerful person, and with a few words, Mrs. Ou's heartfelt actions have been transformed into an ordinary matter of asking a famous calligrapher to inscribe.
While speaking, there was really a maid who came in with a painting, the ink was not dry, the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, hearty, and the strength penetrated the back of the paper, which was the poem that Xia Ruixi plagiarized just now. Everyone was full of praise, but the eyes that looked at Xia Ruixi were a little strange, only that Xia Ruixi was a blessing in disguise, and after being beaten by the snow group, he was favored by the Ou family.
Some people sincerely sigh, and some people are disdainful, thinking that the blind cat touching the dead mouse is just a blessing to the soul, among which Mrs. Yang and Miss Yang Wu are the most disdainful.
Xia Ruixi was very entangled, but she was afraid that others would have a whim, and then call her to make poems. If that were the case, she would have pretended to be dead. She remembers a lot of poems, but she can memorize them completely, only a few quatrains from elementary school, and what is stolen is stolen, and there is always a day when it will be used up, and she always has to worry about being pierced by others. She made up her mind that she would never do such a vassal and elegant thing again. She wasn't a talented woman in the first place, so why bother pretending? She is thankful that she can recognize all these traditional Chinese characters clearly, write them all down, and not be semi-literate.
Fortunately, the ladies and ladies were tired after eating, and they didn't have the heart to fiddle with their talents. At this time, a stage was also set up in front of me, and I invited the ladies and ladies to go out to listen to the play.
When all the young ladies heard this, they all rejoiced, Xia Ruixi had heard the play twice, and knew that the men and women who listened to the play here were in the same courtyard. It's just that the men's seats are set on the left and the women's seats are set on the right, and a barrier is separated by thick tweed in the middle, and for the convenience of the servants who serve tea and water, there will be a gap at intervals. That said, if you want to peek at someone, the opportunities are many.
Xia Ruixi's seat happened to be at the edge of that intersection, and the young men on the left all looked at her curiously and secretly, and then secretly discussed. Ou Sishao was naturally on the left seat, but he was very arrogant and disdained to be in the same league with others, so his gaze swept to Xia Ruixi, and he completely regarded her as a weed on the side of the road. He listened to the play comfortably, and from time to time whispered a few words to the unknown cousin who had helped Xia Ruixi next to him.
Xia Ruixi felt like a monkey on the stage for people to watch, and sat for a while, like sitting on pins and needles. After calling Wan'er to stand beside her and block the curious sight over there, the ones that Yiyi sang on the stage turned out to be lullaby, causing her to become more and more sleepy, and she couldn't help but want to sleep.