Wang said that he was not sick the next day.

Xie Wan and Xie Wei went into the main courtyard to ask for peace, and she waved them out.

Xie Wei was puzzled: "Why is my wife sick?" Yesterday, Zhao County ordered two visits to the house, what happened? ”

Xie Wan saw that her face was full of doubts, and knew that it was the Huang family who wanted to protect her daughter, so he didn't tell her. Then he was puzzled and said: "I knew in the morning that it was because I beat Li Ershun, and Zhao County Ling came to sue me for him." Later, I didn't know what was going on. What is so important that my wife is so angry? ”

In the evening, there was still news that Xie Wei was crying angrily in the house.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, as long as you have the heart to ask, where is the truth that cannot be asked? Therefore, Xie Wei also said that he was sick for a few days, and he did not show up in the main courtyard until the day of the Lantern Festival. But I can't see anything on my face, and I look as cheerful and generous as before.

However, Huang's voice in the main courtyard was vaguely a little tougher than before, although he was still respectful in front of Wang, it can be seen that Ruan's no longer saluted in a regular manner, but only slightly blessed himself, and called his sister-in-law to stop. Sometimes if there are many people present, even the sister-in-law will use words to diverge the past.

Xie Wan occasionally saw the sullenness on Ruan's face, and the voice of Qifeng Yuan scolding the minions also floated in through the side wall of Yifeng Yuan from time to time.

On the day after the Lantern Festival, Xie Wan was preparing to deal with Luo Ju's entry into Beijing, and the Yu family sent someone to send Jin Yong's address in Beijing.

Xie Wan hurriedly wrote the letter that had been drafted in Xie Lang's name and stuffed it into an envelope, and asked people to send it to the post station to send it out.

Although I don't know how Xie Rong and Xie Qigong discussed the strategy to conquer Jin Yong, what can be imagined is that since Xie Rong cares so much about Jin Yong's attitude, then he must have been busy with the Jin family these days after returning to Beijing.

In the days of waiting for a reply, Xie Wan did not forget to ask Luo Ju to check on Wang Anmei.

The news that Luo Ju got was a big surprise.

"Although Wang Anmei has a sound mind and a good face, she is a stone girl."

What is the Stone Maiden? It is a woman who can't be humane and can't have children, and can only sleep alone forever.

If a woman is barren and cannot perform the rites of conjugality, then who will marry her? Unless it's a fool. The Zhao family happens to have a stupid son, and Zhao Zhen and his wife love their children very much, and because the eldest son delayed treatment because of Zhao Zhen when he was young, he felt even more guilty, so he has been worried that their daughter will marry after a hundred years, and the younger son will become a family, but the eldest son will be inconsiderate in the future.

The Wang family introduced the beautiful daughter of the Wang family to him at this time, and the family was willing, where would they disagree? As for whether he can be humane, it is not in their consideration at all, and a person who is unable to even take care of himself can be expected to inherit his ancestry? That's why I don't even bother to hear about these things.

Luo Ju hesitated for a long time before telling Xie Wan, he didn't know whether to tell her about this, who was not yet nine years old. But when I saw her calm face, I unconsciously said it. Because he still has a bit of luck, with her age, she may not necessarily understand what the stone girl means.

But the moment he saw her stunned and incredulous expression, he knew he was wrong.

He really can't slap himself in the mouth!

"Stone Maiden?" Xie Wan sat behind the bookcase, playing with these two words. With the virtue of the Wang family, it was already good to not throw this Wang Anmei out since she was a child, but now someone is willing to ask for it, and it is still an official family that has taken over, where is there anyone who disagrees?

Luo Ju's face was hot, and he lowered his head and said, "The Wang family has kept this matter a secret, and no one in our house knows about it except for his wife." The small one also took two pots of bamboo leaf green and drunk Wang Geng before he could inquire. Now that the marriage with the Zhao family is in vain, Wang Geng is very angry, and he either curses his wife He every day, or beats and scolds this Wang Anmei. A few days ago, she was going to seek death, and He was afraid that something would happen to her, so he locked her up and let people watch her day and night. ”

Xie Wan looked ahead with his cheeks and muttered: "In this way, it seems that Wang Anmei's marriage to the Zhao family is a good thing. "At least Zhao Zhen and his wife are not the kind of insidious and narrow-minded people, Wang Anmei can only play the role of a lifelong maid when she marries, and at least bear the name of a young grandmother, isn't it much better than being tortured by Wang Geng in the Wang family?

Luo Ju paused: "What does the girl want to do?" ”

She stared at the air and didn't speak.

She admitted that she felt a little guilty about breaking up this marriage, not talking about the Wang family, only the Zhao family. The illness of the eldest young master of the Zhao family reminded her of when her brother was in the hospital bed in his previous life, and she couldn't take care of herself at that time, and she couldn't help but feel sad just thinking about that scene. Although the eldest young master of the Zhao family is stupid, he is also pitiful, if someone can take care of him wholeheartedly, I am afraid that he will be better off in the future.

If Wang Anmei herself agreed, she really wanted to complete this marriage.

But the matter involves the Wang family, but she needs to think carefully. First of all, no matter what, Zhao Zhen's hatred for the Wang family cannot be eliminated, and it is unknown whether she can accept Wang Anmei again, and furthermore, if the Wang family marries the Zhao family, the Wang family will have to rely on it and become the help of the Wang family's mother and son in the future, this is purely lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot!

"Nothing." She lowered her hand, "I'm just idle." ”

Luo Ju breathed a sigh of relief, "If the girl is bored, why don't you go for a walk in the garden?" Now that the weather is getting warmer, it's perfect to bask in the sun. I heard that the second girl will have a birthday at the beginning of next month, and in order to reward the second girl, my wife asked people to clean up the garden, and planned to invite a few brothers and sisters from the house to play. ”

In the days when Xie Wan and Xie Wei didn't appear in the main courtyard very often, Xie Qi had been serving in the main courtyard. The weather has gradually warmed up in the past few days, and Wang has been recuperating for half a month, and finally went out to show up. The reward mentioned in Luo Ju's words probably refers to the meaning of Xie Qi's meritorious service.

Yufang said from the side: "The second girl is too hot, and last time she made it difficult for our girl to drink for no reason, so we didn't want to play with her." ”

Yuxue scolded her lightly: "Whether you want to go or not, there are girls who have their own ideas." ”

Xie Wan thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the shop, since the second girl is going to have a birthday, let's also pick up two feet of cloth for her." ”

It's okay to let her get close to someone like Xie Qi, she really doesn't want to. But you can't show these expressions to the maids. How good it would be to use this excuse to go out and do some personal business, and to wander around by the way.

Luo Ju went to set up the car, and Xie Wan took Yufang out of the door.

Lizi Hutong is three streets away, and the road is easy to walk on sunny days, and it will be there soon.

Luo Sheng welcomed Xie Wan in at the door.

The two guys in the shop heard that the owner was coming, and they behaved very respectfully, but later saw that the owner was not as tall as his chest, so the courtesy was relieved by two points.

Anyway, they were going to leave in March, Xie Wan didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he picked two bright-colored silk cloths to wrap them, and another two moon-white and lake-blue smoke yarns, and let Luo Sheng wrap them up in the same way.

The shop in Huangshi Town has been open for half a month, and the business is not booming, but the autumn goods of the old year have been sold out of ten.

The most taboo to do cloth hoarding, now the peaceful years, the popular season is often new, and the goods that cannot be sold for many years are piled up in the warehouse, which is simply looking at the silver of white flowers. No, the silver and plum alleys sold over there were brought into the spring goods of the current season, and the business these days has returned to the situation last year when Xie Teng was still there.

Xie Wan sat in the tent room, only to turn over two pages of the account book, Shen Tian said that Li Ershun was here.

Li Ershun went up to the attic and saw Xie Wan, and he gave it up.

"I've been asking the girl to come to the shop for a few days, so I can talk to the other side, but I happened to meet it just after I went out. The little ones did as the girl said, Lord Zhao and Mrs. Zhao have never doubted it so far, and the Wang family asked Tuesday to send several apologies, and let Lord Zhao return untouched. Yesterday, I sent someone to say that it was the second girl's birthday in a few days, and invited the eldest girl of the Zhao family to come over to play, and Mrs. Zhao also pushed it. ”

Xie Wan stared at him twice, and saw that he had changed into a muslin robe and a small purse tied around his waist, which was somewhat decent. She closed the account book and asked, "How is Lord Zhao doing to you?" ”

His face was stunned, but he couldn't help the joy in the corners of his eyes, and lowered his waist even more and said: "Thanks to the girl, after telling Lord Zhao as the girl explained last time, the adults have been kind to the little ones these days, so that the little ones have a lot of face." ”

Xie Wan pursed his lips, "That's good." ”

As he was talking, he heard a sudden noise downstairs, mixed with the angry shouts of Yufang and Shen Tian.

Xie Wan approached the window and looked out, only to see a circle of people on the street downstairs, an old man from the countryside stood in the middle, with a handful of taro that had been kicked over, and in front of him was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man in brocade clothes, with flowers on his head, pinned a folding fan to his waist in the cold spring, and his toes were high.

And Shen Tian, Yufang and Luo Ju stood on the side of the man, glaring angrily at this son.

She turned her head to the shop downstairs and said, "Luo Yi, call Yufang back!" ”

The obedient Luo Yi ran to the street, pulling Yufang's sleeve and pointing to the upstairs window. Yufang saw Xie Wan and immediately ran back with her skirt.

"What's going on?" Xie Wan asked.

Yu Fang said angrily: "The second young master of the Ning family, who sells tea, thinks that the man with the taro doesn't give way to him, overturns his basket, and lets the lackeys around him crush all the taro!" That man is very honest, that basket of taro is the money their family used to chew this month, and he doesn't dare to say a word! I happened to go out and met it, and I couldn't help but make a noise. ”