Chapter 265: Three Tests of Depth
Yan Kaizhi's attitude made Shaohua happy for a long time, so much so that Xu Xinru came to the door three times and twice, and she also smiled at each other.
"What the hell do you want, don't you want to help him?" Xu Xinru felt like a ripe fruit, throwing it on the ground and selling it cheaply, looking at the other party's face.
"I'm not in a hurry, what are you anxious about, should you want to rely on the Hou Ye." Shaohua's words easily provoked Xu Xinru's anger, and just before she jumped to her feet, she said lightly: "Do you think that Hou Ye's decision can be swayed by anyone, if you are in such a hurry, go to him yourself, maybe he will satisfy you for the sake of your urgency." ”
Shaohua's contemptuous eyes were like looking at Goolan Jizi, as if his gaze stayed on her for a moment longer, and he was afraid of staining his eyes. Xu Xinru knew that she had to give in first, so she secretly gritted her teeth to endure this humiliation, and turned around to leave.
"Wait!" Shaohua stopped her footsteps and nodded to Chu He. Chu He hurriedly ran out and brought a basin-sized food basket in front of Xu Xinru, which was mixed with various beans. Facing Xu Xinru's puzzled and dissatisfied eyes, she smiled kindly: "Go back and divide these beans, before the sunset is finished, you are not allowed to eat tonight." ”
Xu Xinru's face immediately changed, and she said angrily: "Why! ”
The more impatient she was, the happier Shaohua's mood became, "It's up to you to make me unhappy." Remember, you have to do it yourself, and let me know who replaces me, and next time it's one person and one basket. She smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Don't take any chances, I'll let people see it at any time." ”
Xu Xinru didn't expect Shaohua to make such a tricky request, and with a wave of his hand, he almost knocked over a basket of beans. Fortunately, Chu He reacted quickly, took a step back, and only spilled a few pieces.
"If I don't pick it up, don't deceive people too much." Xu Xinru gritted her teeth.
Shaohua raised her eyebrows, she hadn't heard others talk about her for a long time, and saying this made her a little happy. "What if I just bullied you? Don't forget, this is the Marquis Xingyong's Mansion, I am Mrs. Marquis Xingyong, you are just a concubine who sent you to the door, what qualifications do you have to talk to me about bullying. Xu Xinru choked on half of the sentence, and felt unspeakably uncomfortable, "Didn't I tell you early in the morning that when you enter this door, you have to accept the rules of the strict family." ”
"Where did the Yan family come from such rules!" Xu Xinru felt more and more that Shaohua was a terrible demon.
"I am the mistress of this house, I said yes, and naturally there is." Shaohua said happily, and suddenly she put away her smile, lowered her eyes and said, "If you really don't pick it up, then I really can't help it." Just when Xu Xinru was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she said happily again: "But I have more other ways to torture you." ”
When Xu Xinru heard this, she couldn't help but gasp, "You demon girl!" ”
"Youhan." Shaohua called sweetly.
Youhan immediately came out, holding a bowl of stones in his hand, the size of a mung bean. When he walked to Chu He's side, he buckled the stones to the food basket with his backhand, there were already six or seven kinds of grains, but now there was another bowl of stones, Xu Xinru almost screamed.
Shaohua looked at her instantly pale face, and said, "Do you pick it up?" I should have seven or eight more things to add, and I'm afraid that you won't be able to pick them up at dawn. In addition to this mixture of grains, she also prepared peppercorns, fennel, kernels, pine nuts, barley, pumpkin seeds, wolfberries, and seeds.
It's a pity that Xu Xinru didn't give her this opportunity, she rushed over, snatched the grains in Chu He's arms, and looked at her fiercely.
"I'll pick it up, but don't forget what you promised me." Xu Xinru gritted her teeth and said.
"Next time, bring the rules, and let me hear your presumptuous tone, I won't just let you pick beans." Shaohua said, and asked Chu He to send off the guests.
Youhan watched Xu Xinru hold the heavy food basket and leave with a sense of resentment, although she didn't know what dumb riddle was playing between her and Shaohua, but she had to admit that this move was really ruthless. If two kinds of beans were mixed together, it would be enough to give them a headache, let alone six or seven, and there were so many portions. Not to mention that the day is not yet three poles, even if you walk up early in the morning to work, you may not be finished until dark.
Thinking of Xu Xinru's impatient temper, he must have been about to run away if he couldn't pick half of it, and the others would definitely not stand idly by. As long as you send someone to watch outside, you can grab her pigtails at any time, and then put her to death, and you are not afraid that she will dare to make a mistake.
Suddenly, Youhan felt that Shaohua was simply the reincarnation of Zhuge and could come up with such a wonderful way.
Shaohua was a little uncomfortable by her, and frowned: "What's wrong with your eyes all day, did they flash?" ”
Youhan said excitedly: "The slave just thinks that the lady is too smart, it is simply wonderful, how can she come up with this method." She slapped her thigh and said regretfully: "If there was a way, the second lady probably wouldn't be so pitiful." ”
Shaohua felt powerless at her dog-legged exaggerated tone, and she laughed in her heart, even if the Ling clan used this method against the Su clan at the beginning, with the Su clan's intelligence, she must be able to quickly come up with a plan to get out. In the final analysis, it is her husband's attitude that plays a role, she just relies on Yan Kaizhi to have no interest in Xu Xinru at all, so she can make it so difficult, if Yan Kaizhi is the same as her father-in-law, she is the master of the concubine, probably she will have to put more effort into it.
Therefore, instead of thinking about how to fight concubines, the most important thing is to contain her husband's heart.
Youhan is instigating Shaohua to find a way to make things difficult for Xu Xinru again, and she must be completely beaten at one time, so that she doesn't dare to jump up and resist again. But in Shaohua's eyes, as long as Yan Kaizhi ignores her, this can be regarded as the biggest torture for her. has the name of a concubine, but has entered a cold palace, without any freedom and expectation, is there anything more tragic than this.
However, Chuhe's report surprised Shaohua, "When I looked at it in the past, it was true that only Aunt Xu was doing it alone, but I saw that those postures were definitely not something that Aunt Xu could come up with." ”
Chu He told Shaohua what he had seen and heard in Xu Xinru's courtyard, and the white cloth that had been laid out in the courtyard was a bamboo sieve of different sizes and dense. There were already several piles of beans on the ground that had been singled out, all of them were large, and the rest were divided into several places, roughly arranged according to the size of the grains. This layer of sieving separates the beans of different sizes first, and sieves out the stones and miscellaneous beans in a bumpy way.
Although there are many processes, compared to picking one by one, it has saved a lot of time and effort.
Seeing Chu He stunned, Xu Xinru glared at her disdainfully, as if making fun of Shaohua's self-made cleverness.
Listening to Chu He's words, Shaohua couldn't help but fall into deep thought, Xu Xinru shouldn't be such a thoughtful person, and he shouldn't have thought of such a smart way. Suddenly thinking of Shui Ling, who had been following Xu Xinru all the time, Shaohua was thoughtful for a while.
It wasn't until it was dark that when Shui Ling brought back all the beans to Shaohua, Shaohua deliberately looked at her a few more times. But she was calm and calm, and her calm attitude made Shaohua quite admirable.
The next day, Shaohua asked people to send the same amount of walnuts, although they looked the same, but they were much less than the quantity. However, her request was that she had to peel it with her bare hands, and if she smashed it, she would still have nothing to eat. This trick was learned by Mrs. Xin back then, and it is said that many concubines broke their nails because of this, and they had to smash walnuts with their heads.
Xu Xinru, as Shaohua expected, was so angry that he threw walnuts all over the ground, but they were all picked up by Shui Ling one by one. As soon as she heard that she asked her to borrow the kitchen, Shaohua immediately asked Youhan to watch, only to say that the water was not moving and made a fire to boil the water, steamed all the walnuts in the steamer for half an hour, and went to the cold water, and after repeating it a few times, he asked Xu Xinru to peel the walnuts, and it was solved easily.
Youhan said it all over the place, Shaohua listened attentively, thought about it, and asked someone to send a bag of olive pits. As the name suggests, Yan Kaizhi likes to eat olives the most, and if Xu Xinru has the heart, he will do it himself and knock out a plate of stir-fried vegetables for Yan Kaizhi to eat. The premise is that it can't be crushed olives, and it must be complete to pass the test.
Youhan complained that this was too simple, just take a small hammer and open it with a hammer. But Shaohua didn't think so, Xu Xinru seemed to be lazy to let people replace him. But if she really likes Yan Kaizhi as much as she said, at least in this matter, Xu Xinru herself will never want others to interfere.
Anyway, she didn't expect Xu Xinru to be able to knock out a plate, she just wanted to find something to do for her, otherwise she couldn't get over it.
If Xu Xinru can find trouble for her, why can't she return an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, at most it is a body abuse and a heart abuse. Not to mention, there is also a water spirit beside her who seems to have the ability to reach the sky, which makes her have to cheer up.
Only when Shui Ling sent the picked olive kernels over again, Shaohua looked at Shui Ling for longer than at the olive kernels, and in such a short period of time, he picked so many olive kernels. It's not like picking beans, you can do it with patience, it's a lot of skill. When she was a child, she was punished for knocking on olive nuts, and although she found the trick, she couldn't make them so delicate.
"Is there anything else Madame has to say?" Shui Ling seemed to have long been aware of Shaohua's trouble, and took the initiative to ask.
"It's okay, tell Aunt Xu, I will tell Master Hou for her will." Shaohua asked Chu He to take the plate and said with a smile.
"In that case, the slave and maid will retire." The water spirit respectfully blessed the blessed body.
"Shui Ling, you are a few years old, and you haven't allowed anyone yet." Shaohua's words made Shui Ling's spine immediately cold, and he only heard Shaohua say slowly: "Xu's temperament is impatient and doesn't understand the rules, if there is half of you, I won't embarrass her so much." ”
Shui Ling was excited, and immediately turned around and knelt on the ground, "Please forgive Madame, the slave maid has no intention of transgressing the rules, these are all made by the aunt herself, and the slave and maid are just mentioning one or two points on the side." ”
Shaohua nodded, and motioned for Chu He to help her up, "It's right that you have this heart, okay, go down." ”
Shui Ling couldn't guess Shaohua's thoughts, so he had to bow again and retreat with trepidation.
Seeing her like this, Shaohua's heart sank even more. Until the evening, when Yan Kaizhi came back to eat, he saw the olive tofu soup, and the fresh taste made him taste a few more bites. Seeing that Yan Kaizhi was so enthusiastic about this dish, Shaohua was a little surprised, "My husband likes this dish so much, and I don't forget that Xu's omen have been knocking for a long time." ”
When Yan Kaizhi's hand reached for the tofu soup again, he immediately stopped when he heard her words, "Why did you let her do this?" ”
Shaohua pouted and sighed mournfully: "Why is it distressed? Since my husband likes Olive so much, and some people are willing to do it, I can be regarded as an adult's beauty. ”
Yan Kaizhi pursed his lips, obviously knowingly asking, "Who made this dish." ”
Shaohua was stunned for a moment, and immediately put on a proud face: "It's me, what's wrong?" ”
Yan Kaizhi nodded, continued to rush towards the tofu soup, chewed it carefully, and said, "No wonder the texture tastes so good." ”
Shaohua smiled, he didn't expect him to say this, and the vinegar disappeared for a while, and he deliberately took a few more sips, "You have been messing with Song Yu for a long time, and your mouth has followed the flamboyant tongue." ”
Yes, the children can be taught, she loves to hear this sentence!
Yan Kaizhi smiled, noncommittal, anyway, it would be best if everyone was happy.