Chapter 163: Xiu Yu is puzzled
To be honest, for Zheng Xiuyu's mood and thoughts, Master Zheng really doesn't understand, it's just a concubine room, the significance of the Yu family's daughter marrying is the close connection between the two families, in Master Zheng's view, this shows a kind of closeness and valued attitude, as for the concubine room, he wants to be pampered, he doesn't have to spoil if he doesn't want to be pampered, just leave a little face for the other party outside.
Seeing Yu Zhaoyuan write a letter again this time, Master Zheng saw the other party's more and more earnest attitude between the brushstrokes, and felt that it was really impossible to delay like this, after all, the other party had already behaved so well to speak, although it was not so low, but it was secretly flattering.
After all, the other party meant that Yu Xiu, the concubine of the Yu family, could be a concubine for Zheng Xiuyu, but Master Zheng felt that the other party was reckless and refused, and Yu Zhaoyuan left the Zheng family with anger, and later although she also corresponded with Master Zheng, her attitude was not very close.
Until a few days ago, it seemed that because of the embarrassing position in the Yu family, the two corresponded frequently. This time, the other party even specially sent the portraits of those suitable women of the Yu family for him to choose one by one, which can be said to give him a lot of face, the other party respects him, and Master Zheng naturally wants to pay tribute in return.
Otherwise, it will only spread his arrogant reputation, which is really not what he likes for Master Zheng, who has always liked to make friends and dislike to oppress people with power, so Master Zheng plans to write a letter to the other party to express his agreement and make a gesture of being willing to make friends.
So Master Zheng thought about it for a while, called in Steward Zheng and said, "You go to Pingcheng to invite Gongzi here, and tell him that the Zheng family is looking for him, don't let him think about the attitude he had before, I treated him too leniently before, and he was so inch-free."
Steward Zheng saw that Master Zheng seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and knew that the other party was indeed a little angry at this time, after all, he was the head of the Zheng family, and he was usually in charge of the affairs of the Zheng family, which could be said to be the same, but Zheng Xiuyu was repeatedly disobedient to him, how could this make Master Zheng willing?
It's just that remembering that Zheng Xiuyu has always treated her leniently, and doesn't treat him as nothing because of his identity, Steward Zheng thought about it, and still said a few good words for Zheng Xiuyu:
"The head of the family, the young master is still a young man after all, and there are some who don't like this kind of marriage, but he has always been sensible and smart, and he is the most obedient, as long as you talk to him well, the young master will definitely understand you."
Master Zheng heard that Steward Zheng seemed to be interceding for Zheng Xiuyu, remembered Zheng Xiuyu's attitude, and remembered that he handled the affairs of the Zheng family in an orderly manner, Master Zheng agreed slightly, but he didn't react on the surface, just waved his hand and said:
"Alright, you go down and make arrangements, let him come back to me quickly."
"Yes!"
Steward Zheng was busy, he found his apprentice Xiao Yin beside him, although he was a slave, but because he had always done things decently, it could be said that he was a little thin in the Zheng family, and because he was trusted by the Zheng family master, even if the young masters and young ladies of the Zheng family saw Steward Zheng, they had to speak softly.
is also because of Steward Zheng's high status, there are many servants who come to please him, and he has accepted a few to serve by his side, responsible for doing some small things and so on.
Especially the actions and attitudes of other people in the Zheng family, some Zheng stewards of some status have paid some attention, after all, as a steward, he needs to know the situation of the little masters, and then he can make a better response, the so-called eight-sided exquisite is like this.
Xiao Yin is because of his cleverness, so Steward Zheng likes him more, and specially accepts him as an apprentice, at this time, Xiao Yin saw Steward Zheng come out, and hurriedly trotted to Steward Zheng, handed him a cup of hot tea, and then said with a smile
"The master is tired, let's drink some tea, this is the apprentice's newly ordered tea leaves, and he specially cooked a pot of tea for the master."
Steward Zheng glanced at his apprentice, looked at his flattering appearance, and couldn't help but sigh and said:
"Take the tea down, I'm not going to drink it for now, I have something to tell you, you go and take care of it, you know?"
"Yes, the apprentice remembered, and asked the master to arrange it."
Hearing Steward Zheng's somewhat serious tone, Xiao Yin hurriedly put away the hippie smile on his face,
replied earnestly.
"You go to Pingcheng to find the young master, and carefully tell the young master that he can no longer disobey the master's orders like this, the old man is angry because of this matter, and the second son is often coming to ask the master to say goodbye, the master still likes the second son, and specially instructed the second son to take care of some business outside the Zheng family, and the second son also did quite well.
Therefore, the second son has been appreciated and praised by the master. Remind the young master to let him come back quickly, be obedient in his attitude, don't go against the master, and be sure to persuade the young master to make his attitude not so tough and stubborn, do you remember? There is a reward for doing this well, and if you don't do it well, you will be punished."
Although Steward Zheng doesn't want his apprentices to interfere in this kind of thing, Steward Zheng also knows that although Xiao Yin is clever, he has little experience, and only by letting him experience more can he grow, otherwise what he has now is just some little cleverness.
However, Steward Zheng also secretly kept a hand, and the second son he mentioned was a wake-up call to Zheng Xiuyu, Uncle Zheng has a lot of concubines, and there are also many concubines and concubines, and the Li family is not a jealous one in this regard, she has always treated these concubines and concubines leniently, and also asked them to teach the master. Chinese Net
Therefore, as the wife of the Zheng family, the Li family is still respected both inside and outside, which naturally has her family background, but more importantly, the Li family does things properly, so Master Zheng also values her.
Among those concubines and concubines, there are naturally some outstanding, the second son is one of them, although their aunts are all concubines, but the status of concubines and concubines is also different, the second son's aunt is an ordinary woman, because of her beautiful appearance, Uncle Zheng likes it, and her family is relying on the Zheng family, so she was sent to be a good concubine.
When she first came to Zheng's house, she was indeed a little favored, but Uncle Zheng has always liked the new and hated the old, and soon fell in love with other women, and the second son's concubine fell out of favor, but the second son also got a little bit of attention from Master Zheng because he was in good order, although it was not as good as Zheng Xiuyu, but it was not bad.
The meaning of Steward Zheng's words was to instruct Zheng Xiuyu, telling him that he didn't like Master Zheng, and he didn't obey Master Zheng's orders, but the other young masters of the Zheng family were waiting to get Master Zheng's favor, and I believe that Zheng Xiuyu, as a smart person, naturally knew what to do.
And Xiao Yin didn't know the meaning of Steward Zheng's words, but he also knew that this matter had to be handled more prominently, so he hurriedly agreed, "Yes, the apprentice knows, go down and do it now."
Xiao Yin saw Steward Zheng's expression, and naturally knew the key to this matter, which could be related to the young head of the Zheng family, if he did a good job in this matter, he could naturally show his face in front of the young head of the family, so Xiao Yin didn't dare to delay more, and instructed the matter on his body to another subordinate, and then dealt with it himself.
As for Zheng Xiuyu's side, he was not idle at this time, he didn't stay in the Zheng family because he had a different idea with Master Zheng, and later had some close contact with King Jing, he felt that King Jing was open-minded, so he secretly took refuge in King Jing, but King Jing didn't seem to tell him to do anything important, just asked him to send a letter to Concubine Shu and the Qi family.
Zheng Xiuyu was a little disappointed in this, so after sending the letter, he came to Mrs. Li to explain what he meant, and at the same time asked Mrs. Li for advice, but Mrs. Li did not reprimand him or educate him, but only asked him to sort out his collection.
Zheng Xiuyu didn't know what Mrs. Li meant, but he still did it, Zheng Xiuyu likes to read, but sorting out the collection of books every day is still a bit boring, he looked at Mrs. Li and wanted to ask if there were any other instructions, but the other party asked Zheng Xiuyu to continue to sort out.
It wasn't until Zheng Xiuyu finally sorted out the collection of books that he breathed a sigh of relief, he originally wanted to go to Mrs. Li to get a little praise from him, but he didn't want Mrs. Li to smile and ask him to sort out the weeds in the garden, where did Zheng Xiuyu do all this work? When he was in the Zheng family before, there were special servants to clean it up, but he didn't dare to disobey Mrs. Li's intentions.
So Zheng Xiuyu could only reluctantly go to sort out those weeds, and it was really tiring to sort out the weeds, but Mrs. Li never let Zheng
Xiu Yu rested, and even gave him a prescribe on which piece to tidy up every day.
Sometimes Zheng Xiuyu wanted to ask if he could not tidy it up, but the other party just looked at him with a smile that seemed to be a smile, and he was a little weak-hearted, and then he started to do it, until he turned it over and over again a few times, Zheng Xiuyu only felt tired, he really couldn't help it, and looked up and asked Mrs. Li what he meant by doing this.
But he didn't want to hear his inquiry, but Mrs. Li shook his head with a light smile, looked at Zheng Xiuyu's eager expression, and then said something that made Zheng Xiuyu a little angry, only to hear him say slowly:
"It doesn't mean anything else, it's just that I want to tell you to do it, don't think too much."
"Am I so busy every day just because of this casual remark? Xiu Yu doesn't understand."
Although he has always respected Mrs. Li, Zheng Xiuyu is still a little angry, the tiredness on his body, coupled with the appearance of a gray face, Zheng Xiuyu originally thought that he would get some advice, but he didn't want to be a sentence of "casual", his expression was slightly angry, and he seemed to have some grievances.