Chapter XVII: Relatives
When Ye Lang rubbed his hands and came to the third room, Ye Qiong was doing needlework with her sister and A-Niang, and Ye Jin was helping them sort out the threads on the side.
Now that most of the servants in the family have been dismissed, many things can only be done by Ye Qiong and the others.
After all, Xie was born in Jiangnan, and he had studied carefully with the embroidery girl of Jiangning Weaving Mansion, and the clothes and small objects made were finely stitched and embroidered smartly.
But Ye Qiong is not, she looks at the mandarin duck embroidered into a sparrow in her hand and is a little depressed.
In her previous life, Ye Qiong didn't do much needlework for Zhang Xudong, and he laughed at her for only holding a pen, but not a female worker's hand.
Ye Qiong held her breath even more when she thought of this, and she couldn't push the sewing basket at all.
Xie was about to laugh, when he heard the newly arrived doorman report from the doorman: "Young Master Lang of the big house has arrived." ”
Ye Lang rubbed his hands and walked into the inner courtyard, and saw that they were doing needlework by themselves, and became even more cramped and uneasy, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Third aunt, can you please help take care of the big house." Now that my father is in prison, my mother and Pogo are sick, and Wanwan is still pregnant, I really can't help it. ”
Saying that, Ye Lang, a seven-foot man, actually shed tears, which made people unbearable to watch.
Xie Shi hurriedly walked over and pulled Ye Lang and said, "Good boy, say it slowly, it's okay." ”
Ye Lang slowed down and said: "Since my father was imprisoned, the fourth uncle has been here several times, and the last time he brought a group of clan elders to get rid of the clan, and the eldest aunt has also come several times, moving here and that, my mother is so angry that she is sicker, and Wanwan is so angry that she cries, I really can't come to ask the third aunt to help me." ”
Ye Qiong's eyes rolled and asked, "Does the fourth uncle want us to eliminate the clan in the two rooms, or does he remove the clan himself?" ”
Ye Lang also realized something when he heard this, and said: "It is he who wants to get rid of the clan, my father is still the head of the Ye family, my mother is a clan woman, and our big house can't get rid of the clan......"
Ye Qiong then laughed and congratulated Ye Lang: "Isn't it a good thing that the fourth uncle can take the initiative to be willing to get rid of the clan?" ”
Xie Shi also nodded, and whispered: "Your father and third uncle are in prison, and the one in the fourth room has intervened, and it is indeed a good thing to get rid of the clan." ”
Ye Lang was stunned when he heard this, and he was so angry that he wanted to scold, but he remembered that it was still his nominal fourth uncle and endured it.
Xie patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, I promised, I'll go to your place to have a look." ”
When Xie took Ye Qiong and a few people to Songhe Hall, the fourth uncle Ye Zuhui was already sitting in the guest seat, and there were some old clan elders sitting next to him, sighing.
Su Shi held his slightly pregnant belly and sat alone on the main seat, as lonely as a small flower in the snowstorm.
As soon as the Xie family entered the door, he shouted to Ye Zuhui in the guest seat: "I heard that the fourth brother wants to take the initiative to remove the clan? ”
Ye Zuhui put down the teacup with a "bang", arched his hand in the direction of Xie's family, and said with a smile: "Exactly!" ”
The clan elder sitting next to him sighed louder.
Ye Lang hurriedly walked through the Songhe Hall and helped Su Shi: "Are you okay?" ”
Su Shi nodded and said that it was fine.
As soon as Xie Shi shook the handkerchief, tears fell down his eyes, and he cried: "The fourth brother is really ruthless, the master and the eldest brother have only been in prison for a few days and have to rush to get rid of the relationship with us, you are like this, it really hurts our hearts!" ”
Ye Zuhui's face became even more proud, Ye Qiong looked at his expression, and cried with the Xie family: "Fourth uncle, Qiong'er is reluctant to let you and Sister Shanshan, Sister Shanshan will marry into the Yang family soon, except for the clan, Qiong'er will not see her in the future." ”
Ye Zuhui's face trembled.
There is also Ye Shanshan's family business, if you don't cut off contact with the Ye family, the Yang family may withdraw from this family business that is not very satisfying......
Ye Qiong continued to cry: "The only heirs named by the fourth uncle are Cousin Shanshan and Cousin Cersei, who will support the fourth uncle except the queen of the clan?" Fourth uncle, don't get rid of the clan, we are a family, and Cousin Lang and my brother will support you. ”
Ye Zuhui's face was gloomy, and the few clan elders sitting next to him who had originally planned to persuade Ye Zuhui to think about it again lit up.
That's right, anyway, Ye Zuhui doesn't have a son, and it has no impact on the Ye family's incense except for the clan, Ye Zuhui is not out of his own, and now the three rooms of the big house of the grandson are both in prison, except for Ye Zuhui, isn't there a second room to rely on?
Several clan elders were whispering, and Ye Qiong's second uncle, Ye Chanyan, also hurried over, and said to Ye Zuhui: "If you want to get rid of the clan, just get rid of the clan, I won't stop you!" ”
Ye Zuhui snorted from his nose, slapped a letter that had been cut off on the table, pressed his handprint, and said, "Since the family has been divided, the things in the fourth room belong to me, and there is no need to return them." All the clan elders remember to cross my name on the family tree, so that it can be regarded as my good name of righteous annihilation! ”
With that, Ye Zuhui left without looking back.
Ye Qiong sneered in her heart.
The fourth uncle's appendage has finally been dug up from the Ye family.
The second uncle sighed and accepted the letter, bowed his hand to several clan elders one by one, and said: "Trouble all the clan elders, the eldest brother and the third brother are not here, this matter is still led by me, delete Ye Zuhui's name from the family tree." Although Ye Zuhui asked for the removal of the clan in a hurry, we still have to finish the process. ”
The second uncle said and looked at Ye Lang, Ye Lang nodded, and made a gesture of invitation to everyone: "Please come with me, the ancestral hall is here, and the second uncle and I will go and invite the family tree out first." ”
The second uncle bowed his hand apologetically to the Xie family, and followed Ye Lang and the clan elders to the ancestral hall in the corner of the Ye family's ancestral house.
Xie Shi turned around and called Ye Jin to come over to help, and then sighed sincerely: "It's still a good second brother." ”
Ye Qiong frowned, feeling a little strange in her heart.
Why didn't the second uncle come early or late, but the fourth uncle came over when he made a fuss. Cousin Lang should have begged the second aunt to be the master, and I don't know how the second aunt refused, so let Cousin Lang beg to A-Niang......
Yes, the father of the second aunt Jiang is the Taifu Temple Sicheng, who is only responsible for raising horses in the army, unlike A-Niang, who is from a big family.
Ye Qiong still felt a little strange in her heart, but she couldn't figure it out, so she could only put down her mind for a while and help her sister-in-law Su sit down.
Just as he was persuading a few words, a sneaky figure appeared in the Songhe Hall, and Su Shi slid down from the circle chair at a glance, gritted his teeth and said with a forced smile: "Auntie......"
The eldest aunt Ye Fuxian looked at the female dependents in the Songhe Hall, her face was almost full of laughter, and she smiled and touched the ice-cracked celadon plum blossom vase on the table on the side, and said: "Eh, the third brother and sister are also here, and the nephew and daughter-in-law are really lively here." This vase is good, I don't think my eldest brother can come back now, it's better to get it to me, I'll take it. ”
Xie Shi calmed his face and said angrily: "Stop!" ”
When the eldest aunt heard this, she put down the vase and handed it to the maid who followed behind her, and smiled provocatively: "Third brother and sister, you are not from the big house, are you?" I'm the same mother as my eldest brother, and I take my eldest brother's things, and the daughter-in-law of your younger brother born to a stepmother seems embarrassed to take care of my affairs, right? ”
Xie Shi was speechless, Ye Qiong and Ye Yao also frowned.
The eldest aunt is still sick, and A-Niang is really not very good at caring about the eldest aunt's affairs.
"Auntie, put your things down." Su Shi's face was cold, his voice was crisp and cold, but it was extremely imposing, "The third aunt can't take care of it, I can always say a few words." ”
Ye Fuxian raised her eyebrows and hugged her chest to see what the Su family would do.
"My mother is still sick, and I am the eldest daughter-in-law of the long house, so it stands to reason that I can temporarily take the position of the patriarch." Su Shi said, only Ye Qiong, who was holding her hand, knew that she was trembling, "Auntie, please put down your things, lest everyone look bad." ”
Ye Fuxian said angrily: "What is it, the daughter of a small family, my father is still working under my sister-in-law's family, and he also came to order me?" As he spoke, he was about to smash the vase on the ground.
Su Shi sighed, and most of his body was crooked on Ye Qiong, which made Ye Qiong startle, Xie Shi and Ye Yao were also startled and hurriedly came over to help, but Ye Qiong, who was closer, saw Su Shi wink at her.
Ye Qiong was stunned for a moment, laughed out loud in her heart, but her mouth was still indignant: "Auntie, let's put it back." The cousin-in-law is still pregnant, and the crime of coercing her mother's nephew and daughter-in-law is not easy to dodge, not to mention that Cousin Ting is a side concubine in the Three Princes' Mansion, and the Three Princes' Mansion has just lost a child and is making a lot of trouble, don't let people think of things on Cousin Ting. ”
Ye Qiong's cousin Ting is Ye Fuxian's daughter Wen Fangting, who is working as a side concubine in the Three Princes' Mansion.
Ye Qiong didn't have much impression of this Cousin Ting, but she was deeply impressed by the fact that the Third Prince's Mansion had no child at this time.
Because it was the first child of the royal grandchildren, it was a matter of seizing the heir, and once Zhang Xudong got drunk and proudly told her that it was his handiwork, which scared her into a cold sweat.
Ye Fuxian's face shook, revealing great fear, and she hurriedly held the vase and put it down, and then pulled the maid and hurriedly left, as if there was some monster chasing behind her.
Su Shi breathed a long sigh of relief, got up from Ye Qiong, and saw that Xie Shi and Ye Yao on the side were dumbfounded, and then blushed shyly and said, "I...... I see my aunt being aggressive and talented......"
Xie Shi had already smiled and said, "Good boy, don't be afraid, that's the way it is." Now that the eldest brother is in prison, if you can't protect yourself, you will only suffer! ”
Su Shi nodded fiercely.
Ye Qiong looked at Su Shi, with both admiration and doubt in her heart.
In her previous life, she originally thought that Su's dystocia was due to depression. But looking at it now, the Su family is a strong and intelligent person in his bones, how can he let himself be depressed when he is pregnant with Lang's cousin's posthumous belly?
Ye Qiong looked at the vase thoughtfully.
After a day of noisy commotion, Ye Qiong and his party had dinner in the big room and were about to say goodbye, originally thinking that no one would come to the door again, but they waited for Ye Yu and her husband Zou Shinan who came in disguise.
Ye Yu was also very surprised to see the people in the third room, and was even more grateful when he heard Su Shi tell the story, and took Xie and Ye Qiong's hands and said, "Thank you to the third aunt and sister Qiong." ”
Ye Qiong smiled and said, "What is Sister Yu doing with this cloak, it's like being a thief." ”
Ye Yu and Zou Shinan glanced at each other, their expressions gloomy: "Shinan and I originally came out quietly, for fear that my father-in-law would not agree to us coming." As a result, halfway through, I happened to meet my father-in-law and was caught. My father-in-law dragged us into his study and showed us his treasured collection of grandfather and his drawings when we were confused. ”
Speaking of this, Ye Yu sighed again: "My father-in-law believes in the Ye family, but he is now the head of Wenshan Academy, and if he wants to set an example for all students, he must be impartial and upright, and he cannot take a stand until the outcome of this case is resolved." After that, my father-in-law let us go and asked us to disguise ourselves. Father-in-law said that as long as there is no need to show his identity, he will help the Ye family, but he can't do anything else. ”
Several people fell silent when they heard this.
Ye Qiong's mind turned a thousand times, and finally asked Ye Yu: "Sister Hall, if I want to go back to class, does the mountain chief agree?" ”
Ye Yu nodded: "My father-in-law also took in the son of a criminal minister in the academy, and he only depends on whether you want to learn or not." ”
Xie Shi dissuaded: "Now that the whole capital wants to stay away from the Ye family, Qiong'er, what are you doing in the academy?" ”
Ye Qiong smiled: "I love to learn, so naturally I go to class." ”
Xie Shi knew that Ye Qiong should have other plans, and knew that he couldn't stop him, so he nodded her forehead.
Ye Qiong smiled and had a new plan in her heart.