The two of them came out of Rongjingtang all the way, and the pace was not fast.

It seems that Wei Ying's tired charcoal fire is enough, and it will not be too cold to endure immediately, and this time he came just to make a gesture.

Xie Zhiyun followed her quietly, and the two walked for a moment, and no one was in a hurry to speak.

This aunt is actually a little strange.

Xie Zhiyun has never seen her, and the Xie family has never provoked Huzhou Mu, as soon as she came to the Suguo Mansion, she did not deal with Xie Zhiyun, and she was picky when she opened and closed her mouth.

However, she is not only critical of Xie Zhiyun, except for Yu Hanzhao and Wei Ningshu, she does not want to see any of the ladies in the mansion.

It's weird.

Xie Zhiyun lowered his eyes and accompanied Wei Ying forward for a moment, but Wei Ying suddenly spoke.

"Now the family is going to be in your hands?"

Xie Zhiyun said: "Yes, it's just for my mother-in-law for a few days." ”

Wei Ying snorted coldly: "If it weren't for Cui Ji's crooked illness all day long, I really don't want you to take care of family affairs, you nobles from high-ranking families are all golden branches and jade leaves, and we can't compare with mud legs." ”

Xie Zhiyun looked at the simple gown and moonlight skirt on her body, but he didn't think she was insincere.

Except for the ceremonious clothes she wore on the day she first came back, these days are more and more plain, and the clothes are not new, and they have been worn for many years at a glance.

But Wei Ying didn't care.

Xie Zhiyun followed behind her, and when she saw that the two of them had already turned out of the garden and were about to come to the back wing, she stopped ninjas and asked directly.

"Auntie, my niece wants to ask my aunt why she is so disgusted with her niece," Xie Zhiyun's voice was light and clear, so that Wei Ying could hear it clearly, "My niece has never seen my aunt, and Xie has nothing to do with my aunt, can my aunt be kind and solve my niece's doubts?" ”

Wei Ying's footsteps paused.

She turned her head, and her hazy eyes swept towards Xie Zhiyun.

And Xie Zhiyun stood there generously, letting her look at it, her eyebrows swiped, her lips dyed and smiled, as if she was not affected by this abrupt denunciation at all.

Lang Huan Xie's daughter, the fairy falls into the dust.

Wei Ying couldn't help but think of the world's evaluation of Lang Huan Xie's family.

She snorted coldly: "You are upright, and you still know to ask me." ”

Xie Zhiyun smiled: "My aunt is not an accommodating person, why can't she ask?" If there is a misunderstanding, wouldn't it be better to solve it? ”

She didn't want to be annoying to listen to her humming all day.

Wei Ying looked at her coldly for a moment, then turned around and said: "I come from a humble background, even if I am dressed in brocade clothes now, I can't change that I am a rude peasant girl, for Zhong Mingding cannibals like you, I can't afford to climb high, and I don't want to climb high." ”

She didn't tell the truth.

Xie Zhiyun sighed slightly in his heart, and had to say: "Origin is origin, you and I are you and me, how can we confuse background and temperament?" ”

Wei Ying walked forward, and finally only said, "Mrs. Boqian, do you think you are hiding it well?" ”

Xie Zhiyun was stunned for a moment, and after a moment, she lowered her eyes and followed Wei Ying's footsteps into the back room.

In the back wing, there is a servant's room, a kitchen, a water room, and a charcoal room, and the charcoal room is next to the water room, which is not very large, and only an old servant with gray hair sits outside the two doors.

Wei Ying came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, and it was impossible for him to talk to this servant, so Xie Zhiyun had to go forward and ask the servant to call the second housekeeper.

As early as when the two ladies came to the back room, there were already servants who called the second housekeeper, so not long after Xie Zhiyun finished giving the order, the second housekeeper ran over with sweat.

At this time, he was busy with dinner, he came from the kitchen, and his body was stained with the smell of oil smoke.

Xie Zhiyun also knew him, and when he saw that he was at a loss, he made it clear to him about the charcoal fire of the tired fast.

The second housekeeper slapped his head and hurriedly apologized to Wei Ying.

"It's a small mistake, this charcoal fire is sent to each room for the second half of the month, because it has already started spring, according to the old practice of the family to reduce the weight of one of three, the small one is so busy that he is a little dizzy, and he forgot the instructions of his wife."

The second housekeeper has been following Wei Cang for many years, and he also served this Mrs. Ying in his early years, and he knows her temperament best, so he didn't quibble, and knelt down directly to kowtow to Wei Ying.

"It's a small mistake, please punish Mrs. Ying."

It's really crisp and unambiguous.

Wei Ying lowered his eyes to look at him, his expression was indifferent, and he didn't seem to be very angry.

Xie Zhiyun watched coldly, and it was even gentler than when he looked at her.

Sure enough, Wei Ying spoke: "Okay, since you admit your mistake, then deduct half a month's money, and the matter will be stopped." ”

Saying that, she turned away: "Get up, what do you look like when you kneel, we are not those who have rules." ”

Xie Zhiyun: "......"

Why don't you forget to sarcastically mock me?

The second housekeeper, Ma Li, got up and saluted Wei Ying with a smile: "It's still Mrs. Ying's magnanimity and forgiveness for the stupidity of the little one, and the small one will let people send the difference of charcoal over to ensure that Miss Biao will not be frozen." ”

This is just a trivial matter, Wei Ying didn't have to go to Cui Ji at all, and she didn't have to pull Xie Zhiyun over to the back room, she asked Zheng Niangzi to come over, and the matter was solved in a few words.

Xie Zhiyun really didn't understand the purpose of her trip, so she didn't speak, and waited until the two came out of the back wing room, stepped on the gravel path and returned to the garden, Xie Zhiyun saluted Wei Ying: "Auntie, this matter is over, and my niece will return to the Spring Garden." ”

Wei Ying turned her head and still looked at Xie Zhiyun coldly.

Xie Zhiyun guessed that she had something to say, so he listened attentively.

"Mrs. Boqian," Wei Ying said, "You grew up in Langhuan, do you know that there was a natural disaster in Taixing thirteen years ago?" ”

Xie Zhiyun was stunned.

She didn't expect that Wei Ying was asking this.

Xie Zhiyun's eyes were bright, and she raised her eyes slightly, allowing Wei Ying to stare at herself for a moment.

She is not weak-hearted, not flustered, and not afraid of people looking at her.

"Thirteen years ago, my niece was only five years old, and at that time, there were many things in the family, and my younger brother was young, so I didn't know much about the outside scene."

"Why does my aunt ask that?"

Wei Ying looked at her fixedly, and saw that she really didn't know, so he said, "That's it, you were still a child at that time, what can you know?" ”

She said this, and walked away.

Xie Zhiyun watched her emaciated back disappear behind the evergreen tree, and then sighed lowly.

Mama Jia has been following far behind, and Shicai followed, holding Xie Zhiyun's hand: "Miss, go back first." ”

When he returned to Chunhua Courtyard, Xie Zhiyun washed his hands and cleaned his face, and then he withdrew from everyone, only letting Mama Jia follow in the house to talk.

"Mama, Fang Cai Wei Ying asked me, do you know the old things thirteen years ago."

Xie Zhiyun looked at Mama Jia: "What does Mama know?" ”

She remembered that her mother was seriously ill thirteen years ago, and Xie Zhiyun was in a hurry, so she was a little angry, and she was immediately feverish when she was agitated by the cold wind, and it took more than ten days to get better.

But when she got better, the first news she knew was the death of her mother.

She was healthy and healthy, her mother raised her carefully, and she had never had a serious illness, but this blow was too heavy, so that her newly recovered body deteriorated again, and she finally got better after lying down for more than half a month.

At that time, his mother's funeral had been completed, and Xie Zhiyun could only go to his mother's grave and put a stick of incense on it, which could be regarded as a complete farewell to his mother.

In that month, Xie Zhiyun was groggy, Xie Zhiyun didn't know a lot of things, and no one in the family dared to talk about it, so Xie Zhiyun didn't know the reason for that year.

"Mama, no one in the family talked about my mother in the early years, I thought it was my father's feelings, sad and sad, and the family didn't dare to let him be too sad, so I didn't say it, and then it was a little longer, Ah Xing heard someone talking about it in the family, and I was a little suspicious."

"But those few servant women with broken mouths were found talking about the head of the family, and they were bought out early in the morning, and the servants in the house were replaced, and no one knew about the early years from then on."

Xie Zhiyun sighed: "This incident made Ah Xing like a fish in his throat, and now he is acting more and more perversely, and he is more and more resentful towards his father, and I saw the love of my parents when I was young, so I don't believe those nonsense." ”

She slowly raised her eyes, as if sad, as if pleading at Mama Jia.

"Mama, you have always been by my side, and you are an old person by my mother's side, you must know something."

"Now, I'm married, grandma told me okay?"

Mama Jia was silent.

She held Xie Zhiyun's hand, only to find that her soft hand was very cold, and there was no heat at all.

Mama Jia looked at Xie Zhiyun lovingly, looking at the Qilin'er that she had raised from infancy, and finally sighed.

"I thought Miss didn't want to know," Mama Jia squeezed her hand and put her cold hand into her arms, "That day in the ancestral hall, Miss also comforted the young master, I thought Miss was open-minded and optimistic, and she didn't want to indulge in old things all day long." ”

"It's because I think I'm wrong," Mama Jia sighed, "Now that Miss asks, I'll tell Miss what I know." ”

Mama Jia said with a nostalgic tone: "Madame's health has not been very good, there have been wars and chaos in those years, there is a shortage of medicine, the Xie family has been in the hundred-year-old clan, this bit of confidence is still there, until the young master is born, Madame's health is still acceptable." ”

"The accident occurred in the sixth year of Yuanjia, and on Chinese New Year's Eve that year, a group of mountain bandits wandered in Langhuan and Taixing, but they never broke into Langhuan, so the Shangyuan Lantern Festival was still very lively that year."

"At that time, Madame's health was still good, so I thought about the Spring Festival, and took you and the young master to visit the Lantern Festival, but unexpectedly, it ......"

Xie Zhiyun's heart trembled, and he asked in a dumb voice, "What's unexpected?" ”

Mama Jia sighed, quite a sigh of fate.

"Unexpectedly, there was a group of mountain bandits who broke into Langhuan and took advantage of the excitement of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival to loot, there were a lot of people that day, and the Lantern Festival was chaotic, and Mrs. was accidentally injured."

Xie Zhiyun's heart ached for a while.

At this moment, she realized that her illness was not due to cold, and her mother's serious illness was not due to the recurrence of the old disease, but the source was this Shangyuan Lantern Festival, which was those mountain bandits who had lost their conscience.

Xie Zhiyun's voice became drier and drier: "Mother is there to protect me and Ah Xing?" ”

Mama Jia paused, she knew that the young lady was smart, so she didn't hide it.

"Yes," said Mama Jia, "at that time, Madame was separated with the young master and young lady and her servants, and she had to protect the two young children alone. ”

Mama Jia squeezed Xie Zhiyun's hand: "Miss, Madame is a big hero, she is not weak." ”