Aunt Li said with a smile: "It was more than a month before I heard someone say it. You also know that some servants like to gossip. Sometimes things that have no trace are passed around, and they seem to be true.

of."

Mrs. Wei glanced at Nanny Li but said nothing.

Zhao Rurui also knew that her marriage was in the hands of her aunt, so she often came to please Mrs. Wei. But Mrs. Wei had a bad temper, and not even Zhao Yuanliang looked down upon her, let alone Zhao Rurui, a concubine.

So Zhao Rurui changed her direction and went to please Nanny Li, giving her gifts from time to time, and taking special care of Nanny Li's granddaughter. After two years, the hard work has been effective, and from time to time, Nanny Li would help

She spoke in front of Wei.

"How is the relationship between the fourth girl and the fifth girl?" asked Wei.

"When the fifth girl first returned home, the fourth girl probably thought that they were all girls from the second house and wanted to be friends with the fifth girl, but the fifth girl didn't pay attention to anyone." said Granny Li.

Wei nodded. She knew this situation.

She thought for a moment and said, "Let's see what's going on with the master tomorrow."

If Xu Xi could be persuaded to follow her back to the Wei Mansion, she would not resort to other tricks.

…

Zhao Yuanliang felt pity for the daughter Xu Xi, and he also had some awareness of being a father. He also felt that if the stalemate between them continued like this, it would make people laugh. So the next day, he deliberately came back from outside the house before evening, and

Xu Xi waited in a pavilion passing by from the front yard to Chuihua Gate.

Xu Xi lived in the inner courtyard. She went to school early in the morning and came back in the evening. Zhao Yuanliang was a grown man and could not walk around in the inner courtyard outside the second room, so he could only stop her to talk to her on the way home from school.

"Wait at the gate. If you see the fifth girl coming back, come and report to me immediately." He told the boy.

It's late summer now, so it's quite cool in the pavilion. I asked my servants to make tea and ate some snacks, so it wasn't hard to wait for someone.

But after drinking two pots of tea, Zhao Ruyu had been back for a long time, and the boy who went to wait for Xu Xi still hadn't come back.

He told another boy: "Go and have a look."

Before the boy got up, he added: "Ask the concierge again when the fifth girl came back in the past."

In fact, the boy had asked about it in the morning. In the past, Xu Xi arrived home not long after Zhao Ruyu came back, but yesterday it was two-quarters of an hour later than usual. Zhao Yuanliang, just to be on the safe side, came over and waited when Zhao Ruyu came back. But at this time

Xu Xi didn't come back yet, so he suspected that the boy had inquired about the wrong time.

The boy went to the gate and came back after a while to report: "It is true that the fifth girl has not come back. I have asked the concierge, and the concierge said that the fifth girl has returned half an hour later than usual."

Zhao Yuanliang suddenly frowned and became dissatisfied with the old lady and the eldest lady.

Xu Xi didn't come back so late, half an hour later than usual. As a result, no one from the old lady or the eldest lady sent someone to ask. Isn't this too irresponsible?

But with this thought, he became discouraged.

What position does he have to blame the old lady and the eldest lady?

Xu Xi belongs to their second bedroom. The Wei family herself doesn’t care about her daughter’s whereabouts. Who else in this house would care about Xu Xi? The old lady and the eldest lady never care much about the second and third bedrooms. The two-bedroom courtyard owns

All matters related to the matter are handled by the master and wife of the two households themselves.

Even if Xu Xi lives in Pinmingju, he cannot be considered a member of the eldest family or the old lady. The Wei family doesn't care, nor does the old lady or the eldest lady. I don't know what kind of life this child is living.

Zhao Yuanliang usually didn't have much sense of responsibility and was too lazy to take care of the affairs of the government. He just muddle along. His only idea was to find a leisure and respectable official position through his father-in-law, so that neither the old lady nor the Wei family would dare to look down on Yu anymore.

He. So he didn't care about everything in the house. After Xu Xi returned to the house, he also thought that the old lady, the eldest lady, and the Wei family were in charge of them. He was not hungry or cold, and could still study, so he was not needed.

No more worries.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all.

Thinking that it was already up to this time, Mrs. Wei didn't see him go back to dinner or send someone to ask, and she even ignored his daughter, which made him very angry.

He thought for a while, stood up, and said to the boy: "Go and set up the car. It's almost dark now and I still haven't seen the girl come back. Maybe something happened. I have to go and take a look."

The boy responded and went to the road to stop a little maid: "Go to the kitchen and tell them that the second master is going out and has no time for dinner, so he needs to bring some food to satisfy his hunger on the road. There are also some examples of our entourage,

You ask the kitchen people to bring it to the door together."

In fact, it doesn't matter whether the second master eats or not. He just had snacks and he wouldn't be hungry even if he went out for a run. He didn't order any food to be prepared. But the boy himself was hungry. He didn't have time to eat just now. He didn't know when he would go out soon.

return.

So he simply made an excuse to prepare food for the second master and prepared it for them.

Originally he should have done this by himself, but since he couldn't get away, he simply grabbed someone to help him run the errands. The little maid in front of him looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was wearing the clothes of a third-class maid, but

He is a rough messenger. The servants around these gentlemen give orders, and the maids dare not refuse them.

The little maid glanced at him, lowered her head slightly and replied, "I'm not free." With that, she walked straight out the door.

"Hey, you're a little girl, I can't call you, right? Do you know who I am? I'm the boy next to the second master. The second master is over there." He pointed to the pavilion.

From here, you can still vaguely see Zhao Yuanliang sitting in the pavilion.

"I have something to do here and I can't leave. If you don't help me pass on the message, you will delay the second master's business and I won't be able to walk around in circles." He added.

The little maid glanced towards the pavilion. Not only did she not stop, but she also walked quickly with her skirt in hand. She said: "I am from the eldest lady's courtyard. The eldest lady asked me to inquire about the fifth girl. I don't have time to help you.

You can call someone else." He said and quickly disappeared.

The boy was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Yuanliang in the pavilion, and hesitated whether to go over and report the matter. After thinking about it, he did not go back, but found someone to go to the kitchen to help spread the word, and then went to the concierge to call someone.

Set up a car.

After a tea break, when Zhao Yuanliang went out and got on the carriage, he was very satisfied when he saw the food and snacks placed on the table of the carriage. Although he had some snacks just now, they were not as comfortable as serious meals.

He said: "Each person will be rewarded with twenty coins."

The young man was overjoyed and quickly saluted and thanked him.

Their monthly income is only 300 yuan. The rewards they receive from time to time are also a considerable amount of income.

"Master, just now the eldest lady sent a maid to ask why the fifth girl hasn't come back yet. The concierge told her that she didn't see the fifth girl's carriage, so the little maid went back," the servant said.
Chapter completed!