It was Ah Shao who came to deliver the letter to Yu Tang.
Seeing Yu Tang, he hurriedly went forward, bowed his hands and saluted: "Miss, the young master asked me to come. He said that he has received your letter, so he will do as you wish. He also said that the family Everything is fine, so don't worry, the business has been negotiated. Let's celebrate when you go back." After speaking, he took out a letter from his pocket.
Yu Tang nodded with a smile, opened the letter, and read it immediately.
In addition to the few words A Shao said, Yu Yuan also praised Mr. Zhang's ten paintings in the letter, saying that the merchant was very satisfied, and even thought of buying ten taels of silver for each painting. Yu Yuan wrote her a letter with two meanings. One is to complete this business—the merchant’s family is in the embroidery business, and the purpose of buying boxes and cages at their house is to make the goods in the shop more complete and make the embroidery business easier. Where there is conflict, they can also promote each other. The second is to discuss with her, if you sell the painting to the merchant, should you give money to the Zhang family? How much money should I give Mr. Zhang
And because the merchant is leaving Lin'an to return to his hometown in the next few days, the finished box and cage will be delivered by their family. This matter has to be decided before the merchant leaves Lin'an. He has just received Yu Tang's letter Immediately sent a letter from Ah Shao.
Yu Tang hid his letter and thought for a while, before replying a letter to Yu Yuan.
Selling paintings is allowed, and the money for selling paintings can be split half and half with the Zhang family, but a contract must be signed with the merchant. These ten paintings are exclusive to their Yu family, and the merchant took them, only in their shop For home use, not for resale. If it is necessary to resell it, the Yu family must be notified in the form of documents, and with the consent of the Yu family, the money needs to be paid again.
Because it was getting late, it would take at least an hour and a half to return to Lin'an City. After receiving the letter, A Shao immediately got up to leave and returned to Yu's house.
Pei Yan knew that in addition to Yu Tang staying in the other courtyard, Mrs. Shen and Gu Xi were also in the other courtyard. There were outsiders, so he couldn't go directly to greet the old An, so he went back to the courtyard where he lived first. After washing and changing clothes, he sent someone to ask Lao An when it would be convenient to see him.
It's just that before the person sent out replied, he heard that someone from the Yu family had come to deliver a letter to Yu Tang.
He couldn't help being surprised.
After sending Yu Tang's letter back, the family immediately replied to her letter, and they couldn't even wait for a day. Could it be that something happened at home
Pei Yan thought of Mrs. Yu's illness, and also thought of the 30 acres of fertile land that the Yu family bought for Li Duan's house...
He called Hu Xing, who was serving the old man here, to come in: "What happened to Miss Yu?"
Hu Xing has been wholeheartedly helping the old An in the other courtyard these days. He knows which dish the ladies and distinguished guests eat more and which dish they eat less every day. He has never heard of what happened to Miss Yu. What's the matter!
He was stunned.
Pei Yan was originally dissatisfied with his ability to handle affairs. Later, because he saw that he was fawning on Lao An, and because Lao An also needed someone who could use him easily, he just turned a blind eye and let him Continue to serve as a vegetarian in the position of the manager. Seeing him like this now, Pei Yan was even more dissatisfied, and even this dissatisfaction was directly expressed on his face.
He snapped: "What? Don't you know?"
A few days ago, the third master beat to death all the males over five years old who had served the elder master's family for many years, and sold all the women and children. Everyone in the whole family was trembling, and they were all discussing in private that the third master was neither as benevolent as the old master nor as tolerant as the old man, and he was not like the people of the Pei family at all. Serve there.
Hu Xing couldn't help but secretly rejoiced when he heard this, but he was also terrified. At this moment when Pei Yan asked him this question, he shivered, his legs became weak, and he almost knelt down. It took him a long time to make a sound, and he stammered: "Miss Yu and the young ladies are having a good time, get up early and go to bed early , and occasionally walked along the Mingshan Lake, and just went to the Meilin with a few girls to enjoy the plum blossoms..." He was about to cry, "Really, I really didn't find anything wrong with her!" Afterwards, His intuition made him boldly say again, "Besides, Ms. Yu is a young lady, even if I want to know something, Ms. Yu won't talk to me!"
Pei Yan's expression turned pale.
Hu Xing wiped his cold sweat secretly, feeling as if he had narrowly escaped death.
But then, he began to reflect on why he said that he couldn't get close to Ms. Yu, and why Pei Yanyan's expression turned pale because of his words...
For a moment, he felt as if he knew something great.
Hu Xing looked at Pei Yan differently.
Pei Yan didn't take Hu Xing seriously, so naturally he didn't pay attention to his slightly changed expressions.
He thought for a while, and said, "Miss Yu and the others are still enjoying the plum blossoms in the plum grove?"
Hu Xing hurriedly said, "Yes, I'm still composing poems."
Finally, I can answer a few words, which is a bit useful!
Pei Yan glanced at Hu Xing expressionlessly, and said: "You quietly send a letter to Miss Yu, asking her to wait for me by Meilin for a while, I have something to ask her."
See no evil, right
Why did you ask him to bring the letter
Hu Xing was very bitter in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it. He not only had to bow his head respectfully, but also acted like he was overwhelmed by merit, and said loudly: "I'm going!"
Pei Yan snorted coldly.
After receiving the letter, Yu Tang didn't think too much about it, whispered a few times to Lao An, and then found an excuse to leave the warming pavilion.
Miss Wu just finished a six-character quatrain, and seeing this, she couldn't help but ask, "What is Sister Yu going to do?"
Several people made poems together, Gu Xi was the first one to complete the poem, the third lady came in second, Yu Tang came third, the second and fifth misses followed closely, and the fourth miss was still bowing her head to write poems.
Everyone is ready to write a review for Lao An, Mrs. Shen, and the second wife.
The old man didn't think too much about it.
Since Yu Tang knew about the strangeness of Li's land sale, Pei Yan must also know about it.
She guessed that Pei Yan should ask Yu Tang about this matter.
It's just that it's not easy for these little girls to know about it, so her old man turned a blind eye and said with a smile: "Who doesn't have anything to do, you child, when you should pretend to be confused, you have to pretend not to know, you should ask Just say it straight up, you have to practice before you can go out." After speaking, he glanced at the second wife.
The second wife laughed and replied, "Don't worry, I will teach her well."
The old An said "hmm", and the matter was revealed like this.
Gu Xi's heart turned a thousand times.
The young servant from the Yu family came to see Yu Tang for something, but when Yu Tang came back, he only said that it was her family who came to ask her about the shop, and even blocked what the old An wanted to know. After leaving the meeting, no matter how she thought about it, she felt that things were not easy.
But He Xiang thought more complicated than Gu Xi.
She found an opportunity to lean into Gu Xi's ear and whispered: "Miss, the third master has gone up the mountain."
Yu Xi frowned.
He Xiang knew that she wanted to hear more details, so she quickly said: "I just went to inquire about Miss Yu and found out that the third master has not come to greet the old An, and I heard that he will come after dinner. "
So what is Yu Tang going to do
Gu Xi felt faintly uneasy.
Second Miss has not yet found out how Yu Tang appeared out of nowhere.
She winked at He Xiang.
He Xiang understood and quietly left the warm pavilion.
After a while, Miss Si finished her poem.
Second Miss teased Fourth Miss: "We are all waiting for you!"
Fourth Miss pouted dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I say that I want to barbecue? You are going to make poetry, and I have no preparation at all."
"How do you prepare?" Third Miss rarely joked with Fourth Miss, "Read Bai and Li before you come here?"
Bai refers to Bai Juyi, and Li refers to Li Bai.
Fourth Miss retorted with a guilty conscience: "Isn't it possible?"
Everyone laughed.
Lao An said: "Then read Si Yatou's poems first."
Miss Si coyly asked the little maid serving beside her to hand over the poem.
Gu Xi said, "Aren't we going to wait for Miss Yu?"
Old An said with a smile: "It's getting late, don't you want to eat barbecue later? Don't wait for her."
Gu Xi pursed her lips and smiled, and went to watch the poem written by Miss Si, but half of her mind was paying attention to when He Xiang would come back.
It was only a stick of incense, and the lotus incense quietly appeared in the warm pavilion again.
This time, he didn't need the lotus fragrance to look for opportunities, Gu Xi directly said that she was going to the official room, and took the lotus fragrance to stand in the deserted plum forest.
He Xiang's face was a little dignified.
She said: "Miss, there is something wrong with Miss Yu, she is going to see the third master!"
Gu Xi was stunned, but felt inexplicably at ease when the dust had settled.
She said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
"I don't know exactly what's going on." He Xiang whispered, "I came out of the warm pavilion, and slowly searched in the direction Miss Yu was going, and found that the road led to Mingshan The gazebo by the lake. In the gazebo besides Ms. Yu, there is also a young man wearing a white cloak. I wanted to take a closer look, but found seven or eight guards standing in the dark around the gazebo. I was shocked , Said it was your personal servant girl, you asked me to go back to the house to get some things, but I got lost, so I escaped. Then I met Mr. Hu, and after a few words of probing, I realized that the young man was the third son of the Pei family. master."
Gu Xi was silent for a while, and said, "What does the third master look like?"
He Xiang blushed, and said in a low voice: "He is very handsome, with a refined temperament... Among the people I have met, only the eldest son can compete with him."
Gu Chang is a famous handsome man in Hangzhou.
Gu Xi's face was also a little hot.
But thinking of Yu Tang, she couldn't help frowning.
What is Pei Yan going to do
He met with Ms. Yu in private, didn't Lao An know about it? Or know but give two people sloppy eyes
Then with what identity did Miss Yu appear in front of Pei Yan
After all, she and elder brother were still careless. They never thought that there would be a woman like Miss Yu in Lin'an City.
Did she go with Miss Yu? Or do you want to find a way to make Miss Yu disappear from Pei's mansion
Gu Xi was a little undecided for a moment.
She said to He Xiang: "See if you can find a way to find out about the relationship between Miss Yu and Master Pei San. Especially if Lao An knows..."
If Lao An knew about it, what was the idea of the Pei family
This is what she should pay attention to and care about.
Gu Xi let out a long breath.