Naturally, Cheng Wanmiao couldn't hide Xu Qingran's study tour from Cheng Wanmiao.
Even if Mrs. Fu didn't say anything, just seeing that no one from the Xu family came to the house in the past few days, Cheng Wanmiao knew that something was wrong.
Mrs. Fu was afraid that she would still be thinking about Xu Qingran, so she said to her: "The Xu family has no sincerity. Xu Qingran couldn't avoid it after the incident. Even if such a person can be named on the gold medal list in the future, he will not be able to achieve much success."
Cheng Wanmiao lowered her head and said "hmm" in a low voice.
It would be wrong to say anything. She was disgusted with Xu Qingran's ruthlessness in her heart, but it was not appropriate to show it in front of the old lady.
Madam Fu asked her: "How are you and your cousin doing these days? Is there any progress?"
Cheng Wanmiao frowned and replied sadly: "My cousin leaves early and comes home late, so I can't see him... Even if I go to the study in the outer courtyard to look for him, I'm blocked."
As she spoke, she looked at Mrs. Fu with tears in her eyes, "Aunt, my cousin seems... not to like me... I heard that he has a close relationship with Mrs. Si Bing, could my cousin... "
"He understands what he likes." Mrs. Fu's mouth twitched slightly, "He is close to Mrs. Si Bing simply because Mrs. Si Bing can help him."
Cheng Wanmiao was stunned, "Aunt, my cousin doesn't look like that kind of person..."
Mrs. Fu glanced at her sideways, "Otherwise, do you think that with his current powerful position, which lady from a good family can be worthy of him? - That wife of the military officer, besides being able to deal with swords and swords, what else can she do?"
The situation in the court is divided into two factions, one is headed by King Ning, and the other is Fu Tingye and Prime Minister Zuo. Because Fu Tingye has military power, he has a tendency to surpass King Ning. Otherwise, no one will secretly say that he is Half the emperor of Daqi.
Mrs. Si Bing's new weapons indeed further protected Fu Tingye's military power.
Mrs. Fu's thoughts are also what most people think. After all, this newly born military wife has no prominent family background, no noble bloodline, and no strong financial resources. Her only saving grace is the pile of weapons. .
In fact... even Hua Qingxue herself felt that Fu Tingye liked her weapons more than herself...
Mrs. Fu said disapprovingly: "In these years, he has never had a woman by his side, except once... That was many years ago, when he wrote a letter back to Beijing and said that he wanted to get married. The other party was the princess of Nanzhao and asked me to marry him. When planning the wedding, I was shocked.”
Cheng Wanmiao was stunned when she heard this, "Nanzhao... princess?"
"Of course it didn't work out after that." Mrs. Fu smiled contemptuously, "The specific reason is unknown, but I guess it's just that the two parties didn't agree on the terms. So Wanmiao, you have to remember, always Don’t trust a man, everyone in this world is driven by profit, regardless of gender.”
Cheng Wanmiao was surprised. According to rumors, Mrs. Fu had a very good relationship with the deceased Marquis. She really didn't expect that these words would come out of Mrs. Fu's mouth.
Mrs. Fu gently patted the back of Cheng Wanmiao's hand and said kindly and softly: "When I was your age, I also longed for love and so on. I have always been thinking about finding a husband. From now on, you will You will know that my aunt is doing it for your own good. You don’t need to like him, nor do you need him to like you. As long as you marry into the prince’s mansion and give birth to a son, I will let your son inherit the title. Your son will be Weiyuan in the future. Hou, no matter whether Fu Tingye lives or dies in the north, you will be prosperous and peaceful in your life... "
All of this was too far away. Cheng Wanmiao listened blankly, feeling that many of the things she had longed for had been subverted...
But she couldn't find a reason to refute, and she even vaguely felt that maybe what the old lady said was right.
If not, how could Xu Qingran be so ruthless? When he looked at me, the affectionate look in his eyes was fake, and the way he used the scenery to express his feelings and wrote poems on paper to express his lovesickness were also fake!
Cheng Wanmiao's hands clenched into fists unconsciously, and a sentence in the book suddenly came to mind: Since ancient times, men have been so unlucky.
Fu Tingye may not be as good as she imagined.
"Go and ask the doctor to come over." Mrs. Fu suddenly said.
Cheng Wanmiao came to her senses and immediately asked: "Aunt, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Mrs. Fu slowly shook her head, "He is often not in the house, so you can't deal with your feelings. It's not an option to continue like this."
"Auntie wants to..." Cheng Wanmiao has the unrealistic fantasy of a young girl when it comes to love. She can even be said to be a little dizzy, but aside from these, she is also a smart person. She immediately understood what Mrs. Fu meant - pretending to be sick. Come and hold Fu Tingye.
"He won't stay in Shengjing forever. He must accept you by the end of the year at the latest." Mrs. Fu pressed her forehead, feeling a little annoyed.
It would be great if Fu Tingye could like Cheng Wanmiao, but if he was indifferent, he could only think of other ways.
Cheng Wanmiao hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Aunt, if my cousin knew... he would be angry."
"I am his mother." Mrs. Fu looked displeased with a certain certainty. "Since ancient times, marriage matters have been decided by parents. Even if he is now a general and the king of Zhenbei, he cannot disobey me."
The word "filial piety" is as big as heaven.
Cheng Wanmiao pursed her lips and said nothing more...
…
The autumn day is melting and it’s another beautiful day with clear skies.
Hua Qingxue pulled two maids together, and together they turned over the soil in a flowerbed in the yard. They planted peppers under Luo Muyu's guidance.
The planting time of peppers is divided into spring planting and autumn planting. Now is the suitable planting period.
Hua Qingxue has never planted plants before. Her only planting experience before was to buy green plant cans from the supermarket. The product manual stated that as long as you water them regularly, various plants will grow randomly, which may be pocket sunflowers or magic plants. Beans or something.
However, there was never any movement on the canned green plants that Hua Qingxue bought. The girls in the dormitory laughed that she was not planting flowers, but planting soil.
Therefore, in Hua Qingxue's opinion, growing peppers was very unusual, so to speak... very cautious.
She asked again and again whether the pit should be dug shallow, whether the soil should be buried deep, how much water should be poured, and whether the spacing should be crowded.
After receiving Luo Muyu's affirmative reply, Hua Qingxue was still uneasy and walked around the flowerbed where peppers were planted, always wanting to do something more.
"Will pepper seeds really germinate?" Hua Qingxue asked Luo Muyu uncertainly.
Luo Muyu nodded with a smile, "They will sprout. When the frost comes, build a small house for the seedlings and they can survive the winter."
Hua Qingxue suddenly realized that the ancients actually knew the technology of vegetable greenhouses
Then I thought again, Luo Muyu's husband is a time traveler, and he has a strong need to grow Chinese herbal medicine, so it is not unusual at all to build a greenhouse.
After working on the farm for a long time, it was inevitable that there would be dirt on her clothes. Hua Qingxue asked Luo Muyu to go back to the house to rest. All the women needed to be cleaned.
As soon as she tidied herself up, Xi'er jumped in from outside and said that the guards were here and asked Hua Qingxue for instructions on something.
Hua Qingxue was very surprised, because the guards assigned by Fu Tingye usually stayed in the outer courtyard. In order not to interfere with Hua Qingxue's life, they almost never appeared in front of her unless Fu Tingye was there.
She went out to ask what had happened. The guard said that some young children had gathered outside the courtyard in the southwest corner of the house. They had been hanging around here for the past few days and were very noisy.
The guard asked Hua Qingxue if she needed to be driven away.
Normally, the guards would have kicked people away. Fu Tingye's request to them was to ensure that there were no hidden dangers in all directions of Hua Qingxue's house.
But they were meeting a group of children, and if they were handled inappropriately, Hua Qingxue's reputation would be tarnished.
Hua Qingxue was stunned for a moment after hearing this, "Isn't it outside the courtyard? It shouldn't matter, right?"
The guard replied: "Although it is outside the courtyard, that area also belongs to the house. When the house was first built, the Feng Shui master said that the feng shui there was not good, so it was left idle and became an open space... Later, a courtyard wall was built to enclose the house. A lot of space is separated.”
Therefore, the original owner disliked the bad feng shui of that area, but no matter how bad the feng shui was, it was still the owner's territory. Suddenly it was occupied by a group of children. Of course, the guards had to come and ask.
The guard was afraid that her mother's disease would break out, so he said specifically: "Although they are just a group of children, there is no reason to occupy a private house wantonly. Besides, my wife has a distinguished status. If someone is interested in taking advantage of this and sneaking into the house, it will be detrimental to my wife."
After hearing this, Hua Qingxue became nervous with delusions of being victimized, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be the Liao soldiers who did it? Otherwise, why didn't these children appear before, and now they suddenly appear?"
Luo Muyu next to her coughed sheepishly and kindly reminded her: "It was the busy farming season a few days ago, and everyone with children at home went to help in the fields. In the past few days, the work in the fields must have been finished, so they had some free time." Already…”
Hua Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this and murmured: "So that's it..." She was scared to death and thought it was some conspiracy.
Luo Muyu said: "Those children should use the open space outside your yard as a place to play and play. If there are not many people, just drive them away."
Hua Qingxue nodded and asked the guard: "How many children are there outside?"
The guard replied: "About forty."
Hua Qingxue immediately opened her eyes wide! Not only her, but also Luo Muyu was too shocked to speak.
"Why are there so many..."
"My subordinates asked them and said that a master named Meng called them here." The guard was also very embarrassed, "But there is no academy or private school in Shengjing that has a master named Meng. If you ask more carefully, , they hesitated and couldn’t speak, and some children even cried.”
You can't interrogate a child, but you can't use punishment, but these guards are worried to death.
Hua Qingxue thought for a while and said, "You and I will go and have a look."
The group headed to the southwest corner.
This house is really big. Just walking from the backyard to the front yard took a long time. Because that area was separated by a courtyard wall, the guards led Hua Qingxue around the wall. , so tired that Hua Qingxue wanted to sit in the sedan chair.
When she arrived at the place, she didn't see any so-called noise.
Because there were several powerful and tall guards standing beside these children.
Thirty or forty children were huddled together, obviously very frightened. Their black and white eyes looked around in panic. There were also a few little girls with tears in their eyes. They looked so pitiful. .
Hua Qingxue looked at these pitiful children, her heart tightened, and she felt as if she was about to suffer from Mary's disease again.
Alas, she didn't want to either, but what should she do if she can't help it...